INOV806 Social Entrepreneurship
This unit is not presently being offeredy by Macquarie University.
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Description
If you care about the environment, health, education, sport, the arts or the quality of our society then this unit is for you!. It will provide the skills and knowledge to better contribute to society as a volunteer, employee and board member.
This unit introduces the broad foundation that is necessary to create and manage a successful non-profit organisations. Students will gain an appreciation for the special challenges presented when creating organisations to generate sustainable social benefit. Topics covered include:
- Strategy, mission and vision;
- Funding models;
- Busines planning;
- Outcome measurement; and
- Sustainability.
Graduates of this unit will have an appreciation of the complexities of leading and managing organisations in the social economy, and will understand process of starting sustainable non-profit organisations. Students will also refine skills critical to success in organisation including team work, oral communication and problem solving.
There will be no lectures and instead classes will be dominated by discussion of case studies, often with expert visitors. The unit will make extensive use of online tools to stimulate learning.
Case studies used in the unit will include organisations and initiatives from across the social economy in Australia, and around the world, including:
- Arts and culture;
- Humanitarian initiatives;
- Environment and conservation;
- Indigenous issues;
- Religion
- Sport and recreation;
- Health and education;
- Foundations and other intermediaries;
- Social benefit initiatives within for-profit organisations
Topics
- Social economy overview
- High performance organisations
- Business planning
- The power of alignment: strategy, mission, vision & operations
- Stakehohlder management: clients, boards, partnerships and alliances
- Social benefit within for profit organisations
- Marketing and branding
- Financing and fund raising
- Sustainability, scaling and sustaining
Assumed knowledge
There is no assumed prior knowledge for this unit.
Assessment
The anticipated assessment structure is:
- Quality of contribution to online discussions – 30%
- Quality of contribution to class discussions – 30%
- Contribution to team work - 15%
- Semester long project – 15%
- End of semester exam - 10%
Textbook and Readings
Readings will be distributed throughout the semester.
Staff