October 26th, 2007
On October 15, 2007, Maureen Burke made a presentation on how to generate good ideas for ventures, how to compose a great team, and how to write a solid business plan.
Click here to view a video of the presentation (requires Windows Media Player).
Click here for a PDF of Maureen’s slides.
Click here for the 2007-2008 schedule for the Entrepreneurial Business Planning lectures. All in the New Haven area are welcome to attend.
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January 5th, 2007
To learn more about business planning for nonprofit enterprise, you may download business plans and presentations from a selection of the award recipients and finalists from the First, Second and Third National Business Plan Competition for Nonprofit Organizations. These business plans represent real businesses, and serve as examples of well-written plans that demonstrate the rigorous due diligence required in planning for a new business and securing the intellectual and financial capital to help ensure its success.We acknowledge that there is no single best way to research and write a business plan, and that some formats are better than others given the peculiarities of each new business. Readers should view these plans not as absolutes, but rather as representative of those that were selected by a team of credentialed evaluators as sufficiently strong to merit a financial award from The Partnership on Nonprofit Ventures. (You will need Adobe Acrobat Reader to read these documents.)
| 2004-2005 Third National Business Plan Competition |
| EcoLogic Finance |
Grand-Prize |
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| First Book |
Grand-Prize |
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| Npower NY |
Grand-Prize |
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| Caroline Center |
Runner-Up |
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| Housing Partnership Network |
Runner-Up |
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| Wai’anae Community Redevelopment |
Runner-Up |
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| Brooklyn AIDS Task Force |
finalist |
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| Haley House |
finalist |
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| Lee Pesky Learning Center |
finalist |
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| New England Heritage Breeds Conservancy |
finalist |
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| Thirteen/WNET New York |
finalist |
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| 2003-2004 Second National Business Plan Competition |
| Coastal Enterprises |
Grand-Prize |
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| DARTS |
Grand-Prize |
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| VolunteerMatch |
Grand-Prize |
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| La Casa de Don Pedro |
Runner-Up |
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| Urban Homesteading Assistance Board |
Runner-Up |
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| Work Resource Center |
Runner-Up |
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| The Doe Fund |
finalist |
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| Inner City Christian Federation (ICCF) |
finalist |
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| Meals on Wheels of Greater Richmond |
finalist |
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| Pro Bono Net, Inc. |
finalist |
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| Project Reach Youth, Inc. |
finalist |
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| 2002-2003 Second National Business Plan Competition |
| CompuMentor’s business plan for DiscounTech |
Grand-Prize |
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| Benetech’s business plan for Bookshare.org |
Runner-Up |
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| Benhaven’s business plan for Learning Network |
Runner-Up |
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| Arts Council of New Orleans’ business plan for ArtWorks and KidWorks |
finalist |
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| Vietnamese-American Initiative for Development (Viet-Aid)’s business plan for Win-Win Cleaning, Inc. |
finalist |
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| Island Alliance’s Peddock Island’s Eco-Retreat |
finalist |
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December 18th, 2006
View a video from the Business Planning Workshop conducted for the National Business Plan Competition for Nonprofit Organizations.
Introductions by Cynthia Massarsky and Samantha Beinhacker, co-directors of the Competition. Featured speaker, Mike Burns, Partner, Brody, Weiser, Burns.
Video link. November 2002. Total time: 1 hr 15 minutes.
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