Top 10 Things Your Social Enterprise can do to Weather this Economy

This week on Planet Good Radio we will talk with Drew Tulchin, Managing Partner of Social Enterprise Associates – a consulting firm that specializes in fostering ‘triple bottom line’ solutions supporting entrepreneurs, their organizations, and the industries in which they operate. Drew will share with us his best tips and advice on how small and medium businesses can survive ‘this economic winter.’ He’ll also give us some great resources he’s found to be of value in running a successful social enterprise. Drew’s professional experience spans the non-profit, for-profit, public & banking sectors. He has helped launch 15 entities, including 501c3 status for 5 non-profits. His consulting has taken him across the U.S. and to more than 20 countries. He has written dozens of socially entrepreneurial business plans. Prisma Microfinance’s co-written plan was a Global Social Venture Competition award winner, published, and used to raise $1.2 million in private equity capital. Drew was Director of a U.S. microfinance organization, the CDFI called ECDC/Enterprise Development Group, which served immigrants and low-income people. He was also Program Officer for Grameen Foundation, serving as the founding staff person of the Capital Markets Group.