Public Entrepreneurship and Innovation

Public entrepreneurship is an alternative, inventive approach for leading change in public realms. This course is designed for future private entrepreneurs and public leaders who want to build new ventures operating in, or selling into, traditionally public domains. Throughout the last few years, we have seen a wave of new public entrepreneurs start companies that eventually sell to government institutions, or directly to citizens, and a growing interest in these companies by ventures funds and other investors.

Financial Modelling for Social Enterprise shows you how to think about and build a basic financial model from the ground up, starting from a single business unit and scaling up. This approach helps ensure that your product or service can be realistically commercialised, and that the business model is built for scalability from the start.

This course explores the benefits and limitations of microfinance as an economic development strategy, focusing specifically on the role of microfinance in international poverty alleviation efforts. We will explore the history and evolution of the field from both a theoretical as well as practical perspectives, along with the roles played by various constituencies (e.g. clients, policy makers, donors, investors, etc.).

Managing Social Enterprise

Throughout this course, you will examine how to create, develop, and scale the impact of high-performing social enterprises, whether it’s for profit, nonprofit, or hybrid organisations. Unlike the business world where most stakeholders agree on the definition of success and are driven by market forces, managers of social enterprises must have the ability to navigate with multiple and often conflicting goals, fragmented capital markets etc.

Cooperative & Social Enterprise

Cooperative enterprises are distinct from other forms of business enterprises. While other forms of business enterprises have profit as their main motive, cooperative enterprises are service oriented. This course has been developed with input from experts and practitioners from the social sector and co-operative enterprises,and focuses mainly on cooperative enterprise and its management.

Social Enterprise in Education

Social Enterprise in Education is a Continuing Career Development (CCD) course for teachers, tutors, and education practitioners working in primary, secondary, and college levels, in both private and public sectors. The course imparts active learning practices that are highly engaging to help participants understand what social enterprise is, and how it provides experiential learning opportunities for young people of all levels.

FLEXIBLE ONLINE LEARNING LSSE

Students will learn how to create a strategy that aligns a theory of social change with a sustainable business model that will provide the requisite resources; build performance management system that measures social return for society and strategic decision

This study programme provides students the flexibility to explore issues related to enterprise, entrepreneurship leadership, and innovation strategies ranging from public policy to for profit and nonprofit management, and from environment stewardship to business ethics.

The Social Accounting and Audit course teaches how to establish a framework for ongoing monitoring, evaluation, and accountability to stakeholders. You will learn how to prepare a social report on the value and impact your organisation provides to operate more effectively and efficiently.

SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT

This course provides a framework for harnessing entrepreneurial and enterprise opportunities while creating transformative responses to challenges prevalent in communities and society. The program combines social entrepreneurship with community and social innovation, providing a basis for exploring capacity building and fostering positive change for organisations, communities, and societies. Social entrepreneurs are well positioned to tackle socio-economic problems in deprived communities. The impact of social entrepreneurs is becoming important in addressing social challenges and providing innovative, sustainable, and effective social solutions. Social enterprises offer a community with a sense of purpose. These enterprises tap most locals in to providing both income for their organisation, while answering the call of change within their communities. By engaging themselves in this kind of social action, they can bring fulfilment to their hearts.

PUBLIC LEADERSHIP AND SOCIAL ENTERPRISE

Public Leadership and Social Enterprise strengthens your ability to lead change in a complex and uncertain world. This course will prepare students to steer global social and ecological change, and to set them up for service and leadership with social innovation. Public leadership investigates the idea and practice of leadership, engaging students to become social change specialists through hands-on public services, projects, and assessments of urgent social, political, and financial issues. This course is most suited for for students from public, social, and private sectors who are committed to developing their leadership skills for the common good.