Overall objective of this project is strengthening social entrepreneurship as a sustainable and reliable model to solve social problems. Our specific objective is equipping young social entrepreneurs to become more impactful through improving their capacity on social impact analysis. Our strategy is to create an awareness among social entrepreneurs and eco-system developers, to increase access to knowledge by developing materials in native languages, and to increase skills of social entrepreneurs by providing training and coaching program.Our target group is young start-up social entrepreneurs as many social entrepreneurship leaders are young and even though they are inspired, they are not much experienced in defining and measuring societal objectives, which results less public benefit, less public support and less funding. Young start-up social entrepreneurs have much potential and energy, but no experience. Without guidance, the risk to fail is high. In addition, start- up social entrepreneurs are focused on their business models and getting funding rather than tracking their social impact. That is why, we need to establish necessary mechanism to support these young social entrepreneurs.The Europe 2020 strategy recognizes entrepreneurship and self-employment as key for achieving smart, sustainable and inclusive growth, and several flagship initiatives address them (www.ec.europa.ec). In its support to entrepreneurship and self-employment, the EC focuses its efforts on business start-ups by unemployed and people from disadvantaged groups, sustainability and quality of work of self-employed businesses and micro-entrepreneurs; and support for social entrepreneurs. According to the Eurostat, youth unemployment rate is 23.4 % in the Euro Area. The concept of social entrepreneurship might be an alternative way to strengthen the situation of young people in the EU. In the face of increasing economic, social and environmental pressures it could be rightfully argued that social entrepreneurship should be on the agenda of both non-governmental and business organizations.The project would consist of three consecutive parts:In a first phase running until the end of 2015 the project would conduct a comprehensive and complementary need analysis report among social entrepreneurs in Estonia and in Turkey through workshops among social entrepreneurs (in total 20 participants) and ecosystem developers (in total 30 participants), expert interviews (in total 30 participants) and a study of online social impact communication (in total 150-300 social businesses) before developing the social impact analysis framework and the training tools and program (Social Impact Analysis Guide).In a second phase ending in July 2016 the project would develop a social impact analysis framework, a comprehensive training tools and program (Social Impact Analysis Guide), select 15 young social entrepreneurs from Estonia, and 15 from Turkey to participate to the program, conduct an international training boot camp in Turkey with the participation of these 30 young social entrepreneurs and 11 trainers.In the third and last phase ending in July 2017 the project would develop the best practices on social impact analysis for social entrepreneurs with monitoring-evaluation and coaching program; and disseminate (dissemination conferences with 195 participants in total), promote the project outputs to increase the capacity of young social entrepreneurs on social impact analysis at national and European levels.The expected results on participants and participant organisations include:Increased awareness of the benefits of social impact analysis among ecosystem developers, social entrepreneurs and social investors.Increased skills of young start-up social entrepreneurs on social impact analysisIncreased training and coaching capacity on social impact analysis of ecosystem developersIncreased access to knowledge on social impact analysis among ecosystem developers, social entrepreneurs and social investors.Increased peer learning opportunities between social entrepreneurs via training and social impact web portalThe main outputs of the project, “social impact analysis framework, training tools and program (social impact analysis guide), best practice compendium on best social impact analysis cases for the use of the young social entrepreneurs and ecosystem developers such as social investors, social entrepreneurship centers, socially entrepreneur civil society organizations”, will be shared on the social impact web portal developed during the project as a resource and knowledge center. Next phase after this project could be to transfer the knowledge developed during the project to the on-line education platform.
The Know Your Impact: Social Impact Management Tools for Young Social Entrepreneurs programme has been developed and implemented between the years 2015 and 2017 by four organizations: Koç University Social Impact Forum, Estonian Social Enterprise Network, Social Value UK and Mikado Sustainable Development Consulting. All partnering organizations are committed to developing the social entrepreneurship and increasing the social value through social impact management. Overall objective of this project was strengthening social entrepreneurship as a sustainable and reliable model to solve social problems. Our specific objective was equipping young social entrepreneurs to become more impactful through improving their capacity on social impact analysis. Our strategy was to create an awareness among social entrepreneurs and ecosystem developers, to increase access to knowledge by developing materials in native languages, and to increase skills of social entrepreneurs by providing training and coaching program. Our target group was young start-up social entrepreneurs. Many social entrepreneurship leaders are young and even though they are inspired, they are not much experienced in defining and measuring societal objectives, which results less public benefit, less public support and less funding. The project background: Young start-up social entrepreneurs have much potential and energy, but no experience. Without guidance, the risk to fail is high. In addition, start- up social entrepreneurs are focused on their business models and getting funding rather than tracking their social impact. That is why, with the Know Your Impact programme we aimed to establish necessary mechanism to support these young social entrepreneurs. The Europe 2020 strategy recognizes entrepreneurship and self-employment as key for achieving smart, sustainable and inclusive growth. In its support to entrepreneurship and self-employment, the EC focuses its efforts on business start-ups by unemployed and people from disadvantaged groups, sustainability and quality of work of self-employed businesses and micro-entrepreneurs; and support for social entrepreneurs. According to the Eurostat, youth unemployment rate is 23.4 % in the Euro Area. The concept of social entrepreneurship might be an alternative way to strengthen the situation of young people in the EU. The project consisted of three consecutive parts: -research and needs analysis (August 2015 - March 2016). Team conduct a comprehensive and complementary research on needs analysis among social entrepreneurs and ecosystem developers in Estonia and in Turkey through workshops.The findings were evaluated and published in Needs Analysis Report. The data insights and findings were used in the next stages of the project helping to develop the content, tools and services according to the needs of the direct beneficiary group. -In a second phase - March 2016 to September 2017 - the project team developed the Impact Thinking Framework, that became the frame for developing methodology, the training content and the Maximise Your Impact: A guide for social entrepreneur. The training organized in Istanbul/Turkey between the 19th and 24th of August 2016. On the basis of the developed Impact Thinking methodology, training content and benefiting from the coaching experiences the Maximise Your Impact: A guide for social entrepreneur was developed between the September 2016 and September 2017. -The third phase of the project (September 2016 - September 2017) was dedicated to one-to-one coaching of the training program participants, developing the best practices on social impact analysis and disseminating the developed methodology. The dissemination included two conferences (in Turkey and in Estonia). The results on participants: -Increased awareness of the benefits of social impact analysis among ecosystem developers, social entrepreneurs and social investors -Increased skills of young start-up social entrepreneurs on social impact analysis -Increased training and coaching capacity on social impact analysis of programme partners. -Increased access to knowledge on social impact analysis among ecosystem developers, social entrepreneurs and social investors. Impact of the project -The partner organizations empowered and equipped with the systematic approach to deliver to the social enterprises -Awareness raised on the importance of the social impact management among social entrepreneurs and ecosystem developers -The Needs Analysis Report provided the information on the areas that needs to be addressed in order to develop further the immature social entrepreneurship sector in Turkey. On the basis of the research two projects were developed and are currently being implemented. -Increasing the interest towards the social impact management and social entrepreneurship -The international cooperation and know-how transfer strengthen - Online free tools and guidelines accessible