[ORDER SOLUTION] Social Enterprise Plan

For this assignment, you are required to construct a draft social enterprise plan. This does not need to be a professional plan, but it should be convincing. Your assignment submission should take the following format: Title Page (Your name, the assignment name, the course code, and the date) Social Enterprise Plan Overview (2 to 3 pages) Social Enterprises Components (1 to 2 pages each) Service Segments Macroeconomic Environment Competitors Value Proposition Activities & Resources Partners Sales, Marketing, & Communication Revenues Costs References (1 to 2 pages) The Social Enterprise Plan Overview should provide a brief introduction to your social enterprise. In many ways, this section of your assignment can build off of your Social Enterprise Ideas assignment. Consider providing enough background in this first section so that each of the social enterprise component sections can be sufficiently understood. Consider including the following in the Social Enterprise Plan Overview: What is the social enterprise idea? What goods or services would the social enterprise provide to customers? What benefits would the social enterprise provide to clients (if different from above)? What community would it be located in? What is that community like? Who lives there? Why is the social enterprise needed? Briefly describe the customers and clients. How would the social enterprise work? What information makes you think it would be successful? Social Enterprise Components 1. Services Segments Use this section to provide details on your customers and clients. Consider describing the following: Who are your customers? Do your customers belong to a particular group? Why do your customers need or want the goods or services you offer? Who are your clients (if different from above)? Do your clients belong to a particular group? Why do your clients need or want the goods or services you offer? 2. Macroeconomic Environment Use this section to provide details on the “big picture” affecting your customers and clients. Consider the following factors both now and in the future: Political Economic Social Technological Legal Environmental 3. Competitors Use this section to provide details on the competition, if any, your social enterprise will face. Consider the following: What businesses or organizations do your customers turn to for their needs and wants? How do these businesses or organizations operate? Why is the current means of satisfying their needs or wants insufficient? Are there differences in quality or price? What businesses or organizations do your clients turn to for their needs and wants? How do these businesses or organizations operate? Why is the current means of satisfying their needs or wants insufficient? Are there differences in quality or price? 4. Value Proposition Use this section to provide details on your social enterprise’s value proposition. Consider the following: What will your social enterprise do that is better than the competition, if any exists? How is it better than other options? 5. Activities & Resources Use this section to provide details on the things that your social enterprise will do and need to successfully and sustainably operate. Consider the following: How will you produce your goods, services, or benefits? What kinds of skills do you need (i.e., human capital)? What kinds of equipment do you need (i.e., physical capital)? What kinds of networks do you need (i.e., social capital)? What kinds of financing or funding (i.e., financial capital)? 6. Partners Use this section to provide details on the kinds of relationships that your social enterprise will need to maintain to successfully and sustainably operate. Consider the following: Funding agencies Suppliers (e.g., harvesters, market gardeners, wholesalers, etc.) Service providers (e.g., computer technicians, engineers, accountants, etc.) Referrals (e.g., travel agents, hotels, etc.) 7. Sales, Marketing, & Communication Use this section to provide details on how you will let your customers and clients know about your social enterprise and its value proposition. Consider the following: Traditional advertising (e.g., newspapers, flyers, brochures, etc.) Social media Referrals 8. Revenues Use this section to estimate the revenues that your social enterprise will generate to successfully and sustainably operate within one year. Consider the following: Sales (e.g., price x quantity) Grants We are only looking for estimates here not exact amounts. 9. Costs Use this section to estimate the costs that your social enterprise will face within one year. Consider the following: Supplies Equipment Service providers Wages We are only looking for estimates here not exact amounts. Note: You might want to consider writing the Social Enterprise Components first, then writing your Social Enterprise Plan Overview. Throughout, your assignment should link to the other topics of the course. These topics include: Social service administration in First Nations First Nation political, economic, social, technological, legal, and environmental considerations Critical Social Theory Indigenous Wellbeing Medicine Wheel Teachings