{"id":58,"date":"2012-06-06T20:31:04","date_gmt":"2012-06-06T20:31:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.magil.org\/?p=58"},"modified":"2012-06-06T20:31:04","modified_gmt":"2012-06-06T20:31:04","slug":"social-enterprise-childcare-youd-think-it-cant-fail-but","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.magil.org\/?p=58","title":{"rendered":"Social Enterprise: Childcare &#8211; you&#8217;d think it can&#8217;t fail, but&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Several years ago when I was working on developing a social enterprise\u00a0around bedbug\u00a0removal, I did a\u00a0<strong>lot<\/strong> of research.\u00a0 One of the\u00a0best articles I read, and one to this day that I still think about, was <a href=\"http:\/\/seedco.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/The-Limits-of-Social-Enterprise.pdf\">&#8220;The Limits of Social Enterprise: A Field Study &amp; Case Analysis&#8221;<\/a>, put out by the SeedCo Policy Center in June 2007.\u00a0 This was an example of a well thought-out, well-planned enterprise trying to fill a clear and untapped market niche.\u00a0 And yet&#8230;things fell apart.\u00a0 The article offers some very good insight on why that was, and offers an intelligent counterpoint to some of the social-enterprise-or-bust attitudes I&#8217;ve encountered among the most ardent social enterprise proponents.\u00a0 The article&#8217;s authors are remarkably candid about not only what circimstances they didn&#8217;t anticipate, but also what the organization did wrong.\u00a0 And what might not be fixable.<\/p>\n<p>I ended up calling the people at SeedCo and did a bit of a debrief with them, and I can&#8217;t thank them enough for the work (and candor) that went in to putting together this piece.\u00a0 A great read.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Several years ago when I was working on developing a social enterprise\u00a0around bedbug\u00a0removal, I did a\u00a0lot of research.\u00a0 One of the\u00a0best articles I read, and one to this day that I still think about, was &#8220;The Limits of Social Enterprise: A Field Study &amp; Case Analysis&#8221;, put out by the SeedCo Policy Center in June &hellip; <span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.magil.org\/?p=58\">Continue reading &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[13,11,10],"class_list":["post-58","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-links","tag-social-enterprise","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.magil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.magil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.magil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.magil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.magil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=58"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/blog.magil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60,"href":"http:\/\/blog.magil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58\/revisions\/60"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.magil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.magil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.magil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}