Non-Profit Social Purpose and Social Enterprise Outcome Themes That Transfer to Businesses

The attention cast toward social enterprise since the mid to late 1990s by private businesses, nonprofit human service organizations, and public sector stakeholders has driven interest in best ways measure mission-related outcomes whether or not such endeavors truly achieve impactful change. Little clarity from methodological models emerged inform mission outcome measurement due part blurring of cross-sector principles underlying tasks at hand. A barrier is that businesses engaged must make choices redefine profit-making, it a rare case where purpose organization (SPO) evaluation trace what degree their efforts have led they profess accomplish. This essay depicts compromises accommodations leaders decision makers among five examples encompassing philanthropic, services providers, government business actors work impact.