FutureLearn

Social Enterprise: Turning Ideas into Action (FutureLearn)

Offered by Middlesex University London,
Social Enterprise: Turning Ideas into Action (FutureLearn)

Learn how to turn your social enterprise ideas into action in this free online course from Middlesex University Business School. How can you turn a social enterprise idea into action? In this course, you will identify the problem your idea is trying to solve, design your social enterprise venture model and prepare to take it to market. This course is a must for anyone who wants to launch a social enterprise.

Class Deals by MOOC List - Click here and see FutureLearn's Active Discounts, Deals, and Promo Codes.

Continue learning with the Social Enterprise program
This course is one of three in the Social Enterprise program prepared by Middlesex University Business School, the Jindal Centre for Social Innovation & Entrepreneurship and Living in Minca.

What topics will you cover?

  • Idea validation
  • Technology and social innovation
  • Business models for social enterprises
  • Tools to develop a business model
  • Building a team
  • The core components of marketing
  • Pitching a business idea
  • Connecting and networking
  • Funding sources for social enterprise
  • Social enterprise legal structures
Go to Class
MOOC List is learner-supported. When you buy through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.

Related Courses

Understanding Fashion: From Business to Culture (FutureLearn) FutureLearn
Institut Français de la mode - IFM

Understanding Fashion: From Business to Culture (FutureLearn)

Business Art and Culture

From its impact on culture and society to consumer behaviour, discover the business of fashion with Institut Francais de la Mode. Study fashion and culture with fashion industry experts from Chanel and YSL. Over almost 150 years, the fashion industry has transformed many aspects of Western culture. On this course, you’ll explore the interaction of fashion, society and business with IFM professor, Benjamin Simmenauer.

May 16th 2022
4 Weeks
Business Fashion Consumer Behavior
Details
Investigating Innovation (FutureLearn) FutureLearn
Deakin University,Coventry University

Investigating Innovation (FutureLearn)

Management & Leadership Business

What is innovation and why is being innovative important in your personal and professional life? Find out with this online course. Discover different types, processes, and outcomes of innovation. Innovation is a key element of entrepreneurial success and growth for any organisation. Being innovative gives a business a competitive advantage and helps shape a positive future.

Self Paced
2 Weeks
Business Innovation Entrepreneurship
Details
How to Create a Profitable Pricing Strategy (FutureLearn) FutureLearn
EntrepreneurNOW! Network - ENN

How to Create a Profitable Pricing Strategy (FutureLearn)

Management & Leadership Business

Learn how to create a profitable pricing strategy for your business with entrepreneur Ken Burke. Decipher how to develop a successful positioning and pricing strategy. This three-week course will teach you the ins and outs of developing a pricing strategy, what your target market is and how you can reach it via a specific messaging strategy or series of strategies. Ultimately, this will help you to better understand and communicate your business’ unique value proposition.

Feb 8th 2021
4 Weeks
Business Strategy Entrepreneurship
Details
Starting a Business 5: Managing Finances (FutureLearn) FutureLearn
University of Leeds

Starting a Business 5: Managing Finances (FutureLearn)

Management & Leadership Business

Find out how forecasting and managing your finances can lead to a profitable and sustainable business. The management of finances is crucial to a successful business; financial information provides the evidence to support your decisions about a business and helps to justify those decisions when you present them to other people.

Self Paced
2 Weeks
Business Forecasting Business Planning
Details
Methodologies for Service Design (FutureLearn) FutureLearn
Keio University

Methodologies for Service Design (FutureLearn)

Business

Explore what service design is and how it can help push your business thinking outside of its comfort zone. In an era of unprecedented challenge and change for business, stability is no longer a given. In a time of sudden changes and sharp shocks, its never been more important to be able to think outside the box. On this course, you’ll learn what service design is, and how its methodologies can support business domains and entrepreneurial challenges, with a focus on cases from Japan and around.

Self Paced
4 Weeks
Business Strategy Innovation Management
Details
Get Started With Digital Marketing (FutureLearn) FutureLearn
Coventry University

Get Started With Digital Marketing (FutureLearn)

Marketing & Communication Business

What is digital marketing and why is it so valuable to businesses in today’s world? Find out with Coventry University Online. Explore the value of digital marketing and the challenges of digital disruption. On this course, you’ll have the opportunity to explore what digital marketing is and learn the key platforms and types of digital marketing that you can implement in your organisation today.

Jun 3rd 2024
2 Weeks
Business Marketing Digital Technology
Details
Managing Innovation: Learning to Prototype for Business (FutureLearn) FutureLearn
St George's, University of London,Bayer

Managing Innovation: Learning to Prototype for Business (FutureLearn)

Business

Understand how to pitch innovative ideas using prototypes, and develop your skills by creating your own prototype. In order for companies to remain competitive, they have to create innovative products, processes or services to satisfy new or existing customers. Prototypes allow you to test your ideas early on to get invaluable feedback informing you about what the customers really want.

Self Paced
3 Weeks
Business Innovation Prototyping
Details
How to Succeed at: Interviews (FutureLearn) FutureLearn
The University of Sheffield

How to Succeed at: Interviews (FutureLearn)

Personal and Professional Development Business

This free three week course provides the tools you need to succeed at interviews and land your dream job or course place. Being offered an interview is exciting but can be quite daunting. On this course, our experts from The Careers Service here at The University of Sheffield will make sure you are prepared for the big day.

Dec 2nd 2024
3 Weeks
Business Job Interview
Details
Power Dressing in the Zoom Era (FutureLearn) FutureLearn
The Hopenclass

Power Dressing in the Zoom Era (FutureLearn)

Business Art and Culture

Learn how to master online communication and personal brand image in the post-pandemic business world. Improve your brand and business sense in the age of 100% online working. In the wake of the coronavirus pandemic, many businesses have moved to fully online working – meaning more people than ever before are engaged in remote and home working. This new era brings challenges as well as opportunities. On this course, you’ll learn how to maximise you or your brand’s visual impact, and how to perfect power dressing despite only ever being seen from the waist up.

Feb 28th 2022
2 Weeks
Business Communication Skills Personal Branding
Details
Business History of the FIFA World Cup (FutureLearn) FutureLearn
University of York

Business History of the FIFA World Cup (FutureLearn)

Business

Trace the historic development of the FIFA World Cup as a business entity to build expertise in sports business and management. On this three-week course from the University of York, you’ll trace the business history of the FIFA World Cup. Acknowledging the broader cultural, political, economic and social context of the tournament, you’ll examine its status as a business supported by a system of increasingly powerful monopolies.

Self Paced
3 Weeks
Business Sports FIFA World Cup
Details
Upcycling: From Green Ideas to Starting a Business (FutureLearn) FutureLearn
MINCA,Hands of Honour

Upcycling: From Green Ideas to Starting a Business (FutureLearn)

Sci: Environment Business

Explore the concept of upcycling, its link to sustainable development, and how you can start your own upcycling business. Understand upcycling, how to make upcycling products and start up a company. Have you ever turned unwanted objects or waste materials into entirely new products? Upcycling is the ideal way to combine creative ideas with a passion for sustainability and entrepreneurship.

Self Paced
3 Weeks
Business Sustainability Startup
Details