901 | Building Infrastructure for Sustainable Social Change - Social Entrepreneurship Course

How can you ensure your social impact grows sustainably after a successful pilot? This lesson explores the essential infrastructure required to scale your endeavor, focusing on the pillars of people, processes, governance, and legal structure. Crucially, we'll discuss how to maintain focus on your social mission, ensuring the organization remains a means to an end, adapting as needed to maximize impact. 🎯 Learning Objectives • Identify the four key pillars of organizational infrastructure for growth. • Understand the importance of viewing the organization as a vehicle for social change. • Recognize the necessity of adapting organizational structure to expand impact. • Anticipate potential risks that come with organizational growth. 📚 About the Course Have you ever wondered what it would be like to create real change? You don't have to start your own organization to make a difference in the world. Everyone can learn the social entrepreneurship mindset and skillset to build social impact. In this course, you will immerse yourself in a social or environmental challenge you want to tackle. You'll start by researching your topic of choice, talking to people, and ideating a potential solution that you can contribute. Then, you'll build a business model around that solution, understanding concepts like measuring social change, ensuring financial viability, funding and pitching. This course is a safe space to experiment and explore. You'll be guided by a ten stage framework to help structure your journey. Along the way, you'll hear from social entrepreneurs around the world through case studies and campus conversations. These include Yale alumni, members of the New Haven community, and global changemakers. Everyone is welcome to join this course! You can apply your lived, learned, or professional experience to discover how you're going to make a difference. 📺 Watch the full playlist on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLh9mgdi4rNezbi0aRJeVnt99ynTVZG1PL 🎓 Enroll on Coursera for assessments and a certificate: https://online.yale.edu/courses/creating-change-through-social-entrepreneurship 🌐 Explore more learning opportunities on Yale Online: https://online.yale.edu/courses/creating-change-through-social-entrepreneurship #SocialEntrepreneurship #YaleCourse #Impact #Changemakers #BusinessPlan #DesignThinking