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Social Shifters Learning
By Social Shifters
10 Oct 2024
Social Shifters is an international charity that supports young people to become leaders, innovators, and entrepreneurs. It helps them tackle social and environmental problems in new ways. Their website offers online learning, videos, and downloadable tools to support people starting social enterprises.
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This website offers short video explainers along with downloadable resources for the following topics:
- Defining your personal mission
- Planning your project
- Planning your social business
- Planning your campaign
- Developing a fundraising plan
- Developing an action plan
- Finding the funding you need
- Finding others to work with
- Generating changemaking ideas
- Identifying the problem
- Planning your social impact
- Preparing a grant application
- Preparing a project budget
- Prototyping your solution
- Setting an audacious goal
- Setting monitoring indicators
- Understanding the cause
- Using storytelling techniques
- Making the pitch
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