Social Shifters
Social Shifters is an international charity helping the next generation of young leaders, innovators, and entrepreneurs to tackle the world’s most pressing social and environmental issues in new ways. Their website offers e-learning, videos and downloadable digital tools to support social enterprise startups.
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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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