How do you know if an organization's Mission matches what they do? How can you tell that with TROSA, the example in your reading? Due Wednesday, September 22nd.
In the realm of social entrepreneurship, mission is the foundation in which all other aspects of a social venture build upon. It is extremely important for a social enterprise to be aligned with its mission. Normally, the number one goal of social ventures is to return value to a group of individuals or a community as opposed to solely looking to make more money. “True social ventures aim to do more with their fee-based services than generate profit” (Social Enterprise Alliance, 2010, pg. xxii). The case of the substance abuse residential program, TROSA, in our reading is a good example of an organization that is aligned with its mission. TROSA mission is “an innovative, multi-year residential program that enables substance abusers to be productive, recovering individuals by providing comprehensive treatment, work-based vocational training, education, and continuing care.” One of this organization’s main objectives is to provide its clients with the proper care so that they can “become productive members of society” (Social Enterprise Alliance, 2010, pg. 5). TROSA is able to generate profit through the use of other companies in their community. Not only do these companies provide income for TROSA, they also employ a large number of the programs clients; aligning mission and venture. TROSA does a good job at maintaining focus on their mission and remembering why they do what they do. “For example, the peer-based focus of our program means that solitary work is not of interest to us—we look for businesses whose work can primarily be done in teams” (Social Enterprise Alliance, 2010, pg. 5). While TROSA understands they need to generate some sort of profit to sustain the program, they seek to work with businesses that match or fit the organization’s mission; the main objective being to provide help and opportunity to their clients.
References: Alliance, Social Enterprise. (2010). Succeeding at Social Enterprise: Hard-Won Lessons for Nonprofits and Social Entrepreneurs. Wiley.
From the reading we establish an understanding that a social venture is the combination of mission and venture in varying degrees (Social Enterprise,pg4.) Ensuring that an organization’s mission matches what they do is essential not only financially, but if it is not aligned with the social venture it can take away from the main purpose.(Social Enterprise, pg3.) Knowing whether an organization’s mission matches with what they do can be quite simple. Some things that are important to notice are whether the social venture is “reating some type of social impact among individuals, communities, or society (Social Enterprise, pg4) Having a mission, an organization is able to establish a set of goals or standards that they can follow to make certain that profit and improvement of life is created. Being that TROSA is our example you can clearly see how their organization’s mission matches what they do. Their mission is to be an innovative, multi-year residential program that enables substance abusers to be productive, recovering individuals by providing comprehensive treatment, work-based vocational training, education, and continuing care (TROSA, 2010). You can put together their mission with what they instill into their students who go out into the workforce and are treated as regular citizens which can save lives. TROSA is succeeding at come through with its mission due to the amount of job placements they have made and employers even call TROSA from time to time looking for more of TROSA’s students.
References: Alliance, Social Enterprise. (2010). Succeeding at Social Enterprise: Hard-Won Lessons for Nonprofits and Social Entrepreneurs. Wiley.
You know that an organization’s mission matches what they do if you answer the following questions: does the company remember why it does what it does, is it have potential to make a profit, if what you do well goes well will you be of competitive advantage when taking that into consideration, are they going too far with the financial stability, is it having an effect on the people who they are serving, and lastly how is the company building its reputation. If all these questions are easily answered then a person knows that the organization has been following its mission and doing it well. If they struggle to be answered then somewhere along the way they forgot to discuss an important topic.
We can tell that TROSA has been following its mission because they are dedicated to educating those who are less fortunate and don’t have the mental or physical capabilities to go out in the real world. They are focused on bringing in some sort of profit because they are looking outside of the bubble to opening a grocery store to bring in some income. They are competitively advantaged because they insist on continuing to think of new ideas that will help their employees work. They respect how their employees will feel in certain situations and worked hard to achieve a great reputation.
Group: Hearts for a Change
ReplyDeleteIn the realm of social entrepreneurship, mission is the foundation in which all other aspects of a social venture build upon. It is extremely important for a social enterprise to be aligned with its mission. Normally, the number one goal of social ventures is to return value to a group of individuals or a community as opposed to solely looking to make more money. “True social ventures aim to do more with their fee-based services than generate profit” (Social Enterprise Alliance, 2010, pg. xxii). The case of the substance abuse residential program, TROSA, in our reading is a good example of an organization that is aligned with its mission. TROSA mission is “an innovative, multi-year residential program that enables substance abusers to be productive, recovering individuals by providing comprehensive treatment, work-based vocational training, education, and continuing care.” One of this organization’s main objectives is to provide its clients with the proper care so that they can “become productive members of society” (Social Enterprise Alliance, 2010, pg. 5). TROSA is able to generate profit through the use of other companies in their community. Not only do these companies provide income for TROSA, they also employ a large number of the programs clients; aligning mission and venture. TROSA does a good job at maintaining focus on their mission and remembering why they do what they do. “For example, the peer-based focus of our program means that solitary work is not of interest to us—we look for businesses whose work can primarily be done in teams” (Social Enterprise Alliance, 2010, pg. 5). While TROSA understands they need to generate some sort of profit to sustain the program, they seek to work with businesses that match or fit the organization’s mission; the main objective being to provide help and opportunity to their clients.
References:
Alliance, Social Enterprise. (2010). Succeeding at Social Enterprise: Hard-Won Lessons for Nonprofits and Social Entrepreneurs. Wiley.
Group: Johanson
ReplyDeleteFrom the reading we establish an understanding that a social venture is the combination of mission and venture in varying degrees (Social Enterprise,pg4.) Ensuring that an organization’s mission matches what they do is essential not only financially, but if it is not aligned with the social venture it can take away from the main purpose.(Social Enterprise, pg3.) Knowing whether an organization’s mission matches with what they do can be quite simple. Some things that are important to notice are whether the social venture is “reating some type of social impact among individuals, communities, or society (Social Enterprise, pg4) Having a mission, an organization is able to establish a set of goals or standards that they can follow to make certain that profit and improvement of life is created.
Being that TROSA is our example you can clearly see how their organization’s mission matches what they do. Their mission is to be an innovative, multi-year residential program that enables substance abusers to be productive, recovering individuals by providing comprehensive treatment, work-based vocational training, education, and continuing care (TROSA, 2010). You can put together their mission with what they instill into their students who go out into the workforce and are treated as regular citizens which can save lives. TROSA is succeeding at come through with its mission due to the amount of job placements they have made and employers even call TROSA from time to time looking for more of TROSA’s students.
References:
Alliance, Social Enterprise. (2010). Succeeding at Social Enterprise: Hard-Won Lessons for Nonprofits and Social Entrepreneurs. Wiley.
You know that an organization’s mission matches what they do if you answer the following questions: does the company remember why it does what it does, is it have potential to make a profit, if what you do well goes well will you be of competitive advantage when taking that into consideration, are they going too far with the financial stability, is it having an effect on the people who they are serving, and lastly how is the company building its reputation. If all these questions are easily answered then a person knows that the organization has been following its mission and doing it well. If they struggle to be answered then somewhere along the way they forgot to discuss an important topic.
ReplyDeleteWe can tell that TROSA has been following its mission because they are dedicated to educating those who are less fortunate and don’t have the mental or physical capabilities to go out in the real world. They are focused on bringing in some sort of profit because they are looking outside of the bubble to opening a grocery store to bring in some income. They are competitively advantaged because they insist on continuing to think of new ideas that will help their employees work. They respect how their employees will feel in certain situations and worked hard to achieve a great reputation.
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