Transitions: Empowering Independent Media
Transitions disseminates objective, impartial coverage through its own online magazine; runs workshops for journalism students, early-career reporters, senior journalists and media executives; and implements media development programs to promote models for quality journalism. This case study explores its vision for the future, growth plans, and lessons learned.
Produced with support from the Governments of Czechia, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia through Visegrad Grants from International Visegrad Fund.
Siedlisko: Co-Investing in Social Inclusion
Siedlisko trains and employs youth with intellectual disabilities and long-term unemployed people as caregivers of the residents and in running the catering and laundry services located in Staniszcze Wielkie. This case study explores its vision for the future, partnership with NESsT, and how it became one of BNP Paribas’ first social enterprise clients.
Produced with support from the Governments of Czechia, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia through Visegrad Grants from International Visegrad Fund.
Why Co-Invest? Creating Co-Investment Opportunities for Social Enterprise Success
The use of co-investing is a powerful way to unlock capital for the early-stage social enterprise market, leading to higher social impact. This case study explores three examples of NESsT-led early stage co-investment partnerships, how they came about, the success factors that made them work, as well as the barriers they confronted.
Produced with support from the European Union Programme for Employment and Social Innovation "EaSI" (2014-2020)
NESsT Partners: Engaging Local Philanthropists with Investment Mindsets in the Czech Republic
NESsT Partners is a giving circle that fosters social change and inspires and engages philanthropists at multiple levels — from strategic giving and impact investing, to volunteering, networking, and donor education.
Produced with support from the European Union Programme for Employment and Social Innovation "EaSI" (2014-2020)
Addressing the Refugee Crisis in Central Europe
Produced with the support of Rutgers Presbyterian Church
Social Enterprise Ecosystems in Croatia and the Western Balkans
Produced with the assistance of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) and the Taiwan Business-EBRD Technical Cooperation Fund
The Social Business of Caring: Powering Nursing Organizations Through Earned Income
Developed with support from the Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation
Timural Group
TIMURAL GROUP ADOPTS LEAN PRODUCTION
To help Timural Group increase production efficiency, NESsT matched the company with a Lean Six Sigma Black Belt mentor. For more than 18 months, the management team met regularly with their mentor and implemented changes that have resulted in significant savings and stronger margins.
Kek Madar and the Aushermans
USING A SOFT LOAN FOR INFRASTRUCTURE DEVELOPMENT AND GROWTH
Marvin and Lisa Ausherman wanted to direct their philanthropic giving to an organization with a strong entrepreneurial vision and the ability to create sustainable impact. After consulting with NESsT, they selected to invest in Kek Madar, a social enterprise in Hungary that trains and employs people with disabilities.
Prietenia Association: BioHrana Social Enterprise
ADAPTING A SWISS MODEL OF WORK INTEGRATION FOR PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES TO THE ROMANIAN CONTEXT
Prietenia Association, an NGO established in Romania in 1996, has been working to replicate the Swiss model of social and work integration of people with mental disabilities in Romania. This case study describes the experience, lessons learned and challenges that Prietenia had to overcome.
Ingenimed and The Lemelson Foundation
OVERCOMING EARLY STAGE CHALLENGES THROUGH INCUBATION
The Lemelson Foundation supports inventors who create products that address critical social and environmental issues, and reach and serve communities with the greatest needs. Its support of NESsT's work in Peru has jumpstarted many invention-based businesses, including Ingenimed which offers a cost-effective technology for treating jaundice in newborns in rural clinics.
NESsT Publications Archive
NESsT has been at the forefront of social enterprise development, conducting research and documenting best practices since 1997. See all of our publications in the NESsT Publications Archive.
