Tool Library
The COPSE Tool library provides a selection of tools and guides that have been recommended by our members to help support social enterprises to start, grow or scale their activities.
Feel free to search the library and download tools that you may find useful.
For exclusive access to member-only tools, please get in touch to become a COPSE member now.
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€0.00Social Business Model Canvas
The Social Business Model Canvas is a tool for creating a solid business model around your social enterprise. It’s also a collaborative tool that helps you communicate different business models with your stakeholders and brainstorm new ones.
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€0.00Social Replication Toolkit
Author: International Centre for Social Franchising
Year first published: 2015A manual to help organisations replicate and scale their product/service into new places and/or countries.
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€0.00PATRI framework for scaling
The Framework helps the reader/organisations think through the key questions you should be asking yourself and addressing in the run up to scaling. It is based on 5 stages: Purpose, Applicability, Transferability, Readiness, and Implementation.
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€0.00Idea2Entrepreneur Talent Tool for Entrepreneurs (Validate Stage)
The Idea2Entrepreneur Talent Tool is an online self-assessment and guided action plan for growing your entrepreneurial leadership skills and capabilities. The tool is designed to guide you through a discovery process with support from a mentor — ensuring you are ready to take the necessary steps to develop your team and build your social enterprise for greater impact.
This version of the I2E Talent Tool is for entrepreneurs leading social enterprises at the validate stage. This means that you and your team are focused on validating the commercial viability and scalability of the business model described in the blueprint. This involves running market trials in which business plan assumptions are tested. This is an iterative process which results in the refinement of the product or services, as well as the business model.
Learn more at www.nesst.org/i2e-talent-tool
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€0.00Idea2Entrepreneur Talent Tool for Entrepreneurs (Scale Stage)
The Idea2Entrepreneur Talent Tool is an online self-assessment and guided action plan for growing your entrepreneurial leadership skills and capabilities. The tool is designed to guide you through a discovery process with support from a mentor — ensuring you are ready to take the necessary steps to develop your team and build your social enterprise for greater impact.
This version of the tool is for entrepreneurs leading social enterprises at the prepare-to-scale stage. This means that your business is preparing the conditions needed to grow a validated product/service and business model. During this stage, your goals should be working towards achieving operational stability and enhancing the conditions needed for scaling both externally (customer education, supplier reliability, new distribution networks) or internally (hiring skilled personnel).
Learn more at www.nesst.org/i2e-talent-tool
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€0.00Idea2Entrepreneur Talent Tool for Entrepreneurs (Start-up Stage)
The Idea2Entrepreneur Talent Tool is an online self-assessment and guided action plan for growing your entrepreneurial leadership skills and capabilities. The tool is designed to guide you through a discovery process with support from a mentor — ensuring you are ready to take the necessary steps to develop your team and build your social enterprise for greater impact.
This version of the tool is for entrepreneurs leading social enterprises at the start-up stage. This means that you and your team are focused on creating a blueprint for your business. There needs to be a clear sense of what the business will offer, what it will do and how it will do it. During this stage, your goals should be proving your user or customer need and solution, having a proof of concept of your product or service, and ultimately a business plan.
Learn more at www.nesst.org/i2e-talent-tool
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€0.00I2E Inventing Green Tool
The Idea2Entrepreneur Inventing Green Tool is an online self-assessment, which will help you identify areas where you can improve your social enterprise’s environmental practices.
Operating a green business helps our environment and makes business sense. By introducing environmental management practices and reducing your negative impact, your social enterprise can profit from cost savings through efficiency and productivity gains.
Learn more at www.nesst.org/i2e-green-tool
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€0.00Online course: “Social Impact Strategy: Tools for Entrepreneurs and Innovators”
Online course: “Social Impact Strategy: Tools for Entrepreneurs and Innovators”
Created by: University of Pennsylvania
Taught by: Peter Frumkin, Professor – Nonprofit Leadership Program, School of Social Policy & Practice
Level: Beginner
Commitment: 4 weeks of study, 2-4 hours/week
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CAN³ Sprint Hack
The tool enables SESOs to facilitate one-hour sessions based around a specific theme for organisations to source tips, solutions, or avenues to explore in relation to a particular burning issue that they are having.
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€0.00COPSE collective impact indicators
These KPIS are designed to capture the value created by the SESO (Social Enterprise Support Organisation) and the impact it has on its beneficiary; the SE (Social Enterprise). It it NOT designed to capture the impact created by the SE. The detail gathered will be aggregated for all COPSE members. Please refer to the COPSE survey for a full list of question you can use to survey impact of your SEs. NB: these KPIs are work in progress and might evolve over time. Any comments are welcome, email: info [at] copse.eu or lw [at] oksigenlab.eu
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€0.00The COPSE client satisfaction survey
We’ve developed a standardised social enterprise satisfaction survey that you can use to survey your clients and beneficiaries. We hope this proves useful.
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COPSE connector service intake form
This form has been designed to help you dialogue with a social enterprise willing to engage in transnational scale-up. The questions are designed to tease out any issues but also to provide the key information the COPSE team needs to find relevant partners in destination countries.
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COPSE readiness questions
Around Europe there is an increasing demand for social impact at scale, from funders, from intermediaires and from social enterprises themselves. But how to asses a social enterprises’ readiness to scale?
We’ve developed some questions for SESOs that will help you engage in a readiness conversation, especially focused on internationalisation. For COPSE members, this is also a great way of assessing if it is worth engaging with the COPSE connector service.