the kosnar group
News Release
FOR
IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Nonprofit-Owned Business
Entities:
An Innovative Approach To Structuring a Social Enterprise
by
Carl Kosnar and
Andi Kosnar, Founding Partners
THE KOSNAR GROUP
San Diego, California (July 23, 2015) - The subject of Nonprofit-owned business
entities has fascinated me over the past few
years. Our firm has been involved in helping companies franchise their
businesses for over 35 years. However, it has been the recent decision to join
the Solana Beach ECO Rotary Club that encouraged my business partner, Andi
Kosnar, and me to seriously begin to think about the subject of alternative revenue
sources for our local Rotary Club.
PURPOSE
The
success of the American franchise business model is well documented through
volumes of books and articles, including those I have written, over the last thirty
years. It is not my intent to add to the prolific amount of text that
already exists, but rather to explore the opportunities that we perceive in
attempting to merge the American franchise business model with a nonprofit “Social
Enterprise.” My definition of a Social Enterprise is, “The utilization of a profitable business venture to generate unrestricted
income on behalf of a nonprofit charitable organization.”
Much
has been written in recent years extolling the virtues of franchising as it
exists in the United States and other countries. However, there has been
a dearth of information and analysis of the economic impact and potential of
franchising, or similar economic expansion systems, in developing Social
Enterprise ventures.
And Finally
Whatever
posture your foundation or charitable governing board may decide to adopt on
franchising as a vehicle for structuring a Social Enterprise, one thing appears
fairly certain: franchising as a business expansion technique for generating
additional revenue for charitable organizations cannot be indefinitely ignored.
For a
complete copy of this dissertation please email a request to Carl Kosnar at:
CARL J.
KOSNAR
MANAGING
PARTNER
THE KOSNAR
GROUP
2306 WALES
DRIVE
CARDIFF BY
THE SEA, CA 92007
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