What Does MVP Stand For? It’s Not What You Think.
October 7, 2024
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Instructor: Omodiaogbe Samuel
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Analyze the 9 building blocks of the model to determine the viability of your nonprofit organization
Create value for your beneficiaries and stakeholder by meeting their unique needs and expectations
Set your nonprofit organization apart by providing distinctive social value proposition to your beneficiaries and donors
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By the end of this guided project, you will be able to use the Nonprofit Business Model Canvas to create, deliver, and capture value for your Non-Governmental Organization (NGO). The canvas serves as a blueprint to help you to design, and operationalize your idea in a more systematic approach. The Canvas is 9-block visualization tool derived from the popular Business Model Canvas, but modified to fit into the NGO context. Essentially, the canvas helps you and your team to answer pertinent questions relating to strategic decision-making, allocation of resources, or developing proposal for grants. Because the canvas makes it easy for you to share ideas and solicit feedback, it’s therefore a quick communicate and strategic planning tool.
For us to practically demonstrate how to use the Nonprofit Business Model Canvas to conduct analysis and make informed decisions, we will use a spreadsheet to analyze an NGO startup as a case study. Example of the case study would empower you to apply the model to your organization or any other NGO of your choice. The project is for social entrepreneurs who want to make positive impact on the lives of others. Also, for social investors or donors that want to understand the operations of an NGO. At the end of the project, you will be able to use the canvas to creates and delivers value for your beneficiaries and other stakeholders
In a video that plays in a split-screen with your work area, your instructor will walk you through these steps:
Task 1: Introduction: By the end of this task, you will explain the nonprofit business model canvas
Task 2: Co-creator: By the end of this task, you will identify your co-creators in delivering your value
Task 3: Social value proposition: By the end of this task, you will determine the value you create for your stakeholders
Task 4: Channels and Relations: By the end of this task, you will articulate your channels, and the relations you want to establish
Task 5: Outcome Streams: By the end of this task, you will express your financial and nonfinancial outcomes
Task 6: Key Resources and Activities: By the end of this task, you will determine your key resources, and the activates you need to perform
Task 7: Key Partners: By the end of this task, you will enumerate your key partners
Task 8: Cost Structure, and putting it all together: By the end of this task, you will provide your cost structure, and sum-up the project
Familiarity with basic business terms
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Reviewed on Jun 12, 2024
Excellent resource for getting started in the management of non-profit organizations. Thank you!
Reviewed on Oct 18, 2023
Got a pretty good idea of the basic organizational structure, strategy, and components of an NGO
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