{"title":"Rolfe Larson","description":"\u003cp\u003eROLFE LARSON is a consultant, trainer, and author specializing in social enterprise and nonprofit business development. He is the author of \u003cem\u003eVenture Forth!: The Essential Guide to Starting a Moneymaking Business in Your Nonprofit Organization\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLarson holds a B.A. from Swarthmore College, an MBA from the Yale School of Management, and an M.A. from the Yale School of the Environment. He spent nearly ten years as a senior manager at Minnesota Public Radio, served more than twelve years as an adjunct professor of marketing at the Opus College of Business at the University of St. Thomas in Minneapolis, and later taught at the University of Denver.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRolfe lives in Denver, Colorado.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRolfe Larson’s books are published by Fieldstone Alliance, an imprint of Turner Publishing.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBrowse more: \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/books-new-releases\"\u003eNew Releases\u003c\/a\u003e · \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/award-winning-books\"\u003eAward-Winning Books\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"venture-forth-the-essential-guide-to-starting-a-moneymaking-business-in-your-nonprofit-organization","title":"Venture Forth!: The Essential Guide to Starting a Moneymaking Business in Your Nonprofit Organization","description":"\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv aria-expanded=\"true\" class=\"a-expander-content a-expander-partial-collapse-content a-expander-content-expanded\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eHow to find, test, and launch a successful nonprofit venture \u003cem\u003eVenture Forth! The Essential Guide to Starting a Moneymaking Business in Your Nonprofit Organization\u003c\/em\u003e is the most complete step-by-step guide on the topic. Building on the experience of many organizations, this handbook gives you a time-tested approach for finding, testing, and launching a successful nonprofit business venture. Whether your organization is large or small, the book's seven steps guide you through the entire process-from idea to complete business plan. Examples, tips, timelines, and reproducible worksheets help you assess the strengths and weaknesses of venture ideas to find the most promising ones; determine which ideas fit your mission, resources, and skills; make solid decisions based on data rather than impressions; prepare a complete-and reassuring-financial analysis showing your breakeven point and future profitability; write a compelling, detailed business plan and get it approved; and get ready to start the new business! Nonprofits with established ventures will find these steps useful for evaluating, expanding, or improving their business. Even if you don't intend to earn a dime in venture income, you can use the book's process to improve the financial health of your current programs. Lower your risk and increase your chance of success with \u003cem\u003eVenture Forth!\u003c\/em\u003e and start generating earned-income while reducing your dependence on grants.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c!-- amazon-buylink --\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003csmall\u003eWe earn a commission for purchases made through the following links.\u003c\/small\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/0940069245\/ref=nosim?tag=tpcecomm-20\" rel=\"sponsored nofollow\"\u003eshop for this title at Amazon\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c!-- \/amazon-buylink --\u003e\u003c!-- bookshop-buylink --\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/book\/9780940069244\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003eshop for this title at Bookshop.org\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c!-- \/bookshop-buylink --\u003e","brand":"Rolfe Larson","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":42523538391256,"sku":"9780940069244","price":32.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":42523538424024,"sku":"9781630264796","price":42.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0563\/7786\/8475\/files\/71EkwUwxMML_mockup_v2_1645121636_598696e2-7764-4841-9c1a-a751e87182ca.jpg?v=1791989564"}],"url":"https:\/\/turnerpublishing.com\/collections\/author-rolfe-larson.oembed","provider":"Turner Publishing","version":"1.0","type":"link"}