Structure Labs

New corporate forms are blurring the boundaries between for profits and nonprofits.  Entrepreneurs and established organizations alike are bending the marketplace to meet multiple bottom lines including a return on social capital.  While some nimbly explore the space between for profit and nonprofit, many more are struggling to make sense of the new landscape of social change.

Criterion Ventures is a leading voice in structuring social ventures.  Criterion’s dual identity in launching social ventures, both for clients and by taking an equity position with internally developed ideas, has resulted in a nuanced understanding of what it takes to launch a ventures.  As the world of social enterprise matures, Criterion is helping to create the methodology that can make it more accessible.  Criterion has spent the past year creating an easy to engage process to understand how new forms are structured and how they might work to support the efforts of social change agents.

Supported by a grant from the David and Lucille Packard Foundation, Criterion has created the Structure Lab, providing participants with a day-long exploration of the road map of possibilities to navigate the wide world of structure already available to them.  Each session lasts 5 hours and can accommodate up to 40 participants.

We are thrilled to announce the following 2009/10 Structure Lab Sponsors:

San Francisco, CA
Generously sponsored by

Minneapolis, MN
Generously sponsored by

New York, NY
Generously sponsored by

To learn more about Criterion's Structure Lab or to find out if you are a good fit to participate in a Lab, please email Elizabeth McCance.

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