TASK 2.2 Developing a Social Enterprise Survey

Great feedback from Mark.

I just watched the webinar, great stuff. As mentioned in the webinar and by Jo B it will be good to use and build on the work of FASES. Thanks SESP team for the work you’re doing :)

Thanks for the feedback Steve! As we collate the feedback on the survey we will definitely be calling on the expertise and experience of Navigators to co-develop the survey.

Do you comment on the survey in the attachment or in the thread @jemimawelsh ?

Hey Mark, will be great to have your thoughts. You can give feedback on the strawman table on here (i.e. Loomio thread) or email the PMT team directly on qld.sesp@gmail.com. Due date for feedback is 12 June.

Thanks @jemimawelsh, I'll mark up the document and send it through - you can't upload docs to this thread can you?

Hi @mark243 You can provide feedback and upload it through Loomio. At the bottom of the post space I think you should see a paperclip icon which will let you upload URLs (for a google doc?) or a file from your computer. If this is not available, we're happy to look at scanned documents.

In the Scotland SE Census, they ask as question about what 'terms / descriptions' did the participant identify with - i.e. community enterprise, social enterprise, purpose-led business, co-operative - given the diversity of organisations we're looking to reach, I think something like this, around identity, would be useful to include.

Hi everyone, I've added my comments into the task 2.2 survey design doc

Hi @mark243 - thanks for the speedy response. I will add this to our files. We'll start the creating process for draft 1 next week.

Hello all, If you would like to compare responses with 55,000+ businesses globally (including B Corps) you way like to look at if the survey questions are covered in the B Impact Assessment: https://b-analytics.net/content/standards-navigator

Hi Anna
Thanks for this. We’re pulling together suggestions and resources so we’ll add this to the mix.

Hi everyone. May I suggest that we seek some information about timelines to 'success'. I do not know how to word the actual question/s but wish to get a feel about how long it takes for someone to go from 'launch' to 'first sale' ... and 'first sale' to 'profit' ... and these terms may include social and/or financial meaning. I think it is really important for people who are a year (or two ... or seven) into a project to be able to compare their timeline with 'the norm'. It may help to understand if their project may still be a very good project even if it has not yet made a 'profit' - or that it is really is time to stop.

HI @iandaniels
Thanks for insight and suggestions. I've added your comments to our bank of feedback responses and hope we can create a question that addresses this theme. I also think this may be a good Loomio discussion thread.

I agree with @iandaniels there are lots of social enterprises just making ends meet. It would be good to have a question on whether - in the eyes of the owner / entrepreneur, whether they're doing well or needing lots more support. Some rubric like this could be illustrative:
'Thriving"; making sales in excess of my prediction (don't need much support)
'Making a go'; making some sales and on the upwards trajectory (still need support)
'Surviving"; just getting by, only making a few sales, not sure if it's going to work (need loads of support)
'Almost given up'; Things don't look good, can't seem to trade and I'm drowning (need an intervention)

hi @mark243 Thanks for this! It will help with question design

So much yes to this @mark243

I like this!

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Interesting to see the the questions from Scotland SE survey attached - now iterated over three cycles

Good questions in this long survey. I particularly like the screening questions at the beginning. How did they end up presenting the results and what were their main findings?

Hi - nice work everyone. This survey is gonna rock. I made my comments using pen and sent them by email. Now I am progressively joining the technology revolution and have discovered how to attach those comments into Loomio. So, see below my ideas. Thanks.

Hi @taniacobham Thanks for the pdf. Your comments are in the feedback table we are collating at the moment. Great to have you on board and contributing the process.

Hi everyone, we are just getting most of the questions down in SurveyMonkey as a rough draft. We will speak more about the process in a webinar. There will be some tweaking and a decision will need to be made on what we can realistically capture in this timeframe. Thank you to everyone for your great contributions.