Hit the Ground Running</em> draws from NESsT’s experience working in Croatia during 2005 and 2006 with 17 organizations that explored social enterprise as a sustainability strategy. The manual presents the experiences of Croatian organizations that went through the process of planning for their social enterprise, and the purpose is to provide examples of the challenges these organizations faced and the strategies they developed to successfully prepare the launch of their enterprise. We hope Croatian organizations seeking to develop social enterprise strategies will learn from the lessons and practices of their peers who have attempted to follow a similar path.
