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Case Studies
These case studies are available for individual download at no charge. If they are to be reproduced and used in a course, please contact us. Teaching notes are available upon request.
Comments on the cases can be sent to pse@yale.edu
The Baltimore Fund
The Baltimore Fund LLC is a community development venture capital fund with 15 investors: foundations, individuals, a financial institution and a university. This case traces the development of the partnership from the perspective of the foundation that initiated the project. It looks at many of the decisions that had to be made to get the project underway.Download Baltimore Fund Case as a .pdf file
CostumeRentals
This case was produced through the Yale SOM Goldman Sachs Foundation Partnership on Nonprofit Ventures.
This case examines the challenges of a start-up for profit venture created by non-profit parent entities. CostumeRentals, LLC has many issues to resolve. As a new venture, it has the challenges of profitability, operational efficiency, staffing, and sustainability.Download CosumeRentals Case as a .pdf file
Housing Partnership Insurance
This case was produced through the Yale SOM Goldman Sachs Foundation Partnership on Nonprofit Ventures.The Housing Partnership Network, a business cooperative of affordable housing units, was formed in 1990 to provide a vehicle for peer to peer learning, innovation, policy shaping, and the determination and implementation of industry best practices. This case describes how a quarter of the Network's members joined to create their own insurance vehicle in order to avoid volatile pricing and coverage instability in the standard insurance market and deals with the associated issues and risks of the venture.
Download Housing Partnership Insurance as a .pdf file
Profits and Principles: Benhaven's Learning Network
This case was produced through the Yale SOM Goldman Sachs Foundation Partnership on Nonprofit Ventures.In this case, Benhaven, an organization serving the needs of autistic children, struggles with the role of its consulting arm. This branch, called The Learning Network, seeks to provide revenue for the larger organization by selling its expertise to local school districts. But the organization quickly finds that there is sometimes a tension between providing quality services and profitability.
Download Profits and Principles as a .pdf file