Alternative business models for soup kitchen

In large cities around the world, Soup Kitchen is an important charity institution that serves the urban poor and homeless. Charitable individuals and organisations in developed and developing countries have used soup kitchens as channels to feed the poor. Most of these soup kitchens are ad-hoc oper...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors:	Ibrahim, Jamaludin, Ahmad Dahlan, Abdul Rahman
Format:	Conference or Workshop Item
Language:	English
Published:	International Foundation for Research and Development (IFRD) 2015
Subjects:	HB522 Income. Factor shares.Interest.Profit.Entrepreneurship
Online Access:	http://irep.iium.edu.my/45386/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/45386/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/45386/1/2015-6th_ICMFE-2015_Proceedings_Book-Best_Paper-Alternative_Bz_Models_4_Soup_Kitchen.pdf

id	iium-45386
recordtype	eprints
spelling	iium-453862018-06-25T04:48:50Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/45386/ Alternative business models for soup kitchen Ibrahim, Jamaludin Ahmad Dahlan, Abdul Rahman HB522 Income. Factor shares.Interest.Profit.Entrepreneurship In large cities around the world, Soup Kitchen is an important charity institution that serves the urban poor and homeless. Charitable individuals and organisations in developed and developing countries have used soup kitchens as channels to feed the poor. Most of these soup kitchens are ad-hoc operations without proper business plans to ensure business sustainability. Although, it is a short solution to the urban poor hunger problem, it nevertheless has become a critical service to alleviate hunger in many of the world’s modern cities. In Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, government proposal to close down soup kitchens because of the undesirable crowd it attracts allegedly ruining the reputation of the city was met with anger and outrage by the general public. It has now become a permanent social institution. Thus there is a need to make soup kitchen business model sustainable, socially desirable and turning it into a viable social safety net. In this conceptual paper we explored the use of Business Model Canvas (BMC) to generate alternative business models that could sustain the business operations of a typical soup kitchen in Malaysia. We used BMCs to study, analyse and evaluate different approaches to operate a soup kitchen. We analyse and compare alternative ways of running a soup kitchen considering different design and strategy to the BMCs. We found certain business models are conceptually more sustainable than others.Charitable social entrepreneurs should consider these models when designing their soup kitchen business operations. International Foundation for Research and Development (IFRD) 2015-10-17 Conference or Workshop Item PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/45386/1/2015-6th_ICMFE-2015_Proceedings_Book-Best_Paper-Alternative_Bz_Models_4_Soup_Kitchen.pdf Ibrahim, Jamaludin and Ahmad Dahlan, Abdul Rahman (2015) Alternative business models for soup kitchen. In: 6th International Conference on Management, Finance & Entrepreneurship (ICMFE-2015), 17th-18th Oct. 2015, Holiday Inn Istanbul City, Turkey. http://ifrnd.org/
repository_type	Digital Repository
institution_category	Local University
institution	International Islamic University Malaysia
building	IIUM Repository
collection	Online Access
language	English
topic	HB522 Income. Factor shares.Interest.Profit.Entrepreneurship
spellingShingle	HB522 Income. Factor shares.Interest.Profit.Entrepreneurship Ibrahim, Jamaludin Ahmad Dahlan, Abdul Rahman Alternative business models for soup kitchen
description	In large cities around the world, Soup Kitchen is an important charity institution that serves the urban poor and homeless. Charitable individuals and organisations in developed and developing countries have used soup kitchens as channels to feed the poor. Most of these soup kitchens are ad-hoc operations without proper business plans to ensure business sustainability. Although, it is a short solution to the urban poor hunger problem, it nevertheless has become a critical service to alleviate hunger in many of the world’s modern cities. In Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, government proposal to close down soup kitchens because of the undesirable crowd it attracts allegedly ruining the reputation of the city was met with anger and outrage by the general public. It has now become a permanent social institution. Thus there is a need to make soup kitchen business model sustainable, socially desirable and turning it into a viable social safety net. In this conceptual paper we explored the use of Business Model Canvas (BMC) to generate alternative business models that could sustain the business operations of a typical soup kitchen in Malaysia. We used BMCs to study, analyse and evaluate different approaches to operate a soup kitchen. We analyse and compare alternative ways of running a soup kitchen considering different design and strategy to the BMCs. We found certain business models are conceptually more sustainable than others.Charitable social entrepreneurs should consider these models when designing their soup kitchen business operations.
format	Conference or Workshop Item
author	Ibrahim, Jamaludin Ahmad Dahlan, Abdul Rahman
author_facet	Ibrahim, Jamaludin Ahmad Dahlan, Abdul Rahman
author_sort	Ibrahim, Jamaludin
title	Alternative business models for soup kitchen
title_short	Alternative business models for soup kitchen
title_full	Alternative business models for soup kitchen
title_fullStr	Alternative business models for soup kitchen
title_full_unstemmed	Alternative business models for soup kitchen
title_sort	alternative business models for soup kitchen
publisher	International Foundation for Research and Development (IFRD)
publishDate	2015
url	http://irep.iium.edu.my/45386/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/45386/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/45386/1/2015-6th_ICMFE-2015_Proceedings_Book-Best_Paper-Alternative_Bz_Models_4_Soup_Kitchen.pdf
first_indexed	2023-09-18T21:04:35Z
last_indexed	2023-09-18T21:04:35Z
_version_	1777410848370720768

Alternative business models for soup kitchen

Similar Items