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Ashoka

Ashoka is a global organization that invests in leading social entrepreneurs — practical visionaries with the same creativity and determination as leading business entrepreneurs — who apply these qualities to solving social problems on a large scale.

Charities Review Council

The Charities Review Council is a Minnesota-based, independent nonprofit organization, working to promote informed charitable giving since 1946. They conduct detailed reviews of national and local charitable organizations soliciting in their state, which is based on accountability standards in the areas of public disclosure, governance, financial activity and fundraising. Their results are available to everyone free of charge.

Community Development Venture Capital Alliance

CDVCA (Community Development Venture Capital Alliance) promotes use of the tools of venture capital to create jobs, entrepreneurial capacity and wealth to advance the livelihoods of low-income people and the economies of distressed communities.

Development Leadership Network

A national association of individuals working in community economic development who are dedicated to moving the field towards practices which nurture and develop the capacity of individuals and organizations to take positive action towards creating healthy communities. Success Measures Project is a project of the DLN that was initiated to better define and measure success in order to develop more effective programs.

Enterprise Community Partners

Enterprise OnLine provides general information about The Enterprise Foundation as well as how to information for community-based nonprofit organizations on revitalizing their communities. At the heart of Enterprise OnLine is the Enterprise Resource Center’s Best Practices Information Database, which contains hundreds of model documents, effective program descriptions, how-to manuals and commentary on other useful information resources.

Faithworks

Faithworks builds life-changing partnerships by matching the interests, strengths and resources of business/professional leaders to the mission, needs and opportunities of social sector initiatives.

Grantmakers for Effective Organizations (GEO)

GEO is dedicated to increasing the effectiveness of nonprofits and grantmakers. Since inception in late 1997, GEO has sponsored three major national conferences, and has brought funders together with practitioners, management support organizations, and academics concerned with organizational effectiveness in a variety of ways. GEO members have been actively engaged in building a community of practice among funders doing this work, including supporting and sharing evaluations of their work.

1413 K Street, NW, 2nd Floor
Washington, DC 20005
202-898-1840
info@geofunders.org

MBA-Nonprofit Connection

The MBA-Nonprofit Connection (MNC) is a nonprofit organization that facilitates the placement of business school students and alumni in nonprofit jobs. Do you have a job opening that requires an MBA? Contact MNC to post your listing at top business schools.

National Community Reinvestment Coalition

733 15th Street, NW, Suite 540
Washington, DC 20005
202-628-8866

National Cooperative Business Association

1401 New York Avenue, NW, Suite 1100
Washington, DC 20005
202-638-6222

National League of Cities

1301 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20004
202-626-3000

National Low Income Housing Coalition

Committed to educating, organizing, and advocating to ensure decent, affordable housing within healthy neighborhoods for everyone

Net Impact

Net Impact is a professional network of emerging business leaders committed to using the power of business to create a better world.

Program on Social Enterprise

The Yale School of Management — The Goldman Sachs Program on Social Enterprise educates nonprofits about nonprofit enterprise, serves as a mechanism for capitalizing promising profit-making ventures with financial support, and provides intellectual capital to build the practice of social entrepreneurship in the nonprofit sector at-large. As its signature event, The Partnership runs the National Business Plan Competition for Nonprofit Organizations. The Partnership maintains a comprehensive online Resource Center with current research, articles, and discussion boards on the subject of nonprofit enterprise and social entrepreneurship.

Seedco

915 Broadway, 17th Floor
New York, NY 10010
212-473-0255

Social Enterprise Alliance

The mission of the Social Enterprise Alliance is to build stronger, more effective nonprofit organizations by mobilizing a community of practitioners and investors to advance earned income strategies. The Alliance provides a network of support connecting entrepreneurial nonprofits with learning opportunities, technical assistance and resources to further their efforts.

Social Policy

A quarterly magazine which reports on and analyzes contemporary movements for social change in the workplace, the community, and the world, published by The American Institute for Social Justice (AISJ) and The ACORN Institute, in cooperation with the Organizers’ Forum.

Social Venture Network

Doing Well While Doing Good, SVN provides a variety of forums for businesses, businesses people and a variety of “community” players to work toward the pursuit of enlightened capitalism.

The Council on Social Work Education

Publishes a list of all social work programs in the US, along with their areas of specialization.

The National Council for Public-Private Partnerships

A nonprofit, nonpartisan association whose primary purpose is to explore the ways in which the private and public sectors can work together in providing public services and developing, financing and implementing infrastructure and community facilities.

United Way of King County, Washington

The Homeless Economic Development Project (HEDP) is a project of the United Way of King County’s initiative on reducing homelessness called Out of the Rain. Through HEDP, Out of the Rain has committed to providing a portfolio of nonprofits with the necessary resources and assistance to build their capacities in order to successfully execute social purpose enterprise business strategies. Out of the Rain is committed to applying the social purpose enterprise model to organizations that will support the employment of individuals working to move out of homelessness. Organizations completing business and leadership development training are eligible to apply for seed funding ($50,000 over three years).

Village Retail Services Association

ViRSA Educational Trust
The Little Keep, Bridport Road
Dorchester, Dorset, DT1 1SQ 01305 259383