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Department of Business and Social Entrepreneurship
Sterling College
The social entrepreneurship academic minor at Sterling College claims to be the first of its kind in the United States. The program helps develop skills to be an effective social entrepreneur by teaching how to apply successful business practices in a nonprofit organization while retaining its social service mission. More about the school may be found at the Sterling College home page.

Haas School of Business
UC Berkeley
Launched in 2003, the vision of the Center for Responsible Business is to create a more sustainable, ethical, and socially responsible society by establishing the Haas School of Business. As a catalyst and innovator, the Center’s mission is to create a new generation of business leaders who are knowledgeable about and committed to Corporate Social Responsibility.

Hauser Center for Non-Profit Institutions
Harvard University
Newly established research center documenting work in the non-profit sector with emphasis on changing roles of non-profits in the new century.

Initiative on Social Enterprise
Harvard Business School
Established to support information and resource sharing between the traditional business arena and the changing role of non-profit organizations.

Public Management Program
Stanford Graduate School of Business
For more than three decades, the Public Management Program (PMP) has given students the knowledge and hands-on experience needed to apply business principles to social and environmental issues. Part of the Center for Social Innovation, the Public Management Program supports student learning in areas spanning public and nonprofit management, social and environmental entrepreneurship, international development, environmental sustainability, and corporate social responsibility. CSI also offers the Alumni Consulting Team, Stanford Social Innovation Review, the Executive Education program, and the Stanford Project on the Evolution of Nonprofits.

Allavida
Allavida is an international development organisation, that works to enable local action. Our mission is to help people acquire the skills, knowledge, confidence and resources to lead local action and achieve constructive change in their communities.

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. We conduct detailed reviews of national and local charitable organizations soliciting in our state, which are based on accountability standards in the areas of public disclosure, governance, financial activity and fundraising. Our 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 nurtures and develops 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.

The Enterprise Foundation
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.

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.

National Low Income Housing Coalition
Committed to educating, organizing, and advocating to ensure decent, affordable housing within healthy neighborhoods for everyone

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

Partnership on Nonprofit Ventures
The Yale School of Management — The Goldman Sachs Foundation Partnership on Nonprofit Ventures 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.

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.

Success Measures Project
What are the most important impacts of community development work? To what extent are those impacts captured in current ways of measuring the work? Is there a difference between the impacts which practitioners care most about and those which funders and other stakeholders find most important? These are among the questions being addressed by the Success Measures Project, a project of the Development Leadership Network in partnership with McAuley Institute.

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).

Wall Street Without Walls
The WALL STREET WITHOUT WALLS (WSWW) program brings finance professionals and Wall Street executives together with community development organizations to assist them with their specific financing needs.

The Acadia Centre for Small Business & Entrepreneurship
The Acadia Centre for Small Business & Entrepreneurship supports the global development of economic, social, and community entrepreneurship by liaising between the resources of Acadia University and the broader community.

alt.Consulting
alt.Consulting is a nonprofit, economic development organization that operates like a management consulting firm but is driven by a passion for economic justice. Their on-site business assistance enables sustainable organizational growth.

The Association of Rehabilitation Marketing
The Association of Rehabilitation Marketing is a non-profit association for those professionals whose primary responsibility is marketing, sales and the development of products or services for agencies providing employment opportunities to people with disabilities.

Bureau of Business and Economic Research
University of Memphis
The Bureau of Business and Economic Research provides information on U.S. median household incomes by Zip Code.

Business for Social Responsibility (BSR)
Business for Social Resposibility (BSR) provides members with innovative products and services that help companies be commercially successful in ways that demonstrate respect for ethical values, people, communities and the environment.

Center for Economic Options
CEO is a non profit organization that works throughout West Virginia to advance entrepreneurism and assist people in achieving economic success.

Community Enterprises Corporation
The Community Enterprises Corporation mission is to provide services to organizations that are committed to provide economic opportunities and safe, decent, affordable and permanent supportive housing to low income persons with special needs. This includes business assistance, and linking affordable housing with supportive services.

The npEnterprise Forum
This listserve discusses practical ways that nonprofits can enhance their organizational capacity, mission impact and financial sustainability through business development.

Enterweb
A knowledge portal for small business, Enterweb is a collection of sources of information on finance, international trade, entrepreneurship, enterprise development and the economy.

Social Enterprise Reporter
SER is an independently owned and operated online business newsletter which provides North American social entrepreneurs and nonprofit enterprise directors with practical news and information, business tools, and inspiration that will improve the profitability and social impact of their social purpose ventures, without sacrificing their tax-exempt missions.

Ecological Economics
The journal is concerned with extending and integrating the study and management of “nature’s household” (ecology) and “humankind’s household” (economics). Published by the International Society for Ecological Economics.

Internet Resources November 1999
Internet Resources November 1999 has Banking Data and Research including the URLs for the Federal Reserve System, other Federal finance sites, professional organizations and banking groups.

National Center for Economic and Security Alternatives
The National Center for Economic and Security Alternatives is an independent, politically progressive, nonprofit institute providing research, education and consultation on innovative solutions to problems facing America and the global political-economy.

National Center for Employee Ownership
The National Center for Employee Ownership is a private, nonprofit membership and research organization that serves as the leading source of accurate, unbiased information on employee stock ownership plans (ESOPs), broadly granted employee stock options, and employee participation programs.

The Clarence Foundation
The mission of the Clarence Foundation is to seek out and fund innovative grassroots organizations that have been successful in the relief of poverty worldwide. They invest in groups of social entrepreneurs, so they may build upon their past success and reach more people in need.

Common Good Ventures
Common Good Ventures is a philanthropic organization that partners with nonprofit groups to improve their performance. We utilize capital investments and long-lasting business-consulting partnerships to assist nonprofit groups in delivering more social good for every philanthropic dollar invested.

Community Foundation Silicon Valley
Community Foundation Silicon Valley is working to improve this community by connecting those who care with those making a difference by providing grants for various local needs. The Community Foundation also brings people together and creates partnerships to address community problems. Nonprofits may receive grants from CFSV’s competitive grant programs, as well as from funds advised by donors and from our supporting foundations.

The Edna McConnell Clark Foundation
For the past 30 years, The Edna McConnell Clark Foundation has been committed to improving the lives of people from low-income communities. The Foundation pursues its mission by helping a select group of high-performing nonprofit organizations increase their capacity to serve more young people from low-income backgrounds (ages 9 to 24) with quality programs during out-of-school time.

The Entrepreneurs’ Foundation
Founded in 1998, the Entrepreneurs’ Foundation (EF) is a nonprofit organization created to strengthen the Silicon Valley/Bay Area’s community infrastructure by establishing community reinvestment as an integral part of the entrepreneurial culture. EF intends to translate the extraordinary successes of the technology industry into a platform for long-term community investment and prosperity.

ePhilanthropyFoundation.org
ePhilanthropyFoundation.org is an organization devoted to fostering secure, private, and ethical online philanthropy. The ePhilanthropyFoundation will serve multiple constituencies, most importantly, non-profit organizations and the general public.

The Kauffman Foundation
The Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation is an operating and grantmaking foundation that works toward the vision of self-sufficient people in healthy communities. Its mission is to research and identify unfulfilled needs of society and to develop, implement and/or fund breakthrough solutions that have a lasting impact and offer people a choice and hope for the future. The Kauffman Foundation’s work is focused on two areas: Youth Development and Entrepreneurial Leadership.

The Kellogg Foundation
The Kellog Foundation has continuously focused on building the capacity of individuals, communities, and institutions to solve their own problems.

National Network of Grantmakers
The National Network of Grantmakers (NNG) is a membership association of funders committed to supporting progressive social change. As an organization, NNG is committed to the goal of increasing resources, financial and otherwise, to organizations working for social and economic justice.

Neighborhood Funders Group
The Neighborhood Funders Group (NFG) is a membership association of grantmaking institutions. NFG provides information, learning opportunities, and other professional development activities to their national membership, and encourage the support of policies and practices that advance economic and social justice.

NESsT
NESsT (Nonprofit Enterprise and Self-sustainability Team) is an international, nonprofit, nongovernmental organization committed to strengthening the financial sustainability of civil society organizations (CSOs) working for social change and development, with offices in Hungary and Chile.

The Ontario Trillium Foundation
The Trillium Foundation at the following page has an excellent executive summary from a major report they did on commercial ventures being undertaken by nonprofits in Canada.

Pacific Foundation Services
PFS provides professional management to family foundations in the San Francisco Bay Area. Founded in 1987, PFS enables donors and board members to experience the pleasure of giving and the deep satisfaction of becoming more fully involved in their communities through philanthropy. Drawing on extensive knowledge of the nonprofit sector and the foundation world, PFS helps major donors enhance the depth, scope, and impact of their philanthropy. PFS currently serves nine family foundations of various sizes, including the grant program of The Roberts Foundation.

Peninsula Community Foundation
A permanent charitable institution dedicated to addressing the changing needs of the San Francisco Peninsula. The foundation specializes in building partnerships between strategic givers and our most effective leaders in government, schools and nonprofit organizations to make their dreams for the community’s future come true. See also their page devoted specifically to the Center for Venture Philanthropy.

Social Venture Partners
Using the Venture Capital model, Social Venture Partners seeks to pool its financial resources and professional expertise to invest in long-term solutions to the social challenges facing our community. SVP partners are committed to giving time, money and expertise through partnerships with the community.

The Surdna Foundation
Surdna’s grantmaking activities are concentrated in four programmatic areas: environment, community revitalization, effective citizenry and a small program in the arts that is by invitation only.

Three Guineas Fund
Three Guineas Fund promotes social justice by creating economic opportunity for women and girls. The Fund.s strategies, criteria, and philanthropic program are designed to achieve social justice gains that enable women and girls to earn an independent living, participate fully in the economy, and give back to their communities.

Venture Philanthropy Funds
Venture Philanthropy Partners is an entrepreneurial venture of the Morino Institute establishing a new philanthropic fund to improve services to youth living in low-income areas. The Morino Institute is in partnership with Community Wealth Ventures, Inc. in the research and development of this initiative and will be working with The Community Foundation for the National Capital Region to launch this initiative.

webMethods Foundation
The webMethods Foundation is a venture philanthropy organization founded to provide financial investments, management assistance and volunteer support to non-profits in the U.S. and abroad that are dedicated to helping under privileged people and communities achieve their potential.

The Calvert Foundation
Calvert Community Investments enable investors to put their money into an array of carefully chosen, resourceful loan funds that are helping people in thousands of neighborhoods.

Common Good Ventures
In a hands-on approach to venture philanthropy, Common Good Ventures forms tailored, long-term partnerships with nonprofit organizations, introducing them to best business practices and coaching them toward more efficient performance.

Good Capital
Good Capital is an investment firm that accelerates the flow of capital to innovative ventures and initiatives that harness the power of the market to create sustainable solutions to some of society’s most challenging problems. Their initiatives and funds address a wide range of social issues ranging from social enterprise financing, community and economic development, brownfield development, and healthcare financing.

Good Money
Good Money provides information about how individuals can use the power of their money as investors, consumers and businesspeople to bring about the changes necessary to improve social and economic conditions throughout the world.

International Association of Investors in the Social Economy
The explicit goal of the association and its members was, and still is, to foster and support the development of financial organizations which invest in enterprises of an ethical, ecological, cultural and self managing nature, including women.s undertakings and enterprises run by ethnic minorities, in enterprises whose aims encompass the needs of disabled people, healthier living, peace and the Third World, in enterprises working within the social economy generally.

New Profit, Inc.
New Profit Inc. is a nonprofit venture philanthropy firm committed to both the practice of venture philanthropy and the evolution of a new market for social change. Our goal to affect large-scale social change by applying venture capital practices to philanthropy is twofold. First, we operate a performance-based fund invested in proven nonprofit organizations; our practice of venture philanthropy. Our other goal is the development of a community of like-minded people committed to the exploration and definition of a new market that invests in social enterprise. We believe that this dual strategy, which has worked so well in the private sector, will result in higher social impact.

New Schools Venture Fund
Builds on the innovation and passion of a new breed of pioneers — education entrepreneurs. New Schools is a growing network tapping the insight, experience, and resources of New Economy leaders. New Schools is devoted to transforming public education — our most important business.

Nonprofit Finance Fund
For 25 years Nonprofit Finance Fund (NFF) has helped nonprofits match their passion and dedication with financial strength and sustainability. NFF provides impartial analysis and flexible, frequently unsecured, financing that nonprofits typically can’t get from other sources. Nationwide, NFF works with over 170 funders including financial institutions, foundations and government agencies to develop new ways of meeting the capital growth needs of the nonprofit sector.

The Pax World Fund
The PAx World Fund is a socially responsible group of mutual funds that serve individuals and institutions who wish to invest in keeping with their ethical beliefs.

Rinconada Ventures Fund
Riconda Ventures Fund provides financial and business assistance to for-profit and nonprofit social change organizations in the areas of alternative education and disability rights. All funding is made via loans, investments or outright grants in to the areas of disability rights and culture and alternative education.

SocialFunds.com
SocialFunds.com has over 1000 pages of strategic content to help individuals make informed investment decisions regarding socially responsible investing.

Social Ventures Australia
Established in 2002, Social Ventures Australia aims to source innovative solutions to many of Australian society’s entrenched community problems. We aspire to becoming the focal point for the mentoring, nurturing and financing of Australian-based social ventures.

Career Search Online
We've designed Career Search Online to be simple, fast and even, well friendly for those searching for their next career opportunity. If you are an individual who is considering your next career opportunity in the nonprofit/voluntary sector in the U.S., Canada, Europe, Asia, Australia — anywhere in the world — you’ll find Career Search Online to be one of the easiest yet effective systems to use.

Chronicle of Philanthropy
The Chronicle of Philanthropy is the newspaper of the nonprofit world. It is the No. 1 news source, in print and online, for charity leaders, fund raisers, grant makers, and other people involved in the philanthropic enterprise.

Commongood Careers
Commongood Careers offers centralized access to opportunities at the nation’s leading nonprofit and socially entrepreneurial organizations. Founded by nonprofit professionals, Commongood Careers offers support to jobseekers throughout the entire hiring process, as well as access to career advising services, special events, and a wealth of knowledge about working in the social sector.

Craig’s List
A lot of HR people and recruiters tell us that craigslist is the most effective job site in the San Francisco Bay Area and now a February 2000 Forrester report confirms this.

National Economic Development Law Center
NEDLC is a multi-disciplinary legal and planning resource center whose mission is to contribute to the abilities of low-income persons and communities to realize their full potential. They do this by collaborating with community organizations to develop integrated community-building skills, indigenous leadership, and community-building creativity in order to build local capacity and achieve greater economic, social, cultural, and human development.

The Welfare Law Center
The Welfare Law Center works with and on behalf of low-income people to ensure that adequate income support — public funding provided on the basis of need — is available whenever and to the extent necessary to meet basic needs and foster healthy human and family development.

Association of Asian Confederation of Credit Unions (ACCU)
This is the homepage of the confederation that unites the savings and credit co-operatives (credit unions) of all Asia.

The Centre for Micro-Finance
Nepal’s own homepage on micro-finance, with information mainly drawn from the work of CECI. Back copies of Common Interest are also available here.

The Consultative Group on the Alleviation of Poverty CGAP
The Consultave Group on the Alleviation of Poverty CGAP is a program of the World Bank that has funded a number of cutting edge research studies in the MF sector. Some of these studies are directly available here: others are summarised in the useful CGAP newsletter “Focus”, which can also be down loaded.

Corporation for Enterprise Development
Provides a range of services including policy design, analysis, advocacy, demonstration and project management, consulting, technical assistance, training, research, information, and publication services.

Echoing green
Echoing green is a foundation based in New York that applies a venture capital approach to philanthropy. Through the echoing green fellowship, they provide seed money and technical support to social entrepreneurs who want to start new public service ventures.

EnterWeb, the Enterprise Development Website
has a microfinance web site that includes descriptions and links to 49 sites related to microfinance, each individually reviewed and rated

FAO Rural Finance Homepage
The Food and Agriculture Organization, part of the UN family, has its own page dedicated to rural finance with a good list of research studies that can be directly down-loaded.

The Grameen Bank
The official homepage of the Grameen Bank, with information on the original “bank for the poor” in Bangladesh and its various replicators around the world.

The Greenstar Foundation
Greenstar makes a solar-powered system that delivers electricity, ecommerce, pure water, education and basic health care to villages in developing countries. Through an ecommerce Website, Greenstar helps the villagers to create a new source of income and employment by investing in digital culture products, including traditional music, artwork, photography and storytelling.

Inventory of Micro Finance Institutions in South Asia
A comprehensive listing of MFIs in South Asia, as compiled by the Sustainable Banking Project of the World Bank.

Micro-Credit Summit Homepage
This homepage covers the high-profile work of the Micro-Credit Summit which has successfully placed micro-credit activities on the international agenda. Although criticised by some for embracing the Grameen Bank model with almost religious fervour, the Summit plays a useful networking and lobbying role.

The Microenterprise Innovation Project
The Microenterprise Innovation Project is the U.S. Agency for International Development’s (USAID) initiative to support technical and financial assistance, research and training on best practices in microenterprise development and finance. Be sure to check out their Best Practices Project.

MYRADA: NGO Under-taking Micro Credit Initiatives in South India
The homepage of one of the more successful NGOs active in the MF sector in this region. The page explains how Myrada operates and provides profiles and case studies.

Ohio State University, Rural Finance Program
OSU is the pre-eminent academic institution in the field of rural finance. It has recently put a lot of effort into developing this homepage which describes their assorted research and teaching programs. However, there have been complaints that the heavy use of graphics on this site makes it very slow to access from overseas.

PlaNet Finance
PlaNet Finance seeks to solve poverty through the creation of microenterprises, in the context of liberty and dignity with the aim of fair and sustainable development.

SHARENET
SHARENET is an email listserv meant for busy microfinance professionals, practitioners, consultants, experts, managers and organizations — not intended for students or learners.

Trickle Up Program
An international non-profit organization based in New York City that helps low-income people start small businesses to help themselves out of poverty.

The Virtual Library on Micro Credit
This page is maintained by an Indian graduate student at a Japanese university. The site is updated on a regular basis and has lots of excellent resources and links to other sites.

CharityChannel
This website, sponsored by American Philanthropy Review, offers fifteen different Email-based forums: Advancement, Annual Fund, Arts, Boards, Charity Law, Charity Talk, Consult, Events, Grants, Grants and Foundations Online, Health, Mentors, Planned Giving USA, Volunteer Online, and WorldGift.

Charity Village Resource Library Canada’s supersite for the nonprofit sector — 3,000 pages of news, jobs, information and resources for executives, staffers, donors, and volunteers.

Civic Practices Network The Civic Practices Network (CPN), Born of the movement for a “new citizenship” and “civic revitalization,” is a collaborative and nonpartisan project dedicated to bringing practical tools for public problem solving into community and institutional settings across America. This site offers numerous case statements and multiple resources.

GPO Access
GPO Access provides access to full text versions of Federal Registers, as well as more than 70 other searchable databases of federal information and reports.

Idealist.org
Idealist.org/Action Without Borders connects people, organizations and resources to help build a world where all people can live free and dignified lives. The organization’s work is guided by the common desire of their members and supporters to find practical solutions to social and environmental problems, in a spirit of generosity and mutual respect. The website carries information on 20,000 organizations in 140 countries.

Interactive Knowledge for Nonprofits Worldwide
www.iknow.org is a collection of portal sites that together make up an impressive map of the world of internet based information and resources for nonprofits. Areas include governance, fundraising, human resources, legal issues, business services, volunteers and education. There is also an .Ask IKnow. feature which allows visitors to ask the IKNOW team specific questions if they don.t find what they need.

The Internet NonProfit Center
A page with a wide variety of resources of interest to non-profit managers, staff and volunteers. A program of The Evergreen State Society in Washington.

Jiva Institute
Based in India, Jiva Institute’s Enterprise division works towards helping non-profit and funding organizations in India achieve greater impact through the application of efficient management techniques, innovative income strategies, and enabling technologies. It carries out grassroots ICT projects, provides consultancy, and develops effective tools for non-profit management and communication.

Nonprofit Gateway
A network of links to Federal government information and services, Nonprofit Gateway provides information on grants, budgets, volunteer opportunities and agency partnerships.

Philanthropy Journal
The North Carolina-based A.J. Fletcher Foundation launched this Web-based news service to provide daily updates on fundraising, giving, volunteering, managing, and the use of technology in the nonprofit arena.

Seattle Public Access Network
The Seattle Public Access Network (PAN) consists of a free public website and e-mail list server, operated and directly funded by the City of Seattle. The primary purpose of PAN is to serve as an electronic City Hall, allowing Seattle citizens to communicate with City officials and obtain City information and services electronically. This link is to the Human Services Department’s portion of the site. Their mission is to find and fund solutions for human needs so that low-income, vulnerable residents in greater Seattle can live and thrive.

Social Edge
Sponsored by the Skoll Foundation, Social Edge is a lively and provocative online community for the social sector where you’ll find social entrepreneurs, philanthropists, nonprofit professionals, activists, academics, friends and colleagues.

Social Entrepreneurship Incubator (SEI)
A program of the Three Guineas Fund and the Women’s Technology Cluster, SEI is designed for start-up social entrepreneurs building early stage organizations for girls and women. Recognizing that there are few opportunities for non-profit start-ups to have regular access to peers, training, onsite consultants and professional facilities, the SEI is designed to help social entrepreneurs develop their early-stage non-profits into successful, sustainable organizations.

Stanford Social Innovation Review
Stanford Social Innovation Review (SSIR) is an award-winning magazine covering best strategies for nonprofits, foundations, and socially responsible businesses.

The Alliance for Nonprofit Management
The Alliance is the professional association of individuals and organizations devoted to improving the management and governance capacity of nonprofits — to assist nonprofits in fulfilling their mission.

TMC Development Working Solutions
Working Solutions is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization that assists underserved microentrepreneurs in the Bay Area access the capital and resources they need to successfully start and grow their businesses in order to strengthen the economy, create jobs, reduce poverty, and build strong communities.

Centre for Integral Economics (CIE)
Centre for Integral Economics (CIE) is an Ashoka fellow awarded civic sector policy consulting firm and charitable organization. CIE is based in Victoria BC, with a mission to promote market-based approaches to social environmental and economic sustainability.
2200 Oak Bay Avenue
Victoria, British Columbia
Canada, V8R 6T4
250-880-1430

Global Social Venture Competition
Columbia Business School and The Goldman Sachs Foundation have partnered with the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley to grow a national platform for social ventures through the Global Social Venture Competition. The unprecedented partnership brings together the academic and financial worlds to support the creation of social ventures.businesses with financial and social returns on investment.

National Business Plan Competition for Nonprofit Organizations
Yale School of Management — The Goldman Sachs Foundation Partnership on Nonprofit Ventures
The Partnership on Nonprofit Ventures provides educational and financial support for nonprofit enterprise. The Partnership offers business planning assistance, cash awards, and access to the investment community through its National Business Plan Competition for Nonprofit Organizations.

The Nonprofit Funding Competition
The Nonprofit Funding Competition is a joint project between Social Stimulus and the Keiretsu Forum Charitable Foundation awarding $100K in cash prizes, as well as supporting in-kind services, to social ventures.

The Office of Community Service (HHS)
The purpose of the The Office of Community Service ROI Teams is to develop guidance for the Community Services Network and their human services partners for calculating return on investment for family, agency and community level outcomes produced by members of the Network.

Coyote Communications Tip Sheet for Non-Profits on the Internet
Coyote Communications Tip Sheet for Non-Profits on the Internet is a listing of helpful links and suggestions regarding non-profits and the use of appropriate technologies.

Techsoup.org
TechSoup is the technology Web site just for nonprofits. At TechSoup, nonprofits can receive donated & discounted technology products for a small administrative fee. TechSoup also provides a wealth of free technology information: Articles & News, Tools & Resources, Interactive Community, and a weekly e-newsletter.

The Aspen Institute
The Aspen Institute is an international nonprofit educational institution dedicated to enhancing the quality of leadership through informed dialogue. It convenes men and women who represent diverse viewpoints and backgrounds from business, labor, government, the professions, the arts, and the nonprofit sector to relate timeless ideas and values to the foremost challenges facing societies, organizations, and individuals.

Caledon Institute of Social Policy
The Caledon Institute is a Canadian organization reporting on a variety of social and economic policy issues impacting the nonprofit sector.

Public/Private Ventures
Public/Private Ventures is a national nonprofit organization whose mission is to improve the effectiveness of social policies, programs and community initiatives by its program design, technical assistance, policy analysis and evaluation work. In carrying out this mission, P/PV works with philanthropies, the public and business sectors, and nonprofit organizations.

Redefining Progress
Redefining Progress seeks to develop and promote new policy approaches that integrate four broad issue areas: economic opportunity, social cohesion, environmental conservation and fiscal responsibility.“Sponsors of a number of innovative, public policy and program initiatives, RP sponsors the Community Indicators program an effort to quantify and document long-term trends related to the both economic, environmental and quality of life standards of measuring “progress” at the community level. In addition, RP also supports a tax reform initiative based on the conviction that our nation’s tax system should reward wealth and job creation, while encouraging the effective investment of our nation’s resources: “Tax Waste, Not Work” is the slogan under which there efforts are organized.

USC Nonprofit Studies Center
The Center seeks to preserve and strengthen the nonprofit sector through research and public education on philanthropy, volunteerism and the nonprofit sector in the governance and economy of America’s urban communities, using the California experience as a model.