Social Enterprise

RESEARCH RESOURCES

Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action
www.arnova.org
ARNOVA is an international academic organization that is dedicated to the study of social enterprise worldwide.

Blended Value Map
www.blendedvalue.org
Blended Value.Org is a web site that contains a research report that looks at a variety of different enterprises, including social enterprises that seek to “blend,” in one form or another social, financial (and sometimes also environmental) benefits in their work.

BTW Consultants, Inc.
www.informingchange.com
Founded in 1998, BTW is a consulting firm that has done program evaluations of a number of social enterprises around the country, with a focus on developing effective measures for “double bottom line” ventures of social returns. A number of reports regarding social enterprises the firm has evaluated are available for free download on its website.

CASE Studies Database—Scaling Social Impact
www.fuqua.duke.edu/centers/case/knowledge/scalingsocialimpact
With this website, CASE aims to help catalogue, coordinate, and contribute to the body of knowledge around scaling social impact, with a special focus to the social entrepreneurs and social enterprise funding communities. The site includes a case study database that lists over 160 studies and is designed to help social entrepreneurs, practitioners, researchers, educators, and students find and access case studies about scaling social impact

Center for the Advancement of Social Entrepreneurship (CASE, Duke)
www.fuqua.duke.edu/centers/case
Founded in 2002, and led by Greg Dees, a pioneer in the field, CASE is one of a select number of university programs dedicated to conducting teaching, education, and research about social enterprise.

Changemakers.net
www.changemakers.net
Changemakers.net publishes an electronic journal highlighting social enterprise practices. Previous issues are available on line going back to 1998. Articles are also organized by topic.

The Chronicle of Philanthropy
http://philanthropy.com
The Chronicle of Philanthropy is a leading journal in the non-profit world, tracking both developments in social enterprise as well as broader issues affecting non-profits in the United States today.

Community Wealth Vanguard
www.communitywealth.com/CW Vanguard.htm
Published by the consulting firm Community Wealth Ventures, Community Wealth Vanguard is a quarterly electronic newsletter that provides a forum for sharing ideas, best practices, and new concepts among social enterprise movement participants.

Directory of Social Enterprises
http://208.254.27.232
The Directory of Social Enterprises, cosponsored by Community Wealth Ventures and the Social Enterprise Alliance is a database with information on more than 500 social enterprises located throughout the country.

Harvard Business School, Working Knowledge: Social Enterprise
www.hbsworkingknowledge.hbs.edu/item.jhtml?id=4087&t=nonprofit
This web site provides an overview of Harvard’s “Social Enterprise Initiative,” which began in 1993 and which aims to encourage further growth of social enterprise in the United States over the next decade.

Origo Fourth Sector News
www.origonews.com/index.php
Origo Fourth Sector News is a new clipping service that documents the latest thinking and events relating to social enterprise.

Research Initiative on Social Enterprise (Columbia)
www.riseproject.org
RISE is a research project at Columbia University that has issued a number of reports, available on its web site, concerning impact measurement and the “double bottom line” of social and economic returns sought by practitioners in the social enterprise sector. The web site also maintains a directory of social venture funders that make equity investments in social ventures.

REDF (Roberts Enterprise Development Fund)
www.redf.org
The Roberts Enterprise Development Fund provides technical assistance and philanthropic investments to help nonprofit organizations in the San Francisco area attain marketplace sustainability in their enterprise ventures. REDF also works with organizations across the U.S. that use nonprofit enterprise strategies.

Root Cause
www.rootcause.org
Root Cause addresses social problems through strategy consulting, knowledge sharing, social impact research, and the building of sustainable social enterprises. The website contains a wide range of articles regarding social enterprise and related public policy, as well as samples of the group’s consulting work with social enterprises.

Social Enterprise Reporter
http://sereporter.com
Founded in the fall of 2004, Social Enterprise Reporter is an on-line monthly journal tracking issues of interest to social entrepreneurs and non-profit enterprise directors.

Stanford Social Innovation Review
www.ssireview.com
Founded in 2003, Stanford’s Social Innovation Review provides a host of articles regarding developments in social enterprise and the non-profit world.

University Network for Social Entrepreneurship
www.universitynetwork.org
The University Network for Social Entrepreneurship is designed to be a resource clearinghouse and an action-oriented discussion forum, which enables the expansion of social entrepreneurship education and participation around the world. Through support of nascent & current social enterprise educators, and close engagement with social entrepreneurs themselves, the network aims to increase the number of students exposed to social enterprise principles.