Social Enterprise
Community Wealth Ventures
Community Wealth Ventures is a for-profit subsidiary of Share Our Strength dedicated to expanding the resources generated by profitable enterprise for the purpose of promoting social change, especially by assisting and documenting the efforts of nonprofit organizations to create businesses. Community Wealth Ventures maintains with the Social Enterprise Alliance a database of hundreds of social enterprises throughout the United States. Read more about Community Wealth Ventures...
Echoing Green
Seeking to further the field of social entrepreneurship, Echoing Green invests and supports social entrepreneurs that it believes have strong potential but are untested. Each year, Echoing Green awards 12-15 two-year fellowships ($60,000 for individual applicants, $90,000 for partnerships) through a competitive process and provides them with technical assistance and consultations to help them succeed. To date, the organization has provided more than $28 million in seed funding to more than 470 social entrepreneurs and their organizations. Read more about Echoing Green...
National Center for Social Entrepreneurs
Since 1983, the National Center for Social Entrepreneurs has aimed to increase the effectiveness and financial self-sufficiency of the nonprofit sector by helping nonprofits to develop social enterprise strategies that enable them to earn more income from fees, contracts and product sales. Read more about National Center for Social Entrepreneurs...
National Center on Nonprofit Enterprise
NCNE connects academic researchers, business leaders, consultants and nonprofit practitioners to provide educational activities and services that address economic and business decision-making issues facing the nonprofit sector. Read more about National Center on Nonprofit Enterprise...
New Profit, Inc.
New Profit Inc. provides financial and strategic support for nonprofits focusing on long-term impact on the social mobility of low-income families through education, workforce development, and public health. The organization attempts to build bridges between social entrepreneurs, government officials, business leaders, and the nonprofit sector to develop new ideas and share resources. Read more about New Profit, Inc....
Rolfe Larson Associates
Rolfe Larson Associates is a consulting firm that helps nonprofits generate more earned income by increasing profits from current activities, launching a new venture, or something in between. Areas of consulting work include: assessing organizational readiness, brainstorming and screening venture ideas, feasibility analysis, developing business plans, and plan implementation. Read more about Rolfe Larson Associates...
Social Edge (Skoll Foundation)
Social Edge is a project of the Skoll Foundation that aims to connect social entrepreneurs and allies to discuss issues shaping the field. Social Edge's web site has a number of articles on social enterprise, publishes a monthly electronic newsletter, and hosts issue-based web discussion groups. Read more about Social Edge (Skoll Foundation)...
Social Enterprise Alliance
The Social Enterprise Alliance is a trade association in the United States of non-profits engaged in mission-oriented business. It has hosted a number of “national gathering” conferences and maintains a listserv of over 1,000 non-profit social enterprise practitioners. Read more about Social Enterprise Alliance...
Social Enterprise Ventures
Social Enterprise Ventures provides nonprofit consulting and training in earned income and best practices to help organizations transition away from traditional funding sources (e.g. grants) to unrestricted renewable income sources. Over a period of six to nine months, their Expedition training helps organizations develop a business plan for increasing earned income. Read more about Social Enterprise Ventures...
SocialReturns
Founded in 2005 as a spin-off from the Yale-Goldman Sachs Partnership for Nonprofit Ventures, SocialReturns aims to grow the practice of social entrepreneurship among nonprofits throughout the world. Programs include a social enterprise business plan competition, a university network of faculty and students teaching and studying social enterprise, a website of resources, and an annual conference and awards ceremony. Read more about SocialReturns...
Social Enterprise
Community Wealth Ventures
Community Wealth Ventures is a for-profit subsidiary of Share Our Strength dedicated to expanding the resources generated by profitable enterprise for the purpose of promoting social change, especially by assisting and documenting the efforts of nonprofit organizations to create businesses. Community Wealth Ventures maintains with the Social Enterprise Alliance a database of hundreds of social enterprises throughout the United States. Read more about Community Wealth Ventures...
Echoing Green
Seeking to further the field of social entrepreneurship, Echoing Green invests and supports social entrepreneurs that it believes have strong potential but are untested. Each year, Echoing Green awards 12-15 two-year fellowships ($60,000 for individual applicants, $90,000 for partnerships) through a competitive process and provides them with technical assistance and consultations to help them succeed. To date, the organization has provided more than $28 million in seed funding to more than 470 social entrepreneurs and their organizations. Read more about Echoing Green...
National Center for Social Entrepreneurs
Since 1983, the National Center for Social Entrepreneurs has aimed to increase the effectiveness and financial self-sufficiency of the nonprofit sector by helping nonprofits to develop social enterprise strategies that enable them to earn more income from fees, contracts and product sales. Read more about National Center for Social Entrepreneurs...
National Center on Nonprofit Enterprise
NCNE connects academic researchers, business leaders, consultants and nonprofit practitioners to provide educational activities and services that address economic and business decision-making issues facing the nonprofit sector. Read more about National Center on Nonprofit Enterprise...
New Profit, Inc.
New Profit Inc. provides financial and strategic support for nonprofits focusing on long-term impact on the social mobility of low-income families through education, workforce development, and public health. The organization attempts to build bridges between social entrepreneurs, government officials, business leaders, and the nonprofit sector to develop new ideas and share resources. Read more about New Profit, Inc....
Rolfe Larson Associates
Rolfe Larson Associates is a consulting firm that helps nonprofits generate more earned income by increasing profits from current activities, launching a new venture, or something in between. Areas of consulting work include: assessing organizational readiness, brainstorming and screening venture ideas, feasibility analysis, developing business plans, and plan implementation. Read more about Rolfe Larson Associates...
Social Edge (Skoll Foundation)
Social Edge is a project of the Skoll Foundation that aims to connect social entrepreneurs and allies to discuss issues shaping the field. Social Edge's web site has a number of articles on social enterprise, publishes a monthly electronic newsletter, and hosts issue-based web discussion groups. Read more about Social Edge (Skoll Foundation)...
Social Enterprise Alliance
The Social Enterprise Alliance is a trade association in the United States of non-profits engaged in mission-oriented business. It has hosted a number of “national gathering” conferences and maintains a listserv of over 1,000 non-profit social enterprise practitioners. Read more about Social Enterprise Alliance...
Social Enterprise Ventures
Social Enterprise Ventures provides nonprofit consulting and training in earned income and best practices to help organizations transition away from traditional funding sources (e.g. grants) to unrestricted renewable income sources. Over a period of six to nine months, their Expedition training helps organizations develop a business plan for increasing earned income. Read more about Social Enterprise Ventures...
SocialReturns
Founded in 2005 as a spin-off from the Yale-Goldman Sachs Partnership for Nonprofit Ventures, SocialReturns aims to grow the practice of social entrepreneurship among nonprofits throughout the world. Programs include a social enterprise business plan competition, a university network of faculty and students teaching and studying social enterprise, a website of resources, and an annual conference and awards ceremony. Read more about SocialReturns...