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Ashoka:
Innovators for the Public - A global not-for-profit organization that finds and
supports outstanding individuals with ideas for far-reaching social change.
Community
Wealth - An online home for leading nonprofits and businesses creating community wealth
resources generated through profitable enterprise to promote social change.
CompassPoint
- Includes some
outstanding resources including G.E.N.I.E..
G.E.N.I.E. has a section with answers to Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ's) on the subject
of Social
Entrepreneurism.
Corporate
Alternatives Inc. - Business Development Resources - Peter Brinckerhoff provides basic
and sophisticated free tools for not-for-profits who are considering starting a new
business, expanding an existing service, or even buying a business.
entreWorld - This
web site is supported by the Kaufman Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership
and is geared towards the for-profit world but contains many resources that
would be of interest to any entrepreneurial organization. EntreWorld is
designed to increase your productivity by getting you essential information
as quickly and easily as possible. Recognized by USA Today, Forbes, Inc. and
Fast Company as a premier online resource for small business owners, the
EntreWorld search engine delivers the best and most useful information,
guidance and contacts for you, the entrepreneur.
The
Institute for Social Entrepreneurs - The Institute for Social Entrepreneurs provides
education and training for social entrepreneurs in the United States and abroad and
draws upon a virtual community of social entrepreneurs and others to collaborate on
specific projects. The founder and executive director, Jerr Boschee, is a faculty member
of the Learning Institute.
Kauffman Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership - The Kauffman Center
for Entrepreneurial Leadership at the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation was established in
1992 to: stimulate entrepreneurial leadership in both the profit and not-for-profit
sectors; search, identify, teach and disseminate the critical skills and values that
enable entrepreneurs to succeed; and to introduce young people to the excitement and
opportunity of entrepreneurship; and encourage others to support entrepreneurship.
National
Center for Social Entrepreneurs - The National Center for Social Entrepreneurs is a
nonprofit organization founded in 1985, and the International Centre for Social
Entrepreneurs is a wholly-owned subsidiary. The mission of both organizations is to
encourage entrepreneurship throughout the nonprofit sector and to help individual nonprofits think and act in an entrepreneurial manner.
Roberts Enterprise
Development Fund - A philanthropic venture of the Roberts Foundation. The REDF
portfolio consists of eight nonprofit organizations in the San Francisco Bay Area
currently operating 25 enterprises providing transitional and permanent employment to very
low income and formerly homeless individuals. The goal of the Fund is to assist these
groups in achieving both increased scale and full sustainability in the marketplace. Check
out the Frequently
Asked Questions section that focuses on the narrow topic of Nonprofit
Enterprise/Business Development.
Social Enterprise Alliance
- the membership organization where nonprofit practitioners, funders of
social enterprise, academics and consultants gather, learn and develop
sustainable enterprises.
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.
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