Social Enterprise

SUPPORT ORGANIZATIONS

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America Forward
www.americaforward.org
The America Forward is a coalition that aims to advance a policy agenda to create an infrastructure for social enterprise. The group includes more than 60 nonprofit organizations with programs operating in all 50 states and the District of Columbia. Together, these groups serve more than 10 million people a year and have a collective budget of more than $400 million.

Community Wealth Ventures
www.communitywealth.com
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.

Institute for Social Entrepreneurs
www.socialent.org
The Institute for Social Entrepreneurs is a nonprofit organization that seeks to encourage entrepreneurship throughout the non-profit sector through education and consulting services.

National Center on Nonprofit Enterprise
www.nationalcne.org
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.

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National Center for Social Entrepreneurs
www.missionmoneymatters.org
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.

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New Profit, Inc.
www.newprofit.com
Since 1998, New Profit has helped a portfolio of social entrepreneurs build world-class organizations and scale their social impact. With the support of individual investors and its lead backer, the Monitor Group, New Profit provides multi-year financial and strategic support to a portfolio of social entrepreneurs working in education, youth development, workforce development, and other areas.

New Sector Alliance
www.newsector.org
New Sector Alliance works with leading academic institutions and businesses to deliver high quality, affordable consulting services to nonprofit organizations and other social enterprises.

Origo Fourth Sector Network
www.origoinc.com
Origo does consulting work with business, foundations, government agencies, and others to assist clients to develop social enterprise strategies and cross-sector partnerships. Since 2000, Origo has published Fourth Sector News, a biweekly on-line newsletter on social enterprise.

Rolfe Larson Associates
www.rolfelarson.com
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.

Social Enterprise Alliance
www.se-alliance.org
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.

Social Edge (Skoll Foundation)
www.socialedge.org
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.

Social Returns.Org
www.socialreturns.org
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.

Yale-Goldman Sachs Partnership on Nonprofit Ventures
http://ventures.yale.edu
Since its founding in 2002, the Yale-Goldman Sachs Partnership on Nonprofit Ventures has operated an annual National Business Plan Competition for Nonprofit Organizations, the first of its kind in the United States. In the first three years of the competition, there have been over 1,000 entrants. The partnership provides winners with both cash awards and hundreds of hours of technical assistance to implement their plans. The group also publishes research and case studies.