*See also Nonprofit Leadership resource page

Ashoka: www.ashoka.org This is a global organization that identifies and invests in leading social entrepreneurs.

The Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship: www.schwabfound.org They provide unparalleled platforms at the country, regional and global levels that highlight social entrepreneurship as a key element to advance societies and address social problems in an innovative and effective manner.

Fast Company: www.fastcompany.com Check out Fast Company/Monitor Group Social Capitalist Awards 2007, highlighting 43 entrepreneurs who are using the disciplines of the corporate world to tackle daunting social problems.

Echoing Green: www.echoinggreen.org Through a two-year fellowship program, this organization helps passionate social entrepreneurs develop new solutions to some of society’s most difficult problems.

Civic Ventures: www.civicventures.org Founded by social entrepreneurs, Civic Ventures is a think tank and an incubator, generating ideas and inventing programs to help society achieve the greatest return on experience. Civic Ventures brings together older adults with a passion for service and helps stimulate opportunities for using their talents to advance the greater good.

Draper Richards Foundation: www.draperrichards.org Provides fellowships to help outstanding people create wide-reaching social change by offering funding and business mentoring to social entrepreneurs beginning nonprofit organizations.

Kauffman Foundation eVenturing: www.eventuring.org Provides original articles, written by entrepreneurs for entrepreneurs, and aggregates “the best of the best” content on the Web related to starting and running high-impact companies.

Social Enterprise Alliance: www.se-alliance.org Dedicated to providing support and resources to social entrepreneurs.

National Center for Social Entrepreneurs: www.missionmoneymatters.org Seeks to increase the effectiveness and financial self-sufficiency of the nonprofit sector by helping nonprofits think and act in a more entrepreneurial manner.