Social Entrepreneurship Course - Distance education course on social entrepreneurship taught by an expert in the field - Jerr Boschee.
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.
Kauffman Foundation: Entrepreneurship - The Kauffman Foundation is working to further understand the phenomenon of entrepreneurship, to advance entrepreneurship education and training efforts, to promote entrepreneurship-friendly policies, and to better facilitate the commercialization of new technologies by entrepreneurs and others which have great promise for improving the economic welfare of our nation.
REDF - REDF provides guidance, leadership and investment to a portfolio of nonprofit social enterprises in the San Francisco Bay Area, changing the lives of people who face poverty, homelessness, mental illness and other barriers to employment. Check out the Frequently Asked Questions section that focuses on the narrow topic of Nonprofit Enterprise/Business Development.
Social Enterprise Alliance - Membership organization where nonprofit practitioners, funders of social enterprise, academics and consultants gather, learn and develop sustainable enterprises.
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.
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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