Resources

Funding and Support Resources

Aavishkaar India Micro Venture Capital Fund
Aavishkaar is registered Trust that operates a rurally oriented,for-profit social venture capital fund.It was established with the mission of promoting the largely ignored entrepreneurial potential that exists in rural India, and it provides venture capital financing, management support and professional expertise to promising micro-ventures.

Acumen Fund
Acumen is a nonprofit global venture fund which supports enterprises that increase income, increase assets and create jobs for the four billion people on earth who earn a few dollars a day.

Akshara Network for Development Support
Akshara is a learning cum skill development centre for livelihood professionals.

American India Foundation
American India Foundation has a long term commitment to providing financial, technological, and managerial resources towards helping the people of India realize their full potential and strengthening the bonds between the US and India.

Ashoka
Ashoka is a global nonprofit organisationthat identifies and supports outstanding individuals in local communities (esp. developing countries) with innovative programs for achieving systemic social change on a national and regional level.

Association for Women
The Association for Women's Rights in Development (AWID) is an international membership organisationconnecting, informing, and mobilizing people and Organisations committed to achieving gender equality, sustainable development, and women's human rights.

Center for the Advancement of Social Entrepreneurship
(CASE) at Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business has downloadable articles and monthly newsletter, the Case Corner.

Center for Social Markets
The Centre for Social Markets (CSM) is an independent non-profit organisationdedicated to making markets work for the triple bottom line - people, planet and profit- with offices in India and the UK.

Centre for Social Initiative and Management (CSIM)
CSIM is a Learning Centre which takes on the challenge to discover and mould Social Entrepreneurs.

Changemakers.net
Changemakers.net is a web-based initiative of Ashoka Innovators for the Public and is an excellent online magazine for social entrepreneurship worldwide.

Charities Aid Foundation
CAF is a non-governmental organisationwith a unique purpose, to increase the substance of philanthropy around the world.

DASRA
Dasra builds sustainable non-profit Organisations (NPOs) in India. Dasra grants technical assistance, to improve Organisational capacity for strong performance, and managerial support to ensure a solid foundation for lasting Social-Impact.

Future Generation
Future Generations teaches and enables a process for equitable community change that integrates environmental conservation with development. As an international school for communities, Future Generations provides training and higher education through on-site and distance learning.

GKP Youth Fellowship Program (Youth Social Enterprise Initiative)
Formerly The Youth Social Enterprise Initiative, the Youth Fellowship Program is a component of the Global Knowledge Partnership Youth Program that focuses on building capacity among young people and empowering them to be learners, developers and entrepreneurs.

Global Fund for Children
The Global Fund for Children makes grants to small community-based Organisations around the world that help young people develop the knowledge and skills they need to become productive, caring members of our global society.

Global Fund for Women
The Global Fund for Women is an international network of women and men committed to a world of equality and social justice that advocates for and defends women's human rights by making grants to support women's groups around the world that address economic independence, education, and stopping violence against women.

Global Giving
Enables individuals and companies to find and support high-impact, grassroots social and economic development projects around the world.

Global Philanthropist Circle
The Global Philanthropists Circle is designed to be an ongoing opportunity for concerned individuals and families to investigate, learn about, and invest in path breaking efforts to tackle social problems in many countries throughout the world.

Global Philanthropy Forum
The Global Philanthropy Forum was founded to inspire, enable and expand international giving. The Forum 's established and emerging donors are committed to giving internationally to advance individual opportunity and improve quality of life.

Grantmakers Without Borders
Grantmakers Without Borders is a collaborative project of the International Donors' Dialogue and the International Working Group of the National Network of Grantmakers. It is a network of trustees and staff of public and private foundations as well as individual donors who share a common desire to expand and enrich progressive international philanthropy.

Gramin VIkas Vigyan Samiti
GRAVIS works toward the rehabilitation of the rural community, enabling village ownership and control over its environment, institutions, and relations.

ICICIsocialinitiatives
Top Private Sector Bank in India ICICI’s www.ICICIsocialinitiatives.org is an interactive platform that seeks to:

Bring together participants in the development process to widen and deepen the discourse, informing development practice. Interactive features include discussion boards and facilities to post papers, articles or other resources. Publish research related to innovations and significant problems within the identified thematic areas. Enable online application for funding.

Idealist.org
Idealist combines online activism with face-to-face involvement at local community levels. This site has links to over 26,000 Organisations in over 150 countries and provides tools for nonprofits (starting, running and funding a nonprofit, recruiting and managing volunteers, and technology for nonprofits), career resources, and volunteer opportunities.

ILID– Institute for Leadership and Institutional Development
ILID works to create and empower social entrepreneurial Organisations (SEOs) by providing them with guidance in leadership, and institutional development.

International Center for Nonprofit Law
ICNL is an international organisationwhose mission is to facilitate and support the development of civil society and the freedom of association on a global basis. ICNL, in cooperation with other international, national, and local Organisations, provides technical assistance for the creation and improvement of laws and regulatory systems that permit, encourage, and regulate the not-for-profit, nongovernmental (NGO) sector in countries around the world.

International Development Exchange (IDEX)
International Development Exchange promotes economic justice for low income communities by giving money where it is most needed and where it will make the most difference.

ISAP
ISAP is a network of professionals in India and the SAARC countries and is a non-political non-governmental organisationstarted and run by professionals. The professionals who have set up this venture have experiences ranging from Irrigation, Rural Development, Food Processing, International Trade, Research, Agri Inputs, Agri Extension etc.

L-RAMP
Lemelson Recognition and Mentoring Programme (L-RAMP), a three year programme to identify and nurture innovations that fulfills the basic human needs towards social development. The Lemelson Foundation, US is supporting L-RAMP in India.

Microlinks
US government sponsored portal for microenterprise and microfinance practitioners; downloadable information, conference notes, presentations, and virtual discussions.

Mitra Technology Foundation
Mitra Technology Foundation is an organisationcommitted to promoting the cause of volunteerism in India. Its slogan is "Giving Time, Doing Good." MITRA reaches out to, identifies and recruits volunteers to help non-profits and other Organisations meet their missions.

Naandi Foundation
Naandi Foundation's purpose is to alleviate their poverty by working directly with the communities at the grassroots level - creating and providing the underprivileged access to opportunities in education, health, and livelihood. National Foundation of India.

National Foundation of India
The National Foundation for India was set up as a non-profit, philanthropic, fund raising and grant making foundation which supports voluntary action for national development. The mission is one of stimulating and supporting the creative potential of people and community organisations to build a prosperous, progressive and united India.

Next Billion
Next Billion is a project of the World Resources Institute whose goal is to identify and discuss sustainable business models that address the needs of the world's poorest citizens. Downloadable cases studies and research papers can be found on their site.

Nonprofit Enterprise and Self-sustainability Team (NESsT)
NESsT is an international nonprofit nongovernmental organisationdedicated to finding lasting solutions to systemic poverty and social injustice through the development of social enterprises-mission-driven businesses that increase the financial sustainability and social change impact of civil society Organisations.

OneWorld.net
One World is an online community that brings together the latest news and views from over 1,600 Organisations promoting human rights awareness and fighting poverty worldwide.

Oxfam
Oxfam invests privately raised funds and technical expertise in local Organisations around the world that hold promise in their efforts to help poor people move out of poverty.

Rural Innovations Network
RIN works to enrich rural lives by enabling innovations to reach the market. RIN avidly identifies and incubates grassroots innovations, which can have a significant impact on rural lives and lie untapped, in spite of their potential to transform lives. RIN's incubation strives to make the difference between an idea that fails and one that sees the light of day.

Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship
The Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship provides a global platform to promote social entrepreneurship as a key element to advance societies and address social problems in an innovative and effective manner.

SEEP Network
SEEP is an organization of more than 50 North American private and voluntary organizations that support micro and small business and microfinance institutions in the developing world. Site contains an enormous number of practitioner developed resources, most of which are free.

Social Edge
Social Edge is an online community where social entrepreneurs, nonprofit professionals, philanthropists and other practitioners of the social sector connect to network, learn, inspire and share resources.

Social Enterprise Alliance
The Social Enterprise Alliance is the only membership organisationdevoted exclusively to building sustainable nonprofits through earned income strategies. We accomplish this through a network connecting entrepreneurial nonprofits with learning opportunities, technical assistance and resources to further their efforts.

Social Enterprise Coalition
SEC is the UKs national body for social enterprise, site has information and cases studies, examples and other resources available.

Social Fusion
Social Fusion is an incubator that helps social entrepreneurs build the knowledge, community and resources to develop early and transitional stage non-profit and for-profit social ventures into successful, sustainable Organisations.

U.S. International Grantmakers
Part of the Council on Foundations International Programs, the purpose of this site is to facilitate international grantmaking by providing access to recommended forms with instructions, country reports and laws, and other informational materials and resources. The site serves both grantmakers and grantseekers to support and facilitate the process of making grants overseas.

Venture
Venture is an interactive social enterprise resource center hosted by UnltdWorld. Content is technical and practically-oriented, comprised of real world management and strategic tools, cases, and articles for conceiving, planning, implementing and troubleshooting social enterprises.

Virtue Ventures
Virtue Ventures is a cutting-edge consulting firm that works globally to maximize value creation in the social sector using social enterprise and innovative market-based approaches.

WINGS
WINGS stands for Worldwide Initiatives for Grantmaker Support. WINGS is a network of over 40 grantmaker support Organisations around the world; it is a meeting place for those engaged in building the infrastructure to support global philanthropy.

William Davidson Institute at the University of Michigan
This Institute has articles, research papers, publications, video streams, as well as a newsletter, NGO Success Quarterly.

World Neighbours
World Neighbours works with the rural poor in 15 countries in Asia, Africa and Latin America to strengthen the ability of individuals and communities to solve their own problems of hunger, poverty, and disease.