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 organization that 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 organization connecting, informing, and mobilizing people and organizations committed to achieving gender equality, sustainable development, and women's human rights.

Center for Social Markets
The Centre for Social Markets (CSM) is an independent non-profit organization dedicated 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 organization with a unique purpose, to increase the substance of philanthropy around the world.

DASRA
Dasra builds sustainable non-profit organizations (NPOs) in India. Dasra grants technical assistance, to improve organizational 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 organizations 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 organizations 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 organizations (SEOs) by providing them with guidance in leadership, and institutional development.

International Center for Nonprofit Law
ICNL is an international organization whose 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 organizations, 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 organisation started 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.

Mitra Technology Foundation
Mitra Technology Foundation is an organization committed 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 organizations 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.

Nonprofit Enterprise and Self-sustainability Team (NESsT)
NESsT is an international nonprofit nongovernmental organization dedicated 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 organizations.

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

Oxfam
Oxfam invests privately raised funds and technical expertise in local organizations 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.

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 organization devoted 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 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 organizations.

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.

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 organizations around the world; it is a meeting place for those engaged in building the infrastructure to support global philanthropy.

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.

Alliance Magazine
Alliance is a unique quarterly magazine on the funding of civil society throughout the world.

Columbia University Social Enterprise Program
The purpose of the Social Enterprise Program is to prepare future and current leaders for that opportunity to add value beyond the bottom line.

Duke University, Fuqua School of Business, Center for the Advancement of Social Entrepreneurship
CASE's current programs and activities fall into three broad areas: knowledge development and dissemination; MBA involvement in the social sector; and increasing awareness of the field.

Development Outreach
Development OUTREACH is a flagship magazine in the field of global knowledge for development which reflects the learning programs of the World Bank and presents a range of viewpoints by renowned authors and specialists worldwide.

Harvard Business School, Initiative on Social Enterprise
The ISE was created to address an expanding demand among nonprofit organizations and other social enterprises for management skills and a corresponding need among business leaders and corporations for more effective means of involvement with the social sector. Social Enterprise research, teaching, and programs are focused on nonprofit and for-profit organizations with an explicit social purpose, as well as on private sector corporations that are involved in activities designed to benefit society.

Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations
The Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations is a Harvard University research center focusing on nonprofit policy and leadership.

The Institute for Not-for-Profit Management
The Institute for Not-for-Profit Management (INM) at Columbia Business School provides graduate-level management training to executives of not-for-profit organizations.

Institute for Social Entrepreneurs
The Institute for Social Entrepreneurs provides seminars, workshops and consulting services for social entrepreneurs in the United States and around the world.

The Johns Hopkins University Institute for Policy Studies
The Institute for Policy Studies sponsors the International Fellows in Philanthropy Program. Program participants are involved in studying or managing private, nonprofit, or philanthropic organizations outside the United States or serve as government or corporate liaisons to the nonprofit sector.

New York University, Stewart Satter Program in Social Entrepreneurship
The Satter Program expands NYU Stern's curricular and co-curricular activities to support new educational and research initiatives and foster social venture creation within the School's community, including a venture fund and training.

Santa Clara University Global Social Benefit Incubator
The Global Social Benefit Incubator (GSBI) provides an intensive two-week residential program at Santa Clara University that enables successful social entrepreneurs access to training and networking in Silicon Valley.

Stanford University Center for Social Innovation
Established by Stanford Business School, The Center for Social Innovation's (CSI) primary goals are to inform, shape, and accelerate a growing movement aimed at bringing general management, entrepreneurship and social science to the social arena. They also produce a Magazine titled the Stanford Social Innovation Review.

Sterling College Social Entrepreneurship Program
The social entrepreneurship academic minor at Sterling College helps develop the skills to be an effective social entrepreneur. The focus is on learning how to apply successful business practices in a nonprofit organization while retaining its social service mission.

Synergos Institute: Global Philanthropy
The Global Philanthropy website is part of Synergos' Global Philanthropy & Foundation Building program which, in cooperation with national, regional and global partners, strengthens the role of organized philanthropy and foundations in social development, with particular emphasis on Africa, Asia and Latin America.

Skoll Centre for Entrepreneurship at Said Business School, Oxford University
The Skoll Centre aims to be the world's leading academic institution for social entrepreneurship and houses both practical programs and training as well as research on the field of social entrepreneurship.

Book: Enterprising Non-profits: A Toolkit for Social Entrepreneurs
Dees, J.G., Emerson, J. and Economy, P. (2001). New York: Wiley Non-profit Series.
This book introduces key elements of social entrepreneurship and suggests how these organizations can maximize their impact.

Book: Generating and Sustaining Nonprofit Earned Income
Oster, S. ,Massarsky, C. and Beinhacker, S. (2004), San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass.
This book provides iinformation on the prerequisites for success, including fit with your organization's mission and distinctive expertise, a skilled management team, board and staff buy-in, market demand, and many other elements.

Book: How to Change the World: Social Entrepreneurs and the Power of New Ideas
Bornstein, David. Oxford University Press. 2004.
This book provides an overview of the field of social entrepreneurship and then details in each chapter inspiring case stories of changemakers in the field.

Book: Managing the Double Bottom Line: A Business Planning Reference Guide for Social Enterprises
Alter, Sutia Kim Paperback, Revised Edition, PACT Publications, 2000.
This manual is intended to equip social entrepreneurs with a business planning tool for their market-led social enterprises and help them improve their social enterprise program performance.

Report: Blended Value Map
William and Flora Hewlett Foundation. (2003).
Report blended value map: Tracking the intersects and opportunities of economic, social, and environmental value creation. United States of America: Jed Emerson & Sheila Bonini.

Report: Unique and Universal: Lessons from the Emerging Field of Social Enterprise in the Emerging Market Countries
Etchart, N., and Davis, L. (2003).
This paper aims to spur discussion by providing a brief overview of the emergence of the social enterprise field in emerging market countries derived from the practical experiences of NESsT.

Report: Benefiting from Social Entrepreneurship and Social Businesses in India
This is a virtual presentation and discussion of a paper written by Srivastava, KL. Hyderabad, India on the Social Edge Community.

Report: Risky Business: The Impacts of Managing Mission and Market
Davis, L., Etchart, M., Jara, C., and Milder, B. (2003), Santiago, Chile: NESsT
Risky business examines the experiences of 45 civil society organizations (CSOs) working for social change in 15 countries that are generating their own revenues through self-financing activities. The research both assesses the financial and qualitative impacts of these activities on the organizations.

Report: The Meaning of Social Entrepreneurship
Dees, J.G.G. Fuqua University (1998/ 2001).
The report details the origins of the word social entrepreneurship and provides various discussion and examples to demonstrate its evolution.

Report: Social Enterprise Typology
Virtue Ventures has created an illustrative typology which classifies different models of social enterprise in order to navigate readers through the currently ill-defined, diverse and dynamic landscape of this emerging field.