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Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey
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Mancomunidad de Municipios de la Chiquitania
Government-related
market focus:
Community Development , Social Enterprise , Technology
geographic focus: eastern Bolivia (Chiquitania)
La Mancomunidad de Municipios de la Gran Chiquitania se funda y establece mediante la firma de un convenio firmado el 23 de Noviembre de 1996 entre los Gobiernos Municipales de San José de Chiquitos, Roboré, Puerto Suárez, San Matías, Concepción, San Ignacio, San Miguel, San Rafael, El Puente, Urubichá, San Javier, y posteriormente se suman los municipios de San Antonio de Lomerío, San Ramón y Puerto Quijarro. La Mancomunidad Chiquitana se encuentra al Este y Noreste del Departamento de Santa Cruz. Tiene 231.577 Km2 equivalentes a aproximadamente 23 millones de hectáreas, es decir el 62 % de la superficie total del Departamento de Santa Cruz. La Mancomunidad pretende alcanzar en la región niveles de competitividad de acuerdo a las condiciones necesarias para encarar con eficiencia la apertura de mercados y la globalización en su conjunto. Por lo tanto, los municipios involucrados unificaran esfuerzos para desarrollar su aparato productivo y resolviendo problemas estructurales que impiden mayores niveles de desarrollo. La Mancomunidad promueve la participación de toda la sociedad involucrada en el proceso de planificación a través de acuerdos, alianzas y trabajos conjuntos de los municipios. La institucionalización de la misma permite desarrollar estrategias conjuntas entre los municipios involucrados y llevar adelante procesos de desarrollo a nivel local en base a una nuevo ordenamiento político-administrativo al interior del territorio nacional. El uso eficiente de los recursos posibilita a esta región la ejecución de proyectos de inversión de magnitud que sobrepasan la capacidad individual de los municipios.
http://www.mancochiquitana.org/
Winquest
Social Venture
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Winquest aims to develop blended-value for-benefit organizations thoughout the Middle East and North Africa region. We believe that expanding tried-and-tested US and other foreign multiple bottom line (B Corp type) companies into MENA will be the most effective way to leverage the potential of the region and achieve wide-scale multiple bottom line impact. This will provide local values minded business people with examples of successful models, it will promote mutual understanding and dispel misconceptions among westerners (particularly US) and Arabs and it will create a chain of benefits for both local and foreign companies Winquest acts as the regional development partner of US/western companies in MENA: we identify local distributors, customers, investees or franchisees, we set performance objectives on different levels, we develop the relevant business, social, environmental plans and we supervise their implementation on the ground.
www.win-quest.com
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1298 Dial of Ambulance
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2008 GP Forum
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Base of the Pyramid (BOP) , Social Enterprise
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2008 GP Forum Speakers
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21st Century Foundation
Foundation
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Education , Community Development
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The mission of The Twenty-First Century Foundation (21CF) is to advance strategic Black philanthropy. In 1971, when Robert Browne, founder of The Twenty-First Century Foundation, gave the grantmaking institution its name, many people thought it was far ahead of its time. Not just because of the futuristic ring to it – Twenty-First Century, but because Browne’s depth of vision led him to establish an endowment, as the cornerstone of a permanent, renewable resource for Black community initiative. But now, the future is here, and many realize that a Black-led and governed grantmaking organization is an idea whose time has come – and it's now. 21CF was established with a million-dollar gift, which forms the basis of its endowment. Income from the endowment funds the Foundation’s national Grants Program, which continues to support Black community-based organizations in almost every region of the country working on issues such as: school reform, youth development, community empowerment and political participation. Since inception, 21CF has distributed approximately $2 million to more than 350 groups. Grants provide seed capital to support ornew initiatives, to fill the gaps in vitally needed programs, and to permit small community groups to advance to the next level of leadership and activism. In recent years, 21CF has taken a leadership role in promoting new models of Black philanthropy that support donors who want to develop the skills, commitment and imagination to address pressing issues impacting our communities.
http://www.21cf.org/
2B Design- We restore the unseen beauty of the broken...
Social Venture
market focus:
Fair trade , Social Enterprise
geographic focus: Middle East, Europe, Asia, USA, Australia
2B Design is a multiple bottom line company transforming pieces of abandoned wrought iron and wooden frames of windows coming from old traditional houses into works of art. It only employs marginalized and handicapped persons coming from different religious backgrounds to promote reconciliation. The mission of the company is to restore "the unseen beauty of the broken". It preserves the lost heritage of a country, preserves the environment, restores the dignity of marginalized people by providing them with skills and employment . 2BDesign's creations are sold in a number of countries through independent retail outlets. We are currently looking for values aligned retailers in the USA.
www.2bdesign.biz
50x15
market focus:
Technology
geographic focus: Global
Imagining a world without the Internet is nearly impossible. But despite the Internet’s global significance, less than 20 percent of the world’s six billion people currently have access to the educational, social, and economic opportunities it can create.

The 50x15 Initiative can establish connections that will help accelerate digital inclusion. A bold and far-reaching effort, the 50x15 mission is to enable affordable, accessible Internet connectivity and computing capabilities for 50 percent of the world's population by the year 2015.

50x15 aims to foster long-term economic progress within high-growth markets in ways that can benefit developing areas and businesses. By leveraging innovative technology solutions, AMD and a growing network of partners are committed to bringing about global connectivity and empowering people to improve their lives.
http://50x15.amd.com
51give.com
Social Venture
market focus:
Microfinance , Green Building , Technology
geographic focus: Asia
51Give's vision is to enable the microfinance industry via web enabled applications - Microfinance On Demand
www.51give.com
85Broads
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908 Development Group
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Community Development , Green Building , Affordable Housing
geographic focus: Eastcoast
As a socially responsible real estate development firm, 908 Development Group is currently addressing what we feel is a silent killer throughout our nation – quality affordable housing opportunities. This situation is particularity acute in urban neighborhoods where the Millennial Housing Commission Report notes that the gap between the available rental supply of affordable units and demand stands at 1.8 million, and growing. Utilizing emerging green building practices and products, and redeveloping urban infill parcels of land in major metropolitan locales, 908 Development Group will produce the highest quality, sustainable affordable housing options, thus stimulating economic activity and job growth. These developments will generate low cost housing solutions centered around mass transportation and employment centers, allowing employers to attract and retain entry-level employees for the common benefit and growth of the community.
www.908development.com
Center for Social Philanthropy (C-SocPhil)
Nonprofit
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Social Philanthropy is philanthropy at its best: innovative, transparent, socially and environmentally responsive – and fully leveraged.

The Center for Social Philanthropy (C-SocPhil), currently being beta-tested, aims to provide research, resources, data and tools for foundations and donors seeking to maximize the long-term, social and environmental impact of their philanthropic work, not only through grant-making but also by leveraging the full range of assets at their disposal.

The idea for the C-SocPhil is based on the concept of “Fully Leveraged Philanthropy,” developed by the Center’s founding director Joshua Humphreys. Fully leveraged philanthropy means mobilizing a much fuller range of strategies to pursue long-term social impact beyond limited, year-to-year grant-making payout requirements, which typically activate little more than five percent of foundations’ total available assets, now estimated at more than $600 billion in the US alone. In addition to grants and endowment assets, foundations have a store of unrealized potential in their staff, relationships, convening power and “historical assets.”

C-SocPhil was founded by Joshua Humphreys of Harvard University following his residency at the Rockefeller Archive Center. Humphreys has taught previously at Princeton and NYU, where he completed his Ph.D. after studying as a Fulbright Scholar in Paris. He has also served as visiting research associate at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies and associate fellow at the Rutgers Center for Historical Analysis. In addition to his academic work, Dr. Humphreys has advised numerous organizations, including Environmental Grantmakers Association, Green America, Green Harbor Financial, Proxy Democracy, Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors, the Social Investment Forum, Sustainable Endowments Institute, the World Digital Library, and the World Bank Group. His insights on trends in philanthropy, shareowner advocacy, and social and environmental investing have been widely published and cited in the press, most recently in Barron’s, the Financial Times, Financial Advisor, Fund Action, FUNDfire, GreenBiz.com, the Los Angeles Times, and the Seattle Times.
http://www.socialphilanthropy.org/
?Whatif!
Intermediary
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geographic focus: global
?What If! is the world's largest independent innovation company We work with clients who genuinely want to innovate and grow. We help them release the creative potential of their people, products and brands. We do this by working for a fee or as joint venture partners on innovation projects. We also work with clients to increase their innovation capability - developing skills, organisational structures and mechanisms, and identifying and developing how to lead for successful innovation. We are an action-orientated, happy and hard working team of over 230 people with offices in the UK, USA, China and Australia. We work in over 40 countries worldwide across a wide range of clients and market sectors.
www.whatifinnovation.com
A.Little.World (ALW)
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A2F
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Social Capital Market Infrastructure
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The A2F consultancy is leading the Faso Investments, which has raised $5 million of a $30 million fund to invest equity capital in African financial institutions.

The consultancy's mission is to promote access to finance and help build effective and sustainable financial markets in developing countries and emerging markets.

Access to finance is a very challenging field which in our view also holds tremendous opportunities. Our value proposition to our clients consists in helping to find creative ways to deliver scalable results.

To achieve this, A2F consulting strongly believes in putting together a multidisciplinary team of experts, each amongst the most experienced in their complementary fields, to bring our clients cutting-edge insight and creative advice in a cost-efficient manner.
Aavishkaar Goodwell India Microfinance Development Company
Investor
market focus:
Microfinance , Base of the Pyramid (BOP) , Social Enterprise
geographic focus: India
Aavishkaar Goodwell is a for-profit business development company that provides equity finance and hands-on support to entrepreneurial microfinance organizations in India on a socially and commercially sustainable basis. Aavishkaar Goodwell aims to improve access to affordable financial services for millions of families in order to contribute to poverty alleviation and sustainable development. We do this by developing and scaling up entrepreneurial microfinance organizations in India and integrating them into the mainstream financial sector. Aavishkaar Goodwell aims to realize "benefits of scale": a substantial social impact and an attractive financial return. Aavishkaar Goodwell is backed by private sector and public sector investors. We are building a portfolio of USD 25 million of smart capital investments in 30-40 start ups and 8-10 fast growing MFIs.
www.aavishkaargoodwell.com
Aavishkaar India Micro VC Fund
Social Venture
market focus:
Bottom of the Pyramid (BOP) , Clean Technology , Social Enterprise
geographic focus: india
The Aavishkaar India Micro Venture Capital Fund (“Aavishkaar”) is a venture fund founded to promote development in rural and semi-urban India. Aavishkaar believes entrepreneurs can be a powerful force for development. To this end, the firm provides micro-equity funding (USD $20 thousand to USD $100 thousand) and operational and strategic support to commercially viable companies increasing income in or providing goods and services to rural or semi-urban India. Aavishkaar is arguably the world's first for-profit micro VC fund. It received the 2006 World Business Award in pursuit of the Millenium Development Goals from UNDP/ICC/Prince of Wales International Business Leaders Forum (IBLF).
www.aavishkaar.org
ABC Home & Planet
Nonprofit
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Social Enterprise
geographic focus: International
The ABC Home & Planet Foundation seeks to enhance our lives, and yours, with a deeper sense of mission and connection to great organizations and projects around the world. We believe we can each help build a better world by aligning our spending choices with our personal values.

For twenty years, ABC Home developed a worldwide reputation as a fashion forward home furnishings store, helping customers to articulate their personal expression of home by integrating beauty, spirit and culture from around the world. Through the ABC Home & Planet Foundation, that same creative approach and commitment to personal expression is being applied to a range of alternative gift giving opportunities which fund visionary organizations around the world.

We have created two ways for you to participate. One is to purchase a Gift of Compassion, which is a gift you make in honor of a friend or loved one that allows one of the organizations to provide a specific service or good to a needy person or community. We also present a number of other opportunities for charitable giving which fund healthcare, entrepreneurial training, environmental stewardship, indigenous cultures and human rights for children and families around the world. In both cases, you receive a tax deduction, your honoree receives a beautiful package reflecting the gift and lives around the world are touched by your generosity.

http://www.abchomeandplanet.org/
Abele Kerr Investments, LLC
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Aberdeen Forward
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Able Networks Inc.
Social Venture
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Social Enterprise , Technology
geographic focus: North America
Able brings faster, easier Internet connections to cities and towns that deserve better.
http://www.ablenetworks.ca
Absolute Return for Kids (ARK)
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Abstract Traxx
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Media
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http://www.abstracttraxx.com/
Abundance Economy
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Academy for Educational Development
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Accenture
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Technology
geographic focus: Global
Accenture is a global management consulting, technology services and outsourcing company. Committed to delivering innovation, Accenture collaborates with its clients to help them become high-performance businesses and governments. With deep industry and business process expertise, broad global resources and a proven track record, Accenture can mobilize the right people, skills, and technologies to help clients improve their performance.
accenture.com
Accenture Development Partnerships
Social Venture
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Technology , Base of the Pyramid (BOP)
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Accenture Development Partnerships (ADP) is a not-for-profit group that makes high-quality advisory and consulting services available to donors, non-governmental organizations and small and medium-sized enterprise specialists working with developing economies.
http://careers3.accenture.com/Careers/Global/AboutAccenture/Community/adp_overview.htm
ACCION International
Intermediary
market focus:
Social Enterprise , Microfinance , Community Development
geographic focus: International

The mission of ACCION International is to give people the tools they need to work their way out of poverty. By providing "micro" loans and business training to poor women and men who start their own businesses, ACCION's partner lending organizations help people work their own way up the economic ladder, with dignity and pride. With capital, people can grow their own businesses. They can earn enough to afford basics like running water, better food and schooling for their children.

In a world where three billion people live on less than $2 a day, it is not enough to help 1,000 or even 100,000 individuals. Our goal is to bring microfinance to tens of millions of people - enough to truly change the world. We know that there will never be enough donations to do this. That's why ACCION has created an anti-poverty strategy that is permanent and self-sustaining.

www.accion.org
Accion USA
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geographic focus: USA
www.accionusa.org
AccountAbility
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Social Enterprise , Technology
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AccountAbility is a non-profit, membership organization established in 1995 to promote accountability innovations that advance responsible business practices, and the broader accountability of civil society and public organizations. Its 350 members include businesses, NGOs and research bodies, and elect our international Council, which includes representatives from Brazil, India, North America, Russia, South Africa and Europe. AccountAbility’s leading-edge accountability innovations have included several ‘world firsts’: the AA1000 Series Sustainability Assurance and Stakeholder Engagement Standards, the Partnership Governance and Accountability Framework, the Responsible Competitiveness Index covering the links between responsible business practices and the competitiveness of over 80 countries, and, in collaboration with CSRNetwork, the Accountability Rating, of the world’s largest companies published annually with Fortune International. AccountAbility is Convenor of the MFA Forum, an international alliance of business, international development agencies, NGOs and labour organizations working on the links between national competitiveness and labour standards in global supply chains. AccountAbility and the Centre for Corporate Citizenship at Boston College are co-founders and convenors with IBM and GE of the Global Leadership Network, an international network of leading businesses committed to building alignments of corporate responsibility to business strategy by advancing joint learning and relevant analytic tools and benchmarking.
http://www.accountability21.net/
Acelero Learning
Social Venture
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Working with local Head Start programs with the best tools and systems possible to assist with their most important work: ensuring that children and families receive the support they need to enter school prepared to succeed.
http://www.acelero.net/
Achieva
Nonprofit
market focus:
Community Development
geographic focus: Pittsburgh
http://www.achieva.info/content/Servicesmain.html
http://www.achieva.info/
ACLU
Nonprofit
market focus:
Community Development
geographic focus: US
The American system of government is founded on two counterbalancing principles: that the majority of the people governs, through democratically elected representatives; and that the power even of a democratic majority must be limited, to ensure individual rights.

Majority power is limited by the Constitution's Bill of Rights, which consists of the original ten amendments ratified in 1791, plus the three post-Civil War amendments (the 13th, 14th and 15th) and the 19th Amendment (women's suffrage), adopted in 1920.

The mission of the ACLU is to preserve all of these protections and guarantees:

* Your First Amendment rights-freedom of speech, association and assembly. Freedom of the press, and freedom of religion supported by the strict separation of church and state.
* Your right to equal protection under the law - equal treatment regardless of race, sex, religion or national origin.
* Your right to due process - fair treatment by the government whenever the loss of your liberty or property is at stake.
* Your right to privacy - freedom from unwarranted government intrusion into your personal and private affairs.
http://www.aclu.org
ACORN
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ACTA
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ATCA: The Asymmetric Threats Contingency Alliance is a philanthropic expert initiative founded in 2001 to understand and to address complex global challenges. Adhering to the doctrine of non-violence, ATCA conducts collective Socratic dialogue on global opportunities and threats arising from climate chaos, radical poverty, organised crime, extremism, informatics, nanotechnology, robotics, genetics, artificial intelligence and financial systems.
http://www.intentblog.com/author.php?author=ATCA
Actics
Social Venture
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Technology
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We are working behind the curtains to launch powerful new software for ethical management soon About: Actics turns ethics into something tenable and personal. It's a free process tool for any moral agent - individuals and corporations - to use for ethical improvement, coaching and co-creation with self-organizing communities. • it democratises ethics by enabling multistakeholder conversation • it provides leverage to ethical voices by establishing channels of expression and emergence of communities • it works as a “reality check” as anyone can nominate any agent for evaluation and discussion • it helps any morale agent to navigate and manage different ethical demands from heterogeneous stakeholders • it provides a single dynamic ethical performance indicator as information dense as a share price • it highlights actions that perform the best over time For the pioneers: volunteer to take part of the pre-beta test. And follow the development at our blog
http://www.actics.com/
Action for Enterprise
Nonprofit
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Base of the Pyramid (BOP) , Technology
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Action for Enterprise (AFE) is a leader in the field of private sector / enterprise development. Since 1991, AFE has developed state-of-the art training programs, implemented cutting edge field programs, provided technical support to programs throughout Africa and Asia, and authored numerous publications.

AFE offers a range of technical assistance including:

subsector/value chain analysis

business solution/service assessments

program design resulting in market solutions and sustainable impact capacity-building of facilitators and providers of market solutions

long and short term program implementation

training programs and consultancies that use state-of-the-art tools and methodologies
http://www.actionforenterprise.org/
Action Without Borders
Social Venture
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Technology , Social Enterprise
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Action Without Borders works with individuals and organizations that want to share ideas, information and resources to help build a world where all people can live free, dignified and productive lives. Action Without Borders is independent of any government, political ideology or religious creed. Its work is guided by the common desire of its members and supporters to find practical solutions to social and environmental problems, in a spirit of generosity and mutual respect.
http://www.idealist.org/
ActionAid
Nonprofit
market focus:
Bottom of the Pyramid (BOP)
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An international development agency whose aim is to fight poverty worldwide. Formed in 1972, for over 30 years we have been growing and expanding to where we are today - helping over 13 million of the world's poorest and most disadvantaged people in 42 countries worldwide. In all of our country programmes we work with local partners to make the most of their knowledge and experience. In December 2003 they established a new head office in Johannesburg, South Africa, and began the process of making all our country programmes equal partners with an equal say on how we operate. They work with local partners to fight poverty and injustice worldwide, reaching over 13 million of the poorest and most vulnerable people over the last year alone, helping them fight for and gain their rights to food, shelter, work, education, healthcare and a voice in the decisions that affect their lives. Their partners range from small community support groups to national alliances and international networks seeking education for all, trade justice and action against HIV/AIDS. Our work with these national and international campaign networks highlights the issues that affect poor people and influences the way governments and international institutions think. They have a unique vision and direction. We don't impose solutions, but work with communities over many years to strengthen their own efforts to throw off poverty. We constantly seek new solutions and ask ourselves how we can make the greatest impact with our resources. We make the most of our skills and abilities by working at many levels - local, national, regional and international.
http://www.actionaid.org/309/about_us.html
Active Green & Ross (franchise)
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Acumen Fund
Social Venture
market focus:
Social Enterprise , Health
geographic focus: International
We support enterprises that deliver affordable, critical goods and services - like health, water and housing - through innovative market-oriented approaches, to the four billion people on earth living on less than $4 a day.
http://www.acumenfund.org/
Adena Ventures
Social Venture
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geographic focus: Central Appalachia
Adena Ventures is the nation's first New Markets Venture Capital (NMVC) company. The Fund provides both investment capital and operational assistance to smaller enterprises and entrepreneurs in the Fund's target region of central Appalachia, which includes: southeastern Ohio, West Virginia, western Maryland and northeastern Kentucky.
http://www.adenaventures.com
Adina
Social Venture
market focus:
Fair trade
geographic focus: international
Fair trade juice company moving heavily into fair trade ready to drink coffee (think an organically and ethically grown version of Frapucino by Starbucks except without the fat and sugar. Initially focused on juices from Senegal but has expanded via single-source fair trade production coops into coffee producing areas such as Ethiopia. Recently received $10 million in equity funding from three institutional funds.

Adina sources from these coops: Coffee: Oromia in Ethiopia, Gayo Organic Farmers Associationin Indonesia, Maya Ixil in guatemala, Conocado in the Dominican Republic. They currently use the Eco-Agri coop in India for vanilla and from Canera Del Sur sugar cooperative in Paraguy
http://www.adinaworld.com/
Advanced Housing Technologies LLC
Social Venture
market focus:
Green Building , Clean Technology , Affordable Housing
geographic focus: Worldwide
A Green Alternative to FEMA Trailers, and more. Clovice A. Lewis Jr. spent two months in Mississippi after Katrina (and one week of that time living in a FEMA trailer.) Advanced Housing Technologies LLC (AHT) was founded in 2006 by Mr. Lewis to provide an answer to the overwhelming need he saw for effective, safe and humane disaster-relief housing and associated services. AHT provides a complete and totally “green” solution for governments and companies requiring small temporary housing and utilities (energy, waste management, water and communications). Our products make it possible for communities to exist off-the-grid in previously uninhabitable areas for an extended period of time. Our patentable technologies (and long term goal) will enable us to be a global leader in distributed alternative energy production, management, and delivery.
http://www.advancedhousingtech.com
Advanced Housing Technologies, LLC
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Advantage West
Government-related
market focus:
Community Development
geographic focus: Western North Carolina
AdvantageWest Economic Development Group is western North Carolina's regional economic development commission. Chartered by the North Carolina General Assembly in 1994, AdvantageWest is a non-profit public-private partnership whose primary focus is marketing the North Carolina mountains to corporations seeking to relocate or open a new facility, expand an existing business within our region, and those who might otherwise improve the quality of life for citizens within our region through activities such as filmmaking, entrepreneurship and tourism.

Our 23-County region covers nearly 10,000 square miles-larger than eight other U.S. states and roughly the size of the State of Maryland. Publications such as Money, Kiplinger's, Outside, American Style, Modern Maturity and Forbes have ranked western North Carolina as a top destination for living, working, recreation, arts, technology, and retirement.

Our offices are located at the Asheville Regional Airport in office space we share with the North Carolina Department of Commerce and the Blue Ridge National Heritage Area.
http://www.advantagewest.com/
Adventist Development & Relief Agency International
Nonprofit
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The Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA) was initiated by the Seventh-day Adventist church. The basis for its existence, its reason for being, is to follow Christ’s example by being a voice for, serving, and partnering with those in need.

ADRA seeks to identify and address social injustice and deprivation in developing countries. The agency’s work seeks to improve the quality of life of those in need. ADRA invests in the potential of these individuals through community development initiatives targeting Food Security, Economic Development, Primary Health and Basic Education. ADRA’s emergency management initiatives provide aid to disaster survivors.

www.adra.org
Adventure Capital Fund
Investor
market focus:
Social Enterprise , Community Development
geographic focus: London
The Adventure Capital Fund is an ambitious new style of funder for community enterprise. The pioneering packages that we offer have the potential to transform neighbourhoods across the country.

We back community enterprises that could make a real difference. By offering a combination of financial investments and expert support, we help these enterprises to become stable, soundly run businesses that will survive long into the future.

But we expect a return on our investment – we hold our investees to account to provide us with results, both social and financial. This rigorous approach is already reaping dividends across the country and we have big plans to see our influence grow in the years ahead.
http://www.adventurecapitalfund.org.uk/
AED
Intermediary
market focus:
Bottom of the Pyramid (BOP) , Health
geographic focus: international
ED is a bridge, a link between the problem and the solution, the need and the resource, people and their potential. Founded in 1961, AED is an independent, nonprofit organization committed to solving critical social problems and building the capacity of individuals, communities, and institutions to become more self-sufficient. AED works in all the major areas of human development, with a focus on improving education, health, and economic opportunities for the least advantaged in the United States and developing countries throughout the world. education For more than 40 years, we at AED have approached our work in education as a means of serving society. books Starting with a project in Kansas, and eventually expanding to more than 130 countries, AED has affected the lives, and improved the educational opportunities, of thousands of students around the world. From preschool children to retirees, from one-room schools to large urban districts, we have worked in education by partnering with communities and their educational institutions to help them create innovative programs and sound policies. Environment environment AED is working with many partners to improve how people impact the health of the planet. We use our expertise in social marketing, education, communications, and advocacy to reach a wide variety of audiences in order to influence behaviors and policies affecting the environment. Health Our health is largely defined by our behavior. In the 1970s, AED launched its first healthbehavior change initiative to effectively treat diarrhea disease, a major killer of children under the age of 5 in the developing world. AED now works to change behavior--and improve health--all over the world. Our programs include mother and child nutrition, drug and alcohol abuse prevention, and malaria prevention. HIV/AIDS AED began its work in HIV/AIDS by focusing on specific sexual and drug-using behaviors performed ribbonby people who are at-risk of exposure to the virus, but who are often invisible to larger society. Today it is clear that fighting HIV/AIDS requires more than just treating infected individuals. Prevention and treatment must extend to whole families and their support systems, which is why AED continues to work to increase the effectiveness of prevention programs in the U.S. and internationally. In addition, our work in HIV/AIDS now focuses on fighting the stigma that many HIV/AIDS sufferers face in their workplaces and communities. Leadership AED draws on decades of experience in training and professional exchanges to develop leaders and leadershipstrengthen institutions worldwide. Judges, journalists, educators, legislators, and business owners who have developed new skills and insights through our programs have helped to lead government agencies, community groups, independent media, hospitals, and schools and universities. AED has played a vital role in strengthening fledgling democracies and bolstering leadership capabilities of individuals and institutions. We believe our individualized exchange and training programs have made a significant difference in promoting civil society. undefined In the United States, more than 40 million people, or about 15 percent of the total population, are between the youth3ages of 10 and 21. In many developing countries, the under-25 population makes up 50 percent or more of the total population. Often public attention, in the U.S. and elsewhere, focuses on the negative actions and outcomes of a minority of young people, in the U.S. or elsewhere. Rather than viewing young people as problems that need to be "fixed," AED sees them as partners and resources who need access to support and opportunities as they learn and mature. AED has pioneered many approaches to working constructively with youth and continues to design, guide, and evaluate initiatives and programs that affect and involve youth in many issues of critical concern.
http://aed.org/W
AEO Association for Enterprise Opportunity
Intermediary
market focus:
Community Development
geographic focus: national
AEO supports the development of strong and effective U.S. microenterprise initiatives to assist underserved entrepreneurs in starting, stabilizing, and expanding businesses.
http://www.microenterpriseworks.org
AFESIP
Social Venture
market focus:
Social Enterprise , Bottom of the Pyramid (BOP) , Fair trade
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AFESIP Cambodia –AFESIP Fair Fashion creates silk clothing products including jackets, shirts, trousers, and skirts. AFESIP employs about 50 survivors, who are highly trained, having received 1-2 years of education and training in sewing before being employed in the workshop. These survivors live independently in the village where the workshop is located.
www.AFESIP.org
Affordable Housing Resources
Nonprofit
market focus:
Affordable Housing
geographic focus: USA
www.ahrhousing.org
Afghan Institute of Learning (AIL)
market focus:
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The Afghan Institute of Learning (AIL) is an Afghan women’s non-governmental organization (NGO) which was founded in 1995 by Professor Sakena Yacoobi to help address the problem of poor access for women and children to education and health services, their subsequent inability to support their lives, and the impact of this lack of education and health on Afghan society. AIL is an organization, run by Afghan women, that plays a major part in reconstructing education and health systems capable of reaching the women and children of Afghanistan--whether in refugee camps or still in their homes. AIL presently has offices in Kabul and Herat, Afghanistan and in Peshawar, Pakistan. AIL serves 350,000 women and children annually, is run by women and employs about 415 Afghans, over 70% of whom are women. AIL has been project partner with Creating Hope International (CHI)--a 501(c)3 non-profit in the U.S.--since 1996. Through a long-term technical assistance agreement, CHI provides advice, training, financial management, and fund-raising assistance and acts as fiscal sponsor for AIL upon request. AIL believes that educated people are the key to a future, developed Afghanistan. With that in mind, AIL works to empower all Afghans who are needy and oppressed by expanding their educational and health opportunities and by fostering self-reliance and community participation. AIL’s goals are to lay a foundation for quality education and health for years to come and to provide comprehensive education and health services to Afghan women and children, so that they can support and take care of themselves AIL requires community participation in all of its projects. Believing that the best results are achieved when everyone is integrally involved, AIL works with community leaders in the planning, developing and implementation of all projects. No project is started unless the community has requested it and is involved in it. Utilizing this visionary strategy, communities now contribute 30 to 50 percent of the resources needed for a project. These community contributions have come in many forms, including donated space, materials, and supplies. These contributions have strengthened the communities’ involvement in and ownership of AIL programs. AIL will continue to strengthen community contributions to and ownership of programs as a part of ongoing efforts towards sustainability.
http://www.creatinghope.org/afghaninstituteoflearning
Aflatoun Child Savings International
market focus:
geographic focus:
Africa Growth
market focus:
Base of the Pyramid (BOP)
geographic focus: Africa
Africagrowth Institute (Pty) Ltd. is an independent company with its headquarters based in Cape Town, South Africa. The company focuses on growth opportunities in Africa and also houses the Xstrata Graduate Development Program. The main business areas are the Africagrowth Agenda Publication, Africagrowth Academy, and Africagrowth Production.

Africagrowth Institute is also the proud organisers of the following conferences:

* Africa Investment Climate Conference and Africa Investment Awards * Africa SMME Conference * South African SMME Conference * Export Growth Opportunities in Africa

The company is also the owners of a unique South African SMME Index

Social Responsibility

Africagrowth Academy offers PhD Scholarships to African nationals in the area of Investment Climate Research in Africa. Scholarships are on a competitive basis with a maximum age limit of 33 years. Competition is open to only African nationals who can conduct research in English. The company also Coordinates a Graduate Development Program in partnership with Xstrata SA aimed at supporting unemployed black South African graduates to enter the job market.

Africagrowth Academy

This is the research and consulting aim of the Africagrowth Group. The Academy has a significant number of Visiting Fellows & Senior Fellows located throughout the continent and other parts of the world. Fellows provide research and consulting support to the Academy.
http://www.africagrowth.com/
Africa Ready for Business
Social Venture
market focus:
Bottom of the Pyramid (BOP) , Social Enterprise
geographic focus: Africa
Blog by Benin Mwangi W.B. about how and why to do business in Africa, with mini profiles.
http://beninepiloguepressreleases.blogspot.com/
African Economies, Center for Study of
market focus:
geographic focus:
African Social Development Fund
Government-related
market focus:
Community Development , Base of the Pyramid (BOP)
geographic focus: Africa
The Overseas Private Investment Corporation ("OPIC") is inviting proposals from experienced private equity fund managers for the formation and management of one or more investment funds that will invest in Africa. OPIC will provide financing for funds generally ranging between $25 million and $150 million in total capital.

Each fund proposal will be evaluated based on the fund’s ability to make a significant contribution to social and economic development in Africa, as well as its ability to deliver positive financial returns. To foster this “double bottom line” approach, OPIC will consider innovative fund structures including, consortiums, special purpose vehicles, vehicles with first-loss or other “patient” capital, and structures or collaborative proposals with grants or technical assistance that could be used for development of portfolio companies.
http://www.opic.gov/investment/proposals/african_social_dev_2007/overview.asp
AfricaPhilanthropy Advisory Services
market focus:
geographic focus:
Africeuticals
Social Venture
market focus:
Bottom of the Pyramid (BOP) , Social Enterprise , Health
geographic focus:
Africeuticals, innovative products based on African botanicals, a term trademarked by Wulff Capital for its products, like Froodia, the nutrition bar made from Hoodia grown in the Kalahari
http://www.wulffcapital.com/
Ag Futures Alliances
Government-related
market focus:
Clean Technology , Community Development
geographic focus:
The AFA leadership network emerged from the model pioneered in Ventura County since 2000. The Ventura County AFA resulted from a decision by Ventura County Farm Bureau and other agricultural leaders who realized that their future depended on broad-based buy-in from the community. Years of struggle in courts, legislative chambers, and the media had proven ineffective at maintaining and enhancing agriculture. Looking ahead, industry leaders felt that a continuous war of attrition with critics or competing interests would not achieve a viable and healthy agricultural system. A new approach, based on shared interests, dialog and collaboration was needed. Since inception, Ag Innovations has facilitated the Ventura AFA process. Since 2003, Ag Innovations has sought to develop an AFA network, based on the Ventura model, with the goal of linking up county leadership roundtables across California. This vision is based on the belief that a network of leadership networks will give local communities the ability to more effectively improve local, state and federal policies that impact agriculture, the food system, and the environment. Ag Futures Alliances are now running in the Tehachapi-Cummings Valley region of Kern County, Yolo County, and San Benito County. In November, 2006 we began working with leaders in San Mateo county to launch an AFA there. We hope to launch another AFA during 2007.
http://agfuturesalliance.net
AgeSong
Social Venture
market focus:
Health
geographic focus: United States
AgeSong creates therapeutic communities for the elderly that care for their physical, emotional, and spiritual well-being.
www.agesong.com
Agora Partnerships
Social Venture
market focus:
Community Development , Social Enterprise , Microfinance
geographic focus: Central America
Agora Partnerships is a non-profit organization dedicated to providing talented entrepreneurs in emerging markets with the tools, networks, and financing necessary to launch successful, socially responsible businesses – the kind that can create decent, long term jobs. We seek to create opportunities for talent to flourish in environments normally characterized by closed social networks and inefficient markets. Agora is launching its program in Nicaragua and aims to achieve rapid scale and replicate worldwide. Our mission is to identify the leadership talent of the developing world and unleash it.
www.agorapartnerships.org
AgraQuest
Social Venture
market focus:
Social Enterprise
geographic focus: National
Fast. Nimble. Small. Competitive. These words not only describe a hummingbird, the symbol on AgraQuests logo, but also embody the companys style and culture. And, like the hummingbird searches for nectar from a flower, AgraQuest searches for pesticidal products from naturally occurring microorganisms.

The founders of AgraQuest believed that the natural world was fertile ground for the search and discovery of new products for pest management. More than 50% of human drugs are derived from natural sources like plants and microorganisms; but only 7% of all pesticides are derived from these sources. Since 1995, AgraQuest has proven that the natural world is an untapped source of new, and natural, pesticidal products. After discovering and screening over 20,000 microorganisms, AgraQuest has developed and commercialized a line of innovative, effective, natural products for pest management.

http://www.agraquest.com/
Agrarian Connections / Southern Seed Legacy
market focus:
geographic focus:
a project dedicated to reversing the erosion of genetic diversity and cultural knowledge in the American South by encouraging and supporting local seed saving and exchange networks and in situ conservation of plant genetic resources
http://www.uga.edu/ebl/ssl/
Agricultural Cooperative Development International/Volunteers Overseas Cooperative Assistance
Nonprofit
market focus:
geographic focus:
ACDI/VOCA strives to promote positive economic and social change worldwide. It is distinguished by commitment to its overseas beneficiaries, wise stewardship of development resources and a knowledgeable, experienced, diverse and effective team.
http://www.acdivoca.org
Agriculture 2.0
Social Venture
market focus:
Social Capital Market Infrastructure , Sustainability
geographic focus:
Agriculture 2.0 is where the sustainable agriculture industry is being defined, built and funded. By serving as the lynchpin between entrepreneurs working to improve America’s food system and the investors ready to capitalize them, Agriculture 2.0 will help create a path to profitability and scale and accelerate collaboration and growth in the undercapitalized sector.

Agriculture 2.0 Silicon Valley, co-hosted by NewSeed Advisors, US Venture Partners, and SPIN Farming, will bring together hundreds of growers, entrepreneurs, investors, retailers, industry experts, and journalists, all united by the common goal of driving the growth of sustainable agriculture and healthful food systems.

The one-day conference will address topics including: What’s happening on the farms? Can traditional venture capital invest in agriculture? What comes after organic?

A special Aquaculture track, sponsored by Aquacopia, will highlight investment opportunities and the future of fish farming. Live demonstrations of new agriculture technology and company presentations will create a dynamic, interactive event. Check back frequently for program and speaker updates.
http://www.newseedadvisors.com/silcon-valley-2010/
AgroFair
Social Venture
market focus:
Fair trade
geographic focus: international
AgroFair was founded in 1996 by the Dutch development organisation Solidaridad. This organisation is passionate about the rights of banana workers in Latin America and about improving the way the banana industry is run financially, environmentally and socially. After successfully introducing the first Fairtrade coffee, the organisation developed and introduced the Fairtrade banana and founded AgroFair to import and market the product. Through AgroFair, Solidaridad has tried to show companies in the banana industry that it is possible to change the way they do business.

AgroFair imported the world's first Fairtrade bananas under the Oké brand into Europe in 1996. In 2002 we added Oké mangoes and pineapples to the Fairtrade fruitbowl and in 2005, Oké citrus. Currently AgroFair's market covers 13 European countries and the USA..

"Fairtrade must not be the exception. It should become the most normal thing in the world; the way we all do business."
http://www.agrofair.nl/
Aid to Artisans
Intermediary
market focus:
Fair trade
geographic focus: international
In its thirty years Aid to Artisans (ATA) has changed the lives of thousands of artisans through its “Market Link” program of product design, production and business skills. In developing countries, handcrafts continue to provide an important source of income, especially in rural areas and especially for women.

How We Do It - The Market Link

Through ATA and its Trade Network, artisan groups around the world have become self-sustaining. Because ATA's goal is to link the artisans to markets, we provide assistance in all stages of that process, including product development and design, business development, market entry, and working with clients.

Artisans working with ATA have sold their products through many recognized outlets such as:

- U.S. based retail chains, including Neiman Marcus, Saks Fifth Avenue, Crate & Barrel, Pottery Barn, Pier 1 Imports;

- Mail order catalogs such as Smith & Hawken, Orvis, Sundance, Wisteria, Ballard Designs, and Terra Verde;

- Magazines and newspapers including Metropolitan Home, Elle Décor, House & Garden, Better Homes and Gardens, Bon Appetit, Lucky, Home Style, Victoria, Natural Home, The New York Times Magazine, USA Today and The Washington Post.

Market-Oriented Product Development

ATA helps artisans develop the business skills they need to produce products that will sell in competitive and changing world markets. We match artisans with international and local consultants who have long experience in market-oriented product design. These consultants work directly with artisan entrepreneurs and help them modify existing products or develop new ones that build on local traditions and materials while appealing to the larger marketplace. We also work carefully to develop pricing structures that balance the need for a fair, productive wage with the marketplace competition.

Direct Access to Markets & Buyers

The products ATA brings into U.S. and European markets are market-ready and available to wholesalers or retailers who then establish lasting relationships with artisan producers.

One of the most valuable resources ATA brings to artisan groups is its ability to connect them directly to buyers and importers. ATA exhibits artisan products in New York, Los Angeles, Frankfurt, and Johannesburg. ATA recruits importers and large scale retailers for these well-designed and competitively priced home furnishings and accessories. Often ATA literally brings buyers directly to artisans by hosting periodic buyers' trips to the countries in which we work. ATA also offers information about and access to the vast and growing internet market.

The Grants Program

ATA also supports artisans through the ATA Grants Program and has made approximately 40 grants per year for over thirty years to artisan groups around the world. Government agencies and private foundations find it difficult and time-consuming to administer grants in small denominations. These small grants are often critical in giving a jump-start to entrepreneurial artisan groups.

Since 1976, ATA has helped create jobs and increase income for craftspeople worldwide; strengthened existing and created sustainable new craft businesses; and helped to preserve the cultural traditions that make each country unique, for example:

- Jobs: In FY05, we reached nearly 18,000 artisans in projects and more than 3,500 in grants for a total of more than 21,000 artisans.

- Sales: In FY05 our sales goal was $4.5 million; we actually leveraged $5.3 million (51% export and 49% local).

- Results are not measured just in sales figures but in health, environment and cultural preservation. In Mexico, through the innovative Lead-Free Alliance, This ground-breaking project trained potters in the use of new lead-free glazes, made improvements in kiln technology, improved the quality of the pottery, cut fuel use by 38% and re-opened export markets.
http://www.aidtoartisans.org
AIDG
Social Venture
market focus:
Technology , Base of the Pyramid (BOP)
geographic focus: international
Roughly 2 billion people do not have access to basic services such as electricity, clean drinking water and sanitation. Development of this infrastructure is essential to breaking the cycle of poverty in developing countries.

The Appropriate Infrastructure Development Group (AIDG) works to provide rural villages in developing countries with affordable and environmentally sound technologies that meet these needs. Through a combination of business incubation, education, training, and outreach, the AIDG helps individuals and communities gain access to technology that will improve their lives. Our model provides a novel approach to sustainable development by empowering people with the physical tools and practical knowledge to solve infrastructure problems in their own communities.
http://www.aidg.org
AIESEC
market focus:
geographic focus:
AIGA
market focus:
geographic focus:
AirJaldi Summit - Dharamsala
Intermediary
market focus:
Technology , Bottom of the Pyramid (BOP)
geographic focus:
The AirJaldi Summit will address some of the ways that wireless solutions can be used to provide affordable Internet access in rural communities. The conference will focus on the advantages that wireless networks can provide, by enhancing the quality of education, governance and health-care, increasing economic development, and promoting cultural exchange. Special emphasis will be placed on identifying best practices for rapidly increasing connectivity for regions most in need. Summit keynoters and speakers will include social activists, IT opinion leaders, philanthropists, and international technology professionals. The AirJaldi Summit will also provide an opportunity for participants to share the lessons learned from the Dharamsala Community Wireless Mesh Network, a successful example of a sustainable technology integration model. With its unique combination of low-cost yet robust technology, community-based implementation, and relatively large scale, the Dharamsala project is an appropriate model for many rural areas around the world. On the first day of the summit, field trips will be undertaken to key sites around Dharamsala where mesh antennas are installed, providing participants a firsthand understanding of the project. Following the summit, the World Summits on Free Information Infrastructure (WSFII) Association an AirJaldi strategic partner will lead a two-week workshop on various aspects of wireless technologies, to provide hands-on training for conference participants and the public at large.
http://summit.airjaldi.com/
Alcatel-Lucent
market focus:
geographic focus: Global
Alcatel-Lucent's vision is to enrich people’s lives by transforming the way the world communicates. Born with an unparalleled ability to offer end-to-end communications solutions to our customers, we are focused on enhancing client relationships and enriching the lives of people through communications. Expert, driven, intuitive, innovative, Alcatel-Lucent is the first truly global communications solutions provider, with the most complete end-to-end portfolio of solutions and services in the industry.
www.alcatel-lucent.com
Alegent Health
market focus:
geographic focus:
Alegent Health is making healthcare better with an exceptional commitment to quality and by providing patient focused care for the body, mind and spirit of every person. Alegent Health is advancing the U.S. healthcare industry by developing innovative consumer healthcare information tools. My Cost, the first and only healthcare cost estimator of its kind in the world. They ’re the tools you need to make a more informed decision about your healthcare. What is My Cost? My Cost is an online tool that allows patients to obtain an estimate of actual costs they will incur for a specific medical test or procedure, along with their out-of-pocket responsibility. Currently, the estimate only includes facility fees and not professional or physician fees.
http://www.alegent.com/
Aleph Consulting
Intermediary
market focus:
Social Enterprise , Technology
geographic focus:
Aleph Consulting Services focus on helping associations, organizations, clubs and nonprofits develop and implement a set of Internet-based tools to enable them to function better. Aleph has developed a series of products, services and tools that are uniquely valuable to the unique requirements of organizations and nonprofits. We blend good business planning with the production of interactive online content. Our products always have outstanding design matched with industrial-strength technology. Aleph combines experience in consulting, technology and business savvy resulting from nine years of experience in developing Internet solutions for business, industry, education, startups and established corporations. All receive our guarantee of quality and commitment to solutions that bring the value of the Internet to their unique situation. We work with nonprofits to plan an organizational and operational strategy which includes technology as an integral component to achieve specific strategic and financial objectives and produce tangible results. We begin with a detailed assessment of your current operations, methodology and workflow, working with the board, the management and key staff, review your current level and use of technology, and finally make specific sets of recommendations, benefits and ROI details. We have worked with nonprofits of different sizes in a variety of fields to successfully streamline operations and workflow, resulting in savings and greater operating efficiencies. Some of these were achieved through increased membership and donations, online event management, online dues collection and fund raising, quick access to members, electronic newsletters, membership management.
http://www.alephconsulting.org/
All Day Buffet
market focus:
Education , Media
geographic focus:
we’re alldaybuffet, a social awareness brand for the cool kids. alldaybuffet has nothing to do with food but it has everything to do with filling our hunger to do good. Our purpose is to connect the things we like with the things that matter most. Our concept is open participation. Our network is a family of likeminded people around the world working towards the same ideals. Whether it’s drinking for a cause, curating an art project, or stripping for charity; we want to get you Full on Good.

It’s a simple idea: Inspire Action. Change the world. Have Fun. Because doing good shouldn’t feel like a chore.
http://www.alldaybuffet.org/
Allavida
Social Venture
market focus:
Social Enterprise
geographic focus:
Allavida is an international development organisation, that works to enable local action. Our mission is to help people acquire the skills, knowledge, confidence and resources to lead local action and achieve constructive change in their communities. Allavida's main development programmes are in South East Europe, East Africa, and Central Asia. In each region our work encompasses grantmaking, training and mentoring, research and publishing, support for associations and networks, and convening seminars. Allavida also publishes Alliance magazine, a global resource that uniquely examines issues relevant to all those working to strengthen civil society across the world. Our wider publishing programme includes studies of various country's non-profit sector, as well as thematic research reports.
http://www.allavida.org/
Alliance for a New Humanity
market focus:
geographic focus:
Alliance for Children & Families
Nonprofit
market focus:
Community Development
geographic focus: 22 states
The Alliance for Children and Families provides services to nonprofit child and family serving and economic empowerment organizations. Motivated by a vision of a healthy society and strong communities, we work to strengthen America’s nonprofit sector and through advocacy assure the sector’s continued independence.
http://www.alliance1.org/
Alliance for Community Development
Investor
market focus:
Community Development
geographic focus: San Francisco Bay Area
The Alliance is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization that works at the intersection of business and community interests in the Greater San Francisco Bay Area to: Create and implement Double Bottom Line investment strategies to bring new jobs and economic opportunities to low-income communities.

Connect small businesses and low-income communities with public and private resources to help them grow. Forge sustainable partnerships among businesses, non-profits, and government agencies to address poverty and economic development in low-income communities.

The Alliance and the Bay Area Council co-sponsor the Bay Area Equity Fund: A Double Bottom Line Fund, a private venture capital fund that seeks to make investments in companies that can produce strong financial returns and strong social/environmental returns, or a "double bottom line". The fund is managed by JPMorgan H&Q.
http://www.allianceforcommunitydevelopment.org/
Alliance for Nonprofit Management
market focus:
geographic focus:
Alliance Magazine
Intermediary
market focus:
Social Enterprise , Media
geographic focus:
Social enterprise magazine linked to the Said School at Oxford University
http://www.alliancemagazine.org/
Alliance of Nonprofits for Insurance, Risk Retention Group
Nonprofit
market focus:
Social Enterprise
geographic focus: National
The Alliance of Nonprofits for Insurance, Risk Retention Group (ANI-RRG) is a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt nonprofit insurance company whose mission is to be a stable source of reasonably priced liability insurance for 501(c)(3) nonprofits. ANI-RRG and an affiliated reinsurance captive company, have been capitalized with $10 million in grants from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the David and Lucile Packard Foundation. Modeled after the Nonprofits' Insurance Alliance of California (NIAC), which was founded in 1989 and which has brought stability in price and coverage to thousands of nonprofits in California, ANI-RRG is also governed by its nonprofit organization members. ANI-RRG also assists nonprofit organizations to develop and implement effective loss control and risk management programs. ANI-RRG is currently writing coverage for 501(c)(3) nonprofits in Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, District of Columbia, Iowa, Kansas, Maryland, Michigan, Missouri, Nebraska, Nevada, North Carolina, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Utah, Vermont, Virginia and Washington.

(From http://ani-rrg.org/dcpage.cfm?PageBaseID=50001)

http://ani-rrg.org/
allinpeace.org
Social Venture
market focus:
Education , Community Development
geographic focus: worldwide
The purpose of the AllinPeace Movement is to revive this spirit among youth and communities especially in conflict areas, as demonstrated in the First Peace Olympia-Delphi Festival for Children in July 2001, in which twelve communities from around the world participated. Our objective is to create an opportunity to build bridges beyond flags and countries, through the universal language of harmonious, athletic movement and the arts. We strive to sow seeds of mutual respect that build solidarity between participating communities. AllinPeace provides the soil for such development. IWA and the Spacial Dynamics Institute have worked together to develop a program that encourages cooperation among youth who have traditionally faced each other as "enemies". Communication activities, collaborative athletic events, and contact with the "other" help sensitize them to the magnitude of problems faced by children their own age. The weeklong festival, held in Delphi, Greece, aims to break down the kinds of stereotypes that breed hostility and to build a sense of community through athletic, artistic, and non-violent communication experiences. The week-long program culminates in a two-day festival modeled on the ancient Olympic tradition. We are inviting the children to discover paths that lead to new ways of relating to one another. This affords them the opportunity, (if they wish), to attempt a more active role in their communities and individual development. Hopefully, such responsible action will lead to more dynamic and empathetic societies.
http://www.allinpeace.org
Alonovo
market focus:
Social Enterprise , Fair trade , Technology
geographic focus:
About the alonovo.com Concept intelligent marketplace Think of the power of a large database that collects information about how corporations behave and then integrates that data directly into the shopping experience. When you are about to purchase a TV, shoes, socks or an IPOD you can not only consider the price and the quality of the product, but can easily see what kind of behavior we are "buying into". Our alonovo.com mission is to connect the concept of corporate behavior directly to the profit motive. When a corporation is evolving to balance people, planet and profit -everyone wins. We are working to inform society in a very simple, visually appealing manner with regard to corporate behavior at their point of online purchase. And the reason is every time we make a purchase we are transferring power to a business. Is this power going to support ... * Fair Labor or Sweatshops? * Emission Reduction or Pollution? * Recycling or Toxic Waste? * Resource Conservation or Plunder the Earth? * Political Neutrality or Undermine Democracy? * Partner with Local Community or Destroy the Local Community Economy? So by offering products from one of the leaders in the online shopping world (Amazon.com), trusted data from independent well-respected sources like KLD Research & Analytics, Inc., Social Accountability International and others, we provide a free experience that will gradually connect how a company behaves with their profit. And this is the importance of a large and growing alonovo.com community. If we are just a small group of people, we won't have much of an impact. However if you tell everyone you know about this service (and they tell everyone they know, and so on) we can be a large force that can make a tremendous impact in terms of how corporations conduct themselves. When you purchase using alonovo.com, you are doing your part to send a clear message to businesses—we want blue skies, clean water, a fair and growing economy, intelligent use of our natural resources, safe and humane workplaces and sensible partnerships with local communities. Beyond helping to shape social, environmental and political practices of businesses, you are also directly helping non-profit organizations that need funding for their critical work. We, the alonovo.com community contribute between 20% and 40% of our revenue (based upon your purchases through alonovo.com) to your cause of choice. This is a community we can all be proud to belong to, regardless of political perspectives and ideology. The alonovo community: the power of millions of informed, aware and caring people acting in concert. For a better world.
http://www.alonovo.com
Alterfin
market focus:
geographic focus: International
www.alterfin.be
Altruistiq
Intermediary
market focus:
Social Enterprise , Technology , Social Capital Market Infrastructure
geographic focus:
The Altruistiq Exchange (ALEX) is a non-profit stock exchange. Its mission is to alleviate the burden of fundraising for 501(c) corporations by acting as a sustainable, recurring revenue source. ALEX empowers non-profits by supplying them with the financial freedom they need to completely focus on delivering their missions. Unlike Bovespa and Sasix, investors can make money on the exchange, rather than just donate wisely with reporting that emulates that required of public companies
http://www.altruistiq.com/
Amazon.com Nonprofit Innovation Award
market focus:
geographic focus:
The Amazon.com Nonprofit Innovation Award is a program designed to recognize and reward nonprofit organizations whose innovative approaches and breakthrough solutions most effectively improve their communities or the world at large.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/browse/-/13786401/102-7471039-9558508
AMBAC Assurance
market focus:
geographic focus:
Ambata Capital
Social Venture
market focus:
Clean Technology
geographic focus:
http://www.ambata.com/
AMD
market focus:
geographic focus:
AMD (NYSE: AMD) is the customer-centric innovation company, a processing powerhouse that offers smarter choices for its customers and makes technology more accessible to the world. AMD is focused on best meeting the needs of leading computing, wireless and consumer electronics companies to help them deliver high-performance, energy-efficient and visually realistic solutions.
http://www.amd.com
American Humanics at UNO
market focus:
geographic focus:
American Independent Business Alliance (AMIBA)
Nonprofit
market focus:
Community Development
geographic focus: international
The American Independent Business Alliance (AMIBA) is a national 501c3 non-profit, non-partisan organization working to reverse the trend of chains displacing locally-owned independent businesses, preserve a place for entrepreneurship, and to restore decision-making authority over community future to the people who call it "home." Our locally-owned independent businesses We help communities launch and perpetuate local Independent Business Alliances -- coalitions of locally-owned independent businesses, citizens and community organizations. IBAs operate in communities of all sizes and political ideologies and function in three distinct but overlapping realms: 1) Ongoing public education about the vital economic, social and cultural roles independent businesses play in the community. The elevated community dialogue becomes palpable. 2) Group promotion and advertising to elevate the collective profile of those businesses in the community. Programs help citizens to identify local businesses and gain those businesses some of the advantages of economies of scale and presence enjoyed by chains. 3) Informing local government decisions to help broaden economic development from a sole basis of "how can we attract outside businesses to the community?" to "how can we enhance what we already have and create more opportunities for entrepreneurs from within?" IBAs have gained impressive representation on local economic development bodies and build solid relationships with City officials. IBAs have been instrumental in shifting local culture back to supporting locally-owned independent businesses. They have led the way in defending their communities against practices that unfairly favor national and transnational chains such as exposing and overturning public subsidies, collaborated with local government to find and minimize leakage of dollars from the community to increase community prosperity and use taxpayer dollars to benefit those who pay them, and instigated shifts in local policy to bolster resident-owned business. IBAs have helped unite disparate community groups – racial, social, economic, geographic – by providing common ground for community building and mutual esteem. They have given voice to locally-owned independent business, a frequently overlooked community component that long has been its bedrock.
www.AMIBA.net
American Legion
market focus:
geographic focus:
American Life Settlement Society
Social Venture
market focus:
Health
geographic focus:
American Life Settlement Society (ALSS) is a socially responsible lifestyle settlement company with operations that span 3 continents.

At ALSS we are committed to enhancing the lives of seniors. For this reason, we have taken an entirely new approach to Lifestyle Settlements.

At ALSS we understand that as life goes on, personal and financial situations change. Unlike other life settlement companies,our teamis made up of experts in financial services, tax structuring, real estate, health care, and marketing.

Our team as taken an entirely new approach to lifestyle settlements by looking at what key products and services are our clients requiring in order to lead happy, heathly lives.
http://www.thealss.com/
American Near East Refugee Aid (ANERA)
Nonprofit
market focus:
geographic focus:
American Near East Refugee Aid (ANERA) was founded in 1968 in the aftermath of the 1967 Arab-Israeli War, to help the hundreds of thousands of displaced Palestinians. Initially providing emergency relief, ANERA determined the effects of the war on Palestinian society would last well into the future and therefore began implementing projects that would establish a foundation for social and economical growth.
http://www.anera.org/
American Non-Smokers Rights Foundation
market focus:
Health
geographic focus:
Americans for Nonsmokers' Rights is the leading national lobbying organization (501 (c) 4), dedicated to nonsmokers' rights, taking on the tobacco industry at all levels of government, protecting nonsmokers from exposure to secondhand smoke, and preventing tobacco addiction among youth. ANR pursues an action-oriented program of policy and legislation.
http://www.no-smoke.org/
American Refugee Committee
Nonprofit
market focus:
geographic focus:
The American Refugee Committee works with refugees, displaced people, and those at risk to help them survive crises and rebuild lives of dignity, health, security and self-sufficiency.
http://www.archq.org
American Society of Training & Development
market focus:
geographic focus:
AmeriCorps CTC VISTA Project
market focus:
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Amigos of Costa Rica
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ammado.com
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Amnesty International
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Amnesty International (AI) is a worldwide movement of people who campaign for internationally recognized human rights. AI’s vision is of a world in which every person enjoys all of the human rights enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and other international human rights standards. In pursuit of this vision, AI’s mission is to undertake research and action focused on preventing and ending grave abuses of the rights to physical and mental integrity, freedom of conscience and expression, and freedom from discrimination, within the context of its work to promote all human rights. AI is independent of any government, political ideology, economic interest or religion. It does not support or oppose any government or political system, nor does it support or oppose the views of the victims whose rights it seeks to protect. It is concerned solely with the impartial protection of human rights. AI has a varied network of members and supporters around the world. At the latest count, there were more than 1.8 million members, supporters and subscribers in over 150 countries and territories in every region of the world. Although they come from many different backgrounds and have widely different political and religious beliefs, they are united by a determination to work for a world where everyone enjoys human rights. AI is a democratic, self-governing movement. Major policy decisions are taken by an International Council made up of representatives from all national sections. AI’s national sections and local volunteer groups are primarily responsible for funding the movement. No funds are sought or accepted from governments for AI’s work investigating and campaigning against human rights violations
http://www.amnesty.org/
Amoration
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AMREF
Nonprofit
market focus:
Base of the Pyramid (BOP) , Health
geographic focus: Africa
AMREF’s mission is to improve the health of disadvantaged people in Africa as a means for them to escape poverty and improve the quality of their lives. Our mission determines that we work in six areas of focus, or Priority Intervention Areas (PIAs).

HIV/AIDS, TB and Sexually Transmitted Diseases

Malaria

Safe Water and Basic Sanitation

Family Health

Clinical Services, Disaster Management and Emergency Response Training and Health Learning Materials

The AMREF mission is to be achieved by: developing, testing and promoting the adoption of models for improving health and reducing poverty; training and capacity building at all levels; and contributing to the development of an environment that enables health and wealth improvement.

AMREF is the continent’s leading health development organisation. AMREF has offices in 5 Eastern and Southern African countries: Ethiopia, Kenya, South Africa, Tanzania and Uganda. We have field offices in Somalia and Sudan. Each year we train health professionals from countries all over the African Continent. Our headquarters are in Nairobi, Kenya, and we are proud that 97% of our staff is African.
http://www.amref.org/
Anai
Social Venture
market focus:
Social Enterprise , Clean Technology , Social Enterprise , Clean Technology
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ANAI, an organization lead by a handful of agronomists, foresters, biologists, economists, and educators, provides living proof that economic development and environmental conservation can happen hand-in-hand. Long before “sustainable development” became a familiar term, ANAI was successfully helping the people from Costa Rica’s Talamanca region—home to 3 percent of the world’s species—improve their quality of life while preserving the area’s rainforests and other natural wonders.
http://www.anaicr.org/
Anark Corporation
market focus:
Technology
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Anark Corporation provides enterprise software and solutions to organizations that need to cost effectively deliver high-end, interactive 3D based applications. Anark customers such as Boeing, Cessna, Panasonic Avionics, USAF, Sony and Maserati improve efficiency, save money and communicate more effectively with mission-critical interactive Product Visualization, Training, Marketing Communication, and User Interface applications.
http://www.anark.com/
Androscoggin Valley Council of Governments
Intermediary
market focus:
Community Development
geographic focus: Western Maine
Established in 1962, the Androscoggin Valley Council of Governments is a regional planning agency serving the Western Maine communities of Androscoggin, Franklin, and Oxford Counties. AVCOG is a not for profit, 501(c)(3) agency, exclusively owned and operated by member communities, who join on a voluntary basis. An Executive Committee sets policy and oversees the operations of the Council, in consultation with appointed representatives from member communities and counties.

Sharing a border with New Hampshire and Quebec, the AVCOG region covers over 4,200 square miles of forested mountains and fields carved by pristine lakes and rivers. The Twin Cities of Lewiston and Auburn, located in the southern portion of the region, share a combined population of 58,893 people, making it the largest hub in the region. The remaining population of 129,000 is scattered over 75 small towns, townships, plantations, and unorganized territories. With a healthy abundance of natural resources, Western Maine is home to a vibrant manufacturing sector that includes wood, pulp and paper, electronics, plastics, and textiles. Currently, health care, telecommunications, and services are the fastest growing industries in the region. World class recreational opportunities and nationally-recognized universities complement the unique quality of life.

AVCOG is a leader in the coordination and delivery of regional planning and municipal services. With a $2.5 million annual operating budget earned from dues, grants, and fee-for-service projects, our full-time professional staff of 27 is concentrated in two targeted areas Municipal Services and Business Services.
avcog.org
AngelHEROS
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AngelPoints Inc.
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Angiogenesis Foundation
Foundation
market focus:
Health
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Founded in 1994, the Angiogenesis Foundation is the world’s first 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization dedicated to conquering disease using a new approach based on angiogenesis, the growth of new capillary blood vessels in the body. We have identified angiogenesis as the “common denominator” in society’s most feared diseases. Our focus on this underlying process of many different diseases makes our approach as a medical organization unique. The Foundation is the recognized, expert voice and champion of this new field of medicine.

Based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the Angiogenesis Foundation’s goal is to help people lead healthier, longer lives by restoring balance to blood vessel growth. Through research, education, and advocacy — with patients, physicians, researchers, industry, payers, and government — we enable patients to gain access to safe and effective treatments coming from the angiogenesis field for cancer, blinding diseases, wounds, and many other serious diseases.

Working with an international advisory board and a faculty of medical research experts, we are speeding the progress of modern medicine, teaching doctors how to adopt 21st century treatments as they emerge, and laying the groundwork for major, future breakthroughs. Because angiogenesis plays a role in so many different diseases, the Foundation ‘cross-fertilizes’ knowledge from one disease research area to another, so that medical progress for many diseases can be catalyzed at once.

As a scientific organization, the Angiogenesis Foundation is independent of any individual, institution, or commercial entity. We are committed to helping people around the world benefit from the full promise of angiogenesis-based medicine, and to make life-, limb-, and vision-saving treatments available to everyone in need.
http://www.angio.org/
Anglican Malaria Project
Intermediary
market focus:
Bottom of the Pyramid (BOP) , Health
geographic focus:
Project by some of the principals of xigi.net to set up a delivery system for insecticide treated nets in Swaziland and Mozambique. The source of many learnings that have made us deeper, and better people.
http://www.anglicanmalariaproject.org
Animated Speech
Social Venture
market focus:
Health , Technology
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Children with autism, hearing impairments, developmental delays and other language problems struggle every day with communication, conversation and reading. Animated Speech's software is designed to give speech pathologists, educators and parents who work with these children an important new tool to build comprehension and vocabulary skills.
http://www.animatedspeech.com
Annie E. Casey Foundation
Foundation
market focus:
Community Development
geographic focus: USA
Founded in 1948, the primary mission of the Annie E. Casey Foundation is to foster public policies, human-service reforms, and community supports that more effectively meet the needs of today’s vulnerable children and families. In pursuit of this goal, the Foundation makes grants that help states, cities, and neighborhoods fashion more innovative, cost-effective responses to these needs.
www.aecf.org
Another GP
Intermediary
market focus:
Social Enterprise
geographic focus:
A social enterprise accelerator
http://www.anothergp.com
AnthroTronix Inc.
Social Venture
market focus:
Social Enterprise , Clean Technology
geographic focus: International
AnthroTronix is a human factors engineering firm committed to optimizing the interaction between people and technology. AnthroTronix is a World Economic Forum 2004 Technology Pioneer and was invited to attend Wired Magazine's NextFest 2004 as one of approximately 100 international companies developing "cutting edge" technology.
http://www.anthrotronix.com/
Anthurium Solutions, Inc.
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Aperio
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Apoyo Integral
market focus:
Microfinance
geographic focus: El Salvador
Apoyo Integral is dedicated to providing accessible financial products and services that facilitate the socioeconomic inclusion of people with minimal access to the benefits of the country's growing economy. In 1999, Fundación Salvadoreña de Apoyo Integral (FUSAI), contracted ACCION to evaluate its microloan portfolio using the ACCION CAMEL™, a comprehensive financial diagnostic tool designed especially for microfinance institutions. Using the results of the CAMELTM evaluation, ACCION worked with FUSAI to transform the foundation's microlending arm into a private, commercial institution. Apoyo Integral has now taken over FUSAI's microloan portfolio. In June 2004, Apoyo Integral launched its first remittances program, available to residents of Washington. They plan to expand the service to other states in the U.S.
www.fusai.org.sv
Appropedia
Social Venture
market focus:
Technology , Base of the Pyramid (BOP)
geographic focus: Global
Appropedia's Mission is to provide an easy-to-use, highly-available, fast, stable, open, fairly managed and multilingual library for sharing all the information, and to promote the use and expansion of the wiki in order to best support the advancement of Appropedia's Core Goals of:

- Sustainability
- Poverty Reduction
- International Development and Capacity Building

Specifically, the Mission includes: Assuring the presence and availability of adequate hardware resources. Assuring timely firmware upgrades. Providing adequate system admin resources to keep the site available and spam-free. Assuring the development of clear and effective policies.

Active recruitment of contributors, editors, admins, engaged consumers and commentators. Ensuring up-to-date infrastructure (enhancements, templates, categories, and so on). Requests for permission to republish original content. Pursuit of useful regional info, e.g. travel, supply chain, services, or links to same.

Aggressively discouraging inappropriate material or use (e.g. copyright violations). Continual pursuit of features (wiki and non) to increase community effectiveness. Maintaining privacy of information as appropriate. Continual low key querying of community for improvement opportunity. Continual low key querying for potentially missed community elements. Promoting the Vision above (ads, articles, conferences, T-shirts, stickers, comments).

For purposes of clarification, the mission does not include: Driving internet accessibility to remote locations. Providing translation services. Responsibility for delivering all content. Purchasing rights for protected intellectual property. Validating accuracy of content.
http://www.appropedia.org/
Aptivate
Social Venture
market focus:
Technology , Bottom of the Pyramid (BOP)
geographic focus: Internernational
Aptivate aims to enable access to information and communications for all. We are a non-profit organisation and our expertise helps improve communications andinformation access in the developing world. We formulate appropriate IT solutions to increase the impact of development projects and benefit ordinary people. To achieve our organisation's objectives, we have three areas of activity, each of which provides the organisation with a source of revenue: IT consultancy and services to the Development Sector. We provide consultancy services to organisations like the United Nations (UN). Our current consultancy, improving the accessibility of the World Health Organisation's (WHO) HINARI project, will have a major and measurable impact on health research in over 100 developing countries. Appropriate IT Projects. We research and develop IT that can benefit people in developing countries. Aptivate is focusing on two key areas: • Rural communications and services • Network management within universities and academic institutions Social Enterprise. We have recently spun out one of our IT projects as a social enterprise, meaning a sustainable profit-making business with a social mission. Enclusion Ltd. is a joint venture with commercial partners, Sagentia and Plextek.
Aptivate was founded in 2003 under the name Aidworld. We changed the name recently as it was confusing and did not reflect our work.
http://www.aptivate.org/
Aquillian Investments, Inc
Intermediary
market focus:
geographic focus: US and Canada
Aquillian Investments, Inc. (member NASD/SIPC) is a private placement and advisory firm specializing in alternative asset opportunities such as venture capital, private equity, hedge funds, real estate, fixed income, and commodities. We specialize in investments that make a positive difference in the world. Today's investment environment offers investors an unparalleled opportunity to receive competitive returns while augmenting the scalability and ultimate impact of their capital. Aquillian offers insight and access to top-performing fund managers, each of whom creates long term wealth generation by understanding fundamental change in some of the worlds largest markets. We work with investors to understand their risk / return profile, and then going a step further, to ask about impact the ideal world that an investment today might create. Once that vision is established, we discuss the investment vehicles that might be suited to the purpose. Investment areas of interest include: carbon credits, clean technology, community finance, education, healthy lifestyles, housing, micro-finance, organic food, sustainable forestry, and wetlands mitigation banking.
www.aquillian.com
Arab Women's Fund
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Arbor Square
Intermediary
market focus:
Social Enterprise
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Arbor Square provides consultancy services and strategic research solutions to clients in the alternative assets industry.They have been retained by the British Venture Capital Association, focusing on the role of the private equity and venture capital industry in the areas of social and sustainable development. Our clients typically include:

* Fund managers, investors and intermediaries

* Groups active within the private equity, hedge fund and real estate markets

* Organisations involved in the venture capital and business angel communities

We are an independent and objective source of market analysis and intelligence and a long-term strategic partner for our clients.
http://www.arborsquare.com/
Argidius Foundation
Foundation
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Social Enterprise , Microfinance
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Founded in 1956, the Argidius Foundation has since 1992 explicitly followed a strategy of support for international, market-driven, business development initiatives to alleviate poverty, focusing on three areas: Microfinance - provision of financial services to low income households Business Development Services - provision of technical assistance and other non-financial services to low income entrepreneurs to help them grow their businesses Entrepreneurial Education - mostly training in various aspects of business management Foundation support was initially targeted towards Latin America but has expanded into Africa in more recent years. The Argidius Foundation is registered as a Swiss Foundation and is part of the corporate giving programme of COFRA Holding AG.
http://www.argidius.com
Ariel Capital Management
Investor
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http://www.arielcapital.com/
Arivali Partners
Social Venture
market focus:
Social Enterprise , Base of the Pyramid (BOP)
geographic focus: India
A social fund focused on India
http://arivali.com/
Art Nature Design
Social Venture
market focus:
Social Enterprise , Fair trade
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http://www.artnaturedesign.nl/
Artcorps
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Artemisia Foundation
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Artsboretum
Social Venture
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Green music arts incubator; center for creative collaboration of music, art and green technology: formed for the purpose of cultivating a conscious creative community.
http://www.artsboretum.org
ArtWorks
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St. Louis ArtWorks collaborates with the community to provide work experience through apprenticeships in the arts for youth in the St. Louis metropolitan area.
http://www.stlartworks.org/
Ascribe Inc.
market focus:
Social Enterprise , Media
geographic focus: National
AScribe Newswire gives America's nonprofit and public sector organizations DIRECT, IMMEDIATE ACCESS to MAINSTREAM NATIONAL MEDIA.

And - we do it at a cost all organizations, large and small, can afford.

AScribe Newswire transmits news releases directly into newsroom computer systems - and to the desktops of journalists - at major media organizations via a supremely trusted channel, The Associated Press.

AScribe members' news also goes to Google News, to news retrieval databases like LexisNexis and Factiva, and to online publications, topical web sites and intranets.

From the media standpoint, AScribe Newswire provides unique and valuable information from organizations that shape today's news. AScribe members' news covers cutting-edge developments in science, medicine, higher education, law, public policy, environmental and social advocacy, the arts and humanities and other important topics of public concern.

Created at the University of California in 1997, AScribe Newswire has shifted the way universities, medical centers, research labs, foundations, associations, public-policy and other distribute their news in an ever-changing digital world.

http://www.ascribe.org/
Asesoria Dinamica a Microempresas (ADMIC)
market focus:
Microfinance
geographic focus: Mexico
ADMIC's mission is to fight poverty and unemployment in the informal economy by promoting the growth of micro-businesses. ADMIC provides access to credit and business training to those who have few other resources. ADMIC was established in 1980 in Monterrey, Mexico, by a group of business visionaries who relied on technical assistance from ACCION. Their hope was to improve their community by promoting business development. By the second half of 1998, ADMIC launched a new microcredit program in seven of its offices, directing its outreach toward the urban self-employed with a particular emphasis on women. Close to ninety percent of this program's beneficiaries are low-income women who are part of solidarity groups, a lending method that allows members to cross-guarantee one another's loans in lieu of collateral.
Ashden Awards for Sustainable Energy
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Ashevillage
Nonprofit
market focus:
Community Development , Clean Technology
geographic focus: Asheville NC
Ashevillage Building Convergence/ABC 2008 is the inaugural three-day collaboration and celebration of sustainability for the city, the land, and the people of Asheville.

ABC features: an Opening Celebration & Benefit Night with not-to-be-missed presentation, local music & finger food; an action-oriented Ashevillage Town Meeting with nationally renowned presenters and local pioneers; Ashevillage in Action Day with 14 hands-on sustainability projects throughout the city; a summer solstice celebration, community potlucks, local music and arts, closing ceremonies, and much more.

Guiding principles include cohesion building, synergizing existing sustainability initiatives, citizen education and participation, practical hands-on sustainable solutions, eco-cultural regeneration, and celebration of what’s already happening on these fronts in Asheville.
http://www.ashevillage.org
Asheville Treecyclers
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Ashoka
Foundation
market focus:
Bottom of the Pyramid (BOP) , Social Enterprise
geographic focus: international
Ashokas mission is to shape a citizen sector that is entrepreneurial, productive and globally integrated, and to develop the profession of social entrepreneurship around the world. Ashoka identifies and invests in leading social entrepreneurs - extraordinary individuals with unprecedented ideas for change in their communities - supporting them, their ideas and institutions through all phases of their careers. Ashoka Fellows benefit from being part of the global Fellowship for life. Ashoka's vision is that of a global society that is able to respond quickly and effectively to social challenges everywhere. Ashoka does not accept government funding; business entrepreneurs and their foundations, corporations, individuals and volunteer chapters finance Ashoka's work. Ashoka has invested in more than 1,700 Ashoka Fellows in 60 countries. Those Fellows have transformed the lives of millions of people in thousands of communities worldwide.
http://www.ashoka.org
Ashoka Global Academy for Social Entrepreneurship
Intermediary
market focus:
Social Enterprise
geographic focus: Global
The Global Academy for Social Entrepreneurship consists of global leaders who provide conceptual and representational guidance for the field of social entrepreneurship. Global Academy members, whose solutions have had scalable, global impact, serve as architects of the dynamic, competitive citizen sector of the future. The Academy demonstrates and defines how social entrepreneurs can address global problems on a global scale, through such knowledge products as The Social Entrepreneurship Series, a 16 disc DVD Series on Academy Members and their successes as global changemakers.

Academy Members are leaders in their field—and selected according to the following four criteria: They are working to change systems or social patterns at great scale They are having or have had a significant impact on a global scale There is a track record of growing recognition and accomplishment over many years They have become role models or reference points in their fields.

Among the founding Members of the Global Academy are: Muhammad Yunus (Founder of The Grameen Bank), Alice Tepper Marlin (Founder of The Council on Economic Priorities), Bill Drayton (Founder of Ashoka: Innovators for the Public), Peter Eigen (Founder of Transparency International), Oded Grajew (Founder of The Ethos Institute For Business Social Responsibility) and Fazle Abed (Founder of BRAC)
http://www.ashoka.org/academy
Ashoka UK Syndicate plan
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Ashoka's Changemakers Innovation Award
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Changemakers is an Ashoka initiative connecting insights of Ashoka's social entrepreneurs with the best work in the citizen sector.
http://www.changemakers.net/journal/300606/
Ashwini
Intermediary
market focus:
Health , Bottom of the Pyramid (BOP)
geographic focus:
ASHWINI (Association for Health Welfare in the Nilgiris) is a Charitable Organisation providing comprehensive health care for one of the most neglected sections of our society - the Adivasis. Gudalur Valley situated in the tri-junction of the three South Indian States of Tamilnadu, Kerala and Karnataka is the home of over 25000 Adivasis for many centuries. Five different tribes viz. Paniyas, Bettakurumbas, Mullukurumbas, Kattunaickens and Irulas were inhabiting this forested valley. Alienated from their own land by big Tea Estates, migrants from the plains and by Government authorities, these adivasis fought back by organising themselves into a strong political force. They were able to assert their political and social rights, to revive their cultural art forms and to join the mainstream society as equal partners with dignity. The political struggle is briefly outlined in the page AMS. Equally remarkable is their quest for good quality health care. Started as a small community health programme primarily targeted at training tribal women on women and child care issues, the programme grew into ASHWINI, comprising of a 20 bedded hospital, 8 Sub-Centres and as an important institution owned and managed by the people themselves. The eventful history of our efforts so far is traced in the History, giving brief details of the activities during the last 10 years. One of the highlights of ASHWINI's health programme is the innovative health insurance scheme. For the adivasis used to community living for ages, the health insurance scheme was the modern equivalent of sharing their risks and helping each other in the hour of crisis. Over ten years, this programme is being run by ASHWINI successfully, though not without problems. We are sharing our experience in running this insurance scheme, details of the composite package in the page Insurance Scheme. Besides, some more relevant statistics regarding the hospital and field activities, and audited financial reports are given in the Statistics section. Our work can be understood in a proper perspective only with the knowledge of the social and cultural background of the Adivasi society in Gudalur. We have taken care to preserve the rich Adivasi Culture, even while introducing them to the benefits of modern medicine. So, a few selected photographs are given in the Photo Gallery in various headings - with special attention to their cultural life and setting of the adivasis.
http://www.ashwini.org/
Asia Fair Trade Forum
market focus:
Fair trade
geographic focus:
he Asia Fair Trade Forum (AFTF) was formed in March 2001 as a network of fair trade producers, marketing and development organizations in Asia. It is a registered NGO with a Secretariat presently domiciled in Manila. The AFTF has a membership roster of 70 social enterprises and confederations from 9 countries which are among the poorest in Asia: Bangladesh, China, India, Nepal, Philippines, Indonesia, Sri Lanka, Thailand, and Vietnam, all of which belong to the craft and food sectors. Our members represent thousands of grassroots workers and artisans, cooperatives, family units, workshops for the handicapped, women's groups and small private companies whose common denominator is that they are small and oftentimes marginalized. They mostly operate in the informal economy where wages and incomes are low, social benefits almost non-existent, working conditions difficult. The AFTF is the regional chapter of the International Fair Trade Association (IFAT). Goals The AFTF aims to contribute to the sustainable development of disadvantaged producers in Asia by: · Providing them access to the regional and inter-regional export markets; · Creating a platform for more effective networking among member-organizations in the areas of skills development, technology transfer, and access to information; · Promoting fair trade principles and practices in the region. Anchored on these objectives are three (3) main programs of AFTF: Market Access, Capacity-Building and Advocacy.
http://www.catgen.com/aftf/EN/
Asian Institute of Management
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Asociación Pro Arte y Cultura (APAC)
Nonprofit
market focus:
Education , Media
geographic focus: eastern Bolivia
The Asociación Pro Arte y Cultura (APAC) is a legally constituted Bolivian non-profit organization, having as a general purpose the promotion of culture in a wide activity range. Its primary efforts are particularly focused on producing and staging international festivals headquartered in the city of Santa Cruz de la Sierra and sourrounding towns of cultural importance every other year. Although APAC organizes and accomplishes different cultural activities (e.g., courses, seminars, lectures, picture exhibitions, plays, concerts), its main activities are the International American Renaissance and Baroque Music Festival "Misiones de Chiquitos" (held in even years, e.g., 2008), and the International Theatre Festival "Santa Cruz de la Sierra(held in odd years, e.g., 2009). Both events constitute a national heritage and were devised to make the city of Santa Cruz de la Sierra better known as a Latin American culture centre. APAC also maintains a publishing fund, devoted to sponsoring academic research of a cultural nature and publishing the results. Apart from books, APAC also creates compact disc recordings, videos and other audiovisual matters. These are produced by Bolivian and foreign authors who have committed themselves to rescuing, promoting, disseminating, and preserving the outstanding cultural-artistic heritage that is indigenous to Bolivia's eastern lowlands, principally the Oriente, and within this area, the Chiquitania. APAC has set as a fundamental goal the benevolent appropriation of the diverse eastern Bolivian cultural heritages to stimulate its people to retrieve their dignity and self-esteem, and thus be better able to face the challenges an increasingly globalized and culturally homogeneous world brings. APAC considers the area's traditional cultures as an invaluable investment, which make possible the ability to positively reshape a community's destiny.
http://www.festivalesapac.com
Aspen Institute
Nonprofit
market focus:
Green Building , Social Enterprise , Media
geographic focus:
The mission of the Aspen Institute is to foster enlightened leadership and open-minded dialogue. Through seminars, policy programs, conferences and leadership development initiatives, the Institute and its international partners seek to promote nonpartisan inquiry and an appreciation for timeless values.
http://www.aspeninstitute.org/
Aspire Schools
Nonprofit
market focus:
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Builds and operates high quality public charter schools in California to prepare urban students for college.
www.aspirepublicschools.org/
Assn. of Small Foundations
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Associacao Saude Crianca Renascer (ASCR)
Social Venture
market focus:
Health
geographic focus:
The Associação Saúde Criança Renascer (ASCR) was founded in 1991 by Dr. Vera Cordeiro - General Practice, specialized in Psychosomatic Medicine. It is an NGO - Non-Governmental Organization - a non-profit entity with no political or religious affiliation. The constant admission/re-admission cycle of the children treated at the Hospital da Lagoa, in Rio de Janeiro - who were released without having the necessary structure to continue their treatment at home - caused the indignation of professionals of the Health sector of that institution. The fact that many patients were re-admitted in an even more serious state, in some cases leading to the death of the child, has brought together doctors, nurses, and members of the civil society who decided to create this association. The key objective of Renascer is the restructuring of the families of those children, acting in the Plano de Ação Familiar - Family Action Plan (PAF) that comprehends five major areas: health, professional qualification, housing, education, and citizenship. Nowadays, the ASCR works with the vital support of around 140 volunteers and over 38 employees who care for 250 families and 850 children and adolescents. There are three care units: Recreation Room at the Hospital da Lagoa; Main Office, at the Parque Lage, and Casa das Oficinas (Workshop House) / Administration, at the Jardim Botânico. "Our dream is to see this action being reproduced throughout all government hospitals in Brazil. And, ideally, in all the areas of the world where this kind of problem occurs." Vera Cordeiro - Founder of Renascer
www.criancarenascer.org.br
Association for Community Design
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Established in 1977, the Association for Community Design (ACD) is a network of individuals, organizations, and institutions committed to increasing the capacity of planning and design professions to better serve communities. ACD serves and supports practitioners, educators, and organizations engaged in community-based design and planning. ACD is incorporated as a 501(c)3 membership organization and is governed by a board of directors. Membership is open to both organizations and individuals. The modest dues collected by the ACD support an annual conference, program development, and the maintenance of this website. Mission To serve practitioners, educators, individuals and organizations engaged in community-based design and planning Vision Serve as the primary clearinghouse for community design practitioners, educators, and organizations Advance research, education, and best practices in community design Provide a national voice on policies that affect community design Core Values Equity & Justice Advocating with those that have a limited voice in public life Diversity Promoting social equality through discourse that reflects a range of values and social identities Participatory Decision-Making Building structures for inclusion that engage stakeholders and allow communities to make decisions Quality of Life Advancing the right of every person to live in a socially, economically, and environmentally healthy community Integrative Approach Creating strategies that reach beyond the design of the built environment Place-based Solutions Generating ideas that grow from place and build local capacity Design Excellence Promoting the highest standards of quality in the design and construction of the built environment
http://www.communitydesign.org/
Association for Progressive Communications
Intermediary
market focus:
Technology
geographic focus: International
The Association for Progressive Communications (APC) is an international network of civil society organisations dedicated to empowering and supporting groups and individuals working for peace, human rights, development and protection of the environment, through the strategic use of information and communication technologies (ICTs), including the internet.
http://www.apc.org/english/index.shtml
Association of Arts Administration Educators
Nonprofit
market focus:
Education , Social Enterprise , Community Development
geographic focus: International
An international association of degree-granting institutions in arts and cultural management, providing a dynamic forum for its members and advancing formal training and high educational standards for the field.
http://www.artsadministration.org/
Assured Labor
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atendee
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Athens Economic Justice Coalition
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Athens Grow Green Coalition
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Athens Human Rights Festival
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Athens Religious Society of Friends
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Athens-Clarke County Greens
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Atira Property Management Inc.
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Atlantic Philanthropies
Foundation
market focus:
Community Development
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Our work is aimed at four of the most important issues facing the world – ageing, disadvantaged children and youth, population health, and reconciliation and human rights. We work on one or more of those issues in the seven countries in which we maintain a presence: Australia, Bermuda, Northern Ireland, the Republic of Ireland, South Africa, the United States and Viet Nam.

Over the course of more than two decades, The Atlantic Philanthropies have awarded approximately 4,240 grants totalling $3.8 billion through the third quarter of 2006.

We plan to spend our entire endowment by 2020 to make a significant, sustainable impact in our four programme areas – Ageing, Disadvantaged Children & Youth, Population Health and Reconciliation & Human Rights. We intend to award approximately $350 million per year through 2016, the year we plan to complete active grantmaking.,/p> As of 31 December 2005, the value of Atlantic’s endowment was $3.9 billion. Of that, $580 million was committed for grants at year end. The endowment consists of a diversified portfolio of absolute return strategies, private equity investments, global equities and bonds. We also own interests in hotels, resorts, health clubs and retailers through General Atlantic Group Limited (GAGL), a subsidiary. These businesses accounted for approximately 12.1 per cent of the endowment value at year end 2005.

To achieve our mission, we partner with grantees, other funders and governments. We believe in the power of advocacy by those who will benefit by it, especially the disadvantaged. To that end, we support targeted initiatives, ranging from the Treatment Action Campaign, which influenced the government of South Africa to provide effective medications to people with HIV/AIDS, to the legal team which persuaded the Supreme Court to abolish the juvenile death penalty in the United States, to the effort to increase the number of religiously integrated schools in Northern Ireland.

In addition to these tangible campaigns, Atlantic seeks always to strengthen the capacity of leaders and institutions in the fields we have chosen, since this is the best insurance of a vibrant movement for social equality and justice that will endure long after we have made our last grant.

We understand that we cannot achieve the kind of change we seek on our own. Our grantees do the hard work, and our funding partners make it possible for us to join together in making big, bold, often risky bets.

We do our best to learn what works and what doesn’t and to share this knowledge with colleagues and partners. As we have learned from the able advocates we support, we hold our values constant while remaining nimble in pursuing strategies that will best advance them.

http://atlanticphilanthropies.org
AtoZ Textile Mills, Tanzania Anti-Malarial Bednets
market focus:
geographic focus:
Attractive Model of the Market
market focus:
Technology , Education
geographic focus:
To be built in Second Life, we want it to be a community project. Besides being a placeholder (think Scary Movie) the word has some interesting meanings, from Vanna White to the Strange Attractor from Complexity Theory; the vortex where energy gathers and turbulent flows settle down into smoother rhythms.
Aureos Capital
Investor
market focus:
Base of the Pyramid (BOP)
geographic focus:
Since Aureos’ foundation in 2001, we have worked hard to establish ourselves as a world-class private equity fund manager, providing attractive returns to investors in the emerging markets.

With over 180 transactions completed to date in Africa, Asia and Latin America, Aureos has established a track record of which it can be very proud, and it is now the world’s leading provider of risk capital for low to mid-cap businesses in the emerging markets.

Aureos is uniquely positioned to take advantage of the current strong growth and structural reforms in many emerging markets, with its global footprint, local investment professionals and extensive networks on the ground. Our investment thesis, building resilient mid-market companies through strong growth and profitability, continues to find resonance with existing investors, and is appealing to an ever-broader range of institutional and private investors keen to address the challenges and reap the rewards of private-sector development in the emerging markets.
http://www.aureos.com/
Austcare
Nonprofit
market focus:
Community Development
geographic focus: Australia
Austcare is a wholly Australian-based, independent, specialist humanitarian aid and development organisation that is non-profit, non-sectarian and non-political.

Austcare has made measurable and sustainable improvements to the lives of people who have been affected by disaster, conflict or poverty in more than 30 countries, over the last 40 years.

Austcare supports basic human security and empowers local communities to escape poverty. Austcare specialises in emergency response and preparedness; mine action; the protection of the rights of refugees and internally displaced people; sustainable livelihood recovery; and the prevention of future crises, including peacebuilding.

Austcare partners with local communities and our work is designed to ensure that the results continue long after the projects are completed, ensuring your donations have lasting effects.

Austcare implements sustainable development practices to ensure that the environment and resources are preserved for the next generation. Austcare is fully accredited with the Australian government aid agency AusAID, a member of the International Council of Voluntary Agencies and the Australian Council for International Development (ACFID), and abides by the ACFID Code of Conduct.
Austin Social Venture Partner
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Australian Institute for Social Entrepreneurship
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Avana Microinsurance
market focus:
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Avaz
Intermediary
market focus:
Community Development
geographic focus:
Global public opinion has been called the world's "Second Superpower," but a yawning gap persists between the views and values of the world's peoples and the policies that govern them. Avaaz.org is a new activist community that will be launched in January 2007. As a joint venture with MoveOn.org, Avaaz.org will aim to fill this gap using the proven organizing techniques of online activism. The intention is to bring together millions of people around the world who favor a more progressive globalization -- building a well-organized public constituency around key global issues like poverty, climate change, human rights, global governance and major conflict. The organization is pursuing an ambitious growth path. It will ultimately be staffed with 20 full-time staff located in more than 8 countries, along with many volunteers. It is beginning with 700,000 members spread across 148 countries. It also has an Advisory Board that comprises politicians, diplomats, activists and celebrities from around the world.
http://www.avaaz.org/
Avehi
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Avina Foundation
Foundation
market focus:
Bottom of the Pyramid (BOP) , Community Development
geographic focus: Latin America, Caribbean
AVINA seeks to strengthen the global leadership of its Latin American partners by facilitating new possibilities for alliances between sectors and fostering links with leaders and organizations from other continents and regions, so as to jointly build creative and innovative initiatives that contribute to sustainable development in Latin America. AVINA uses the term "Partner" when referring to the people that we invite to form part of our leadership community. We collaborate with them and provide support for their initiatives that promote social transformation towards Sustainable Development in Latin America. Our partners are agents for social change. Shared characteristics - Vision for transformation - A history of action dedicated to that vision - A cooperative attitude - A creative and entrepreneurial approach - Role as broker of inter-sectoral, local, national, continental and global Alliances - Networking capacity - Ideas with potential for large-scale impact - Ability to Influence others - High ethical standards Our partnerships focus on four strategic areas: Sustainable Economic Development Equity Natural Resource Management and Development Democratic Governance and Rule of Law
http://www.avina.net/
Avon Old Farms School
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AXA Investment Managers
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Ayani
Intermediary
market focus:
Social Capital Market Infrastructure
geographic focus: Africa, Middle East Asia
Ayani, Inclusive Financial Sector Consultants BV is an international finance management and consulting company. Incorporated in the Netherlands, with offices in Africa (South Africa, Zimbabwe), the Middle East (Egypt) and Asia (the Philippines), we offer regional expertise to complement our global experience. Ayani aspires to increase access to finance. We dare to dream of financial sectors that include clientele coming from all income categories. This is a driving force of development and growth. Our business is to provide access to savings, insurance, credit, remittances, etc – in markets where financial services remain exclusive and, therefore, underproductive.

Inclusive access to finance requires local knowledge and experiences. Ayani's approach is based on involvement of local stakeholders in design, management and monitoring of solutions.

We offer technical and strategic support as well as management services in all financial markets from investment funds, bond markets, public finance, regulation, banking, SME lending, microfinance, accounting, information technology, management information systems and business development.

Where we come from

Ayani was incorporated in the Netherlands in 2008. Our team includes specialists and advisors who have a rich array of experience as successful accountants, agricultural economists, bank executives, IT specialists, management consultants, microfinance and small enterprise finance experts, monitoring and evaluation specialists, lawyers and poverty alleviation specialists, as well as project managers.

Our clients include investment funds, private investors, central banks, commercial banks, microfinance institutions, bi-lateral donors, governments, NGOs and multinational companies. As trusted advisor to international financial institutions, banks, donors, governments and multinational companies, we pride ourselves on designing high impact programs, elucidating and resolving bottlenecks in business processes.

http://www.ayani.nl/
Ayrshire Foundation
Foundation
market focus:
Community Development , Media , Clean Technology
geographic focus:
In 1998, James N. Gamble founded the Ayrshire Foundation with his two daughters and their husbands in order to broaden the scope of their established family giving. Since its inception, the foundation has distributed approximately one million dollars per year in gifts ranging in size from several thousand to several hundred thousand. Originally broad in its mission, the foundation has gradually focused its funding in five areas: opportunities for youth; science and the environment; healthcare; services for the elderly and disabled; and community culture.
http://www.ayrshirefoundation.org/
Azudoo Limited
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Azusa Pacific University
Nonprofit
market focus:
geographic focus: World
Christian university of higher education
www.apu.edu
B Corporation
Social Venture
market focus:
Social Enterprise , Education , Social Capital Market Infrastructure
geographic focus:
B Corporations™ are a new type of corporation that are purpose-driven and create benefit for all stakeholders, not just shareholders. B Corporations™ are unlike traditional responsible business because they:

* Meet comprehensive and transparent social and environmental performance standards.

* Institutionalize stakeholder interests.

* Build collective voice though the power of a unifying brand.

http://bcorporation.net/
B Corporations
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B-Lab
Nonprofit
market focus:
Technology , Social Enterprise
geographic focus: http://bcorporation.net
B Lab is the parent company promoting B Corporations, which are a new type of corporation that are purpose-driven and create benefit for all stakeholders, not just shareholders. Jay Coen Gilbert, Bart Houlahan, and Andrew Kassoy (the "Co-Founders") have developed, incubated and funded B Lab to date. They have a shared passion for creating a better world through business and have been friends for over 20 years. Prior to B Lab, Jay and Bart were Co-Founder and President, respectively, of AND 1, a $250 million basketball footwear and apparel business. Andrew has spent his entire career as a private equity investor; most recently as a Partner at MSD Real Estate Capital, a $1 billion real estate fund controlled by MSD Capital, the investment vehicle for the assets of Michael Dell and the Michael and Susan Dell Foundation.

B Corporations are unlike traditional responsible businesses because they: Meet comprehensive and transparent social and environmental performance standards.

Institutionalize stakeholder interests.

Build collective voice though the power of a unifying brand.

http://www.bcorporation.net
Babson College
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geographic focus:
Babyloan
Exchange
market focus:
Microfinance , Technology , Base of the Pyramid (BOP)
geographic focus: international
First french website facilitating online micro-lending to microentrepreneurs in developing countries.

Interactive, fun, educational website on microfinance.

Community of Babyloanians, free to share their ideas on development
http://www.babyloan.org/en/home.html
Bainbridge Graduate Institute
market focus:
Education , Social Enterprise , Community Development
geographic focus: Worldwide, students & faculty come in from all ove
BGI's pioneering MBA and Certificate programs prepare diverse leaders to build enterprises that are economically successful, socially responsible and environmentally sustainable. Our innovative curriculum preserves the rigor of a traditional MBA program, while infusing sustainability—environmental and social responsibility—throughout every course. The MBA program combines distance learning with monthly, intensive, face-to-face classroom sessions. Students build a strong, cooperative learning community with each other, the faculty and staff. Our faculty comprises distinguished business-school professors and business innovators from around U.S. and Canada with a passion for sustainability.
www.bgiedu.org
BALLE
Social Venture
market focus:
Community Development , Social Enterprise
geographic focus:
BALLE is a growing alliance of businesspeople around the US and Canada, who join local BALLE networks dedicated to building local living economies. BALLE comprises 35 such business networks with more than 11,000 business members overall. It is our mission to catalyze, strengthen, and connect these local business networks. BALLE networks respond to the unique needs of their communities and share ideas throughout the alliance of networks. * In Bellingham, business leaders created a “Local First” campaign to encourage citizens to buy from locally owned businesses whenever possible to keep money circulating within the community. * In Vermont, members of the network employ 8 percent of the state’s workforce and lobby for increased support for renewable energy and healthcare. * Through its Social Venture Institute, the Philadelphia network trains new social entrepreneurs in the business skills they need to be successful. In community after community, BALLE networks are proving that a coordinated group of locally owned companies can stand up to some of the harmful effects of globalization and foster the health and vitality of a region.
http://www.livingeconomies.org/
BALLE / Seattle
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Banco Popular
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Banco Popular is a Puerto Rican bank engaged in conventional as well as micro financial services.
www.popular.com
Banco Solidario - Ecuador
Investor
market focus:
Microfinance
geographic focus: International
www.banco-solidario.com
BancoSol
market focus:
Microfinance
geographic focus: Bolivia
BancoSol is dedicated to meeting the financial needs of Bolivia's microentrepreneurs and small business owners. It aims to make a significant social and economic impact in the country's urban centers. BancoSol's roots date back to 1986, when ACCION and Bolivian business leaders established a nonprofit microlending entity called PRODEM. By 1988, PRODEM had grown so large that it was outstripping the capacity of the local banking system to supply it with lending capital. In 1992, PRODEM joined with ACCION International, Calmeadow Foundation, Bolivian banks and other investors to establish BancoSol, the first private commercial bank in the world dedicated exclusively to microenterprise.
www.bancosol.com.bo
Bank de Luxembourg
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Bank DEF
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Bank of America
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Banker/syndicator in market map
Intermediary
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They raise money from investors and donors, place money in enterprises that represent recoverable investments and/or growth philanthropy opportunities. Examples include Seachange Capital, Growth Philanthropy, Non Profit Finance Fund's Capital Partners, and the Edna McConnel Clark Foundations foundation syndicate. These groups also sometimes manage exits for investors. They sometimes coinvest with each other, with funds like Good Capital or RSF, or with foundations.
Barclays
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http://barclays.com/
Bard Prison Initiative
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Barefoot College
Social Venture
market focus:
Technology , Bottom of the Pyramid (BOP) , Community Development
geographic focus:
The Barefoot College began in 1972 with the conviction that solutions to rural problems lie within the community. The College addresses problems of drinking water, girl education, health & sanitation, rural unemployment, income generation, electricity and power, as well as social awareness and the conservation of ecological systems in rural communities. The College benefits the poorest of the poor who have no alternatives. The College encourages practical knowledge and skills rather than paper qualifications through a learning by doing process of education. The College was entirely built by Barefoot Architects. The campus spreads over 80,000 square feet area and consists of residences, a guest house, a library, dining room, meeting halls, an open air theatre, an administrative block, a ten-bed referral base hospital, pathological laboratory, teacher's training unit, water testing laboratory, a Post Office, STD/ISD call booth, a Craft Shop and Development Centre, an Internet dhaba (cafe), a puppet workshop, an audio visual unit, a screen printing press, a dormitory for residential trainees and a 700,000 litre rainwater harvesting tank. The College is also completely solar-electrified. The College serves a population of over 125,000 people both in immediate as well as distant areas.
http://www.barefootcollege.org/
Barefoot Power
market focus:
Bottom of the Pyramid (BOP) , Clean Technology , Technology
geographic focus:
Barefoot Power was established by energy professionals who, faced with a lack of enthusiasm by the traditional energy sector, want to prove that investments in improved energy services for the world’s poor makes good economic, social and environmental sense. Barefoot Power embraces the concept of social entrepreneurship. Social entrepreneurs combine a social vision with the entrepreneurial skills of the private sector. Our vision to improve livelihoods by providing 1 million people with improved energy services by 2011 is based on a financially sustainable business plan. We have secured our first round of investment through share equity and aim to provide good returns to our investors via a low-overhead high-turnover model. To enable us to reach our vision our short term goals, by December 2007, are to: provide 7,500 households with improved lighting systems; through a participatory process, identify how to further develop power supplies in these communities over the next three years and any micro-enterprise that would benefit from improved energy supply; become a trusted company in rural communities; and attract additional investment to step-up our activities for 2008. To make this possible, we are in the process of forming partnerships with businesses and NGOs that have existing on-ground networks in rural areas. Barefoot Power will endeavor to build the technical capacity of these organizations, and by doing so encourage the development of new renewable energy service providers. We link our partners with appropriately engineered and well-priced energy solutions. We also aim to assist these organisations in attracting financial assistance to support their activities and the rural communities that they serve. The market for village power is huge. It is in this market that Barefoot Power is open to sharing project experiences, partnering for specific projects and establishing alliances with other individuals or organisations who are interested in co-operation rather than competition to improve livelihoods in rural communities worldwide.
http://www.barefootpower.com
Bartimaeus Cooperative Ministries
Intermediary
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Bartimaeus Cooperative Ministries (BCM) was founded in 1998 as an ecumenical experiment in discipleship and mutual aid. We offer: a circle where persons called to "dis-established" gospel ministry can find support to discern leadings of the Spirit; an organizational vehicle that promotes gospel practices of mutual aid, reconciliation, Sabbath economics, nonviolence and social justice; an umbrella structure that facilitates capacity-building among people of faith committed to the work of peace and justice organizing, church renewal and wholistic discipleship. ...Ministries. BCM currently has four staff members working in three primary project areas: Theological Animation: Ched Myers, an ecumenical activist, travels widely in an evangelistic ministry of teaching, writing and organizing, in order to help nurture faith-based movements working for peace, justice and radical discipleship. Matthew Colwell is a Presbyterian pastor who works as a program partner with BCM, ministering through individual discipleship, community building, preaching, teaching, and building technological support for non-traditional gospel ministries. Restorative Justice: Elaine Enns, a Mennonite, is a mediator, educator and trainer in conflict transformation and restorative justice, providing services for victims and offenders, churches and organizations. She also works currently as BCM's Administrative Coordinator. Moving Money for Social Change: Peg Rosenkrands, a Presbyterian/Episcopalian, works with small faith based non profit groups on sustainable fundraising strategies, with groups and individuals on strategic investing and giving, and coordinates the Bartimaeus Covenant Investor Community.
http://www.bcm-net.org/
BASES Social E-challenge
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In furthering its vision of creating the next generation of entrepreneurs, BASES presents Stanford\'s fifth annual business plan competition for Social Entrepreneurs - the 2006 Social Entrepreneur\'s Challenge. This competition judges ideas and business plans for social ventures that are either for-profit or non-profit.
http://bases.stanford.edu/site/socialechall/index.jsp
Bay Area Center for Arts and Technology
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Bay Area Council
Social Venture
market focus:
Community Development
geographic focus: San Francisco Bay Area
The Bay Area Council is a business-sponsored, public-policy advocacy organization for the nine-county Bay Area. The Council proactively advocates for a strong economy, a vital business environment, and a better quality of life for everyone who lives here.

Founded in 1945, as a way for the region’s business community and like-minded individuals to concentrate and coordinate their efforts, the Bay Area Council is widely respected by elected officials, policy makers and other civic leaders as the regional voice of business in the Bay Area.

Today, more than 275 of the largest employers in the region support the Bay Area Council and offer their CEO or top executive as a member.

The Bay Area Council focuses on shaping policy public policy in the following arenas:
Business Vitality
Education
Housing
Resources (energy, water and environment)
Transportation
http://www.bayareacouncil.org
Bay Area Equity Fund
Investor
market focus:
Community Development
geographic focus: San Francisco Bay Area
The Bay Area Equity Fund I L.P., managed by JPMorgan, is a $75 million venture capital fund. The Fund seeks to invest in companies that can deliver market-rate venture capital returns while enabling social and environmental improvement in the San Francisco Bay Area's low and moderate income neighborhoods. Investments are made in private, primarily mid-to-late stage growth companies across all industries, with a focus on the strengths of the Bay Area including: technology, healthcare, clean tech and consumer products and services. The Fund can lead or co-invest with other Funds. The Fund's limited partner investors include major banks and insurance companies, foundations, corporations and private individuals.

The Fund assists its portfolio companies in developing a "double bottom line" to achieve strong long-term financial success as well as positive social and environmental improvement in their local communities. We believe that the social and environmental practices that young companies choose to adopt can be significantly beneficial to the fiscal bottom line both via direct benefits of cost savings and value creation, and via indirect benefits of creating goodwill with their market, customers and community, and enhancing employee morale and retention. The Fund helps portfolio companies implement double bottom line programs at a pace and scope that fits each company’s financial objectives and stage of growth. In this way, companies can create a balanced culture of financial success and connection to the community from their early stages.

As the Fund is managed by JPMorgan, it can leverage the considerable resources of JPMorgan to identify investment opportunities and to help its portfolio companies become more successful. We can introduce our companies to our world-class investment professionals, and can help them take advantage of the many financial and advisory services, as well as the networking and promotion opportunities that JPMorgan provides.

The Fund invests in companies that have operations in or near one of the many low and moderate income areas of the ten-county San Francisco Bay Area.
http://www.jpmorgan.com/pages/jpmorgan/investbk/global/na/baef
Bay Area Family of Funds
Investor
market focus:
Affordable Housing , Community Development
geographic focus: San Francisco Bay Area
The Bay Area Family of Funds is a regional effort, developed by the Bay Area Council, to attract private capital into low and moderate-income neighborhoods through “double bottom line” (DBL) investing. The Family of Funds leverages its investments in these communities through projects that promote smart growth, address poverty, support local businesses and clean up contaminated sites with market-based solutions.

It has raised over $175 million for DBL investments through three separate funds: the Bay Area Smart Growth Fund, the Bay Area Equity Fund, and the California Environmental Redevelopment Fund. The Funds’ investors consist of banks, foundations, pension funds, insurance companies, individuals, and other corporations, and are expected to leverage $1 billion of investment in Bay Area low-and-moderate income communities over a ten year period.

These market-based investments will simultaneously address economic prosperity and environmental quality in underserved neighborhoods throughout the region. This smart growth program will engage the Bay Area’s disadvantaged communities to capitalize their underutilized workforce, land, and resources in ways that create wealth for existing low-to-moderate income community residents and contribute to continued regional health and well-being.

The Bay Area Family of Funds serves as an umbrella fund for three distinct but related funds, which share common service areas, goals and oversight. The three funds are: Bay Area Smart Growth Fund, Bay Area Equity Fund, and California Environmental Redevelopment Fund (CERF).
http://www.bayareafamilyoffunds.org/
Bay Area Green Business Program
market focus:
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Bay Area Smart Growth Fund
Investor
market focus:
Affordable Housing , Green Building
geographic focus: San Francisco Bay Area
A $66 million real estate equity DBL fund that focuses on projects designed to make a special impact in community revitalization. These include investments in mixed use and mixed income real estate developments, such as community shopping centers, affordable homeownership opportunities, and commercial and office developments in priority neighborhoods. With 90% of the fund invested and a new fund proposed, this is a list of the Smart Growth Fund I’s accomplishments:

Started investing in 2002 * $61 million invested in 12 deals, exited from 3 deals with gains of $8.8 million (Total projected gross IRR of over 30%) * 111 permanent jobs created, 930 jobs projected, and 1010 jobs preserved for a total of 2,051 permanent jobs – one job for every $29,750 * 809 for-sale homes being built or renovated, with at least 230 units affordable to purchasers at 80% of area median income or lower * 585,554 sq. ft. of new or upgraded retail development and 577,000 sq. ft. of new or upgraded office/light industrial development * 4 of the 5 construction projects utilized green construction measures
http://www.bayareacouncil.org/site/pp.asp?c=dkLRK7MMIqG&b=995705
BBB Wise Giving Alliance
Intermediary
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The BBB Wise Giving Alliance (the Alliance) helps donors make informed giving decisions and advances high standards of conduct among organizations that solicit contributions from the public. The Alliance was formed in 2001 through the merger of the National Charities Information Bureau with the Council of Better Business Bureaus’ Foundation (which housed the Philanthropic Advisory Service.) The merger partners offer over a century of combined experience in charity evaluation. The Alliance produces in-depth evaluative reports on national charities based on comprehensive Standards for Charity Accountability and publishes a quarterly magazine, the Wise Giving Guide. National charities that meet the standards can apply to participate in the Alliance’s National Charity Seal program.

The BBB Wise Giving Alliance produces reports on nationally soliciting charitable organizations. About one-third of the BBBs in the United States report on regionally soliciting charities.

The Alliance does not rank charities but rather seeks to assist donors in making informed judgments about charities soliciting their support.

The volume of public inquiries helps identify which national charities will be the subject of a BBB Wise Giving Alliance report. In addition, a nationally soliciting charity can request to be evaluated at its own initiative by completing the national charity enrollment form.

http://us.bbb.org/WWWRoot/SitePage.aspx?site=113&id=cf401757-e890-4352-8d73-829eb595de21
BC Social Enterprise Fund
Investor
market focus:
Social Enterprise
geographic focus:
The BC Social Enterprise Fund was created by BC Technology Social Venture Partners in 2005 with VanCity and Vancouver Foundation. The fund provides second-stage capital grants to social enterprises – non-profits engaged in revenue-generating activities that support their social mission. Each candidate project is developed by a business planning team that includes at least one Social Venture Partner acting as an advisor. The funders committee assesses and provides feedback on draft plans in order to ensure that the most viable projects reach the funding stage.
http://www.bctsvp.com/site/default.asp?tabID=5
BC Technology Social Venture Partners
Foundation
market focus:
geographic focus: British Columbia
BC Technology Social Venture Partners is the network for senior technology leaders who care about their communities. We leverage our dollar donations, networks, management skills and drive to help entrepreneurial non profits achieve sustainability and scale.
http://www.bctsvp.com
BCG
Intermediary
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The Boston Consulting Group, Inc. (BCG) is a management consultancy firm that offers strategic advisory services. The firm provides branding, corporate development, globalization, operations management, pricing, organizational design, intellectual property, post merger integration, and human resources and knowledge management consulting services. Additionally, it offers reports publishing, invention analysis, benchmark, and outsourcing advisory services. BCG caters to consumer goods, financial services, telecommunications, e-commerce, energy, health care, travel and tourism, industrial goods, and information technology industries. The firm was founded in 1963 and is headquartered in Boston. It is building software that has some overlap with xigibiz
http://investing.businessweek.com/research/stocks/private/snapshot.asp?privcapId=135794
BCG Approach
market focus:
Technology
geographic focus:
The BCG methodology for approaching client's problems; forms a part of the basis of their intellectual property map software.
http://www.bcg.com/careers/interactive_splash.html
BCG Intellectual Property Maps
market focus:
Technology
geographic focus:
BCT Partners LLC
Social Venture
market focus:
Clean Technology , Media , Community Development
geographic focus: National
BCT Partners is a management, technology and policy consulting services firm that works with government agencies, corporations, nonprofit organizations, educational institutions and foundations to improve organizational effectiveness and support strategies for change. We combine industry and sector-specific knowledge with a unique ability to translate customer needs into innovative and transformative solutions.
http://www.bctpartners.com/
Beam Foundation
Foundation
market focus:
Community Development
geographic focus:
Throughout the history of Pegasus Logistics Group, which is a worldwide logistics and transportation company, it's employees have always followed the example set by their leader, Ken Beam, to be passionate about any task they set out to accomplish, including charity. In 2004, Ken's passion infected some of the employees' spouses' with the idea to take the fundraising efforts to a new level. Sharmaine Snyder, wife of Brent Snyder, COO of Pegasus, brainstormed an auction which was embraced by family, friends, and vendors of Pegasus. In an unbelievable four weeks, an auction took place which blew the Pegasus fundraising goal out of the water. That auction alone raised $17,000.00! Combined with what Pegasus employees raised, we were able to donate $35,000 to the American Lung Association. More importantly, this event gave realization to many about what a powerful impact a group of people can make when they work together. Ken and Darla's dream was born in 2005, as The Beam Foundation hosted its first annual golf tournament and Auction at The Tribute which raised an almost unheard of first year fundraising amount of $70,000! The Beam Foundation is a group effort of employees, spouses, families and friends of Pegasus Logistics Group. Ken inspires people to want to make a difference not only in their own lives, but also in the lives of others. The purpose of The Beam Foundation is to make an impact on the lives of families less fortunate, specifically the children in our communities.
http://www.thebeamfoundation.org/
Bear Tooth Capital
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Beartooth acquires, restores, protects, and develops ecologically-important ranchland in a manner that generates competitive returns while conserving western landscapes, abundant wildlife populations and the West’s vibrant ranching heritage. We consider ourselves value investors in the traditional sense, scouring the market for opportunities to acquire ranchland at attractive valuations or to partner with like-minded ranchers. Fundamentally, we create value by converting agricultural land into recreational ranch property via entitlement, habitat restoration and protection, and ecologically-appropriate limited development. In addition, Beartooth assesses the full array of non-development values embedded in each property, including agricultural, natural resource, conservation and ecosystem service values. Wherever possible, Beartooth enhances and captures these values through conservation easement sales or tax-deductible donations and by developing conservation enterprises such as ecologically-sound agriculture and timber operations, mitigation banks, and more. Beartooth’s business model deliberately focuses on the integrated goal of conserving important land and generating competitive financial returns. We work in partnership with conservation organizations to find, restore, protect and plan limited development on our properties. This partnership provides Beartooth with deal flow, restoration assistance, easement partners and conservation science, while enabling conservation organizations to accomplish more than they otherwise could. We believe our conservation mission is a near and long term competitive advantage. Far from sacrificing financial returns to accomplish conservation goals, integrating conservation at the core of our business, allows us to reduce investment risk while generating competitive returns.
http://www.beartoothcap.com
Bee Conservation Project
Social Venture
market focus:
geographic focus: Nigeria
Bee Conservation Project promotes modern beekeeping technology in Nigeria. This approach replaces the prevailing practice in Nigeria of bee hunting, which involves burning the location of the hive. BCP's approach conserves honeybees and the environment, increasing farm yields due to pollination, and farmer income through bee products. BCP also promotes apitherapy, the proven practice of using bee stings and other bee products (honey, royal jelly, etc.) to treat health conditions, in regions where there are no other formal providers of healthcare. BCP addresses Millennium Development Goal #1: alleviate extreme poverty and hunger. According to the UNDP Human Development Report, two-thirds of the 130 million Nigerian population, mostly rural dwellers, is acutely poor; 70% do not have a sustainable livelihood. BCP?s current plan will directly impact about 5,000 of these people and their families over 5 years, or about .03% of the 70%. Another several thousand will be indirectly impacted. Improving farm yields nationwide will also have major systemic leverage.
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Beeline Studios
market focus:
geographic focus:
Bees Alive
market focus:
geographic focus:
Behavioral Economics Consulting Group
market focus:
Social Enterprise , Community Development , Technology
geographic focus: International
http://www.behavioraleconomics.net
Bellagio Rockefeller Convening
market focus:
Technology , Community Development
geographic focus:
Belu Spring Water
market focus:
geographic focus:
Ben Franklin Technology Partners
Intermediary
market focus:
Technology , Community Development
geographic focus:
Ben Franklin Technology Partners is a statewide network that fosters innovation to stimulate Pennsylvania's economic growth and prosperity. Operating regionally with four centers strategically located throughout the Commonwealth, Ben Franklin Technology Partners brings together the best of Pennsylvania's people, ideas, and technology to serve as a catalyst for advancing the state's knowledge-based economy.
http://www.benfranklin.org/
Benchmark Asset Managers, LLC
Investor
market focus:
Community Development , Social Enterprise , Education
geographic focus: Global investments and clients
Registered Investment Advisors with expertise in blending high impact socially responsible investing with low impact core social indices and risk management. Overseeing the whole spectrum of global money management from public markets to private investments and philanthropy with the aim of integrating meaning, mission and profit in the broadest sense. Sam Folin, a founder of the Interfaith Council on Corporate Responsibility has managed billions of dollars in his 35 year career in the financial industry. Ben Bingham, a social entrepreneur has honed stock picking skills at Smith Barney/LeggMason, where he successfully developed a fresh approach to finding undervalued companies globally that have outperformed the market while solving essential problems.
www.benchmarkam.com
Benchmark Capital
Investor
market focus:
Technology
geographic focus:
Founded in 1995, Benchmark Capital manages more than $3 billion in committed venture capital. They focus on investing in entrepreneurs with original ideas, and their portfolio includes franchise companies such as Alphyra, Betfair, eBay, Juniper Networks, Sulake and Setanta Sports Group. Since setting up in Europe in May 2000, Benchmark has made more than 40 investments across a variety of market sectors.
http://www.benchmark.com/
Benefic Group
Intermediary
market focus:
geographic focus: international
Benefic Group provides innovative tax planning, legal advice and comprehensive solutions to meet the funding and operational challenges of the benevolent sector. By enabling benefactors, enhancing benevolence and empowering beneficiaries, Benefic Group seeks to be 'benefic' by doing and producing good.

Benefic Group is creating a new model of service delivery for charities and other Benevolent Organizations. Integrating legal and tax advice with administrative, fundraising and "other" services, Benefic seeks to address both the extraordinary and the mundane problems of Benevolent Organizations. Benefic creates imaginative and daring solutions, without losing sight of functional and compliance constraints. Working from a theoretical and philosophical understanding of the law and the sector, Benefic delivers integrated services from a single base that includes our internal expertise and that of allied professionals who share our passion for philanthropy.
http://beneficgroup.com/
Benetech
Social Venture
market focus:
Social Enterprise , Education , Health
geographic focus: International
Big Ideas, Huge Impact
Together with partners and supporters worldwide, we use technology innovation and business expertise to solve unmet social needs. Leveraging the intellectual capital and resources of Silicon Valley, we create solutions that are truly life-changing. Our global endeavors have been instrumental in improving literacy, human rights and landmine detection. With expanded support, we can accomplish much more.

Opening Doors Everywhere
Our programs are impacting the lives of thousands of individuals and families, every single day.

* Bookshare.org. For people with vision and reading/print disabilities, we have formed the world's largest accessible digital library of scanned books, journals and magazines.
* Route 66 Literacy. To improve literacy, we founded a web-based program that enables anyone who is literate to help teenagers and adults learn to read and write.
* Human Rights. We provide science and information technology to human rights advocates, strengthening their pursuit of justice and reconciliation.
* Landmine Detection. We are adapting advanced military de-mining tools to safely rid the world of this deadly hazard.
* e-Adaptive Management Software (e-AM). A joint venture between the Conservation Measures Partnership (CMP) and Benetech, the e-AM is designed to bring quality project management tools to the global conservation community.

Return on Humanity
Our business model is similar to that of a technology startup. We have a senior management team with depth of expertise in technology, intellectual property law, licensing venture fund management and public service. Needs and opportunities where technology could have a tremendous impact are identified and explored. Then we follow our careful, proven process for determining the viability of new ideas. We are pragmatic idealists, willing to take measured risks for big social payoffs.

We join forces with strategic partners and philanthropic investors who share our zeal to better the world. Together, we build practical solutions that meet critical needs in the non-profit sector. Our return on investment is not measured in dollars, but in the number of lives we affect. This return on humanity will pay off for generations to come.

http://www.benetech.org
Benetech Human Rights Program
Nonprofit
market focus:
geographic focus: International
Benetechs Human Rights program takes tens of thousands of stories most of them anecdotal evidence of individual and community suffering and systematically turns them into analysis that strengthens the arguments made by human rights defenders.

Such formal collection and collation of data and large-scale analysis can prove that many cases of mass violence are not isolated incidents, but rather planned and systematically executed policy. Such findings can build strong, defensible claims about what has been endured by victims and societies. The result: perpetrators can be brought to justice, which then helps prevent the recurrence of atrocities.

No other organization dedicates itself to applying technology and scientific methods exclusively to human rights. The rigorous data processing and analysis we apply withstands adversarial critiques, helping to transform the debate about human rights from politics to science.

http://www.hrdag.org
Benton Foundation
Foundation
market focus:
Media , Technology
geographic focus:
The mission of the Benton Foundation is to articulate a public interest vision for the digital age and to demonstrate the value of communications for solving social problems. Current priorities include: promoting a vision and policy alternatives for the digital age in which the benefit to the public is paramount; raising awareness among funders and nonprofits on their stake in critical policy issues; enabling communities and nonprofits to produce diverse and locally responsive media content. The Benton Foundation does not accept unsolicited grant applications or offer general grants. We are a private foundation, an institutional hybrid, bridging the worlds of philanthropy, public policy and community action. We assume diverse, crosscutting roles as nonpartisan knowledge broker, convener, public interest advocate and policy analyst. The Foundation has an endowment of approximately $10 million, the annual income from which is devoted to our own operating projects. Because of Benton's pioneering work, a number of foundations and corporations have provided additional funding.
http://www.benton.org/
Berea College, Entrepreneurship for the Public Good
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Berkman Center
market focus:
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Berkshares
Exchange
market focus:
Social Capital Market Infrastructure
geographic focus:
BerkShares are a local currency for the Berkshire region. Dubbed a "great economic experiment" by the New York Times, BerkShares are a tool for community empowerment, enabling merchants and consumers to plant the seeds for an alternative economic future for their communities. Launched in the fall of 2006, BerkShares had a robust initiation, with over one million BerkShares having been circulated in the first nine months and over two million to date. Currently, more than three hundred and sixty businesses have signed up to accept the currency. Five different banks have partnered with BerkShares, with a total of thirteen branch offices now serving as exchange stations. For BerkShares, this is only the beginning. Future plans could involve BerkShare checking accounts, electronic transfer of funds, ATM machines, and even a loan program to facilitate the creation of new, local businesses manufacturing more of the goods that are used locally.
http://www.berkshares.org
Bespoke Experience Ltd
Social Venture
market focus:
Social Enterprise
geographic focus:
Our objective is to create high-end tourism lodges to enable communities to work their way out extreme poverty. Each lodge is run to maximise benefits to the host region as well giving a growing percentage of revenues to our newly established charity. Guludo Beach Lodge in Mozambique is the first of these lodges to open and the second, Mipande Bush Lodge is scheduled to open soon.
http://bespokeexperience.com/
Bessemer Venture Partners
Investor
market focus:
Technology
geographic focus:
The oldest venture capital practice in the United States, Bessemer manages more than a billion dollars of venture funds. And they're good at what they do - over 100 Bessemer companies have gone public, including Staples, Gartner Group, American Superconductor, Verisign, Ciena, Ingersoll Rand, International Paper, Maxim, Parametric, Perseptive Biosystems, and W.R. Grace.
http://www.bvp.com/
Bet2Give
Intermediary
market focus:
Technology
geographic focus:
bet**2**give* is a real-money prediction market where you grow your account with investments in smart predictions about the future, then give your winnings away to non-profit organizations of your choice. Topics cover sports, finance, politics, the war on terror, Iraq, and various current events in between.

Because participants cannot profit financially or materially from their successful bets – all the money won or lost eventually goes to non-profit organizations – *bet2give* is obviously not a "gambling" venue. According to the founders, the *bet2give* value proposition is something else altogether:

"Since you're betting directly against other people, you are effectively competing to divert *their* funds to *your* favorite causes -- and they're trying, of course, to do the same thing unto you," explains Maurice Balick, who co-founded of NewsFutures with childhood friend Emile Servan-Schreiber: "On *bet2give*, those who are best at predicting the future also get to decide how to improve the future, one donation at a time."

"By combining the thrill of betting and the reward of giving, *bet2give*delivers a unique and powerful emotional experience", continues Servan-Schreiber. "Rather than competing with existing channels of online giving, we are betting that *bet2give* will contribute to enlarge the online fundraising plate for all sorts of worthy causes that people believe in, all the while providing great entertainment and valuable collective predictions backed up by real money."
https://bet2give.com/
Better World Books
Social Venture
market focus:
Education , Social Enterprise
geographic focus: Worldwide
Better World Books utilizes the value of the used book to fund literacy locally, nationally and around the world. Founded in 2002, Better World Books pioneered a self-sustaining social venture model where books were donated to a literacy cause and then marketed for sale online. These "online sidewalk sales" have raised over $1 Million dollars for literacy so far. Better World Books is now one of the top used booksellers in the world, having over 100,000 positive feedback ratings on both Amazon.com and eBay. Better World Books hosts its own website, BetterWorld.com, where customers can buy directly from the company and clearly see which organizations they are supporting. Better World Books won the 2003 McCloskey Social Venture Competition.
www.betterworldbooks.com
Better World Consulting Network
Intermediary
market focus:
Social Enterprise
geographic focus:
The Better World Consulting Network is committed to helping progressive foundations and other NGO’s apply entrepreneurial approaches to addressing our most pressing global issues.

Our partner group consists of strong and experienced practitioners in the area of strategic thinking, leadership capability development, whole system change and network development. We are a special purpose, for-cause, organization – coming together to help identify and address some of the most significant leverage points of the most critical issues of our times.

Our immediate priority is to understand the specific issues and challenges facing a select group of major players in the social entrepreneurial space.
BetterWorld Telecom
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Beyond Profit L3C
market focus:
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Beyond the Bottom Line
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Big Ideas @ Berkeley
Intermediary
market focus:
Technology , Social Enterprise
geographic focus:
Big Ideas @ Berkeley marketplace lets alumni, corporate and foundation partners, friends, and family support Berkeley undergraduate and graduate students who are passionate about tackling major global, regional, and local challenges such as clean energy, the environment, public health, safe drinking water, public policy, and technology-based entrepreneurship. Supporters can sponsor a “Big Idea” in the following ways: Make financial or in-kind contributions to specific projects Sponsor a future "Bears Breaking Boundaries" contest Help raise funds (using ChipIn) from their friends and colleagues Provide students with advice and connections to potential partners.
http://bigideas.berkeley.edu/
Big Issue Invest
Social Venture
market focus:
Social Enterprise
geographic focus:
Big Issue Invest is a specialised provider of finance to social enterprises. Part of The Big Issue group of companies, it is led by social entrepreneurs and staffed by social financiers. Big Issue Invest is a social enterprise, with an asset lock and any dividends paid to The Big Issue.

Social Entrepreneurs say that they like dealing with a unique financial organisation that has had first hand experience of building and running social businesses.

Big Issue Invest's Board makes up a unique combination of social entrepreneurs, practitioners and financiers. Our Board and partners bring together a wealth of experience, innovation and success.

Big Issue Invest can creatively analyse social enterprises, and is prepared to think beyond the traditional measures of company accounts and asset valuations, to design financial solutions suitable to the enterprise.

Financial structures include asset and cash flow backed senior debt, as well as cocktail financing that may include royalties, loan conversion and guarantees. Each loan is tailored to each enterprise's stage of development and risk profile, as well as being focussed on scale-up.

The average size of Big Issue Invest's loans is around £200,000. The minimum loan size is £50,000. Big Issue Invest has also put packages together with other social finance institutions for over £500,000.

Our team develops close relationships with our partners and can provide support during the investment appraisal process that reflects both financial and social objectives.
http://www.biginvest.co.uk/
BikeAthens
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BikeBox
Social Venture
market focus:
Social Enterprise
geographic focus: International
A growing and innovative manufacturer located in Vancouver, British Columbia, BikeBox began as the simple \"stuff transportation\" solution for cyclists. Built around the philosophy that \"small is beautiful\", and a commitment to \"doing more with less\" Andy Hunter started the company with the desire to make off-the-shelf trailers that don\'t cost an arm and a leg.
http://www.bikebox.ca
Bikes To Rwanda
Nonprofit
market focus:
Base of the Pyramid (BOP)
geographic focus: Rwanda
Bikes To Rwanda’s aim is to provide cargo bicycles to co-operative coffee farmers in Rwanda. The goal is to improve quality of life in these communities through a bike workshop and maintenance program that provides transportation resources for basic needs and enhances production of quality coffee.
http://www.bikestorwanda.com/
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
Foundation
market focus:
Community Development
geographic focus: global
Bill and Melinda Gates believe every life has equal value. In 2000, they created the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to help reduce inequities in the United States and around the world. Headquartered in Seattle, Washington, the foundation is led by co-chairs Bill Gates, Melinda Gates, and William H. Gates Sr., and by CEO Patty Stonesifer. Warren Buffett will join as the third director n 2006.
www.gatesfoundation.org
Bill Writer
Foundation
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Biodiversity International
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Bioversity International is the world's leading organization dedicated to researching agricultural biodiversity to improve people's lives.

Our research, carried out with partners around the world, seeks sustainable solutions to meet three important challenges:

* Malnutrition and hidden hunger of missing micronutrients

* Sustainability and resilience in food supplies and farming systems

* Conservation and use, ensuring that agricultural biodiversity remains accessible to all.

We also provide policy information and analysis to improve the legal framework -- global, regional and national -- needed to ensure that agricultural biodiversity can be put to work to deliver sustainable solutions for economic development.

Funding for Bioversity comes from statutory donors and foundations, who support us directly and through their contributions to the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research. Bioversity is also supported by a registered charity in the United Kingdom, and in the United States by a Foundation that has 501(c)(3) status.

Bioversity's headquarters are in Maccarese, Italy, just outside Rome, where we work closely with UN Agencies such as FAO, IFAD and WFP. However, the vast majority of our staff work from 20 offices that cover the regions of the world. In addition, we are pleased to host some system-wide activities on behalf of the CGIAR.
http://www.bioversityinternational.org
Biofuels Center of North Carolina
Government-related
market focus:
Clean Technology
geographic focus: North Carolina
The long-term task of the Biofuels Center of North Carolina is to develop a statewide biofuels industry to reduce the state's dependence on imported liquid fuels. The goal of North Carolina’s Strategic Plan for Biofuels Leadership is that by 2017, 10% of liquid fuels sold in North Carolina will come from biofuels locally grown and produced. In 2007, the North Carolina General Assembly had the foresight and vision to create the Biofuels Center to implement this plan so that the state's farmers, biofuels manufacturers, biofuels workers and consumers will benefit from this new multimillion dollar home-grown industry.
http://biofuelscenter.org/
Bioinformatics
market focus:
Clean Technology , Technology
geographic focus:
Bioinformatics Publications
market focus:
Technology
geographic focus:
Scholarly and other writing about bioinformatics Bioinformatics and computational biology involve the use of techniques including applied mathematics, informatics, statistics, computer science, artificial intelligence, chemistry, and biochemistry to solve biological problems usually on the molecular level. Research in computational biology often overlaps with systems biology. Major research efforts in the field include sequence alignment, gene finding, genome assembly, protein structure alignment, protein structure prediction, prediction of gene expression and protein-protein interactions, and the modeling of evolution.
Bioneers
Intermediary
market focus:
Clean Technology
geographic focus:
Founded in 1990, Bioneers is a nonprofit organization that promotes practical environmental solutions and innovative social strategies for restoring the Earth and communities. "It's All Alive, It's All Intelligent, It's All Connected." Bioneers offers pragmatic solutions that honor the living web of the natural world as the most fertile source of inspiration and models. It's all alive. One of the beauties of biology is that its facts can become our metaphors, and these underlying codes serve as inspiring parables for how we can organize a more just, humane and authentically sustainable society. It's all intelligent. Interdependence also teaches us that there are no single issues because it's one whole that can be addressed only by bringing together all the parts. Bioneers gathers people at the crossroads of ecological restoration, human health and social justice. It's all connected. The bioneers span all fields, cultures, ages and walks of life. The work ranges from science to spirit - local to global - academia to the grass roots - farm to city - business to public service - art to engineering. We celebrate the gift of life in all its diversity and mystery, conjuring a change of heart to renew our empathic connection with the web of life and the Earth, our home. It's all relatives.
http://www.bioneers.org/about/mission
BioReaction Industries
Social Venture
market focus:
Clean Technology
geographic focus:
BioReaction Industries (BRI) was established in November, 1993, in Tualatin, Oregon. The company was founded to research, develop, manufacture and market products that biologically digest volatile organic compounds (VOC's) created by a variety of generators utilizing patented biotechnologies.

During the first years, BRI focused on educating local, state, and federal regulators about its innovative technology. Additionally, several biofiltration systems were installed at beta test sites to debug the product and ensure there were no long term product reliability issues.

BioReaction's extensive research and product testing in actual industrial settings has provided the data necessary to support correlations in varying system/process parameters and to streamline sizing and removal efficiency requirements.

The past three years, BRI products have been placed in a variety of new markets, spanning the industrial VOC arena, and expanding to add odor control product solutions. These installations have validated the ability of bio-oxidation to provide a reliable, sustainable pollution control alternative.

http://www.bioreaction.com/
Bizworld
Nonprofit
market focus:
geographic focus:
BizWorld's mission is to challenge and engage children across the cultural and economic spectrum through experiential learning programs that teach the basics of business, entrepreneurship, and money management and promote teamwork and leadership in the classroom. Our Story In 1993, our founder, venture capitalist Tim Draper, was asked by his eight-year-old daughter to describe what he did at work every day. Excited by the opportunity to explain entrepreneurship and business to a third grader, he used his daughter’s enthusiasm for making friendship bracelets to create a simulation activity in which students learn to start and run their own business. From initial funding to marketing campaigns and financial statements, the program allowed students to not only understand how business works, but enabled them to experience it first-hand. The need and demand for BizWorld’s hands-on, cross-curricular, project-based approach to learning quickly became apparent. In 1997, the BizWorld Foundation was established to make BizWorld programs available to all educators and effectively involve the community in the education of youth. Our Reach The BizWorld programs have reached students in all 50 states and 84 countries. BizWorld established its first international franchise in the Netherlands in 2001. Since then the BizWorld Foundation has grown to include affiliates in Singapore, India and South Korea.
http://www.bizworld.org
Black Gold
Social Venture
market focus:
Fair trade , Media
geographic focus:
Multinational coffee companies rule shopping malls and supermarkets and dominate the $80-billion-plus coffee industry. But while Americans continue to pay for luxury lattes and cappuccinos, the prices paid to coffee farmers remain so low that many have been forced to abandon their fields. The documentary BLACK GOLD tells the complex story behind an attempt to make globalization work for the producers of the second most traded commodity in the world, after oil.

Nowhere is the disparity of the coffee industry more evident than in Ethiopia, the birthplace of coffee. Tadesse Meskela manages the Oromia Coffee Farmers Co-operative Union, representing over 74,000 coffee farmers. The union buys coffee from 101 individual co-operatives spread across southern Ethiopia. BLACK GOLD follows Meskela on his mission to save struggling coffee farmers from bankruptcy. As his union’s farmers strive to harvest some of the highest quality coffee beans on the international market, Meskela travels the world to find buyers willing to pay a fair price—a better price than the one set by the international commodities exchange.

The consumers can bring a change if awareness is given to consumers to ask for more fair trade products. —Tadesse Meskela

Against the backdrop of Meskela's journey to London and Seattle, the film reveals the enormous power of the multinational players that dominate the world's coffee trade. Since the International Coffee Agreement—which regulated the supply of coffee on the world market—collapsed in 1989, the price paid to coffee farmers has fallen to a 30-year low. But in the same time period, retail sales from coffee have increased from $30 billion to $80 billion a year. Today, four multinational corporations dominate the global coffee market: Kraft, Nestle, Proctor & Gamble and Sara Lee.

BLACK GOLD exposes how New York City commodity traders, the international coffee exchanges and the double dealings of trade ministers at the World Trade Organization all challenge Meskela in his quest for a long-term solution to pay coffee farmers a living wage
http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/blackgold/
Black Swan
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The thesis of the book that says our risk model is wrong: Before the discovery of Australia, Europeans thought that all swans were white, and it would have been considered completely unreasonable to imagine swans of any other color. The first sighting of a black swan in Australia, where black swans are, in fact, rather common, shattered that notion. The moral of this story is that there are exceptions out there, hidden away from our eyes and imagination, waiting to be discovered by complete accident. What I call a "Black Swan" is an exceptional unpredictable event that, unlike the bird, carries a huge impact.

It's impossible for the editors of Forbes.com to predict who will change the world, because major changes are Black Swans, the result of accidents and luck. But we do know who society's winners will be: those who are prepared to face Black Swans, to be exposed to them, to recognize them when they show up and to rigorously exploit them.

Things, it turns out, are all too often discovered by accident--but we don't see that when we look at history in our rear-view mirrors. The technologies that run the world today (like the Internet, the computer and the laser) are not used in the way intended by those who invented them. Even academics are starting to realize that a considerable component of medical discovery comes from the fringes, where people find what they are not exactly looking for. It is not just that hypertension drugs led to Viagra or that angiogenesis drugs led to the treatment of macular degeneration, but that even discoveries we claim come from research are themselves highly accidental. They are the result of undirected tinkering narrated after the fact, when it is dressed up as controlled research. The high rate of failure in scientific research should be sufficient to convince us of the lack of effectiveness in its design.

If the success rate of directed research is very low, though, it is true that the more we search, the more likely we are to find things "by accident," outside the original plan. Only a disproportionately minute number of discoveries traditionally came from directed academic research. What academia seems more masterful at is public relations and fundraising.

This is good news--for some. Ignore what you were told by your college economics professor and consider the following puzzle. Whenever you hear a snotty European presenting his stereotypes about Americans, he will often describe them as "unintellectual," "uneducated," and "poor in math," because, unlike European schooling, American education is not based on equation drills and memorization.

Yet the person making these statements will likely be addicted to his iPod, wearing a T-shirt and blue jeans, and using Microsoft Word to jot down his "cultural" statements on his Intel-based PC, with some Google searches on the Internet here and there interrupting his composition. If old enough, he might also be using Viagra.

America's primary export, it appears, is trial-and-error, and the innovative knowledge attained in such a way. Trial-and-error has error in it; and most top-down traditional rational and academic environments do not like the fallibility of "error" and the embarrassment of not quite knowing where they're going. The U.S. fosters entrepreneurs and creators, not exam-takers, bureaucrats or, worse, deluded economists. So the perceived weakness of the American pupil in conventional studies is where his or her very strength may lie. The American system of trial and error produces doers: Black Swan-hunting, dream-chasing entrepreneurs, with a tolerance for a certain class of risk-taking and for making plenty of small errors on the road to success or knowledge. This environment also attracts aggressive tinkering foreigners like this author.

Globalization allowed the U.S. to specialize in the creative aspect of things, the risk-taking production of concepts and ideas--that is, the scalable part of production, in which more income can be generated from the same fixed assets through innovation. By exporting jobs, the U.S. has outsourced the less scalable and more linear components of production, assigning them to the citizens of more mathematical and culturally rigid states, who are happy to be paid by the hour to work on other people's ideas.

Let us go one step further. It is high time to recognize that we humans are far better at doing than understanding, and better at tinkering than inventing. But we don't know it. We truly live under the illusion of order believing that planning and forecasting are possible. We are scared of the random, yet we live from its fruits. We are so scared of the random that we create disciplines that try to make sense of the past--but we ultimately fail to understand it, just as we fail to see the future.

The current discourse in economics, for example, is antiquated. American undirected free-enterprise works because it aggressively allows us to capture the randomness of the environment--the cheap Black Swans. This works not just because of competition, and even less because of material incentives. Neither the followers of Adam Smith nor those of Karl Marx seem to be conscious of the prevalence and effect of wild randomness. They are too bathed in enlightenment-style cause-and-effect and cannot accept that skills and payoffs may have nothing to do with one another. Nor can they swallow the argument that it is not necessarily the better technology that wins, but rather, the luckiest one. And, sadly, even those who accept this fundamental uncertainty often fail to see that it is a good thing.

Random tinkering is the path to success. And fortunately, we are increasingly learning to practice it without knowing it--thanks to overconfident entrepreneurs, naive investors, greedy investment bankers, confused scientists and aggressive venture capitalists brought together by the free-market system.

We need more tinkering: Uninhibited, aggressive, proud tinkering. We need to make our own luck. We can be scared and worried about the future, or we can look at it as a collection of happy surprises that lie outside the path of our imagination.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb is an applied statistician and derivatives trader-turned-philosopher, and author of The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable.
http://www.amazon.com/Black-Swan-Impact-Highly-Improbable/dp/1400063515/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/104-9145872-
Blended Value
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geographic focus:
Value is what gets created when investors invest and organizations act to pursue their mission. Traditionally, we have thought of value as being either economic (and created by for-profit companies) or social (and created by nonprofit or non-governmental organizations). What the Blended Value Proposition states is that all organizations, whether for-profit or not, create value that consists of economic, social and environmental value components—and that investors (whether market-rate, charitable or some mix of the two) simultaneously generate all three forms of value through providing capital to organizations. The outcome of all this activity is value creation and that value is itself non-divisible and, therefore, a blend of these three elements.
http://www.blendedvalue.org/
Blethen Maine Newspapers
market focus:
Media
geographic focus:
Revenue: $41.8 Million Employees: 720 http://www.zoominfo.com/Search/PersonDetail.aspx?PersonID=44431400 Blethen Maine Newspapers owns a handful of newspapers in the Pine Tree State, also known as Maine. The company's papers include the Portland Press Herald, the Kennebec Journal, and the Morning Sentinel. Its MaineToday.com Web site is a news and information portal for the state of Maine. Blethen Maine Newspapers is a unit of the Seattle Times Company. http://hoovers.com/blethen-maine-newspapers/--ID__117344--/free-co-factsheet.xhtml
http://pressherald.mainetoday.com
Blip TV
market focus:
geographic focus:
We've got a great service for great shows. We believe that the world is fundamentally changing as it becomes easier and easier for individuals and small groups of people to create their own shows. Our mission is to make this even easier by taking care of all the problems a budding videoblogger, podcaster or TV producer would run into. We'll take care of the servers, the software, the workflow, the advertising and the distribution. Your focus should be on creativity. Here's what we do: Free Hosting. You shouldn't have to be afraid of success. At blip.tv we've got all the servers and bandwidth you could possibly need. And we're giving it to you for free because you're going to need it. Advertising. You deserve to make money from your hard work. That's why blip.tv has built an open advertising marketplace where you can pick the video advertising company that works best for you. If you've got a hit show we'll even go out and meet with media buyers directly to get you a real, honest-to-goodness high-end sponsorship. We share everything 50/50. Multiple Formats. You shouldn't have to choose between great quality Flash video and compatibility with iTunes. Your videos should work everywhere, no question. That's why blip.tv supports every video format under the sun, from Flash 8 (much higher quality than most Flash video) to Quicktime (for the all-important iTunes) to DivX and 3gp (cell phones are cool, too). Great Promotion. We'll make your show available on blip.tv, and maybe even promote it on our homepage. Then we give you the tools you need to send it to your own blog, to MySpace, to del.icio.us, Yahoo! Video and iTunes. If you've got a great show we'll even use our muscle to get it promoted in the Quicktime Player and lots of other places. We've got an in to TV. We're sending our top shows directly to the television set with Internet video on demand. And that's just the start. We believe that your show should be indistinguishable from a show on a broadcast network in terms of how people find and watch it. We're working hard to make this happen. Fanatical Support. Show creators matter. As consumers of media, we've seen what happens when business interests tread on creativity and passion. We've taken those lessons to heart and strive to foster an environment where creativity flourishes unabated.
http://blip.tv/
Blockwork
market focus:
Technology
geographic focus:
We help people without a lot of time or technology experience understand the potential of social media to engage communities, support collaboration and spread the message.

Focusing on a new set of user-friendly, online tools, blockwork takes a hands-on approach to developing affordable strategies to support and improve:

* business & creative processes

* project design & management

* audience engagement & participation

* communications & marketing

blockwork is Erika Block's project development and consulting venture. With 16 years of experience engaging communities in collaborative storytelling and public dialogue on three continents, working as a director, producer, facilitator, fundraiser and marketer, Erika brings a real-world perspective to social media training, planning and project implementation.
http://www.blockwork.org/
Blue Fund
Investor
market focus:
geographic focus:
The Blue Fund invests in companies that both “act blue” and “give blue.” We build our portfolios on core Democratic values like environmental sustainability, community participation and respect for human rights. And then we go a step further, investing only in those companies whose political contributions demonstrate a sincere commitment to these values. What We Believe We believe that politics matter, and that progressive investors deserve a chance to put their dollars to work in a way that reflects their political values. We believe that ethical investing can be achieved without sacrificing competitive returns We believe living your values means never having to compromise what you stand for
http://www.bluefund.com
Blue Garnet Associates
market focus:
geographic focus:
http://www.bluegarnet.net/
Blue Haven Capital
Intermediary
market focus:
geographic focus: US
Blue Haven Capital provides socially responsible investment (SRI) management for individuals, family offices, endowments and foundations. Blue Haven Capital is one of only a handful of independent money managers focusing solely on SRI, and perhaps the only one offering Mission Related Investment (MRI) management in both the fixed income and equity area. MRI is a powerful and proven way for foundations to expand their impact in areas which match their philanthropic pursuit. We would welcome the opportunity to partner with like minded groups as we "help improve the world one investment at a time"
www.bluehavencapital.com
Blue Investment Management
Intermediary
market focus:
geographic focus:
At The Blue Fund, we know that investing money in companies that truly share our values is serious business. That's why we have conducted extensive research — and why we want to share the results with you. We look at Republican dominance of Wall Street — how it started, how bad it really is, and how we plan to end it. Our research shows that 380 of the 500 companies listed in the S&P 500 give predominantly to Republican candidates and organizations. And it shows that among the leading S&P 500 companies, the top 40 give most of their political donations to Republicans. When you are considering where to invest, ask yourself the question — what's in your mutual fund?
http://blueinvestmentmanagement.com/
Blue Orchard
Intermediary
market focus:
Bottom of the Pyramid (BOP) , Microfinance
geographic focus: multinational
BlueOrchard Finance s.a. is a microfinance investment consultancy. Our mission is to promote private investments in projects and enterprises contributing to the sustainable development of micro-entrepreneurship in emerging economies. Our action is grounded in the philosophy that development must be beneficial to all its stakeholders in order to be sustainable. We firmly believe that social and financial returns can be simultaneously obtained through microfinance investments and that such feature precisely makes microfinance both a powerful tool for economic development and a very attractive new asset class worth considering in a diversified investment portfolio strategy. Image BlueOrchard is the manager of the Dexia Micro-Credit Fund, which is the first private worldwide and fully commercial microfinance investment fund. It currently services about fifthy microfinance institutions in 24 different emerging economies. It's current value: $ 77million. BlueOrchard advises the responsAbility Global Microfinance Fund since December 2003. BlueOrchard has also completed a long-term lending facility generated by the overseas Private Investment Corporation. The structured financial instrument BlueOrchard Microfinance Securities
http://www.blueorchard.ch/
Blue Orchard Microfinance Securities
Intermediary
market focus:
geographic focus: International
BlueOrchard Finance
Fund
market focus:
Microfinance
geographic focus: international
http://www.blueorchard.org
Blueprint Research
market focus:
Social Enterprise
geographic focus:
Blueprint Research & Design, Inc. is a strategy consulting firm that specializes in helping foundations and other philanthropic entities capture, use, and share information in ways that will amplify the impact of their philanthropic practices. Specifically, our work with these clients falls into three interrelated categories: * Program Design and Strategic Planning * Evaluation * Philanthropic Industry Analysis Blueprint’s clients include foundations, regional associations and affinity groups, funder networks and collaboratives, and management support organizations. Our combination of consulting services and industry expertise provides the following benefits to clients: * Closer alignment between mission and strategies * Clarity about how foundation strategies lead to desired outcomes * Feedback on impact of existing strategies and identification of new strategic opportunities * Customized measurement tools and evaluation systems * Practical knowledge about an organization's position in the philanthopic industry
http://www.blueprintrd.com/
Bob Gilpatrick
market focus:
geographic focus:
Book on Social Innovators/ Changemakers
market focus:
geographic focus:
Bookshare.org
Nonprofit
market focus:
Health
geographic focus: National
Bookshare.org dramatically increases access to books for the community of visually impaired and otherwise print disabled individuals. This online community enables book scans to be shared, thereby leveraging the collections of thousands of individuals who regularly scan books, eliminating significant duplication of effort. Bookshare.org takes advantage of a special exemption in the U.S. copyright law that permits the reproduction of publications into specialized formats for the disabled. (from http://www.bookshare.org/web/SupportAboutUs.html)

Xigi Blog Post:
http://www.xigi.net/2006/06/07/bookshareorg-reading-for-the-visually-impaired.html

http://www.bookshare.org
Boston 501 Tech Club
market focus:
geographic focus:
A monthly gathering of nonprofit technology professionals in the Boston, Massachusetts area.
http://groups.nten.org/group.htm?igid=6531
Boston's Community Medical Group (BCMG)
market focus:
Health
geographic focus: Boston
This organization is one of the first medical practices established in the nation to provide community-based primary care to adults with severe physical disabilities. BCMG is comprised of physicians, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, behavioral health clinicians and other clinical and administrative and support staff. The staff of the practice are dedicated to delivering quality medical care that will enhance their patients ability to live independently and productively in the community.
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Boundless Network
market focus:
geographic focus:
Bovespa
Intermediary
market focus:
Technology , Social Enterprise
geographic focus:
The Environmental and Social Investment Exchange - (BVS&A) is a world pioneering program introduced by BOVESPA designed to support Educational and Environmental projects by Brazilian NGOs through the reproduction of the Stock Exchange environment. By purchasing stocks from the BVS&A - listed projects, you’ll become not only a social and environmental investor but also will have the guarantee that 100% of the donations will be transferred to the project you select. The donations at BVS&A are carefully coordinated by BOVESPA, which ensures a safe and transparent process from the selection of the listed NGOs to the deployment of each project.
http://www.bovespasocial.com.br/English/Default.asp
BPS
market focus:
geographic focus:
BRAC
Investor
market focus:
Base of the Pyramid (BOP) , Community Development
geographic focus: Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Afghanistan
BRAC works with people whose lives are dominated by extreme poverty, illiteracy, disease and other handicaps. With multifaceted development interventions, BRAC strives to bring about positive changes in the quality of life of the poor people of Bangladesh.

BRAC firmly believes and is actively involved in promoting human rights, dignity and gender equity through poor people’s social, economic, political and human capacity building. Although the emphasis of BRAC’s work is at the individual level, sustaining the work of the organisation depends on an environment that permits the poor to break out of the cycle of poverty and hopelessness. To this end, BRAC endeavours to bring about change at the level of national and global policy on poverty reduction and social progress. BRAC is committed to making its programmes socially, financially and environmentally sustainable, using new methods and improved technologies. As a part of its support to the programme participants and its financial sustainability, BRAC is also involved in various income generating enterprises.

Poverty reduction programmes undertaken so far have bypassed many of the poorest. In this context one of BRAC’s main focuses is the ultra poor. Given that development is a complex process requiring a strong dedication to learning, sharing of knowledge and being responsive to the needs of the poor, BRAC places a strong emphasis on their organisational development, simultaneously engaging itself in the process of capacity building on a national scale to accelerate societal emancipation.

The fulfilment of BRAC’s mission requires the contribution of competent professionals committed to the goals and values of BRAC. BRAC, therefore, fosters the development of the human potential of the members of the organisation and those they serve.

In order to achieve its goal, wherever necessary, BRAC welcomes partnerships with the community, like-minded organisations, governmental institutions, the private sector and development partners both at home and abroad.
www.brac.net
Brac USA
Investor
market focus:
Base of the Pyramid (BOP) , Community Development
geographic focus: Global
To respond to the rapid growth and address issues relating to fundraising and legal compliance, BRAC intends to establish a U.S. office to mobilize resources for the Global South, especially for Africa. BRAC USA will support existing and proposed microfinance programs, and develop new health and education components. It will also recruit talent, collaborate with entrepreneurs, and create educational materials to infuse diaspora communities with intellectual capital and employment opportunities, thereby increasing "brain circulation" and reversing the "brain drain."

BRAC, a non-governmental organization founded in Bangladesh three decades ago to promote long-term community development, began expanding on the global level in 2002 and now offers aid to more than 110 million people in Bangladesh, Afghanistan, Sri Lanka, Uganda, and Tanzania. New organizations in Kenya, Southern Sudan, and Malawi will reach 25,000 beneficiaries via 25 branch offices by June 2007. In each of BRAC's programs, microfinance and a network of local organizations play a key role in ensuring sustainable development. The success of this model over the years has enabled BRAC to advance as an international NGO. (Source: http://www.mailman.hs.columbia.edu/news/e-newsletter/AtTheFrontline-vol1no5/ne-BRACexpansion.html)
www.brac.net
Bracnet
Social Venture
market focus:
Technology , Bottom of the Pyramid (BOP) , Social Enterprise
geographic focus:
BracNet is a member of WiMax forum. Our wireless network is based on WiMax standards in 3.5 GHz bandwidth which allows clear and uninterrupted broadband communication. BracNet owns exclusive spectrum license for 3.5 band. Our WiMax technology and our teams proven technical skills allow communication even when line of sight is obstructed. Our Services: * Broadband Solutions for Corporate and * Residential Users * Wireless LAN (WiFi) * Corporate Security/ Firewall * Corporate Data Disaster Recovery * Wireless/ Fiber Redundancy * IP based Telephony (in Future) * Web/ Mobile based Applications for Business usage * Portal & Mobile Services
http://www.bracnet.net/
Brand Dialogue
market focus:
geographic focus:
BrazilFoundation
Foundation
market focus:
geographic focus:
BrazilFoundation mobilizes resources and talent to contribute to the improvement of social conditions in Brazil. We act as a bridge between the U.S. and Brazil -- capturing donations from individuals and socially responsible corporations in the U.S. and transferring them to social programs throughout Brazil. BrazilFoundation's goal is to finance and support projects that act in five areas: education, public health, human rights, citizenship and culture.
www.brazilfoundation.org
BRIDGE Housing Corporation
market focus:
geographic focus: USA
www.bridgehousing.com
Bridge International
Social Venture
market focus:
Base of the Pyramid (BOP) , Education
geographic focus:
Bridge International Academies operates a franchise-like network of ultra low-cost, for-profit private schools, delivering high-quality education for less than $4 per student per month.

Bridge International extends access to primary education in Africa, demonstrating the power of for-profit innovation to transform lives. By employing key characteristics of successful franchises, Bridge International provides a complete 'school in a box' that allows local operators to run schools on a low-cost, but profitable basis. Bridge International’s model provides a sustainable approach to education in Africa, where on average, children perform at the 3rd percentile compared to children from developed countries. Bridge International is working to close this gap through its growing network of schools.

With Omidyar Network’s investment, Bridge International will rapidly increase access to high-quality, affordable education to more than 1 million children across Africa. Building upon its success in Kenya, the organization will expand into additional Sub-Saharan African countries to establish 1800 schools by 2015. In addition to providing a new, effective option for education, these schools will also create jobs and provide income for education workers in local communities.
http://bridgeinternationalacademies.com
Bridges Community Ventures
Investor
market focus:
Social Enterprise
geographic focus: England
Bridges Community Ventures is the UKs first community development venture capital company, established to invest in ambitious businesses in the most under-invested parts of England.
http://www.bridgesventures.com/
Bridgespan Group
Intermediary
market focus:
geographic focus: national
Founded in 2000 and incubated at Bain & Company, Inc., the Bridgespan Group is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization bringing leading-edge strategies and tools to the challenges and opportunities facing nonprofit organizations and foundations.

At the heart of our mission is the belief that nonprofits are the best hope for addressing many of today’s pressing social and environmental problems. A strong and effective nonprofit sector can be a powerful lever for change — as well as a source of human inspiration.

While the tools and frameworks used in the for-profit world provide a powerful starting point for creating this critical impact, the nonprofit sector requires different and distinctive strategies to produce the desired results. Bridgespan exists to apply the best thinking to the task of building stronger and more effective nonprofit organizations.
http://www.bridgespangroup.org/
Bridgeworks Africa Limited
Investor
market focus:
Technology
geographic focus:
Bridgeworks is a venture capital company incubating and commercializing technologies addressing key global concerns associated with soil, health and education. At present, Bridgeworks is incubating following ventures:

Phytoceuticals Development of evidence-based herbal remedies

Bridgeworks Africa Technology transfer and research commercialization relationships with leading life science research institutes across Africa

EduVision eLearning solutions for schools in developing countries
Brigham Young University
market focus:
geographic focus:
BrightRoll
market focus:
geographic focus:
BrightRoll helps publishers monetize their video traffic and helps advertisers connect with consumers in the rapidly growing online video market. Today, BrightRoll is one of the largest online video advertising networks reaching millions of consumers across and broad network of sites. BrightRoll serves video and non-video advertisements within online media players, before and after the delivery of video content. The company’s ad serving technology leverages video context and behavioral data, which allows BrightRoll to fill 100% of available ad inventory and deliver industry leading CPMs. The BrightRoll advertising network delivers millions of ads per day - connecting thousands of advertisers with dozens of high volume video sites. BrightRoll is a privately held company backed by blue-chip investors and holds its headquarters in downtown San Francisco, CA.
http://www.brightroll.com/
Broadcairn Community Fund
Investor
market focus:
Community Development , Social Enterprise , Microfinance
geographic focus: Scotland
A small landfill tax grant making body. Looking to develop return on investment models. Providing finance and development support for charities and social enterprises in Scotland
Brody Weiser and Burns
Intermediary
market focus:
Social Enterprise
geographic focus:
Brody � Weiser � Burns: Helps complex nonprofits develop strategic and business venture plans. Assists foundations and other institutions in structuring and managing program-related and social investments. Facilitates partnerships between businesses and non-profits.
http://www.brodyweiser.com/aboutus_detail.php?id=-1
Brooklyn Museum
market focus:
geographic focus:
Brown & Company Design
Social Venture
market focus:
Social Enterprise
geographic focus: National
Brown & Company Design isn't exactly what you'd call a "traditional" design studio. Sure, our work space has the usual office stuffcomputers, fax machines, printers and so on. But we also have disco balls, antique bicycles hanging from the ceiling, and lizards living in jukeboxes. Some people think it's a little strange. We think it's inspiring!

We're a 20 person strategic design studio located in Portsmouth, NH. Since we opened our doors in 1992, we've grown from a two person shop to an organization with clients of all shapes and sizes from coast to coast. From banner ads for AOL to to a local bakery shop's logo, our portfolio shows the diversity of work we specialize in creating.

Brown & Company operates using a team process that allows us to work very collaboratively with our clients. Our three groupsprint design, publication and web developmentare supported by strategic services that give us the flexibility and ability to create informed designs with unique visual impact. We want to create great work that our clients loveand we want to have fun while we do it.

Giving back to our community is also important to Brown & Company. From time donated to local non-profits to our annual Pro-Bono Partnership, we strive to inspire a culture that promotes philanthropy and a sense of responsibility towards the community we're a part of.

So while we may not be what you'd call "traditional", we think that's a good thing.

http://www.browndesign.com/
Brown University
market focus:
geographic focus:
Brown-Forman
market focus:
geographic focus:
Brownfields Redevelopment Initiative
market focus:
geographic focus:
BTQ Financial
Intermediary
market focus:
Community Development
geographic focus: USA
BTQ Financial is a outsourcing provider that specializes in providing comprehensive financial outsourcing services to not-for-profit organizations. The company has been providing consulting and outsourcing services for five years in response to the overwhelming need for high-quality, affordable financial management services for our not-for-profit clients. Over this time, BTQ has developed a range of service options for organizations that are seeking to streamline and strengthen their fiscal services. These services include all aspects of bookkeeping, financial reporting, budget planning, contract management, cash flow management, and strategic planning.
www.btqfinancial.com
Bucky Fuller Institute
market focus:
geographic focus:
BUILD
market focus:
Education
geographic focus: San Francisco Bay Area
Our mission is to provide real-world entrepreneurial experience that empowers youth from under-resourced communities to excel in education, lead in their communities, and succeed professionally.

The BUILD Program is not vocational education. Rather, it’s an in-school elective in 9th through 12th grade, taught by BUILD mentors and on-site teachers at partner public high schools. The program works like this:

* Students learn the basics of entrepreneurship while improving academic skills
* Students develop a business plan
* Students secure seed capital through a pitch to a Venture Capitalist
* Students run their own businesses
* Students concentrate on going to college
http://www.build.org
Building Impact
Social Venture
market focus:
Community Development , Social Enterprise
geographic focus:
Building Impact is a powerful, new movement designed to unlock the civic potential of individuals and organizations. Building by building, we are mobilizing and empowering people who want to play a greater role in helping make their communities stronger. Building Impact Mission: To generate significant community impact in our key focus areas of: Youth & Education, Hunger & Housing, Health & Wellness, and Employment & Job Training. Building Impact Strategy: To create a large-scale network of corporate citizens and civic participants by engaging them in their office and residential buildings and harness their collective energy, resources, and goodwill to benefit other high-impact non-profit and community partners in Greater Boston.
http://www.buildingimpact.org/
BuildingBlocks International
market focus:
geographic focus:
Burning Man
market focus:
geographic focus:
Business Association of Stanford Engineering Students Social E-challenge
market focus:
geographic focus:
Competition for ventures that exist primarily to address social and/or environmental problems.
http://bases.stanford.edu/site/socialechall/05-06/competition.jsp
Business Catapult
market focus:
geographic focus:
Business for Social Responsibility
Intermediary
market focus:
geographic focus:
Today's business landscape requires that companies navigate a complex and evolving set of economic, environmental and social challenges and address stakeholder demands for greater transparency, accountability and responsibility. These factors affect all aspects of business operations -- from supply chain to marketplace and from employee productivity to investor return. To compete successfully, a company needs to develop responsible business policies and practices and make them an integral part of its mission, values, strategy and operations. Since 1992, Business for Social Responsibility (BSR) has helped companies of all sizes and sectors to achieve success in ways that demonstrate respect for ethical values, people, communities and the environment. A leading global resource for the business community and thought leaders around the world, BSR equips its member companies with the expertise to design and implement successful, socially responsible business policies, practices and processes. Membership in BSR provides an extensive set of practical resources -- including issue expertise, advisory services, training and timely insight on news, trends and innovations -- accessible through consultation, custom reports, publications and the web at www.bsr.org. BSR connects members to a global network of business and industry peers, partners, stakeholder groups and thought leaders. On behalf of its members, BSR also convenes and facilitates cross-sector dialogue and collaboration. BSR also acts as a trusted intermediary between business and civil society. While understanding business and serving its needs, BSR maintains strong relationships with other key stakeholders and opinion formers in the civic and public sectors. Through these relationships, BSR provides companies with alternative viewpoints and engagement opportunities that help them better formulate decisions, positions and actions. Global Alliances BSR is part of a growing global network of national organizations that promote awareness of CSR and provide business leaders with opportunities to collaborate and network with innovative managers across all industries, geographies and functions. BSR also works collaboratively with numerous other CSR, corporate citizenship and sustainability organizations throughout the world, such as Business in the Community in the U.K., the Council for Better Corporate Citizenship in Japan, CSR-Europe, Accion Empresarial in Chile, Instituto Ethos in Brazil, and MAALA in Israel. BSR is a founding member of EMPRESA, a network of CSR organizations in the Americas.
http://www.bsr.org/
Business Guide
Intermediary
market focus:
Base of the Pyramid (BOP) , Education
geographic focus:
The Business Guide is a partnership between the UN Global Compact and Dalberg Global Development Advisors, with support from a number of organizations including Financial Times, CSRwire, ICC, WBCSD, BSR, WBI, IBLF and Forge. This is the first ever guide of its kind and is being developed to assist corporate leaders in selecting NGO/UN partners around the world. Key findings of the Business Guide will be featured in a Financial Times Special Report to be published on the first day of the UN Global Compact Leaders Summit in July 5-6, 2007. The motivation behind the Business Guide came from the need for a new tool to facilitate collaboration between companies and NGOs as well as UN agencies. The Business Guide aims to systematically identify 100 leading NGOs and UN agencies from around the world that have demonstrated skill and excellence in partnering with companies. In essence, the Guide will provide a market-based assessment of potential NGO/UN partners and describe their competencies
Business in Development Challenge
market focus:
geographic focus:
The BiD Challenge stimulates small and medium enterprise development in developing countries through an international Business Plan competition for poverty reduction and profit.
http://www.bidnetwork.org/set-26-en.html
Business in Development Network
Intermediary
market focus:
Social Enterprise , Bottom of the Pyramid (BOP) , Fair trade
geographic focus: international
The Business in Development (BiD) Network is an on-line community for entrepreneurship and development in developing countries. Why join the BiD Network? Find plans, people, funds and organisations related to 'business and development'. Find Finance and Funds An overview of finance and funds, like venture capital, private equity, grants and other financial support.
http://www.bidnetwork.org
Business in the Community
market focus:
geographic focus:
Business in the Community is a unique independent business led charity whose purpose is to inspire, engage, and support and challenge companies, to continually improve the impact they have on society. With a current membership of over 750 companies, including 71 of the FTSE 100 and 82 per cent of the FTSEs UK leading companies in their sector, together Business in the Community members employ 12.4 million people in over 200 countries worldwide, including 1 in 5 of the UK private sector workforce.
http://www.bitc.org.uk/about_bitc/index.html
Business Innovation Factory
Government-related
market focus:
Community Development
geographic focus:
The Business Innovation Factory was launched in 2004 as the implementation arm for an economic development strategy developed by BIF founder and Chief Catalyst Saul Kaplan. The strategy, coined Innovation @ Scale, was straightforward: Leverage Rhode Island's size and densely connected networks to create a real world laboratory for testing new ideas. In particular, Kaplan saw a unique opportunity for Rhode Island to serve as a laboratory for projects that encourage public/private sector partnership — or as we call it, Collaborative Innovation. As an independent, non-profit organization, BIF has created a sustainable platform for bringing public and private sector partners together to focus on big win projects — projects that transform how value is delivered across all sectors of our economy. The BIF model is based on four simple tenets: THINK, LEARN, DO, and CONNECT.
http://www.businessinnovationfactory.com/
Business Leaders for Sensible Priorities
Nonprofit
market focus:
Community Development
geographic focus:
Our mission is to change US budget priorities to reflect a national commitment to education, healthcare, energy independence, job training and deficit reduction -- at no additional taxpayer expense -- by eliminating funding for unneeded Cold War era weapons systems.
http://www.sensiblepriorities.org/
BX Exchange
Social Venture
market focus:
Technology , Social Enterprise , Social Capital Market Infrastructure
geographic focus: USA
Social Stock exchange (still in concept development). An outgrowth of B-Lab and it's ratings effort.
Byron Sustainable Ventures Network
Nonprofit
market focus:
Clean Technology , Social Enterprise , Community Development
geographic focus: Byron Shire and the area around it
A network of business in, and around Byron Shire that are as passionate about the environment and their community as about their businesses. Activities revolve around monthly dinners.
http://www.naturalinnovation.org/byronsvn
C/e- Solutions, Inc.
market focus:
geographic focus:
Caesar Consulting Group
market focus:
geographic focus:
Cal State East Bay Small Business Development Center
Government-related
market focus:
Social Enterprise
geographic focus: East Bay Area
The Cal State East Bay Small Business Development Center (SBDC), a new partnership between California State University, East Bay, the Northern California SBDC Regional Network and the U. S. Small Business Administration, offers classes, consulting services and business planning resources for entrepreneurs and small business owners. The Cal State East Bay SBDC is focused on developing and implementing programs and services that support innovation, entrepreneurship, sustainability, growth, and social impact.

The Cal State East Bay SBDC operates in partnership with the County of Alameda GSA, the City of Oakland, the City of Fremont, and the City of Hayward.
http://www.eastbaysbdc.org/
Calif. State Comm. on Jobs, Econ Dev., Economy
Government-related
market focus:
Community Development
geographic focus:
http://www.assembly.ca.gov/acs/newcomframeset.asp?committee=131
California Environmental Redevelopment Fund
Investor
market focus:
Community Development
geographic focus: San Francisco Bay Area
California Environmental Redevelopment Fund (CERF) funded largely through the initiative of the Bay Area Council, is a $34 million bank-funded, statewide, environmental clean-up fund with 25 percent of its investment capital targeted for the Bay Area. CERF is a revolving loan fund with an in-house investment manager, and serves developers, businesses, public entities, and others dealing with contaminated sites. In addition to site remediation, CERF also lends for purposes such as acquisition, construction, pre-development costs, and rehabilitation as long as there is remediation or contamination cleanup involved. The fund began investing in December 2003.
http://www.bayareafamilyoffunds.org/funds/cerf.shtml
California State University East Bay
market focus:
geographic focus:
Call+Response
market focus:
Fair trade , Media
geographic focus: international
The Call and Response film is a catalyst to engage the public in fighting human trafficking. In it, we graphically portray the state of modern-day slavery, and call our audience to respond to it. Our goal is to inspire the public to support high impact efforts by effective organizations.

By mobilizing and then connecting human and financial resources to partners already working on the front lines of the issue, and then by measuring and reporting the tangible results of that funding, the film will enable the public to respond to the issue in an appropriate and high-impact way. It is this outcomes-based change that we believe will result in the reduction of slavery.

Thus, the Fair Trade Fund has created “Response Projects” with well-established partners organizations such as Not For Sale, International Justice Mission and Free the Slaves.

These organizations authenticate the projects of their partners working in the field, and ensure the legitimacy of each partner.

Submissions are accepted from any interested 501(c)3 organization, and Response Projects are chosen based on a cost-benefit analysis of their potential for impact on the reduction and prevention of slavery and care for its victims.

Each project has a requested monetary amount needed to achieve the goals set therein which is then promoted to the public for communal funding. We work hard to make sure that each dollar is necessary for the set goals and that each dollar is used well for that purpose. Once the funding goal of a project is achieved, the partner organization is responsible for due diligence to achieve the expressed goals of the projects using the financial donation. Furthermore, the organization is responsible for submitting impact reports to the community of funders (the “Responder Team”) for that project on a timely and regular basis.

Projects are categorized based on the area of human trafficking that they address. They may be placed in the queue for child slavery, sexual slavery, child soldiering, or forced labor. While a program may create impact across these categories, the Fair Trade Fund attempts to most appropriately place each project so that responders may choose an area of interest about which they most care.

Furthermore, we are a part of the Responder Teams! Since we operate as a 501(c)3 organization, 100% of the profits generated by the film are also directed toward these projects.
http://www.callandresponse.com/faqs.html
Calvert Group
market focus:
geographic focus:
Largest family of socially responsible mutual funds in the US.
www.calvert.com
Calvert Philanthropic Assets, Inc.
Nonprofit
market focus:
Social Enterprise
geographic focus: USA
Enables donor advised funds to behave like the social capital market. In progress of being formed.
http://www.calvertfoundation.org
Calvert Social Investment Foundation
Intermediary
market focus:
Social Enterprise , Microfinance , Community Development
geographic focus: Global
Has the goal of maximizing the flow of US retail and small institutional investment capital to community development, social enterprise and microfinance groups throughout the world. Calvert Foundation runs a $100 million plus Community Investment Note product for more than 2,500 investors with deployed debt capital in 200+ groups in 60 countries that is tradable through the US brokerage system. It also does merchant banking and asset administration in the hybrid mission/financial investment space and has a donor advised fund platform (Calvert Giving Fund) that invests 100% of idle philanthropic capital in mission purpose and SRI investments and funds. Started in 1995.
www.calvertfoundation.org
Calvert Venture Partners
Investor
market focus:
Social Enterprise , Clean Technology
geographic focus: International
Calvert Ventures makes direct investments in companies run by visionary entrepreneurs who have identified profitable ways of addressing society�s needs. Our venture capital investments will generate a greater return not only for our investors but for future generations as well.

Calvert Ventures funds the operation of GroupServe Foundation, which provides free online collaboration services to other civic-minded groups at http://www.groupport.org/.

http://mail.calvertventures.com/email/scripts/loginuser.pl
Camberwell Project
Intermediary
market focus:
Community Development
geographic focus:
Our aim is to fuse private sector acumen and drive with social mission. We are not so much a consultancy as a self-funded development agency. We make things happen – both implementing our own projects and supporting other people’s.

Camberwell is growing rapidly and aims to be the first call for all those wanting to use enterprise to benefit communities.

Our principal fields of work are to

* Give intensive support to high growth enterprises, particularly social enterprises

* Support Development Trusts

* Develop schemes for increasing enterprise activity in disadvantaged areas in partnership with the highly successful London Hub

* Work with communities, public authorities and developers to turn underused buildings into thriving community businesses

* Advise the voluntary and community sector on governance, business planning etc.

* Offer evaluation services for public interventions in the social economy.

We hope our project and clients will do the rest of the talking.
http://camberwellproject.co.uk
Cambridge Associates
Intermediary
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We strive to help global institutional investors and private clients meet or exceed their investment objectives by providing proactive, unbiased advice grounded in intensive and independent research. We take special pride in our freedom from conflicts with money management firms. Our only business and source of revenue is providing investment consulting, performance reporting, and research to our clients
https://www.cambridgeassociates.com
Cambridge Energy Associates /CERA
Intermediary
market focus:
Clean Technology
geographic focus:
Cambridge Energy Research Associates, Inc. (CERA), an IHS company, is a leading advisor to international energy companies, governments, financial institutions, and technology providers. CERA delivers critical knowledge and independent analysis on energy markets, geopolitics, industry trends, and strategy. Our services help decision makers anticipate the energy future and formulate timely, successful plans in the face of rapid changes and uncertainty. CERA is valued for our independence, fundamental research, foresight, and original thinking. Our unique integrated framework enables us to offer new insights ahead of conventional wisdom, providing a comprehensive "early warning system" that has a direct impact on investment, decision making, and performance.
http://cera.com/
Camco Global
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CAMFED International
Social Venture
market focus:
geographic focus: Africa
CAMFED is a non-governmental organisation with four branches: * CAMFED International, established in the UK in 1993 and the headquarters of the organisation (registered charity No. 1029161) * CAMFED Zimbabwe, established in 1993 * CAMFED USA Foundation, established in 2001 (a 501I3 organisation) * CAMFED Zambia, established in 2002 Boards of trustees are active in each branch, supported by an International Advisory Board whose members provide specific expertise, including academics, film-makers, corporate leaders, journalists, celebrities and African chiefs. Plans are underway for the establishment of CAMFED Tanzania, CAMFED Ghana and CAMFED USA. CAMA (the CAMFED Association) was established in 1998 and is now a pan-African membership organisation for young, educated, rural women. CAMA is now at the forefront of health, micro-finance and human rights initiatives. CAMA’s 4,700 members are showing how the education of girls plays a crucial role in the fight against poverty and the regeneration of communities. In 2005, CAMFED’s income was £2.06 million ($3.68 million), which supported programmes in rural Zimbabwe, Zambia, Ghana and Tanzania. Direct charitable expenditure has remained above 90% of income since CAMFED was established in 1993. In 2005: * 246,525 children benefited from CAMFED’s programme of educational support * 13,368 community activists worked with CAMFED to solve poverty-related problems that prevent girls from attending school * 5,366 young women received business training, and 885 women have gone on to set up their own businesses * 216 young women were trained as health activists, reaching out to 71,200 young people with vital health information, including on HIV/AIDS * Together with Mothers’ Support Groups, CAMA members supported 16,226 children to go to school through their own philanthropic initiatives. All this has been achieved with the support of many generous individuals, foundations, companies and international agencies.
www.camfed.org
Campaign Promotions
Intermediary
market focus:
Media
geographic focus:
ommunication is the art of transferring one person's thoughts into another's comprehension..

There are many ways to bridge that gap. Some work better than others. .

People think because they can talk, they can communicate. .

But effective communication requires a thorough understanding of the audience and the ability to listen to what they are saying..

Gareth Strangemore-Jones, Founder of Campaign Promotions, has more than twenty years' experience of Commercial, Public, Education, Not For Profit and Charity Sector Marketing Communications. He now works with organisations seeking to make a difference to people and to the planet.

Campaign Promotions is a network of consultants who each have particular communications skills such as Marketing, Press & Public Relations, Advertising, Copywriting, Design, Events, Web Development and New Media Marketing.

We will take a detailed brief and purpose-build a team specialising in the skills required to deliver an exciting, innovative and creative communications programme that generates the desired reponse from your audience. .

This bespoke service means Campaign Promotions can add real value by consulting on activities where you already have skills and by actually providing the services you don't have.
http://www.campaignpromotions.org/
Campden Conferences
Intermediary
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Since 1999 we have been bringing together significant business and financial families, substantial private investors, executives from private investment and family offices, family businesses and foundations, and their close advisors at a unique series of confidential meetings. In 2006 our portfolio of meetings expanded to take in exciting new markets and satisfy the demands of the modern-day global investor. For the first time we held conferences in Dubai, New York and Mumbai.
http://www.campden.com/conferences/
CanadaHelps
Foundation
market focus:
geographic focus: Canada
CanadaHelps is a registered charity created to accept charitable donations online for Canada's 80,000 charitable organizations.
www.canadahelps.org
Canadian Cooperatives Association
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Canadian Social Entrepreneurship Foundation
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Canon Collaborations
Intermediary
market focus:
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Work with high performing individuals and organizations to manage changing demands in their market, in their work, in their lives Partner with individuals and teams to develop leadership capabilities Act as companion & scout on the journey my clients take Consulting and Coaching 100 Via Lago Los Gatos, CA 95032 (408) 866-6506 (786) 566-2806 (cell)
http://www.siliconvalleycoachfederation.org/membership_info.php
Capital Missions
Intermediary
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Capital Missions Company (CMC) creates networks of investors, business leaders and philanthropists to catalyze a globally sustainable economy. Over the past 26 years, President Susan Davis, has successfully proven KINS (Key Initiator Network Strategy), her networking method, as a time-efficient and cost-efficient approach to introduce innovation into culture. KINS networks leverage philanthropic dollars into catalytic initiatives to solve social problems and is based on the understanding that \\\'we are all one\\\'. CMC is currently devoted to the Tipping Point Network. The Tipping Point Network will focus philanthropic funds to increase the market share of sustainability from its current 2% to 10%, after which the \\\'tipping point\\\' is expected to occur and the global economy is expected to fund sustainability. This meta-network uses KINS to align leaders in 40 niches of sustainability to \\\"catalyze globally sustainable economies.\\\" The Tipping Point Network is the culmination of Susan\\\'s life work. Over the past 26 years Susan Davis, using the KINS method, has served as a founding organizer for networks of sustainability leaders, solar leaders, angel investors, institutional investors, Nigerian village women, social venture capitalists, leading socially-responsible CEOs, families with wealth of $100 million plus, leading women business owners, leading finance executives, and Chicago women leaders. CMC is presently not available for formal consulting as its resources are focused on the Tipping Point Network and community pro bono work. CMC\\\'s next availability to create a network is April 1, 2007. Those interested in contracting for a KINS sustainability network are encouraged to open the dialogue with a personal letter about the hopes and dreams you would like your KINS network to accomplish.
http://www.capitalmissions.com/
Capricorn Investments
Investor
market focus:
Social Enterprise
geographic focus:
CARANA Corporation
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Carbon Advice Group
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Carbon Investments
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CARBON INVESTMENTS is a new global fund management group focusing on investment in environmental projects, companies, services and markets. CARBON INVESTMENTS is bringing together a world-class team of financial, technological and environmental experts to achieve its twin goals of: 1) delivering attractive financial returns, and 2) reducing greenhouse gases.
http://carboninvestments.com/what_is_carbon_investments/index.html
Carbon Venture Capital
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Cardinal Resources
Social Venture
market focus:
Clean Technology
geographic focus:
Cardinal Resources has offered world class remediation, environmental assessment, and engineering services that have taken us to every continent but Antarctica. We implement sustainable solutions that focus on reducing our clients' environmental footprint, improving their processes, and finding new ways to eliminate or solve old problems. Integration of our disciplined Strategic Environmental Management practice into every project has resulted in millions of dollars in savings and is one reason our clients have taken us around the world.

Cardinal Resources goes beyond the traditional environmental work and helps our clients work smarter, cleaner, and less expensively, giving them a Green Advantage in their marketplaces. Developing new ways to solve water and environmental problems is a part of our mission that has lead to:

* The Red Bird System ( Patent Pending ), a solar-powered high-tech solution for providing clean water in a low tech environment;

* The Grey Bird Approach ( Patent Pending ) for low or alternative energy wastewater treatment systems; and

* Green Infrastructure and Water Management for green buildings and development.
http://www.cardinalres.com/
CARE Canada
Nonprofit
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CARE Canada's mission is to serve individuals and families in the poorest communities in the world. Drawing strength from our global diversity, resources and experience, we promote innovative solutions and are advocates for global responsibility. We facilitate lasting change by:

Strengthening capacity for self-help; Influencing policy decisions at all levels; Providing economic opportunity; Addressing discrimination in all its forms; Delivering relief in emergencies.

Guided by the aspirations of local communities, we pursue our mission with both excellence and compassion because the people whom we serve deserve nothing less.

http://www.care.ca
CARE USA (CARE)
Nonprofit
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CARE is a leading humanitarian organization fighting global poverty. We place special focus on working alongside poor women because, equipped with the proper resources, women have the power to help whole families and entire communities escape poverty. Women are at the heart of CARE's community-based efforts to improve basic education, prevent the spread of HIV, increase access to clean water and sanitation, expand economic opportunity and protect natural resources. CARE also delivers emergency aid to survivors of war and natural disasters, and helps people rebuild their lives.
http://www.care.org
Care2.com
Social Venture
market focus:
Social Enterprise , Health , Clean Technology
geographic focus: International
Care2 is a special place. With more than 5 million members, Care2.com is the largest online community for people who want to make a difference.

We're about values. If you care about health, human rights and protecting the environment, and if you believe individuals have the power to change the world, you're going to love Care2.

You can learn from, and meet, amazing people here. You'll discover wonderful organizations working on the front lines. And it's fun, usually really easy, and always rewarding.

http://www.care2.com
CareC
Investor
market focus:
Clean Technology
geographic focus:
The Central American Renewable Energy and Cleaner Production Facility (“CAREC”) is US $20 million, innovative mezzanine and debt financing facility developed by E+Co with financial and institutional support from the Multilateral Investment Fund (MIF) of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB). CAREC’s mission is to promote the use of renewable energy technologies for power generation and the improvement in the utilization of energy and other inputs for companies’ operations in Central America. CAREC invests in proven renewable energy technologies, energy efficiency and cleaner production projects in the seven countries of the Central American region (Costa Rica, El Salvador, Belize, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua and Panama). CAREC is not a private equity fund, but rather intentionally structured to utilize mezzanine-financing mechanisms such as subordinated debt, convertible debt, preferred shares and other quasi-equity instruments. The manager of the Facility is E+Co Capital, a majority- owned company of E+Co, a specialized renewable energy and energy efficiency financial services company with more than 10 years experience in project finance in Latin America. ................................................................................................................................................... Mission CAREC’s mission is to promote the use of renewable energy technologies for power generation and the improvement in the utilization of energy and other inputs for companies’ operations in Central America.
http://www.eandco.org/eandcocapital/about.htm
CAREfully Catered
Nonprofit
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CAREfully Catered is a nonprofit organization created in 2004 to support Arkansas CARES (Arkansas Center for Addictions Research, Education and Services), a treatment program for addicted mothers and their children. Arkansas CARES is a program of the UAMS College of Medicine, Dept. of Psychiatry. CAREfully Catered employs and trains mothers who have successfully overcome addictions. CAREfully Catered provides meals that are according to American Dietetic standards and guidelines for portion size.
http://www.carefullycatered.com/
Caring Capital
Investor
market focus:
Social Enterprise
geographic focus: Vancouver
At Caring Capital, we say no to a lot of projects. This helps to ensure that our energies are focused on ensuring the success of the companies that we are involved with. We look for early stage companies that have significant growth potential and the ability to make a lasting difference in the world.

Additionally, we look for people that we can work with in the long term. Honesty, integrity and trust are the guiding principles behind the relationships we forge. We want lasting relationships with those we work with and are not interested in sacrificing long term gains for short term ones.

Our investments range in size from $100,000 to upwards of $15 million.
http://caringcapital.com/
Caring Capital Consulting Clients
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Caring Capital Investment Portfolio
Investor
market focus:
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When considering an investment, we carefully screen the technical and business merits of the proposed company. We only invest in a small percentage of the businesses that we review and have a long-term perspective. Going forward, we actively work with the company's management by contributing our experience and business savvy gained from helping other companies with similar growth challenges. All of the companies we look at investing in must be focused on the "Triple Bottom Line" business philosophy. . . Financial, Social, and Environmental Return on Investment (ROI).
http://caringcapital.com/projects.html
Caritas
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Caritas Australia
Nonprofit
market focus:
Base of the Pyramid (BOP)
geographic focus: Australia
Caritas Australia helps people help themselves - regardless of race, religion or political beliefs. Our work is founded on the principles of Catholic Social Teaching (CST): Preferential option for the poor; Human dignity, Solidarity; Subsidiarity; Stewardhip of the earths resources.

Caritas Australia belongs to one of the largest international aid and development networks in the world - Caritas Internationalis (www.caritas.org) - a network of 162 Catholic relief, development and social service organisations working to build a better world, in over 200 countries and territories.
http://www.caritas.org.au/
Carleton Centre for Community Innovation
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Carleton University
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Carnegie Corporation of New York
Foundation
market focus:
Community Development , Education
geographic focus: US
Carnegie Corporation of New York was created by Andrew Carnegie in 1911 to promote "the advancement and diffusion of knowledge and understanding." Under Carnegie's will, grants must benefit the people of the United States, although up to 7.4 percent of the funds may be used for the same purpose in countries that are or have been members of the British Commonwealth, with a current emphasis on Commonwealth Africa. As a grantmaking foundation, the Corporation seeks to carry out Carnegie's vision of philanthropy, which he said should aim "to do real and permanent good in this world."
http://www.carnegie.org/
Caroline Venture Fellow
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Cascade Philanthropy
Intermediary
market focus:
Social Capital Market Infrastructure
geographic focus:
http://www.cascadephilanthropy.org/
Cascap
Intermediary
market focus:
Community Development
geographic focus:
Cascap, Inc. is committed to improving the quality of life for members of the community who may be disadvantaged by poverty, disability, or age. Our purpose is to help those we serve achieve optimal levels of personal autonomy and community integration. We strive to accomplish this through the provision of an array of services and resources in order to establish a foundation for a dignified and meaningful life. Through the development of affordable housing, functional supports, and adaptive living skills we engage in these efforts in a respectful manner keeping in mind the unique abilities and inherent worth of each member of the Cascap community.
http://www.cascap.org/about/index.htm
Case Foundation
Foundation
market focus:
Microfinance , Community Development , Social Enterprise
geographic focus: International
Jean and Steve Case founded the Case Foundation in 1997 to reflect their family's heartfelt commitment to finding lasting solutions to complex social challenges. Today, the foundation is pursuing a number of initiatives, and is particularly focused on three strategies:

* Encouraging collaboration;
* Supporting successful leaders; and
* Fostering entrepreneurship in the nonprofit sector.

The foundation is applying these strategies to meet the needs of underserved children and families; create thriving and sustainable economic development for communities; bridge cultural and religious divides; expand civic engagement and volunteerism; and accelerate innovative approaches to health care.

The foundation's work stretches across the United States and around the world. To date, we have supported more than 150 organizations that reflect our commitment to collaboration, leadership, and entrepreneurship -- and, ultimately, to improving the health and well-being of children, families, and communities.

http://www.casefoundation.org/
Case Surdna Calvert Foundations Systems Chat
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CASIN
market focus:
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Today's world is in a state of constant, profound and accelerated transformation. Most issues - in trade, finance, investment, energy, natural resources, population, employment, health, agriculture and food, the environment, science and technology, human rights, humanitarian action and refugees, culture, religions and nationalities, or security - have become global and interdependent, more numerous and more complex. Solving the problems that lie at the source of many crises and conflicts has become an overwhelming task for society.

Simultaneously, the players have multiplied and their weight has shifted. While the role and influence of civil society, including the private sector, has expanded astoundingly, governments and international organisations have lost ground, because their structures and operating procedures are often unsuited to anticipating and simultaneously resolving diverse and complex problems, let alone managing them from a global and long?term perspective. In this context, it is not surprising to witness, over the past decade, a growing interest in pluralism, in finding new approaches to governance - particularly in negotiation and other modes of conflict management - and in new forms of diplomacy.

The diverse and often experimental activities of the Centre for Applied Studies in International Negotiations (CASIN), created in 1979 in Geneva, Switzerland, mirror the essence of the preceding thoughts. They concentrate on a spectrum of issues related to national and international governance. They address the constellation of problems confronting modern societies and the international system, and seek avenues to enable stakeholders to apply instruments of governance such as negotiation, good offices, mediation, conciliation or dialogue, and allow them to find mutually acceptable solutions.

CASIN is an independent, non-profit foundation, subject to supervision by the Swiss Federal Department of the Interior and a governing Board of Trustees. CASIN is financed by revenues derived from its activities.
http://www.casin.ch/
Catalyst Fund Management
Investor
market focus:
Social Enterprise
geographic focus:
The European Financial Services Venture Fund (EFSVF) was Europe's first venture capital fund (that we know of) focused on backing revolutionaries with radical business models who will provide better, faster, cheaper products and services to Europe's consumers who feel as if they are being "ripped off" by the entrenched players. It will also back companies that provide products and services (e.g. software, outsourcing and other services etc) to the sector's revolutionaries and established players.
http://www.catfund.com/
Catalyst Strategy Advisors
Intermediary
market focus:
Fair trade , Social Enterprise , Technology
geographic focus: UK & global
Catalyst is a research, investment and consultancy firm, founded in Autumn 1997. Catalyst’s objective has always been to concentrate on sectors where radical change is needed and exciting opportunities exist. In 2002, our activities began to shift towards the rapidly growing social, ethical and environmental business sector. We view private sector-based social business as a disruptive innovation that is changing paradigms in the private sector, and that will shape the way entrepreneurs and established businesses alike do business. Catalyst offers a range of services to meet this sector’s needs. We have three core principles that we consider to be determinants of Catalyst’s success: In-depth knowledge of a sector is a prerequisite for adding value Results can only be achieved through developing great relationships with people—our employees, clients, investors, and vendors Our work must be both personally fulfilling and professionally worthwhile
http://www.catstrat.co.uk/
Catalytic Communities
Intermediary
market focus:
Base of the Pyramid (BOP)
geographic focus: Global
Catalytic Communities - CatComm - is creating a world where community-generated solutions are just a mouse-click away, where anyone, anywhere, confronting a local problem, can find the inspiration and tools they need to implement the solution, learning from their peers.

Catalytic Communities uses technology to link grassroots community gr