Good list. FYI — I *Love* the Unreasonable Institute, but they’re not funders. Perhaps you should have a category for incubators / accelerators. If you do, please include my organization — the William James Foundation.

Either way, you might want to check out our list of conferences (www.williamjamesfoundation.org/conferences) and sustainable business plan competitions (www.williamjamesfoundation.org/competitions).

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Ian,

That’s a really good point. I struggled with the whole “funders” category, it’s really more of a funders and supporters and ecosystem builders category. And thanks for pointing me to your list of conferences and competitions. We’ll mine that for additions to our list. Thanks so much!

A great list, thanks for sharing. Innov8Social is a blog exploring social innovation.

Here are a few posts that you may find useful:
50+ Fellowship Programs for Social Innovators

Start-Up Accelerator and Incubator Programs for Social Entrepreneurs

Neetal, thanks so much for those additional resources, they’re great!

Don’t forget the very important work done by the academic research centers, such as the Center for the Advancement of Social Entrepreneurship (CASE at Duke, http://www.CASEatDuke.org ), founded by pioneering social entrepreneurship thought leader Prof. Greg Dees, previously the co-founder of the Center for Social Innovation at Sanford and contributor to the launch of the Social Enterprise Initiative at Harvard. The Skoll Centre at Oxford has been a major player. Initiatives at Yale and Nothwestern (Kellogg) and Berkley (Haas) have also been around for a while now. In the past five years, centers have been launched at NYU, Babson, the University of Maryland, Tulane, and many others. For example, see the Ashoka U “Changemaker Campus Consortium” at http://ashokau.org/changemaker-campus/

Finally, consider adding the Social Impact Exchange national conference and community of interest, the largest annual conference focused on scaling social impact http://www.socialimpactexchange.org/

Thanks Matt. These are all great points. We’ll add them to the Resources page. Thanks!

What a wonderful list! Thanks for including me among the blogs too. I especially like your list of conferences…I lose track of them…so many.

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