A Monster List of Social Innovation Books, Blogs, Conferences, Funders

Since today is Halloween, I thought I’d offer a monster list of resources for nonprofit leaders, social entrepreneurs, philanthropists, board members and others involved in creating social change.

The following list comes from the Resources page of the Social Velocity web site. The page includes social innovation conferences, organizations, funders, blogs, books and other things that anyone involved in the social change space should be aware of. It could be a starting point or an ongoing exploration of what’s going on in the space.

We are constantly adding to the Resources page, so if we are missing something, let us know in the comments.

Organizations Moving Social Innovation Forward

Funders

• 130 Ways to Fund Your Social Venture
• Center for Effective Philanthropy
• Dell Social Innovation Competition
• Echoing Green
• New Profit
• Nonprofit Finance Fund
• Public-Philanthropic Partnerships at the Council on Foundations
• Robert Wood Johnson’s Pioneer Portfolio
• Sea Change Capital
• Unreasonable Institute
• Venture Philanthropy Partners

Conferences

• Accelerating Social Entrepreneurship in the Age of Austerity
• Bottom Billions Bottom Line
• Clinton Global Initiative Annual Meeting
• Conference on Scaling Impact (by Social Impact Exchange)
• FSG and SSIR Collective Impact Conference
• Grantmakers for Effective Organizations Conference
• Harvard Social Enterprise Conference
• Net Change Week
• Net Impact 2011 Conference
• NextGen: Charity
• The Nonprofit Management Institute (by Stanford Social Innovation Review)
• Opportunity Collaboration
• ReVisioning Value
• Skoll World Forum on Social Entrepreneurship
• Social Capital Markets Conference
• Social Enterprise Summit
• Social Enterprise World Forum
• Social Good Summit
• Social Venture Capital / Social Enterprise (Miami)
• Social Venture Network Conference
• Social Venture Partners International Annual Conference
• Sustainatopia
• The Feast
• UST Symposium on Social Entrepreneurship

Philanthropic Thought Leaders

• Blue Print Research and Design
• The J.W. McConnell Family Foundation
• Tactical Philanthropy Advisors

 

Things to Read

Blogs

• UnSectored
• SSIR Opinion Blog: Social Entrepreneurship
• SSIR Opinion Blog: Nonprofit Management
• SocialEarth
• PhilanTopic
• Philanthropy 2173
• NFF's Social Currency Blog
• New Philanthropy Capital's Blog
• Money and Mission
• GuideStar: Bob Ottenhoff Blog
• Full Contact Philanthropy
• Dowser
• Deep Social Impact
• Dan Pallotta: Harvard Business Review
• Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits are Using Social Media to Power Change
• Against the Grain
• About.com Nonprofit Charitable Orgs
• A Smart Bear: Startups & Marketing for Geeks

Financing Impact

• Beyond Fundraising
• Nonprofit Growth Capital, Building is not Buying
• The Nonprofit Starvation Cycle
• Social Finance
• Social Impact Bonds
• The Task Force on Social Finance
• Understanding Nonprofit Financial Statements

Using Social Media

• The Dragonfly Effect
• The Networked Nonprofit

Being Strategic

• Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies
• Creating Public Value
• Forces for Good: The Six Practices of High-Impact Nonprofits
• Good to Great
• Good to Great and the Social Sector
• Leap of Reason: Managing to Outcomes in an Era of Scarcity
• Strategic Management of Charter Schools

Finding Inspiration

• Getting to Maybe: How the World is Changed
• How to Change the World
• One Day, All Children…: The Unlikely Triumph Of Teach For America And What I Learned Along The Way
• Social Innovation Generation
• The Power of Unreasonable People: How Social Entrepreneurs Create Markets That Change the World
• The Social Innovation Dynamic
• Work on Purpose

Growing Solutions

• Franchise Organizations
• Scaling Social Impact: Strategies for Spreading Social Innovations. Stanford Social Innovation Review
• The Five Meanings of Scale
• The Nonprofit Outcomes Toolbox

Leading Well

• Leadership Without Easy Answers
• Real Change Leaders

 

Photo Credit: annabellaphoto

Tags: funding for social entrepreneurship, nonprofit, nonprofit financing, nonprofit funders, nonprofit leadership, nonprofit strategy, Philanthropy, social change funders, Social Entrepreneurship, social entrepreneurship conferences, social innovation, social innovation blogs