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
Things to Read
Blogs
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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
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
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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).
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.
I think you did a lovely job,it’s really good job.