Acumen Fund (www.acumenfund.org)
Acumen Fund was created in response to global economic forces that are fundamentally reshaping the face of philanthropy. It creates a community of powerful donors who want to be a part of solutions to major global problems.
Ashoka (www.ashoka.org)
This
global not-for-profit organization identifies and supports outstanding
individuals outside North America with innovative programs for achieving
systemic social change on a national and regional level. An initiative of Ashoka, Changemakers.net (www.changemakers.net) focuses on the rapidly growing world of social entrepreneurship and offers an online
library of global resources about these concerns.
The Center for Venture Philanthropy (www.pcf.org/venture_philanthropy/index.html)
The Center for Venture Philanthropy (CVP) is a forum for community
donors to collaborate and catalyze societal change. CVP creates avenues
for community investors from Silicon Valley and the Peninsula to engage
in new philanthropy.
Community Development Venture Capital
Alliance (www.cdvca.org)
CDVCA is made up of organizations
throughout the world who seek to apply the powerful engine of growth
that has driven economic expansion to the economic needs of low-income
communities.
Community Wealth (www.communitywealth.org)
This site explores topics
such as nonprofit/for-profit partnerships, cause-related marketing,
social entrepreneurship, venture philanthropy and nonprofit business
ventures.
Echoing Green Foundation (www.echoinggreen.org)
Echoing Green is a
non-profit foundation in New York that offers full-time fellowships to
emerging entrepreneurs dealing in social issues.
Eva Leah Gunther Foundation (www.evafoundation.org)
A resource for girls who live in the San Francisco Bay Area, and for
organizations in the Bay Area that help girls to realize their dreams.
Feminist Majority Foundation (www.feminist.org)
This organization advocates
non-violence and works to eliminate social and economic injustice for
women.
The Foundation Incubator (www.foundationincubator.org)
Similar to a small business incubator, The Foundation Incubator, located in Palo Alto, provides shared facilities, mentoring, and networking opportunities to its members so they can be more effective in their grantmaking.
Future of Philanthropy (www.futureofphilanthropy.org)
This site, hosted by the Global Business Network and Monitor Institute, is
designed to help philanthropy make sense of choices about how to give and
who to give to.
Global Fund for Women (www.globalfundforwomen.org)
The Global Fund for Women is a grantmaking foundation supporting women's human rights organizations around the world working to address critical issues such as gaining economic independence, increasing girls' access to education and stopping violence against women.
Grantmakers for Effective Organizations (GEO) (www.geofunders.org)
Advancing and expanding organizational effectiveness practices in and by the philanthropy community.
GuideStar (www.guidestar.org)
A guide to charitable
organizations for donors from a donor's perspective
IDEX (www.idex.org)
International Development Exchange (IDEX) partners with
grassroots organizations in Africa, Asia and Latin America. IDEX has
channeled over $2.4 million to create social change and economic
independence for people who earn less than $1 a day.
Mission and Market (www.independentsector.org/mission_market/index.html)
A resource center for effective corporate-nonprofit partnerships, sponsored
by Independent Sector.
National Network of Grantmakers (www.nng.org)
NNG is an organization of
individuals involved in funding social and economic justice.
New Profit, Inc. (www.newprofit.com)
New Profit is dedicated to
performance-based funding coupled with management development support
for winning social entrepreneurs.
The Roberts Enterprise Development Fund (www.redf.org)
The REDF portfolio consists of
nonprofit organizations in the San Francisco Bay Area providing
transitional and permanent employment to very low income and formerly
homeless individuals.
The Skoll Foundation (www.skollfund.org)
The Skoll Foundation identifies innovative organizations with a proven track record and empowers them to produce significant, tangible benefits on a local, national, or global scale.
Social Venture Partners (www.svpseattle.org)
SVP seeks to develop
philanthropy and volunteerism to achieve positive social change in the
Seattle area using the venture capital approach. (also see www.asvp.org
in Austin and www.svpaz.org in Arizona)
Women & Philanthropy (www.womenphil.org)
Mobilizing the resources of the
philanthropic sector to achieve equity for women and girls.
Women's Funding Network (www.wfnet.org)
A growing international association
of public and private women's foundations, federations, funds in
community foundations, individual donors, and supporting institutions
devoted to women's development.
Venture Philanthropy Partners (www.venturephilanthropypartners.org)
Provides great
resources and documents on venture philanthropy and its
applications.
