Social Enterprise

AMERICA FORWARD
c/o New Profit Inc.
2 Canal Park
Cambridge, MA 02141
T 617-252-2153
www.americaforward.org
The America Forward is a coalition that aims to advance a policy agenda to create an infrastructure for social enterprise. The group includes more than 60 nonprofit organizations with programs operating in all 50 states and the District of Columbia. Together, these groups serve more than 10 million people a year and have a collective budget of more than $400 million.

BLENDEDVALUE.ORG
2121 Sand Hill Road
Menlo Park, CA 94025
JEmerson@hewlett.org
www.blendedvalue.org
Blended Value.Org is a web site that contains a research report that looks at a variety of different enterprises, including social enterprises, that seek to “blend,” in one form or another social, financial (and sometimes also environmental) benefits in their work.

CENTER FOR CIVIL SOCIETY STUDIES
Institute for Policy Studies
The Johns Hopkins University
3400 North Charles Street
Baltimore, MD 21218
T 410-516-5463
F 410-516-7818
ccss@jhu.edu
ccss.jhu.edu
The Center for Civil Society Studies of the Johns Hopkins Institute for Policy Studies conducts research on the role that nonprofit organizations play in modern society as well as providing training and capacity-building activities designed to strengthen non-profit organizations.

COMMUNITY WEALTH VENTURES
1730 M Street, NW, Suite 700
Washington, DC 20036
T 202-478-6570
F 202-347-5868
www.communitywealth.com
Community Wealth Ventures is a for-profit subsidiary of Share Our Strength dedicated to expanding the resources generated by profitable enterprise for the purpose of promoting social change, especially by assisting and documenting the efforts of nonprofit organizations to create businesses. Community Wealth Ventures maintains with the Social Enterprise Alliance a database of hundreds of social enterprises throughout the United States.

INDEPENDENT SECTOR
1200 Eighteenth St., NW, Suite 200
Washington, DC 20036
T 202-467-6100
F 202-467-6101
info@independentsector.org
www.independentsector.org
The Independent Sector is an association of national nonprofit organizations, foundations, and corporate philanthropy programs. It acts as an advocate for the non-profit sector, as well as publishing research on nonprofit sector activities.

INSTITUTE FOR SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURS
9560 Dogwood Circle
Eden Prairie, MN 55347
T 952-942-7715
F 952-942-8059
institute@orbis.net
www.socialent.org
The Institute for Social Entrepreneurs is a nonprofit organization that seeks to encourage entrepreneurship throughout the non-profit sector through education and consulting services.

NATIONAL CENTER FOR CHARITABLE STATISTICS
Center on Nonprofits and Philanthropy – The Urban Institute
2100 M Street, NW
Washington, DC 200037
T 202-833-7200
http://nccsdataweb.urban.org
The National Center for Charitable Statistics, a program of the Urban Institute's Center on Nonprofits and Philanthropy is the national clearinghouse of data on the nonprofit sector in the United States.

NATIONAL CENTER FOR NONPROFIT ASSOCIATIONS
1030 15th Street NW Suite 870
Washington, DC 20005-1525
T 202-962-0322
F 202-963-0321
www.ncna.org
Established in 1989, the National Center for Nonprofit Associations has grown to become a network of 39 state associations of nonprofits representing 22,000 nonprofits in 35 states and DC. It seeks to strengthen state association through linking them with national groups as well as through research, publication dissemination, education and leadership development training.

NATIONAL CENTER FOR SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURS
14579 Grand Ave South, Suite 100
Burnsville, MN 55306
T 952-898-1171
www.missionmoneymatters.org
Since 1983, the National Center for Social Entrepreneurs has aimed to increase the effectiveness and financial self-sufficiency of the nonprofit sector by helping nonprofits to develop social enterprise strategies that enable them to earn more income from fees, contracts and product sales.

NEW PROFIT, INC.
2 Canal Park
Cambridge, MA 02141
T 617-252-2153
www.newprofit.com
Since 1998, New Profit has helped a portfolio of social entrepreneurs build world-class organizations and scale their social impact. With the support of individual investors and its lead backer, the Monitor Group, New Profit provides multi-year financial and strategic support to a portfolio of social entrepreneurs working in education, youth development, workforce development, and other areas.

NONPROFIT SECTOR RESEARCH FUND
The Aspen Institute
One Dupont Circle, NW, Suite 700
Washington, DC 20036
T 202-736-5800
F 202-293-0525
nsrf@aspeninstitute.org
www.nonprofitresearch.org
The Nonprofit Sector Research Fund awards research grants, convenes sector leaders, and disseminates research findings to expand knowledge of the nonprofit sector, improve practices, and inform public policy.

ORIGO
153 Kearny Street, Suite 401
San Francisco, CA 94108
T 415-296-1280
F 415-296-9819
info@origoinc.com
www.origoinc.com
Origo does consulting work with business, foundations, government agencies, and others to assist clients to develop social-enterprise strategies and cross-sector partnerships. Since 2000, Origo has published Fourth Sector News, a biweekly on-line newsletter on social enterprise.

REDF (formerly Roberts Enterprise Development Fund)
P.O. Box 29566
San Francisco, CA 94129
T 415-561-6677
F 415-561-6685
www.redf.org
The Roberts Enterprise Development Fund provides technical assistance and philanthropic investments to help nonprofit organizations in the San Francisco area attain marketplace sustainability in their enterprise ventures. REDF also works with organizations across the U.S. that use nonprofit enterprise strategies.

ROLFE LARSON ASSOCIATES
699 South Trenton, Suite 58
Denver, CO 80231
720-255-3990
www.rolfelarson.com
Rolfe Larson Associates is a consulting firm that helps nonprofits generate more earned income by increasing profits from current activities, launching a new venture, or something in between. Areas of consulting work include: assessing organizational readiness, brainstorming and screening venture ideas, feasibility analysis, developing business plans, and plan implementation.

SOCIAL EDGE
c/o Skoll Foundation
250 University Ave, #200
Palo Alto, CA 94301
T 650-331-1031
F 650-331-1033
socialedge@skollfoundation.org
www.socialedge.org
Social Edge is a project of the Skoll Foundation that aims to connect social entrepreneurs and allies to discuss issues shaping the field. Social Edge's web site has a number of articles on social enterprise, publishes a monthly electronic newsletter, and hosts issue-based web discussion groups.

SOCIAL ENTERPRISE ALLIANCE
43 South Cassady Ave.
Columbus, OH 43209
T 614-235-0230
www.se-alliance.org
The Social Enterprise Alliance is a leading trade association in the United States of non-profits engaged in mission-oriented business. It has hosted a number of “national gathering” conferences and maintains a listserv of over 1,000 non-profit social enterprise practitioners.