Activate: UT | Social Entrepreneurship

Media Sources

World Focus - "A nightly broadcast focused exclusively on international news...Worldfocus has been honored with multiple awards, including two Emmy nominations and a Robert F. Kennedy Journalism award."

Chronicles of Philanthropy - "News source, in print and online, for nonprofit leaders, fund raisers, grant makers, and other people involved in the philanthropic enterprise."

Global Voices - "An international community of bloggers who report on blogs and citizen media from around the world."

TriplePundit - A media platform for the Triple Bottom Line: People, Planet, and Profit.

Funding

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation - informational resources and grants for global health and development (large scope).

Echoing Green - Global nonprofit that provides seed funding and technical assistance to emerging social entrepreneurs with ideas for social change.

Corporation for National and Community Service - Federal entity, nation’s largest grantmaker for service and volunteering.

The Awesome Foundation - Monthly $1,000 grants with no strings attached. "Projects have included efforts in a wide range of areas including technology, arts, social good, and beyond."

Acumen Fund - "A non-profit that raises charitable donations to invest in companies, leaders, and ideas that are changing the way the world tackles poverty."

Do Something - A non-profit organization that helps raise money for young people to lead a variety of social causes.

D-Prize - Challenging "social entrepreneurs to develop better ways to distribute proven life-enhancing technologies, and funding early-stage startups that deliver the best results."

Knight Foundation - Focuses "on funding Journalistic Excellence, Entrepreneurs and Innovators, and Open Information Systems."

Omidyar Network - A philanthropic investment firm who "provides grants to non-profits and invest in innovative organizations that are advancing economic and social change."

Nonprofits Assistance Fund - Finances nonprofit organizations through investments and financial consulting.

General Resources

I Live Here, I Give Here - A website that has a database full of charities and nonprofit organizations in Austin and gives the user a direct platform to donate to them.

Points of Light - A volunteer network composed of action networks, a civic incubator, and education programs.

ReWork - Search engine for meaningful, social good careers.

Gap Foundation's Be What's Possible - Supports youth in the developed world through skill building workshops that encourage social innovation. Also focused on educating women in developing countries.

Ignite Good - "Non-profit that hosts events to teach storytelling for social movement building strategies."

Be Good Be Social - Hosts events that "bring together third sector professionals interested in social media for social good."

Social Media for Good - A website that provides many different social media resources "for NGOs, non-profit organizations and to support humanitarian relief."

Give Well - "a nonprofit dedicated to finding outstanding giving opportunities and publishing the full details of our analysis to help donors decide where to give."

Idealist - A website that has "compiled a collection of resources on diverse topics, including local and global volunteering, nonprofit careers, nonprofit management, and graduate school."

GuideStar - Database of all US-registered non-profits and their financial statements.

Athgo - Provides educational programs to empower young people "with the tools, knowledge, and support needed to conceive, develop, and launch constructive entrepreneurial ventures."

New Profit Inc. - "Provide support to innovative social entrepreneurs and their organizations, and pursue a set of social innovation strategies to improve the environment in which all social entrepreneurs operate."

Online Communities

Open IDEO - Open innovation platform for social good and crowdsourced ideas.

Ashoka - Largest international community of SEs, includes fellowship program, university outreach, venture funds, etc.

Enspiral - "A virtual and physical network of companies and professionals working together to create a thriving society."

Wiser - "Our mission is to help the global movement of people and organizations working toward social justice, indigenous rights, and environmental stewardship to connect, collaborate, share knowledge, and build alliances."

PopTech - "PopTech brings together a global community of innovators from many fields to share insights and work together to create lasting change."

Radical Social Entrepreneurs - "A global network of visionaries, innovators, and creators focused onusing radically new approaches to solve complex world problems."

Social Enterprise Alliance – “Membership organization for the diverse and rapidly growing social enterprise sector in North America."

Edutopia - Online community that hopes to revolutionize and provides resources for innovation in K-12 education.

Miscellaneous

Feast Conference - "A flagship Conference in NYC to share unique perspectives and tackle today’s greatest societal challenges."

StartingBloc - "A transformative 5-day experience where Fellows learn from proven change-makers, are pushed to take bigger risks, and find new life-long allies."

Joan Ganz Cooney Center - "Independent research and innovation lab that focuses on the challenges of educating children in a rapidly changing media landscape."

Dell Education Challenge - a competition that "identifies and supports promising young social innovators who dedicate themselves to solving the world's most pressing problems with their transformative ideas."

Innosight Institute - "A nonprofit, nonpartisan think tank dedicated to improving the worldthrough disruptive innovation."

EdGeeks - Blog about edtech, inspiration & innovation, and learning strategies.

Lifelong Kindergarten by MIT Media Lab - blog about MIT's Media Labs new technologies projects to expand learning.

Social Innovation Blog – Details various social innovation projects and businesses.