Greentown Labs provides entrepreneurs R&D space to launch their cleantech ventures. Now home to 24 start-ups, Greentown sprung from a grassroots cluster of award-winning cleantech companies. With over twenty companies we are the second largest cleantech incubator in the country. Our 19,000 square feet of space includes 3,000 square feet of prototyping space, a machine shop, an electronics shop, and other equipment and shared tools.

Our Mission is to catalyze more capital for good by providing information, intelligence, and strategies that connect impact investors and philanthropists with social entrepreneurs and ultimately grow the emerging social capital marketplace.

Triple Pundit is an innovative new-media company for the business community that cultivates awareness and understanding of the triple bottom line. We provide expert editorial coverage, news and discussions on sustainable business in the 21st century.

Our mission is to reduce poverty in emerging markets through risk capital investments in the most innovative alternative energy and mobile technology startups. To apply for investment consideration, visit http://bit.ly/applyID

Honeybee Capital focuses on long term thematic research that is relevant to sustainable, integrated investing. We are dedicated to the belief that pollinating ideas across varied fields leads to optimal investment decision making.
Honeybee’s mission is to reconnect investing with the actual world… not the world on the screen.

Seeding Labs helps talented scientists in the developing world conduct life-changing research. We provide them with the resources they need but often do not have access to, including lab equipment, training, and introductions to key influencers in their field.

Design that Matters (DtM), a 501c3 nonprofit based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, creates new products that allow social enterprises in developing countries to offer improved services and scale more quickly. DtM has built a collaborative design process through which hundreds of volunteers in academia and industry donate their skills and expertise to the creation of breakthrough products for communities in need. Our goal is to deliver a better quality of service, and a better quality of life, to millions of beneficiaries through products designed for our clients.

We believe that spirituality cultivates the depth of imagination, service, and courage needed to transform an unjust world. Our mission at Still Harbor is to offer accompaniment to individuals and organizations engaged in social justice efforts by serving as a spiritual community and learning partner. Learn more at http://www.stillharbor.org/

Episcopal City Mission is a faith-based ministry which promotes social and economic justice working through partnerships with congregations, community-based organizations and people within the Diocese of Massachusetts with special emphasis on the urban poor and oppressed.

The Mission of Halloran Philanthropies to inspire, catalyze and accelerate the development and promotion of sustainable social interventions that seek to raise people’s level of well-being, while respecting the cultural diversity and ecological integrity of present and future generations.

The Rockefeller Foundation supports work that expands opportunity and strengthens resilience to social, economic, health and environmental challenges—affirming its pioneering philanthropic mission since 1913 to promote the well-being of humanity. The Foundation operates both within the United States and around the world. The Foundation’s efforts are overseen by an independent Board of Trustees and managed by its president through a leadership team drawn from scholarly, scientific, and professional disciplines.

Omidyar Network is a philanthropic investment firm dedicated to harnessing the power of markets to create opportunity for people to improve their lives. Established in 2004 by eBay founder Pierre Omidyar and his wife Pam, the organization invests in and helps scale innovative organizations to catalyze economic and social change. To date, Omidyar Network has committed more than $550 million to for-profit companies and nonprofit organizations that foster economic advancement and encourage individual participation across multiple initiatives, including entrepreneurship, financial inclusion, property rights, government transparency, consumer Internet and mobile.

Markets for Good is an effort by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the William & Flora Hewlett Foundation and the progressive financial firm Liquidnet to improve the system for generating, sharing, and acting upon data and information in the social sector. Our vision is of a social sector powered by information, where capital flows efficiently to the organizations that are having the greatest impact, interventions are more effective and innovative, and there is a dynamic culture of continuous learning and development.

Guided by the belief that every life has equal value, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation works to help all people lead healthy, productive lives. In developing countries, it focuses on improving people’s health and giving them the chance to lift themselves out of hunger and extreme poverty. In the United States, it seeks to ensure that all people—especially those with the fewest resources—have access to the opportunities they need to succeed in school and life. Based in Seattle, Washington, the foundation is led by CEO Jeff Raikes and Co-chair William H. Gates Sr., under the direction of Bill and Melinda Gates and Warren Buffett.

The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation has been making grants since 1967 to help solve social and environmental problems at home and around the world. The Foundation concentrates its resources on activities in education, the environment, global development and population, performing arts, and philanthropy, and makes grants to support disadvantaged communities in the San Francisco Bay Area. A full list of all the Hewlett Foundation’s grants can be found here.

Through the New Markets Tax Credit program, Wells Fargo Community Lending and Investment provides debt for construction and/or substantial rehabilitation of commercial and community-oriented properties located in low-income census tracts nationwide. We also provide investments in low-income communities through our own NMTC allocation or partnering with third party community development entities (CDEs). Learn more on our website

At HP, we believe that corporate success and social contribution are interdependent. As the largest technology company in the world, we’re in a unique position to use our global reach to serve billions, improving quality of life, changing the way how businesses operate, and strengthening communities worldwide. We aim to enrich society and drive sustainable economic growth by giving people and businesses innovative ways to be more creative, productive, and successful through the power of information. We take a focused approach to social innovation, addressing the following areas: education, entrepreneurship, health, and community involvement.

Our approach to corporate responsibility is an integrated part of HP’s overall business strategy, helping us create long-term value that will benefit customers, shareholders, consumers, and our communities. The innovations driven through our social innovation program broaden our understanding and perspective on customer needs, creating a virtuous cycle of business development.

At HP, we believe that corporate success and social contribution are interdependent. As the largest technology company in the world, we’re in a unique position to use our global reach to serve billions, improving quality of life, changing the way how businesses operate, and strengthening communities worldwide. We aim to enrich society and drive sustainable economic growth by giving people and businesses innovative ways to be more creative, productive, and successful through the power of information. We take a focused approach to social innovation, addressing the following areas: education, entrepreneurship, health, and community involvement.

Our approach to corporate responsibility is an integrated part of HP’s overall business strategy, helping us create long-term value that will benefit customers, shareholders, consumers, and our communities. The innovations driven through our social innovation program broaden our understanding and perspective on customer needs, creating a virtuous cycle of business development.

For another consecutive year, MicroPlace is proud to be a SOCAP sponsor because we believe in the democratization of impact investing. Meaningful impact can happen when, together, we pool our resources and fund solutions for a better world. MicroPlace is a registered brokerage platform that enables US investors to support projects dedicated to social and environmental impact, both here in the United States as well as abroad.

ImpactAssets is a nonprofit financial services company created to help solve the world’s toughest problems by catalyzing investment capital for maximum environmental, social and financial impact. With easy and effective options for individuals and advisors, ImpactAssets aggregates and invests assets in order to accomplish three goals:

• Leverage investments to earn a return and create positive social and environmental impact
• Increase the amount of capital flowing to high impact social and environmental enterprises
• Speed the adoption of impact investing by investors, philanthropists and their wealth advisors

ImpactAssets is a nonprofit financial services company created to help solve the world’s toughest problems by catalyzing investment capital for maximum environmental, social and financial impact. With easy and effective options for individuals and advisors, ImpactAssets aggregates and invests assets in order to accomplish three goals:

• Leverage investments to earn a return and create positive social and environmental impact
• Increase the amount of capital flowing to high impact social and environmental enterprises
• Speed the adoption of impact investing by investors, philanthropists and their wealth advisors

Progressive Asset Management Group is the Socially-Responsible Division of Financial West Group, a full-service investment brokerage firm, member FINRA/SIPC. For over 18 years, our office has helped many individuals, families, nonprofits, and business owners invest responsibly while maintaining well-diversified and balanced portfolios. We offer both Individual and Company-Sponsored Retirement Plans, Non-Retirement Accounts, Socially Responsible 529 College Saving Plans, and Community Investing Opportunities. We analyze risk parameters, time horizons and investment goals for each portfolio to accommodate for specific and personal concerns.

RSF Social Finance is a non-profit financial services organization dedicated to transforming the way the world works with money. Inspired by the work of Rudolf Steiner, RSF offers investing, lending, and giving services that generate positive social and environmental impact while fostering community and collaboration among participants. In partnership with their investors and donors, RSF has made $230 million in loans and over $100 million in grants since 1984 to for-profit and non-profit social enterprises working in the areas of Food and Agriculture, Education and the Arts, and Ecological Stewardship. Underlying all their work is a spirited conversation about the role that money can play in the development of humanity.

The HUB is the nexus of entrepreneurship, capital, and mission. It is a place where for-profit and non-profit ideas become viable enterprises that address the complex problems we face for a sustainable future. Purpose-driven people find the support they need at the HUB to reach their goals faster in a community that makes everyone smarter and more effective. Existing organizations establish satellite presences at the HUB to join the community and create value-exchange. HUB Bay Area is designing workspaces, events, education, and media as tools to drive acceleration and collaboration.

TechSoup Global, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, was founded in 1987 on the belief that technology is a powerful enabler for social change.  TechSoup.Org is a technology product philanthropy service which connects nonprofits and libraries to 45 donating partners (including Microsoft, Cisco, Symantec, and Adobe). Products and services valued at more than US$2.6 billion have been put in the hands of social benefit organizations since the project began in January 2002. The TechSoup Global Network of partner NGOs makes the donation program available to community-based organizations in 35 countries. TechSoup Global also operates NetSquared, GuideStar International, and NGOsource also facilitating philanthropic support, data transparency and shared innovation around the world.

Called the “hottest non-profit on the planet” by FORTUNE magazine and a Top 50 Website by TIME, Kiva (www.kiva.org) is the world’s first personal microlending marketplace where anyone can make a $25 loan to create opportunity and help alleviate poverty. In just 7 years, Kiva has enabled over $300+ million in loans for 800,000+ entrepreneurs in 60+ countries. Kiva combines the culture and approach of an internet start-up with an intense focus on tackling financial exclusion across the globe. Kiva is poised to take its initial success to a whole new level – targeting $1 billion in loans by 2015 and expansion into new areas including student loans, climate change, water, etc. Headquartered in San Francisco, Kiva’s team has 100 employees and 500+ volunteers.

Kiva is a non-profit organization with a mission to connect people through lending to alleviate poverty. Leveraging the internet and a worldwide network of microfinance institutions, Kiva lets individuals lend as little as $25 to help create opportunity around the world.

REDF creates jobs and employment opportunities for people facing the greatest barriers to work. REDF provides funding, know-how and networks to help enterprising nonprofit organizations start and scale businesses that intentionally employ individuals that have been homeless or incarcerated or have addiction or mental health challenges. Since 1997, REDF has connected 6,700 people to jobs, 50 social enterprises to growth, and hundreds of donors to impact. An inaugural grantee of the Social Innovation Fund, REDF is expanding in California to develop a nationally scalable social enterprise model. Learn more at www.redf.org.

GIIRS is a comprehensive and transparent system for assessing the social and environmental impact of developed and emerging market companies and funds with a ratings and analytics approach analogous to Morningstar investment rankings and Capital IQ financial analytics. It seeks to spark the impact investment movement by providing a tool that is intended to change investor behavior and unlock the potential of this new asset class. GIIRS Ratings & Analytics will allow entrepreneurs, companies, and fund managers to better serve their customers, workers, and communities by raising capital from mission-aligned investors based on the social and environmental impact of their underlying businesses or portfolio companies. For more information, visit http://www.giirs.org/.

Prudential Financial, Inc. (NYSE: PRU), a financial services leader with approximately $961 billion of assets under management as of June 30, 2012, has operations in the United States, Asia, Europe, and Latin America. Prudential and its employees have a long-standing commitment to the communities where we work and live. As part of its culture, the people of Prudential help improve communities by investing financial resources, business expertise and associate volunteer skills in programs that increase human potential and individual self-sufficiency. The company established what is now Social Investments in 1976, and has since provided more than $1.4 billion in impact investments.

The San Francisco Foundation strengthens the Bay Area by investing in change through people, organizations, neighborhoods, and policy. We work hand in hand with our donor partners, nonprofits, government, and businesses, to identify best practices and enact long-term solutions across the Bay Area.

We cultivate and nurture the most effective individual leaders and groups in our region. We foster leadership, innovations, and results, and embrace the vision and inspiration of our leaders in helping to spark revitalization in our neighborhoods, our region, and our community.

The Aga Khan Foundation U.S.A.’s Impact Investing Initiative is a direct outgrowth of AKF USA’s history of implementing social development programs. The Aga Khan Development Network (AKDN) has for decades been a leader in mobilizing investment capital for development purposes—what is known today as Impact Investing.

REDF is a California-based venture philanthropy organization that invests in nonprofit-run businesses called ‘social enterprises’ which create jobs to employ people who have been chronically unemployed.  The vast majority of those they have interviewed after getting a social enterprise job are still earning a paycheck two years later, and contributing to their families, communities and the economy.  Now REDF is bringing their model to scale to create jobs for thousands of Californians who have been shut out of the workforce, while developing a replicable national model.

Launched in 2009, Innotribe is SWIFT’s initiative to enable collaborative innovation in financial services.  Innotribe deliver an energising mix of education, new perspectives, collaboration, facilitation and incubation to professionals and entrepreneurs who are willing to drive change within their industry. It fosters creative thinking in financial services, through debating the options (at Innotribe events) and supporting the creation of innovative new solutions (through the Innotribe Incubator, Innotribe Startup Challenge, Banks for a Better World and Proof of Concepts (POCs). For more information, please visit http://www.innotribe.com/.

• The Innotribe Startup Challenge introduces the world’s most promising FinTech and Financial Service startups to SWIFT’s global community of thousands of financial institutions, venture capitalists, angels and influencers actively investing in financial industry innovation. For more information, please visit http://www.innotribestartup.com

• Banks for a Better World explores opportunities for the financial industry to design new products and services to support sustainable, ethical and social business, with a focus on financial inclusion, collaborative social engagement and interconnecting infrastructures between mainstream banking and social financing. The program’s first project, organized by SWIFT and Ashoka is a collaborative challenge of co-created, investable solutions that connect social and mainstream finance.

About SWIFT

SWIFT is a member-owned cooperative that provides the communications platform, products and services to connect more than 10,000 banking organisations, securities institutions and corporate customers in 212 countries and territories. SWIFT enables its users to exchange automated, standardised financial information securely and reliably, thereby lowering costs, reducing operational risk and eliminating operational inefficiencies. SWIFT also brings the financial community together to work collaboratively to shape market practice, define standards and debate issues of mutual interest. For more information, please visit http://www.swift.com

Avina Foundation as an organization dedicated to sustainable development in Latin America, believes that the UN call known as Rio +20, inspires us to renewed efforts to promote, from the recognition of their strengths and weaknesses, to sustainable development as ethical paradigm overall policy.

Intersection is a pioneering arts and community development organization that brings people together across boundaries to instigate break-through change. Intersection works with hundreds of artists through residencies, commissions, fellowships, fiscal sponsorship and incubation, performances, exhibitions, workshops and public art projects.  Intersection is a lead collaborator on The 5M Project in downtown San Francisco, where we are helping prototype the next generation of urban development that embraces diversity of thought, life experience, and culture. We bring together artists, makers, entrepreneurs, social change agents, and technology innovators to develop a place that unlocks resources, connection, and creativity. Intersection, The 5M Project, and PolicyLink are co-creating 5M PlaceWorks – a new entity that fuses creative placemaking with economic development to create a new model for equitable urban development.

ICE (Instituto de Cidadania Empresarial, or Entrepreneurial Citizenship Institute) is a Brazilian civil society organization whose mission is to engage change leaders in social development. The Institute works in three priority areas: Local Development, Social Business, and Social Finance. In the area of Social Finance, the main goal is to influence people and organizations from the investment community and social business ecosystem to develop new approaches for using finance resources to maximizing social and environmental impact. ICE’s work is documented, systemized, and evaluated so that we can constantly improve our projects, and produce knowledge based on our experiences to reduce poverty and improve the lives of Brazilian citizens.

The Vodafone Americas Foundation strives to make a positive and enduring impact on local and global communities by supporting programs to foster innovative wireless solutions. We believe in the power of wireless technology to improve people’s lives, strengthen the global development sector, and spark innovation. Amongst its programs, the Foundation operates the Wireless Innovation Project™, a competition designed to seek the best wireless technology solutions to address critical social issues around the world. The competition has identified several high-profile winners poised to make an impact in poverty, health, environment, disaster relief, and access to technology. Vodafone Americas Foundation™ is part of Vodafone’s global network of 27 foundations, and is affiliated with Vodafone Group Plc., one of the world’s leading mobile telecommunications companies.

American Express is a global services company, providing customers with access to products, insights and experiences that enrich lives and build business success.
American Express launched Serve in May 2011, a digital commerce platform that makes it easier for consumers to manage their money and send and receive payments via app, email, text message and Facebook. Learn more at serve.com.

Green Economy Media’s mission is to help build a healthier and more sustainable world.

We currently operate services for green job seekers and green entrepreneurs.

Stanford Social Innovation Review is a part of the Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society at Stanford University whose mission is to share substantive insights and practical experiences that will help those who do the important work of improving society do it even better.

A collaborative media network for the people and ideas shifting how the world works to make it better. Find us at www.newempirebuilders.com.

SIR.tv is a new initiative to expand the social innovation movement. Every day we feature one change agent in order to articulate the massive trend towards global social responsibility and disruptive innovation. We call them Social Innovation Rockstars (SIRs) because we find them energizing, exciting, and frankly, downright sexy. While placing the emphasis on style and charisma, we use the power of media to amplify the exciting work of SIRs in an authentic and sophisticated manner.

Impact IQ will provide data and analysis of deal financing and impact metrics to open the marketplace for investments that combine social, environmental and financial returns.

Business Development Skåne is responsible for and coordinates all business development issues within Region Skåne, the regional government of Sweden’s southernmost region, Skåne. Together with public and private players, Business Development Skåne is working towards the same objective: stronger business in Skåne that create sustainable growth and more jobs. Business Development Skåne works on initiatives in the fields of entrepreneurship, innovations, business development, clusters, process development, and exports. Business Development Skåne is also a part of a ‘virtual group’ together with Skåne’s marketing company Business Region Skåne, which is owned by Region Skåne and the municipalities of Skåne.

Malmö University is a young, up-and-coming urban university based in Malmö, a city that links Scandinavia to continental Europe. Malmö University is located in the very center of Malmö. Almost 24,000 students are enrolled and 1,800 are international students from 100 countries around the world. Internationalization and diversity have always been core values for Malmö University. The university’s rapid growth and development reflects the city of which it is a part. Malmö is a city in transition, moving from an industrial past to a modern, cosmopolitan future.

Malmö is Sweden’s third largest city and located just 20 minutes from Northern Europe’s largest airport, Kastrup. In 2006 Malmö was certified as Sweden’s first Fair-trade City, which has spurred the city’s organic and fair trade offerings. It is a vibrant city with a large number of museums and art galleries and also a rich night and bar life. The transformation from a typical industrial city to a youthful knowledge city with a sustainable profile has quickly put Malmö on the map as one of Scandinavia’s hottest cities.

Skåne is the southernmost province of Sweden. Business Region Skåne supports and encourages initiatives that improve life in Skåne and markets the region internationally. The aim is to attract visitors to Skåne, to generate investment in Skåne’s businesses, and to promote Skåne as a venue for major events. The four marketing companies: Event in Skåne, Invest in Skåne, Tourism in Skåne, and Film in Skåne develop, coordinate, and consolidate the Skåne brand and — along with other stakeholders — take active responsibility for marketing the Öresund Region.

The aim of the Swedish Agency for Economic and Regional Growth — Tillväxtverket — is to work pro-actively for sustainable growth — a public strategy to ensure that investments for growth will also make growth possible for coming generations.

The role of the Swedish Agency for Economic and Regional Growth is to strengthen regional development and facilitate enterprise and entrepreneur-ship throughout Sweden. These are major challenges in the new international business landscape that is now emerging. We have taken them on and formulated a vision:

Sweden, a model for sustainable growth across enterprises and regions.

Attaining this vision will require drive and determination. Together, we must choose a path that leads to more and growing companies. A path that leads to a Sweden where successfully starting and running a company is simple — in all parts of the country.

PwC firms help organisations and individuals create the value they’re looking for. We’re a network of firms in 158 countries with close to 169,000 people who are committed to delivering quality in assurance, tax and advisory services.

For more than 25 years, Whole Foods Market has worked to provide customers with the broadest possible selection of the highest quality products available. Our search for products begins right outside our front door in every community where we do business. We are permanently committed to buying from local producers that meet our high quality standards, particularly those who farm organically and are themselves dedicated to environmentally friendly, sustainable agriculture. We are greatly increasing our efforts in this regard by further empowering our individual store and regional buyers to seek out locally grown products.

Foundation Source is the nation’s largest provider of support services for private foundations. Today, the company runs nearly 1,000 private foundations nationwide, ranging from $250,000 to $250 million in assets. Our full range of back-office, online and advisory services allow donors and their families to focus more on mission, strategy and family priorities and less on administration and compliance tasks. The result: better run foundations with greater social impact.

Foundation Source Access is a service for foundation clients that enables them to find projects and causes that match their philanthropic interests, and tap the experiences and expertise of the entire Foundation Source community.

Change.org empowers you to create real change in your community, city, or country.

Every day, across the world, people like you start campaigns on Change.org to fight for issues they care about — and the Change.org team works to mobilize people to help them win.

We believe that building momentum for social change globally means empowering citizen activists locally. That’s why anyone, anywhere — from Chicago to Cape Town – can start their own grassroots campaign for change using our organizing platform.

Emcor has over three decades of experience as a leading independent risk management firm.  Emcor provides strategic asset allocation advisory services to institutional investors and family offices, and specializes in the design and development of customized investment allocations and strategies.  The investment programs to which Emcor serves as advisor are managed by traditional as well as alternative investment managers and include investments in U.S. timberland properties with an emphasis on full forestry ecosystem services.  Emcor, together with an increasing number of its clients, also invests in companies capable of creating social and/or environmental impact.

NCB Capital Impact helps people and communities reach their highest potential
at every stage of life. As a national, non-profit community development finance
institution, Capital Impact provides financial services and technical assistance to help
make high-quality health care, healthy foods, housing, and education more accessible
and attainable, and eldercare more dignified and respectful. Capital Impact has used
its depth of experience, cooperative approach, and diverse network of alliances to
generate over $1.6 billion in critical investments that create a high quality of life for
low income people and communities.

Boston-based Trillium Asset Management, LLC (Trillium) is the oldest independent investment advisor devoted exclusively to sustainable and responsible investing (SRI). We believe examining environmental, social, and governance (ESG) factors as an integrated part of the investment process can lower portfolio risk and help identify the best managed companies. With $900 million in assets under management, we have been managing equity and fixed income investments for high net worth individuals, foundations, endowments, religious institutions, and other non-profits since 1982. A leader in shareholder advocacy and public policy work, our goal is to deliver both impact and performance to our investors.

GIIRS Ratings and Analytics assist companies and funds in the capital raising process by providing them with ratings on their social and environmental performance. GIIRS also provides investors the data they need to make intelligent impact investing decisions. At scale, GIIRS will help drive capital to higher impact investments, make the investment process for impact investments more efficient, and help bring new capital to the marketplace. SoCap provides GIIRS with a unique opportunity to bring its many stakeholders – companies, funds, partners, investment advisors, and investors – together.

Calvert Foundation is a nonprofit organization that has pioneered a new type of investing that delivers a social and financial return. People invest in us through the Community Investment Note and then we invest in organizations around the world that empower people living in low-income communities.

CSR i Praktiken is a leading online business magazine, focusing on how sustainability changes the game of business.

txtWeb is a global platform where anyone with a mobile phone can discover and consume internet AND txtWeb-only content just by SMSing keywords (very much like entering domain names into internet browsers) to ONE national number, and receive back content (up to 900 characters per SMS). Keywords represent an almost unlimited number of applications that use content from the internet or have their own original content. These applications are created by an open community of publishers and developers, and can include Wikipedia content, local market prices, government programs, financial literacy tips etc. A user can think of txtWeb as an SMS-based browser, but much more accessible than web-browsers on computers since anyone with a simple feature phone can use it.

Sustainable Industries is an independent media company producing this web site, an award-winning bimonthly magazine, industry newsletters, a Webinar and podcast series, and the Sustainable Industries Economic Forums. Our mission is to create a new B2B media experience — informing, inspiring and connecting sustainable business leaders.

Social Enterprise aims to be the most engaging, informative and useful resource for business people who are passionate about changing lives, building communities and nurturing the environment.

The Hub is the nexus point of entrepreneurship, funding, and mission. It is a place where non profit and for profit social change ideas build and scale into viable enterprises that address the complex problems we face, from poverty to climate change, for people and planet. Change agents find the support they need at the Hub to reach their goals faster, surrounded by a community that makes everyone smarter and more effective. From seed funding to professional services, from mentors to peers who understand what they are doing, the Hub is the platform that helps you make it happen. It’s where change goes to work.

The Global Social Venture Competition (GSVC) provides aspiring entrepreneurs with mentoring, exposure, and $50,000 in prizes to transform their ideas into businesses that will have positive real world impact. Founded by MBA students at UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business, the GSVC has evolved into a global network supported by an international community of volunteer judges, mentors and student organizers and a partnership of premier business schools in the Americas, Europe, Asia, and Africa. In 2012, GSVC received over 600 entries from 50 countries. Previous years’ finalists include Husk Power, Revolution Foods, and d.light design.

Village Capital uses the power of peer support to build enterprises that change the world. We run education programs for impact-oriented entrepreneurs; at the end, entrepreneurs receive investment as selected by their peers. To date, Village Capital has launched 14 programs with partners worldwide, serving over 250 enterprises.

The European Venture Philanthropy Association is a unique network of venture philanthropy organisations and others committed to promoting high-engagement grant making and social investment in Europe.
The association envisions a European philanthropic and social investment market that enables efficient funding of NGOs and social enterprises at all stages of their development, where venture philanthropy complements and strengthens other forms of funding.

EVPA defines venture philanthropy as an approach to build stronger propose investees organizations with a societal purpose by providing them with both financial and non-financial support in order to increase their societal impact.

EVPA’s diverse membership includes venture philanthropy funds, grant-making foundations, private equity firms and professional service firms, philanthropy advisors and business schools. Currently the association has 145+ members from 20 countries.

The founding partners of Flywheel believe so strongly in the power of social enterprise and the ability of Cincinnatians to work together toward a common cause, they decided to combine their efforts to form this innovative Social Enterprise Hub. We wanted to bring the best to Cincinnati and learned quickly that our vision for our Hub was unique and unlike any other model across the country. With this in mind, we mined the best practices in the nonprofit and for-profit sectors and talked extensively to nonprofits at all steps of development and brought them together under Flywheel. As a result, Flywheel has been designed intentionally to support clients through each step of social enterprise design. By learning the critical lessons at each step and receiving assistance in troubleshooting obstacles, our clients save time and money by reducing the cycle time between exploration and launch.

The Council on Foundations represents organizations with combined assets of nearly $300 billion and almost $20 billion in giving. The Council is the voice for philanthropy and delivers information, tools and techniques, networking and professional development opportunities for foundations, corporate giving programs and service providers.

The Business Alliance for Local Living Economies, or BALLE, is North America’s fastest growing network of socially responsible businesses, comprised of over 80 community networks in 30 U.S. states and Canadian provinces representing over 22,000 independent business members across the U.S. and Canada.

Village Capital improves entrepreneurial success with social ventures and accelerates the impact investing space by building peer support organizations for entrepreneurs in cities throughout the world. Inspired by early microfinance lending groups, where entrepreneurs select loan recipients from their own group, VilCap “crowd-sources” the most investable companies for investor partners.

EDCO Ventures is a venture development organization that partners with universities, government laboratories, risk capital groups, and private individuals to discover and commercialize technologies and innovative business ideas. EDCO’s goals are to create innovative companies and thereby increase living wage jobs in economically distressed areas of Texas. EDCO is a 501(c)(3) economic development non-profit organization.

SIX is now the world’s primary network for social innovation and a reputable source for research, action and intelligence.

We work with cities, national governments, and international bodies such as the European Commission to improve the methods with which our societies find better solutions to challenges such as climate change, inequality and healthcare. We foster genuine, active connections between the people building innovative solutions, from the grassroots to the policymaking level. By promoting learning across sectors, fields and countries, and by communicating and disseminating ideas about social innovation, SIX builds the capacities of its members and enables them to work together to develop resources for social innovators around the world.

New Ventures México (NVM) is an organization dedicated to promote the growth of businesses that generate a positive economic, environmental, and social impact. To achieve this result, NVM provides, among other programs, acceleration services as well as association with sources of financing. New Ventures has been in Mexico since 2004.

ReWork connects exceptional professionals with companies that are making the world a better place.

NorthSur connects entrepreneurs, organizations, governments and financing from the United States and Latin America on topics related to entrepreneurship and social capital markets.

NorthSur, together with El Mercurio (largest media company in Chile) and Common (common.is) is putting together Common Pitch Chile: Explotemos la Innovacion. Our sponsors to date are Corfo (Ministry of Innovation of Chile), Imagen de Chile (government agency related to the PR of Chile) Start Up Chile, Virgin Mobile and Endeavor Chile.

The Event
The theme of Common Pitch Chile’s is “Exploiting Innovation” through sustainable and socially aware business. The event is a four-day urban festival, taking place in Santiago, Chile, November 28th through December 1st, 2012.
The four-day event features:
•    A “green carpet” invitation-only VIP event to kick things off on Wednesday evening, November 28th
•    Keynote address by former U.S. Vice-President and Nobel Peace Prize winner Al Gore, November 29th
•   Music, art and cultural events throughout the four days including Devendra Banhardt and Devotchka
•    Common Boot Camp workshops on social entrepreneurialism, covering issues of sustainability, profitability, social return, venture capital, branding and marketing including visit of Tom Chi, head experiential of Google X
•    Attendance by 3,000 to 4,000 young entrepreneurs, business leaders, policy makers and the Chilean creative community
•    Mentorship day, in which the Pitch finalists are mentored by socent experts and advocates
•    The final Pitch! A pitch competition in which 8-10 finalist social entrepreneurs pitch their ideas to a panel of expert judges, and to the audience both physically present and online (a People’s Choice award)
Common Pitch has taken place in cities of many different stripes: Boulder, CO; Brooklyn, NY; Cape Town, South Africa; Milwaukee,

Why is this event so important to Chile?

Chile has to graduate to the next level. Therefore the question is whether a new generation of Chileans can change their way of thinking?  Can a culture of entrepreneurship, innovation and sustainability take root? Can we move beyond the legacy of a mineral-resource based economy to one based on intellectual and entrepreneurial revolution and leadership?
The tendencies and desires of a society and the pressure to make changes often comes from the younger generation.  In Chile this generation is no different from it counterpart in the US, but has less tools and opportunities to express itself.

Media coverage
Common Pitch Chile  will be covered by Chilean television, radio, print, and online and social media. Our media partners are El Mercurio and Television Nacional.  In addition El Mercurio will be covering the event editorially.

Partners in the US
Our partner in the US is Common, LLC, a social entrepreneurship accelerator and collaborative brand started by Alex Bogusky and Rob Schuham in 2011, now headed by Dan Burrier and Mark Eckhardt.  As mentioned, Common has produced Pitch events  in South Africa, New York, Boulder, and Milwaukee. Common also conducts MBAs (Maniacal Business Attacks)–four day intensive workshops that challenge congenital notions of vision, mission, strategy and market approach for socially minded enterprises–and is a parent or umbrella global brand for startup social enterprises

Future of Fish (FoF) is a nonprofit accelerator for entrepreneurs launching market-based initiatives that drive sustainability, efficiency, and traceability in the seafood supply chain. We focus specifically on industry pioneers whose planned initiatives are directly aligned with our mission and whose ideas are considered too nascent to secure traditional financing without the additional strategic and operational support we provide.

Our approach to system change is to help develop and support leaders working to address multiple breakdowns in the system. We cluster our entrepreneurs and partners into cohorts and lead them through a process of not only growing their own ideas, but also amplifying the success of others in the group. By choosing players that represent all levels in the seafood supply chain, we are able to foster greater change than any one individual or organization could accomplish alone.

Visit our website for more information on what we do and how you could get involved.

The Legacy Movement was founded earlier this year with an ambitious goal of changing the conversation about success and entrepreneurship in under-served communities.

There is a HUGE knowledge and opportunity gap that exists in the U.S. and we aim to significantly narrow that gap. Our vision is to develop a transformational organization that promotes and executes on creating generational wealth through entrepreneurship and business ownership in under-served communities. Our movement will be open to EVERYONE, but we will make concerted efforts to partner with individuals and organizations who are aligned with our vision to help increase economic and educational opportunities for women, military veterans, and minorities.

What are we going to do?

In the 1st phase, we will launch a technology platform that will bring together four key stakeholder groups to create entrepreneurship and generational wealth transfer activities:

• Entrepreneurs who wish to start and/or accelerate the growth of their business
• Experienced operators who want to acquire/invest in SMBs
• SMB owners who desire to sell their businesses
• Financial capital providers who seek to enhance their investment returns and diversify their portfolios

In the 2nd phase, we will launch a non-profit that will teach wealth-building principles in under-served communities. If we execute successfully, we will be in a position to launch a venture capital fund dedicated to investing in minority and women-owned business over the long-term.

Telecentre.org Foundation supports the establishment and sustainability of grassroots level telecentres. These telecentres—public places of access to the Internet and other digital technologies that help promote personal and social development—offer crucial services, skills and opportunities to people living in remote and rural locations around the world.

Social Enterprise Alliance (SEA) is the champion for social enterprise in the United States. Our aim is for social enterprise to reach its full potential as a force for positive social change, in service to the common good. To achieve this purpose, we provide social enterprises with the tools and resources they need to succeed, and work on building an optimal environment in which they can thrive.

We carry out our work through four strategies:

• We spread knowledge and build capacity — Through a variety of offerings including our newsletter, a monthly webinar series, npEnterprise (our official listserv), subscriptions, our mp3 Learning Series and our new Knowledge Center, we are the go-to source for the intellectual capital which fuels social enterprise.
• We build social enterprise communities and networks — We have rapidly built out a network of local social enterprise communities with 13 SEA chapters in 11 states. Together with our national convening power, we help social enterprisers find, learn from and support each other.
• We tell the stories and aggregate the impact of social enterprise — We vigorously promote the amazing narratives of our members, accumulate the evidence of field impact, and are the voice of the sector in numerous collaborations and partnerships.
• We advocate and promote supportive public policy — We seek to create a public environment in which social enterprise can maximize its leverage. Our State and Local Policy Toolkit helps our chapters and local members build this ecosystem locally, while at a national level we work on issues including social innovation initiatives, social impact bonds, government procurement, SBA lending and technical support for social enterprise and federal workforce programs and policies.

i-genius is a world community of social entrepreneurs (and people passionate about social and environmental change) in over 200 countries. Our sole purpose is to enable social businesses and entrepreneurs to succeed by bringing together like-minded people with an interest in an ethical and sustainable future and share their stories. We succeed in organising events and training courses in social entrepreneurship across the globe.

ClearlySo’s seventh annual Social Business Conference
‘Moving capital in a shocked economy’

Now in its seventh year, the ClearlySo Social Business Conference stands alone as the annual highlight of the social entrepreneurship calendar in the UK. This year’s theme focuses on raising capital in a climate of austerity and a sterling line up of speakers will address topics including social innovation, social investment and readiness, public sector spin-outs and charities.

Early Bird tickets at £150

When: October 9 2012
Where: LSO St Luke’s – Old St, London
Time: 8am – 6pm

www.sbc12.co.uk

Ennovent accelerates innovations creating a sustainable impact on low income people. We work with a global network of entrepreneurs, investors and experts to discover, finance and scale up the best innovations. We envision sustainable living for people at the base of the economic pyramid.

ThinkImpact is a global social enterprise that provides university students and young professionals the Innovation Institute, America’s premier total-immersion experiential learning program in rural Ghana, Kenya, Rwanda and South Africa that trains the next generation of social entrepreneurs.

‘Bioneers’ are people, of all diversities, working collectively in crafting creative solutions to the world’s environmental and bio-cultural challenges. At our 23rd Annual Bioneers Conference, join global thought-leaders, experts and advocates in exploring breakthrough solutions for a sustainable world. Our visionary speakers are part of a culture creating the healthy, diverse, equitable and beautiful world in which we all want to live.

ThinkImpact (www.thinkimpact.org) is a global company that turns the old development and aid model upside down. We offer programs for students to live and work in rural Africa where they design market based solutions to poverty with the people who live at the base of the pyramid.

ThinkImpact offers its programs including the Innovation Institute and Summit to universities such as Stanford, Dartmouth, Northwestern, USC, Michigan, and Georgetown or students can apply independently from any school to participate.

The flagship Institute is 8 weeks and operates in Ghana, Kenya, Rwanda and South Africa. From a typical summer dozens of ideas and innovations are identified using local assets and supply chains, and a mindshift from deficiency to opportunity is achieved for students on the program (called Scholars) and community members.

Slow Money is bringing people together around a shared vision about what it means to be an investor in the 21st Century.

TechSoup Global, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, was founded in 1987 on the belief that technology is a powerful enabler for social change.  TechSoup.Org is a technology product philanthropy service which connects nonprofits and libraries to 45 donating partners (including Microsoft, Cisco, Symantec, and Adobe). Products and services valued at more than US$2.6 billion have been put in the hands of social benefit organizations since the project began in January 2002. The TechSoup Global Network of partner NGOs makes the donation program available to community-based organizations in 35 countries. TechSoup Global also operates NetSquared, GuideStar International, and NGOsource also facilitating philanthropic support, data transparency and shared innovation around the world.

Slow Money: An emerging network of investors, donors, farmers, entrepreneurs and everyday folks committed to rebuilding the economy from the ground up, starting with food.

UniversalGiving is an award-winning website that helps people give and volunteer with top-performing organizations all over the world. Our projects are vetted through a proprietary Quality Model™ to ensure the most effective, trustworthy philanthropy possible. Unique to UniversalGiving, we take no cut on donations; 100% of your donation goes directly to the cause. Our vision is to “Create a World Where Giving and Volunteering are a Natural Part of Everyday Life.”™

The ArthaPlatform.com is an online community and website dedicated to building relationships between impact investors/donors, social entrepreneurs and capacity building support organizations working on or in India. The system is a social network focused specifically on lowering the transaction costs of due diligence in the Indian context.

Artemisia Negócios Sociais is a pioneer organization in social enterprise in Brazil. Artemisia leverages entrepreneurs and talents to build the best social enteprises for the Brazilian market. It was founded by Potencia Ventures in 2004.

With nearly 20 million members and more than 1,000 nonprofit clients worldwide, Care2 (www.Care2.com) is the largest and fastest growing social network making a difference for the environment, human rights, animals and other causes. Care2 is a B Corporation, or social enterprise, leveraging the power of business to make the world a better place. In the past two years, Care2 dramatically extended the reach and impact of its petitions by launching the Care2 Take Action Platform, a network of over 230 leading media partners – including Mother Jones, The Nation, AlterNet, Grist, TreeHugger, Daily Kos, Talking Points Memo, Ms. Magazine, Woman’s Health, VolunteerMatch, Technorati and eNature.com — that promotes nonprofit and citizen activist campaigns via their websites and email to an additional 150 million civic-minded people.

The Episcopal Church in the San Francisco Bay Area.

At the Center for Science, Technology, and Society, we believe that entrepreneurship is the most effective tool to address poverty. More than international aid or pure philanthropy, local enterprises empower community members with jobs, retain expertise necessary for economic growth, and often provide essential services, such as energy and health care.

Social entrepreneurs provide clean energy to fuel the night-time education of working children, safe drinking water for communities ravaged by disease, or vital goods and services for remote, rural villages. Yet despite developing breakthrough solutions for devastating problems, social entrepreneurs often struggle to build organizations that deliver social impact long-term and in a financially sustainable way.

Our signature program, the Global Social Benefit Incubator (GSBITM), addresses the gap between good intentions and skilled execution. Each year, over a 10-month period, the GSBI equips social entrepreneurs with the business discipline to grow their social ventures and amplify their impact. Open to any social enterprise regardless of legal form, the program attracts a broad pool of social entrepreneurs from around the world, with the help of a network of GSBI Discovery Partners. After surviving a four-month selection process, which includes preliminary exercises and feedback, the most promising entrepreneurs receive up to 20 of the coveted scholarships each year.

Full Circle Fund is an engaged philanthropy organization cultivating the next generation of community leaders and driving lasting social change in the Bay Area. Full Circle Fund members leverage their time, money, skills and connections to the service of nonprofits, businesses and government agencies in partnerships that result in significant impact on the community.

i-genius is a world community of social entrepreneurs with members in 138 countries.

The Center for the Advancement of Social Entrepreneurship (CASE) is a research and education center based at Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business. Through student programs, research, and field building, CASE promotes the entrepreneurial pursuit of social impact through the thoughtful adaptation of business expertise. Follow us on twitter (@CASEatDuke) or on our blog (http://blogs.fuqua.duke.edu/casenotes/)

Care2 provides powerful tools to make a difference in your life, your community, and the world. Their website is driven by a passionate community of 15 million members who want to restore the world’s balance. As a certified B Corporation (B Corp), Care2 is committed to using the power of business to make a positive social and earth-friendly impact on the world.

We incubate, catalyze and support Pure Projects, which use creativity and innovation to advance a common good in the world. A Pure Project can be a company, foundation, NGO, event, art installation, and beyond that share a common purpose and are guided by set of principles that seek harmony with all life.

The William James Foundation supports for-profit entrepreneurs who are making the world a better place and connects them to experts and investors so their ideas can scale. We do this through our sustainable business plan competition, mentor networks, and “Green Grab” seed stage funding events.

HI Impact’s mission is to educate the Hawai‘i market about social entrepreneurship and impact investing and to raise awareness of the unique role Hawai‘i can and is playing in impact investing globally.

NESsT develops sustainable social enterprises that solve critical social problems in emerging market economies.

Herman Miller works for a better world around you—with inventive designs, technologies and related services that improve the human experience wherever people work, heal, learn, and live. Its curiosity, ingenuity, and design excellence create award-winning products and services, resulting in more than $1.7 billion in revenue in fiscal 2012. Innovative business practices and a commitment to social responsibility have also established Herman Miller as a recognized global company.

Eventbrite is for anyone planning or attending an event. They empower event organizers to become more efficient and effective when bringing people together,  and people everywhere to discover great events that matter to them.

Design of the Festival Pavilion and Hub Space Experience

The experience of the Festival Pavilion and Hub Space was brought to life by Ecotone Creative Change Agency.  Working closely with the SOCAP and Hub teams, they crafted the expression of the organizations’ brands into a comfortable, inspirational space that facilitates the evolution of ideas and the creation of fresh connections.  Ecotone Creative Change Agency helps organizations strengthen their messages, expand their communities, and magnify their impact. Their signature approach to marketing, operations, and design has supported initiatives from Silicon Valley to the most remote villages in the world. Without exception, their work supports social and environmental causes. One quarter of their services work is donated to vital organizations with limited budgets.

Hot Studio is an experience design company. By bringing together the right set of skills, experience, and personality, Hot wants to create the perfect set of co-conspirators for your unique project.

BiD Network contributes to sustainable economic growth by stimulating entrepreneurship in emerging markets. With over 40,000 members and 10,000 business plans, www.bidnetwork.org is the world’s largest online community for emerging market SMEs, coaches and investors. Since 2005, BiD Network has launched 490 businesses, created more than 3500 direct jobs, and mobilized $12 million from investors. In November 2010, BiD Network was chosen by a G-20 jury as one of the 14 most innovative SME Finance organizations in the world.

SJF Institute is an independent non-profit institute that works with positive impact businesses and sustainable entrepreneurs to facilitate their access to capital, promote employee engagement, and help build sustainable economies.

We believe in the vision of entrepreneurs, so we work hard to make sure they grow stronger financially in order to have a bigger impact socially and environmentally. And why do they choose us? We have a decade of experience in a thriving field that some still consider “new”. Every day we help others do better by connecting the right people, inspiring new thinking, and accelerating success.

SJF Institute. Helping Entrepreneurs Change the World.

Center for Public Entrepreneurship is a resource center for people and organizations that have a community development idea. They support social entrepreneurial ventures in Skåne by offering mentoring and advice on financing, organization, project management, communication and access to our multi-sectoral networks. All services are free. They are also working in partnership with colleges and universities to create and disseminate knowledge about samhällsentreprenörskapets importance.

We are the Swedish national forum for social innovation and social entrepreneurship. We share news, information, network and what is happening within this field, in Sweden and globally. Forum for Social Innovation Sweden is a meeting place for academia, industry, government, civic society and non-profit organisations in Sweden striving to develop social innovation and social entrepreneurship.

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The Center for Nonprofit and Public Leadership inspires the next generation of leaders to create and seize opportunities to achieve social impact across sectors.

Who has not dreamt about saving the world?

Most of us want to do good and make a difference. But everyday life gets in the way making us forget that small things can make a big difference. That’s just what it was like for us at Abob. We are three entrepreneurs with IT and marketing backgrounds who have each felt for some time now that it would be great to do something which would make a difference. Over the past few years we have been searching for such a product struggling to identify one that was not only practically possible but also touched our hearts.

Then one day we started to see things more clearly. We should not try to save the world with yet another product. Instead, we should seek-out everyday disposable items and make them reusable. We came up with the expression ”one-use abuse”. Inspired by the thought that small things can make a big difference, we quickly identified the plastic bag as our first target.

This led to new challenges. To be a conscious and responsible producer and consumer was not as straight-forward as we had thought. There are lots of great initiatives and certifications for fair trade but it’s a jungle out there, much larger than we had ever anticipated. Most of us want to make conscious choices but what does that really mean? We decided to make it a founding principle that all products we introduce must be produced with care for people and the environment. And from this was born the idea of A better option brands. To offer everyday products for a sustainable living.

The Aspen Network of Development Entrepreneurs (ANDE) is a global network of organizations that invest money and expertise to propel entrepreneurship in emerging markets. Officially launched in 2009, they are a member-driven organization housed within the Aspen Institute, an international non-profit that promotes enlightened leadership. Their members are the vanguard of a movement that is focused on small and growing businesses (SGBs) that create economic, environmental, and social benefits for developing countries. Ultimately, they seek to build sustainable prosperity in the developing world.

The Aspen Network of Development Entrepreneurs is a global network of organizations that invest money and expertise to propel entrepreneurship in emerging markets. Officially launched in 2009, we are a member-driven organization housed within the Aspen Institute, an international non-profit that promotes enlightened leadership. Our members are the vanguard of a movement that is focused on small and growing businesses (SGBs) that create economic, environmental, and social benefits for developing countries.

Lifestyles of Health and Sustainability (LOHAS)

The LOHAS E-Weekly Newsletter track business and consumer trends in this fast-growing marketplace. The LOHAS Journal is a publication that spotlights industry leaders, innovative companies, authors, market research and ideas that speak to the potential influence of the LOHAS consumers on the marketplace as well as furthering the interests of the businesses that serve them. The LOHAS Forum is the premiere event that focuses on how business, media and entertainment can be leveraged to educate, shape and influence consumer behavior and purchasing decisions while promoting lifestyles of health and sustainability.

GSVC’s mission is to catalyze new sustainable ventures that address significant social issues, build awareness of the of the social entrepreneurship field and educate future leaders.

The Global Social Venture Competition is the largest and longest-running social business plan competition providing mentoring, exposure, and $45,000 in prizes. Global scale and interaction with key players in the social enterprise sector means GSVC offers a unique opportunity to refine, test, and launch new ideas.

The Cartier Women’s Initiative Awards aim to encourage the most vulnerable category of entrepreneurs in their most vulnerable phase: women entrepreneurs starting up. Since their inception in 2006, they have accompanied over 75 promising female business-owners and recognized 20 Laureates.

The mission of the Cartier Women’s Initiative Awards is threefold:

• To identify and support initial-phase women entrepreneurs through funding and coaching
• To foster the spirit of enterprise by celebrating role models in entrepreneurship
• To create an international network of women entrepreneurs and encourage peer networking

The global sustainable brands community, made up of sustainability, brand, and design professionals from global companies, socially responsible start-ups, investors, NGOs and government officials and a raft of service and solutions providers, are leading the change towards a brighter future, and it’s annual flagship conference has become the center of gravity for individuals and companies around the world that are committed to leveraging sustainable innovation as a driver of business and brand value.

The Social Impact Exchange is a cross-sector membership association for sharing knowledge and increasing investment in scaling effective social programs and solutions.

The Exchange serves as both an online and in-person gathering place for those who are interested in learning about, implementing and funding large-scale expansions of high-impact nonprofit initiatives, including programs, products, services, organizations, social movements and more.

SXSW Eco is a three-day conference acknowledging the need for a concerted, cross sector approach to solving recognized sustainability/environmental challenges. The inaugural edition of SXSW Eco will be held October 4-6, 2011 at the Hilton Hotel in Austin, Texas.

Hosting an international audience of executive level decision makers from the public and private sectors, and thought leaders from academia, this event will evolve the environmental conversation beyond rhetoric and towards solutions. SXSW Eco is for professionals at the forefront of the post-recognition discussion who are dedicated to making progress for society, the economy, and the environment.

SXSW Eco will provide unique networking opportunities and cutting-edge discussion with experienced, passionate, and pragmatic professionals with varied backgrounds from the public, private and academic sectors.

“Dasra is  India’s leading strategic philanthropy foundation. We work with philanthropists and successful social entrepreneurs and bring together knowledge, funding and people as a catalyst for social change.”

Tactical Philanthropy Advisors was built to help bring innovation, effectiveness and joy to philanthropy. When you engage Tactical Philanthropy’s services you are hiring a philanthropic concierge. It is their job to get to know you personally and act as your bridge to the exciting, fast moving, but often opaque world of philanthropy. Rather than being experts in any one issue area, they are synthesizing generalists who draw on our expertise and deep philanthropic networks to craft customized answers for your questions and help you build a dynamic plan for your philanthropy.

From solar chargers in Africa to health clinics in India, Toniic is contributing to a global economy that supports people, planet and profit.  Toniic is an international impact investor network promoting a sustainable global economy through investment opportunity curation and critical expertise.

We discover, nurture and invest in entrepreneurs, enterprises and funds addressing the fundamental needs of people and planet.

We are not policy setters, white paper writers, grant-makers, or a pooled investment vehicle.  We are a group of action-oriented investors working together to increase the velocity of money to the impact investment field in order to address global problems like poverty and climate change.

Watershed Capital Group advises companies and funds that are scaling an economy in which values drive value creation, business organizes around society’s broader challenges, and companies function as protagonists in the societal shift toward a sustainable world.  Companies and funds which deploy strategies that create shared value among all its stakeholders and that recognize the inherent link between financial and natural capital will prosper and achieve long-term competitive advantages.

PYMWYMIC convenes the longest running angel-investor group in Benelux; matchmakes between conscious capital and social entrepreneurs; and advises individuals and families on impact investments in private equity.

For 20 years, we have been part of building this movement that now begins to accelerate – that our money can be used consciously, to help build companies that create solutions to the problems of the world.

We enjoy our work. We love entrepreneurs. We are inspired by social investors.
Come and Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is, to create a better world.

Shareable a nonprofit online magazine that tells the story of sharing. They cover the people, places, and projects bringing a shareable world to life. And they share how-tos so you can make a shareable world real in your life.

Our lives have become digital, time-efficient, mobile and programmed. Yet when we dream, we dream of candlelight and romance, campfires and freedom, bonfires and celebration. Everyone longs for fire. Fire is life.

We sell fire.

We develop unique, low-tech, premium quality outdoor products with the design, color and function that make them just as attractive to use in the city as in the wild.

Their mission is to create a world beyond poverty by investing in social enterprises, emerging leaders, and breakthrough ideas. Their vision is that one day every human being will have access to the critical goods and services they need – including affordable health, water, housing, energy, agricultural inputs and services – so that they can make decisions and choices for themselves and unleash their full human potential.

Investors’ Circle is a network of over 150 angel investors, professional venture capitalists, foundations and family offices that are using private capital to promote the transition to a sustainable economy. Since 1992, Investors’ Circle has facilitated the flow of $150 million into225 companies and small funds addressing social and environmental issues.

One of only 28 Jesuit Catholic colleges in the country and the oldest university in San Francisco, USF offers undergraduate, graduate and professional students the knowledge and skills needed to succeed as people and professionals, and the values and sensitivity necessary to be men and women for others.

Certified B Corporations are a new type of corporation which uses the power of business to solve social and environmental problems.

Our products are the most distinctive ancient and new rices now available in the marketplace and are recognized for their exceptional cooking quality, taste, texture, and superb nutritional value. We attribute this to the fact that they are grown on family farms in limited quantities, on healthy, chemical-free soils, whether in the pristine valleys of Bhutan or on the organic Raun Family farm in Texas. And while our delicious heirloom rices are new to many US consumers, they have been prized in some cases for hundreds of years in the regions where they originate, with the best seed carefully selected and saved season to season and handed down generation to generation.

ClearlySo’s guiding mission is to ‘help social entrepreneurs succeed’.  With the largest social business angel network in Europe and a growing pool of 3,000 social businesses and enterprises, ClearlySo is perfectly placed to connect social entrepreneurs with investment capital, corporations and fellow social entrepreneurs.

As a content provider and research house, ClearlySo attracts 25,000 monthly visits to its social business blog, 3,000 subscribers to its newsletter and has 4,000 followers on twitter.  Commissioned by the City of London Corporation, City Bridge Trust and the Big Lottery Fund, the first ClearlySo authored report ‘’Investor Perspectives on Social Enterprise Financing’ was published in July 2011.

ClearlySo works directly with the most promising social enterprises and businesses to structure their offering and translate the opportunity to investors and is unique in its ability to speak both ways – to bridge the language gap between social entrepreneur and investor.

As the leading capital raising firm for social investment in the UK, the business brings the traditional success factors of investment banking to social enterprise.  By catalysing investment into businesses which generate positive social change, ClearlySo is a key player in a sector building a healthier, more sustainable economy for all.

At Green Festival®, a project of Green America and Global Exchange, we’re celebrating what’s working in our communities and around the world – for people, business and the environment.

Think of Green Festival® as a walk through a sustainable community. It begins with finding solutions to help make our lives healthier-socially, economically and environmentally. Individuals, business and community leaders come together to discuss critical issues that impact us at home and abroad. Organizations and businesses showcase programs and products that restore the planet and all that inhabit it. Neighbor-to-neighbor connections are formed and skills are shared to empower people to create positive change in the world.

A leading maker of nutricious, all-natural and organic food and drinks for sport and healthy snacking.

We are a team of fair trade visionaries and food-loving explorers on a mission to connect you to our farmers and their honest foods. When you taste the sweet justice of our mission you will understand our persistence, and our invitation to join us in finding your Alter Eco.

Two Degrees Food ™ is a one-for-one food company that feeds a hungry child with every product sold. Their mission is to help feed the 200 million hungry children (5 years and younger) around the world. For every nutrition bar sold, Two Degrees Food gives a medically-formulated nutrition pack to a hungry child. Two Degrees Food bridges the two degrees of separation that stand between consumers and a hungry child by making products that taste good and do good.

FeelGood is a youth movement committed to ending world hunger in our lifetime. On college campuses across the U.S., FeelGood students run non-profit delis specializing in grilled cheese sandwiches. 100% of deli proceeds are invested in organizations sustainably eradicating global hunger. But FeelGood delis are more than a vehicle for raising money. They’re also a place for creative interaction and education—an inviting environment for customers to learn about hunger’s causes, consequences and solutions.

The HUB is a global network of social innovators and collaborative working spaces, and is all about the power of innovation through collaboration. The idea for the HUB comes from our believe that there is no shortage of good ideas to solve the issues of our time, but an acute lack of collaboration and support structures to help make them happen. The HUB was founded to address this need by creating spaces that inspire, connect and empower people to realise their ideas for sustainable impact. Up to date there are over 25 open HUBs and approx. 50 in making spread over 5 continents and connecting over 4000 members. As a member of the HUB Stockholm you get access to our inspiring space and vibrant community, from 25h a month up to unlimited time, depending on your individual membership.

Numi inspires well-being of mind, body and spirit through the simple art of tea. Our company is rooted in the principle of creating a healthful product that nurtures people and honors the planet. In all of our company initiatives, we strive to foster a healthy, thriving global community while bringing you the purest, best-tasting organic tea.

Parducci is “Family Farmed,” locally owned and operated in California’s Mendocino County. We are committed to sustainable winegrowing practices that yield top quality grapes and wines while protecting the environment and supporting our community and local farmers.

Three Twins Ice Cream produces certified organic ice cream at its San Rafael and Napa stores. We also sell wholesale tubs to restaurants, pints at grocery stores and various sizes at the Berkeley Farmers’ Market.

In addition to producing inconceivably delicious organic ice cream, Three Twins tries to operate in a sustainable manner. We use organic ingredients, offset our emissions, use compostable serving dishes, compost our waste, and are proud members of One Percent For the Planet.

Fair Trade Coffee, Chocolate, Tea, Almonds, Olive Oil, Bananas and gifts from the leader in Fair Trade since 1986.

Angelsoft is the leading global platform for the sourcing and management of early-stage investments. Angelsoft powers the entrepreneurial economy, enabling qualified entrepreneurs to get financed by the smartest investors. Its knowledge and collaboration tools support all aspects of deal flow management, from pitch to exit.  Angelsoft is endorsed by the world’s leading angel associations and now serves over 750 investment organizations representing nearly 35,000 individual investors. Over 125,000 startups have already used the platform. Founded in 2004, Angelsoft is based in New York, NY with its development center in Vancouver, BC.

From our earliest days of striving to make consistently good beer, and instead making beer that ranged from vile, to barely drinkable, to wonderful, to elegant, to questionable-at-best. From being castigated by our West Marin neighbors to finally suffering an ‘eviction’ by our West Marin septic system. From landing in the welcoming arms of Petaluma, and actually getting our beer into bottles, onto the streets, and into the hands of sympathatic beer geeks, to steadily losing less money each month. From all this and more, Lagunitas Brewing Company is emerging as a battle-tested brewery capable of making great beer out of goat’s milk, brambles, and asphalt on the surface of the Moon, if need be.

As the poet once said, ‘Where, but for the grace of God and the kindness of strangers, go I’. Where go we indeed, whatever that means.

Fair Trade USA is the leading non-profit, third-party certifier of Fair Trade products in the United States. Fair Trade USA audits and certifies transactions between U.S. companies and international suppliers to guarantee that farmers and workers producing Fair Trade Certified goods were paid fair prices and wages, work in safe conditions, protect the environment, and receive community development funds to empower and improve their communities. Fair Trade USA also educates consumers, brings new manufacturers and retailers into the Fair Trade system, and provides farming communities with tools, training and resources to thrive as international businesspeople.

MaRS Discovery District is a mission-driven innovation centre located in Toronto. MaRS works with partners to catalyze, accelerate and amplify innovation, and supports entrepreneurs building Canada’s next generation of growth companies in science, technology, and social innovation.

The MaRS Centre for Impact Investing is a national hub designed to increase the awareness and effectiveness of social finance to catalyze new capital, talent and initiatives dedicated to tackling social and environmental problems in Canada. The Centre acts as a neutral collaboration space for all sectors—government, community and private— to strengthen our collective ability to mobilize private capital for public good.

Bison is an award winning craft brewer that sells organic beer in 12 states (and growing).  Bison believes that sustainable and ecologically sound food production is the best way to protect our environment, save energy and ensure the sustainability of American farming. Bison recently completed a carbon footprint assessment in order to understand where their greening efforts would have the most impact.

The 100% Blue Agave LOS OSUNA is a beverage that springs up from the ashes of a past full with remembrances that for more than 130 years the Osuna family has gathered and kept.

Its making brings together the visionary and tenacious spirit of the LOS OSUNA and the noble and brave spirit of the Sinaloense country people. Therefore, in the 100% Blue Agave LOS OSUNA, we get to make con-crete 40 years of remem-brances of a tradition that was taken away all of a sudden from the people of the State of Sinaloa.

Abel is the original tequila icecream. Since 1950 these mexican gourmet ice cream recipes have been passed down for generations with only the highest quality ingredients. Our unique blends are churned in a barrel creating rich flavors in each batch that will make your palate swoon in the tradition of all things latin.

We welcome you to our family. Enjoy!

SocMetrics is a topical influencer platform that helps you identify existing influencers for your niche, understand the most promising advocates, engage your target list in authentic ways, drive your desired messages and actions, monitor and analyze campaign ROI.

Green Barrel is the complete wine service. They offer low impact, luxury wine for use in their  stylish counter-top barrel dispensing system. They believe in sustainable wine practices and source locally to reduce waste, reduce cost and improve quality. Featuring hand selected boutique wines, Green Barrel can provide wine on tap for any event. They partner with sustainable wineries, avoiding the bottling altogether by utilizing alternative packaging bringing quality wine to your glass. Their innovative wine barrels are perfect for events, bars, and restaurants.

Sweet Livity™ helps you explore and integrate diverse health and wellness practices into your personal and work life.  They promote an approach to daily life and work which focuses on extracting more quality or “sweetness” out of life.  The goal is to support clients to promote and sustain living and work environments which are creative, engaging, life affirming and fun.  The overall result is increased radiant health and optimal well-being.

The Savory Institute promotes large-scale restoration of the world’s grasslands through Holistic Management by:

• Healing land using properly managed livestock. The Savory Institute’s land management arm, Grasslands, LLC, uses properly managed livestock to create triple-bottom-line benefits on ranches owned by private investors.

• Empowering others to use properly managed livestock to heal the land. We provide consulting and training services that teach people around the world how to use Holistic Management to create environmental, economic and social benefits.

• Removing barriers on the path to large-scale success. Our work to remove barriers takes many different shapes, including conducting research, informing policy, creating market incentives and raising public awareness

Enviu develops innovative social and sustainable solutions and brings them to the market. We work together with a large international group of entrepreneurs, professionals, universities and multinationals to co-create these businesses.

SE Forum is a non-profit working to promote, inspire and empower social entrepreneurship and social entrepreneurs. SE Forum is an organization that promotes Social Entrepreneurship by Empowering social entrepreneurs and providing them with the support, tools and connections to enable them to realize their ideas; Inspiring people with stories about entrepreneurs and their creative solutions to our global challenges in order to stimulate new innovative ideas and solutions; and sharing knowledge about social entrepreneurship and the business models and methods needed to create and scale social impact.

Worldfavor is the meeting place for all who want to take their social responsibility. A place where you map, inspire and see the change of your world.

Framtidsboxens mission is to provide young people of our society a chance to be playful, innovative and have real influence, but most of all providing them with the chance to shape a sustainable future they want to live in.

Adelphi is a leading think tank for policy analysis and strategy consulting. We offer creative solutions and services on global environment and development challenges for policy, business and civil society communities. Our projects contribute to sustaining natural life systems and fostering sustainable enterprises. Adelphi´s clients include international organizations, governments, public institutions, corporations and associations.

We bring together scientific and technical expertise with analytical and strategic competence, practical application and constructive problem solving. Our integrated approach combines research, consulting and dialogue on six main topic areas. International and interdisciplinary project teams contribute worldwide to a common future – working in different cultures and languages.

In the last ten years Adelphi realized more than 400 projects for 100 clients, offering professional and strategic support to crucial environment and development policies and processes. Sustainability is the foundation and leitmotiv of our internal and external conduct. All our activities are climate-neutral and we apply a certified environmental management system.

NESsT works to solve critical social problems in emerging market countries by developing and supporting social enterprises. NESsT achieves its mission by combining the tools and strategies of business entrepreneurship with the mission and values of nonprofit entrepreneurship to support the development of social enterprises in emerging democracies worldwide.

COMMON is a collaborative brand and creative community for accelerating social change. Founded in January of 2011 by Alex and Ana Bogusky, John Bielenberg, and Rob Schuham, COMMON supports, connects, and celebrates those designing a new era of socially-minded enterprise.

They are busy building their new website, which they hope will enable the millions of individuals passionate about building a fresh form of capitalism to connect, collaborate – and get to work.

Unreasonable Institute accelerates unreasonable entrepreneurs and their ventures. They are solving the world’s biggest problems by arming the entrepreneurs who can take them on with the mentorship, capital, and network to make it happen. Each year, Unreasonable Institute unites 25 entrepreneurs from every corner of the globe to live under the same roof for six weeks in Boulder, Colorado. These entrepreneurs receive training and build long-term relationships with 50 world-class mentors, ranging from the former Managing Director of Investments at Google.org, to the CTO of HP, to an entrepreneur who’s enabled over 19 million farmers to move out of poverty. In the process, they also form relationships and build their businesses with 20 investment funds, receive legal advice and design consulting, and pitch to hundreds of potential investors and partners.

UniversalGiving™ is an award-winning nonprofit that helps people give and volunteer with vetted, quality opportunities all over the world. All projects are vetted through UniversalGiving’s trademarked, proprietary Quality Model.™  100% of each donation goes directly to the cause. UniversalGiving Corporate handles the strategy, operations and NGO vetting for corporations, to ensure the success of their international giving and volunteering programs. UniversalGiving has been profiled in CBS, BusinessWeek, and FOX Business Network, and is a winner of a Jefferson Award.

An accelerator of thought in sustainable brand leadership, Sustainable Brands currently offers news, community events, skills training, a robust digital learning library, membership opportunities and more — all designed to help corporate brand and sustainability professionals, uncover, and successfully execute on new opportunities to profitably innovate for sustainability. Acting as a platform for positive transformation, Sustainable Brands promises to inspire, engage and equip today’s business and brand leaders to grow revenues and enhance brand value, reputation and loyalty, while contributing to a healthy and sustainable future for all.

Sida works according to directives of the Swedish Parliament and Government to reduce poverty in the world. The overall goal of Swedish development cooperation is to contribute to making it possible for poor people to improve their living conditions.

The Social Innovation Europe initiative (SIE) is making major effort to build and streamline the social innovation field in Europe. The project is run by a consortium of partners including Euclid Network and the Danish Technological Institute and led by the Social Innovation eXchange (SIX), at the Young Foundation. Funded by the European Commission’s DG Enterprise, the SIE initiative will work to connect policy makers, entrepreneurs, academics and third sector workers with other innovators from across Europe through a series of events, an online hub, and a series of reports. It is our goal to become a focal point—a meeting place in the network of European networks—where innovative thinkers from all 27 member states can come together to create a streamlined, vigorous social innovation field in Europe, to raise a shared voice, and to propel Europe to lead the practice of social innovation.

GlobalFOCUS’s vision is an eternally prosperous and fun future for all, where we share our planetary resources in an equal and sustainable way. As a social company, GlobalFOCUS offers innovative tools and services to engage people in sustainability. Helping change-makers within large organizations, they tailor high-impact initiatives that transform the mind-sets of people and institutions, turning sustainability into a fun and creative challenge. With their global perspective they work with the best people across sectors, cultures and generations. Together, GlobalFOCUS create visions and solutions for the future!

Sweden’s first incubator for Social Entrepreneurship. CSES helps social entrepreneurs become sustainable from a financial, social and environmental perspective.