Offset4Poor is working on shifting the current carbon offset market, which primarily benefits wealthy individuals/industrialists, towards the poor and the unemployed in both developing and developed countries.

SELCO Solar Pvt. Ltd, a social enterprise established in 1995, provides sustainable energy solutions and services to under-served households and businesses. It was conceived in an effort to dispel three myths associated with sustainable technology and the rural sector as a target customer base.

Educate!'s mission is to empower the next generation of socially responsible leaders in Africa. Started in 2002, Educate!'s scholarship students have gone on to build an orphanage, send 30 students from their refugee camp to school, and blanket their refugee camp with malaria nets.

LnP is a social initiative that addresses multiple aspects of literacy - health, reading, writing and financial - to empower the poor and low-income adults to lift themselves up out of poverty

There are many challenges to education in India. Some of them seem to have clear solutions, like enforcing rules against caste discrimination, or providing university scholarships to young women. Other problems, however, are less clear.

Nanubhai's goal is to improve under-funded public schools in rural India by providing validated English language courses, IT capabilities, and a novel Teacher Training and Professional Development program.

The School for Social Entrepreneurs (SSE) exists to provide training and opportunities to enable people to use their creative and entrepreneurial abilities more fully for social benefit. SSE supports individuals to set up new charities, social enterprises and social businesses across the UK.

Social Innovation Camp brings together ideas, people and digital tools to build web-based solutions to social problems – all in just 48 hours

Buy1GIVE1 (B1G1) gives you the power to change lives every day. Imagine if every time you bought or sold something, it made a tangible difference.

FirstGiving is dedicated to one purpose: empowering passionate nonprofit supporters to raise more money than they ever thought possible for the causes they care about. Above all, we want nonprofit and fundraisers alike to meet and exceed their goals of raising money for important causes, building awareness, and expanding the world of giving.

Donate to grassroots projects around the world

ZoomGrants is an online grant database that can be included in the website of any grantmaking foundation or government entity. Nonprofit organizations can apply for grants directly on the foundation website and the grant manager and funding committee has direct access to submitted proposals on their own website.

Appropedia is for collaborative solutions in sustainability, appropriate technology and poverty reduction

The Appropriate Infrastructure Development Group starts small businesses in developing countries to provide under-served communities with affordable renewable energy, sanitation and clean water. We currently work in Guatemala and Haiti.

Rang De's vision is to make poverty history in India by reaching out to underserved communities through microcredit. Rang De enables you to make a difference in a sustainable manner through a transparent and secure online platform.

Empower people around the world with a $25 loan So many people have made loans on Kiva that everything is funded. While this is great news for the borrowers, we're working hard to make sure you have more loans to fund soon.

Catchafire matches professionals who want to give their skills with nonprofits and social enterprises that need their help. We match professionals and organizations based on a variety of characteristics including skills, cause interests, and time availability

Helps "nonprofits" fund their visions through training, coaching and consulting based on 25+ years of experience and $1Billion+ raised directly and $1Billion via coaching/training.

Humanity Unites Brilliance is a social enterprise that connects people and organizations within a global community, and supports our members to reach their highest potential, allowing us to create positive impact in our own lives, and for our world.

Project 7 exists to give. We are a cause-related company that makes every day consumer goods, like bio-bottled water, gum, mints and coffee. We aren’t asking you to buy more stuff, just change the products that you already buy. Products for good.

Since 1993, Camfed has fought poverty and AIDS by educating girls and empowering young women.

You want to make the world a better place. SoJo wants to help you. SoJo is a collection of tools and informational resources to inspire and empower you to transform your ideas for social change into reality.

Sarvajal means "Water For All". Nearly one billion people lack access to clean water, a crisis that is responsible for fully half of all hospitalizations for illness in the developing world. In India alone, over 40 million people suffer from waterborne diseases each year, erasing an estimated 73 million working days, or USD 600 million in economic value.

Mother Earth believes in providing you with great quality goods while nurturing the environment and building on the strengths of marginalised rural communities to create sustainable livelihoods and overall prosperity

Water 4 a Purpose is a charitable trust operating as a social enterprise selling bottled water to corporations in Australia. All of the profits are used to pay for water projects principally in Africa and Asia Pacific region

"Our goal is to build Philadelphia into the nation's greenest city is strongly supported by GoodCompany's role as an incubator for businesses with high social impact" -Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter GoodCompany Ventures catalyzes start-ups with innovative solutions to big, unmet social needs. We champion models that offer investors both financial return and social impact.

The NYWSE Incubator Program celebrated the graduation of its six women social entrepreneurs and their venture teams at its finale on June 29, 2009 in a skylight corporate lounge at Baruch College. Incubator social entrepreneurs presented their ventures to a panel of distinguished experts hailing from diverse fields of social enterprise, such as venture capital, venture philanthropy, women's and children's initiatives, and business development, including women's enterprises.

CHANGE programs are relevant for nonprofit, hybrid and for-profit business models that address critical social issues with business rigor and the promise of sustainability. The business models should provide investors with attractive social and/or financial returns. For Profit Models which Apply for CHANGE should ensure that the social mission is deeply embedded in, and a central component of the business model.

Single copies and bulk discounts are available for Jerr Boschee's award-winning book Migrating from Innovation to Entrepreneurship: How Nonprofits are Moving toward Sustainability and Self-Sufficiency. More than 525 people attended the 11th Social Enterprise Summit in Chicago Oc tober 31-Novembe 2r, 2011..

The twelve finalists in a national competition to find the photographs that best capture the spirit of the UK's thriving social enterprise sector will be revealed today. This week is Global Entrepreneurship Week and Thursday is Social Enterprise Day. The SEUK team will be out and about, and eating Divine Chocolate.

What can small businesses do to give back to their communities and the world? Plenty! We take a look at social entrepreneurship and discuss how entrepreneurs can do well by doing good.

Places for meeting, working, learning, innovating and connecting dedicated to inspiring and supporting enterprising initiatives for a better world.

We have collected for you a comprehensive guide on Social Entrepreneurship: A social entrepreneur identifies and solves social problems on a large scale. Just as business entrepreneurs create and transform whole industries, social entrepreneurs act as the change agents for society, seizing opportunities others miss in order to improve systems, invent and disseminate new approaches and advance sustainable solutions that create social value.

Last Friday the Asturias Foundation awarded Bill Drayton with the Asturias Award for International Cooperation. Hear a former Ashoka Intern's perspective on our work in Spain and globally. Edgar Cahn, an Ashoka Fellow, is the founder of TimeBanks and CareBanks.

ACCESS Community Capital Fund helps individuals without collateral or credit history obtain an affordable loan to improve their standard of living through entrepreneurship. Based in Toronto, Ontario, ACCESS is a Canadian registered charity granting micro-loans where the abilities, skills and commitment of the applicant in conjunction with the strength of the business plan are key decision criteria.

Nothing about this work is easy. We are proud of our accomplishments over the last ten years, but we’ve learned at least as much from our struggles along the way. While we know we don’t have all the answers, there are some important truths we have discovered in doing this work...

Press Release] Hub Bay Area & SOCAP Announces New CEO and Board President Hub Bay Area and SOCAP announced the addition of Cory Smith as CEO and Penelope Douglas as Board President [Article] Better World Books and Alter Eco Are Going on Tour with Lilith Fair Two Good Capital portfolio companies - Better World Books and Alter Eco - are among a select group of four socially conscious enterprises to be highlighted during the 36-city Lilith Fair tour this summer.

IGNIA is an impact investing venture capital fund based in Monterrey, Mexico that supports high growth enterprises that serve the base of the socio-economic pyramid in Latin America. IGNIA is an impact investing venture capital fund based in Monterrey, Mexico that supports high growth enterprises that serve the base of the socio-economic pyramid in Latin America.

At Triodos Bank, we believe that profit doesn't need to be at the expense of world's most pressing environmental problems. That's why we finance organisations from organic food and farming businesses and pioneering renewable energy enterprises, to recycling companies and nature conservation projects. Energy & Climate Organic food and agriculture

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News December 15, 2011- The New York Times News Flash: Progress HappensDecember 15, 2011- AllAboutAlpha.com Alpha Hunters: Investing in Global DevelopmentDecember 7, 2011- The Clinton Bush Haiti Fund Root Capital - Carifresh VideoNovember 30, 2011- Forbes Forbes' List of the Top 30 Social EntrepreneursNovember 9, 2011- Americas Quarterly Root Capital: A Case Study in Impact InvestingNovember 4, 2011- Americas Quarterly So, you want to be an impact investor?November 1, 2011- The Miami Herald The black gold of Haiti, coffee creole is hot again September 22, 2011- The Clinton Bush Haiti Fund The $1,050,000 grant and loan to Root Capital is providing financing for small and medium-sized businesses in HaitiSeptember 7, 2011- Care2 (Ashoka) Sustainable Farming and Livelihoods Take Root September 6, 2011- Forbes Greed Has Gone Good: Social Capital Markets 2011 More news

TBL Capital has developed an intentional, patient capital venture fund focused on the needs of the entrepreneur with a balanced emphasis on people, planet and profits. Our firm invests in entrepreneurs who are committed to building companies with strong triple bottom line returns.

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 $146 million into 225 companies and small funds addressing social and environmental issues.

CDVCA is the network for the rapidly growing field of community development venture capital (CDVC) investing. CDVC funds provide equity capital to businesses in underinvested markets, seeking market-rate financial returns, as well as the creation of good jobs, wealth, and entrepreneurial capacity.CDVCA promotes the field by combining advocacy, education, communications, and best-practice dissemination through conferences and workshops.

California and Carbon - following the Proposition(s) Earlier this month, the California voters sent what some would view as mixed signals on the continuation of [...] An age old challenge for venture capital firms can be summed up as follows - how does one cultivate relationships with early stage companies which [...]

Our mission is to reduce poverty in emerging markets through risk capital investments in the most innovative alternative energy and mobile technology start-ups. Impact Investing - Invested Development manages a seed-stage investment fund committed to supporting entrepreneurs with radically affordable innovations in alternative energy and mobile communications (for more details see BSP Fund).

We have made a social investment into Milaap to train the rural youth and make them employable via their field partner Grameen Koota. We are actively sourcing and evaluating investments into social enterprise start-ups focused on education and agriculture space that are looking for seed capital (< 5 lakhs).

Unitus Labs is an international non-profit focused on reducing global poverty through economic self-empowerment

Ennovent's mission is to promote for-profit solutions that make a sustainable impact on low-income people. We bring together entrepreneurs, investors and experts to discover, finance and scale these solutions.

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