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CSR Wire
CSR Wire is the leading global source of Corporate Social Responsibility news.

Change.org – Social entrepreneurship
Nathaniel is the founding Director of the Centre for Global Engagement at Northwestern University, which works annually with hundreds of students in dozens of countries around the world through curricular programmes and student project incubation. The social entrepreneurship blog is at change.org.

Stanford Social Innovation Review
Strategies, tools and ideas for nonprofits, foundations and socially responsible businesses.

Fast Company – Social Responsibility
Fast Company often features articles on social responsibility and social entrepreneurship. They also organise every year the Social Capitalist Awards. Along with the 45 world-changing nonprofits, they also honour ten companies not only striving to make a profit, but to also make a difference.

Social Edge
Social Edge is the global online community where social entrepreneurs and other practitioners of the social benefit sector connect to network, learn, inspire and share resources. It is a Skoll Foundation initiative.

NextBillion.net
NextBillion.net brings together the community of business leaders, social entrepreneurs, NGOs, policy makers, and academics who want to explore the connection between development and enterprise.

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Social Entrepreneurship Fellowships and Funding Organisations

Ashoka
Ashoka is the global association of the world’s leading social entrepreneurs—men and women with system changing solutions for the world’s most urgent social problems. Since 1981, they have elected over 2,000 leading social entrepreneurs as Ashoka Fellows, providing them with living stipends, professional support, and access to a global network of peers in more than 60 countries.

Echoing Green
Since 1987, Echoing Green has provided seed funding and support to more than 450 social entrepreneurs with bold ideas for social change in order to launch groundbreaking organisations around the world. They provide seed money, in the early stage of a social venture.

Skoll Foundation
The Skoll Foundation’s mission is to advance systemic change to benefit communities around the world by investing in, connecting and celebrating social entrepreneurs. Their main funding programme is the Skoll Awards for Entrepreneurship.

Tides Foundation
Since 1976, Tides Foundation has worked with donors committed to positive social change. They put resources and people together—strengthening community-based nonprofit organisations and the progressive movement through innovative grant making.

Schwab Foundation
They identify the world’s leading social entrepreneurs: over the past eight years, the Foundation has been selecting 20-30 social entrepreneurs annually from around the world into its network of leading social entrepreneurs. The social entrepreneurs are selected from more than 1000 candidates that apply every year either to a national “Social Entrepreneur of the Year” competition or directly to a regional selection of the Foundation.

Unltd
UnLtd is a charity which supports social entrepreneurs – people with vision, drive, commitment and passion who want to change the world for the better. They do this by providing a complete package of funding and support, to help these individuals make their ideas a reality.

Net Impact (Multiple locations)
Net Impact is an international nonprofit organisation whose mission is to make a positive impact on society by growing and strengthening a community of leaders who use business to improve the world. We offer a portfolio of programmes to educate, equip, and inspire more than 10,000 members to make a tangible difference in their universities, organisations, and communities.

Babson College (Boston, MA)
The Arthur M Blank Centre for Entrepreneurship is the hub for entrepreneurial activity at Babson. The Centre’s mission is to lead the global advancement of entrepreneurship education and practice through the development of academic, research, and outreach initiatives that inspire entrepreneurial thinking and cultivate entrepreneurial leadership in all organisations and society.

Columbia University (New York, NY)
Columbia offers the Social Enterprise programme, where students develop a perspective on how to apply business skills to social enterprise endeavours and align personal and professional values in careers that result in social benefits to a broader community. The curriculum explores social enterprise within four focus areas: Public and Nonprofit Management; International Development and Emerging Markets; Social Entrepreneurship; and Corporate Social Responsibility and Sustainability.

Cornell University (Ithaca, NY)
At the Centre for Sustainable Global Enterprise, they believe the private-sector has a critical role to play in helping solve the world’s most pressing environmental and social problems. They work directly with companies around the world to identify, understand, and capitalise on these competitive opportunities.

Duke University (Durham, NC)
A research and education centre based at Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business, the Centre for the Advancement of Social Entrepreneurship (CASE) promotes the entrepreneurial pursuit of social impact through the thoughtful adaptation of business expertise.

Harvard University (Boston, MA)
Grounded in Harvard Business School’s mission to educate leaders who make a difference in the world, the Social Enterprise Initiative aims to inspire, educate, and support current and emerging leaders in all sectors to apply management skills to create social value.

New York University (New York, NY)
The Satter Programme in Entrepreneurship is to educate, challenge, and inspire social entrepreneurs to leverage intellectual, social, and financial capital resources with a focus on social change, innovation, and impact.

Stanford University (Stanford, CA)
Their Centre for Social Innovation aims to inspire and educate social innovators, providing knowledge and ideas that strengthen the capacity of current and future leaders to champion social change.

Oxford Said Business School (Oxford, England)
The Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship was launched in 2003 at the Said Business School, Oxford University, to promote the advancement of social entrepreneurship worldwide. In addition to delivering an innovative teaching programme, the Skoll Centre has developed a portfolio of research which employs theory but that is also valuable to practitioners in the field.