• Social Edge - Job Listings
  
• Idealist
  
• Just means
• Foundation Center: Philanthropy News Digest
• Business for Social Responsibility: CSR Jobs
• Lifeworth
• Next Billion Jobs
  
• Omidyar Grantees/Investees: Jobs
• Social Enterprise Jobs Google Group

Updated: January 1, 2014 Thanks social impact catalyst Amy Chou for assistance in updating this resource.

Social Edge ...... by social entrepreneurs for social entrepreneurs
a HUB for social entrepreneurs ... find all the latest: bloggers, jobs, trends, inspiring action

Corporate Social Responsibility Newswire ...... a "leading source of corporate social responsibility and sustainability news, reports, events and information"

Social Enterprise Alliance ...... has a thriving listserv addressing issues at the nexus of social enterprise and non-profits as well as the Enterprising Voice, a publication for members


RSS to check out...

Ashoka Foundation ..... innovators for the world

Design Thinking

Echoing Green ......social change starts here

Futurelab

Guerrilla Innovation ..... creative + unconventional + interventionistic

Kiva Chronicles

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Social Innovation Conversations ..... a conversations network channel

Taproot Foundation ... a guide for those interested in integrating the pro bono ethic into their career
 
TED .... Ideas Worth Spreading: riveting talks by remarkable people


Twitter Lists:
@katemural Ones to Watch
@katemural Social Change Agents and Social Change Orgs
@katemural SocEnd Health Ecosystem and Health Social Entrepreneurs
@cdnorman Health Community
@cdnorman Design Thinkers
@sarahbbrooks Social Innovators
@iGo2 Social Business
@albanlv Soc-Ent
@davidhodgson Changemakers
@rjenbarr Social Entrepreneurs
@deifell Social Entrepreneurs
@meta_emergence Social Entrepreneurs
@weintrauboo Tech for Change


Where do you get the latest buzz on social enterprise?
Please tell us in a comment or send a tweet to @ideasthatimpact

Innovators of funding social change

• kiva ...... loans that change lives
• a better place ...... connecting people in need of support with people who want to help 1:1 worldwide
• Resource Generation ...... organizing young people with financial wealth to leverage resources and privilege for social change
• Tipping Point Community ...... making poverty preventable, not inevitable, in the Bay Area
• Pipeline Fellowship... changing the face of angel investing by empowering women to be savvy angel and venture investors

Drivers of Social Change ... funders leading the edge.... this is the beginning of a growing list!

• Ashoka Foundation
• Acumen Fund

• Echoing Green Fellows

• Skoll Foundation
• Tides Foundation

What funders and changemakers are you excited about?   
Leave a comment below or send us a tweet @ideasthatimpact

Dynamic Map of Next Education Projects

Important considerations for new paradigm edu:
Occupation of Knowledge TEDxRamallah Munir Fasheh
Schooling the World

Learn about the latest great projects in these two Facebook groups:
Presente (educators looking to bring new/next edu paradigms into the system)
New Educational Paradigms (mostly Gen Y engaging in alternative edu projects)


Programs for changemakers: 
Knowmads, Netherlands
Kaos Pilots, DenmarkMycelium School, USA (see founder Matthew Abrams TEDxNewHaven: 21st Century Education)
Follow a new education activist-in-learning-action: The Eduventurist

Promising Education Initiatives
Transformative Innovation in Education by International Futures Forum
 
TED: 1000 best minds in Technology, Education & Design .... many talks that address issues related to social entrepreneurship
         - See also RSA : Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufacturers and Commerce (RSA) "a cradle of enlightenment thinking and a force for social progress.  Our approach is multi-disciplinary, politically independent and combines cutting edge research and policy development with practical action"

UNU (United Nations University) OpenCourseWare

Social Edge, supported by Skoll Foundation, by Social Entrepreneurs for Social Entrepreneurs 

World University

last updated 1 Jan 2014

openIDEO a global community that will draw on your optimism, inspiration, ideas and opinions to solve problems together for the collective social good.

Click to give ..... the hunger site.... leveraging the "clicks" for social good

Room to Read ......world change starts with educated children- expanding literacy around the world

Social Innovator (Social Innovation Exchange) ... connecting social innovators for social change



Promoting Technology Innovation for Social Change

Social Innovation Camp:    (Originally UK, now global, look for one near you!)

Net Squared: remixing the web for social change 

techsoup - the technology place for non-profits

benetech


Once interesting but seem to be gone:Idea-porting ... platform to share ideas for impact within and between countries
Do The Right Thing ......  where good ideas grow: consumer input for companies to "do" good


What are your favorite apps for social impact?  Who is building tech for changemakers? 
Please leave a comment or send us a tweet @ideasthatimpact

Impact Hub Global, where change goes to work

MakeSense, solving challenges for social entrepreneurs

Kiva, loans that change lives

Better Place, change the world with a donation

Skoll Center for Social Entrepreneurship, Said School of Business, Oxford 

Social Enterprise Alliance

Net Impact Global Voices Advocacy

Demos: A network for Ideas and Action

Our world 2.0: United Nations University


Where are hubs for social entrepreneurship?  Who are catalysts for social change?
Please leave a comment or send us a tweet @ideasthatimpact

ProBono Lab (France)

Social Innovation Exchange the global community for social innovation

Taproot Foundation

Tipping Point Community ...... making poverty preventable, not inevitable, in the Bay Area
leveraging giving to promote effective change

Cool Projects....Modeling Change: SocEnt ventures on the radar 

FairPhone .... a fair trade mobile phone! 

CREDO  ..... more than a network, a movement
this phone company operates with a mission and puts your monthly fees into social change action through advocacy and donations to social change efforts- we all use phones, make your talking count for social good! 

One World Health ...... fulfilling the promise of medicine for the developing world
changing the fundamentals in pharmaceuticals, this non-profit pharma company focuses on drugs for the third world making existing drugs under generic license for coast accessibility and developing drugs for common third world diseases neglected by big pharma's big dollar interests- a game changing player for global health innovation


Projects we love, but are MIA:
Atelier 2000 jouets de bois motto "we create, we share"
a small Parisian wood toy company where the employees are people who have difficulty finding employment due to prison records and other systemic injustices- bringing joy & living its values with every step ... it brings to mind that "even one small person can change the course of history" - Samwise the Hobbit, Lord of the Rings

Everyone is talking about social entrepreneurship, but what does it mean?

Social Enterprise is an emerging sector of business that focuses on social impact rather than merely profit maximization.  Social enterprises include a spectrum of business structures from non-profit organizations that have a sustainable revenue model to for-profit enterprises that have a social mission and hybrids in between.

One definition among many... is Professor Yunus's 7 Principles of Social Business ... redefining business in the 21st Century:

• Business objective will be to overcome poverty, or one or more problems (such as education, health, technology access, and environment) which threaten people and society; not profit maximization

• Financial and economic sustainability
• Investors get back their investment amount only. No dividend is given beyond investment money
• When investment amount is paid back, company profit stays with the company for expansion and improvement
• Environmentally conscious
• Workforce gets market wage with better working conditions
• ...do it with joy!

Wikipedia on Social Enterprise

Learn more about Ashoka's take on social entrepreneurship

And the Social Enterprise Alliance view on the missing middle

Learn more... 

Cool Projects  (a featured list of social enterprises to get a feel for what it's all about)

• Modeling Change: SocEnt Ventures On Our Radar
  
• Leveraging Private Sector Expertise for Public Benefit
• Supporting Social Entrepreneurs
• Tech for Good
• Next Edu Paradigms:  disrupting the status quo in education

Changemakers  (a short list of some of the key funders in this emerging sector & resources for staying up to date)

• Jobseekers: where change goes to work (a starter list for people ready to work for social impact)
• Get the Buzz: News, media and amplifiers on social impact and social innovation
• Catalysts, Innovators & Funders

Interested in Social Enterprise and not sure how to engage? 

1. Check out what people are already doing

2. Find people who are doing similar things to what you want to do

3. Get involved....

• informational conversations
• volunteer for a project
• leverage your expertise
• join a social enterprise (job listings).... 

4. If you don't see anything in your area of interest, send some tweets out on Twitter - someone is working on it, you just need to get connected to them!

5. If you don't have a community in your geographic region, here are some ideas for how to create a flourishing Social Enterprise community:

• Hive model: See the Hive, a monthly meet-up for entrepreneurs.  Held at a bar on a Tuesday evening, the management only requires lining up a speaker who talks for 20 min and facilitating a Q&A for 20 minutes, mostly people come to meet others also interested in this area.  

• HUB model: See the Hub, a globally expanding network of social entrepreneurs who are sharing office space/resources to bootstrap ventures for social change.
  

• MakeSense HotSpots: See MakeSense, a global community of friends passionate to support social business and connecting people who want to make a social impact with entrepreneurs to solve the challenges of the social enterprise.