Resources

Publications

Authored by Joanna Messing

• The Journey of a Mutant Manager Written in 1998 for the REDF Box Set, this article explores the challenges facing managers bridging the for-profit and non-profit worlds.
• Real Sustainability for Virtual Projects This Manual is a guide for non-profits considering self-financing opportunities through the Internet. The Manual is based on real case-studies (including that of the public policy website politika.lv), and offers ideas and examples of how Internet-based, non-profit projects can generate revenues for the purpose of sustaining their mission. With contributions from Nicole Etchart.

Co-authored with Lee Davis and Nicole Etchart

• Enterprising Mentality: A Social Enterprise Guide for Mental Health and Intellectual Disabilities Organizations
• Get Ready, Get Set: Starting Down the Road to Self-Financing is a hands on primer for non-profits interested in social enterprise or earned income activities.

Other publications

• Kim Alter's social enterprise typology provides an excellent overview of the range of definitions and types of social enterprise present in the field
• Jed Emerson and Sheila Bonini's Blended Value papers have led the field in looking at value as consisting of economic, social and environmental components.
• REDF has an excellent list of publications available for download on social entrepreneurship, venture philanthropy and performance measurement.
• CASE Research on Scaling Social Entrepreneurship has a collection of articles on scaling social impact.

Related Organizations

Social Enterprise

• Ashoka
• Enterprising Nonprofits (Canada)
• Social Enterprise Alliance
• Social Enterprise Reporter
• Social Enterprise London

Newsletters/Magazines

• Alliance Magazine
• Idealist.org
• Origo Cross Sector News
• Stanford Social Innovation Review

Venture Philanthropy / Social Investing

• The Acumen Fund
• Blended Value
• Calvert Foundation
• Center for Venture Philanthropy
• Common Good Ventures
• Endeavor
• European Venture Philanthropy Association
• The Morino Institute
• The Nature Conservancy Eco Enterprises Fund
• NESsT
• New Profit Inc
• New Schools Venture Fund
• REDF (formerly the Roberts Enterprise Development Fund)
• Schwab Center for Social Entrepreneurs
• Skoll Foundation
• Xigi.net

Performance Measurement

• BTW Informing Change publications
• Social Return on Investment

Universities

• Bainbridge Graduate Institute
• Columbia University
• Duke Center for the Advancement of Social Entrepreneurship
• Harvard Business School
• NYU Reynolds Program in Social Entrepreneurship
• Oxford's Said Business School Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship
• UC Berkeley's Haas Business School
• Yale School of Management

Socially Responsible Business

• Business for Social Responsibility
• Net Impact
• Beyond Grey Pinstripes