Organization’s name: Columbia University’s Center for Career Education, Social Entrepreneurship in Guatemala (EDGE Guatemala)

Organization they are part Of: Columbia University.

Website: Social Entrepreneurship in Guatemala (EDGE Guatemala)

Description (taken from a site):  To expand the Encouraging Dynamic Global Entrepreneurs (EDGE) program into social entrepreneurship, Columbia University’s Center for Career Education has partnered with New Development Solutions (NDS), a U.S. and Guatemala based corporation established in 2003 by former Peace Corps Volunteers and successful social entrepreneurs Greg Van Kirk and George Glickley. NDS’ founders utilize their in-depth experience to help development organizations and entrepreneurs design, smart, scaleable and highly integrated business models for their constituents in rural communities.

Site Contains: Resources

Organization’s name: Wings Business Coaching LLC

Website: Wings Business Coaching LLC

Address:        

C.J. Hayden, MCC
P.O. Box 225008
San Francisco, CA 94122

E-mail: info@socialentrepreneurcoach.com

Description (taken from a site):  They build mission-driven businesses aimed at solving social problems, direct their professional skills and training toward helping people in need, or use their entrepreneurial skills to found nonprofits that use innovative business models.

Site Contains: Projects, resources.

Organization’s name: Washington University’s Michael G. Foster School of Business, The Global Social Entrepreneurship Competition (GSEC)

Organization they are part Of: Washington University.

Website: The Global Social Entrepreneurship Competition (GSEC)

Address:                                               

Global Business Center
Michael G. Foster School of Business
University of Washington
Lewis Hall 303, Box 353200
Seattle, WA 98195-3200

E-mail: uwciber@u.washington.edu

Description (taken from a site):  The Global Social Entrepreneurship Competition (GSEC) is a business plan competition in which students from around the world find creative, commercially sustainable ways to address problems of poverty in the developing world.  Business plans are evaluated on three criteria: 1) effect on the quality of life and poverty alleviation in the developing world; 2) financial sustainability; and 3) feasibility of implementation. 

Site Contains: Resources, guidelines.

Organization’s name: Florida University’s The Institute for Community Innovation

Organization they are part of: Florida University.

Website: The Institute for Community Innovation

Address:

Eugenio Pino and Family Global Entrepreneurship Center
Florida International University
11110 Southwest 11th Street
University Park - VH 130
Miami, Florida

E-mail: entrepreneurship@fiu.edu

Description (taken from a site): Its principal mission is to promote both social innovation and the economic sustainability of community organizations, arts groups and other not-for-profit enterprises in South Florida.

Site Contains: Resources, events.

Organization’s name: Lynchburg College’s Center for Community Development and Social Justice; Social Entrepreneurship Internship program

Address:

Lynchburg College,
1501 Lakeside Drive,
Lynchburg, VA 24501

Description (taken from a site): Students’ interests, talents, and skills were matched with the needs of local non-profit organizations. Community partners communicated that this Social Entrepreneurship Internship program provided very valuable contributions to their missions and the constituents they serve, and students also rated it very highly for providing meaningful experiences, both personal and professional.

Site Contains: Research, programs.

Organization’s name: Infrastructure Development for Social Entrepreneurship Center

Organization they are part of: CITRIS

Website: Infrastructure Development for Social Entrepreneurship Center

Address:

CITRIS
281 Hearst Memorial Mining Building #1764
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, CA 94720-1764

Email: lorie@citris-uc.org

Type: Infrastructure for Social Entrepreneurship

Description (taken from a site): The mission of the Social Entrepreneur Center is to promote the use of technology for social issues by creating sustainable enterprises. This will be achieved by
(i) creating an undergraduate major (and minors linked to existing majors) in social entrepreneurship well integrated with information and technology education,
(ii) fostering an internship program where students can add value to a company, an NGO (non-governmental organization), or a non-profit organization within US or in a foreign country by leveraging technology,
(iii) organizing an annual tech fair where socially-oriented high-tech companies and organizations connect with students, and
(iv) organizing seminars on social entrepreneurship.
Documents: PDF

Organization’s name: Vision Leadership Institute and the Center for Social Entrepreneurship
Website: Center for Social Entrepreneurship

Address:
9005 Two Notch Road
Suite 30
Columbia, SC 29223

Email: nicolegroupinc@hotmail.com.

Description (taken from a site): Nicole Group, Inc. (NGI) serves nonprofit and for-profit clients with a focus on capability and resource building. NGI provides services to large businesses as well as to small businesses and individuals with the ultimate goal to provide opportunities for social entrepreneurship. The Center for Social Entrepreneurship provides a viable vehicle to give voice and power to those persons and businesses who strive to create change in our global society.

Organization’s name: Columbia Business School’s The Research Initiative on Social Entrepreneurship (RISE)

Organization they are part of: Columbia Business School

Website: The Research Initiative on Social Entrepreneurship (RISE)

Address:

317 Uris Hall,

New York,

NY 10027

Email: cathy@cathyhc.com

Description (taken from a site): The Research Initiative on Social Entrepreneurship (RISE) is a research project at Columbia Business School whose mission is to study and disseminate knowledge about the markets, metrics and management of for-profit and nonprofit social enterprise and social venturing.

Site Contains: blogs, case studies and reports.

Organization’s name:  Harvard Business School, Initiative on Social Enterprise

Organization they are part of: Harvard College

Website: Initiative on Social Enterprise

Address:        

Social Enterprise Initiative

Loeb House 3rd floor

Soldiers Field

Boston MA 02163 USA

Email: se@hbs.edu

Description (taken from a site): 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.

Site Contains: events, careers

Organization’s name: Pacific University‘s School of International Studies (SIS), The Global Center for Social Entrepreneurship

Organization they are part of: Pacific University

Website: The Global Center for Social Entrepreneurship

Address:

University of the Pacific

School of International Studies

3601 Pacific Avenue

Stockton, California 95211

Email: jhildebrand@pacific.edu

Industry Description (taken from a site): It positions Pacific University and SIS at the forefront of the newly emerging field of social entrepreneurship in both the academic and applied learning environments.

Site Contains: events