Company Name: BuyGreen.com
Industry: Online Retailer
Founder: Doug Farquhar
Website: www.buygreen.com

What is your edge? Broad selection and Green Standards
What are your passions? Trying to make a difference

Company Name: 1Life Healthcare
Industry: Healthcare Services
Founder: Tom Lee, MD
Website: www.1life.com

What is your edge?

We are focused on making health care higher quality and more affordable for all.

What are your passions?

We have a belief that health care is enormously wasteful and detrimental to health; for the same amount of dollars, we could offer much more to a greater percent of the population.

Company Name: Careguide Systems, Inc. d/b/a Communication Science, Inc.
Industry: Health Care
Founder: Sylvia Aruffo
Website: www.carekit.com

What differentiates you from other organizations?

Conducting ethnographic research and applying sociolinguistics to patient education instructions and devices.

What social change do you want to accomplish?

Presenting health care from the point of view of the patient

Business experience / case study:

Careguide Systems Case Study

Company Name: AngelPoints
Industry: Technology/Software
Founder: Andrew Mercy
Website: www.angelpoints.com

What is your edge?

AngelPoints was founded in 2001 by Andrew Mercy, a pioneer of the for-profit philanthropy model celebrated as one of the biggest ideas of 2006 by the “New York Times.” Andrew pioneered the concept of delivering web-based CSR solutions to companies to expand their capacity to make social investments. AngelPoints is constantly building on that legacy by improving and expanding our award-winning suite of on-demand solutions to help companies improve their CSR initiatives in a way that makes business sense. More: http://www.angelpoints.com/who-we-are

What are your passions?

We push ourselves to make a difference every day because we harness the opportunity to help companies increase their social impact and grow their social investment capacity – it’s a privilege we don’t take lightly. We believe that even the smallest business can make an impact. While many of our team members volunteer individually, we provide opportunities to team up with our clients, prospects, and partners on a regular basis to participate in volunteer events throughout different communities. See: http://www.angelpoints.com/careers/culture or http://www.angelpoints.com/who-we-are

Business experience / case studies.
See http://www.angelpoints.com/clients/champions, http://www.angelpoints.com/clients/impact and http://www.angelpoints.com/press for some great materials.

Case studies. Case Study 1, Case Study 2

Company Name: Foothold Technology
Industry: Software-as-a-Service
Founder: Marlowe Greenberg
Website: www.footholdtechnology.com
What differentiates you from other organizations?

Our software is designed for use by human service nonprofits, though we are a traditional for-profit corporation.

What social change do you want to accomplish?

Better management of resources in the nonprofit world.

Why do you think social entrepreneurship matters?

Using business principles is often the only way to sustainably solve social problems.

Company Name: Equal Exchange
Industry: Fair Trade / organic foods / hot beverages (coffee, tea, hot cocoa) / nuts & dried fruit / cafes.
Founder: See: http://www.equalexchange.com/story
Email: info@equalexchange.coop
Websites: www.equalexchange.coop & www.SmallFarmersBigChange.coop & shop.equalexchange.com

What differentiates you from other organizations?

100% Fair Trade, worker-owned & governed cooperative (see www.equalexchange.coop/worker-owned/), Fair Trade pioneer, commitment to advocacy for small famrers, radical capital structure (see: http://www.equalexchange.com/investing-in-fair-trade)

What social change do you want to accomplish?

See our Mission & 20 year Vision at http://www.equalexchange.com/worker-owned/

Why do you think social entrepreneurship matters? Same reasons you do.

Business experience:

No case studies have been done yet, so see our annual reports & newsletters online & attached winning application for a business innovation award. Equal Exchange Submission / Case Study

Articles:

http://www.fastcompany.com/social/2008/profiles/equal-exchange.html
http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/88/trade-secrets.html
http://worldbenefit.cwru.edu/Innovation/bankInnovationView.cfm?idArchive=496

Company Name: Greensender, LLC
Industry: Environmental Consumer Goods
Founder: Mike Aaron
Website: www.greensender.com

What differentiates you from other organizations?

Greensender exists to help close the chasm that exists between awareness and good intentions related to living a more environmentally friendly lifestyle and actually taking action. Greensender occupies the unique space of providing consumers and corporations a collection of high-quality, high-style products that can help someone get started incorporating some simple green practices into their daily life. The quality of the branding and packaging of the proposition is a major differentiator for Greensender.

What social change do you want to accomplish?

At Greensender we want to assist in the widespread adoption of simple green practices. Many people are overwhelmed by the environmental issues we face and are not certain what to do in response. At Greensender we recognize that none of us can fix the problems tomorrow or fix the problems by ourselves but we believe that every person has a responsibility to “get started” doing something. Start small and do more as time goes on.

Why do you think social entrepreneurship matters?

We believe that social entrepreneurship matters because we live in a time and a society that is commerce-driven. And if our commerce does not adopt and embody values that are beneficial to humanity, then we are in big trouble.

Business experience:

You can pull what you feel is appropriate from the press kit you can access via the “press” text link at the bottom of the homepage.

Company Name: GreenOrder
Industry: Professional Services/Consulting
Founder: Andrew Shapiro
Website: www.greenorder.com

What differentiates you from other organizations?

Our comprehensive hybrid approach to sustainability strategic planning and our experience with helping large corporations integrate sustainability into their business operations. For more see: http://www.greenorder.com/?ID=About

What social change do you want to accomplish?

Make progress profitable, make the business case for sustainability

Business Experience:

Please download the attachements from the following page: http://www.greenorder.com/?ID=Services