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

Organization’s name: The Institute for Social Entrepreneurs

Website: The Institute for Social Entrepreneurs

Address:

The Institute for Social Entrepreneurs

6215 Sandydale Drive
Dallas, Texas 75248-3942
United States of America

Email: institute@orbis.net

Industry Description (taken from a site): The Institute for Social Entrepreneurs provides seminars, workshops and consulting services for social entrepreneurs in the United States and around the world.

Site Contains: publications, seminars, definitions

Organization’s name:  Brown University’s Watson Institute for International Studies, Timothy Anderson International Social Entrepreneurship
Organization they are part of:  Brown University
Website: Timothy Anderson International Social Entrepreneurship (link)

Address:

The Watson Institute for International Studies
111 Thayer Street, Box 1970
Providence, RI USA 02912

Email:  Watson_Institute@Brown.edu
Industry : no specifics
Description (taken from a site):  One of the world’s most well-known social entrepreneurs, Timothy Anderson of World Computer Exchange will speak about social entrepreneurship and opportunities for students to get involved in an exciting not-for-profit effort that collects container-loads of used computer equipment to 52 developing countries worldwide.
Site Contains:   events, projects, publications, videos.

Organization’s name: Pace University’s Wilson Center for Social Entrepreneurship

Organization they are part of: Pace University
Website: Wilson Center for Social Entrepreneurship
Address:

Helene & Grant Wilson Center for Social Entrepreneurship
Pace Midtown Center
551 Fifth Avenue, 8th Floor
New York NY 10176

Email: wilsoncenter@pace.edu
Description (taken from a site): The mission of the Wilson Center for Social Entrepreneurship is “to promote social change through entrepreneurship.” The Center furthers this mission by serving students and nonprofit organizations with education, research, communication, and advisory service.

Site Contains: programs, Pace Activities

Organization’s name: NYU Reynolds Foundation Program in Social Entrepreneurship
Organization they are part of: New York University
Website: The Catherine B. Reynolds Foundation Program in Social Entrepreneurship

Address:

NYU Reynolds Foundation Program in Social Entrepreneurship
Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service
The Puck Building
295 Lafayette Street, 2nd Floor
New York, NY 10012
Email: reynoldsprogram@nyu.edu

Description (taken from a site): The Catherine B. Reynolds Foundation Program in Social Entrepreneurship is designed to attract, encourage and train a new generation of leaders in public service. Each year, the program will expose a highly selective group of graduate and undergraduate students from throughout New York University to the cross-disciplinary skills, experiences and networking opportunities needed to advance and support their efforts to realize sustainable and scalable pattern-breaking solutions to society’s most intractable problems.

Site Contains: resources, events, Advisors, Speakers series

Organization’s name:  Ashoka McKinsey Center for Social Entrepreneurship (CSE)
Organization they are part of:  Ashoka
Website: Center for Social Entrepreneurship
Address:

Ashoka Global Headquarters
1700 North Moore Street, Suite 2000 (20th Floor)
Arlington, VA 22209

USA

Email:  info@ashoka.org
Description (taken from a site):

Center for Social Entrepreneurship (CSE) strengthens the profession of social entrepreneurship and innovation by building a community of cross-sectoral leaders, programs and innovations.

Site Contains:  case studies, services

Organization’s name: Miami University’s Farmer School of Business, Center for Social Entrepreneurship

Organization they are part of: Miami University

Website: Center for Social Entrepreneurship

Address:

Farmer School of Business
Miami University
Laws Hall, Room 104

Oxford, OH 45056
Email: sbahelp@muohio.edu

Description (taken from a site): SEP is dedicated to promoting the “idea” of social entrepreneurship as a mechanism to change the world and to level the playing field through the advancement of teaching, research and practice of social entrepreneurship.

Academics: Undergraduate Social Entrepreneurship Program (SEP)

Site Contains: programs, events

Organization’s name:  McVay Social Entrepreneurship Center

Organization they are part of:  Sterling College
Website: McVay Social Entrepreneurship Center

Address:        

125 W. Cooper,
Sterling,
KS 67579

Description (taken from a site): Our mission is to enhance the development of social entrepreneurs and social enterprises that lead positive change in the world. This mission advances the mission of Sterling College and builds on the values, knowledge, and skills acquired from a Christian liberal arts and a servant leadership curriculum.

Site Contains: events, resources