Work on Purpose Resources

Here are some organizations and programs that can help you on your path:

• Academic Programs
• Career & Internships
• Civic Engagement, Volunteering, and Public Service Organizations
• High School & Undergraduate Fellowships & Awards
• Graduate-level & Early Stage Career Fellowships & Awards
• International Civic Engagement & Volunteering Program
• Media & Blogs
• Networking & Membership Organizations
• Resources for Nonprofit & Social Sector Organizations
• Social Entrepreneurship Grant Makers/Fellows
• Thought Leadership Organizations
• Training & Leadership Development
• Youth & Student Organizations

ACADEMIC PROGRAMS

American University’s Entrepreneurship MBA Concentration
www.american.edu/kogod/graduate/mbaconcentrations/entrepreneurship.cfm
Provides students with the entrepreneurial mindset, skills, and tools for multiple contexts, including starting a business and/or being an entrepreneur in corporations, nonprofit organizations, government, or international organizations.

Babson College’s Arthur M. Blank Center for Entrepreneurship
www3.babson.edu/eship/aboutblank
Develops innovation in an integrated, experiencebased learning environment.

Brown University’s Social Innovation Initiative (SII)
www.swearercenter.brown.edu/sii
Works to inspire and support student and alumni social entrepreneurs through the creation of a community that expands critical skills, knowledge, resources, and social networks.

Columbia University’s Social Enterprise Program (SEP)
www4.gsb.columbia.edu/socialenterprise
Advances the understanding of how management can contribute to society and the environment, and develops the next generation of social enterprise leaders.

Cornell University’s Center for Sustainable Global
Enterprise (SGE)
www2.johnson.cornell.edu/sge/index.cfm
Strives to advance the global knowledge base in sustainable enterprise and of critical knowledge and research related to business and sustainability.

Duke University’s Center for the Advancement of Social Entrepreneurship (CASE)
www.caseatduke.org
Promotes the entrepreneurial pursuit of social impact through the thoughtful adaptation of business expertise.

Georgia Institute of Technology’s Institute for Leadership and Entrepreneurship (ILE)
www.ile.gatech.edu/index.html
Enhances leadership and entrepreneurship for socially responsible and sustainable value creation.

Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government
www.hks.harvard.edu
Prepares and trains students to be leaders in the private, public, or nonprofit sector.

Institute for Nonprofit Management (INPM)
www.inpm.pdx.edu
Offers access to both professional certificates and degree programs through Portland State University’s Department of Public Administration. Works to build the nonprofit sector by teaching practical skills and encouraging lifelong learning to nonprofit professionals and volunteers.

Milano—The New School for Management and Urban Policy
www.newschool.edu/milano
Trains professionals to become effective managers and policymakers in government, business, and the nonprofit sector.

MIT’s Entrepreneurship Center
entrepreneurship.mit.edu
Provides courses to design and launch successful new ventures based on innovative technologies.

New York University’s Catherine B. Reynolds Foundation Program in Social Entrepreneurship
www.nyu.edu/reynolds
Attracts, encourages, and trains a new generation of leaders in public service.

Northwestern University’s Social Enterprise at Kellogg (SEEK)
www.kellogg.northwestern.edu/academic/seek/index.htm
Builds leadership skills and awareness to help students be socially responsible global leaders in the business, nonprofit, and government sectors.

Pace University’s Helene and Grant Wilson Center for Social Entrepreneurship
www.pace.edu/wilsoncenter
Promotes social change through entrepreneurship and furthers this mission by serving students and nonprofit organizations with education, research, communication, and advisory services.

Purdue University’s Burton D. Morgan Center for Entrepreneurship (BDMCE)
www.purdue.edu/dp/entrepreneurship
Promotes a culture of entrepreneurship, with activity in both commercialization and education.

Santa Clara University’s Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship (CIE)
www.scu.edu/business/cie/about/index-new.cfm
Helps foster, promote, and strengthen entrepreneurial talent by providing networking, educational, and advisory services.

Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship at the University of Oxford Saïd Business School
www.sbs.ox.ac.uk/centres/skoll
Fosters innovative social transformation through education, research, and collaboration.

Stanford Graduate School of Business’s Center for Social Innovation (CSI)
csi.gsb.stanford.edu
Believes that business schools have a responsibility to teach students to be innovative, principled, and insightful leaders who can change the world. Represents a cornerstone of Stanford’s multidisciplinary approach to management and leadership education.

Syracuse University’s Department of Entrepreneurship and Emerging Enterprises (EEE)
whitman.syr.edu/Academics/EEE
Helps students discover their innate entrepreneurial potential and gives them a set of tools and perspectives to capitalize on that potential.

University of California Berkeley’s Lester Center for Entrepreneurship
entrepreneurship.berkeley.edu
Inspires students and colleagues to create new ventures, discover new sources of value, and change the world for the better.

University of California Los Angeles’s Harold and Pauline Price Center for Entrepreneurial Studies
www.anderson.ucla.edu/price.xml
Fosters the study and practice of entrepreneurship and business innovation by providing the foundation on which creativity can flourish and individuals can succeed.

University of Florida’s Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation (CEI)
warrington.ufl.edu/fire/entrepreneurship/cei
Provides students with the tools and experiences necessary to creatively pursue new opportunities and innovations in the start-up, social, and corporate venture arenas.

University of Michigan’s Nonprofit and Public Management Center (NPM)
nonprofit.umich.edu
Equips future leaders in the private, public and nonprofit sectors with interdisciplinary insight that can help them operate more effectively when working for or collaborating with nonprofit and public institutions.

University of North Carolina’s Center for Sustainable Enterprise (CSE)
www.kenan-flagler.unc.edu/cse
Helps executives and future business leaders understand how social and environmental considerations are changing the competitive landscape of business.

University of Notre Dame’s Center for Social Concerns (CSC)
socialconcerns.nd.edu
Provides educational experiences in social concerns and acts as the service-and community-based learning hub of the University of Notre Dame.

University of Portland’s Center for Entrepreneurship
www.up.edu/cfe
Aims to foster the creation of new business ventures and to develop existing enterprises.

University of Virginia’s Batten Institute
www.batteninstitute.org
Creates knowledge about the transformative power of entrepreneurship and innovation toward the cultivation of principled, entrepreneurial leaders.

Yale University’s Program on Social Enterprise (PSE)
pse.som.yale.edu
Supports scholars, students, alumni, and practitioners interested in exploring the ways in which business skills and disciplines can be harnessed to most effectively and efficiently achieve social objectives.

CAREER & INTERNSHIPS

Bridgestar
www.bridgestar.org
Provides a free nonprofit management job board, content, and tools designed to help nonprofit organizations build strong leadership teams and individuals pursue career paths as nonprofit leaders.

Careers In Nonprofits
www.careersinnonprofits.com
Connects the best people with the best causes. Serving Chicago, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Washington, D.C., has extensive networks of connections and strategic partnerships with nonprofit organizations.

Charity Village
www.charityvillage.com
Provides an online source of information, news, jobs, services, and resources for the Canadian nonprofit community.

Commongood Careers
www.cgcareers.org
Enables innovative nonprofits to build strong organizations through the recruitment, retention, and development of outstanding talent.

Craigslist
www.craigslist.org
Features city-specific classified ads, forums, and job listings in many categories, including nonprofit.

DotOrgJobs.com
www.dotorgjobs.com
Lists nonprofit jobs, which are searchable by category, location, and experience level.

Idealist.org
www.idealist.org
Gives people and organizations a place online to exchange resources and ideas, locate opportunities and supporters, and take steps toward building a world where all people can lead free and dignified lives.

Jobs for Change
jobs.change.org
Seeks to spark a nationwide movement toward careers in the nonprofit, government, and social enterprise sectors.

Justmeans
www.justmeans.com
Aims to extend messages concerning social causes and the environment to the right companies and people in order to drive engagement through interaction, incentives, and rewards.

On-Ramps
www.on-ramps.com
Helps organizations recruit the best talent available, no matter the function or sector.

Opportunity Knocks
www.opportunityknocks.org
Provides a national online job site, HR resource, and career development destination focused exclusively on the nonprofit community. Leads and supports efforts that help further nonprofit careers and promote a robust workforce that enables organizations to complete their missions.

CIVIC ENGAGEMENT, VOLUNTEERING, AND PUBLIC SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS

AmeriCorps
www.americorps.gov
Offers more than 75,000 opportunities for adults of all wor k on pur pose ages and backgrounds to serve through a network of partnerships with local and national nonprofit groups.

Arsalyn
www.arsalyn.org/Search.asp
Provides an ever-growing database of youth civic and political organizations.

AVODAH: The Jewish Service Corps
www.avodah.net
Engages young people in direct work on the causes and effects of poverty in the United States.

Campus Compact
www.compact.org
Promotes community service, civic engagement, and service learning in higher education, as a national coalition of more than 1,100 college and university presidents, representing some 6 million students.

Citizen Corps
www.citizencorps.gov
Provides opportunities for people to participate in a range of measures to make their families, their homes, and their communities safer from the threats of crime, terrorism, and disasters of all kinds.

Citizens for Global Solutions
www.globalsolutions.org
Works to build political will in the United States to achieve a future in which nations work together to abolish war, protect human rights and freedoms, and solve the problems facing humanity that no nation can solve alone.

City Year
www.cityyear.org
Unites young people of all backgrounds for a year of full-time service, giving them skills and opportunities to change the world.

Design Corps
www.designcorps.org
Creates positive change in communities by providing architecture and planning services.

HandsOn Network
www.handsonnetwork.org
Inspires, equips, and mobilizes people to change lives through service.

Hip Hop Caucus
www.hiphopcaucus.org
Fosters civic engagement among young people of color on issues of social and economic justice, human rights, the environment, and international peace, so they can attain increased opportunities for themselves and their communities.

LIFT
www.liftcommunities.org
Combats poverty and expands opportunities for all people in the United States.

Partnership for Public Service
www.ourpublicservice.org
Works to revitalize our federal government by inspiring a new generation to serve and by transforming the way government works.

Points of Light Institute
www.pointsoflight.org
Inspires, equips, and mobilizes people to take action that changes the world.

Public Allies
www.publicallies.org
Advances new leadership to strengthen communities, nonprofits, and civic participation.

Serve.gov
www.serve.gov
Enables individuals to not only find volunteer opportunities in their community but also to create their own.

Servenet.org
www.servenet.org
Enables youth volunteers to connect with local nonprofits to make a difference in their communities throughout the United States.

ServiceNation
www.servicenation.org
Increases service opportunities and elevates service as a core ideal and problem-solving strategy in American society.

Teach For America
www.teachforamerica.org
Builds the movement to eliminate educational resources inequity by enlisting America’s most promising future leaders in the effort.

VolunteerMatch
www.volunteermatch.org
Strengthens communities by making it easier for good people and good causes to connect. Offers a variety of online services to support a community of nonprofit, volunteer, and business leaders committed to civic engagement.

YouthBuild
www.youthbuild.org
Addresses core issues facing low-income communities: housing, education, employment, crime prevention, and leadership development. Enables low-income young people ages sixteen to twenty-four to work toward their GEDs or high school diplomas, learn job skills, and serve their communities by building affordable housing and transform their own lives and roles in society.

Youth Service America (YSA)
www.ysa.org
Partners with thousands of organizations in more than 100 countries to expand the impact of the youth service movement with families, communities, schools, corporations, and governments.

HIGH SCHOOL & UNDERGRADUATE FELLOWSHIPS & AWARDS

Corella and Bertram F. Bonner Foundation
www.bonner.org
Seeks to improve the lives of individuals and communities by helping meet the basic needs of nutrition and educational opportunity through sustained partnerships with colleges and congregations.

Girls for a Change (GFC)
www.girlsforachange.org
Empowers thousands of teen girls to create and lead social change. Provides girls with professional female role models, leadership training, and the inspiration to work together in teams to solve persistent societal problems in their communities.

Nonprofit Leadership Alliance (formerly American Humanics) www.humanics.org
Educates, prepares, and certifies professionals to strengthen and lead nonprofit organizations, as a national alliance of colleges, universities, and nonprofit organizations.

Posse Foundation
www.possefoundation.org
Identifies public high school students with extraordinary academic and leadership potential who may be overlooked by traditional college selection processes for four-year, full-tuition leadership scholarship awards.

Public Policy and International Affairs Fellowship Program (PPIA)
www.ppiaprogram.org
Prepares young adults for advanced degrees and ultimately for careers and influential roles serving the public good.

Thomas J. Watson Foundation
www.watsonfellowship.org
Offers college graduates of “unusual promise” a year of independent, purposeful exploration and travel—in international settings new to them—to enhance their capacity for resourcefulness, imagination, openness, and leadership, and to foster their humane and effective participation in the world community.

Youth Venture
www.genv.net
Invests in young people who want to launch sustainable ventures that create lasting benefit to their communities and then connects them to a global network of like-minded youth.

GRADUATE-LEVEL & EARLY-STAGE CAREER FELLOWSHIPS & AWARDS

Bernard L. Schwartz Fellows Program
fellows.newamerica.net
Awards fellowships to original thinkers eager to work on purpose advance a better understanding of policy challenges facing our society.

Coro
www.coro.org
Prepares individuals for effective and ethical leadership in the public affairs arena.

The Fellowship for Emerging Leaders in Public Service (FELPS)
wagner.nyu.edu/leadership/leadership_dev/felps
Inspires, engages, and connects emerging public service leaders with a unique career planning and professional development opportunity. Recognizes the strong commitment to public service that fellows have demonstrated and strengthens this commitment by providing professional development and networking opportunities aimed at assisting fellows in developing plans for successful public service careers.

Open Society Fellowship
www.soros.org/initiatives/fellowship Supports individuals seeking innovative and unconventional approaches to fundamental open-society challenges. Funds work that will enrich public understanding of those challenges and stimulate far-reaching and probing conversations within the Open Society Institute and across the world.

Paul and Phyllis Fireman Public Service Fellowship at City Year
haas-fmp.stanford.edu/fellowship.php?ef_id=369&
Unites young people of all backgrounds for a year of full-time service, giving them the skills and opportunities to change the world.

Public Policy and International Affairs Fellowship Program (PPIA)
www.ppiaprogram.org
Prepares young adults for an advanced degree and ultimately for careers and influential roles serving the public good. Focuses on students from groups who are underrepresented in leadership positions in government, nonprofits, international organizations, and other institutional settings.

National Grid’s Samuel Huntington Public Service Award
www.nationalgridus.com/masselectric/about_us/ award.asp
Provides a stipend for a graduating college senior to pursue one year of public service anywhere in the world before proceeding on to graduate school or a career.

StartingBloc
www.startingbloc.org
Educates, inspires, and connects emerging leaders to drive social innovation across sectors.

Strongheart Fellowship Program
www.strongheartfellowship.org
Helps bright, resilient young people from extremely challenging circumstances around the globe develop into compassionate, innovative problem-solvers and leaders that can affect significant social change.

The Urban Fellows Program
www.nyc.gov/html/dcas/html/employment/urbanfellows. shtml
Provides an opportunity for young professionals to gain meaningful work experience in public policy, urban planning, and government operations as they consider careers in public service.

INTERNATIONAL CIVIC ENGAGEMENT & VOLUNTEERING PROGRAMS

AIESEC
www.aiesec.org
Provides a platform for youth leadership development and offers young people the opportunity to be global citizens, to change the world, and to get experience and skills that matter today.

Altrusa International
www.altrusa.com
Provides community service, develops leadership, fosters international understanding, and encourages fellowship, as an international network of executives and professionals in diversified career classifications.

Atlas Service Corps
www.atlascorps.org
Develops leaders, strengthens organizations, and promotes innovation through an overseas fellowship of skilled professionals.

Global Citizen Year (GCY)
globalcitizenyear.org
Builds a movement of young Americans who engage in a transformative “bridge year” between high school and college. Creates opportunities for emerging leaders to work as apprentices around the world through an innovative cross-sector model that partners with international NGOs and high schools and colleges in the United States.

Habitat for Humanity International
www.habitat.org
Seeks to eliminate poverty housing and homelessness from the world and to make decent shelter a matter of conscience.

Institute of International Education (IIE)
www.iie.org
Fosters mutual understanding, develops global leaders, and protects academic freedom worldwide through educational exchange and training programs.

International Partnership for Service-Learning and Leadership (IPSL)
www.ipsl.org
Integrates academic studies with volunteer service and full cultural immersion to give students a deeper, more meaningful study-abroad experience.

Peace Corps
www.peacecorps.gov
Shares with the world America’s most precious resource: its people. Collaborates with local community members in seventy-four countries in Africa, Asia, the Caribbean, Central and South America, Europe, and the Middle East in areas like education, youth outreach, community development, the environment, and information technology.

Service for Peace (SFP)
www.serviceforpeace.org
Provides service and learning opportunities through community projects, which promote transformational and sustainable personal and community development around the world.

World Volunteer Web
www.worldvolunteerweb.org
Serves as a global clearinghouse for information and resources linked to volunteerism that can be used for campaigning, advocacy, and networking.

Worldwide Helpers (WWH)
www.worldwidehelpers.org
Fosters partnerships between volunteers and charitable organizations worldwide and commits itself to removing the financial barriers of volunteering by providing only low/no-cost projects.

MEDIA & BLOGS

A. Fine Blog
www.allisonfine.com/
Explores the use of social media tools for social change.

Beth’s Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media to Power Social Networks for Change
www.bethkanter.org
Blogs about nonprofits, social media, and strategy.

Care2
www.care2.com
Uses the power of business to make a positive social and earth-friendly impact on the world.

Causecast
www.causecast.org
Provides an online platform where users can explore issues and causes, and connect with people wanting to make a difference.

Change.org
www.change.org
Raises awareness about important causes and empowers people to take action with leading nonprofits.

Chronicle of Philanthropy
philanthropy.com
Provides news, in print and online, for charity leaders, fundraisers, grant makers, and other people wor k on pur pose involved in the philanthropic enterprise.

Dowser
dowser.org
Reports on social innovation, focusing on the question, “Who is solving what, and how?” Highlights creative approaches to social change to help people understand how to build better communities and a better world.

Future Leaders in Philanthropy (FLiP)
www.networkflip.com
Creates a community and a network where future leaders can meet, learn, exchange ideas, and contribute to each other’s success.

GOOD
www.good.is
Provides content, experiences, and utilities to serve the community.

Have Fun, Do Good
havefundogood.blogspot.com
Blogs for people who want to make the world a better place and have fun.

Katya’s Nonprofit Marketing Blog
www.nonprofitmarketingblog.com
A personal blog on Robin Hood marketing—the concept of stealing corporate savvy to sell just causes—and Katya’s life as a marketer, from Washington, D.C., to Madagascar, to points in between.

Next Billion
www.nextbillion.net
Brings together a community of business leaders, social entrepreneurs, NGOs, policymakers, and academics who want to explore the connection between development and enterprise.

SIX (Social Innovation eXchange)
www.socialinnovationexchange.org
Promotes social innovation and growing the capacity of the field in a global community of over 700 individuals and organizations—including small NGOs and global firms, public agencies, and academics.

Social Edge
www.socialedge.org
Provides a global online community where social entrepreneurs and other practitioners of the social benefit sector connect to network, learn, inspire, and share resources.

Social ROI
www.socialroi.com
Enables social entrepreneurship and spreads the word about some of the good stuff that’s happening in the space.

Spare Change
blog.social-marketing.com
Uses social marketing to promote health and social issues for nonprofits and public agencies at Weinrich Communications.

Stanford Social Innovation Review (SSIR)
www.ssireview.org
Shares substantive insights and practical experiences that will help those who do the important work of improving society to do it even better.

TakePart
www.takepart.com
Connects its members directly to the issues that inspire them to engage, contribute, and take action.

Wild Apricot Blog
www.wildapricot.com/blogs/newsblog
Discusses issues and trends in web technologies for nonprofits—charities, associations, clubs, and other organizations.

WorldChanging
www.worldchanging.com
Covers innovative solutions to the planet’s problems and inspires readers around the world with stories of new tools, models, and ideas for building a bright, green future.

NETWORKING & MEMBERSHIP ORGANIZATIONS

85 Broads
www.85broads.com
Aims to build a multigenerational global network of ambitious, intelligent women who want to inspire resources each other to blaze new trails, scale new heights, and achieve a life of true significance.

Craigslist Foundation
www.craigslistfoundation.org
Empowers people to strengthen their communities by connecting them to the resources they need to effectively engage in community building.

Emerging Practitioners in Philanthropy (EPIP)
www.epip.org
Strengthens the next generation of grant makers to advance effective social justice philanthropy.

Independent Sector
www.independentsector.org
Advances the common good in America and around the world.

National Council of Nonprofits
www.councilofnonprofits.org
Links local nonprofit organizations across the nation through state associations. Helps small and midsize nonprofits manage and lead more effectively, collaborate and exchange solutions, engage in critical policy issues affecting the sector, and achieve greater impact in their communities.

Net Impact
www.netimpact.org
Uses the power of business to create a more socially and environmentally sustainable world.

Social Venture Network (SVN)
www.svn.org
Builds a just and sustainable world through socially and environmentally sustainable business, as a network of socially responsible business leaders.

Women’s Funding Network (WFN)
www.womensfundingnetwork.org
Invests in women’s solutions across the globe, as one of the largest collaborative philanthropic networks in the world.

Young Nonprofit Professionals Network (YNPN)
www.ynpn.org
Engages and supports future nonprofit and community leaders through professional development, networking, and social opportunities.

Young Women Social Entrepreneurs (YWSE)
www.ywse.org
Serves women with a socially conscious agenda who are founders and leaders within businesses, nonprofits, and government organizations.

RESOURCES FOR NONPROFIT & SOCIAL SECTOR ORGANIZATIONS

Alliance for Nonprofit Management
www.allianceonline.org
Improves the management and governance capacity of nonprofits, as a professional association of individuals and organizations.

BoardSource
www.boardsource.org
Advances the public good by building exceptional nonprofit boards and inspiring board service.

The Bridgespan Group
www.bridgespan.org
Helps nonprofit and philanthropic leaders develop strategies and build organizations that inspire and accelerate social change.

The Case Foundation
www.casefoundation.org
Expands giving, promotes everyday philanthropy, deepens civic engagement, and broadens the use of new technologies to make giving more informed, efficient, and effective.

Foundation Center
foundationcenter.org
Connects nonprofits and the grant makers supporting them to tools they can use and information they can trust.

Google for Nonprofits
www.google.com/nonprofits
Provides an informational website that offers tips and wor k on pur pose guidance on how nonprofits can use Google to promote their work, raise funds, and operate more efficiently.

Open Society Institute (OSI)
www.soros.org
Seeks to shape public policies that assure greater fairness in political, legal, and economic systems and safeguard fundamental rights.

The Resource Alliance
www.resource-alliance.org
Builds the fundraising capabilities of the nonprofit sector worldwide.

TechSoup
home.techsoup.org
Offers nonprofits a one-stop resource for technology needs by providing free information, resources, and support.

USA.gov for Nonprofits
www.usa.gov/Business/Nonprofit.shtml
Provides links to federal funding and grant opportunities, tax information, and management and operations resources for nonprofits.

World Association of Non-Governmental Organizations (WANGO)
www.wango.org
Provides the mechanism and support needed for NGOs to connect, partner, share, inspire, and multiply their contributions to solve humanity’s basic problems.

SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP GRANT MAKERS/FELLOWSHIPS

Ashoka
www.ashoka.org
Provides a global association of the world’s leading social entrepreneurs—men and women with system-changing solutions for the world’s most urgent social problems.

Breakthrough
www.breakthroughfund.org.uk
Provides funding and management support to help established U.K. social enterprises scale up and maximize their social impact.

Clinton Global Initiative University (CGI U)
www.cgiu.org
Gives Outstanding Commitment Awards, which are grants to exceptional students who have made Commitments to Action that address social or environmental challenges on campuses, in communities, or in different parts of the world.

Do Something
www.dosomething.org/grants
Gives micro-grants to young people pursuing sustainable community action projects and programs.

Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation
www.draperrichards.org
Provides selected social entrepreneurs with funding of $100,000 annually for three years specifically and solely for entrepreneurs starting new nonprofit organizations.

Echoing Green
www.echoinggreen.org
Unleashes next generation talent to solve the world’s biggest problems.

Impetus Trust
www.impetus.org.uk
Invests in innovative U.K. charities and social enterprises fighting economic disadvantage in the U.K. and internationally.

Mobilize.org
www.mobilize.org
Provides seed funding to emerging civic entrepreneurs.

New Profit
www.newprofit.com
Helps innovative social entrepreneurs and their organizations dramatically improve opportunities for children, families, and communities.

Nonprofit Enterprise and Self-sustainability Team (NESsT)
www.nesst.org
Works to solve critical problems in emerging-market countries by developing and supporting enterprises resources that strengthen civil society organizations’ financial sustainability and maximize their social impact.

Rainer Arnhold Fellows Program
www.rainerfellows.org
Supports social entrepreneurs with particularly promising solutions to health, poverty, and conservation issues in the developing world.

Sparkseed
www.sparkseed.org
Invests in young social entrepreneurs of tomorrow as they lead social ventures today. Provides guidance, funding, and tools to college students who will change the world.

UnLtd, the Foundation for Social Entrepreneurs
www.unltd.org.uk
Supports social entrepreneurs in the U.K.

Unreasonable Institute
unreasonableinstitute.org
Aims to incubate and finance thousands of social ventures that will each effectively address a major global issue, become financially self-sustaining within a year, scale beyond the country of origin within three years, and ultimately reach at least 1 million people.

The Young Foundation
www.youngfoundation.org.uk
Brings together insight, innovation, and entrepreneurship to meet social needs. Works across the U.K. and internationally, carrying out research, influencing policy, creating new organizations, and supporting others to do the same, often with imaginative uses of new technology.

THOUGHT LEADERSHIP ORGANIZATIONS

America’s Promise Alliance
www.americaspromise.org
Improves lives and changes outcomes for children through a cross-sector partnership of more than 400 corporations, nonprofits, faith-based organizations, and advocacy groups.

Brookings Institution
www.brookings.edu
Conducts high-quality, independent research and, based on that research, provides innovative, practical recommendations that advance three broad goals: strengthen American democracy; foster the economic and social welfare, security, and opportunity of all Americans; and secure a more open, safe, prosperous, and cooperative international system.

Leader to Leader Institute
www.leadertoleader.org
Strengthens the leadership of the social sector by providing social sector leaders with essential leadership wisdom, inspiration, and resources to lead for innovation and to build vibrant social sector organizations.

PopTech
www.poptech.org
Hosts a one-of-a-kind conference, a community of remarkable people, and an ongoing conversation about science, technology, and the future of ideas.

TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design)
www.ted.com
Hosts annual conferences in Long Beach, CA, and Oxford, U.K., bringing together the world’s most fascinating thinkers and doers, who are challenged to give the talk of their lives.

TRAINING & LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT

American Majority
www.americanmajority.org
Trains and equips a national network of leadership committed to individual freedom through limited government and the free market.

The Aspen Institute
www.aspeninstitute.org
Fosters values-based leadership and encourages individuals to reflect on the ideals and ideas that define a good society, and to provide a neutral and balanced venue for discussing and acting on critical issues.

Generation Change
www.communitychange.org/our-projects/ generationchange
Recruits, trains, and supports tomorrow’s grassroots wor k on pur pose organizers and leaders to confront the challenges of poverty and injustice in the 21st century.

Institute for Responsible Citizenship
www.i4rc.org
Prepares high-achieving African American men for successful careers in business, law, government, public service, education, journalism, the sciences, medicine, ministry, and the arts.

Leadership Learning Community (LLC)
www.leadershiplearning.org
Transforms the way leadership development work is conceived, conducted, and evaluated, primarily within the nonprofit sector, through a national network of hundreds of experienced funders, consultants, and leadership development programs.

Management Leadership for Tomorrow (MLT)
www.ml4t.org
Develops the next generation of African American, Hispanic, and Native American leaders in major corporations, nonprofit organizations, and entrepreneurial ventures.

The OpEd Project
www.theopedproject.org
Expands public debate, with an immediate emphasis on enlarging the pool of women experts who are accessing (and are accessible to) our nation’s key print and online forums—which are a gateway into public debate, feed all other media, and are a hub of thought leadership.

Rockwood Leadership Institute
www.rockwoodfund.org
Provides individuals, organizations, and networks in the social benefit sector with powerful and effective training in leadership and collaboration.

Running Start
www.runningstartonline.org
Provides young women and girls with the skills and confidence they need to become the political leaders of tomorrow.

The White House Project
www.thewhitehouseproject.org
Aims to advance women’s leadership in all communities and sectors—up to the U.S. presidency—by filling the leadership pipeline with a richly diverse, critical mass of women.

Transformative Action Institute (TAI)
www.transformativeaction.org
Trains a new generation of social entrepreneurs, innovators, visionaries, and problem solvers for the 21st century.

YOUTH & STUDENT ORGANIZATIONS

Americans for Informed Democracy (AID)
www.aidemocracy.org
Empowers and equips young people in the United States to address global issues—poverty, health, climate change, peace, and security—through raising awareness and actions that promote just and sustainable solutions on their campuses, in their communities, and nationally.

Bus Federation
www.busfederation.com
Engages the next generation of voters and leaders, mobilizing thousands of volunteers for political action and civic engagement.

Campus Progress
www.campusprogress.org
Acts to empower new progressive leaders nationwide as they develop fresh ideas, communicate in new ways, push policy outcomes in a progressive direction, and build a strong progressive movement.

Declare Yourself
www.declareyourself.com
Empowers and encourages every eligible eighteen-totwenty- nine-year-old in America to register and vote in local and national elections.

Global Citizen Corps (GCC)
www.globalcitizencorps.org
Houses a movement of youth who think and act globally, have the passion to build a better world, and are committed to ending global poverty.

The Global Fund for Children (GFC)
www.globalfundforchildren.org
Provides capital to strengthen innovative resources community-based organizations serving the most vulnerable children and youth.

Global Youth Action Network (GYAN)
gyan.tigweb.org
Unites the efforts of young people working to improve our world.

National Society of Leadership and Success
www.societyleadership.org
Offers life-changing lectures from the nation’s leading presenters and a community where like-minded, success-oriented individuals come together to learn from and help one another succeed.

Project Pericles
www.projectpericles.org
Encourages and facilitates commitments by colleges and universities to include social responsibility and participatory citizenship as essential elements of their educational programs.

Rock the Vote
www.rockthevote.com
Engages and builds the political power of young people to achieve progressive change in the United States. Uses music, popular culture, and new technologies to engage and incite young people to register and vote in every election and gives young people the tools to identify, learn about, and take action on the issues that affect their lives.

Roosevelt Institute Campus Network
www.rooseveltcampusnetwork.org
Engages new generations in a unique form of progressive activism that empowers young people as leaders and promotes their ideas for change as the United States’ only student policy organization.

TakingITGlobal (TIG)
www.tigweb.org
Provides youth with access to global opportunities, crosscultural connections, and meaningful participation in decision making on issues concerning young people, as an online collaborative learning community.

United States Student Association (USSA)
www.usstudents.org
Develops current and future leaders and amplifies the student voice at the local, state, and national levels by mobilizing grassroots power to win concrete victories on student issues.