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Community Partnerships- Cal Endowment - Building Healthy Communities
- Encore Fellows Program
Civic Ventures program matching highly experienced professionals with nonprofit organizations in the Sacramento & Sierra regions - Generosity Project
- Placer Collaborative Network
- Strengthen Our Community
A leveraged media campaign to educate, connect and resource the community in support of the region’s nonprofit sector. - Website Development Project
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- About the Center
Insight Center on Scaling Social Impact
Latest thinking on social enterprise
The Insight Center on Scaling Social Impact, an online resource published on HBR.org that will feature the latest and best thinking on social enterprise. Supported by Omidyar Network, this partnership will provide a platform for the field’s global leaders to share stories and lessons on the relationship between for-profit ventures and social change. The Insight Center will feature blogs, full-length articles, and interactive webinars from prominent names in the industry
enterprising non-profits (enp)
Tools for assessing your organization
Vancouver based enterprising non-profits (enp) promotes and supports social enterprise development and growth as a means to build strong nonprofits and healthier communities. Their information rich website offers many resources including an excellent tool for assessing an organizations overall readiness in three areas: organizational readiness, social readiness and social enterprise readiness.
State of Social Enterprise: 2012
The Limits of Social Enterprise
A Field Study and Case Analysis
This report provides specific recommendations for nonprofit planning and implementation based on an in-depth analysis of a failed social enterprise and a general investigation of this type of activity in the nonprofit field.
seToolbelt
Free, high quality tools for social entrepreneurs
seToolbelt is an open content community resource center for social entrepreneurs. It offers over 1,000 free toolkits, cases, articles, videos, examples, manuals, interviews, podcasts, business plans, frameworks, and templates that come from practice and spans regions, sectors, industries, and business functions.
Social Enterprise Alliance
Membership organization for social entrepreneurs
The Social Enterprise Alliance (SEA) is the leading membership organization in North America for social enterprises, service providers, nonprofit organizations, corporations, and venture capitalists that is actively building the field of social enterprise through networking opportunities, educational forums, strategic partnerships, and impact legislation. Our members are passionate about changing their communities, and we are passionate about providing them with the tools they need to continue their good work.