Friday, June 5, 2009

Funding Associations for Social Enterprises

Skoll Foundation - gives grants and provides development programs to support social entrepreneurial organizations (www.skollfoundation.org)

Acumen Fund - an international fund, based in the US, that links serious philanthropists with social innovators. (www.acumenfund.org)

The Scarman Trust - a UK charity committed to helping citizens bring about change in the British community (www.thescarmantrust.org/)

ChangeMakers - an Ashoka initiative that provides financial awards to budding social entrepreneurs, whose ideas have the ability to help change the world (www.changemakers.net)

The Omidyar Network - funds social enterprises to try and foster a sense of individual self-empowerment on a global scale. (www.omidyar.net)

GlobalGiving - provides a forum for social entrepreneurs to put-up their respective projects and requests for funding. Here, private donors fund projects or ideas that they believe are capable of creating vast social impact (www.globalgiving.com/)

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