RayBB/awesome-social-enterprise

Institutions 🏫

The Elisabeth Bruyère School of Social Innovation - Canada's first school of social innovation.

Communities 🤝

Conferences

Social Enterprise Summit - Annual social enterprise conference based in Hong Kong.

Podcasts 🎧

The Tech Matters Podcast - Talking about social enterprise structure and interviewing folks running them. Hosted by social entreprenur and engineer Jim Fruchterman.

What to Read

Finding Articles

The Straits Times - Singapore based newspaper with articles about social enterprise.

What to Read

Finding Articles

Pioneers Post - The Social Enterprise Magazine.

Impact Boom - Social impact blog and podcast.

Harvard Business Review - Articles tagged "social enterprise" are infrequent but high quality.

Stanford Social Innovation Review - Great publication with many articles tagged social enterprise.

The Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship - Content about the foundation's activities and opportunities.

Medium - Content from all around about social enterprise and social entrepreneurship.

Journal of Social Entrepreneurship - The academic journal for the topic.

What to Read

Articles

State of Social Entrepreneurship 2020 - Overview of SE in 2020 by Echoing Green.

• Echoing Green 2020 Fellows

Fellowships

Year Here - One year social enterprise fellowship to build an organization based in London.

Acumen Academy Fellowship - One year fellowship with the goal of equipping individuals with the tools to tackle issues in their communities.

Tools 🔨

GuideStar - Reporting on U.S. nonprofit companies.

ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer - Easily access any U.S. nonprofit's tax documents.

Social Bearing - Useful to determine how popular/active any Twitter account is.

What to Watch

Videos 📽

Social Entrepreneurs: Pioneering Social Change - Skoll Foundation video about social entrepreneurs.

Muhammad Yunus's Nobel Prize Speech - Yunus built Grameen Bank, the poster child for social enterprises.

Social Enterprise 101 - Quick and easy overview oof social enterprise.

How social entrepreneurship will change the world - Inspiring TEDx talk by Erica Wenger about social enterprises.

Communities 🤝

Online

Facebook

• Social Entrepreneurs - 2k members many posts each day.

United States Association for Small Business and Entrepreneurship (USASBE).

• Social Entrepreneurship - Focused on social entrepreneurship education.

Communities 🤝

Conferences

Skoll World Forum - Large annual conference for Skull Foundation.

Harvard Social Enterprise Conference - Student run annual social enterprise conference.

Indiana University Social Entrepreneurship Conference - Two day conference focused on social entrepreneurship research.

Communities 🤝

Finding Local Communities

SEA Chapters - Groups all over US focused on social enterprises.

Meetup - Popular group meeting site.

Eventbrite - Easy site for discovering events near you.

Communities 🤝

Networks

senco (social enterprise network of central ontario) - Canada group promoting social enterprises.

Social Enterprise Alliance - US social enterprise advocates.

enactus - Worldwide organization fostering student social entrepreneurs.

Buy Good. Feel Good. - North American expo dedicated to brands that are changing the world.

SocialVentures - Ohio nonprofit to advocate for, develop, and fund businesses that solve social problems.

Communities 🤝

Foundations

Skoll Foundation - Large foundation investing in social entrepreneurs.

Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship - Advocates for social entrepreneurss on a global level.

The Audacious Project - A TED project funding social entrepreneurs and nonprofits.

Communities 🤝

Consultants

CSED - Canada based nonprofit helping develop, launch, and grow social enterprises.

Common Good Solutions - Canada based B-corp helping governments, community organizations and entrepreneurs.

People 🧑

Authors

Susan Davis - Co-authored books on on social enterprise and highly active in community.

David Bornstein - Wrote several popular books on social entrepreneurship.

People 🧑

Social Entrepreneurs

Muhammad Yunus - Nobel Prize winner, founder of Grameen Bank, considered father of social enterprise.

People 🧑

Twitter Accounts 🐦

Ken Banks - Founder of Kiwanja.

Tech Jobs for Good - Posts about tech jobs with social impact.

Centre for Social Innovation Toronto - A coworking space, community, and launchpad for people who are changing the world.

Miscellaneous

WorldShapers - An abundance of resources related to social entrepreneurship education.

Benefit Corporation - A type of for-profit corporate entity, authorized by 35 U.S. states.

B Corp Certification - Certificate issued for existing for profit organizations demonstrating social responsibility.

FAQs ❓

Todo

Read these books and articles before adding them:

• An Army of Problem Solvers by Shaun Loney
• Introduction to Social Entrepreneurship by Teresa Chahine
• Educating at Scale for Sustainable Development and Social Enterprise Growth by Sara Calvo

What to Read

Papers 📃

(2008) Evolution of the social enterprise industry by the Institute for Social Entrepreneurs

• Less academic but a detailed history of events related to social enterprises.

What to Read

Articles

90+ Inspiring Books For Impact-Driven Doers and Entrepreneurs

People 🧑

Twitter Accounts 🐦

The Audacious Project

enactus

Impact Boom

Acumen

Institutions 🏫

USC Marshall Masters in Social Entrepreneurship

Middlesex University Business School

Jindal Centre for Social Innovation + Entrepreneurship program

Wharton Social Entrepreneurship

Copenhagen Business School Social Entrepreneurship

People 🧑

Twitter Accounts 🐦

Year Here

Pioneers Post

Ashoka

Echoing Green

Social Good News

HBS SocialEnterprise

Social Enterprise Alliance

senco

Courses 🎓

Social Enterprise Program

• By Middlesex University Business School & Jindal Centre for Social Innovation + Entrepreneurship program.
• Free, three courses, nine weeks total.
• According to this paper, the courses were quite impactful and helped start many social enterprises.

What to Read

Wikipedia Links 🔗

Social enterprise

Social entrepreneurship

List of social entrepreneurs

Category:Social enterprises

Category:Social entrepreneurs

Category:Social entrepreneurship

What to Read

Finding Articles

Galileo Impact Stories | YouTube | Kickstarter | Website

• A small but growing organization dedicated to covering impact investing. Content is often Russia oriented and not always directly about social enterprises but much of the content is relative. Here is a video summarizing their work in 2019.

What to Read

Papers 📃

(1998) The Meaning of "Social Entrepreneurship" by J. Gregory Dees

• A short history of social entrepreneurship (and why the definition isn't agreed upon).

(2004) The Legitimacy of Social Enterprise Raymond Dart

• A pragmatic discussion on why social enterprises, in relation to nonprofits, exist.

(2010) Conceptions of Social Enterprise and Social Entrepreneurship by Jacques Defourny

• Parallels between US and European Social Enterprises.

(2014) Social Enterprise – A New Phenomenon in the Field of Economic and Social Welfare? by Leandro Sepulveda

• A history of social enterprises from a UK perspective.

Communities 🤝

Online

Quora

• Social Entrepreneurship - 375k followers, great for asking questions.