*This is one of those enterprises that feels like design fiction but apparently isn't.
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"Partner Organizations
"The following is a list of organizations that Investors' Circle works closely with and that we think might be of interest to you. Please also see our book list
Angel Capital Association
The Angel Capital Association is a peer organization of angel investing groups in North America. The professional association focuses on networking and sharing of best practices among these angel organizations.
Business for Social Responsibility (BSR)
BSR works to create a just and sustainable world by working with companies to promote more responsible business practices, innovation and collaboration.
Business Alliance for Local Living Economies (BALLE)
BALLE works to create, strengthen and connect local business networks dedicated to building strong Local Living Economies.
Coalition for Environmentally Responsible Economies (CERES)
CERES encourages corporate environmental responsibility by working with companies to help them meet their commitments, promoting environmental reporting and mobilizing their network in activist projects.
Community Development Venture Capital Alliance (CDVCA)
CDVCA promotes the use of venture capital tools to create jobs, entrepreneurial capacity and wealth to advance both the livelihoods of low-income people and the economies of distressed communities.
Environmental Entrepreneurs (E2)
Environmental Entrepreneurs (E2) is a national community of business people who believe in protecting the environment while building economic prosperity. Working with NRDC (Natural Resources Defense Council), E2 serves as a champion on the economic side of good environmental policy.
Ethical Markets
Ethical Markets is a television series whose mission is to foster the evolution of capitalism beyond current models based on materialism, maximizing self-interest and profit, competition and fear of scarcity. By showcasing groups and individuals spearheading the new ethical markets, Ethical Markets seeks to grow this emerging, job-creating sector and expand its market share—globally and locally.
First Affirmative Financial Network (FAFN)
FAFN is an independent investment advisory firm registered with the SEC. FAFN supports a nationwide network of investment professionals who specialize in helping clients engage in socially responsible investing (SRI). FAFN also host SRI in the Rockies, an annual gathering of SRI industry professionals.
More Than Money
More Than Money is a national nonprofit education organization serving people who want to measure their success not by the money they are making but by the good they are doing.
The Natural Step
The Natural Step accelerates global sustainability by guiding companies and governments onto an ecologically, socially, and economically sustainable path.
Net Impact
Net Impact fosters a new generation of leaders who use the power of business to create a better world.
Responsible Wealth
Responsible Wealth members use their voices as wealthy business leaders, investors and inheritors to speak out for progressive taxes, corporate accountability and living wages.
Research Initiative on Social Entrepreneurship (RISE)
RISE studies and disseminates knowledge about the markets, metrics and management of for-profit and nonprofit social enterprise and social venturing. RISE is a research project at Columbia Business School.
Resource Generation
Resource Generation works with young people with financial wealth who are supporting and challenging each other to effect progressive social change through creative, responsible and strategic use of financial and other resources.
RSF Social Finance
RSF Social Finance is a nonprofit financial institution offering investing, lending and giving services that foster social and spiritual renewal. In partnership with its community of investors and donors, RSF provides capital to both for-profit and nonprofit social enterprises working in the areas of Food & Agriculture, Education & the Arts, and Ecological Stewardship.
Saltwater Institute
The Saltwater Institute provides leaders with the tools for values-centered leadership, and organizations with a means for strategic values-integration.
Social Investment Forum
Social Investment Forum is a national, nonprofit membership organization promoting the concept, practice and growth of socially responsible investing.
Social Venture Network (SVN)
SVN works to transform the way the world does business by connecting, leveraging and promoting a community of social entrepreneurs for a more just and sustainable economy.
SocialFunds.com
SocialFunds.com features over 10,000 pages of information on SRI mutual funds, community investments, corporate research, shareowner actions, and daily social investment news.
Social Venture Partners International (SVPi)
SVPi's mission is to educate and inspire philanthropists and provide funding and capacity building support to a focused portfolio of nonprofit organizations.
Springboard Enterprises
Springboard is a national nonprofit organization accelerating women's access to equity markets.
Sustainable Industries
A print and online magazine that caters to sustainable business leaders on the West Coast, the most dynamic region of the world for sustainable business innovation, and beyond.
SVN Books
Social Venture Network (SVN) has partnered with Berrett-Koehler Publishers to author and publish a series of down-to-earth paperback guides that will walk readers through the practical steps of starting and growing a socially responsible business. Learn more at www.svnbooks.com
SVT Group
Provides tools and strategies that allow organizations to do the most good possible with any amount of resources.
