Friday, January 15, 2010

Resources for Social Entrepreneurs

In my previous post I explored the beauty of social entrepreneurship and its related consequences. I received a mail today morning from an anonymous reader of my blog who requested to share some resources which can help him to venture in this arena.
This post is intended to provide a compiled data sheet of relevant organizations who practice this subject and help budding social entrepreneurs

http://www.schwabfound.org/
Their mission is to provide unparalleled platforms at the national, regional and global levels for leading social innovators that highlight social entrepreneurship as a key element to address social and ecological problems in an innovative, sustainable and effective way.

http://www.ashoka.org/
Global organization seeking to allow "social entrepreneurs to thrive and enable the world’s citizens to think and act as changemakers."