15 Resources for Emerging Social Entrepreneurs
Social entrepreneurs are our world’s best resource: by bringing new technologies and new ways of thinking to age-old problems, they are helping solve for the future and they are envisioning and co-creating our shared reality.
Here are 10 resources for emerging social entrepreneurs. If you are working to make a difference, or you have an idea that you’d like to pilot or take to scale, make sure to surround yourself with like-minded people who are interested in the same issues.
Books
Here’s the top three books I recommend for the field.
Online Course
Acumen teaches online courses:
Videos
YouTube Playlist of Stories of Women in Socent. Want to get inspired of how women are working in social enterprise?
Check out this playlist or add your own video by tagging it with #socentwomen
Link to playlist: http://bit.ly/WomeninSocentPlaylist
Foundations
The top four organizations focusing on social entrepreneurship are:
Ashoka: Bill Drayton founded Ashoka in 1980 based on the idea that the most powerful force for good in the world is a social entrepreneur: a person driven by an innovative idea that can help correct an entrenched global problem. The world’s leading social entrepreneurs pursue system-changing solutions that permanently alter existing patterns of activity.
Echoing Green: Echoing Green will provide more than $4.6 million in unrestricted seed-stage funding and strategic foundational support this year to emerging leaders working to bring about positive social change. Over the past three decades, our total investment is over $40 million to more than 700 world-class leaders.
Skoll Foundation: The Skoll Foundation drives large-scale change by investing in, connecting, and celebrating social entrepreneurs and innovators who help them solve the world’s most pressing problems.
Join Networks
CofoundersLab: Connect, meet and collaborate
with like-minded entrepreneurs.
Join other social entrepreneurs during Startup Week in your area, around the country and internationally: https://startupweek.co/
Do you run a science, technology, or engineering startup internationally ? Join the GIST Network for resources, support, grants, and bootcamps:
The Global Entrepreneurship Network offers an international network of over 270 countries with local events, programming, investor groups, bootcamps, and more. Look for Global Entrepreneurship Week in your area, held every November.
GrowthSupply offers: 400 Awesome free resources for Entrepreneurs
Special Resources for Female Founders:
FemaleFounders.network offers a private discussion LinkedIn Group for Female Founders (request access at bit.ly/femalefoundersLinkedIn)
The Facebook Female Founders Community is a private community on Facebook, focused on established and emerging female founders.
Connect with others — we are powerful changemakers when we work alongside one another, making a positive difference for our communities, our industries, and our world.
