Related Networks and Organizations

  • Americans for Community Development (ACD) - Created to work with legislators around the country to pass L3C acts. The L3C is a new form of limited liability company which combines the best features of a for-profit LLC with the socially beneficial aspects of a nonprofit; the "for-profit with a nonprofit soul."
  • Aspen Network of Development Entrepreneurs (ANDE) - A member-driven organization housed within the Aspen Institute. Members are leading intermediaries (firms providing capital and/or business development services), funders and experts who share a common desire to create a movement to unleash the potential of SGBs in emerging markets.
  • Association of Small Foundations (ASF) - A membership organization for foundations with few or no staff. ASF provides its members with peer learning opportunities, targeted resources, and a collective voice in and beyond the philanthropic community.
  • Calvert Social Investment Foundation - For over 10 years, Calvert has been working to make community investment a safe and logical option for all investors seeking to make a positive social impact.
  • CARS -- Opportunity Finance Network (OFN) - OFN is the leading network of private financial intermediaries with a proven expertise in lending prudently and productively in unconventional markets often overlooked by conventional financial institutions. CARS is the CDFI Assessment and Rating System, a comprehensive, third-party analysis of community development financial institutions that aids investors and donors in their investment decision-making.
  • Center for Applied Philanthropy (CAP) - Promotes the use of non-traditional funding streams among philanthropic organizations to help leverage impact, and provides foundations and other funders with the opportunity to partner in these investments through its Fund for Sustainability (TFS). CAP also serves as a resource for those practicing, supporting, or considering program- or mission-related investments. CAP Overview
  • Council of Development Finance Agencies (CDFA) - A national association dedicated to the advancement of development finance concerns and interests. CDFA members are state, county and municipal development finance agencies and authorities that provide or otherwise support economic development financing programs, including tax-exempt and taxable bonds, credit enhancement programs, and direct debt and equity investments as well as a variety of non-governmental and private organizations ranging from regional and large investment banks to commercial finance companies to bond counsel, bond insurers, trustees, venture capital companies, rating agencies, and other organizations interested in economic development finance.
  • Community Giving Resource - Smartlink - tools and wisdom for donors to make the most of community giving!
  • Community-wealth.org - Comprehensive and up-to-date information resource on state-of-the-art strategies for democratic, community-based economic development.
  • Council on Foundations - As the voice of philanthropy, the Council works to create an environment in which the movement can grow and thrive, and to provide Council members with the products and services they need to do their best work.
  • FSG Social Impact Advisors - FSG's mission to accelerate social progress requires field-wide opportunities to promote greater social impact, including a focus on bringing mission investing to scale.
  • The Foundation Center - Maintains the most comprehensive database on U.S. grantmakers and their grants; issues a wide variety of print, electronic, and online information resources; conducts and publishes research on trends in foundation growth, giving, and practice; and offers an array of free and affordable educational programs.
  • Foundation Financial Officers Group (FFOG) - A nonprofit membership organization of financial and investment officers of large private foundations in the United States and abroad. Their mission is to facilitate networking among its members to further their development as financial professionals and foundation officers and to provide the opportunity for the exchange of ideas and information of common interest.
  • Global Impact Investing Network (GIIN) - The Global Impact Investing Network is a nonprofit organization dedicated to increasing the effectiveness of impact investing. Through supporting collaboration, developing industry infrastructure, and undertaking research and advocacy, their focus is to foster a coherent impact investing industry and increase dramatically the level and effectiveness of capital that supports market-based solutions to social and environmental problems.
  • Grantcraft - Produces guides, workshops, papers, videos, cases, etc. to support reflection and conversation about grantmaking practice.
  • The Grantsmanship Center - Offers resources and training for grantseekers.
  • Institute for Responsible Investment: Boston College - Coordinates and disseminates best practices, conducts crucial research, and creates networks of investment opportunities that take advantage of the changing landscape of property investment.
  • Investors' Circle - A network of over 200 angel investors, professional venture capitalists, foundations, family offices and others who are using private capital to promote the transition to a sustainable economy.
  • Monitor Institute - Their mission is to help innovative leaders develop and achieve sustainable solutions to significant social and environmental problems. They are part consulting firm, part think tank, and part incubator of new approaches
  • More for Mission Campaign - A proactive commitment to broadly promote mission investing and challenge foundations to take up mission investing practices. The goal of the campaign is to increase mission investment commitments by $10 billion over the next five years (2012). The campaign aims to help foundations build capacity so that they have the tools to better align their investments with the mission of the organization.
  • Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors (RPA) - Helps donors create thoughtful, effective philanthropy throughout the world. Provides research and counsel on charitable giving, develops philanthropy programs, and offers complete program, administrative and management services for foundations and trusts.
  • Social Edge - By Social Entrepreneurs, For Social Entrepreneurs. A program of The Skoll Foundation.
  • Social Investment Forum - A national nonprofit membership association for professionals, firms and organizations dedicated to promoting the practice and growth of socially responsible investing (SRI).
  • Stanford University Graduate School of Business’ Center for Social Innovation and Stanford Social Innovation Review - Sources of innovation at the nexus of the nonprofit, business, and government sectors to solve the world's most vexing social problems.