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Artha Venture Challenge

Switzerland

The Artha Platform is an online community and website dedicated to building relationships between impact investors and donors, and social entrepreneurs and capacity building support organizations working on or in India. It is an independent initiative supported by Rianta Philanthropy Ltd.

Type: Accelerator/Incubator

Geography: Southern Asia

Impact: Employment Generation

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Ashoka

United States of America

Ashoka is the largest network of social entrepreneurs worldwide, with nearly 3,000 Ashoka Fellows in 70 countries putting their system changing ideas into practice on a global scale. Founded by Bill Drayton in 1980, Ashoka has provided start-up financing, professional support services, and connections to a global network across the business and social sectors, and a platform for people dedicated to changing the world. Ashoka launched the field of social entrepreneurship and has activated multi-sector partners across the world who increasingly look to entrepreneurial talent and new ideas to solve social problems.

Type: Accelerator/Incubator

Geography: United States of America

Impact: Capacity Building

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Changemakers

United States of America

Ashoka Changemakers is building the world's first global online open source community that profiles the best social solutions to the world's most pressing issues.Changemakers activates a global network of social entrepreneurs innovators business leaders policy makers and activists to build an Everyone a Changemaker world. Reecting on Ashoka s three decades of work with social entrepreneurs around the world we recognize that progressive entrepreneurs and organizations mobilizing locally is what propels systemic change. Changemakers works to build this movement by searching selecting and supporting entrepreneurs delivering ground breaking analysis accelerating company intrepreneurship and creating strong partnerships that will drive the movement forward.

Type: Other Capital Providers

Geography: United States of America

Impact: Capacity Building

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Criterion Institute

United States of America

Founded by Joy Anderson Criterion has unique insights based on the values of grace hospitality and invitation deceptively simple methodology and history at the intersection of business and social change.Criterion currently run three field building initiatives Church as an Economic Being Leaders Shaping Markets and Women Effect Investments. Each is managed in collaboration with a set of partners.Criterion role is to coordinate key project efforts convene the ecosystems around each space and curate learning and tools as they are developed.

Type: Foundation

Geography: United States of America

Impact: Capacity Building

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Global Social Venture Competition (GSVC)

United States of America

The Global Social Venture Competition (GSVC) empowers the next generation of social entrepreneurs by providing them with mentoring exposure and over $80000 in prizes to transform their ideas into ventures that address the world s most pressing challenges. Teams from across the globe learn how to design scalable models through a process that emphasizes stakeholder discovery business innovation and social impact assessment. Founded by MBA students at UC Berkeley s Haas School of Business in 1999 the GSVC has evolved into a global network of premier business schools universities and programs in the US Europe Asia Africa and Latin America. Each partner school and a program is supported by a network that includes other universities and organizations judges mentors and investors focused on social impact innovation and entrepreneurship. In 2017 GSVC received over 600 entries from 65 countries. GSVC has helped launch successful social ventures such as Revolution Foods d.light Husk Power Ethos Water Sanergy and World of Good.

Type: Investor Network

Geography: United States of America

Impact: Access to Education

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Queen City Forward

United States of America

Queen City Forward provides a hub for entrepreneurs who have business ideas that address social needs and work to balance a triple bottom line of people planet and profit. They encourage enable and scale these social enterprises to create a robust cluster of innovation in the Charlotte region.

Type: Accelerator/Incubator

Geography: Northern America

Impact: Capacity Building

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Sorenson Impact Foundation

United States of America

(SIF) invests in social enterprises that create and scale sustainable solutions to address societal problems around the world. SIF focuses on investing in ideas that are innovative disruptive and have the potential to make a large scale positive impact on underserved populations. Over the last decade SIF has supported social entrepreneurs and governments across five continents and in a variety of different sectors and social issues. To accomplish his mission of not only investing in but also building the broader impact investing ecosystem in 2013 James Lee Sorenson founder of the Sorenson Impact Foundation endowed the Sorenson Impact Center (SIC) at the David Eccles School of Business within the University of Utah. The Sorenson Impact Center is a renowned think and do tank focused on impact investing impact measurement data for social good public private partnerships policy innovation and overall field building. To date SIC has advised governments private investors foundations nonprofits and entrepreneurs on a variety of different investment and policy initiatives both in the U.S. and abroad.

Type: Foundation

Geography: Americas

Impact: Access to Financial Services

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StartSomeGood

StartSomeGood is the global crowdfunding platform for social entrepreneurs, nonprofits, changemakers and social good projects. The truth is there is no shortage of problems in the world. But the good news is there’s also no shortage of people with the ideas and passion to address those problems. These are their people, the changemakers. Too often however, the vision for change doesn’t come packaged with the resources needed to make it happen.

Type: Investment Fund Manager

Geography: Global

Impact: Access to Financial Services