Canadian social enterprises

Corporate social responsibility

• Canadian Business for Social Responsibility
• Corporate Knights
• Experience Point

Funders and related information

• Guide to Financing for Social Enterprise (PDF)
• BC Angel Forum

• Canadian Alternative Investment Cooperative

• Canadian Social Entrepreneurship Foundation

• Charity Bank
• Coast Capital Savings Credit Union
• Endswell Foundation
• Enterprising Non Profits
• Investors’ Circle
• Skoll Foundation
• Social Capital Partners
• Vancity
• Vancity Community Foundation
• Venture Philanthropy Partners

International perspectives

• Edge Upstarts Awards
• Global Social Venture Competition
• Social Enterprise Magazine (UK)
• The United Kingdom 'Community Interest Company'

Related support organizations and resources

• Ashoka
• Blended Value Map
• BC Centre for Non-Profit Development
• British Columbia Co-Operative Association
• Canada Revenue Agency, on non-profit organizations

• Canada Revenue Agency, on related businesses for registered charities

• Canada Revenue Agency, on registered charities and CED programs

• Canadian Centre for Social Entrepreneurship

• Canadian Society for Social Development

• Centre for Community Enterprise
• Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership
• Centre for Innovative and Entrepreneurial Leadership (CIEL)

• Center for Social Profit Leadership

• Charities File

• Ethics in Action Awards
• Genuine Progress Index Pacific Society
• Greenbiz
• Harvard Business School – social enterprise

• Kootenay Centre for Social Enterprise

• Net Impact
• Non Profit Business Solutions
• Non Profit Enterprise Forum
• Pioneers of Change
• Roberts Enterprise Development Fund (San Francisco)
• School for Social Entrepreneurs (UK)
• Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship
• Social Edge
• Social Enterprise Magazine Online
• Social Enterprise Reporter
• Social Enterprise Resource Database – Associations and Networks
• Social Fusion
• Small Business Notes – Social Enterprise
• Stanford Center for Social Innovation
• Tamarack Institute for Community Engagement
• Yale Partnership for Non Profit Ventures

Social economy

• Community Services Council of Newfoundland and Labrador Social Economy Project

  • Horizons Policy Research Initiative

  • Social capital as a public policy tool
  • Social economy hub
  • Social economy in BC
  • Western Economic Diversification
  • What we need to know about the social economy: a guide for policy research

   

Social enterprise case studies (American)

Social enterprise consultants

• Conscientious Innovation

• DueGood

• Fraser Valley Centre for Social Enterprise
• Lawyer for charities, Richard Bridge

Social enterprise networks

• Canadian Social Entrepreneur’s Network
• Social Enterprise Alliance
• Social Venture Network

Social purchasing portals (social procurement)

• Social Purchasing Portal – Canada
• Social Purchasing Portal – Fraser Valley
• Social Purchasing Portal – Surrey
• Social Purchasing Portal – Vancouver