The Social Enterprise Alliance
The Social Enterprise Alliance (SEA) is a membership organisation in North America for social enterprises, service providers, nonprofit organisations, corporations, and venture capitalists. The SEA actively builds the field of social enterprise through networking opportunities, educational forums,...
Social Enterprise Coalition
The Social Enterprise Coalition is the UK's national body for social enterprise, representing a wide range of social enterprises, regional and national support networks and other related organisations. The organisation works with its members to promote the benefits of social enterprise through...
International Business Leaders Forum (IBLF)
International Business Leaders Forum (IBLF), founded by HRH The Prince of Wales, is an independent, nonprofit organisation currently supported by over 100 of the world’s leading businesses. IBLF works with business, governments and civil society to enhance the contribution that companies can make...
ACCION
ACCION International is a non-profit that fights poverty through micro lending. It provides microcredit and training to micro enterprise entrepreneurs. ACCION also offers an internship programme that provides an opportunity to learn about microenterprise development.
The Big Issue
The Big Issue is one of the UK's leading social businesses and exists to offer homeless people the opportunity to earn a legitimate income, thereby helping them to reintegrate into mainstream society. It is also the world's most widely circulated street newspaper. The organisation is made up of...
North East Social Enterprise
The North East Social Enterprise Partnership is a company limited by guarantee that represents and promotes social enterprise in the North East region of the UK. The company aims to assist social enterprises in the region to deliver positive economic, social and environmental change. Run by social...
Social enterprises 'growing strongly'
The UK's social enterprises - businesses trading for social or environmental purposes - bucked the recent recession, a report has said.
Trade Finance: Make it work for women
Trade Finance: Make it work for women, a news article, reports that women make up 70% of the world's poor, and it is important that they be given access to finance, which is critical to business success. The global financial crisis exacerbates an already dissatisfactory situation of trade financing...
Linking Business with Pro-Poor Development
Linking Business with Pro-Poor Development explores two key questions, How can business be pro-poor? and How can such partnerships be made sustainable? The document showcases how an innovative private-community partnership transformed the livelihoods of highly vulnerable families in far flung...
Inclusive Business: Profitable business for successful development
Inclusive Business: Profitable business for successful development, a paper published by The Alliance for Inclusive Business and the WBCSD, defines Inclusive Business as one that seeks to contribute to poverty alleviation by including lower-income communities within its value chain while not losing...