Other Resources & Organizations

Annie E. Casey Foundation

The Annie E. Casey Foundation is a private charitable organization dedicated to helping build better futures for disadvantaged children in the United States. The primary mission of the Foundation is to foster public policies, human-service reforms, and community supports that more effectively meet the needs of today’s vulnerable children and families. In pursuit of this goal, the Foundation makes grants that help states, cities and neighborhoods fashion more innovative, cost-effective responses to these needs.

Echoing Green

To accelerate social change, Echoing Green invests in and supports outstanding emerging social entrepreneurs to launch new organizations that deliver bold, high-impact solutions. Through a two-year fellowship program, Echoing Green helps visionaries develop new solutions to society’s most difficult problems.

Global Impact Investing Network

The Global Impact Investing Network (GIIN) is a select global group of investors and intermediaries who put capital to work at scale to generate social and environmental value in addition to financial return. The GIIN is a platform for leaders of the emerging impact investing industry to incubate the activities and institutions that can accelerate the impact investing industry’s maturation, and ultimately drive substantial capital to solve previously intractable social and environmental challenges.

Good Capital

Good Capital is an investment firm that increases the flow of capital to innovative ventures creating market-based solutions to inequality and poverty. Using a high-engagement model, Good Capital invests in the most promising social enterprises and gives each the tools and guidance needed to succeed. In addition, Good Capital actively leads the development of the emerging social capital market by building a community of people who are passionate about creating positive social change through market forces. The organization connects like-minded investors to one another and acts as a conduit for capital--both human and financial-- to flow to worthy social enterprises.

PRI Makers

PRI Makers Network is an association of grantmakers that use program-related and other investments to accomplish their philanthropic goals. PRI Makers provides a forum for networking, professional development, collaboration and outreach to funders, including those not currently making PRIs or other social investments. PRIs may help a program reach scale; create jobs, products or services; or approach self-sufficiency. Often PRIs leverage co-investment, and often attract traditional financial players to the table.

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation seeks to improve the health and health care of all Americans. The Foundation’s efforts focus on how health care is delivered, how it's paid for, and how well it does for patients and their families.

Social Venture Partners

Social Venture Partners is a philanthropic organization founded in Seattle using a venture capital model where partners are committed to giving time, money and expertise to invest in long-term solutions to the social challenges facing its community. The Social Venture model has spread to include many cities nationwide that share the same name, mission, and organizational model and 10 core principles. The website features extensive resource listings.

The Edna McConnell Clark Foundation

The Edna McConnell Clark Foundation is supporting a number of high-performing nonprofits around the country, helping them increase their capacity to serve more young people from low-income backgrounds (ages 9 to 24) with quality programs during out-of-school time.

Venture Philanthropy Partners

VPP's mission is to concentrate investments of money, expertise, and personal contacts to improve the lives of children and youth of low-income families in the National Capital Region by helping effective community leaders build strong nonprofit institutions and by cultivating an engaged donor community to generate funding and influence in support of these institutions and of social change.