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Real-time progress spreadsheet at Google Docs


We keep track of when we contact speakers and organizations on this page:
http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=pVatemIpGoz6FssDOpWzyXw

to do:

  • go through master contact list from 07
  • Bay Area fellows: Echoing Green, Draper Richards, Reuters Digital Vision
  • Tech Museum Laureates - Bay Area
  • Sean's leads

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organizations - by topic


technology

  • Benetech

urban planning & revitalization

  • BRIDGE Housing - mixed use
  • People's Grocery
  • Urban Solutions

international development

  • d.light/Ignite Innovations
  • BuildFast
  • TransFair USA - SF
    • Ashoka Fellow
  • KickStart
  • MicroPlace
  • Kiva
  • World of Good

health

  • OneWorld Health
  • Interplast

economic empowerment (US), training/employment, community development

  • Lenders for Community Development (IDA)
    • Skoll Fellow
  • Upwardly Global - SF
    • Ashoka Fellow
  • Delancey Street - SF
  • First Place Fund for Youth (Ashoka Fellow)
  • Springboard Forward - Mountain View
    • Ashoka Fellow
    • founder Elliot Brown spoke at urbst131
  • Rubicon Programs (training & reintegration)
  • Sweet Beginnings (training & reintegration)
  • BUILD
  • EARN (IDA)
  • WAGES - Women's Action to Gain Economic Security (training)
    • eco-friendly housecleaning
  • Free at Least (EPA)
    • Echoing Green fellow

funding

  • patient capital/social venture capital
    • Village Enterprise - Menlo Park
    • investor's circle - SF
    • Good Capital - SF
    • New Cycle
    • New Profit
    • Pacific Community Ventures
      • community development venture capital
  • Acumen Fund
  • Google.org
  • Omidyar Network
  • foundations
    • Global Fund for Women
    • Kauffman Foundation
    • Skoll Foundation
    • Ashoka
    • Salesforce Foundation
  • venture philanthropy
    • Full Circle Fund

incubators

  • social fusion
  • La Cocina
  • Three Guineas Fund
  • Renaissance Entrepreneurship Center

social e institutional support - not funding

  • startingbloc
  • bridgestar - helping nonprofits build senior leadership teams; inititive of bridgespan
  • skoll center for social e - Oxford
  • OneRoof
  • Papilia - fundraising
  • Taproot Foundation - "do it pro bono" engaging business professionals
  • NESsT -
    • solving critical social problems in emerging market countries by developing and supporting social enterprises that strengthen civil society organizations' financial sustainability and maximize their social impact.
  • inspiring civic engagement & entrepreneurship
    • Girls for a Change
    • BUILD

education

  • New Teacher Center
  • Bring me a Book Foundation
  • Raising a Reader
  • NewSchools Venture Fund
  • Room to Read
  • Aspire Public Schools - Redwood City
    • Ashoka Fellow
    • building clusters fo charter schools in urban areas- tipping point for reform
  • RISE: resources for indispensible schools & educators - SF (Ashoka Fellow)
  • Exploratorium
  • BayCat - arts & culture
  • Eastside College Prep


environment

  • Thimmakka's Resources for Environmental Education - Berkeley
    • greening ethnic restaurants
    • Ashoka Fellow
  • RecycleBank
  • GreenBelt Alliance - main office SF
    • Skoll Fellow
  • TerraPass - SF
    • for profit

social justice

  • Ella Baker Center for Human Rights (Oakland)

socially conscious for-profits

  • Nau
  • New Resource Bank
    • invests deposits in sustainable development
  • No Sweat Apparel
  • Working Assets
  • Clif Bar

other

  • Entrepreneurs Foundation
  • Shaping Youth
  • Joint Venture: Silicon Valley Network
    • Skoll Fellow

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speakers


education/training, community development

  • Van Jones - Ella Baker Center for Human Rights
    • Ashoka Fellow
    • "Green for All" Campaign
  • Bill Strickland

strategy

  • Heather McLeod Grant
  • Britt Bravo - Big Vision workshop
  • James Phills, director of Center for Social Innovation
  • David Bornstein
  • bill behrman (prof. of SIE)
  • Timpothy Prestero- Design that Matters, founder
  • in the area? spoke at urbst131; recommended by Drew
  • Leslie Crutchfield
    • managing director of the Ashoka Global Academy for Social Entrepreneurship & a philanthropic advisor.
    • lives in DC
  • Bill Drayton
  • Anil Kumar - McKinsey
    • spoke no strategies for social ventures in mse41s


international development

  • Brij Kothari - PlanetRead, president
    • Ashoka fellow
  • Muhammad Yunus

health

  • David Green

funding & impact

  • Larry Brilliant
  • Kavita Ramdas
  • Amber Nystrom
    • Social Fusion founder; authority on triple bottom line investments

institutional support

  • Susanne Klar
    • BUILD founder
    • teaches Intro to Social E at Stanford Law School

creativity

  • Tina Seelig
  • someone from IDEO

technology

  • Adam Tolnay
  • Jim Fruchterman


investigate

  • Frank Levinson
    • Managing Director, Small World Group
  • Amy Jussel
    • ED, Shaping Youth
  • Villy Wang
    • Baycat
    • spoke in class the previous year
  • Clara Colbert
    • Escuela Nueva
    • Ashoka Fellow
  • Mark Benioff - chairman & CEO of Salesforce

leads

from Good to Great book launch
  • Christy Chin, Philanthropy Workshop West
  • Daniel Crisafulli, the Skoll Foundation
  • Kriss Deiglmeier, Center for Social Innovation
  • Cheryl Dorsey, Echoing Green
  • Bill Draper and Jenny Shilling Stein, Draper Richards Foundation
  • William Drayton and Susan Davis, Ashoka
  • Katherine Fulton, the Monitor Institute
  • Russ Hall & Chris Eyre, Legacy Venture
  • Suzanne Killea, Merrill Lynch
  • Sheryl Sandberg, Google.org
  • Michael Stein (http://michaelstein.typepad.com/michael_stein/)
  • Craigslist Foundation people



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