Community Wealth Ventures: Resources

Community Wealth Ventures and Social Enterprise Alliance have assembled a directory of nonprofit organizations with business ventures and strategic alliances as a reference tool to help build a broad network of social enterprise practitioners around the country. Please feel free to search the database for information that is useful to your needs, whether you are a nonprofit entrepreneur, foundation, consumer, donor, or other interested party. For the purposes of this directory, we define business ventures and strategic alliances as follows:

Business Venture: A business with revenues generated from the sale of products and/or services to customers beyond the organization's immediate constituents.

Strategic Alliance: A partnership between a company and a nonprofit with a mutually beneficial outcome. For example, a company might partner with a nonprofit to market an image, product, or service. The nonprofit may benefit from revenues or in-kind donations that fund its cause or programs.

While this database is intended to document the breadth and depth of social enterprise activities, it is by no means a comprehensive listing. We have intentionally omitted entire categories of nonprofit organizations – primarily hospitals, museums, and universities – given their strong histories of generating revenues through fee-for-service activities, membership dues, and tuition.

If you are a nonprofit practitioner, we encourage you to add your venture or alliance to the directory. We are grateful to all of the organizations listed for generously providing information to us.