Community Wealth Ventures: About Us

Community Wealth Ventures is a social enterprise consulting firm that:

Helps nonprofit organizations become more self-sustaining by generating revenue through business ventures and corporate partnerships.
Helps corporations improve their bottom line through the design and implementation of community investment strategies.

Through its consulting and research, CWV influences both nonprofits and corporations to think differently about market-based approaches to their social sector activity.

Community Wealth Ventures, Inc., was founded in 1997, as a for-profit subsidiary of Share Our Strength, one of the nation's leading anti-hunger and anti-poverty organizations. Since its founding in 1984, Share Our Strength has raised more than $245 million through publications, community wealth enterprises, licensing, sponsorship agreements and cause-related partnerships with corporations such as American Express, Barnes & Noble, Calphalon Cookware, Tyson Foods and Evian.

Share Our Strength launched CWV on the premise that every organization can increase its social impact by building on its own internal assets, rather than relying on support from external organizations. Click here to see the Harvard Business School case study on our founding.