Additional resources about the business sector

• Job & internship listings
• Fellowships
• Career resources from colleges and universities
• Graduate school and continuing education resources
• Company information and rankings
• Social-impact career support, networking, and industry information
• Books about social-impact careers and social entrepreneurship
  

Job & internship listings

• Justmeans — a social platform to look for jobs, read blogs, learn about conferences, and engage in social networking with people who create change.
• Commongood Careers — career articles and advice, social-impact jobs search engine, and more.
• ECO — a wide range of environmental jobs and internships in the United States and elsewhere.
• Net Impact — a network committed to using business for social good. Some sections of the Net Impact site are members only.
• Orion Grassroots Network — a national network of green jobs and national service opportunities.
  

Fellowships

• Ashoka — a global fellowship for social entrepreneurs who have innovative solutions to social problems "and the potential to change patterns across society."
• Echoing Green — a global fellowship that provides startup money for social enterprises with savvy, innovative approaches to intractable social ills.
• Encore.org — a fellowship program of Civic Venures which enables professionals at midcareer+ to serve in time-limited roles at social-impact organizations.
• ProInspire — a fellowship that recruits business professionals to serve in nonprofits.
  

Career resources from colleges and universities

• Brown University's Careers in the Common Good
• Dartmouth University's Career Services Information on Social Enterprise Careers
• Duke University's Center for Advancement of Social Entrepreneurship
• Harvard University's Social Enterprise Initiative
• NYU Wagner Graduate School of Public Service Career Resources
• Stanford University's Center for Social Innovation
  

Graduate school and continuing education resources

• Aspen Institute's Beyond Grey Pinstripes — a biennial survey and ranking of business school that integrate social and environmental stewardship with curricula and research.
• Idealist Grad School Resource Center — a guide to educational options that can help you further your social-impact career.
• Idealist Grad Fairs — a national tour of grad school admissions fairs that bring world-class public-service grad schools to your U.S. region.
• Net Impact's Business as UNusual: Student Guide to Graduate Business Programs — a free, downloadable guide that offers you "the inside scoop on what business programs are doing to prepare students for careers that make a positive impact on the world."
• Social Venture Network — an annual institute that provides mentoring, advice, forums, and networking for social entrepreneurs and social business leaders.
• StartingBloc Institute for Social Innovation — fellowship focused on corporate social innovation, social entrepreneurship, cross-sector partnerships, and sustainability.
  

Company information and rankings

• Certified B Corporation — corporations that use business to solve social and environmental problems, and meet B Corporation ratings system and legal standards.
• Climate Counts — company rankings based on their corporate policies and practices related to climate footprint.
• Fast Company Social Capitalist Awards
• National Green Pages — listings of 3,000 businesses with commitments to sustainable, socially-just principles.
• JustMeans' Global 1000 top publicly-traded businesses, "based on 200 hundred financial, environmental, social, and governmental metrics"
• Net Impact's Company Rankings
• 1% for the Planet — companies committed to donating one percent of their sales to over 2,000 environmental organizations globally.
  

Social-impact career support, networking, and industry information

• Alltop Social Entrepreneurship News — an "online magazine rack" that aggregates top headlines and blogs around social entrepreneurship.
• Business Ethics — an online magazine at the intersection of business and society.
• Business for Social Responsibility — resources, jobs, consulting, conferences, research, and news about socially responsible businesses.
• Changemakers — an initiative of Ashoka that focses on the rapidly growing world of social entrepreneurship.
• CSR Wire — corporate social responsibility and sustainability news.
• Ethical Performance — an international, independent newsletter on corporate social responsibility and socially responsible investment.
• Fast Company — a magazine that "covers the new economy and workplace for people who believe in fusing tough-minded performance with human values."
• Good Magazine — magazine, video, blog, events, and forum "for people who give a damn."
• Justmeans — corporate social responsibility and sustainability website with forums, news, and job postings.
• LifeWorth — career resource for global social entreprise and finance professionals.
• Net Impact — a global, membership-driven organization that supports people at the crossroads of social-impact and business with career resources, networking events, business school guidance, conferences, and workshops.
• Skoll Foundation — supports social entrepreneurs around the world; site includes a blog, newsletter, awards, and publications about social entrepreneurship.
• Social Edge — an online community for social entrepreneurs with blogs, discussions forums, advice, and job listings. A project of the Skoll Foundation.
• Social Enterprise Alliance — membership organization offering resources, education, technical assistance, and networking opportunities to social entrepreneurs.
• Social Venture Network — a network of business leaders working toward socially and environmentally responsible businesses through conferences, forums, effective practices, and resources.
• Stanford Social Innovation Review — a magazine covering best strategies for socially-responsible businesses, nonprofits, and foundations. Includes podcasts, blog, forums, and research publications.
• University Network for Social Entrepreneurship — a resource hub and an action-oriented discussion forum involving practitioners, researchers, professors, and students to develop social entrepreneurship as a vocation. Carries its principles into other disciplines and sectors.
  

Books about social-impact careers and social entrepreneurship

• Be Bold from Echoing Green
• Creating a World Without Poverty: Social Business and the Future of Capitalism by Muhammad Yunus
• How to Change the World: Social Entrepreneurs and the Power of New Ideas by David Bornstein and about Ashoka founder Bill Drayton
• Just Good Business: The Strategic Guide to Aligning Corporate Responsibility and Brand by Kellie McElhaney
• Making a Living While Making a Difference by Melissa Everett
• More than Money by Mark Albion
• The Idealist.org Handbook to Building a Better World from Idealist.org with Stephanie Land

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