The California Association of Nonprofits (CAN®) www.canonprofits.org protects, strengthens and promotes California nonprofits through advocacy, membership, conferences and workshops, information and referrals, tools and resources.

Community Wealth Ventures, Inc. www.communitywealth.com Helps nonprofit organizations become more self-sustaining by generating revenue through business ventures and corporate partnerships.

Good Capital www.goodcap.net Good Capital is an investment firm that increases the flow of capital to innovative ventures creating market-based solutions to inequality and poverty. We manage the Social Enterprise Expansion Fund, which leverages the power of venture capital to increase the impact of social enterprises.

Echoing Green www.echoinggreen.org Echoing Green provides first-stage funding and support to visionary leaders with bold ideas for social change. As an angel investor in the social sector, Echoing Green identifies, funds and supports the world's most exceptional emerging leaders and the organizations they launch. Through a two-year fellowship program, we help passionate social entrepreneurs develop new solutions to some of society's most difficult problems.

Harvard Social Enterprise Initiative Webpage http://www.hbs.edu/socialenterprise/ The Social Enterprise Initiative at HBS generates and shares knowledge that helps individuals and organizations create social value in the nonprofit, private, and public sectors.

Institute for Social Entrepreneurship www.socialent.org The Institute for Social Entrepreneurs provides education, training and consulting services for social entrepreneurs in the United States and abroad..

NAWBO www.nawbo-oc.com NAWBO-OC is the premier educational and networking resource for local women business owners and professionals. They promote the growth, stability, and profitability of women-owned businesses in Orange County.

REDF (formerly Roberts Enterprise Development Fund) www.redf.org REDF provides guidance, leadership and investment to a portfolio of nonprofit Social Enterprise, changing the lives of people who face poverty, homelessness, mental illness and other barriers to employment.

Social Enterprise Alliance www.se-alliance.org Social Enterprise Alliance is the membership organization leading the creation of a Social Enterprise movement. We mobilize communities of nonprofit organizations and funders to advance earned income strategies.

Stanford Center for Social Innovation www.gsb.stanford.edu/csi/ Stanford Graduate School of Business created the Center for Social Innovation (CSI) to invest its intellectual resources in a society confronted by profound needs and complex problems. Building on the Business School's three-decade commitment to public and nonprofit management, CSI promotes solutions through a unique combination of interdisciplinary research, teaching that extends beyond the classroom, and efforts to engage with those who lead social change.