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General Support
- Bay Area BusinessWoman
- Business for Social Responsibility
- CompassPoint Nonprofit Services
- Executive Women's Alliance
- Forum for Women Entrepreneurs
- Net Impact
- Renaissance Entrepreneurship Center
- Ultimate Small Business Owner's Resource Guide
- Urban Solutions - Small Business and Neighborhood Improvement Services in the SF Bay Area
- US Women Connect
- The Volunteer Center
- Women's Initiative for Self Employment
- Young Nonprofit Professionals Network
Funding Opportunities and Information
- Ashoka: Innovators for the Public
- Community Development Venture Capital Alliance
- Community Wealth Ventures
- Echoing Green
- The Foundation Center
- Roberts Enterprise Development Fund
- Small Business Association
- Taproot Foundation
- Yale School of Management - partnership on Nonprofit Ventures
Social Entrepreneurship
- Institute for Social Entrepreneurs
- The National Center for Social Entrepreneurs
- Social Enterprise Alliance - Where mission meets the marketplace
- Social Venture Network
- How
To Change
the World: Social Entrepreneurs and the Power of New Ideas
by David Bornstein - "The Meaning of Social Entrepreneurship” by Professor J. Gregory Dees. Original Draft: October 31, 1998; Reformatted and revised: May 30, 2001.
- The Social Intrapreneur: A Field Guide for Corporate Changemakers by SustainAbility, 2008.
Financial Strategy
Career Counseling
- Tarra Christoff, MA - Compassionate Coaching for Catalyzing Change
- Andrea M. King, M.S., N.C.C. - Distance Career Counseling
- Work It, Mom! - Helping Professional Moms Juggle Life
Starting a Nonprofit
- Do you have a business plan that makes sense? See if you do according to Sutia Kim Alter's article, "Business Planning for Social Enterprises", in Grantsmanship Center Magazine, vol.46 (Spring 2002) p 21-4.
- The East Bay Resource Center for Nonprofit Support recommends these resources as "important reading before starting a nonprofit"
- "Get Ready Get Set: What you need to know before starting a nonprofit" by Peter B. Manzo. Los Angeles, CA: Center for Nonprofit Management, 2001.
- "How To Form a Nonprofit Corporation in California," 12th ed., by Anthony Mancuso, Berkeley, CA: Nolo Press, 2007, ISBN 9781413306491
- Test your knowledge on "Starting a New Nonprofit" at About.com.
Strategic Planning and Leadership Development
- Ivy Sea Online Leadership and Communication Center - Visionary Resources for Conscious Enterprise and New-Era Leadership
- MindWing - Expanding leadership for women in the 20's and 30's
- Woodhull Institute
Marketing and Public Relations
- One Woman Marketing - Marketing coaching and resources for women, by women
- CompassPoint Nonprofit Services
- Renaissance Entrepreneurship Center classes
- SPIN Project - Media technical assistance for nonprofit public-interest organizations
- "Storytelling for Grantseekers
