America Forward is a coalition of more than 60 social entrepreneurs and high-impact organizations that have developed innovative, results-driven solutions to some of America's toughest domestic problems. The coalition is working to connect these social entrepreneurs with the presidential campaigns and other policymakers to present new visions for the role of entrepreneurship in social problem solving and the role government can play as an investor in innovative solutions.

Americans for Community Development is a coalition of organizations dedicated to the social good that encourages the use of program related investments through L3C limited liability corporations as a means to achieve socially beneficial goals. By coordinating private foundation support and commercial investment, use of an L3C furthers the accomplishment of a charitable purpose while minimizing the overall risk for investors, encouraging economic development investment and acting as a catalyst for social change.

The Aspen Institute's Nonprofit Sector and Philanthropy Program
The Aspen Institute is an international nonprofit dedicated to fostering enlightened leadership and open-minded dialogue. A program of the Aspen Institute, the Nonprofit Sector and Philanthropy Program seeks to improve the operation of the nonprofit sector and philanthropy through research, leadership, and communications initiatives focused on critical nonprofit issues. The program's current initiatives focus on social entrepreneurship, foundation policy and practice, nonprofits and public policy, and seminars for foundation and nonprofit executives.

Community Wealth/The Democracy Collaborative
Community-Wealth.org brings together, for the first time, information about the broad range of community wealth strategies, policies, models, and innovations. The site is built upon the proposition that above all, practitioners, policy makers, academics and the media need solid, cross-cutting information and tools that can help them to understand and support the expansion of these institutions. Across-the-board information, experience, and expertise can also contribute to creating a favorable policy environment in which community wealth approaches are more fully legitimized, recognized, and appreciated as meaningful to the revitalization of our communities.

Louisiana Office of Social Entrepreneurship
The Office of SE supports citizens and organizations working across sectors and using business principles to build, measure, and scale the most innovative, effective, and sustainable solutions to the social problems facing communities across the state. The Office accomplishes this by: encouraging social innovation; creating an enabling environment; scaling success; rewarding initiatives for their performance; and producing knowledge that enhances success. One day, the state of Louisiana will be a center for excellence in social innovation where all citizens and organizations work together across sectors to ensure a high quality of life throughout Louisiana.

The Phoenix Project: Accelerating Social Entrepreneurship in Virginia
The Phoenix Project is a statewide nonprofit organization that seeks to alleviate poverty by building a sustainable partnership between Virginia higher education and the Commonwealth's most distressed communities that adds civic capacity to communities, strengthens the mission of universities, and provides a powerful context in which to prepare nonprofit and social entrepreneurs for tomorrow's Virginia. With offices in Springfield and Petersburg, Virginia, and programs in Northern Virginia, Tidewater and Southside, the Phoenix Project is developing innovative short-term and long-term strategies that benefit the Commonwealth as a whole.

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