Do you need to find an investor, collect money for you project via crowdfunding or get a grant? Here’s a list of resources where you can find financial support for realization of your social project.

If it’s only money that stops you from making the world a better place, stop waiting and act!

Nothing symbolizes entrepreneurship better than fundraising. Social entrepreneurship isn’t an exception. Today non-commercial organizations have many opportunities to finance a project, movie, etc.

The list of fonds, crowdfunding resources and grants will help you to realize your idea.

 

Venture philanthropy, investments for social entrepreneurs, social innovation support and investment

  1. ACCESS Community Capital Fund (Canada)
  2. Acumen Fund
  3. Agora Partnerships
  4. Bamboo Finance
  5. Big Issue Invest
  6. Blue Ridge Foundation New York
  7. Bridges Ventures (UK)
  8. Calvert Investment
  9. CDVCA
  10. CEI Ventures
  11. Citizen Capital
  12. City Light Capital
  13. Creas
  14. Commons Capital
  15. Community Power Fund (Canada)
  16. Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation
  17. Echoing Green
  18. Endeavor Global
  19. Equilibrium Capital
  20. Expansion Capital
  21. FMO
  22. France Active
  23. Fusion Venture Partners
  24. Garrigue
  25. Grassroots Business Fund
  26. Good Capital
  27. GoodCompany Group
  28. Grand Challenges in Global Health (Gates Foundation $100,000)
  29. Gray Ghost Ventures
  30. Gray Matters Capital
  31. IDP Foundation
  32. International Finance Corporation
  33. IGNIA
  34. Invested Development
  35. Investors’ Circle
  36. Jasmine Social Investments
  37. LGT Venture Philanthropy
  38. Lundin Foundation
  39. Merism Capital
  40. Mindfull Investors
  41. Mission Markets
  42. Murex Investments
  43. New Cycle Capital
  44. New Profit Inc.
  45. Next Street
  46. Omidyar Network
  47. Pacific Community Ventures
  48. Phitrust
  49. Pipeline Fellowship
  50. Presumed Abundance
  51. REDF
  52. SEAF
  53. Renewal Funds
  54. Renewal
  55. responsAbility
  56. Root Capital
  57. RSF Social Finance
  58. Satori Capital
  59. Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship
  60. Prosper Canada (Canada)
  61. SEVEN Fund
  62. Shared Interest
  63. Slow Money
  64. SJF Ventures
  65. Sosense
  66. Social Enterprise Fund
  67. Soul of Haiti Foundation
  68. SustainVC
  69. SVP Network Office
  70. Tandem Fund
  71. TechnoServe
  72. Triodos Bank
  73. Underdog Ventures
  74. UnLtd
  75. Charities Aid Foundation
  76. NCIIA
  77. Village Capital
  78. VOX Capital
  79. Venture Philanthropy Partners
  80. Willow Impact
  81. Young Foundation
  82. Zayed Future Energy Prize
  83. ZeroDivide
  84. Solstice Capital
  85. Hse{Startup} (Russia)

Crowdfunding and peer-to-peer microfinancing

  1. BiD Network
  2. ClearlySo
  3. CrowdRise
  4. Global Giving
  5. Indiegogo
  6. InVenture
  7. Kickstarter
  8. Kiva
  9. MicroPlace
  10. 1%Club
  11. Razoo
  12. Rocket Hub
  13. StartSomeGood
  14. Citizen Effect
  15. United Prosperity
  16. Unreasonable Institute
  17. Vittana
  18. GoGetFunding

 

Fonds that finance social entrepreneurship and innovations

  1. Ashoka
  2. Blue Ridge Foundation New York
  3. Calvert Foundation
  4. Case Foundation
  5. Catherine B. Reynolds Foundation
  6. Changemakers
  7. Ford Foundation
  8. Full Circle Fund
  9. Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
  10. Knight Foundation
  11. Lemelson Foundation
  12. Omidyar Network
  13. Rockefeller Foundation
  14. Skoll Foundation
  15. Schwab Foundation
  16. Social Venture Network
  17. Tides Foundation

 

Search for information and possibilities of financing

  1. Funding Central
  2. Governmentfunding.org.uk
  3. GrantSpace
  4. Open 4 Funding