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Omidyar Network - "a philanthropic investment firm dedicated to harnessing the power of markets to create opportunity for people to improve their lives. We invest in and help scale innovative organizations to catalyze economic, social, and political change."

Social Venture Partners, Seattle - "a nonprofit, volunteer-driven organization dedicated to addressing social and environmental issues in the King County region of Washington; a philanthropic organization using a venture capital model, where Partners actively nurture their financial investments with guidance and resources."

Social Venture Partners International - "a federation of Social Venture Partners (SVP) that seek to catalyze significant, long-term positive social change in their communities by educating individuals to be well informed, effective, and engaged philanthropists and investing time, expertise, and money in innovative nonprofits to collaboratively strengthen their organizations."

Venture Philanthropy Partners (VPP) - "a philanthropic investment organization that helps great leaders build strong, high-performing nonprofit institutions. It concentrates money, expertise, and personal contacts to improve the lives and boost the opportunities of children and youth of low-income families in the National Capital Region."

Echoing Green - "a social venture fund that identifies, invests and supports the world's most exceptional emerging leaders and the organizations they launch. To date, Echoing Green has invested nearly $25 million in seed and start up grants to over 400 social entrepreneurs and their innovative organizations."

Root Cause - "envisions a world in which the public, private, and nonprofit sectors work together to invest and re-invest in the most efficient, effective, and sustainable solutions to social problems, regardless of organizational structure, ego, or political agenda."

Global Philanthropy Forum - "serves to inspire, inform, and expand the international philanthropic community by matching individual grantmakers to vehicles for overseas giving, assisting foundations and governmental donor agencies in finding partners in global philanthropy, and by highlighting international issues of concern."

Social Enterprise Alliance - "association of individuals and organizations building effective, more sustainable nonprofits through earned income strategies."

Clinton Global Initiative - Founded by President Bill Clinton, "a catalyst for action, bringing together a community of global leaders to devise and implement innovative solutions to some of the world's most pressing challenges that include poverty, climate change, global health, and mitigating religious and ethnic conflicts."

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