Noble Purpose
Noble Purpose is based upon 25 years of research into extraordinary work performance, see Building Team Spirit (McGraw Hill) and Noble Purpose: Igniting Extraordinary Passion for Life and Work (QSU Publishing). Noble Purpose ignites individual and organization meaning and purpose, creating alignment toward unparalleled levels of service and contribution. Noble Purpose fosters access to inspiring, fertile states of mind that frees participants of obstructions to their purpose and opens the way to stunning new realizations, shifts in reality, and a new capacity to create in the world.
The value of Noble Purpose does not rest solely in research. It rests in experience. Since 1991, the providers of Noble Purpose have facilitated discovery of extraordinary purpose with thousands of employees in organizations like AT&T, General Motors, NCR, Volkswagen of America, and the American Red Cross.
Join us at the conference to find out how you can align your passion and vision in your life and in your work. Drop your card off and you will be contacted to explore a free one hour overview, “Revealing Meaning and Purpose in Your Life and Work” or get started by registering for the “Introduction to Noble Purpose” tele-course that guides you in a group or with your team to connect meaning and purpose to your work and in your life.
Entrepreneurs Foundation
Entrepreneurs Foundation is the only Bay Area non-profit working with entrepreneurial life science and high tech companies for corporate citizenship purposes. Working with Entrepreneurs Foundation, companies build community programs that ensure corporate citizenship is an integral part of their corporate culture. For Entrepreneurs Foundation (EF) corporate partners, we are knowledge experts in the development and implementation of community involvement and philanthropic programs. With EF staff, companies incorporate corporate citizenship, community involvement and philanthropy into everyday business. Companies derive significant employee benefits through their partnership with EF such as enhanced employee morale, team building, and higher employee retention. Programs also enrich the company’s culture and public reputation. Since our founding in 1998, EF has worked with 149 Bay Area companies and given out over $4.5 million to 140 local community benefit organizations. For more information about EF, please visit www.efbayarea.org.
iReuse
iReuse manages the internal distribution, sale, donation, recycling, and disposal of surplus business furniture, equipment and other unwanted materials in the most efficient, cost effective, and environmentally friendly way possible. We work with some of the leading companies in the Bay Area such as Autodesk, Charles Schwab, US Department of Education, Adobe, Birkenstock, Toyota, and many others. Here is a link to a recent TV clip on iReuse and our Birkenstock project http://www.ireuse.com/upload/greenreport070126.wmv as an example.
One Brick
One Brick provides support to non-profit organizations by creating a unique, social and flexible volunteer environment. We enable people to get involved, have an impact and have fun, without the requirements of individual long-term commitments.
Our 'commitment-free volunteering' allows individuals to choose when they volunteer, rather than having to make commitments for a certain number of volunteer hours, or agree to be available every week at a specific time. At the same time, it enables One Brick to source volunteers for non-profits in need, ensuring the success of their programs. With operations in the San Francisco Bay Area, New York, Chicago and Washington DC, One Brick has brought volunteers to support over 500 organizations, and we add to that list with our events each month.
Dalai Lama Foundation
The Dalai Lama Foundation is an international organization whose mission is to support the development of our shared global capacity for ethics and peace. It was established by friends and students of the Dalai Lama who wish to support his efforts for peace and the alleviation of human suffering. Some of the Foundation’s educational programs include:
- Study Circles around the world are using our study guide for the Dalai Lama's book Ethics for the New Millennium. The study guide is available in English, Chinese, Spanish and Portuguese, and may be downloaded from the Website.
- The Missing Peace – Artists Consider the Dalai Lama is a major art exhibition featuring works from 88 artists representing more than 25 countries. A secondary school-age curriculum based on the exhibition is available from our Website.
- Project Happiness is a collaboration between high school students from the US, India and Nigeria who are engaged in a year-long exploration of the question “What is happiness?” This summer they will complete the first version of a curriculum that will be shared with schools and teachers around the world.
The Foundation is international in scope, with a growing network of National Chapters that includes Japan, Canada, Russia and Nigeria. Our headquarters is in Redwood, California, USA. Visit us on the Web at www.dalailamafoundation.org.
Upwardly Global
Upwardly Global is a nationally recognized, entrepreneurial 501C3 nonprofit organization that helps employers benefit from the hidden talent pool of immigrant professionals, and equips these under-employed individuals with the skills and resources necessary to rebuild their careers in the U.S. In their home countries these new Americans were businesspeople, educators, scientists, journalists and nonprofit professionals. In the US they are nannies, cabdrivers, and security guards.
Upwardly Global partners with leading companies to create inclusive hiring and integration practices that open up mainstream career opportunities to new Americans from around the world. At the same time, we prepare immigrant professionals for the U.S. job search process, resulting in access to the U.S. workforce and economic self-sufficiency.
Bring Light
Co-founders Melissa Dyrdahl and Drew McManus left senior executive positions at Adobe Systems to become social entrepreneurs. Their ongoing work with nonprofits moved them to develop Bring Light.
Bring Light’s mission is to inspire a new generation of philanthropy. It is an online social network where donors and nonprofits build communities to fund specific charitable projects. For donors, it is a fun, interactive and secure place where they can see where their contributions are going, and multiply the impact by building Giving Groups around the causes they care about. For charities, it is a quick, simple and inexpensive way to fundraise and build relationships with new donors on the Web. For more information, visit www.bringlight.com.
esulting in access to the U.S. workforce and economic self-sufficiency.
Search for Common Ground
Founded in 1982, Search for Common Ground works to transform the way the world deals with conflict - away from adversarial approaches and towards collaborative solutions. SFCG works with local partners to find culturally appropriate means to strengthen societies' capacity to deal with conflicts constructively: to understand the differences and act on the commonalities.
SFCG has programs in Angola, Belgium, Burundi, Cote d’Ivoire, DR Congo, Guinea, Indonesia, Iran, Liberia, Macedonia, Middle East, Morocco, Nepal, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Ukraine, and the United States. Where possible SFCG ensure children and youth are part of the process of peacebuilding and healing. The SFCG “toolbox” includes mediation/ facilitation, track two diplomacy, training, radio/TV production, journalism, sports, drama, and music. Search for Common Ground is working is some of the most difficult conflicts around the world and brings 25 years of experience and works from a set of core principles and practices. See more on www.sfcg.org.
Resolution Works Brings The Inconvenient Truth to Your Company
Stewart Levine, Resolutionary, is a member of Al Gore’s army of “Inconvenient Truth” volunteers. Last fall he was selected and trained by Al Gore to deliver the slide show from his Academy Award winning movie. He will visit your company, organization or special gathering to deliver the informational presentation, answer questions and talk about solutions at this critical time for our planet.
Stewart Levine, Resolutionary
Counselor, Mediator, Facilitator, Trainer
Author: Getting To Resolution & The Book of Agreement
www.ResolutionWorks.com
Happy About Book Publishing
Create thought leadership and drive lead generation through books. Happy About is a quick2publish book publisher that makes it much easier to publish your book (or book series). We have two primary business models to serve you.
1) If you're an author, we help you get your book to market quicker and share significantly higher royalty rates.
2) If you're a corporation that wants to have a book or book series, we manage the ghost writers and the book publishing process. We also create white papers, podcasts, blogs and other marketing material through our 137 technical writers.
Convert some of your training material into book form or use our existing books to drive your message to your employees. We have great books to share with your staff today, like "Awakening Corporate Responsibility" that can be purchased at a discount with a custom-tailored cover and/or the addition of a preface or chapter from you. Visit http://happyabout.info or call 408-257-3000 for more info.
Net Impact
Net Impact is a global network of emerging leaders committed to leveraging the power of business to build social responsibility.
With over 10,000 members in 99 countries on six continents, Net Impact works directly with members and through a network of 150 chapters that includes 116 chapters at the world’s leading graduate business schools 34 professional chapters in cities around the globe.
In addition to its networking strengths, the coordination of practical and educational programs distinguish Net Impact as one of the most comprehensive resources on the Web for social responsibility and related topics. Net Impact programs provide guidance and support to individuals and chapters determined to do good including Impact at Work, Campus Greening Initiative, Curriculum Change, Nonprofit Capacity Building, Issues-in-depth presentations and an online community for members that fosters social networking and other opportunities to participate in these global initiatives.
Please visit www.netimpact.org for additional information.
One World Children's Fund
One World Children's Fund networks aid directly to grassroots organizations that serve disadvantaged children around the world.
We recognize that local people know best how to resolve problems in their communities when they have access to resources to build a sustainable future for children and their families. Help support children throughout the world by supporting our mission. www.owcf.org
The Stanford Social Innovation Review
The Stanford Social Innovation Review is the leading publication for executives at nonprofits, foundations, and socially responsible businesses. Published by the Center for Social Innovation at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, the Stanford Social Innovation Review chronicles and advances the exchange of ideas between sectors to foster innovative solutions to social problems. For more information, go to www.ssireview.org and subscribe to the free twice-monthly email newsletter.
The Community Outreach Program
The Community Outreach Program (COP) helps nonprofits increase the effectiveness of their employees, their managers, and their organizations by providing training workshops. Our workshops are customized training programs conducted on site to fit the needs of the nonprofit agency. We begin by conducting a free front-end analysis to confirm a training need and then design, develop and facilitate the four-hour program.
Our all-volunteer staff typically works with small- to medium-sized agencies in the San Francisco Bay Area. The COP volunteer training teams are members of the American Society for Training and Development (ASTD), Golden Gate Chapter. These volunteers are seasoned professionals with backgrounds in human resources, instructional design, organization development, technical training, and education. The COP program provides an opportunity for our membership to support their community and provide targeted training to organizations we feel passionate to support and who would not typically have the resources to meet the needs of their internal staffs' development.
Community Outreach Program - Passion with a Purpose
www.astdgoldengate.org
iMantri – The Network and Platform for Mentoring and Coaching
iMantri is an online mentoring social network featuring a venue for finding and interacting with mentors and a platform that facilitates the mentoring process.
iMantri’s structured mentoring process is facilitated by a framework and a set of tools for planning, interaction, feedback, rating etc. The users will have a choice to follow an unstructured and ad-hoc mentoring process. While the application allows for subject experts and professional mentors to offer their services, it is built to unlock the peer-to-peer mentoring potential.
iMantri encapsulates the peer-to-peer paradigm of the emergent business social networking space and aims to foster mentoring connections between members who can be mentors and mentees at the same time. More than a listing of a mentoring classifieds, iMantri provides a framework for mentoring as well as tools to facilitate the process.
Some of the innovative features of iMantri include:
- Mentoring4Good – where mentors auction their time and the proceeds to go charitable causes
- Two Cents widget – a persistent and continuously updated feeds of mentoring discussions as they happen – which users can add to their personal home pages and blogs
- Competency profiler – a questionnaire that allows users to analyze their skills and competencies and create a competency map and a mentoring need analysis
- Mentoring Process – a structured mentoring process as well as ad hoc mentoring is possible thru iMantri and the process can be customized based on mentors’ needs
iMantri is enrolling a select group of members as a part of pre-launch to seed the site with high quality mentors. If you are interested in participating in the next generation mentoring platform, please email mentors@imantri.com.
To view the pre-launch site, please visit www.imantri.com
Village Enterprise Fund
Village Enterprise Fund (VEF) provides business training, seed capital, and ongoing mentoring to rural entrepreneurs in Tanzania, Kenya, and Uganda. Since 1987, VEF has started more than 14,000 new businesses, improving the standard of living of more than 350,000 desperately poor people.
Village Enterprise Fund (www.villageef.org) fills a unique niche in the microfinance field, as it finances startups and agricultural ventures in rural East Africa. Typical VEF businesses include vegetable kiosks, roadside cafes, bicycle repair shops, animal husbandry, and small farms for cash crops. These entrepreneurs are largely ignored by traditional micro-lending organizations, since they are risk adverse and often cannot meet the repayment requirements of microfinance institutions. VEF therefore provides grants, not loans, of $100 or $150 to each business group of 5 individuals. Training and mentoring are provided by very talented, local village leaders, who live in these communities and best understand the needs of their neighbors and can offer critical advice and guidance on market conditions, group dynamics, and basic business skills.
Women's Initiative
Women's Initiative - A Campaign for the Economic Independence of High Potential - Low Income Women
Women's Initiative for Self Employment provides a one-stop shop where high-potential, lower-income women receive training to start and grow their business. The business management training, technical assistance, and financing services we provide — in English and Spanish — improve the quality of life for the women we serve, their families and our communities.
Women's Initiative is a not-for-profit agency. Our mission is to build the entrepreneurial capacity of women to overcome economic and social barriers and achieve self-sufficiency. Women's Initiative has proven that women create jobs for themselves and others, access the mainstream economy, and increase their economic self-sufficiency when they are given business planning and financing support.
By assisting women-owned businesses throughout the San Francisco Bay Area at our three training sites, Women's Initiative directly contributes to the economic growth of communities. Our graduates have started and expanded over 1,600 businesses from photography studios to catering companies and mechanic shops. In 2006, 301 new jobs were created by our graduates.
By targeting low-income women, focusing on the needs of traditionally underserved groups including minorities, immigrants, and welfare recipients, Women's Initiative brings new resources into local communities in a unique model. Over half of the Women's Initiative community participates in our classes offered in Spanish through our Alternativas para Latinas en Autosuficiencia (ALAS) program, which boasts culturally competent services and extensive networks that propel Latina entrepreneurs into business success. www.womensinitiative.org
