Welcome to RISE:
The
Research Initiative on Social Entrepreneurship
Improving the
markets, metrics and management of social enterprise
The Research Initiative on Social Entrepreneurship (RISE) is a
research project at Columbia
Business School whose mission is to study
and disseminate knowledge about the markets, metrics and management of
for-profit and nonprofit social enterprise and social venturing.
RISE is jointly sponsored and supported
within Columbia
Business School by the Social Enterprise Program and the Eugene
M. Lang Center for Entrepreneurship, and externally by foundations, investment funds, and
individual contributions.
NEW IN MAY 2007:
RISE is pleased to announce a
new partnership with B Lab, (www.bcorporation.net), a
nonprofit organization which envisions a new sector of the economy
which harnesses the power of private enterprise to create public
benefit. This sector, sitting between the for-profit and non-profit
sectors, is comprised of a new type of corporation – the B
corporation. B corporations are unlike traditional responsible
businesses because they 1) meet comprehensive and transparent social
and environmental performance standards; 2) institutionalize
stakeholder interests. The core idea behind B Lab is that by creating a
standard rating system for companies to be certified as socially
beneficial, those companies that earn enough points can then share a
common brand and logo, becoming known as “B Corporations,”
creating an instant signal to customers, investors and policymakers
that they create social benefit through their products, practices and
use of profits.
RISE has partnered with B Lab to create several summer
internship positions for MBA students to help develop resources for B
Corporation entrepreneurs and will be a research partner for B Lab
going forward.
Other Publications:
NOVEMBER 2006
RISE Social Entrepreneur CEO Directory
We are pleased to announce the launch of the RISE
Social Entrepreneur CEO Directory. Use this searchable database to find
contact, mission and biographical information for over 200 for-profit
CEOs and managers surveyed in the RISE /
Investors’ Circle / Social Venture Network For-Profit Social
Entrepreneur Report.
JUNE 2006
What Type of Social Entrepreneur are You?
The RISE / Investors' Circle/ Social Venture
Network For-Profit Social Entrepreneur Report: Balancing Markets and
Values.
Read results from the first national survey of for-profit social
venture CEOs and entrepreneurs.
What differentiates an Activist, a Change Agent, and Market
Pioneer or a Market Influencer? How do company culture, social
value creations strategies, explicitness with stakeholders, and
financial performance compare when you group over 200 CEOs and their
ventures by industry?
NOVEMBER 2005
The Double
Bottom Line (DBL) Media Industry: An Analysis of Investment Opportunities. Written
by Dominic Kulik for the Ford Foundation as part of Investors’
Circle’s DBL Media Finance Project, this report analyzed
companies and investment opportunities in the “DBL media”
segment. RISE Director Cathy Clark advised and edited the report, along
with contributions from Calvert Foundation, students and alumni from
the Columbia Business and Journalism schools, and many others.
MARCH 2004
DOUBLE BOTTOM LINE METHODS
CATALOG
The Double Bottom Line
Project, Co-Directed by RISE’s Director, releases the first
catalog of methods that for-profit and nonprofit social ventures and
enterprises are using to assess the social impact of their activities.
The Catalog analyzes feasibility and credibility of 9 methods and
provides examples of each. Report is available here in PDF Form.
FEBRUARY 2004
CONFERENCE REPORT ON SOCIAL
IMPACT ASSESSMENT
The Rockefeller and Goldman Sachs
Foundations hosted a conversation among grantmakers and investors on
the topic of Social Impact Assessment, co-organized by RISE Director
Catherine Clark, in March 2003. The report includes case studies from
New Profit, Inc., the Edna McConnell Clark Foundation, the Roberts
Enterprise Development Fund, and Coastal Enterprises, Inc. Report is available here in PDF Form.
SEPTEMBER 2003
RISE RELEASES CAPITAL MARKET
REPORT ON DOUBLE BOTTOM LINE PRIVATE EQUITY
Based on findings from a RISE
survey conducted from October 2002 through January 2003, RISE CAPITAL MARKET REPORT: The Double Bottom
Line Private Equity Landscape in 2002/2003 describes the state of private equity investment in
early stage social ventures. Report is available here in PDF form.
AUGUST 2003
RAISING MONEY: THE
ENTREPRENEUR’S VIEW BY NICK GLEASON
Nick Gleason, CEO of Citysoft,
describes his experience in raising capital from social venture funder
angels and institutional investors, in Raising
Money from Double Bottom Line Investors: An Entrepreneur’s View.
JULY 2003
RISE DOUBLE BOTTOM LINE
INVESTOR DIRECTORY
The RISE
Double Bottom Line Investor Directory is now online. Search
for social venture funders in the US
that make equity investments in social ventures in the US
and abroad.
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