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 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 was a program at
Columbia Business School from 2001 to 2010. RISE is currently run as a
personal project of Cathy Clark, Adjunct Assistant Professor of CASE at Duke.
Key Past 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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