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RISE Partners and
Sponsors
RISE
is pleased to thank its generous partners and sponsors:
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Columbia Business School
hosts RISE and provides ongoing support in a myriad of ways. The Social
Enterprise Program and the Eugene M. Lang
Center for Entrepreneurship directly support RISE within Columbia. Columbia, the Haas School of Business at UC
Berkeley, and London
Business School are also partners, with
the Goldman Sachs Foundation, on the Global Social Venture Competition,
and the competition’s student organizers from those schools
have been invaluable to RISE's work.
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B Lab 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.
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Known
for offering the largest family of socially-screened mutual funds as
well as award winning tax-free investment products, Calvert Group, Ltd. has quickly evolved from a single-fund management
company in 1976 to become one of the Washington D.C.
area's largest mutual fund management firms with more than $8
billion in assets under management for over 220,000 investors.
Commons
Capital LP is a venture capital fund seeking strong financial returns
as well as significant social and environmental impact. Commons Capital
invests in "double bottom-line" early-stage companies whose
products, services or corporate cultures promote a sustainable economy
by delivering market solutions to major social and environmental
challenges.
Expansion
Capital Partners (EXP) is a venture capital firm that invests
in expansion-stage clean technology enterprises, which present
compelling risk-return profiles and are outstanding corporate citizens.
Investors' Circle is
a leading social venture capital intermediary whose mission is to
support early-stage, private companies that drive the transition to a
sustainable economy. Founded in
1992, IC has become one of the nation's oldest
and largest investor networks, and the only one devoted specifically to
sustainability. In its first
decade, network members invested over $90 million into 147 early stage
private companies and venture funds working to deliver commercial
solutions to social and environmental problems.
The Rockefeller Foundation is a knowledge-based global foundation with a commitment
to enrich and sustain the lives and livelihoods of poor and excluded
people throughout the world. The foundation also runs a small double
bottom line investment fund, ProVenEx, which
has investments in arts, workforce development, health, and agriculture
initiatives internationally.
Founded in 1987
by some of the nation's most visionary leaders in socially responsible
entrepreneurship and investment, Social
Venture Network (SVN) is a nonprofit network committed to
building a just and sustainable world through business.
The Surdna
Foundation was established in 1917 by John Emory Andrus to
pursue a range of philanthropic purposes. The foundation manages
programs in Environment, Community Revitalization, Effective Citizenry,
Arts, Nonprofit Sector
Support, and Organizational Capacity-Building. The foundation is
interested in fostering catalytic, entrepreneurial programs, which
offer viable solutions to difficult systemic problems. It seeks, as
well, high quality, direct service programs which advance its
philanthropic goals.
SJF Ventures helps
build great companies. SJF is a community development venture capital fund
that uses the tools of venture capital and in-depth management
assistance to accelerate businesses whose successes are shared by
employees, communities, the environment, management and investors. SJF
invests in expanding ventures that create excellent employment
opportunities in the Eastern United States.
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Underdog
Ventures has developed a new model of customized community
venture capital funds, combined with a model of customized
philanthropy. Underdog Ventures partners with a group of investors
committed to financial, community and environmental results. We
create innovative and customized investments to meet the specific
needs of each of our investors, each of whom has a dedicated fund
that invests in areas that they choose.
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