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America Forward exists to create the conditions in which leaders from across sectors and at all levels work with social entrepreneurs to help solve our country’s most pressing domestic problems. The America Forward coalition includes more than 60 results-oriented, entrepreneurial nonprofit organizations with programs operating in all 50 states and the District of Columbia. Together, these organizations serve more than 10 million people per year and have a collective budget of more than $400 million. Coalition members and the America Forward effort focus directly on the toughest domestic challenges facing our nation in education, public health, poverty and economic mobility, workforce development, crime prevention, and civic engagement.
The Feld Career Center (FCC) offers programs and services to help Boston University School of Management students determine their career path, devise a job search strategy, deliver strong interviews, and negotiate employment offers. Through close partnerships with the School of Management and leading hiring companies, the FCC offers a full menu of training, skill building workshops and coaching to students and alumni.
Bridgestar, an initiative of the Bridgespan Group, provides executive search services, content, and tools designed to help organizations build strong leadership teams and individuals pursue career paths as nonprofit leaders. Bridgestar's goal is to attract, connect, and support senior talent, leading to greater organizational effectiveness and social impact.
As one of the only global funders solely dedicated to early-stage social sector investing, Echoing Green is committed to supporting new approaches to entrenched problems that have resisted solutions until now. Through a multi-year fellowship program, we identify extraordinary individuals with bold ideas for social change and provide them with the seed money and strategic support they need to launch new organizations. These social entrepreneurs and their organizations confront deeply-rooted social, economic, and political inequalities and work to ensure equal access to basic human and civil rights for all. From working to end chronic hunger among starving farmers in Kenya to developing the first school for urban Native American children, Echoing Green is an indispensable first-step to lasting social change.
Encore.org is the growing network for people who want work that matters in the second half of life. It provides news, resources and connections for individuals and organizations establishing encore careers that combine personal meaning, financial security and social contribution. Encore.org, The Purpose Prize and Experience Corps are projects of Civic Ventures.
The Harvard Graduate School of Education's mission is to prepare leaders in education and to generate knowledge to improve student opportunity, achievement, and success. No matter the area of concentration, Harvard Graduate School of Education students learn the value of harnessing, managing, and applying their knowledge to innovate and push the frontiers of education. As graduates, they go on to impact schools, nonprofits, ngo's, high technology, media, research, policy, and the arts.
Idealist.org is a comprehensive online resource for community impact with more than 75,000 organizations from 180 countries posting their job openings, volunteer and internship opportunities, and events on the site. Idealist attracts more than 50,000 visitors each day and has more than 500,000 active members. Idealist connects individuals with organizations (in multiple languages) and also provides resources for kids & teens, college students, webmasters, nonprofit managers, mid-career professionals transitioning from other sectors into nonprofit careers, and anyone looking for help in translating their good intentions into action. Aside from Idealist.org’s web-based tools, Idealist also provides on-the-ground support through the Idealist Nonprofit Career Fairs, the Idealist Graduate Degree for the Public Good Fairs, and a wide range of trainings and workshops tailored to diverse audiences.
Net Impact's mission is to improve the world by growing and strengthening a network of new leaders who are using the power of business to make a positive net social, environmental, and economic impact. With more than 130 student and professional chapters on 4 continents in 75 cities and 80 graduate schools, a central office in San Francisco, and partnerships with leading for and nonprofit organizations, Net Impact enables members to use business for social good in their graduate education, careers, and communities.
New Profit Inc is a founding partner of Commongood Careers. Through generous strategic, logistical and financial support, New Profit helped to build the business model for Commongood Careers, which makes its services available to New Profit's portfolio of organizations.
New Sector Alliance is a nonprofit strategy consulting firm. Its mission is to accelerate social change by strengthening organizations today while developing leaders for tomorrow. New Sector's staff works with its nonprofit clients to structure substantive, meaningful strategic planning projects and equips highly talented students to complete them. Over the course of these projects, New Sector students receive guidance from professional consultants at firms including Accenture, Bain, The Boston Consulting Group, Bridgespan, McKinsey & Company, and Mercer. In addition to having project teams help Commongood Careers to develop its Balanced Scorecard and performance management tools, staff from Commongood Careers work with New Sector undergraduate and graduate students to help them explore and pursue careers in social enterprises.
NYU Stern School of Business is one of the nation's premier management education schools and research institutions. From its Greenwich Village campus in the heart of New York City, NYU Stern offers a broad portfolio of academic programs at the graduate and undergraduate levels, all of them informed and enriched by the dynamism, energy and resources of the world's business capital. The mission of NYU Stern is to deliver the highest quality management education to the brightest business students in a dynamic environment of mutual learning, teamwork and support and to advance the frontiers of business knowledge by fostering creative, cutting-edge research.
Social Venture Partners (SVP) is a network of engaged donors that brings together nonprofits and philanthropists to learn from each other and build capacity for positive community impact. SVP welcomes Partners from diverse backgrounds who want to pool financial contributions and skills to provide more resources to nonprofits and produce greater results. Partners currently support programs in K-12, early childhood, out-of-school time and environment. SVP is now over 1,700 Partners across 23 cities in North America and Japan, each contributing $5,000 annually to fund and work with over 100 children's, education and environment organizations.
StartingBloc educates, empowers and connects emerging leaders to drive positive social change across sectors. Through the renowned Institute for Social Innovation, CareerAccelerator, continuing education programs and networking opportunities, StartingBloc brings the latest innovations in corporate social responsibility and social entrepreneurship to these emerging leaders. StartingBloc empowers its network to drive social change in communities and organizations around the globe.
The Summerbridge Breakthrough Alumni Network (SBAN) is a community for fellow graduates and former staff of Summerbridge Breakthrough "students teaching students" model programs. SBAN promotes the lifelong learning, leadership and success of its members through the exchange of knowledge, opportunities, and resources. SBAN envisions generations of community-conscious leaders from diverse backgrounds whose commitment to education, social justice, and youth development achieves equity for all. SBAN believes that laughter and celebration are essential elements of successful collaboration.
Teach For America is the national corps of outstanding recent college graduates of all academic majors who commit two years to teach in urban and rural public schools and become leaders in the effort to expand educational opportunity. TFA corps members work to ensure that more students growing up today in our country's lowest-income communities are given the educational opportunities they deserve. TFA alumni are a powerful force of leaders working from inside education and from every other sector to effect the fundamental changes needed to ensure that all children have an equal chance in life.
The Tulane Freeman School of Business is recognized as one America’s leading business institutions, consistently ranked among the nation’s best by publications such as Business Week, Forbes and U.S. News & World Report, and is the first and only nationally ranked business school in the Gulf South. Within the school, the Career Management Center offers a wide range of tools and resources to assist students and alumni in planning their careers and managing the job-search process, such as career consulting and an online career management service called eRecruiting.
The Yale School of Management Career Development Office (CDO) is committed to building the bridge between students and employers through our integrated approach to career management. The CDO provides students with the tools to identify their careers goals, create a strategy to achieve them, and secure great internships and jobs. In workshops and one-on-one sessions, students develop the skills necessary to refine their goals and develop effective job search strategies. The CDO also provides students with opportunities to meet employers by hosting career fairs, presentations, on-campus interviews, and company treks.
