Social Entrepreneur API
What if family funds, affluent individuals, and ordinary people could use the Internet to seamlessly find and contribute to the work of vetted social entrepreneurs?
What if social entrepreneurs could easily find peers in their issue area or region and unleash creativity, connections, capital, and collaboration to fulfill their world-changing missions?
What if foundations could showcase their social entrepreneurs contextually on a variety of related websites, and help them be found by funders and media?
About the Social Entrepreneur API
Civic Ventures (sponsor of The Purpose Prize), The Draper Richards Foundation, PopTech, The Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship, and The Skoll Foundation have pooled their data to create an open database of information about vetted social entrepreneurs.
The Social Entrepreneur API (Application Programming Interface) is the first open database of information about social entrepreneurs who have won fellowships and awards from social enterprise funders. The tool allows philanthropists, investors, press, and fellow entrepreneurs to find social entrepreneurs based on keyword, location, cause area, population served, and a variety of other factors.
Social Actions, a nonprofit initiative committed to making it easier for people to find and share opportunities to make a difference, has convened the collaborating group. Seed funding was provided with a grant from the Peery Foundation.
The Social Entrepreneur API dataset is available for any website or individual to search, syndicate, republish, or use to build web applications, widgets, and search engines. Social Edge, a program of the Skoll Foundation, will be one of the first organizations to make use of the Social Entrepreneur API in the form of a search engine on its site.
Learn more & get involved
Use this basic interface at http://search.socialentrepreneurapi.org to search for social entrepreneurs profiled in the Social Entrepreneur API
Join the Social Entrepreneur API Google Group, a community of individuals and organizations interested in developing the Social Entrepreneur API as a robust and beneficial resource for social entrepreneurs
Read the Social Entrepreneur API FAQ and other resources posted to the Google group
Join the Social Actions Developers Google Group, a community of developers working with the Social Actions API and Social Entrepreneur API
Access the Social Entrepreneur API documentation
Contribute to the Social Entrepreneur API Wiki
Follow the Social Entrepreneur API on Twitter
Press and blog coverage
January 1, 2010: JustMeans (Marcia Stepanek); reposted by P2P Foundation (Michael Bawens)
December 8, 2009: Social Edge (Jill Finlayson)
December 5, 2009: "Disrupting Philanthropy: Technology and the Future of the Social Sector" (Lucy Bernholz with Edward Skoot and Barry Varela)
September 20, 2009: Fast Forward Fund (Diana Ayton-Shenker)
September 15, 2009: Social Edge (Jill Finlayson)
September 11, 2009: Giving in a Digital World (Bryan Miller)
(Cross-posting: Fundraising.co.uk)
September 9, 2009: Tactical Philanthropy (Sean Stannard-Stockton)
September 9, 2009: NetSquared (Susan Tenby)
September 3, 2009: SocialBrite (JD Lasica)
September 3, 2009: The Philanthropic Family (Sharon Schneider)
September 2, 2009: A Life Examined (Bijan Kafi)
September 2, 2009: Social Actions (Christine Egger)
September 2, 2009: The Social Entrepreneur API launch announced at SOCAP09
September 2, 2009: Social Capital Markets Conference (SOCAP09) session: Make the maps, Mind the gaps, Build the apps
September 1, 2009: Alliance Magazine
August 24, 2009: SoCap09 Video: Jill Finlayson, Web Marketing Manager at Social Edge
July 14, 2009: futureshifters
July 2, 2009: Open Source Business Resource, July 2009 (Peter Deitz and Christine Egger)
June 3, 2009: Compassion in Politics: Christian Social Entrepreneurship, Education Innovation, & Base of the Pyramid/BOP Solutions
May 24, 2009: Symphonic Circle
May 21, 2009: intuitech.biz
May 18, 2009: Philantopic
May 16, 2009: FYSE Blog
May 15, 2009: Change.org (Nathaniel Whittemore), It's Your World
May 14, 2009: ideablob (Darren Sudman), Tactical Philanthropy (Sean Stannard-Stockton), Skoll Foundation, The Just Life
May 13, 2009: Philanthropy 2173 (Lucy Bernholz), The Chronicle of Philanthropy (Peter Panepento)
For more information
Christine Egger
Founding Team Member, Social Actions
1 (248) 787-4917
christine@socialactions.com
