Fellows Program Partners, Collaborators, and Organizations We Admire

The PopTech Social Innovation Fellows program is supported and inspired by a number of remarkable organizations. Directly and indirectly, these organizations are an inspiration to us:

• American Express Company is a leading global payments and travel company, and the lead corporate sponsor of the PopTech Social Innovation Fellows Program. To learn more about American Express’s philanthropic initiatives to develop new leaders for tomorrow, visit americanexpress.com/corp/csr.asp.

• Ashoka strives to shape a global, entrepreneurial, competitive citizen sector: one that allows social entrepreneurs to thrive and enables the world’s citizens to think and act as changemakers.

• Canaan Partners is a global venture capital firm that invests in visionary entrepreneurs and provides them with the networks, insights and operational guidance required to build world-class technology and healthcare companies. See 2008 Fellows faculty member John Balen’s “Entrepreneur Pitch Workbook” here.

• The Draper Richards Foundation provides funding, coaching, technical support and a learning community to early-stage non-profit organizations with plans for aggressive scale.

• Echoing Green invests in and supports outstanding emerging social entrepreneurs to launch new organizations that deliver bold, high-impact solutions.

• Fenton Communications is a public relations firm that specializes in PR for not-for-profit organizations, liberal advocacy groups and companies with a claim for social responsibility.

• The Global Social Benefit Incubator provides an intensive two-week residential program at Santa Clara University that enables successful technology innovators to scale their endeavors and achieve sustainability.

• Heller Communications Design is a strategic communications firm that helps organizations in both the for-profit and social sectors create sustainable communications programs that form energized, lasting relationships with employees, customers, and partners.

• The Lex Mundi Pro Bono Foundation utilizes the talents and resources of Lex Mundi’s powerful network of 160 top tier business law firms in over 100 countries to find experienced lawyers to provide first class legal advice to social entrepreneurs/innovators on a pro bono basis.

• The Mulago Foundation’s Rainer Arnhold Fellows Program focuses on the problems and opportunities of the rural Third World, teaching emerging leaders how to translate good ideas into lasting change that will go to scale.

• The National Geographic Society is one of the world’s leading media brands, and a key collaborator with PopTech’s Accelerator initiatives.

• The Nonprofit Finance Fund is a national leader in financing nonprofits, strengthening their financial health and improving their capacity to serve their communities. With NFF’s help, nonprofits build and renovate facilities, fund growth needs, and expand and sustain operations over time.

• The Skoll Foundation advances systemic change to benefit communities around the world by investing in, connecting and celebrating social entrepreneurs.

• The Surdna Foundation serves the public good by funding, shaping and promoting effective, long-term solutions.

We would love to add your name to this growing list. If you feel your organization has something to contribute or to teach us, please send us an email.