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ThinkSocial Awards: Social Entrepreneur API “Connecting social entrepreneurs with funders”
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Name: Social Entrepreneur API (& Social Actions)
Nominated Category: Collaboration
URL: http://www.socialentrepreneurapi.org
Area: Non-profit, Tool/platform
About:
Created by the folks behind Social Actions, the Social Entrepreneur API is an open database of information about social entrepreneurs who have received recognition (in the form of fellowships and awards) from social enterprise funders.
Description:
As a tool, the Social Entrepreneur API makes it easy for social entrepreneurs to link up with potential funders and funding — as well as other entrepreneurs and activists, philanthropists and press.
Multiple fellowship and award programs have so far made available information about the entrepreneurs they support. Users of the Social Entrepreneur API dataset can search based on keyword, location, cause area and other classifiers. Any one can search the dataset, or use the information to build social-media applications and search engines hosted on their own web sites.
One example? According to the creators of the API, “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.”
And of course, in the creation of an API meant to fuel more social entrepreneur activity, Social Actions used social media to bring it all together. Award program partners, including Skoll and PopTech and ideablob, were attracted and communicated with each other via Twitter; Social Actions held regular discussions by way of Google groups; and news about the project spread via their blog, Facebook and Twitter.
The Basics:
WHO: Social Entrepreneur API & Social Actions
WHAT: A database that enables funders to find social entrepreneurs, and vice versa.
WHERE: All over.
HOW to get involved: Check out the site — and if you’re a particularly affluent individual or philanthropist, give!
What other people are saying:
The Philanthropic Family write-up
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Posted in: Collaboration, Non-profit, Social innovation, awards | Tagged: actions, Activists, API, Entreprenuers, facebook, funding, Ideablob, Poptech, Skoll, twitter
