Social Venture Network

Social Venture Network

The Social Venturi Network (SVN) is a network of socially responsible business leaders committed to building a just and sustainable world through socially and environmentally sustainable business. As of 2007, SVN has over 430 members within the United States.

SVN was founded in 1987 by Josh Mailman and Wayne Silby, and provides:
* Two annual conferences
* Local member gatherings
* Social Venture Institutes
* Community forums for its members which include Ram Dass, Tetsugen Bernard Glassman, Gary Erickson, Eileen Fisher, Ben Cohen and Amy Domini.

SVN has been identified as the launching pad for several other successful organizations in the business ethics and corporate social responsibility spheres, including Investors' Circle, World Business Academy, Net Impact, Business Alliance for Local Living Economies (BALLE), and Business for Social Responsibility (BSR) [Hollender, Jeffrey and Stephen Fenichell, What Matters Most: How a Small Group of Pioneers is Teaching Social Responsibility to Big Business, and Why Big Business is Listening, Basic Books, 2004] .

In 2004, SVN launched the SVN Book Series, a series of paperback guides to creating socially responsible businesses. [cite web|url=http://www.svnbooks.com |title=Home Page |publisher=SVN Books |accessdate=2008-09-12]

In 2005, SVN joined the Social Impact Leadership Coalition, funded by a grant from the Kellogg Foundation, as part of a "network of networks" dedicated to economic justice. [cite web|url=http://www.svn.org/silc |title=About SILC |publisher=Social Venture Network |date= |accessdate=2008-09-12]

References

External links

* [http://www.svn.org Social Venture Network] - official website.


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