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Looking for software appropriate for your non-profit business? Here are 100 - covering ground from project tracking to collaboration to building your website.

Out of the 100 largest economies in the world, about half are multinational corporations. Given their impact on global communities, it is increasingly essential that these large corporations execute responsibility to society, rather than rely on governments and non-profits to address difficult social issues alone

The Wellesley Institute brings us a report on how the "third sector" (the sector of non-profit, charitable and voluntary organizations with programs and services) is doing in these economic and regulatory times. Chris Evans writes a blog on this report at http://blog.marsdd.com

Have you ever wondered what it's like to lead a non-profit? The Meyer Foundation conducted the largest national survey to date of emerging nonprofit leaders. They asked close to 6,000 people across the country about the disadvantages and benefits of heading a nonprofit organization.

Social media strategy templates: download the "tactical approaches and tools" and "strategy simulation game" . Made for non-profits, but applicable to for-profit businesses as well. From We Are Media's two-day intensive workshop.

Cogniciti, is a new for-profit company that will create and market products designed to help adults extend their memories and cognitive abilities. The Toronto-based business is a partnership between two non-profit organizations, Baycrest and the MaRS Discovery District, an organization that helps science, technology and social entrepreneurs build their companies. Memory@Work is Cogniciti's first product.

Brent MacKinnon consults with non-profits on using social media tools to effect change. Met through STT (Social Tech Training), he's based in Toronto.

A blog to help non-profit organizations to be more mission-productive

MaRS aims to turn discoveries into commercial projects. Some of the world's best biomedical minds work in Toronto's MaRS Centre and hospitals.

Waterloo is getting better public traction with 500 tech companies, led by global juggernaut Research In Motion and its high-minded institutional spinoffs. MaRS aims to turn discoveries into commercial projects. Some of the world's best biomedical minds work in Toronto's MaRS Centre and hospitals.

Canada is seriously committed to phasing out all coal-fired electricity generation within five years and to becoming North America's leading green jurisdiction. To help to do this Ontario has passed a Green Energy Act with strong incentives . Tom Rand, who leads an advisory service for companies wishing to develop a stake in clean technology, at the non-profit MaRS headquarters in downtown Toronto, agrees on the importance of this 'right to connect'.

A Canadian Federally Registered Charitable Organization since 1999, Homeland Int., Inc. seeks to provide housing and better-quality-of-living services to global communities. The non-profit organization seeks entrepreneurs, lawyers, mentors, philanthropists, corporate leaders, and others. These individuals and companies can donate their time, commitment, collective knowledge, management resources, and other skills towards assisting communities with social implementation strategies and many other community-building projects.

Canadian Policy Research Networks is a non-profit, charitable policy think tank based in Ottawa. Their products are freely available on their site. From two CPRN 2004 roundtable discussions come: * The report that stressed the importance of a relationship between a business and social development (Fostering Social Innovation) and * The report that defined "social innovation" and established priorities of action for years to come ( The Future of Social Innovation)

A local affordable condominium development partners with SiG@MaRS client Home Ownership Alternatives, a non-profit financial company that potential homebuyers on the edge of the market

What makes for good communications at a non profit?

The Initiative is a new program designed to identify, publicize and direct new funds to individuals who have started successful, new non-profit organizations dedicated to helping those in need.

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Shares insights and practical experiences that will help those who do the important work of improving society do it even better. Strategies, tools, ideas for non-profits, foundations, socially responsible businesses.

Maybe if you'd started earlier, you'd already have that first killer idea taking off in the market place!? The Digital Open is an online technology community and competition for youth around the world, age 17 and under. Right now they have a competition open for their users launched by the Institute for the Future (iftf.org), a non-profit research organization based in Palo Alto

GEM is a non-profit consortium that compiles international data on entrepreneurial activity. According to its' Vision & Values, its' goal is to develop international standards for social survey based research methodologies in entrepreneurship. GEM Global Reports compare and contrast Canadian entrepreneurial activity with 10 to 42 (2006) other countries in the world. Economic development, characteristics, institutions, sponsorships, and team work are all examined and interpreted scientifically. Ownership, income, opportunity, innovativeness, sectors, and demographics are all put into global perspectives. Check out the reports to see where Canadian entrepreneurs stand!