Interaction Associates: (IA) was the first firm of its kind to fund a nonprofit -Interaction Institute for Social Change (IISC). 10 percent of their annual profits are directed to IISC and IA’s employees commit 10 days a year to community work. www.interactionassociates.com

Z + Partners: is a forecasting, ideation and design think-tank. They help organizations understand emerging futures, invent breakthrough ideas, position for new opportunities, and design innovations that benefit both business and society. www.zpluspartners.com

MediaRights.org: a nonprofit organization, helps media makers, educators, librarians, nonprofits and activists use documentaries to encourage action and inspire dialogue on contemporary social issues. www.mediarights.org

Third Sector New England: provides management information and services to build the knowledge, power and effectiveness of nonprofit organizations that engage people in community and public life. www.tsne.org

The Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations: is an interdisciplinary research center at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. The Center aims to illuminate the vital role that the nonprofit sector and nongovernmental organizations play in aiding societies to discover and accomplish important public purposes. www.ksg.harvard.edu/hauser

Green Media Toolshed: GMT is a nonprofit organization dedicated to helping the environmental movement communicate more effectively by offering a professional suite of communication tools, trainings and services. GMT offers the technology groups need along with the training and support to develop strategies that leverage those tools for the benefit of member organizations and coalitions www.greenmediatoolshed.org

Demos: A Network for Ideas and Action: Demos: A Network for Ideas & Action is a non-partisan public policy research and advocacy organization committed to building an America that achieves its highest democratic ideals. They believe this requires a democracy that is robust and inclusive, with high levels of electoral participation and civic engagement; an economy where prosperity and opportunity are broadly shared and disparity is reduced; and a strong and effective public sector with the capacity to plan for the future and provide for the common good.www.demos.org

Building Movement Project: Many working in the nonprofit sector are strongly motivated by the desire to address injustices and to promote fairness, equality, and sustainability. The Building Movement Project supports nonprofit organizations to work towards social change by integrating movement building strategies into their work.www.buildingmovement.org

Nonprofit Quarterly: The Nonprofit Quarterly is a unique print magazine that leaders count on to provide them with values-based management information and proven practices. Each issue focuses on a theme of critical importance and provides you with the cutting edge, relevant and useful information you need to manage more effectively and advance your mission. www.nonprofitquarterly.org

Citizens for Global Solutions: Citizens for Global Solutions is a nationwide organization that inspires America to engage the world. Our members recognize that in today’s interconnected world, our lives, our jobs and our families are increasingly affected by global problems. Challenges like terrorism, climate change, failed states and infectious diseases cannot be addressed by any one country alone, not even the United States. Citizens for Global Solutions believes that countries can best solve global problems by working together to find global solutions.www.globalsolutions.org

Boston Research Center for the 21st Century: The Boston Research Center for the 21st Century is an international peace institute that seeks to support an evolving global ethic for a peaceful twenty-first century by helping to build a worldwide network of global citizens. The Center collaborates with individuals and groups to sponsor public forums, conferences, lectures, and other dialogues that bring attention to constructive ideas for the development of cultures of peace.www.brc21.org

Center for Reflective Practice: The Center for Reflective Community Practice at MIT designs and implements projects which build the capacity of practitioner and community-centered cross sector teams to improve the lives of those least served by our society. Our projects support the development and use of knowledge embedded in marginalized communities to build social capital, improve community practice, and inform policy. www.crcp.mit.edu

Small Planet Institute: Frances Moore Lappé and Anna Lappé founded the Small Planet Institute in 2001 to help define, articulate, and further an historic transition: a worldwide shift from the dominant, failing notion of democracy as a set of fixed institutions toward democracy understood as a way of life, a culture in which the values of inclusion, fairness and mutual accountability infuse all dimensions of public life.www.smallplanetinstitute.org

Institute of Noetic Sciences: The Institute of Noetic Sciences is a nonprofit membership organization located in Northern California that conducts and sponsors leading-edge research into the potentials and powers of consciousness—including perceptions, beliefs, attention, intention, and intuition. The institute explores phenomena that do not necessarily fit conventional scientific models, while maintaining a commitment to scientific rigor www.ions.org

Berkana Institute: The Berkana Institute is a worldwide community of people who recognize the need for change in our communities, organizations and nations. We are offering our leadership to help resolve our most pressing local problems. www.berkana.org

Sustainability Institute: The Sustainability Institute focuses on understanding the root causes of unsustainable behavior in complex systems to help restructure systems and shift mindsets that will help move human society toward sustainability. www.sustainabilityinstitute.org

Center for Third World Organizing: The Center for Third World Organizing is a racial-justice organization dedicated to building a social-justice movement led by people of color.www.ctwo.org

Center for Community Change: The Center for Community Change helps low-income people, especially people of color, build powerful, effective organizations through which they can change their communities and public policies for the better.www.communitychange.org

Spirit in Action: Spirit in Action is a non-profit organization dedicated to building a successful movement for social change in the US. After considerable research, Spirit in Action identified four essential strategies for building a sustainable and widespread movement for social change. Read about them on their website.www.spiritinaction.net