Film Funding Sources

• America’s Promise Alliance: Devoted to improving the lives of young people. Ensures young people receive the Five Promises they need to graduate high school prepared for success.
• Amnesty International: Protect human rights worldwide.
• Dart Center for Journalism & Trauma: For journalists who cover violence.
• enough! Project:  The project to end genocide and crimes against humanity.
• Facing History and Ourselves: Combats racism, antisemitism and prejudice and nurtures democracy through education programs worldwide.
• Global Kids:  Developing youth leaders for the global stage.
• Human Rights Watch:  News, analysis and resources from human rights perspective
• Witness: Uses video to open the eyes of the world to human rights violations.

Social Investing

• BBB Wise Giving Alliance: An ethical marketplace where buyers and sellers can trust each other.
• Crowdrise: Blend of online fundraising, crowdsourcing, social networking, contests, and other nice stuff.
• EMPEA : Promotes greater understanding of and a more favorable climate for private equity and venture capital investing in the emerging markets of Africa, Asia, Central/Eastern Europe and Russia, Latin America, and the Middle East.
• Kiva: Person-to-person micro-lending website.
• Net Impact : An international nonprofit organization whose mission is to inspire, educate, and equip individuals to use the power of business to create a more socially and environmentally sustainable world.
• EMPEA : Promotes greater understanding of and a more favorable climate for private equity and venture capital investing in the emerging markets of Africa, Asia, Central/Eastern Europe and Russia, Latin America, and the Middle East.
• FirstGiving: Empowers nonprofit supporters to raise money for the causes they care about.
• Pact: an NGO which works by strengthening the capacity of grassroots organizations, coalitions and networks and by forging linkages among government, business and the citizen sectors to achieve social, economic and environmental justice.
• Partners of the Americas: an international grassroots network which connects volunteers, institutions and communities.
• Razoo: Online fundraising for worthwhile causes.

Fellowships

• Acumen Fellows: Year-long fellowship with eight weeks of intensive and multidisciplinary leadership training in New York City.
• Ashoka: Supports social entrepreneurs as Ashoka Fellows.
• Asia Society Asia 21 Fellows: 
• Aspen Institute – Henry Crown Fellowship Program
• Donors Choose: Online charity that helps students in need.
• Echoing Green: Awards 20 two-year fellowships to social entrepreneurs annually. Fellows receive up to $90,000 in seed funding and technical support to turn their innovative ideas into sustainable social change organizations.
• Enterprising Ideas: Funding ideas for your project from this PBS site.
• Fulbright Program: Fellowships for U.S. and non-U.S. students aimed to increase mutual understanding between the peoples of the United States and other countries through the exchange of persons, knowledge and skills.
• Open Society Institute — OSI & the Soros Foundation Network website with infomation on fellowships, scholarships and grants.

Jobs

• Devex: Comprehensive listing of international development, global health, and humanitarian aid jobs.
• Foundation Center: Listings of current full-time job openings at U.S. based foundations and nonprofit organizations.
• Idealist.org:  interactive site where people and organizations can exchange resources and ideas, locate opportunities.
• Mandy.com: International film and TV resource.
• Microfinance Gateway: Jobs in microfinance.
• Nonprofit Career Network: One-step resource center for non-profit job search.

Sites to Keep Current on Film/Media/Technology/Entrepreneurship/VC

• AVC: Union Square Ventures Principal, Fred Wilson’s VC musings of his New York life.
• AllThingsDigital: News, analysis and opinion on technology, the Internet, and media.
• Bootstrap Austin Blog: Austin is giving Silicon Valley a run for its startup money. Check out this blog for daily news and get involved. Follow Austin on Twitter.
• Chris Dixon’s Blog: Chris Dixon, co-founder of Flickr and Hunch, has a must-read blog among the startup and venture capital set.
• Deadline Hollywood: Nikki Finke’s must-read Hollywood insider blog.
• The Big Picture: Barry Ritholtz’s leading financial blog, providing a macro prospective on the Capital Markets, Economy, Technology and Digital Media.
• Dogpatch: Connect entrepreneurs and help founders conceive and launch startups.
• Fins: Finance jobs, research and career news from the Wall Street Journal.
• Indiewire: Online resource and community for independent filmmakers.
• Mashable: Leverage social networking tools to research job lists, networking resources and other social network “how-to” tips to give yourself that competitive advantage.
• PaidContent: Chronicles the economic evolution of digital content that is shaping the future of the media, information and entertainment industries.
• ReadWriteWeb: Web apps, technology trends, social networking and more.
• SmartBrief: Free e-mail industry newsletters for need-to-know news.
• TechCrunch: Technology start-ups, particularly the Web 2.0 sector.
• TechStars: Provides seed funding from over 75 top venture capital firms and angel investors who are vested in successful startups.
• Valleywag: Tabloid-style news and gossip about Silicon Valley.
• Wired Blog: Technology sector news and updates.
• Venture Beat: VentureBeat’s mission is to provide news about innovation for forward-thinking entrepreneurs and executives blogs