Fargo, N.D., is known for cold winters and a population descended from Scandinavian and German immigrants. The town is 94 percent white and it’s an aging community–one in five residents is over age 55. But Fargo–actually a part of the bigger Fargo-Moorhead metro area that straddles North Dakota and Minnesota–isn’t a stranger to diversity.

Covalent Global Capital is a nonprofit developing to assist African-led charitable causes through a philanthropic innovation called micro-granting. Micro-granting refers to the individual connections of donors and African-led charities at a micro-level. We combine a culture-focused network of charities with strong and practical due diligence standards to allow donor advised funds and other philanthropic vehicles direct access to grassroots solutions in Africa.

Social Enterprise Alliance is an association of individuals and organizations building effective, sustainable nonprofits through earned-income strategies.

Stanford Center for Social Innovation is located at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. The organization publishes the Stanford Social Innovation Review.

The Center for the Advancement of Social Entrepreneurship is a research and education center based at Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business.

The How to Change the World Web site showcases the book How to Change the World: Social Entrepreneurs and the Power of New Ideas, by David Bornstein, a senior fellow at Civic Ventures.

The Purpose Prize, a project of Civic Ventures, awards five prizes of $100,000 and 10 awards of $10,000 for people over 60 who are taking on society’s biggest challenges and proving that creativity, entrepreneurship and innovation for the common good are not simply the province of the young.

The Partnership for Public Service is working to make the government an employer of choice for talented, dedicated Americans. The Partnership has a particular interest in encouraging boomers transitioning from the private sector to make encore careers in government service.