Horyou is an action oriented social network for the social good. We bring Organizations, Personalities, and Supporters together to connect within an internet-based global community. Horyou represents a new internet philosophy where noble ideals become actions and social media is at the service of all. At Horyou, all generations can build a more constructive relationship with technology.

Registration at Horyou is free and open to everyone.

Discover more about Horyou by accessing our tutorials videos

Find more: https://www.horyou.com/ 

The GSEN is a new platform intending to facilitate collaboration between social entrepreneurs and to create more support for grass roots social entrepreneurs.  It will become a peer to peer support network for the incubation, development and growth of early stage social entrepreneurs support around the world.

GSEN brings organisations together to share what works in supporting social entrepreneurs. As a result, our members can provide higher quality support to social entrepreneurs – empowering even more of them to create lasting change in our world.

GSEN is a values led network:

• We believe that every community and every country will find its own path to support social entrepreneurs
• We believe that the sharing of methods, tools and results will contribute to strengthening social entrepreneurship in all countries
• We act and learn from results to improve our approach
• We believe that there are individuals everywhere who have the potential to make positive change in the world
• We believe in the value of social entrepreneurs across the spectrum who bring about change from local to global levels
• We put people at the heart of what we do, backing people first because it is people who lead ventures
• We support people in their own ideas for improving their world, dedicated to peaceful paths to social and environmental improvement
• We reach out and find people who can tackle the key issues facing society and the environment
• We believe that people in communities which face problems are part of the solution and they are most likely to create the most relevant solutions
• We are committed to respect and equal opportunity for all people of the world

Find more at: www.gsen.global

Ashoka is the largest network of social entrepreneurs worldwide, with nearly 3,000 Ashoka Fellows in 70 countries putting their system changing ideas into practice on a global scale. Founded by Bill Drayton in 1980, Ashoka has provided start-up financing, professional support services, and connections to a global network across the business and social sectors, and a platform for people dedicated to changing the world. Ashoka launched the field of social entrepreneurship and has activated multi-sector partners across the world who increasingly look to entrepreneurial talent and new ideas to solve social problems.

Ashoka Fellows remain the core of our community, and their insights show us how the world is moving and what is needed next.  Working in partnership with private, philanthropic and citizen sector players we are achieving large-scale social innovation that is grounded in decades of entrepreneurial experience.

Find more at: https://www.ashoka.org

Our Mission

To support and empower diverse, innovative leaders who leverage business to serve the greater good
We achieve our mission by:
• Building valuable peer-to-peer connections among influential business leaders, social entrepreneurs, and impact investors who support a triple bottom line: people, planet and profit
• Fostering high-impact collaborations that build a just, humane and sustainable world
• Supporting whole-person leadership to enable our members to succeed and grow, both personally and professionally

SVN’s Value Proposition
SVN connects you to a growing community of innovative business leaders and social entrepreneurs to help you improve your business, enhance your leadership, and expand your impact.
Find more at: http://svn.org/

SIX is  network focusing on social innovation. Our vision is that people all over the world can become better innovators by more easily connecting to their peers, sharing methods and exchanging solutions globally.

SIX was established in 2008, and incubated by the Young Foundation until 2013 when it became an independent organisation, with support from the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, UK branch.

We work with governments, businesses, academics, funders, practitioners and leading social innovation intermediaries that support social innovation to accelerate the field of social innovation around the world. Simultaneously, we also seek to learn from the real people innovating in their own communities. By linking all these actors across sectors, fields and geographies, we can spread the most effective models more quickly.

Since March 2013, SIX has been governed by an Executive Board of leading social innovation experts from around the world. Our Global Council of leading social innovation organisations from across the globe provide us with core financial support, as well as guiding and directing the work of SIX.

Our mission is to help established social innovators to become better innovators by connecting peers, sharing methods and exchange solutions globally.

The members of SIX:

1. Value social impact (rather than ideas)
2. Celebrate solutions (more than heroes)
3. Engage honestly (more than just inform)
4. Inspire through action (not just words)
5. Connect as peers (not in a hierarchy)
6. Committed to openness (and welcome the unexpected).

Find more at: http://www.socialinnovationexchange.org/home

REVES represents, defends and promotes the common values of its members vis-à-vis European and Internationals institutions.

Jointly with its members, it pursues the objectives set out in the REVES charter, in order to :

• establish a dialogue with the European and international Institutions in order to create positive conditions for the development of social and solidarity based-economy
• develop social responsibility and exchange expertise and know-how, and to implement innovation in the fields of inclusion, participation and empowerment of local communities
• educate and communicate the contribution of social economy-based partnership for more solidarity-based communities
• be a laboratory for innovation in social policies and to support their dissemination in all territories
• Cooperate and create synergies with other national, European and international networks and to complement them
• pursue these objectives in Europe and at international level with a view to territorial cohesion, international solidarity, promotion of equal opportunity and north-south cooperation
• capitalize on its own and members experiences in the different fields of interest and make them available to all members

Find more at: http://www.revesnetwork.eu/

EMES is a research network of established university research centres and individual researchers whose goal has been so far to gradually build up an international corpus of theoretical and empirical knowledge, pluralistic in disciplines and methodologies, around our “SE” concepts:social enterprise, social entrepreneurship, social economy,solidarity economy and social innovation.

EMES members look for joint themes and projects that bring different disciplines from the human sciences together: not only sociologists, economists, political and management scientists, but colleagues from historical sciences, law, psychology, or cultural studies as well.

Specifically, the EMES network studies socio-economic entities that, while increasingly important in Europe and elsewhere, remain under-researched.
This research has been so far mostly focused on Europe – a space with its own traditions, peculiar political institutions (like the EU) and therefore an agenda for third sector research that differs to some degree from other regions in the world.

However, EMES is now involved in the evolution of research at a broader geographic level via its enlarged international membership and via international partnerships (e.g. with the UNDP and research networks in Latin America and Eastern Asia).

RREUSE represents social enterprises active in reuse, repair and recycling. We want the EU and national governments to move from promoting just recycling and waste management to putting secondhand first.

We are asking the European Commission to promote reuse targets above recycling in the revised Circular Economy Package.

Our members employ people at risk of socio-economic exclusion and help bring them back into work.

In addition they bring products back to the market at affordable prices providing essential household items to low income groups.

Approximately 77,000  employees and over 60,000 volunteers and trainees work within our 30 member networks across 17 EU countries and one in the USA.

The main activities of our members include:

• collection, sorting and redistribution of used textiles and clothing
• collection, repair and reuse of electrical and electronic waste (WEEE), furniture and other bulky waste
• home and community composting projects
• charity and second hand shops
• collection and recycling of paper, cardboard, wood, plastics, paints, metals, books and toys
• awareness raising campaigns, international projects, exchange of best practice and business support.

Find more at: http://www.rreuse.org/about-us/