The Best Funding and Fellowship Websites
Could one person and one idea truly change the world? Does money actually grow on trees? Social Entrepreneurs are individuals who are creating new ventures for the common good, and this is a fast-growing career. That’s right, career. With the proper funding and 
fellowships, you’re life’s work to create and promote social change can now actually be your life’s work.
The E-180 blog on consensual education, social entrepreneurship and social media released a list of the Top 25 Social Entrepreneurship Websites. Within the list was a great collection of funding and fellowships websites, which will help turn your great idea into a world changing movement.
Ashoka – developed for men and women with system changing solutions for the world’s most urgent social problems. Thay have elected over 2,000 leading social entrepreneurs as Ashoka Fellows, providing them with living stipends, professional support, and access to a global network of peers in more than 60 countries.
Echoing Green – Each year, Echoing Green awards 12-15 two-year fellowships to social entrepreneurs. Fellows receive up to $90,000 in seed funding and technical support to turn their innovative ideas into sustainable social change organizations. One of Echoing Green’s 2009 Fellows is Jacob Colker, one of the creators of the very successful Extradiordinaires.
The Skoll Foundation – The Skoll Foundation was created by Jeff Skoll in 1999 to pursue his vision of a sustainable, peaceful and prosperous world. Jeff believes that strategic investments in the right people can lead to lasting social change.
Tides Foundation – Tides Foundation partners with donors to increase and organize resources for positive social change. They facilitate effective grantmaking programs, create opportunities for learning, and build community among donors and grantees.
Schwab Foundation – advances social entrepreneurship and foster ssocial entrepreneurs as an important catalyst for societal innovation and progress.
“Few will have the greatness to bend history alone; but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total of all these acts will be written the history of a generation…” – R.F. Kennedy, 1966, Cape Town, South Africa.
Hungry for more on social entrepreneurship? Check out Fast Company’s 2008 Social Capitalist Awards – 45 Social Entrepreneurs Who are Changing the World 
