And the list goes on.....

Two more organizations to add to the list:

• The Microfinance Rating and Assessment Initiative by M-CRIL, MicroFinanza Rating, MicroRate, and Planet Rating
• Razoo

And here's the rest of the list, so far:

• FasterCures Philanthropy Advisory Service (I'm an advisor to this effort)
• SocialCapital Index (Managers are email colleagues of mine)
  
• Alliance for Social Investing (I attended first meeting)
• Discussion groups at GivingMarketplaces
• BridgeSpan Group learning center
  

• New Philanthropy Capital,
• GiveWell
  
• MissionMarkets,
  
• Venture Philanthropy Partners,
• Midot
  
• Edna McConnell Clark Foundation
• Guidestar
• Charity Navigator
  
• SocialSolutions
• Nonprofit Finance Fund
  
• REDF,
  
• Center for What Works,
• Keystone,
  
• Great Nonprofits
  
• Connectipedia
  
• SocialMarkets
• Xigi.net Social Capital Index
• Keystone's "Impact" sessions
• RootCause
• Urban Institute Outcome Indicators
• Acumen Fund/Google/Salesforce's Portfolio Data Management
• From Fragmentation to Function: Critical Concepts and Writings on Social Capital Market’s Structure
• Performance data commons
• UPenn's Center on High Impact Philanthropy
• Social Venture Technology Group
• HIP Investor
• Fast Company's Social Capitalist Awards
  
• IssueLab
• The Nonprofit Reporter
• SmartLink
• Think Social Impact

It is definitely time to try to wrap some categories and distinctions around these organizations. I'll port this list over to Think Social Impact, where we had a mapping effort underway some months ago (in the old google group). Maybe we can all chip in and make some collective sense of what we have, what is under development, who uses what, what we might still need, etc.

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