http://www.fastcompany.com/tag/academy-urban-school-leadership The taxonomy view with a depth of 0. en http://www.fastcompany.com/multimedia/slideshows/content/social-enterprises.html <!--paging_filter--><p>Enterprise Community Partners, has invested $9 billion in equity capital, pre-development lending, mortgage financing, and development grants to house low- and moderate-income Americans. It also helped create the low-income-housing tax credit that for 25 years has provided a way for the business world to address the need for affordable housing while still making a profit. That credit has accounted for some 90% of the affordable rental housing in the U.S. Now it is taking on the credit crunch with innovative financing and a green-building initiative.</p><p><a href="http://www.fastcompany.com/multimedia/slideshows/content/social-enterprises.html">read more</a></p> DataDyne Husk Power Systems Enterprise Community Partners The Institute for OneWorld Health social enterprises of the year philanthropy Do Something Civic Ventures Mercy Corps The Acumen Fund The Academy for Urban School Leadership Hopelab Innovation Ethonomics Fri, 05 Dec 2008 17:30:07 -0500 Fast Company staff 1106012 at http://www.fastcompany.com http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/131/eureka-social-enterprises-of-the-year.html <!--paging_filter--><p> We have found them: Nine bold and timely ideas that wow us -- and that have earned these organizations a place alongside Enterprise Community Partners on our honor roll of 2009 <em>Social Enterprises of the Year</em>. Will all of these notions work in the long run and on a grand scale? Perhaps not. But they represent the kind of innovative thinking that can transform lives and change our world. </p> <p> <strong><a href="/magazine/131/do-something-an-ipo.html" target="_new" title="Do Something: An IPO">Do Something: An IPO</a></strong> </p><p><a href="http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/131/eureka-social-enterprises-of-the-year.html">read more</a></p> The Institute for OneWorld Health social enterprises of the year Enterprise Community Partners Do Something Husk Power Systems Mercy Corps Civic Ventures The Academy for Urban School Leadership The Acumen Fund DataDyne Hopelab Ethonomics Tue, 25 Nov 2008 05:00:15 -0500 Fast Company Staff 1093657 at http://www.fastcompany.com