Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2000 15:26:55 -0700
| From: | John J. Deneen |
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JJDeneen@ricochet.net Reply-To: unrev-II@egroups.com |
| To: | unrev-II@egroups.com |
| Subject: | Synergy -- next steps for OHS |
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Ventur Capital Opportunities |
Relative to what Doug says:
So in pursuit, as I understand it, Russell Hall, Managing Director of Legacy Venture Capital, specializes in venture capital philanthropy techniques similar to Gib Myers, chairman of Mayfield Fund & Entrepreneur's Foundation
and John Doerr, Co-Founder of New Schools Venture Fund
...and have funded SRI spinoffs like:
Founded in 1995, Foundation Capital is a premier venture capital firm committed to providing exceptional service to entrepreneurs to help build great new companies. In addition to capital, Foundation invests effort, perspective, and experience in business to business e-commerce, Internet infrastructure, telecommunications and networking and business to consumer e-commerce startups. The firm takes a hands-on approach, partnering with companies in their formative stages and helping them gain access to industry leaders, potential customers, prospective partners, world-class board members and candidates for key management positions. Current portfolio companies include Air Fiber, Atheros Communications, Commerce One (NASDAQ CMRC), Financial Engines, idealab!, Interwoven (NASDAQ IWOV), NetFlix.com, NetZero (NASDAQ NZRO), Pacific Edge, Shoreline Teleworks and WhereNet.
So for future references in our DKR handbook for funding other NICs this is what I found:
http://www.publiceducation.org
Working to educate the nation about the relationship between school quality and the quality of community andpublic life.
Where K-12 education and technology meet National Center for Education Statistics...
Valuable newsletter with updates on the education industry from a company which seeks to link for-profit education companies with investors.
Articles and updates about upcoming special events in education.
A federally-funded national information system with one of the strongest and broadest research engines on the web.
Facilitating the introduction of technology into K-12 schools.
US Wired is an online education source offering complete, useful and effective resources for teachers, families, and local schools.
The EduHound.com directory provides a prescreened database directory of K-12 Educational Links categorized by subject, alphabetically from a list of clickable keywords, and additionally providing numerous link pages to selected pertinent resource areas.
http://www.communitywealth.com
A business development consulting firm serving for-profit and non-profit businesses with philanthropic missions.
Provides information and technical assistance to the nonprofit community. This site includes annotated lists of recommended publications and links to nonprofit resources.
A searchable database of consultants who work with nonprofits in Northern California.
http://www.socialentrepreneurs.org
Introductory seminars, site visits and other consulting services for entrepreneurs in all fields of the non-profit sector.
Register on-line for a free subscription to this magazine for social entrepreneurs.
Comprehensive directory of private, corporate and community foundations as well as advice, reading lists, links to other useful sites.
The National Center for Nonprofit Boards (NCNB) is dedicated to increasing the effectiveness of nonprofit organizations by strengthening their boards of directors.
This web site includes a strong research engine and links to sites of various federal education offices, such as the Office of Elementary and Secondary Education.
Provides information about California's emerging public education issues.
A national web site that shares practical information and innovations among charter school operators (e.g., teachers, parents, principals, community members, etc.). A must-visit site for charter school leaders, consultants, researchers and policy makers.
A national network connecting and supporting resource centers and other state-level charter support. Provides publications, conferences, online communications, a grant program, and multi-state initiatives on high priority issues including accountability, facilities financing, special education and federal policy development.
http://www-gse.berkeley.edu/research/pace/
PACE is an independent policy research center whose primary aim is to enrich education policy debates with sound analysis and hard evidence.
Book reviews, web site reviews, lesson planning and curriculum resources about integrating the Internet into the classroom.
http://parents4publicschools.com
A national organization of grassroots chapters dedicated to supporting and strengthening public schools in communities throughout America.
...an online guide to schools in California Center for the Future of Teaching and Learning...
...increasing the capacity of California's teachers.
http://www.classroom.com/home.asp
Classroom Connect works with educators in bringing the power of the Internet to their students.
Outstanding site for novice entrepreneurs sponsored by the prestigious Kauffman Center. Over two dozen articles about the art and science of business plans, as well advice on legal issues, finance, marketing, staffing, and other topics relevant to start-ups.
http://www.dtonline.com/writing/executivesummary.htm
Outlines the basic components of a business plan and describes each section in detail.
http://www.sbaonline.sba.gov/starting/indexbusplans.html
Highly informative site of the federal agency that supports small businesses. Provides loans and venture capitalfinancing to small businesses unable to secure financing through normal lending channels as well as technical assistance. Excellent tutorial on how to write a business plan for the first time.
This non-profit foundation offers full-time fellowships to emerging social entrepreneurs, as well as seed money and technical support. Their “resource center” section provides excellent advice on a wide range of topics relevant to non-profit start-ups, including public relations, finance and accounting, strategic planning, etc.
Supports nonprofit organizations in the San Francisco Bay Area, providing financing, technical assistance, access to technology, and other support.
Provides mentoring, resources, loans and equity financing to businesses located in or hiring from low-income Bay Area communities.
Scales up successful community programs by applying venture capital principles. Also helps private-sector companies incorporate community service into their businesses.
The Center for Venture Philanthropy (CVP) section of Peninsula Community Foundation is a forum for community donors to collaborate and catalyze societal change.
http://www.svpseattle.org/home.htm
Using the venture capital approach as a model, SVP is committed to giving time, money and expertise to create partnerships withnot-for-profit organizations in the Puget Sound region.
Venture philanthropy for social entrepreneurs. New Profit Inc.'s mission is to partner with the most promising social enterprises and to help them increase their social impact by providing financial and management development support.
John Deneen
JJDeneen@ricochet.net
Eugene Eric Kim wrote, among other things:
I had asked Doug to reply to some previous correspondence on the subject. In support of Kim's remarks, I'll take the liberty to quote from my cc:
Doug Engelbart...
"This effort very definitely is NOT for the enrichment of Stanford and BI. For me, this is a crusade, started almost exactly 49 years ago, and perservered through a great deal of discouraging set-backs. For instance, the last three years have been without salary (if I hadn't won a gigantic prize, I'd have been in real trouble).
And, I am totally serious about the Open-Source pursuit of our OHS evolution. I can't see how proprietary systems embedded in classical market environment can yield the scale and rate of evolution that is called for in order to do this bootstrapping on a scale that I feel is necessary.
We have to raise money to get basic, necessary things done. BI is too small; SRI is the only candidate not-for-profit organization within my horizon which has the capability and the world-wide reach to provide the necessary kind of launch platform.
Note, Stanford University has no direct role here; SRI is completely separate. The legal arrangement with SRI explicitly keeps them from gaining any proprietary position from their involvement here as an important contractor.
We are interacting with central players in the open-source movement to maximize our learning and planning. The total focus is for OPEN OHS.
I appreciate your expressions of concern, and welcome any future participation that you and your friends may choose to provide.
Sincerely,
Doug Engelbart