Several of the Innovation Awards winners have also been honored as Echoing Green Fellows, Hitachi Foundation Yoshiyama Young Entrepreneurs, White House Champions of Change,[2] and have been listed on the Forbes Impact 30.
[3] SVN has been identified as inspiration and catalyst by several other successful organizations in the business ethics and corporate social responsibility spheres, including B Lab,[4] Investors' Circle,[5] Net Impact, Business Alliance for Local Living Economies (BALLE), Social Enterprise Alliance (SEA),[6] Business for Social Responsibility (BSR)[7] and Bainbridge Graduate Institute.
The books are written by SVN members as practical guides to starting and growing a socially responsible business.
[9][non-primary source needed] Founded in 1996 by Gary Hirshberg, President and CEO of Stonyfield Farm, Social Venture Institutes are offered twice each year as a forum in which business and nonprofit leaders may receive expert advice and mentoring to overcome pressing challenges and to explore ways to succeed.
The Social Venture Network office is located in the Presidio of San Francisco, California in the Thoreau Center for Sustainability and is a Certified Green Business.