User:Jimmylarose/Fourth Sector

New article name is Fourth Sector

Definition
A global business ecosystem characterized by the combined actions of the public sector, private sector, and charitable sector to advance the common good.

The fourth sector is made up of collborative enterprises between for-profit, nonprofit, and government entities that deliver innovative solutions to economic, educational, health, cultural and environmental problems.

In the U.S. the fourth sector movement has led to the creation by the IRS of the L3C corporation structure. (The L3C was not created by the IRS. They had nothing to do with it. It was the idea of Robert M. Lang - see http://www.americansforcommunitydevelopment.org/ for complete and correct information. Also the L3C is a company not a corporation.)  A low-profit limited liability company (L3C) is a legal form of business entity in the United States that was created to bridge the gap between non-profit and for-profit investing by providing a structure that facilitates investments in socially beneficial, for-profit ventures while simplifying compliance with Internal Revenue Service rules for "Program Related Investments". The following organizational models are examples of the emerging function of the fourth sector. These new business types intentionally blend systems from all three sectors (public, private and charitabele) for the purpose of contributing to the welfare of society. They include but are not limited to:


 * 1) Public Private Partnerships
 * 2) Social Economy Enterprises
 * 3) Faith-Based Enterprises
 * 4) Civic and Municipal Enterprises
 * 5) Community Development Financial Institutions
 * 6) Community Wealth Organizations
 * 7) Cross-Sectoral Partnerships
 * 8) Non-Profit Enterprises
 * 9) Sustainable Enterprises
 * 10) Social Enterprises
 * 11) Blended Value Organizations

These business types now exist in the U.S., U.K., E.U., Australia, Middle East, Africa and Asia.

Examples
Examples of organizations recognized as participating in the fourth sector movement include:


 * Acumen Fund
 * Alfa-Resorts
 * Ashoka
 * Better The World
 * Carbon Advice Group
 * Changents
 * charity: water
 * Cinepop
 * ClearlySo
 * ClimatePath
 * Donors Choose
 * Delancey Street Foundation
 * Dream Village
 * EDA CapitalConnect
 * Endeavor
 * ethipedia
 * Food Matters
 * Future Farm Food
 * Global Giving
 * GoodCompany Ventures
 * GoodSearch
 * Grameen Bank
 * Greenpeace
 * Indian Youth Climate Network
 * Jolkona Foundation
 * KIPP
 * Land Art Generator Initiative
 * Lemelson Foundation
 * Lift Kids
 * Masdar City
 * MicroPlace
 * One Laptop Per Child
 * Papa Lemon Books
 * Plan Internation
 * Public Achievement
 * Prince’s Rainforests Project
 * RBS SE 100 Index
 * Sustainable Health Enterprises
 * Skoll Foundation
 * SocialEarth
 * TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design)
 * TOMS Shoes
 * United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees