Sympathetic Patterns
Whether in response to intrinsic values, stakeholder pressures, or market opportunities, pioneering organizations across all sectors and diciplines have been transforming themselves and adopting new models and approaches that challenge the traditional sectoral boundaries. The emergence of the Fourth Sector and the For-Benefit model of organization can be seen in the sympathetic patterns among the models and strategies these pioneers are pursuing, some of which include:
- Affirmative Businesses
- Base of the Pyramid Strategies
- Blended Value
- Civil Society Organizations
- Cause-Related Marketing (CRM) and Purchasing
- Chaordic Organizations
- Civic Enterprises
- Community and Complimentary Currencies
- Community Development Corporations
- Community Development Financial Institutions
- Community Indicators
- Community Wealth Organizations
- Complex Adaptive Systems
- Cooperatives
- Corporate Accountability
- Corporate-Nonprofit Partnerships
- Corporate Social Responsibility
- Cultural Creatives / LOHAS
- Democratic Governance
- Double- or Triple-Bottom Line Accounting
- Employee Ownership
- Engaged Philanthropy
- Environmental Stewardship/Responsibility
- Ethics
- Fair Trade
- Faith-Based Organizations
- Generative Leadership
- Green Labeling
- Holistic Education
- Industrial Ecology
- Integral Culture
- Investments Related to Programs
- Kyosei
- Learning Organizations
- Local Living Economies
- Municipal Enterprises
- Natural Capitalism
- New Profit Organizations
- Non-Profit Enterprises
- Open Society
- Open Source
- Open Space Technology
- Program-Related Investments
- Social Assessment and Auditing
- Social Enterprise
- Social Entrepreneurship
- Social Impact Assessment
- Social Investment
- Socially Responsible Investing
- Social Return on Investment
- Social Ventures
- Stakeholder Accountability
- Sustainability
- Sustainable Consumption
- Sustainable Development
- Sustainable Enterprises
- Transparency
- Venture Philanthropy
