While many terms associated with Social Innovation and the NonProfit and Charitable sector might seem self-explanatory, it is sometimes helpful to provide a more precise framework to assist in understanding this evolving discipline. The field is further complicated by the fact that some terms might have a wide range of definitions. In this situation, I will choose to highlight the consensus or emerging definition — recognizing that this may be somewhat subjective.

b
- B Corporation
c
- Capacity Building
- Celanthropy
- Changemaker
- Corporate Social Responsibility
- Crowd Funding
- Crowdsourcing
g
- Giving 2.0
- Giving Circle
- Governance
- Granting
i
- Impact Investing
- Investment
m
- Microfinance
- Mission Creep
- Mission Related Investing
o
- Organizational Capacity
p
- Philanthrocapitalism
- Philanthropy
s
- Social 2.0
- Social Enterprise
- Social Entrepreneur
- Social Finance
- Social Innovation
- Social Sector
- Social Venture
- Strategic Philanthropy
t
- Theory of Change
v
- Venture Philanthropy