'Social innovation' is defined as invention, adjustment or application of new societal concepts applicable to decision making and development processes in public administration, political bodies, legislation, private enterprises, organisations of the social partners and of the civil society.

International Forum for Social Innovation
http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/csi/

The Center for Social Innovation promotes innovative, effective, and efficient solutions to social problems in the United States and around the world through research, teaching, and outreach. The Center pursues this mission in a number of ways: adapting business knowledge, experience, and skills to the challenges facing managers and organizations working to improve social conditions; bringing academic rigor to the generation of new knowledge that enhances our collective understanding of the social sector; and supporting and facilitating inquiry that illuminates the fundamental nature of important social problems.

CSI performs research, education and consultancy to fill in the gaps between social needs and technological and organisational potentials in the knowledge based society of present time. By connecting systematically the scientific basis with application oriented approaches, CSI fulfils an important societal function as an interface beyond disciplinary rigidities. CSI is a private, non-profit research institute, based in Vienna, Austria.

Forum International de l'Innovation Sociale
http://www.continents.com/FIIS.htm

Created in 1976, the Forum International de l'Innovation Sociale (the Forum) is an international non-profit association whose aim is to promote social innovation in private and public institutions. "Social innovation" means the ability to innovate in terms of social behaviors, whether personal or professional. The term also implies the capacity to envision options other than repetition and reproduction of past behavior. The term focuses on the ability to transform roles and, thereby, on the ability to contribute to the transformation of institutions.

Australian Centre for Social Innovations
http://home.vicnet.net.au/~ozideas/

Australian Centre for Social Innovations (ACSION) began in 1990, inspired by the Institute for Social Inventions . Its web-site, Australian Alternative Innovations and OzIdeas, http://www.vicnet.net.au/~ozideas, has published nearly 90 web-pages of innovations and ideas that it seeks to publicise for discussion and promotion.

The Global Ideas Bank
http://www.globalideasbank.org/
http://www.globalideasbank.org/ISI.html

The web host for the Institute for Social Innovations and other emerging institutes, The Global Ideas Bank remains the biggest knowledge base and portal for social innovation around. The site encourages and supports social innovation by providing information and a knowledge base, competitions, advertising, poles and inspirational stories.

The Center for Alternative Development Initiatives
http://www.cadi.ph/index.htm

The Center for Alternative Development Initiatives (CADI) is a Philippine-based civil society organization (CSO) dedicated to the study, encouragement and implementation of sustainable development. CADI was established in February 1988 to spread the reality of holistic sciences and philosophies of human beings, society and nature.

The Simultaneous Policy Organisation
http://www.simpol.org

This is a three-year demonstration project, with a continuing operation dependent on proven success during the trial period.

Australian Foresight Institute
http://www.swin.edu.au/afi/welcome.htm