Some limited, mostly indirect, government support for social enterprise is found on local, state, and federal levels in the United States. For example, while community development programs sponsored by different levels of government are not directly aimed at the devel- opment of social enterprise per se, they can provide substantial support.4 One of the few examples of direct support on the local level was the Social Enterprise Initiative 1998– 2001 undertaken by the City of Seattle, Washington. It sponsored, often jointly with various foundations, such events as entrepreneurial training for nonprofits and the Seattle Social Enterprise Expo, one of the first social venture fairs in the United States. The Expo led to the development of the Seattle Social Investor’s Forum, which the city subsidized for its first two years. Funding of the annual forum was then taken over by the Gates Foundation (Pomerantz, 2003).