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Caring Company (HK)
Caring Company is a platform engaging over 1700 corporations and 300 NGOs, working together for the benefits of all in the community. It provides localised tools, templates, guidelines and training to assist NGOs and companies in developing long-term partnerships. To help business corporations plan...
Pepal
Pepal is a young social enterprise that facilitates partnerships between the private and non-profit sectors through launching international development programmes, to achieve effective and sustainable social change in the developing world. It collaborates with INSEAD, the business school for the...
African Volunteer Football Academy for the Less privileged
The African Volunteer Football Academy for the Less Privileged (AVFAL) is a charitable football Organisation to train less privilege African Children and also provide equal opportunities for Disabled youths. The African Volunteer Football Academy for the Less Privileged (AVFAL) plays a vital role...
National Development Foundation (NDEF Cameroon)
The National Development Foundation (NDEF Cameroon) implements programmes that enhance the socio-economic development of vulnerable rural populations, including programmes on child rights. Other programmes focus on agriculture, education, environment, health and the social domain. The organisation...
Development Partners for Eastern Europe (DPEE)
Development Partners for Eastern Europe (DPEE) is dedicated to the restoration and raising of the standard of living in the countries of Eastern Europe and CIS by fostering sustainable community development.
Inclusive Business: Profitable business for successful development
Inclusive Business: Profitable business for successful development, a paper published by The Alliance for Inclusive Business and the WBCSD, defines Inclusive Business as one that seeks to contribute to poverty alleviation by including lower-income communities within its value chain while not losing...
Business and Poverty: Opening markets to the poor
Business and Poverty: Opening markets to the Poor, an issue of Development Outreach published by the World Bank Institute, discusses how companies can operate profitably in emerging market economies, while enhancing the well-being of the poor by nurturing them as producers and consumers. The...
New guidelines to help investors measure success of microfinance institutions
According to this news article, socially responsible investors are choosing to invest in microfinance to help alleviate poverty. By means of often very small loans, financial services, and technology, microfinance helps the poor, often women, to start self-sustaining businesses in order to escape...
Disaster prevention: a role for business?
This study was commissioned by the ProVention Consortium to examine the business case for reducing natural disaster risks in developing countries. The study explores a corporate social responsibility (CSR) perspective on disaster prevention and addresses, in particular, the potential for...
Mining minerals and sustainable development in Southern Africa
Report of the regional mining minerals and sustainable development process: Volume 1 focuses on the unique problems and opportunities of the South African mining context. It identifies the current trends in mining and makes future projections for growing sustainability efforts in this sector.
Business for Development: Business solutions in support of the Millennium Development Goals
Business for Development: Business solutions in support of the Millennium Development Goals, a report by the World Business Council for Sustainable Development, stresses the key role that business plays in creating opportunities for empowerment and development. It provides a host of examples of...
Tourism industry and poverty reduction: A business primer
Tourism industry and poverty reduction: A business primer, a policy briefing paper, explains why poverty does matter to tourism businesses and describes what companies – both in the originating and destination countries – can do to contribute to the global effort on poverty reduction.
Business group supports sustainability via the market economy
Business group supports sustainability via the market economy, a report issued by the World Business Council for Sustainable Development, shows how open, transparent markets can drive sustainability. The report also makes the business case for implementing sustainable practices and outlines seven...
The A to Z of Corporate Social Responsibility: A Complete Reference Guide to Concepts, Codes and Organisations
The A to Z of Corporate Social Responsibility: A Complete Reference Guide to Concepts, Codes and Organisations is the world’s first complete reference on Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), compiled by the Institute for Corporate Cultural Affairs. The entries have been written by leading...
Partnering in today’s world: a new website for Global Hand
The world is not as it was when Global Hand began. Times have changed and we are changing with them. Global Hand came into being as a ‘matching’ website: connecting for-profits and non-profits to respond to world need.
Regional perspectives on "Sustainable Livelihoods and Business"
Regional perspectives on Sustainable Livelihoods and Business, a publication of the WBCSD, discusses the potential of Sustainable Livelihoods (SL) businesses - businesses that benefit the poor while opening new doors to companies’ activities. The report presents the features and findings obtained...
Association for India's Development (AID)
Association for India's Development, Inc. (AID) is a voluntary non-profit organisation committed to promoting sustainable, equitable and just development in India, by working with grassroots organisations and movements in India. AID supports and initiates efforts in various interconnected spheres...
Sampradaan Indian Centre for Philanthropy
Sampradaan Indian Centre for Philanthropy (SICP) is a non-profit humanitarian society that seeks to promote a culture where resources are regularly shared and social responsibility and justice is a concern of all its citizens. SICP's vision is of an India in which private resources of money,...
Callu N.V. Consulting & Development
Callu N.V. Consulting&Development provides easy-to-assemble shelters and houses. Together with its Begium partner - Daikin, Callu also provides electric air conditioners for the dwellings.
Venu Madhuri Trust
Venu Madhuri Trust promotes integrated and and sustainable rural development.