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Community Business
Community Business works with member companies in three distinct areas of corporate social responsibility: CSR strategy and policy, corporate community investment, and diversity in the workplace. In addition to serving member companies, Community Business promotes CSR best practice through...
CAUSE Canada (Christian Aid for Under-Assisted Societies Everywhere)
Founded in 1984, CAUSE Canada is an international relief and development organisation working to empower communities and individuals in disadvantaged regions to overcome poverty and improve quality of life. Their development priority includes primary health care, water and sanitation,...
Open Society Initiative for West Africa (OSIWA)
Open Society Initiative for West Africa (OSIWA), part of the global grantmaking Open Society Institute and the Soros Foundations Network, collaborates with advocacy groups, like-minded foundations, governments, and donors to create initiatives that enhance civil society. OSIWA’s program priorities...
Terre des Hommes International Federation (TDHIF)
Terre des Hommes International Federation (TDHIF) is a non-profit network of ten national organisations with headquarters in Switzerland. The mission of the Terre des Hommes organisations is to provide active support to children, without racial, religious, political, cultural or gender-based...
DAYA (Destitute, Aged & Young Association)
DAYA is a relief and development organisation that aims to raise the education and health standards of street children, victims of natural disasters and children and others in difficult circumstances. DAYA serves the communities and people in the state of Orissa in India. Among its activities are...
Dynamic Action Group (DAG)
The Dynamic Action Group (DAG) is a Cameroonian NGO that works with vulnerable populations including young people, disabled, women and children, poor, school dropout widows, vulnerable groups and communities etc on a range of projects and activities designed to address poverty and assist community...
Vestergaard Frandsen Group
Vestergaard Frandsen Group specialises in emergency response and disease control textiles and is committed to the Millenium Development Goals. It is guided by a unique Humanitarian Entrepreneurship business model, whose "profit for a purpose" approach has turned humanitarian responsibility into its...
Progressive Initiative for Cameroon (PICAM)
Progressive Initiative for Cameroon (PICAM) is a nonprofit, non-governmental organisation dedicated to improving and transforming the Cameroonian society through innovative research and practical activities.
Association of Human Rights and Tortured Defenders (AHURTOD)
The Association of Human Rights and Tortured Defenders (AHURTOD) is a human rights and relief organisation founded in 2004 to protect Cameroon’s vulnerable and poor population. AHURTOD’s activities aim to defend men and women’s rights, to fight against child labour, exploitation, abuse and...
Movement for Democracy, Development and Transparency
The Movement for Democracy Development and Transparency (MDDT) is an NGO in Cameroon. The organization aims to create a society that promotes social justice and enhances development through the efficient use and management of resources. MMDT members are involved in rehabilitation schemes, and...
Project Africa
PROJECT AFRICA was incorporated in Kenya as a non profit NGO in 2008. Today the organization provides supports and services annually to over 1000 women and girls from poor rural and urban settings in Kenya. Its assistance is designed to support individual women and girls to break free from the...
Oikocredit International
Oikocredit International, one of the largest financiers of the microfinance sector worldwide, promotes global justice by challenging people, churches and others to share their resources through socially responsible investments and by empowering disadvantaged people with credit. Oikocredit finances...
Refugees International
Refugees International develops policy and advocacy positions based on local knowledge of key humanitarian emergencies. Their advocates spend weeks in the field to reach populations that are most in need and determine immediate, practical ways to address the humanitarian emergencies they face. By...
World Health Organization (WHO) - Eastern Mediterranean Regional Office (EMRO)
The World Health Organization, the United Nations specialised agency for health, aims to coordinate international health activities and to help governments improve health services. The WHO Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean prioritizes programmes which focus on such issues as the global...
Camfed
Camfed (Campaign for Female Education) is an international charity that is dedicated to the education of girls in Africa. More than 1,065,710 children in impoverished areas have benefited from Camfed's innovative education programmes. Camfed uses a holistic community-based approach to its work....
Find Your Feet (FYF)
Find Your Feet (FYF) enables vulnerable families in poor communities to improve harvests, increase family income, and learn skills and access education services. This organisation also addresses women's needs and rights, the need to maintain biodiversity, increase understanding of economic, social...
Women in Agribusiness in Sub-Saharan Africa Alliance (WASSAA)
The Women in Agribusiness in Sub-Saharan Africa Alliance (WASSAA) is a grouping of entrepreneurs from sub-Saharan countries with a focus on creating a strong and reliable network of women and young people in the agribusiness sector. WASSAA particularly wants women in all walks of life in the...
International Federation of Red Cross and Red Cresent (IFRC)
The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies is the world's largest humanitarian organisation, providing assistance without discrimination as to nationality, race, religious beliefs, class or political opinions. The Federation's mission is to improve the lives of vulnerable...
United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF)
UNICEF is an international aid agency that works with communities and governments in 157 countries for the survival, development and protection of children worldwide, upholding the Convention on the Rights of the Child. The priorities of the program are children's health, education, equality and...
United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) - Costa Rica
The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) is the United Nations' global network advocating for change and connecting countries to knowledge, experience and resources to help people build a better life. In Costa Rica, UNDP activities are mainly aimed at promoting sustainable human...