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Hope For All / Care Givers Foundation
Hope For All / Care Givers Foundation works amongst the less privileged,orphans and youths. we provide all kinds of services that can help alleviate poverty in our country.our authorization from the government is that of service provider. therefor any organization can partner with us if they are...
Lumbung Yusuf Indonesia
Lumbung Yusuf Indonesia provides health, education, relief, and social services.
EnterpriseWorks/VITA (EWV)
EnterpriseWorks/VITA (EWV) fights poverty in the developing world through business development programs that allow small agricultural producers and other entrepreneurs to increase their productivity and incomes, pursue sustainable business opportunities, and create jobs that benefit the families,...
International Institute for Communication and Development (IICD)
The International Institute for Communication and Development (IICD) is a non-profit foundation that specialises in information and communication technologies (ICTs) as a tool for development. IICD assists various countries in Africa, Latin-America and the Caribbean to improve development within...
Calvary International - Go To Nations
Go To Nations (ex-Calvary International) is a faith-based non profit agency, providing technical and practical support to workers in the field. It interfaces with local organisations to raise awareness, present projects, provide training and serves as a facilitator among individuals and...
Educational Concerns for Hunger Organization (ECHO)
ECHO's goal is to improve the abilities of international community development workers assisting poor farmers by providing useful, important information and by networking their skills and knowledge with each other. They also provide hard-to-find beneficial food plants and seeds.
Rotary World Community Service Resource Network
Rotary World Community Service Resource Network (WCSRN) is a global network of Rotarians with special expertise who can provide comprehensive information and advice to clubs and districts on successful approaches to carrying out international service projects.
Ministry to Street Children
Ministry to Street Children is one of the ministries provided by the churches in Zambia, to support and help the orphaned, abandoned, vulnerable and abused children in the community. It provides them education, training, medical care, humanitarian support, spiritual development and advice about...
Hope for The Orphan Children - Sierra Leone
Hope for the Orphan Children is a project supported by Children of the Nations International in Sierra Leone to build a new Village of Hope in Banta Mokelleh for orphaned children and provide them homes, schools, churches, medical clinics, nutrition and whatever they need in their fight against...
The Community Corps
In survey after survey, U.S. nonprofits identify technology as one of their most critical needs. However, 40% of the 1.5 million U.S. based nonprofits, which serve tens of millions of Americans, continue to say they lack sufficient technology to serve their constituents. Used well, technology...
Engineering for Change
Engineering for Change (E4C) is a growing community of engineers, technologists, social scientists, non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and local community advocates who are passionate about improving quality of life. E4C seeks to enable this growing community to design, apply and share...
A Little World: Facilitating Safe and Efficient M-Banking in Rural India
A Little World (ALW)is an Indian company facilitating safe and efficient mobile-banking in rural India by offering a secure, low‐cost technology driven delivery platform for financial services through special mobile phones.
Mobile Telesystems (MTS) helps to improve health in Belarus
MobileTeleSystems (MTS), the largest cell phone provider in Belarus, provides telecommunication services to hospitals, while also improving the health care of the poor.
Microcredit from Grameen Bank in Bangladesh: Phone ladies
In partnership with ITU (the United Nations specialized agency for information and communication technologies), the Grameen Bank in Bangladesh has brought mobile phone services to the most isolated villages. Poor rural women now operate small businesses providing public call services to their...
WIZZIT reaching the Unbanked of South Africa
It is estimated that 40 percent of South Africa's 45 million population are un-banked or under-banked. However, nearly 60 percent of South Africans have mobile phones. The proliferation of mobile services worldwide has created a unique opportunity to provide social and financial services over the...
Parternships in Belarus providing affordable Health Care to the Poor
Cardiovascular diseases are common among the population of Belarus. Belarus lacks quick cardiac diagnostic and treatment services in many remote areas outside of major cities. Telemedicine offers a solution to this problem by connecting a doctor in a local hospital with a cardiac specialist in a...
Microsoft and Nethope partner to provide humanitarian disaster relief
Since 2005, Microsoft has partnered closely with NetHope to explore how IT can more effectively foster collaboration, drive innovation, and transform technology use in development and humanitarian relief efforts around the world.
Reuters Market Light: Creating Efficient Markets
Reuters Market Light (RML), a business incubated by Thomson Reuters, is a pioneering mobile phone-based agri information service provider. The service is designed to provide farmers with personalised timely and actionable agricultural information from pre-sowing to post-harvest stages through SMS...
General Electric Company brings business know-how to Girls Inc. Dallas
The General Electric Company's (GE) partnership with Girls Inc. Dallas has provided Girls Inc. Dallas with both financial support and with volunteers to help the NGO improve its delivery of services.
iAwards support ‘Technology for Social Justice’ mission
The 2011 iAwards were announced recently at a series of events held across Australia. The importance of providing effective tools to support digital proficiency in the community sector has again been recognised with Infoxchange Australia picking up the Victorian iAward in the e-Inclusions and...