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ConocoPhillips worked with NGO to support financial services in Venezuela
In 2006, ConocoPhillips worked with Fundefir, an organization with wide experience in developing bankomunales- small neighborhood banks in low-income areas where there are no formal financial services.
Sainsbury's assisted a charity gardening enterprise
Sainsbury’s was one of the few companies which supported Mow & Grow when it was a tiny voluntary group. Its funding in the early days ensured its survival of this social enterprise offering a gardening and horticultural service to those in need.
Cisco partners with Grameen Solutions in Bangladesh
Cisco partners with Grameen Solutions to establish business centers in rural Bangladesh that serve as distribution points for a variety of services, such as birth and death certificates, healthcare, distance learning, and retail sales of such necessities as hybrid seeds.
Sustainable Livelihoods International (SLINT)-Uganda
SLINT-Uganda (Sustainable Livelihoods International) is a Ugandan NGO working on poverty alleviation, market-oriented agricultural development and food security, environmental sustainability, capacity development and policy advocacy. SLINT seeks to contribute to the realization of the Millennium...
Eticambiente
Eticambiente specializes in working with medium-to-large sized companies and multinationals struggling with integrating sustainable development principles into their core business model, day-to-day operations and risk analysis, as well as maximizing stakeholder engagement and communications. ...
Ethos
Ethos is a boutique consulting firm that partners with individuals and organizations to help them identify, develop and optimize their organizational capability. Ethos exists to support and partner with organizations main in three areas: Leadership & Development, Learning & Development and...
Context
Context is a corporate sustainability consultancy, helping clients understand sustainability and profit from it - by developing leading sustainability strategies and compelling communications. They help multinationals formulate corporate sustainability strategies, engage with stakeholders and...
Article 13
Article 13 helps companies to operate in a manner that produces a positive impact on society - typically in the areas of CSR (corporate & social responsibility), sustainability, governance and social innovation. They offer a range of training, coaching, consultancy and research services. ...
Robin Hood Foundation - Asia
Robin Hood Asia is dedicated to helping companies create social initiatives that assist the poor while benefiting business. They believe that companies can become change agents for social good by adapting their products, services and business practices to a compelling social stand. Robin Hood...
Unilever, with support from NGOs, helps rural India through Project Shakti
Project Shakti is unleashing the potential of rural India and thus changing lives. It is ushering in prosperity and, more importantly, self-respect.
Pepal's Mission
Pepal’s mission is to foster an environment where private sector businesses and non-profit organisations can develop equal partnerships to achieve social change. They achieve their mission through designing and implementing innovative international development programmes which strategically pair...
Shared Value between Nestlé and crops producers
Nestlé is guided by the principle of creating shared value for shareholders and society in a manner that is integrally linked to its core business strategies and operations. It is called “Creating Shared Value (CSV)”; value created for shareholders, employees, farmers, consumers and the communities...
Development Executive Group
Development Executive Group provides an online marketplace for the global development industry. The website offers various development, intelligence and recruiting services for businesses, non-governmental organisations, and consultants who implement projects funded by the World Bank, USAID, and...
Association of Youth Support
The Association of Youth Support - Kazakhstan provides assistance to young adults in finding employment or starting their own businesses. It also helps youth locate opportunities for professional development or continuation of secondary education, and conducts workshops on leadership skills.
Eurasia Foundation (EF) - Russia
New Eurasia Foundation (FNE) is a Russian nonprofit organization that works to consolidate the efforts and resources of the public, private, and nongovernmental sectors and implement social and economic development programs at the regional and local levels that are based on the most advanced...
Upliftment Jamaica
Upliftment Jamaica upgrades and refurbishes schools, provides school scholarships, and promotes technology in schools. The organisation implements farming and vocational education projects; offers various sports and leisure programmes; provides food daily for people in immediate need; conducts...
Weyerhaeuser Family Foundation
The Weyerhaeuser Family Foundation is an independent NGO that runs an international and national grant programme. The Foundation supports projects that promote peace and enable people to help themselves through population planning, environmental conservation, agricultural improvement and enterprise...
Association For Development Cooperation
The Association for Development Cooperation (AGEH) was founded in Germany in 1959 as a Catholic based, international aid personnel service. AGEH partners with church based agencies and communities, as well as non-governmental organisations to bring about poverty reduction, peace service, and...
International Service
International Service (IS) is a development agency working in Latin America, West Africa and the Middle East. It is the oldest of the British volunteer sending agencies and IS partners with local organisations in these areas which work on a range of aid and development projects . It also seeks to...
World Food Programme (WFP) - Iran
Set-up in 1963, WFP is the United Nations frontline agency in the fight against global hunger. WFP uses its food to: meet emergency needs and support economic and social development. It also provides the logistics support necessary to get food aid to the right people at the right time and in the...