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Living Goods

Living Goods is an American NGO that operates Avon-like networks of door-to-door health promoters who make a modest income selling essential health products at prices affordable to the poor. The organisation is set up to combine micro-finance and knowledge of public health to prevent disease and...

Five Talents International

Five Talents International is committed to combating poverty in the developing world by equipping the poor with small business training and microfinance programmes. The majority of businesses are in food production and sales, street vendors, brick manufacturing, shoe making, carpentry, auto repair,...

Ya'axché Conservation Trust

Ya’axché Conservation Trust is a community-oriented NGO that advances integrated landscape management in southern Belize. The organisation combines protected areas management with community outreach and sustainable development at the landscape level and engages in strategic evidence-based...

Pamoja Women Development Programme

PAWDEP seeks to empower Kenyan women financially to run viable, competitive, and rewarding enterprises that can compete locally and internatioally, by providing microfinance solutions to women groups running small scale industry and farming. Recognizing the role played by the women in the...

Trickle Up Program

Based in New York City, the Trickle Up Program helps the poorest of the poor (with special focus on women, youth and other disadvantaged groups) take their first step up out of poverty through microfinance. Trickle Up helps them start their own businesses by providing capital and teaching them...

Africa Now

Africa Now assists farmers and small businesses by proving links to bank loans and training in new technologies. Additionally, Africa Now aids producers in expanding distribution into new markets and provides an auditing service for companies that wish to ensure that their business activities are...

Small Enterprise Education and Promotion Network (SEEP)

Small Enterprise Education and Promotion Network (SEEP) is a network of North American organisations operating micro and small enterprise projects in the developing world. SEEP runs three programs to serve members, develop networks and increase learning: Development Services (IDS), Network...

PlaNet Finance

PlaNet Finance is an international non-governmental organisation dedicated to the development of microfinance worldwide. Over the past ten years and thanks to its dynamism and growing international network, PlaNet Finance has been working at providing people with the means to build their own...

Women's Opportunity Network (WON)

Women's Opportunity Network, a sub-section of Opportunity International, focuses its resources primarily upon providing microfinance services to women in underdeveloped areas. The organisation operates through local partner organisations to provide microcredit - small loans, training and counsel,...

Small & Medium Enterprise Developers (SMED)

Small&Medium Enterprise Developers (SMED) is committed to the development of Small&Medium Enterprises (SMEs) in Sri Lanka. SMEs can obtain the latest global information on business, finance, competition or on any other economic indicator through the SMED website. The site aims to be a...

Integra Foundation

The Integra Venture is a network of community economic agencies in Central and Eastern Europe. They offer practical and professional help for entrepreneurs to start and grow their business. They provide finance and entrepreneurial training to help the poor climb out of poverty. They also promote...

World Vision - Peru

World Vision - Peru, part of World Vision International, concentrates its efforts on working with children, the provision of humanitarian relief and promotion of justice for the poor. Core programmes include health and nutrition, pre-school and primary education, advocacy for child protection and...

One Acre Fund

One Acre Fund is a nonprofit organisation started in January 2006 with the goal of completely rethinking how to solve the chronic hunger problem in Africa. The organisation believes that food aid is at best a temporary solution, and instead has put together a permanent investment package for...

Fairtrade Foundation

The Fairtrade Foundation is the independent non-profit organisation that licenses use of the FAIRTRADE Mark on products in the UK in accordance with internationally agreed Fairtrade standards. The Foundation was established in 1992 by CAFOD, Christian Aid, Oxfam, Traidcraft and the World...

Fairtrade Labelling Organisations International (FLO)

Fairtade Labelling Organisation International (FLO) are 24 organisations working to secure a better deal for producers. FLO coordinates Fairtrade labelling at an international level. From its head offices, in Bonn, Germany, FLO: * Set international Fairtrade standards * Organise...

World Vision Guatemala

World Vision is a Christian humanitarian organisation dedicated to working with children, families and communities in the fight against poverty and for social justice. World Vision has been working in Guatemala since 1976 and is currently involved in development work, education and advocacy. It...

Fair Trade Resource Network

Founded in 1999, FTRN is the only non-profit organisation in North America focused exclusively on Fair Trade education, helping people to better understand the impact of their buying decisions. FTRN also works to create a space for dialogue and exchange within the Fair Trade movement. While FTRN is...

Reach India

Reach India is a social enterprise training franchise that aims to empower women and girls to make positive changes in their lives, families, and communities. Its network of local service centres train thousands of local organisations, which in turn train millions of women and adolescent girls who...

OptINnow

OptINnow is an NGO, part of Opportunity International, a large Christian microfinance organisation that has been providing loans, business training and other financial services to entrepreneurs in the devloping world since 1971. OptINnow raises money from donors to fund loans which will...

Wokai

Wokai is an online platform that utilises the principle of microfinance to connect people who would like to make loans which will have a direct impact on the lives of people living in rural China, their families, and their communities. Borrowers are people who want to start small businesses, but...