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Local Wells Fargo Bank Donates Thanksgiving Lunch to Refugees
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Thirty-three refugees celebrated their first Thanksgiving, festivities which were sponsored by a local Wells Fargo branch and included five turkeys and all the trimmings of a traditional Thanksgiving meal. The Wells Fargo branch, located on Brand Boulevard in Glendale, California has partnered...
Partnership to help farmers in Africa increase crop yields and hope for the future
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In 2005, Millennium Promise launched with a vision to end extreme poverty in our lifetime. As the leading international nonprofit organization solely committed to supporting the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals, Millennium Promise believes that innovative partnerships and an...
Green Aid Relief
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Green Aid Relief is an international NGO with offices in Auatralia, the UK and the USA. The organisation aims to make life better for communities in need by supplying basic items such as school equipment for children, vaccination and other health programmes in developing countries, and sponsoring...
SIDUR and water.org help local family to access clean water and make a profit
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SIDUR is one of several local partners of Water.org doing life-changing work in Tamil Nadu, India. This short documentary shows the impact of Water.org's WaterCredit and hygeine grant work in the urban regions.
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...
Computer for Schools Kenya
Computers for Schools Kenya (CFSK), is a non-profit organization established in October 2002 with the vision of establishing an information-rich Kenyan society actively contributing to sustainable national development. CFSK seeks to empower youths and communities for life in a knowledge-based...
Mercy Corps and Nike promote Sports for Peace and Life in Sudan
Mercy Corps has been working in Sudan using sports as a way of both rebuilding post-civil war communities and educating young people about HIV/AIDS. This effort has been supported and greatly helped by Nike's donation of large amounts of sporting equipment to the project.
Clean cookstove in action
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This video is about a project carried out by Kopernik in the community of Pucung, Indonesia, introducing new clean cookstoves to the villagers.
LUSH lends its support to National Refugee Week 2009
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Shoppers at cosmetics store LUSH have passed on their messages of support onto people seeking asylum and refugees as the high street chain marked national Refugee Week 2009. LUSH, which teamed up with Refugee Action for the second time to mark the annual celebrations, donated bars of LUSH soap. The...
Sanofi-aventis and WHO partner to fight sleeping sickness in Africa
Sanofi-aventis, the largest pharmaceutical company in Europe and the fourth-largest in the world, began a partnership with the World Health Organization (WHO) in 2001 to fight sleeping sickness and other neglected diseases affecting the world’s poorest people.
ECVM donates PVC pipes for waste water project in Pemba, Zanzibar
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ECVM, in partnership with Dutch NGO Agua4All, has donated PVC pipes and technical expertise for a new waste water system on Pemba Island in Zanzibar.
Shanghai Rotary donates wheelchairs to NGOs in China
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In 2006, the Rotary Club of Shanghai partnered with the Rotary Club of Burlingame to provide new wheelchairs to needy people in and around Shanghai.
Fairtrade goes luxury with Traidcraft
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Through working with Traidcraft, the UK’s leading fair trade organisation, Glisten Confectionery has recently begun supplying products for the Traidcraft confectionery range.
Vitmark includes the poor in its value chain.
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Vitmark, a leading beverages producer in Ukraine, includes the poor at various points of its value chain: as suppliers of locally grown quality produce, as employees, and as low-income consumers through the offering of low-price juices.
Reuters Market Light: Creating Efficient Markets
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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...
Pot-in-pot Enterprise: Fridge for the Poor
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In 2000, Mohammed Bah Abba was awarded the Rolex Award for Enterprise for his innovative Pot-in-Pot system to provide affordable, electricity free, refrigeration in arid Nigeria.
DHL airlifts humanitarian supplies to China's earthquake victims
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DHL, the world's leading express and logistics company continued its relief activities by leveraging on its core competency in logistics to ship 15 tons of relief supplies from Hong Kong to Chengdu City, Sichuan, China on 1 June 2008 for two aid agencies – the Hong Kong Red Cross and the Crossroads...
TOMS Shoes: One for One Movement
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TOMS Shoes is a for-profit business with a philanthropic component. TOMS Shoes was founded on a simple premise: With every pair purchased, TOMS will give a pair of new shoes to a child in need.
Fair Trade Sports teams up with Project Hope Worldwide
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Fair Trade Sports Inc, a company that manufactures sports equipment in the US, has teamed up with Project Hope Worldwide.
Indian NGO fights corruption with Zero rupee note
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5th Pillar, an Indian NGO, came up with the idea of printing a zero rupee currency note as a tool to help Indians achieve the goal of zero corruption. The note is a way for people to say NO to corruption without the fear of facing an encounter with persons in authority.