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VisionSpring creates a new method of distributing reading glasses in India and other developing countries
This video introduces VisionSpring, a project jointly implemented by the SCOJO Foundation, Goldman Sachs, and various other groups in the private sector.
Apne Aap Women Worldwide (Apne Aap)
Apne Aap Women Worldwide (Apne Aap) is a non-governmental organization which was founded in 2002 by twenty-two women from Mumbai’s red light district with a vision of a world where no woman can be bought or sold. Apne Aap's mission is to increase choices for at-risk girls and women in order to...
Freeset
Freeset is a fair trade business that offers employment to women trapped in Kolkota's sex trade. It makes quality jute bags and organic cotton t-shirts, but Freeset's business is freedom. The objective of Freeset is to see the 10,000 sex workers in its neighborhood empowered with the choice of...
Lex Mundi Legal Services allows social entrepreneurs to use their top-class legal expertise pro bono
David Roll, a lawyer based in Washington DC, is Managing Director of Lex Mundi Pro Bono Foundation, a network of 160 law firms (with 20,000 lawyers) offering pro bono legal services to social entrepreneurs all over the world.
Edison International contributes to Asian Tsunami disaster relief
It is not often that the world’s collective sense of solidarity and compassion is captured by a single event. The earthquake-spawned tsunami that ravaged so many countries in southern Asia and eastern Africa in December 2004 was one such event. Proving once again how committed they are to making a...
SELCO partners with India's state banks to bring sunlight to rural India
SELCO India is a Bangalore‐based social enterprise that makes solar lighting technology accessible to the economically impoverished people in India. SELCO’s mission is based on a simple but powerful idea that the economic conditions of the impoverished can be improved substantially if they are made...
11 Indian law firms ponder ‘long overdue’ pro bono start with new UK tech NGO
Eleven law firms, including six of India’s largest, Ashoka and the UK’s former attorney general Lord Peter Goldsmith QC have discussed how to develop a pro bono culture in Indian law firms as i-Probono, a UK not-for-profit and online portal seeking to connect lawyers to social sector projects, will...
India Financial Inclusion Fund raises $90M kitty
The India Financial Inclusion Fund (IFIF), an equity fund that invests in companies that provide financial services to low-income clients, has, after its final closing, raised USD 90 million worth of capital in the last fifteen months. The fund will be used to invest in microfinance institutions...
Adidas is to make €1 trainers for millions of people around the world who cannot afford to buy shoes
Reebok International is working to develop a "sustainable business model" as part of its German parent Adidas AG's plans to sell "one dollar shoes" in India. After conducting a pilot test for 5,000 pairs of shoes of an existing design of Reebok in three villages in Bangladesh last year, the firm...
HAQ: Centre For Child Rights
HAQ: Centre For Child Rights is a non-governmental organization which works towards the recognition, promotion and protection of rights of all children. It aims to look at the child in an integrated manner within the framework of the Constitution of India, and the UN Convention of the Rights of the...
GoodWeave
GoodWeave works to end child labour in the carpet industry and to offer educational opportunities to children in Nepal, India and Afghanistan. The handmade carpet industry exploits nearly 250,000 children. GoodWeave is helping to combat this problem and transform the rug industry by certifying...
Beluah London
Beulah London is a luxury fashion company, founded in 2011 by English aristocrat Lady Natasha Rufus Isaacs and fashion designer Lavinia Brennan, that dedicates itself to social justice in its employment of Indian human trafficking victims to manufacture their clothing and accessories. The...
Carlson
Carlson (previously named Carlson Companies) is one of the largest family-run and privately-held corporations in the United States with business in the hotel, restaurant, and travel industries. Headquartered in Minnetonka, Minnesota, near Minneapolis, Carlson brands and services, including...
Suri Natun Juger Pratyasha
Suri Natun Juger Pratyasha is an NGO in West Bengal. The organisation undertakes socio-economic development programmes in rural Bengal for the welfare of marginalized communities, in particular, women for whom it provides confidence building programmes, vocational training and income generating...
International Monetary Fund (IMF) - India
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is an organisation established to promote international monetary cooperation, exchange stability and economic growth. India joined the IMF in 1945. IMF credit has helped India respond to emerging balance of payments problems. IMF has provided India with...
CHIC (Creating High Impact Concepts)
CHIC (Creating High Impact Concepts) is a management consultancy group in India that offers support on fundraising skills and strategies, and networks with corporates,individuals and celebrities in India through events coaching and outsourcing services. The group has operated for more than 16 years...
Gramin Mahila Vikas Sansthan
Gramin Mahila Vikas Sansthan (GMVS) is an Indian NGO that works largely with local communities on initiatives linked to their social empowerment and livelihood support. Current projects include: promotion of self help groups, microfinance, agricultural projects, education projects, a national...
Action of Human Movement (AHM)
Action of Human Movement (AHM) is an Indian NGO that works for deprived sections of rural youths, women, children and very poor communities in Tamil Nadu. AHM provides health awareness, human rights training and community development projects.
Royal Climate Care
Royal Climate Care is an Indian company that provides services relating to energy, the environment, climate change, carbon markets and sustainable development.
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...