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Microsoft partners with aid agencies to provide essential technology
In 1999, Microsoft employees from the European offices responded to the Kosovo crisis by creating The Refugee Field Kit - a computer-based method of providing displaced people (most of whom had been stripped of identity papers when fleeing Kosovo) with new official identity cards and an easier...
IKEA and WWF Joint Cotton Projects
IKEA and WWF cooperate on a project in India and Pakistan to develop better cotton farming practices. About 2,000 farmers in Pakistan and 500 in India are being trained in Farmer Field Schools where they learn how to reduce the amount of water and chemicals they use. This has a positive impact on...
IKEA is cooperating with WWF to reduce impact on the climate.
IKEA is cooperating with WWF and implementing several projects globally in an effort to reduce the impact on the climate, the forests, and cotton. IKEA and WWF hope to encourage considerate, efficient, long-term economically sound usage of natural resources with the ultimate goal of ensuring that...
Base of the Pyramid Protocol 2nd Edition (2008)
The most recent version of the BoP Protocol, drawing upon lessons and experiences implementing the BoP Protocol in Nairobi, Kenya as well as in communities in Mumbai, Hyderabad, and Parvathagiri in India.
WWF and IKEA Conservation Partnership
IKEA and WWF began a co-operation in 2002 to jointly promote responsible forestry in priority regions around the world. Together the two organizations have planned and implemented a series of projects in China, Russia, Bulgaria, Romania, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. The projects are important...
HSBC partners with MDMSB, a microfinance institute in India
The Mann Deshi Mahila Sahakari Bank (MDMSB), a microfinance institution (MFI) based in the Indian city of Mhaswad, partnered with HSBC to enhance banking strategies and financial support.
Coca-Cola develop community water partnerships with NGOs
Coca-Cola collaborates with UNDP, USAID, Global Water Challenge, PlayPumps International, CARE, Ocean Conservancy and others to protect watersheds and support initiatives that bring clean water and sanitation to under-served areas.
Grameen Foundation received $150,000 Amex grant
American Express has donated $150,000 to Grameen Foundation. The donation will help impart advanced training and technical assistance on accounting, management information systems, human resources and operations to Grameen's local partners: Activists for Social Alternatives in Tamil Nadu, Cashpor...
Partnership between Allianz and CARE International
Immediately after a devastating tsunami struck the shores of the Indian Ocean in 2004, Allianz gave generous donations to CARE International, a humanitarian organisation working to rebuild lives and livelihoods in the affected coastal regions in India, Indonesia, Somalia, Sri Lanka, and Thailand....
Syngenta and Earthwatch work together on biodiversity conservation
Syngenta and Earthwatch share interests in research on biodiversity conservation in agricultural landscapes. The programme aims to raise awareness and understanding with staff, stakeholders and policy makers on current research and best practice in combining crop productivity and biodiversity...
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.
HOPE Worldwide - India
HOPE Worldwide is a non-profit international faith based charity, founded by the International Churches of Christ headquartered in Philadelphia. HOPE worldwide India is registered as a Public Charitable Trust at New Delhi in 2000. At present they have 12 Centres of HOPE across India, serving the...
Healing Fields Foundation
Healing Fields Foundation is a non-profit organisation with a mission to make healthcare affordable and accessible to people in India. The Foundation supports and advises individuals and organisations involved in the development of the framework of healthcare in India to reduce wastage and optimise...
Harsha Trust
Harsha Trust is a not-for-profit organization that works with the tribal and the poor in remote locations of Orissa, aiming to bring in human development in challenging conditions. Harsha Trust today works with 164 villages covering 5000 households across 4 districts. Their work involves developing...
India Vision Foundation
The India Vision Foundation is a non-governmental voluntary organisation, the primary focus of which is the welfare of prison inmates and their family members. The Foundation operates within jails, for example building inmate skills in business projects, the profit of which is put into inmate...
Micronum Solutions Pvt.Ltd
Micronum Solutions is an Indian company that provides complete web solutions for small and midi businesses including web design, development, web promotion, and mobile applications.
Department for International Development (DFID) - India - New Delhi
The Department for International Development (DFID) India, with its headquarters in New Delhi, is part of the British High Commission family. It implements DFID's largest single overseas programme contributing to poverty eradication. DFID India's focus areas are: supporting partner states in...
Suyam Charitable Trust
Suyam Charitable Trust, established in Chennai, India by social workers and students, runs a number of programmes to help communities and individuals living in poverty to improve their lives, principally through education and awareness raising. The Trust organises AIDS awareness camps where medical...
SWAP Trust
SWAP Trust is devoted to serving the less fortunate in India, especially widows and orphans. Projects include running a school and home for former child laborers, orphans, and boys separated from their families.
Bapuji Rural Enlightenment and Development Society (BREDS)
Bapuji Rural Enlightenment and Development Society works to help dalits and tribal communities. Their mission is to capacitate the communities to become better informed and enlightened of their rights and choices in order to control the environment, resources, and levels of power by...