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Kenya Education Fund
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The Kenya Education Fund is a New York-based nonprofit organisation that provides educational scholarships to 500 high school and university students across Kenya. Each KEF-sponsored scholar receives 4 years coverage for high school tuition, room and board at a boarding school, school supplies,...
Papine Development Area Committee
The Papine Development Area Committee (PDAC) is an NGO in Jamaica with the responsibility to oversee development in the Papine area and to make recommendations to the relevant authorities.
Bicycles for Humanity
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Bicycles for Humanity (B4H) is a global grassroots movement that collects used bicycles and ships them to developing countries. The movement is organised into chapters in different countries ,each of which collects and ships bikes.
Christian Development Foundation
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The Christian Development Foundation is a faith-based community development organization based in Guyana. The organisation runs projects in a number of countries in South America, targeting people and communities in need. The organisation also assists organisations to develop business plans. ...
Vision of Community Fellowship (VOCF)
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Vision of Community Fellowship (VOCF) is an American NGO that describes itself as a movement of new people, new leaders, and new communities. Services provided by the organisation include training, mentoring, and linking donors with grass-roots projects.
Resound Orlando, Inc.
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Resound Orlando, Inc. is a community resource centre in Florida, USA, that provides job placements; English classes; feeding programmes; parenting resources and classes; an adoption programmel; and counselling (premarital, couple, individual, drugs, and other addictions). Resound Orlando is also...
Oroko Cultural Association
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The Oroko Cultural Association is an NGO established to meet the needs of the Oroko people both in Cameroon and in the diaspora. The Association provides assistance to Oroko people motivating them to reach their full potential and fight poverty. The Association promotes education and economic...
The "Cocoa Plan" between Nestlé and cocoa farmers
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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...
Kironde Health and Education Fund
The Kironde Health and Education Fund is an American NGO that supports organisations working with children and families. Currently, the Fund is supporting 86 families in Uganda that take in and nurture orphaned and vulnerable children. Support is mainly in the area of health and access to...
Trevecca Nazarene University
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Trevecca Nazarene University is a private university in Nashville, Tennessee, affiliated with the Church of the Nazarene. The University has approximately 2500 students, over half of whom are in graduate degree programmes.
Educational Social Cultural Organization ( ESCO)
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The Educational Social Cultural Organization (ESCO) is a US based NGO dedicated to providing relief and charitable assistance to alleviate poverty in India. The organisation strives to bring hope to the poor through education and socio-economic development. ESCO has set up a health centre and...
Umoja Operation Compassion Society
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Umoja Compassion Society of British Columbia is a Canadian NGO established to work with low income immigrants living in the lower mainland of British Columbia. The society seeks to promote unity, respect and dignity among minority immigrants and refugees. Umoja provides a variety of culturally...
Got Books Inc
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Got Books, Inc is an American NGO that collects books from individuals at their home or office and from donation containers. In addition, Got Books donation containers are used by non-profit groups as a free fundraising programme. Got Books aims to find new uses for used books and is dedicated to...
Ganesh Himal Trading
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Ganesh Himal Trading has been supplying shops and retail customers in North America with high quality, handcrafted clothing, jewelry, textiles, and paper since 1984. The company imports directly from small cottage industries in Nepal, including development projects working to improve the lives of...
Kazuri 2000 Limited
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The mission of Kazuri is to provide and sustain employment opportunities to the disadvantaged members of the Kenyan society. Kazuri began in 1975 as a tiny workshop experimenting with making handmade beads. It started with two Kenyan women and soon discovered that there were many other women in...
The China-U.S. Center for Sustainable Development
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The China-U.S. Center for Sustainable Development is an international public-private partnership focused on achieving results to accelerate sustainable development in China, the United States and throughout the world. The organisation aims to create sustainable enterprises – inspired by cradle to...
Bundu Designs
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Bundu Designs is a social venture and online marketplace that is transforming the awareness and consumption of contemporary African design products with a core philosophy of ethical, sustainable and fairly traded products. They currently work in collaboration with over 25 largely women's community...
ReSurge International
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Provides free reconstructive plastic surgery for needy children and adults in developing countries, and health-care and medical training in developing contexts. By empowering local doctors, ReSurge increases access to surgical care and by restoring lives through surgery, ReSurge helps reduce...
Médecins du Monde (MDM) - Canada
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Médecins du Monde (MDM) Canada was incorporated in 1996 in Montreal and is a part of Médecins du Monde, an international medical humanitarian organisation based in France. MDM Canada works at fighting HIV/AIDS, responds to humanitarian crises, aims to reduce mother-to-child HIV transmission and...
Shelter For Life International
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Shelter For Life (SFL) is an international Christian relief and development organisation assisting poor and suffering people affected by conflict or disaster to rebuild and improve their lives and communities. Since 2000, SFL has impacted more than one million people through shelter programmes,...