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Private Sector Supply-Chains Incorporating Social Enterprises
Some big businesses are currently active in the social business and enterprise sector using their skills to help entrepreneurs improve their business skills.
TNT works with the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) to fight world hunger
TNT’s groundbreaking partnership with the United Nations’ World Food Programme (WFP) began in 2002 and adopted the title of ‘Moving the World’ – a very apt description given that TNT committed knowledge, skills and resources to helping finance the work of the WFP and also to the physical delivery...
Pfizer's Global Health Fellows Programme - an established and comprehensive cross-border service initiative
Pfizer’s Global Health Fellows Program (GHF) is an international corporate volunteer program that places Pfizer colleagues in three to six month assignments with international development organizations designed to address global health issues and improve care for underserved populations.
Small Croatian enterprise becomes organic food production champion
“Eco Farm Mavrović” Ltd. is a small enterprise settled in one of most war affected areas in Croatia that started with a clear vision to change public perception of health through organic food production and consumption. Eco Farm Mavrović is an organic grain and animal farm.
Čistoća: the First System of Selective Waste Disposal in Montenegro
In order to maintain their town’s popularity as a tourist destination, the municipal officials of Herceg Novi realized that they needed to preserve natural resources by reducing waste and promoting recycling. As a result, the municipality decided to re-organize Čistoća, the public waste management...
DFID plans to support development in fragile states
The UK's Department for International Development (DFID) has announced plans to support development in a number of fragile and unstable states, including Afghanistan, Somalia and the Congo. These plans support the Millennium Development Goals.
L'Occitane Foundation funds cataract operations in Burkina Faso
The L'Occitane Foundation, established by L'Occitane, a French company that makes beauty and healthcare products, has donated 75,000 fCFA. for 5 years to help pay for cataract operations in Burkina Faso, where it is estimated that 65% of blindness is caused by cataracts. The project has been...
L'Occitane Foundation offers support to visually impaired children
The L’OCCITANE Foundation has lent its support to Helen Keller International’s ChildSight program, helping improve the eyesight and academic potential of economically disadvantaged children in the U.S.
The L'Occitane Foundation helps to fund an eye care centre in Bangladesh
ORBIS, an international NGO fighting against avoidable blindness in developing countries, is working with the L'Occitane Foundation to establish an opthalmology unit in Bangladesh. The unit will be established in an urban hospital and will have three satellite centres which will provide eye...
KPMG, partnering with the Refugee Council, helps refugees through its mentoring programme
Since 2005, KPMG has partnered with the Refugee Council UK to help refugees with experience working in the finance industry in their countries of origin overcome barriers to employment in the UK. It does this through a mentorship program which partners KPMG volunteers with refugees to guide them...
Cheval Dire and Sanofi Aventis cooperate in a new form of therapy for disabled children
Since 2005, Sanofi S.A., a French multinational pharmaceutical company based in Paris, has provided donations of funding and equipment to Cheval Dire, a French NGO working in children's health and the rehabilitation of mistreated animals.
Ticket CESU helps integrate disabled people in the work place
Since 1992, Ticket CESU, a range of services for employees developed and provided by the Edenred Group, paid for in full or in part by participating employers, has offered a specific programme for people with disabilities. The programme helps to integrate people with disabilities into the companies...
Lilial and Disability Dreams and Freedom cooperate to send aid to Morocco
The French NGO Handicap, Rêve, et Liberté (Disability, Dreams and Freedom) has been assisting people with disabilities in Morocco since 2005, by sending equipment for the use of people with disabilities, setting up workshops to repair the equipment, and by training health workers and people with...
Dutch development bank FMO funds E+Co clean energy development
FMO, the entrepreneurial development bank of the Netherlands, has created a clean energy investment facility to be managed by E+Co.
Starbucks™ Shared Planet™ commitment to ethical sourcing
The Fairtrade Foundation UK and Fairtrade Mark Ireland are members of Fairtrade Labelling Organisations International (FLO) which joins Conservation International (CI) and the African Wildlife Foundation (AWF) as partners in the Starbucks™ Shared Planet™ commitment to ethical sourcing.
Fairtrade Cadbury Dairy Milk goes global as Canada, Australia and New Zealand take Fairtrade further into mainstream
Cadbury extended its commitment to Fairtrade by confirming that three more markets had recieved Fairtrade certification for the flagship Cadbury Dairy Milk brand in 2010. This move in Canada, Australia and New Zealand brought the independent Fairtrade Mark into millions more homes in five of...
UK first as Cadbury Dairy Milk takes Fairtrade further into mainstream
Cadbury Dairy Milk launched its new Fairtrade-certified chocolate bars, becoming the first mass market chocolate to gain certification from the Fairtrade Foundation.
Tree Of Hope Children's Charity
The Tree of Hope offers hope to the families of sick and disabled UK children who need specialist surgery or additional medical treatment and therapy, in order to save their lives, and to give a better quality of life, and to help free them from suffering, by funding the treatment required.
Scottish Women's Aid
Scottish Women's Aid is one of the lead organisation in Scotland working towards the prevention of domestic abuse. We play a vital role campaigning and lobbying for effective responses to domestic abuse. An important aspect of our work is ensuring that women and children with experience of...
Earthquake alert service has potential for future disaster preparedness
The World Agency for Planetary Monitoring and Earthquake Risk Reduction (WAPMERR) together with Swiss Seismological Service has developed an earthquake alert service available to interested agencies and individuals.