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Chaka MarketBridge

Chaka MarketBridge is an American company that exists to provide customers with access to high-quality and stylish, handmade products; to provide undiscovered, impoverished artisans with the global market they need to grow and succeed; and to connect artisans and customers in both fair trade and...

Business Figths Poverty

An online platform facilitating a global community of professionals fighting poverty through business. This network supports enterprise development in developing nations by the pooling of aid and development expertise and resources.

IFC

IFC (International Finance Corporation), a member of the World Bank Group, is the largest global development institution focused on the private sector in developing countries. IFC creates opportunities for people to escape poverty and improve their lives by providing financing to help businesses...

DCED ( Donor Committee for Enterprise Development)

The Donor Committee for Enterprise Development (DCED) is a forum where donors, foundations and UN agencies share their practical experience of private sector development (PSD), and identify both good practice and promising new innovations.

Japan Inclusive Business Support Centre

The Japan Ministry of Economy, Trade, and Industry (METI) established the Japan Inclusive Business Support Centre in order to provide comprehensive support for inclusive business. The Centre helps to promote inclusive business among Japanese companies and conducts a wide range of activities for its...

BOP Source

BOP Source is a consumer research company specializing in the "base of the pyramid," or those who earn less than $2 per day.

Inclusive Business Activist

Inclusive Business Activist is a South African platform for like-minded entrepreneurs to network and engage on aspects of common business interest to grow organically and in the process add value and give back to communities and the poor. The organisation aims to contribute to the achievement of...

Action First For Progress (AFFP)

Action First for Progress (AFFP)is a Kenyan NGO whose main objective is poverty alleviation in rural and semi-arid areas where small business owners are in urgent need of help to expand their businesses. The organisation aims to educate such people in business techniques to help them develop...

United Nations Industrial Development Organisations (UNIDO)

UNIDO is the specialized agency of the United Nations that promotes industrial development for poverty reduction, inclusive globalization and environmental sustainability. UNIDO recognizes the MDGs as the overarching framework for collective action and believes that a competitive and...

Fanm pou Fanm (Women for Women)

Fanm pou Fanm (Women for Women) is a small organisation helping 35 women displaced by the 2010 earthquake in Port-au-Prince Haiti to set up their own small businesses. Currently the organisation is working on a crocheting and sewing project for which sewing machines are needed.

Rural Energy Trust CIG (RETcig)

The Rural Energy Trust CIG (RETcig) is a new NGO in Cameroon. The organisation aims to bring affordable renewable solar energy products to off-grid rural households and assist them to obtain consumer loans from local and international microfinance institutions. RETcig in partnership with its...

The Body Shop Foundation

In 2009, the Body Shop launched a 3-year strategic campaign in partnership with End Child Prostitution, Child Pornography and Trafficking of Children for Sexual Purposes (ECPAT). This was the first campaign of its kind between a major cosmetics company and an international network of local NGOs to...

Uganda Down's Syndrome Association (UDSA)

The Uganda Down's Syndrome Association is an NGO that identifies, cares for and serves people born with Down's Syndrome and their families. The Association aims to provide a common voice for people with learning disabilities and other impairments, promoting their rights and opportunities.

Literacy Aid Uganda

Literacy Aid Uganda is a Ugandan NGO established to help women learn to read and write. The organisation works in the central district of Uganda and its main beneficaries have been women who form 92% of the clients. The organisation offers basic adult education and advocates for the education of...

The Ladybug Project Inc.

The Ladybug Project is an American NGO that undertakes innovative education and healthcare social entrepreneurship in Equatorial Guinea and Madagascar. The organisation sends goods (e.g., desks, school supplies) to support the projects it sponsors.

Allied Initiatives for Community Development

The Allied Initiative for Community Development (AIICD) is an indigenous Ugandan NGO that works with marginalized communities and young people in Uganda to improve their quality of life through support for human rights and the rule of law. promotion of access to basic healthcare services and...

Foreign Investment Promotion Council

The Foreign Investment Promotion Council is a mandated Regional Investment Promotion Agency promoting ‘investments’, with support from the Government of India. FIPC spearheads the efforts of NE India to attract inward investments by adopting INVEST_NER_2020. and offers support-oriented...

Berigold Group of Fashion

Berigold Group of Fashion is a new small scale fashion enterprise in South Africa. The organisation aims to teach fashion skills to unskilled and unemployed young school leavers from rural areas where poverty and crime is on the increase. Skills to be taught include shoe making, garment...

Awana Wasinchis

Awana Wasinchis is an organization that promotes fair trade in native communities in Peru and helps to gain fair prices for producers.

Global Welfare Association (GLOWA)

Global Welfare Organization (GLOWA) is a Cameroonian NGO that is dedicated to upholding the rights of children through education and training. GLOWA is active in combatting child trafficking and the damage it does in communities throughout the Northwest Region using varied approaches that range...