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Trade, Aid or Traid? Getting it right with the private sector - May, 2008

We are regularly being asked to broaden Global Hand's services. While retaining our traditional 'matching' activity, many have enquired if Global Hand can support the wider engagement between for-profit and non-profit entities in today's landscape of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and...

Rainforest Action Network

Rainforest Action Network campaigns for the forests, their inhabitants and the natural systems that sustain life by transforming the global marketplace through education, grassroots organizing and non-violent direct action. RAN uses hard-hitting markets campaigns to align the policies of...

Project HOPE (Health Opportunities for People Everywhere) - Tajikistan

Project HOPE's mission is to achieve sustainable advances in health care around the world. The essence of Project HOPE is teaching - the basis is partnership. Identifiable to many by the S.S. HOPE, the peacetime hospital ship, Project HOPE now conducts land-based medical training and health care...

Malindi Handcraft Co-operative Society

The Malindi Handcraft Co-operative Society was registered in 1986 under the Kenya Co-operative Act with a beginning membership of 30 highly skilled woodcarver artisans. The primary aim of the formation of the co-operative was to give the power of business ownership back to the people, in this case...

Associação Aliança Brasileira pela Doação de Órgãos e Tecidos (ADOTE)

Associação Aliança Brasileira pela Doação de Órgãos e Tecidos (ADOTE), the Brazilian Alliance for Organ and Tissue Donation, works to raise people's awareness about the importance of donating organs and tissues for transplants. ADOTE also develops and disseminates technical and scientific knowledge...

Esquel Foundation (EGF)

The Esquel Foundation (EGF) is a non-profit, private foundation and a member of the Grupo Esquel network. EGF promotes policies and programs for social equity and sustainable development with special emphasis in the strengthening of civil society primarily in Latin America.

United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) - East Timor

The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in East Timor focuses on areas including promoting democratic governance, poverty reduction, and energy and environment. The East Timor Country Office continues its work on rebuilding the country’s infrastructure, assisting in the establishment of...

United States Agency for International Development (USAID) - Liberia

USAID is an independent agency that supports long-term economic and social development through policy dialogue, conflict prevention, technology transfer in sectors such as health, agriculture, education and housing, and promotion of trade and investment. U.S. assistance is channelled through...

United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) - Mali

Since 2002, United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in Mali has assisted the government with economic development, poverty reduction and environment protection. UNDP's activities include the delivery of small-scale irrigation systems, non-sectoral capital funding and micro-finance.

Ecologia

ECOLOGIA is a non-profit organization providing information, training, and technical support for grassroots environmental groups. ECOLOGIA’s programs bring international perspectives and resources to local sustainable development projects, and bring locally based ‘on the ground’ experience back to...

Global Village of Beijing Environmental Education Center

Global Village of Beijing Environmental Education Center(GVB) is a non-profit non-governmental organization working on issues regarding sustainable development in the People's Republic of China mainly through environmental education in the form of production and distribution of multimedia...

United States Agency for International Development (USAID) / Mozambique

United States Agency for International Development (USAID) / Mozambique supports programmes which improve the health of women and children, strengthen democracy and municipal governance, raise rural incomes, and increase imports.

AdeNU-CCD (Ateneo de Naga University - Center for Community Development)

CCD works towards dispelling poverty in the Philippines. CCD is involved in a number of activities including advocacy, education, capability building and research. As a university, the Ateneo de Naga seeks the integral formation of men and women who will contribute to the total development of...

Rwanda Hope Society

Rwanda Hope Society is committed to empowering grass-roots community projects through education, sustainable development and global partnerships for poverty alleviation.

ProPoor

Propoor is committed to the dissemination of information and promotion of sustainable development initiatives, in response to the needs of under represented and marginalised sectors of society in South Asia. It provides information on NGO's, funding agencies, events, projects, job opportunities and...

Mango

Mango is a UK based charity that provides financial management services (recruitment, training, financial software, networking, and consultancy) to relief and development operations. Mango aims to encourage and strengthen the financial management of NGO's.

United States Agency for International Development (USAID) - Kyrgyzstan

USAID is an independent agency that supports long-term economic and social development through policy dialogue, conflict prevention, technology transfer in sectors such as health, agriculture, education and housing, and promotion of trade and investment. U.S. assistance is channelled through...

Rockefeller Brothers Fund

The Rockefeller Brothers Fund advances social change that contributes to a more just, sustainable, and peaceful world. The RBF's grantmaking is organized around three themes: Democratic Practice, Peacebuilding, and Sustainable Development.

Cooperative Coffees

Cooperative Coffees is a green coffee importing cooperative comprised of 23 community-based coffee roasters in the USA and Canada, who are committed to building and supporting fair and sustainable trade relationships for the benefit of farmers and their exporting cooperatives, families, and...

CSRwire

CSRwire is a global source of corporate social responsibility (CSR) and sustainability news. Founded in 1999 to advance the movement towards a more economically-just and environmentally-sustainable society and away from single bottom line capitalism, CSRwire has paved the way for new standards of...