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Nuru Light
Nuru Light is a social enterprise that aims to provide an affordable and clean off-grid lighting system for the world’s poor. The company believes that the Nuru Light is the most affordable and efficient lighting system in the world. Nuru Light was designed to replace kerosene and thus to cut...
Sita Gramoudyog Vikas Sansthan (SGVS)
SGVS (Sita Gramoudyog Vikas Sansthan) is an Indian NGO that is dedicatedly to working on women's empowerment, as well as helping to increase livelihood opportunities and employability of young people. The organization also works on issues relating to health, gender discrimination, education, ...
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...
Caritas Internationalis - Cote-d'Ivoire
Caritas Côte d’Ivoire works through its diocesan and local organizations and with help from national and international non-governmental organizations to support the poor and needy, to contribute to development programs, to advocate for disadvantaged groups and to work for peace and reconciliation. ...
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.
Force for Good
forceforgood.com is a website developed by Tomorrows Company with the support of Heidrick & Struggles. The site is intended to be a meeting place for all those who believe that the key to sustainable business success is to make a contribution to human, economic, social and environmental...
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...
SNV
SNV is an international development NGO established in the Netherlands. SNV has been working in developing countries for over 40 years, and now operates in 36 countries in Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Balkans. SNV’s 900 advisors in the field come from a variety of cultural and technical...
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.
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.
African Relief and Welfare Agency Australia (ARWA Australia)
African Relief & Welfare Agency Australia (ARWA Australia) is an NGO operating from Australia specifically to Africa to contribute to poverty alleviation and assist African communities in need to gain hope and self-sufficiency. ARWA integrates development with aid relief, to relieve...
Bundu Designs
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...
Revival Mission of Uganda
Revival Mission of Uganda is a faith-based NGO. In addition to its faith-based activities, the organisation provides care and support for orphans and vulnerable children (OVC), provides education and encourages participation in sports. The Mission also works on health, gender and community...
Keystone Moldova
Keystone Moldova is an NGO working to create opportunities where people can grow, exercise self-determination, and participate in and contribute as valued members of their society. The Association provides direct services and best-practice training to further the independence of children and...
Project Africa
PROJECT AFRICA was incorporated in Kenya as a non profit NGO in 2008. Today the organization provides supports and services annually to over 1000 women and girls from poor rural and urban settings in Kenya. Its assistance is designed to support individual women and girls to break free from the...
Sustainable Livelihoods International (SLINT)-Uganda
SLINT-Uganda (Sustainable Livelihoods International) is a Ugandan NGO working on poverty alleviation, market-oriented agricultural development and food security, environmental sustainability, capacity development and policy advocacy. SLINT seeks to contribute to the realization of the Millennium...
Robin Hood Foundation - Asia
Robin Hood Asia is dedicated to helping companies create social initiatives that assist the poor while benefiting business. They believe that companies can become change agents for social good by adapting their products, services and business practices to a compelling social stand. Robin Hood...
Article 13
Article 13 helps companies to operate in a manner that produces a positive impact on society - typically in the areas of CSR (corporate & social responsibility), sustainability, governance and social innovation. They offer a range of training, coaching, consultancy and research services. ...
International Youth Council South Sudan Chapter
The South Sudan Chapter of the International Youth Council provides a local perspective and input consistent with the overall mission of the Council. South Sudan Chapter aims to promote sustainable development (social equity, environmental quality, and economic viability) through cross-cultural,...
ChangeMaker Society for Social and Economic Development
The ChangeMaker Society for Social and Economic Development is a Bangladeshi NGO devoted to setting up a framework that will encourage the development of aa pattern-setting system to strengthen and engage the poor in mainstream social and economic development. ChangeMaker's key focus is on...