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Volunteering for Impact: Best Practices in International Corporate Volunteering
This paper produced for Pfizer and the Brookings Institute seeks to explore and understand the lessons learned among major corporations whose employees have engaged in international volunteering. While multiple studies have been published on domestic corporate volunteering activities, only a few...
Dare to Lead: public health and company wealth
This is the first in a series of briefing papers analysing the human development impact of transnational corporations (TNCs). The series aims to examine the links between trade and poverty eradication and to illustrate the challenges facing industry as a whole in contributing more systematically to...
CAMO(Central American Medical Outreach)
Central American Medical Outreach, Inc. (CAMO) is a humanitarian-aid organization established in 1993 to bring medical aid to Honduras. CAMO volunteers treat more than 143,000 cases annually, and run 16 aid programmes in Honduras and surrounding countries. The organisation also sends 5 containers...
Accelerating Progress towards the MDGs; Delivering Results: Moving towards Scale
Accelerating Progress towards the MDGS and Delivering Results: Moving towards Scale is a report on an inclusive business dialogue held on September 21st 2010 during the UN Summit on the MDGs.
Re:Motion Designs
Re:Motion Designs is a company that designs high-performance, low-cost prosthetic components for developing world amputees. Its initial product, the JaipurKnee, is a polymer-based polycentric knee joint that can be manufactured for a cost less than USD 20, and has been featured by Time Magazine,...
Remedy
REMEDY (Recovered Medical Equipment for the Developing World), is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to actively promoting the recovery of unused medical supplies for the purpose of global aid, waste reduction, and cost-effectiveness. REMEDY aims to serve as a model and a catalyst through...
Loupes Around The World
Loupes Around The World is an American NGO that provides loupes (magnifying glasses on an eyeglass that allow surgeons to see small structures with better clarity) to surgeons in developing countries. The organisation has worked with NGOs such as Operation Smile, Interplast, SIGN, and Madaktari to...
Medshare
MedShare is an American non-profit organization dedicated to improving healthcare and the environment through the efficient recovery and redistribution of the surplus of medical supplies and equipment to those most in need. MedShare collects surplus medical supplies and equipment from hospitals,...
Afya Foundation
The Afya Foundation is an NGO based in New York. Established in 2007 by Danielle Butin, MPH, OTR after a trip to Tanzania, the Foundation seeks to spread "Good Health Through Giving," and does so by providing medical supplies, consumables, sustainable equipment, and community outreach supplies to...
Fair Trade Egypt
Fair Trade Egypt (FTE) is s nonprofit organization whose goal is to empower Egyptian artisans through the practice of fair trade. FTE surveys the developing areas of the country, finds local treasures that have been traditionally manufactured for centuries and brings them to consumers. FTE...
Solidarity Bridge
Solidarity Bridge is a Catholic organization established in the USA that provides critical medical care and cooperative support to poor communities in Bolivia. The organisation also trains local Bolivian medical personnel to improve their own practices and thus serve their communities more...