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World Bank - West Bank & Gaza
The World Bank is an international financial institution based in Washington DC, USA, that provides loans to developing countries for capital programs. Its official goal is the reduction of poverty. In 1993 the World Bank established the Trust Fund for Gaza and West Bank. Since then the World...
Janashakthi Kantha Sanwardhana Samithiya
Janashakthi Kantha Sanwardhana Samithiya is a Sri Lanka based NGO working to motivate women to be self-reliant and educate fatherless children. Key organisational activities include the establishment of a revolving fund for the use by members, the training of women in self-employment ventures, the...
Triodos Bank
Triodos Bank is one of the world's leading sustainable banks. Triodos connect savers and investors who want to change the world for the better with entrepreneurs and sustainable companies doing just that. We are the only specialist bank to offer integrated lending and investment opportunities in an...
Terror Victims Association
Terror Victims Association is the grass-roots movement spearheading the campaign against terrorism in Israel. The Terror Victims Association was founded in 1986 in response to the release of a thousand terrorists by the Israeli government of the time. Terror Victims Association became a support...
Christ for the City International (CFTI)
Christ for the City International (CFTI) builds projects to aid the urban destitute, including street children, orphans, prostitutes, the homeless, business people and the unemployed. Organisational activities vary between projects, from skills and language training to enterprise development and...
Ashoka
Ashoka's mission is to develop the profession of social entrepreneurship around the world. It does so through stipends and professional services that allow "Ashoka Fellows" to focus full time on their ideas for leading social change in education and youth development, health care, environment,...
Novartis Foundation for Sustainable Development
Novartis Foundation for Sustainable Development is a foundation with objectives for sustainable improvement in quality of life and reduction of poverty and social inequalities in developing countries. They aim to achieve this through the research and spread information on issues of sustainable...
HOMELINK LIFE CENTRE
HOMELINK LIFE CENTRE is non profit non denominational faith based organisation whose:-To integrate sustainable community growth and development by underlying strategies in leakage to community's problems and needs by resource creation, mobilization, utilization and management by getting involved...
USAID Guatemala
With headquarters in Washington DC, USAID serves as an agency of the American government, carrying out U.S. foreign policy by promoting broad-scale human progress. It seeks to expand stable, free societies and create markets and trade partners for the United States. USAID has been active in...
Global Source Net - Azerbaijan
Global SourceNet (GSN) is an international development organization whose aim is to assist vulnerable population segments of Azerbaijan. GSN's projects and programs provide assistance in emerging economies through the implementation and management of development projects and programs. Some of...
About.com - Resource for Finding Non-Profit Jobs
About.com resource page for finding jobs with charitable organisations. The page provides tips for job searching, as well as links to non-profit job listings.
One World Link (OWL)
One World Link (OWL) encourages and sustains friendship between the communities in Bo, Sierra Leone and Warwick District, U.K. OWL aims to raise awareness of global-interdepenence, encourage friendship between the two communities, and to exchange ideas on global issues which after common man. Their...
World Economic Forum Annual Meeting, Davos, Switzerland
The World Economic Forum is an independent non-profit organisation committed to improving the state of the world by engaging leaders from the public and private sectors and from wider civil society in partnerships to shape global, regional and industry agendas. Its annual meeting attracts over...
Eurasia Foundation - Uzbekistan Programme
Eurasia Foundation - Uzbekistan Programme, operated out of the Kazakhstan office of the Eurasia Foundation (EF), assists selected of local partners in the improvement of the education system. EF does not currently operate in Uzbekistan. From 1994 to 2006, EF maintained an office in Tashkent, where...
Help Without Frontiers/ Helfen ohne Grenzen/ Aiutare senza Confini
Help Without Frontiers' primary objective is to alleviate the suffering of the Burmese refugees who have had to flee into Thailand. The organisation does this through the provision of volunteers, funds, and goods to clinics, orphanages, and schools on the Thai-Burma border as well as teacher...
ASSIST
ASSIST is an Indian NGO that helps create and support village-level decision making bodies for the empowerment of the poor. It works in the villages of Prakasam and Guntur Districts of Andhra Pradesh in South India.
YWAM Cook Islands
Youth With A Mission (YWAM), founded in 1960, is an international interdenominational Christian organisation, operating in more than 900 locations in over 140 countries, with a staff of over 11,000. YWAM aims to spread the love of God through helping with the practical and physical needs of people...
Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) - Uzbekistan
Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) – Uzbekistan deploys technical, financial and humanitarian cooperation instruments in the five main thematic domains of health care reform, water management and disaster risk reduction, basic infrastructure, private sector development, and public...
Just how inclusive is ‘inclusive business’?
The growing effort to make markets work for the poor has seen the emergence of several initiatives and practices that claim to be more inclusive of smallholders and poor workers. But how far such initiatives genuinely reduce poverty and empower small-scale producers remains open for debate.
Inclusive Business: Creating Value in Latin America
The Alliance for Inclusive Business is a joint effort of the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) and SNV Netherlands Development Organization and has recently launched a report highlighting its joint work in Latin America over the past 4 years.