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Heifer Project International (HPI)

Heifer was founded on a simple belief: ending hunger begins with giving people the means to feed themselves. Heifer International combats hunger, alleviates poverty, and restores the environment by providing appropriate livestock, training, and related services to small-scale farmers worldwide....

HaoHao SE

HaoHao SE provides the social enterprises with a online marketplace for them to directly sell their products online or do advertisement. This organization aims at promoting social enterprises to the society and it also provides consulting services for companies to set up social enterprises. ...

Kopernik

Kopernik is an on-line marketplace to bridge the gap between innovators, developing communities and financial supporters in order to distribute life-changing technology effectively to the developing world. The website showcases the latest technologies that the local groups (NGOs) can choose what...

African Centre For Technology Studies

The African Centre for Technology Studies (ACTS) is an international, inter-governmental organisation located in Nairobi, Kenya. Founded in 1988, the Centre's mission is to strengthen the capacity of African countries and institutions by harnessing science and technology for sustainable...

United States Agency for International Development (USAID) - Sierra Leone

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...

CARE - Malawi

CARE Malawi is a country office with unique programming approaches in the following areas: food security, agriculture, education, economic empowerment (especially in women), social protection and emegency response with the funding from donors including EU, USAID, AusAID, DfiD, CARE Canada and CARE...

ActionAid - China

Action Aid - China, a country office of the UK-based ActionAid, conducts policy research and puts forth advocacy work in the areas of natural resource management, rural finance, eco-agriculture, preservation of traditional knowledge, climate changes, and the impacts of trade and globalisation....

World Vision Bolivia

World Vision is a Christian relief and development organisation dedicated to working with children, families and communities in the fight against poverty and for social justice. World Vision has been working in Bolivia since 1983, and currently runs programmes in health care, education,...

Rayland Rural Development Organization

Rayland Rural Development Organization (RARUDO) is a voluntary, not-for-profit, community-based organisation, that was formed to support, unite and promote community development in Iyolwa Sub County of Tororo district in Uganda. RARUDO serves as a mobilising, networking, information and advocacy...

MicroDreams

Microdreams is a charitable organisation registered in the United States and New Zealand. The organisation is focused on helping young microenterprise development organisations (MEDO’s) follow the path to commercial permanence through credit and education. Microdreams aims to empower the world’s...

Dorcas

Dorcas started in September 1999 with ladies who desperately needed to support their own families and had no other income at all. The purpose of Dorcas is to raise up women like Dorcas in the New Testament, who always did good and helped the poor. * It opens up the door for them to do in...

Solar Sister

Solar Sister is a social enterprise that provides women with training and support to create solar micro-businesses, providing household income for the women, and light for their communities. The women form a by-women, to-women distribution network that is strengthened by women’s natural...

Living Goods

Living Goods is an American NGO that operates Avon-like networks of door-to-door health promoters who make a modest income selling essential health products at prices affordable to the poor. The organisation is set up to combine micro-finance and knowledge of public health to prevent disease and...

Five Talents International

Five Talents International is committed to combating poverty in the developing world by equipping the poor with small business training and microfinance programmes. The majority of businesses are in food production and sales, street vendors, brick manufacturing, shoe making, carpentry, auto repair,...

Ya'axché Conservation Trust

Ya’axché Conservation Trust is a community-oriented NGO that advances integrated landscape management in southern Belize. The organisation combines protected areas management with community outreach and sustainable development at the landscape level and engages in strategic evidence-based...

Pamoja Women Development Programme

PAWDEP seeks to empower Kenyan women financially to run viable, competitive, and rewarding enterprises that can compete locally and internatioally, by providing microfinance solutions to women groups running small scale industry and farming. Recognizing the role played by the women in the...

Trickle Up Program

Based in New York City, the Trickle Up Program helps the poorest of the poor (with special focus on women, youth and other disadvantaged groups) take their first step up out of poverty through microfinance. Trickle Up helps them start their own businesses by providing capital and teaching them...

Africa Now

Africa Now assists farmers and small businesses by proving links to bank loans and training in new technologies. Additionally, Africa Now aids producers in expanding distribution into new markets and provides an auditing service for companies that wish to ensure that their business activities are...

Small Enterprise Education and Promotion Network (SEEP)

Small Enterprise Education and Promotion Network (SEEP) is a network of North American organisations operating micro and small enterprise projects in the developing world. SEEP runs three programs to serve members, develop networks and increase learning: Development Services (IDS), Network...

PlaNet Finance

PlaNet Finance is an international non-governmental organisation dedicated to the development of microfinance worldwide. Over the past ten years and thanks to its dynamism and growing international network, PlaNet Finance has been working at providing people with the means to build their own...