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Opportunity International (OI)

Opportunity International (OI) is an international non-profit organisation, using micro-enterprise development and providing small business loans. Opportunity is committed to solving the root cause of poverty instead of merely treating its symptoms; through providing micro-credit and basic training...

Kiva

Kiva connects donors to individual entrepreneurs or groups in the developing world, through the provision of micro-loans. Micro-credit empowers clients to lift themselves out of poverty through developing responsible business patterns and training. Kiva partners with existing micro-finance...

Action Medical Pvt. Ltd.

Action Medical are manufacturers of ophthalmic products, including lenses and surgical instruments, which are used to treat eye conditions such as cataracts and prevent further sight deterioration and blindness. They provide products for non-profit organisations at low prices and keep profit...

Inclusive Business Activist

Inclusive Business Activist is a South African platform for like-minded entrepreneurs to network and engage on aspects of common business interest to grow organically and in the process add value and give back to communities and the poor. The organisation aims to contribute to the achievement of...

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.

Japan Inclusive Business Support Centre

The Japan Ministry of Economy, Trade, and Industry (METI) established the Japan Inclusive Business Support Centre in order to provide comprehensive support for inclusive business. The Centre helps to promote inclusive business among Japanese companies and conducts a wide range of activities for its...

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.

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...

Swedish Cooperative Centre

The Swedish Cooperative Centre is a development organisation founded by the Swedish Cooperative movement in 1958. Through long-term development work and “help to self-help” the organisation equips poor people with the tools needed to fight poverty themselves. Through advocacy work the Centre...

CRUPDA

The CRUPDA (The Coastal Rural and Urban Poor Development Association) is an NGO based the coastal belt area of Bengal. CRUPDA undertakes a range of development activities supported by national and international donors. Among its activities are the provision of employment opportunities for young...

Bright Hope World Australia

Bright Hope World Inc is a small but innovative non profit Incorporated Association based in Tasmania, Australia that supports, partners with and shares resources with Bright Hope World New Zealand. They are independently governed by a volunteer committee of experienced business and professional...

Boston Building Resources

The Reuse Center at Boston Building Resources is a nonprofit organisation. It accepts donations of good-quality used and surplus building materials and sells them at low prices, with extra discounts for low- and moderate-income customers and nonprofit organisations to help repair and care for...

Running Water International

Running Water International (RWI) is an NGO working in Kenya to ensure that the community can access clean and safe water but using an enterprise model for project sustainability. RWI works on water treatment, sanitation and hygiene in rural and peri-urban areas. New projects will include water...

Africa Aid

Africa Aid is committed to engaging nonprofit organisations, corporations and policy makers across the globe in putting an end to extreme poverty in Africa. The Africa Aid model involves the integration of foreign aid projects into American university curriculum, allowing university students and...

GroFin

GroFin is a multi-national financier and advisor to small and medium enterprises in emerging markets. The company offers business finance solutions tailored to suit individual clients and aims to increase the success rate of SMEs by providing them with additional services from an inhouse local...

Aid for Africa

Aid for Africa is a partnership of some 80 charities, all dedicated to solving the complex, inter-related challenges facing Africa. The partnership believes that its members can be more powerful together than on their own in relation to Africa's issues. Among the tasks undertaken by the...

Women's Development Businesses Group (WDB Group)

Three organisations comprise the WDB Group (the WDB Trust, WDB Micro Finance and WDB Investment Holdings). They are interdependent and integrated in working towards the promotion of the economic empowerment and social upliftment of women in South Africa. The WDB Trust’s flagship beneficiary...

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...

Shell Foundation

Shell Foundation focuses upon projects which address long term social and environmental issues in which energy companies have a particular responsibility.