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Child Safe International
Child Safe Network is an international network which consists of local and international people, businesses and groups that protect children from abuse and prevent them from being placed in abusive situations, exploitation and trafficking. Child Safe was created and is managed by...
Safe Horizon (Anti-Trafficking Program)
Safe Horizon is the largest victims’ services agency in the United States, with 57 locations serving more than 250,000 children, adults, and families affected by crime (domestic violence, rape, sexual assault), abuse (child abuse etc.) and human trafficking throughout New York City each year. ...
The Home Foundation: Abolition International
The Home Foundation: Abolition International is an international organization, founded by Gospel singer Nathalie Grant in 2005. It has subscribed itself to the eradication of sex trafficking and the exploitation of women and children by promoting the use of accreditations, advocacy, education,...
Human Trafficking Awareness Partnerships (HTAP)
Human Trafficking Awareness Partnerships is a non-profit 501(c)3 tax-exempt organization, incorporated in the state of Florida, to help communities start public awareness movements, to bring these communities together, and to support and encourage primary research. Human Trafficking Awareness...
The Emancipation Network (TEN)
The Emancipation Network is an international organization, founded by Sarah Symons and John Berger in 2005, dedicated to fighting human trafficking and modern slavery. It helps survivors of slavery rebuild their lives after rescue from slavery, through economic empowerment, education and help...
Sarkission Mason
Sarkissian Mason is a digital innovation agency which believes in the power of enganging ideas with technology. At the beginning of 2012, Sarkissian Mason offered a $100,000 grant to a nonprofit working in the anti-trafficking space. The founder and chief executive decided to combine the...
COLORS
COLORS is a social business that provides impoverished people across the world an opportunity to provide for themselves by teaching them creative skills, and also by providing an outlet to sell their hand-made goods. COLORS’ specific goal is to bring social injustices like human trafficking to...
Radiant Cosmetics
Radiant Cosmetic is a social enterprise whose mission is to garner awareness for human trafficking by raising funds through cosmetics, to provide resources for those on the forefront of change as well as victims of trafficking. Considering that the cosmetics industry generates $170 billion...
Bank of America supports Habitat for Humanity in Dallas
A 30-second video describing how Bank of America works in partnership with Habitat for Humanity in Dallas.
Starbucks and Earthwatch: sustainable coffee
This video introduces a unique field-research programme created by Starbucks and Earthwatch.
The WWF Allianz Southeast Climate Witness Program used student volunteers to conduct vulnerability research
The WWF Allianz Southeast Climate Witness Program selected 24 high school students to engage in vulnerability research on the Southeast Rivers and Streams Ecoregion.
Starbucks and Fair Trade NGOs partner
Starbucks, TransFair USA and Fairtrade Labelling Organizations International join in support of small-scale coffee farmers through a $20 million loan program.
Tate & Lyle and Fairtrade sugar farming in Belize
This video shows a number of sugar farmers in Belize speaking about their problems following a recent hurricane and welcoming the announcement by Tate and Lyle that sugar production will, in future, be in accordance with Fair Trade standards.
Lex Mundi Legal Services allows social entrepreneurs to use their top-class legal expertise pro bono
David Roll, a lawyer based in Washington DC, is Managing Director of Lex Mundi Pro Bono Foundation, a network of 160 law firms (with 20,000 lawyers) offering pro bono legal services to social entrepreneurs all over the world.
Air Terminal Gifts and Catholic Community Services provide donations and employment opportunities for refugees
Catholic Community Services (CCS) has, for decades, helped hundreds of refugees start new lives in Utah. Air Terminal Gifts has donated $12,000 to the CCS refugee resettlement program. Both companies work in partnership, employing refugees and trying to recognise and respond to their immediate...
Cemex makes home improvements accessible for the poor in Mexican slums
Construmex is one of CEMEX's vanguard social initiatives. It was launched following the company's experience resulting from Patrimonio Hoy, a preceding low-income market and socially minded business initiative. Since its inception in 2001, Construmex has helped more than 14,000 Mexican migrants in...
Dupont helps to develop a Framework for Responsible Nanotechnology
Gwen Ruta, the Environmental Defense Fund's Director of Corporate Partnerships, speaks about the Nano Risk Framework published by the Fund in partnership with Dupont.
Developing hybrid diesel-electric delivery trucks
This video shows how the American Environmental Defense Fund and FedEx Express collaborated in a project to develop hybrid diesel-electric technology in an attempt to decrease pollution and increase fuel efficiency.
Western Union and MercyCorps
Mercy Corps CEO Neal Keny-Guyer and Senior Vice President Paul Dudley Hart discuss their organisation's partnership with Western Union to help individuals and families connect to key economic opportunities.
American Autism Association
The American Autism Association’s is an NGO whose aim is to increase awareness of the many and varied difficulties individuals with an Autism Spectrum Disorder face as children and adults. The organisation exists to help low income families struggling with autism to reach their potential and live...