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International Monetary Fund (IMF) - India
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is an organisation established to promote international monetary cooperation, exchange stability and economic growth. India joined the IMF in 1945. IMF credit has helped India respond to emerging balance of payments problems. IMF has provided India with...
Society for Disabled Women Pakistan
The Society for Disabled Women Pakistan is an NGO that works for and with women with disabilities. The Society aims to raise awareness in the general public of the basic rights of women with disabilities and their right to live independently. The Society's long term aim is to ensure that all girls...
Accor and Plan International work together to change the lives of many children around the world
Accor, hotel and services group, and Plan, have worked together in 16 countries. The aim of the partnership is to promote child sponsorship and project funding to Accor staff, partners and guests. Highlight of achievements to date: * more than 1,100 children are now sponsored throughout the...
Big business with the UNHCR helps refugees
The UNHCR Council of Business Leaders joined forces in 2005 to unlock the potential of more than 30,000 refugees around the world.
CHIC (Creating High Impact Concepts)
CHIC (Creating High Impact Concepts) is a management consultancy group in India that offers support on fundraising skills and strategies, and networks with corporates,individuals and celebrities in India through events coaching and outsourcing services. The group has operated for more than 16 years...
Gramin Mahila Vikas Sansthan
Gramin Mahila Vikas Sansthan (GMVS) is an Indian NGO that works largely with local communities on initiatives linked to their social empowerment and livelihood support. Current projects include: promotion of self help groups, microfinance, agricultural projects, education projects, a national...
Action of Human Movement (AHM)
Action of Human Movement (AHM) is an Indian NGO that works for deprived sections of rural youths, women, children and very poor communities in Tamil Nadu. AHM provides health awareness, human rights training and community development projects.
Royal Climate Care
Royal Climate Care is an Indian company that provides services relating to energy, the environment, climate change, carbon markets and sustainable development.
Reuters Market Light: Creating Efficient Markets
Reuters Market Light (RML), a business incubated by Thomson Reuters, is a pioneering mobile phone-based agri information service provider. The service is designed to provide farmers with personalised timely and actionable agricultural information from pre-sowing to post-harvest stages through SMS...
Vaatsalya Hospitals: Affordable Healthcare in Proximity
Vaatsalya is a for-profit chain of hospitals and clinics which aims to provide quality healthcare to semi-urban and rural areas and was started by doctors-turned-entrepreneurs Ashwin Naik and Veerendra Hiremath in 2005.
Allianz, UNDP and GTZ partner for a three-country study on Micro-insurance
In 2006, the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) approached Allianz to work together on a market potential study to analyse the demand, acceptability and affordability of microinsurance products.
DHL airlifts humanitarian supplies to China's earthquake victims
DHL, the world's leading express and logistics company continued its relief activities by leveraging on its core competency in logistics to ship 15 tons of relief supplies from Hong Kong to Chengdu City, Sichuan, China on 1 June 2008 for two aid agencies – the Hong Kong Red Cross and the Crossroads...
Credit With Education: A Program by Freedom From Hunger
Freedom from Hunger created a curriculum for Credit with Education that directly addresses women’s most pressing needs. Credit with Education is an effective, practical and financially self-sustaining way for financial service organizations to provide value-added microfinance that supports the...
Indian NGO fights corruption with Zero rupee note
5th Pillar, an Indian NGO, came up with the idea of printing a zero rupee currency note as a tool to help Indians achieve the goal of zero corruption. The note is a way for people to say NO to corruption without the fear of facing an encounter with persons in authority.
Corporate charitable partnerships come alive with Five Talents
Five Talents UK, a microfinance charity, has secured several corporate partnerships which have had a transformative effect.
TNT works with the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) to fight world hunger
TNT’s groundbreaking partnership with the United Nations’ World Food Programme (WFP) began in 2002 and adopted the title of ‘Moving the World’ – a very apt description given that TNT committed knowledge, skills and resources to helping finance the work of the WFP and also to the physical delivery...
Pfizer's Global Health Fellows Programme - an established and comprehensive cross-border service initiative
Pfizer’s Global Health Fellows Program (GHF) is an international corporate volunteer program that places Pfizer colleagues in three to six month assignments with international development organizations designed to address global health issues and improve care for underserved populations.
The power of strong relationships between Dow Company and the International Organization for Migration
In a project funded by Dow Chemical Company in collaboration with the International Organization for Migration (IOM), modular housing units were provided to the earthquake affected Nias Island.
WaterCredit Initiative: Connecting Micro-finance to Water and Sanitation
The WaterCredit Initiative is an initiative of WaterCredit Partners, an organisation with a long history of providing grants to assist communities with water supply and sanitation (WSS) services.
MDI Betterday Fairtrade Products: Better Quality, Better Health and Better for Society
MDI is a young and small 20 staff company specialized in equitable trade of agricultural products, including coffee, green tea, jasmine tea, snow mountain tea and cashews grown in eight provinces across Vietnam under the trademark Betterday Fairtrade. Production and primary processing of products...