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Bosinange Juakali Soapstone

Bosinange Juakali soapstone is a private limited group that produces soapstone carvings (Arts), which are handcrafted by Kisii artisans in Kenya and sold locally and internationally to help them to alleviate poverty and improve their livelihood. The group was started in late 1980s under the...

SJF Ventures

SJF Ventures is a venture capital partnership with offices in Durham, NC, New York and San Francisco. Through its investment funds, the firm provides equity financings from $1MM to $10MM, solo or in syndicates, to companies seeking expansion capital. As a venture fund, SJF Ventures focuses on...

TBL Capital

TBL Capital is a capital venture fund focused on the needs of the entrepreneur with a balanced emphasis on people, planet and profits. The firm invests in entrepreneurs who are committed to building companies with strong triple bottom line returns. TBL provides growth capital to help...

Conrad N. Hilton Foundation

The Conrad N. Hilton Foundation is a family foundation established in 1944 by the man who started Hilton Hotels. The Foundation provide funds to nonprofit organizations working to improve the lives of disadvantaged and vulnerable people throughout the world. Since its inception, the Foundation has...

The Jane Goodall Institute: Roots & Shoots

The mission of the Jane Goodall Institute is to advance the power of individuals to take informed and compassionate action to improve the environment for all living things. Roots & Shoots (R&S) is an international hands-on environmental and humanitarian education programme, with the goal...

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...

Sita Gramoudyog Vikas Sansthan (SGVS)

SGVS (Sita Gramoudyog Vikas Sansthan) is an Indian NGO that is dedicatedly to working on women's empowerment, as well as helping to increase livelihood opportunities and employability of young people. The organization also works on issues relating to health, gender discrimination, education, ...

Global Oneness Project

The Global Oneness Project produces films, media and educational materials that explore how the simple notion of interconnectedness can be lived in today's complex world. The project believes that relationships based on greed, over-identification with ownership, and the use of material goods to...

PILnet

The law can only fulfill its potential to deliver justice and protect rights with the help of a passionate and dedicated cadre of advocates. That’s why one of PILnet’s primary goals is to inspire lawyers to advance the public interest and equip them with the necessary knowledge, capabilities and...

Kashmir Humanity Foundation

The Kashmir Humanity Foundation is an NGO based in the Baramulla district of Kashmir. The Foundation aims to provide basic educational support, technical educational support, healthcare access, and economic opportunity to poor and marginalised women and children from both rural and urban areas in...

Centre for Promotion of Equal Rights

Since 2008 Centre for Promotion of Equal Rights-CPER has operating is social organization aims to work among Dalits, tribes and other marginalized sections of the society who are reeling under poverty, discrimination and exploitation. CPER dulyregistered under Indian Trust Act and obtained 12 AA,...

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...

The Hut of Orphans of Kenya

The Hut of Orphans of Kenya (HOOK) is an NGO that aims to assist with the reduction of urban litter by providing disadvantaged young people with an opportunity for skills training and income generation. One of the projects in which the HOOK is involved is making briquettes for fuel from waste.

REMAR Christian Drug and Alcohol Residental Rehab

Remar Australia (part of Remar International) provides long-term support and residential rehabilitation to people who are struggling with drug and alcohol addictions who have been marginalised by society. In developed countries Remar works primarily with substance abusers, providing support,...

Australian Lawyers for Human Rights (ALHR)

Australian Lawyers for Human Rights (ALHR) is a network of Australian lawyers active in practising and promoting awareness of international human rights standards in Australia. Through training, information, submissions and networking, ALHR promotes the practice of human rights law in Australia....

Business for Millennium Development

Business for Millennium Development (B4MD) is an alliance of Australian businesses who believe that corporate Australia can and should assist towards the achievement of the Millenium Development Goals. B4MD believes that Australian businesses have the opportunity to do much more to reduce...

Springs of Life Children`s Centre

Springs Of Life Children`s Centre is a children`s centre run by people living in the Kibera Slum, Nairobi. The Centre provides education , food , accommodation, security, and opportunities for development and participation to children orphaned by the HIV/AIDS pandemic. Currently there are 45...

United Nations Millennium Campaign (UNMC)

United Nations Millennium Campaign (UNMC) aims to increase support for development assistance, trade opportunities, debt relief, technology transfer and other support needed to achieve the MDGs and, in the process, encourage the emergence of broad, self-sustaining and pragmatic coalitions of...

The MDG Achievement Fund

The MDG Achievement Fund is an international cooperation mechanism whose aim is to accelerate progress on the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) worldwide. It supports national governments, local authorities and citizen organizations in their efforts to tackle poverty and inequality. The Fund...

AIM Abroad

AIM Abroad is a community interest volunteer company registered in the US and India and affiliated with the Global Orphanage Trust in india. AIM Abroad works to provide volunteering opportunities in India and Nepal for people who want to offer their services and travel with a grassroots...