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Aavishkaar India Micro Venture Capital Fund (AIMVCF)

Aavishkaar India Micro Venture Capital Fund (AIMVCF) promotes development in rural and semi-urban India by providing micro-equity funding to grassroots enterprises that lack access to conventional financial institutions and which are commercially viable, environmentally friendly, and socially...

United States Agency for International Development (USAID) - Liberia

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...

Amal Friends of Children Society

Friends of children society (Amal) is a voluntary non-profit national Sudanese Non Governmental Organizations (NGO) established and registered in 1984 to care for children in difficult situations. Amal have utilized a number of methods for tackling the street children problem including family...

International Organization of Employers (IOE)

The mission of the International Organization of Employers (IOE) is to promote and defend the interests of employers in international networks, particularly in the International Labour Organization (ILO), and to this end works to ensure that international labour and social policy promotes the...

Tanzania Youth in Action for Development (TYID)

Tanzania Youth in Action for Development (TYID) is a non-governmental and volunteer-powered organisation, working to uplift the standard of living among the youth of Tanzania. Programs include advocacy, awareness, support and counselling, with the aim of taking the young off the streets by training...

American Near East Refugee Aid (ANERA)

The American Near East Refugee Aid, ANERA, is an American NGO. Initially ANERA sought to help the hundreds of thousands of displaced Palestinians by providing emergency relief. ANERA now also addresses the long-term economic and social needs of Palestinians, Lebanese and Jordanians through its...

Swisscontact-Ecuador

Swisscontact is a Swiss non-governmental organization that has been working in developing, newly industrialized and transition countries, since its foundation in 1959. The aim of all its activities is to reduce poverty by promoting private economic and social development in selected countries in...

Danish Refugee Council (DRC) -Azerbaijan

The Danish Refugee Council (DRC) is a private, humanitarian umbrella organisation (with 32 members) focusing on issues related to the cause of the refugees, migrants and internally displaced people (IDPs). DRC started operating in Azerbaijan in 1996 by implementing interlinked projects aimed at...

KazMicroFinance LLC

KazMicroFinance LLC is a socially-oriented micro-credit organisation, set up following the Kazakhstan Loan Fund established in 1997 by non-profit corporation ACDI/VOCA under USAID initiative. KazMicroFinance LLC aims to improve people’s welfare by applying micro-lending programs.

Help-one Women's Organisation

Help-one Women’s Organisation is a philanthropic organisation aiming at improving women’s living conditions and social status in Uganda. Its projects focus on empowering women through socio-economic activities, providing vocational training for women, including tailoring, design, IT and poultry...

All India Association for Micro Enterprise Development (AIAMED)

All India Association for Micro Enterprise Development (AIAMED) aims to develop accountable and sustainable retail development finance organisations as a strategy for empowering the poor without handouts or subsidies. Thus, enabling them to become productive citizens and contribute with dignity in...

Hidaya Foundation

A non-profit educational and charitable organisation which sends new and used in-kind donation to needy Tsunami affectees. Our mission is to implement educational, environmental, social welfare, and health care programs in economically depressed areas of South Asia, West Africa and North America,...

Singapore Action Group of Elders (SAGE)

The Singapore Action Group of Elders (SAGE) is a non-profit, non-religious and multi-ethnic voluntary welfare organisation, with a mission to promote the continued growth and development of the elderly. A member of two NGOs (the International Federation on Ageing (IFA) and HelpAge International),...

World Bank - Uzbekistan

The World Bank is one of the world's largest sources of development assistance. In Uzbekistan, the the Bank’s assistance is focused on improving people’s livelihoods, supporting the modernization of the country’s social sectors and infrastructure, and sharing its knowledge and experience with the...

Presbyterian Handicraft Centre (PRESCRAFT)

The Presbyterian Handicraft Centre, known as Prescraft, was organized by the Presbyterian Church in Cameroon as a non-profit organization to benefit disadvantaged craftspeople. Men and women produce traditional West African handicrafts including baskets, pottery, woodcarvings, brass castings...

Ruma

Ruma is a social enterprise that aims to empower the poor in Indonesia by providing pre-packaged business opportunities complete with an equipment package, a strong brand, marketing materials, initial training, ongoing mentoring and access to a supply chain. Its flagship microfranchise business,...

Commons Capital

Commons Capital is a venture capital firm founded to realize competitive rates of return by investing in promising young companies whose products, services and corporate cultures promote a sustainable economy and deliver market solutions to major social and environmental problems. The company...

Investors Circle

Investors' Circle is a network of investors, professional venture capitalists, and foundations devoted to funding social enterprises. The group has helped direct more than $130 million in investments to 200 companies since 1992. Investors' Circle also aims to widen the network of patient capital...

SPDA (Special Persons Development Association)

SPDA (Special Person Development Association)is a registered NGO working for the welfare of people with disabilities in Peshawar. The Association's activities include promoting social justice, raising public awareness of disability issues, health and education and advocacy on behalf of people...

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...