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Wokai

Wokai is an online platform that utilises the principle of microfinance to connect people who would like to make loans which will have a direct impact on the lives of people living in rural China, their families, and their communities. Borrowers are people who want to start small businesses, but...

North East Social Enterprise

The North East Social Enterprise Partnership is a company limited by guarantee that represents and promotes social enterprise in the North East region of the UK. The company aims to assist social enterprises in the region to deliver positive economic, social and environmental change. Run by social...

Slow Food

Slow Food is an international member organisation with more than 100,000 members in 132 countries worldwide. The Slow Food movement is based on the belief that the food we eat should be good, clean and fair, and that it should be produced without damage to the environment, animal welfare or our...

Cheeky Chops

Cheeky Chops Ltd is an initiative set up by Jamie Oliver. The organisation aims to provide opportunities for disadvantaged young people to learn about the hospitality and catering industry through training and practical experience. College learning is supplemented by real-world experience in...

The Big Issue

The Big Issue is one of the UK's leading social businesses and exists to offer homeless people the opportunity to earn a legitimate income, thereby helping them to reintegrate into mainstream society. It is also the world's most widely circulated street newspaper. The organisation is made up of...

Cercle des Secheurs (CDS)

CDS is an organization supporting women producer groups in producing and marketing dried fruit and vegetables in Burkina Faso. The organization was founded in 1992 and was officially registered in 1995 as a Groupement d'Interet Economique (GIE), and subsequently acquired its own export...

Jirmit Papyrus Group

Jermit Papyrus Group is a company that makes hand-painted cards, bookmarks and other art on authentic Egyptian papyrus. The company aims to generate work for unemployed young people in the Upper Egyptian town of Mallawi, located approximately 300 km south of Cairo. Jermit Papyrys employs 42...

Upwardly Global

Upwardly Global is a nonprofit organisation that helps immigrant, refugee, and asylee professionals find jobs in their career fields. The jobseekers Upwardly Global helps are already permanent residents of the U.S. and work-authorised. Upwardly Global helps them write résumés, sharpen interviewing...

LINGOs

LINGOs is a consortium of over 45 international humanitarian relief, development, conservation and health organisations that share learning resources and experiences. By providing the latest learning technologies and courses from partners, LINGOs helps NGOs to increase the skill levels of their...

The Social Enterprise Conference

The Social Enterprise Conference is annual event jointly produced by the Harvard Business School (HBS) and the Harvard Kennedy School of Government (HKS). Since its inception, the conference has been entirely student run. The student team responsible for producing the event has grown with the...

Getrade (GH) Ltd Fps

Getrade (GH) Ltd Fps is an export house for Ghana small scale producers. Getrade deals with export handling for members and partners, marketing, freight services and domestic sales. The company produces bolga baskets, woodcarvings – toys (oware), furniture (stools), authentic African art,...

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,...

The Social Enterprise Alliance

The Social Enterprise Alliance (SEA) is a membership organisation in North America for social enterprises, service providers, nonprofit organisations, corporations, and venture capitalists. The SEA actively builds the field of social enterprise through networking opportunities, educational forums,...

Social Enterprise Coalition

The Social Enterprise Coalition is the UK's national body for social enterprise, representing a wide range of social enterprises, regional and national support networks and other related organisations. The organisation works with its members to promote the benefits of social enterprise through...

Bombolulu Workshops

The Bombolulu Workshop for the Handicapped was founded in 1969 with the aim of providing training opportunities and sheltered employment to men and women with physical disabilities who are from disadvantaged families. Bombolulu Workshops is one of the projects of the Association for the...

Kazuri 2000 Limited

The mission of Kazuri is to provide and sustain employment opportunities to the disadvantaged members of the Kenyan society. Kazuri began in 1975 as a tiny workshop experimenting with making handmade beads. It started with two Kenyan women and soon discovered that there were many other women in...

Kitengela Hot Glass

Kitengela Hot Glass started September 2000 with a desire to make flat and blown glass in Eastern Africa. It employs over thirty people, and has trained many more in the various disciplines that they are proficient in. Kitengela Glass is located opposite the Nairobi National Park, at the end of a...

Cafédirect

Cafédirect is a UK-based alternative trading organisation. It is currently one of the largest Fairtrade hot drinks companies in the world. As well as coffee, Cafédirect has a hot beverage range that includes 100% Fairtrade tea and hot chocolate. Cafédirect works with over 260,000 coffee, tea,...

Divine Chocolate

Divine Chocolate Limited, formerly the Day Chocolate Company, is a manufacturer of Fairtrade chocolate products in the United Kingdom and the United States. It was established in the UK in 1998 as a partnership between the Kuapa Kokoo cocoa growers' collective and the alternative trading...

Counterpart International

Founded in 1965, Counterpart International is a nonprofit organization dedicated to building a just world through service and partnership. Counterpart gives people a voice in their own future through partnerships, offering options and access to tools for sustained social, economic and environmental...