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Business for Social Responsibility (BSR)

Business for Social Responsibility (BSR) works with its global network of more than 250 member companies to develop sustainable business strategies and solutions through consulting, research, and cross-sector collaboration. BSR leverages its expertise in environment, human rights, economic...

Solidarité Pour Le Sahel (SOLISA)

Solidarité pour le Sahel (SOLISA) supports the promotion, protection and creation of grassland areas in villages of Mali by the implementation of tree planting programmes and anti-erosion measures.

Engineers Against Poverty

Engineers Against Poverty (EPA) is a UK based international NGO working in the field of engineering. It is establishes and supports partnerships between state, private and civil society sectors. EPA has a specific focus on improving the corporate social responsibility programmes of engineering...

Global Voices Online

Global Voices Online is a non-profit global citizens’ media project founded at Harvard Law School’s Berkman Centre for Internet and Society, a research think-tank focused on the Internet’s impact on society. Global Voices seeks to aggregate and amplify the global conversation online - highlighting...

Water Research Commission (WRC)

The Water Research Commission supports water research and development in South Africa. It serves as the country’s water-centred knowledge hub, focusing on water resource management, water-linked ecosystems, water use and waste management, and water utilisation in agriculture. It also publishes...

Jamaica Red Cross

Jamaica Red Cross, a member society of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, provides medical and humanitarian assistance during disasters. They work with disaster response, disaster preparedness, first aid, search and rescue, health services, HIV/AIDS, social...

Ecole Instrument de Paix (EIP) - Niger

Ecole Instrument de Paix (EIP) - Niger develops integrated and community-based projects with its emphasis on protection and restoration of the environment. Other areas of focus are education, promotion of human rights, and fighting poverty in rural areas.

Action for Security and Food Sovereignty in Niger- AcSSA

Action for Security and Food Sovereignty in Niger (AcSSA), established by Afrique Verte International, helps communities to develop and ensure professional, technical and trading of agricultural products. The organizaiton also focuses on women as actors in development.

Greenspace, NCR, Inc.

Greenspace, NCR, Inc. is a non-profit organization dedicated to fostering green real estate and economic development in the national capital region, developing and implementing green policies, and providing stewardship of our growing green communities. We work with private, non-profit and public...

Abbott Fund

Abbott Fund invests in creative ideas that promote science, expand access to health care, and strengthen communities worldwide. The Fund's major areas of program funding include global AIDS care, access to healh care, science and medical innovation, and community vitality.

Feedback Madagascar

Feedback Madagascar focuses upon promoting primary healthcare and primary education, improving local stewardship of natural resources, and implementing income generating schemes. Feedback Madagascar works with and listens to the poorest communities in Madagascar in order to help address the short...

Tostan

Tostan is an American NGO working with rural and remote communities in eight African countries. Tostan’s three year nonformal education programme, the Community Empowerment Programme (CEP), provides participants with knowledge and skills in human rights, health and hygiene, literacy, maths,...

MicroEnergy Credits Corporation

The MicroEnergy Credits Corporation (MEC)is a social enterprise which links microfinance institutions to the carbon markets when they lend for clean energy. MEC sells the carbon credits earned by replacing dirty fuels like kerosene, wood, coal and dung on the voluntary carbon markets and passes...

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...

Got Books Inc

Got Books, Inc is an American NGO that collects books from individuals at their home or office and from donation containers. In addition, Got Books donation containers are used by non-profit groups as a free fundraising programme. Got Books aims to find new uses for used books and is dedicated to...

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...

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...

Synergy Packaging Solutions

Synergy Packaging Solutions is a British company that prides itself on using recyclable materials in its packaging products in order to protect the environment. The company manufactures wooden crate systems and foam transit temperature controlled packaging.

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...

AMPA Resource Foundation

The AMPA Resource Foundation is a Ghanaian NGO working on social service and health issues in rural communities. AMPA has undertaken several community based interventions and social development initiatives including public health education, good sanitation campaigns, civic engagements on...