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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...

Silicon Valley Community Foundation

Silicon Valley Community Foundation is a NGO that serves San Mateo and Santa Clara counties in California. The Foundation is focused on solving the most challenging problems, improving the quality of life and inspiring greater civic participation throughout the region. In September 2008, the...

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...

Community Development Venture Capital Alliance (CDVA)

The Community Development Venture Capital Alliance (CDVCA) is a not for profit network for community development venture capital (CDVC) investing. CDVC funds provide equity capital to businesses in underinvested markets, seeking market-rate financial returns, as well as the creation of good jobs,...

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...

Good Capital

Good Capital is an investment firm based in San Francisco that aims to increase the flow of capital to innovative ventures creating market-based solutions to inequality and poverty.

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...

Center for Development & Business Research (CODBRA), Inc.

The Center for Development & Business Research (CODBRA) is an independent development and business research firm that propounds ground-breaking development policy ideas on good governance and offers creative business support services to investors interested in Africa's market and her rich...

Social Finance

Social Finance, a London private-equity firm, backs various social entrepreneurs and non-profit groups around the world by selling Social Impact Bonds (SIBs), a new investment product, to governments and various investors. Through a Social Impact Bond, private investment is used to pay for...

GroFin

GroFin is a multi-national financier and advisor to small and medium enterprises in emerging markets. The company offers business finance solutions tailored to suit individual clients and aims to increase the success rate of SMEs by providing them with additional services from an inhouse local...

INDIACSR

INDIACSR is only CSR news portal in India providing a business network for Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) through which companies can share ideas on best practices and discuss collaborative projects between the firm and its end stakeholders. INDIACSR also provides a forum for dialogue...

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...

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...

New Chapter Development for Youth (NCDY).

New Chapter Development for Youth (NCDY) is an NGO established in 2004 at grass root level from the initiatives of the people at the grass-root level. Since 2009 it serves at a national level. NCDY is determined to help all people regardless of their gender, marital status, disability, race, color,...

HELMAR Import & Export Company (Pty) Ltd

HELMAR Import & Export Company (Pty) Ltd is a South African company that aims to provide business advisory services to Micro Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) and implement projects in a range of disciplines,including agribusiness, construction, education and food processing.

Tikkun Olam International (T-O-I)

T-O-I (Tikkun Olam International) is an American NGO that partners with Tikum Olam Microfinance in Afghanistan. Programmes in Afghanistan and in Nicaragua include a job placement programme, a transition home that provides a safe environment for boys who have graduated from local orphanages, and ...

Imperative Initiative for Motivation of Global Care IIMGC

Imperative Initiative for Motivation of Global Care (IIMGC) is an International human right, development and empowerment Non-Governmental Organization registered in Nigeria with special interests in vulnerable population, health, education and economic empowerment. The organization has a retinue of...

Haiti Action Collective (HACC)

Haiti Action Collective (HACC)is a Haitian NGO that implements projects in the North West department of Haiti. HACC works in the following areas: education / citizenship; health/nutrition; agriculture; environmental protection; risk management/disaster; microfinance; assistance to women and the...

Community Outreach Development & Empowerment Centre (CODECNGO)

NGO working in the southern part of Nigeria, with the vision of sustainably, improving the lives of people in their areas of intervention. They offers services such as: Economic Development through MSME development, Poverty Alleviation, Health, Education and Literacy Programs, Water and...