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Business Models that Make a Difference
This is a publication produced by IFC (the International Finance Corporation) arguing that inclusive business models are good for business.
Public-Private Partnership for Low - Cost Housing Investments
Thousands of Salvadorans with no credit history can access loans now to make home improvements and expand their home businesses. El Salvador has developed a unique and sustainable financial business model that enables low-income consumers to improve and expand their homes by mobilizing...
The Global Partnership Social Investment Fund seeks investments in Latin America
The NGO Global Partnerships is redefining microfinance and moving beyond the concept of microloans as working capital. It aims to achieve greater impact in reducing poverty by combining these loans with affordable social investments, such as health services, training and low-cost pensions and...
Vision Banco partners with Habitat to provide low-income housing in Paraguay
Thousands of low income Paraguayans will be able to make home improvements with credits provided by a Vision Banco-Habitat partnership.
FSG: Elevating job skills worldwide
The Foundation Strategy Group (FSG) is a nonprofit consulting firm specializing in strategy, evaluation and research.
Trade, Aid or Traid? Getting it right with the private sector - May, 2008
We are regularly being asked to broaden Global Hand's services. While retaining our traditional 'matching' activity, many have enquired if Global Hand can support the wider engagement between for-profit and non-profit entities in today's landscape of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and...
More Donated Product On Global Hand - September, 2004
New developments underway! This is a longer news article than usual.
Global Hand News - April, 2006
We are often asked what kind of activity we see on Global Hand. So we have drawn up a very brief overview which you, too, are welcome to use if it is helpful.
Starbucks join the Conservation movement
Conservation International has worked with Starbucks Coffee Company for more than 14 years to promote coffee production practices that conserve biodiversity, maintain healthy ecosystems and support economic and social development in coffee production landscapes as embodied in the company’s...
WIZZIT reaching the Unbanked of South Africa
It is estimated that 40 percent of South Africa's 45 million population are un-banked or under-banked. However, nearly 60 percent of South Africans have mobile phones. The proliferation of mobile services worldwide has created a unique opportunity to provide social and financial services over the...
Lex Mundi Legal Services allows social entrepreneurs to use their top-class legal expertise pro bono
David Roll, a lawyer based in Washington DC, is Managing Director of Lex Mundi Pro Bono Foundation, a network of 160 law firms (with 20,000 lawyers) offering pro bono legal services to social entrepreneurs all over the world.
Tate & Lyle and Fairtrade sugar farming in Belize
This video shows a number of sugar farmers in Belize speaking about their problems following a recent hurricane and welcoming the announcement by Tate and Lyle that sugar production will, in future, be in accordance with Fair Trade standards.
Starbucks and Fair Trade NGOs partner
Starbucks, TransFair USA and Fairtrade Labelling Organizations International join in support of small-scale coffee farmers through a $20 million loan program.
PriceWaterhouseCoopers provides mentors on Big Brothers, Big Sisters programme
This video features a news item about a workplace volunteer mentoring programme in which PwC employees work with the Big Brothers Big Sisters NGO in New York City.
Starbucks Joins the Conservation International Movement
Since 1998, Starbucks has partnered with Conservation International (CI), a nonprofit organisation, to promote coffee production practices that conserve biodiversity, maintain healthy ecosystems and support economic and social development in coffee production landscapes.
Hewlett Packard works with microfinance networks to help scale microfinance
In 2002, Hewlett Packard formed a partnership with a number of microfinance networks (MFIs) and commercial partners working in related areas to explore how technology could be used effectively to help scale microfinance.
Chevron subsidiary partners with local charity to engage impoverished communities in Angola
Search for Common Ground, an organisation dedicated to conflict transformation, has been working in Angola's oil-rich enclave of Cabinda since October 2006. In a private-public partnership co-funded by USAID and Chevron's local oil subsidiary, SFCG has collaborated with nine impoverished fishing...
WIZZIT reaching the Unbanked of South Africa
WIZZIT is a South African company that has developed a mobile phone based banking service for unbanked and underbanked communities.