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UCESCO - Kenya
UCESCO Africa, Kenya is a charity Non-Governmental Organization in Africa, committed to support vulnerable women and children in urban informal settlements and marginalized rural villages through education, health and micro-business assistance in order to lift whole families out of poverty and...
Ambassadors of God Organisation
The Ambassador of God Organisation was set up to fulfill the following missions : 1. To perform works of charity and promote youth empowerment and self-reliance as agreed by the Organization 2. To gather aid for the underprivileged in the society, and also offer necessary guidance and...
John Fawcett Foundation
The John Fawcett Foundation is a humanitarian foundation which assists needy people in Indonesia, particularly those with medical problems. It offers its assistance to people in the lower socio-economic group free of charge and without any religious, political or ethnic consideration. Their...
The International Good Samaritan Mission/Mission for Improvement and Boosting Organizational Services to the Community (MIBOS)
The Mission for Improvement and Boosting Organisational Services to the Communities (MIBOS) is an NGO comprising a number of community groups in and around Kigoma, Tanzania. MIBOS undertakes and promotes development projects in health care, income generation, nutrition and capacity building...
GIVE HOPE UGANDA
GIVE HOPE UGANDA was established as an organization in 2016 and later registered as a Community Based Organization in 2017. The registered office of GIVE HOPE UGANDA is in Bukasa Zone, of Bweyogerere in Kira Town Council, in Wakiso District. Give Hope Uganda is a non-profit making organization....
Standards
Global Hand Standards introductory page You can also view this page in German. Diese Seite ist auch auf Deutsch verfügbar.
Global Hand Principles
Global Hand, and its parent NGO, Crossroads Foundation, aims to ensure that aid given is good aid. You can find a range of standards, specific to sectors of the disaster and development spectrum, in our Standards, Guidelines and Toolkits section. A high level summary of Global Hand's standards...
Good practice in community based disaster risk management
This document presents good practices from the GOI-UNDP Disaster Risk Management (DRM) Programme, which envisages accelerating capacity development for disaster reduction at the national level and in some of the most-vulnerable regions in the country through community-based and gender sensitive...
University of Bologna, E.Leclerc-Conad and Nordiconad partner to transform waste into resources.
Last Minute Market(LMM): "Transforming waste to resource" is the philosophy of the project conceived by the Faculty of Agriculture, University of Bologna and with the active participation of Nordiconad Conad with many stores and hypermarkets with 2-E.Leclerc Conad.
Optical Express and Glasgow the Caring City working together to improve visual health in marginalized communities
Glasgow the Caring City and Optical Express, one of the UK's leading opticians, have come together to form a unique partners which values visual health as a route out of poverty.
Tedcor's donations in good partnerships
Greenfields primary and Tedcor waste collectors have formed a good partnership with a very healthy relationship between them.
Seventh Generation and WAGES partner to form a cooperative in San Francisco
Seventh Generation, an American company that distributes household and personal care products, has partnered with Women’s Action to Gain Economic Security (WAGES) to launch a new worker-owned residential green cleaning cooperative in San Francisco.
Provision of goods
Donated goods can bring great assistance to NGOs if wisely placed, with consideration to shelf life, cultural sensitivity, environmental appropriateness and impact on local manufacture in struggling economies. Rightly placed product can free up funding for other crucial purposes. It can also see...
The Veolia Foundation assists day care centres for children with cerebral palsy
The Association Pour L’éducation Thérapeutique Et La Réadaptation Des Enfant Infirmes Moteurs Cérébraux (APETREIMC), a French NGO, provides group accommodation for young children suffering from cerebral palsy in order give them a good start in life.
TOMS Shoes: One for One Movement
TOMS Shoes is a for-profit business with a philanthropic component. TOMS Shoes was founded on a simple premise: With every pair purchased, TOMS will give a pair of new shoes to a child in need.
Mi Tienda helps small grocery stores in rural Mexico to grow their businesses
Small, family-run grocery stores, known as tiendas de abarrotes, are essential for supplying basic goods and services in thousands of low-income rural communities in Mexico.
Freshfields provides necessary assistance to Crossroads as they ship much-needed goods to aid marginalized populations
The Freshfields Hong Kong office holds volunteer days for Crossroads Foundation, a relief agency that ships goods donated by Hong Kong residents to marginalized populations in Asia, Africa, South America and Europe. The office sends personnel to volunteer on a weekly basis to help the charity sort...
Bayer is collaborating with the TB Alliance in the fight against TB
In 2005, in conjunction with Bayer AG, the TB Alliance launched an historic clinical trial program to test whether Bayer's moxifloxacin can be used to significantly shorten the time it takes to cure TB.
Medical supplies surplus
"In the United States...hospitals discard more than 2,000 tons of usable medical surplus supplies every year, allowing perfectly good medical materials to enter the waste stream."
A to Z Textile Mills: A Public Private Partnership Providing Long-Lasting Anti-Malaria Bed Nets to the Poor in Tanzania
Malaria, transmitted through mosquito bites, kills a million people worldwide each year. In 2004, A to Z Textile Mills of Tanzania became the sole African producer of long-lasting insecticide treated bed nets, able to kill mosquitoes on contact for five years without retreatment and resistant to...