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engageSPARK
United States of America
engageSPARK enables you to quickly launch Voice Call and SMS messaging, surveying, and decision tree campaigns without needing any technical help so that you can dramatically extend your reach in 200+ countries.
| Information, communication & technology |
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Magic Bus
India
Magic Bus founded in 1999 is a non profit organisation working with 400000 children and 9000 volunteer mentors every week from marginalised communities in India. They are on course to have one million children in their programme by 2015.
| Real estate, design & building |
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Suryoday Micro Finance
India
Suryoday Micro Finance Pvt Ltd is a registered Non Banking Finance Company engaged in providing loans to women from Economically Weaker Sections Below Poverty Line and the Marginal Poor who do not have access to traditional banking with an objective to reduce poverty in its area of operation.
| Financial & Insurance activites |
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The Plastic Bank
Canada
The Plastic Bank is globally recognized as one of the most important solutions to stop Ocean plastic. Over 1 million social media supporters have asked brands to support Plastic Bank & Social Plastic on Facebook and Twitter.Plastic Bank was the featured solution to stop Ocean plastic in the award winning documentary A Plastic Ocean. They received the prestigious Sustainia Community Award at COP21 during the Paris Climate Summit the RCBC innovation award and recently their new Blockchain exchange & incentives platform received an IBM Beacon Award.People representing over 75 different countries have contacted PB with a request to help bring the solution to their countries. Now there is an APP for that. The Plastic Bank uses an APP based Blockchain digital currency & exchange platform to incentivize the collection of plastic waste BEFORE it becomes Ocean Plastic. Plastic Bank provides above market rewards for recyclers in the developing world. Companies create an authentic impact by purchasing this Social Plastic for use in manufacturing or by providing recycling incentives to distribute through the platform as an off set or impact pledge. The APP unites recycling ecosystems & even provides the ability for local entrepreneurs to operate a convenience store for the poor in which plastic waste is the currency. It s a means for anyone to recycle to provide for their families & send their children to school.
| Waste Management & Recycling |
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Trees for the Future
United States of America
Since its founding in 1989 Trees for the Future (TREES) a 501(c)3 has planted more than 150 million trees and transformed the lives of thousands of families. By establishing Forest Gardens we teach agroforestry and sustainable land management practices that not only provide farmers and their families with greater access to food and increased incomes but also preserve natural resources for future generations. From our headquarters based in Silver Spring MD we oversee programs across sub Saharan Africa including Cameroon Kenya Tanzania Senegal and Uganda. In every country we listen to the needs of farming communities and respond to those needs in light of local cultural and environmental conditions. We provide training seeds and materials needed to sustainably grow harvest and sell food fuelwood forage timber and other agricultural products. While TREES provides training and materials participants provide land water and labor to ensure buy in and long term sustainability. This in turn has many positive impacts on alleviating poverty hunger and healing the environment. Sub impacts also include nutrition women's empowerment education entrepreneurship and much more.
| Other |
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Upwardly Global
United States of America
Immigrants want to rebuild their careers. Employers are looking for experienced global talent. Upwardly Global exists to bring them together. Today there are more than 1.8 million immigrants in the U.S. who are college educated but are unemployed or significantly underemployed. In their home countries they were engineers doctors scientists accountants and nonprofit professionals. In the U.S. they become cashiers nannies and cab drivers if employed at all.