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AbleThrive
United States of America
A one-stop platform that curates articles, videos and resources for living well with a disability from people, organizations, and hospitals worldwide. AbleThrive structure and simplify the pathway to access these resources online, replicating the proven benefits of mentoring and local support. AbleThrive customize resource delivery with user-centric design, responsive to the needs and interests of each user. This accelerates knowledge transfer while maximizing the reach and impact of existing resources. No more relying on luck, hours of searching or misinformed assumptions; only strategic, efficient and predictable empowerment.
| Real estate, design & building |
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African Dream
Cameroon
African Dream is a Pan African initiative with the mission to develop potentials empower people organizations and communities to assume responsibility for their economic development challenges. African Dream' dream of a society driven by shared positive values that contribute to wealth creation and economic empowerment. The initiative stated in 2008 as an enterprise and leadership development association providing business development services and Microfinance training.
| Real estate, design & building |
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CASPEM Feeds
Nigeria
gh cost of feed remains the unresolved root cause of expensive prices of poultry/livestock products & dwindling supply. CASPEM Feeds tackle this problem by producing and selling CASPEM a novel culturally accepted feed that is highly nutritional and cost 60% lower than the regular feed made from readily available but unexploited agricultural waste such as cassava peels.
| Other |
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CigBins
Canada
CigBins' main goal is to rid city streets of the number one most littered item in the world, cigarette-butts. CigBins offers its customers a cigarette a cigarette-butt collection and recycling service. CigBins instal a cigarette-butt disposal unit on a property and empty it out and clean the area on a consistent basis. CigBins then take the appropriate measure to recycle the litter, turning them it into a raw material.
| Real estate, design & building |
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Colibrí
United States of America
Colibri's mission is to bridge the distribution gap so that poverty alleviating technology can reach those who will benefit from it most. Colibri currently operates in Nicaragua and focuses on solar technology.
| Energy |
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Compostwheels
United States of America
Compostwheels makes it possible for residents business owners and companies to compost in the city for the betterment of our local food system. Compostwheels partners with urban farms gardens and schools to help create sustainable composting programs that educate and grow healthy people and food.
| Waste Management & Recycling |
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COPIA
United States of America
Feeding Forward now COPIA enables businesses with excess food to instantly feed those in need. COPIA waste management platform provides businesses with an easy reliable and legally compliant way to get rid of their surplus food. This reduces disposal costs generates tax savings and directs food to people not landfills. They harness the power of technology to streamline the process of food recovery and redistribution giving people the power to fight food waste and hunger within minutes.
| Other |
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Credilikeme
Mexico
Credilikeme is a financial company dedicated to personal loans internet and social networks based on trust people giving youth financial inclusion forming favorable credit histories to obtain better financial opportunities.
| Other |
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DayOne Response, Inc.
United States of America
DayOne Response, Inc. increase the effectiveness of relief organizations ultimately improving and maintaining quality of life. They value prompt recovery, embrace new technologies, and take pride in saving lives.
| Media, Technology, Digital Access |
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Designing Justice Design Spaces
United States of America
The Designing Justice Designing Spaces project explores the relationship between restorative justice and architecture to re envision and re appropriate the design of institutional space to foster love and forgiveness if appropriate. It is one of the first methodological approaches for working with incarcerated populations to re envision re appropriate and re create the spaces of justice using the values and principles of restorative justice.
| Real estate, design & building |
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DoneGood
United States of America
The DoneGood app and website makes it easy to find businesses that share your values. DoneGood's mission is to change the way the world does business by making every purchasing decision an opportunity to create change.
| Information, communication & technology |
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Eco Bora
Kenya
Eco Bora produces wood pellets as a source of biomass fuel. Eco Bora uses waste such as sawdust wheat straw maize cobs and peanut shelves as raw materials. Eco Bora main clients are industries using boilers those manufacturing jikos and individual groups of person. The compressed pellets are dense with higher calorific value making them heat efficient. ECO BORA addresses the challenges in electricity cost deforestation and global warming.
| Energy |
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Educate2Envision International
United States of America
Educate2Envision International invests in youth from underserved areas to be their own innovators in tackling poverty starting in Honduras. Educate2Envision go beyond donating school supplies and building schools to create an education movement that positively transforms access to education community wide. By creating first generation high school students Educate2Envision establish the precedent that ignites confidence and ideas among the youth to further develop their communities.
| Education |
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Eggpreneur Initiative
Kenya
The Eggpreneur model trains and engages Women egg farmers also known as Eggpreneurs to develop knowledge and skills and partnerships for sustainable egg production. This model aims to use poultry farming techniques as a tool to eradicate child malnutrition while creating jobs and increasing household income for Kenyan women in rural communities.
| Agriculture, forestry & fishing |
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Empower Generation
Nepal
Empower Generation (EG) is a social enterprise that connects renewable energy technology (RET) suppliers with female entrepreneurs at the base of the economic pyramidthose living on less that $2.50 per day. EG provides women with business and technical training and support and provides energy consumers with microfinancing for RET purchases increasing local economic opportunities promoting gender equality and combating the root causes of poverty
| Energy |
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FIn Gourmet Store
United States of America
FIn Gourmet Store in Paducah, KY, is a Kentucky Proud Producer™ of wild-caught Asian Carp products. Nowhere else in the world but the USA are Asian Carp wild-caught and those from Western KY are of the best quality. Asian Carp have the highest content of Omega-3 fatty acids per gram among fresh-water fish, on par with wild-caught salmon, while having only trace amounts of mercury or lead. They are top-water filter feeders, not at all like their cousins the Common Carp which are bottom feeders. Additionally, they do not eat other fish, making them a very healthy clean source of protein. In fact every 100g of Asian Carp meat contains about 20g of pure fish protein, again on par with wild-caught salmon.
| Other |
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Full Harvest
United States of America
Full Harvest helps growers get the most out of a harvest and food companies save money by bringing farm excess to market. Full Harvest is a B2B platform connecting large farms to food businesses to sell significantly discounted yet perfectly good surplus and imperfectly shaped produce that would have otherwise gone to waste.
| Other |
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GPSGAY
GPSGAY is the largest online LGBT community in Latin America and and they are extending to the rest of the world. GPSGAY have everything the gay community wants in one place: map with geolocation for users and nearby places and gay events in each city, chat rooms, movies and LGBT issues, interesting articles, latest news, games and much more.
| Other |
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Green Story
Canada
Green Story is a simplified sustainability performance measurement & consumer engagement platform for small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs). Green Story meets consumer and SME needs for sustainability disclosure and plugs an important gap in the SME sustainability measurement and communication space.
| Financial & Insurance activites |
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iNuka Pap
Kenya
iNuka pap is a Mobile phone platform that allows Sacco Members and Microfinance institutions to receive instant micro-loans through their mobile phones. Through the platform, members can also insure themselves together with their families for as low as $ 0.02 a day. They provide the platform and funding for the loan disbursement to their partner saccos and MFIs enabling them to provide instant financial services to their members risk free. iNuka Pap has combined micro-credit and Micro-insurance on a mobile platform providing access to some of the most affordable insurance products in the market.
| Financial & Insurance activites |
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Kukua
Mexico
Kukua is a social business that was founded in 2015 aims to improve the nutrition of all Mexicans as well as reforestation and provide additional income to marginalized communities in Mexico through the Moringa tree known for its high nutritional value.
| Other |
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Kuli Kuli
United States of America
Kuli Kuli is the first company to introduce moringa a unique superfood to the U.S. food market. Kuli Kuli s first product is a gluten free nutrition bar full of simple wholesome ingredients and a nutritious burst of moringa. Kuli Kuli supports women owned farming cooperatives in West Africa to grow moringa and use it to improve the health of their communities.
| Other |
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Kwema
Chile
Kwema is building the biggest safety network.
| Information, communication & technology |
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Landed
United States of America
Landed creates down payment support programs that earn investors a market rate return while helping high quality homebuyers access homes they can afford. Landed create down payment support programs earning investors market rate returns while helping buyers access homes they can afford. Landed were a part of Y Combinator batch W16.
| Real estate, design & building |
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MoBFIT
Uganda
MoBFiT is a robust GSM supported agricultural supply chain software directly connecting 20M smallholder rural farmers to buyers in the market at a low cost via SMS and automated voice call technology before harvest. A farmer sends a text message with information about his/her produce to short code MoBFiT system generates a unique identification number for them.
| Information, communication & technology |
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MyRain
India
MyRain was formed out of The Acara Institue business plan competition in 2010. Tasked with solving water security problems in India, MyRain was inspired by the potential of efficient drip irrigation systems. In many parts of rural India, small-plot farmers rely on flood irrigation, a method that stunts crops and washes away valuable soil nutrients. Drip irrigation can increase efficiency of water and fertilizer by between 20%-50% and increase yields by 30%-100%. Drip irrigation also preserves nutrients in the soil and increases land longevity. Despite these benefits, drip irrigation technology has proliferated to only 5% of arable land. MyRain launched to provide small plot farmers access to this technology by creating a retail and distribution network focused on the four main tenets of accessibility; education, availability, price and service.
| Sustainable Agriculture and Food Production |
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Ndolo360
Cameroon
Ndolo360 is a fun, light-hearted and informative app which gives you the liberty to explore all the choices you have as a young person and get the best knowledge from health experts on your Sexual and Reproductive Health with just a tap of your phone.
| Education |
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Nutrishake Andino
Peru
Nutrishake Andino is a social enterprise that funds sustainable projects against child malnutrition and anemia by selling healthy and functional Andean cereals -based products.
| Financial & Insurance activites |
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Oincs
Uruguay
Oincs is a mobile crowdsourcing platform that enables users to report and share, in real time, information about crimes and traffic in a city, creating better and safer urban living experiences.
| Information, communication & technology |
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Ojay Greene
Kenya
We offer training advisory services and access to markets for underserved smallholder farmer groups and communities. Our primary focus is on those who earn US $700 annually. Through our engagement with them we seek to increase their incomes 5 times in 5 years.We utilize sms technology to improve crop and agricultural productivity for smallholder farmers. Smallholder farmers are registered into our mobile platform where they receive timely updated messages with stepwise action points on how they can increase their yields.Smallholder farmers registered into our mobile platform improve their chances of accessing profitable markets. We commit improve their crop quality through our platform. On achieving the desired crop quality we purchase the crops from them using Fair trade policies and we sell their produce to profitable markets.This model satisfies the company s mission of Increasing incomes of smallholder farmers.
| Agriculture, forestry & fishing |
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pilotED Schools
United States of America
pilotED Schools is an emerging network of elementary schools that improves the generational outcomes for families and students through path changing academics and identity development. pilotED Schools are slated to open the first Chicago campus in 2017 after testing identity based curriculum for two years.
| Education |
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Promesa
Mexico
PROMESA is dedicated to transforming environmental education in Mexico through the development of sustainability programs for schools and companies.
| Education |
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PYT Funds
United States of America
PYT has engineered a new lending model that identifies extraordinary students and helps banks hedge risk in the student loan market. PYT is lending funds on a new platform based on trusted risk mitigating practices and innovative technology.Pay Your Tuition was founded in 2014 as a socially responsible lending process that uses technology to help low to moderate income students and families gain access to affordable private student loans.
| Financial & Insurance activites |
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Reap Benefit
India
Reap Benefit is an environmental services organisation working with companies and educational institutions. Reap Benefit s vision is making green a habit. They engage primarily with youth and professionals to effect quantifiable change on issues of water waste energy and biodiversity. Their belief is that if they inculcate green habits early they will see tangible benefits across society. In the last two years we have worked with 85 schools and 15 corporations impacting 30000 individuals. We focus on low cost systemic change involving stakeholders and using real world gamification techniques to drive long term behavior change.
| Other |
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Reliefwatch
United States of America
Sokowatch formely Reliefwatch provides multinational companies with a data driven distribution network focused on servicing informal market stores in urban areas of developing countries. Through individual agents equipped with proprietary mobile data collection tools Sokowatch is able to reach thousands of shops in underserviced areas to sell and deliver products on behalf of our client companies thereby dramatically increases sales and market coverage for companies in hard to reach markets.
| Information, communication & technology |
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Riipen
Canada
Riipen is an experiential learning platform solution that connects top post-secondary students and recent graduates to employers through open challenges and in-class faculty-supervised industry projects. Students gain validated industry experience and incentives, organizations leverage student talent recruitment and cost-effective labor, and institutions increase experiential learning and in-class industry engagement for their students.
| Other |
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Rorus
United States of America
Rorus Inc. is dedicated to improving access to safe drinking water especially in emergency situations. With a superior and inexpensive product line they can accomplish their social justice efforts sustainably.
| Water & Sewerage |
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Sahajan
Canada
Sahajan skincare offers a powerful line of products that marries the ancient traditions of Ayurveda with organic ingredients and modern science. Inspired by the 5000 year old science of life Sahajan skincare adapts the treatments of this ancient practice for today creating a line that brings beauty and nature into balance. All of Sahajan's products are natural and organic! Ingredients are carefully selected from only the most trusted sources including organically grown plants and oils.
| Other |
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Spotlight:Girls
United States of America
SpotlightGirls (formerly & Razz Productions LLC) is the producer of Go Girls! Camp a popular summer day camp where girls learn and practice social/emotional skills through theater visual arts music and media.
| Education |
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Sunstretch Energy Solutions
Nigeria
Sunstretch Energy is a wholly owned Nigerian Company with a mission to change the conversations around energy usage and generation in Nigeria. Sunstretch Energy is doing this is by getting people to adopt sustainable renewable energy sources in innovative ways. Sunstretch Energy drive this adoption by not only bringing high quality and need based solar solutions to the people in communities but also educating them on the technology in a fun and interactive way. Sunstretch is committed to green and clean to save mother nature.
| Energy |
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The School of Games
United States of America
The School of Games is a social venture started in San Francisco with a mission to deliver quality education by providing personalized learning experience to every child around the world. The School of Games is a platform of immersive video games which adapts to each child s learning ability to impart basic literacy (readingwriting & arithmetic) on highly affordable devices.
| Education |
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Tiny Docs
United States of America
The Tiny Docs team has a simple mission - to inspire a healthier, happier planet. The medical world can be intimidating, especially for children, so they are creating the world full of imagination and wonder, where kids and families can smile, laugh, interact, and most importantly, learn. Tiny Docs provides resources to educate kids and families about health issues in simple, easy to understand language. The Tiny Docs library of cartoons inspires while they educate, replacing fear with knowledge and anxiety with confidence.
| Education |
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TruClinic
United States of America
Compatible with any internet accessible device TruClinic's technology connects clinicians directly to the people they need to see when they need to see them improving efficiency and saving money.Clinicians are using TruClinic's cloud telemedicine platform to streamline patient followup remove scheduling bottlenecks add revenue and improve patient satisfaction all while maintaining the same workflows they use everyday.Best of all TruClinic is hosted software with no downloads no expensive equipment and no upkeep. You can always be sure you're using the latest technology making TruClinic easy to access and intuitive to use. Just login to your account and it works.
| Human health & social work |