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1HeartArt
United States of America
1HeartArt serves as a platform for transformation by facilitating conversations around prison art and selling art so that artists can support themselves and their families after release.
| Retail |
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Big City Farms Holdings
United States of America
Big City Farms is a for profit triple bottom line (Certified B Corp) company that is creating a local network of small urban sustainable organic farms in. The company s hoop house network farms will produce a variety of lettuces and leafy greens year round and aggregate to local urban groceries restaurants and institutional clients within 24 hours of harvest at prices and quality competitive with those provided by industrial farms. The Company s grower network will empower local entrepreneurs with low cost high throughput small plot greenhouse technology and planet friendly farming methods. The Company s operations will turn deteriorating urban land into profitable green spaces that nourishes educates and employs urban populations.
| Agriculture, forestry & fishing |
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Detroit Training Center
United States of America
The Detroit Training Center (DTC) specializes in offering customized vocational programs of study specifically tailored to meet corporate governmental and individual needs. DTC is dedicated to improving urban education supportive training and employment opportunities for adults. The Center is committed to providing our students with the facilities and instructional environment necessary to accomplishing the personal goals of students corporations governmental and non profit organizations.
| Education |
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GenFKD
United States of America
GenFKD is equipping millennials with the skills and education necessary to create and lead the new economy. Founded in 2013 as a financial literacy organization GenFKD is growing into an organization that s revolutionizing American higher education. Constituting the most educated indebted generation to date millennials have been misled by a higher education system unwilling to take responsibility for post graduate outcomes.It is our fundamental belief that the higher education system is best equipped to prevent today s socioeconomic inequalities from defining our future. Through skills based training and student first reforms GenFKD is advancing a system of new education focused on improving post graduate outcomes in areas of gainful employment financial preparedness and entrepreneurial readiness.
| Education |
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Goodwill of Silicon Valley
United States of America
Goodwill of Silicon Valley has been transforming lives through the power of work in Santa Clara County since 1928. Goodwill of Silicon Valley's mission is to support their employees their customers and people with challenging barriers to employment to raise their standard of living and improve their lives through their services and social enterprise.
| Real estate, design & building |
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Goodwill SF
United States of America
Goodwill Industries of San Francisco San Mateo & Marin counties has been acknowledged for its work in being a green enterprise. A 501(c)(3) nonprofit they reuse or recycle more than 75 percent of donated goods.
| Waste Management & Recycling |
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IESC Geekcorp
United States of America
Increases the profitability and efficiency of small and medium sized businesses in emerging markets with its unique reserve of international technology experts who provide firm level technology focused technical assistance creating a vibrant and innovative private sector.
| Professional & technical services |
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Kaivalya Education Foundation
India
Train principals in the skills needed to turn around failing rural public schools in India by creating the country's first school principal training firm. Kaivalya Education Foundation (KEF) is a social change organization working in the field of education in India. KEF's intervention started in 2008 with the focus to transform the quality of education in public schools by providing leadership training to school principals. Since then we have partnered with many governments private and educational institutions to impact more than 1235 schools in three states of Rajasthan Gujarat and Maharashtra.
| Other |
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Memphis Bioworks
United States of America
Memphis Bioworks is the Mid South s go to organization for creating companies jobs and investments in bioscience. A visionary community leader Memphis Bioworks has a well established record of sparking new levels of economic vitality by investing in entrepreneurs building state of the art labs and facilities and training the next generation of workers.
| Other |
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Parliamentary Research Service
India
More than sixty bills are passed every year in India's Parliamentary system most with significant implications on long term national policy. Despite this a non partisan service to provide easy to understand analysis on these bills to almost 800 Members of Parliament (MPs) does not exist. PRS seeks to promote good governance in India through supporting a well informed transparent and participatory legislative process by meeting the great need for analysis and training of legislators. PRS produces easy to understand four to six page long legislative briefs on a range of bills. These briefs are sent to all MPs in both houses of Parliament about 1200 NGOs across the country and the top 500 companies.
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Rebuild Globally
United States of America
REBUILD globally is a non profit organization fighting poverty in Haiti through education and job training programs. We address the complex issues of poverty by identifying the most vulnerable populations in Port au Prince and targeting the root problem the lack of job readiness and long term employment. Our goal is to replace the conventional methods of charitable aid with a thriving social entrepreneurial ecosystem. We have been measurably improving the lives of those most affected by poverty and devastation in Haiti for six years through comprehensive training and education programs with a pipeline to guaranteed employment. After years of working on the ground we have found the most impactful way to respond to a disaster and lessen the effects of poverty is to combine the efforts of our non profit with the for profit sector.
| Other |
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Small Fry
United States of America
Small Fry employs the digital skills of low income youth to drive local small business growth online via search engine marketing social media marketing web building and more. Youth earn income gain skills and build career mobility while small businesses get access to affordable online marketing services that saves time and builds revenue.
| Real estate, design & building |
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Taller San Jose
United States of America
Taller San Jose walks young people out of poverty by offering the hope of a productive and self reliant future. They are a highly focused goal oriented program that helps students develop into self reliant adults through key job training programs coupled with intensive job coaching activities and reinforced with life skills instruction.
| Real estate, design & building |
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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.
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Wananchi
Kenya
Wananchi is the leading business providing affordable entertainment and connectivity for the rapidly growing middle class in East Africa. The group is revolutionising the communications space though the delivery of innovative value for money entertainment and broadband internet services in a manner that inspires and delights our residential and business customers.
| Information, communication & technology |
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WAVE Academies
Nigeria
WAVE (West Africa Vocational Education) is a social enterprise with a mission to increase income for unemployed youth in West Africa by identifying training and placing talented underserved youth in entry level jobs in high growth industries (like the retail and hospitality sector) that double their income. The first WAVE Academy launched in August 2013 in Lagos Nigeria and by 2019 WAVE will empower 25000 ambitious young West Africans annually with the know how and expertise to pursue careers in high growth industries across the continent.
| Other |
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Weingart Center for the Homeless
United States of America
Located in the heart of downtown Los Angeles' Skid Row the Weingart Center offers a host of services inside the agency's historic 11 story building. Free or low cost on site programs and services include transitional housing substance abuse treatment medical and mental healthcare job training and placement & help securing permanent supportive housing. The Center has tailored programs for veterans people on parole women & families needing help finding permanent housing. The Center is a 501(c)(3) non profit organization.
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WorkSquare LLC
United States of America
WorkSquare is a social enterprise founded in 2008 with the mission of empowering workers to improve their financial stability. They do this by providing workers with job opportunities and with financial training designed to encourage savings and building of assets.They provide temporary to permanent and temp staffing to best of category employers in the hospitality property management light industrial and food service sectors among others helping them to recruit high caliber candidates for their teams. Their commitment to the advancement of their workforce means that their clients benefit from no temp to perm fees or minimum hour requirements. This provides employers a cost effective and risk free way to recruit qualified workers while enabling their to improve workers financial well being as they transition into permanent employment.
| Real estate, design & building |