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Better than Cash
United States of America
The Better Than Cash Alliance provides expertise in the transition to digital payments to achieve the goals of empowering people and growing emerging economies.
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Care2
Care2 is a trusted social action network that empowers millions of people to lead a healthy sustainable lifestyle and support socially responsible causes. Care2's content offering includes original stories blogs and syndication partners covering a wide range of healthy lifestyle areas and causes ranging from politics to human rights and animal welfare. By integrating relevant content with action opportunities such as petitions pledges and daily actions Care2 builds a deeper level of passion and engagement with its users. The Butterfly Rewards member loyalty program is a currency for good for Care2 members to earn points and support nonprofit projects worldwide.
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I-MAK
United States of America
Create a public interest team of attorneys and scientists who ensure that patents do not obstruct access to affordable medicines for poor patients in developing countries.Initiative for Medicines Access & Knowledge (I MAK) envisions a world in which lifesaving medicines are readily available without excessive individual or social cost. We believe that families should not have to choose between putting food on their table and getting the medicines they need to get well. Our team of lawyers pharmaceutical scientists and health experts is dedicated to reducing drug prices by solving the drug patent problem. What s the problem? 10 billion people worldwide do not have access to basic healthcare and people worldwide are not receiving lifesaving treatments due to skyrocketing drug prices. For example 85% of Americans diagnosed with hepatitis C are currently not receiving treatment. Too often pharmaceutical companies apply for unmerited patents as a tactic to block generic competition and keep prices high. As a result companies artificially inflate the price of treatment and families struggle to afford the medicines they need for their loved ones. The patent system in the U.S. and in countries around the world disproportionately upholds private interests over public good. By challenging and ultimately repairing the patent system we can ensure people can get the lifesaving medicine they need to get well. We believe drug affordability and access is part of a broader movement for economic equity. I MAK is challenging the pharmaceutical industries anti competitive practices that for too long have been leaving communities behind. What are we doing about it? I MAK helps patients consumers governments and patent offices to create systems that support a competitive market where the needs of patients come first. Our team uses legal strategies to lower drug prices conducts data driven research and investigations to expose the problems and identify solutions and educates consumers. By elevating the voices of patients and their families we ensure that patients are at the frontline so that they can get the medicines they need.
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i-Probono
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Irela
i Probono is an online network connecting civil society organisations and social enterprises with legal assistance from around the world.They have a global network of over 1000 organisations and with the support of the Ford Foundation and Commonwealth Foundation they have a special focus on India and on South Asia.
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Nidan Swachdhara Pvt Ltd
India
Nidan is working on various developmental issues with the unorganized workers belonging to the poorest section of society. Nidan has successfully organized more than 80000 informal workers including a large number of marginalized women through its various participative interventions. Their programme includes micro finance micro insurance livelihood interventions thrift and credit program campaigns and advocacy organization of street vendors and informal workers and promotion of collective enterprises. The core manifestations of Nidan s campaign advocacy and lobbying activities includes campaign for a street vendors specific policy aimed at the development of urban street vendors. Advocacy for the better policies and programs for the informal workers starting from the work conditions to the conditions of working housing facilities micro finance and due social security are main concern for Nidan. On these issues today Nidan managed to rope in various related organizations strengthening demand for Comprehensive Social Security policies for unorganized labourers.
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Patronicity
United States of America
Patronicity supports building vibrant communities by connecting small businesses organizations & events with local patrons and sponsors to help them grow one project at a time. Patronicity is a localized crowdfunding platform that enables anybody to make a difference in their community by supporting local businesses organizations & events while simultaneously offering them incentives to do so. We accomplish this by helping these local entities for example a small business raise small amounts of capital through online donations for specific growth related projects. In return for their support the business offers value adding rewards to the donors. In this way we create a series of win wins the business wins because it is able to raise money to grow the donors win because they receive a valuable incentive for their support and the community wins because businesses are thriving and patrons are walking the streets!
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Pravah
India
Pravah has been working in the field of youth development and active citizenship since 1993. We have a large network of partners across India we work to build youth leadership for social change through the design and delivery of innovative programs with diverse groups of young people across. Our interventions with young people are designed to take participants on a learning journey to understand them develop their skills engage with social issues and discover their potential as change makers.
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UBB Spectrum
United States of America
UBB Spectrum provides early intervention autism services and will provide several different behavioral health services for individuals families groups and other clinicians. Spectrum is designed to be a resource for children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) their families their caregivers the community and other clinicians. They will be utilizing the Early Start Denver Model (ESDM) an empirically based comprehensive early intervention approach for children with autism ages 12 months to 5 years.
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