Tag: Social Organization12
Impact Companies Tag: Social Organization 11
Sort by:
- < Back to All Tags
Company
Center for Civic Innovation
United States of America
The Center for Civic Innovation helps the public sector find and invest in more innovative or effective ways to tackle local social challenges. The Center s main program Civic Labs facilitates pay for outcome contracts between local public agencies (a local government nonprofit or foundation) and entrepreneurs with solutions that save money generate revenue and engage local communities. The Center s innovation lab offers public sector organizations and local civic innovators a safe space for experimenting and prototyping untested promising civic ideas. They also offer trainings workshops and opportunities for constructive dialogue. The Center for Civic Innovation is based in Atlanta a city at the intersection of challenge and opportunity.
| Human health & social work |
Company
Coworker.org
United States of America
Coworker.org is a non profit organization. It is an online platform that puts the power of collective bargaining into the hands of all workers all over the world. It represents a salable departure from traditional union organizing by providing ordinary people with online tools and training to organize their co workers and advocate for changes on the job. When coworker.org launches it will be a petition based internet service. The workers initial point of entry will be the creation of a petition centered on the change they would like to see in their workplace and would target their bosses.
| Other |
Company
JustFix.nyc
United States of America
JustFix.nyc mission is to allow residents in exploitative and neglectful housing situations to better track, organize, and take action in order to ensure that their fundamental rights as tenants are being met. JustFix.nyc goal is healthy and safe homes for all. They define this as housing that has clear lines of communication between tenant and landlord, conditions that are not neglected, rights and responsibilities that are enforced, and repairs that are made within a reasonable timeline.
| Other |
Company
Measures for Justice
United States of America
Amy Bach holds a B.A. from Brown University in English and American Literature a Masters in the Study of Law from Yale Law School and a Juris Doctor from Stanford Law School. Following law school Amy worked as freelance journalist for The Nation The New York Times New York Magazine and Slate. Her experiences as a journalist and lawyer led her to write the book Ordinary Justice How America Holds Court. The book was published in 2009 and has received a number of awards including the 2010 Robert F. Kennedy Book Award and the 2009 Green Bag Journal Award. Ordinary Justice was also a finalist for the 2005 J. Anthony Lukas Work In Progress Award presented by Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.
| Other |
Company
OpenAQ
United States of America
OpenAQ is a community of scientists software developers and lovers of environmental data that is opening the world s air quality. It is building the first global open source real time platform that provides programmatic and historical air quality data access to anyone around the world. OpenAQ s community and platform will give the public data insights and voices they previously didn t have. Its goal is to enable science influence policy and empower the public in the fight against one of the biggest global health threats of our time.
| Other |
Company
Raheem AI
United States of America
Raheem AI aims to increase police transparency and accountability by eliminating barriers to reporting police misconduct. Its mobile tools deliver communities a secure anonymous and easy way to report and review police interactions. A lack of clear actionable data plays a major role in enabling police violence. Raheem AI is closing this gap by collecting and publishing data to be used to mobilize communities and advance evidence based policy solutions that end police violence.
| Other |
Company
Re.Source
United States of America
Re.Source is a start up team based out of Stanford University funded by a Grand Challenges Explorations Phase 1 grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. They strive to deliver hygienic and aspirational sanitation service to some of the poorest urban households on the planet.
| Other |
Company
SAAJHA
India
SAAJHA builds the leadership capacity of School Management Committee (SMC's) a body consisting of parents and teachers to ensure accountability for children's learning in primary public schools of India. SAAJHA supports SMC's to create forums for parent teacher interaction. It also wants to facilitate a coalition of SMC's to create national demand for good governance in schools. SAAJHA is a Hindustani word that means collaboration the organization core value. SAAJHA aims to impact 100000 schools by 2025.
| Other |
Company
Street Forge Workshops
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Irela
Street Forge Workshops project was initiated in Thornham Magna in 1986 by a group of people who were themselves disabled and who were determined to overcome the lack of training and employment opportunities in Suffolk. It is therefore ideally structured to understand the needs fears aspirations and ambitions of people with disability.rnrnThe Workshops provide individually designed programmes for adults with learning physical and/or sensory disability in an atmosphere which is supportive work like and friendly. These programmes are based around vocational opportunities with the aim of assisting users to explore opportunities in the wider community including employment when possible.rnrnWe offer a range of training including Woodwork (turning carving bench joinery) IT (word processing internet) Numeracy and Literacy and Horticulture together with Independent Living and Craft.
Company
The Institute for Transformative Technologies
India
The Institute for Transformative Technologies started in 2012 with a group at the Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, with a simple but compelling question: how can the world’s leading centers of R&D solve the biggest social and environmental challenges affecting the global poor? To answer that question, ITT began with the 50 Breakthroughs study to identify the most effective ways in which advanced technology can move the needle on such problems. ITT now work with a global network of research institutions and inventors to find the most promising early-stage technologies, and then with established companies, NGOs and public agencies around the world to bring these breakthroughs to life.
| Other |
Company
Tierra Grata
Colombia
The social organization that provides alternatives to reduce the social inequality of rural households by ensuring access to services of energy water and sanitation through social technologies inexpensive and easy to install and friendly to the environment.
| Other |