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All Across Africa
United States of America
All Across Africa is a fair trade certified benefit corporation. Benefit corporations combine the best of the non profit and business worlds. The benefit corporation structure allows All Across Africa to focus on its mission of fighting poverty and restoring hope to the poor and marginalized in East Africa by providing economic opportunity through growing and expanding markets in the West. They truly believe that job creation and education improve people s lives and allow for sustained economic growth.
| Retail |
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KZ Noir
Rwanda
First Coffee company to be Rainforest Alliance certified in Rwanda. rnCurrently pursuing a Fair Trade Certification.
| Agriculture, forestry & fishing |
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Living Goods
United States of America
Empowering micro-entrepreneurs to deliver life-changing products to the doorsteps of the poor. Living Goods believes that the poor are not helpless victims; they are resilient entrepreneurs and value conscious consumers. They need better opportunities to grow their incomes and better access to products that improve their lives. Living Goods supports networks of ‘Avon-like’ micro entrepreneurs who go door-to-door teaching families how to improve their health and wealth while selling life-changing products like simple treatments for malaria and diarrhea, fortified foods, water filters, clean cook stoves, and solar lights. Living Goods seeks nothing less than a disruptive reinvention of how the poor access vital goods and services, leading to significant gains in health and wealth for families throughout the developing world.
| Other Access to Basic Services |
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Oorja: Empowering Rural Communities
India
Oorja provides clean energy solutions and biochar to rural Indian off grid communities. Oorja designs builds and maintains easily operable mini power plants that are run by local micro entrepreneurs. The plants transform agricultural waste into reliable and affordable electricity clean cooking gas and natural biochar a soil amendment that sequesters carbon and improves soil fertility in the long term. By turning locally available crop by products into a resource Oorja empowers BoP households and farmers to develop climate resilient agriculture which reduces use of water and fertilizers displace fossil fuels and improve education health gender equity and livelihoods. Oorja s mission is to impact over 1 million people by 2025.
| Other |
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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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Sanergy
Kenya
Sanergy makes hygienic sanitation affordable and accessible in urban slums for everyone forever starting with Nairobi Kenya. 2.6 billion people or 40% of the world lack access to basic sanitation. The resulting disease causes nearly 2 million deaths 10% of the global disease burden and $84 billion in worker productivity loss each year. The high population density combined with the lack of infrastructure and resources makes the problem particularly acute in slums where populations will double to 2 billion by 2030. Kenya is at the epicenter of this crisis with 10 million people living in slums 80% of whom lack access to basic sanitation. Sanergy promotes the fundamental human right to sanitation in the slums of Kenya by increasing access to and usage of hygienic sanitation facilities. Sanergy creates an efficient equitable and sustainable sanitation cycle by building a dense network of small scale sanitation centers across the slums a low cost containerized waste collection infrastructure and converting this waste at their central processing facility into useful byproducts such as organic fertilizer and renewable energy.
| Real estate, design & building |