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Aakar Innovations
India
Aakar is a hybrid social enterprise comprised of Aakar Innovations and Aakar Social Ventures that enables women to produce and distribute affordable high quality 100% compostable sanitary napkins within their communities while simultaniously raising awareness and sensitization of menstrual hygiene management.
| Manufacture goods |
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Accountability Counsel
United States of America
Accountability Counsel is a non profit organization based in San Francisco California. They work toward environmental and human rights accountability in international finance and development through community trainings and claim support and policy advocacy.
| Administrative & support services |
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Aflore
Colombia
Aflore is a network of financial advisors based on trust. Treating everyone as a friend and helping them realize their financial goals.
| Financial & Insurance activites |
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African Management Initiative
Kenya
AMI is a social enterprise. Their partners include the Assocation of African Business Schools (AABS) the Global Business School Network (GBSN) the Tony Elumelu Foundation and the Lundin Foundation. Africa's rapid economic growth is rapidly draining the pool of high quality managers. AMI is committed to delivering practical and affordable management development that actually works at scale.
| Education |
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Akdemia
Peru
Akdemia is designed to be the only tool a school community will ever need. Whether you\'re a teacher, student or parent, there\'s no need to log in to 10 different apps to send messages, turn in assignments or check your calendar.
| Education |
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Akimbo
United States of America
Akimbo is an inclusive job matching and placement service for companies seeking high quality candidates from diverse backgrounds specifically sourcing women people of color and LGBT individuals.Understanding that diversity in the workplace increases innovation creativity and productivity Akimbo provides the resources and technology that enable businesses to target and retain qualified candidates from underrepresented groups.
| Information, communication & technology |
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Amano Artisans
United States of America
Amano Artisans was founded back in 2007 showcasing Colombia's talent to the world. Their jewelry collections are 100% handcrafted in Colombia eco friendly sustainable.
| Retail |
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Ambiente Creativo
Ecuador
Ambiente Creativo is a consultants in Sustainable Development and Eco Efficiency. Their differentiated view of the idea of combining the criterion strategic environmental technician and communal creativity. Thus the implementation of eco efficiency becomes interesting and profitable for everyone. Their career has been dedicated to Sustainable Development and Eco efficiency in both the private sector and the public. In creative environment can develop specific solutions related needs Eco efficiency as well as comprehensive strategies for sustainable development of a community or a business.
| Real estate, design & building |
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Appropriate Energy Saving Technologies Limited
AEST is a social business enterprise registered by women to produce charcoal briquettes and cook stoves for urban and peri urban households and institutions in the Teso region of Uganda. AEST is a project of the Teso Women Development Initiatives (TEWDI).
| Other |
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Aqua Gardens Family Farm
United States of America
Aqua Gardens of Potter Valley is an aquaponic farm nestled in the lush hills of Potter Valley in Northern California specializing in the sustainable production of living bouquets of gourmet mixed salad greens other popular vegetables and herbs. All of Aqua Gardens of Potter Valley s products are grown using the cutting edge growing technology of Aquaponics without any pesticides or chemical fertilizers.
| Agriculture, forestry & fishing |
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Arbutus Medical
Canada
Launched in 2014 Arbutus is a medical device company developing affordable world class medical devices. Their flagship product is an affordable surgical drill kit. The Drill Cover increases efficiency and accuracy while reducing the capital cost of orthopedic drills allowing surgeons to safely use a low cost hardware drill within a clean surgical environment. Arbutus sells the Drill Cover in combo kits which include a low cost hardware drill and a set of five sterile covers.
| Human health & social work |
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Arqlite
United States of America
Arqlite is an artificial rock resulting from the mixture of different plastic polymers designed to partly replace natural rock used in the preparation of concrete. The use of Arqlite as an aggregate is ideal for construction as it achieves better thermal and acoustic insulation while generating a a lighter material and a more sustainable construction.
| Construction |
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Ayiti Nexus
Haiti
Ayiti Nexus is a team of consultants who hold particular interest for and share significant experience in the fields of culture and media as well as environmental sustainability issues (among others). The firm manages projects from its offices in Port au Prince and Cap Haitien but designs activities meant to spur national dialogue on a range of development topics.
| Administrative & support services |
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Be Girl
United States of America
Be Girl is a social enterprise with the vision to be the catalyst that empowers women and girls around the globe to take control of their health and quality of life in order to achieve their potential and close gender gaps. Our vision is put into action by ensuring our products are designed for all womankind balancing the needs and resources of the individual while minimizing environmental impact to propel a generational change.
| Human health & social work |
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Best Energy
Chile
BestEnergy is creating economic value through social and environmental responsibility. They provide solar water heating for social housing through gubernamental subsidies, allowing people in need to save money in their family budget. They became a B Corp because they aim to increase the concept and transaction of social and environmental benefits, and being a part of the B Corp community is a crucial step along that path.
| Energy |
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BeTH | Benevolent Technologies for Health
United States of America
BETH develops affordable healthcare solutions. Their socket device is designed to provide comfort through an adjustable custom fit made possible with a remold able material. They hope to reduces prosthetic care costs by reducing the labor intensive procedures which involve fitting fabrication and adjustment.
| Human health & social work |
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Bicycles Against Poverty (BAP)
United States of America
Bicycles Against Poverty is based in northern Uganda. These bicycles will serve as a tool for income generating activities community cooperation and access to social services such as healthcare. Bicycle recipients make micropayments to BAP which thereby promotes responsibility over the bicycle microcredit management skills and allows BAP to work towards financial sustainability.
| Human health & social work |
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Bilingual Children's Enterprises
United States of America
Bilingual Children's Enterprises is a mobile learning and entertainment platform helping preschoolers learn English Spanish and other languages. Through Tipi Tom a multicultural and character driven property their platform features short form animated videos apps and interactive books to accelerate learning. The MVP app is available for download on iOS and Android now.
| Education |
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Billion Bricks
United States of America
Billion bricks is an organization with a vision where no one is homeless in this world and everyone has equal access to social and economic opportunities. Where no one is homeless and everyone has access to opportunities for social and economic up liftment. They aim to improve the quality of life of the homeless in developing countries by providing sustainable solutions for building and urban infrastructure. They will action our work in collaboration with partner organizations and local community by engaging in a global dialogue to provide innovative and replicable solutions for maximum impact and faster results.
| Human health & social work |
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Bodhi Health Education
India
Bodhi Health Education is an innovative award winning organisation in healthcare education.It is supported by Centre for Innovation Incubation and Entrepreneurship (CIIE) and is one among the 12 global innovators at the Innovations in Healthcare. The venture has won top awards and recognition at Indian School of Business Hyderabad IIM Calcutta National University of Singapore IIM Ahmedabad and is also a cohort member at the Dukes SEAD accelerator.
| Human health & social work |
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Boond
India
Boond creates entrepreneurs who sell and service development products like solar lamps (and home systems) water filters efficient cooking stoves dynamo lamps and mosquito nets in remote rural areas or areas affected by calamities (floods etc.). The products are aimed at providing the poor with access to adequate lighting clean water efficient cooking and pest control thereby improving their productivity and health. By train young people in becoming entrepreneurs Boond also provides livelihood to the rural unemployed while at the same time ensuring that best servicing standards are maintained.
| Energy |
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Buen Power Peru
Peru
Buen Power Peru is driven by the needs of people in Peru and around the world. They hope to empower and inspire communities across Peru with solar energy technology. Their organization was formed by people who care about the world and the needs of others. The future depends on their to change for the good of all. They believe that solar power is the right to take at this time because it is a cheap renewable energy that is easy to use and available to everyone step. Their first office and current headquarters is located in Cusco Peru.
| Financial & Insurance activites |
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Bumbleroot Foods
United States of America
Bumbleroot creates healthy and delicious beverages and snacks that include unique sustainably sourced superfood ingredients from around the world. Their first product is a Superfood Hydration Drink Mix that provides everyday hydration antioxidants and nutrients in a convenient pocket sized pouch
| Acommodation & food service |
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CAC Trading, SA
Nicaragua
CAC Trading\'s goal is to impact their community , while they are able to offer world class organic and kosher grains, through small farmers, who are convinced that they wish to be organic growers for the long term and who are totally committed to working with their quality standards.
| Agriculture, forestry & fishing |
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CAIA Ingenieria
Colombia
CAIA Engineering Ltd. was created in 2005 as a consulting firm dedicated to the provision of services to national and international level mainly related to environmental engineering. Their professionals have been closely linked to the process of modifying the Colombian environmental regulations especially air quality noise emissions and ambient noise maximum permissible emission standards for stationary sources (industry) and mobile sources (motor). Similarly have worked on improving the environmental performance of industries in the country.
| Administrative & support services |
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CASSA
Guatemala
CASSA (Construccion Autosuficiente S.A) offers complete construction services that transform natural resources into vital services in a clean way both for humans and the environment. They focus on social housing because they believe it is at the Base of the Pyramid where the greatest human impact is achieved by the appropriate and self sufficient management of resources through construction.
| Real estate, design & building |
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CityTaps
France
CityTaps enable the urban poor in the developing world to access running water at home from water utilities. Their goal is to change the lives of 750 million people for ever. The solution is technological and relies on an innovative business model in partnership with water utilities in the developing world.
| Water & Sewerage |
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codeSpark
United States of America
CodeSpark is the world s most innovative system for teaching young kids about computer science. CodeSpark have play tested the way to a custom curriculum for kids 5 8. codeSpark s pick up and play game mechanics are specifically designed to appeal to a broad range of learning styles and abilities. In tablet based game players control characters called Foos. Problems are solved games are made and things are built by programing Foos. Now and then a Glitch gets loose and messes things up.
| Education |
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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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Consultaclick
ConsultaClick is a free online service that allows patients to find a doctor, dentist or any other health professional, see their availability, and immediately book an appointment online via ConsultaClick.
| Other |
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CoPower
Canada
CoPower's online platform allows you to pool money with like minded investors and access clean energy investment opportunities. Using CoPower's platform you can also monitor the performance of your investment including your investment returns and your positive impact on the environment and the local community.
| Energy |
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Cosecha Partners
Nicaragua
Cosecha Partners S.A. is a sustainable agro enterprise and supplier of chia seed and other native Central American healthy and superfood products. Based in Managua Nicaragua they produce process and export premium agricultural products and food ingredients from Central America. In doing so they build sustainable and dynamic market relationships that connect leading food distributors manufacturers and retailers with exceptional small scale growers. By serving buyers and growers alike they pioneer new and exciting health and nostalgic food products on the market that showcase their growers unique story and our triple bottom line approach.
| Other |
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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 |
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Daj Daj cloth diapers
Serbia
Behind the name DajDaj are the two women Sonja and Violeta. The idea to make cloth diapers came in 2009. They went in search of bamboo diapers in Serbia. It turned out to be with them no real the closest thing they found was in Croatia but they were unable to send them regularly. After a handful of letters and calls from friends they managed somehow to buy 10 bamboo diapers and they were overjoyed. Just then they thought Why do they not make the rules? Why do not try it and other parents and friends to provide them with the purchase of high quality and healthy diapers.
| Other |
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Dance4Healing
United States of America
Dance4Healing roots in neuroscience using AI to recommend music dance groups based on emotion and condition using behavior design and gamification to encourage learning while building dance habits. The ecosystem includes at home training with movement feedback mobile on the go to continue the healing process and a platform to build a community focus on music and dance therapy for healing.
| Human health & social work |
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DASSY Enterprise
In 2010 DASSY Enterprise Ltd has established retail shop of all affordable solar equipments(LED lamps solar lanterns lighting kits solar home systems solar water heaters) with installation and maintenance service in Musanze North Rwanda to satisfy the needs of off grid people as 90% of all Rwandans are still off grid. Now it is expanding expand this business up to Kayonza(Eastern Province) and is about to establish franchise with remote shop keepers in order to increase sales while ensuring sustainable social and environmental impacts.
| Other |
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Desolenator
United Kingdom of Great Britai
Desolenator Ltd has patented a method of water purification that operates entirely by the power of the sun. It purifies water from any source with no chemicals no filters and no moving parts. The result is the cheapest most environmentally friendly method of desalination. The company aims to have the Desolenator provide water independence and fresh drinking water independence to 1 billion in the next decade.
| Water & Sewerage |
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Dharma Life
India
Dharma Life is a pioneering award winning business created in 2009 that is driving sustainable economic growth in rural India by creating livelihood and building a market for socially impactful world class products that improve lives and livelihoods. Dharma Life has improved over 2.5 million lives with a network of more than 3500 village entrepreneurs operating across six states in India (Uttar Pradesh Maharashtra Bihar Karnataka Gujarat and Rajasthan). Dharma Life partners with corporate to provide a product range to meet the rural consumer s need.
| Other |
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digitalundivided.com
United States of America
digitalundivided (DID) is a social enterprise that develops programs that increase the active participation of urban communities, especially women, in the digital space.
| Information, communication & technology |
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Drinkwell
United States of America
Drinkwell was established in May 2013 as a part of WIST Inc. to capitalize on the lessons learned of the over 200 implementations and take advantage of the enormous market opportunity of providing clean drinking water to rural and peri urban communities that lack access to affordable sources of clean drinking water.
| Water & Sewerage |
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E-Hands Energy
India
E Hands Energy is in the business of providing clean energy access to people in remote areas of rural India who are off the country's electricity grid. They are one of the very few companies in India to offer both solar and wind based renewable energy solutions. E Hands Energy partners with Kestrel Renewable Energy subsidiary of Eveready Pty. Ltd. for micro wind turbine installations in India. E Hands Energy are among the chosen few globally for seed funding by ERM's Low Carbon Enterprise Fund (LCEF). E Hands Energy has been rated as one of the five most promising companies in India by New Venture India an independent body monitoring and evaluating upcoming companies in clean energy.
| Energy |
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EA Fruits Farm
United Republic of Tanzania
EA FRUITS FARM & COMPANY is the company which engages in large production and distribution of fruits and variety of vegetables including pineapples watermelons oranges mangoes tomatoes carrots and grapes supply of these fruits to customers all over Tanzania especially in Dar Es Salaam and extending to overseas boundaries. The business is located at Bagamoyo in a village called Fukayosi where the production takes place in the company s own land with 50.3 acres size. Currently the distribution of its products will be done in some parts of Tanzania and is expected to go beyond Tanzania borders in the near future.
| Other |
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EarthSpark International
United States of America
EarthSpark International is a nonprofit organization dedicated to eradicating energy poverty in Haiti with innovative technology and financing solutions. By expanding market access for lower income Haitians the organization is putting affordable portable solar lighting and improved cookstoves in the hands of people who need it most. EarthSpark is also developing a town sized prepaid solar microgrid in Les Anglais Haiti to prove that bringing electricity to under served areas is financially feasible and highly impactful.
| Energy |
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EcoEnergy Finance
Pakistan is facing an energy crisis there are over 70 million people without access to the electricity grid and no respite in sight.rnrnEcoEnergyFinance addresses this by making solar energy solutions available as a service to its rural off grid customers through its fleet of field sales and technical staff. Using these solutions our customers build more prosperous business and families.
| Energy |
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Ecofiltro
Guatemala
Ecofiltro is a social business that has a very clear social objective. To reach 1 million rural Guatemalans with clean water by the year 2020. \r\nEcofiltro will only use financially sustainable methods to reach this goal and will always remain open to sharing their production process and marketing tactics with any outside group that wants to solve the water challenge in their home country.
| Water & Sewerage |
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ECOS
STAMP developed the Energy Conserving Stove (ECOS) a fuel efficient biomass stove featuring an innovative built in jacket that can be filled with 3 litres of water. This feature both helps to insulate the stove making it more efficient and allows the user to simultaneously boil water whilst cooking.
| Other |
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Eighteen East
South Africa
Eighteen East Group is dedicated to the development of innovative finance solutions for impact investing businesses and vehicles. By leveraging off its network across continents Eighteen East brings together the shared resources and knowledge required for sustainable and impactful growth. Eighteen East takes a market based approach to facilitating the development of impactful businesses. Sound business fundamentals are incorporated along with the highest standards of governance environmental protection and fair trade principles in all projects.
| Other |
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El Buen Socio
Mexico
El Buen Socio is an ethical finance institution in Mexico that promotes sustainable development by strengthening people s capabilities and supporting entrepreneurs with sustainable businesses.rn rnEl Buen Socio issues loans to entrepreneurs unable to obtain a loan through other banking institutions.rnrnEl Buen Socio supports entrepreneurs who farm forest or fish in an eco friendly way with sustainable use of natural resources. All loan proposals must have a positive social or environmental impact and must be profitable.
| Financial & Insurance activites |
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Ellilta Products
Ethiopia
A local company named Ellilta Products was started when Barrett Ward founder of the Mocha Club came to Ethiopia to discuss the concept of a work program with a woman named Cherry Teketel the founder of WAR. At the time Cherry was finding it difficult to place women in jobs after their rehabilitation programs were completed. The idea was born to create FashionABLE as a US business that would purchase these scarves from Ellilta Products to create opportunities on both sides of the ocean. Today Ellilta Products is the supplier/producer of scarves for FashionABLE and a handful of other clients around the world. Profits from Ellilta go back into WAR to help rehabilitate more women as well as grow their weaving business to bring more women into the work.
| Other |
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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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Eniware, LLC
United States of America
Infection and disease transmission in clinics and hospitals afflict millions in the developing world. There is no satisfactory effective non electricity dependent sterilization available today. Founded in 2011 Eniware LLC is poised to provide portable power independent sterilization of medical equipment for existing and expanding healthcare anywhere at any time. Eniware has secured an exclusive proprietary license for patented nitrogen dioxide (NO2) gas sterilization technology for Africa Asia (except Japan) and the Middle East as well as a global license to develop portable sterilization solutions for military and disaster relief applications. Eniware will provide portable power free low cost sterilization of medical instruments in resource limited environments from disaster areas to conflict zones and from urban hospitals to rural clinics around the world.
| Other |
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Equater Fuelwood Energy Saving
EFWES is a private enterprise committed to promotion of Renewable Energy Solutions in Kenya and beyond. They deal with energy saving technologies namely Biogas technology Energy saving efficient clean cook stoves solar systems wind energy technology as well as consultancy in renewable energy.
| Other |
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Escalera
Mexico
Escalera is a company providing leadership in addressing the country's energy supply going forward. They provide real and meaningful employment and economic job creation coupled with smart environmental protections and rewards. The leading team of global purpose driven industry experts from across a range of industries who are unequaled in turning undervalued natural gas resources into high value rewards revenues and opportunities.
| Other |
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Farm from a Box
United States of America
Farm from a Box provides vulnerable communities with the tools needed to feed themselves and build a strong livelihood. Their aim is to reduce poverty and hunger through innovation technology transfer and market access by providing the mobile infrastructure that rural communities often lack.
| Agriculture, forestry & fishing |
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Farmerline Ltd
Ghana
The Farmerline vision is to see an Africa where Agriculture NGO s are not a functioning force in the market. Farmerline provides paid services that allow farmers to have the information and access they need to employ an entrepreneurial method of farming. Input dealers and traders pay for more efficient communication channels to farmers and farmers pay for information packages and services. In this vision more food is produce more food gets to market and GDP from cash crop export soars.
| Agriculture, forestry & fishing |
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Federation of Women Entrepreneurs' Association of Nepal
Nepal
FWEAN established in 2003 is the apex body of WEAN established in 1989 and works at establishing subsidiary chapters in all 75 districts. FWEAN is a not for profit non political organization aiming at representing the collective efforts and voice of women entrepreneurs in the economic progress of the nation and has been playing an influencing role in advocating for the needs and rights of women entrepreneurs in key decision making forums at national and international levels.
| Other |
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Friend Factor
Friendfactor activates straight people to become visible and active allies in their workplace and campus communities.
| Other |
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Geel Medical Services
Uganda
GEEL Medical services was founded on the 1st September 2011 with a mission to reduce preventable health related deaths in marginalized areas of sub Saharan Africa by improving access to quality affordable and reliable comprehensive healthcare services with a focus on maternal child(women and children) health.
| Other |
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GenteGas S.A.
Guatemala
GenteGas provides affordable access to clean and efficient liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) stoves to poor families in Guatemala while offering a women entrepreneur microenterprise development program that teaches entrepreneurship and financial literacy. Their entrepreneurs generate income by offering families an affordable stove and tank package that can be financed with low interest from their local bank partner. The GenteGas sales network distributes health education directly into households.
| Energy |
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GeriJoy
United States of America
GeriJoy is an MIT startup that creates virtual companions for seniors. GeriJoy is a tablet based application that is internet connected and runs on the iPad and many of the Android tablets. Thats only one side of the magic though as it what is on the other end of the internet connection that we think makes GeriJoy truly amazing. Their talking dogs improve mental health through pet therapy and reinforce relationships by talking about family photos news and memories.
| Other |
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Greenchar
Kenya
GreenChar is a clean household energy enterprise in Kenya that produces charcoal briquettes from revitalized agricultural wastes. Compared to generic household charcoal GreenChar charcoal briquettes are smokeless high energy longer lasting and eco friendly by curbing deforestation. Additionally GreenChar distributes clean cookstoves that optimize the efficiency of GreenChar briquettes. Together these cookstoves and briquettes save time money and lives.
| Energy |
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HandUp
The HandUp platform is operated by South Oakland Shelter (SOS) a Metro Detroit based homeless services agency. Since 1984 SOS has worked to end homelessness for individuals and families in crisis. SOS implements housing first programming works with a community of 70 faith congregations to provide year round emergency shelter operates a variety of rental assistance programs with supportive services and builds supportive and affordable housing. SOS has successfully used the HandUp platform to empower those it serves in addressing financial barriers to housing and long term stability and now operates HandUp to enable agencies in Metro Detroit and beyond to do the same for their clients.
| Financial & Insurance activites |
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HIPGive
United States of America
HIPGive is a crowdfunding platform that facilitates smart investments in innovation and Latino communities across the U.S. and the Americas. HIPGive features and represents the most innovative and impactful organizations serving Latino communities.The platform leverages technology to bring individuals corporations and foundations together in an effort to mobilize generosity.
| Financial & Insurance activites |
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Humanure Power
Humanure Power is a non profit organization that builds toilets with the goal of eradicating outdoor defecation.
| Other |
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iKure Techsoft Private Limited
India
iKure work in collaboration with the rural communities to develop the ecosystem for its service delivery model. The company conducts free health camps to build trust and awareness and train people to work with them as health workers. The highly innovative service delivery model ensures quality care through technology assisted last mile solution and generate better livihood across the rural population.ikure with the plan to set up 15 health centres in next one year aims to impact 2 million people in next 2 years.
| Human health & social work |
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ILUMEXICO
Mexico
ILUMEXICO is a social enterprise That Promotes Development through rural electrification to Communities With high and very high sea ginalization in Mexico. They promote access to energy through microfinance schemes long term service and training in the use and maintenance of technology. Also they believe that energy is a platform to foster development building Promote programs and workshops on various topics such as community organization gender equity and financial inclusion.
| Energy |
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Inception Strategies
Australia
Inception Strategies is a business storytelling organisation established in 2004. They have work with clients to develop compelling communication that meets their strategic priorities and engages their primary, secondary and tertiary audiences.
| Information, communication & technology |
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Instiglio
United States of America
Instiglio\'s mission is to empower leaders in the social, public, and private sectors to improve the impact of social programs in developing countries by linking funding to results.
| Financial Services: Advisory Services |
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InStove Manufacturing LTD
United States of America
InStove Manufacturing Ltd. is a for profit organization founded by Institutional Stove Solutions (InStove) to manage the production of our technologies. The idea follows the non profit sector best practice of licensing technologies to be produced by associated for profit entities. This allows the for profit organization to attract working capital and scale up to meet demand in ways not available to the nonprofit.
| Other |
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Jail Education Solutions
United States of America
Jail Education Solutions provides intuitive educational courses where inmates are rewarded for learning. With their unique tablet technology they help unlock the potential of millions of incarcerated people. Edovo increases access to invaluable resources for individuals involved in the criminal justice system.
| Education |
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Janta Meals
India
Janta Meals serves affordable meals to the working class population (blue collar) in Delhi NCR region. They operate a hub and spoke model where a central kitchen (run by women from the local community) prepares and distributes the meals to the franchisees and institutional clients like NGOs factories government bodies etc. The company prepares nutritious meals in a clean and hygienic kitchen and sells these through a network of micro entrepreneurs (franchisees) who are based among the target group. Through bulk purchasing efficient usage of fuel and mechanised cooking they can achieve prices as low as Rs. 20 for a meal.
| Other |
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Kigali Farms
Rwanda
Kigali Farms is a social enterprise. It is a for profit enterprise with a social purpose. their customer is the Rwandan farmer and the Rwandan consumer. When all is said and done the customer decides whether our product meets their need and whether their vision is sustainable. The company was formally founded in September 2010 to turn this vision into reality. they have become the largest suppliers of oyster mushroom substrate in Rwanda. they are also the largest supplier of fresh mushrooms in Rwanda thanks to their mushroom buy back commitment to our substrate customers.
| Other |
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Koe Koe Tech
Myanmar
Koe Koe Tech is a local based company that creates Health Information Systems and contributes to the use of Mobile Health in Myanmar.
| Other |
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Kulemela Investments
Kulemela Investments integrates philanthropy and profit by channeling foreign investor capital toward small and growing African agribusinesses. These businesses support small scale farmers directly or are leading a beneficial market systems change returning both financial and social impact. In Ghana small scale farmers lack access to markets and markets lack access to capital. Kulemela works with high potential agribusiness entrepreneurs who have struggled to access growth financing from traditional sources and we provide missing middle financing of $10000 $200000 to help entrepreneurs succeed.
| Other |
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Kunoa Cattle Company
United States of America
Kunoa Cattle Company produces the healthiest beef on the planet in the healthiest place on the planetKauai Hawaii.
| Agriculture, forestry & fishing |
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Labor Exchange
United States of America
Labor Exchange connects job seekers with nontraditional backgrounds with companies looking to hire them. Labor Exchange help companies tap into a non traditional talent pool for their entry level hires that helps them meet their hiring and diversity needs in a faster cheaper and easier way.
| Other |
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Laboratoria
Peru
Laboratoria works in partnership with technology companies that helps to always have a curriculum that responds to the market, and that hire coders once completed. They also work with organizations that promote social entrepreneurship and helps to go further.
| Information, communication & technology |
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LaborLink
United States of America
Operating in Bangladesh LaborLink is a platform that help companies like Cisco and Patagonia to align sourcing practices with worker needs like SurveyMonkey for the 5 billion people without internet access.
| Other |
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Leaf Innovation
India
Leaf is a wearable technology company. Their product Guardian is a wearable device which combines with the mobile application and control room to form a security ecosystem which makes sure that every woman who has the device will stay safe anytime and anywhere. The features that make the technology stand out against the existing solutions of women security are sensing of danger by the device communicational redundancy and crowdsourcing of help.
| Other |
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LegWorks
United States of America
LegWorks is a for profit social enterprise. The company vision is to produce and supply all components of a complete prosthetic leg solution for amputees around the world regardless of where they live their social status or their ability to pay. LegWorks uses tiered pricing both across and within markets to create margin where appropriate and maximize distribution of its products to all from the developed world to the developing world.
| Human health & social work |
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Library for All
United States of America
Library For All is a nonprofit with a mission to make knowledge accessible to all equally.To achieve this mission we have built a cloud based library platform filled with locally relevant e books curated for different regions in the developing world. Library For All is more cost effective and sustainable than building physical libraries.
| Information, communication & technology |
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LifeNet International
United States of America
LifeNet International conversion franchise platform for primary care health centers is designed for impact scale and sustainability drawing on business principles to build in country capacity and generate long term effect. Every pharmaceutical we deliver or piece of equipment they distribute is financed by their partner health centers and paired with comprehensive ongoing training. Health centers that implement LifeNet taught best practices become official LN partners and establish regional standards of care. The success of their Nurse and Management Training is based on the trust relationships they build with partner center staff which lead to lasting behavior change and heightened capacity.
| Human health & social work |
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LishaBora Hydroponics Limited
Kenya
LishaBora believes in the elimination of poverty through innovation and education in the dairy sector of Kenya. They believe poverty is systemic and is created by the systems in which farmers operate. They attribute that many of the 1.8 million dairy farmers earn less than $2 USD a day due to the limited options low quality and high cost of dairy feed currently available in the market. A much more nutritious and affordable product is possible. LishaBora is disrupting the product distribution model and supply chain of the dairy industry in Kenya. LishaBora create dairy feed that is nutritious and affordable in order to raise the amount of milk produced by smallholder dairy farmers.
| Agriculture, forestry & fishing |
Company
LittleBigMoney
Colombia
LittleBigMoney technology poses a financing alternative low cost easy access and zero brokerage guidance on projects with positive impact in their communities. The platform provides a space where entrepreneurs can have a direct relationship with employees it makes possible the birth of a community of people with common interests.
| Financial & Insurance activites |
Company
Lively Hoods
United States of America
They're creating livelihoods and making this world more lively one neighborhood at a time. Livelyhoods is a not for profit sales network that creates jobs for youth in Kenyan slums through the distribution of life changing products.After interviewing 278 youth about how they survive they learned they had to sell something before they could eat. LivelyHoods employs youth at what they are good at sales. Our sales network leverages young people's ambition and knowledge of their community and requires minimal education.THEY prepare youth for a life of financial independence and personal success.
| Professional & technical services |
Company
LivelyHoods
They\'re creating Livelihoods and making this world more lively, one neighborhood at a time. Livelihoods is a not-for-profit sales network that creates jobs for youth in Kenyan slums through the distribution of life-changing products. After interviewing 278 youth about how they survive, the team learned they had to sell somthing before they could eat. Livelihoods employs youth at what they are good at - sales. Their sales network leverages young people\'s ambition and knowledge of their community, and requires minimal education. We prepare youth for a life of financial independence and personal success.
| Other |
Company
Loomio
New Zealand
Loomio is a collaborative decision making tool. Loomio reduces the cost of participation in decision making making it easy for any group to translate online communication into real world collective action. The software is being built by a core team in Wellington New Zealand and a wider network of friends and supporters all over the world.
| Information, communication & technology |
Company
Love Grain
United States of America
Love Grain is a new food company with a bold social mission to connect Ethiopian farmers with international markets through a line of wholesome delicious products based on the superfood teff. Every year millions of Ethiopian farmers produce delicious ancient foods like teff millet barley sorghum chickpeas legumes and sesame. These smallholder farming families share the goals of people everywhere to educate their children provide food for their communities year round and cultivate their land from planting to harvest.
| Other |
Company
Luci�rnaga LLC
United States of America
Luciernaga LLC is a for profit subsidiary of environmental nonprofit Trees Water & People. We distribute household (30W) solar energy technologies that meet lighting and device charging needs for energy poor populations throughout Central America. As a bulk importer and wholesale distributor Luciernaga facilitates the link between the manufacturer of solar products and smaller organizations on the ground. As a regional supplier we can focus on the logistical details and make orders big enough to keep the price per unit low giving thousands of rural families access to life changing solar home systems.
| Energy |
Company
Mayaversatil
Guatemala
Mayaversatil is a service company interdisciplinary in social, economic and environmental, providing the population target sustainable and comprehensive development .
| Financial & Insurance activites |
Company
MicroClinic Technologies Ltd
Kenya
The management team brings over 40 years of combined experience in health operations and commodities management. MicroClinic Technologies is dedicated to training and mentoring health professionals in East Africa. Their company supports a variety of philanthropic programs through a partnership with the 2020 MicroClinic Initiative which promotes access to integrated reproductive health services and maternal and child health programs in Level 2 and 3 health centers. They are currently supporting projects in 10 rural health centers in Nyanza Province Kenya in partnership with the OGRA Foundation which is an NGO based in Kisumu.
| Human health & social work |
Company
MicroX Labs
MicroX Labs currently focusing on Complete Blood Count (CBC) chips in order to provide affordable, accessible and quality diagnostic solutions.
| Other |
Company
Miti Health
Kenya
Miti Health is transforming healthcare in East Africa with a technology platform that addresses the most pressing needs of frontline providers. Their solution is an off the shelf Android based application for small healthcare providers in Kenya (called chemists). The system reports on sales manages inventory and enables easier reordering of high quality medications in an environment where supply chains are fragmented and over 30% of medication is counterfeit.
| Other |
Company
Moneythink
United States of America
Moneythink is a White House recognized 501(c)3 non profit organization that provides financial education and peer mentorship to urban 11th and 12th graders in the United States. Its unique model uses customized curricula and college volunteers to make financial decision making and career planning practical relevant and fun for urban high school students entering the real world. The organization leverages the resources on college campuses to train college students as mentors for local youth placing these college students into local high school classrooms.
| Education |
Company
MoringaConnect
Ghana
MoringaConnect aims to eradicate rural poverty and hunger by enabling small farmers to participate in the global market for high value natural ingredients starting with Moringa oil. By investing in the farmers and the communities they serve through agricultural inputs farmer training and high tech in country processing
| Agriculture, forestry & fishing |
Company
Mosa Mack Science Inc.
United States of America
Mosa Mack Science Detective is a web based series of short animated science mysteries designed to inspire 4th 8th graders. Utilizing a fun diverse cast of characters each episode examines a science topic using an inquiry model and ends with a query the students attempt to solve together using customizable discussion guides. Mosa Mack Science Detective strives to expose all students to the thrill of problem solving while empowering girls and children of color in science.
| Other |
Company
MPOWER
United States of America
MPOWER s mission is to remove financial barriers to higher education in the U.S. To accomplish this mission MPOWER works with investors and universities to lend to high potential students who are left out by traditional banks. In addition to providing students with access to the financial resources necessary to attend and complete college MPOWER builds students credit histories provides them with personal finance education and offers gateway financial products to prepare them for life after college.
| Financial & Insurance activites |
Company
Multi-link Group Limited
Multi-Link Group Limited is a limited liability company incorporated in Kenya in 2010 and set to revolutionize business landscape in the region. Bringing Clean Energy solutions for home based cooking with a touch of new technology that will improve peoples\' standards of living, health and eliminate energy poverty burden. Multi-Link is introducing \'Protos\', a Plant Oils Stove technology from BSH that is set to usher in a new and modern cooking lifestyle for any Kenyan as well as augment environmental conservation efforts.
| Other |
Company
Naandi Community Water Services
India
Naandi which in Sanskrit means a new beginning is one of the largest and fastest growing social sector organisations in India working to make poverty history. Founded in 1998 our work has 3 broad sectors Child Rights Safe Drinking Water and Sustainable Livelihoods. They also have a research arm that takes up action researches and other field based trials to check out innovations and their potential to positively influence policy. Their ideology revolves around building sustainable models within the social sector that deliver critical services efficiently and equitably to underserved communities.
| Water & Sewerage |
Company
Naturetech Infrastructure Pvt. Ltd.
India
Naturetech Infra is a social enterprise in the business of providing clean energy access to rural villages in India by creating permanent Smart Solar AC Microgrid based infrastructure.
| Energy |
Company
News Deeply
United States of America
News Deeply is a new media and technology company dedicated to bringing thought leaders together enhancing public engagement and improving the user experience of complex global issues. The team of journalists and technologists builds unique user centered resources that fuse news live events information design and social participation.
| Information, communication & technology |
Company
nFrnds
Singapore
N Frnds unleashes the reach of enterprises within global emerging markets through a range of powerful SaaS based solutions that can be accessed from any device even without mobile data. Based on groundbreaking technology protected by 20 patents our platform is easily adaptable and swiftly deployable to digitize financial and business processes across customer and supplier networks.
| Other |
Company
Noora Health
United States of America
Noora health trains patients and their caregivers with high impact health skills that change outcomes. They work in low resource hospitals in India and high tech hospitals in Silicon Valley providing medical education about conditions that meets people where they are.
| Other |
Company
Nusantara Development Initiatives
NDI is an award winning Singapore based non profit aimed at ending energy poverty through women empowerment. Their work is in rural Indonesia.
| Other |
Company
Ocean Rich Communities of Alaska (ORCA)
ORCA Ocean Rich Communities of Alaska is a social enterprise fishing cooperative transforming Salmon seafood & communities by sourcing the highest quality fish directly from Alaska fishermen. In the Bay Area they provide seafood while building a social enterprise. ORCA transform communities & how you get your seafood by utilizing Cells Alive System (CAS) super cooling technology from ABI Co.
| Agriculture, forestry & fishing |
Company
Ojos que Sienten A.C.
Mexico
Ojos que Sienten develops human potential in people with and without disabilities through activities with high social impact. The association seeks to create win win relationships adding value to the organizational development of the companies that is linked through its workshops dinner in the dark photographic exhibitions and gifts for cause activities that contribute to improvements in work teams in the axes of communication teamwork leadership managing uncertainty and diversity. Ojos que Sienten develops human potential in people with and without disabilities through activities with high social impact.rnThe association seeks to create win win relationships adding value to the organizational development of the companies that is linked through its workshops dinner in the dark photographic exhibitions and gifts for cause activities that contribute to improvements in work teams in the axes of communication teamwork leadership managing uncertainty and diversity. Ojos que Sienten develops human potential in people with and without disabilities through activities with high social impact..
| Other |
Company
One Heart World Wide
They work with local communities and local health providers to develop a culturally appropriate Network of Safety around mothers and infants, by raising awareness, teaching good practices, and distributing essential supplies to ensure that mothers and infants survive delivery and the first months of life. The Network of Safety is innovative in that it is tailored to the local cultural context, that it puts the mother first and that our interventions are aimed simultaneously at several different levels to ensure appropriate continuity of care for the mothers and infants.
| Other |
Company
Open Green Road
Chile
Open Green Road aims to reduce the economic gap in education by providing stu-dents with the tools they need to succeed on the college entrance exam
| Education |
Company
PACE MD
Mexico
PACE MD was the first social impact organization in Mexico to address particular gaps in Mexican health care skills and services. It is staffed 100% by Mexican citizens and has a network of hundreds of certified medical instructors. In Mexico the PACEMD program seeks to improve medical care in areas where mortality rates are high. PACE MD has pioneered different courses in Latin America to provide doctors improved knowledge skills and abilities.
| Human health & social work |
Company
Penda Health
Kenya
Penda Health is building a chain of outpatient Medical Centres that offer the highest quality outpatient care for the whole family and unbelievable patient experiences at surprising affordable costs. In only 2 years they've grown to one of the busiest and most well respected Medical Centres in Kitengela, Umoja and they aim to open 100's of medical centres across East Africa in the next 10 years.
| Other |
Company
Pixán
Mexico
Pixan is a social enterprise working to sustainably improve the well being of coffee farmers and their communities by creating and selling new products improving market access and fostering a holistic and organic approach to environmental management.
| Other |
Company
PlanIT Impact
United States of America
PlanIT Impact is a resource impact tool for the planning design and construction industries that link locally available geospatial data with a specific development project s location to provide visually immersive feedback. With PlanIT Impact client groups civic leaders and citizens can be immersed in a planned design scenario through 3D navigation and interactive information.
| Information, communication & technology |
Company
PlayMoolah
United States of America
They are a community of young people who want fulfilling and empowering lifestyles but are done with a single minded focus of progress based on greed growth and achievement. They seek meaning in our lives and live by a new definition of success.They hope to show through money as a metaphor what is actually important in life and to rebuild a positive and healthy relationship to money in our society with the highest goal of getting in touch with the wonder and purpose of their lives.
| Other |
Company
Pollinate Energy
Australia
Pollinate Energy is a social business with a simple mission to improve the lives of India s urban poor by giving them access to affordable products. With a focus on sustainable solutions such as solar lights and improved cookstoves people are able to reduce indoor smoke have better quality light use less fuel and save money.
| Other |
Company
PowerGen Renewable Energy
Kenya
PowerGen Renewable Energy founded in 2011 is a premier renewable energy design and installation firm in the African region. In 2013 PowerGen began to address the problem of rural energy access by installing and operating alternating current (AC) solar micro grids in off grid communities in East Africa. Micro grids can be deployed quickly offer a low connection fee for customers have more functionality than solar lanterns (it is real AC power) and can be expanded to supply more energy as customer demand grows. From a business perspective micro grids offer a new way of thinking about rural electrification rapidly deployable private infrastructure. To date PowerGen has installed 18 micro grids providing electricity to over 550 homes and businesses benefiting over 23000 people.
| Energy |
Company
PowerMundo
United States of America
PowerMundo improves access to solar and other clean technologies to empower people in emerging markets. By sourcing cleantech products building a rural distribution network offering financing options and educating consumers about the cleantech products PowerMundo provides families with the opportunity to redirect their monthly cash expenditures towards cleaner and more efficient energy sources to promote health education clean environments and economic well being.
| Energy |
Company
Prakti
India
Prakti is the first cookstove enterprise to offer a fully integrated stove ecosystem connecting design manufacturing and distribution. Their unique approach to this ecosystem is based in cultural insights the operations in every region vary based on the traditions cooking methods and systems in that region. Unlike other stove companies which offer a one size fits all model their portfolio includes seven different stoves with different sizes fuel types and designs.
| Energy |
Company
Private Capital for Public Good
United States of America
Private Capital for Public Good is creating non traditional financial vehicles to fund conservation programs. They are working to incentivize private investors to finance projects that have traditionally been paid for by governments and philanthropists.
| Financial & Insurance activites |
Company
Project Equity
United States of America
Project Equity is the community economic development to shift control locally and build economic resiliency in low income communities in the San Francisco Bay Area. They envision a future where business decisions are made through a lens of what is good for workers and communities leading to businesses that are more successful communities that are more resilient and workers who have stable jobs and economic security.
| Real estate, design & building |
Company
Pulse Active Savings
Pulse is a unique way for low income families in the developing world to create commitment savings for core household needs. By saving with Pulse customers can prevent money from being lost or misspent and dedicate it to the things that matter right in the palm of their hand.
| Other |
Company
Qimsa
United States of America
QIMSA is a federally approved non profit 501(c)(3) volunteer program operated on Marine Corps Base Quantico Virginia. Their program provides combat injured military members undergoing treatment at Walter Reed Bethesda or any other hospital in the nations capital region the opportunity to realize their hunting and fishing potential regardless of injury in the company of fellow veterans and sportsmen.
| Other |
Company
QoC Health
Canada
QoC Health is a Patient Centred Healthcare technology company. They strive to provide easier access to circles of family peer and social supports for improved patient outcomes and reduced readmissions. The principle QoC (Quality of Care) product is their Cloud Connect healthcare web services platform. Their Cloud Connect web services platform allows companies to rapidly deploy unique healthcare solutions across various types of health care scenarios including post 30 day discharge quality of recovery monitoring healthcare research applications patient decision aids and portal applications. Designed to take the complexity out of designing and deploying cloud based compliant fully connected technology solutions their platform helps accelerate next generation healthcare solutions into the hands of patients right across Canada.
| Other |
Company
Qorax Energy
United States of America
Qorax is a solar asset financing and distribution company that unlocks value for investors and consumers in frontier markets. Qorax work through local management teams to create access to vital electricity service for the people who need it most. Their portfolio companies operate in Somaliland Somalia the Democratic Republic of the Congo and are expanding quickly.
| Energy |
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
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 |
Company
Recesspreneurs
United States of America
Recesspreneurs empowers disadvantaged youth by teaching life skills through entrepreneurship. We are entrepreneurial education that breeds the habits and skills necessary for an individual to be successful.
| Education |
Company
Recicla Electronicos Mexico
Mexico
Recicla Electrnicos Mxico (REMSA) is a 100% Mexican company and a leader in the professional recycling of electronic waste. Their staff is fully trained their processes are patented and they have the necessary infrastructure to identify collect separate and recycle all types of materials such as monitor glass plastics electronic cards and metals (ferrous and non ferrous). Their staff members receive all of the employee benefits mandated by Mexican law all of them are provided with appropriate safety equipment and everyone enjoys an excellent work environment making us a standard bearer for green jobs in Mexico.
| Other |
Company
Recompose
AF
Recompose is developing a process that gently converts human remains into soil so that we can nourish new life after we die. Our goal is to offer recomposition as an alternative choice to cremation and conventional burial.
Company
Revive Foods
United States of America
Revive Foods is a mission driven food company dedicated to eliminating food waste by recovering and repurposing edible surplus produce across the food supply chain.
| Other |
Company
Rides for Lives
Uganda
To sustainably strengthen healthcare systems in Sub Saharan Africa using local talent to combat the extreme shortage of healthcare professionals in underserved areas
| Human health & social work |
Company
Safermom
Nigeria
SaferMom is an innovative start up that provides vital health information to new and expectant mothers using interactive and low cost SMS and voice services in local languages.
| Other |
Company
San Francisco Public Press
United States of America
The San Francisco Public Press is an independent nonprofit noncommercial news organization dedicated to producing important local public interest news. They do for print and Web journalism what public broadcasting has done for radio and television.
| Information, communication & technology |
Company
Sanivation
United States of America
Sanivation really has its beginnings from 2006 when Emory approached Georgia Tech looking for a toilet that would be more reliable in treating human fecal sludge. Ideas for a solar toilet were tossed around and prototypes were built in Bolivia in 2007 and 2008. Work continued through GTRI and Engineers Without Boarders on various iterations of the prototypes. In 2011 a group of Georgia Tech and Emory students and recent graduates submitted an application to Start Up Chile (a business incubator) to begin an organization based on solar sanitation. In July 2011 5 Tech students moved to Chile to work full time on solar sanitation. Initial prototypes went well and the team designed service models to create a more viable business model.
| Other |
Company
Sevamob
United States of America
Sevamob is fundamentally transforming the access to primary healthcare in the developing countries. They operate an online health exchange through which patients can find connect with and use tele health / in person services from participating health providers. Sevamob also deliver primary healthcare via mobile clinics to groups on a monthly subscription model.
| Other |
Company
Six Foods
United States of America
Six Foods believes that six legs are better than four and they are introducing insects to the Western diet as a sustainable food. We make tortilla chips with cricket flour called Chirps. They are 3x the protein and the fat of the leading potato chip. Plus they re non GMO and gluten free. They plan to eventually introduce more products with the hope of bringing insect meat onto store shelves in direct competition with beef pork and other meats.
| Other |
Company
SOKO
United States of America
Soko employs technology to empower and provide equal access to opportunity for marginalized artisans. Our supply chain innovation uses the mobile phone to connect independent artisan entrepreneurs to Soko in an ethical and transparent virtual factory. With Soko s mobile tools artisans have access to an entire world of consumers expanding their business horizons and entrepreneurial prospects.
| Other |
Company
SOKOTEXT
Kenya
SokoText based in Nairobi Kenya is a smart solution with a big idea To make food affordable for everyone. They use the power of text messaging to aggregate demand for food and unlock wholesale prices for small entrepreneurs in urban slums.
| Rental & repair |
Company
Solageo
China, Hong Kong Special Admin
Solageo ultimate objective is to enable Small and Medium Clean Energy Enterprises operating within under served communities in Developing Asia Africa and Latin America to more easily gain access to quality affordable and appropriate clean energy products that can improve the daily livelihoods within their communities.
| Energy |
Company
Solstice Initiative
United States of America
Our mission at Solstice is to build awareness about community solar and to enroll households and local organizations in nearby solar gardens particularly in lower and moderate income areas.The result is good for everyonemore Americans enjoy the benefits of solar power stronger communities and a better chance for the planet s future.
| Energy |
Company
Solubrite
United States of America
Solubrite's goal is to make available the best solar lighting products at the best price to people living in and around rural areas where there is no electricity.
| Energy |
Company
Somos Agua
Mexico
Somos Agua is 100% Mexican civil association focused on improving the quality of life of people in the most deprived areas of the country. Providing the opportunity to get drinking water.
| Water & Sewerage |
Company
Source International
Italy
Source International equips grassroots organizations with scientific tools and methods that allows them to measure the harmful consequences of irresponsible natural resource extraction. With this information communities are able to hold perpetrating companies accountable and change government policies to reduce the impact of environmental pollution.
| Other |
Company
Spark
United States of America
Spark was started in 2006 by a group of young women who were looking to give back to the global community. They were excited by what they were seeing in the international women's rights movement. And they wanted to do something to help improve the lives of women and girls around the world. Today Spark has over 5000 men and women in their network who contribute time money and connections to improve the status of women globally.
| Financial & Insurance activites |
Company
Springboard Collaborative
United States of America
Springboard Collaborative transforms the summer from a barrier into a springboard for financially disadvantaged students and families. Their model takes a three pronged approach Springboard Scholars Springboard Partners and Learning Bonuses
| Education |
Company
Stockbox Neighborhood Grocery
Stockbox invests in communities where good food and strong relationships can thrive. Their small format stores are placed throughout urban areas, to offer fresh produce, meal solutions, and grocery staples. They place mainstream staples, alongside organic products, and source produce from local farms when possible. Grab-and-go options in meals and snacks make it easy to shop, with selection changing frequently so there�s always something new to explore. They offer loyalty programs, recipes, and specials. Pricing is affordable � competitive with local grocery stores and below convenience stores. And they put a big focus on inviting design, so that the store can become part of the community.
| Other |
Company
StrongMinds
United States of America
Most African governments spend less than 1% of their health budget on mental illness. Today in Uganda there are approximately 20 psychologists in a country of close to 35 million people. An equivalent ratio in the west would be 3500 psychologists for a similar population. StrongMinds is working to provide innovative and cost effective solutions at scale to treat those who do not have access to services and to reduce this accessibility gap in mental health treatment. StrongMinds will initially treat depression using group interpersonal psychotherapy (G IPT) which is fundamentally small group talk therapy that helps participants modify their behavior. It experiences an astounding 90% success rate in eliminating common depression disorders and has been validated in Africa by researchers from Johns Hopkins and Columbia Universities.
| Other |
Company
Sucre Blue
Sucre Blue is a nonprofit healthcare organization dedicated to providing access and affordability for chronic disease treatment around the globe.
| Other |
Company
Suli
Chile
SULI aims to democratize access to this natural resource in an easy simple and accessible way. For those with conventional electricity access seeking a more sustainable lifestyle and for those looking for portable light and energy. They focus on meeting the needs of those who even today do not have access to this resource.
| Energy |
Company
SunCulture
Kenya
SunCulture is a company based in Nairobi, Kenya which sells the AgroSolar Irrigation Kit, an entirely solar-powered drip irrigation system. The kit combines solar water pumping technology with high-efficiency drip irrigation and includes everything a farmer needs to grow more while spending less, in a sustainable and energy-efficient way. SunCulture has developed a novel and unique product that simplifies farming and increases crop yields. They are also the only \"one-stop shop\" for Kenyan farmers, as they provide a solar water pumping solution, an entire drip irrigation kit, agronomic services, educational training, access to capital and access to markets in rural Kenya – their approach focuses on quality of both product and services.
| Other |
Company
SunFarmer
Nepal
SunFarmer is a nonprofit that provides the capital and technical expertise needed to bring solar energy to hospitals, schools, and other institutions that lack reliable energy. Perhaps most important, they also provide the monitoring and maintenance support to ensure the system performs over the long-term.
| Energy |
Company
SunSawang
Thailand
SunSawang provides energy access solutions by offering a portfolio of solar electricity options for rural villages in Thailand ranging from personal use lanterns mobile chargers up to DC and AC home systems. Operating from Mae Sot district located in Tak province SunSawang ensures energy sustainability while creating opportunity by recruiting and training local village technicians to provide routine maintenance services for home systems.
| Energy |
Company
Sustainable Organic Integrated Livelihoods
United States of America
Sustainable Organic Integrated Livelihoods (SOIL) is a non profit organization dedicated to protecting soil resources empowering communities and transforming wastes into resources in Haiti. They believe that the path to sustainability is through transformation of both dis empowered people and discarded materials turning apathy into activism and pollution into valuable resources. SOIL is a US 501(c)3 non profit organization dedicated to promoting dignity health and sustainable livelihoods through the transformation of wastes to resources. SOIL has been working in Haiti since 2006 to facilitate the community identified priority of ecological sanitation (EcoSan) where human wastes are transformed into rich compost critical for agriculture and reforestation efforts.
| Other |
Company
Suyo
United States of America
Suyo is a public benefit corporation that leverages modern technology to formalize real property rights for low-income families. Their tools and methodologies contribute to more efficient and transparent property rights systems and property data collection.
| Professional & technical services |
Company
Talentify
Austria
Talentify offers interested students opportunities for personal development and future planning. In return they should get help give help according to the principle support their fellow students with tutoring (tutoring). Thus valuable extracurricular experiences are collected and those students supported for that would not be the same level of funding possible without alternative approaches in the current system. Through this cycle which specifically promotes the potential of students the cohesion of the school social mobility can be strengthened and increased.
| Other |
Company
Team4Tech
United States of America
Team4Tech is a registered 501(c)(3) organization established in 2012 to improve education in developing countries through innovative technology solutions. They act as a catalyst for change by matching tech industry professionals products and resources with accredited non profit projects that aim to make a difference in the quality of education around the globe. Team4Tech train and guide their volunteers through project scoping planning and in country implementation. All projects are maintained through the non profit partners with ongoing support from Team4Tech.
| Education |
Company
Tecla
Canada
Tecla is for anyone who can t easily use a smartphone tablet or computer. This includes those with limited upper body mobility resulting from spinal cord injuries multiple sclerosis ALS muscular dystrophy cerebral palsy brain injuries or stroke.
| Other |
Company
Ten Acre Organics
United States of America
Ten Acre Organics LLC is an urban farming company based in Austin TX and was founded in January of 2012. Their ten acre farm model is designed to mimic a natural ecosystem and employs aquaponic greenhouses (raising fish veggies herbs and salad greens) as well as organic field crops fruit trees mushroom production chickens bees and on site composting. This integrated diversified approach allows us to grow a wide variety of foods in a way that optimizes resource use efficiency while creating zero waste.
| Other |
Company
Teysha Social Enterprises
United States of America
Teysha works with artisans in Latin America and customers across the world to design custom made shoes boots and accessories. Through this collaborative design process artisans earn a dignified living for their families and are able to preserve their cultural traditions while bringing an alternative to mass produced fashion to the market.
| Retail |
Company
The Good Tribe�s Zero Waste Jam
Zero Waste Jam is deliciously fruity jam produced and sold by Zero Waste Jam franchisees. Their jam is made from fruits that would otherwise be thrown away. Zero Waste Jam is a part of The Good Tribe
| Other |
Company
The Good Tribe�s Zero Waste Jam
Zero Waste Jam is deliciously fruity jam produced and sold by Zero Waste Jam franchisees. Their jam is made from fruits that would otherwise be thrown away. Zero Waste Jam is a part of The Good Tribe
| Other |
Company
The Honey Wine Company
United States of America
The Honey Wine Co. in San Francisco was started by Ayele Solomon a native of Ethiopia. Part of his motivation is to help create a market for farmers in Ethiopia and stop deforestation. Bee d'Vine use two ingredients honey spring water (and time) to craft the most refined honey wine on earth.
| Other |
Company
The United Africa Fruit Company
Ghana
The United Africa Fruit Company is a Ghanaian agribusiness engaged in improving the lives of small scale farmers across Africa by transforming the traditional relationship between small scale farmers and their buyers. Their aim is to disrupt the conventional way end buyers middleman and processors deal with smallholder farmers through the introduction of a new innovative model for smallholder farmer agriculture which will allow for increased value generation.
| Agriculture, forestry & fishing |
Company
TogetherFarm
United States of America
TogetherFarm exists to create and promote opportunities and products for communities to grow share and donate produce through sustainable backyard gardening and farming. Their goal is to make urban farming easy fun and accessible to all.
| Agriculture, forestry & fishing |
Company
Toilets for People
United States of America
Toilets For People is a social business that designs manufactures and sells affordable portable family scale composting toilets to NGO's working to bring sanitation to communities in the developing world. We partner with local communities and non profit organizations on the ground to make sure we are providing the communities we serve with toilets that meet their needs and desires. We use appropriate technology and locally sourced materials to ensure that our toilets are effective elegant and affordable.
| Other |
Company
TrustCircle
United States of America
A peer centered mental health network for consumers caregivers and healthcare providers. It's Anonymous. It's Secure. It's FREE.Twenty years ago founder's brilliant brother was diagnosed with Schizophrenia and quickly ostracized by community in India. To date his family is looking for solutions to two core problems access to trustworthy community support and access to scarce mental healthcare providers. As per the World Health Organization more than 450 million people suffer from a mental or behavioral disorder facing stigma and are served by only 200000 Psychiatrists globally . Mental Healthcare is in a state of CRISIS and the world needs an alternative solution now. TrustCircle is the alternative solution that solves both these problems.
Company
Tugende
Uganda
Tugende helps motorcycle taxi drivers own their own motorcycles in eighteen months or less instead of renting indefinitely. Ownership significantly increases income, job security and road safety.
| Financial Services: Microinsurance |
Company
Vega Coffee
Nicaragua
Vega Coffee was founded on the audacious idea that the very same farmers who not only plant harvest pick wash depulp dry hull sort grade polish and pack the incredible coffee we drink every day could roast and package it too.
Company
Vendedy
United States of America
Vendedy is a social enterprise that connects global travelers to local street vendors via mobile technology. The founder is the daughter of three generations of Haitian female street vendors who noticed a need following the 2010 Haiti Earthquake when vendors lost most of their inventory and access to consumers. It was at that moment that Vendedy set off to digitize the street vending industry and make it a global conduit of prosperity.
| Information, communication & technology |
Company
Village of Wisdom
United States of America
Village Of Wisdom (VOW) is a nonprofit organization that empowers parents to enhance the resilience of their Black boys promoting greater academic performance. Growing from local communities to a national network VOW will support families and neighborhoods wrap their sons in the loving protection they need to thrive.
| Education |
Company
Você Aprende Agora
Brazil
You Learn Now is an online English course based at Cambridge University for you to learn quickly and use English in their favor in his professional career study and travel. Created by Felipe Dib founder and director of the Institute of Education the You Learn Now was designed so that you do not personally go to a course and can study any time you want and where you are and may receive CERTIFICATE Institute of Education.
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VOTO Mobile
VOTO Mobile is a Ghana-based social enterprise with staff in Ghana, Canada, and the United States. The company is responsible for developing the technology which FRI uses to conduct voice polls/surveys in Tanzania and Ghana and, soon, in other countries.
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ZanaAfrica
United States of America
ZanaAfrica brings together the best of non profit passion and business acumen to create a holistic sustainable and internationally replicable solution to help women thrive.
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Zawadisha
Kenya
Variations of the phrase I d rather die poor than lose all of my belongings is a common phrase articulated by women in Kenya. Consumed by fear of losing everything they own if they miss one loan payment some of the most vulnerable women have been excluded from the microlending sector despite the fact that microfinance was originally envisioned as a tool to help the most vulnerable. Intimidated by borrowing from traditional microlending institutions but eager to financially contribute to their families the women we work with have been eagerly awaiting a lending model that place the quality of life for individuals and communities over the size of portfolios and repayment rates. Zawadisha was created to fill this gap and to offer an alternative lending opportunity for women one with flexible repayment rates transparent terms and training. Women choose to borrow from Zawadisha because we prioritize the development of local leadership to leverage social capital in lieu of collateral. rnrnRather than penalizing poor women for taking risks to create new businesses and invest in their families we engage them as decision makers and leaders in the organization determining their own unique policies and guidelines. We are building and maintaining a flat organization where decisions are made through consensus and everyone s voice is heard. We believe this non hierarchical organizational style allows us to remain agile and flexible giving us the ability to iterate our program designs to fit the most pressing needs of our members which is currently centered around water energy and food security. Our members determine policies that best work for their particular group and lending plans are co created and individualized to meet the needs of diverse communities understanding that what may work in urban cities like Nairobi might not work in rural towns like Kilgoris. Our model is building a stronger world one in which women are self sufficient successful and stand on their own two feet. We believe that this allows us to avoid a potentially harmful one size fits all approach that characterizes similar work in the field of women s economic empowerment. rn
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