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BienDeMujer (ILORI)
Costa Rica
BienDeMujer is a nonprofit organization committed to the comprehensive development of women children girls and community through the promotion of new educational paradigms holistic health and socio economic programs. They work mainly in marginal urban areas to help individual interpersonal and community development.
| Education |
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Bystanders to Upstanders
United States of America
Giventure is your personal assistant for volunteering recommending community service opportunities that match your interests location and availability. By connecting real volunteers with real community service opportunities we eliminate the logistics behind volunteer coordination so you can focus on what really matters making a difference.
| Human health & social work |
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Cameroon Empowerment Program
United States of America
The Cameroon Empowerment Program is Integrative Solar Pump System strives to make a positive impact in Nkambe and the rest of Cameroon through access to resources and sustainable education. The team is made of undergraduate engineering students in the national organization Engineers for a Sustainable World chapter at University of California San Diego. The goal of the team is to design and implement an integrative solar pump and water filtration system that can be easily replicated in a cost effective and sustainable manner. In addition to the tangible system complementary educational workshops are crucial in the program's aim to empower the youth of the community in the field of sustainable technology. By empowering the community through short term and long term means the ultimate goal of project replication and overall poverty alleviation can be achieved. The Cameroon Empowerment Program supports the mission and vision of the program's Cameroon community partner Farmer Tantoh. The broad goal of this project is poverty alleviation. Through providing more access to water and introducing ideas of sustainable design the quality of the community can be improved.
| Water & Sewerage |
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CAPE
United States of America
CAPE or Community Allies for Psychological Empowerment was created by a group of graduate and doctoral students trained in various disciplines of mental health counseling as well as clinical and forensic psychology. Apart from each members respective training and pertinent education CAPE carry years of passion and diverse experiences with competencies ranging from non profit organizations volunteer work in the community provision of forensic and clinical services as well as research expertise .
| Administrative & support services |
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CURE Africa USA
United States of America
C.U.R.E. Africa on a local level will provide mentoring and tutoring to help future first generation college students become highly competitive college scholars. Our goal is to create a coalition of high schools to work with us in making sure the students from these backgrounds have the resources and skill sets they need not only to succeed but to be significant. Internationally C.U.R.E. Africa will be playing a vital role in expanding the opportunities to communities in the native lands.
| Education |
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Engineering World Health (EWH)
Mozambique
Established by Bob Malkin and Mohammad Kiani professors at the University of Memphis in 2001 Engineering World Health is a non profit organization which inspires and mobilizes the biomedical engineering community to improve the quality of health care in vulnerable communities of the developing world. With this professional expertise they install donated and newly designed medical equipment carry out repairs and build local capacity to manage and maintain the equipment. They also harness the resources of collegiate engineering programs through a network of university based chapters and contract with Duke University to manage a summer program that sends student biomedical engineers to developing country hospitals where they repair broken equipment.
| Other |
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Evocado
United States of America
Evocado is a team of eclectic thinkers with backgrounds in Cognitive and Computer Science and pragmatic track records in design entrepreneurship and software development. Daniel leads product design and development.
| Information, communication & technology |
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Foxbat Dynamics
United States of America
Foxbat Dynamics is a team of Honors students from the University of San Diego ready to make a definitive impact on public safety for tomorrow. The team is led by Khoa Vu a RTF quadcopter pilot who has been flying coaxial helicopters and building robots for 5 years. With experience in rapid prototype fabrication technology design and an eye for media production Khoa is ready to put Foxbat in the aerospace and safety industries.
| Information, communication & technology |
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H2GO
United States of America
BioH2gO is a groundbreaking human and solar powered technology that will allow people of all walks of life to step themselves to clean safe drinking water through the removal of hazardous pathogens and desalination of brackish water. From individual home hurricane preparation in Florida to tsunami humanitarian relief in Indonesia H2gO is a viable reliable and deployable solution. H2gO is currently made up of three members who all share a passion for sustainability and environmental conservation. They strive to create a positive and permanent social change in the world.
| Water & Sewerage |
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OneGoal
United States of America
OneGoal is an ownership group responsible for transitioning Desert Sun Stadium into the finest soccer venue in the desert southwest region. OneGoal prides itself on being community focused and works daily to build strong partnerships with the community.
| Other |
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People's Potty Project (3P)
India
People's Potty Project (3P) is an innovative re imagining of rural sanitation intervention that aims to reduce diseases and improve health.
| Other |
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Simple Seat, Better Lives
Uganda
Simple Seat Better Lives is developing a low cost and portable toilet seat designed for Ugandan landmine victims to alleviate the challenge of using a latrine with a disability.
| Real estate, design & building |
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SmartyPants Wear
United States of America
SmartyPants Wear is an online social clothing company that empowers girls around the world through education. Every pair of pants supports one month of primary school for a girl in a developing country.
| Retail |
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The Free Artists Network
United States of America
The Free Artists Network is a social eLearning community that focuses exclusively on arts based education including Fine Art Design Film Music Literature Animation and Games. Here you may enroll in or create your own creative courses to gain skills and to share what you know with others. Host your web portfolio with us to network with other art students artists studios and art educators.
| Retail |
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VivaScope
United States of America
VivaScope dramatically improve the quality of life of people infected with HIV in the developing world. A growing percentage of people in the developing world have access to treatments for HIV/AIDS. It is not too difficult to ship and distribute medicine it is much harder to properly monitor and test patients in low resource rural conditions. It is important to regularly test patients on antiretroviral medication to ensure that the medicine is working properly and that the HIV virus is not developing resistance to the medication VivaScope helps in doing so.
| Human health & social work |