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Accountability Lab
United States of America
The Accountability Lab catalyzes a new generation of active citizens and responsible leaders around the world. Accountability Lab is an incubator for accountability change-makers to develop and implement innovative ideas for integrity in their communities. They train, mentor, and resource citizens to strengthen systems of accountability to unleash positive social and economic change.
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EarthEnable
Rwanda
EarthEnable's mission is to improve the health and housing of low income communities by providing affordable and sanitary floors to the 80 percent of Rwandans and billions of people globally who live and sleep on dirt floors. Our floor is made of compressed gravel sand clay and a proprietary sealing oil that makes the floor impermeable easy to clean and polished. EarthEnable trains masons to install these floors and manufactures the proprietary oil. We strive to prevent people from getting sick in their homes from living on dirt and mud by flooring Rwanda and then flooring the world.
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Evidence Action
United States of America
Evidence Action scales proven interventions that improve the lives of millions. They only implement cost effective programs whose efficacy is backed by substantial rigorous evidence. They identify innovative appropriate financing mechanisms and build best practice operational models. Evidence Action voraciously self evaluate learn and improve their models for scaling effective interventions with a commitment to transparency impact and value for money.
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Freedom from Hunger
United States of America
Founded in 1946 Freedom from Hunger has six decades of experience fighting world hunger and 25 years of experience developing and implementing sustainable self help methods to empower poor women. Their programs help women to manage and increase their assets protect the health of their families and enhance food security.
| Financial & Insurance activites |
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IESC Geekcorp
United States of America
Increases the profitability and efficiency of small and medium sized businesses in emerging markets with its unique reserve of international technology experts who provide firm level technology focused technical assistance creating a vibrant and innovative private sector.
| Professional & technical services |
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ILIMI The African Development University
Niger
The mission of A.D.U. is to prepare the most talented young people in Francophone Africa to lead the development of their nations as entrepreneurs accountants physicians engineers and government officials. A.D.U. is an innovative not for profit university in Niger. Founded in October 2017 A.D.U. currently offers undergraduate programs an MBA program and executive courses. Over the next decade A.D.U. aspires to become the hub of innovation and excellence in higher education in West Africa. Niger is one of the least developed countries in the world. Our desire to train a new generation of skilled ethical leaders is motivated by our commitment to advancing Niger s development and to improving living standards for all. We ultimately aim to advance the development of countries throughout the region and raising the standard of living across the region. A.D.U. was established to address two of the most pressing problems facing the region 1) the dearth of quality tertiary educational institutions and 2) the increasing cohort of young adults unprepared for participation and leadership in the 21st century workforce.
| Education |
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Insight Global Education
Canada
Insight Global Education was originally founded in early 2013. The organization began as a dedicated student travel initiative developing unique international internship and study abroad options for students keen to gain international development experience. The transition from the original narrow focus reflects the ambitions as a study abroad provider to explore a wide range of issues while engaging an even wider audience. In addition to providing university travel (incorporating study abroad and international internships) Insight began running high school travel programs to the global south in early 2015.
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Inveneo
United States of America
More than 2 billion people in the developing world live in rural and remote communities that lack basic access to information and communications technologies such as telephony computing and Internet access. Access to these technologies directly or via service organizations can improve their lives. Since 2004 Inveneo and our Certified ICT Partners have delivered solutions to more than 1800 communities in 31 countries primarily in sub Saharan Africa. There are now 128 Inveneo Certified ICT Partners around the world.
| Information, communication & technology |
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Orkidstudio
Kenya
Orkidstudio works to benefit communities through innovative architecture construction and social enterprise. We believe that creativity has the power to inspire and instil pride within people regardless of race nationality or circumstance and we use architecture design and enterprise as tools for relieving poverty and transforming lives. Our build projects focus on the process of design and construction rather than just the final product. We believe this process is a powerful tool for affecting social change and empowering people through the sharing of skills and knowledge on site. With a strong belief in the power of enterprise to affect social change we work on projects and with partners that support and drive the local economy. We engage local resources and women in construction to create high quality built spaces that promote health education and equality.
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Sisu Global Health
United States of America
Sisu Global Health is a for profit social enterprise. Our team firmly believes in a double bottom line of health outcomes and profitability to sustain our initiative. For over four years the Sisu team has performed research in Ghana Zimbabwe and India to develop our patent pending technologies and business model. Sisu Global Health seeks to end healthcare disparities by developing medical technology that addresses critical needs in emerging markets. Each of our devices both internally designed and acquired are patent pending and address the issues of access to medical devices by considering each stakeholder throughout the value chain.
| Human health & social work |
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SunSaluter
India
The SunSaluter supports impoverished communities in meeting their needs for both electricity and clean water. Using the weight displacement of water passing through a filter the SunSaluter rotates solar panels throughout the day to optimize energy collection by up to 40%. Now a family that struggled with limited electricity and insufficient clean water has both.
| Energy |
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Trees for the Future
United States of America
Since its founding in 1989 Trees for the Future (TREES) a 501(c)3 has planted more than 150 million trees and transformed the lives of thousands of families. By establishing Forest Gardens we teach agroforestry and sustainable land management practices that not only provide farmers and their families with greater access to food and increased incomes but also preserve natural resources for future generations. From our headquarters based in Silver Spring MD we oversee programs across sub Saharan Africa including Cameroon Kenya Tanzania Senegal and Uganda. In every country we listen to the needs of farming communities and respond to those needs in light of local cultural and environmental conditions. We provide training seeds and materials needed to sustainably grow harvest and sell food fuelwood forage timber and other agricultural products. While TREES provides training and materials participants provide land water and labor to ensure buy in and long term sustainability. This in turn has many positive impacts on alleviating poverty hunger and healing the environment. Sub impacts also include nutrition women's empowerment education entrepreneurship and much more.
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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 |
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Vera Solutions, Benefit LLC
United States of America
Vera Solutions provides cloud and mobile solutions for organizations to track their impact and streamline their operations. Since 2010 Vera has worked with 360 organizations working to advance health education human rights international development and environmental sustainability. Vera's flagship product Amp Impact is used in 170 countries worldwide to manage over $5 billion in development programs and grants.
| Information, communication & technology |
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Yellow Leaf Hammocks
United States of America
Kick Back Relax & Change the World From the Comfort of Our Signature Insanely Cozy Eco Luxury Hammocks! The core of the company is centered on the Four Pillars of Sustainability dedicated to nourishing communities by promoting (1) long term economic health (2) environmental stewardship (3) social equity and (4) cultural vitality.
| Retail |