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Arc en Ciel
Lebanon
Welcome to arcenciel. We are a Lebanese based non profit NGO which supports Lebanon s most underprivileged and marginalized communities regardless of religion political affiliation or nationality.Since its inception in 1985 arcenciel s mission in Lebanon has been to promote diversity integration and development through 5 core programs Agriculture & Environment Mobility & Health Responsible Tourism Youth Empowerment and Social Support.
| Human health & social work |
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ATF Gaia
France
Created in 1995 ATF is a French company specialized in IT Recycling and purchase of used equipments. Deployment operational support to recycling by reuse ATF Gaia mission is to intervene in the life cycle of computer equipment and telecom professionals while respecting the environment and promoting access to the employment of people with disabilities.
| Information, communication & technology |
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Big White Wall
United Kingdom of Great Britai
Big White Wall (BWW) is an award winning digital mental health and wellbeing service for people in emotional and psychological distress. Big White Wall was designated a High Impact Innovation by the NHS in 2013 and works in partnership with the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust.
| Human health & social work |
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bKash Limited
Bangladesh
bKash Limited a subsidiary of BRAC Bank started as a joint venture between BRAC Bank Limited Bangladesh and Money in Motion LLC USA. In April 2013 International Finance Corporation (IFC) a member of the World Bank Group became an equity partner and in April 2014 Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation became the investor of the company. The ultimate objective of bKash is to ensure access to a broader range of financial services for the people of Bangladesh. It has a special focus to serve the low income masses of the country to achieve broader financial inclusion by providing services that are convenient affordable and reliable.
| Financial & Insurance activites |
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BroadReach
South Africa
BroadReach is a data driven solutions company recognized internationally for its work with governments NGOs and their contractors donors and private sector companies to improve social economic and health outcomes for underserved populations around the globe. BroadReach Vantage is the only cloud platform built for emerging markets combining evidence based insights to focus resources for maximum impact and operational solutions to improve the capacity of teams to deliver quality services streamline reporting and collaborate.Our experienced professional services team provides technical strategic and implementation support to empower leaders and ensure success.
| Human health & social work |
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Delight Co., Ltd.
Delight manufactures and distributes hearing aids at affordable prices. While untreated hearing loss may lead to social isolation of the elderly population Delight aims to prevent such emotional and social consequences with its products hearing aids. In order to provide qualified products at affordable prices Delight used appropriate technology to standardize the hearing aids that are more fit for Asian physical characteristics and distributed them solely via its directly owned branch stores nationwide.
| Human health & social work |
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Geekie
Brazil
Geekie is a web based platform that provides personalized educational content using adaptive learning technology. It allows schools and teachers to customize the format pace difficulty and focus of each student's learning process.
| Education |
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Groupe AMH
Morocco
The AMH Group develops the physical and functional rehabilitation sector and facilitates access to health services Acts to maintain the autonomy and social participation of dependent people and develops innovative school programmes and trainings that are accessible to everyone.At the AMH Group we create devices with high social impact to build an inclusive society in Morocco.We re taking action on the fields of health autonomy education and training..
| Human health & social work |
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Javara
Indonesia
Inspired by Indonesia s food biodiversity indigenous wisdom and spiritualism JAVARA was founded by Helianti Hilman in 2008. JAVARA works across agricultural value chains from production to distribution in order to preserve such biodiversity and bring community based organic products to broader markets. We are proudly investing our time to scout discover and relive the forgotten food biodiversity and traditional techniques as well as the old recipes. Working with over 50000 farmers and 2000 food artisans selling over 600 premium artisan food products JAVARA is currently known as the leading social enterprise in Indonesia that works with a vast range of biodiverse community based organic food products using ethical principles.
| Agriculture, forestry & fishing |
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JUMP Math
Canada
JUMP Math produces evidence based curricula that accelerate math learning for all students. JUMP Math is dedicated to helping students achieve their full potential by enabling all students to achieve high levels of proficiency in math. JUMP believes that by showing that even children who have previously been labelled slow learners can excel at math they can banish the culture of math failure from classrooms and communities.
| Education |
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Maths Centre
South Africa
The Maths Centre for Professional Teachers popularly known as the Maths Centre is a Non Profit Organisation of excellence in mathematics science technology and entrepreneurship education spread across all provinces. The primary objective is to equip teachers learners and parents with learning materials and programmes in order to develop a higher competency and performance in these learning areas for Grades R 12 in South Africa.
| Education |
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Possible
United States of America
Possible is a nonprofit healthcare company that delivers high quality low cost healthcare to the world s poor. They are pioneering a new approach that brings together the best of private public and philanthropic models. Since 2008 Possible has treated over 500000 patients in rural Nepal through government hospitals clinics and community health workers.
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Radio Nisaa
Palestinian Territory, Occupied
Radio Nisaa FM was launched in 2009 by Maysoun Odeh and the Womanity Foundation as the first women s Arabic language commercial radio station and multimedia website in the Middle East . Nisaa FM creates quality programming that caters to women and men across generations social statuses and geographic distances by offering a platform of cultural and social information discussion and entertainment and by voicing women s aspirations and opinions. Our radio waves overcome separation walls and cultural segregation and connect women to a supportive community that showcases inspirational role models and promotes their empowerment. The station also transforms the perception of women s role in society by highlighting their social engagement successes and creativity. In addition Nisaa FM seeks to train and employ women to facilitate their engagement in the mostly male dominated media industry.
| Information, communication & technology |
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Revolution Foods
United States of America
Revolution Foods transforms school food service by providing healthy food, nutrition education, and operational support for schools in California. The mission of Revolution Foods is to dramatically improve the food and food service experience in schools, by being the first company to provide the combination of tasty, quality food, nutrition education, and operational support to schools at a price that fits the requirements of the National School Lunch Program. The impact of Revolution Foods in communities it serves is to reduce the prevalence of childhood obesity, to improve overall health among children, and to enhance the educational experience for all students. In addition to DBL Investors, investors include Oak, Catamount Ventures, New Schools Venture Fund, The Westly Group and Physic Ventures.
| Food Products & Organics |
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salaUno
Mexico
Founded in 2011 by renowned entrepreneurs with the mission to Eliminate Unnecessary Blindness salauno is an ophthalmology system that works with innovative medical and engineering processes and the latest technology to help reduce the backlog of eye care services.
| Human health & social work |
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SecondBite
Australia
SecondBite exists to provide access to fresh nutritious food for people in need across Australia. We do this by rescuing and redistributing surplus fresh food building community capacity in food skills and nutrition and advocating for an end to food insecurity.Due to the social awareness vision and generous support of food donors financial supporters and over 630 volunteers in 2014 SecondBite redistributed 5.7 million kg of fresh food that might otherwise have gone to waste enough for our 1200 recipient community food programs in metropolitan regional and remote locations across Australia to provide 11.4 million healthy nutritious meals for people in need.
| Other |
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Sidai Africa
Kenya
Founded in 2011 the company aims to establish a network of at least 150 franchised and branded Livestock Service Centres in Kenya by 2015. Each franchise is equipped to provide quality animal health products and professional technical advice to farmers and pastoralists.
| Agriculture, forestry & fishing |
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Solar Sister
United States of America
Solar Sister eradicates energy poverty by empowering women with economic opportunity. We combine the breakthrough potential of solar and clean cooking technology with a deliberately woman centered direct sales network to bring light hope and opportunity to even the most remote communities in rural Africa.
| Energy |
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Triciclos
Chile
TriCiclos generate capabilities spaces and procedures to take charge of the waste responsibly providing materials that can be recycled in the domestic market . They create opportunities to change the way they view and treat the waste.
| Waste Management & Recycling |