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AFRICAN ENTREPRENEUR COLLECTIVE
United States of America
African Entrepreneur Collective has developed a simple plan to tackle rampant youth unemployment in Africa support and empower youth entrepreneurs to grow their enterprises and create jobs for others in their communities by providing business education mentoring capital and access to global networks.
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Barrios Unidos
United States of America
Barrios Unidos operates a full service custom silkscreen business designed to help young people from the Santa Cruz community become economically self sustaining. The Mission of Barrios Unidos is to help transform the most impoverished and disenfranchised sectors of society ghettos and barrios which are currently plagued by poverty violence and internal conflict into peaceful and prosperous communities in which human natural technological and financial resources are fully developed and utilized for the individual and social well being of all members of society.
Real estate, design & building |
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Belstar Investment and Finance Private Limited
India
Belstar Investment and Finance is a highly developmental and socially oriented NBFC MFI working closely with Hand in Hand India (HiH) in achieving its vision of alleviating poverty through job creation and integrated community development. Belstar is a Non Deposit taking NBFC acquired by the Hand in Hand group in September 2008 to provide scalable microfinance services to entrepreneurs nurtured by Hand in Hand India's Self Help Group (SHG) Programme. Belstar has successfully transitioned to a profitable and high potential MFI (Microfinance Institution) with low credit risk.
Financial & Insurance activites |
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City Light Carbon
United States of America
City Light Carbon ( CL Carbon ) is an investment vehicle designed to support global environmental sustainability efforts. CL Carbon will establish a large low cost position in carbon trading instruments (CER s) as defined by the Kyoto Protocol by entering into purchase contracts directly with international projects that reduce greenhouse gas emissions. CL Carbon management believes that successful implementation of the plan will not only contribute to preventing 25 40 million tonnes of gases from entering the atmosphere but also feels there is a unique opportunity to capture a significant arbitrage between contract price (in primary market) and market price (in secondary market) upon sale. The CL Carbon management team successfully ran the climate change practice at the global power company AES and brings a long track record of success and unique experience and insight into a nascent and evolving carbon market.
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Dreamlopments Ltd
Thailand
Dreamlopments is a nonprofit social enterprise a mission driven private company working on aid and development. We concentrate on various areas of human and social development notably health education and living standards with a particular focus on the needs of the most vulnerable populations.
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EBF / Rerun
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Irela
They are a registered charity & not for profit company working in Hull and parts of the East Riding. With the support of local churches council's & other social organisations they aim to relieve poverty through the provision household items. They collect donated items that are in a re usable condition free of charge and pass them on to those on low incomes in the community.
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Eldonian Group Ltd
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Irela
The Eldonian Group is a social enterprise in the Vauxhall area of North Liverpool and makes up part of the wider Eldonian Organisation. Established by the local community in the late 1970?s the Eldonian Organisation is a community owned and run enterprise that is responsible for the regeneration of the Eldonian Village and Vauxhall areas. The Eldonian Group was established in 1988 to provide a delivery vehicle for the social physical and economic regeneration for the area of Vauxhall with a particular emphasis on health education and employment.
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Maternity Foundation
Denmark
Maternity Foundation is a Danish development organization that aims to reduce maternal and newborn mortality in developing countries. Every year around 300000 women die from complications in pregnancy or childbirth 2.7 million babies die during the first 28 days of life and 2.6 million stillbirths occur. The majority of these deaths are preventable. Maternity Foundation works to empower and mobilize women to seek care to build the capacity of and train health practitioners so that more women give birth with skilled birth attendance. Maternity Foundation s own program the Maternal and Newborn Health Program in Ethiopia works with local partners in the capacity building of health care workers and empowering the community to seek care. Maternity Foundation focuses on developing evidence based solutions that can be scaled up to benefit as many women and newborns as possible. With this approach the organisation is positioning itself as a strong actor within the emerging field of mHealth with mobile solutions such as The Safe Delivery App which is currently being implemented across sub Saharan Africa and Southeast Asia. Since 2010 HRH Crown Princess Mary of Denmark has been a patron of Maternity Foundation. The Crown Princess is an active advocate for women s rights and health and is a member of the international high level panel of ICPD and patron for the UN Population Fund. Maternity Foundation was established in 2005 and is headquartered in Denmark.
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Mortar
United States of America
Founded in May of 2014 MORTAR Cincinnati exists to build communities through entrepreneurship. MORTAR offers a 12 week business accelerator class access to micro loans through their Iron Chest Fund as well as a revolving pop up shop named Brick OTR. MORTAR works to ensure that all entrepreneurs and small businesses regardless of socioeconomic status gender race or background have an opportunity to participate in the rejuvenation of their community. As a result MORTAR provides access to programming designed to lower barriers for under represented entrepreneurs to compete and succeed in their 52 neighborhoods.
Human health & social work |
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RevolutionCredit
United States of America
RevolutionCredit is a unique platform which allows consumers to watch short and entertaining financial literacy videos to demonstrate and improve their financial capabilities like a Traffic School for Credit. It allows financial institutions to identify more creditworthy customers extending access to a wider range of financial services at better prices.
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The Fan Machine
Argentina
The Fan Machine's Facebook Preferred Developer Marketing since 2011 and since then have interacted with our platform more than 15000000 users and brands.
Information, communication & technology |
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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.