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Ask Without Shame
Uganda
Ask Without Shame provides accurate emergency sexual health information to youth in Africa through mobile technology. This is done through an Android app WhatsApp calls and SMS. Medical experts and counselors are available 24/7 to assist users with the right information regarding sexuality at the fingertips of every youth from the age of 12 to 35 years without judgment or shame. Ask Without Shame aims to reach one million youth in East Africa by 2018 scale Ask Without shame in other African countries five years from then and eliminate sexual taboo Africa by 2050.
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AWE Partners
United States of America
AWE Partners is a boutique advisory firm for women who desire to give invest and shop for maximum impact on the causes they care about most.Evidence based research suggests that empowering women is one of the most effective ways to fight poverty worldwide as women are more likely to spend money on education and healthcare to support their families and communities.
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Black Girls Code
United States of America
Black Girls Code addresses a very serious problem in today s world the lack of females in technology focused roles and industries. From a young age many girls develop a negative connotation or very male oriented association with technology resulting in an extremely low presence of female professionals in the technology sector.
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Develatech
Reach out to the billions of people still using open fires for cooking with new innovative products that transform cooking into an all
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Educate2Envision International
United States of America
Educate2Envision International invests in youth from underserved areas to be their own innovators in tackling poverty starting in Honduras. Educate2Envision go beyond donating school supplies and building schools to create an education movement that positively transforms access to education community wide. By creating first generation high school students Educate2Envision establish the precedent that ignites confidence and ideas among the youth to further develop their communities.
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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
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Found in Translation
United States of America
Found in Translation carries out its mission though a 12 week Medical Interpreter Certificate program. The course is offered at no charge to eligible women and includes common sense supports such as on site childcare transportation assistance and mentoring. Hands on Job Skills and Financial Literacy education is integrated into the program to help women to achieve new professional and economic heights. rnrnMedical Interpreters have a median annual wage of $43380 and can expect 42.2% job opportunity growth by 2020 (Source Bureau of Labor Statistics)
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G3Box
United States of America
G3Box aims to improve access to maternal health care by providing greater access to clean well equipped medical facilities. G3Box converts steel shipping containers into durable semi mobile stand alone medical and maternity clinics in developing countries. Through this innovation the enterprise hopes to help millions of women around the world give birth in sanitary and safe conditions.
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girltank
Chile
girltank is dedicated to building a dynamic and robust network of high impact female social entrepreneurs and bringing their ventures to scale. They have three pillars of focus Connect Fund and Inspire their entrepreneurs.
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Global Health Media Project
United States of America
A 501(c)(3) public non profit corporation headquartered in Vermont. Our founder and directorDeborah Van Dyke NP MPHhas 25 years experience as a clinician trainer and humanitarian aid project coordinator primarily with MSF/Doctors Without Borders. Pediatricians and midwives with extensive experience in the developing world provide content review. Videos are produced with the assistance of professional filmmakers and editors. Our Advisory Board provides support on medical issues film production and direction technology legal matters and marketing
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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.
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International Rescue Committee
United States of America
The International Rescue Committee responds to the world s worst humanitarian crises and help people to survive recover and gain control of their future. Founded in 1933 at the request of Albert Einstein the IRC offers lifesaving care and life changing assistance to refugees and displaced people forced to flee from war or disaster.At work today in over 40 countries and in 29 U.S. cities the IRC restores safety dignity and hope to millions who are uprooted and struggling to endure.
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Kangu
United States of America
Kangu is a new crowdfunding platform that aims to decrease maternal and child mortality and morbidity by funding safe births worldwide specifically among marginalized pregnant women (mamas). Kangu lets a user (donor) search profiles of expectant mamas give $10 or more towards a specific mama's healthcare costs and spread the word through social networks to fully fund the mama. Kangu is currently partnering with local maternal and child health providers in Uganda and Nepal and rapidly expanding to other regions.
Human health & social work |
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Kranti
India
Kranti puts the life choices of girls rescued from sex work back into their hands letting them choose their career goals and provide them with the resources to achieve those goals.
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LALLITARA
United States of America
LALLITARA is an environmentally conscious apparel and accessories brand. We create stylish colorful one of a kind products by breathing new life into vintage sari fabrics. Our functional pieces allow you to showcase your sense of style while benefiting others. In particular your purchase allows us to provide fair wages to India s informal recycling community and support the 'Made in America' movement by manufacturing domestically.
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Marine Gifts Social Enterprise
Marine Gifts is an award winning social enterprise that works with low income women in Vietnam to conserve threatened marine and coastal environments. The enterprise aims to protect biodiversity promote gender equity and alleviate poverty by providing women with alternative employment opportunities that benefit conservation efforts. The Marine Gifts model includes organizing conservation expeditions to coastal environments selling handicrafts made from by products of marine areas and running vocational life skills and conservation trainings for women in Marine Protected Areas.And the marine eco tour at sea FB Discover Vietnam Nam is one coastal waters with 3200km of coastline and more than 1 million km2 territory is water. Vietnam Sea annually attracting 3 million tourists than 6 million international and domestic tourists with lots of beautiful beaches and diverse ecosystems. However behind the high end resorts sumptuous beaches beautiful women living around MPAs must live below the poverty unemployment information life skills the right decision ... Their lives become increasingly difficulties in the context of the fact that coastal Vietnam and other affected heavily by CLIMATE CHANGE. Every year marine tourism brings income to hundreds of millions of dollars. However less than 1% of the profits from the cruise to be invested in the lives of the locals ng coastal and marine resources conservation in MPAs.
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Modatec Industrial
Honduras
Modatec Industrial employs low-income, at-risk women to manufacture and commercialize high-end clothing.
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New Incentives
US
Help pregnant women give birth to healthy babies. Conditional cash transfers that save lives in West Africa.
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New Women New Yorkers
United States of America
New Women New Yorkers is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization empowering young women immigrants from underserved communities in New York City. Through their programs they provide young women immigrants from underserved communities in New York City with the knowledge skills and support they need to recognize and develop their potential pursue better educational and professional opportunities and become role models and agents of change in and for their communities.
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OpenTrial
By harnessing modern technology the internet in particular to reduce the scope for corruption and violence in legal systems OpenTrial tackles the root cause of poverty and abuse in developing countries. Through fostering greater transparency our activities empower others to bring about legal system reform in support of the rule of law justice and thus social political and economic development.
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Spark MicroGrants
United States of America
Spark offers a dynamic model for community organizing and granting. process taps into the knowledge and imagination of communities in need. Spark work with local facilitators (often university students or NGO leaders) with connections to under resourced communities. With Spark guidance the facilitator organizes a series of meetings where the community develops a project proposal. Spark arrange for comments on each proposal from field advisers. When proposals are well developed we help fund them with a microgrant of around $5000. Rather than come up with ideas to help a specific community from the outside.
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Suryoday Micro Finance
India
Suryoday Micro Finance Pvt Ltd is a registered Non Banking Finance Company engaged in providing loans to women from Economically Weaker Sections Below Poverty Line and the Marginal Poor who do not have access to traditional banking with an objective to reduce poverty in its area of operation.
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Tataowar Coaching & Consulting
Qatar
Tataowar identifies and empowers high potential women in organisations & community. They coach them to leverage their potential take up leadership roles if they wish make their voices heard on boards and in C suites. They encourage women to find their own authentic leadership style sit among the decision makers add a female perspective. They consult companies on how to create a more attractive environment for female employees and how to better leverage the potential of the women on their staff. They promote an attitude of appreciation and gratitude a belief that they should work together towards a common purpose breaking down barriers between genders & cultures.
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Torath Production
Qatar
Torath Production is a Qatar based visual storytelling company led by an experienced and creative team of filmmakers and producers who are indigenous to the region and fully cognizant of the culture language and norms of the Arab World.
Financial & Insurance activites |
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Violet Health
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Irela
Iron deficiency is a silent epidemic that disproportionately harms women and girls including over 40% of all pregnant women. Its effects are devastating maternal and infant mortality impaired cognitive and physical development and lifelong diminished productivity. Violet Health aims to break this destructive cycle through culturally appropriate iron fortified products specifically developed with these girls and women in mind.
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VOICE 4 Girls
India
VOICE 4 Girls envisions that all girls will be decision makers in their lives and work towards breaking harmful cycles of economic social and gender inequality in their communities. VOICE enables marginalized adolescent girls in India to take charge of their futures by imparting critical knowledge spoken English and life skills through activity based camps. Our girl focused curriculum features topics such as health safety rights future planning and self awareness while building skills such as leadership interpersonal skills critical thinking and problem solving.
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Wedu
Thailand
Wedu unlocks the leadership potential of women in Asia so they can become masters of development in their home communities. We do so by providing financial and non financial support helping them access quality higher education and networks necessary to achieve and share their full potential in professional and personal life.
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WoWoman
Azerbaijan
WoWoman is a women empowerment platform, which creates the space and tools for woman to be able to follow the coolest, craziest and the most “impossible” dreams they have, live up to their full potential and Enjoy the process itself, by having special events / programs / projects / online platform to Dream, Dare, Inspire, Grow, Connect.
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