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The innovation at Beam of Light shares the philosophy and key components of the development initiative “Youth Lights” that works with youths. It employs an asset-based empowerment methodology to facilitate the restoration of youths’ sense of self, belonging, power, and collective responsibility.

A Facebook app that crowdsources & sells old composite school photos to raise money, promote legacy and strengthen community for K-12 schools.

I am a medical practitioner in New Zealand, and semi retired. I wish to explore ways of giving back to the community in my home town in Fiji where I grew up. My areas of interest are in preventative health care especially education, and income generation in rural areas. I have good local support.

Alternative, Inc.

Worker Owned Media & Publishing Cooperative Corporation.

We provide research, back-office services, managing data, publishing, media and sharing of alternatives to mainstream ideas & products in the realm of Healthy sustainable ecological cooperative peaceful living.

InVenture is a social enterprise utilizing mobile technology for financial inclusion. We have built a set of mobile tools to help individuals build a formal financial identity. Simply put, we provide individuals in the informal economy with money management tools and a “credit score,” or digital record of their financial lives; they can then take this data to a financial institution for financial access. Our primary product, InSight, enables us to gather real-time demographic and cash flow data about our users via SMS and voice at no cost to the user.

A 6 week work-study summer program for high school juniors and seniors from inner city Philadelphia to work with volunteer food business experts to develop a range of practical and business skills, while working in an urban "agricultural village." Students will write business plans, develop, package and sell products sourced from an urban farm and earn a stipend a certificate of completion for their work on the business. Students may also elect to document this process and help to create the plan to grow this program into an after school and annual venture.

FundUni is a web-based software platform designed to create a free market connection between those who require and those who provide capital (crowdfunding). The firm plans to dramatically reduce the national level of student debt by revolutionizing the way students fund
their education.

basik 855 grew out of a chance encounter between two entrepreneurs (one American and one Cambodian) and the friendship they forged.

In three years, we have grown from a team of 6 artisans working in their own homes to a weaving center with 46 full-time employees, including a team of Cambodian textile designers. 96% of our full-time staff is Cambodian.

All of our finished products are sewn by like-minded social enterprises, which allow us to financially support Friends-International, Stop Start and other Cambodian seamstresses and tailors in Phnom Penh.

Pick-A-Pepper is a elegant, user-friendly service that creates a direct market between local food producers and local consumers. Though the idea is simple, the potential for making change in our food systems is huge.
With the movement towards web based sourcing of products, imagine the potential that a central online shopping site for local food, from your own local community, could have.

CentUp is an intentionally simple button that lives next to all kinds of web content. It lets people toss a few cents at blog posts, photos, videos, and songs they really love. The kicker? Half that money goes to charity.

O Projeto AmarGen propõe a utilização da expressão artística como ferramenta em processos de prevenção e de tratamento para dependência química.
Neste momento em que a sociedade vive uma verdadeira epidemia de dependência química e o alcoolismo é a doença que mais mata os pacientes com esta problemática, este projeto inovador oferece uma ótima alternativa para abordar a questão, com uma mudança de paradigmas na prevenção e no tratamento de saúde mental.

Ubuntu-Pesa is not an aid agency or a charity. It is a a global co-operative for commercial and social development ~ a more-than-profit company that with a triple bottom line of People, Planet and Profit. Its commercial venture is aligned with its mission in such a way that it makes money by achieving social good and, therefore, the more social good it achieves the more money it makes.

Hakuna Matata Imports and Accessories has grown out of my love for Africa, and the learning's that have come from working in Kenya, Rwanda, and Ethiopia. Hakuna Matata Imports and Accessories is a socially based business that supports small business development globally in Nairobi, Kenya, and Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, and locally in Victoria B.C., Canada. Hakuna Matata markets products through an educational medium to help others understand the needs of Africa, the importance of supporting small business development, and models of development that create partnerships as opposed to dependencies.

Combine a hedge fund, microfinancing, and Kiva. What you would have is a ton of money from a ton of people. If the billions who live in poverty put a single dollar in, you, obviously, would have billions of dollars. Microfinancing and peer-lending have turned out to have a great ROI. Furthermore, why have money sit in a bank making, if you consider inflation, negative interest on their money? Why not have the money return 4%, reliably, while helping the poor help themselves? Why can't the poor get richer? Now they can.

The aim would be for each group member (100) to sell upwards of 50 solar power products, which in itself would equate to 5000 families having access to solar energy in their homes.

The medium term goal is for this model to continue expanding through out community, with each of the 100 members training 5 others, so that 25,000 residents living without light, will have access to a clean and sustainable energy source.

Long term - all families would have access to products, and solar power products available to them.

DUMA, the Swahili word for cheetah, is a job-matching service designed for emerging markets. Our mission stands: To be the developing world’s job reference system, to deliver a superior system to word-of-mouth hiring, and to enrich and empower a global workforce.

Developing Innovations is an online platform which presents and monitors relatively small-scale development projects, to build communities of supporters for these projects.

ArchaeoLink is uniquely positioned to offer services not only as a social entrepreneur but also as an enable of social entrepreneurship.

This will be achieved :
by building connections between archaeological teams and their host communities: fostering local involvement in archaeology, emphasising connections between indigenous peoples and their past;
by developing resources inherent in the archaeological site and its surrounds to provide the basis for ongoing benefits to the community through education and enterprise.

Abom sub-location's socio-economic analysis shows that, capital assets available to support livelihoods are weak and vulnerable.
Human capital reflects, low educational levels, high dropout in primary & secondary school especially girls, contributing to the low level of skills available in households. Human capital exploitation is, affected by limited access to basic services/facilities. The low provision of water and social infrastructure etc, depicts weak physical capital asset .

Maternal mortality is very high in India owing to several preventable & treatable conditions like hemorrhage, sepsis, hypertensive disorders, obstructed labor & unsafe abortions. Regular antenatal care(ANC), effective & timely referral and safe delivery can help reduce it to a considerable extent. Currently ANC is delivered in India via ASHA workers but this model suffers from issues due to low-salary, minimal resource and not being self-sustainable. Hence in India ANC coverage is still abysmally low(19.6%) more so in villages (14.7%).

Adonya offers handcrafted artisan jewelry and accessories which embody a cultural commitment to social and environmental justice for the global community.

Our experience in Haiti in humanitarian development projects, previous experience in other organizations, allied to discussions and reflections held with people who share the same interests, generated a workable idea and helped mature the underlying judgment.

Zetu alleviates poverty and social problems by providing families living at the base of economic pyramid with sustainable and dignified means to earn a living by giving them profitable business models that also address social problems in their community thus empowering the poor to be the change agents in their own lives and communities.
Zetu uses a new innovative poverty alleviation tool called micro-franchising.

Our focus is on creating livelihoods and also ensuring environmental sustainability. We provide a variety of services to enable communities to expand their product line and develop new natural sustainable products. If we are able to utilize invasive species or other waste materials such as byproducts of a process the community currently has, we can also help them protect the environment. By creating a new product and standardizing the production process, we can work with the community to create jobs and increase income generation.

www.ohiosingleparentclassifieds.com was created to join single parents across the state of Ohio. Every single parent, regardless of race or financial status, is welcome to utilize the website. Single parents are able to advertise services wanted or are able to post an ad for services needed. www.ohiosingleparentclassifieds.com even offers single parents an opportunity to be a mentor or post an ad for a mentor. The website also offers single parents an opportunity to advertise single parent support groups as well as search for roommates or housing.

FundWeaver is an online platform weaving communities, people and organizations together to collaboratively finance Inuit, Metis and First Nations project ideas.