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Aliança Empreendedora
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| Aliança Empreendedora est un organisation sans but lucratif qui travaille à l'échelle nationale en soutenant les entreprises, les ONG et les gouvernements à concevoir, tester et déployer des modèles d'affaires inclusifs et des projets pour stimuler et soutenir l'entrepreneuriat chez la population à faible revenu. Cela génère de nouvelles opportunités commerciales, le travail et le revenu, favorisant ainsi le développement économique et social. Page: http://www.aliancaempreendedora.org.br/ |
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Agora Partnerships
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| Our mission is to scale the growth of early-stage companies throughout Latin America that are helping to solve critical problems in their community Whether they are organizing women’s cooperatives in the mountains of Guatemala, employing marginalized youth populations in rural Nicaragua, or providing affordable and sustainable post-disaster relief housing in Haiti, Agora entrepreneurs directly confront the most intractable social problems facing the region. They confront them by harnessing market forces and channeling them to create long-term value for shareholders and for society. Our aim is to level the playing field for promising, early stage entrepreneurs who, like us, are working to build a more sustainable and successful planet. |
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BALLE
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| BALLE believes that national and global prosperity begins at the local level. City by city, business by business. BALLE equips Localist leaders with strategies for local success, and we provide the national forum for the most visionary local economy leaders to connect, build their capacity and innovate. BALLE is building a supportive field for these leaders by coordinating communications and impact metrics, spreading their stories and data and attracting new resources. We connect entrepreneurs who are rethinking their industries, innovative funders who are investing to scale the Localist movement, and visionary network organizers who can mobilize on a broad scale. Together, our ideas are better, our voice is stronger and we're proving how locally owned business strategies are the key to creating real prosperity. |
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Buena Nota
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| Buena Nota is a social organization dedicated to supporting and promoting social entrepreneurs. Founded six years ago in Colombia, Buena Nota works to visualize, strengthen, and support entrepreneurs with social impact. |
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Chetna Organics
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| The Chetna Organic & Fair Trade Cotton Intervention Program (OCIP) was established in 2004 as a supply chain initiative in organic cotton. The OCIP’s intent was to improve smallholder farmers’ livelihoods by making their farm systems more sustainable and profitable, while creating access to ethical and fair trade markets in cotton. Established in 2009, Chetna Organic Agriculture Producer Company Ltd (COAPCL) is a farmer- owned company, professionally managed and backed by venture philanthropy that empowers farmers by engaging them to build an ethical supply chain. The enterprise is driven by its triple bottom-line objectives, based on the principles of ecological (organic), social (fair trade) and corporate (nominal, non-exploitative profits) sustainability. Today, Chetna Organics runs a multi-faceted program that creates a 360 degree support intervention around the farmers' community. These multiple touch points include social interventions like watershed management, rural employment, and building local communities and schools. Ethics, honesty, transparency, traceability & good governance remain the hallmark values of brand Chetna Organic. |
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Emprende Social
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| Emprende Social is the premier publication specifically dedicated to advancing a community that promotes, expands, and connects social entrepreneurship enthusiasts across Latin America. Its team is made up of young social entrepreneurs from Peru, Ecuador, Mexico, Colombia, and the United States. |
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ENI Di Tella
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| The Inclusive Business Center promotes the development of inclusive businesses through the generation of knowledge and know-how. It is a reference center for organizations, businesses, and institutions who want to change traditional business models and require strong arguments to sustain their actions. ENI Di Tella is a community of academics, business entrepreneurs, social entrepreneurs, executive directors, students, and graduate students, where anyone interested in inclusive businesses can exchange knowledge and experience. It aims for the development of this community, by continually analyzing experiences and advances, sharing knowledge and feedback about the inclusive business models that are happening around the world, but mainly in Latin America, increasing the comprehension about these new business models. The Inclusive Business Center is an entity of the Business School of Di Tella University. |
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Global Entrepreneurship Program Indonesia (GEPI)
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| The Global Entrepreneurship Program Indonesia (GEPI) aims to catalyze Indonesia’s entrepreneurship strategies by working in partnership with existing programs and linking aspiring Indonesian entrepreneurs to global development and investment projects. GEPI formally was started in January 2011 by a group of 13 prominent business leaders in Indonesia who now comprise the Board of Founders. It has a full-time Secretariat in Jakarta. GEPI is also part of wider global initiative called the Global Entrepreneurship Program (GEP), which grew from an initiative of President Obama and is now a core program at the U.S. State Department guided by Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, to promote entrepreneurship as a key pillar of economic development among developing countries.Emprende Social is the premier publication specifically dedicated to advancing a community that promotes, expands, and connects social entrepreneurship enthusiasts across Latin America. Its team is made up of young social entrepreneurs from Peru, Ecuador, Mexico, Colombia, and the United States. |
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Le HUB São Paulo
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| Le HUB a été créé pour encourager le développement durable dans une démarche collaborative. Que vous soyez déjà en train de travailler sur un projet concret, que vous ayez le germe d’une idée innovante ou encore simplement l’envie de dédier votre temps, votre énergie et votre talent pour faire la difference, le HUB vous offre son expertise pour transporter vos initiatives au niveau supérieur. Page: http://saopaulo.the-hub.net/ |
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Idealist
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| Idealist connects people, organizations, ideas, and resources to build a better world. Since Idealist was founded in 1995, more than 170,000 organizations and 2,000,000 people around the world have created free profiles on the site. Idealist is also available in Spanish (www.idealistas.org) and French (www.idealiste.org). |
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InSTEDD
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| InSTEDD (Innovative Support to Emergencies, Diseases and Disasters- Soutient Innovant pour les Urgences, les Maladies et les Catastrophes) est une organisation internationale à but non lucratif qui développe et fournit des outils technologiques, à code source ouvert et ayant un impact social important pour des entités proches au domaine de la santé publique. Ces outils technologiques sont conçus pour fournir une réponse face aux urgences et au développement, et pour améliorer la collaboration et accroître le flux d’échange de connaissance. Notre mission consiste à élever les standards en matière de santé globale, de sécurité et de développement durable à travers le transfert de technologie, en concevant des plateformes pour le bien public, avec ceux qui en seront bénéficiaires, tout comme aider à évaluer leurs impacts. Nous travaillons avec les gouvernements, les universités, les corporations, les organisations internationales de la santé, les organisations humanitaires, et les communautés locales du monde entier, en identifiant leurs besoins. |
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NaiLab
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| The NaiLab is a business incubator located in Nairobi, Kenya and has been actively incubating since August 2011. It seeks to provide new and emerging technology and compatible businesses with an environment that supports their start-up phase and increases their likelihood of success. The NaiLab includes facility space, flexible leases, shared use of common office equipment, direct business assistance and guidance, mentoring, networking to capital, and other technical resources. A network of existing resources in the community has been developed to support incubatee needs. Approximately six to ten incubatees are served for both physical and virtual incubation at any given time. The Nailab is currently funded by the 1% Club, which is an organization based in the Netherlands. However, it is constantly looking for ways to grow and become self sustainable. Some of the organizations that the Nailab has partnered with in the past include AKVO, Startup Weekend, rLabs and Accenture Netherlands. |
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New Ventures
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| Founded by the World Resources Institute in 1999, New Ventures has worked with 362 innovative enterprises whose goods and services produce clear, measurable environmental benefits, such as clean energy, efficient water use and sustainable agriculture, and often address the challenges experienced by the world’s poor. We have Local Centers in six of the world’s most dynamic emerging economies: Brazil, China, Colombia, India, Indonesia, and Mexico. Through our approach to business development and our links to investors around the world, New Ventures has helped innovative companies build viable businesses that have collectively received over $289 million in investment capital and have held two Initial Public Offerings (IPOs) that have raised approximately $100 million. |
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