Foro Ciudades para la vida

Cities for Life Forum (the Forum) is an association that groups 57 institutions (local government, universities, NGOs, and business associations) from 20 cities in Peru in order to promote sustainable low-income, healthy housing in urban areas of Peru. The Forum works to improve the environmental management capacity of public and private actors through processes of Local Agenda 21, promoting the inclusion of key environmental issues in the national public agenda (Climate Change, Land Management>.

Cities for Life Forum promotes building cities which are in harmony with the environment and provide a good quality of life for their inhabitants.
The Forum provides practical processes for replacing the use of building materials and construction processes which are potentially damaging to human health and ecosystems, with those which are healthy, both for residents and the environment.

Sustentator

Sustentator is an online platform designed to reestablish harmony between man and the environment. Climate change, diminishing resources and pollution are challenges that we must overcome to ensure the wellbeing of future generations. Through it’s website, Sustentator brings solutions and technologies focused on reducing the environmental footprint of individuals, companies and governments. It also offers services such as a recycling map and it recently launched an online shop that offers a wide variety of eco-friendly products. Only if we work together, we can we make a big difference.

Revista Iberoamericana de Sostenibilidad

Sustainable Iberoamerican Magazine (Revista Iberoamericana de Sostenibilidad- It is an independent magazine that communicates daily about renewable energies, environment, sustainable economy, human rights, and all the issues that help make a balance and sustainable world for future generations.

Instituto Arayara de Educação para a Sustentabilidade

O Instituto Arayara de Educação para a Sustentabilidade é uma associação sem fins lucrativos, que objetiva apoiar a educação para a sustentabilidade visando o desenvolvimento pessoal, social, cultural, ambiental,organizacional e institucional para a cidadania. Ele observa em suas atividades cotidianas as premissas da legalidade, moralidade, transparência, eficiência e eficácia. Todos os recursos são aplicados em prol de projetos sociais.

O Portal Rede da Sustentabilidade é um espaço criado pelo Instituto Arayara para o compartilhamento de idéias, conhecimentos e práticas que revelem os principais problemas socioambientais da atualidade e também as soluções viáveis para encarar estes desafios.

Warisan Global, catalyzing social innovations

Warisan Global helps her clients build communities and ignites an enterprise culture in youth to help them launch new ventures.Warisan Global is also the host of the Global Entrepreneurship Week (GEW) - a global movement of entrepreneurial people. (More at www.unleashingideas.org and www.gewmalaysia.com.)

Apart from GEW, Warisan Global also works closely with the University of Cambridge in the UK, Kauffman Foundation in the US and other blue-chip partners to find new and innovative ways to create the next generation of entrepreneurs."

Centro de Políticas Públicas UC

La misión del Centro de Políticas Públicas UC es contribuir a vincular el quehacer académico de la UC con los principales desafíos del país en el ámbito de las políticas públicas, ofreciendo una plataforma de gestión multidisciplinaria que potencie el rol de la universidad en el análisis, investigación, docencia y proposición de políticas públicas, desde nuestra identidad UC.

Club da Reforma

Reform Club is a network of social organizations and companies working together in order to accelerate the development of reforms market to improve the living conditions of low income populations. Since 2009, brings together key leaders from the private sector and social organizations on housing issue to work together to development practical ideas that can generate scale solutions to facilitate access to better housing in the country.

Tandem Fund

Tandem Fund is a venture fund that builds and invests in Asian social enterprises that use entrepreneurial approaches to alleviate the problems of poverty. Tandem Fund invests in the health, food, housing, and distribution sectors.

Africa.com

Africa.com is the fastest-growing internet portal to the continent. Providing your connection to Africa, the site has travel guidance, news, finance, information, and blogs from opinion-leaders. Visit Africa.com before you go or just to learn - from Cairo to Cape Town.

Echoing Green

Echoing Green inspires, invests in, and mobilizes next generation talent to deliver bold solutions for social change. Founded by the private equity firm General Atlantic, almost 25 years ago, we have focused our efforts on identifying and funding promising social entrepreneurs to help them launch innovative social change organizations around the world. Since inception we have invested in nearly 500 social entrepreneurs who work to solve deeply-rooted problems in the world through their innovative ideas. Among the organizations we helped launch include Teach For America, City Year, Genocide Intervention Network, The SEED School, Global Fund for Children and hundreds of others. We also work to build a robust ecosystem of changemaking by supporting young people to select careers in social change; working with donors to approach their philanthropy in an engaged manner; and providing data that builds our field.

New Course

Everywhere, women are struggling to provide their families with the basic necessities for survival—finding food, hauling water, and collecting fuel and other natural resources. But women are rarely included in providing guidance and stewardship when it comes to the management of these precious resources. This endemic exclusion is detrimental to the sustainability of the planet’s beleaguered biodiversity, and to the well-being of the communities these women serve. New Course was created to seek out and engage the women at the center of the world’s troubled environments. We work directly with these matriarchs and our network of partners, employing a holistic approach to solving their most pressing problems. We bring to bear expertise in myriad disciplines to find new, sustainable ways to connect women to a global resource support system—technological, financial, environmental, and social.

Foundation Center

Established in 1956 and today supported by close to 550 foundations, the Foundation Center is the leading source of information about philanthropy worldwide. Through data, analysis, and training, it connects people who want to change the world to the resources they need to succeed. The Center maintains the most comprehensive database on U.S. and, increasingly, global grantmakers and their grants - a robust, accessible knowledge bank for the sector. It also operates research, education, and training programs designed to advance knowledge of philanthropy at every level.

The Brazilian Architects Institute

The Brazilian Architects Institute – São Paulo Chapter is the oldest professional entity of the architects in our country. It is the only Brazilian representation in the International Union of Architects - the highest body professional and cultural of the architects in the world. The IAB is responsible for organizing the many different types of competitions of Architecture and Urbanism.

Unreasonable Institute

The Unreasonable Institute is a mentor-intensive acceleration program for entrepreneurs tackling social and environmental problems. Each year, Unreasonable unites 25 entrepreneurs from every corner of the globe to live under the same roof for six weeks in Boulder, Colorado. These entrepreneurs receive training from 60 world-class mentors, ranging from the co-founder of Google.org to an entrepreneur who's lifted over 24 million farmers out of poverty. In the process, they form relationships with 30 investment funds, receive legal advice & design consulting, and pitch to hundreds of investors and partners in San Francisco and in Boulder. Check out this 3-minute trailer to get an inside peak!

Green Roofs for Healthy Cities

As the North American green roof and wall industry association, Green Roofs for Healthy Cities’ mission is to increase the awareness of the economic, social and environmental benefits of green roofs and green walls, and other forms of living architecture through education, advocacy, professional development and celebrations of excellence.

International Housing Coalition

The International Housing Coalition (IHC) promotes the goal of “HOUSING FOR ALL” as an essential element to ending poverty worldwide. The IHC recognizes the global trend of urbanization, which is especially rapid in the developing world, as presenting both challenges and opportunities. While urbanization can accelerate economic growth and raise living standards, it also contributes to the growth of slums and the marginalization of the poor. The IHC strongly supports the need for development agencies and developing countries to pay more attention and direct more investment to urban and shelter issues, to ensure that the urban poor benefits from the urbanization trend.

The IHC strategy is to effect policy and programmatic change in foreign assistance through an education and advocacy program, undertaken in partnership with a broad coalition of organizations. The education and advocacy efforts are integrated with and draw strength from the organization’s active engagement in housing and urban development applied research, information sharing and policy advice in selected countries.

The Urban Vision

The Urban Vision is a think-do tank focuses on solutions driven research; advocates best practices in policy and design; facilitates public dialogue on policy choices. The Urban Vision has been initiated with the core belief that cities offer a remarkable way to create a socially inclusive, environmentally sustainable and economically thriving society. The Urban Vision profiles best practices and the finest thinking in the key components of city building – urban design, architecture, infrastructure planning, and policy strategies. The Urban Vision illustrates inspiring concepts that urban practitioners can take on to drive the world in the right path. It is also a platform for dialogue, allowing the practitioners, policymakers and city-dwellers to share their views and develop strategies to build sustainable cities in the future.

The Center for Education on Social Responsibility (CESR)

The Center for Education on Social Responsibility (CESR) at the University of Colorado was established to develop socially conscious, values-driven business leaders of tomorrow. CESR prepares students at the Leeds School of Business to meet the ethical and social challenges posed by a highly competitive, globally-connected business world. Through required and elective courses, CESR inculcates values discussions throughout the undergraduate and graduate curricula at the Leeds School of Business. CESR hosts the annual Conscious Capitalism Conference, gathering students from universities across the region to engage with social entrepreneurs and executives who us the traditional tools of capitalism to achieve social goals. To encourage students’ pursuit of the field of social responsibility, CESR offers the Certificate Program in Socially Responsible Enterprise for undergraduates and the Sustainability Portfolio for MBA students.

Brazilian Social Network for Fair and Sustainable Cities

The Brazilian Social Network for Fair and Sustainable Cities was launched in a meeting in Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, on July 8, 2008. The network is composed of nonpartisan organizations and inter-religious and open to new members. The aim is to exchange information and expertise among members to promote mutual learning, support and strengthen local experiences. The mission defined in the network’s founding principles is to "commit society and their governments to ethical behavior and the fair and sustainable development of their cities." The network has no permanent leadership, however responsibilities are taken on through the the network's joint decision-making process, always in consensus.

Afribiz

Afribiz, a brand of Conceptualee, Inc., focuses on catalyzing and growing trade, information, business, technology and innovation, and capital flows between Africa and other global markets, both developed and emerging. Afribiz products and services are divided into six areas - media and broadcasting, publications, projects, promotion and public relations, platform development, and professional services. Our media, information, and content outlets include Afribiz.info, Afribiz.net, Afribiz.fm, and Afribiz.tv.

Affordable Housing Institute (AHI)

The Affordable Housing Institute (AHI) is a non-profit consultancy that works around the world, and particularly in the global South, with pro-poor affordable housing finance entities – what we call Mission Entrepreneurial Entities, MEEs – to help them create, develop, and implement affordable housing financial products and business lines, as well as by positively influencing the policy and economic ecosystem to enable them to grow.

VC4Africa.com

VC4Africa.com believes that entrepreneurship should be the main driver in Africa’s economic growth, in particular the small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) that provide much of Africa’s employment, income and hope for a better future. SMEs contribute around two thirds of national income and provide the foundation for a stable middle class in many African countries. VC4Africa aims to connect innovative entrepreneurs (and their ideas) with access to knowledge, markets and capital i.e. mentors, business partners and investors. The focus is on entrepreneurs with innovative projects that apply new technology, new media, the web, mobile and green energy. Extra emphasis is placed on social entrepreneurs, otherwise individuals that make use of these tools in ways that betters the environment and society while making a profit.

Cepal

The Experiences in Social Innovation project is developed by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) with support from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation since 2004. It aims at identifying, analyzing and disseminating innovative social development initiatives that contribute to the advancement of the Millennium Development Goals.

The Experiences in Social Innovation project will dedicate the year of 2011 to the analysis and dissemination of the 72 initiatives that conform the Bank of Experiences. They are social innovations with proven excellent results, cost-efficient and replicable. It is relevant that this information reach people and/or organizations that can put it to good use in order to improve the quality of life of people in Latin America and the Caribbean. Since its opening the Experiences in Social Innovation contest has received 4, 800 applications. Each one of them underwent a strict evaluation process that included a field visit for the semifinalists and the participation of the finalists in one of the annual Social Innovation Fairs, which were held in Santiago, Chile, Mexico City, Porto Alegre, Medellin and Guatemala City.

2nd Green Revolution

2nd Green Revolution is dedicated to presenting pertinent information on the clean energy economy. With a focus on renewable energy, smart grid, energy efficiency and sustainable development, 2nd Green Revolution aims to provide analysis, insight and an informative viewpoint on issues relating to the next green revolution.

AVINA

AVINA Foundation contributes to sustainable development in Latin America by encouraging productive alliances based on trust among social and business leaders and by brokering consensus around agendas for action. AVINA works in almost all the continent, implementing national and regional strategies. One of the opportunities of continental scope is the Sustainable Cities Initiative.

Thunderbird

Thunderbird is the world’s No. 1-ranked school of international business with more than 60 years of experience in developing leaders with the global mindset, business skills and social responsibility necessary to create real, sustainable value for their organizations, communities and the world. Dedicated to preparing students to be global leaders and committed global citizens, Thunderbird was the first graduate business school to adopt an official Professional Oath of Honor. Thunderbird is sought out by graduate students, working professionals and companies worldwide seeking to gain the leadership skills they need to succeed in today’s global economy. For more about Thunderbird, please visit: www.thunderbird.edu.

Thunderbird Emerging Markets Laboratory

The Thunderbird Emerging Markets Laboratory (TEM Lab) is a capstone course at the Thunderbird School of Global Management. The Lab deploys an MBA team of four to six people to execute a consulting project for a client system in an emerging market country. The engagement period is typically seven weeks, which includes five weeks in-field. TEM Lab projects are designed to create social and economic benefit for the client organization—just like a for-profit consultancy. They are also designed to provide hands-on learning laboratories for students.

Revista Ecosistema

Ecosistema is the first independent magazine focused in business and the environment in Argentina. Its mission is to generate a “green” conscious within the business atmosphere. To build a new paradigm requires time and dialogue, that is why Ecosistema Magazine offers a space for exchange, debate, and opinion, within a pluralistic framework and a constructive vision. The magazine was designed as a sustainable development project at each stage of its development.

Harmonic Ecological Design, LLC

Harmonic Ecological Design, LLC was founded to offer a solution based approach to general ecosystem degradation and specifically soil, water, and food systems. HED provides a broad range of services from consulting, design, master planning, and project management, to cutting edge research and education. Our work is guided by the ethics and principles of Permaculture and we feature a team of certified permaculture designers. We specialize in the design of water harvesting systems, soil biology restoration, edible perennial polycultures and broad scale ecological restoration. Harmonic Ecological Design works primarily in the drylands of the southwest U.S.A. and has also worked in the dry tropics of Nicaragua, coastal communities in Costa Rica, as well as the Amazon Basin of Brazil.

Un Techo para mi País

Un Techo para mi Pais (UTPMP) is a Latin American non-profit organization led by young people. Thousands of university students volunteers work together with families that live at slums to improve their quality of life by building houses and developing social housing programs.

UTPMP began its international expansion in 2001 and has been reinforced since 2005 by the support of the Multilateral Investment Fund (MIF) of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB). Un Techo para mi País is currently working in 18 countries in Latin America: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru and Uruguay.

Red Latinoamericana por Ciudades Justas y Sustentables

The Red Latinoamericana por Ciudades Justas y Sustentables is an initiative that brings together programs for people who are looking for making a social control of public policy in the cities where they are located. The characteristics of these programs are: the construction of citizen indicators and access to public information, surveys of people perceptions of quality of life, monitoring and impact on public policy, public participation, the inclusion of different and various sectors and actors in the city. As its name suggests, cities are working for fair, democratic and sustainable cities.

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