Categorized as: Asia, Grantees, Job Creation, Legacy Partners, Poverty Alleviation
Description: BOMA Project replaces aid with sustainable income, helping ultra poor women “graduate” from extreme poverty by giving them the tools they need to start small businesses. They work in Kenya’s toughest remote areas impacted by climate change and turns...Read more
Categorized as: Asia, Education, Grantees, Job Creation, Legacy Partners
Description: The Destiny Foundation works to rescue young women from sex trafficking and/or sexual exploitation and provide them with training and employment opportunities. Their goal isn’t just to pull them from a dangerous life, but to make sure they...Read more
Categorized as: Asia, Education, Grantees, Legacy Partners & Tagged as: Sri Lanka
Description: Educate Lanka empowers economically disadvantaged Sri Lankan children and youth by enhancing their access to education, mentoring, and employment opportunities. Their online global community crowdfunding model raises scholarship funds that provide...Read more
Categorized as: Africa, Asia, Caribbean, Education, Grantees, Health, Latin America, Legacy Partners, Pacific Islands, Poverty Alleviation, Storytelling
Description: Freedom from Hunger worked through microfinance to bring education and healthcare services to the ultra poor, helping to empower women and families in nearly 30 developing countries. Their goal was to promote economic and social development through...Read more
Categorized as: Africa, Asia, Education, Grantees, Job Creation, Latin America, Legacy Partners, Storytelling
Description: Global Press Institute uses journalism as a development tool to educate, employ and empower women in the developing world to produce professional news coverage that elevates global awareness and ignites social change. This allows the world to see unique,...Read more
Categorized as: Africa, Asia, Grantees, Latin America, Legacy Partners, Poverty Alleviation
Description: The Grameen Foundation works in impoverished countries all over the world to help the world’s poorest people develop skills and get the resources they need to reach their full potential. Grameen Foundation provides numerous services and programs to...Read more
Categorized as: Asia, Education, Grantees, Job Creation, Legacy Partners, Poverty Alleviation
Description: Jolkona runs mentor-driven education programs for high potential social entrepreneurs. These entrepreneurs are solving some of the most challenging societal issues in their communities. Their mentors include some of Seattle’s best startup talent who...Read more
Categorized as: Asia, Education, Grantees, Job Creation, Legacy Partners
Description: Medha is a social enterprise that is working to train youth for the working world and life after schooling. They are trying to change the employability training paradigm in India by integrating their approach into the public sector education system. They...Read more
Categorized as: Africa, Asia, Education, Grantees, Latin America, Legacy Partners, Poverty Alleviation
Description: Save the Children works to help children in the United States and worldwide by providing them with basic needs and education. They have various programs, including Education, Emergency Response, Health and Nutrition, HIV and AIDS, Hunger and Livelihood,...Read more
Categorized as: Asia, Education, Grantees, Legacy Partners
Description: Teach North Korean Refugees (TNKR) is a non-profit that works in South Korea, teaching North Korean refugees, with a primary focus on English. They teach basic English and business English, depending on the interest of the student. All of the tutors are...Read more
Categorized as: Africa, Asia, Caribbean, Education, Grantees, Latin America, Legacy Partners
Description: The School Fund is dedicated to providing opportunity for impoverished students all over the world through educational scholarships. They created a person-to-person funding site which allows students in need to create personalized profiles and gives...Read more
Categorized as: Africa, Asia, Grantees, Latin America, Legacy Partners, Poverty Alleviation
Description: Unitus used a venture-capital approach to microfinance: provided capital, technical assistance, and management training to small- to mid-sized microfinance organizations in Africa, Asia, Latin and South America. They ceased operations in 2010–read...Read more
Categorized as: Asia, Education, Grantees, Job Creation, Legacy Partners
Description: Launched in summer 2011 in Seattle, Washington, Upaya Social Ventures’ founders bring years of research in ultrapoverty and a deep desire to effect long-term change for the 1.4 billion people in the world living on less than $1.25 day. Upaya offers...Read more
Categorized as: Africa, Asia, Education, Grantees, Legacy Partners, Middle East, U.S.
Description: V-Day is a global activist movement working to end violence against women and girls, including rape, battery, incest, female genital mutilation (FGM), and sex slavery. They create global awareness and raise funds through a variety of media outlets, while...Read more
Categorized as: Africa, Asia, Education, Grantees, Job Creation, Latin America, Legacy Partners
Description: Vittana built loan programs for tertiary students in over a dozen countries. They raised funds for each student on their vibrant website. Vittana partnered with 29 microfinance and financial organizations to tailor-make programs for each particular...Read more
Categorized as: Asia, Education, Grantees, Job Creation, Legacy Partners & Tagged as: Nepal
Description: Women LEAD is an organization that works with young women in Nepal. They provide these women with opportunities and skills they need to become leaders all over the world. They are youth-driven, youth-led, and gender inclusive and they are locally...Read more