Categorized as: Africa, Grantees, Job Creation, Poverty Alleviation
Description: African Entrepreneur Collective works in Rwanda. AEC is a collection of incubators, accelerators, and investment funds supporting young entrepreneurs in Africa. AEC supports existing entrepreneurs through capacity building, mentorship, and direct...Read more
Categorized as: Caribbean, Current Partners, Education, Grantees, Job Creation, Latin America, Poverty Alleviation
Description: Agora Partnerships was founded in 2005 by students and entrepreneurs hoping to create change throughout Latin America. They provide resources and materials to entrepreneurs who are working to build businesses in order to solve social and environmental...Read more
Categorized as: Africa, Education, Family Discretionary, Grantees, Health, Job Creation, Latin America, Legacy Partners, Poverty Alleviation, U.S.
Description: Alfalit International Inc. works to eliminate human suffering caused by illiteracy. They offer several programs in order to improve educational development in the poorest areas of Central America, South America, the Caribbean, Africa, Portugal, and the...Read more
Categorized as: Current Partners, Education, Grantees, Job Creation, Latin America, Poverty Alleviation
Description: Bean Voyage ensures sustainable livelihood for female coffee producers by training and connecting them with the end consumers. They invest in economic growth, environmental protection, and gender justice for smallholder women in coffee communities so that...Read more
Categorized as: Grantees, Job Creation, Social-Impact Investments
Description: Beneficial Returns is an impact investment fund designed to support the growth of leading social enterprises in emerging markets. They get social entrepreneurs the long-term debt they need to grow, and offer the opportunity for philanthropists to invest a...Read more
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: Education, Grantees, Job Creation, Legacy Partners, Poverty Alleviation, U.S.
Description: The Catholic Committee of Appalachia works to establish community and solidarity, Catholic social teaching, educational programs, spirituality, and participation in order to promote social, economic, and ecological justice in Appalachia. They have...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: Africa, Current Partners, Education, Grantees, Job Creation, Poverty Alleviation
Description: Eggpreneur is a social enterprise working in remote Kenyan communities to build sustainable egg farming ventures that help families end the cycles of poverty. The Eggpreneur model trains and engages women egg farmers, also known as “Eggpreneurs” to...Read more
Categorized as: Africa, Grantees, Job Creation, Legacy Partners
Description: Firelight Foundation works on a local level in East Africa to identify, fund, and strengthen promising community organizations that support the health, resilience, and education of children. They use a four-stage approach to achieve their goal. They find...Read more
Categorized as: Africa, Asia, Education, Grantees, Job Creation, Latin America, 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, Grantees, Job Creation, Legacy Partners, Social-Impact Investments
Description: Jibu was founded in 2012 and is an organization that is working to provide safe drinking water at an affordable price in developing countries throughout East Africa. They build locally owned businesses, develop local socially responsible leaders, forge...Read more
Categorized as: Asia, Education, Grantees, Job Creation, 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: Africa, Current Partners, Education, Grantees, Job Creation, Poverty Alleviation
Description: KadAfrica envisions a world where out-of-school girls are economic drivers of their communities. They use passion fruit farming as a vehicle for girls to build their own support systems to become independent and empowered decision makers. Girls are...Read more
Categorized as: Africa, Education, Family Discretionary, Grantees, Job Creation, Poverty Alleviation
Description: LivelyHoods is a non-profit organization that works to create jobs for women and youth in slums throughout Kenya, mainly in the clean-energy sales field. They recruit youth and women, provide them with training and environmentally friendly products, and...Read more
Categorized as: Africa, Education, Grantees, Job Creation, Legacy Partners, Poverty Alleviation
Description: Lumana worked in rural Ghana to find innovative solutions for overcoming the inherent difficulties of sustainably running a microfinance program. They used a multi-pronged approach to create a solid foundation for community economic development. Lumana...Read more
Categorized as: Asia, Education, Grantees, Job Creation
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: Grantees, Job Creation, Legacy Partners, Poverty Alleviation, U.S.
Description: Praise Laundromat is a microbusiness laundromat established to employ local residents, boost the economy, provide a community center and laundry facility in a depressed coal-mining town in Appalachia. They serve over 12,500 residents and visitors. Mission...Read more
Categorized as: Caribbean, Family Discretionary, Grantees, Job Creation, Middle East, Poverty Alleviation
Description: Prosperity Catalyst provides tools, training, and community for women in distressed regions to thrive as skilled entrepreneurs and leaders. Their entrepreneurs learn how to build their businesses to the size they desire, earning higher than the standard...Read more
Categorized as: Asia, Family Discretionary, Grantees, Job Creation, Poverty Alleviation
Description: REACH works in Vietnam to become a leading provider of innovative, practical and demand-driven skills training; equip their students with the confidence, belief, and self-respect needed to grasp new opportunities; provide solid employment opportunities...Read more
Categorized as: Asia, Education, Grantees, Job Creation
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, Grantees, Job Creation, Poverty Alleviation, Social-Impact Investments
Description: Village Enterprise works to end extreme poverty in rural Africa through entrepreneurship and innovation. The Village Enterprise one-year Graduation program provides groups of three entrepreneurs with seed capital, training and ongoing mentoring by a local...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: Caribbean, Family Discretionary, Grantees, Job Creation, Poverty Alleviation
Description: Voix & Actions is a nonprofit organization geared toward the development of the Haitian community and the physical and moral relief of the disadvantaged people who live there. They accomplish this vision through various programs ranging from...Read more
Categorized as: Asia, Current Partners, Education, Grantees, Job Creation & 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
Categorized as: Grantees, Job Creation, Latin America, Legacy Partners, Poverty Alleviation
Description: Working Capital for Community Needs, or WCCN, was founded in 1984 and since has been working toward economic development through impact investing in impoverished areas in several countries throughout Latin America. They empower low-income entrepreneurs...Read more
Categorized as: Africa, Caribbean, Education, Family Discretionary, Grantees, Health, Job Creation, Latin America, U.S. & Tagged as: Dominican Republic, Haiti, Nicaragua, US, Zambia
Description: World Central Kitchen uses culinary education to fight poverty, hunger, and health issues. The use cleaner cooking with clean cook stoves and food safety/sanitation training. They provide school kitchens to support feeding programs that encourage school...Read more