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Acumen
Acumen (2001; New York; 121 staff and associates; acumen.org) A global community changing the way the world tackles poverty. They believe “that neither the markets nor aid alone can solve...
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (2000; Seattle; 1602 staff; gatesfoundation.org) Is an American, private foundation dedicated "to enhancing healthcare, reducing extreme poverty across the globe, and expanding educational opportunities and...
Brown, Lester R.
Lester R. Brown (b.1934) is well-known as the founder of the Worldwatch Institute in Washington in 1974, where he served as president until 2000. Worldwatch is known for its annual...
Business Fights Poverty
Business Fights Poverty (2005; 17 Staff; UK; businessfightspoverty.org) Description: Uses “challenges” to engage an expanding network of 20,000+ professionals with poverty-related issues with products developed in 3 to 9 months. Projects...
Anti-Poverty, Business and Sustainability, Poverty, Poverty and Jobs, Poverty Reduction, Sustainable Business, Sustainable Development and Business
Center for Environmental Economics Research & Consultancy
Center for Environmental Economics Research & Consultancy (2008; Tena, Ghana; 8 staff; eerac.org) Is is a nonprofit organization aiming to address the specific research needs within the fields of environment...
Agriculture, Climate Change, Climate Change Mitigation, Economics Rethinking, Health, Land Tenure Security, Natural Resources, Poverty, Public Health, Security of Land Tenure, Sustainable Agriculture, Sustainable Investment, Sustainable Water Management, Training Programs
Center for Global Development
Center for Global Development (2001, Washington; 78 staff; cgdev.org) Is a nonprofit think tank that provides research and development services in Washington, D.C. and the United Kingdom. It focuses on...
Cordaid
Cordaid (1914; The Hague, Netherlands; 9 staff; cordaid.org) The Catholic Organization for Relief and Development Aid is an international development organization “fighting poverty and exclusion in fragile and conflict areas.”...
Disaster Relief, Disaster Resilience, Human Security, Humanitarian Aid, Justice, Poverty, Resilience
Cornwall Alliance for the Stewardship of Creation
Cornwall Alliance for the Stewardship of Creation (2005; Burke, United States; 3 staff; cornwallalliance.org) It is a national coalition committed to bringing a “balanced, Biblical view of stewardship to the...
COVID-19 Action Agenda Leaders on the Front Line: Why Social Entrepreneurs Are Needed Now More than Ever
COVID-19 Action Agenda Leaders on the Front Line: Why Social Entrepreneurs Are Needed Now More than Ever (The Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship for the World Economic Forum, September, 2020, 70p) Social...
Food Tank: The Food Think Tank
Food Tank: The Food Think Tank (2013; Chicago; 5 staff; foodtank.com) Is a non-profit organization striving to reform the food system by focusing on sustainable ways of tackling the most pressing...
Global Campaign Against Poverty
Global Campaign Against Poverty (2005; Worldwide; gcap. global) It aims to "build a strong and progressive global action against poverty and inequalities with a Southern leadership to ensure that nobody...
Global Citizen
Global Citizen (2012; New York; 23 staff; globalcitizen.org) An “advocacy organization dedicated to ending extreme poverty by 2030.” It “encourages people to learn and take action on its platform; those...
Global Innovation Fund
Global Innovation Fund (2014, London; 8 staff; globalinnovation.fund) A nonprofit innovation fund investing "in social innovations that aim to improve the lives and opportunities of millions of people in the...
Green for All
Green for all (2007; Oakland; thedreamcorps.org) The program fights "for a world that is green for all, not green for some." Their work is at the "intersection of the environmental,...
Heifer International
Heifer International (1944; Little Rock, United States; 8 staff; heifer.org) Heifer International is a "global nonprofit working to eradicate poverty and hunger through sustainable, values-based holistic community development." It's model...
International Food Policy Research Institute
International Food Policy Research Institute (1975; Washington; 604 staff; ifpri.org) The International Food Policy Research Institute provides "research-based policy solutions to sustainably reduce poverty and end hunger and malnutrition in...
Nourish International
Nourish International (2006; Garner, North Carolina; 12 staff; nourish.org) It is a global movement through which "students make a sustainable impact on extreme poverty and create opportunities for change." The...
Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative
Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (2007; Oxford, UK; 56 staff; ophi.org.uk) The Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative is “an economic research and policy centre within Oxford University’s Department...
Population Matters
Population Matters (1991; London; 22 staff; populationmatters.org) Is a charity working globally to "achieve a future in which our population co-exists in harmony with nature and prospers on a healthy...
Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency
Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (1995; Stockholm, Sweden; 700 staff; sida.se) It is a government agency under the Ministry for Foreign Affairs. Its goal is to contribute to poverty alleviation,...