Our goal is for local leaders to run a community development organization that is financially self-sustaining. That is why Nuru International established Nuru Social Enterprises (NSE) to fund sustainable poverty eradication. NSE invests in local entrepreneurs and incubates a diverse portfolio of profitable businesses in the developing world. Profits from these businesses are distributed to
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It is a nonprofit organization founded by Catherine Hoke in 2010. The organization’s goal is to address the social problems of mass incarceration, recidivism, and related issues by providing entrepreneurship, employment, and character training programs to individuals with criminal histories. Defy offers a learning program combining face-to-face and online courses consisting of entrepreneurship training, character
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Actor Paul Newman and author A.E. Hotchner founded the food company in 1982. The company gives 100% of the after-tax profits from the sale of its products to Newman’s Own Foundation (a private non-profit foundation) which in turn, gives the money to various educational and charitable organizations. In 1982, Newman summarized his initial intentions regarding
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We are the bank for organisations and businesses that aim to create community, social or environmental benefit in a financially sustainable way. We seek to put social change at the heart of everything we do by offering specialist banking and finance to organisations that have a positive impact on their communities. Unity was established in
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Milaap Social Ventures India Pvt. Ltd. owns and manages the online web portal milaap.org, which enables anyone around the world to lend money to the working poor in India. The firm aims to provide micro finance the poor with access to basic amenities including clean drinking water, toilets, education, renewable energy as well as income-generation
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CharityVillage has become the Canadian nonprofit sector’s largest and most popular online resource for recruiting, news and how-to information. Merging the best of web design and social media, the new CharityVillage is a unique online community for the 21st century. It’s based on relationship-building, sharing, and collaboration – characteristics that underpin the nonprofit sector. Whether
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Tevis Howard, who currently serves as Executive Director, founded KOMAZA in 2006. He launched KOMAZA to create income-generating opportunities for smallholder farmers living in Kenya’s infertile and drought-prone regions.  He has since dedicated his efforts to growing and strengthening the organization. KOMAZA provides farmers with the inputs and training they need to grow fast-growing trees
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Is a non-banking finance company (NBFC), regulated by the Reserve Bank of India. Vikram Akula, who served as its executive chair until November 2011, founded it in 1997. The company’s mission is to provide financial services to the poor under the premise that providing financial services to poor borrowers helps to alleviate poverty. In 2013,
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raiSE was set up to raise awareness on social entrepreneurship and raise support for social enterprises in Singapore. raiSE hopes to strengthen the social enterprise sector in Singapore and encourage the growth of social enterprises as a sustainable way to address social needs.   raiSE will provide a range of support to help social enterprises
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