Exemplary Social Enterprises

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We are a team of 400 dedicated workers striving for shared prosperity. We believe that if families can live together as communities, human race can still flourish. We work in 6000 villages of India identifying and building economic activities which foster community formation through inter-dependence. Our clients are individual farmers, women and youth in villages
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Alive & Kicking( UK, Kenya, Zambia and Ghana)

Jim Cogan OBE founded it in 2004. Alive and Kicking is an African social enterprise that manufactures sports balls to provide balls for children, create jobs for adults and promote health education through sport. Our balls are hand-stitched in Kenya, Zambia and Ghana. Made from African leather, they are built to last in tough terrain.
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Five Talents(London)

Is a Christian charity that fights poverty, creates jobs and transforms lives by empowering the poor in developing countries through innovative savings and financial inclusion programs, business training and spiritual development. Five Talents currently works in 8 developing countries, which are: Burundi, Bolivia, India, Indonesia, Kenya, Myanmar, Peru, Philippines, Sudan, South Sudan, Tanzania, and Uganda.
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From volunteer-run newspapers to community tourism projects, we look at a range of social enterprises that are bringing communities together As organisations with ethical and often co-operative values at the core of their business, social enterprises have a unique opportunity when it comes to reaching local communities. Whether that’s by involving communities in ethical initiatives
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Hand in Hand International (Asia and Africa)

In 2003, Hand in Hand Co-Founder Percy Barnevik teams up with local development specialist Dr Kalpana Sankar, a nuclear physicist by training, to help expand a small charity. Together, they begin to devise the Hand in Hand job creation model. Hand in Hand International is a member of the Hand in Hand Network, a global group of
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GBF began as an initiative of the International Finance Corporation (IFC) which piloted grassroots business investments and field-tested capacity-building approaches. GBF split from IFC and became an independent non-profit which continued investing in – and providing advisory services to – high-impact businesses in Latin America, Asia and Africa. GBF further evolved its model by establishing a $49M for-profit private investment
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Foundations for People Development (FPD) (Phillipines)

FPD was registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) of the Republic of the Philippines on December 7, 1993 with registration number AN94-197. It is a voluntary consortium of non-government organizations working together for greater effectiveness and synergy towards genuine people development through savings mobilization, values formation, entrepreneurial development, and business networking. FPD takes
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SIRUM(U.S)

SIRUM (Supporting Initiatives to Redistribute Unused Medicine) is a non-profit social enterprise started by Stanford University students to decrease the amount of medicine going to waste in the U.S. Using an innovative technology platform, SIRUM saves lives, time, and money by allowing health facilities, manufacturers, wholesalers, and pharmacies to easily donate unused medicine rather than
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