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• Acumen Fund
  Acumen Fund
  Acumen Fund is a non-profit global venture fund that uses entrepreneurial approaches to solve the problems of global poverty. Its aim is to help build financially sustainable and scalable organizations that deliver affordable critical goods and services that improve the lives of the poor...
  
  
• Asian Business Connexions
• Appropriate Infrastructure Development Group
  Appropriate Infrastructure Development Group
  The Appropriate Infrastructure Development Group provides access to environmentally friendly infrastructure in impoverished communities in developing countries through a combination of business incubation, education, and direct outreach...
  
  
• Aravind Eye Hospital
  Aravind Eye Hospital
  Aravind Eye Care Hospital is an ophthalmological hospital with several locations in India. It was founded by Dr. Govindappa Venkataswamy.The hospital is named after Sri Aurobindo, one of the 20th century’s most revered spiritual leaders...
  
  
• Ashoka: Innovators for the Public
  Ashoka: Innovators for the Public
  Ashoka: Innovators for the Public is a nonprofit organization based in Arlington, VA, supporting the field of social entrepreneurship. Ashoka was founded by Bill Drayton in 1981 to identify and support leading social entrepreneurs through a Social Venture Capital approach with the goal of...
  
  

B

• Barefoot College
  Barefoot College
  Barefoot college known as Social Work and Research Centre is an Non-governmental organization founded by Bunker Roy in 1972. It is a solar-powered school that teaches illiterate women from impoverished villages to become doctors, solar engineers, architects, and other such professions. The school...
  
  
• Benetech
  Benetech
  Benetech was founded in 1989 by high technology entrepreneur Jim Fruchterman in Palo Alto, California. Benetech is a not-for-profit social enterprise organization: it creates technology social ventures, such as Bookshare , the Route 66 Literacy Project, the Miradi environmental project management...
  
  
• Better World Books
  Better World Books
  Better World Books is a U.S.-based online bookseller. Described as a for-profit social enterprise or social business venture, Better World Books claim they measure success through a triple bottom line, considering economic, environmental and social factors...
  
  
• Booteek
• BRAC
  BRAC (NGO)
  BRAC, based in Bangladesh, is the world's largest non-governmental development organization. Established by Sir Fazle Hasan Abed in 1972 soon after the independence of Bangladesh, BRAC is present in all 64 districts of Bangladesh, with over 7 million microfinance group members, 37,500 non-formal...
  
  

C

• CAP Markets
  CAP Markets
  CAP Märkte are medium-sized neighbourhood supermarkets in Germany employing disabled people. Each unit is typically run by a local disablement association, but the brand is owned by a co-operative of sheltered workshops. As well as good working conditions, they provide a cherished community service...
  
  
• Casa Mesita
  Casa Mesita
  Casa Mesita refers to two separate non-profit organizations in Los Alamos, New Mexico. Casa Mesita Thrift Shop and Casa Mesita Group Home are two of many social enterprise organizations in Los Alamos County, one of the highest-income counties in the United States, in a state with household income...
  
  
• CharityVillage.com
  CharityVillage.com
  CharityVillage.com is a resource website for people involved in Canada's nonprofit sector. Online since 1995, the site was one of the earliest web-based resources for nonprofit staffers and volunteers. It contains more than 3,000 pages of nonprofit news, resources, how-to articles, training, and...
  
  
• Change.org
  Change.org
  Change.org is an online platform for social change launched on February 7, 2007 by current CEO Ben Rattray and Mark Dimas, and certified as a B Corporation in January, 2011. Its stated mission is to "empower anyone, anywhere to start, join, and win campaigns for social change."...
  
  
• Carbon Outreach

G

• Give Something Back Business Products
• Goodwill Industries
  Goodwill Industries
  Goodwill Industries International is a not-for-profit organization that provides job training, employment placement services and other community-based programs for people who have a disability, lack education or job experience, or face employment challenges...
  
  
• Grassroots Business Fund
  Grassroots Business Fund
  The Grassroots Business Fund is a non-profit based in Washington, DC. It has field offices in Ghana, Kenya, and India. Their mission is to build and support high-impact enterprises that provide sustainable economic opportunities to thousands of people at the base of the economic pyramid...
  
  
• Greyston Bakery
  Greyston Bakery
  Greyston Bakery was founded in Riverdale, New York, by Bernie Glassman, a Zen Buddhist. Although it is a for-profit company, its profits go to its non-profit parent organization, the Greyston Foundation, where they are used on behalf of the local community....
  
  
• Grameen Bank
  Grameen Bank
  The Grameen Bank is a microfinance organization and community development bank started in Bangladesh that makes small loans to the impoverished without requiring collateral...
  
  
• Grama Vidiyal
  Grama Vidiyal
  Grama Vidiyal is a microfinance institution, operating in the Tamil Nadu area of South India. Since 1993, Grama Vidiyal, in partnership with Activists for Social Alternatives , has provided small loans to women without access to formal credit and who typically have daily incomes of less than INR...
  
  

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• Masarang Foundation
  Masarang Foundation
  Masarang Foundation , or Yayasan Masarang in Indonesian language, is an Indonesian non-profit organization. One of its programs, The Masarang Palm Sugar Factory, succeeded as one of the finalists of The World Challenge in 2007 .-History:...
  
  
• Me to We
  Me to We
  Me to We is a for-profit, self-described social enterprise founded in 2008 by brothers Craig Kielburger and Marc Kielburger that provides socially responsible products and services and donates 50% of its profits to charity Free The Children....
  
  
• Medic Mobile
• MicroConsignment
  MicroConsignment
  The MicroConsignment Model establishes profitable income generating opportunities for primarily women that to date are selling products such as wood-burning stoves, reading glasses, water filters, seeds and gardening techniques and energy efficient lightbulbs to villagers...
  
  
• MicroEmpowering

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• Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship
  Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship
  The Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship provides platforms at the country, regional and global levels to promote social entrepreneurship.- History :...
  
  
• SEKEM
  SEKEM
  The organization SEKEM was founded in 1977 by the Egyptian pharmacologist and social entrepreneur Dr...
  
  
• SIRUM
• Shristi
• SKS Microfinance
  SKS Microfinance
  SKS Microfinance Limited" is a non-banking finance company , regulated by the Reserve Bank of India. SKS claims its mission is to eradicate poverty by providing financial services to the poor....
  
  
• Samasource
  Samasource
  Samasource is a nonprofit organization that brings dignified, computer-based work opportunities to people living in poverty around the world. The organization's mission is based on the belief that poverty can be alleviated by tapping into the brainpower of the poor and empowering them as producers...
  
  
• SOCAP