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Acumen Fund
Acumen Fund is a non-profit global venture fund that uses entrepreneurial approaches to solve the problems of global poverty.
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African Wildlife Foundation (AWF)
The African Wildlife Foundation, together with the people of Africa, works to ensure the wildlife and wild lands of Africa will endure forever.
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Bikes Not Bombs
Bikes Not Bombs (BNB) promotes bicycle technology as a concrete alternative to war and environmental destruction.
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Children of Uganda
The mission of Children of Uganda is to support and empower hundreds of orphans and vulnerable children in Uganda to lead successful and productive lives.
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Children's Rights Institute (CRI)
The Children's Rights Institute (CRI) was founded in 2007 by its director, Brooke Goldstein, a New York based attorney, activist, author and award-winning filmmaker. CRI's mission is to raise awareness about and legally combat violations of children's basic human rights as occurring throughout the globe. CRI has a special focus on the incitement and recruitment of children to become suicide-homicide bombers, child soldiers and human shields.
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Circle of Women
Circle of Women's mission is to equip girls with self-reliance, knowledge, and increased capacities to both enhance their own lives and to contribute productively to their societies. Circle of Women believes this is the best way to affect positive, global change. Their philosophy is that one school will affect one community. One community will make a world of change.
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Darfur Peace and Development Organization (DPDO)
Darfur Peace & Development Organization (DPDO) was founded in 2002 by a group of Darfurians in the United States. DPDO is a 501 (c)(3) non-profit, non-governmental organization dedicated to a peaceful Darfur that is justly governed and developed in a sustainable manner.
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Dignitas Project
The mission of Dignitas Project is to empower individuals and families in the poorest communities in the world. Drawing upon the talents of indigenous leaders and resources of its partners, Dignitas Project seeks to improve education and expand opportunities for the next generation by: enhancing learning and leadership opportunities for children and youth; building technical and infrastructural capacity in community-based schools; implementing sustainable projects to address health, economic, and education needs; and ensuring that community voices are integrated into policy decisions.
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EngenderHealth
EngenderHealth works to improve the health and well-being of people in the poorest communities of the world. EngenderHealth does this by sharing its expertise in sexual and reproductive health and transforming the quality of health care. It promotes gender equity, advocates for sound practices and policies, and inspires people to assert their rights to better, healthier lives.
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Givology
Givology is an Internet online giving marketplace that empowers individual donors to connect with students and communities in need of education support. By leveraging the Internet to support education grants and projects, Givology creates a global community of people connected through their belief in the power of education.
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H.E.R.O.: Housing Education and Rehabilitation of Orphans INC
Haiti’s need in the areas of housing, educating, and rehabilitating orphans and street children is larger than ever. H.E.R.O. has been and will continue to be fully committed to helping the most vulnerable population in Haiti, the orphans and street children that are denied basic human rights on a daily basis.
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HandCrafting Justice
HandCrafting Justice is a not-for-profit, fair trade economic justice project partnering with women in the developing world.
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Hope Runs
Hope Runs uses running to empower children in impoverished communities with the tools of personal health, social entrepreneurship, and technology.
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In the Running
In the Running connects people pursuing endurance challenges with global grassroots fundraising.
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International Rescue Committee (IRC)
For 75 years, the International Rescue Committee has been a leader in humanitarian relief. The IRC mobilizes quickly, bringing sustained support to regions torn apart by violence and deprivation. It provides a fresh start in the U.S. for refugees. And it advocates tirelessly on behalf of the displaced, addressing the root causes of violence and standing up for the world’s most vulnerable populations.
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Kitchen Gardeners International
Kitchen Gardeners International's mission is to empower individuals, families, and communities to achieve greater levels of food self-reliance through the promotion of kitchen gardening, home-cooking, and sustainable local food systems.
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Mali Health Organizing Project (MHOP)
The Mali Health Organizing Project (MHOP) acts as a catalyst to bring slum residents and their governments together. When community committees learn to design, implement, and evaluate their own projects, they invest in health and ask their governments to do the same.
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Mercy Corps
Mercy Corps exists to alleviate suffering, poverty and oppression by helping people build secure, productive and just communities.
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Partners In Health
Partners In Health is a 501(c)(3) non-profit corporation based in Boston, Massachusetts, and active in the Caribbean, Latin America, Africa, Russia, and the United States. Its mission is to provide a preferential option for the poor in health care.
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Pencils of Promise
Pencils of Promise is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that partners with local communities and organizations to build schools of early-stage education in developing nations for some of the world's most impoverished and undereducated children.
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The Enough Project
Enough is a project of the Center for American Progress whose mission is to build an educated constituency dedicated to ending genocide and crimes against humanity.
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Women for Women International
Women for Women International provides women survivors of war, civil strife and other conflicts with the tools and resources to move from crisis and poverty to stability and self-sufficiency, thereby promoting viable civil societies.
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