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Aid for Africa
United States of America
Aid for Africa works with its partners on the ground in Africa to find solutions to the education health development and wildlife challenges facing the region and distributing books to school children introducing medical strategies to combat the spread of HIV/AIDS supporting small businesses for women or finding new approaches to protect endangered elephants and lions Aid for Africa is working to build a better future for Africa s children families and communities.
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Akilah Institute
Rwanda
Akilah is a college that offers a unique model of market relevant education empowering graduates for success in careers and leadership roles.rnrnAkilah aims to build future generations of women leaders and professionals in East Africa through the development of a network of campuses. Akilah will graduate 1000 students by the year 2020.
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American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP)
United States of America
With 32000 members the American College of Emergency Physicians is the leading professional specialty society for emergency physicians.rn
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Ansaar Management Company
Pakistan
Ansaar Management Company (AMC) is a low cost housing development and management company in Pakistan. For its first project located outside of Lahore AMC will develop 150 commercial plots and more than 2300 residential plots providing homes to nearly 30000 people. AMC s long term vision is to scale affordable housing across Pakistan.
| Acommodation & food service |
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ASA International (ASAI)
Mauritius
ASA INTERNATIONAL (ASAI) was established in 2007 with the mission to establish Greenfield microfinance institutions in Asia and Africa. A large number of people with low income of those countries remain excluded from financial services as the mainstream banks or financial institutions do not consider them bankable. The main motto of ASA International is to offer apt financial services to the poor and the low income segment of the developing countries.ASA International strongly believes that sustainable and profitable business model can be created through focusing on the poor in a challenging operating environments. Since the inception it has been striving to spread of a highly efficient and scalable model of microfinance in addressing poverty. Currently the entities of ASAI render microfinance service to 1.5 million poor clients of 13 countries of Asia and Africa through 1177 branch offices.
| Financial & Insurance activites |
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awamo
Uganda
Awamo GmbH is a fintech startup with operations in Frankfurt/Main (Germany) and Kampala (Uganda). We offer a comprehensive mobile and easy to use microfinance management solution for microfinance institutions (MFIs) in emerging markets.Our microfinance management software is user friendly affordable and tailor made to the specific needs of MFIs. It features reliable biometric identification/authentication is fully designed for mobile use and completely digitizes all stages of credit risk and portfolio management for MFIs. It is cloud based secure and robust and boosts an MFIs productivity.
| Financial & Insurance activites |
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Ayuda en Accion
Spain
Ayuda en Accion is a Non Govermental Development Organization. Our main goal is to improve the living conditions of children their families and communities of the most deprived countries in America Asia and Africa.
| Human health & social work |
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Center for Creative Leadership
United States of America
Leadership development is ALL we do. For more than four decades we have leveraged the power of leadership to transform individuals teams entire organizations and societies to achieve what matters most to them with results that are powerful measurable and enduring.
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Columbia Business School
United States of America
Columbia Business School delivers a learning experience where academic excellence meets real time exposure to the pulse of global business. Their transformative curriculum bridges academic theory with unparalleled exposure to real world business practice equipping students with an entrepreneurial mindset to recognize capture and create opportunity in any environment. The thought leadership of Columbia s faculty and staff accomplishments of its alumni and location in the center of global business allows the School to have an immediate measurable impact on the forces shaping business every day.
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Duke University Fuqua School of Business
United States of America
Fuqua educates leaders of consequencepeople with competence character and purpose who choose to create rather than extract value. Community is based on the principles of supportive ambition authentic engagement and collective diversity. As a member of the Duke community and with some of the most productive research faculty in the world Fuqua offers many opportunities for multi disciplinary education. The students of Fuqua benefits from diverse cohorts the unique Team Fuqua culture and tailored curriculum offerings that prepare them to navigate the dynamics of a global economy.
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ECSEL
Belgium
Electronic components and systems (ECS) are a pervasive Key Enabling Technology impacting all industrial branches and almost all aspects of life. A smartphone a smart card a smart energy grid a smart city even smart governance everything smart is based on integrating semiconductor chips running embedded software. They provide the fabric on which the internet runs they give life to portable phones and tablets they drive driverless cars and trains fly airliners drones and satellites. In modern times no national economy can win in the global competition without mastering this technology with unparalleled systemic and strategic impact.
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EM3 AgriServices
India
EM3 AgriServices provides precision grade farm operations from land preparation to crop harvesting on a pay per acre basis. These services help small hold farmers improve productivity by over 20% with cost savings to boot and provide access to technologies that were hitherto out of reach due to the high capital investments required
| Agriculture, forestry & fishing |
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Fahe
United States of America
Fahe envision Appalachia as a place proud of sustaining its culture and environment where growth opportunity and hope are balanced so that all people fulfill their potential with regard to housing employment education and quality of life.
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Fair Trade USA
United States of America
Fair Trade USA enables sustainable development and community empowerment by cultivating a more equitable global trade model that benefits farmers workers consumers industry and the earth. They achieve their mission by certifying and promoting Fair Trade products.
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Fenix International
Uganda
Fenix International produces ultra affordable mobile enabled solar solutions to empower more than 1.3 billion people living off grid. Fenix is a for profit corporation based in San Francisco California with customers across Africa Asia and Latin America and core expertise in power electronics product design and base of the pyramid marketing. Fenix has been prominently featured in the New York Times Bloomberg Fast Company Popular Mechanics CNET VentureBeat and has won numerous awards and honors since it was founded in 2009.
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Foresight Group
Switzerland
Foresight Group International AG is a global professional services company focused exclusively on clinical and post marketing drug safety and surveillance and risk management services and solutions.
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Freedom from Hunger
United States of America
Founded in 1946 Freedom from Hunger has six decades of experience fighting world hunger and 25 years of experience developing and implementing sustainable self help methods to empower poor women. Their programs help women to manage and increase their assets protect the health of their families and enhance food security.
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Frontier Markets
India
Frontier Markets (FM) is a for profit venture with a social mission to provide low cost/high quality products to the bottom of the pyramid (BOP) to help improve their quality of life. FM partners with existing Microfinance (MF) distribution networks.
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Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves
United States of America
The Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves is a United Nations Foundation hosted public private partnership to save lives improve livelihoods empower women and protect the environment by creating a thriving global market for clean and efficient household cooking solutions. The Alliance's goal calls for 100 million households to adopt clean and efficient stoves and fuels by 2020. The Alliance is working with over 1000 public private and non profit partners to help overcome the market barriers that currently impede the production deployment and use of clean cookstoves and fuels in the developing world.
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Global Business School Network
United States of America
Billions spent on improving conditions in developing countries are wasted because there aren't enough well trained local managers. Uniquely GBSN links business schools worldwide that enhance the capacity of developing country management schools.
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United States of America
Since their founding in 1998 Google has grown by leaps and bounds. From offering search in a single language they now offer dozens of products and servicesincluding various forms of advertising and web applications for all kinds of tasksin scores of languages. And starting from two computer science students in a university dorm room they now have thousands of employees and offices around the world. A lot has changed since the first Google search engine appeared. But some things haven t changed their dedication to their users and their belief in the possibilities of the Internet itself.
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Greenlight Planet
United States of America
Greenlight Planet is a for profit social business that develops and manufactures honest reliable solar products designed to help people living off the electric grid.Greenlight Planet is owned and operated by engineers sales force experts and operations gurus who love to solve difficult problems that change our customers lives before our eyes. Our offices across the world are cultural melting pots of technological and grass roots innovation.
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Guayaki
United States of America
Guayaki has pioneered an innovative business model called Market Driven Restoration in which Guayaki serves as a bridge linking consumer purchases of healthy yerba mate products in North America with indigenous communities engaged in sustainable agriculture and reforestation projects in Argentina Paraguay and Brazil.
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Happy Family
United States of America
Launched on Mother s Day 2006 and founded and operated by moms Happy Family is a leading premium organic food brand delivering optimal nutrition for the entire family. In 2011 founder and CEO Shazi Visram earned the title of Ernst & Young s Entrepreneur of the Year for New York. Happy Family has been named as one of the fastest growing organic food companies in the nation by Inc. magazine for two years running and was named Rockstar of the New Economy by Fast Company in 2012.rn
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Hargol FoodTech
Israel
Hargol FoodTech (formerly Steak TzarTzar) has developed optimized methods and technology to enable growing grasshoppers quickly in sanitary conditions for a reliable sustainable quality protein source.Hargol FoodTech aims to be the first company to grow several species of grasshoppers in captivity in large quantities. The Company s high end line of products will include whole grasshoppers flour and food additives.
| Agriculture, forestry & fishing |
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Healthpoint Services India Pvt. Ltd.
Healthpoint Services a sustainable social business enterprise has the goal of catalytically transforming rural & peri urban healthcare in ways that support the MDGs by employing a service delivery model that uniquely leverages benefits of technology in Healthcare ICT and Water Sectors. The first units or E Health Points officially opened in Punjab on October 28th 2009.
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Honexus Pty Ltd
Australia
Honexus is currently collaborating with a variety of clinics non governmental organisations companies and individuals to demonstrate the value of and customise a comprehensive Health Information System. Honexus has developed software specifically built from the ground up leading to software that fits clinics workflow rather than defines workflow. The software featuresrnrn Electronic Medical Records tracking the patient from registration through triage diagnosis lab tests referrals and prescriptions.rn Pharmacy management functions such as reminders on expiring medicine and low inventoryrn Automated reports for the Ministry of Health the Board of Directors and custom reports for NGO s and relevant stakeholders.rn In built KPI s such as mean consultation timesrn Basic financial trackingrn
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ILIMI The African Development University
Niger
The mission of A.D.U. is to prepare the most talented young people in Francophone Africa to lead the development of their nations as entrepreneurs accountants physicians engineers and government officials. A.D.U. is an innovative not for profit university in Niger. Founded in October 2017 A.D.U. currently offers undergraduate programs an MBA program and executive courses. Over the next decade A.D.U. aspires to become the hub of innovation and excellence in higher education in West Africa. Niger is one of the least developed countries in the world. Our desire to train a new generation of skilled ethical leaders is motivated by our commitment to advancing Niger s development and to improving living standards for all. We ultimately aim to advance the development of countries throughout the region and raising the standard of living across the region. A.D.U. was established to address two of the most pressing problems facing the region 1) the dearth of quality tertiary educational institutions and 2) the increasing cohort of young adults unprepared for participation and leadership in the 21st century workforce.
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InfraCo Africa
United Kingdom of Great Britai
InfraCo seeks to fund and develop projects in sectors or geographies where the private sector would not otherwise work at such an early stage seeking to exit its projects to private sector developers/financiers once project viability has been demonstrated normally at or shortly before financial close. InfraCo will not compete directly with the private sector but seeks to mobilise private sector involvement by bearing the time and cost risk of front end project development in order to mobilise private sector investment.
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Initiative Development
United Kingdom of Great Britai
DI have worked for over 20 years to help end poverty as an international enterprise in the space between governments non governmental organisations academics think tanks and intergovernmental bodies.
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Land O’Lakes, Inc.
United States of America
Land O Lakes Inc. is one of America s premiere member owned cooperatives. They offer local cooperatives and agricultural producers across the nation an extensive line of agricultural supplies as well as state of the art production and business services. They also are a leading marketer of dairy based food products for consumers foodservice professionals and food manufacturers.
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Light for the world
Belgium
Light for the World is a European confederation of national development NGOs aiming at an inclusive society. They are committed to saving eyesight improving the quality of life and advocating for the rights of persons with disabilities in the underprivileged regions of our world. The member organizations of their confederation are based in Austria Belgium the Netherlands and the Czech Republic. Country offices exist in Burkina Faso Ethiopia Mozambique and South Sudan
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Light Up Africa
United States of America
LUA enables Kenyans to create energy through their everyday movements. More than 85 percent of Kenyans suffer from Light Poverty, a crippling condition that adversely affects their quality of life—from education to health to economic instability. LUA’s first product, Taapoa, is a portable device that uses motion to generate power and electricity, and easily attaches to bicycles, motorbikes, livestock, and boats.
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Lombard Odier
Switzerland
Established in 1796 Lombard Odier is the oldest private bank in Geneva and one of the largest in Switzerland and Europe. With a network of 26 offices it offers its private and institutional clients a wide range of advisory services in wealth management financial products and specialized areas. An independent family business for seven generations Lombard Odier is run by its Partners. Since they are both owners and managers they are as concerned as their clients to see their business succeed. Because they are not subject to shareholder pressure the constraints of operating in a large group and inherent conflicts of interest the Partners are also able to maintain a long term vision and to develop mutual trust with their clients the cornerstone of any relationship.
| Financial & Insurance activites |
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Lumni
Chile
Lumni helps finance the costs of college for Latin American and US students in exchange for a fixed percentage of their future earnings over a set period of time not longer than 10 years. By adjusting payments with income level this structure reduces the risk of unaffordable payments for students relative to traditional student loans. Lumni creates funds by raising money from a wide variety of sources including multilateral development institutions foundations and high net worth individuals. These social investment funds invest in the education of diversified pools of students. Each student repays his or her obligation as a fixed percentage of income for a set period of time after graduation. Lumni specializes in the actuarial analysis and valuation of future salary curves needed to effectively create portfolios of students that earn investors a strong financial return while benefiting underserved students.
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M-KOPA
Kenya
M KOPA is a mobile technology company based in Nairobi Kenya. Since 2011 M KOPA helped Kenyans acquire solar power products by offering innovative payment plans and a distribution model tailored to the needs of the customers.
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MaGi Foods
United States of America
Louisiana Purchase Food Brands is a small food brand manufactured in San Antonio Texas. It distributed nationwide and are sold in various retail stores including HEB Grocery Stores All Military Commissaries (worldwide) Kroger etc.
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Medicines for Malaria Venture
Switzerland
MMV is a leading product development partnership (PDP) in the field of antimalarial drug research and development. MMV's vision is a world in which innovative medicines will cure and protect the vulnerable and under served populations at risk of malaria and ultimately help to eradicate this terrible disease.
| Human health & social work |
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Micel
Mexico
Micel began in May 2008 with the name Finestrella providing loans to buyers of mobile phones. It was then that we realized it was more important for users to access to cheaper plans with pre paid service and the company was created now with the micel name to help the majority of Mexicans who have no card credit have a postpaid plan at your fingertips.
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Microfinance Information Exchange
United States of America
Microfinance Information eXchange (MIX) collects and disseminates industry regional and company financial and social performance data for the microfinance sector while collaborating with industry leaders to establish and publicize best practices.
| Financial & Insurance activites |
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Miro Forestry
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Irela
Miro Forestry is a sustainable and commercially focused forestry company with established and expanding plantations of fast growing timber for local and international markets. The Company is centered in West Africa and aims to continue delivering both attractive returns to investors as well as significant environmental and social benefits within local communities.
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Movirtu
United Kingdom of Great Britai
Headquartered in London Movirtu is a subsidiary of BlackBerry. Movirtu develops and markets innovative identity solutions for mobile operators. Movirtu's patented Virtual SIM platform which allows multiple numbers to be active on a single standard SIM card enables mobile operators to deploy a range of compelling service offerings. Movirtu's technology has been deployed successfully building services aimed at extending market share where device ownership is limited. Movirtu now extends the use of this core technology to new markets with the introduction of the Movirtu WorkLife and ManyMe solutions and our latest innovation Movirtu CloudPhone.
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MYC4
Denmark
MYC4 is an internet marketplace where you and investors from around the world can lend money directly to entrepreneurs who are doing business in Africa and create growth together with them. That means when the African business makes money as a result of your loan you can also make money. MYC4 is a business a business that creates growth growth created by you.
| Financial & Insurance activites |
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Newcastle University
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Irela
Newcastle University consistently ranked in higher education league tables as one of the best UK universities and are a founding member of the Russell Group which comprises the top 20 leading research institutions in the UK.
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Orla Healthcare
The ORLA service model is based on the Australian Hospital in the Home concept which has been provided in New South Wales since 1994. The model has been shown to be successful in improving patient outcomes and achieving high patient satisfaction by providing an alternative delivery of care that is at a lower cost than hospital care. Like a hospital the ORLA Healthcare service is 24/7 365 days a year is medical consultant led and supported by qualified nursing staff trained in acute medical care and healthcare assistants who can provide appropriate care and social support. Unlike a hospital it allows patients to receive their care at home rather than being admitted. ORLA is a safe provider of hospital care in the home.
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Partners for the Common Good
US
Our idea is simple. Our work is pioneering. Our results are far reaching.We create new tools for mission based lenders to overcome obstacles that hinder the growth of community development finance. We also help socially motivated investors put their money to work safely with high social impact organizations. We finance entrepreneurs and healthy communities in the US and abroad.
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Partners in Food Solutions
United States of America
Partners in Food Solutions an independent nonprofit organization is working to strengthen food security improve nutrition and increase economic development across Africa by expanding and increasing the competitiveness of the food processing sector. We link corporate volunteers from our consortium of world class food companies with promising entrepreneurs in eight African countries.
| Administrative & support services |
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Persistent Energy Partners
United States of America
Persistent Energy Partners (PEP) focuses on providing off grid households with access to basic energy services electric light mobile phone charging fans radios TV and Internet. PEP has invested in and incubated businesses with a commercial approach to providing such energy services to low income customers in sub Saharan Africa.
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Public Media Company
United States of America
Public Media Company is a national nonprofit that provides comprehensive consulting services for strengthening expanding and financing public media in communities nationwide. They are committed to creating market based regional and national operating solutions that result in more efficient uses of resources that will add value to the public media system.
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Sandler Trade LLC
United States of America
Sandler Trade LLC is a consulting firm whose goal is to make international trade happen especially involving developing economies.
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SAP AG
Germany
SAP AG is the world leader in enterprise software and software related services.
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Savannah Fruits Company
Ghana
Savannah Fruits Company is a private enterprise in Ghana that exports shea butter. The company was founded in 2006 with the goal of creating more direct commercial links between village level groups of shea butter producers and global cosmetic ingredient markets. Savannah Fruits Company works directly with the women organizations to train them on how to develop high quality butter for sale into the international market.
| Agriculture, forestry & fishing |
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Solar Now
Uganda
SolarNow designs and sells an innovative modular product range that is distributed through a franchise network in rural Uganda. The product comes with a 12 months credit facility. The operations follow a simple highly standardized and low cost design.
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Solidaridad Network
Netherlands
Solidaridad is an international network organisation with more than 20 years of experience in creating fair and sustainable supply chains from producer to consumer.
| Professional & technical services |
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Swisscontact
Switzerland
Swisscontact was established in 1959 as an independent foundation made up of notable figures from the worlds of commerce and science. It is exclusively involved in international development co operation and since 1961 carries out its own and mandated projects. Since it was founded Swisscontact has had close ties with the private sector. Swisscontact is active in 27 countries with a workforce of more than 800 people and runs more than 100 projects to promote economic stability in developing countries. The foundations head office is in Zurich.
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Technoserve
United States of America
TechnoServe is a nonprofit organization that develops business solutions to poverty by linking people to information capital and markets. TechnoServe work is rooted in the idea that given the opportunity hardworking men and women in even the poorest places can generate income jobs and wealth for their families and communities. With more than four decades of proven results they believe in the power of private enterprise to transform lives.
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The William Davidson Institute
United States of America
The William Davidson Institute is a non profit independent research and educational institute dedicated to developing and disseminating expertise on issues affecting firms in transition & emerging market economies. Integrating research executive education and practical project based assistance the Institute generates knowledge and offers unique educational opportunities to individuals as well as indigenous and Multinational companies operating in transitional economies. It provides a forum for business leaders and public policy makers to discuss issues affecting the environment in which these companies operate.
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ThinkImpact Corporation
United States of America
ThinkImpact is an educational travel company offering experience based programs to elevate how they learn and grow.
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TIMPAC
Timpac an ISO 90012008 certified organization offers the Expertise with an Experience of over 30 years in providing solutions to the Medical Fraternity. With a team that offers a heady mix of rich experience and exuberant youth Timpac takes pride in achieving rapid growth whilst exercising ethical practices.
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Tomato Jos
Nigeria
Tomato Jos is an African agricultural production company that believes in the power of farming and processing local food products for local consumption. Tomato Jos not only produces the best quality tomato products but we also leave a foot print in the lives of those we encounter every day.At Tomato Jos we understand the importance of the combination of both quality agricultural inputs and an expert team to educate the farmers on the application of these inputs.
| Agriculture, forestry & fishing |
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TransFarm Africa
Uganda
TransFarm Africa (TFA) is an East African based specialist agricultural management and advisory services provider and is the preferred strategic agribusiness partner to clients throughout East Africa seeking the highest quality service independence objectivity and confidentiality. TFA is a specialist company that manages agricultural businesses and rural property in the role of Asset Manager. TFA offers international agribusiness advisory services across a number of commodity sectors. TFA is a dynamic fast growing business that can adapt to suit the needs of various clients projects and situations.
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Value for Women
United States of America
The Centre for Gender Justice and Economic Development is an Oxfam sponsored spin off social enterprise emerging from four years of learning development and programme implementation in the Latin America and the Caribbean region of Oxfam GB that is aimed at generating transformational change to increase the active participation of women in enterprise.
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Vertical 1 Communications
United States of America
Vertical 1 Communications LLC was initially created to meet a demand in the site maintenance segment in west and central Texas but soon expanded its services to meet the needs of our clients in the areas of tower erection and project management throughout the southwest United States.rnrnFounded by Cecilia & Nicolas Dominguez company strives to provide service with the highest degree of integrity safety discipline respect and loyalty to the clients and partners. With a combined experience of over 30 years in the tower industry their staff provides the knowledge to meet the clients' needs in all phases of the project from prompt accurate and competitive bids quality project completion to timely and accurate project close out procedures and billing.rnrnVertical 1 Communications works with leading companies in the wireless communications industry and has project experience in New Mexico Texas and Arizona and is a certified WBENC Women Business Enterprise.
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VillageReach
United States of America
VillageReach is an international NGO headquartered in Seattle WA with field offices located in Malawi and Mozambique Africa. Through collaboration with public and private sector partners VillageReach seeks to increase access to quality healthcare for the world s most underserved communities bringing life saving innovations to scale and sustainability. VillageReach develops tests and implements solutions that uniquely address barriers at the lower levels or last mile of healthcare delivery in low resource communities including medicine availability human resource constraints data visibility and lack of infrastructure.
| Human health & social work |
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Vistaar
United States of America
Vistaar is a leading provider of price management solutions that enable companies to achieve pricing best practices though price analytics price optimization price list management and deal management. Vistaar' technology transforms pricing operations into a strategic advantage for some for some of the world's largest manufacturers distributors and service providers. For these companies Vistaar pricing solutions drive measurable price and margin improvements to deliver profitable growth and maximum shareholder value.
| Information, communication & technology |
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WEConnect International
United States of America
WEConnect International is a 501(c)(3) corporate led non profit that helps to empower women business owners to succeed in global markets. When women start and grow businesses they create jobs help the economy and improve communities. WEConnect provides the knowledge networks certification and platform women business owners need to reach new markets and prosper.
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West Africa Trade Hub
Ghana
With funding from USAID works with West African businesses to boost regional and global trade by improving the capacity of West Africa s private sector and business enabling environment. The Trade Hub promotes more regional trade in key commodities like maize livestock and rice to address food security and reduces poverty by boosting globally traded value added exports like cashews mango shea and apparel.
| Agriculture, forestry & fishing |
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Wildlife Conservation Society
United States of America
The Wildlife Conservation Society founded in 1895 has the clear mission to save wildlife and wild places across the globe. During our 115 years they have forged the power of global conservation work and the management of the five parks in New York City to create the world s most comprehensive conservation organization.
| Financial & Insurance activites |
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Yellowwoods
South Africa
Founded in 1997 Yellowwoods is the first independent brand strategy consultancy in South Africa. Today they are acknowledged leaders in marketing and brand strategy serving clients across the region and internationally.
| Information, communication & technology |
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Zamgoat
Zambia
Zamgoat is an impact agribusiness dedicated to the sustainable commercialization of the goat value chain. Primarily Zamgoat is pioneering the value addition and improved distribution of goat products targeting the growing local regional and global market demand for goat meat and related products empowering smallholder farmers in Zambia through enhanced access to market ultimately enhancing the economic and climate resilience of rural communities. Founded in July 2012 Zamgoat started out with a meat products operation processing and selling goat meat products both on retail and wholesale to end consumers through own retail outlets(butcheries) as well as deliveries to supermarkets restaurants and hotels among other intermediaries. At scale the company is designed to grow across the goat value chain through vertical integration with among other demand side operations in culinary services through its proprietary brands including Zamgoat Xpress BillyBurgers and Pizzagoat Africa and then later also pursue goat leather and dairy products operations while also offering of knowledge services and improved breeding genetics to smallholder farmers through Zamgoat Information Services and Zamgoat Farms among other supply side operations aimed at securing a consistent and improved supply chain. The company has to date purchased over 5000 goats providing a guaranteed market opportunity for over 500 smallholder farmers in Zambia and generating over $500000 in revenues. Having successfully developed a proven business model and a growing market over the last ten years Zamgoat is seeking to scale up its meat products operation by setting up an export ready goat slaughterhouse and meat processing facility in Lusaka as well as enhancing the company's supply chain by setting up goat aggregation centers in targeted rural communities across Zambia.
| Agriculture, forestry & fishing |
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Zed Group
Spain
Zed is a leading global player providing multi platform marketing solutions and digital value added content worldwide. The company operates in 62 countries in five continents with 1000 employees 50% of them dedicated to R&D. Zed products are available to more than 380 million potential consumers through exclusive agreements with 130 wireless operators and media companies all over the world.
| Information, communication & technology |