Social entrepreneurs

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Access Bangladesh Foundation

Working to ensure that persons with disabilities in Bangladesh are included in all aspects of development planning in the country.

Futuro Forestal

Reforestation projects to build permanent, biodiverse, and profitable forests and motivating other land users to plant forests.

Hecho X Nosotros

Fostering a sustainable fashion movement in Argentina.

Impact Transformation Fund

Pioneering ethical manufacturing in Africa.

Rede Asta

Reduction of Brazilian social inequality through the empowerment of women artisans.

Mitt Liv

Working with diversity and inclusion within the Swedish the labour-market to make sure everyone gets the chance they deserve.

Next Step

Making manufactured housing a practical, sustainable solution in the US.

NIDAN

Giving India's urban poor access to financial services, technology and solicit business.

NUUP

Improving the livelihoods of smallholder producers in Mexico.

SIMPLON.CO

Developing new mechanisms of social inclusion and full citizenship for at-risk populations in France.

Upwardly Global

Working to eliminate employment barriers for skilled  immigrants and refugees in the US.

Women Farmers Advancement Network

Improving and promoting the economic, social and  political empowerment of rural women and youth in Nigeria, specifically in the agricultural sector.

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ÉCHALE 

ÉCHALE is an affordable housing social enterprise that helps people living in poverty to become owners of their own homes.

Fondation Mozaïk

Fondation Mozaïk accelerates economic inclusion by reducing employment discrimination.

Green Savers

Green Savers provide support in establishing and promoting different types of gardening in Dhaka city.

Motion Light Lab

Motion Light Lab creates learning experiences for deaf children and all visual learners.

SDI Academy

SDI Academy offers literacy training to migrants and refugees and promotes upward socio-economic mobility.

Smart Green Industry

Smart Green Industry strives to transform the textile value chain to be fair and more sustainable.

The Social Gastronomy Movement

A global network of grassroots organizations, chefs, academics, entrepreneurs, farmers, and companies that uses the power of food for social change. 

Uwaga Smiecairka Jedzi

A social enterprise that promotes circularity and provides an open community where second-hand items can be exchanged and upcycling and recycling is encouraged.

SPEAK

SPEAK promotes the organic emergence of inclusive communities where locals, migrants, and refugees meet to share their culture and develop meaningful bonds.

The Horus Institute for Environmental Conservation and Development

Develops alternatives for environmental conservation and integrates these into economic and social development processes.

TRRAIN

TRRAIN is a non-profit organization that provides training and upskilling to marginalized groups in India with little to no access to the job market.

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Alive and Kicking

Produces soccer balls in Kenya providing employment, improved health and behavior to marginalized groups.

Aqua Clara Kenya

Leveraging networks to increase awareness of WASH practices and adoption of water filters.

Asante Mama

Links farmers to markets through aggregation and contract farming. 

BeMistre

Home decor and furniture products from recycled and organic raw materials led by women and youth. 

Enlight Institute

Recruitment, training and coaching for the youth to access employment in the solar industry.  

ENZI

High-end shoe production & sales supporting workforce development and employee livelihood in Ethiopia.

Felek Notebooks

Produces and sells notebooks, donating supplies to rural schools and supporting education in Ethiopia. 

Green Face Trading

Traced organic honey and beeswax producer.  

Imani Collective

Home accessories made using natural raw materials and traditional techniques.

Industree Ethiopia

Enables fabrics and apparel sourcing from Ethiopian producer-owned enterprises.  

Kidame Mart

Creates opportunities for rural women to earn income by selling fast-moving goods in their communities.  

Nuru Social Enterprises

Produces and sells Nuru Yogurt, supporting Kenyan smallholder farmers to enhance milk production. 

RefuSHE Artisan Collective

Leverages consumer preferences to provide a source of income for young refugee women.  

Resonate

Provides leadership training to women and youth, enabling them to achieve their potential. 

Tibeb Leather Works

Leather products that empower single mothers in Ethiopia.  

TruLuv Granola

Artisanal, on-the-go, natural granola snacks.  

Upcycle Africa

Improving livelihoods and tackling the plastic waste crisis in Uganda by building homes and changing mindsets.  

UZURI K&Y

African inspired shoe brand and manufacturer in Rwanda. 

Vijana Corps

Creating tools, platforms, and opportunities for the most marginalized youth in Uganda. 

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Agro Supply

A mobile layaway platform that enables farmers to save for agricultural inputs seeds, fertilizer, and training using their mobile phones. 

Ecobora

A clean, affordable solar cookstove that is used by rural schools and reduces indoor pollution while conserving forests.

era92 Creative

Works with businesses worldwide on digital and media development projects of which the profits are used to upskill youth in Uganda with digital skills.

GreenPot Enterprises

Bamboo business with interests in large scale nurseries, plantations, and an out-grower programme with small scale farmers.

Hidota Farmer's

A farmers' organization owned by smallholder farmers with as its main goal to improve the economic and social status of farmers.

Jaguza Tech

Ag-tech company that aims to transform the livestock farming sector by solving major problems plaguing this sector.

Mukuru Clean Stoves

Mukuru Clean Stoves designs manufacture and distributes improved efficient and reliable cookstoves. 

PayWay Ethiopia

PayWay Ethiopia is an e-payment service to provide banking and payment services to rural, unbanked populations.

Smart Foods

Smart Foods invests in new nutritious and healthy products from soybeans, coconuts and other cereals and legumes.

Solerchill Technologies

Solar-powered cold chain technologies to help farmers, vendors and restaurant owners safely preserve their unsold food.

TAI, The Accessibility Institute

Producer of low cost, high-quality Assistive Technology devices, changing the lives of low-income mobility-impaired people in Kenya and Africa.

Vava Coffee

A social enterprise that has a network of coffee producers in different regions of East Africa. Vava Coffee exports, roasts and consults on coffee value chains. 

WimRob

Working with smallholder farmers that provide the raw materials to process and sell certified honey.

ZIMA

ZIMA creates horticultural products from the pumpkin fruit that offer both nutritional and medicinal value in Rwanda and neighbouring countries.

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Duitin

Duitin offers digital services to make sorting, collecting and managing waste easy for Indonesian businesses and households.

Greenie

Greenie provide areca palm farmers an alternative to burning the plant’s waste by turning areca leaf sheath into reusable materials for home and office furniture.

Koinpack

Koinpack contributes to solving Indonesia’s single-use sachet crisis with a reuse-and-refill packaging system.

Kulaku

Kulaku empowers coconut farmers to produce high-value coconut-based products and build a better future for their families.

Liberty Society

Liberty Society commercialises stylish fashion items to give back hope and dignity to women refugees and artisans facing poverty and violence.

Plépah

Plépah tackles non-recyclable waste in the environment by supporting farmers and local communities by selling their biodegradable packages made from agricultural materials, giving farmers a sustainable income.

QYOS

QYOS provides automatic refill stations for household products to reduce Indonesia’s excessive amount of non-recyclable plastic waste.

Rumah Mucaf

Rumah Mocaf produces gluten-free cassava flour products and trains cassava farmers in integrated organic farming.

Sustaination

Sustaination aims to be Indonesia’s top sustainable e-commerce platform and works with local producers to offer carefully selected products online.

Westbike Messenger

Westbike Messenger is a zero-emission bicycle courier that employs marginalised youth in Indonesia’s inner cities.

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Agrosolidaria

Agrosolidaria produces agricultural and cosmetic products made from sustainably cultivated Amazonia plants.

Bendito Residuo

Bendito Residuo collects trash from Chilean companies and households and transports sorted waste to corresponding valuation facilities. 

Café Compadre

Empowers coffee farmers in the central Peruvian jungle by providing them with solar-powered technology to roast and sell their beans.

Ecocitex

Ecocitex sells 100% recycled textile products through more than 250 women-led businesses across Chile.

Empanacombi

Trains and provides people with disabilities with quality jobs in gastronomy.

Fresh & Co.

Fresh & Co. is a grocery e-commerce enterprise founded in Chile that is committed to increasing earnings for small-scale farmers.

Incluyeme

Incluyeme is a social enterprise that connects people with disabilities to job openings at corporations to build inclusive and equitable workplaces.

MakeItReal

Offers students affordable online bootcamps in full-stack software development.

Maré de Sabores

Maré de Sabores is dedicated to helping women in the Mare region build their financial independence providing them with training, work experience, and job opportunities in the food industry.

NG-SEEDs

NG-Seeds produces, processes and commercializes lupine and its byproducts, for both animal feed and human consumption.

PesCo.

PesCo. connects seafood lovers directly to artisanal fishing communities in Peru.

PIXED

PIXED is a social enterprise that specializes in the development of low cost, high-quality medical technologies for children and adults with disabilities.

Pomario

Pomario was founded to transform the way that people consume vegetables.  The enterprise sells organic produce, sourced from smallholder farmers and its greenhouses to Colombian families, retailers, and high-end restaurants.

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ARTE Social Cooperative

Arte provides food and shelter as well as psychological and professional support for vulnerable communities.

Atelierul de panza

Atelierul de Panza is a Romanian social enterprise that has both an environmental and social mission. By providing 100% cotton bags, they enable people to use fewer plastic bags.

Atelier Merci

Atelier Merci aims to reverse this situation by offering handcrafted clothing made from sustainably-produced vegan and organic materials.

HECA Social Cooperative

HECA supports people with physical or mental disabilities and young people who are homeless to access training and opportunities for quality jobs.

Helyenvalo

Helyenvalo helps the small agricultural producers in the Odorheiu Secuiesc region to sell and promote their locally-produced, artisanal goods, including meat, fresh vegetables, pastries, herbal spices, and bee products.

Pora na pola

Pora na Pola is an online marketplace that addresses this demand by selling sustainable food products sourced from local small and medium-sized suppliers.

ROMO

The founders of social enterprise ROMO use digital platforms to connect over 200 rural producers to consumers seeking healthy, fresh and sustainable products.

Studio M6

Studio M6 Foundation is committed to improving this situation. The social enterprise generates quality job opportunities for vulnerable groups in the historic centre and surrounding areas.

Targ Pietruszkowy Foundation

The Targ Pietruszkowy Foundation brings local products directly from farms in the Krakow region to the tables of organic food lovers in the city.

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Café Local

Café Local eliminates the intermediary organisation between small coffee farmers and their potential buyers allowing them to obtain fairer prices and improve the living and working conditions.

ÉCHALE 

ÉCHALE is an affordable housing social enterprise that helps people living in poverty to become owners of their own homes.

Hipocampus Centros de Aprendizaje 

Hipocampus work with companies to  offer on-site day-care where the children of the organisation's employees can receive a quality education. 

Homely 

Homely wants to give domestic workers a safe, steady, and fair job by connecting them with clients and backing them up to ensure good working conditions.

Iluméxico 

Iluméxico's goal is to provide affordable electrical services to marginalised communities using solar energy.

INTRARE 

INTRARE facilitate the integration of migrants, refugees, and asylum seekers in Mexico’s capital city.

Isla Urbana

Isla Urbana’s rainwater harvesting solution is an environmentally, social, and economic sustainable system that collects and cleans rainwater for households, schools and health clinics.

Pixza 

Pixza is a social empowerment platform and helps to fight homelessness in Mexico City through their blue corn pizza restaurants.

Sistema.bio 

Sistema.Bio links technology and financial opportunities so farmers can improve infrastructure and capacity with their biodigesters to transform waste into renewable energy and natural fertilizers.

TEKITI

TEKITI links artisans and large corporations interested in working together. They also design and craft tailor-made products that honour their traditional techniques.

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Abeja Reyna

Preserves bees and takes care of people through consumer products based on organic honey

BanQu

BanQu uses blockchain technology to promote the financial empowerment of local producers in global supply chains

Básicos de Mexico

Timeless textiles that guarantees decent conditions for garment producers and low environmental impact

Bios Comunidad Sustentable

Purchases coffee from smallholder farmers across Mexico, paying decent prices for their product

Griyum

Griyum supports local cricket farmers by commercializing sustainable protein for foods of the future

Kip Tik

Kip Tik innovates in traditional craftmanship to create better daily lives for Mexico’s indigenous communities

Recicla Electrónicos México (REMSA)

Provides management system for electronic waste making sure these products get a second life

SmartFish

SmartFish offers sustainable marine products to consumers while providing better daily lives for fishermen

Tierra de Monte

Tierra de Monte creates eco-friendly solutions to increase crop productivity while promoting sustainable agriculture among smallholder farmers

Toroto

Toroto fights poverty among rural communities by helping companies become carbon-neutral

Xilinat

Creating income and a cleaner environment for smallholder farmers by transforming waste into a healthy sweetener

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Aguilas en el Maguey

Águilas en el Maguey is a cooperative society founded by ten Zapotec women which grows quality Mezcal Agave (tequila) plants with minimal environmental impact.

Alternativa Agrícola Suchixtepec 

Alternativa Agrícola Suchixtepec is an integrated organic farm, dedicated to the farming and local sale of rabbits.

Emprendedoras de Tierra Blanca

Emprendedoras de Tierra Blanca is a group made of Zapotec women that produces organic vanilla and agroforestry systems for coffee.

Goocafé

A cooperative made up of ten Zapotec women. They are located in the community of Los Naranjos Esquipulas, where vanilla is grown in shaded coffee plantations.

Guitani

Guitani is an organisation of five Zapotec farmers. They organically grow fruit trees such as apples, peaches and pears.

Los Macuiles Copalita

Los Macuiles Copalita is a comprehensive organic farm, dedicated to forest yields of dry and gallery forests species.

Mbis Bin Semilla Para La Siembra

A non-profit organisation that produces and sells organic inputs for farmers in the Copalita River Basin.

Nayé

Nayé is a handmade beauty product enterprise founded by indigenous Zapotec. Nayé conducts and promotes environmental conservation of resources in the upper part of the Copalita River Basin.

Teenta Yareen

A cooperative society of ten Zapotec women that produces organic avocados through environmentally friendly agricultural methods.

Unión San Pedro

Unión San Pedro para la Agricultura Sostenible 100 Sombras is an organic cooperative society dedicated to green bean and speciality coffee production.

Yin Bey

Yin Bey is a company of Zapotec women from the municipality of San Miguel Suchixtepec, who produce organic Z mushrooms.

Yu Naban

Yu Naban is a group of youth volunteers committed to promoting the conservation of primary life sources in the community of San Miguel Suchixtepec.

Zasolidarias

A community conservation enterprise founded by ten Zapotec women. Zasolidarias grows vanilla using eco-friendly methods.

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