Solutions — Economic Opportunity

Raising Malawi

Raising Malawi

Raising Malawi was founded to bring an end to the extreme poverty and hardship endured by Malawi's 1.4 million orphans and vulnerable children once and for all. Raising Malawi supports community-based organizations that provide vulnerable children and caregivers with the following critical resources: nutritious food; proper clothing; secure shelter; formal education; targeted medical care; emotional care and psychosocial support. Take Action »

FINCA

FINCA

FINCA’s mission is to provide financial services to the world's lowest-income entrepreneurs so they can create jobs, build assets and improve their standard of living. FINCA strives to be a "banker with a soul" by creating the best of both worlds: sustainable, financially-sound programs that serve the very poor. Take Action »

SEWA

SEWA

SEWA is a trade union of poor, self-employed women workers. These are women who earn a living through their own labor or small businesses. They do not obtain regular salaried employment with welfare benefits like workers in the organized sector. They are the unprotected labor force of our country. SEWA’s main goals are to organize women workers for full employment. Full employment means employment whereby workers obtain work security, income security, food security and social security (at least health care, child care and shelter). Take Action »

Sustainable Health Enterprises (SHE)

Sustainable Health Enterprises (SHE)

SHE intends to fulfill girls’ and women’s unmet need by helping local women in developing countries jump-start their own businesses to manufacture and distribute affordable, quality, and eco-friendly sanitary pads.  SHE will look to use local raw materials, instead of all imported materials, to ensure affordability and accessibility. Take Action »

Minga International

Minga International

Minga International’s mission is to support community and economic development by connecting local, high-impact non-profit organizations to the people and resources they need to achieve their goals. Take Action »

Apne Aap Women Worldwide

Apne Aap Women Worldwide

Apne Aap Women Worldwide facilitates women and girls from red light areas and slums to organize themselves into social and economic cooperatives that run small businesses or train for jobs. Apne Aap has been able to motivate the beneficiaries to opt for an opportunity of livelihood free from exploitation and choicelessness. Take Action »

A Glimmer of Hope Foundation

A Glimmer of Hope Foundation

A Glimmer of Hope uses an entrepreneurial model to provide clean water + schools + health clinics + micro-finance loans to villages in rural Ethiopia. So far, the foundation has provided 1.7 million Ethiopians with access to clean water, constructed over 330 school buildings; improved access to health care for approximately one million people, and funded more than 19,149 micro-loans. Take Action »

Nike Foundation: The Girl Effect

Nike Foundation: The Girl Effect

The Nike Foundation works to get girls on the international agenda and drive resources to them. The Foundation believes that the best way to do that is to prove that investment in her unleashes the girl effect. Nike Foundation's organization began by using programs to understand what girls need and are now trying to mobilize resources for girls. Take Action »

Turkish Philanthropy Fund

Turkish Philanthropy Fund

TPF aims to promote access to education for all children in Turkey and strengthen the public school system. Examples of initiatives that TPF would support are: Improving the quality of village schools and make it easier and safer for girls to attend them.  Take Action »

United Nations Foundation

United Nations Foundation

The UN Foundation was created in 1998 with entrepreneur and philanthropist Ted Turner’s historic $1 billion gift to support United Nations causes and activities. As a public charity, we advocate for the UN and connect people, ideas, and resources to help the UN solve global problems. Take Action »

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