Categorized as: Africa, Education, Grantees, Legacy Partners
Description: AGE Africa works to help disadvantaged but academically gifted young girls to attend and finish secondary school in order to pursue opportunities beyond high school that they typically would not have. They use a three-pronged approach in order to provide...Read more
Categorized as: Africa, Grantees, Job Creation, Legacy Partners, Poverty Alleviation
Description: African Entrepreneur Collective works in Rwanda. AEC is a collection of incubators, accelerators, and investment funds supporting young entrepreneurs in Africa. AEC supports existing entrepreneurs through capacity building, mentorship, and direct...Read more
Categorized as: Africa, Education, Grantees, Legacy Partners, Poverty Alleviation
Description: The Akilah Institute works to educate young women in low-income, underdeveloped areas of East Africa. They focus on building private-sector partnerships and developing curricula hand-in-hand with business leaders and fast-growing sectors of the economy....Read more
Categorized as: Africa, Education, Grantees, Legacy Partners
Description: Asante Africa Foundation works to provide access to education to underprivileged children living in extreme rural poverty within Kenya and Tanzania. Their programs provide sustainable solutions that help disadvantaged children gain a solid education. They...Read more
Categorized as: Africa, Education, Grantees, Legacy Partners
Description: Batonga Foundation is using a multi-pronged approach to transform the educational experience of girls in Benin. They tackle their mission by looking at several different issues. Batonga offers scholarships for secondary school, vocational schools, and...Read more
Categorized as: Africa, Education, Grantees, Legacy Partners & Tagged as: Uganda
Description: BESO Foundation provides access to quality education, health services, and economic empowerment for women and children through agriculture in rural Uganda. So far, they have opened several schools, provided education and housing to thousands of students,...Read more
Categorized as: Africa, Education, Grantees, Legacy Partners
Description: Education Bridge is a non-profit organization that builds and operates schools in South Sudan. As an organization, their goal is to empower communities through education and peacebuilding. Their first goal is to increase access to quality secondary...Read more
Categorized as: Africa, Education, Grantees, Job Creation, Legacy Partners, Poverty Alleviation
Description: Eggpreneur is a social enterprise working in remote Kenyan communities to build sustainable egg farming ventures that help families end the cycles of poverty. The Eggpreneur model trains and engages women egg farmers, also known as “Eggpreneurs” to...Read more
Categorized as: Africa, Current Partners, Grantees, Job Creation, Poverty Alleviation
Description: Embrace Her is a youth-led non-profit organization was established with a commitment to eradicating poverty in Zambia. The organization fosters social and economic development of women and youths through progressive programs in order to create sustainable...Read more
Categorized as: Africa, Grantees, Job Creation, Legacy Partners
Description: Firelight Foundation works on a local level in East Africa to identify, fund, and strengthen promising community organizations that support the health, resilience, and education of children. They use a four-stage approach to achieve their goal. They find...Read more
Categorized as: Africa, Asia, Caribbean, Education, Grantees, Health, Latin America, Legacy Partners, Pacific Islands, Poverty Alleviation, Storytelling
Description: Freedom from Hunger worked through microfinance to bring education and healthcare services to the ultra poor, helping to empower women and families in nearly 30 developing countries. Their goal was to promote economic and social development through...Read more
Categorized as: Africa, Education, Grantees, Health, Legacy Partners, Storytelling
Description: Gardens for Health International works to provide sustainable agricultural solutions for chronic childhood malnutrition throughout Rwanda. They target the caregivers of children under five who are malnourished and they teach them which foods to grow and...Read more
Categorized as: Africa, Asia, Education, Grantees, Job Creation, Latin America, Legacy Partners, Storytelling
Description: Global Press Institute uses journalism as a development tool to educate, employ and empower women in the developing world to produce professional news coverage that elevates global awareness and ignites social change. This allows the world to see unique,...Read more
Categorized as: Africa, Asia, Grantees, Latin America, Legacy Partners, Poverty Alleviation
Description: The Grameen Foundation works in impoverished countries all over the world to help the world’s poorest people develop skills and get the resources they need to reach their full potential. Grameen Foundation provides numerous services and programs to...Read more
Categorized as: Africa, Current Partners, Education, Grantees, Poverty Alleviation
Description: IDEA4Africa was established after fifteen years of working to stimulate and catalyze young entrepreneurs in four Sub-Saharan African countries: Ghana, Rwanda, Uganda, and Tanzania. They are enabling people to participate in entrepreneurial activities and...Read more
Categorized as: Africa, Grantees, Job Creation, Social-Impact Investments
Description: Jibu was founded in 2012 and is an organization that is working to provide safe drinking water at an affordable price in developing countries throughout East Africa. They build locally owned businesses, develop local socially responsible leaders, forge...Read more
Categorized as: Africa, Current Partners, Education, Grantees, Job Creation, Poverty Alleviation
Description: KadAfrica envisions a world where out-of-school girls are economic drivers of their communities. They use passion fruit farming as a vehicle for girls to build their own support systems to become independent and empowered decision makers. Girls are...Read more
Categorized as: Africa, Education, Grantees, Legacy Partners
Description: Kiretono Resource Centre (KRC) provides a young women’s residential program with educational and life skills support for PRIMARY school students from Maasai villages in the Ngorongoro Crater Conservation Area. Established in 2014, this residential...Read more
Categorized as: Africa, Education, Grantees, Job Creation, Legacy Partners, Poverty Alleviation
Description: Lumana worked in rural Ghana to find innovative solutions for overcoming the inherent difficulties of sustainably running a microfinance program. They used a multi-pronged approach to create a solid foundation for community economic development. Lumana...Read more
Categorized as: Africa, Current Partners, Grantees, Job Creation, Poverty Alleviation
Description: Preserve International works to solve the problem of seasonal hunger through training on food preservation techniques. They highlight food dehydration, canning, and improved grain storage. They empower women in Yumbe, Uganda by tailoring curriculum for...Read more
Categorized as: Africa, Education, Grantees, Legacy Partners, Storytelling
Description: Resonate Workshops is a non-profit based in Rwanda that works to help empower women and girls through self-discovery and storytelling. They work toward gender equality by providing training rooted in storytelling, but also by attempting to break down...Read more
Categorized as: Africa, Asia, Education, Grantees, Latin America, Legacy Partners, Poverty Alleviation
Description: Save the Children works to help children in the United States and worldwide by providing them with basic needs and education. They have various programs, including Education, Emergency Response, Health and Nutrition, HIV and AIDS, Hunger and Livelihood,...Read more
Categorized as: Africa, Education, Grantees, Legacy Partners, Poverty Alleviation
Description: StrongMinds is a social enterprise founded in early 2013 that provides life-changing mental health services to impoverished African women. They empower impoverished women by treating depression at scale and enable them and their families to lead healthy,...Read more
Categorized as: Africa, Current Partners, Education, Grantees, Job Creation, Poverty Alleviation
Description: Tech ME is a nonprofit social enterprise leveraging technology to solve social issues with particular focus on education, entrepreneurship, and civic engagement. They deliver ICT entrepreneurship training to women and young people and teach coding in a...Read more
Categorized as: Africa, Asia, Caribbean, Education, Grantees, Latin America, Legacy Partners
Description: The School Fund is dedicated to providing opportunity for impoverished students all over the world through educational scholarships. They created a person-to-person funding site which allows students in need to create personalized profiles and gives...Read more
Categorized as: Africa, Education, Grantees, Legacy Partners, Poverty Alleviation
Description: Tujenge Africa Foundation’s goal is to build African capacity through quality, innovative, and boundary-pushing education. The Foundation will help boost the potential of the poorest and most marginalized in the African Great Lakes region through...Read more
Categorized as: Africa, Asia, Grantees, Latin America, Legacy Partners, Poverty Alleviation
Description: Unitus used a venture-capital approach to microfinance: provided capital, technical assistance, and management training to small- to mid-sized microfinance organizations in Africa, Asia, Latin and South America. They ceased operations in 2010–read...Read more
Categorized as: Africa, Asia, Education, Grantees, Legacy Partners, Middle East, U.S.
Description: V-Day is a global activist movement working to end violence against women and girls, including rape, battery, incest, female genital mutilation (FGM), and sex slavery. They create global awareness and raise funds through a variety of media outlets, while...Read more
Categorized as: Africa, Grantees, Job Creation, Poverty Alleviation, Social-Impact Investments
Description: Village Enterprise works to end extreme poverty in rural Africa through entrepreneurship and innovation. The Village Enterprise one-year Graduation program provides groups of three entrepreneurs with seed capital, training and ongoing mentoring by a local...Read more
Categorized as: Africa, Asia, Education, Grantees, Job Creation, Latin America, Legacy Partners
Description: Vittana built loan programs for tertiary students in over a dozen countries. They raised funds for each student on their vibrant website. Vittana partnered with 29 microfinance and financial organizations to tailor-make programs for each particular...Read more
Categorized as: Africa, Education, Grantees, Legacy Partners, U.S.
Description: Xavier University is a Jesuit Catholic university with the goal of providing a well-rounded, liberal arts education to its students. They provided the opportunity to travel abroad on Service Learning semesters. This provided students the opportunity to...Read more