Categorized as: Caribbean, Education, Grantees, Job Creation, Latin America, Legacy Partners, Poverty Alleviation
Description: Agora Partnerships was founded in 2005 by students and entrepreneurs hoping to create change throughout Latin America. They provide resources and materials to entrepreneurs who are working to build businesses in order to solve social and environmental...Read more
Categorized as: Current Partners, Education, Grantees, Job Creation, Latin America, Poverty Alleviation
Description: Bean Voyage ensures sustainable livelihood for female coffee producers by training and connecting them with the end consumers. They invest in economic growth, environmental protection, and gender justice for smallholder women in coffee communities so that...Read more
Categorized as: Education, Grantees, Latin America, Legacy Partners
Description: The Cooperative for Education works to break the cycle of poverty in Guatemala through education. They provide educational resources and opportunities to indigenous Mayan schoolchildren in Guatemala’s Central and Western Highlands. They have created...Read more
Categorized as: Education, Grantees, Latin America, Legacy Partners, Poverty Alleviation
Description: Founded in May, 2011, CREA Nicaragua has worked with several local community organizations and schools in the region to promote literacy. Additionally, they have an Educational Outreach program, which provides after-school homework help for primary school...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, 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: Education, Grantees, Latin America, Legacy Partners, Poverty Alleviation
Description: Hope for Honduran Children works in several different communities throughout Honduras, providing children living in extreme poverty with the basic necessities such as food, clothing, shelter, and medical care, as well as making sure they have the...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, 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, 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, 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: Grantees, Job Creation, Latin America, Legacy Partners, Poverty Alleviation
Description: Working Capital for Community Needs, or WCCN, was founded in 1984 and since has been working toward economic development through impact investing in impoverished areas in several countries throughout Latin America. They empower low-income entrepreneurs...Read more