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: 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: 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: 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: Asia, Grantees, Job Creation, Legacy Partners, Poverty Alleviation
Description: BOMA Project replaces aid with sustainable income, helping ultra poor women “graduate” from extreme poverty by giving them the tools they need to start small businesses. They work in Kenya’s toughest remote areas impacted by climate change and turns...Read more
Categorized as: Grantees, Legacy Partners, Poverty Alleviation, U.S.
Description: Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Lexington is an agency that works to help the residents of the Diocese of Lexington through empowerment and various forms of assistance. They offer many services to their community in order to accomplish their mission....Read more
Categorized as: Education, Grantees, Job Creation, Legacy Partners, Poverty Alleviation, U.S.
Description: The Catholic Committee of Appalachia works to establish community and solidarity, Catholic social teaching, educational programs, spirituality, and participation in order to promote social, economic, and ecological justice in Appalachia. They have...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, 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, 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: Grantees, Health, Legacy Partners, Poverty Alleviation, U.S.
Description: Good Shepherd Ministries works to help reintegrate former addicts back into society. They provide material needs, such as clothes and food, spiritual guidance, job networking, counseling, and mentoring, along with other services. Mission Statement: Good...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: Grantees, Legacy Partners, Poverty Alleviation, U.S.
Description: Harvard Divinity School is a nonsectarian school of religious and theological studies that educates students both in the pursuit of the academic study of religion and in preparation for leadership in religious, governmental, and a wide range of service...Read more
Categorized as: Grantees, Legacy Partners, Poverty Alleviation, U.S.
Description: HomeFirst, previously EHC Lifebuilders, works to to improve the quality of life in Santa Clara County and provide stability for people in need by providing housing, hope, and opportunity. They continuously accomplish their goals through a variety of...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, 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: Asia, Education, Grantees, Job Creation, Legacy Partners, Poverty Alleviation
Description: Jolkona runs mentor-driven education programs for high potential social entrepreneurs. These entrepreneurs are solving some of the most challenging societal issues in their communities. Their mentors include some of Seattle’s best startup talent who...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, 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: Grantees, Job Creation, Legacy Partners, Poverty Alleviation, U.S.
Description: Praise Laundromat is a microbusiness laundromat established to employ local residents, boost the economy, provide a community center and laundry facility in a depressed coal-mining town in Appalachia. They serve over 12,500 residents and visitors. Mission...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, 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, 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, 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: Caribbean, Grantees, Job Creation, Legacy Partners, Poverty Alleviation
Description: Voix & Actions is a nonprofit organization geared toward the development of the Haitian community and the physical and moral relief of the disadvantaged people who live there. They accomplish this vision through various programs ranging from...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