Categorized as: Africa, Asia, Caribbean, Education, Girls & women, Grantee, Job Creation, Latin America, Our Partners, Pacific Islands, Poverty Alleviation, Stories & Tagged as: Collaboration, Innovation, News on October 31, 2016.
This article is reprinted from Next Billion, a community of business leaders, social entrepreneurs, NGO managers, policy makers, academics and others exploring the connection between development and enterprise. NextBillion chronicles new trends in market solutions to...Read more
Categorized as: Africa, Our Partners, Poverty Alleviation, Stories & Tagged as: Families, Health, Nutrition on October 1, 2016.
Related Grantees:
Firelight Foundation,
Freedom From Hunger,
Grameen Foundation.
Editor’s note: Our dedicated partners at Gardens for Health International in East Africa combine health education with gardening inputs and training, to empower parents of malnourished children to change their families’ outcomes with the harvesting of...Read more
Categorized as: Girls & women, Grantee, Job Creation, Latin America, Our Partners, Poverty Alleviation, Stories & Tagged as: Ecuador, Microloans on September 18, 2016.
Related Grantees:
Firelight Foundation,
Grameen Foundation,
Save the Children,
Working Capital for Community Needs.
By Amelia Kuklewicz, Ecuador Program Manager, Freedom from Hunger Editor’s note: Happy 70th birthday to our longtime, deeply valued partner, Freedom from Hunger, whose small staff of less than 50 strives to end hunger through financial empowerment,...Read more
Categorized as: Africa, Girls & women, Grantee, Job Creation, Our Partners, Poverty Alleviation, Stories & Tagged as: The BOMA Project on July 9, 2016.
Related Grantees:
Firelight Foundation,
Freedom From Hunger,
Grameen Foundation,
Kiretono Resource Centre through AID Tanzania,
Upaya Social Ventures.
Editor’s note: Scroll down to watch a video about Mekona, who never had a chance to attend school but has learned business and financial skills while building her business with our partners in rural Kenya at The BOMA Project. With three children to support, and...Read more
Categorized as: Asia, Girls & women, Grantee, Job Creation, Our Partners, Poverty Alleviation, Stories & Tagged as: Domestic violence, Empowerment, Gender issues, Social entrepreneurism, Upaya Social Ventures on March 6, 2016.
Editor’s note: Five years in, our partner Upaya Social Ventures relentlessly proves the power of a job. Our video series on the work of our partners continues. Tune in next time to meet an innovative bilingual school that brings Israeli and Palestinian children...Read more
