Our Partners
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Lead Partners
AB InBev
Anheuser-Busch InBev is the world’s largest brewer. It strives to make the world a better place, combining its scale, resources and energy with the needs of its communities. Its sustainability strategy is embedded throughout its business and across its supply chain. It aims to tackle issues that are most material to its business and where it can make the most positive impact.
ABF Sugar
ABF Sugar is a world leading sugar business. The company’s sustainability framework, “Global Mind, Local Champions”, focuses on three pillars – economic, social and environmental, and ensures its future development supports both its long-term success and the sustainability of the local communities where it operates.
Avon
For more than 130 years Avon has stood for women: providing innovative, quality beauty products which are primarily sold to women, through women. Millions of independent Representatives across the world sell iconic Avon brands such as Avon Color and ANEW through their social networks, building their own beauty businesses on a full- or part-time basis. Avon supports women’s empowerment, entrepreneurship and well-being and has contributes over $1 billion to women’s causes through Avon and the Avon Foundation. #stand4Her #beautyFORtheWorld
CEMEX
CEMEX is a global leader in the building materials industry with over 100 years of experience and presence in more than 50 countries. Throughout its history, CEMEX has sought to be a good corporate citizen with sustainability being an integral part of its business. Its management team continually works to enhance and execute its framework of sustainable development initiatives and as a global company, it is aware of its responsibility to address complex sustainability challenges.
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office
The Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO) pursues the UK’s national interests and projects the UK as a force for good in the world. FCDO promotes the interests of British citizens, safeguards the UK’s security, defends the UK’s values, reduces poverty and tackles global challenges with the UK’s international partners.
International Finance Corporation
IFC—a sister organization of the World Bank and member of the World Bank Group—is the largest global development institution focused on the private sector in emerging markets. We work with more than 2,000 businesses worldwide, using our capital, expertise, and influence to create markets and opportunities in the toughest areas of the world. In fiscal year 2018, we delivered more than $23 billion in long-term financing for developing countries, leveraging the power of the private sector to end extreme poverty and boost shared prosperity.
Mastercard Centre for Inclusive Growth
The Mastercard Center for Inclusive Growth advances sustainable and equitable economic growth and financial inclusion around the world. Established as an independent subsidiary of Mastercard, the Center activates the company’s core assets to catalyse action on inclusive growth through: research, data philanthropy, programs and engagement.
Meta
Meta builds technologies that help people connect, find communities and grow businesses. Meta collaborates with community members, climate action leaders and scientists to innovate beyond what is possible today and accelerate action-oriented resources for tomorrow. Meta envisions a just and equitable transition to a zero-carbon economy and is working with others to scale inclusive solutions that help create a healthier planet for all, ensuring that no one is left behind.
MSD
For more than 130 years, MSD has brought hope to humanity through the development of important medicines and vaccines. From finding solutions for some of the world’s most debilitating diseases, to getting our medicines and vaccines to those in need and building more effective health systems, MSD is always on a mission to create a better world.
Pearson
Pearson is the world’s leading learning company, operating in more than 70 countries working to help people of all ages to make measurable progress in their lives through learning. Pearson provides learning materials, technologies, assessments and services to teachers and students in order to help people everywhere aim higher and fulfill their true potential.
Primark
Primark is an international retailer that offers high quality fashion, beauty and homeware at value for money prices. They have over 355 stores in eleven countries: Republic of Ireland, the UK, Spain, Portugal, Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium, Austria, France, the US and Italy; and over 75,000 employees. Products for Primark are made with respect, for people and the planet.
Reckitt
Reckitt is driven by its purpose to protect, heal and nurture in the relentless pursuit of a cleaner, healthier world. Through its Fight for Access Accelerator, Reckitt catalyses grassroots social enterprises to help tackle the world’s greatest problems and strive for a fairer society. The Company believes that a more sustainable business will not only better fulfil its responsibilities to society but also contribute to delivering its vision of better consumer solutions and increased long-term shareholder value.
Standard Chartered
Standard Chartered is a leading international banking group committed to building a sustainable business over the long-term. It is focused on banking the people and companies to drive the creation of investment, trade and wealth in Africa, Asia and the Middle East. By running its operations well, standing by its clients & customers and investing in local communities, Standard Chartered believes that it can be a powerful force for good.
Unilever
Unilever is one of the world’s leading suppliers of Beauty & Personal Care, Home Care, and Foods & Refreshment products with sales in over 190 countries and reaching 2.5 billion consumers a day. Over half of the company’s footprint is in developing and emerging markets. Unilever’s Sustainable Living Plan underpins the company’s strategy and commits to helping more than a billion people take action to improve their health and well-being by 2020, halving the environmental impact of our products by 2030 and enhancing the livelihoods of millions of people by 2020.
Virgin Media O2
Virgin Media O2 combines the UK’s largest and most reliable mobile network with a broadband network offering the fastest widely-available broadband speeds. It is a customer-first organisation that brings a range of connectivity services together in one place. Virgin Media O2’s vision is to create an inclusive, green and connected future for its customers and communities.
Visa
Visa Inc. is the world’s leader in digital payments. The company’s work is guided by their mission to connect the world through the most innovative, reliable and secure payment network, enabling individuals, businesses and economies to thrive. Visa’s global network is a powerful platform to bring people into the formal financial system, thereby improving the lives of individuals, supporting stronger businesses, and spurring economic growth.
Walmart
Walmart Inc. helps people around the world save money and live better – anytime and anywhere – in retail stores, online, and through their mobile devices. Each week, over 275 million customers and members visit their more than 11,300 stores under 58 banners in 27 countries and eCommerce websites. With fiscal year 2019 revenue of $514.4 billion, Walmart employs over 2.2 million associates worldwide. Walmart continues to be a leader in sustainability, corporate philanthropy and employment opportunity.
Impact Partners
YY Ventures accelerates and invests in social businesses that are creating a world of three zeros- zero poverty, zero unemployment and zero carbon emissions. Bridging the gaps of people, groups and organizations with the spirit of entrepreneurship and innovation, we are the weavers of today’s social business world, backing social entrepreneurs who are solving some of the most pressing social issues of our times.
Acceso
Acceso is a social business builder that brings entrepreneurial solutions to global poverty. Acceso builds, invests start-up capital into, manages, and scales agribusinesses that work with smallholder farmers and fishers. We improve the livelihoods of these producers and their communities by improving agricultural productivity, creating job opportunities, and facilitating long-term linkages to high value markets in Latin America and the Caribbean.
Acumen
Acumen is changing the way the world tackles poverty by investing in companies, leaders and ideas. They invest patient capital in businesses whose products and services are enabling the poor to transform their lives. Founded by Jacqueline Novogratz in 2001, Acumen has invested more than $137 million in 139 companies across Africa, Latin America, South Asia and the United States. They are also developing a global community of emerging leaders with the knowledge, skills and determination to create a more inclusive world.
Aspen Network of Development Entrepreneurs
The Aspen Network of Development Entrepreneurs (ANDE) is a global network of organizations that propel entrepreneurship in emerging markets. ANDE members provide critical financial, educational, and business support services to small and growing businesses (SGBs) based on the conviction that SGBs can create jobs, stimulate long-term economic growth, and produce environmental and social benefits.
BBC Media Action
BBC Media Action is the BBC’s international charity. They believe in the power of media and communication for good. They work in more than 20 countries, supporting the independent media essential to democracy and development. Each year, their projects and programmes reach more than 150 million people facing poverty, inequality and insecurity with information they can trust, helping to improve health, bridge divides, challenge prejudice, and save and change lives.
Boda Boda Safety Association of Kenya
The Boda Boda Safety Association of Kenya is a National body of commercial motorcycle riders dully registered under the Kenyan Societies act. In partnership with the Government of Kenya and other like-minded partners, a total transformation of the Industry has been achieved thereby presenting to the nation massive job creation, micro-entrepreneurship, safety for all road users and innovation in self-employment which is gender-sensitive.
Breaking Barriers
Breaking Barriers exists so that every refugee can access meaningful employment and build a new life. We welcome refugees into employment with one-to-one advice and guidance, education, and training to help people find financial independence, purpose and identity through work. We forge innovative partnerships and share knowledge to inspire more social impact.
Business for Nature
Business for Nature is a global coalition that brings together business and conservation organizations and forward-thinking companies. Together, we demonstrate credible business leadership on nature and amplify a powerful leading business voice calling for governments to adopt policies now to reverse nature loss this decade.
Chrysalis
Chrysalis is a Sri Lankan organization working to empower women and youth by fostering inclusive growth. An Affiliate of CARE International, we embody the skills, experience and networks developed over 60 years of CARE’s work in Sri Lanka, regionally and globally, and continue to champion its social development interventions and mission
Climate Impact Partners
Climate Impact Partners, a merger of ClimateCare and Natural Capital Partners, is a leader in developing and delivering high-quality, high-impact carbon market solutions for climate action. Together with the world’s leading companies and quality project partners we will reduce 1 billion tonnes of CO2 by 2030 to transform the global economy, improve health and livelihoods, and restore a thriving planet.
Clinton Foundation
Building on a lifetime of public service, President Clinton established the Clinton Foundation on the simple belief that everyone deserves a chance to succeed, everyone has a responsibility to act, and we all do better when we work together. For nearly two decades, those values have energized the work of the Foundation in overcoming complex challenges and improving the lives of people across the United States and around the world.
Codespa
The CODESPA Foundation is a non-profit organisation which has been working for 29 years in international cooperation for development. CODESPA trusts in the human capacity for building a more equal and fair world by providing opportunities to people so that, through their work, they can develop their capacities and be the protagonists of their own development.
DOT (Digital Opportunity Trust)
DOT is a youth-led movement of daring social innovators who have the tools, knowledge, and networks to create opportunities and transform their own communities. We support youth to become innovators and leaders, and to create and apply digital solutions that have positive impact in their communities.
EVPA
EVPA is a membership association made up of organisations interested in or practising venture philanthropy and social investment across Europe. Established in 2004, the association aims to be the home of investors for impact committed to using venture philanthropy and social investment tools to target social impact.
Fairtrade
Fairtrade is a global movement with a strong and active presence in the UK, represented by the Fairtrade Foundation. Fairtrade is a movement for change that works directly with businesses, consumers and campaigners to make trade deliver for farmers and workers.The international Fairtrade system (which the Fairtrade Foundation is a part of) represents the world’s largest and most recognised fair trade system. We are a global organisation working to secure a better deal for farmers and workers.
Family Enterprise Foundation
FEF want to address the operating mindset shift set that is occurring in the family enterprise ecosystem through generational shifts of ownerships and seize the moment in addressing climate/social issues and the impact family enterprises have on the environment and society.
Farm Africa
Farm Africa is an innovative charity that reduces poverty by unleashing African farmers’ abilities to grow their incomes in an environmentally sustainable way. We help farmers to not only boost yields, but also gain access to markets, while protecting the environment for generations to come.
FOMIN
The Multilateral Investment Fund is an innovation lab for the Inter-American Development Bank Group. It conducts high-risk experiments to test new models for engaging and inspiring the private sector to solve economic development problems in Latin America and the Caribbean. The MIF addresses poverty and vulnerability by focusing on emerging businesses and smallholder farmers with the capacity to grow and create economic opportunities.
Fundes
FUNDES is a non-profit consulting firm whose mission is to support the competitive development of micro, small and medium-sized businesses in Latin America. Alongside large companies, development organizations and government agencies, FUNDES develops strategies and collaboration models that link MSMEs with their value ecosystem
GAIN
The Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN) is a Swiss-based foundation launched at the United Nations in 2002 to tackle the human suffering caused by malnutrition. Working with governments, businesses and civil society, we aim to transform food systems so that they deliver more nutritious foods for all people, especially the most vulnerable.
Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves
The Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves is a public-private partnership hosted by the UN Foundation to save lives, improve livelihoods, empower women, and protect the environment by creating a thriving global market for clean and efficient household cooking solutions.
Good Business Lab
Good Business Lab is a not-for-profit labor innovation organization. We use rigorous research methods to find a common ground between worker wellbeing and business interests. We believe that building the business case to support better conditions for workers is the most sustainable way to transform labor markets and enable all workers to live dignified lives.
GSMA Mobile for Development
GSMA Mobile for Development brings together the GSMA’s members, the wider mobile industry and the development community to deliver life-enhancing mobile services. We work to identify and scale commercially viable mobile services that will have maximum socio-economic impact.
Hand in Hand International
Hand in Hand looks at poverty differently, helping turn skills and potential into jobs so people can find a way out of poverty. The NGO has created 1.6m businesses which support 2.3m jobs and have improved the lives of 8m family members. The goal is to create 10 million jobs.
Heifer International
Heifer are an international development NGO working with small-scale farmers and local food producers in 21 countries around the world to end hunger and poverty in a sustainable way. Working with local communities and farmers’ cooperatives to build sustainable businesses that enable local people to close the living income gap.
How to Academy
How To Academy is an organisation for people who think big. From Nobel laureates to Pulitzer Prize winners, they invite the world’s most influential voices to share new ideas for changing ourselves, our communities, and the world. They also help businesses inspire clients and staff, and make books, podcasts and films to share insight and innovation around the world.
IDB
The Inter-American Development Bank works to improve lives in Latin America and the Caribbean. Through financial and technical support for countries working to reduce poverty and inequality, the IDB helps improve health and education, and advance infrastructure. Its aim is to achieve development in a sustainable, climate-friendly way.
IDB – Opportunities for the Majority
The Opportunities for the Majority (OMJ) initiative at the Inter-American Development Bank promotes and finances market-based, sustainable business models that engage private sector companies, local governments and communities in the development and delivery of quality products and services for the Base of the Pyramid in Latin America and the Caribbean.
Inclusive Business Sweden
Inclusive Business Sweden is a not-for-profit centre whose mission is to enable business to meet global development needs. Inclusive Business Sweden works with the private sector to scale innovative and inclusive business models in developing markets. We deliver direct business services and impact programmes, bringing together private, public and civil society actors locally and globally.
Indiana University Kelley School of Business
The mission of the Kelley School of Business is to transform the lives of students, organizations and society through management education and research. The Institute for International Business (IIB) supports the internationalisation of Kelley’s academic programmes.
Innovest Advisory
Innovest Advisory works at the nexus between innovative finance and social impact in the Impact Investment field. They go beyond negative screening and ESG assessments to look at the true impact of investments and advise on how capital can address the world’s most pressing challenges such as climate change, food security, financial inclusion and livelihoods in developing markets and fragile contexts.
INSEAD
At the INSEAD Humanitarian Research Group, we are passionate about situations where business has a strong positive impact and analyzing humanitarian/development operations can be a force for good business. Since our group was created 20 years ago, we have been working closely with relief/development organizations like UNICEF, UNHCR, the World Food Program (WFP) and many others (WVI, MSI), applying our academic expertise to help improve disaster relief and development programs and transferring knowledge between the humanitarian and corporate sectors.
International Alert
International Alert empowers local people to build peace by providing them with training, advice and support. They bring together communities divided by conflict to find ways of resolving their differences without violence. And they advise companies, governments and international organisations on how their policies and operations can better support peace.
Learning Planet
#LearningPlanet is a global open alliance of educational stakeholders and learning communities, with a mission is to inspire and empower learners of all ages to “take care of oneself, others and the planet,” and thus contribute to shaping better futures, because in a time of great uncertainty, increased by the pandemic and profound transitions, we urgently need new ways of learning, teaching, doing research and mobilizing collective intelligence.
Lloyds Banking Group Centre for Responsible Business
Based at the University of Birmingham, the Lloyds Banking Group Centre for Responsible Business is an interdisciplinary research and engagement hub committed to providing pragmatic, real-world solutions to businesses wanting to help realise the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals.
New Economy Roundtable
The New Economy Roundtable is a network of public, private and non-profit organizations working together to increase decent work and create a more inclusive economy in Ontario. The goal of the New Economy Roundtable is to increase the number of people in equity-seeking communities in Ontario who are in decent work by building and sharing knowledge, influencing policy and practice, and catalyzing collaboration.
NOVA
Leadership for Impact (LFI) is Nova School of Business and Economics Knowledge Center committed to make a change in societal grand challenges. We focus on positive leadership research, knowledge and insights that drive society towards progress. We join forces with key partners to also conduct social innovation projects that help in the transition to a more sustainable world.
Nutrition Connect
Nutrition Connect is an open-access platform intended to mobilise knowledge, share experiences, and stimulate dialogue on public private engagement (PPE) for nutrition. It is a safe space for engagement to connect people; facts and understanding; and evidence and action. We are committed to sharing high-quality, credible and objective information with practitioners interested in exploring PPE for nutrition so they can make informed decisions based on the best-available resources.
Practical Action
Practical Action is an international development organisation that puts ingenious ideas to work so people in poverty can change their world. It helps people find solutions to some of the world’s toughest problems. Challenges made worse by climate change and gender inequality. It works with communities to develop lasting and locally owned solutions for agriculture, water and waste management, climate resilience and clean energy. And it shares what works with others, so answers that start small can grow big.
Primary Care International
Primary Care International (PCI) believes that everyone should be able to access quality healthcare to enable them to live full and healthy lives. To help achieve this it advises and supports partners to build capacity in primary healthcare workers and primary healthcare systems, with a focus on Non-Communicable Diseases.
Project Everyone
Project Everyone is a not-for-profit creative communications agency that creates campaigns and supports partners to raise awareness, inspire action and drive accountability for the Global Goals, because they believe are the best roadmap towards a better future for people and planet.
Rainforest Alliance
The Rainforest Alliance is an international non-profit organization working in more than 60 countries at the intersection of business, agriculture and forests. We are building an alliance to create a better future for people and nature by making responsible business the new normal.
Ripple Effect
Ripple Effect is a partnership of resourceful farming families working with experienced and committed African staff, who are based in their Country Programmes and their Africa Hub in Nairobi, with support and fundraising from our offices in the UK and US to bring smallholder farmers together to learn new skills and share knowledge so they can improve their livelihoods and thrive.
Root Capital
Root Capital invests in the growth of agricultural enterprises so they can transform rural communities. These businesses purchase crops such as coffee, cocoa, or grains from smallholder farmers. With growth, they become engines of impact that can raise incomes, create jobs, empower women and young people, sustain peace and preserve vulnerable ecosystems
SEEP Network
SEEP is a collaborative learning network. We support strategies that create new and better opportunities for vulnerable populations, especially women, to participate in markets and improve their quality of life. For over 30 years, our members have served as a testing ground for innovative strategies that promote inclusion, develop resilient markets, and enhance the livelihood potential of the worlds’ poor.
Shared Value Initiative
For business leaders and problem solvers who see exciting market opportunities at the intersection of business goals and societal challenges, the Shared Value Initiative is the leading community shaping research, partnerships, and practices. The Initiative connects global thinkers and practitioners who are exploring this new frontier in search of the best ways to realize shared value’s tremendous potential.
SNV
SNV is a not-for-profit international development organisation that makes a lasting difference in the lives of people living in poverty by helping them raise incomes and access basic services. We focus on only three sectors and have a long-term, local presence in over 25 countries in Asia, Africa and Latin America. Our team of more than 1,300 staff is the backbone of SNV
Society for International Development (SID)
The Society for International Development (SID) – Washington is a part of the global SID network which includes chapters and individual members in over 50 countries. SID-Washington is a “global town square” whose mission is to advance equitable development through networking, partnership building, and information sharing on critical ideas, policies, and practices that shape our global future.
Stanford University VMware Women’s Leadership Innovation Lab
The VMware Women’s Leadership Innovation Lab at Stanford University generates foundational research to advance women’s leadership by diagnosing barriers, developing and evaluating interventions to get beyond barriers, and disseminates research-based solutions by bridging the gap between research and practice.
Sustainable Food Lab
The Sustainable Food Lab is a global network of organizations accelerating progress toward a more sustainable food system. Food Lab staff advise on sustainability strategy and procurement programs, design and manage pre-competitive collaboration, and provide leadership development.
Tent Partnership for Refugees
With more and more refugees displaced for longer periods of time, businesses have a critical role to play in helping refugees integrate economically in their new host communities. The Tent Partnership for Refugees mobilizes the global business community to improve the lives and livelihoods of 30 million refugees who have been forcibly displaced from their home countries.
The Business Partnerships Platform
The Business Partnerships Platform (BPP) supports partnerships between the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) and inclusive businesses to create both development impacts and sustainable commercial returns. With BPP support, businesses are creating sustainable change with products and services that improve lives, helping to create more inclusive value chains; and expanding inclusive business practices.
The Donor Committee for Enterprise Development
The Donor Committee for Enterprise Development (DCED) enhances the efforts of donor agencies to place private sector development (PSD) at the heart of their work. DCED does this by sharing information about what works – based on practical experience, as well as research into businesses’ views on their constraints and needs of support.
The Doughty Centre for Corporate Responsibility
The Doughty Centre for Corporate Responsibility, a research centre within Cranfield University School of Management, works to empower current and future managers with the knowledge, skills, and desire to lead responsible, sustainably managed organisations.
The Intrapreneur Lab
The Intrapreneur Lab is 3-day + 3-month accelerator for individuals inside companies to develop profitable innovations that have wider societal benefit – and become intrapreneurs in the process. The Intrapreneur Lab is a collaboration between Business Fights Poverty, TIL Ventures and ADP.
The Millennium Challenge Corporation
MCC is an independent U.S. Government agency working to reduce global poverty through economic growth. It provides time-limited grants and assistance to poor countries that meet rigorous standards for good governance, from fighting corruption to respecting democratic rights.
The Power of Nutrition
The Power of Nutrition is a charitable foundation that unites businesses, governments, foundations, INGOs and change agents in a joint mission to banish undernutrition. Our innovative finance and partnership model quadruples investments to make nutrition resources go further than any organisation could achieve independently.
The Task Force on Inequality-related Financial Disclosures
The Task Force on Inequality-related Financial Disclosures (TIFD) was created to meet the need for an explicit systemic risk management framework that can help reduce inequality created by the actions of the private sector. TIFD will provide guidance, thresholds, targets, and metrics for companies and investors to measure and manage their inequality-related risks, including a focus on how inequality affects company performance, how inequality contributes to market-wide system-level risks and therefore affects investor performance, and how private sector activity can exacerbate inequality.
The World Benchmarking Alliance
The World Benchmarking Alliance (WBA) is a non-profit organisation seeking to generate a movement around increasing the private sector’s impact towards a sustainable future for all. WBA’s transformative benchmarks compare companies’ performance on the global challenges the world faces. A group of more than 140 Allies provide WBA with the necessary support to be a successful driver of change. The benchmarks empower all stakeholders, from consumers and investors to employees and business leaders, with key data and insights to encourage sustainable business.
University of Cambridge Institute of Sustainability Leadership
For over 25 years the University of Cambridge Institute of Sustainability Leadership has been working to build leadership capacity to tackle critical global challenges, through business action, executive education and Master’s-level programmes.
WWF
WWF’s mission is to stop the degradation of the planet’s natural environment and to build a future in which people live in harmony with nature, by: conserving the world’s biological diversity, ensuring that the use of renewable natural resources is sustainable and promoting the reduction of pollution and wasteful consumption
Youth Business International
YBI is a global network of expert 50+ organisations helping young people around the world to start, grow and sustain businesses, leveraging entrepreneurship to create decent work and drive inclusive economic growth, whilst transforming livelihoods and strengthening communities.