Our Partners
Partner with us and your peers to scale our collective impact.
AB InBev
AB InBev, the world’s largest brewer, with an extensive portfolio of over 500 beer brands including Budweiser, Stella Artois, and Corona. Discover the social impact initiatives that AB InBev has been actively developing. This page highlights key insights into their community-focused projects and sustainable development efforts.
ABF Sugar
ABF Sugar, a subsidiary of Associated British Foods, is a leading producer and distributor of sugar, renowned for its extensive operations across Europe and Africa. Discover the social impact initiatives that ABF Sugar has been actively developing. This page highlights key insights into their community-focused projects and sustainable development efforts.
Anglo American
Anglo American is a global mining company headquartered in London, specialising in the production of diamonds, copper, platinum group metals, and iron ore. Discover the social impact initiatives that Anglo American has been actively developing. This page highlights key insights into their community-focused projects and sustainable development efforts.
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
Barclays
Barclays is a leading British multinational bank known for its innovative approach and commitment to sustainable finance, providing a wide range of financial services including retail and investment banking, wealth management, and credit cards globally. Discover the social impact initiatives that Barclays has been actively developing. This page highlights key insights into their community-focused projects and sustainable development efforts.
Diageo
Diageo is a global leader in beverage alcohol, operating in over 180 countries with over 200 brands, including Johnnie Walker, Guinness, and Smirnoff. Spirit of Progress, their ongoing ESG action plan, addresses the most significant environmental and social opportunities and risks Diageo faces. It has three priorities: to promote positive drinking, champion inclusion and diversity and pioneer grain-to-glass sustainability. Doing business the right way underpins everything they do.
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office
The Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO) is the UK government department responsible for promoting British interests abroad, managing diplomatic relations, and providing international aid. Discover the social impact initiatives that FCDO has been actively developing. This page highlights key insights into their community-focused projects and sustainable development efforts.
International Finance Corporation
The International Finance Corporation (IFC) is a member of the World Bank Group, dedicated to fostering private sector development in emerging markets, reducing poverty and promote sustainable economic growth globally. Discover the social impact initiatives that IFC has been actively developing. This page highlights key insights into their community-focused projects and sustainable development efforts.
Mars
Mars is a global leader in the confectionery, pet care, and food industries, With a commitment to sustainability and innovation, Mars strives to make a positive impact on the planet. Discover the social impact initiatives that Mars has been actively developing. This page highlights key insights into their community-focused projects and sustainable development efforts.
Mastercard Center for Inclusive Growth
The Mastercard Center for Inclusive Growth is dedicated to advancing equitable economic growth by leveraging data, technology, and partnerships to empower underserved communities. Discover the social impact initiatives that Mastercard has been actively developing. This page highlights key insights into their community-focused projects and sustainable development efforts.
Meta
Meta, is a global technology company focused on building the metaverse, a virtual space where people can connect, socialize, and create in immersive digital environments. Discover the social impact initiatives that Meta has been actively developing. This page highlights key insights into their community-focused projects and sustainable development efforts.
MSD
MSD, known as Merck & Co., Inc. is a global pharmaceutical company dedicated to advancing human and animal health through innovative medicines, vaccines, and therapies. With a commitment to research and sustainability, Discover the social impact initiatives that MSD has been actively developing. This page highlights key insights into their community-focused projects and sustainable development efforts.
Novonesis
Novonesis is a biosolution company dedicated to leveraging biology to address global challenges. By harnessing the power of science, they create innovative biosolutions that revolutionize production, consumption, and daily living. Discover the social impact initiatives that Novonesis has been actively developing. This page highlights key insights into their community-focused projects and sustainable development efforts.
Pearson
Pearson is a global leader in educational materials and assessment, providing innovative solutions to enhance learning and academic achievement. Discover the social impact initiatives that Pearson has been actively developing. This page highlights key insights into their community-focused projects and sustainable development efforts.
Primark
Primark is a leading fashion retailer known for offering trendy and affordable clothing, accessories, and home goods. With a commitment to providing value and style, Primark caters to a wide range of customers globally. Discover the social impact initiatives that Primark has been actively developing. This page highlights key insights into their community-focused projects and sustainable development efforts.
Reckitt
Reckitt is a global health and hygiene company that produces well-known brands in health, nutrition, and home care. Their innovative products aim to improve lives and enhance well-being across diverse markets worldwide. Discover the social impact initiatives that Reckitt has been actively developing. This page highlights key insights into their community-focused projects and sustainable development efforts.
Standard Chartered
Standard Chartered is a leading international bank providing a wide range of financial services and solutions to individuals, businesses, and institutions. With a strong presence in key markets across Asia, Africa, and the Middle East, they focus on driving growth and financial inclusion. Discover the social impact initiatives that Standard Chartered has been actively developing. This page highlights key insights into their community-focused projects and sustainable development efforts.
Unilever
Unilever is a global consumer goods company renowned for its diverse portfolio of brands in categories like food, beverages, cleaning agents, and personal care. Their commitment to sustainability drives innovation and enhances the quality of life for people around the world. Discover the social impact initiatives that Unilever has been actively developing. This page highlights key insights into their community-focused projects and sustainable development efforts.
Vale
Vale is a global mining company headquartered in Brazil, committed to sustainable ore extraction and logistics via rail, port, and ship. Its operations prioritize safety, environmental stewardship, and social responsibility.
Virgin Media O2
Virgin Media O2 is a leading telecommunications provider in the UK, offering a range of broadband, mobile, and TV services. Discover the social impact initiatives that Virgin Media O2 has been actively developing. This page highlights key insights into their community-focused projects and sustainable development efforts.
Visa
Visa is a global payments technology company that facilitates secure and efficient financial transactions through its extensive network of cardholders, merchants, and financial institutions. Discover the social impact initiatives that Visa has been actively developing. This page highlights key insights into their community-focused projects and sustainable development efforts.
Walmart
Walmart is a global retail giant known for its vast selection of products at competitive prices, spanning groceries, apparel, electronics, and more. Discover the social impact initiatives that Walmart has been actively developing. This page highlights key insights into their community-focused projects and sustainable development efforts.
17 communications
17 Communications is a mission-driven marketing and communications firm specialising in sustainability, impact investing and the transition to a low-carbon economy. Founded in 2020, they partner only with organisations aligned to the United Nations Global Compact and the Sustainable Development Goals. Through strategic storytelling, research and advocacy, they catalyse the flow of private capital towards systemic solutions while rejecting green- and impact-washing.
3BL Media
3BL Media provides news and content disribution for innovative companies.
60 decibels
60 Decibels is a global, tech-enabled impact measurement company that empowers organisations to understand their real-world social performance. By surveying end-users in sectors such as agriculture, off-grid energy, and financial inclusion, they provide fast, repeatable “lean data” insights and benchmarked metrics that hold companies and investors accountable for measurable sustainability and inclusive growth.
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.
Access to Nutrition Initiative (ATNI)
The Access to Nutrition Initiative (ATNI) is a global nonprofit which improves market performance by challenging key actors in the food system – starting with industry – to accelerate access to affordable, nutritious food for all, especially for society’s most vulnerable.
ACDI VOCA
As a leading market systems practitioner, ACDI/VOCA addresses issues of food security, economic prosperity, and social inclusion through locally driven market solutions. ACDI/VOCA is a global non-profit development design and delivery partner based in Washington, D.C. We have implemented effective economic and social development projects around the world since 1963.
ActionAid
ActionAid is an international charity that works with women and girls living in poverty. Our dedicated local staff are changing the world with women and girls. We are ending violence and fighting poverty so that all women, everywhere, can create the future they want.
ACTS
Achieving Community Tasks Successfully (ACTS) is a Houston-based nonprofit advancing community sustainability on the Eastside’s near-port neighborhoods. Through citizen-science air-quality monitoring, policy advocacy, and hands-on projects—from community gardens to disaster preparedness—ACTS equips residents with resources and training to build resilience and environmental health while tackling inequities around ports and industry. Its EPA-funded monitoring and public dashboard increase transparency and community power.
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.
Agora Global
Agora is a ‘think and do tank’ focused on taking a systemic approach to impact; working with impact investors, development partners, and multinationals to generate large-scale, sustainable impact in emerging markets.
Alliance for Innovative Regulation
Alliance for Innovative Regulation (AIR) is a nonprofit, non-membership organization working to make the financial system fully inclusive, fair and resilient through responsible use of new technology.
AMREF Health Africa
Amref Health Africa, headquartered in Kenya, is the largest Africa based international Non-Governmental Organisation (INGO) currently running programs in over 35 countries in Africa with lessons learnt over 60 years of engagement with governments, communities and partners to increase sustainable health access in Africa. Amref Health Africa also incorporates programme development, fundraising, partnership, advocacy, monitoring and evaluation, and has offices in Europe and North America as well as subsidiaries; AMREF Flying Doctors, Amref Enterprises and the Amref International University.
Anthesis Group
Anthesis Group is a global sustainability consultancy and digital-enabled solutions firm that helps organisations accelerate decarbonisation, improve supply-chain transparency, and embed purpose and nature-positive strategies across the business lifecycle. With science-based advisory services, technology tools and more than 1,400 specialists in 23+ countries, Anthesis enables measurable impact and strategic value from sustainability.
Anti-Slavery International
Anti-Slavery International, founded in 1839, is the world’s oldest international human rights organisation and works to eliminate all forms of slavery around the world.
Ashoka
Ashoka is the largest network of social entrepreneurs worldwide, with nearly 3,000 Ashoka Fellows in 70 countries putting their system changing ideas into practice on a global scale.
Ashridge Business School
Ashridge is one of the world’s premier executive education and leadership development providers.
Aspen Business and Society Institute
The Aspen Institute Business and Society Program works with business executives and scholars to align business decisions and investments with the long-term health of society—and the planet. Through carefully designed networks, working groups and focused dialogue, the Program identifies and inspires thought leaders and “intrapreneurs” to challenge conventional ideas about capitalism and markets, to test new measures of business success and to connect classroom theory and business practice.
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.
Australia for Cedar Tanzania
Australia for Cedar Tanzania is a fully registered not-for-profit creating positive and sustainable change in sub-Saharan communities empowering people to live free of poverty and to have access to quality healthcare services.
B Lab UK
B Lab is a nonprofit organization that serves a global movement of people using business as a force for good. B Lab drives this systemic change including by building a global community of Certified B Corporations.
Barefoot College International
Barefoot College International is a women-centric global nonprofit that empowers rural women to become skilled solar engineers, entrepreneurs, and change-agents in marginalised communities. Operating in over 90 countries and training thousands of women in renewable energy, livelihoods and digital literacy, it deepens resilience, cuts energy poverty and supports sustainable development from the grassroots.
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.
Beam Exchange
Building Effective and Accessible Markets. The BEAM Exchange – in partnership with the DCED – is a platform for knowledge exchange and learning about the role of markets in poverty reduction.
Better Cotton Initiative
Better Cotton is a non-profit, multistakeholder governance group that promotes better standards in cotton farming and practices across 22 countries. Partner retailers include H&M, Gap, IKEA, and Levi Strauss, and include funding partners from USAID.
Better Than Cash Alliance
The Better Than Cash Alliance is a partnership of governments, companies, and international organizations that accelerates the transition from cash to digital payments in order to reduce poverty and drive inclusive growth.
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.
BRAC
BRAC is a development organisation dedicated to alleviate poverty by empowering the poor, and helping them to bring about positive changes in their lives by creating opportunities for the poor.
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.
BSR
BSR is a global nonprofit organization that works with its network of more than 250 member companies to build a just and sustainable world.
Build Change
Build Change is a global non-profit organisation driving systems-change for resilient housing. Since 2004, we have collaborated with homeowners, governments and finance partners to transform how homes and schools are built and strengthened in disaster-prone regions. Our work integrates engineering, technology and policy to ensure safer, climate-adaptive buildings and communities.
Building Markets
Building Markets champions small businesses — who create more than 70% of the world’s jobs — to advance economies that work for all. Building Markets does this by powering a thriving global marketplace that builds connections and confidence between buyers and suppliers and delivers social and economic impact where it’s needed most.
Business and Human Rights Centre
The Business and Human Rights Resource Centre draws attention to the human rights impacts (positive & negative) of over 5100 companies, operating in over 180 countries. The resource centre provides guidance materials and examples of good practice
Business Call to Action
Launched at the United Nations in 2008, the Business Call to Action aims to accelerate progress towards the Millennium Development Goals by challenging companies to develop inclusive business models that offer the potential for both commercial success and development impact.
Business Council for Peace
Bpeace is the nonprofit network of business volunteers who work with entrepreneurs in violence-affected communities to scale their businesses, create significant employment for all and expand the economic power of women.
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.
Business in the Community
Building on 30 years of action, Business in the Community is working to shape a new contract between business and society, in order to secure a fairer society and a more sustainable future.
Care International
CARE works around the globe to save lives, defeat poverty and achieve social justice.
Challenge Works
For more than a decade, Challenge Works has designed and delivered impact-driven challenge prizes to solve the planet’s complex problems by incentivising and rewarding diverse innovators to develop real solutions that change the world.
Challenge Works’ challenge prizes are a proven method for partners and funders to leapfrog problems by inspiring and attracting a wealth of problem-solvers to apply their inventive minds to the issue at hand.
Challenge Works’ challenge prizes are a proven method for partners and funders to leapfrog problems by inspiring and attracting a wealth of problem-solvers to apply their inventive minds to the issue at hand.
Child Fund International
Every child needs someone who’s on their side – someone who cares about what happens to them and works to ensure their highest good. ChildFund is a global community of people who care about children and take action to help them live at their fullest potential at every stage of their lives.
Christian Aid
Christian Aid provides urgent, practical and effective assistance where need is great, tackling the effects of poverty as well as its root causes.
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.
Code Brave
CodeBrave is a non-profit organisation working to power Lebanon’s next generation with tech skills. We deliver fun and engaging coding, robotics and AI classes for children and youth from disadvantaged backgrounds. Built by tech and child psychology experts, our programme engages students in learning and equips them with the needed mindset and skills for the 21st century so they can improve their job prospects and achieve real social mobility.
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.
Concordia
Concordia is a nonprofit organization that enables public-private partnerships to create a more prosperous and sustainable future. As equal parts convener, campaigner, and idea incubator, Concordia is creating a new model for how a nonpartisan, nonprofit can have a global impact.
Cotton Connect
We are an enterprise with a clear mission to transform the cotton industry for good. We work with brands and retailers to enable them to develop a more robust and resilient cotton supply chains.
Council for Inclusive Capitalism
The Council for Inclusive Capitalism is a global nonprofit organisation working to harness the private sector to create a more inclusive, sustainable, and trusted economic system that addresses the needs of people and the planet.
Crack the Crises
A coalition of organisations from across the UK working together to crack the crises of Covid, injustice and climate change and advocating for a better future for people and planet.
Crossroads Care
Crossroads Care Richmond and Kingston upon Thames is a non-profit organisation and network partner of Carers Trust, the UK’s leading provider of support for carers and the people they care for.
DataKind
DataKind tackles the world’s toughest challenges with data science and AI to improve the capabilities, reach, and scale of social impact organizations. We partner with mission-driven organizations to unlock their data science potential ethically and responsibly. Our objective is to help social impact organisations use data to observe, reason, and act in the world.
Digital Horizons
Digital Horizons is a youth-driven UK-based non-profit focused on digital inclusion, climate action, and equitable transition to work. Through peer-led leadership programs, digital skills training and grassroots innovation, we empower young people to lead sustainable change in their communities—bridging social, technological and environmental objectives.
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.
Eidos Global
Eidos Global designs transformative learning experiences that help people thrive in a rapidly changing world. Through partnerships with companies, governments, and international organizations, we create programs that blend advanced technology with a human-centered approach.
By fostering digital, socio-emotional, and employability skills, we promote a more conscious and sustainable relationship between people, technology, and the planet—empowering individuals to shape a more inclusive and collaborative future.
By fostering digital, socio-emotional, and employability skills, we promote a more conscious and sustainable relationship between people, technology, and the planet—empowering individuals to shape a more inclusive and collaborative future.
Emerge Livelihoods
Emerge Livelihoods is a non-profit organisation championing a thriving ecosystem contributing towards amplifying the self reliance of individuals and communities across Malawi and beyond. By addressing the underlying causes of poverty in Africa, Emerge Livelihoods enables individuals and communities to become leaders and entrepreneurs, creating sustainable livelihoods, protecting the surrounding environment, and powering a thriving future for themselves and their households
Endeva
Endeva is a B Corp with the mission to create wealth among low-income groups through inclusive business. Endeva catalyses innovative solutions at the base of the pyramid through research, consulting, and facilitation.
Engaruka Community Initiative Organization (ENCO)
Engaruka Community Initiative Organization (“ENCO)” is a charitable, not-for-profit, organization in Tanzania and committed to enhancing the lives and well-being of vulnerable children and women in rural Maasai communities. ENCO focuses on improving health, education, and economic empowerment.
Ethical Trading Initiative
The Ethical Trading Initiative (ETI) is a leading alliance of companies, trade unions and NGOs that promotes respect for workers’ rights around the globe.
Evidensia
Evidensia delivers high quality evidence, information and insights on sustainability impacts. With growing commitment by governments and businesses to tackle sustainability challenges, the need for understanding what works where, why and how is growing.
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.
Fairness Foundation
The Fairness Foundation is a non-commercial limited company based in Frankfurt, Germany. It strives to establish fairness in society, economy, politics and culture.
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.
Farmers’ Voice Radio
Farmers’ Voice Radio (FVR) is transforming the lives of millions of smallholder farmers through the power of radio. We work with partners to produce and broadcast participatory radio programmes on local language radio stations, enabling rural communities to access the knowledge and information they need, when they need it. FVR is an initiative of the Lorna Young Foundation.
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.
Forum For The Fuuture
Forum for the Future is a leading international sustainability organisation running out of offices in the UK, US, India and Singapore. Since we were founded in 1996, we’ve been working in partnership with business, governments and civil society to accelerate the shift towards a just and regenerative future in which both people and the planet thrive.
Forum of Enterprises for Equitable Development
Forum of Enterprises for Equitable Development (FEED) is an Indian non-profit that enhances the incomes and resilience of marginal farmers through market-based interventions across the agricultural value chain. With a focus on sustainable farming, policy advocacy, capacity-building and public-private partnerships, FEED empowers smallholders to adopt climate-resilient practices, access better markets and transition from subsistence to sustainable livelihoods.
Frontier Markets
Frontier Markets is a pioneering social enterprise driving economic empowerment for rural women across India through innovative technology, capacity-building programs, and market access initiatives.
Fundacion Paraguaya
Fundación Paraguaya, a non-governmental organisation founded in 1985, has spearheaded microfinance and entrepreneurship in Paraguay.
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.
Good Things Foundation
Good Things Foundation is the UK’s leading digital-inclusion charity, dedicated to ensuring everyone can access, use and benefit from the internet. Through our nationwide Network of community partners, free learning platform “Learn My Way”, and initiatives offering devices and data, we tackle digital and social exclusion, helping people improve education, employability and wellbeing.
Grameen Foundation
Grameen Foundation seeks to end poverty and hunger by providing resources, tools, and training to strengthen the economic growth of women, their families, and economies.
Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment
The Grantham Research Institute at the London School of Economic carries out world-class research on climate change and the environment.
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.
Habitat Association
Habitat Association (Habitat) is a non-governmental organization that produces social capacity-building and impact-oriented projects based on strong partnerships compatible with the digitalizing world and aimed at sustainable development. Founded in 1997 by young people who came together for the Copenhagen Social Development Summit in 1995 and the United Nations Habitat II Summit in 1996, Habitat’s mission was to establish a communication bridge between the youth of the world and the youth of Turkey.
Habitat for Humanity
Habitat for Humanity is a nonprofit organization that helps people in your community and around the world build or improve a place they can call home.
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.
Haqdarshak Empowerment Solutions Pvt Ltd
Haqdarshak Empowerment Solutions Pvt Ltd is an India-based social enterprise that uses digital technology and a vast network of local agents to connect low-income citizens to government welfare schemes and financial services. We’ve mapped over 5,000 welfare programs in multiple languages and focus on financial inclusion, climate-resilient livelihoods for farmers and support for micro-businesses.
Harvard Kennedy School Corporate Responsibility Initiative
The Corporate Responsibility Initiative is a multi-disciplinary and multi-stakeholder program that seeks to study and enhance the public contributions of private enterprise.
Heading for Change
Heading for Change is a donor-advised fund (DAF) launched with a $1MM endowment by Suzanne Biegel and Daniel Maskit to make catalytic investments and grants that accelerate proven solutions to the climate crisis and advance gender equity.
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.
Heros for Change
Heroes for Change is a for-profit, service-based organisation harnessing the power of purpose-driven youth volunteers who have the resource of time, social capital and trust , who will deliver scaleable impact programmes in their own communities at low cost harnessing the power of technology.
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.
ICRW Advisors
ICRW Advisors is a global gender consultancy that guides clients with evidence-based, actionable insights and solutions to enhance intersectional social impact and drive business value.
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.
iDE UK
International Development Enterprises UK works with farmers and aspiring entrepreneurs living in poor rural areas all over the world. With them, iDE UK creates income and livelihood opportunities that empower them to create a better future.
IHRB
IHRB’s mission is to shape policy, advance practice and strengthen accountability in order to make respect for human rights part of everyday business.
IMPACT EUROPE
Impact Europe is the “investing-for-impact” network that brings together foundations, impact funds, banks and other capital providers to mobilise finance, knowledge and data for people and planet. We enable transformative social and environmental change by accelerating capital deployment, capacity building and market creation across Europe and beyond.
Impact Management Project (IMP)
The IMP is a forum for organisations to build consensus on how to measure, compare and report impacts on environmental and social issues.
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 College of Arts and Sciences
Part of Indiana University, the College of Arts and Sciences supports students who are ready to explore, create, invent, and make a difference.
Indiana University Jacobs School of Music
As one of the most comprehensive and acclaimed institutions for the study of music, the IU Jacobs School of Music plays a key role in educating performers, scholars, and music educators who influence music performance and education around the globe.
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 Humanitarian Research Group
INSEAD Humanitarian Research Group (HRG) encourages the science of development and relief operations through impactful practice-based research. We are passionate about situations where business has a strong positive impact and analysing humanitarian/development operations can be a force for good business. For over 20 years we have been working closely with relief and development organisations like UNICEF, UNHCR, the World Food Program (WFP) etc, applying our academic expertise to help improve disaster relief and development programs and transferring knowledge between the humanitarian and corporate sectors.
Institute of Development Studies
The Institute of Development Studies is a leading global charity for international development research, teaching and communications.
Instituto TJNS
Instituto Todos Juntos Ninguém Sozinho (TJNS) is a Brazilian nonprofit based in Petrópolis, Rio de Janeiro, founded during the COVID-19 pandemic. Since 2020 we’ve focused on environmental education, climate justice, gender equality and human rights, mobilising over 80 000 people and training 50+ community leaders in grassroots action and policy advocacy.
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.
International Institute for Environment and Development
IIED is a policy and action research organisation promoting sustainable development and linking local priorities to global challenges.
International Medical Corps
International Medical Corps is a global first responder that delivers emergency medical and related services to those affected by conflict, disaster and disease, no matter where they are, no matter the conditions. It also trains people in their communities, providing them with the skills they need to recover, chart their own path to self-reliance and become effective first responders themselves.
InteRoots Initiative
The InteRoots Initiative is a U.S.-based initiative that partners with projects both domestically and internationally. The nonprofit organization works with communities – on their own terms – as they develop and implement sustainable solutions for self-identified needs.
ISEAL Alliance
ISEAL is the global membership organisation for ambitious, collaborative and transparent sustainability systems. ISEAL is driving collective efforts to tackle the most pressing sustainability issues and create a world where markets are a force for good.
Jabulani Youths for Transformation (JAY4T)
Jabulani Youths for Transformation (JAY4T) is a Kenyan non-profit organisation based in Kisumu that leverages young people’s talents, skills and knowledge to forge sustainable social enterprises and resilient communities. Our programs focus on youth entrepreneurship, co-creating ventures like agribusiness and digital platforms, while embedding environmental conservation, decent work and inclusive growth into grassroots economic transformation.
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”.
Living Goods
Living Goods aims to save lives at scale by supporting digitally empowered community health workers who go door to door delivering lifesaving care to their neighbors. We work with governments and partners to leverage smart mobile technology, rigorously strengthen performance, and relentlessly innovate to deliver high-quality, impactful health services cost-effectively.
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.
Matungu Community Development Charity (MCDC)
Matungu Community Development Charity (MCDC) is a community-based organisation founded in 2011 and based in Matungu sub-county, Kakamega County, western Kenya. We promote active community participation to improve environment, livelihoods, health, education and water & sanitation; we work closely with smallholder farmers, youth and women. Our vision emphasises environmental stewardship and community wellbeing.
MEDA
MEDA – Mennonite Economic Development Associates – is an international economic development organization that creates business solutions to poverty. For over 70 years, MEDA has been creating business solutions to poverty that are sustainable, scalable, measurable and replicable. MEDA began as an association of Mennonite business people who believed they were called to be faithful in generously sharing their abilities and resources. Continuing in that Christian tradition, MEDA welcomes all who share our values and want to join us in our mission.
Mercy Corps
Mercy Corps is an international development organization that helps people around the world survive and thrive after conflict, crisis and natural disaster.
Micro Loan Foundation
MicroLoan Foundation is a UK-based microfinance charity that empowers rural women in sub-Saharan Africa with small business loans, training and mentoring to build sustainable livelihoods. Our work contributes directly to UN SDGs including No Poverty, Zero Hunger, Gender Equality and Climate Action.
Moving Worlds
MovingWorlds operates a global platform that convenes partners from all sectors to build a more equitable, just, and sustainable economy. We believe that social entrepreneurs are the on-the-ground heroes demonstrating that we can build a more just, equitable, and sustainable global economy. For more than a decade, we’ve been exploring how to best support them to grow revenues, create world-positive jobs, and scale-up impact.
National Youth Agency
National Youth Agency (NYA) is the UK’s professional body for youth work, committed to building a sustainable youth-work sector that supports young people to thrive. Our five-year strategy (2024–2029) emphasises capacity-building, workforce development and sector innovation. We also published a Carbon Reduction Plan reflecting a commitment to long-term environmental sustainability.
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.
NewGlobe
NewGlobe supports visionary governments to transform public education systems, the cornerstone of a prosperous, equitable, and peaceful society.
Next Billion
NextBillion.net is a website and blog bringing together the community of business leaders, social entrepreneurs, NGOs, policy makers and academics who want to explore the connection between development and enterprise.
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.
Office of Health Economics (OHE)
With over 60 years of expertise, the Office of Health Economics (OHE) is the world’s oldest independent health economics research organisation. Every day we work to improve health care through pioneering and innovative research, analysis, and education. As a global thought leader and publisher in the economics of health, health care, and life sciences, we work in partnership with Universities, Government, health systems and the pharmaceutical industry to research and respond to global health challenges.
Omnis Finclusion Foundation
Omnis Finclusion Foundation is a U.S.-registered nonprofit founded in 2022 with a mission to build digital infrastructure that removes systemic barriers to financial inclusion especially for people excluded from traditional financial markets due to lack of identity, credit history or access. Through its digital platform and partnerships, it aims to empower underserved individuals with the tools and services that support sustainable livelihoods and equitable growth.
ONE MORE SALARY
One More Salary is a Swedish–Tanzanian non-profit committed to ending poverty through sustainable income generation. Working with smallholder farmers, women and youth, the organisation accelerates regenerative agroforestry, strengthens climate-resilient livelihoods and fosters social entrepreneurship. By combining ecosystem restoration with income opportunities, One More Salary supports long-term community wellbeing and equitable, sustainable development.
One Young World OYW
One Young World (OYW) is a global forum that gathers young leaders from more than 190 countries to connect, develop leadership skills and collaborate on sustainable solutions to world challenges. Through its annual summit, mentoring network and regional hubs, OYW promotes youth-led innovation across education, climate justice, inclusive economies and peacebuilding amplifying young voices to drive system-change and deliver the SDGs.
Overseas Development Institute
The Overseas Development Institute (ODI) is the UK’s leading independent think tank on international development and humanitarian issues.
Oxfam America
Oxfam is a global movement of people who are fighting inequality to end poverty and injustice. Across regions, from the local to the global, we work with people to bring change that lasts. Our work is grounded in the commitment to the universality of human rights. Driven by diversity and founding our asks in evidence and experience, we take sides against poverty and injustice everywhere.
Oxfam GB
Oxfam is a globally renowned aid and development charity with 70 years of experience, working and campaigning with partners in 94 countries worldwide.
Pact
Pact is an international nonprofit that builds solutions for human development that are evidence-based and owned by the communities we serve. Founded in 1971, our cornerstone is working in true partnership with communities, ensuring they are active participants at every step. We leverage our considerable expertise in sustainable markets promoting economic growth and climate resilience, global health, governance, and more – to accelerate progress toward ending poverty and marginalization.
Partner Africa
Partner Africa is a registered NGO with a mission to improve the working conditions and livelihoods of vulnerable workers and producers in Africa, addressing all forms of exploitation. In addition to our London office, we are based throughout Africa, with offices in Nairobi and Cape Town.
Path
PATH is a global nonprofit dedicated to achieving health equity. With more than 40 years of experience forging multisector partnerships, and with expertise in science, economics, technology, advocacy, and dozens of other specialties, PATH develops and scales up innovative solutions to the world’s most pressing health challenges.
Plan International UK
Plan International UK is a children’s charity. We strive to advance children’s rights and equality for girls all over the world.
Pollinate Group
Pollinate Group is a women-led social enterprise operating in India and Nepal that empowers local female entrepreneurs to distribute low-cost, sustainable products such as solar lights, water filters and energy-efficient fans in slums and rural communities. By combining clean energy access, gender-equitable livelihoods and circular distribution models, we help break cycles of poverty and reduce emissions in marginalised settings.
Population Services International (PSI)
Population Services International (PSI) is a global health organisation working in 40+ low- and middle-income countries to make it easier for people to lead healthier lives and plan the families they want. Through community-based services, digital health solutions and strengthened health systems, PSI tackles structural barriers, advances gender equity and builds climate-resilient, sustainable models of care for vulnerable populations.
Power to Girls Foundation
Power to Girls Foundation is a Canada-based non-profit empowering Black and marginalised girls in the Greater Toronto Area and Ghana. Through mentorship, mental-health support, leadership development and entrepreneurial skills, our foundation nurtures confidence, identity and positive futures. By combining personal growth with community engagement, we support sustainable inclusion, equity and long-term wellbeing for young women of colour.
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.
Rights CoLab
Rights CoLab is an innovative non-profit platform founded in 2018 that drives systemic change in human rights by convening civil society, technology, business and finance actors. We develop new frameworks such as human-rights and environmental due-diligence, human-capital disclosure, and “citizen-shareholders” to embed human dignity and sustainability into corporate systems and global markets.
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
Saïd Business School
Saïd Business School is a vibrant and innovative school, embedded within the University of Oxford, offering accredited degrees and diplomas for undergraduates and postgraduates and a broad portfolio of on-campus and online courses for business executives. The School educates global business leaders, change makers and innovators across every industry and sector. Its ground-breaking research and exceptional teaching transforms individuals, who transform businesses, which transforms the world and creates ïmpact from within.
Save the Children
Save the Chidren’s vision is a world in which every child attains the right to survival, protection, development and participation.
It aims to inspire breakthroughs in the way the world treats children, and to achieve immediate and lasting change in their lives.
It aims to inspire breakthroughs in the way the world treats children, and to achieve immediate and lasting change in their lives.
School of International Futures (SOIF)
School of International Futures (SOIF) is a global non-profit transforming futures for current and next generations. Our work delivers insight, capability and change through the following approaches:
Values We are a values-led organisation. We have always worked with people who are using foresight to create positive change and social justice. We translate insights into practice to ensure that the end of any foresight journey is rooted in impact today. We work with people who are committed to action – from early adopters or those at the highest levels of government, private and NGO sectors. We identify emerging practice and new insights and share these with our networks of practitioners to promote change.
Values We are a values-led organisation. We have always worked with people who are using foresight to create positive change and social justice. We translate insights into practice to ensure that the end of any foresight journey is rooted in impact today. We work with people who are committed to action – from early adopters or those at the highest levels of government, private and NGO sectors. We identify emerging practice and new insights and share these with our networks of practitioners to promote change.
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.
Sightsavers
Sightsavers is an international non-governmental organisation that works with partners in developing countries to treat and prevent avoidable blindness, and promote equality for people with visual impairments and other disabilities.
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.
Somo Africa
Somo Africa is an East-Africa-based non-profit accelerator that supports diverse entrepreneurs in marginalized urban and rural communities across Kenya and Tanzania. By providing training, funding and market access, Somo empowers small businesses in agriculture, clean energy, textile up-cycling and services creating sustainable livelihoods, jobs and innovation at the grassroots.
Southern Voice
Southern Voice is a network of more than 70 think-tanks from Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean that since 2012 has united local research voices to change global development policy. By generating evidence-based insights grounded in Global South realities, the network addresses knowledge asymmetry, advances the SDGs, and promotes climate and equity-centred policy frameworks.
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.
Street Child
Street Child works to ensure every child is safe, in school and learning. Founded in Sierra Leone in 2008, the charity now operates in more than 20 of the world’s lowest-income and most disaster-affected countries, including Sierra Leone, Ukraine and Uganda. Street Child provides emergency aid and mental health support, builds schools, trains teachers, reunites families, develops livelihoods and helps out-of-school children into education.
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.
Swisscontact
Swisscontact is an independent non-profit development organisation established in 1959 by representatives of the Swiss private sector and civil society. Their development work focuses on unleashing the potential of private initiatives in developing and emerging countries, fostering sustainable and inclusive economic development with the objective of improving the quality of life for all.
Tanzania Development Trust
Tanzania Development Trust is a registered charity that has been supporting communities in rural Tanzania with access to water, education and income generating projects since 1974.
Taskforce on Inequality-related Financial Disclosures TIFD
TISFD is a global, multi-stakeholder initiative launched in 2024 to build a coherent disclosure framework for how businesses and financial institutions report on inequality and social-related risks, opportunities and impacts. While mirroring the structure of climate and nature disclosure standards, we place people and equitable economies at the core of transparent, resilient finance and promotes fairer, accountable corporate systems.
Tearfund USA
Tearfund USA is a non-profit focused on disrupting systems of injustice and oppression. Through our Innovation Lab, we amplify the voice and work of those who live and operate on the margins, equipping them to spark, fuel and scale innovative solutions to poverty and injustice.
TechnoServe
TechnoServe works with enterprising people in the developing world to build competitive farms, businesses and industries.
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.
TEST
Traditional Ecosystems Survival Tanzania (TEST) is dedicated to fostering harmony between people, land, and wildlife through collaborative efforts with indigenous communities, conservation agencies, and governments.
The African Fertilizer and Agribusiness Partnership (AFAP)
AFAP partners with global and local agricultural value chain actors and regulators to scale distribution and appropriate use of fertilizer and other agricultural inputs. We aim to increase food security and farmer incomes by providing enhanced access to liquidity, quality inputs, and capacity building to organised networks of agricultural wholesalers (Hub Agro-dealers) that serve last mile (rural/smallholder farmer).
The Better Way Alliance
The Better Way Alliance (Canada) is a national network of businesses committed to creating high-quality jobs and vibrant local economies. Founded in 2017, the Alliance advocates for fair wages, paid sick days, strong scheduling practices and commercial rent reform, while helping member-employers demonstrate that ethical work practices drive business resilience and community well-being.
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 Cherie Blair Foundation for Women
The Cherie Blair Foundation for Women is a charity that supports women entrepreneurs in developing and emerging markets so that they can in turn invest in their families and communities.
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 Fair Labor Association
The Fair Labor Association promotes human rights at work. We are an international network of companies, universities, and civil society organizations collaborating to ensure that millions of people working at the world’s factories and farms are paid fairly and protected from risks to their health, safety, and well-being.
The Fletcher School, Tufts University
The Institute for Business in the Global Context (IBGC) at the Fletcher School focuses on the interplay between global business and the key forces that shape the context in which enterprises operate.
The Global Development Institute
The Global Development Institute (GDI) is Europe’s largest global poverty and inequality institute. GDI is based at The University of Manchester.
The Impact Facility
The Impact Facility (TIF), a social enterprise founded in 2018 with a growing footprint in East and Central Africa, seeks to bring economic and environmental empowerment to artisanal and small-scale mining communities. TIF brings together impact investors, donors, and corporate partners to drive the professionalisation of small-scale mines through an SME incubator model.
The Institute for Development Impact (I4DI)
The Institute for Development Impact (I4DI) is a think + do tank working at the intersection of social and environmental impact. I4DI blends the strategic analysis and evidence generation of a think tank with the hands-on implementation and problem-solving of a delivery partner. This means I4DI doesn’t just study complex challenges; it works alongside partners to design, test, and scale practical solutions grounded in rigorous evidence and tailored to the communities we serve.
The League of Intrapreneurs
The League of Intrapreneurs is a global learning community of intrapreneurs and catalysts working to unlock the human innovation potential inside our most influential institutions
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 Partnering Initiative
The Partnering Initiative is dedicated to driving widespread, systematic and effective collaboration between civil society, government and companies towards a sustainable future.
The Partnership Collective
The Partnership Collective is a start consultancy supporting businesses to co-create solutions for inclusive growth with workers, farmers and value chain communities. We harness the expertise of a global network of experts, particularly women from the Global South, we drive local ownership and foster innovative, female-led solutions for inclusive growth.
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 Predistribution Initiative
The Predistribution Initiative (PDI) is a nonpartisan nonprofit that works with investors and their stakeholders across geographies to improve financial analysis and investment decision-making processes in ways that more adequately value and center workers, communities, and nature.
The Social Impact Collective (TSI)
At the Social Impact (TSI) Collective, we help corporate professionals make a difference to causes they care about. We are a ‘marketplace’ where passionate professionals meet & work with impactful non-profit founders on pro-bono projects. The project design is bespoke – based on the needs of the organization, availability and skills of the professional. So far, we have run 20+ projects and built a like-minded community of 500+ supporters.
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.
The Youth Cafe Kenya
The Youth Cafe is a Kenya-based pan-African youth-led organisation that empowers young people across the continent to drive sustainable development, social equity and innovation. Founded in 2012, we bring together thousands of youths, experts and partner organisations to advance multi-sector solutions in areas such as climate action, entrepreneurship, governance and digital skills.
THET
THET has been supporting health workers around the world since 1989, improving patient care through targeted training programmes. It works with a diverse range of partners to build a world where everybody has access to affordable and quality healthcare.
Thomson Reuters Foundation
Thomson Reuters Foundation is the philanthropic arm of Thomson Reuters, the world’s biggest news and information provider. It promotes socio-economic progress and the rule of law worldwide. Its programmes inform, connect and ultimately empower people around the world.
Thrive Lights
Thrive Lights activates the agency and creativity of individuals and families to address their own challenges.
Thriving Child
Thriving Child is a trusted CBO in Kilifi Kenya, working within the children’s rights spaces particularly at the intersection of Education, Human rights & Livelihoods, to normalize existence of a Thrived Child within communities. We are commited on tackling SDG 1, while intersecting it with SDG 4,5 and 13. Through a community-based approach, we strive to sustainably improve the livelihoods of communities, promote human rights, give them a voice and help them adapt & mitigate to climate change.
Tides
Tides is a nonprofit and philanthropic organisation dedicated to advancing social justice. Together with our partners, we shift resources and power to communities that have historically been denied both to unlock transformative change.
Transformational Business Network
Transformational Business Network (TBN) is a global movement which catalyses purpose-driven entrepreneurs, builds impactful businesses and unlock investments in emerging and frontier markets.
TREES
We train farmers in agroforestry and sustainable land use – so that they can grow vibrant regional economies, thriving food systems, and a healthier planet.
Triple Pundit
Triple Pundit is a new-media company for highly conscious business leaders. Triple Pundit has grown to become one of the world’s most well read websites on ethical, sustainable & profitable business.
UNDP
The United Nations Development Programme is a United Nations agency tasked with helping countries eliminate poverty and achieve sustainable economic growth and human development. The UNDP emphasises developing local capacity towards long-term self-sufficiency and prosperity.
UNHCR
UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, is a global organisation dedicated to saving lives, protecting rights and building a better future for refugees, forcibly displaced communities and stateless people.
UNICEF UK
Unicef ensures more of the world’s children are fed, vaccinated, educated and protected than any other organisation. We won’t stop until every child is safe.
United for Global Mental Health
United for Global Mental Health is dedicated to creating a world that enables good mental health for all. We draw on our expertise in policy, advocacy, and financing to work with organisations who share our commitment to driving mental health up the political agenda – and securing additional funding for mental health at national and global level.
United Nations Foundation
The UN Foundation acts as a strategic partner to help the UN mobilize the ideas, people, and resources it needs to deliver, and grow a diverse and durable constituency for collective action.
United Nations Industrial Development Organization
UNIDO is the specialized agency of the United Nations that promotes industrial development for poverty reduction, inclusive globalization and environmental sustainability
United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs
United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) coordinates international humanitarian response to crises, mobilising aid, advocacy and partnerships to protect lives and dignity. Founded in 1991, OCHA strengthens early-warning, resilience and sustainable solutions across complex emergencies, promoting integration of environmental, social and governance considerations into humanitarian action.
United States Council for International Business (USICB)
The United States Council for International Business advances the global interests of American business. We do so through advocacy that calls for an open system of world trade, finance and investment, where business can flourish and contribute to economic growth, human welfare and environmental protection.
Universal Access Project
The Universal Access Project at UN Foundation convenes an innovative community of philanthropists, advocates and companies striving for a world where all people have full bodily autonomy and the right to self-determination in family planning, pregnancy, parenting and sexual health and well-being.
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.
University of Galway
University of Galway is a leading Irish research institution recognised for its commitment to sustainability, social impact and community partnership. Through its Climate Action Roadmap, sustainability-focused research centres and living-lab campus initiatives, the university advances solutions in renewable energy, oceans, biodiversity, health equity and responsible innovation. Our work strengthens resilience and contributes to Ireland’s and Europe’s sustainable development goals.
University of Zambia
The University of Zambia is a public university located in Lusaka, Zambia. It is Zambia’s largest and oldest learning institution. The university was established in 1965 and officially opened to the public on 12 July 1966.
Unlocking Communities
Unlocking Communities is a U.S. nonprofit founded in 2018 that empowers entrepreneurs in underserved regions starting in Haiti and expanding to Ukraine, Indonesia and Nigeria. We combine clean-technology distribution (water filters, energy-efficient stoves) with business training and community-owned carbon–credit models to unlock sustainable livelihoods, local ownership and resilient ecosystems in marginalized communities.
Upaya Social Ventures
Upaya Social Ventures is a nonprofit organization building an inclusive economy and eradicating poverty through creation of dignified jobs for people living in extreme poverty. We provide investment and support to early-stage, impact-focused companies working on innovative models and generating employment. Since its founding in 2011, Upaya’s portfolio companies have created over 50,000 dignified jobs.
VSO
Voluntary Service Overseas is an international development organisation that brings people together to share skills and knowledge.
Wage Indicator Foundation
WageIndicator Foundation is a global, independent non-profit organisation that collects, compares and publishes data on minimum wages, living wages, labour laws and working conditions in more than 200 countries. Through open-access tools and transparent labour-market data, WageIndicator promotes decent work, fair pay and inclusive economic growth, supporting workers, employers and policymakers with reliable and accessible information.
Water & Sanitation for the Urban Poor
WSUP is a multi-sector partnership developing commercially viable models to help cities reach everyone with improved water and sanitation services.
Water Unite
Water Unite is a global non-profit addressing water challenges by focusing on clean water access, sanitation improvement, and reducing plastic pollution. Through an innovative financing model, we enable companies to make micro-contributions—approximately 1 cent per litre of bottled drinks or other products sold.
WDI William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan
William Davidson Institute (WDI), University of Michigan is an independent nonprofit research and education body that empowers entrepreneurs, enterprises and ecosystems in emerging markets through business-led solutions. Focusing on sectors such as clean energy, e-mobility, climate-health and sustainable futures, WDI combines rigorous research, capacity-building and system change to advance inclusive growth and resilience in low- and middle-income economies.
We Make Change
We Make Change gives individuals the power to change the world. Their platform enables anyone, anywhere to use their skills to support the causes they care about. Connecting individuals, NGOs and companies to collaborate to develop projects that make change happen.
WeConnect International
A member-led, global non-profit, WEConnect International works with an alliance of over 112 multinational buyers that have committed to sourcing more products and services from women-owned businesses based in over 125 countries.
WOCAN
WOCAN, established in 2004, is a women-led international membership network of women and men professionals and women’s association. WOCAN is a pioneer in gender equality and climate change discourses and interventions, an innovative thought leader and has provided technical assistance to hundreds of organizations globally. WOCAN has also developed the W+ Standard, the first women’s empowerment measurement standard in the world.
Women Prosper
Women prosper is a non profit organisation that empowers women by creating a more equitable and just society, promoting equal rights of women and opportunities for women to fulfil their full potential.
Women Win
Women Win empowers adolescent girls and young women across 60+ countries to lead and catalyse transformative change for gender justice, sexual and reproductive health, and climate resilience. Through movement-building, funding locally-led organisations and strengthening girl-led innovation, Women Win amplifies voices at the intersection of youth, equity and sustainability ensuring that young women shape solutions for thriving communities and a flourishing planet.
Women Without Borders Kenya
Women Without Borders – Kenya a rural women’s Organization in Kenya. Our main purpose is to improve the livelihood of rural women and girls towards sustainable Development. We are found in Western Kenya Bungoma county. Reaching the unreachables.
Women’s Refugee Commission
Women’s Refugee Commission (WRC) is a global NGO committed to improving the lives and protecting the rights of women, children and youth displaced by conflict and crisis. Through research, advocacy and humanitarian innovation, WRC advances gender equality, economic empowerment and resilience based approaches in refugee settings helping shift the humanitarian system from dependency to sustainable, dignified self-reliance.
Women’s World Banking
Women’s World Banking is a non-profit organization that designs women-centered financial solutions, invests in financial institutions, and helps to shape policy environments in emerging markets to create greater economic stability and prosperity for low-income women. To date, we have reached more than 82 million women through our programs, helping to change not only their lives but the lives of their families, communities, and businesses.
World Business Council for Sustainable Development
WBCSD is a CEO-led organization of forward-thinking companies that galvanizes the global business community to create a sustainable future for business, society and the environment.
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.
Youth Without Boarders Association
Youth without Borders Association is an independent non-profit organisation founded in 2011 by a group of Youth and for Youth, which aim to develop associative culture, the spirit of peace, volunteering, participation and Citizenship among young people.
Youthink Green YTG
Youthink Green (YTG) is an Egypt-based development consulting house established in 2013 that champions youth-led sustainable development across the MENA region. Through education, entrepreneurship support and sustainability consulting, YTG empowers young innovators to build clean-tech, circular-economy and climate-resilient businesses. Working with public and private sectors, they promote eco-awareness and green transition as a way of life.
Yunus Social Business
Yunus Social Business applies business approaches to the world of social development. They use an innovative ‘Incubate and Finance’ methodology which bridges the gap between social businesses and philanthropic lenders and donors.
ZNotes Education
ZNotes Education is a student-led ed-tech platform providing free, high-quality revision notes, videos and peer-study tools to millions of learners worldwide. With a mission to end educational inequality, it enables access across 190+ countries, empowering students to become both creators and users of learning resources. ZNotes combines innovation with inclusivity to support sustainable achievement and lifelong learning for diverse communities.
