Our Partners

Camelback Ventures

Echoing Green

Brands on a Mission

International Council on Mining and Metals

SHIFT

Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership

wbcsd

Stanford University’s VMware Women’s Leadership Innovation Lab

AB In Bev

Visa Inc

AB Sugar

CARE USA

HM Government

Coltraco Ultrasonics

PRME, an initiative of the United Nations Global Compact.

Arizona State University

Be Inspired Films

Shell

The BMW Foundation

The Lab Project at the International Labour Organization

PWC

UK Aid

WOW Work and Opportunities for Women

CDC Group

Sustainable Food Labs

Oxfam

Mars Inc

DFID

De Beers Group

Ashridge Hult Centre for Business and Sustainability

Corporate Responsibility Initiative, Harvard Kennedy School

CARE

SABMiller

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.

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.

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).

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

Care International

CARE works around the globe to save lives, defeat poverty and achieve social justice.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.​

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Fundacion Paraguaya

Fundación Paraguaya, a non-governmental organisation founded in 1985, has spearheaded microfinance and entrepreneurship in Paraguay.

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.

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.

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.

Gordon Institute of Business Science, University of Pretoria

The purpose of the Gordon Institute of Business Science is to significantly improve individual and organisational performance through business education.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.