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World of Good (Emeryville, California) is an organization, consisting of several sub-groups, that uses commerce to alleviate poverty in marginalized artisan communities around the world. Two friends who graduated from UC-Berkeley’s Business School, Priya Haji and Siddharth Sanghvi, founded World of Good to connect artisans, consumers and wholesalers in a way that impacts all positively.
Consumers can [...]

Bob Compton, executive producer, of the documentary film Two Million Minutes examines and compares the high school educational systems in India, China and the USA. The two million minutes represents the time between finishing 8th grade and graduating from high school.
“American culture – the blend of media, government, family expectations, community values, and behavioral norms – send [...]

Echoing Green (New York), founded in 1987, is a nonprofit organization that applies entrepreneurial principles to social sector investing.
Echoing Green has invested $27 million in seed grants to over 450 social entrepreneurs, who have sparked social change in 40 countries on 5 continents. Visionaries (fellowship candidates) are identified, funded with grants, provided with technical assistance, and [...]

AFS Intercultural Programs (AFS) is a global nonprofit leader in intercultural education, with programs offering international exchange programs with independent nonprofit AFS partner organizations in over 50 countries worldwide.
More than 11,000 students, young adults and teachers participate in AFS activities each year. More than 2,800 international high school students and teachers were hosted in the [...]

What does Cuba, Chile, Costa Rica, Kuwait, Qatar and Slovenia have in common with the USA? … the same life expectancy.
With all the advances in American medical technology, 29 countries rank ahead of the USA in average life expectancy according to 2006 data by the World Health Organization (WHO). Japan tops the list with an [...]

The International Trachoma Initiative (ITI) is a New York-based nonprofit that currently works in 15 priority countries in Africa and Asia to eliminate blinding trachoma, which is the world’s leading cause of preventable blindness. Nearly 10 million people worldwide are visually impaired or blind because of trachoma and over 63 million people have the active [...]

SEED is a non-profit education based program that empowers Schlumberger employee-volunteers and educators (teachers, parents and mentors) to share their passion for learning and science with students, aged 10-18, in underserved communities around the world.
The mission is to inspire, influence and enable educators in underserved communities to engage in youth in science and technology by building [...]

The Cafe Femenino Foundation (CFF), based in Vancouver, Washington, is a nonprofit with a mission to improve the lives of women and children in coffee producing communities around the world.
The story of CFF began in 2004 in Northern Peru with the first gathering of Women Coffee Producers came up with the idea to improve their [...]