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To profoundly change the future trajectory of young people from systemic and inter-generational poverty. TSIBA is a unique social enterprise which shows what's possible when business education invests in people. The TSIBA social enterprise includes a Business School, Ignition Academy and Education Trust working together to return highly sought after people and successful small business enterprises. Our Work: - TSIBA shows what's possible when a Business School and Development Academy invest intensively in education for the future world of work TSIBA transforms people into effective leaders by enabling them to connect with their purpose TSIBA places attitude at the heart of learning and surrounds this with layers of knowledge and skills TSIBA produces business graduates with proven skills to lead change in a world where change is the norm TSIBA enables emerging business enterprises to realise their potential TSIBA co-creates an extended and inclusive learning community We seek ambitious, purpose driven people and emerging businesses who want to take South Africa forward. We are passionate about the transformative impact of education as a catalyst to unlock the best of what humans can be. VISION To challenge the status quo of business education through a values-based approach to teaching and learning in a changing world. TSIBA Business School (registered with the DHET as TSIBA Education NPC) is an accredited not-for-profit higher education institution offering undergraduate and postgraduate business qualifications. The Business School aims to provide its students with a world-class and rewarding business education. This is supported by generous tuition scholarships which enable students to contribute towards their tuition at relative levels of affordability. TSIBA Business School's undergraduate students pay only what they can afford, removing any financial barriers to tertiary education. Return on investment since inception 2004 through our Business School includes over 7500 annual tuition fee scholarships awarded, over 4000 students directly impacted, a post-graduate employment rate of over 90%, eight Mandela Rhodes Scholars and three Kofi Annan Fellows. TSIBA Business School is a registered Public Benefit Organisation and a Level 1 B-BBEE Provider. Our student population exceeds the Black People threshold as defined by the Broad-Based Black Economic Empowerment Codes of Good Practice. All TSIBA accredited qualifications have Financial Sector Conduct Authority (FSCA) recognition. TSIBA is a member of the United Nations (UN) Principles for Responsible Management Education (PRME)

The Gili Eco Trust's mission is to create a sustainable island. To promote eco-tourism amongst businesses, stakeholders and visitors to ensure tourism doesn't create a detrimental effect to the natural environment. We aim to provide a healthy environment for traditional working animals through education of the horse cart drivers, free health and welfare clinics and employing more ethical standards. Along with this we run 2-3 free cat clinics per year with an ongoing TNR (Trap-Neuter-Release) strategy to ensure a high standard of welfare for island cats. Also working in the marine environment to restore damaged and degraded coral reefs and to replenish natural fish populations whilst creating a safe environment for tourists and divers to interact with the natural environment without destructive consequences. Working in collaboration with the marine authorities to report illegal ocean disturbances, funding their patrols and educating the local community regarding fishing and anchoring regulations. To ensure that all waste created on Gili T is reduced to minimum levels through education, awareness, consultation, collection, recycling, and transportation. We strive to teach and ensure that waste is managed and separated properly for recycling projects where materials can be transported off the island. To ensure the livelihoods of the local community is enhanced.

The Giving Hands Mission (TGHM), Registered Charity Number 1160134, operates in Brierley Hill Dudley, West Midlands. For the past ten (10) years, we have been helping the homeless and rough sleepers, the poor and needy, those with severe debt problems, those leaving hostels and rehab centres, those with health problems, the socially isolated, those fleeing domestic violence, those suffering from severe depression, the underprivileged and disadvantaged, and all those within our reach whose lives are a struggle due to the hardship that they face daily. As part of our core values, we are committed to improving the quality of life of people irrespective of religion, race, gender, age and sexual orientation. For 10 years now, we have remained committed to addressing severe need and deprivation faced by individuals and families in our local community. The rising cost of living, the rise in the prices of food and household items, rising energy bills and new unemployment has brought about a huge increase in severe hardship in the daily lives of people. Dudley remains one of the most deprived boroughs in England (Indices of Deprivation, 2015). Report shows that within the borough 31,646 people, representing about 10% of the population live in the 10% most deprived neighbourhoods in England.

Mission Statement: We are a community of knowledge and applied expertise dedicated to solving problems in collaboration with organizations, generating value and sustainable development. The purpose of Universidad EAFIT is to inspire lives, create knowledge, and transform society. Purpose: The Universidad EAFIT commits to the objectives of higher education and declares the following institutional objectives: a) To educate integral individuals capable of leading and developing innovative solutions to the challenges of Colombia and the world in professional and research fields, maintaining permanent connections with organizations and society. b) To promote the generation, transfer, and appropriation of knowledge through the convergence of specialized knowledge with environmental needs and to encourage its use to transform the world and address its challenges. c) To provide a service of educational excellence with conditions, spaces, and innovative, well-being, and high-quality learning components that foster integral and life-transforming experiences. d) To contribute to the scientific, cultural, economic, and political development of the region and the country based on institutional values of integrity, boldness, excellence, inclusion, and pluralism. e) To create and strengthen alliances with educational institutions, training organizations, and other entities that contribute to generating value and sustainable development. f) To contribute with leadership and innovation to present and future challenges in the educational sector and the development of different educational levels, fostering a learning and discovery community throughout life. g) To expand learning, science, technology, and innovation capabilities-both independently and through alliances-to diverse regions of the country, enabling them to effectively address their challenges while promoting constructive dialogue as a fundamental pillar of development and well-being. h) Promote the development, consolidation, and integration of academic communities of excellence with a global vision, at both national and international levels, in an innovative, collaborative, agile, and transformative environment. i) Lead projects, discussions, connections, and learning experiences both on and off campus that raise social and environmental awareness and drive actions and decisions with positive impacts on nature, contributing to the planet's sustainability. j) Strengthen a humanistic and scientific project that preserves and promotes the country's cultural heritage while supporting new talents to enrich perspectives, viewpoints, and the diversity of ideas and thoughts.

Programs at GiGi’s Playhouse offer foundational learning opportunities for individuals with Down syndrome, their families and the community. GiGi’s Playhouse programs  are a place for parents/caregivers to share ideas and network with one another. We invite caregivers to communicate their needs, questions and concerns with one another, and promote connections to be made in support of each other. GiGi’s programs embrace the family and help aid the development of a healthy, successful relationship between parents, individuals with Down syndrome and siblings. GiGi’s Playhouse programs support families in developing high expectations for their son or daughter with Down syndrome. Many families are blindsided by a diagnosis of Down syndrome in pregnancy or at birth. GiGi’s programs aim to help parents overcome the diagnosis and maintain high expectations for their child to achieve success in social, educational and employment opportunities in the future.  Our staff and volunteers support parents in maintaining high expectations, even through challenging periods of time. By encouraging their child to follow routines and participate fully, parents take a big step in recognizing their child’s potential.

Tana River Life Foundation (TRLF) is a charitable organization based in Idsowe Village in the Tana Delta in Kenya. It was founded as a private trust in 2005 by Gabriel Teo Kian Chong, a Malaysian citizen resident in Kenya. TRLF was registered as a Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) with the Kenya NGOs Coordination Board in 2007. Tana River Life Foundation's mission is to assist individuals and thereby entire rural communities, especially the marginalized and economically disadvantaged, become self-reliant in dignity. Tana River Life Foundation's vision is to build a more just and honest society, leading to more complete humanity for all. Through education support schemes, sustainable agricultural projects, community-based entrepreneurship schemes, and youth integral formation programmes, TRLF seeks to nurture the inherent talents and potentials of people such that they have the freedom and ability to build lives of dignity for themselves, their dependents, and their larger communities. By connecting people from economically developed and developing societies, TRLF also seeks to give more meaning and depth to each life that it encounters.

Our mission is to be the guiding light that develops, connects, concentrates and propagates STEM Education exponentially in Latin America. STEM is a global trend that promotes the teaching of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics as pillars for sustainable development and social well-being, developing scientific and mathematical thinking with a focus on innovation. STEM recognizes that creativity and the development of socio-emotional skills are key to promoting an involved and globally responsible citizenship, that is why it encourages interaction with other disciplines such as the arts, business, philosophy or humanities: STEAM / STEAM + H / STEM + E, among others. STEM proposes learning based on problem solving and develops future skills with a social and inclusive vision. Movimiento STEM+ is the civil association that inspires and engages key actors to promote high-impact STEM Education initiatives in order to close gaps and solve the great challenges of humanity. It is the highest representative body of the Ecosistema STEM+ and an initiative endorsed by Global STEM Alliance and STEM Learning Ecosystems. We have impacted more than 9 million people in the region.

As a museum, MACPR upholds the highest standards of Collections Stewardship, Education and Interpretation, and Service to Underserved Communities. Exhibitions The Museum's exhibitions and publications program (primarily researched and designed in-house) hosts distinguished artists and important collective and anthological projects. Education MAC serves audiences of all ages through: the Museum/ School (pre -K through 12); Young Leaders: Artists in Action for the Community (young people 13 -16 years old); Independent Studies Program (for university/college students and professional artists); and Workshops for Seniors. The MAC also provides tailored services for people with autism and learning disability. MAC in the Barrio: From Santurce to Puerto Rico This extra mural program has residence in 23 low-income communities in San Juan, Guaynabo, Catano and Loiza, combining work by the Museum, artists, educators, urban community planners and residents aimed at empowering the communities and their causes, through art com missions that facilitate connections with community organizations, private business, and government development authorities.

The Initiatives Solidaries association began to take shape around 1992 at the initiative of a group of people who were aware of the situation of exclusion of disadvantaged young people and people in a situation of deprivation of liberty in the city of Valencia. These people, involved in different socio-educational projects of the Domus Pacis Association, created Iniciatives Solidaries in July 1993, a non-profit, independent association, with its own legal personality and full capacity to act, administer, dispose of its assets and give a comprehensive response to the problems of the aforementioned group. Based on a common philosophical and methodological affinity, we began with an objective, to prevent situations of social exclusion with minors, young people, prisoners and former prisoners while raising awareness in society about this problem and involving it in change through awareness and volunteering. Since the beginning of its journey, there have been many people who have passed through the entity, many difficulties and needs that have been overcome and many hopes for which it continues to work in favor of prevention, integration of the most disadvantaged and in favor of solidarity. Throughout this time, projects have been consolidated, intervention pathways developed and adapted, networks and collaboration forums expanded; Work has been done for the solidarity of citizens with the most disadvantaged and new channels of social participation have been opened. We managed to be declared a Public Utility Entity in 2009 (NAL 125077). Step by step, programs, work formulas, specialized care, centers, agreements and collaborations have been strengthened. At Initiatives Solidaries we are a non-profit association regulated by LO 1/2002 of March 22, accredited as a Second Chance School of Valencia that has carried out our work since 1993 with the aim of contributing to the social well-being of the community by preventing situations of social exclusion in especially disadvantaged sectors: adolescents, young people at risk of social exclusion and people who are or have been deprived of liberty. To achieve this, we intervene from comprehensive training, developing individualized educational, training and socio-labor insertion itineraries taking into account their needs and difficulties, and which affect the lines of protection of minors, basic education, vocational training, personal and interpersonal competence, information, participation. community, advice and socio-labor guidance through the Second Chance Schools model, pioneering and legitimized, closely linked to the business sector, recognized and supported by public institutions. The scope and extension of Initiatives Solidares is national, developing our actions mainly in the Valencian Community. The entity has three centers that are located in the city of Valencia, in the neighborhoods of Torrefiel, Benimamet and Tres Forques, and two inside the Valencia Penitentiary Center, located in the town of Picassent. In addition, we have a large multidisciplinary team, made up of professionals from the social and volunteer fields, working in networks with different entities and organizations in the social, labor and educational fields to achieve our goals. Initiatives Solidaries aims to: Promote the Social Well-being of the Community, through educational, training, guidance and counseling actions, aimed at the culturally, socially and economically disadvantaged population: childhood, adolescence, youth, families, women, migrants, long-term unemployed people, prisoners and ex-prisoners who are in a situation of social exclusion. Facilitate the social and/or labor insertion of the most culturally, socially and economically disadvantaged population: childhood, adolescence, youth, families, long-term unemployed people, prisoners and former prisoners who are in a situation of social exclusion. Promote volunteering and citizen participation among professionals and the general population through training and awareness actions and in the business community through agreements, conventions, collaborations and/or specific actions or within the framework of corporate social responsibility (CSR). . Promote equal opportunities between men and women, and non-discrimination against any group, in addition to promoting the reconciliation of personal, family and work life. As an association committed to social and citizen transformation, we incorporate into our organizational and operating model: Transparency and quality in the management of its processes. Seriousness and excellence at work. Decision making is participatory and assembly-based. The constant construction of personal relationships based on dialogue, trust, respect, equity and equality, favoring the care of its most valuable resource: people, their experiences and knowledge. The protection and good treatment of children and adolescents.

Tiempo de Juego is a non-profit entity that seeks to foster the adequate use of free time among children and youth in the most vulnerable areas of Colombia. The foundation seeks to distance children from the social ills that surround them and educate them through strategies such as sports and cultural activities. Tiempo de Juego's mission is to spawn social cohesion and development through sports, cultural, recreational, and formative tools whose purpose is the generation of competencies, promotion of values, and the effective use of free time in a responsible and conscientious manner, generating a positive and replicable impact towards a better quality of life for the community and its surroundings. Tiempo de Juego was established in 2006, as a project for the "Communication for Development" program through the "Universidad de la Sabana". After an exhaustive study for more than three years in Cazuca, one of the most marginalized, deprived and violent areas of our country, it was detected that the lack of education and excess of time of the youth, and the fact about 70 percent of the population is classified displaced, was making them more vulnerable to joining different gangs, drug addiction, incurring early pregnancies, as well as being part of the armed outlaw groups that recruit them for very little money. Using soccer as a recreational tool for value formation, accompanied by art workshops, cultural and educational courses, we gathered 400 children between 5 and 18, and the foundation began to inculcate the proper use of leisure time as a positive and useful way to encourage the kids into a brighter and more positive future. Ever since Tiempo de Juego began to operate, the children and young people have changed as has the neighborhood environment. When they celebrate goals or they read a book, this does not seem the most depressing sector of Cundinamarca area, which according to official statistics, over the past 5 years, has had more than 850 murders of young people; this is the area with the highest rate of displacement population second to Choco. A zone where poverty and malnutrition, joining the gangs to participate in the conflict is just a daily experience, where those who are growing only aspire to be part of an armed group that inhabit the area. Tiempo de Juego uses soccer as its main intervention tool to address social problems due to its capacity to convene people and its pedagogical possibilities. The foundation belongs to the football street world network, associated to the FIFA, and applies the FIFA approved rules of street football as the mechanism for the formation of values, formal education as a basis of democracy and the cultural workshops looking to build a fairer society. Also, we work out the values with the parents to achieve a proper family environment. Since 2008, Tiempo de Juego has opened another chapter in Cartagena, Atlantic Cost City, making possible those children and youth of "Las Faldas de la Popa" also to receive these benefits and rights.

YOUTH FOR CHRIST - GENERAL OVERVIEW The NGO Youth for Christ in Montevideo, Uruguay. Youth for Christ is an autonomous, non-profit organization. Since it began 40 years ago, Youth for Christ has worked actively to come along side marginalized population in Uruguay through formal programs. Our action is oriented primarily toward children, adolescents, young people and their families on three levels of intervention: - Personal (seeking holistic development) - Within the family and community (work to strengthen families, develop local networks, and encourage participation) - Political and structural (participate in constructing Social Policies and effective methods of intervention) In 1989, we began to work formally with the State and formed the Civil Society Organization Youth for Christ, Uruguay. Since then we have operated collectively with State organisms, International Organisms, and a wide variety of NGOs (non-government organizations) that work in the country. In Youth for Christ we run politically as a civil society organization. The General Assembly of partners is the sovereign body, which appoints a Board of Directors. This Board operates on an honorary basis and has a predetermined term of service. Youth for Christ works with a clear north, challenging but possible with Jesus Christ, which we express with simplicity in our mission: - Promote a culture in tune with the gospel and its values of justice, peace, solidarity, tolerance, love, and respect for the diversity. - For part of the Youth for Christ International family, adhering to the shared vision and mission of the organization.

To establish model medical facilities in order to alleviate the sufferings of poor and resource less patients and provide them quality medical care. To help the humanity in distress at times of natural calamities like Earth Quakes, Accidents, IDPs crisis and so forth. To conduct training programmes for Community Health Workers in collaboration with other community based organizations and donor agencies. To create awareness among the general public for improvement of their health through health education. To help deserving and talented students and provide financial support to widows and poor families who cannot afford treatment on their own. To achieve simple treatment goals through cost effective local medicines including Herbs and Folk Home Remedies designed to cure as many patients as possible with few side effects. To provide best possible treatment to the poor and needy patients through qualified and specialist doctors. To develop a Health Education Programme designed to improve the quality of life through preventative measures. To conduct training programmes for Community Health Workers in collaboration with other community based organizations and donor agencies. To establish a Centre of Excellence for the treatment of Tuberculosis (in line with WHOs, DOT programme), Hepatitis-C and other Infectious Diseases. To provide immediate relief in case of natural disasters and calamities and also to take active part in rehabilitation of the affected population.