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The Bharath Abhyudaya Seva Samithi (BASS), An Indian Progresssive Service Society, is a registered non-governmental Voluntary organization established in 1978. BASS seeks to improve the livelihoods of children, youth, women and vulnerable people include sick people, -those who are at the highest risk due to challenging socio-economic conditions. BASS works to bring relief and opportunity to rural and urban communities negatively impacted by poverty. The activities of the organization seek to promote social justice, equality and empowerment to disadvantaged peoples and victims of disasters in the Guntur district. BASS facilitates many activities including: educational, economic, social, health care and emergency relief and rehabilitation services.

Wakefulness Orphans and Widows Tanzania (Wow Tanzania or WOWT) is a National NGO that focuses on creating economical sustainability by providing jobs, entrepreneurial training, and education sponsorships for children and women. We focus on at-risk and disadvantaged youth between the ages of 7-23 years old, orphans, street children, single mothers, and working-age widows. We have a sponsor-a-child program for the poorest children in Tanzania, to provide food, clean water, clothes, health care, school sponsorships, and whatever the child needs to grow, be healthy, and finish school. Through our training programs, we teach the importance of living for the well-being of the community and just for ourselves.

Oribi is a non-profit impact incubator launched in 2018 in Cape Town, South Africa. It supports the development of social enterprises in the formal and informal sectors by running inclusive awareness-raising, ideation, incubation and funding programs. ORIBI's mission is aimed at reducing unemployment and poverty rates in South Africa, especially among youth and women from under-resourced places to drive sustainable growth. By incorporating the UN 2030 SDGs in the essence of our work, aiming to enable social entrepreneurship as a vector for social, environmental and economic equity. Main SDGs: Gender Equality, Zero Hunger, Sustainable Cities, Decent Work & Economic Development and Partnerships for Goals.

Its mission is to create a more equitable and just society based on the guarantee of human rights for all people. We are a human group that promotes and facilitates community social transformation processes. To this end, we rely on the great potential of sports, especially soccer, to convene and attract diverse groups: children and youth, women, adults, neighborhood clubs and other community institutions (schools, community centers, health facilities and others). Together with them, we carry out projects that increase their human and social capital, that favor social, educational and labor inclusion, that improve the social fabric and the institutional framework where community life develops, and that promote access to rights.

Self-Help International (SHI) devotes its efforts to alleviating world hunger and poverty by providing opportunities to rural citizens that ultimately lead to self-reliance. Since its inception, Self-Help has served as a vessel; training, education, and opportunities are provided to rural citizens and whole communities in developing countries so that they can have better lives. MISSION STATEMENT: To alleviate hunger by helping people help themselves. SELF-HELP'S INITIATIVE Educate: We educate the people of the United States to understand the problems of life in developing countries particularly the awareness of the perpetual struggle by millions to produce and distribute food to battle persistent chronic hunger and poverty; we help tell their story Train: We train people in developing countries in the use of Quality Protein Maize (QPM). This increases crop yields and improves nutrition. We assist local farm families with planting, Improve: We improve infant and pre-school children's diets by administering an improved porridge feeding program. Made from QPM and pinches of barley malt, this combination has been proven to alleviate malnutrition, thwart sickness, and keep children in school so they can continue their education. Empower: We provide micro-credit loans for women to start small scale businesses. This availability of credit empowers women and increases their income - because they do not have access to traditional financing. Cooperate: We cooperate with other organizations and agencies in the introduction of appropriate farming practices or advancement in the battle against poverty and malnutrition.

The Eve Branson Foundation is a small non-profit based in Morocco, spearheaded by Richard Branson's mum, Eve Branson. The mission of the Eve Branson Foundation (EBF) is to provide young people with artisanal skills-training and to preserve traditional Moroccan and Berber crafts, enriching the lives of local families from Atlas Mountain communities. Since 2005, our collaborative programmes have helped to sustain livelihoods in the region and we continue to work in close partnership with award-winning hotel Kasbah Tamadot. To achieve better living standards, EBF works at a community level to develop initiatives in four key areas: artisanal training; environment, healthcare and education. Eve's vision was for a community where young people, women and men, have opportunities to earn a living and build a secure and healthy future. Today, EBF provides training to more than 75 local young women and men across three craft centres, offering programmes in weaving, carpet-making, embroidery, tailoring and woodworking. Each centre encourages the production and selling of artisan goods so that the young people are able to generate a small income for themselves and their families. Since the beginning, we have worked hand in hand with the team at Kasbah Tamadot, who employ over 98% local staff, to enhance living standards in some of the most impoverished communities surrounding the property. We believe in working in partnership with each village to bring about transformations both economically and socially, and have learned through mutual respect and determination, how to successfully combine our entrepreneurial spirit with the Berber culture.

CDRC aims to build capacities of the most vulnerable sectors comprising the poor majority to comprehensively prepare for and respond to potential disaster situations while addressing the root causes of their vulnerabilities through community-based disaster management, people-managed programs and services, and working with social movements that address poverty, social inequalities, and extractive, environmentally-destructive practices, policies and systems. CDRC regards the most vulnerable sectors as those whose socio-economic conditions make them highly vulnerable to hazards and disasters and yet comprise the majority of society, such as the workers, peasants, indigenous peoples, and other low income groups. CDRC gives special attention to those who have added vulnerabilities such as children, women, the frail, the elderly and people living with disabilities.

National Disability & Development Forum (NDF) is a registered and PCP certified non-profit organization that has been working in Sindh in the fields of Disability Rights, Health, Education, Environment/Alternative Energy, Food Security & Nutrition, Poverty Reduction, WASH, DRR/CBDRM, Democratization and Gender Mainstreaming since 2014. NDF opposes all forms of discrimination; and respects the rights and dignity of people irrespective of their ethnic, social, religious or political differences; and gives priority to meeting the needs and addressing the rights of the most disadvantaged communities and vulnerable segments of society especially PWDs, women and children. Empowerment of people with/without disabilities through awareness, skill development, access to health, education, livelihood & recreational services and enhancing the life standard in qualitative and quantitative terms

"Every child & woman has the right to lead a life, free from discrimination, inequality and exploitation. This is the key to our nation building" Dr Girish Kulkarni founder of Snehalaya. Snehalaya means 'Home of Love' and its just that for many marginalised women and children in Maharashtra, India, who have no one else to turn to. The goal is simple to combat poverty and exploitation of all people adversely affected by the commercial sex industry in India. To strive for the basic human rights of its clients through offering pathfinding and practical support methods. To continue to provide rescue, shelter and care for their vulnerable clients to find their way to a better empowered life. Snehalaya also is dedicated to giving support and operating without any religious or political agenda.

Impact Hub Budapest, a coworking space intended to support dreamers and entrepreneurs in their efforts to find solutions for critical global issues since 2016. But the founders also wanted to build a philanthropic arm of the business in order to ensure that the needs of their community and Hungary at large. Since 2017, our NGO, the Foundation for Sustainable Enterprises (Fenntarthato Vallalkozasokert Alapitvany or FVA), has been actively providing opportunities for the underserved and underprivileged people of Hungary, including projects targeting youth (i.e. SIA award for social innovators ages 14 to 30) and women (i.e. AWE, Capsule, She's Next, Momentum Project Programs). Support for our programming has been three-fold: grant money has significantly bolstered our progress; the Hub's substantial resource pool has proven indispensable; and also of great value is the Hub's entrepreneurial ecosystem. It offers strong partnerships with stakeholders from various sectors, including large corporations, other NGOs, universities, start-ups, Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs), consultants, and embassies, all with the ultimate effort to aid those in need. Our primary NGO work is centered around the importance of social enterprise, to help people start businesses that are financially sustainable and have a positive social or environmental impact, and also to raise awareness and educate the community on social and sustainable innovations. We promote, implement, and encourage sustainability measures, environmental protection, and social innovation. Our work is strengthened by the efforts we make to nurture cross-border relations. Encouraging intercultural communication and cooperation between nations-as well asmore locally between minority groups in Hungary-is key for our growth and success. Our ultimate goal at FVA is to enact positive social change within Hungary, to allow our young minds and the women of our nation the opportunity to flourish despite the financial and social struggles they face daily. To that end, our objectives are to continue to grow the Impact Hub network and create resources for our programs, to raise funds for their benefit, and to develop programming with their education and growth a priority. The FVA has a wide range of entrepreneurial experience. In addition to our team founding the Impact Hub, for the past seven years we have developed programs to educate the youth and women of Hungary on how to start and run their own businesses, with a strong emphasis on mentorship programs so that our participants have access to a sizable repository of business knowledge. As mentioned, the IH Budapest provides the FVA (and by extension the women of our proposed program) with a massive cooperative global network of 112 Hubs in 47 countries, on 5 continents, with more than 19,000 members. Links between Hubs in Europe are especially strong; the IH Budapest has joined forces with Hubs in the Czech Republic, Romania, and Austria to partner on various projects. The IH community is extremely supportive, sharing best practices and practical knowledge around co-working, enterprise development, and mentor pool management. Our participants are added to this global community (accessible through the community app), allowing them access to every imaginable resource to begin the work of building their businesses. The Social Impact Award (SIA) network is also part of our global repertoire. This community consists of companies and NGOs running SIA programming in their respective countries. Programming works similarly to the FVA's, with a combination of training and mentoring. The SIA network is a thriving cooperative community for early, idea-stage entrepreneurs as well as for finalists of national programs. Alumni also stay connected, sharing and offering assistance as they grow beyond the SIA program. Our foundation also has a number of local connections, most notably the start-ups, well-established entrepreneurs, and NGOs working at the IH Budapest, where we also work. It is not uncommon for members of these entities to meet in the kitchen for tea or lunch. Halfway through a steaming cup of Earl Grey new ideas are born and niggling problems solved. We also hold community events and knowledge sharing workshops on the topics of social innovation, sustainability, and entrepreneurship at the IH Budapest for more structured networking opportunities. Additionally, FVA has been part of a local social entrepreneurship ecosystem for the past two years. And we have spearheaded efforts to strengthen cooperation between agents of the Hungarian social enterprise sector (such as Ashoka Hungary, the Badur Foundation, Magnet Bank, SIMPACT, Association of Hungarian Impact Investors, and more). Further, we are actively involved with investors of both Impact Ventures and the Association of Hungarian Impact Investors (THBE), Impact Ventures and the Business Angels Association (HunBAN). Our collaboration with these entities allows social entrepreneurs in our community access to financing. We have also partnered with Magnet Bank; with the national agencies IFKA Public Benefit Non-profit Limited Company renamed recently as MGFU and the National Employment Nonprofit Limited Liability Company (OFA) (both working with social enterprises in rural areas of Hungary); with the municipality of Hajdu-Bihar County on their DelFin project; and with the NGOs Malta Gondoskodas Nonprofit Ltd. and Roma Education Fund, Red Cross all in order to boost our entrepreneurs' business skills. We at FVA provide entrepreneurial resources and education, as well as mentorship, for women across Hungary, primarily those in isolated rural areas from 2020 annually. We are running the 4th Edition in 2024/2025. The target audience for our program (AWE Hungary - Academy of Women Entrepreneurs) is women between the ages of 25 and 55 in both urban and rural areas of Hungary, lacking confidence, support, and resources, struggling to start and/or build their own businesses. Activities are designed primarily around building and pitching a business plan, with one-on-one mentoring to support this process. Our overarching goals include boosting confidence levels of all participants; broadening participant business networks, knowledge, and skills; increasing participant resolve to form social impact businesses, as well as their determination to launch their business 12 months after program completion; and see that participant business ideas have significantly improved.

Africa Schoolhouse (ASH) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization dedicated to bringing quality education, medical care, job training and clean water to rural villages in Northern Tanzania. In order to achieve these goals, ASH works in partnership with communities and the local government to build desperately needed schools, deep wells and medical clinics, creating an environment that enables residents to live full, productive and healthy lives. ASH was founded in 2006 after village elders from Ntyula, Tanzania approached founder Dr. Aimee Bessire with the idea of building a school for their children and a medical clinic for the entire community. Dr. Bessire, who has a decades long relationship with the people of Ntulya, was determined to take action. Within six months, the Africa Schoolhouse board was assembled. ASH broke ground on its first project, the Ntulya Primary School and campus, in July 2008 and completed construction in 2010. President of Tanzania, Jakaya Kikwete, personally inaugurated the new school and declared it a model for all rural schools in the country. The villagers talked about how proud they were that the President came to visit the school they had helped to build. Following the request of the Ntulya elders, the organization completed a modern medical clinic the following year, which now serves approximately 4,500 people. ASH continued working with local communities in the region to identify need and completed the renovation of Mwaniko Secondary School and Shilanona Primary School in 2012 and 2014. Improvements at these locations included building a bio-chemistry lab and the installation of the first solar-powered computer lab in Misungwi District. ASH also trained a local work-force to help with the construction and continued maintenance of these projects. ASH's newest project is to construct an all-girls boarding school-the first in Misungwi District. This exemplary school will provide space for 360 girls in Forms 1-4, with the possibility to expand the campus and add another 80 girls in Forms 5-6 as needed in later years. Currently only 1% of Tanzanian girls complete secondary school education. They face a wide range of obstacles to their education, including everything from families who privilege the education of sons over daughters, to girls being married off at young ages, and unsafe journeys to school. One of the largest issues faced by girls is finding a safe place to live while pursuing their education. In this rural area, many girls travel long distances to reach school. Safe passage to and from school is a critical issue. We want to provide a safe living situation for young women to delight in their education. ASH is partnering with Misungwi District to build a much-needed safe haven for girls, empowering them through education to grow into strong, healthy women. In addition to a standard academic curriculum, the school will also promote leadership, entrepreneurship, social justice and care for the environment. The school will create an essential safe space where young women can successfully complete their studies and grow into empowered, independent adults. As with our other projects ASH is collaborating with the local communities, school committee, and Tanzanian government. We are building this school at the request of the local community, who identified this as their greatest need. The school will be staffed and run by the District once completed. The District has selected Florencia Ndabashe to be the school's head teacher. Ndabashe currently leads a co-ed secondary school in Misungwi and brings great energy to her work. She will be a strong leader for the girls school, inspiring her fellow teachers and serving as an excellent role model for young women.

(1) The object of the company is - the promotion of sport (skateboarding), - the promotion of dance, art and culture - the promotion of education and participation of young people - the promotion of child and youth welfare within the meaning of 41 SGB VIII, (2) The object of the company is realized in particular by - the promotion and practice of the sport and youth culture of skateboarding, - the promotion of dance art, young up-and-coming artists and cultural workers through events and workshops for creation and presentation - organizing joint activities related to skateboarding and dance, such as workshops, training sessions, presentations and performances - creating inclusive and low-threshold sports, art and youth culture offers for pupils and other young people from socially disadvantaged families and families of non-German origin - the implementation of leisure programs within which male-dominated subcultures are specifically made accessible to girls and women, in particular through pedagogically supervised and protected training times for girls and women - the teaching and further development of sports and experiential education concepts in conjunction with integral and resource-oriented coaching methods - Cooperation and working groups with schools, in particular special schools and schools with a high proportion of pupils of non-German origin Cooperation and working groups with children's and youth facilities with a focus on girls and women, sports clubs and youth welfare organizations. Our Main Project is: DANCE ON BOARDS is an innovative format that brings together the strengths of skateboarding and dance. Itis led by experienced dance facilitators and skateboardcoachesand offers disadvantaged students in theagefrom 6-17 in underserved areas the opportunity to implement both forms of movement. We work directly in the schools and specifically promote girls in sport. Our partner schools in the Berlin districts of Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg and Neukolln have a high percentageof children with non-German language of origin (Jens Nydal98.8%, Albrecht v. Grafe 95.0%, Fichtelgebirge 45.4%, Campus Rutli 69%, Otto Wels 94%, Burgermeister Hertz 51.2%, Heinrich-Zille 61,6%, Carl v. Ossietzky 85%, Adolf Glabrenner42,5%, Rosa Parks 38,3%, Campus Efeuweg81,3%, Theodor Storm 88,8%). https://www.bildung.berlin.de/Schulverzeichnis/ As an official part of the regular school curriculum (morning program, whole class), all children have equal access to the program regardless of gender, origin or social background. Our focus is on the promotion of girls in sports. It starts in our team structure with13female and 3 male coaches. In ourweekly traininggroupDANCE ON BOARDS (DOB Company) and ourFemaleJunior Coach Community wespecifically promote girls in their personal development.