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Gratitude Awards Recognize Social Entrepreneurs From Around Globe
The Gratitude Awards from the Gratitude Network will recognize four young companies at SOCAP on September 4, 2014. Organizer Randy Haykin recently announced the 32 semi-finalists. Nine finalists will be chosen and announced from among these semi-finalists.
The Accountability Lab empowers youth to develop innovative tools for integrity and anti-corruption in their communities.
Blair Glencorse
Washington, DC
Nonprofit
Founded: 2012
Target Market: Liberia
Akimbo is a SaaS (Software as a Service) company primarily serving organizations running workforce development programs for populations facing significant boundaries to employment. Our software features a digital portfolio-building tool, effective recruiting platform, and skills/professional development capabilities. Our mission is to reduce global unemployment.
Mackenzie Hughes
San Francisco, CA
For-Profit
Founded: 2012
Target Market: United States
Equater Fuelwood Energy Saving (EFWES)
EFWES is a enterprise dealing with renewable and alternative energy technologies for improved livelihoods.
Josphat Wahome Kariuki
Nanyuki, Laikipia County
For-Profit
Founded: 1998
Target Market: Kenya
Evomo Research And Advancement Pvt. Ltd.
Evomo is working on affordable transport solutions for developing regions across the world.
Abhinav Kumar
Ahmedabad, Gujarat
For-Profit
Founded: 2010
Target Market: India
Fuego del Sol designs, co-creates and implements ecological systemic solutions in Haiti and the Dominican Republic. FdS confronts Haiti’s deadly charcoal addiction through development, introduction and adoption of ecological fuel briquettes, ergonomic industrial manual briquette presses, and efficient briquette stoves. FdS collects, separates and upcycles waste materials into sustainable solutions.
Kevin Adair
P-a-P, Haiti
Other
Founded: 2007
Target Market: Haiti
Incluyeme.com is the first job portal aimed to help people with disabilities in Latin America (more than 30 million people) to find a job.
Natalia Ca
Region Metropolitana, Santiago de Chile
For-Profit
Founded: 2013
Target Market: Argentina
Labor Link by Good World Solutions
Labor Link is the first platform to leverage the disruptive power of mobile to give voice to the global workforce and deliver real-time data to companies like Cisco and Patagonia to align sourcing practices with worker needs - like SurveyMonkey for the 5 billion people without internet access.
Heather Franzese
Oakland, CA
Nonprofit
Founded: 2011
Target Market: Bangladesh
LivelyHoods creates jobs for youth in Kenyan slums so they can work their way out of poverty and actualize their potential. To achieve this, we employ youth from slums to sell life-changing products in their communities. Although we are a non-profit, we operate with the mindset of an entrepreneurial start-up.
Tania Laden
Venice, CA
Nonprofit
Founded: 2011
Target Market: Kenya
SunCulture designs and sells solar-powered irrigation systems and agricultural extension services that make it cheaper and easier for farmers to grow food.
Samir Ibrahim
Nairobi, Kenya
For-Profit
Founded: 2012
Target Market: Kenya
Takamoto Biogas brings cooking fuel to the millions of Kenyan farmers who need an affordable, reliable energy solution. We have developed the first of its kind Pay-as-you-go Biogas technology. Farmers no longer face crippling upfront costs to install a biogas system which turns animal waste into renewable energy for cooking.
Kyle Schutter
Nairobi, Kenya
For-Profit
Founded: 2011
Target Market: Kenya
The African Management Initiative is a social business that empowers African managers and entrepreneurs through practical and accessible learning and coaching tools, online and offline.
Rebecca Harrison
United Kingdom
Nairobi: Kenya For-Profit
Founded: 2013
Target Market: Kenya
Akadus seeks to provide high school students unrivalled access to the broadest array of educational content available online-curated, organized, and evaluated in accord with specifications set by each user-combined with tools that facilitate its usage. We want to connect students to learning that matters to them, and outcomes that make a difference in their lives-while connecting colleges and employers to the right students they seek to recruit.
Cabot Brown
San Francisco, CA
For-Profit
Founded: 2013
Target Market: United States
Medha delivers an employability training program that improves career opportunities for youth in India. We work with students to help them bridge the gap between what they learn in school and what employers demand. Our vision is to change the way employability skills are developed in the public education system.
Christopher Turillo
Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh
Nonprofit
Founded: 2011
Target Market: India
PMP provides an six-week summer enrichment to socio-economically disadvantaged neighborhoods. Through a multi-relational approach, PMP pairs academically struggling students with high achieving older students from the same inner-city neighborhoods and puts them under the supervision of college interns and certified teachers for an academic and creative intensive summer program.
Karim Abouelnaga
New York, New York
Nonprofit
Founded: 2010
Target Market: United States
Springboard Collaborative closes the reading achievement gap by coaching teachers, training family members, and incentivizing learning such that our scholars have the requisite skills to access life opportunities.
Alejandro Gac-Artigas
Philadelphia, PA
Nonprofit
Founded: 2011
Target Market: United States
ThinkCERCA.com Inc
ThinkCERCA is an award winning k-12 literacy education technology company that focuses on teaches students how to critically analyze text and create evidence-based arguments in every subject area.
Abby Ross
Chicago, IL
For-Profit
Founded: 2012
Target Market: United States
JES improves inmate outcomes by incentivizing educational and vocational progress through tablets in correctional facilities. Investment in inmate education leads to reduced recidivism and lower taxpayer liability, however, programming is extremely limited, politically challenging, and doesn’t meet inmate demand. JES grants access to an immense collection of resources otherwise unavailable.
Brian Hill
Evanston, IL
For-Profit
Founded: 2013
Target Market: United States
Pulse is a mobile-based tool that enables the poor to save money when and where they shop. These savings can be redeemed in the future for food and medicine purchases at certified Pulse vendors. This buffer of funds serves as an insurance against unexpected expenses and emergencies.
Niketa Malhotra
San Francisco, CA
For-Profit
Founded: 2013
Target Market: India
Access Afya (Access “Health” in Swahili) runs a chain of micro-clinics in Nairobi’s slums. We are creating a commercial primary care model that sells affordable, quality clinical services and products to uninsured residents in informal settlements. Our company will expand the chain throughout slums emphasizing consistent quality and customer experience.
Melissa Menke Kenya
Nairobi, Kenya
For-Profit
Founded: 2012
Target Market: Kenya
Appropriate Energy Saving Technologies Limited
Appropriate Energy Saving Technologies (AEST) LTD is a social business enterprise registered and managed by women which manufactures and sells charcoal briquettes from agricultural waste and improved cook stoves .Our mission is to increase access to affordable clean energy and cooking solutions for urban and peri-urban low-income households and institutions in North Eastern Uganda.
Betty Ikalany
Soroti, Uganda
For-Profit
Founded: 2013
Target Market: Uganda
Drinkwell transforms the arsenic and fluoride water crisis affecting over 200 million people across rural India and Bangladesh into entrepreneurial opportunity by blending proprietary filtration technology with a franchise business model.
Minhaj Chowdhury
Brighton, MA
For-Profit
Founded: 2013
Target Market: Bangladesh
Effortless Energy offers an individually tailored package of free, easy home upgrades that your home more valuable, easier to control from your mobile device, more comfortable, healthier, and greener while saving you money. Our unique efficiency-as-a-service model enables us to pay for all the upgrades and then share in the utility bill savings by simply charging you per unit of energy saved at a rate lower than the cost of using energy.
Claire Tramm
Chicago, IL
B Corp (for-profit)
Founded: 2012
Target Market: United States
iKure Techsoft Private Limited
iKure’s vision is to have healthier and economically viable rural communities in India. iKure is achieving this by providing affordable accessible quality healthcare services to traditionally under served populations by connecting patients & families, MBBS doctors, locally employed healthworkers and city-based specialists in iKure’s Rural Health Centres through innovative technology.
Avik Pal
Kolkata, West Bengal
For-Profit
Founded: 2010
Target Market: India
Koe Koe’s mission is to revolutionize Myanmar’s data-deprived health sector by creating a national data network involving all Myanmar health institutions. Koe Koe builds human capital by training Myanmar people from modest backgrounds in computer programming. In a country with sectarian violence, we employ women and ethnic and religious minorities.
Michael Lwin
Yangon, Yangon Region
For-Profit
Founded: 2013
Komodo OpenLab’s technologies enable simple and easy access to mobile devices for millions of people with mobility impairments enhancing their work, school and family lives.
Mauricio Meza
Toronto, Ontario
For-Profit
Founded: 2010
Target Market: United States
Noora Health delivers high-impact health skill training to at-risk patients and their families. By training families with simple, low-risk skills, we enable patients and their families to take care into their own hands and homes.
Katy Edith Ashe Elliott
Palo Alto, CA
Nonprofit
Founded: 2014
Target Market: India
QoC Health is a Certified B Corp that offers healthcare providers patient engagement solutions that save money through reduced complications and unnecessary hospital time (appointments, readmissions, length of stay) while improving quality of care and patient satisfaction.
Raymond Shih
Toronto, Ontario
For-Profit
Target Market: Peru
Sanivation sells a household toilet service and a healthier charcoal alternative cooking fuel at a rate households can afford due to a simple, no mysteries, closed loop system.
Benjamin Kramer-Roach
Naivasha, Kenya
Not yet incorporated
Founded: 2011
Target Market: Kenya
Sevamob is fundamentally transforming primary healthcare in India. We deliver primary healthcare via mobile clinics to low-income groups on a monthly subscription model. We also operate an online health exchange through which internet savvy patients can get tele-health services from participating health providers. Currently 5000 subscribers from 3 states in India are using our service.
Shelley Saxena
Decatur GA
For-Profit
Founded: 2012
Target Market: India
2.5 billion people worldwide lack a safe, hygienic toilet. Toilets for People designs and sells affordable, self-contained, waterless composting toilets to non-profits whose mission is to provide sanitation to the people of the developing world.
Jason Kass
New York, NY
For-Profit
Founded: 2012
Target Market: India
DayOne Response Inc. is a global leader in providing life-saving solutions for disaster relief efforts. DayOne addresses the global need for emergency drinking water through the DayOne Purification WaterbagTM - a low-cost, 10-liter water backpack providing all elements of water supply: collection, treatment, transport, and protected storage, which empowers people worldwide to easily and quickly purify contaminated, disease-ridden waters into clean drinking water.
Amy Cagle
San Francisco, California
For-Profit
Founded: 2010
Target Market: Philippines
Fresh Lifelines for Youth, (FLY)
Fresh Lifelines for Youth (FLY) believes that all our children deserve a chance to become more than their past mistakes. FLY’s mission is to prevent juvenile crime and incarceration through legal education, one-on-one mentoring, and leadership development.
Christa Gannon
Milpitas, CA
Nonprofit
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Founded: 2000
Target Market: United States