10 Opportunities to Build Resilience to Climate, COVID and Economic Crises in Asia
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In June, a forest community in northern Thailand was awarded the prestigious Equator Prize by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). With some support from RECOFTC and our partners, the Wetland Forest Conservation Group of the village Boon Rueang convinced the government to conserve the largest wetland forest in the Ing River basin rather than develop a special economic zone. Since that momentous achievement, made through advocacy and dialogue, the Group has pioneered a community forestry model that is successfully protecting biodiversity, storing carbon, providing food and livelihoods, and enabling the community to preserve its identity and culture. This model even helped the community successfully weather the COVID-19 pandemic.
1001fontaines Water Kiosk
Establishes a self-sustaining water kiosk in a rural community in Cambodia that provides direct access to clean water to improve the health and livelihood of community members.
2-Day Free Entrepreneurship Bootcamp
Young Founders School is a free startup bootcamp who take high school students from ideation to pitch deck and pitching real venture capitalists in just 36 hours with emphasis on changing mindsets.
2019 Social Justice Fellowship Cohort
Empowers future community leaders in Hong Kong to better the lives of their communities through a social justice fellowship program.
40K PLUS English Literacy Program
PLUS English uses low-cost technology to make English language learning accessible to rural Cambodian primary & secondary schools. This project aims to extend the program to 250 schools over 3 years.
5 Insights on how Tailored Financing and Hybrid Finance can Better Support Social Purpose Organisations
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EVPA’s latest report reveals the importance of tailored financing and hybrid finance for venture philanthropy organisations and social investors (VPO/SIs) to deploy resources efficiently and meet the financial needs of Social Purpose Organisations.
5 Insights on Social Investment in Asia
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The AVPN ‘Social investment landscape in Asia’ Report has been shortlisted as the ‘Best Thought Leadership’ by the 2017 Sustainable Investment Awards.
Across 14 Asian markets, social investors can identify high-impact opportunities and challenges to strategically invest into the social sector.
5 Insights to Improve Access to Finance in ASEAN
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AVPN’s latest publication shares insights to improve financial and technical access for the MSME sector in ASEAN; Strong focus on women entrepreneurs.
5 Key Tips to Harness Collective Philanthropic Impact in Asia
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Whether I am speaking with a small social purpose organisation just embarking on its impact journey or leaders of long-established foundations, we always circle back to the same conundrum: how do we allocate limited resources, like philanthropic capital, most effectively so that we do not compromise on one choice over another? Especially, as making a choice often means to allocate to some in lieu of others.
6 Business Principles Applicable to Philanthropy
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For most new philanthropists, making the transition from the corporate world to philanthropy can be intimidating. At first, it seems like they are opposing worlds with starkly contrasting objectives: one is motivated by profits while the other by creating positive social impact. I have realized, however, that the core skillsets of business are essential to making philanthropy more efficient and effective.
8 ways to improve education and build a better world
It is not enough to just recover physically and economically from the global pandemic; it has also disrupted one billion children’s learning, leaving many permanently disadvantaged. But we can also see the way forward: innovation.
Access to Water and Health in the Thar Desert, India (AWHT)
Our project aims to enhance access to safe drinking water and healthcare provision to the Thar Desert Communities in India through the provision of rainwater harvesting techniques and innovation of traditional methods.
ACE 1 Cook Stove for Cambodia: Efficient and Eco-friendly
African Clean Energy makes energy more accessible and affordable to poor, rural families living off-grid and cooking using traditional methods.
ACT Capital Foundation For Social Impact
ACT Capital Foundation is a non-profit venture philanthropy platform that was born in 2020 in response to the COVID crisis and is built upon the premise that an entrepreneurial mindset, technology & innovation and collective action have the power to create meaningful social impact at scale. We are driven by a bias for action to […]
Acumen
For over 20 years Acumen has worked to solve the toughest challenges of poverty. We have built a global network of leaders and entrepreneurs who are building inclusive businesses, bringing hope to marginalized communities, and forging solutions that offer dignity and opportunity for hundreds of millions of low-income people. We believe that by supporting extraordinary […]
Addressing Malnourishment in Children
Addresses malnourishment in children under 6 years of age through a PPP model of nutrition supplementation, growth monitoring, training of childcare workers and parents in Mumbai, India.
Adequate Shelter for All and Role of Housing Microfinance
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Almost a quarter of the world’s population lives in substandard shelter, which also affects their health, livelihood, and children’s education.
Learn about the potential of housing micro finance as a nimble tool for low-income populations, and some of the barriers to scale this product.
Adolescent Empowerment (AEP)
Empowers adolescents in India through an advocacy programme that ensures equal rights and access to healthcare and education.
Affordable Housing
Expanding the affordable housing in Vietnam where the housing demand is rapidly increasing.
Aflouton: Empowering Children with Social and Financial Education
We aim to ensure access to high quality, inclusive, and youth-centred life skills and financial literacy for all children and young people worldwide, especially to the most vulnerable.
Aga Khan Agency For Habitat
Aga Khan Agency for Habitat India (AKAHI) is a not-for-profit network agency of the Aga Khan Development Network (AKDN), a group of private, non-denominational and international development agencies. AKDN, one of the world’s largest private charities, is working in 30 countries, employing approximately 96,000 people, mostly in developing countries. AKAHI impacts more than 11 lac […]
Agastya: Increasing access to practical learning in schools
Agastya International Foundation is a Non-Profit in India, that sparks curiosity in economically disadvantaged government school children towards a practical hands-on Science education, and provides training to school teachers in hands on pedagogy.
AgFood Future Foundation
At AgFood FutureTM, we aim to tackle the one of the world’s biggest issues of balancing climate sustainability and resources with long-term food security by promoting agri-food innovation and diverse, sustainable protein sources. We bring together government, industry, financial, and R&D institutions to address sustainable development challenges, disseminate best practices, achieve SDGs, and enhance China’s […]
Aglonera
Aglonera is a digital platform that helps small food businesses (profit margin less than USD 12 per day) in Indonesia to get more profit and reduce their time burden when doing business.
Agrasar: Center for Employability
At Agrasar, our program seeks to prepare the youth not just for entry level jobs but also for long-term progression in their careers.
AI Based Remote Heart Monitoring Solution
Our solution enables medical professionals to monitor patients’ heart rhythms on a remote basis based on our wireless wearable devices and to diagnose arrhythmia more accurately with our AI analytics.
Air Pollution Protection & Education
Smart Air is a clean air workshop program that teaches people how to protect themselves from air pollution. We target those living in cities in Asia, of whom 90% breathe polluted air on an ongoing basis.
Airlink
Airlink is a nonprofit organization working with aviation and logistics partners to transport relief workers and emergency supplies for reputable non-governmental organizations (NGOs) responding to rapid-onset disasters and other humanitarian crises around the globe.
Ajooni Impact Investment
Innovative financing and commercially viable market-based solutions
Akha Ama Coffee Tokyo, Japan
Akha Ama Coffee aims to establish Akha Ama Coffee Tokyo to expand market for coffee producers in Thailand. This project will be benefited to many agriculturists and encourage to apply more sustainable agricultural practices.
ALIA: Cost Competitive and Sustainable Industry Solutions for the Environment
ALIA will take the lead with industry-wide solutions to address cost competitiveness and sustainability. Beneficiaries are cleaner environment for society and continued business viability.
ALLiN Tech: Cognitive Development for Children in Rural China
Rolls-out Jnrlink Learning Solutions to 600 pre-schools, training 1,400 teachers, impacting 30,000 rural children under CDRF’s “Village Early Education Center” (VECC) Project at Bijie City Guizhou, China.
ALLiN Tech: Mongolia Digital School (MDS)
MDS seeks to impact the lives of more than 350,000 Mongolian students in more than 2,000 schools, using the Jnrlink platform and technology.
Alvarium Tiedemann Group ‘ALTi’
Alvarium Tiedemann Holdings “AlTi,” is a leading independent, global investment firm providing institutions, entrepreneurs, families, and emerging next-generation leaders with fiduciary capabilities to best execute impact investment strategies and services. Operating across 24 cities and 4 continents, we manage over US$55bn on behalf of 400 global families, with ~ US$4bn in Impact Strategies, making the […]
Angkor Hospital for Children
Reducing neonatal mortality and childhood morbidity in rural Cambodia.
Annika Linden Centre
Inspiration Foundation is a private Indonesian based grant-making foundation dedicated to funding and supporting exceptional projects in health and education.
