The New School Fund (FEN): Back to the People rethinks learning systems to improve the quality, relevance, efficiency, and sustainability of education. By adapting its innovative New School model to local community contexts, FEN aligns education with need.
Digital Green works towards improving food security and alleviating rural poverty. It does this by producing and disseminating videos by farmers, for farmers, and of farmers on locally relevant agricultural information. Its communication model blends technology and social organization to bring about behavior change, which empowers individuals to sustainably increase their productivities and incomes.
Nobody was more surprised that Wikiloc’s website for crowdsourcing hiking and walking trails was a winner of the Changemakers / National Geographic 2009 Geotourism Challenge than its founder, Jordi Ramot.
The soft-spoken, pony-tailed software engineer was invited to travel from his home in the Pyrenees mountains in northeast Spain to the annual Geotourism Change Summit at National Geographic’s headquarters last week in Washington, D.C. where he was “amazed to be able to work with people from National Geographic.”
This year Nestlé has partnered with Ashoka, the world’s leading network of systems-changing social entrepreneurs. Together, we’re looking for individuals and businesses who are scaling up or generating new business models in the areas of nutrition, water or rural development.
Sustainable tourism programme as a regional development approach and tool. Adventure, Agriculture, ECO, Community, Heritage, Wildlife and Spiritual Tourism with the integration of Homestay accommodation in Sri Lanka with a private and community owned hybrid business model as a social enterprise.
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In many areas around the world, community social and economic development is restricted due to lack of refrigeration infrastructure.
Heuch Refrigeration has developed a suite of commercial scale Refrigeration solutions that are specifically designed to address this problem.
La grainothèque est le premier espace d'accès aux techniques agricole paysannes de aux variétés de semences de la biodiversité végétale africaine. Elle met à disposition des familles paysannes des solutions TIC pour garantir la souveraineté alimentaire et aténuer le réchauffement climatique.
Eco friendly Charcoal briquettes factory with Franchise opportunity for Women in rural areas. Save the environment and empower women economically.
Aseguramos el bienestar y el derecho a un ambiente comunitario próspero y sostenible desarrollando proyectos de voluntariado corporativo en energías limpias, uso del agua, agroecología, y bioconstrucción.
