TOPIC: LOCAL COMMUNITIES (54)
GOOD Travel
http://good-travel.orgGOOD Travel inspires travelers and tourism businesses to transform one of the world’s largest industries into a force for GOOD. We believe in giving back to the places we visit, connecting with the communities we meet, and learning from the journey. We're currently focused on two key projects: An online GOOD business directory and GOOD Travel tours.
Walk Your City
http://www.walkyourcity.orgAn open-sourced online resource for anyone to auto-magically create their own guerrilla wayfinding sign to export, print and install.
Meal Train
http://www.mealtrain.commealTrain.com is a free solution that simplifies the organization of giving and receiving meals. By allowing the giving party to take into account the recipient’s preferred meal times, food preferences, and available days, the site helps ensure that the recipient gets the meals they enjoy on the days that are most helpful.
Wedu
http://www.weduglobal.orgWedu aims to unlock the leadership potential of women in Asia by providing lifelong mentorship and innovative financing options to complete higher education and become change-makers in their communities. We envision a world where individuals from the least developed corners of the world have the tools to change their own lives, and the leadership skills to catalyze positive development in their communities and contribute to social advancement in their home country.
This Big City
http://thisbigcity.netThis Big City is an award winning sustainable cities blog covering innovations in urban design, architecture, culture, technology, transport and the bicycle. Launched in September 2009 by Joe Peach, This Big City now features content from urbanism writers and organisations all over the world, and publishes in English and Chinese.
Meetup
http://www.meetup.comMeetup is the world's largest network of local groups. Meetup makes it easy for anyone to organize a local group or find one of the thousands already meeting up face-to-face. More than 2,000 groups get together in local communities each day, each one with the goal of improving themselves or their communities.
Popularise
https://www.popularise.comPopularise is the online platform that shares the power to build new places in your neighborhood with local residents like you
By joining other people in your area on Popularise, you can create the kind of cool, authentic places you want in your neighborhood. Submit your own ideas, and vote for what to build on projects posted by real estate developers and local business operators.
Sustainable Cities International
http://sustainablecities.net/Founded in 1993, Sustainable Cities International is a registered not-for-profit organization based in Vancouver, Canada. Our mission is to co-create with cities around the world, to catalyze action on urban sustainability. We are a think-tank and a do-tank!
WLS International
http://www.volunteerforasia.comWLS International is a British Volunteer Organization that offers rewarding and affordable volunteer programs in Asia. For over 10 years we have been organizing volunteering programs in Asia to thousands of international volunteers from all over the world. We are committed to promoting cross-cultural awareness and helping communities in developing countries in Asia.
ioby
http://www.ioby.orgioby brings environmental projects to life, block by block. ioby connects people and money to site-based projects. All of these projects are conceived, designed, and run by neighbors—which ensures community buy-in, long-term caretakers and daily reminders of what’s been achieved.
Successful projects are then magnified, so they can benefit other neighborhoods—and the positive impact can ripple throughout the city. ioby is about having a stake in the game, engaging with others while you do so, and seeing and living with the end result.
Lions Clubs International
http://www.lionsclubs.orgOur 46,000 clubs and 1.35 million members make us the world's largest service club organization. We're also one of the most effective. Our members do whatever is needed to help their local communities. Everywhere we work, we make friends. With children who need eyeglasses, with seniors who don’t have enough to eat and with people we may never meet.
Neighbors Can Help
http://www.neighbourscanhelp.org.ukWe'd like to join with you in making your neighbourhood a better place by helping people to help their neighbours because: we believe most people want to be helpful and we hope everyone and every neighbourhood will be better off by doing so.
chashama
http://www.chashama.orgchashama supports communities by transforming temporarily vacant properties into spaces where artists can flourish. By recycling and repurposing buildings in transition, we invest in neighborhoods, foster local talent, and sustain a vast range of creativity, commerce and culture.
Serengetee
https://www.serengetee.comSerengetee is a clothing brand that incorporates global fabric patterns into their products while giving back to corresponding grassroots causes. Serengetee was founded in 2012 by a group of college friends after traveling the world on Semester at Sea. Since the beginning, their mission has been simple: to connect people to the globe through fabric while giving back to the communities that inspire and create their designs. Every fabric is teamed up with a cause located in the same region. This allows them to support both local fabric makers and the causes that work in their communities. When you wear Serengetee, you 'Wear the World'.
Volunteer Mzansi AFRIKA
http://www.volunteermzansiafrika.com/Volunteer Mzansi AFRIKA is a BEE social entrepreneurship volunteer and travel company based in Cape Town, South Africa that provides holistic programmes that positively affect and has impact on the lives of volunteers, improves the sustainability of projects with the aim of benefiting communities. We are passionate about volunteers, projects and communities and therefore have created a unique way of involving volunteers in projects within communities.
