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WebMD
http://www.webmd.comWebMD provides valuable health information, tools for managing your health, and support to those who seek information. You can trust that our content is timely and credible.
Clinton Global Initiative
http://www.clintonglobalinitiative.orgPresident Bill Clinton established the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) in 2005 to turn ideas into action. From presidents to academics, from the boardroom to the classroom, CGI members from all walks of life are creating positive change around the world.
The Crafts Council
http://www.craftscouncil.org.uk/homeThe Crafts Council is the national development agency for contemporary craft in the UK. Our goal is to make the UK the best place to make, see, collect and learn about contemporary craft. Through our different departments and partnerships our work includes professional development programmes for makers, promoting craft education, innovative exhibitions and events and ongoing research, development and advocacy work in to the craft and wider arts sector.
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Crafts Council, UK, Art, Craft
Fresh Words Market
http://www.freshwordsmarket.comFresh Words Market is a line of modern art for the spaces where adults and children meet. But FWM is more than just an art collection, it's a movement. For every print sold, Fresh Words Market donates 10% of its proceeds to women and children focused initiatives around the world. We believe that great art coupled with the passion to help those in need will indeed help to change the world.
Everybody Wins!
http://everybodywins.orgToday, EVERYBODY WINS! affiliates are helping bridge the literacy gap for more than 9,200 public school students across the country. Our goal is to reach 100,000. The EVERYBODY WINS! equation is simple – one mentor, one child, one book at a time – but has a profound impact
DoGoodBuyUs
http://www.dogoodbuy.usDoGoodBuyUs is a marketplace for Goods that Do Good, featuring the best socially responsible products. We believe that the world can't change until consumerism does. That's why we created the largest marketplace of charity-made products. Changing the world starts with what we buy.
Designer Fund
http://www.designerfund.comThe Designer Fund is an angel fund of designers. Our community gives angel funding, mentorship, and connections to entrepreneurial designers. Our mission is to invest in designers who create businesses with positive social impact. We accept applications and referrals from talented designers and match them with resources to succeed at any stage of their development, ranging from accelerator graduates to later stage companies post Series A financing.
Taproot
http://www.taprootfoundation.orgTaproot is a nonprofit organization that makes business talent available to organizations working to improve society. We engage the nation’s millions of business professionals in pro bono services both through our award-winning programs and by partnering with companies to develop their pro bono programs. One day, we envision all organizations with promising solutions will be equipped to successfully take on urgent social challenges.
The Hotes Foundation
http://hotesfoundation.orgThe Hotes Foundation provides emergency relief by providing shelter, food and man power to disaster and poverty-stricken areas around the world, including: Pakistan, Peru, Mexico, Bangladesh, Philippines, Taiwan, Haiti, Kenya, Somalia and Ethiopia. Our focus is simple: more volunteers with us, serving the poorest of the poor - changing “giving” to “going.”
The Lancaster Food Company
http://www.thelancasterfoodcompany.comInspired by a bounty of local produce and a disproportion of local area poverty, The Lancaster Food Company’s mission is to create extraordinary food sourced from nearby organic farmers and hire people out of poverty into thriving-wage jobs. The only certified organic food company in Lancaster, PA, the company’s mission includes paying better than living wages and hiring people who might otherwise have difficulty getting work because of personal histories, education, literacy, or language barriers.
Humanity Unified
http://humanityunified.orgHumanity Unified is a socially conscious lifestyle brand for the Changemaker, Traveler and Dreamer. Our model is simple, people before profits. We work with local organizations to help fun projects that empower women and children in developing nations through education, sustainable agriculture programs and economic development.
Bly
http://www.projectbly.comBly is a new travel, shopping and design e-commerce site that lets users travel and shop the world’s bazaars and flea markets.
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Bly, Shopping, Travel, Adventure, World, Marketplaces, Online, Explore
One Laptop Per Child
http://one.laptop.orgA non-profit devoted to providing children everywhere with opportunities to explore, experiment, and communicate. OLPC has designed a laptop, educational software, manufacturing base, and distribution system to provide children outside of the first-world with world-class technological learning opportunities
Garden Plan Pro
http://www.gardenplanpro.comHigh-tech meets gardening with a new iPad app that makes it simple to design the perfect vegetable plot. Garden Plan Pro is the easy way to draw vegetable beds, add plants and create the perfect layout for any space.
Future Feeders
http://futurefeeders.weebly.comFuture Feeders is growing the next generation of farmers. We want to engage young people in agriculture and develop pathways for skills development and long term happy, viable and sustainable careers in food production and land management. We are committed to ethical land stewardship and believe that this will be an essential foundation for successful food production now and into the future.