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Combining high-tech sensors, blockchain protocol and smart contracts, to build the world’s first publicly verifiable, community-driven ecosystem to assure the quality, safety & origins of food.

Innovates with client companies and governments to develop minimum viable products and comprehensive strategies for innovation across technologies

The essential connection between merchants, industry, governments, regulators, financial institutions and influential policy forums which give direction to this emerging industry at home and abroad.

Help broader society navigate the future Bitcoin and Blockchain world by explaining the changes and the new possibilities in plain language and through engaging, accessible media, meetings, workshops, research services and working groups.

Formed to standardize, protect and promote development of the Bitcoin core protocol with education , workshops and conferences.

A forum for open dialogue between industry and law enforcement and regulatory agencies, in order to help combat criminal activity on the blockchain.

Works to grow and enhance the Australian Blockchain community and further enhance the ecosystem through educating, developing and empowering the blockchain community of Australia and connecting with both global leaders and best practice.

Education, development, adoption, and use of globally accepted, industry-leading knowledge and practices for distributed ledger technology.

Connects entrepreneurs, researchers, regulators, and the public to help make Canada a global leader in Blockchain technologies.

Facilitates information exchanges about DLT among stakeholders in the financial industry, to create solutions and integrate Japanese knowledge with world knowledge.

Students and graduates who create clubs on academic campuses the combined effort of all these clubs creates a rich web of interconnected blockchain hubs across the world. 

Identifies subject matter experts to research and report on topics of critical interest to leaders of business, government, and NGOs.

Advocates for appropriate, not oppressive, regulation of cryptocurrencies and blockchain technologies. It represents diverse views in the blockchain space, acts as a reliable source of information for lawmakers, and offers a suite of services in government affairs.

COALA is an international, multidisciplinary, collaborative research and development initiative that endeavors to bring clarity and reduce legal uncertainty in the field of blockchain technologies, smart contracts and decentralized applications in today’s regulatory framework.

The leading non-profit focused on the policy issues facing cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin.

Certifies profession who intent to offer cryptocurrency-related services. Conferring Certified Bitcoin Professional credentials. Open CryptoCurrency Security Standard for the lifecycle of the crypto private key usage.

Launched by Third Key Solutions LLC, the network is a proposal for a decentralized dispute-resolution framework and an opt-in decentralized justice system designed and used by the blockchain community for commercial transactions.

Connects Fortune 500 enterprises, startups, academics, and technology vendors with Ethereum subject matter experts to learn from and build upon Ethereum.

A decentralized platform for uploading and running programs, conducting transactions, executing smart contracts, and automating traditional processes like settlement, accounting, and supply-chain tracking.

Supports research, development and education for decentralized protocols and tools that empower developers to produce next generation decentralized applications (dapps) to build a more globally accessible, free and trustworthy Internet.

Brings together the world’s leading businesses and business leaders to highlight the latest innovations and advances in Blockchain technology.

Explore, discuss current and future applications, and organize transactions through the Blockchain platform

Initiative of the Chamber of Digital Commerce that works with leading blockchain policy experts to develop industry best practices and shape global regulatory interoperability.

An open source collaborative effort created to advance cross-industry blockchain technologies.

Transforming business and society by accelerating the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT).

Developing an ecosystem of trusted, self-healing digital institutions that seeks to address the limitations of existing institutions by empowering individuals to assert greater control over their data, online identities and authentication.

Co-founded by New America, the Bitfury Group, and the National Democratic Institute, this initiative created a new business model for strategic capital ownership. Its model addresses the root causes of volatility.

A global network of researchers, activists, and citizens monitoring and promoting actions geared towards a transition to a Commons-based society.

Connects practitioners, regulators and central banks on a global scale to identify and drive forward activities and position specific recommendations that may leverage distributed ledger technologies’ for the benefit of the post trade industry.

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Working with over 80 banks, financial institutions, regulators, trade associations, professional services firms and technology companies to develop a ledger platform designed specifically for financial services.

Bringing together global experts in areas ranging from cryptography, to economics, to privacy, to distributed systems, to take on this important new area of research.

An open platform for collaboration, education and innovation to help accelerate and drive the progress of blockchain technology for industry, government and society.

A membership association founded by the Intel Corporation, TDL consists of industry leaders and academic institutions that exchange research on customer, market, and technology insights into improving DLT, in order to expedite a trusted single European digital market.

Launched by the University College London, the center generates multi-disciplinary, multi-stakeholder research across such topics as cryptography, law, smart contracts, automation, and sociological impact of decentralized decision-making systems.

A neutral, unbiased steward of education and cooperation between Wall Street firms and educates the public to advance mainstream adoption.

Improve the state of the world by serving as a trusted partner of all the stakeholders of global society as they embark upon transformation processes in response to the profound economic, social and political changes sweeping our world.

Helping cities become more resilient to physical, social and economic challenges of the 21st century.

One of the UK’s biggest campaigning communities, with millions of members.

Works to improve conditions for bicycling, walking and transit and engage people in healthy and active ways to get around.

Planning and policy program, providing leadership on a broad range of transportation, sustainability, and economic-development issues impacting America’s growth in the 21st century.

Supporting planners who are committed to sustainable communities, integrating all aspects of sustainability, economic, social, and ecological factors that shape them.

Pioneered by the Rockefeller Foundation and operated by Mercy Corps, committed to knowledge, resource access and advocacy to build urban climate change resilience

Advocate for commuter transportation and transportation demand management contributing to energy independence, better air quality, sustainability, urban mobility, and reduced congestion.

Match passengers in long taxi lines at airports, conferences and other crowded venues, providing a more affordable mobility alternative to waiting in long taxi lines and black car service.

Providing solutions for urban transportation using data collection and data visualization techniques in cooperation with governmental authorities.

Provides cities training and technical expertise on improving building design standards and construction techniques for low-rise masonry and timber structures to withstand earthquakes and extreme weather events.

Produces research and analysis to support the successful deployment of existing and proposed BRT systems and high-quality bus corridors around the world.

Working to promote the bicycle as a viable, healthy, and sustainable transportation choice.

The mayors of megacities around the globe whose mission is the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions and the mitigation of climate risks.

A reporting platform to enhance transparency, accountability and credibility of climate action, tracks emissions in cities.

Provides the only global system for companies and cities to measure, disclose, manage and share vital environmental information.

Cultivates robust and thriving communities that are healthy, just, economically viable and environmentally sound.

Seeks to understand the complexity of interactions between land use and transport; supporting citizen-focused planning for transportation systems that are socially equitable and environmentally sustainable.

Combines academic knowledge and extensive “real world” experience in developing innovative, implementable solutions for all modes of transportation.

Promoting the opportunities to be found in under-served housing markets across Africa.

Seeking to understand and improve UK cities’ economic performance and how and why economic growth and change takes place in cities and to produce research that helps cities improve their performance.

Conducting an active agenda of research, events and publications, CIGI’s interdisciplinary work includes collaboration with policy, business and academic communities around the world.

Researches into, lobbies for and communicates the urgency of development that is both sustainable and equitable.

We help build and activate teams – deadset on making timely, meaningful progress in their cities – with research, events and a national network of changemakers.

Network of researchers, policymakers, and practitioners working in the field of migration and settlement, the knowledge exchange hub in the interest of migrants and the general public.

Change.org is the world’s largest petition platform, empowering people everywhere to create the change they want to see.

Promotes social inclusion, particularly  poor and vulnerable groups, in urban planning and development by providing experts and facilitating knowledge exchanges on city development strategies, innovative finance and slum upgrading.

Pushing for urgent action against urban diabetes on a global scale by mapping its extent, sharing solutions and tackling the growing challenge of diabetes in the world’s great cities.

Helps cities to develop pre-feasibility studies for high-priority infrastructure projects, provides analysis of economic, environmental, institutional and social costs and benefits of  investments to enhance projects’ resilience value.

A hub for collaborative experiments in making cities better.

Analyzes global urban development trends, focusing in on specific issues.

Seeks to improve local integration practice in major immigrant-receiving cities worldwide through information sharing and learning exchange.

Data platform created by Clean Air Asia for use by governments, civil society, academic/research institutions, the business sector, and development organizations who are committed to promoting better air quality management in the cities of Asia.

Spurs innovations to help cities work better for all of their people through the power of independent journalism.

A website and think tank devoted to data-driven analysis of cities and the policies that shape them.

A platform for ideas and business development, designed to enable new partnerships among the business, government and societal leaders who are shaping the 21st Century.

The largest association of urban stakeholders committed to sustainable development in the Asia Pacific region.

Working to build vibrant communities where people have diverse choices for how they live, work, and get around based on the belief that well-designed cities and neighborhoods are crucial for health, the economy, and the environment.

The Compact of Mayors is the world’s largest coalition of city leaders addressing climate change.

Promoting ​a better understanding of the role of sustainable urbanization and resilient design in the planning of our cities with a new found optimism about the urban future.

Connecting people, tools and resources to support crisis response.

Community of pioneering data scientists, visionary change makers, community builders, and social innovators.

Collecting data to provide transportation system in Nairobi

Devoted to sustainable transportation systems.

Organizations working together to advance a sustainable environment while creating greater economic opportunities for all.

Focused on accelerating blockchain technology across the energy sector.

An online magazine that shares creative strategies and new technologies to foster public engagement for livable communities.

The network of major European cities. Members are the elected local and municipal governments of major European cities.

Brings together cities, industry and citizens to improve urban life through more sustainable integrated solutions.

Promotes co-operation amongst European microfinance bodies working in developing countries, by facilitating communication and the exchange of information.

Our Urban Future, a project of the multi-stakeholder policy network Evergreen Cityworks will design solutions for a more sustainable urban future.

Represents the interests of municipalities on policy and program matters that fall within federal jurisdiction.

Helps cities to use their Integral Development of Sustainable Communities model, as an integrated approach to developing quality housing, community services, and economic opportunity for low-income communities.

Indicating the importance of public space and place making in city planning at Habitat III 2016.

Improved transportation system with benefits for riders and drivers.

Provides cities a means of raising funds from individuals, the private sector and Asia-focused charitable organizations for projects, as well as a means for engaging highly qualified regional NGOs in Asia to contribute to a city’s resilience-building strategy.

Crowdfunding community connects nonprofits, donors, and companies around the world allowing local organizations to access funding, tools, training, and support.

Mayors convening to identify and pursue in common the public goods of urban citizens around the world through a new global governance platform.

Securing renewed political commitment for sustainable urban development, assess accomplishments to date, address poverty and identify and address new and emerging challenges.

A collaboration of MBOs of the working poor, international alliances of MBOs and support organizations working to improve the situation of the working poor.

A research and strategy organization and the leading authority on U.S. inner city economies and the businesses that thrive there.

A platform for collaboration between local governments committed to the Charter of Educating Cities, which is the road map of cities they compose.

Advances professional local government worldwide to create excellence in local governance by developing and fostering professional management to build better communities.

International forum for governments and public authorities that have implemented or are planning to implement emissions trading systems (ETS).

Provides technical consulting, training, and information services to build capacity, share knowledge, and support local government in the implementation of sustainable development.

A worldwide network of professionals representing the broad field of housing and planning.

Promotes human development and environmental sustainability through innovative research, communication and partnerships.

An open worldwide scientific network for education and research to promote the implementation of the UN Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) in urban areas.

Provides cities with a crowd-resourcing platform for citizen-led, neighbor-funded projects, with particular emphasis on food security, personal mobility and public transport, as well as complementary training for project leaders and financing guidance.

Enabling IoT devices to communicate, understand and trust each other with global interoperability based on open standards.

We aim to improve quality of life in urban India, through systemic change.

Working to empower legacy cities in the United States to continue as community centers.

Makes the fastest available Wi-Fi accessible for free to any user on streets across the City

Works with cross-sector leaders in cities to build a new type of urban practice aimed at dramatically improving the economic well-being of low-income people.

Research, education and outreach activities to study how people and cities interact, focusing on how the physical form and design of cities impacts on society, culture and the environment.

US mayors working to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and supporting efforts for binding federal and global-level policymaking

A city-university collaborative for urban innovation.

More than 140 members from across the world and operates as an international forum for exploring issues and concerns common to all big cities and metropolitan regions.

Working to provide housing financing for lower income households (mostly in the informal sector) in urban India.

Arena for the development and transmission of knowledge, in which cooperation with business, interest groups and the general public is developed. The centre has four local platforms in Cape Town, Kisumu, Gothenburg and Manchester.

Provides cities with an online crowdsourcing platform where citizens and experts work together to create, analyze, and select detailed proposals to address what to do about climate change and urban challenges through the running of contests.

Tackling the challenges associated with urban development in the twenty-first century.

Protects New York’s legacy spaces, encourages intentional planning and urban development, and fosters complete neighborhoods across the five boroughs.

Helping city leaders build better communities in partnership with the 49 state municipal leagues; a resource to and an advocate for the more than 19,000 cities, villages and towns it represents.

Fostering urban innovation and entrepreneurship by building and empowering our global network, convening events and conducting pragmatic research.

Inspiring social, economic and environmental change in cities by creating media and events around the world.

Developing, visualizing and exporting Nordic innovative solutions for livable, smart and sustainable cities.

An openly licensed map of the world being created by volunteers using local knowledge,

Seeks to re-think the city, in theory and practice, as a flexible and evolving space that better responds to contemporary urban challenges.

Partnership for Market Readiness — PMR

Brings together the key actors—countries, organizations, and expertsto spark innovative aproaches to GHG mitigation using markets and carbon pricing.

Mobilizing action that changes the world. We envision a world in which everyone has discovered their power to make a difference, creating healthy communities in vibrant, participatory societies.

Helping communities plan for and realize their futures.

An interdisciplinary network of researchers and practitioners from 20+ US universities, national labs, nonprofit organizations, and private institutions coordinating work on the theme of Sustainable Cities.

Accelerating the adoption of market-based solutions that cost-effectively shift from fossil fuels to efficiency and renewables.

An international network of local slum dweller communities, organised at the city and national level to form federations of the urban poor.

A platform to connect to share, discuss and create the future of Toronto

A hub for institutional knowledge and best practices in the field of citizen diplomacy through strategic institutional partnerships, grants, programs, and support for its members.

Provides permanent supportive housing so that people who have experienced homelessness, prolonged extreme poverty, poor health, disabilities, mental illness and/or addiction can lead safe, stable lives in wellness.

Satellite images, digital mapping and remote sensing technology to investigate, illustrate, monitor environmental issues.

SMART undertakes and catalyzes research, demonstration projects (living labs), education, and global learning exchange on a range of issues related to the sustainable future of transportation in an urbanizing world.

The world’s leading smart cities network to advance livability, workability and sustainability.

Fosters and develops knowledge and implementation of urban ecology by strengthening contacts between researchers and practitioners.

Promotes efficient and effective voluntary standardization in Canada, where standardization is not expressly provided for by law.

Foster sustainable communities in the United States – communities guided by principles of social justice and distinguished by healthy environments, strong local economies, and thriving cultures.

SCI works with cities around the world to bring about change towards urban sustainability.

A network and communication system to deliver information, connect people and projects, and accelerate the city’s transformation across the world.

A politically independent, not-for-profit organization that brings together both the current and next generation of urban leaders, thinkers and practitioners.

Research and policy work to advance the theory and practice of planning for biophilic cities, through a combination of collaborative research, dialogue and exchange, and teaching.

Helps cities solve problems through a combination of open innovation and public-private partnership.

Investigates the influence of digital media technologies on urban life, and what this means for urban design and policy.

A news and information resource for promoting and disseminating ideas, creating community, increasing political participation, and improving the places we live.

This website is a platform for thought and discussion, as well as an evolving directory of projects, organisations and events focused on thinking about and improving urban living.

Reclaim New York City’s streets from the automobile and promote bicycling, walking, public transit.

Meet the challenges of current crises in the economy, energy security, and climate change by building healthy, equitable communities and providing equal public transportation access to all.

Tumml’s mission is to empower entrepreneurs to solve urban problems. With a hands-on approach, Tumml provides entrepreneurs with the tools to help scale their impact and enhance quality of life in cities everywhere.

United Cities and Local Governments (UCLG) represents and defends the interests of local governments on the world stage, regardless of the size of the communities they serve.

UN-Habitat is the United Nations programme working towards a better urban future. Its mission is to promote socially and environmentally sustainable human settlements development and the achievement of adequate shelter for all.


The united voice and world advocate of democratic local self-government, promoting its values, objectives and interests, through cooperation between local governments, and within the wider international community.

Analysis of climate change mitigation and adaptation from an urban perspective.

Expanding opportunities to reduce hardship among the most vulnerable, and strengthen the fiscal health of governments and effectiveness of public policies.

Government professionals networked for best practices for a healthy environment.

Offers space, equipment, and shared resources to entrepreneurs addressing New York City’s most pressing urban challenges in sectors such as energy, waste, transportation, food, water, and the built environment.

Web-based crowdsourcing mapping tools and apps allow users to feedback and data in day-to-day and disaster situations to help improve public services.

Facilitates the sharing of ideas between city leaders and professionals internationally across the real estate, technology, design, and urban infrastructure industries.

Improve the state of the world by serving as a trusted partner of all the stakeholders of global society as they embark upon transformation processes in response to the profound economic, social and political changes sweeping our world.

Facilitates the dialogue between governments, civil society, and the private sector to build an effective coalition that can achieve the initiative’s goals.

Climate-focused campaigns, projects and actions led from the bottom-up by people in 188 countries.

One of the UK’s biggest campaigning communities, with millions of members.

Advancing the clean energy future by reliable information, comprehensive advocacy and problem solving through innovation and collaboration.

Examining the dynamics and drivers of this vulnerable environment, while exploring ways to promote the resilience of people, local organizations and governments.

Web based portal for sharing climate information and best practices. The project was set up by a team of 5 African and 5 European organisations and ran from October 2011 to September 2014.

Helps create a developing world that has the capacity to mitigate and adapt to climate change and its related issues, through management of these challenges on the African continent and beyond.

International non-profit organization dedicated to advancing science for the benefit of all people.

Furtherance of the Earth and space sciences, and communicating science’s ability to benefit humanity.

Administrator and coordinator of the United States private sector voluntary standardization system

Seeks to alleviate the suffering and damage inflicted on animals in laboratories, factories and in the wild.

An independent digital media project dedicated to covering Arctic issues

Pioneered by the Rockefeller Foundation and operated by Mercy Corps, committed to knowledge, resource access and advocacy to build urban climate change resilience

Constructive leadership and engagement in international affairs based on the Atlantic Community’s central role in meeting global challenges.

Showcases the many community-based monitoring (CBM) and traditional knowledge (TK) initiatives across the circumpolar region.

Internet organizing that allows thousands of individual efforts to be rapidly combined into a powerful collective force.

Bottom-up climate adaptation strategies towards a sustainable Europe by making experiences and scientific information about adaptation meaningful, transferable and easily accessible to decision-makers at all levels.

Big Cat Rescue is one of the largest accredited sanctuaries in the world dedicated to abused and abandoned big cats.

An innovative nonprofit educational organization that highlights breakthrough solutions for restoring people and the planet.

A vision for a future rich in bumblebees and colorful flowers, supporting a diversity of wildlife and habitats.

The mayors of megacities around the globe whose mission is the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions and the mitigation of climate risks.

Promotes the business of capture and geological storage of carbon dioxide as a means of abating atmospheric emissions of carbon dioxide.

Tracks the carbon footprint of organizations, develop and deploy low carbon technologies and solutions.

A reporting platform to enhance transparency, accountability and credibility of climate action, tracks emissions in cities.

Project of Investor Watch developed a tool to measure how much carbon is “Unburnable.”

Helps communities create a vision for the future and establish the necessary actions to improve overall resilience to disasters and other disturbances.

Provides the only global system for companies and cities to measure, disclose, manage and share vital environmental information.

Works through science, law, and creative media to secure a future for all species, great or small, hovering on the brink of extinction.

Research and analysis on how policies and actions affect the developing world including aid effectiveness, climate change, education, globalization, health, migration and trade.

Researches into, lobbies for and communicates the urgency of development that is both sustainable and equitable.

Non-profit organization advocating for sustainability leadership by mobilizing a network of investors, companies and public interest groups to accelerate and expand the adoption of sustainable business practices and solutions to build a healthy global economy.

Change.org is the world’s largest petition platform, empowering people everywhere to create the change they want to see.

Data platform created by Clean Air Asia for use by governments, civil society, academic/research institutions, the business sector, and development organizations who are committed to promoting better air quality management in the cities of Asia.

The largest association of urban stakeholders committed to sustainable development in the Asia Pacific region.

A strategic communications group dedicated to highlighting the wide-ranging impacts of climate change and clean energy solutions in the United States.

Research, knowledge management and advisory services to support decision makers and drive the latest and best thinking on climate compatible development.

 

 

Promoting government, private sector and individual action to limit climate change to ecologically sustainable levels.

Establishes and builds partnerships between business, government and public bodies to accelerate international sustainable development and advance the ‘green economy’.

An independent scientific analysis produced by three research organizations tracking climate action since 2009.

The Climate and Land Use Alliance seeks to realize the potential of forested and agricultural landscapes to mitigate climate change, benefit people, and protect the environment.

Survery and conducts reasearch on climate change.

Integrating cilmate change information into mainstream corporate reporting

An emerging alliance of leading global, regional and national knowledge brokers specialising in climate and development information.

A strategic communications organization dedicated to changing the conversation on climate and clean energy solutions in the United States.

Research central questions about climate change communication and translate this work into practical resources and workshops.

Improving the most important energy and land use policies and business practices around the world, with a particular focus on finance.

Using tech to build a network of connected people demanding climate change with a collective voice.

Creating opportunities for innovators to shape the world’s next economy.

ClimateWorks collaborates with funders, regional and research partners, and other climate leaders to strengthen philanthropy’s response to climate change.

Building an online platform for climate solution projects to meet CROWDS of like-iinded Investors.

Dedicated to accelerating innovation to eliminate industrial greenhouse gas emissions.

Enacting responsible electronics recycling policies that require domestic recycling of untested, nonworking e-waste.

Participatory community building and research and evaluation that creates effective and sustainable programs in all forms of development issues.

Protecting natural wealth, fostering effective governance and promoting sustainable production.

Helping communities address coastal issues of climate change.

Advocates for a competitive repair market, as well as improvements to the quality and longevity of products.

Works with over 50,000 partners in 192 countries to broaden, diversify and mobilize the environmental movement.

Young activists, artists and musicians from across the globe stepping up as leaders and co-creating the future we know is possible.

Earthjustice uses the power of law and the strength of partnership to protect people’s health; to preserve magnificent places and wildlife; to advance clean energy; and to combat climate change.

EcoWatch is a dedicated platform for environmental news that helps transform the ability of individuals to learn about environmental issues and take action.

Establishing extended producer responsibility (EPR) as the policy tool to promote sustainable production and consumption of consumer electronics.

Organizations working together to advance a sustainable environment while creating greater economic opportunities for all.

Focused on accelerating blockchain technology across the energy sector.

Funds students working with companies to reduce carbon footprint.

Fostering innovative, just, and practical law and policy solutions to enable leaders across borders and sectors to make environmental, economic, and social progress.

Promotes co-operation amongst European microfinance bodies working in developing countries, by facilitating communication and the exchange of information.

Our Urban Future, a project of the multi-stakeholder policy network Evergreen Cityworks will design solutions for a more sustainable urban future.

International standards for revenue and payments in mining, oil and other extractive projects

Seeks to create a peaceful world rich in resources and beauty for everyone, where we care for each other and our planet by creating products and services that have a positive impact on society and the environment.

FSC is an independent, non-profit organization that protects forests for future generations.

Keeping corporations honest in their dealings with the communities they work in

An international hub to coordinate new, interdisciplinary approaches to research on three themes: Dynamic Planet, Global Sustainable Development and Transformations towards Sustainability.

A global campaign to ignite a generation of young people to bring forth a thriving, just, sustainable world.

Seeks to influence public policy over trade, the environment, and relations between countries in the industrialized north and underdeveloped south.

Offers courses in measuring, accounting and managing greenhouse gas emissions.

A free and interactive tool that helps you to understand the link between our lifestyles, the energy we use, and the consequences for our climate.

A community of people who want to take action on the world’s biggest challenges and get people involved to make life more sustainable.

Technology-based solutions to climate change, energy efficiency, ewaste, and human rights.

A technology platform that uses satellite data to inform the public about overfishing and make global fishing activity more transparent.

Advancing sustainability through us of ecological footprint accounting tools.

Online forest monitoring and alert systems that empowers people everywhere to better manage forests.

Crowdfunding community connects nonprofits, donors, and companies around the world allowing local organizations to access funding, tools, training, and support.

Enhance cooperation, identify and fill information gaps, share information and strengthen awareness, political will, and capacity to promote resource conservation and resource efficiency.

Promotes the use of sustainability reporting as a way for organizations to become more sustainable and contribute to sustainable development.

Provides technology and capacity building for sustainable energy and manages demonstration projects in developing countries

End exploitation of natural resources and corruption in the global political and economic system through hard-hitting investigations, exposure of abuses, and campaigns for change.

Repository of green organizations and information and to connect the sustainability movement in Africa.

Improving environmental performance of freight transport in Europe.

Promotes the potential to drive transformation and accelerate progress — within companies, industries and in the very nature of business.

Independent campaigning organization that uses peaceful protest and creative communication to expose global environmental problems and to promote solutions.

Creating a Global Earth Observation System of Systems (GEOSS) to better integrate observing systems and share data by connecting existing infrastructures using common standards.

Providing higher education institutions with a unique interface between education, science, and policy making

Collaborates with local partners to build resilience and catalyze adaptation to social and environmental change.

The intergovernmental body which assesses the state of biodiversity and of the ecosystem services it provides to society.

Works with partners worldwide to promote safe, secure and peaceful nuclear technologies.

International forum for governments and public authorities that have implemented or are planning to implement emissions trading systems (ETS).

Promote best practices in carbon management and offsetting.

Provides technical consulting, training, and information services to build capacity, share knowledge, and support local government in the implementation of sustainable development.

Establishing a functional international framework for trading in greenhouse gas emission reductions.

Reliable, affordable and clean energy via energy security, economic development, environmental awareness and engagement worldwide.

Promotes human development and environmental sustainability through innovative research, communication and partnerships.

Supports scientific research, manages field projects, and brings governments, NGOs, the UN and companies together to develop policy, laws and best practice.

Developing and encouraging long-term policies that safeguard the Arctic environment.

Places the power and resources for creating practical solutions to big challenges in the hands of the young people.

Crowdfunding business accelerators for climate mitigation

Leader in policy, standards, education and training, to support land trusts, increase the rate of land conservation, defend the land trust community from threats and build healthy, high-performing land trusts.

Founded to advance climate-resilient low emission development among programs and countries working to advance low emissions growth.

Sustainable transportation choices through mutual encouragement and friendly competition.

US mayors working to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and supporting efforts for binding federal and global-level policymaking

Working to provide housing financing for lower income households (mostly in the informal sector) in urban India.

Provides cities with an online crowdsourcing platform where citizens and experts work together to create, analyze, and select detailed proposals to address what to do about climate change and urban challenges through the running of contests.

Collates data, particularly from voluntary recording schemes, to make information available to conservation bodies and to publish the results.

Promotes citizen science, research, conservation, education and community engagement to protect coral reefs and marine habitats, preserve places of cultural significance and conserve our maritime history and heritage.

A global, open source platform to support the development of methods for natural and social capital valuation in business to preserve and enhance, rather than deplete the earth’s natural capital.

The nation’s most effective environmental action group, combining the grassroots power of 1.4 million members with the courtroom clout of nearly 500 professionals.

Raising ambition for action against climate change and supporting sustainable development through research, policy design and knowledge sharing.

Bringing thought leaders together, enhancing public engagement, and improving the user experience of complex global issues by building unique, user-centered resources that fuse news, live events, information design, and social participation.

Preventing toxic end-of-life ships from being beached in developing countries.

Science-based solutions for a healthy ocean and the wildlife and communities that depend on it.

Uniting and Activating Powerful Voices for Ocean Conservation.

Oceana is dedicated to protecting and restoring the world’s oceans on a global scale.

An organization focused on the conservation efforts of exotic and endangered species, both in captivity and in the wild.

A world of innovation accelerated by open, collaborative development – to solve world problems – before they are created

A youth-driven, global climate recovery campaign, securing the legal right to a healthy atmosphere and stable climate.

Partnership for Market Readiness — PMR

Brings together the key actors—countries, organizations, and expertsto spark innovative aproaches to GHG mitigation using markets and carbon pricing.

The global leader in developing young leaders and engaging adults and youth in their local and global communities.

A network of NGO organizations, institutions and individuals in over 90 countries working to replace hazardous pesticides with ecologically sound and socially just alternatives.

Seeks to increase understanding of the plastic pollution problem and to find sustainable solutions.

Promoting the health of pollinators, critical to food and ecosystems, through conservation, education, and research.

Improving people’s access to education, health, food security, housing, drinking water, sanitation, clean energy, and the financing of entrepreneurial projects.

A tool to explore and document wildlife and a platform to harness the power of citizen Scientists.

Programs unite and mobilize the global snowsports community against climate change.

Campaigns for the forests, their inhabitants and the natural systems that sustain life.

Broker relationships between government organizations, businesses, and civil society to impact national policies, evaluate data, methodology guides for decision makers, facilitate policy implementation.

An international non-profit organization that advances markets for clean energy in developing countries.

A nonpartisan research project on economic risks and opportunities of climate change in the U.S.

Engaging the whole urban community in thinking and doing more about nature.

Accelerating the adoption of market-based solutions that cost-effectively shift from fossil fuels to efficiency and renewables.

Long-term conservation of coastlines through outreach, planning and community capacity-building with a surfing focus.

Works with governments, industry, international organizations and civil society to develop and promote ideas and actions for international collaboration that achieve the secure, sustainable, and peaceful uses of outer space.

Research, advocacy and grassroots organizing to promote human health and environmental justice in response to the rapid growth of the high-tech industry.

Satellite images, digital mapping and remote sensing technology to investigate, illustrate, monitor environmental issues.

Fosters and develops knowledge and implementation of urban ecology by strengthening contacts between researchers and practitioners.

Leading innovation in the management and development of environmentally, economically and ethically-sound e-waste resource recovery, re-use and prevention.

A Greenpeace cause. Advocacy to reach companies and governments that can act to save bees.

Promotes efficient and effective voluntary standardization in Canada, where standardization is not expressly provided for by law.

Independent research institute engaged in environment and development issues globally.

Works with governments, industry, international organizations and civil society to develop and promote ideas and actions for international collaboration that achieve the secure, sustainable, and peaceful uses of outer space.

The protection and enjoyment of oceans, waves and beaches through a powerful activist network

Develop methodologies, tools and strategies based on sustainability issues.

Mobilizes scientific and technical expertise from academia, civil society, and the private sector in support of sustainable development problem solving at local, national, and global scales.

Collaboration to develop sustainable energy solutions.

Global support for sustainable, low carbon transportation, policy consideration and climate advocacy

Innovation competitions, identifying sustainability solutions, impact and benefits.

Organizing, communicating and educating the world about the powerful climate change-reversing ability of healthy soil, and helping the transformation of farms and grasslands to restore a healthy climate.

Climate finance mechanisms & business models to promote innovation, and supportive policy frameworks.

Brings together the people and tools needed to address some of the world’s most difficult problems, from climate change and environmental degradation, to poverty, disease and the sustainable use of resources.

Results based finance model for carbon markets.

Improving environmental performance and energy efficiency of transportation to benefit public health and mitigate climate change through research and technical and scientific analysis.

 

Creative, technology-driven ideas to tackle the ocean’s greatest challenges.

Grow the financial resources available to support marine conservation in order to promote healthy ocean ecosystems and benefit the human communities that depend on them.

Advances ocean conservation in partnership with aquariums, zoos, museums, and other visitor-serving organizations around the world.

The nation’s largest and most influential grassroots environmental organization.

A series of 90-second videos that portray this moment of reckoning between human nature and the force of nature at the tipping point of our collective future.

Ensuring that trade in wild plants and animals is not a threat to the conservation of nature.

Promote at EU and global level, a transport policy based on the principles of sustainable development.

Mobilize resources within their respective businesses to help achieve zero net deforestation by 2020.

UN-Habitat is the United Nations programme working towards a better urban future. Its mission is to promote socially and environmentally sustainable human settlements development and the achievement of adequate shelter for all.

Analysis of climate change mitigation and adaptation from an urban perspective.

Government professionals networked for best practices for a healthy environment.

A network of organizations active on climate change supporting US-based civil society organizations’ influence on the development and implementation of climate policy and action.

Helping people gain access to clean water sources, and bringing attention to the water crisis. Promotes sanitary drinking water and water conservation

Working to ensure food, water, livelihoods, income security and an improved quality of life for vulnerable and disadvantaged communities.

A platform to amplify the business voice, catalyze bold climate action by all, and promote smart policy frameworks.

Direct action on the ground to preserve habitats, conserve the environment, and alleviate poverty.

Interactive marketplace for innovation in green technology

CEOs creating a sustainable future with constructive solutions and shared action.

Document and communicate best-practices, analyze the barriers and prepare proposals to overcome these, communicate need for Renewable Energy.

Improve the state of the world by serving as a trusted partner of all the stakeholders of global society as they embark upon transformation processes in response to the profound economic, social and political changes sweeping our world.

Promoting an affordable, stable and environmentally sensitive energy system.

A network of national green building councils, championing their leadership and connecting them to a network of knowledge, inspiration and practical support.

Facilitates the dialogue between governments, civil society, and the private sector to build an effective coalition that can achieve the initiative’s goals.

Conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on Earth.

Helping cities become more resilient to physical, social and economic challenges of the 21st century.

A coalition of leading U.S. companies committed to engaging 100,000 young people in jobs, internships, and apprenticeships by 2018

One of the UK’s biggest campaigning communities, with millions of members.

Working to build a financially inclusive world – one in which every individual has access to high-quality, affordable financial services.

Help people find their own solutions, give local organizations support and help communities take action together to hold their governments to account.

Social and financial education to children and young people worldwide, empowering a positive change for a more equitable world.

Economic growth and employment initiatives between American and African entrepreneurs.

Better European government support for productive, sustainable, equitable and resilient agriculture, especially smallholder farmers, in sub-Saharan Africa.

Builds open source internet and mobile software that is designed to support international development partnership networks.

Working to enable everyone, everywhere to access the life-changing power of the Internet.

Financial policymakers from developing countries working to increase access to financial services for the poor.

Combining high-tech sensors, blockchain protocol and smart contracts, to build the world’s first publicly verifiable, community-driven ecosystem to assure the quality, safety & origins of food.

Administrator and coordinator of the United States private sector voluntary standardization system

Educational organization dedicated to promoting mutual understanding and strengthening partnerships among peoples, leaders and institutions of Asia and the United States in a global context.

Fostering leadership for enduring values.

Youth-led organization uses Indigenous knowledge to sustain the well-being of Mother Earth, our cultural heritage, and to empower young people as community leaders.

Avocacy at a global level that aims to transform the human rights landscape for refugees in first countries of refuge – See more at: http://asylumaccess.org/about/story/#sthash.ROpQ7bW9.dpuf

Study of cooperation in the Atlantic area and engaging with a wider transatlantic relationship for rebalancing of relations in the Atlantic space.

Internet organizing that allows thousands of individual efforts to be rapidly combined into a powerful collective force.

Help broader society navigate the future Bitcoin and Blockchain world by explaining the changes and the new possibilities in plain language and through engaging, accessible media, meetings, workshops, research services and working groups.

Education, development, adoption, and use of globally accepted, industry-leading knowledge and practices for distributed ledger technology.

Connects entrepreneurs, researchers, regulators, and the public to help make Canada a global leader in Blockchain technologies.

Students and graduates who create clubs on academic campuses the combined effort of all these clubs creates a rich web of interconnected blockchain hubs across the world. 

Challenging companies to develop inclusive business models providing opportunities for millions of people to lift themselves out of poverty.

Helping fund more than 400 projects for girls’ and women’s equality, health and rights.

Policymakers from developing and emerging countries working to increase access to financial services for the poor.

The authority on consumer financial health, leading a network of committed financial services innovators to build better consumer products and practices.

Research and analysis on how policies and actions affect the developing world including aid effectiveness, climate change, education, globalization, health, migration and trade.

Promoting the opportunities to be found in under-served housing markets across Africa.

Conducting an active agenda of research, events and publications, CIGI’s interdisciplinary work includes collaboration with policy, business and academic communities around the world.

Non-profit organization advocating for sustainability leadership by mobilizing a network of investors, companies and public interest groups to accelerate and expand the adoption of sustainable business practices and solutions to build a healthy global economy.

Change.org is the world’s largest petition platform, empowering people everywhere to create the change they want to see.

Worldwide multi-sectoral network, which is dedicated to enhancing the financial capabilities of children and youth.

A comprehensive, 21st century learning experience to help students develop the foundational ICT skills needed to design, build, and manage networks.

Dedicated to improving working conditions and supporting the empowerment of workers in the global garment and sportswear industries.

Connecting one million people in the developing world to basic computer work while raising them up as leaders to address poverty in their own communities.

Participatory community building and research and evaluation that creates effective and sustainable programs in all forms of development issues.

Bringing sustainability to business practices.

Premier professional association for school district technology leaders working to transform learning.

Central hub for information on incidents and evidence of corporate harm to social systems.

Promotes interest and develops expertise in the next generation of foreign policy leaders and publishes Foreign Affairs, the preeminent journal of international affairs and U.S. foreign policy.

Think tank that uses film and interactive media to produce innovative, shareable ideas about politics, economics and society.

Develops, supports, and stewards legal and technical infrastructure that maximizes digital creativity, sharing, and knowledge through free legal tools.

Community of pioneering data scientists, visionary change makers, community builders, and social innovators.

Integrating innovative technology with global development efforts to improve human well being.

Leverage digital networks in support of 21st century humanitarian response.

Rockefeller Foundation initiative networking youth with digital job opportunities.

Seeks to improve education for the poor children in slum and rural schools in India.

Telling stories of American inequality to humanize the experience of the poor and lower-middle class and support writers who are themselves financially on the edge.

Protect workers and communities affected by electronics supply chain.

Focused on accelerating blockchain technology across the energy sector.

Promotes co-operation amongst European microfinance bodies working in developing countries, by facilitating communication and the exchange of information.

Entrepreneurial innovation

Smart phone manufacturer using fair labor practices and conflict free materials.

Family Planning 2020 (FP2020)

Supports the rights of women and girls to decide, freely, and for themselves, whether, when, and how many children they want to have.

Promoting financial inclusion and regional financial integration, and institutional and organizational development to increase access to financial services for the un- and under-served.

Benefits for self-employed workers.

Improved transportation system with benefits for riders and drivers.

Transform the lives of the socially vulnerable through food and with Vocational Kitchen Training.

Provides cities a means of raising funds from individuals, the private sector and Asia-focused charitable organizations for projects, as well as a means for engaging highly qualified regional NGOs in Asia to contribute to a city’s resilience-building strategy.

A community platform for youth service, volunteer, educational and engagement needs.

Seeks to save lives, improve livelihoods, empower women, and protect the environment by creating a thriving global market for clean and efficient household cooking solutions.

Crowdfunding community connects nonprofits, donors, and companies around the world allowing local organizations to access funding, tools, training, and support.

Supports, convenes and harnesses the capacities of its global, regional and national partners and members, working across the multiple dimensions of human resources for health.

End exploitation of natural resources and corruption in the global political and economic system through hard-hitting investigations, exposure of abuses, and campaigns for change.

Strives to enhance the dignity and quality of life of individuals and families by helping people reach their full potential through education, skills training and the power of work.

Working with communities to end world hunger and poverty and to care for the Earth.

African economic development

Humentum

Inspire and achieve operational excellence for those organizations working for positive social impact.

Oversight of the Internet

Engages diaspora communities to support economic and social development.

News outlet giving voice to the poor

Transforming business and society by accelerating the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT).

Discovering and promoting effective solutions to global poverty problems using data collection.

Managing scholarships, training, exchange and leadership programs, conducting research and facilitating policy dialogue on higher education, protecting scholarship around the world.

Investing in knowledge, innovation, and solutions to improve lives and livelihoods in the developing world.

Brings together governments, employers and workers representing 187 member States to set labor standards, develop policies and devise programs promoting decent work for all.

Helping people whose lives and livelihoods are shattered by conflict and disaster to survive, recover, and gain control of their future.

A large open international community of network designers, operators, vendors, and researchers concerned with the evolution of the Internet architecture and the smooth operation of the Internet.

Carrying out the mandate from the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) with regard to convening a new forum for multi-stakeholder policy dialogue.

Promotes research of importance to the evolution of the Internet.

Enabling IoT devices to communicate, understand and trust each other with global interoperability based on open standards.

A global network of researchers who use randomized evaluations to answer critical policy questions in the fight against poverty.

Aligning workforce needs to create an inclusive and competitive economy.

Catalyzes scalable change for girls by investing in visionary leaders and local organizations through leadership development, organizational strengthening, grant-making, and advocacy.

Makes the fastest available Wi-Fi accessible for free to any user on streets across the City

Works with cross-sector leaders in cities to build a new type of urban practice aimed at dramatically improving the economic well-being of low-income people.

Enabling girls to complete 12 years of safe, quality education so that they can achieve their potential and be positive change-makers in their families and communities.

Helping women have children by choice, by providing contraception and safe abortion (where legally permitted) in 37 countries.

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Works on the costs of exclusion and pathways to more inclusive economies, assembles the expertise and resources necessary to find workable answers, and enables effective global as well as region-specific actions that expand inclusion.

Stresses the importance of local realities and works in partnership with local stakeholders in line with the essential local-to-local dimension of the migration and development nexus.

Advancing collaborative solutions that widen access to capital, create jobs and improve health.

An online volunteering platform that links neighbors (online volunteers) with villages (local communities) in Africa, Asia and Latin America to share ideas and find solutions to local issues.

Promote openness and accountability in government by building political and civic organizations, safeguarding elections, and promoting citizen participation.

Bringing thought leaders together, enhancing public engagement, and improving the user experience of complex global issues by building unique, user-centered resources that fuse news, live events, information design, and social participation.

Preventing toxic end-of-life ships from being beached in developing countries.

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Taking action to end extreme poverty and preventable disease, particularly in Africa.

Innovating Internet and mobile phone applications that the world’s poorest people can use to improve their life chances.

Trains networks of citizen reporters from the most marginalized communities; empowers them to bring their perspectives into the public dialogue using– basic mobile phones.

Non-profit banker for the working poor.

A forum in which governments seek solutions to common economic, social and environmental problems, a shared commitment to market economies backed by democratic institutions and focused on the wellbeing of all citizens.

Works with people living in poverty striving to exercise their human rights, assert their dignity as full citizens and take control of their lives.

Links researchers globally to enhance capacity for development policy analysis in developing countries.

Links researchers globally to enhance capacity for development policy analysis in developing countries

Partnership for Responsible Financial Inclusion

Expertise in the advocacy and delivery of innovative, scalable, and responsible financial services for poor and low income clients.

Drives financial inclusion by using innovative information solutions. Using original research, PERC develops information solutions that serve unmet needs in the market.

Improving people’s access to education, health, food security, housing, drinking water, sanitation, clean energy, and the financing of entrepreneurial projects.

An international network of investors working together to put the six Principles for Responsible Investment into practice.

Working towards the promotion and implementation of regenerative food, farming and land-management practices.

International human rights organization which aims to support marginalized communities that are deprived of media or public attention.

Collaborates with communities and local governments across Asia and Africa to develop literacy skills and a habit of reading among primary school children, and support girls to complete secondary school with the life skills they’ll need to succeed.

The SEEP Network is a global network of international practitioner organizations dedicated to combating poverty through promoting inclusive markets and financial systems.

Source conflict-free minerals with a closed pipe supply chain.

A global initiative that supports and connects stakeholders to coordinate action, learn what works, and identify innovative solutions to enhance employment among youth.

Promotes efficient and effective voluntary standardization in Canada, where standardization is not expressly provided for by law.

Deliver aid and harness the power and knowledge of the network to make faster and better decisions to help people affected by crises.

Advocates for open government globally and uses technology to make government more accountable.

Promoting the environmental and social sustainability of agricultural activities through the development of standards for best practices, certification and training for rural farmers around the world.

Crowdsource proposals on sustainable development goals.

Solving threats that undermine the sustainability of maritime shipping.

International development organization committed to improving lives across a dynamic and developing Asia.

Empowers women and men living in rural villages to become the agents of their own development and make sustainable progress in overcoming hunger and poverty.

Provide microfinance institutions with tools and resources to deliver transparent, respectful, and prudent financial services to all clients.

Strategic policy initiative for businesses that are committed to aligning their operations and strategies with ten universally accepted principles in the areas of human rights, labor, environment and anti-corruption.

Expanding opportunities to reduce hardship among the most vulnerable, and strengthen the fiscal health of governments and effectiveness of public policies.

Connecting the African population to the electricity grid, and providing access to those who live beyond it.

Ensuring that powerful institutions solve human rights problems where goods are made and crops are grown.

Trains female survivors of war with skills to promote economic stability

Devoted to giving more low-income women access to the financial tools and resources they require to build security and prosperity.

Improve the state of the world by serving as a trusted partner of all the stakeholders of global society as they embark upon transformation processes in response to the profound economic, social and political changes sweeping our world.

Facilitates the dialogue between governments, civil society, and the private sector to build an effective coalition that can achieve the initiative’s goals.

Provides an open access archive of spatial demographic datasets for Central and South America, Africa and Asia to support humanitarian, development and health applications.

A national organization, working to engage young adults on issues, such as higher education, health care, and jobs.

Accomplished global activists, recognized leaders, & young entrepreneurs – all committed to improving the world by increasing youth entrepreneurship.

1,000 Days

Working to ensure a healthy first 1,000 days for mothers and children everywhere.

Helping cities become more resilient to physical, social and economic challenges of the 21st century.

One of the UK’s biggest campaigning communities, with millions of members.

A national fundraising movement for childrens cancer research and treatment.

Working to enable everyone, everywhere to access the life-changing power of the Internet.

Promotes the generation and use of health policy and systems research (HPSR) as a means to improve the health systems of low- and middle-income countries.

ALNAP is a unique system-wide network dedicated to improving humanitarian performance through increased learning and accountability. Donors, agencies, NGOs, private sector.

International non-profit organization dedicated to advancing science for the benefit of all people.

Furtherance of the Earth and space sciences, and communicating science’s ability to benefit humanity.

Investigators, communicators and activists.

A source of expertise on water, sanitation and hygiene-related challenges, offering a broad range of services to the public and private sector.

Avocacy at a global level that aims to transform the human rights landscape for refugees in first countries of refuge – See more at: http://asylumaccess.org/about/story/#sthash.ROpQ7bW9.dpuf

Study of cooperation in the Atlantic area and engaging with a wider transatlantic relationship for rebalancing of relations in the Atlantic space.

Internet organizing that allows thousands of individual efforts to be rapidly combined into a powerful collective force.

Innovative, national campaign that is working to make poverty a focus of U.S. foreign policy.

Enables all young people, especially those who need us most, to reach their full potential as productive, caring, responsible citizens.

Based on existing procedures in the participating EU countries, developing recommendation for family reunification of unaccompanied minors according to the Dublin procedure, with the welfare and interest of the minors as guidelines.

Fighting global poverty with special focus on women because, with the proper resources, women have the power to help whole families and entire communities escape poverty.

Helping fund more than 400 projects for girls’ and women’s equality, health and rights.

Research and analysis on how policies and actions affect the developing world including aid effectiveness, climate change, education, globalization, health, migration and trade.

Advocating for the clear and consistent support of sexual and reproductive health and rights in all U.S. foreign policy and programming.

Mobilizes the scientific expertise of the Earth Institute to create tools and research that shape new solutions to the challenges of sustainable development.

Close the treatment gap for people living with mental, neurological and substance use disorders in low resource settings.

Conducting an active agenda of research, events and publications, CIGI’s interdisciplinary work includes collaboration with policy, business and academic communities around the world.

Network of researchers, policymakers, and practitioners working in the field of migration and settlement, the knowledge exchange hub in the interest of migrants and the general public.

Change.org is the world’s largest petition platform, empowering people everywhere to create the change they want to see.

Participatory community building and research and evaluation that creates effective and sustainable programs in all forms of development issues.

Protecting natural wealth, fostering effective governance and promoting sustainable production.

Promotes interest and develops expertise in the next generation of foreign policy leaders and publishes Foreign Affairs, the preeminent journal of international affairs and U.S. foreign policy.

Working to cure cystic fibrosis and to provide the opportunity to lead full, productive lives by funding research and drug development, promoting individualized treatment and ensuring access to high-quality, specialized care.

Committed to providing adults and children with cancer with the best treatment available today while developing tomorrow’s cures through cutting-edge research.

Community of pioneering data scientists, visionary change makers, community builders, and social innovators.

Works in Australia with people from countries affected by war and conflict to promote peace, development and human rights in their countries of origin.

Empowers marginalized communities to use technology to defend their rights. As technology becomes cheaper and more accessible, it can and should be used to bring more voices to the table.

Provides rapid response communication networks for use in disaster relief and humanitarian aid work using  networks and services to help to connect responding organizations as well as affected communities.

Dedicated to bringing thought leaders together, enhancing public engagement, and improving the user experience of complex global issues. Builds unique, user-centered resources that fuse news, live events, information design, and social participation.

Protecting Children from Sexual Exploitations.

Conducts field research in countries plagued by genocide and crimes against humanity, develops practical policies to address these crises, and shares sensible tools to help empower citizens and groups working for change.

Promotes co-operation amongst European microfinance bodies working in developing countries, by facilitating communication and the exchange of information.

Dedicated to making pregnancy and childbirth safe for every mother by mobilizing action and raising funds to support maternal health programs around the world.

Roadmap on how to enhance financing, strengthen policy and improve service for vulnerable populations.

Family Planning 2020 (FP2020)

Supports the rights of women and girls to decide, freely, and for themselves, whether, when, and how many children they want to have.

Facilitates the process of diagnosing poverty-related diseases through their expertise and efficient partnerships.

Champions healthy food and clean water for all by standing up to corporations that put profits before people, and advocate for a democracy that improves people’s lives and protects our environment.

Grassroots community dedicated to building a sustainable food system. Members organize both through online campaigns and in-person actions across the country.

Engages community members through a food security and nutrition capacity-building hub where we share knowledge, resources, and promising practices.

Transform the lives of the socially vulnerable through food and with Vocational Kitchen Training.

Immunization programs in developing countries.

Seeks to influence public policy over trade, the environment, and relations between countries in the industrialized north and underdeveloped south.

Working to bring child marriage to global attention, to build an understanding of what it will take to end child marriage and calling for the laws, policies and programmes to be put in place that will make a difference in the life of millions of girls.

Coordinates short term volunteer GIS services to underserved communities worldwide.

B2B information hub that provides trusted food safety solutions to food businesses operating in global markets and supply chains.

Crowdfunding community connects nonprofits, donors, and companies around the world allowing local organizations to access funding, tools, training, and support.

Supports, convenes and harnesses the capacities of its global, regional and national partners and members, working across the multiple dimensions of human resources for health.

Addressing logistical and financial barriers to delivering prevention and treatments.

Collaboration for the identification and response to outbreaks.

Growing the number and effectiveness of Global Citizens to achieve the public, business and political commitment and action to end extreme poverty.

Supports collaboration in research in early stages of disease outbreaks.

Advancing governance and management of water resources for sustainable and equitable development.

IT professionals creating free software and technologies that can provide tools to achieve Companies/Institutions/NGOs/Research Institutes/Aid Agencies’ objectives.

Creating a Global Earth Observation System of Systems (GEOSS) to better integrate observing systems and share data by connecting existing infrastructures using common standards.

A non-profit, ecumenical Christian ministry that builds homes  for people in need using the work of volunteers and supporters from all backgrounds.

A tool for anyone who has been harassed or assaulted and for witnesses to harassment and assault all over Egypt.

Promote the development and implementation of safe and environmentally healthy practices, processes and products in the health care sector.

Global leader in utilizing online informal sources for disease outbreak monitoring and real-time surveillance of emerging public health threats.

A solidarity movement for gender equality that brings together one half of humanity in support of the other half of humanity, for the benefit of all.

Investigate abuses, expose the facts widely, and pressure those with power to respect rights and secure justice

A collective effort to enhance the contribution of innovation to improving operational humanitarian performance at the field level.

Disaster response nonprofit that monitors social media to save lives by supporting aid agencies and first responders during natural disaster and relaying urgent needs to those who can respond.

Humentum

Inspire and achieve operational excellence for those organizations working for positive social impact.

A collection of unique and widely acclaimed wikis geared towards the humanitarian aid community as well as media and policy makers.

Using social media to allow people from anywhere in the world to assist individuals and communities during natural disasters and man-made crises.

Providing contact details and resources for reporting online child abuse in many countries around the world.

Platform for rule of law solutions. Connecting innovative thinkers & doers.

Self-organizing group communications link the field, headquarters, and the local community in a real-time, interactive conversation visualized on a map.

Optimizing health system performance by focusing on the health of a population, the experience of care for individuals , and the per capita cost of care.

Using research, training, and advocacy to promote the inclusion of all stakeholders, particularly women, in peace processes.

Works with partners worldwide to promote safe, secure and peaceful nuclear technologies.

Independent, non-profit, non-governmental organization committed to preventing and resolving deadly conflict.

Reliable, affordable and clean energy via energy security, economic development, environmental awareness and engagement worldwide.

Brings together governments, employers and workers representing 187 member States to set labor standards, develop policies and devise programs promoting decent work for all.

Experts, practitioners, policymakers, technologists, researchers, journalists, scholars, hackers and volunteers working on humanitarian crises, new technology, crowd-sourcing, and crisis mapping.

Organizes law students and lawyers to develop and enforce a set of legal and human rights for refugees and displaced persons.

Helping people whose lives and livelihoods are shattered by conflict and disaster to survive, recover, and gain control of their future.

We find new ways to raise awareness, increase outreach and facilitate collaboration in an effort to improve the cancer experience.

A “mobile-for-development” project that aims to use widely accessible mobile phones to empower under-served communities with better information about water availability, price, and quality.

Enabling girls to complete 12 years of safe, quality education so that they can achieve their potential and be positive change-makers in their families and communities.

Humanitarian mapping charity that works through skilled volunteers to save lives and minimise suffering by making the response to humanitarian emergencies as targeted, efficient and effective as possible

Helping women have children by choice, by providing contraception and safe abortion (where legally permitted) in 37 countries.

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Sharing innovative resources and ideas to promote mental health and improve the lives of people with mental, neurological and substance use disorders.

When a natural disaster strikes, an economy collapses, or conflict erupts, Mercy Corps is there. We respond immediately to meet urgent needs for food, water and shelter, and stay beyond the emergency to partner with communities for their long-term recovery

Ensuring vitamins and minerals for vulnerable populations.

Stresses the importance of local realities and works in partnership with local stakeholders in line with the essential local-to-local dimension of the migration and development nexus.

Advancing collaborative solutions that widen access to capital, create jobs and improve health.

A simple method for remote training and illness diagnosis using a mobile-phone with camera and the capability to send MMS.

mPedigree delivers the technologies and partnership models needed to create a new kind of operating system for the supply chains which carry consumer products in emerging markets.

Influencing law and policy to influence those whose actions have the biggest impact on the lives of people living with and affected by HIV in the UK.

Promote openness and accountability in government by building political and civic organizations, safeguarding elections, and promoting citizen participation.

Helps member organizations collaborate, innovate, and leverage the full potential of information and communications technology to support their causes.

Bringing thought leaders together, enhancing public engagement, and improving the user experience of complex global issues by building unique, user-centered resources that fuse news, live events, information design, and social participation.

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Taking action to end extreme poverty and preventable disease, particularly in Africa.

Trains networks of citizen reporters from the most marginalized communities; empowers them to bring their perspectives into the public dialogue using– basic mobile phones.

Provide education on general principles and best practices on the care of critically ill children to healthcare providers around the world.

An openly licensed map of the world being created by volunteers using local knowledge,

Dealing with issues of food safety, industrial agriculture, genetic engineering, children’s health, corporate accountability, Fair Trade, environmental sustainability and other key topics.

Equip our partners with the tools and skills they need to engage effectively with technology, advance their work and respond to important issues in their communities.

The global leader in developing young leaders and engaging adults and youth in their local and global communities.

A network of NGO organizations, institutions and individuals in over 90 countries working to replace hazardous pesticides with ecologically sound and socially just alternatives.

Working to end child poverty through education, health and economic security.

Helping with the understanding of sexual health through educational and electoral activity, including legislative advocacy, voter education, and grassroots organizing to promote the Planned Parenthood mission.

Solving  the problem of rural poverty by empowering the poor through the Village Development Partnership, which establishes a community-owned Village Development Bank for the purpose of microcredit.

Bringing sustainable health to people by focusing on serious challenges like a lack of family planning, HIV and AIDS, barriers to maternal health, and the greatest threats to children under five, including malaria, diarrhea, pneumonia and malnutrition.

Improving people’s access to education, health, food security, housing, drinking water, sanitation, clean energy, and the financing of entrepreneurial projects.

Collects information on outbreaks affecting humans, animals and plants, validates and reports.

Helping to build institutional and systems capacity in India for strengthening education, training, research and policy development in the area of Public Health.

Brings advanced wireless technologies to underserved communities globally, improving lives with projects that strengthen economic and social development.

A free and open-source framework for rapidly building mobile services for scale.

Working towards the promotion and implementation of regenerative food, farming and land-management practices.

International human rights organization which aims to support marginalized communities that are deprived of media or public attention.

Raises funds and awareness to improve the lives of people with disabilities.

The global platform for coordinated action against malaria; mobilizing for action and resources and forging consensus among partners.

Safecity is a crowd map that converts individual stories of sexual harassment and abuse into data that is then plotted on a map to make trends visible.

Providing information management solutions that enable organizations and communities to better prepare for and respond to disasters.

Ending use of child labor in West Africa.

Using mobile technology to combat counterfeit medicine.

Promotes efficient and effective voluntary standardization in Canada, where standardization is not expressly provided for by law.

A global network of volunteers trained and ready to collaborate online in the immediate aftermath of a natural disaster, enabling volunteers to effectively assist crisis affected communities through co-operation with local and international responders.

Deliver aid and harness the power and knowledge of the network to make faster and better decisions to help people affected by crises.

Stimulates the development of innovative policies and scientifically-based solutions to water-related challenges.

A public-private partnership that supports the discovery of new medicines through open access research.

Advocates for open government globally and uses technology to make government more accountable.

International collaboration between institutions and NGOs to help deliver mental health consultations, education, and training to enhance capacity-building efforts for health care workers in the Syrian conflict setting.

Technology training for social change

TED

Devoted to spreading ideas, usually in the form of short, powerful talks.

A platform for corporate leaders to join forces to leverage the support, ingenuity and dynamism of world businesses to help end the refugee crisis.

International development organization committed to improving lives across a dynamic and developing Asia.

Works with the cocoa industry, civil society and national governments in cocoa-producing countries to ensure a better future for children and contribute to the elimination of child labour.

Designed to accelerate the end of AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria as epidemics.

Changing the world through creativity and community, identifies problems and then conceives simple and dramatic solutions to address them, inspiring donations to transform tens of thousands of lives worldwide.

A movement dedicated to tackling the global challenge of feeding 9 billion people through competitions for bold, breakthrough solutions.

Facilitates the transfer of knowledge from one language to another by creating and managing a community of NGOs who need translations and professional, vetted translators who volunteer their time to help.

Working together with governments, businesses and citizens to stop the abuse of power, bribery and secret deals.

Promotion and protection of human rights.

Bringing together humanitarian actors to ensure a coherent response to emergencies.

Web-based crowdsourcing mapping tools and apps allow users to feedback and data in day-to-day and disaster situations to help improve public services.

Ensuring that powerful institutions solve human rights problems where goods are made and crops are grown.

Identify, invest in and bring visibility to extraordinary women, unleashing their leadership potential to transform lives and accelerate peace and prosperity in their communities.

Increasing awareness of WASH issues and solutions, and increasing the amount and effectiveness of resources devoted to those solutions throughout Africa, Asia, and Latin America.

An international organization whose mission is to transform the lives of the poorest and most marginalised people by improving access to safe water, sanitation and hygiene.

Helping people gain access to clean water sources, and bringing attention to the water crisis. Promotes sanitary drinking water and water conservation

Driving the water sector for new solutions, new financing models, greater transparency, and real partnerships to create lasting change. Our vision: Safe water and the dignity of a toilet for all, in our lifetime.

A leading, global advocate for girls’ and women’s health, rights, and wellbeing driving progress in maternal, sexual, and reproductive health and rights.

Advocates and educates for the human rights of women and girls, with an emphasis on those with disabilities and their inclusion in international resolutions, policies and programs.

Networking, support and education to women in 70 countries. The network aims to strengthen women’s individual and collective struggles for equality and their rights, especially in Muslim contexts.

Improve the state of the world by serving as a trusted partner of all the stakeholders of global society as they embark upon transformation processes in response to the profound economic, social and political changes sweeping our world.

Promoting an affordable, stable and environmentally sensitive energy system.

Gets food to where it is needed, saving the lives of victims of war, civil conflict and natural disasters.

Primary role is to direct and coordinate international health within the United Nations’ system.

Facilitates the dialogue between governments, civil society, and the private sector to build an effective coalition that can achieve the initiative’s goals.

Provides an open access archive of spatial demographic datasets for Central and South America, Africa and Asia to support humanitarian, development and health applications.

Works to accelerate the transition to a sustainable world that meets human needs via access to renewable energy and nutritious food, expansion of environmentally sound jobs and development, transformation of cultures from consumerism to sustainability, and an early end to population growth through healthy and intentional childbearing.

Focuses on the rights of persons with disabilities globally and provides a platform where the most innovative and effective problem solutions are shared.

Crowdfunding

Crowdfunding

Mobile data collection and communication

Social Entrepreneurs Challenge

Reengineering traditional development projects in transportation, water supplies, health care and food distribution.