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OUR PARTNERS

THIS FILM WAS MADE POSSIBLE WITH THE GENEROUS SUPPORT OF THE CERES TRUST

And a grant from Puffin Foundation West, Ltd.

We are happy to partner with groups that support the message of microcredit and social business.

Join the Social Business Movement today!

GRAMEEN BANK

Bank for the Poor

 

MEANINGFUL MEDIA (our 501(c)3 sponsor)

Meaningful Media is a nonprofit network committed to changing our world through media.

Bonsai People is an official project of 501(c)3 non-profit organization Meaningful Media (36-4576954)

BANGLADESH 6G

Thinking 6 generations ahead.  Forever

Bangladesh 6G’s mission is to create an abundant, holistic and sustainable Bangladesh.

DINING FOR WOMEN

Changing the World One Dinner at a Time

Dining for Women’s mission is to empower women and girls living in extreme poverty by funding programs that foster good health, education, and economic self‐sufficiency and to cultivate educational giving circles that inspire individuals to make a positive difference through the power of collective giving.

FEEL GOOD WORLD

Ending World Hunger, One Grilled Cheese at a Time

FeelGood is a movement to end hunger in our lifetime, an accredited program for a new generation of social entrepreneurs, and a community of people who share a common vision of a world free from hunger; a world that works for all life.

THE GRAMEEN CREATIVE LAB

Passion for Social Business

The Grameen Creative Lab’s vision is to serve society’s most pressing needs.

The difference between the rich and the poor is not wealth, but opportunity.

GRAMEEN FOUNDATION

Grameen Foundation helps the world’s poorest, especially women, improve their lives and escape poverty through access to small loans, new ways to generate income, and important information about their health, crops and finances.

HUB

The HUB is designed to facilitate the creation of sustainable impact through collaboration.  HUBs are uniquely designed spaces that provide a creative environment as well as a professional infrastructure to work, meet, learn and connect.

KIVA

Kiva is a non-profit organization with a mission to connect people through lending to alleviate poverty. Leveraging the internet and a worldwide network of microfinance institutions, Kiva lets individuals lend as little as $25 to help create opportunity around the world.

MICROCREDIT SUMMIT CAMPAIGN

A Project of RESULTS Educational Fund

To ensure that 175 Million of the world’s poorest families, especially women of those families, are receiving credit for self-employment and other financial and business services.

To help 100 million families rise above the US $1 per day threshold by 2015.

MONTH OF MICROFINANCE

WHAT: A month of Educational, Awareness and Fundraising events for domestic and global microfinance.

WHEN: April 1 – April 30, 2012

WHERE: College, university and high school campuses across the country.

RESULTS

To create the public and political will to end poverty by empowering individuals to exercise their personal and political power for change.

SOCIAL ENTERPRISE ALLIANCE

Where mission meets the marketplace

SEA is the leading membership organization in North America for social enterprises, service providers, nonprofit organizations, corporations, and venture capitalists that is actively building the field of social enterprise through networking opportunities, educational forums, strategic partnerships, and impact legislation.

 

EMPOWERMENT WORKS

‘Empower all sectors of society to co-create a thriving world’

 

WHOLE PLANET FOUNDATION

Whole Planet Foundation‘s mission is poverty alleviation through microcredit in communities worldwide that supply Whole Foods Market stores with products, with a focus on the developing world. Through innovative assistance for entrepreneurship – including direct microcredit loans – we seek to unleash the energy and creativity of every human being we work with in order to create wealth and prosperity in emerging economies.

WRIGHT FOUNDATION FOR TRANSFORMATIONAL LEADERSHIP

The purpose of the Wright Foundation for Transformational Leadership is to transform the nature of organizations in the world through developing, researching, and transmitting the principles of transformational leadership with a unique emphasis on personal transformation as the starting point for transforming our businesses, our communities, and our world.

CHERIE AMIE – Be Sexy Buy Fair

Cherie Amie is the first fair-trade intimate apparel company to adopt the Good Returns business model and contribute 100 percent of its end-of-year profits to sustainable poverty relief programs.

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Bonsai People: The Vision of Muhammad Yunus, Nobel Peace Prize Winner from microcredit to social business