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"Every child & woman has the right to lead a life, free from discrimination, inequality and exploitation. This is the key to our nation building" Dr Girish Kulkarni founder of Snehalaya. Snehalaya means 'Home of Love' and its just that for many marginalised women and children in Maharashtra, India, who have no one else to turn to. The goal is simple to combat poverty and exploitation of all people adversely affected by the commercial sex industry in India. To strive for the basic human rights of its clients through offering pathfinding and practical support methods. To continue to provide rescue, shelter and care for their vulnerable clients to find their way to a better empowered life. Snehalaya also is dedicated to giving support and operating without any religious or political agenda.

Impact Hub Budapest, a coworking space intended to support dreamers and entrepreneurs in their efforts to find solutions for critical global issues since 2016. But the founders also wanted to build a philanthropic arm of the business in order to ensure that the needs of their community and Hungary at large. Since 2017, our NGO, the Foundation for Sustainable Enterprises (Fenntarthato Vallalkozasokert Alapitvany or FVA), has been actively providing opportunities for the underserved and underprivileged people of Hungary, including projects targeting youth (i.e. SIA award for social innovators ages 14 to 30) and women (i.e. AWE, Capsule, She's Next, Momentum Project Programs). Support for our programming has been three-fold: grant money has significantly bolstered our progress; the Hub's substantial resource pool has proven indispensable; and also of great value is the Hub's entrepreneurial ecosystem. It offers strong partnerships with stakeholders from various sectors, including large corporations, other NGOs, universities, start-ups, Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs), consultants, and embassies, all with the ultimate effort to aid those in need. Our primary NGO work is centered around the importance of social enterprise, to help people start businesses that are financially sustainable and have a positive social or environmental impact, and also to raise awareness and educate the community on social and sustainable innovations. We promote, implement, and encourage sustainability measures, environmental protection, and social innovation. Our work is strengthened by the efforts we make to nurture cross-border relations. Encouraging intercultural communication and cooperation between nations-as well asmore locally between minority groups in Hungary-is key for our growth and success. Our ultimate goal at FVA is to enact positive social change within Hungary, to allow our young minds and the women of our nation the opportunity to flourish despite the financial and social struggles they face daily. To that end, our objectives are to continue to grow the Impact Hub network and create resources for our programs, to raise funds for their benefit, and to develop programming with their education and growth a priority. The FVA has a wide range of entrepreneurial experience. In addition to our team founding the Impact Hub, for the past seven years we have developed programs to educate the youth and women of Hungary on how to start and run their own businesses, with a strong emphasis on mentorship programs so that our participants have access to a sizable repository of business knowledge. As mentioned, the IH Budapest provides the FVA (and by extension the women of our proposed program) with a massive cooperative global network of 112 Hubs in 47 countries, on 5 continents, with more than 19,000 members. Links between Hubs in Europe are especially strong; the IH Budapest has joined forces with Hubs in the Czech Republic, Romania, and Austria to partner on various projects. The IH community is extremely supportive, sharing best practices and practical knowledge around co-working, enterprise development, and mentor pool management. Our participants are added to this global community (accessible through the community app), allowing them access to every imaginable resource to begin the work of building their businesses. The Social Impact Award (SIA) network is also part of our global repertoire. This community consists of companies and NGOs running SIA programming in their respective countries. Programming works similarly to the FVA's, with a combination of training and mentoring. The SIA network is a thriving cooperative community for early, idea-stage entrepreneurs as well as for finalists of national programs. Alumni also stay connected, sharing and offering assistance as they grow beyond the SIA program. Our foundation also has a number of local connections, most notably the start-ups, well-established entrepreneurs, and NGOs working at the IH Budapest, where we also work. It is not uncommon for members of these entities to meet in the kitchen for tea or lunch. Halfway through a steaming cup of Earl Grey new ideas are born and niggling problems solved. We also hold community events and knowledge sharing workshops on the topics of social innovation, sustainability, and entrepreneurship at the IH Budapest for more structured networking opportunities. Additionally, FVA has been part of a local social entrepreneurship ecosystem for the past two years. And we have spearheaded efforts to strengthen cooperation between agents of the Hungarian social enterprise sector (such as Ashoka Hungary, the Badur Foundation, Magnet Bank, SIMPACT, Association of Hungarian Impact Investors, and more). Further, we are actively involved with investors of both Impact Ventures and the Association of Hungarian Impact Investors (THBE), Impact Ventures and the Business Angels Association (HunBAN). Our collaboration with these entities allows social entrepreneurs in our community access to financing. We have also partnered with Magnet Bank; with the national agencies IFKA Public Benefit Non-profit Limited Company renamed recently as MGFU and the National Employment Nonprofit Limited Liability Company (OFA) (both working with social enterprises in rural areas of Hungary); with the municipality of Hajdu-Bihar County on their DelFin project; and with the NGOs Malta Gondoskodas Nonprofit Ltd. and Roma Education Fund, Red Cross all in order to boost our entrepreneurs' business skills. We at FVA provide entrepreneurial resources and education, as well as mentorship, for women across Hungary, primarily those in isolated rural areas from 2020 annually. We are running the 4th Edition in 2024/2025. The target audience for our program (AWE Hungary - Academy of Women Entrepreneurs) is women between the ages of 25 and 55 in both urban and rural areas of Hungary, lacking confidence, support, and resources, struggling to start and/or build their own businesses. Activities are designed primarily around building and pitching a business plan, with one-on-one mentoring to support this process. Our overarching goals include boosting confidence levels of all participants; broadening participant business networks, knowledge, and skills; increasing participant resolve to form social impact businesses, as well as their determination to launch their business 12 months after program completion; and see that participant business ideas have significantly improved.

Africa Schoolhouse (ASH) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization dedicated to bringing quality education, medical care, job training and clean water to rural villages in Northern Tanzania. In order to achieve these goals, ASH works in partnership with communities and the local government to build desperately needed schools, deep wells and medical clinics, creating an environment that enables residents to live full, productive and healthy lives. ASH was founded in 2006 after village elders from Ntyula, Tanzania approached founder Dr. Aimee Bessire with the idea of building a school for their children and a medical clinic for the entire community. Dr. Bessire, who has a decades long relationship with the people of Ntulya, was determined to take action. Within six months, the Africa Schoolhouse board was assembled. ASH broke ground on its first project, the Ntulya Primary School and campus, in July 2008 and completed construction in 2010. President of Tanzania, Jakaya Kikwete, personally inaugurated the new school and declared it a model for all rural schools in the country. The villagers talked about how proud they were that the President came to visit the school they had helped to build. Following the request of the Ntulya elders, the organization completed a modern medical clinic the following year, which now serves approximately 4,500 people. ASH continued working with local communities in the region to identify need and completed the renovation of Mwaniko Secondary School and Shilanona Primary School in 2012 and 2014. Improvements at these locations included building a bio-chemistry lab and the installation of the first solar-powered computer lab in Misungwi District. ASH also trained a local work-force to help with the construction and continued maintenance of these projects. ASH's newest project is to construct an all-girls boarding school-the first in Misungwi District. This exemplary school will provide space for 360 girls in Forms 1-4, with the possibility to expand the campus and add another 80 girls in Forms 5-6 as needed in later years. Currently only 1% of Tanzanian girls complete secondary school education. They face a wide range of obstacles to their education, including everything from families who privilege the education of sons over daughters, to girls being married off at young ages, and unsafe journeys to school. One of the largest issues faced by girls is finding a safe place to live while pursuing their education. In this rural area, many girls travel long distances to reach school. Safe passage to and from school is a critical issue. We want to provide a safe living situation for young women to delight in their education. ASH is partnering with Misungwi District to build a much-needed safe haven for girls, empowering them through education to grow into strong, healthy women. In addition to a standard academic curriculum, the school will also promote leadership, entrepreneurship, social justice and care for the environment. The school will create an essential safe space where young women can successfully complete their studies and grow into empowered, independent adults. As with our other projects ASH is collaborating with the local communities, school committee, and Tanzanian government. We are building this school at the request of the local community, who identified this as their greatest need. The school will be staffed and run by the District once completed. The District has selected Florencia Ndabashe to be the school's head teacher. Ndabashe currently leads a co-ed secondary school in Misungwi and brings great energy to her work. She will be a strong leader for the girls school, inspiring her fellow teachers and serving as an excellent role model for young women.

(1) The object of the company is - the promotion of sport (skateboarding), - the promotion of dance, art and culture - the promotion of education and participation of young people - the promotion of child and youth welfare within the meaning of 41 SGB VIII, (2) The object of the company is realized in particular by - the promotion and practice of the sport and youth culture of skateboarding, - the promotion of dance art, young up-and-coming artists and cultural workers through events and workshops for creation and presentation - organizing joint activities related to skateboarding and dance, such as workshops, training sessions, presentations and performances - creating inclusive and low-threshold sports, art and youth culture offers for pupils and other young people from socially disadvantaged families and families of non-German origin - the implementation of leisure programs within which male-dominated subcultures are specifically made accessible to girls and women, in particular through pedagogically supervised and protected training times for girls and women - the teaching and further development of sports and experiential education concepts in conjunction with integral and resource-oriented coaching methods - Cooperation and working groups with schools, in particular special schools and schools with a high proportion of pupils of non-German origin Cooperation and working groups with children's and youth facilities with a focus on girls and women, sports clubs and youth welfare organizations. Our Main Project is: DANCE ON BOARDS is an innovative format that brings together the strengths of skateboarding and dance. Itis led by experienced dance facilitators and skateboardcoachesand offers disadvantaged students in theagefrom 6-17 in underserved areas the opportunity to implement both forms of movement. We work directly in the schools and specifically promote girls in sport. Our partner schools in the Berlin districts of Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg and Neukolln have a high percentageof children with non-German language of origin (Jens Nydal98.8%, Albrecht v. Grafe 95.0%, Fichtelgebirge 45.4%, Campus Rutli 69%, Otto Wels 94%, Burgermeister Hertz 51.2%, Heinrich-Zille 61,6%, Carl v. Ossietzky 85%, Adolf Glabrenner42,5%, Rosa Parks 38,3%, Campus Efeuweg81,3%, Theodor Storm 88,8%). https://www.bildung.berlin.de/Schulverzeichnis/ As an official part of the regular school curriculum (morning program, whole class), all children have equal access to the program regardless of gender, origin or social background. Our focus is on the promotion of girls in sports. It starts in our team structure with13female and 3 male coaches. In ourweekly traininggroupDANCE ON BOARDS (DOB Company) and ourFemaleJunior Coach Community wespecifically promote girls in their personal development.

Nuestras Huellas is a non-profit organization that workes to help people living under social vulnerability gain economic independence and realize their life goals through financial solidarity and education, fostering sustainable development. 97% of participants in our programs are women. We operate with two main strategies: Training Program: Implementing learning spaces (courses, workshops, lectures, etc) centered around: financial education, business management, leadership, and communication Microfinance Program: Promoting solidarity economy by accompanying community banks and solidarity groups, technical assistance, access to microcredits and training Objectives We facilitate people's path to self-empowerment so they can recognize their own skills and abilities to promote their personal development. This is achieved through training programs where we cover issues including finance, entrepreneurial skills, digital literacy, communication, and leadership. All this training takes place in regular meetings coordinated by our team, based on the idea that knowledge is co-created through hands-on activities. We work to strengthen the economic independence of people in vulnerable situations through solidarity finance and education, promoting sustainable and community-driven development. 97% of the people we serve are women entrepreneurs We carry out this work in alliance with social organizations, companies, governments, among others. We've supported over 4000 projects. As such, we contribute to the following SDGs: No poverty (SDG 1) Quality education (SDG 4) Gender equality (SDG 5) Decent work & economic growth (SDG 8) Reducing inequalities (SDG 10) Partnership for the goals (SDG 17)

Empower World Wide exist to empower women, girls, children and youth in the local communities, come out of spiritual, economic, social, and healthy poverty caused by gender-based violence, and enable them to develop into responsible and self-supporting adults to transform their communities through a holistic empowerment approach. Empower Worldwide works with children, women and youth to improve their livelihood and create resilient communities. We are community based, community driven and child centred organisation. Empower World Wide, achieves its mission through; 1. Providing scholarships and eduction support to poor of the poorest girls and boys in the rural poor. 2. We work to protect girls in the community they live by making these communities safer for them. 3. We empower caregivers to take on their roles of supporting their family by economically empowering them with income generating skills. 4. We prepare girls and boys for tomorrow by ensuring that they learn atleast a skill that can fetch them an income. 5. We mainly focus on child' education by ensuring that the child completes atleast primary school. 6. Through our work we end early marriages, child toture, child neglect and invest in child protection. 7. We support poor families to become productive in their communities through a poverty graduation program. 8. We mobilise poor rural communities to participate in productive saving and credit associations and support them to grow thier incomes which helps them to take children to school. 9. We make sure that the schools are safe, children have water and a good enviroment that enables them to learn.

- General objectives: Take care of orphans; Humanitarian action; Health; Teach languages. - Specific objectives: Create schools for orphans; Provide health, financial and educational assistance to vulnerable families, the destitute, orphans, widows, the disabled, divorced women and people affected by natural disasters; Establish development projects whose benefits go to orphans and vulnerable people; Restore the psychological adaptation of child victims of trafficking; Develop partnerships with government and private agencies; Help people living in poor and needy areas or villages by providing them with food, drinks, clothing and medicines; Building hospitals and planning health projects to improve health conditions in the provinces; Building schools and digging wells in needy villages; Providing urgent medical, psychological and social assistance to victims of disasters and calamities; Intervening in humanitarian emergencies; Providing food, drink, clothing and care, including personal organization and psychological and health follow-up; Providing safe housing and care for orphans and street children; Providing recreational, cultural and educational activities to orphans and children from poor families, and giving them the opportunity to actively participate in them, whether individually or collectively; Establishing development projects such as agriculture, handicrafts, vocational training, etc.; Pay tuition fees for students from poor families; Provide assistance to certain patients and facilitate the provision of assistance for their treatment; Creation of educational, cultural and professional centers for young people seeking employment; Promote job creation and self-employment of young people and women; Contribute to environmental protection and the fight against climate change; Contribute to peacebuilding, social cohesion and peaceful coexistence; Organize scientific courses and cultural seminars.

Fundacion Via Cocina is a community based project focused on improving the health and economic development of vulnerable women, youth and underprivileged in Medellin Colombia. With a personalized training and mentoring system sharing healthy food recipes, cooking techniques and applied financial planning and entrepreneurial small business fundamentals, we build a program for individuals and families based on their current reality, applying the training to objectives created with them, for them, in their own home. Additionally, we provide classes to individuals and groups who want to learn to cook healthy dishes with local ingredients for their families, transforming them into uncommon flavors that are low in fat, oil, salt and sugar-free. These activities look to decrease frequency and severity of non-communicable diseases in the communities, including obesity, diabetes and cholesterol.

Made Media Group's mission is to inform, empower and transform African American communities through media & tech to eliminate economic disparities through neighborhood initiatives.  1.Literacy program: Texas Black Literacy Project which cultivates literacy & celebrates literature.Our programs include 2. Soul of Austin Culture fest: Creative space for Texas based artist, performers, musicians to share their talents with a multicultural audience. The goal is to employ as many minority artists as possible. 3. Narrow the Gap Initiative- Economic education: Teaching black & women owned businesses how to start and build small or nonprofit businesses, to help with job creation to create economic equity 4. Media & Tech training: Camps and programs to teach minorities and females how to seek careers in media and technology.

The Mirror Foundation Mission Objectives 1. To promote young women and men's ideals to volunteer and serve in society 2. To learn, research and develop social evolution 3. To promote local community to help develop and strongly solve the community's problems 4. To promote their society and community to better and happy situation 5. To promote mass media technology in developing their society 6. To promote education and develop learning skill in children, youth and community 7. To promote and protect human rights 8. To create their appreciation in preservation of their natural resources and environment 9. To promote their varieties of cultures and traditions 10. To promote and create strong economic system in the community 11. Public benefits prosecution or cooperation with other social organisations for public benefits 12. Not involve in politics

Ahimsa is a hub who supports and consultancy for the development of NGO in Jiangxi. Aim at developing NGO in Jiangxi, Ahimsa hold training to raise awareness of the NGO, conference for regional development, workshop for capacity building and micro-foundation for grass-roots. At the same time, Ahimsa advocates for the professionalization and diversification of NGO by providing consultancy and services The mission of Ahimsa is to promote the professionalization, diversification, and sustainable development of Jiangxi NGO. The Vision of Ahimsa is: Developing Local NGO and cultivating NGO system. The main contents of Ahimsa include developing local NGO and improving their human resources by providing professional trainings. Ahimsa especially focus on the most marginalized and vulnerable people like children, women, the disable, the elderly, poverty-stricken and disaster-hit people as well as LGBTQ and HIV/AIDS group.

Gruppo Aleimar is a non-profit voluntary organization that deals with children and families in need both in Italy and abroad, through the Distance Support, projects of development and awareness-raising and human development activities on the Italian territory. The main areas of our development projects are: 1. Education: taking charge of children in family (natural or adoptive), in foster homes and shelters, schooling and vocational training. 2. Health and hygiene awareness: support to clinics and / or hospitals, funding of surgical operations, seminars for young mothers. 3. Women promotion: start-up of agriculture and livestock, creation of production cooperatives, micro-credit financing. 4. Rural villages' development: water well, kindergarten, solar energy for light and water pumps. 5. Women' refuge and social housing for families in temporary need. The Aleimar Group is active today in 12 countries (Benin, Brazil, Colombia, D.R. Congo, Eritrea, India, Italy, Malawi, Palestine, Kenya, Lebanon, Zambia) with more than 50 projects and takes care directly of 600 children (what we call distance support) and, indirectly, of other 2,500 children that we follow within our projects. The Group comprises Aleimar for overseas project; Tuendelee for Italian projects and Prema, a cooperative for mentally disabled youth. The Group hires five people and relays on the voluntary service of 140 people. Its annual turnover is abt.1,2 million euro and overhead cost is less than 10%. Its balance sheet is checked and approved by internal auditors. We have been granted a seal of quality "Donare con fiducia" by the Istituto Italiano Donazione. Its web sites are: www.aleimar.it and www.tuendelee.net. In 30 years of activity the Group has helped more than 10.000 children/families, has built more than 100 foster homes, orphanages, schools and water wells.