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VEDI was founded to increase veteran business capacity via sustainable community alliances to reinforce the returning veterans' civilian experience and reduce veteran business failures and rampant veteran unemployment

CTUL is a nonprofit workers center focused on providing leadership development to low-wage workers throughout the Twin Cities. We are an organization by and for low-wage workers, dedicated to achieving fair pay, safe conditions, basic dignity, and a voice in the workplace for ourselves and future generations of workers. Through CTUL low-wage workers have recovered nearly $2 million in stolen wages and damages, and won policy changes improving the lives of thousands of workers.

1. Sustain and promote the growth of the manufacturing labor force within the United States of America. 2. Help people of all ages to launch their own entrepreneurial manufacturing businesses. 3. Partner with unions to reinvent their role in assisting with job creation. 4. Campaign large manufacturing corporations to maintain a foothold in the USA. 5. Create an online information resource center to assist new manufacturing entrepreneurs and organizations. 6. Raise funds that will be dedicated to furtherance of these goals

Zahana in Madagascar is dedicated to participatory rural development, education, revitalization of traditional Malagasy medicine, reforestation, and sustainable agriculture. It is Zahana's philosophy that participatory development must be based on local needs and solutions proposed by local people. It means asking communities what they need and working with them collaboratively so they can achieve their goals. Each community's own needs are unique and require a tailor -made response

To bring sustainable projects to the people of Nepal. Help with Disaster Recovery in the USA and abroad.

The Dalit Freedom Network stands with the most marginalized and vulnerable groups in South Asia by providing education, healthcare and economic development programs.

The Whispering Seed is a village based Home for Children and Sustainable Living and Learning Centre working in Myanmar and Thailand since 2004. We are a US registered 501 C3, tax-exempt charitable organization striving to bridge the traditions of sustainability and holistic education through innovative programs, trainings and design, drawing on the richness of local wisdom and traditional cultures along with renewed, socially appropriate models. With a pioneering spirit, Whispering Seed strives to support and build partnerships and collaborations between local groups within Myanmar and South and Southeast Asia, as well as with the international community. By supporting the diversity of cultures and richness of traditional wisdom within Myanmar along with the integration of new models for learning and sustainable development we are searching for creative solutions to the variety of challenges which Myanmar will face throughout the next critical years of development. WS is focused on five critical areas of development. With a holistic and integrated approach we aim to support the growth and development of a new society which is representative of the rich diversity of peoples and cultures of Myanmar. The five areas of focus are: 1. Children & Youth 2. Holistic Education 3. Pioneers in Sustainability 4. Mindfulness, Health & Well-being 5. Vocational Skills

Networking and resourcing grass roots initiatives in developing countries. Our mission is, " Do not withhold good from those who deserve it when it is in your power to act." These initiatives currently include the following: * In Sierra Leone: providing Ebola relief, building and supporting orphanages and schools, and digging wells and sanitary facilities * In Burundi: building and supporting an orphanage and facility for single mothers; ensuring nursing and support for abandoned babies, and giving microloans and training for widows * In Ethiopia: providing financial support of a pediatric surgical center.

The Public-Private Alliance Foundation (PPAF), a non-profit organization, promotes the United Nations Global Goals and a business approach for poverty alleviation through projects and seminars involving multi-stakeholder cooperation. PPAF engages in work on clean cookstoves and fuel, agribusiness, public health, microfinance & remittances, renewable energy and other aspects of sustainable development.

A non-partisan, non-profit organization 501(c)(3) based in Washington, DC that invests in the orange economy by supporting the arts, education, and entrepreneurship to catalyze economic development and stimulate a sustainable economic development. Friends of Puerto Rico is the bridge between educational and cultural communities in Puerto Rico and its diaspora.

We keep mothers and children together by providing resources and training sufficient to maintain families.

Northeast Occupational Exchange, Inc. (NOE) exists to assist persons who are physically and mentally disabled and otherwise vocationally handicapped to maximize their independent living capability, eliminate abuse and dependence on substances and enhance employability and economic independence through the provision of integrated: Personal and Social Adjustment Training Programs, Advocacy, Vocational, Educational, and Psychological Assessment, Psychological Services, Residential Services, Community Placement Employment Programs, and Substance Abuse Services. Northeast Occupational Exchange accepts MaineCare, Medicare, private insurances and self pay. A sliding fee schedule is available upon request - please contact the billing office for more details.