Harvard Pitch for Change 2010
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ICare Games
Game studio that developes serious games with a social or environmental background. We create virtual experiences, but real impacts.
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Founder2Founder
Founder2Founder is an exclusive membership organization for the world’s top young entrepreneurs that connects young founders with prominent entrepreneurs, CEOs and investors through its mastermind programs, group trips, and conferences.
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Tandem Consulting Group
Tandem is a strategy and organizational development consulting firm helping organizations do good and do it better.
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¡Pásala!
¡Pásala!’s mission is to harness children’s interest in football to improve literacy and academic outcomes, and to promote youth development through high-quality literacy and sports instruction.
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Ahimsa
We are a tech startup based in Recife/Brazil developing a social commerce application that will unite Consumers, E-commerce Stores and Social Organizations in virtuous cicles where everybody wins.
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PrintEco
PrintEco reduces printing costs for customers at home and in the workplace.
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Main Street Partners
By creating a venue where professionals and graduate students from top organizations can initiate project-based consulting engagements with small business owners, Bizfuze enables professionals to volunteer their most valuable asset, their experience.
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Clean Pursuits
Adventures in Sustainability
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Empritec Business Group, Investment Angel Capital Group
We are a network of angel investors' capital. We generate links to technology-based projects that have a global impact. Those who need the investment from $ 50,000 to U.S. $ 1.2 million
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Vort Port International
Vort Port International is a social venture nonprofit organization empowering developing communities by building local enterprises building and distributing affordable technologies including biodigesters, bioalgae flashlights, and water purifiers.
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Ruma
RUMA empowers the poor and poorest in Indonesia with pre-packaged and proven business opportunities -- complete with the equipment package, a strong brand, marketing materials, initial training, ongoing mentoring and access to a supply chain.
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Learning Through Libraries
Promoting partnerships to improve the quality of education by establishing school libraries in El Salvador.
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Pushpins
Pushpins is the first viral and competitive mobile savings platform. The team recently won the MIT 100K ESC and is currently prototyping its product. We're looking for i-Phone and Android developers to come on board.
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DrinKup©
DrinKup© is a social enterprise which enables local entrepreneurs to provide clean water to those who need it most. These entrepreneurs rent a mobile water filtration unit and have the opportunity to collect and sell clean water to the community.
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Eureka!
Eureka! discovers connections to help you do good better. We match do-gooders with organizations in need of their particular skills.
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Library Build, Inc
Library Build, Inc provides "working libraries" to America's public schools so that all children will have access to books, media resources, research programs, and to dedicated librarians.
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Switchback Life, LLC
The Switchback Life, LLC, is a Boston-based company committed to powering your life’s pursuits with simple wholesome snacks and food products.
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SouperVan
Providing communities with evolved fast food, sustainable jobs, and soup kitchen funding.
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CommuniTeach
CommuniTeach is an online platform that facilitates free skill exchange among community members.
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MoneyClue.org
MoneyClue.org educates on money matters
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Fill the Bill
Fill the Bill - It's the smallest big thing you can do!
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Global Health Bridge
Imagine a world where every hospital, clinic, and pharmacy can be located on a digital map. Global Health Bridge will launch a global campaign to connect health care workers and digitally map the world’s health care systems.
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iuventum
Global education programs
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Yimiao - Art for prosperity
Yimiao sells luxurious artwork in prosperous Eastern China to fund the art schools in the land-poor west. Students’ artworks would be commercialized through corporate partnerships in return, thus financial sustainability is ensured.
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Queens Harvest Co-op
Access to healthy food is vital. Yet in some of our nation’s most populous neighborhoods, the availability of healthy choices does not match the need. We are looking to change that in one Queens, NY community.
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Seeds of Africa Foundation
Seeds of Africa Foundation is a publicly supported non-profit organization that financially supports intelligent, economically disadvantaged primary and secondary school students in Zimbabwe to achieve their academic dreams.
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Innovation Corps
Innovation Corps is a new national service program supporting community-level social entrepreneurs with creative and relevant models to address urban poverty.
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Initiatives A Plus
Initiatives A Plus is social enterprise startup changing the world by giving youth a platform to tap into their potential. We also help companies fully realize their entrepreneurial and innovative capacity through assisted business processes.
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Transitions Needham
Shared space for jobhunters at mid-career level: after their "outplacement" time runs out
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Pass the Pig!
Pass the savings using "mini-banking" to generate savings towards a communal goal! Pass the Pig! provides a banking interface to serve underbanked and unbanked populations.
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REACH Initiative
The REACH initiative is designed to create equal opportunities in education for children in foster care in order to break the cycle of homelessness and increase graduation rates by creating leaders. Resulting in stable, strong supports for youth.
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African Kids as Creators of New Media
Builds computer labs at poor, rural schools in Africa to (1) give kids computer training necessary for their future success and (2) empower kids through blogging, video blogging, and photo sharing to correct misconceptions about poverty in Africa.
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Social Enterprise with a Conscience (SEC)
SEC provides free quality education to rural youth in China which enables them to become leaders of next-generation local enterprises.
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Seeds of Africa
Seeds of Africa Foundation is a publicly supported non-profit organization that financially supports intelligent, economically disadvantaged primary and secondary school students in Zimbabwe to achieve their academic dreams.
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Slumdata
Slumdata seeks to provide critical market research data to Microfinance Institutions utilizing SMS technology in the developing world.
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Shiksha Sankalp (Resolve for Education)
Shiksha Sankalp addresses demand side barriers to effective primary education in India through cash incentives to children from low-income families based on their performance in standardized tests to compensate high opportunity cost of education.
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The Center for Collaborative Change
The Center for Collaborative Change employs an innovative community-based consulting process to bring transformative change to the City of Newark, New Jersey.
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WIFLI
WIFLI is wireless internet Whenever I Feel Like It. WIFLI will provide university campuses in Australia and New Zealand with wireless internet that is more affordable, faster, more reliable, and has broader coverage than competitors.
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Schools Building Schools
Schools Building Schools (SBS) is a charitable organization dedicated to providing funds and labour for educational infrastructure projects in rural Uganda.
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BLISS: Business and Life Skills School
BLISS brings working youth back to school by sponsoring financial incentives and skills enhancement in the form of a creative afterschool program that produces for-sale crafts.
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myImpact.org
myImpact.org is an emerging online platform for young Americans in national and community service programs. .
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PROSPERA
PROSPERA is a social venture that develops microenterprises through cost-effective supplies, marketing and distribution.
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Latitude Alliance
Latitude Alliance manages distribution channels for social entrepreneurs who have products to sell in emerging markets.
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Avanti Fellows
Avanti helps assimilate high potential low income students into the corporate workforce.
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BTTR Ventures
BTTR Ventures is a company that turns one of the largest waste streams in America – the tons of coffee ground waste generated daily – into a highly-demanded, nutritious, and valuable food product: gourmet mushrooms.
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Grays Harbor Sustainable Development
As renewable energy technologies emerge, Grays Harbor Sustainable Development meets the urgent strategic need to collaborate with local communities to facilitate optimal integration of renewable energy into a national smart-grid network.
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CHES, Inc. (Christian Haitian Entrepreneurial Society, Inc.)
CHES’ mission is to help Haitian entrepreneurs start-up their own sustainable businesses. Socially responsible businesses that pay decent wages and contribute to their surrounding communities are the key to the alleviation of poverty in Haiti.
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Lizzard
Lizzard-- makes science fashionable. Lizzard is a new company that promotes science through fashion. The image of the nerdy scientist is outdated. Science is cool. We seek to inspire youth to pursue science and in the process make geek chic~
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Inter Cultural Education
Inter Cultural Education:www.i-c-e-centre.com ICE aims to create harmony and cultural diversification in local education and to enable local youth to become proactive socially responsible global citizens through a diverse global learning environment