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Partner, BYU Center for Economic Self-Reliance
Partner organizations have economic self-reliance programs and work at an enhanced level with the Self-Reliance Center. Examples of this interaction include: facilitating research and class projects, hiring BYU students as interns and employees, and making presentations at Self-Reliance Center conferences, workshops, and courses.
Academy for Creating Enterprise (ACE) (click for more info)
The Academy for Creating Enterprise is an opportunity to contribute to the grass-roots development of the economy of the Philippines. It is a nonprofit educational training center designed to teach Filipino returned missionaries skills that will enable them to succeed.
Ascend Alliance (click for more info)
Unique humanitarian outreach foundation. Mission: to empower villagers to save their children and improve their lives through sustainable self-help solutions; and to engage those who can help with those who need it most.
Basa Body (click for more info)
Basa Body is a social venture whose mission is to create natural skin care products from virgin coconut oil made in Kenya to create employment and self-reliance amongst the women of rural Kenya
Care For Life (click for more info)
The mission of Care For Life is: to alleviate suffering, promote self-reliance and instill hope. The Family Preservation Program is the flagship program of CFL. It is a family-based development program administered at the community level. FPP is an integrated approach to combating the increasing orphan dilemma while encouraging and enabling the principles of self-reliance.
Cause for Hope (click for more info)
Nonprofit corporation committed to developing self-reliance in developing countries. We adopt regions and local areas and use multi-faceted economic development opportunities: vocational loans, microcredit, small business training, and missionary assistance.
Coast Coconut Farms (click for more info)
Coast Coconut Farms is a social enterprise in Kenya whose mission is to create virgin organic coconut oil from wild coconuts to create employment and microfranchise opportunities to the rural families in Kenya
Eagle Condor Humanitarian Foundation (click for more info)
Primary objectives of Eagle Condor Humanitarian's efforts are at least three fold: Creating sustainable hope & dignity within people of less-developed areas, through purposeful and well-thought-out humanitarian field programs. Endeavor to provide them employment opportunities while teaching principles of good business practice that enables them to be self-sustaining, while raising their standard of living.
Empowering Nations (click for more info)
Empowering Nations is a pro-active, volunteer-run 501(c)(3) non-profit organization committed to empowering the poor through education and relief, and to promoting and facilitating involvement in the fight against poverty throughout the world.
FINCA International (click for more info)
FINCA (The Foundation for International Community Assistance) has been helping families to create their own solutions to poverty since 1984. FINCA provides financial services to the world’s poorest families so they can create their own jobs, raise household incomes, and improve their standard of living. They deliver these services through a global network of locally managed, self-supporting institutions.
Freedom From Hunger (click for more info)
Freedom from Hunger brings innovative and sustainable self-help solutions to the fight against chronic hunger and poverty. Together with local partners we equip families with resources they need to build futures of health, hope and dignity. Established in 1946, Freedom from Hunger is recognized for fighting hunger with innovative self-help programs.
Grameen Bank (click for more info)
Grameen Foundation USA (click for more info)
Grameen Foundation USA (GFUSA) is a global non-profit organization that combines microfinance, new technologies, and innovation to empower the world's poorest people to escape poverty. Founded in 1997, GFUSA’s global network includes 50 partners in 20 countries. The network has impacted an estimated 5.5 million lives in Asia, Africa, the Americas, and the Middle East. Grameen Foundation USA was conceived in 1997 by Dr. Muhammad Yunus, founder and managing director of Grameen Bank. He is a lon
HELP International (click for more info)
The mission of HELP International is to provide a life-changing experience through service to the poor. HELP seeks to develop a new generation of global change agents; young adults who understand the complexity of problems the poor face and some of the solutions to those problems. The second aspect of our two-part mission focuses on assisting NGOs with local solutions to poverty through programs developed in response to expressed needs of poor communities.
LDS Church Employment Resource Services (click for more info)
Through career workshops, LDS Employment Resource Services teaches job seekers essential skills to get a job. In addition to teaching workshops, LDS Employment Resource Services helps tens of thousands of people worldwide enroll in school and obtain financial aid or find resources to start or improve a small business. Although LDS Employment Resource Services is not a microcredit organization, they often link people who are in need with organizations that are willing to assist.
MicroBusiness Mentors (click for more info)
MicroBusiness Mentors (M&Ms) is a locally run social enterprise engaged in training, mentoring, and funding the start-up of microenterprises in Provo, Utah within the Latino community.
MicroCredit Enterprises (click for more info)
MicroCredit Enterprises LLC is an innovative, not-for-profit, anti-poverty business venture which leverages private capital to make tiny business loans to impoverished people, mostly women, in developing countries. Without raising a dime of traditional charitable donations, MicroCredit Enterprises leverages the collateral assets of individuals and institutions to borrow debt capital in the United States which is channeled through overseas, locally-run, non-governmental microfinance organization
Microcredit Summit Campaign (click for more info)
Working to ensure that 100 million of the world's poorest families, especially the women of those families, are receiving credit for self-employment and other financial and business services by the year 2005.
Pro Mujer, Inc. (click for more info)
PRO MUJER is a micro-finance and women's development network that provides credit, savings, business training, and health education to the poorest women in Latin America. The goal is to empower women to overcome the deep-seeded cultural deprivation of women and to lift themselves and their families out of poverty. Pro Mujer believes that a small amount of money in the hands of a confident, healthy, entrepreneurial woman can make a big difference in the lives of her family and her community.
ProLiteracy Worldwide (click for more info)
ProLiteracy’s International Programs advances global literacy and development initiatives through partnerships with 114 grassroots organizations in 59 countries in Asia, Africa, the Middle East, and Latin America. ProLiteracy's partners focusing on economic self-reliance combine literacy instruction and community action to assist learners in a variety of ways including organizing savings groups, providing vocational skills training, and providing seed money or loans to begin small businesses.
Reach the Children (click for more info)
Reach the Children is a 501(c)3 not-for-profit organization. We provide underprivileged children in Africa opportunities for self reliance by strengthening families and communities. Through programs in AIDS Prevention, Education and Health, Micro-Enterprise, Orphan Care, and Water/Agriculture, we increase the capacity of communities to care for their children.
Rising Star Outreach of India (click for more info)
Our mission is to help the Leprosy colonies become thriving, self-sufficient communities by the year 2020. We are accomplishing this through three major initiatives: * to educate the colony children in a safe, healthy environment * to provide leprosy patients with their own small businesses using micro-finance * to address the unique health challenges of the colonies with mobile medical units
Scojo Foundation (click for more info)
Scojo Foundation is a New York-based non-profit organization dedicated to improving the economic condition of families in the developing world by broadening the availability of reading glasses and other eye care products and services.
Single Mom Foundation (click for more info)
Supporting research efforts focused on improving the lives of single moms and their children and identifying available resources.
The HealthStore Foundation (click for more info)
The HealthStore Foundation operates 55 franchised drug shops in Kenya Africa named CFWshops™. The name CFWshops stands for Child and Family Wellness Shops. The HealthStore Foundation has combined established micro-enterprise principles with proven franchise business practices to create a micro-franchise business model called CFWshops™. Each shop is operated by community health workers or nurses who own their own shops. Approximately 20,000 patients are treated each month, 25% for Malaria.
Unitus (click for more info)
Unitus is a nonprofit organization taking a hybrid approach to fighting global poverty. We use proven strategies from the venture capital, investment banking and strategy consulting industries to dramatically accelerate the growth of microfinance institutions (MFIs). The Unitus Acceleration Model is demonstrating that many MFIs can be run as profitable, large-scale, poverty-focused businesses with links to formal capital markets.
Yehu Bank (click for more info)
The Yehu Bank is a micro-finance organization that works in rural areas of Kenya. Forty Kenyans staff the organization working full time. Examples of small businesses funded by Yehu: animal husbandry (goats and chickens); agricultural products (mangos,cashew nuts, coconuts, eggs); handmade crafts (woodcarvings, skirts, mats); kiosks and snack shops. Yehu Microfinance has over a 88% repayment rate. We have given over 16,000 loans to date and serve over 8,700 poor Kenyans.
Participant, BYU Center for Economic Self-Reliance
Participant organizations have economic self-reliance programs and regularly attend Self-Reliance Center outreach activities such as conferences and workshops.
ACCION International (click for more info)
The mission of ACCION International is to help people work their way out of poverty by providing them with small loans and training to grow their tiny businesses.
ACCION New York (click for more info)
All One People (click for more info)
All One People (Utah, U.S.A.) is a non-profit organization dedicated to furthering education through literacy projects and vocational education. We also participate in AIDS prevention by teaching abstinence before marriage and fidelity after marriage to improve lives in African communities. All One People has joined hands with Friends of AIDS Victims and Orphans (FAVO) in Kenya to help accomplish these goals.
Braille Resource & Literacy center (click for more info)
Produce Braille storybooks for blind children and work with NGO's to establish computerized Braille production systems.
CHOICE Humanitarian (click for more info)
Center for Humanitarian Outreach and Intercultural Exchange offers solutions to the hardships of poverty in the rural villages of the world with simple technologies, self-help initiatives and public awareness.
Compartamos (click for more info)
Financiera Compartamos was founded in 1990 as a pilot project of the Mexican NGO Gente Nueva. Today, it is one of the primary institutions providing loans to rural and urban women in Mexico, throughout 26 states in the country.
Count Me In (click for more info)
They are an online microlending business that gives loans to women.
Enterprise Mentors International (click for more info)
Enterprise Mentors provides micro-credit loans to entrepreneurs in developing countries. They have over 250 indigenous employees who train people in entrepreneurship. Students who show potential with their business plans are provided with loans to get their business started.
Lifework International Foundation (click for more info)
Lifework International Foundation (LIF) facilitates development initiatives that help women and families make important changes in their lives. LIF works with families in education, health, and economic development efforts. The heart of LIF’s development process is to help families become more self-reliant.
Making Cents (click for more info)
MAKING CENTS builds the capacity of community development organizations, primary and secondary schools, microfinance institutions and organizations working in the microenterprise sector to deliver effective entrepreneurship and microenterprise training to entrepreneurs and potential entrepreneurs. Making Cents also trains loan assessors and microfinance professionals to assess loan applications.
MicroBusiness USA (click for more info)
Supports financial self-sufficiency for low-income families via opportunities to make, borrow, save and manage money. Certified by the U.S. Treasury Department as a Community Development Financial Institution and as a Designated Microloan Intermediary for U. S. Small Business Administration
Mothers Without Borders (click for more info)
The mission is to support programs that ensure that orphaned and vulnerable children are provided with safe shelter, nutritious food, clean water, education, health care, vocational training and opportunities to contribute to their community.
My Princess Pearls/Pearls with a Purpose Foundation (click for more info)
My Princess Pearls began with the main purpose of importing pearls from overseas in order to help improve the living conditions of those in third world countries. It has been and always will be our goal to help those in need.
Opportunity International (click for more info)
Our mission is to provide opportunities for people in chronic poverty to transform their lives. Our strategy is to create jobs, stimulate small business, and strengthen communities among the poor. Our method is to work through indigenous partner organizations that provide small business loans, training, and counsel. Our commitment is motivated by Jesus Christ's call to serve the poor. Our core values are respect, commitment to the poor, integrity, and stewardship.
Ouelessebougou-Utah Alliance (click for more info)
A Sister Community Alliance--permanently transforming the quality of life Mali and Utah communitites. ALLIANCE WORK Programs: Health, Education, and Economic Development; Principles: Ownership, Sustainability, and Accountability; People Served: MALI--Improved quality of lives of the people throughout the Ouelessebougou region and surrounding areas. UTAH-- People in Utah and partnering communities enhance their lives through meaningful service.
PRODE - Peru (click for more info)
PRODE Peru is a non-profit development organization started in the year 2003. Its purpose is to design new studies and different projects that will help overcome poverty in Peru.
South Pacific Business Development Foundation (click for more info)
SPBD Foundation is a not-for-profit, charitable organization providing under-privileged women in Samoa with training, unsecured credit and ongoing guidance and motivation to help them start and grow small businesses. These businesses in turn help restore pride and dignity in the women and provide them with a steady income to improve the quality of living of their entire family.
World Wide Canneries (click for more info)
World Wide Canneries works with people all over the world to develop food-processing canneries wherever they are needed. They raise the capital to provide the initial equipment purchase for a group of people, and then train them how to use it. They turn the equipment over to the local people free of charge once the cannery is up and running.
Worldwide Organization for Women (click for more info)
The Worldwide Organization for Women promotes activities that foster women's understanding of their inherent worth and crucial role in society. We support and unite women of all faiths and nationalities seeking to create positive change and improve well being through ADVOCACY, EDUCATION, and HUMANITARIAN ACTIVITIES. (The Worldwide Organzation for Women is an international, nondenominational, non profit 501(c)(3)NGO. "CONNECTING WOMEN AND THEIR INFLUENCE FOR GOOD."
Non-Economic Self-Reliance Participants
These organizations do not have economic self-reliance programs but do regularly attend Self-Reliance Center outreach activities such as conferences and workshops.
A Child's Hope Foundation (click for more info)
A Child’s Hope Foundation is dedicated to improving the lives of orphaned children in developing countries. To accomplish this objective, we focus on four areas: promotion of charitable giving, utilization of volunteer service by trained and educated individuals of organizations, creation of self-reliant adoption orphanages, and cooperation with international adoption agencies to place orphaned children in loving homes.
Alliance for Youth Services (click for more info)
Alliance for Youth Service (AYS) is a LDS non-profit service organization for youth ages 16-20. We currently travel to New Zealand, Bolivia and Peru for our service projects.
Brockbank Education Fund (click for more info)
We give no-interest loans for scholarships to LDS African Women in the Eastern Cape of South Africa. We get the capital from people all over the world, and the women have been paying them back interest free. We have no salaried employees, but we pay 1 administrator per task. There is a board of interviewers who volunteer.
Catalyst Humanitarian (click for more info)
International service organization built upon the premise of venture philanthropy—finding a need and then assembling the resources to fill that need. As a sponsor of ongoing service projects in Utah and abroad, Catalyst Humanitarian pulls together the human capital and monetary assistance to perform their service projects.
Deseret International (click for more info)
Assist physicians in partner countries to establish ongoing programs for the surgical repair of specific surgical problems, particularly among children. Achieve a minimal overhead goal of approximately 4%. Develop ongoing medical programs in partner countries.
Families For Children International (click for more info)
We are a volunteer-based, non-profit organization. We believe every child in the world deserves love, a safe environment, and education. Our mission is to provide loving care in a family setting for orphaned, abandoned, and destitute children in Ghana. We are building small homes for 10 children each with surrogate mothers. Our school for 100 orphans and 200 other children will teach education basics plus honesty, responsibility, self-respect, and pride in their own culture.
Food For Everyone Foundation (click for more info)
We are a 501C(3) Charitable Foundation dedicated to helping people throughout the world achieve individual and family self-sufficiency by using the best possible vegetable gardening methods and materials, consistent with a healthy ecology and environment.
HART (click for more info)
HART's dual mission is to make substantial, lasting improvements in the delivery of health care throughout the world and to attract, develop and excite exceptional people to participate in the cause of humanity.
Live to Learn Foundation (click for more info)
Dedicated to giving charitable service to our fellow men through the alleviation of human suffering and specifically through the propagation of education, with the belief that this will provide opportunities for the less fortunate to escape the grasp of poverty.
Mukono Town Academy (click for more info)
To impart knowledge and skills to the youth which shall give them the intellectual discipline, the social virtues and social intelligence that shall prepare them for the challenges of the future.
Philanthropic Mentors (click for more info)
Philanthropic Mentors coach nonprofit practitioners to strengthen leadership and processes pertaining to their efforts to obtain philanthropic donation support.
Rose Education Foundation (click for more info)
The mission of The Rose Education Foundation is to promote, support, and establish educational opportunities for children in disadvantaged areas of Guatemala. We will strengthen individuals and families by encouraging and teaching valuable life skills.
United Families International (click for more info)
United Families Itnernational (UFI) is a 501(c)(3) nondenominational, public charity devoted to maintaining and strengthening the family as the fundamental unit of society. UFI is not affiliated with any government, religion, or political party, and welcomes people everywhere who support: Family, Marriage, Life, and Parental Rights.
