Altruisto.com is a browser extension that allows users to collect money for extremely effective charities while shopping online. It works with 1000+ shops including Aliexpress, Barnes & Noble, Booking.com, eBay, Etsy and Microsoft. For every $4.59 raised for Against Malaria Foundation two people are protected from malaria (via bed nets) and for every $0.99 raised for Schistosomiasis Control Initiative one child gets a year supply of antiparasitic medicine.
Recruits and manages African tech talent (developers) and integrates them into world leading tech companies. Backed by Chan Zuckerberg Iniative.
Connects socially conscious businesses with artists that are disabled or experiencing homelessness. Either for artwork in building spaces or work with licensing partners to develop co-branded merch.
Barefoot College, aka The Social Work and Research Centre (SWRC) is a not-for-profit social enterprise working towards financial sustainability, in huge part through the delivery of its community based solar programs and its artisan industries. They provide classes to the women in 80+ countries worldwide(at the time of writing).Their efforts impact self-sustainability, education, skill development, health, accessible drinking water, women empowerment. The impact of the provided direct training reaches ~2 million people, giving them access to clean water and reliable energy.
Provides affordable, reliable solar products to underserved energy communities. For profit social enterprise that provides families and small businesses access to power in Africa, India, Asia, and the Americas
Bayes Impact is a Y Combinator-backed non-profit that builds operational solutions to the world's biggest challenges using data science. Uses data to create interventions for underserved people across the world
Bogobrush toothbrushes are beautifully modern, eco friendly, and made in the USA. With each toothbrush sold, one is donated to a person in need.
Free app that connects blind and low vision people with sighted volunteers and company representatives for visual assistance through a live video call.
World's largest online petitioning platform that provides grassroots level empowerment for social change.
This organization tackles mass incarceration and the related high recidivism rates by providing educational training to individuals with criminal histories.
Developed a reusable arsenic adsorbent to reduce the risk of arsenic poisoning and provide clean, safe drinking water worldwide.
Ecosia is the search engine that plants trees with its ad revenue. Since it is based on Microsoft's Bing, the results for most searches are as accurate as Google's (it may be slightly worse for more niche searches or for languages other than English). It has been a certified B Corp since 2014.
Open-air exhibitions of artist created elephants are placed in the streets of host cities to increase public awareness of the plights of elephants to support elephant conservation. At the end of the festival, the elephants are auctioned off with the proceeds going to NGO, Elephant Family
Creates stylish luggage and handbags from raw waste materials like fire hoses and donates 50% of profits to the Fire Fighters Charity.
Waste management company that uses sensor tech that allows business partners to know how much waste they're producing and how to optimize waste pick-ups to only exactly when they need the thus reducing costs and increasing sustainability over time.
Natural drink mixes - 1 for 1 - distributes a life-saving rehydration salt treatment for each pouch sold.
Free Code Camp teaches students to code in several languages for free, then partners them with nonprofit organizations to provide mutually beneficial web development. freeCodeCamp has donated US$ 1,400,000 worth of development work to nonprofits as of January 2017.
Finnegans provides food to food banks through their Good Beer arm which donates 100% of its profits to supplying food to underserved individuals. They also engineered the "reverse food truck" which picks up food from donors instead of selling food for cash.
GlobalGiving is a nonprofit that provides a global crowdfunding platform for grassroots projects around the world. Donate to charity and see your impact with regular updates.
Actively supports high-impact enterprises that provide sustainable economic opportunities to the poor in developing areas throughout Latin America, Africa, India, and Asia.
1 for 1 soap brand - for every product purchased they donate a month of drinking water and a bar of soap to a child in need
A platform for donors to give directly to people who are experiencing homelessness
This company creates meat and dairy products without the use of any animal parts. They're the creators of the "Impossible Burger" a meatless burger that bleeds just like the real thing without any of the cruelty.
Khan Academy is a non-profit educational organization created in 2006 by educator Salman Khan with a goal of creating a set of online tools that help educate students. The organization produces short lectures in the form of YouTube videos. Its website also includes supplementary practice exercises and materials for educators.
Kiva is a non-profit that allows people to lend money via the Internet to low-income entrepreneurs and students in over 80 countries. Kiva's mission is "to connect people through lending to alleviate poverty."
Water filter company. LifeStraw has been generally praised for its effective and instant method of bacteria and protozoa removal and consumer acceptability. For every LifeStraw product you purchase, a child in need receives safe water for an entire school year.
For profit social enterprise that sells socially responsible products & services. They also donate half of their net profits to non-profit partner WE Charity.
CPG company that donates 100% of profits to charity. They have a variety of items from salad dressings to bottled wine.
A platform that offers customers the chance for a microdonation when you pay by card in shops, online and in apps. It's your choice every time, with no pressure, and no follow up.
Network to match femme investors to entrepreneurs. They provide trainings to both new investors as well as entrepreneurs. The key insight is that investors provide funding largely to people like them. As white, male investors invest in white, males women and non-binary femmes provide funding to female social entrepreneurs.
Alerts CPR and AED trained individuals when someone nearby is going through cardiac arrest.
Provides microscholarships from colleges to high school students. For each achievement (like an A in a core class, or holding a leadership position in a sport), students can receive money towards a scholarship, redeemable once they attend that college
Revivn collects excess hardware from businesses, secures the data & repurposes unused tech for communities in need, provide a detailed hardware inventory & certify data destruction and ethical recycling.
Restaurant partners provide customers the opportunity to round up their purchase to the nearest dollar. Donations are given out quarterly to various nonprofits
Provides management and data services from a work source that uses "impact sourcing" which means they give work to people living in poverty. Thus far helped over 50k out of poverty. Has teams in US, Kenya, Uganda, and India
Aims to close the healthcare gap with a subscription based healthcare pop-ups in underserved communities. It provides comprehensive care including dental, vision, and nutrition education. The company's tech platform also provides infrastructure for tele-health, healthcare IT, and point-of-care diagnostics to third-party clinics. The company currently facilitates 20,000 patient consultations per month in eight states of India and in South Africa, while about 500 third-party organizations are using the tech platform.
Sevenly is an apparel e-commerce website. Portion of the money from each purchase is donated to charitable causes.
Supporting Initiatives to Redistribute Unused Medicine (SIRUM), as titled is a social enterprise to decrease medical waste in the US by distributing unused and unexpired drugs to clinics. Using a tech platform, SIRUM allows manufacturers, wholesalers, and pharmacies to easily donate rather than destroy meds.
Donates money to charity every time a user opens a new tab. Through their sponsors, they have raised over $800k for charities.
Their mission statement is to "enlist, develop, and mobilize as many as possible of our nation's most promising future leaders to grow and strengthen the movement for educational equity and excellence." They essentially recruit highly educated individuals from top universities to teach at underprivileged schools. The organization serves more than 50 low income communities.
TerraCycle takes non-recyclable pre-consumer and post-consumer waste and turns it into a raw material to be used in new products.
Luxury, sustainable, and ethical soap company that commits all of their profits to disadvantaged individuals (those with disability, visually impaired etc.)
The company designs and sells shoes based on the Argentine alpargata design, eyewear, coffee, apparel, and handbags. When Toms sells a pair of shoes, a new pair of shoes is given to an impoverished child, when Toms sells eyewear, part of the profit is used to save or restore eyesight for people in developing countries.
For every product sold they remove one pound of trash from oceans and waterways.
One for One solar social enterprise. For every solar array sold, they donate a solar light to a family previously living without access to electricity.
Builds technology to finance healthcare costs like surgeries through crowdfunding.
Designed a water wheel at affordable prices that increases access to water. Allows users to get twice as much water in half the time vs headloading
Donates a portion of office supply sales to the WildHearts Foundation. They provide price competitive office goods to major companies like Deloitte and Johnson & Johnson.
Sells cheap eye glasses to people in the developing world. Also for every $5 donated to them, they can provide someone access to glasses.
The first online microlending community that directly connects lenders and borrowers — no matter the distance or disparity between them. Allows users to fund people in developing nations capital for projects. For example, you could give $25 for a grocery stand or give $100 to a beauty salon.