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Baobab Consulting Put the Room on Trial
A firm born in Senegal before remote work became fashionable discovered that the real communications problem was rarely the press release. It was who got into the room, who understood the room, and whether the room had to exist at all.
The consultancy that turns a roomful of missions into one usable story
LightBox Collaborative does not begin with a logo or a press release. It begins with the harder question: what must the audience understand, feel, and do next?
Cause Communications wants your good work to travel further
A free toolkit, six-month learning cohorts, and a willingness to hand communities the microphone: inside the Los Angeles firm that treats communications as a skill worth sharing.
ASSEK backs the people behind Kenya’s startups
Kenya has incubators, accelerators and business coaches. ASSEK’s bet is that helping them work better together can reach further than another startup programme.
Rethink Ireland’s big bet: good causes need good operations
Cash gets a social project started. Rethink Ireland adds the planning, people and practical support that help it grow - with government and private donors sharing the bill.
MovingWorlds puts your day job to work for social good
A Ugandan enterprise may need a finance manual more than another pitch competition. MovingWorlds connects it with people who know how to write one - and companies willing to support the work.
Parachute16 knows the jump. Now it builds the landing.
After eight earlier ventures, Ghassan Halawa built a company to help other founders. From Palestinian startups entering Saudi Arabia to PepsiCo’s youth hackathons, Parachute16 makes a business of getting people ready for their next move.
CEFE International makes business lessons leave the classroom
The German consultancy teaches entrepreneurship through practice, then trains people to teach it themselves. Its work reveals how much has to happen between a promising workshop and a stronger business.
People Powered wants democracy to come with instructions
From city budgets to campus AI rules, People Powered helps communities get a say in decisions that affect them. Its bet: practical guidance, patient mentors and a little funding can turn participation into policy.
AfriLabs bets on the people behind the startups
A network of more than 500 innovation hubs is trying to make African entrepreneurship less lonely - and better financed. Its experience shows why the people running the support system need support of their own.
MountainHub Wants a Hand in Building Your Business
From five-minute pitches in Cameroon to a venture-building partnership with MTN, MountainHub is putting itself inside the startup process. Its bet: founders need help with the work that comes after the idea.
David Geilhufe Has Spent 30 Years Making Nonprofit Technology Less of a Chore
From an improvised missing-person database after Hurricane Katrina to AI built for grantmakers, the Resilia CEO keeps returning to one practical question: what can technology take off a nonprofit’s plate?
Human Trafficking Institute
The Human Trafficking Institute is a Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit that fights modern slavery by going after the people who profit from it. Founded in 2015 by two former U.S. Department of Justice trafficking prosecutors, HTI embeds veteran experts inside criminal justice systems - training police and prosecutors, building specialized anti-trafficking units, and supplying the investigative tools and data needed to convict traffickers. It runs field programs in Uganda and Belize and publishes the annual Federal Human Trafficking Report, the only dataset compiling every U.S. federal trafficking case since the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000.