Sector - Health

 

 

According to the their website, “The Global Alliance to Eliminate Lymphatic Filariasis is a free, non-restrictive partnership forum for the exchange of ideas and coordination of activities, with membership open to all interested parties. Its functions include: sharing of information on progress and challenges, coordination of activities (such as fund-raising) and advocacy. To date the Global Alliance to Eliminate Lymphatic Filariasis includes non-governmental organizations, private corporations, and governments.”

  

The ILEP, in partnership with World Health Organization, the Nippon Foundation, and the Swiss pharmaceutical group Novartis AG, are actively working to end leprosy.

One Acre Fund

Founded in 2006 by a recent graduate of the Kellogg School of Management, the One Acre Fund is pioneering a tiny investment package that will enable African farm families to grow their own way out of hunger, permanently.  Based in Kenya, the organization has already won the Yale Social Business Plan Competition and the Stanford Social Business Plan Competition, as well as a two-year Echoing Green Fellowship for founder Andrew Youn to work full-time getting One Acre Fund off the ground.

 

 

According to PSI’s website, “PSI is a non-profit organization that harnesses the viability of the private, commercial sector to address health problems, with programs in safe water, malaria, micronutrients, family planning and HIV/AIDS in more than 70 countries. PSI collaborates with some of the world’s largest corporations to implement workplace health programs. For example, Coca-Cola transports condoms in South Africa. ChevronTexaco, ExxonMobile, Esso, BP, Marathon Oil Company, and Pfizer have been instrumental in increasing HIV/AIDS awareness.”