Explore the strategies, products and services that allow a balance between business sustainability and social impact.
The Guest House of the Beninese Red Cross is an accommodation solution in Porto Novo designed to host volunteers, travelers, and visiting partners in a comfortable and secure setting. In addition to meeting the growing need for accessible lodging, this project plays a key role in ensuring the sustainability of the Red Cross's humanitarian actions by generating independent revenue.
Give Cash was a test by the British Red Cross raising money specifically for cash and voucher assistance (CVA). Give Cash aimed to leverage the position of the Red Cross as innovative leaders in CVA to engage a new audience of “effective altruists”, who want to donate to the most efficient organisations.
Shawish Market - a Indegenize custom built platform similar to Etsy - helps to empower indigenous entrepreneurs by ensuring they don't pay any vendor fees. This initiative is part of their overall mission to remove economic barriers and foster sustainable growth within Indigenous communities.
“Small healthy Communities” project aims to offer proximity services and social-health care, at home and remotely, to people in fragile conditions in the provinces of Benevento and Foggia, ensuring the care of 160 new patients.
WEEE Centre is an electronic waste disposal and recycling company based in Nairobi, Kenya. WEEE Centre also has various collection centres in regional cities in Kenya. Electronic waste is collected from communities, taken to collection centres, and later taken to the main processing facility in Nairobi.
Coometas is a digital solution for social entities to manage aid for vulnerable individuals through a mobile app. It allows purchases at local businesses, combating stigmatisation and the digital divide, while supporting neighbourhood commerce.
