The DM is increasingly working to link up winning projects with additional technical assistance, business skills training and other services that can strengthen the projects and their capacity to succeed. Here is a list of service providers that collaborate with the DM: Art Center www.artcenter.edu
Art Center College of Design offers undergraduate and graduate degrees in a wide range of disciplines, as well as public programs offering design education. Fundamental to Art Center 's core curricula is a commitment to social and cultural engagement and giving students the tools and skills with which to effect change and address real-world issues. Art Center is interesting in working with DM winners on pro-bono basis to enhance product design aspects. Birchbob www.birchbob.com
BirchBob is a private company offering services to technology providers and seekers. It operates an internet search services offering technology opportunities --licensing and sale of technologies and R&D collaborative projects-- from academia, government and industry around the globe. Energia: International Network on Gender and Sustainability www.energia.org
ENERGIA is an international network on gender and sustainable energy which links individuals and groups concerned with energy, sustainable development and gender. ENERGIA's goal is to contribute to the empowerment of rural and urban poor women through a specific focus on energy issues. GARNET Global Applied Research Network www.lboro.ac.uk/garnet
GARNET is a mechanism for information exchange in the water supply and sanitation sector using low-cost, informal networks of researchers, practitioners and funders of research.This website is no longer is no longer updated, but its existing content can serve as a valuable research tool. GeekCorps www.geekcorps.org
Geekcorps is an NGO that promotes stability and prosperity in the developing world through information and communication technology. Its international technology experts teach communities how to be digitally independent: able to create and expand private enterprise with innovative, appropriate, and affordable information and communication technologies. Global Social Benefit Incubator (GSBI) at Santa Clara University www.scu.edu/sts/programsandpartnerships/gsbincubator.cfm GSBI offers an intensive residential program at Santa Clara University that enables successful technology innovators to scale their endeavors and achieve sustainability. If you are a past DM winner and would like to be nominated for this program, please contact the DM. Global Village Energy Partnership (GVEP) www.gvep.org GVEP supports and helps developing countries to set up energy action plans and assists with the associated studies and demand analyses. It also provides financial support, capacity building and technical assistance to energy small and medium enterprises in developing countries. Global Giving www.globalgiving.com
GlobalGiving uses the Internet to create a highly efficient marketplace platform that enables more funding to reach projects throughout the globe, while at the same time providing a more transparent, engaging way for donors to give. Hesperian www.hesperian.org
Hesperian is a non-profit publisher of books and educational materials that help people take the lead in their own health care and organize to improve health conditions in their communities. The books contain life-saving information on diagnosing and treating a broad range of health problems. International Executive Service Corp (IESC) www.iesc.org
IESC is a non-profit economic development firm that uses volunteer experts and professional staff to promote prosperity and stability through private enterprise development. Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health www.jhsph.edu
The Bloomberg School of Public Health trains and works with health professionals, many of whom focus on developing countries. It offers training and support in the field of health. Johns Hopkins University Center for Communication Programs www.jhuccp.org The Center for Communication Programs designs and implements strategic communication programs that influence political dialogue, collective action and individual behavior. It also conducts research to guide program design, evaluate impact, test theories and advance knowledge in health and healthcare communication. KickStart www.approtec.org/homee KickStart is a non-profit organization that develops and markets new technologies in Africa. These low-cost technologies are bought by local entrepreneurs and used to establish highly profitable new small businesses. Lex Mundi Pro Bono Foundation www.lexmundiprobono.org/
Lex Mundi, the world's leading association of independent law firms, can call upon its unique global network of 160 top tier business law firms to provide legal assistance to social entrepreneurs on a pro bono basis. Life Water Canada www.lifewater.ca
Life Water is a Canadian non-profit humanitarian aid organization that sends volunteers to train and equip African crews that drill wells and build washrooms. It also links up donors to villages that need funds for water services. Mercatus Center and the Enterprise Africa www.enterprise-africa.org/
This Center within the George Mason University is working to uncover enterprise-based solutions to poverty through extensive on-the-ground field work in Africa. New Ventures www.new-ventures.org
New Ventures supports sustainable enterprises by accelerating the transfer of capital to outstanding companies that incorporate social and environmental benefits. Next Billion www.nextbillion.net
NextBillion.net brings together the community of business leaders, social entrepreneurs, NGOs, policy makers and academics who want to explore the connection between development and enterprise. Practical Action (formerly Intermediate Technology Group) www.itdg.org
Practical Action aims to demonstrate and advocate the sustainable use of technology to reduce poverty in developing countries. It works in the areas of energy, shelter, transport, water, food production, agro-processing, manufacturing, disaster mitigation and information and communication technology. Population Services International www.psi.org
PSI is the leading nonprofit social marketing organization in the world. With programs in malaria, reproductive health, child survival and HIV, PSI promotes products, services and healthy behavior that enable low-income and vulnerable people to lead healthier lives. Products and services are sold at subsidized prices rather than given away in order to motivate commercial sector involvement. Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship www.schwabfound.org
The Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship provides unparalleled platforms at the country, regional and global levels that highlight social entrepreneurship as a key element to advance societies and address social problems in an innovative and effective manner. Skoll Foundation www.skollfoundation.org
The Skoll Foundation aims to advance systemic change to benefit communities around the world by investing in, connecting and celebrating social entrepreneurs. Skoll invests in social entrepreneurs through its flagship award program, the Skoll Awards for Social Entrepreneurship. These three-year awards support the continuation, replication or extension of programs that have proved successful in addressing a broad array of critical social issues: tolerance and human rights, health, environmental sustainability, economic and social equity, institutional responsibility, and peace and security. Social Edge (Skoll Foundation) www.socialedge.org
Social Edge is an online community run by the Skoll Foundation. It enables social entrepreneurs, non-profit professionals, philanthropists and others in the social sector connect to network, learn, inspire one another and share resources. Social Fusion n www.socialfusion.org
Social Fusion incubates innovative entrepreneurs and enterprises that produce long-term, positive impact in emerging markets. Social Impact www.socialimpact.com Social Impact is a global social enterprise dedicated to helping international agencies, civil society and governments become more effective agents of positive social and economic change. It offers integrated services to strengthen performance of development organizations and their programs. Social Venture Network (SVN) www.svn.org
SVN promotes new models and leadership for socially and environmentally sustainable business in the 21st century. It champions this effort through initiatives, information services and forums that strengthen the development community and empower the group's members to work together on behalf of a shared vision. Solar Cookers International www.solarcooking.org
Since its founding in 1987, Solar Cookers has spread solar cooking skills and technologies where they are needed most. Over 30,000 families have benefited directly from the group's field projects and countless others have used its resources to learn how to make and use solar cookers and teach others to do the same. Streams of Knowledge www.streams.net
Streams of Knowledge is an autonomous, self-sustained, leader organization of resource centers uniquely positioned locally and globally and effective in capacitating the sector in supporting the development of pro-poor policies for the sustainable implementation of water, sanitation, health and hygiene. Sustainable Energy Finance Directory www.sef-directory.net
The Sustainable Energy Finance Directory is a free-of-charge online database of lenders and investors who actively provide finance to the sustainable energy (renewable energy and energy efficiency) sector worldwide. The Trust for Conservation Innovation's Mulago Foundation Rainer Fellows Program www.trustforconservationinnovation.org/about.html Trust for Conservation Innovation is a non-profit that offers an alternative in the marketplace for high value, low cost fiscal sponsor services to non-profit projects. The group lends fiscal sponsor services that enable environmental leaders to concentrate on their programmatic activities and not worry about the back office systems.
Global Transition Consulting www.globaltransitionconsulting.com Global Transition Consulting supports businesses, organizations, governments, and multi-lateral development institutions that promote the global transition to a sustainable energy future, one based on the expanded use of renewable energy and energy efficiency. It provides services to transfer technical, policy and business know-how and tools from the experience of its affiliates.
TechnoServe www.technoserve.org
TechnoServe helps grow businesses and industries in the developing world. World of Good www.worldofgood.com
World of Good strives to create opportunities for artisan cooperatives around the world to sell their products in the United States World of Good: Development Organization, which is focused on strengthening standards for handcrafts in the international fair trade industry and improving the lives of artisans through community development projects. **Disclaimer* Please note that the resources listed here are operated by non-World Bank institutions and the DM team is not responsible for their actions. Thus, the DM and the World Bank Group are not liable for any advice provided to projects as a result of their cooperation with any of these organizations. | 
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