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On this page we will provide links to information about our organization, related topics, or sources that simply provide entertainment.

Program for Appropriate Technology in Health (PATH)

PATH's mission is to improve health, specially the health of women and children. An emphasis is placed on improving the quality of reproductive health services and on preventing and reducing the impact of widespread communicable diseases. PATH identifies, develops, and applies appropriate and innovative solutions to public health problems. This is accomplished by exchanging knowledge, skills, and technologies with governmental and nongovernmental partners in developing countries and with groups in need elsewhere.

Teachers Without Borders

Teachers Without Borders is a non-profit  501(c)3,  non-denominational, international NGO founded in 2000, devoted to closing the education divide through teacher professional development and community education.  We work primarily, but not exclusively, in developing countries, in order to build self-reliance, health, and capacity

Acumen International Partner Organizations

Greenstar Corporation

Greenstar Corporation and Greenstar Foundation build solar-powered community centers that delivers electricity, pure water, health and education information, and a wireless Internet connection, to villages in the developing world.
 
Greenstar also record traditional art, music, photography, legends and storytelling in traditional communities, and bring these unique, priceless products to global markets. Revenues from this "digital culture" are returned to the village to support their ongoing, independent development.

Digital Partners

Digital Partners, a Seattle-based nonprofit institute*, taps the power of the digital economy to develop market-based solutions that benefit the world's poor.

With support from the Kellogg Foundation, Open Society Institute, and individual contributors (to view a list of some of our supporters click here), Digital Partners is working to cultivate a world in which all men, women, and youths are able to reap the benefits of the Digital Revolution to improve the quality of their lives.

Other useful resources

DigitalDividends.org

The Digital Dividend Project offers research tools and information services to companies, entrepreneurs, NGO's, members of the development community, and more which are focused on bridging the digital divide between rich and poor populations.

More sites and partners to be added soon.

Let us know if there are any web sites that you enjoy and we'll consider including them on this page!