Reinventing plastics: Mango Materials produces biodegradable products.

Raise Green's investor marketplace is a platform for local impact investing. We offer access to accredited and non-accredited, corporate or individual investors who want fractional ownership in clean energy and climate solution projects, and are looking to invest for local impact. Our investor marketplace is licensed with the SEC and FINRA to sell private securities. Raise Green is a licensed Funding Portal with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) under Section 4(a)(6) of the United States Securities Act, SEC File No.: 7-191.

"We work to improve lives in Latin America and the Caribbean. Through financial and technical support for countries working to reduce poverty and inequality, we help improve health and education, and advance infrastructure. Our aim is to achieve development in a sustainable, climate-friendly way."

"Fresh Ventures is a venture building program and startup studio based in The Netherlands. We co-found companies with experienced professionals and entrepreneurs to address systemic challenges in the food system." (Direct feedback upon inquiry: "At Fresh we're focusing on pre-idea and pre-team, so the maturity of this solution is already too progressed for us, but it's exciting to see the development.")

Crypto4Good is a French NGO organizing charity events supported by the French-speaking crypto community. Best Practice: During a 24 hours live event by Crypto4Good + Binance Charity on 19 June 2021, two professional trading teams - Kryll.io & Diabolo.io - leveraged an experimental fund that was collected throughout the French crypto community in the weeks before the event. The two trading teams competed to make the most out of this fund within 24 hours of trading. Finally, both the money fundraised as well as the money sucessfully traded by Kryll.io & Diabolo.io will be given to NGOs in France. In the next weeks the event teams will travel to 5 cities in France: Lille, Paris, Lyon, Nantes, Toulouse, and use all of the donations collected and the money traded to buy as much food and basic necessities as possible. All these products will be donated to social services: https://www.binance.charity/fight-hunger-worldwide

The "Social Impact Network" approach will be a combination of a crowd based impact investment infrastructure, onboarded international aid organisation as stakeholders and local project coordinators for the implementation of impact projects in local communities in need. The platform will start with Photovoltaic projects in Lebanon, with UNDP Lebanon Country Office as first main stakeholder that reviews the PV projects & identifies project coordinators. This approach can also work to help implement the "Greens for Good" solution.

Perhaps, this is a possibility to either fundraise Crypto for direct implementations of a device at a community in need OR raise follow-up funding for the current design phase. Binance Charity "Fight-Hunger-Worldwide" campaign*: https://www.binance.charity/fight-hunger-worldwide Perhaps, "Greens for Good" can connect with this campaign by Binance Charity.

FSIN is a technical platform for exchanging expertise and best practices on food security and nutrition analysis. It promotes independent and consensus-based information and highlights critical data gaps. The result of a consultative process between government institutions and development partners interested in a new vision for country-led food security information systems, FSIN continues providing support at country and regional level. Demand-driven and flexible, it remains adaptable to changing contexts and evolving needs. Today, FSIN's work spans the effort of 16 global and regional partners committed to improving availability and quality of food security and nutrition analysis for better decision-making. It also facilitates the Global Network Against Food Crises's first pillar which is centered on better understanding global food crises.

CARE works around the globe to save lives, defeat poverty and achieve social justice. OUR 2030 GOAL: 75 million people, the majority of them women and girls, increase their fulfilment of their right to adequate food, water and nutrition.

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The Tyddyn Teg cooperative has eight members and some lovely volunteer helpers. We share a commitment to the importance of quality local food and the challenges of sustainability in the twenty first century. We see ourselves as part of the global family of small farmers and aim to become a practice based centre for research and education for sustainable local food production. Our primary objective has been to maintain vegetable production and meet the needs and expectations of our veg box customers. In this we have had a great deal of help and advice from John and Pippa (who were the previous owners of the farm). We are also supplying vegetables to Moelyci Shop and Dimensions Shop in Bangor. Our aims over the coming years are: Expand and improve our vegetable growing Develop the Farm to support WWOOFing Create new spaces for events Open opportunities to have a small scale restaurant/cafe on the farm Establish a luxury camping business where people can come and stay Provide a living wage to every member of the cooperative

Recommended by Billy Smith (via Mastodon): The Astralship runs a rural hackspace in Wales, and are partners/co-members with the farming co-operative. They're explicitly working on OSHW to improve their farming methods. Contact Liam Kurmos and Aglae.

The DOEN Foundation supports pioneers who work hard to establish a greener, more socially-inclusive, and more creative society, in which: > the capacity of the planet is the starting point (green); > everybody can participate, where people work together and help each other with respect for individual needs and possibilities (socially inclusive); > art and culture are at the heart in the belief that society can not do without (creative). The DOEN Foundation supports initiatives that focus on one of these three themes. Within these themes, we work with programs which specify the type of initiatives we support.

Our vision is a fair and sustainable global food system for healthy people and planet - leaving no one behind. Our mission is to transform our global food system through sound science, impatient disruption and novel partnerships. Everything we do is guided by a set of principles that define our character and working culture. These values are the shared convictions that we bring to our professional and personal conduct. We: > Scale bold systems change based on solid science > Accelerate impact through collaboration > Deliver disruptive solutions, where others can't > Embody diversity, honesty and integrity > Champion fairness and equity, leaving no one behind

"INVESTING IN PEOPLE": Oikocredit is a worldwide co-operative, socially responsible investor, and one of the largest private funders of microfinance in the world. "PEOPLE, PLANET AND PROFIT": Oikocredit does three simple things. We help people create their own path out of poverty. We do so in a way that leaves a positive impact on the planet. And we deliver a modest financial return back to investors like you. We call it a 'triple bottom line'. "SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE": Another major prioity of Oikocredit is to provide financing to farmer co-operatives, fair trade organizations and agri-processing companies working with smallholder farmers. This helps to boost rural incomes, increase food security and strengthen communities hit by global competition and environmental changes brought about by climate change. (...) "PARTNERS": Oikocredit invests in hundreds of partners, ranging from microfinance institutions and co-operatives to producer organizations. Our online partner overview shows you where we operate and with whom we currently invest.

At the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) we invest in rural people, empowering them to increase their food security, improve the nutrition of their families and increase their incomes. We help them build resilience, expand their businesses and take charge of their own development. IFAD is an international financial institution and specialized United Nations agency based in Rome, the UN's food and agriculture hub. Since 1978, we have provided US$22.4 billion in grants and low-interest loans to projects that have reached an estimated 512 million people.

The World Food Programme (WFP) has embraced innovation and thought leadership since its first airlift in 1962. Today we build partnerships that leverage the best technology and know-how from all sectors, to help us in our work towards zero hunger.

The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) is a specialized agency of the United Nations that leads international efforts to defeat hunger. Our goal is to achieve food security for all and make sure that people have regular access to enough high-quality food to lead active, healthy lives. With over 194 member states, FAO works in over 130 countries worldwide. We believe that everyone can play a part in ending hunger. Join us in creating a #ZeroHunger world.

Managing Director of the "Institute of Agricultural Engineering" & Prof.for "Conversion Technologies of Biobased Resources" at University of Hohenheim

Co-Chair of the German Bioeconomy Council, Speaker of the European Bioeconomy University (EBU), Chief Bioeconomy Officer, University of Hohenheim, Co-Chair of the Baden-Württemberg federal government's Sustainable Bioeconomy Advisory Council

Established in 1967, the Aga Khan Foundation (AKF) brings together human, financial and technical resources to address the challenges faced by the poorest and most marginalised communities in the world. Special emphasis is placed on investing in human potential, expanding opportunity and improving the overall quality of life.