Nonprofit and Public Management
International Development
Corporate Social Responsibility and Sustainability
Social Entrepreneurship

Nonprofit and Public Management

Harlem Children’s Zone is a nonprofit, community-based organization that works to enhance the quality of life for children and families in some of New York City's most undeserved neighborhoods. HCZ's 15 centers serve more than 12,500 children and adults, including over 8,600 at-risk children.
Katrina Simon-Alogory '09 and Bonnie Schwartz '09

Brooklyn Arts Council serves Brooklyn’s range of cultural groups and individual artists as well as its over 2 million residents by providing grants, resources, referrals, networking opportunities, seminars, performances, screenings, exhibitions, and other activities that support and encourage the arts.
Sarah Barack '09

National Foundation for Teaching Entrepreneurship helps youths from low-income and undeserved communities build skills and unlock their entrepreneurial creativity. Operating in 21 states and 13 countries world wide, it serves the mission that every young person will find a pathway to prosperity.
Kerry Ann Edwards '08

Education Pioneers Fellowships develops leaders dedicated to transforming the educational system so that all students receive a quality education.

New York City School District 79 helps students who require alternative paths to quality education succeed by providing educational opportunities that combine rigorous academic instruction with meaningful youth development.
Jessica Hendrix '09

The New Teacher Project is a national organization dedicated to improving teacher quality in high-need schools.
Lisa King '09

Uncommon Schools, Inc starts and manages outstanding urban charter schools working to close the achievement gap in the Northeast.
Deniz Ozgenc '09

W.E.B. DuBois Scholars Institute develops a cadre of young leaders and scholars, through exposure to science and technology and training in leadership, scholarship, community service and entrepreneurship, committed to giving back to their communities and inspiring hope.
Daniel Fountenberry '08

The Clinton Foundation’s Climate Initiative applies a business oriented approach to the fight against climate change in practical yet significant ways as it assists partner cities to develop and implement large scale projects that result in substantial energy use and greenhouse gas emissions reductions.
Mica Odom '09

PBS Kids, one of the most trusted and visited websites for children, teaches pre-school and grade school aged children through commercial-free educational programming.
Anna Pakman '09

The McCarton Foundation strives to increase the educational opportunities for children diagnosed with autism and autism spectrum disorder and making a better life for these children and their families.
Summer Poole '09

SOUND promotes increased consumer awareness towards and consumption of socially and environmentally sustainable apparel and soft goods.
Richard Rosenblatt '09

International Development

TechnoServe helps entrepreneurial men and women in poor rural areas of the developing world to build businesses that create income, opportunity and economic growth for their families, their communities and their countries.
Francisco Albano '09

Endeavor transforms the economies of emerging markets by identifying and supporting high-impact entrepreneurs.
Sakura Takano '09 and Julio Giraut '09

Ventures in Development, a nonprofit social enterprise, promotes higher levels of economic and social development in the Greater China region through the incubation of sustainable, for-profit enterprises.
Beverly Chung '09

Freedom from Hunger offers sustainable self-help solutions to fight chronic hunger and poverty around the world.
Frederic Ruaz '09

United States Department of Interior – Office of Insular Affairs is responsible for coordinating federal policy in the territories of American Samoa, Guam, the U.S Virgin Islands and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands as well as oversight of federal programs and funding for the Federated States of Micronesia, the Republic of the Marshal Islands and the Republic of Palau.
Kelly Miksa '09 and Danielle Noto '09

Freedom from Hunger offers sustainable self-help solutions to fight chronic hunger and poverty around the world.
Frederic Ruaz '09

United States Department of Interior – Office of Insular Affairs is responsible for coordinating federal policy in the territories of American Samoa, Guam, the U.S Virgin Islands and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands as well as oversight of federal programs and funding for the Federated States of Micronesia, the Republic of the Marshal Islands and the Republic of Palau.
Kelly Miksa '09 and Danielle Noto '09

Enterprise Development Services at Pan-African University addresses the needs of small and medium enterprises (SMEs) and providing solutions to the various practical real life problems SMEs typically encounter in running a business smoothly.
Carla Franklin '09

African Service Committee is a grass-root, nonprofit organization that is dedicated to provide health, housing, legal and social services to 10,000 people across the African Diaspora.
Enterprise Development Services at Pan-African University addresses the needs of small and medium enterprises (SMEs) and providing solutions to the various practical real life problems SMEs typically encounter in running a business smoothly.
Carla Franklin '09

The Clinton Foundation’s HIV Aids Initiative was established to close the gap between people living with HIV/AIDS in developing countries and these nations extremely limited resources by increasing access to diagnostics, medicine and care, and by working with governments to improve the national health care systems required to deliver crucial medicines.
Stacey McKeever '09 and Irene Obiero '09

The Millennium Village Project (MVP), led by Dr. Jeffrey Sachs, is a United Nations initiative to lift rural Africans out of extreme poverty through improvements in health, water, agriculture, education and more by 2015, per the mandates of the United Nations eight Millennium Development Goals.
Sandy Eapen '08 and Andrew Umans '09

Women Private Equity Fund focuses on empowering women in business, which includes women entrepreneurs, women employees and broad based women's groupings by making equity investments which can create, facilitate or enable gender empowerment in business.
Saka Nawagawa '09

Save the Children is an international nonprofit organization working to ensure the wellbeing of children around the world – concentrating in education, health, emergencies, protection, and creation of economic opportunity.
Carmen Perez Solano '09

Corporate Social Responsibility and Sustainability

The American Express Foundation provides grants in three main areas - historic preservation, community service, and nonprofit leadership.
Joanne Greenstein '09

The Greater Jamaica Development Corporation is a community-building organization focused on advancing responsible development to revitalize Jamaica, Queens and strengthen the region.
Ryan Kinney '09

Enterprise Solutions to Poverty was founded by Nancy Barry, formerly of the World Bank and Women’s World Banking, to promote business strategies that include the poor in the economic value chain and mobilize the private sector for enterprise solutions to poverty.
Giselle Leung '09

Bioregen Systems, LLC is a sustainable wastewater company which provides final treatment and disposal solutions for wastewater facility by-products.
Stephanie Nadeau '08

The International Finance Corporation, a member of the World Bank Group, fosters sustainable economic growth in developing countries by financing private sector investment, mobilizing capital in international financial markets, and providing resources to businesses and governments.
Shoko Yanagisawa '09

Social Entrepreneurship

Bemporad, Baranowski Marketing Group is an innovative marketing and branding agency dedicated to serving socially responsible, forward thinking brands and conscious consumers.
Matthew Balestrieri '09

The Big Apple Circus entertains kids – beyond the big tent and traditional circus, it provides structured community outreach and afterschool programs for kids in New York City.
Laura Bogomonly '08

The candy maker sweetriot is a double bottom line business which makes high quality all natural treats with ingredients from fair trade suppliers in South America with strong records of social responsibility.
Frank Buchanan '08

Honest Tea, a triple bottom line business with a commitment to social responsibility, put the first “just a tad sweet” and unsweetened organic iced tea on the market.
Kate Grossman '09

SJF Ventures is a venture capital firm which provides capital to high-growth companies in clean technology.
Laith Kalamchi '09