Partners
Bridging the Public-Private Divide
Leveraging Origo's successful history, the Cazneau Group has been working with the public and private sector's for over a decade. As our experience grows, so does the depth and breath of our partners. Ranging from startups to multinational corporations; private sector, social and public investors and multilateral and bilateral initiatives, Cazneau has the networks to design, develop and implement partnership and investment strategies in domestic and international sustainable development sectors.
Asia Pacific Partnership on Clean Development and Climate
Washington D.C., USA
Australia, Canada, China, India, Japan, Korea, and the United States are working together with private sector partners to meet goals for energy security, national air pollution reduction, and climate change in ways that promote sustainable economic growth and poverty reduction.
AVINA Foundation/ Fundación AVINA
Panama City, Panama
AVINA is a Latin American organization that contributes to sustainable development in Latin America by encouraging productive alliances based on trust among social and business leaders, and by brokering consensus around shared agendas for action, with the support of people and institutions from around the world.
Benetech Initiative
Palo Alto, CA, USA
Benetech leverages the intellectual capital and resources of Silicon Valley to create new technology solutions that serve humanity and empower people to improve their lives. Benetech's initiatives focus on literacy, human rights and the environment.
Big Issue
London, United Kingdom
The Big Issue produces and distributes The Big Issue magazine to a network of street vendors. It also manages the Big Issue Foundation, which exists to help those vendors gain control of their lives by addressing the issues which have contributed to their homelessness.
Charity Bank
London, United Kingdom
The UK's only regulated bank that is also a registered general charity, Charity Bank uses 100% of depositors' savings to support charities, voluntary organizations and social enterprises that address society's needs. The Bank also provides a way for savers and investors who care about the communities in which they live and work to invest in social profit organizations working for positive change.
Development Alternatives, Inc.
Bethesda, MD, USA
DAI is an independent, employee-owned, mission-driven development company. DAI has been an implementing partner of USAID and other development agencies for 40 years, in 150 developing countries, and works in many of the world’s most challenging environments, from sensitive post-conflict countries such as Sri Lanka and the Democratic Republic of Congo to current hotspots such as Iraq, Pakistan, and Afghanistan.
Development Practitioners Forum, Bethesda, MD, USA
Bethesda, MD, USA
The DPF is building and strengthening online and offline knowledge networks to empower development practicioners in ways that tap their knowledge, preserve it, and put it to practical use.
Digital Divide Data
New York, NY, USA & Cambodia
Digital Divide Data is an international, non-profit IT company that builds bridges to opportunity in the global economy. DDD recruits disadvantaged youth in Cambodia and Laos and provides them with the education and training they need to work in a world-class digitization and IT company, serving clients around the world.
DuPont
Wilmington, DE, USA
Founded in 1802, DuPont offers a wide range of innovative products and services for markets including agriculture, nutrition, electronics, communications, safety and protection, home and construction, transportation and apparel.
Environmental Capital Group
Grass Valley, CA, USA
Environmental Capital Group (ECG) is a specialized investment advisory firm that helps leading institutional investors to create sustainable environmental value while achieving outstanding financial returns from their private equity investments. ECG works closely with limited partner trustees and executives, fund managers and general partner groups to provide environmental due diligence, performance monitoring, and reporting services that account for the real environmental impacts created by the portfolios of these investors, particularly for investments in clean energy and technology. ECG also works with public and private institutions to catalyze investments in clean technology solutions to address climate change, sustainable use of natural resources, and other environmental priorities.
Foursome Investments
London, UK
Foursome is a London-based cleantech investment firm. As of 2009, the Foursome funds are managed by Frog Capital.
GE Capital
Fairfield, CT, USA
GE Capital is a leading financial services business with industry-specific expertise in aviation, energy, infrastructure, healthcare and media.
Global Exchange for Social Investment (GEXSI)
Geneva, Switzerland
GEXSI is an online platform which links charitable donors, entrepreneurs and investors in funding social business in low-income regions around the world. The organization supports social entrepreneurs in moving from "Aid to Market": from charity dependence towards sustainable business.
Global Knowledge Partnership (GKP)
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Global Knowledge Partnership is the world's first multi-stakeholder network promoting innovation and advancement of information technology and communications for development. GKP activities and programs focus on Access to Knowledge, Education, Poverty Reduction and Resource Mobilization.
U.S. Department of State: Global Partnership Initiative (GPI)
Washington D.C., USA
The Global Partnership Institute is leading the U.S. Department of State's effort to develop cutting edge partnerships that will achieve results in a dynamic and changing world. Through the GPI the Department of State brings people together to work together on issues of common interest, catalyzes the development of new projects, training and technical assistance, and works closely with partners to plan and implement projects.
Goodwill
San Francisco, CA, USA
Goodwill is a leading nonprofit provider of job training programs and career services in North America. To pay for its programs, Goodwill sells donated clothes and other household items in more than 2,300 retail stores and online at www.goodwill.com. There are 166 independent, community-based Goodwill agencies in North America and 14 international affiliates.
GrupoNueva
San Jose, Costa Rica
GrupoNueva is an investment and operations holding company specializing in forestry and wood derivatives. GrupoNueva creates sustainable value for its stakeholders through its triple bottom line investment approach.
Hansen Bridgett
Larkspur, CA, USA
Hansen and Bridgett is a California-based corporate law firm. It is a Founding B Corporation, a new type of corporation which uses the power of business to solve social and environmental problems. This formalizes the company’s commitment to meeting comprehensive and transparent social and environmental performance standards.
Hewlett Packard
Palo Alto, CA, USA
HP is a global technology company offering a wide range of products and services from digital photography to digital entertainment and from computing to home printing.
Holcim Group
Zurich, Switzerland
Holcim's core businesses include the manufacture and distribution of cement, and the production, processing and distribution of aggregates (crushed stone, gravel and sand), ready-mix concrete and asphalt. The company also offers consulting, research, trading, engineering and other services.
International Network of Street Papers (INSP)
Glasgow, United Kingdom
INSP supports street paper projects worldwide to create employment for homeless people. The network connects over 100 street papers in some 40 countries and supports new projects in the developing world. Through the network, street paper members receive advice, training, consultancy and access to funding, and benefit from sharing resources, experiences and mentoring.
Mobius Technologies
Grass Valley, CA, USA
Mobius has commercialized a foam recycling technology in the United States and Europe and is currently expanding into South America, Australia and Asia.
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
Ames Research Center, CA, USA
NASA is the U.S. government agency pioneering the future in space exploration, scientific discovery and aeronautics research. NASA is making significant and sustained investments in transformative technology development and new approaches to space exploration. It is also focused on climate change research and observations; next generation and green aviation, and education.
Novica United
Los Angeles, CA, USA
Novica is a global platform providing artists and artisans a venue to express their artistic talents and to spur their creativity. The purpose of Novica is to create a revolutionary system through which the artist and artisans can display their fine works to a global audience of prospective customers.
Oracle Corporation
Redwood Shores, CA, USA
Oracle provides integrated business software and hardware systems, with more than 370,000 customers-including 100 of the Fortune 100-representing a variety of sizes and industries in more than 145 countries around the globe.
U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR)
Washington D.C., USA
In 2003, PEPFAR was launched to combat global HIV/AIDS – representing the largest effort by any nation to combat a single disease. PEPFAR funds prevention, care and treatment programs in fifteen focus countries, as well as smaller projects in other countries. PEPFAR also supports HIV/AIDS research.
Procter & Gamble
Cincinnati, OH, USA
P&G is the world’s largest consumer packaged goods company with brands including: Pampers(R), Tide(R), Ariel(R), Always(R), Whisper(R), Pantene(R), Mach3(R), Bounty(R), Dawn(R), Gain(R), Pringles(R), Charmin(R), Downy(R), Lenor(R), Iams(R), Crest(R), Oral-B(R), Duracell(R), Olay(R), Head & Shoulders(R), Wella(R), Gillette(R), Braun(R) and Fusion(R). P&G has a broad sustainability and corporate responsibility program.
Residential Mortgage Capital
San Rafael, CA, USA
Residential Mortgage Capital, a mortgage bank, offers retail, net branch, and wholesale lending services. It originates residential real estate loans. The company offers its services through a network of mortgage brokers and net branches.
Rockefeller Foundation
New York, NY, USA
The Rockefeller Foundation supports work that expands opportunity and strengthens resilience to social, economic, health, and environmental challenges. Foundation initiatives include efforts accelerate the evolution of the impact investment industry.
Schwab Foundation for Social Enterprise
Geneva, Switzerland
The Schwab Foundation provides platforms at the national, regional and global levels for leading social innovators that highlight social entrepreneurship as a key element to address social and ecological problems in an innovative, sustainable and effective way.
Skoll Foundation
Palo Alto, CA, USA
The Skoll Foundation’s mission is to drive large-scale change by investing in, connecting and celebrating social entrepreneurs and other innovators dedicated to solving the world’s most pressing problems.
Netherlands Development Organization (SNV)
Amsterdam, Netherlands
SNV is an international development working in 32 countries. SNV supports national and local actors within government, civil society and the private sector to find and implement local solutions to social and economic development challenges.
Social Venture Network
San Francisco, CA, USA
The Social Venture Network inspires a community of business and social leaders to build a just economy and sustainable planet. The network provides forums, information and initiatives that enable leaders to work together to transform the way the world does business.
Suez S.A.
Paris, France
Suez S.A. was a leading French-based multinational corporation, with operations primarily in water, electricity and natural gas supply, and waste management. The company conducted a merger of equals with fellow utility company Gaz de France in 2008 to form GDF Suez. The water and waste assets of Suez were spun off into a separate publicly traded company, Suez Environment.
Tech Museum of Innovation
San Jose, CA, USA
The Tech Museum of Innovation engages people of all ages and backgrounds in science and technology experiences that educate, inform, provoke thought and inspire action.
Tech Soup Global
San Francisco, CA, USA
TechSoup works with corporate donors, including Microsoft, Adobe, Cisco, and Symantec, to provide NGOs, nonprofits, libraries, and community-based organizations with the latest professional hardware, software, and services they need.
United Nations Global Compact (UNGC)
New York, NY, USA
The UN Global Compact is a strategic policy initiative for businesses that are committed to aligning their operations and strategies with ten universally accepted principles in the areas of human rights, labor, environment and anti-corruption.
U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID): Global Development Alliance (GDA)
Washington D.C., USA
Global Development Alliances (GDAs) are USAID's commitment to change the way the U.S. government implements development assistance. GDAs mobilize the ideas, efforts and resources of governments, businesses and civil society to stimulate economic growth, develop businesses and workforces, address health and environmental issues, and expand access to education and technology.
Vodafone Group
Newbury, United Kingdom
Vodafone is the world's leading mobile telecommunications company, with a significant presence in Europe, the Middle East, Africa, Asia Pacific and the U.S. The Vodafone America's Foundation makes grants in the areas of strengthening families, supporting children and youth; leadership development; civic participation and urban issues; the arts; and special projects.
William and Flora Hewlett Foundation
Menlo Park, CA, USA
The Hewlett Foundation makes grants to solve social and environmental problems at home and around the world. The foundation funds initiatives to reduce poverty in the developing world, curb carbon emissions that lead to climate change, and improve education for students.
W.K. Kellogg Foundation
Battle Creek, MI, USA
Established in 1930, the W.K. Kellogg Foundation supports children, families and communities as they strengthen and create conditions that propel vulnerable children to achieve success as individuals and as contributors to the larger community and society. Grants are concentrated in the United States, Latin America and the Caribbean, and southern Africa.
World Bank: International Finance Corporation (IFC)
Washington D.C., USA
The IFC provides investments and advisory services to build the private sector in developing countries. IFC has 182 member countries, which collectively determine its policies and approve investments.
World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD)
Geneva, Switzerland
The WBCSD is a CEO-led global association of some 200 companies dealing exclusively with business and sustainable development. The Council provides a platform for companies to explore sustainable development, share knowledge, experiences and best practices, and to advocate business positions on these issues in a variety of forums, working with governments, NGOs and intergovernmental organizations.
World Economic Forum
Geneva, Switzerland
The World Economic Forum is an independent, international organization incorporated as a Swiss not-for-profit foundation. The forum aims to be: the foremost organization which builds and energizes leading global communities; the creative force shaping global, regional and industry strategies; the catalyst of choice for its communities when undertaking global initiatives to improve the state of the world.
World Resources Institute (WRI)
Washington D.C., USA
WRI is an environmental think tank that seeks practical ways to protect the earth and improve peoples' lives. The organization’s mission is to move human society to live in ways that protect Earth’s environment and its capacity to provide for the needs and aspirations of current and future generations.
World Wildlife Fund (WWF)
Washington D.C., USA
The World Wildlife Fund works in 100 countries and is supported by 1.2 million members in the U.S. and close to 5 million globally. WWF's unique way of working combines global reach with a foundation in science, involves action at every level from local to global, and ensures the delivery of innovative solutions that meet the needs of both people and nature.