Social Enterprise SG Directory - Singapore SEs Company name Social mission Website Address Contact *scape Sell hand-made bags to raise funds. Adrenalin Events AG Café Ain Society Annalakshmi Architects of Life Ark Music School *scape aims to be the celebrated talent and one-stop resource hub for aspiring and inspiring youth, offering diverse, cutting edge and trend setting possibilities for www.scape.com.sg 113 Somerset Road Evelyn Lau, [email protected]om.sg, 67354144 Action for AIDS Singapore www.afa.org.sg 35 Kelantan Lane #02-01 Singapore 208652 May Yong, [email protected]g Local event company led by a team of experienced event professionals and supported by disadvantaged youth. It trains youth-at-risks, offering them event-related skills such as photography, videography, DJing and light engineering. When they are ready, they apprentice at events under the http://www.adrenalin.c 10 Anson Road, #27-18, International Plaza, Singapore 079903 Richardo Chua, [email protected]. sg Teaches sewing skills with the aim of providing the unemployed single mother or the lower income families with the necessary skills training to prepare them for employment or to be home entrepreneurs. Also provides Baking, Industrial Cooking, www.ainsociety.org.sg 20 Joo Chiat Road, #02-06 Saemah Ali, saemah@ainsociety. org.sg, 63424829 Alteration Initiative Alteration shop that employs single mums as seamtresses. http://www.alteration. 11 Orchard Road #B1-06/07/08 Dhoby Ghaut MRT Station S238826 Josephine Ng, jo.ng@a- changin.com Largely run by volunteers, it operates on a "pay-as-you-wish" concept. Proceeds go towards sustaining the Temple of Fine Arts and funding classes for needy students. www.annalakshmi.com.sg #B1-02 Chinatown Point [email protected]At the heart of AOL is a Mentoring Framework that provides a nurturing and conducive growth environment. Real character change takes place in the context of authentic relationships. We value Mentoring, not Programming, as the chief medium by which life transformation and http://www.architectso Deniece, deniece@architects oflife.net Collaboration between Kallang Community Hub and Ark Music School, to promote art and music. http://www.theark.com. Alicia Tang, [email protected]. sg
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Social Enterprise SG Directory - Singapore SEsCompany name Social mission Website Address Contact*scape 113 Somerset Road
Sell hand-made bags to raise funds.
Adrenalin Events
AG CaféAin Society
Alteration Initiative
Annalakshmi
Architects of Life
Ark Music School
*scape aims to be the celebrated talent and one-stop resource hub for aspiring and inspiring youth, offering diverse, cutting edge and trend setting possibilities for and by all young Singaporeans.
Local event company led by a team of experienced event professionals and supported by disadvantaged youth. It trains youth-at-risks, offering them event-related skills such as photography, videography, DJing and light engineering. When they are ready, they apprentice at events under the tutelage of professionals.
http://www.adrenalin.com.sg/Site/Welcome.html10 Anson Road, #27-18, International Plaza, Singapore 079903
Teaches sewing skills with the aim of providing the unemployed single mother or the lower income families with the necessary skills training to prepare them for employment or to be home entrepreneurs. Also provides Baking, Industrial Cooking, Jewellery Making and Tailoring classes.
Largely run by volunteers, it operates on a "pay-as-you-wish" concept. Proceeds go towards sustaining the Temple of Fine Arts and funding classes for needy students.
At the heart of AOL is a Mentoring Framework that provides a nurturing and conducive growth environment. Real character change takes place in the context of authentic relationships. We value Mentoring, not Programming, as the chief medium by which life transformation and growth is perpetuated.
The Ark runs various enterprises (including Marketing Services, FR Consultancy, IT services and other projects) to fund social services programmes that serve persons-in need in our community. One of our programmes is the ACMI-Ark Academy that provides basic IT training for persons-in-need and migrants.
www.arksg.com
Asian Culture Enterprise (Singapore) Limited
ACES serves as a cultural and creative intermediary within Asia and aims to be a resource and agent of change in the realm of international exchange of the arts, culture and heritage industries through the following roles: Aggregator of current knowledge on contemporary practices, trends, policies, personalities, relevant agencies and network. Creation of new works in the arts that will be incubated and developed in Singapore or that will have, for its artistic or managerial catalyst, a Singaporean talent as inspiration. Facilitate exchange between artists or designers from Asia and the West.
http://www.spaces.org.sg/ aces@ Old School, 11A Mount Sophia, #01-05, Singapore 228465Lim Su Pei, [email protected]
Promotes Asian cultural research and social programmes for Asian leadership development and community transformation.
Distributes VillageWorks products, which creates employment and providing skills and livelihood to women and young people in third world countries where the Girls’ Brigade Singapore has pioneering work.
http://www.villageworks.com/Beyond Imagination Pte Ltd, 1 Sophia Road, #05-38, Peace Centre
Bizlink Centre Singapore Ltd - Business Development Division
Centralised employment agency for people with special needs. For those who cannot work in regular employm,ent, Bizlink runs a production workshop to allow them to make a living by doing sub-contract work. Services offered are: mailing, assembly works, shrink-wrapping, packaging and silkscreen printing. Data Entry Centre, Project Air-RAP
Group that sends goodies bags to orphanages in Southeast Asia. Its founder, Emily, is trying to set up a eco-friendly/positive/real causes type flea market.
http://www.blessingsinabag.org/Comics Mart @ Serene Centre
SE run by S'porean based in Cambodia that aims to alleviate poverty (it hires widowed, abandoned, divorced women) and save the environment (through sale of bags made from recycled rice and fishfeed bags).
http://bloombags.blogspot.com808 Russian market in Phnom Penh, and next to warehouse pub, Old Market Area in Siem Reap, Cambodia
The café provides training and employment to ex-offenders, undergoing rehab with the Breakthrough Missions Halfway House.
http://breakthroughmissions.org/SVCS_cafe.html#01-02, People's Park Centre
Breakthrough Missions (Work Therapy Ministry)
Breakthrough Art Craft, Gifts and Bookroom, Book Binding and Embossing, Carwash and Polishing, Copper Tolling and Woodcrafting, Furniture Repairs and Varnishing, Framing and Art Crafts, Ham & Roast, Moval Services, Nursery and Landscaping, Oil Paintings, Banners and Silk Printing provide income source for Breakthrough Missions Halfway House
Fill the gap for students who fall in between mainstream schools and special schools due to their learning difficulties, which include Dyslexia, Autism Spectrum Disorder, and ADHD.
www.bridgelearning.com.sg1 Choa Chu Kang, St 53, Choa Chu Kang Sports Complex, #02-07/08420 Clemenceau Ave North, #02-01
BuRP! is a pilot Social Enterprise Project @ Punggol Community Club. Led by youth volunteers from the SMU-Initiative for Social Enterprise (ISE) and Punggol CC’s Youth Executive Committee (YEC), BuRP! hopes to generate funds to train and provide work for disadvantaged and low income residents.
http://www.burp.sg/about
Business Women Consortium
Business Women Consortium is a social enterprise created by a group of successful business women to help eradicate abject poverty in women in developing societies.
The B1G1 ‘plumbing system’ (actually a friction-less web-based matching system) allows businesses to build truly compelling marketing stories based on the power of B1G1 transaction-based giving where every transaction makes a difference.
http://www.buy1-give1free.com/Level 15, Prudential Tower, 30 Cecil Street
Income source for Canossaville Chidren's Home. The café acts as a learning facility where children life-skills by helping to run the café. Also has a thriftshop for migrant workers.
Gift products are not the usual novelty items found in tourist sites but are sourced from like-minded not-for-profit organisations employing the economically challenged. CharKOL is a project by The New Social Artist Enterprise, a Pte Ltd company with corporate governance and financial discipline but with social and art-based values.
http://www.charkol.com/about.htmlMandai Orchid Garden, 200 Mandai Lake Road
City College (f.k.a. City Harvest Education Centre) is an alternative school in Singapore which provides a safety net for students who dropped out of main stream schools. A high percentage of the profile of their students are youths who come from broken families or youth.
http://www.chec.edu.sg/Home.aspx73 Bras Basah Road, NTUC Trade Union House #07-01
The Community Kitchen Project aims to serve as a training and development platform for the participants, who have successfully completed their training in the NITEC, in Pastry Baking as well as in developing their entrepreneurial spirit towards becoming self-reliant.
http://www.northwestcdc.org.sg/MungoBlobs/562/408/Communitykitchenlaunch.pdfBukit Panjang Community Club, 8 Pending Road
Generate income for kidney patients through sale of handicrafts.
http://www.cutenhuggy.com/
In 2006, HOME was given a grant by Microsoft`s Unlimited Potential Program as part of Microsoft`s effort to combat human trafficking in the region. The grant was used to set up two centres to provide basic IT education for migrant workers. Internet application, MS Word, Excel, and Powerpoint form the basis of the curriculum. A cyber cafe has also been set up at HOME's Katong Centre to provide internet services for migrant workers at affordable rates
http://home.org.sg/page4.asp223 East Coast Road (Migrant Domestic Workers only) Tel: 63456441
Serves as a platform for showcasing digital art created by professional artists as well as artists from SPD's Multimedia Centre.
Doing.gd (pronounced "doing good") is a socially responsible e-commerce portal. We help disadvantaged merchants connect with consumers across Singapore and Southeast Asia. We are Internet, e-commerce and social media veterans, leveraging our skills and experiences to help traditional social enterprises go online in an easy and cost-effective manner.
FOCOS Pte Ltd Part of the worldwide Catholic Focolare Movement.
Food #03 109 Rowell Road
Drink Towards a Greener Earth
A social enterprise initiative to help the Visually Impaired Potters gain independence through the use of their creative talents and pottery skills, contribute to the Green Movement and integrate into the mainstream society. This project is designed by Clay-Street in collaboration with SAVH.
Employs and teaches ex-offenders/ delinquents on culinary or F&B management skills.
http://eighteenchefs.com/ Outlets at Eastpoint Mall, Fusinopolis, Yishun 10, Tiong Bahru Plaza. Office at 51 Ubi Avenue 1, #05-28 (8B), Paya Ubi Industrial Park, Singapore 408933
At least 10% of its profits go towards a financial aid scheme for underprileged students attending School of Thought, water purifying and well-building in the Philippines, among other projects.
www.foodforthought.com.sg420 North Bridge Road, North Bridge Centre, #01-06
Re-distribution of left over bread, thus avoiding food wastage. Principle of re-channeling the surplus to the demand is applied to non perishable food items & toiletries.
http://www.foodheart.org/ 161B Goldhill Centre, Thomson Road
Promote cyber wellness and provide a safe place for students in gaming.
http://www.soe.org.sg/files/o_interview.php?sid=319&a=&c=&year=2005&n=375Blk 476, Tampines St 44, #01-169,
GAT's sole mission is to market products handcrafted by the disabled, disadvantaged and impoverished, with a core vision of teaching them how to fish, focused on restoring the dignity as a person.
www.giftandtake.com 239A Lavender Street SE 338783
GIVE.sg is a social enterprise that places itself in between individuals and charities, attempting to create a better bridge that allows individuals to contribute to charitable causes easily over the web and at the same time, making it easier for charities to reach people by receiving donations on behalf of these charities.
http://www.give.sg/ 01-01 Eusoff Business Incubator, NUS, 10 Kent Ridge Drive, Singapore 119242
Consumers enjoy exclusive offers, discounts and savings, to a world of dining, entertainment, arts, shopping, wellness, sports, leisure and more! – while contributing to a social cause. 20% of all revenue from the sales of the Giving Forward membership program is donated to our adopted charities & organizations.
Good Company, developed in mid-2007, is the social enterprise branch of Beautiful People. Good Company is at start-up stage and we work with our community-partners (youth, outreach, family and other service centres), employer-partners & mentors from Beautiful People to help this young female group in their transition to a working environment.
Hagar works with women and children from devastating backgrounds of violence, abuse and trafficking and supports them in their recovery, rehabilitation, job readiness and ultimately community reintegration. Has a Singapore-based fundraising arm.
To correct the “mismeasure of profit” by integrating long-term thinking and responsibility into the profit motive, and to make this decision-making process widespread enough to benefit a larger proportion of humanity.
Provide an avenue for adloescents from Metta Welfare aged between 19-21 years old with mild intellectual disability to acquire life skills in baking, meal preparation, and kitchen and customer services so as to create employment opportunities for them.
http://www.metta.org.sg/Deli.htmMetta Building (Level 1)32 Simei St 1
HIV/AIDS research, awareness and prevention. With their experience of joys and successes in serving the migrant community at Karunya Clinic in Little India, a group of young doctors felt led to extend their ministry to reach out to the fringe communities in Geylang.
http://www.healthserve.org.sg/about.html1 Lorong 23 Geylang, #01-08, Building 4
A business unit of Highpoint Halfway House. Businesses include profesisonal movers, project management, space planning, networking solutions, reinstatement work, electrical, plumbing and cleaning services, painting, warehouse cargo handling, Hi-Shine Car Polish, thirft store, food catering
Persons from disadvantaged backgrounds such as the poor can receive sponsored training programmes, internships and employment in IBS’s network of beauty salons, filling a social gap as commercial beauty schools currently do not provide training sponsorship, internships, employment placement or assistance of any sort for them. IBS will also work closely with the social service agencies to counsel and mentor the beneficiaries so as to ensure their progress.
http://www.immanuelbeautyschool.com/38 Carpenter Street, #02-00, Hui Seng Building, Singapore 059917
Provides a platform for International Volunteer practitioners in Singapore to share with each other; their best practices, experiences, resources and information.
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=26991243948&ref=tsGoh Ann Tat, [email protected]
Isan Gallery is a showcase of many beautiful Indochinese artefacts and textiles including silk shawls and other items made by Ban Mai Roong Weaving Village which he set up to provide income for 40 families of a remote village in Isan through a fair wage system. In addition, a portion of the proceeds is used to fund modest community development and medical assistance projects in the Thai countryside and Laos.
www.isangallery.com.sg 42 Jalan Kembangan, Singapore 419113
Kairos Capital is a pioneering investment management firm that aims to create a consistent return on investment for our clients, with a secondary objective to help those in need by donating a percentage of our profits to grassroots charitable projects around Asia.
http://www.kairos-capital.com/460 Alexandra Road #15-03 PSA BuildingSingapore 119963
We collect expired advertising banners and make useful secondary products from them such a banner bags, file index divides, aprons, refugee tents, and refugee sleeping mats.
www.itecarebears2008.blogspot.comITE College East, Techno-Incubation Centre, 10 Simei Ave, S'pore 486047
Based in Singapore, we make inroads into grass-root communities in Asia, especially in South East Asia. We help people to escape poverty and gain access to a better life.
Nurturing each child to achieve a holistic development in terms of the cognitive, physical, social & emotional skills.
www.kits4kids.org
With our firm belief that work is the best form of therapy, we have adopted a mission of social enterprise, employing marginalised groups in our Central Kitchen. They have been encouraged to be self-reliant and have gained important inter-personal and other life skills setting down the road to financial independence.
In 2008, HOME was given a grant by Western Union to set up an English Language and Caregiver`s training facility for migrant workers. The English language program was developed by language specialists and was launched officially in February 2008.
Metamorphosis The Pertapis Hairdressing Training Centre Million Arts Project
Society of Moral Charities (SOMC)
Living Experience is a social enterprise that champions a positive movement that empowers individuals to seek self-actualisation via building psychological wealth and positive living experiences. This organisation enlists the support of all sectors of society (People, Public and Private) to provide ample support and recognition of regular people and extraordinary role models. LE also channels a portion of its profits towards selected not-for-profit organisations focusing on mental health.
Mercy Exchange (MX) is a social enterprise of local humanitarian NGO, Mercy Relief (MR). MX seeks to facilitate the growth of the humanitarian outfit and provide a sustainable source of funding for MR’s existing and future humanitarian relief programmes overseas. The main aim is to provide a sustainable source of funding for Mercy Relief’s humanitarian programmes abroad. The products featured ethnic handicrafts from the developing countries in Asia where Mercy Relief have extended their reach.
http://www.mercyrelief.org/xchange.php160 Lorong 1 Toa Payoh #01-1568 Singapore 310160
Works with talented but impoverished artisans to enhance their entrepreneurial expertise and help them access sophisticated markets where their crafts can earn a fair value. Main project is Send a Ugandan Child to School is helping a community of refugee women in Kampala, Uganda sell handmade paper jewelry. The income from this jewelry becomes food, medicine and education for their children.
The Employment Development Centres comprises of specific services for adults with intellectual disabilities, aged 18 years and above. The core focus of the services are to promote the social and economic integration of these adults into gainful mainstream activities, so as to enable them to lead a meaningful life independently.
Empowering disadvantaged mothers and their children to become economically self-sufficient by providing them with sewing, and jewellery making skills (we design, teach and then sell the items they make)
www.motherandchildproject.comRoom 114, 10 Simei Street 3, Simei Care Centre
mum4mum is an online social enterprise initiative, to be launched for a limited time through May 2009. mum4mum promotes artisanal items made by less fortunate women. The items are mostly ‘made by Mums’, and can be purchased for special women in your life – mother, grandmother, wife, sister, daughter, and even yourself.
Handicrafts shops selling products from women living in developing Asian nations like Bangladesh and Thailand. Profits are used to run a private school in Bangladesh.
39 Stamford Road, #02-12, Stamford House
Operated by the Singapore Council of Women's Organisations. Funds raised go towards operational expenses of Star Shelter, a crisis shelter for women.
To generate funds to be channeled to CHEC Ltd as bursaries for students from lower-income families, to use dance as an outreach tool for youth-at-risks, and to provide training and employment for youths with artistic talents
http://www.oschool.com.sg/73 Bras Basah Road, NTUC Trade Union House, #07-01
Promote and endorse a new brand of products embellished with unique doodles by special people who are quaint, insightful and fun! Their products come to you from students of Pathlight School, Singapore's first Autism-focused school that offer a unique blend of mainstream curriculum and life skills. Each Doodlist and Artist receives royalties from the sale of their merchandise. Our range of merchandise include T shirts, stationeries, gift wraps and Seasonal Gift Hampers.
http://www.emall.pathlight.org.sg/Pathlight Mall @ Pathlight School5, Ang Mo Kio Avenue 10, Singapore 569739Opening Hours: Mon to Fri, 9am to 5pm (Closed on Sat and Sun)
PCC provides assistance for HIV/AIDS patients and their families. The centre helps them cope with their conditions and provides financial and moral support (counselling). The centre also aims to increase HIV/AIDS awareness.
http://www.ttsh.com.sg/new/about/whatwedo.htm#patientTan Tock Seng Hospital
Provide affordable transport services for patients requiring frequent medical treatment such as dialysis, radiotherapy, physiotherapy and elderly attending day-care amd rehabilitation centres.
126 Joo Seng Road, Goldpine Industrial Building#05-14
Social enterprise committed to help persons with disabilties to develop their potential in graphic deign and print through providing convenience, professional and efficient printing services to customers.
Focus on clinically integrating healthcare and fitness to provide a seamless delivery of programmes and services to assist individuals towards optimal health, quality of life and wellness.
http://www.proage.sg/ 1 North Bridge Road,High Street Centre, #22-07Singapore 179094
Eatry that hires autistic children. Its mission is to provide affordable good food by an inclusive quality workforce comprising people of different abilities, ages and socio-economic background.
Khearts is a social enterprise providing employment to psychiatric patients undergoing rehabilitation.
http://smu-ise.smusa.sg/
Lil’ Mustard Seed is a social enterprise providing employment to poor Nepalese women by employing the to produce children clothing.
http://smu-ise.smusa.sg/
Previously known as Mail Mobile, MAPS is a social enterprise in collaboration with SAMH. Beneficiaries are engaged in simple packing services to train their concentration and vocational skills and hence increasing their employability.
Bringing clean water to the rural Nepalese population with a sustainable business model in place. After the successful pilot installation of a water filter in a school, the team is looking to raise a pool of start-up funds to kick-start a programme to be implemented in multiple schools.
http://smu-ise.smusa.sg/
Buy 1, give 1 concept for shoes to benefit underprivileged children in Singapore and the region.
PulseSync Pte Ltd is a "purpose driven" company that specialises in improving productivity, quality of care and efficiency of healthcare providers, in particularly community and residential based Intermediate and Long Term Care (ILTC) providers such as Community Hospitals, Hospices, Nursing Homes, Home Medicals, etc
http://www.pulsesync.com/
SE using multimedia to illustrate "human progress in harmony with nature". Its mission is to inspire people to think and act more progressively with deeper social and environmental considerations towards how we live, work and play in a future world.
Humanitarian agency which started a social enterprise in Khek Noi, a shophouse for desitute and abused womenfolk. The project equips them with basic management skills, work training and shelter.
Red Shield Industries Family Thrift Stores (Salvation Army)
The Salvation Army receives donations-in-kind from the public and companies. In turn, RSI resells them at affordable costs through its network of Family Thrift Stores. The income generated supports Salvation Army social and community programmes. Jobs are created through the RSI work-therapy programmes for under-privileged people. The work helps them to earn a living and gain useful employment experience so they can be reintegrated into society.
RE Holdings Private Limited, incorporated in February 2004, an autonomous body charged to create employment opportunities for ex-offenders through commercial enterprise investments and partnerships.
School of Thought is made up of like-minded individuals who share a similar approach to education and youth work.
www.school-of-thought.com420 North Bridge Road, North Bridge Centre# 06-27 / 28 / 29 / 30 / 33
As the lead aftercare agency, and in support of CARE Network, SCORE wants to build bridges of hope, by establishing links between incare and aftercare, between imprisonment and the society, and between offenders and their families.
http://app.score.gov.sg/loginexoff.aspx
SENSE (Social Enterprise Network Singapore)
Network of social enterprises inclubated by MENDAKI, including Junior Network Child Development Centre, Suri Stich, Suri Salon, Suri Spa, Inke Ink Refilling Service.
http://www.mendaki.org.sg/content.jsp?cont_id=481Wisma MENDAKI, 51 Kee Sun Ave, off Tay Lian Teck Road
A privately funded company that provids employment for physically/visually/mentally challenged persons, in the fields of Marketing/Sales/web Support and Administrative activities.
http://www.servehope.com/33 Jalan Afifi, #07-03, EtonHouse, Singapore 409180
Silver Spring is the platform especially for those in their mid life career, to generate enterprise and economic activities, to tap on the wealth of expertise and resources. We aim to be a key player for professionals in career transition seeking ways to generate options.
Supports the growth of the film industry by providing professional education and services while actively engaging the community via cultural enhancement programmes.
www.sinema.sg 11b Mount Sophia, Old School, #B1-12
Helps to sustain disadvantaged women financially. This group comprises the chronically unemployed, stay-at home caregivers, single mothers, teenage mothers, divorcees, the physically disabled, those from low-income families, cancer survivors and retirees.
Listing of professional services offered by transgender women, to provide a platform for supportive employers to engage the services of and even recruit transgender women who may otherwise find it difficult to find employment by virtue of their gender identity
The Spirit of Enterprise promotes and advances entrepreneurial spirit in Singapore by honouring local self-reliant entrepreneurs operating small and medium-sized businesses. We also serve to inspire Singaporeans, especially the young, to become entrepreneurs by facilitating interaction, communication and knowledge dissemination between students, the entrepreneurs and the general public.
Privately-ownered social enterprises that enables people with different disabilities to work togther to compete on quality and creativity in the marketplace.
http://web.singnet.com.sg/~sundachq/Blk 41, #01-16, Chai Chee Street
Tampines Changkat Kiliney Kopitiam
Tampines Changkat Community Club, 13, Tampines Street 11
Team Humaneity is Humaneity Foundation's initiative to involve people through every day sports activities to raise money for charity. Whether you play golf, tennis, run marathons, swimming, walking, it does not matter, you can simply sign people up and get them to sponsor you for participating. Team Humaneity is a global community of active people who want to use the events they are participating in to help raise money to give back. People have two choices on ‘how’ to give back they can raise money for the Humaneity Foundation or to nominate a charity of their own. It makes no difference, as long as more and more people are involved in giving back.
www.humaneityfoundation.org
Teddy bears that are so out-of-the-ordinary and more appealing because of that.
Villagexchange promotes Fair Trade as an equitable and sustainable form of exchange for alleviating global poverty, and offers fairly traded products from poor producers of less developed countries.
Wingscraft Project targets the special needs of older women and creates avenues for them to be engaged in society. Its products are lovingly designed and handcrafted and embody our creativity and spirit of self-sufficiency in preparation for active ageing.
http://wingscraft.com.sg/
WTC’s underlying principle is to bridge the much needed “last mile” to professionalize the sanitation and restroom industry and ensure that the needs, design, maintenance and cleanliness of restrooms receive mainstream attention.
http://www.worldtoilet.org/ourwork3.asp Colin See, [email protected]
YMCA International House
YMCA on One Orchard Road, is ideally located in the heart of Singapore's major shopping, tourist, business and entertainment belt.
http://www.ymca-hotels.com/singapore/ymca/
Offers a wide range of multi-media resources to introduce visitors to Chinatown. It raises funds for its affiliated charity, Yong En Care Centre.
http://www.yong-en.org.sg/?page_id=35Blk 335A Smith Street, #03-57
Owned and managed by the YWCA of Singapore, Fort Canning Lodge is nestled in the beautiful surroundings of Fort Canning Park, one of the greenest parts of Singapore.
Straits Times Press Co-operative Thrift & Loan Society Ltd
https://www.conetlink.com/Straits.Coop/
Telecoms Credit Co-operative Ltd (TCC)
https://tcc.org.sg/index1.htm
TRC Multi-Purpose Co-operative Society Ltd
http://www.trccoop.org.sg/
NTUC Co-operatives
Provides quality housing at competitive prices to workers and sets benchmarks for the private residential market.
http://www.ntuc-choicehomes.com/
NTUC Co-operatives
Set up by National Trades Union Congress (NTUC) and was officially registered on 2nd April 1997 to help Singapore to meet the national challenges of our aging population and its attendant implications.
http://www.ntuc.org.sg/eldercare/
NTUC Co-operatives
Largest supermarket chain in Singapore. It aims to stabilise the cost of living in Singapore through retailing and trading operations. Union members, as shareholders of the cooperative, enjoy dividends and attractive rebates on their purchases.
NTUC Co-operatives
Operates a string of childcare centres in major public housing estates to promote early childhood care and education at affordable rates. Union members get priority for admission of their children and fee concessions.
Operates franchise food stalls in hawker centres and coffeeshops. Its objective is to help stabilise the prices of cooked food in Singapore through the use of more efficient methods of operation and distribution.
http://www.foodfare.com.sg/
NTUC Co-operatives
Operates a chain of pharmacy outlets conveniently located throughout Singapore. The aim of the co-operative is to promote and provide quality healthcare services at affordable prices, so as to help moderate the cost of essential healthcare services in Singapore. Members of the co-operative get discounts on certain items in NTUC Healthcare's pharmacy outlets.
http://www.ntuchealth.com.sg/
NTUC Co-operatives
Provides social security to workers and their families through low premium insurance policies. It also offers general insurance, educational and hospitalisation policies.
NTUC Co-operatives
Aims to inform, educate and entertain all Singaporean workers and their families. It runs Radio Heart, broadcasting on 2 FM Channels, with English and Malay on FM91.3 and Mandarin and Tamil on FM 100.3.
Educare Co-operative Ltd Service Co-op http://www.educare.sg/Service Co-op
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NTUC Co-operatives
Savings and Loan Co-operative which provides affordable financial services to Union and Co-operative members. Its products include Savings Accounts, Subscription Accounts, Children's Accounts and Joint Accounts. It also offers Fixed Deposits with attractive interest rates.
http://www.ntucthrift.com.sg/
AUPE Foundation Co-operative Ltd
http://aupe.org.sg/coop/Foundation/foundation.htm
AUPE General Services Co-operative Ltd
http://aupe.org.sg/coop/GSC/GSC.htm
Bedok Multi-Purpose Co-operative Society Ltd
Choice Décor Co-operative Society Ltd
Community Kitchen Co-operative Ltd
Co-operative of SCDF Employees Ltd (COSEM)
http://www.cosem.org.sg/
Entrepreneurs' Co-operative Ltd
http://www.eccoop.org.sg/
Industrial & Services Co-operative Society Ltd (ISCOS)
ISCOS is a social enterprise with the primary aim of helping ex-offenders re-integrate gainfully into society.
http://www.iscos.org.sg/ 75 Bukit Timah Road, #05-19 Boon Siew Building
Women's co-operative started by Southwest CDC to encourage and empower Singaporean women, especially the more vulnerable, who are unable to commit to full-time employment due to their family priorities or circumstances, to engage in home-based economic activities.
Social Enterprise SG Directory - OverseasCompany name Social mission Website AddressBloom
Lim Shrimp Organization
Carpets for Communities
SE run by S'porean based in Cambodia that aims to alleviate poverty (it hires widowed, abandoned, divorced women) and save the environment (through sale of bags made from recycled rice and fishfeed bags).
http://bloombags.blogspot.com 808 Russian market in Phnom Penh, and next to warehouse pub, Old Market Area in Siem Reap, Cambodia
HKCSS-HSBC Social Enterprise Business Centre
Jointly funded by the Hongkong Bank Foundation and Partnership Fund for the Disadvantaged, HKCSS-HSBC SEBC is a new initiative of the Hong Kong Council of Social Service.
www.socialenterprise.org.hk Rm. 1206, 12/F, Duke of Windsor Social Service Building, 15 Henessy Road, Wanchai, Hongkong
Runs integrated shrimp farms in Papua New Guinea, China, Philippines, Vietnam, Singapore, Malaysia, Puerto Rico, Japan, Taiwan, Thailand, Indonesia
www.limshrimp.org 1 Maritime Square, Harvour Front #09-06
Seeks to reduce child labor and vulnerability to child trafficking in Poi Pet by employing mothers to make carpets
Social Enterprise SG Directory - IntermediariesCompany name Social mission Website Address Contact
Ashoka Singapore Global fellow of social entrepreneurs. Terri Jayme
DBS Enterprise Banking
H.E.A.R.T. Market
AMP's Micro Business Programme
The Micro Business Programme is designed to assist individuals from low income families to develop their entrepreneurial spirit by providing them with trade skills and entrepreneurial skills for them to be self reliant and using the skills to source for an alternative source of income to supplement their household income.
Centre for Social Entrepreneurship and Philanthropy (NUS Business School)
Research on social entrepreneurship and philanthropy; effective corporate social responsibility practices among businesses; and education on social entrepreneurship and non-profit management.
http://bschool.nus.edu.sg/ResearchPublications/ResearchCenters/CentreforSocialEntrepreneurshipPhilanthropy/AboutUs.aspxNUS Business School, 1 Business Link, BIZ 2 04-05
DBS Enterprise Banking supports Social Entrepreneurship with its Social Enterprise Special Package, which consists of various banking privileges that have been customised to help SEs meet the banking needs of their businesses.
The H.E.A.R.T. Market is a socially-conscious bazaar/ flea market held on the 2nd weekend of every month. Its mission is to be an effective avenue for handicrafters, artists, and young retail talents to showcase their designs and products. It also serve as an effective publicity and fundraising platform for charities and welfare societies.
http://www.calaminesolutions.com/the_h_e_a_r_t_market.htmlSculpture Square, 155 Middle Road (Junction of Middle Road and Waterloo St, Near Kwan Im Temple)
The Impact Investment Exchange Asia (IIX) will be Asia’s first social stock exchange, providing a trading platform and an efficient capital raising mechanism for Asian Social Enterprises (SEs), including both for-profit and not-for-profit entities with a social mission. IIX will connect these SEs with impact investors seeking to achieve both a social return and an economic return on their investment while providing capital to fund innovative social businesses.
IPS is a think-tank dedicated to fostering good governance in Singapore through strategic policy research and discussion. It is an autonomous research centre in the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy at the National University of Singapore.
A partnership between the Lien Foundation and Singapore Management University, LCSI supports the non-profit sector in capacity building and aims to help cultivate dynamic, principled and insightful leaders who can stimulate social innovation and create social and environmental value.
www.lcsi.smu.edu.sg SMU, Administration Building, 81 Victoria Street
MISE Challenge was designed to help acquaint youth with the local social entrepreneurship scene and to challenge them to come up with a feasible business plan to help VWOs to set up sustainable social enterprises to aid their causes.
Ngee Ann Polytechnic (Diploma in Business and Social Enterprise)
The BZSE diploma aims to prepare students to manage projects in non-profit organisations, Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) programmes or even start up their own social enterprises.
http://www.np.edu.sg/hms/courses/bzseSchool of Humanities, Blk 52, #04-01, 535 Clementi Road
Our core business is to inspire and sustain the Youth's passion by bring quality learning opportunities into the student community. Our main principle is building a better world by values integration to all sustainable programs.
http://sites.google.com/site/ntusifepublic/Nanyang Technological University
Introducing AIESEC's Global Internship Programme to local SEs. This programme aims to bring local SEs to a higher level by bringing in foreign perspective and expertise through overseas interns who are university students to work in SEs here.
Sustainable Rural Advancement Asia Fund (SRAAF), a social investment scheme aimed at reducing poverty, improving the environment and creating risk adjusted economic returns.
http://www.portelet.com/ 200 Mandai Lake RoadSingapore 729827
Students for the Advancement of Global Entrepreneurship (SAGE)
Students for the Advancement of Global Entrepreneurship—SAGE—is an international non-profit organization that links high school student organizations to mentors from local universities and businesses. Its purpose is to advance youth business and social entrepreneurship in an ethical and socially-responsible manner. With SAGESG, students in junior colleges in Singapore are presented with an excellent opportunity to apply classroom theories and translate them in the real world through new business venture projects. Six junior college teams have joined SAGESG as founding members.
Simei Care Centre (Singapore Anglican Community Services)
o Members Own Social Enterprise (MOSES): Home-made glassware, T-shirts, mugs, wedding gifts and decorated pin buttons, tailoring, rubber stamping, cleaning services o Something Old Something New (SOSN): Thrift goods ranging from high-end branded goods such as clothes, bags, shoes, computers, electrical equipment, gifts, toys furniture to low-end non-branded items of similar nature. o Parousia Gifts: Fashion wear, fashion accessories and decorative gifts items for the home. o Beracah Human Resource Consultancy Service: Placement of high caliber professionals in the management and supervisory levels for the food and beverage, hospitality, manufacturing, medical, retail and service industries, as well as domestic workers. o Raffles Treats: Western and Eastern food o Homespun: Handmade decorative crafts
http://www.sacsscc.org.sg/html/social_enterprises/sosn.htmlSimei Care Centre, 10 Simei Street 3
Partnering with Volans on SE programme for youth. SIF will select up to 6 groups to participate in a week-long in-residence session from 7 to 11 December 2009. The programme is designed to help participants learn the fundamentals of starting a social enterprise.
SMU Initiatives for Social Enterprise (SMU-ISE) is a student-run social entrepreneurship club. Since 2003, SMU-ISE has been working with social organisations and initiating projects that allow members to put their classroom learning into practice while benefiting these social organizations and their beneficiaries. SMU-ISE aims to empower segments of the society, by teaching them success skills so they can be economically independent.
Student-organised forum that aims to create an enabling environment for social entrepreneurship in Singapore, and educate the local market about the value of social entrepreneurship.
Aims to develop a self-reliant and thriving model for both aspiring and budding social entrepreneurs alike to bring positive transformation to society. It runs the Pop and Talent Hub Market.
http://www.socialinnovationpark.org/21 Serangoon North Ave 5 Ban Teck Han Building #04-04
Unitus Capital is a financial advisory firm specializing in arranging capital for microfinance institutions (MFIs) and other social enterprises benefiting those at the bottom of the economic pyramid.
http://www.unituscapital.com/ Bangalore (CEO in Singapore)
Social Enterprise SG Directory - Environmental EnterprisesCompany name Social mission Website Address ContactAsia-LOHAS Adam Horler,
Eco Leadership Training
Earth Gate Global Actioning the spirit of social enterprise.
Eco-Harmony
ECO Travel
Envizyme www.envizyme.com
Asia-Pacific LOHAS will generate profits, through its online and offline businesses, to be used to research and implement Asian models of sustainable living, both urban and rural, be the regional authority on Asian consumers’ attitudes towards conscious living and will mobilise ordinary consumers’ purchasing power to change consumer goods markets through the power of its social networks, administer the largest regional environmental online business network, with a target membership of 10,000 SMEs and 1,000 multinational companies.
Envizyme is a newly formed Singapore company creating Back-to-Nature safe, effective and eco-friendly cleaning solutions made from the enzymes of fruit and vegetables.
