'The Turn Your Life Around Trust' is a New Zealand based coaching programme designed to help at-risk youngsters turn their lives around.

Earth Day Network was founded on the premise that all people, regardless of race, gender, income, or geography, have a moral right to a healthy, sustainable environment. Their mission is to broaden and diversify the environmental movement worldwide, and to mobilize it as the most effective vehicle for promoting a healthy, sustainable environment.

A truly innovative philanthropic organization, Globalgiving is an online marketplace for philanthropy that allows development projects to compete for support. Donors can search by topic and region and select the project that that matters most to them, without worrying whether their money is getting to those who genuinely need it.

Kiva is founded on the fantastic principle that the way to change the world is one person at a time. Through Kiva you can make small loans to people who want to get ahead, in places where it is often not an easy thing to do.

My academic friends Dr Mike and Helga Pratt are spot on: “there is nothing so practical as great theory.” This company has a unique and compelling approach to sustainable value creation. Check out the book Sustainable Peak Performance; I was honored to write the foreword.

Former President of Ireland and Human Rights Champion Mary Robinson leads the Ethical Globalization Initiative (EGI). By bringing human rights into the heart of the globalization process the EGI is working to put humanity on an inclusive course.

The One Campaign is a terrific effort to fight – ONE by ONE – the emergency of global AIDS and extreme poverty. A diverse coalition of organizers – with U2's Bono as inspirational supporter – are showing the steps people can take to make the world a better place.