Fourth Sector Directory

EC3 Global is an internationally recognized environmental advisory group which can provide your organization with a pathway and comprehensive range of products and services to set, manage and achieve your sustainability targets. Our dynamic EC3 Global Advice House team helps build sustainable businesses with support from the products and services listed above which combine to deliver tailored benchmarking tools, certification systems and applications.

GoodCorporation is a for-profit company owned by a group of private individuals interested in responsible business management. It was founded in 2000 by a group of former partners and directors of KPMG Consulting. GoodCorporation carries out independent assessments for clients of how well they implement in reality their principles of responsible business management. GoodCorporation assesses companies either against the GoodCorporation Standard or against a company’s own statement of business principles.

KLD Research & Analytics, Inc. is an independent investment research firm providing management tools to professionals integrating environmental, social and governance factors (ESG) into their investment decisions. KLD Research & Analytics, Inc. is the leading authority on social research and indexes for institutional investors. Since 1988, institutional investors, managers, trustees, consultants and advisors have depended on the quality and expertise of KLD. Today, 31 of the top 50 institutional money managers worldwide use KLD’s research to integrate environmental, social and governance factors into their investment decisions. Featuring one of the largest independent corporate research staffs in the world, KLD provides performance benchmarks, corporate accountability research and consulting services analogous to those provided by financial research service firms.

Brand Indigo is a part sustainability-centric consultancy,part think-tank and part social venture capital firm with a self-sustaining hybrid business model.

Victoria Research Bureau, a consulting firm based in Mwanza Tanzania is specialized in research, program design-monitoring and evaluation for social sector development projects.

Empowerment Gateway is an organisation involved in:

Advocacy Research Conceptualisation, Development and Implementation of Community Sustainability Programs

Consulting Strategic Management Consulting General Management Consulting CSR 2.0 (Corporate Sustainability and Responsibility) SMME (Small, Micro, Medium Enterprises) Development and Support Transitional Business Consulting Non-governmental (NGO) Support and Development Social Enterprise Development and Support Socially Responsible Business Development and Support Fourth Sector Organisational Model Development Consulting

Victoria Research Bureau Ltd specializes in research, monitoring and evaluation, project design and management, household and business surveys, designing corporate social responsibility and enterprise development.