Demeter´s support to field missions goes beyond the simple financial assistance to its beneficiaries.
These are programs that are mainly executed on the field – contributing to the performance of innovative projects and providing new solutions in order to replace, over the medium term, assistance with self-generated resources.
To do so, the intervention mechanisms must have some key components:
- prevention of problems,
- enhanced responsibility of the program´s beneficiaries,
- long-lasting and verifiable results for the program´s beneficiaries,
- search for long-lasting economic independence for the sponsored organization.
In its selection criteria, Demeter prioritizes the most innovative programs in its field and does not hesitate to fund recently started projects or organizations.
In this section, you will find many of the programs Demeter has supported since its inception.
They can be consulted by alphabetical or geographical order, or by area of intervention.
For each supported project, you will find:
- an explanation file describing the sponsored initiative,
- description of the role Demeter played,
- link to the website of the organization in charge of the program.
 TO REINSERT BY MEANS OF EMPLOYMENT THROUGH MICROLOANS ADIE is a recognized public benefit association helping individuals excluded from the labor market and the banking system to create their own company and, as a result, their own source of employment thanks to microloans. Continent:
Europe Project type: Microfinance, Reinsertion, At-Risk Youth |
 ALPHAMUNDI GROUP LTD IS A SOCIAL FUND BASED IN SWITZERLAND AND EXCLUSIVELY DEDICATED TO IMPACT INVESTING. Profitable investments that are a source of economic, social and environmental benefits for the society. Continent:
South America Project type: Microfinance, Social Investment |
 TO BRING ANSWERS TO THE LOGISTIC DIFFICULTIES OF INTERNATIONAL NGOs ATLAS LOGISTIQUE is a French-based international NGO created in 1993 during the crisis in Rwanda. Continent:
Europe Project type: Emergency, International |
 JOINT COMMITMENT OF AN EMPLOYEE, A COMPANY AND AN NGO The concept Congé Solidaire was created by Hervé Dubois in 1999. The association, of the same name, founded in 2000, changed its name in 2005 to Planète Urgence. Continent:
Europe Project type: Social Investment, Venture Philanthropy, International |
 TRAINING AND REINSERTION DEDICATED FUND FOR EX-CONVICTS Continent:
North America Project type: Reinsertion, Prevention of Delinquency, At-Risk Youth |
 A PIONEER MICROFUNDING INSTITUTION IN ARGENTINA Continent:
South America Project type: Microfinance, Sustainable Agriculture, Social Investment, Access to Energy, Venture Philanthropy |
 A GLOBAL APPROACH THAT ALLOWS YOUNG PEOPLE TO REGAIN THEIR PATH WITH DIGNITY. “Por Un Mañana” (“For a Better Tomorrow”) is a global young people training and professional reinsertion program based in San Carlos de Bariloche (Patagonia Argentina). Interventions: Continent:
South America Project type: Reinsertion, Prevention of Delinquency, At-Risk Youth |
 A NEW SOCIALLY-RESPONSIBLE ECONOMY INTERRUPCIÓN* was created after the dramatic economic crisis suffered by Argentina in 2000/01. It is a network of social entrepreneurs created in Buenos Aires, engaged in the promotion of socially responsible companies and active citizens participation. Continent:
South America Project type: Microfinance, Social Investment, Venture Philanthropy, Fair Trade |
 L’ÎLOT's MISSION IS TO WELCOME AND TO REINSERT INDIVIDUALS EXCLUDED FROM SOCIETY AND IN GREAT DISTRESS. Beneficiaries: those convicted in the past and recently finishing their jail terms and individuals with prison benefits. Continent:
Europe Project type: Social Investment, Reinsertion, Prevention of Delinquency, At-Risk Youth |
 ENCOURAGE ECONOMIC SELF-SUFFICIENCY AMONG THE MOST VULNERABLE. Continent:
Asia Project type: Microfinance, Women Rights |
 DEVELOP LONG-LASTING SOCIAL ENTERPRISES THROUGH AN INNOVATIVE METHODOLOGY NESsT is an international non-profit organization that develops long-lasting social enterprises in emerging countries, in order to solve serious social issues. Continent:
South America Project type: Social Investment, Venture Philanthropy |
 MICROFINANCE EXPERT PlaNet Finance is an international solidarity organization composed by a global network of 112 active experts in 49 countries, aimed at professionalizing the microfinance sector and strengthening its impact. Continent:
Europe Project type: Microfinance, Social Investment, Venture Philanthropy |
 MICROFINANCE INSTITUTION NETWORK IN AFRICA AND CHINA. MicroCred is an investment society establishing and managing microfinance institution in Africa and China. Continent:
Europe Project type: Microfinance, Social Investment, Venture Philanthropy |
 STRENGTHEN SOCIAL ORGANIZATIONS AIMING AT INCREASING THEIR SOCIAL IMPACT. It is possible to create higher social value by : Continent:
Europe Project type: Social Investment |
 TO MOBILIZE YOUNG PEOPLE AT THE SERVICE OF THE COMMUNITY Since 1995, Unis-Cité is the pioneer association of the Civic Service in France. Present in fifty cities, it has mobilized more than 8,000 voluntaries, 2,000 of which during the period 2012-2013. Continent:
Europe Project type: At-Risk Youth, Community Work |