UN & Business Partnerships, Collaborating for a better world

Its website, www.globalhand.org, provides:

• matching services for non-profit and for-profit organisations that partner to help a world in need
• standards to help anchor such partnerships in best practice
• a library of information with thousands of listings to help connect needed resources and providers.

Global Hand’s goal is to help connect a disconnected world. For this reason:

• it has built the UN & Business Partnerships website to establish, wherever possible, collaborative relationships between businesses and UN organisations. The site gathers a company’s interests in partnering and directs these, across the UN, to find potential matches. Any interested UN personnel can then communicate directly with the company and partner, if possible.
• it will invite companies, if a UN match is not possible, to place their offer before a wider audience. If a company agrees, Global Hand will then pass it on to a ‘Global Commons’ of NGOs for whom partnerships might be possible. In short: if a partnership cannot be matched in one constituency, Global Hand’s goal is to pass it on to another.

Global Hand’s services have been provided without cost to the UN.

Its efforts are supported by Aidmatrix which has provided two servers for the website in the United States.

Global Hand is accredited with special consultative status through the United Nation’s ECOSOC.