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Sesame Workshop

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Areas of expertise & Fields of activity:

Economic and Social:
  • Children
  • Disabled Persons
  • Education
  • Family
  • Financing for Development
  • Food
  • HIV/AIDS
  • Human Rights
  • Media
  • Peace and Security
  • Private Sector
  • Refugees
  • Religion
  • Safety
  • Science and Technology
  • Social Development
  • Sustainable Development
  • Values
  • Violence
  • Women
  • Women/gender Equality
  • Youth

  • Financing for Development:
  • Addressing systemic issues

  • Gender Issues and Advancement of Women:
  • Advocacy and outreach
  • Capacity building
  • Education and training of women
  • Human rights of women
  • Men and boys
  • Millennium Development Goals
  • Research
  • The girl child
  • Women and HIV/AIDS
  • Women and health
  • Women and poverty
  • Women and the economy
  • Women and the media
  • Women in power and decision-making

  • Social Development:
  • Conflict
  • Disabled persons
  • Indigenous issues
  • Poverty
  • Youth

  • Sustainable Development:
  • Education
  • Finance
  • Gender equality
  • Health
  • Partnerships
  • Sustainable development for Africa
  • Sustainable development in a globalizing world
  • Technology

  • Peace and Development in Africa:
  • Development in Africa
  • Peace in Africa

  • Conflict Resolution in Africa:
  • Conflicts Resolution
  • Geographic scope: International
    Country of activity:
  • Japan
  • Kenya
  • Ireland
  • Lebanon
  • Chile
  • Zambia
  • Egypt
  • Canada
  • Ghana
  • United States of America
  • Colombia
  • Peru
  • Zimbabwe
  • Nigeria
  • China
  • Niger
  • Afghanistan
  • Malawi
  • Syrian Arab Republic
  • United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
  • Mexico
  • Netherlands
  • United Republic of Tanzania
  • Ethiopia
  • Jordan
  • Mali
  • India
  • United Arab Emirates
  • Brazil
  • Australia
  • Germany
  • Iraq
  • Bangladesh
  • Honduras
  • Country Not Available
  • Israel
  • State of Palestine
  • Indonesia
  • South Africa
  • Other geographic areas of activity:
  • Kosovo
  • Mission statement:
    Year established:
    Year of registration: 1969
    Organizational structure: Sesame Workshop is based in New York, operating with 8 divisions, 28 departments, and 300+ employees.
    Number and type of members: Sesame Workshop employees approximately 300 people from the New York office, as well as 100+ consultants in Latin America, Southeast Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa to assist on co-productions and community outreach programs. SW has 2 local offices, one in India and one in Bangladesh, to oversee project work.
    Affiliation with NGO networks: UN DPI
    Funding structure:
  • Other sources
  • Grants from Governments
  • Product sales and business services
  • Funds from other Non-Governmental Organizations
  • Donations and grants from domestic sources
  • Foreign and international grants
  • Funding structure other: Individual Giving (Yellow Feather Fund)
     
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