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Asian Venture Philanthropy Network (AVPN)
Singapore
AVPN is a unique funders network based in Singapore committed to building a vibrant and high impact philanthropy and social investment community across Asia. AVPN s mission is to catalyse the movement toward a more strategic collaborative and outcome focused approach to philanthropy and social investing ensuring that resources are deployed as effectively as possible to address key social challenges facing Asia today and in the future.
| Type: Investor Network | Geography: Asia | Impact: Access to Education |
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Equity Group Foundation
Kenya
Established in 2008 Equity Group Foundation (EGF) is a not for profit implementing foundation born out of Equity Bank Group s commitment to servicing the poor both through its core business model and its various corporate social responsibility initiatives. EGF champions social development programmes creates effective partnerships and leverages strategic financial investments with the goal of improving the lives of at least 50 million people by 2020.
| Type: Foundation | Geography: Africa | Impact: Access to Financial Services |
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Growth Philanthropy Network
United States of America
Growth Philanthropy Network (GPN) was founded in March 2004 as a nonprofit committed to the long term goal of building a philanthropic capital marketplace and ecosystem that will provide consistent and reliable funding for the large scale expansion of high impact nonprofit initiatives. They believe the establishment of a growth capital marketplace in which funders make well researched investments to help top performing nonprofits with proven solutions scale their impact will transform the social sector.
| Type: Investor Network | Geography: United States of America | Impact: Access to Financial Services |
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Obvious Ventures
United States of America
Obvious Ventures helped a lot of companies launch, grow, and generate great financial returns. A few of these companies also deliver positive social and environmental benefits with every dollar of revenue they earn. They want to fund and build more of those. That's what we call a world positive venture capital.
| Type: Investment Fund Manager | Geography: United States of America | Impact: Access to Financial Services |
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PharmAccess Foundation
Netherlands
PharmAccess was founded in 2001 and is its key activities are currently focused on 10 African countries. The head office is in Amsterdam and they have country offices in Tanzania Nigeria Kenya Namibia and Ghana. Their activities are financed by donors and clients such as the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs the World Bank United States Agency for International Development (USAID) multinational corporations and the Rockefeller Foundation.
| Type: Foundation | Geography: Africa | Impact: Community Development |
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Portugal Inova��o Social
Portugal
With the creation of Social Innovation Initiative Portugal in December 2014 Portugal was a pioneer in the European Union to channel a significant portion (about 150m euros) from the European Structural Funds of the new 2014 2020 programming cycle for the promotion of social innovation .Portugal Social Innovation intends to support Initiatives of Innovation and Social Entrepreneurship (IIES) thatThey are focused on a social mission tackling important and neglected problems of societyBe innovative because they are pioneering the global or national level or for being pioneers replicas regional social innovations validated impactHave a model that can be systematized and replicated in a broader context given the nature of the problem they address and the solution they proposeThey seek to measure and validate their impact in order to continually improve performance and mobilize more resourcesAdopt implementation strategies with mechanisms that promote economic sustainability through efficient resource mobilization revenue generation or savings in public spending.Projects with these characteristics are the main beneficiaries of the financing instruments to be developed by Portugal Inovacao Social whether from social economy entities or driven by independent entrepreneurs within the public administration or by social economy entities in many Cases in partnership logic.Portugal Social Innovation will also energize an ecosystem of partner entities that train finance and monitor these initiatives helping them to achieve a greater scale and impact.The Portuguese Social Innovation Mission Structure created by Council of Ministers Resolution No. 73 A / 2014 of December 16 and amended by Resolution of the Council of Ministers no. 74/2016 of November 25 is the public entity Responsible for implementing this initiative.The Mission Structure is led by a Board of Directors composed of a president (Filipe Almeida) and two vowels (Teresa Bomba and Carla Pedro).It will be supported by a committee of advisers made up of representatives of some of the main entities of the public sector and the social economy.
| Type: Government | Geography: Portugal | Impact: Access to Financial Services |
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Seedstars
Switzerland
Seedstars is a global organisation with activities in key emerging markets. Seedstars connect stakeholders within these ecosystems build companies from scratch with our public and private partners and invest in the top entrepreneurs. Through the different activities of startup scouting company building and acceleration programs they now have access to entrepreneurs investors incubators corporates and government officials.
| Type: Accelerator/Incubator | Geography: Global | Impact: Access to Financial Services |
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Telecentre.org
United States of America
Since its launch at the World Summit on the Information Society in Tunis in 2005, Telecentre.org has been instrumental in creating telecentre networks in about 40 nations. Efforts in this period have also resulted in evolving a strong knowledge sharing program and the establishment of the Telecentre.org Academy to support and improve the knowledge and skills of telecentre operators.
| Type: Foundation | Geography: United States of America | Impact: Capacity Building |
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Yunus Social Business
Germany
YSB was co founded by Peace Nobel Laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus Saskia Bruysten and Sophie Eisenmann. The company was spun off from The Grameen Creative Lab (GCL) in 2011 to focus on accelerating and financing social businesses. YSB is active in seven countries where local country teams source coach and mentor entrepreneurs to build solutions from the ground up. YSB subsequently finances the most promising social businesses while also providing post investment support. In doing so YSB grows business that matter.
| Type: Accelerator/Incubator | Geography: Uganda | Impact: Access to Clean Water and Sanitation |