Investor

Accelerating Appalachia

Accelerating Appalachia is the first of its kind nature based business accelerator connecting innovative businesses investors and mentors aligned with people place and prosperity. They attract and scale high impact seed stage businesses in the following sectors Farming Food Clean Energy Forest products (natural building) and non timber forest products (ginseng mushrooms fruit & nut trees) Fiber/ Textiles Craft Brewing/ Distilling Botanicals/Wellness Outdoor Industry and other innovative triple bottom line businesses with special consideration for innovators and entrepreneurs from marginalized populations.

Type: Accelerator/Incubator

Geography: Global

Impact: Access to Financial Services

Investor

Ethiopian Agriculture Transformation Agency (ATA)

Ethiopia

The Ethiopian Agricultural Transformation Agency (the Agency or ATA) is an initiative of the Government of Ethiopia (GOE) which was established by federal regulation in January 2011. The primary aim of the Agency is to promote agricultural sector transformation by enhancing and supporting existing structures of government private sector and other non governmental partners to address systemic bottlenecks in the system and deliver on a priority national agenda to achieve growth and food security. The ATA focuses on a set of high priority program areas.

Type: Government

Geography: Africa

Impact: Access to Financial Services

Investor

Voxtra

Norway

The Voxtra Foundation was established in 2008 by a group of Norwegian individuals who wanted to apply business like investment discipline to philanthropy rigorous screening close follow up on key performance indicators and milestones and documentation of results. The tagline Investing for Social Impact was coined to demonstrate the view that a grant is an investment and should be managed as such.

Type: Foundation

Geography: Kenya

Impact: Agricultural Productivity