Resources

Sites:

Next Billion
NextBillion.net is a website and blog bringing together the community of business leaders, social entrepreneurs, NGOs, policy makers and academics who want to explore the connection between development and enterprise.

Acumen Fund
“Acumen Fund is a non-profit global venture fund that uses entrepreneurial approaches to solve the problems of global poverty.”

Triviani Foundation
“The Trivani Foundation is a non-profit organization that strives to bring humanitarian aid to the deprived areas of the world and numerous communities that need our help.”

Drip Tech
“Our mission is to alleviate poverty by creating extremely affordable, water efficient irrigation solutions for small-plot farmers in developing nations.”

Net Impact
“Net Impact is an international nonprofit organization with a mission to inspire, educate, and equip individuals to use the power of business to create a more socially and environmentally sustainable world.”

Unreasonable Institute
“We unite up to 25 high-impact social entrepreneurs from around the world to attend our intensive 10-week summer institute. There, we will incubate their ventures with rigorous skill training and expert mentorship. At the end of the ten weeks, we will connect our Fellows with the start-up capital and global network of support needed to give their ventures wings.”

Solar Aid
“SolarAid aims to enable the world’s poorest people to have clean, renewable power.”

Ashoka
“Ashoka strives to shape a global, entrepreneurial, competitive citizen sector: one that allows social entrepreneurs to thrive and enables the world’s citizens to think and act as changemakers.”

Changemakers
“Changemakers is a community of action where we all collaborate on solutions.”

Kiva
“We Let You Loan to Low Income Entrepreneurs”

Ayllu
“Ayllu spreads businesses, known as ’social enterprises,’ that are proven to solve root causes of poverty.”

Grey Ghost Ventures
“deploys needed financial and human resources to high impact social ventures addressing the needs of large, underserved populations.”

BYU Center for Economic Self-Reliance
“Instead of focusing on poverty, we focus on self-reliance. By facilitating self-reliance, we help families remove themselves completely from the effects of impending setbacks that could otherwise be devastating.”

Ascend Alliance
“Life-skills mentoring with sustainable solutions in education, enterprise, health and simple technology.”

Microfranchises
“Global MicroFranchise accelerator that develops enterprise solutions to world poverty.”

Academy for Creating Enterprise
“The Academy for Creating Enterprise is an eight-week live-in program designed to train Filipinos how to start and grow successful small business and create jobs for themselves and their family and friends.”

Coast Coconut Farms
“Coast Coconut Farms was started in 2005 by The Pope Foundation as an economic development project with a mission to provide sustainable employment, management and ownership opportunities for the rural people of Kenya. We are accomplishing this in two ways: larger production facilities and small micro-franchises.”

Enterprise Mentors
“Mentors International is a non-profit organization that provides business training, mentoring, and micro-finance services to struggling entrepreneurs in developing nations.”

Vision Spring
“We reduce poverty and generate opportunity in the developing world through the sale of affordable eyeglasses.”