The COVID-19 crisis is threatening small and growing businesses in low-income nations and the capacity development organizations (CDOs) they depend upon. ANDE's Matthew Guttentag and Dalberg's Kusi Hornberger, Mark Pedersen and Alekhya Sure offer up three categories of actions funders should consider to help CDOs overcome their financial challenges.
Like social enterprises, technical assistance providers are struggling amid COVID, but they have few or no new options for support. That can hurt fledgling entrepreneurs and put impact deals in emerging markets at risk. ANDE’s Matthew Guttentag and Dalberg’s Mark Pedersen offer up three actions investors can take to shore up these critical service providers.
Artemisia is a pioneering organization focusing on social businesses in Brazil. It seeks to attract and train qualified people to build and develop new business models that contribute to reducing socioeconomic inequalities.
En el marco de la estrategia de ANDE relacionada con la red de networking y apoyo entre los diferentes actores del ecosistema, surgió la necesidad de generar un diálogo para identificar el estado de cada organización tras la crisis COVID19.
Village Capital helps entrepreneurs bring big ideas from vision to scale. Their mission is to reinvent the system to back the entrepreneurs of the future. Their vision is a future where business creates equity and long-term prosperity. Since 2009, Village Capital has supported more than 1,100 early-stage entrepreneurs through their investment readiness programs.
Jagriti Yatra (JY), an ANDE member initiative in India, is an annual train journey of discovery for hundreds of enterprising young people. Through the journey, they meet, interact with, and get inspired by highly reputed senior social entrepreneurs and the growing band of small and growing businesses (SGBs) that are creating an impact across the country.