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MEDA is an international economic development organization whose mission is to create business solutions to poverty. Founded in 1953 by a group of Mennonite entrepreneurs, MEDA partners with people living in poverty to start or grow small and medium-sized businesses in developing regions around the world.
<p>Ashoka is a network of social entrepreneurs with more than 3,000 fellows in 93 countries. Ashoka provides start-up financing, professional support services, and connections to its global network across business and social sectors.</p>
Cultivating New Frontiers in Agriculture (CNFA) is a non-profit organisation working with businesses, foundations, governments and communities to build local and global partnerships. CNFA designs and implements enterprise-based, agricultural development initiatives to facilitate market access, enhance agribusiness competitiveness, increase productivity and improve access to inputs and credit.
The Digital Opportunity Trust (DOT) is a non-profit corporation supporting youth and cooperating with the private sector, governments, and community-based organisations. DOT provides entrepreneurs aged 18 to 29 with tools, knowledge, networks, seed funding and support to launch sustainable social initiatives.
Engineers Without Borders (EWB) invests in early stage, innovative, highly scalable social enterprises in Sub-Saharan Africa that are focused on solving issues faced by the underserved. The EWB ventures program makes customised, long-term investments of up to USD 100,000 in first-of-kind scalable social enterprises
Financial Sector Deepening (FSD) Kenya supports the development of financial inclusion in Kenya by providing direct investments in market innovations, research and policy analysis. FSD works with the government and regulators, financial service providers, and start-ups.
The Financial Sector Deepening Trust (FSDT) provides loans, guarantees and grants to financial service providers. FSDT seeks to facilitate financial services focussing on agricultural and rural finance, digital finance, small and medium-sized enterprise finance and insurance.
The Global Education Fund (GEF), now working under Girl Rising, provides seed funding for early stage ventures operating in education. The funding period is between 3-5 years and grants are complemented with non-financial support.
The Technology Development for Poverty Alleviation Initiative (TD4PAI) offers Nigerian technology entrepreneurs and start-ups with trainings, one-on-one business development services and access to markets, financial providers and networks for no cost. In some cases, TD4PAI provides innovative entrepreneurs with seed-level grants to develop their business ideas. The organisation also conducts thought-leading research and trainings in collaboration with experts from academia and the technology entrepreneurial ecosystem. Resources and trainings, which focus on promoting technology to advance economic development within Nigeria, are available to the general public.
