What are the ingredients of an innovative approach to increase the impact of a business that is solving critical social problems?
Open Window for Polish Social Enterprises Officially Launched
Meet the New NESsT
After nearly 20 years of developing social enterprises, our work and our strategy have evolved to encompass so much more than what we ever had envisioned when NESsT started. Today, we turn our sights to an even loftier goal. We are committing to providing jobs and income to lift 50,000 people out of poverty in the next five years so that they too have opportunities for dignified lives.
Engaged Philanthropy Offers Innovative Solution for Investing in Social Change
Venture philanthropy recognizes that a great program – one that teaches kids to read, helps lift people out of poverty, or improves health outcomes – is no stronger than the organization underpinning its delivery. It’s crucial to invest in the organization and its capacity. If you want to have effective, sustainable programs that really make a difference, you must have a strong, stable organizational infrastructure supporting it. You have to go beyond writing a check and take a long-term view of what it means to invest in solutions to global or local problems.
Do You Want to Help Transform the Lives of Young People?
Tomasz is one young person whose life has changed, because of the work of Association Siedlisko, a NESsT enterprise that is giving work to young people with mental disabilities in Poland.
De ce povestea lui Gabriel ne face să zâmbim
There are so many stories we hear from NESsT enterprises about individuals whose lives have been transformed by the opportunity to work in dignified jobs, but Gabriel’s story is one that brought extra big smiles to our team’s faces.
Retalhar Offers Women in Brazil Dignified Livelihoods
NESsT Connects Entrepreneurs with Investors at SOCAP15
This fall, NESsT hosted several promising social enterprises from South America at the SOCAP15 conference in San Francisco. The conference is the annual gathering of the Social Capital Markets, a network of organizations dedicated to increasing the flow of capital to effect social good.
Strengthening Social Entrepreneur Business Skills
This summer, social entrepreneurs across the NESsT portfolio participated in hands-on training and networked with business mentors, investors and peers through a series of retreats and workshops. Held in each country, these events gave enterprise leaders the opportunity to strengthen their business skills, exploring topics as varied as investment readiness, financial management best practices, marketing and social impact measurement.
