FSDT
FSDT adopts a market development approach toward addressing systemic constraints in the market and to contribute toward achieving pro-poor growth in the financial sector.
UpEnergy
UpEnergy fights poverty, improves health, and protects forests by making clean energy technologies available to more people in the developing world through carbon-financed distribution channels. UpEnergy works with technology manufacturers and local partners to deliver high quality products such as efficient cookstoves, water purification technologies, and solar lights to poorly served households at affordable prices.
Envirofit
Envirofit International is a social enterprise that innovates smart energy products and services that improve lives on a global scale. Using a market-based approach, Envirofit develops a global product line of smart clean cooking technologies that cook faster while reducing fuel use, smoke, and toxic emissions. Serving more than 5 million people in energy poverty, Envirofit’s smart stoves reduce climate change, create new jobs, and enable families to save money.
Cultivating New Frontiers in Agriculture (CNFA)
CNFA assists smallholders in increasing household-level food security and nutrition through improved agricultural practices, introduction of new varieties, diversification of crop production, food preservation and storage, development of farmer-based organizations, and strengthened linkages to markets.
There are currently no vacancies.
Sunfunder
SunFunder is a mission-driven solar finance business based in Nairobi unlocking debt capital for solar energy in emerging markets, where over 2.2 billion people live without access to reliable energy. We offer borrowers a deep solar market expertise, an efficient due diligence process and strong customer partnerships, while simultaneously providing investors with diversified, high-impact, fixed income debt offerings of emerging market solar investments.
There are currently no vacancies.
The Baobab Network
The Baobab Network is Africa’s Social Impact Technology Accelerator. We are a tech accelerator built for Africa, backing early stage start-ups in healthcare, fintech, energy, edtech & food security. We have offices in London, Kenya, Ghana, Rwanda and South Africa.
There are currently no vacancies.
APOPO
APOPO saves lives through the deployment of Detection Rats Technology, deploying cost-efficient mine action solutions in affected countries, accelerating tuberculosis (TB) diagnosis in high TB-burden countries, and researching and developing innovative detection rats technology applications. Overall, we train RATS to SAVE LIVES.
There are currently no vacancies.
Ashoka
Ashoka builds and cultivates a community of change leaders who see that the world now requires everyone to be a changemaker. Together, we collaborate to transform institutions and cultures worldwide so they support changemaking for the good of society.
UjuziKilimo
UjuziKilimo collects & analyzes millions of data points to provide actionable insights that inform the agriculture industry. UjuziKilimo utilizes data science and machine learning to provide actionable agronomic insights to farmers; business intelligence & predictive analytics to Agriculture service providers & businesses through a fully integrated data platform, powered by millions of data sets.
There are currently no vacancies.
M-KOPA
M-KOPA has connected more than 500,000 homes in Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda to solar power, with over 500 new homes being added every day. Customers pay a deposit of 3,500 KES (approx $35), take the system home then pay 50 KES (approx $0.50) a day for a period of one year, to own the solar system.
There are currently no vacancies.
Innovation Edge
Established in mid-2014, Innovation Edge is an innovation catalyst and investment platform with a social impact agenda. We help entrepreneurs and innovators bring to life solutions for the problems faced by young children and those who care for them.
FHI 360
FHI 360 is a nonprofit human development organization dedicated to improving lives in lasting ways by advancing integrated, locally driven solutions. Our staff includes experts in education, health, nutrition, economic development, civil society, environment, gender, youth, research and technology – creating a unique mix of capabilities to address today’s interrelated development challenges. FHI 360 serves more than 70 countries and all U.S. states and territories.
mPharma
mPharma is a venture-backed startup with a simple mission: Make prescription drugs in emerging markets easily accessible, and easily affordable. We’ve partnered with major pharmaceutical manufacturers, insurance companies, financial institutions and governments to deliver medicines directly into the hands of consumers in these underserved markets. Our innovative suite of business solutions provide doctors, patients and pharmacists access to a network of high quality chronic disease medicines at sustainable prices.
There are currently no vacancies.
D-tree International
D-tree International’s mission is to develop and support electronic clinical protocols that enable health workers worldwide to deliver high quality healthcare. D-tree is changing the way health care is delivered to the poor by providing accurate and effective point-of-care diagnosis and treatment through mobile technology.
Tugende
At Tugende, we create opportunity through ownership. We’re a for-profit social enterprise in Uganda that helps safe, reliable motorcycle taxi (boda-boda) drivers buy their own motorcycles, giving them the means to control their own tools of employment and kick starting a path to financial independence.
ENVenture
ENVenture aims to create and expand sustainable goods ventures (SGVs) in developing countries in order to increase access to low cost lighting, safe water, and cooking technologies that advance the health and sanitation of current living standards while improving the environment. Eliminating kerosene, three stone fires, and other harmful items used for everyday needs creates new income-generating opportunities, which ultimately benefits local people.
GOGLA
GOGLA is the global association for the off-grid solar energy industry. Established in 2012, GOGLA now represents over 135 members as a neutral, independent, not-for-profit industry association. Its mission is to help its members build sustainable markets, delivering quality, affordable products and services to as many households, businesses and communities as possible across the developing world.
There are currently no vacancies.
Development Alternatives
Development Alternatives (DA), the world’s first social enterprise dedicated to sustainable development, is a research and action organization striving to deliver socially equitable, environmentally sound and economically scalable development outcomes. DA’s green technology innovations for habitat, water, energy and waste management, which deliver basic needs and generate sustainable livelihoods, have reduced poverty and rejuvenated natural ecosystems in the most backward regions of India.
There are currently no vacancies.
Wadhwani AI
The Wadhwani Institute for Artificial Intelligence (Wadhwani AI) is an independent not-for-profit research institute founded by the Indian-American tech entrepreneurs Romesh and Sunil Wadhwani. It aims to harness the power of AI to find the break points that cause the world’s deepest problems — and then find innovative solutions to fix them. The institute specializes in AI research conducted to address problems in public health, agriculture, education and infrastructure using techniques such as Machine Learning, Data Science, Cognitive Reasoning and IoT.
There are currently no vacancies.
iDE
iDE is a global development organization that co-creates with foundations, governments, individuals, for-profits, and nonprofits to develop lasting solutions to poverty. We design and deliver market-based solutions in Agriculture and WASH in 11 countries across Asia, Africa, and Central America. Much more than a collection of technologies and field offices, we are a globally integrated ecosystem of nearly 1,000 staff, passionate about innovation and entrepreneurism.