Partnerships
The Grassroots Business Fund aligns with strong, experienced partners with distinctive capabilities and skills, which can help our clients grow into catalysts for economic growth and social change.
Below are some of the partners GBF has worked with:
African Management Services Company (AMSCO)'s vision is to help African Enterprises become globally competitive, profitable, and sustainable. It builds management capacity within African Enterprises by providing management and training support to qualifying companies.
Aspen Network of Development Entrepreneurs (ANDE) is a member-driven program of the Aspen Institute. AIts memebrs are leading intermediaries, funders, and experts with a common desire to unleash the potential of small and growing businesses in emerging markets.
BASIX works throughout India to promote a large number of sustainable livelihoods through the integrated provision of financial services and technical assistance.
Calvert Foundation focuses on using investment capital, rather than conventional philanthropy, to create a sustainable, scalable model for problem-solving.
CARANA Corporation designs and directs market-led solutions to economic development challenges. Carana has guided practical approaches to help businesses and countries compete globally, reducing poverty and raising living standards around the world. CDC Development 
Solutions provides innovative and market-driven solutions that empower individuals, businesses, and governments in emerging markets to lead economies towards self-sustained growth and opportunity.
Solutions provides innovative and market-driven solutions that empower individuals, businesses, and governments in emerging markets to lead economies towards self-sustained growth and opportunity.
CSR Capital is a private investment company with focus on social equitable and environmental sustainable investments in commercially viable Small and Medium Enterprises (SME).
Dalberg Global Development Advisors is a strategic advisory firm specializing in international development and globalization.
Keystone Accountability improves humnan development organizations thorugh practical methods of planning, measuring, and communicating social change that privilege the voices of their beneficiaries and other constituents.
Foundation for Sustainable Development (FUNDES) works to promote and drive the competitive development of micro, small, and medium-sized enterprises in Latin America.
Harvard Business School Leadership Fellows Program gives nonprofit and public-sector organizations the opportunity to maximize their effectiveness by leveraging the experience, energy, and analytical skills of graduating MBAs for one year in the field.
The University of Pennsylvania's Huntsman Program in International Studies & Business is a four-year interdisciplinary undergraduate course of study that integrates business education, advanced language training and a liberal arts education.
Krishi Gram Vikas Kendra (KGVK)'s ultimate goal is to help rural communities realize their potential by making them self-sustainable. For this, KGVK aims at collaborative programs and projects that are self-sustainable, scalable, and replicable.
Ogilvy Public Relations is a leading global marketing communications firm with more than 1,700 public relations specialists in more than 65 full-service offices on six continents.
Oikocredit is on eof the world's largest sources of private funding of the microfinance sector. They also invest equity and debt capital in trade cooperatives, fair trade organizations, and small-to-medium enterprises (SMEs) in over 50 countries in the developing world.
Root Capital is pioneering finance for rural communities in developing countries by providing capital, delivering financial education, and strengthening market connections for small and growing businesses that build sustainable livelihoods in poor, environmentally vulnerable places.
Self Employed Women's Association (SEWA) provides employment and access to essential social services to disadvantaged women in India.
TechnoServe helps poor entrepreneurial men and women build businesses that create income, opportunity, and economic growth for their families, their communities, and their countries.
d by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), is a platform to facilitate the engagement of all actors for more inclusive business models so that the pursuits of wealth creation and human progress can work to mutual advantage.
William Davidson Ins
titute (WDI) is a non-profit, independent, research, and educational institute dedicated to developing and disseminating expertise on issues affecting firms in transition and emerging market economies.
titute (WDI) is a non-profit, independent, research, and educational institute dedicated to developing and disseminating expertise on issues affecting firms in transition and emerging market economies.
