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About Us

Aavishkaar India Micro Venture Capital Fund
Aavishkaar India Micro Venture Capital Fund (Aavishkaar India or AIMVCF), a rurally oriented, for-profit social venture capital fund, is embarked on the mission of promoting the largely ignored entrepreneurial potential that exists in rural India. Aavishkaar India will provide timely, appropriate venture capital financing, management support and professional expertise to promising micro ventures. Consistent with social development objectives, the fund accords priority to projects with limited or no access to established institutions.

Afrique Initiatives
Afrique Initiatives invests, by a partnership in equity, in small and medium-sized African compagnies thereby contributing to further development in Africa and a more comfortable life for all Africans. Afrique Initiatives is composed of a large network of European and African partners who participate in various projects according to their respective expertise.

Development Marketplace
The Development Marketplace is a program that promotes innovative development ideas through early stage seed funding. DM links social entrepreneurs with poverty fighting ideas to partners with resources to help implement their vision. Since 1997, the Development Marketplace has awarded more than US$14 million to over 190 groundbreaking projects through Global Competitions and Country Innovations Days.

Digital Partners
Digital Partners aims to tap the power of the digital economy to develop market-based solutions that benefit the world's poor, by fostering a global leadership movement in which the market-development acumen of IT entrepreneurs is linked with the poverty alleviation activities of social entrepreneurs, foundations, and development institutions.

GlobalGiving
Called "the application of eBay to international aid," GlobalGiving (formerly DevelopmentSpace) is a radical new platform for global development where social entrepreneurs, service providers, and social investors around the world can design, finance, and implement projects together.

Technology Empowerment Network
A support network for pioneering public good projects, TEN is a global network of organizations and individuals whose purpose is to identify, support and empower projects that contribute to improving the state of the world. TEN has a special interest in projects, for whom information technology plays a central role in achieving their objectives. TEN brokers supportive relationships between the projects and its members who donate their resources as part of their Corporate Social Responsibility efforts. TEN uses the Internet as the most efficient and effective way to bring together under-resourced and underserved communities with those willing to help.