A NESsT com o apoio do Fundo Dema e dezenas de parceiros locais está lançando um edital para seleção de negócios socioambientais da Amazônia para receberem investimento e integrarem o Portfolio NESsT com acesso a capacitações e mentoria personalizadas e à rede de parceiros.
The Importance of Business Assistance in Impact Investing
As an impact lender, we view our business assistance as having as much of an impact on these businesses as our capital. By this summer, NESsT’s Business Assistance Facility will have provided advisory services to 20 businesses in South America. Our services focus on two main areas: financial management and social impact measurement.
Investing in the Missing Middle, Greenbox
SME Financing Gap in Latin America
Building an Impact Economy in Peru
NESsT Hosts Impact Investing Reception at the Royal Academy of Arts
On March 7th, investment professionals, philanthropists, strategists and changemakers came together at the Royal Academy of Arts to discuss how to grow the social entrepreneurship ecosystem. Why social entrepreneurship? It offers sustainable solutions to unemployment, environmental degradation, and poverty.
A Leap for the Social Investment Sector in Central, Eastern, and Southern Europe
NESsT Investment Supports Siedlisko Growth
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.