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July 9, 2025
Blog, News, Poland
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Grzegorz Wach Named NESsT Country Director of ...

NESsT announces today that Grzegorz Wach has been named NESsT Country Director of Poland, reflecting the impact investor’s expanding acceleration of social enterprises that create dignified jobs for individuals from excluded communities, including refugees, migrants, women, at-risk youth, the LGBTQIA+ community, and others facing systemic barriers to economic opportunity. 

Grzegorz Wach Named NESsT Country Director of Poland
July 3, 2025
Blog, News, Romania
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Ioana Samoil Named NESsT Country Director of ...

NESsT announces today that Ioana Samoil has been named NESsT Country Director of Romania, highlighting the impact investor's deepening focus on accelerating Romanian social enterprises that create dignified jobs for individuals from excluded communities, including refugees, migrants, women, at-risk youth, the LGBTQIA+ community, and others facing systemic barriers to economic opportunity.

Ioana Samoil Named NESsT Country Director of Romania
June 26, 2025
Blog, Europe, Event, NESsT Accelerator Program, News, Portfolio, Supporters, Latin America, Romania, Poland
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Reflecting on the NESsT-IKEA Social ...

In May 2025, we were delighted to host an in-person meeting in Olsztyn, Poland, bringing together NESsT portfolio enterprises, partners from IKEA Social Entrepreneurship, and members of the NESsT regional and global teams.

Reflecting on the NESsT-IKEA Social Entrepreneurship 2025 Retreat
June 24, 2025
Amazonia, Bioeconomy, Blog, Funding, Portfolio
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Blended Finance: Unlocking Funding for ...

When structured effectively, blended finance can connect entrepreneurs who need support with investors who care about impact. To make this model easier to understand, NESsT has created an infographic that clearly shows how blended finance works in practice and highlights its role in the Amazon impact ecosystem. This visual tool breaks down complex financial ideas into simple language, making it valuable for entrepreneurs, policymakers, partners, and anyone interested in advancing the Amazon bioeconomy through innovative financing. 

Blended Finance: Unlocking Funding for Sustainable Businesses in the Amazon
June 18, 2025
Amazonia, Latin America, News, Peru, Supporters
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NESsT Joins Conexsus, IDB, and Green Climate ...

NESsT announces today that it has joined the Sustainable Connections Institute (Conexsus), the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), and the Green Climate Fund (GCF) in AmazonBeEco, an unprecedented four-year initiative to support the sociobioeconomy in the Pan-Amazon region.

NESsT Joins Conexsus, IDB, and Green Climate Fund to Scale Enterprises from the Sociobioeconomy Across the Pan-Amazon Region
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October 10, 2017
Consulting

Fostering Financial Sustainability of Oak Foundation Grantees in Belize

Guest User
October 10, 2017
Consulting
Fostering Financial Sustainability of Oak Foundation Grantees in Belize

This project with the Oak Foundation assisted five Foundation grantees to increase their financial sustainability through earned-revenues.

Tagged: Latin America

Guest User
October 2, 2017
Peru, Portfolio

Combatting the Informal Economy in Peru through Social Entrepreneurship

Guest User
October 2, 2017
Peru, Portfolio
Combatting the Informal Economy in Peru through Social Entrepreneurship

Not much is known about the informal economy in Peru, yet it is one of the reasons why many people face poverty, particularly women.

Tagged: Social Enterprise, Women

Guest User
September 28, 2017
Consulting, Romania

From the Bitter Part of a Sales Job to the Sweet Beginnings of a Jam Business

Guest User
September 28, 2017
Consulting, Romania
From the Bitter Part of a Sales Job to the Sweet Beginnings of a Jam Business

Bunicel is a jam business founded by Romanian Mihai Zaharia four years ago, along with the support of NESsT. Mihai was a winner of OMV Petrom's "Made in Andrei's Country" program and received both seed funding and business development delivered by NESsT.

Loïc Comolli
September 28, 2017
Consulting

NESsT Delivers Intensive Online Business Accelerator Program for Red de Pathways Members

Loïc Comolli
September 28, 2017
Consulting
NESsT Delivers Intensive Online Business Accelerator Program for Red de Pathways Members

NESsT provided business acceleration services to 11 Red de Pathways members. Acceleration services consisted of an online course for leaders of social change organizations and individualized “coaching.”

Guest User
September 28, 2017
Peru, Portfolio

Join Housekipp in Formalizing the Domestic Services Sector in Peru

Guest User
September 28, 2017
Peru, Portfolio
Join Housekipp in Formalizing the Domestic Services Sector in Peru

With your support, women in Peru will have the opportunity to improve their income, receive professional training, and access micro-loans for their children and families to thrive. By lending $25 or more, you can help Housekipp reach 100% so that it can train and employ 240 women by 2021.

Tagged: Social Enterprise, Women

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August 1, 2017

Founders' Leadership Series: Key Values for a Successful Entrepreneur

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August 1, 2017
Founders' Leadership Series: Key Values for a Successful Entrepreneur

Leading investor and Stanford Business School professor Andy Rachleff shares the key values he's observed in entrepreneurs of successful businesses.

Tagged: Social Enterprise, Social Entrepreneur

Guest User
July 28, 2017
Peru, Supporters

Kiva Lenders Raise $30,000 for Project Pietà

Guest User
July 28, 2017
Peru, Supporters
Kiva Lenders Raise $30,000 for Project Pietà

In less than a week, over 900 people trusted in Pietà by becoming their lenders and partners through the campaign organized by NESsT and Kiva!

Tagged: Kiva, Social Enterprise

Guest User
July 25, 2017
Romania

Growing Social Enterprises in the Balkans: A Goodbiz Interview with NESsT

Guest User
July 25, 2017
Romania
Growing Social Enterprises in the Balkans: A Goodbiz Interview with NESsT

Check out Goodbiz's interview with NESsT's own Irina Asaftei, project manager in Romania, on what makes the NESsT methodology stand out, how enterprise founders without business training are able to run their own businesses and thrive, and how NESsT decides what issues to invest in.

Tagged: Social Enterprise, Social Entrepreneur

nesst-admin
July 21, 2017
Poland

The Power of Venture Philanthropy to Drive Social Change

nesst-admin
July 21, 2017
Poland
The Power of Venture Philanthropy to Drive Social Change

In 2017, the Academy for the Development of Philanthropy in Poland organized the Competition for the 20th time, where NESsT Co-CEO Loïc Comolli was a speaker on the potential of venture philanthropy to drive social change.

Tagged: venture philanthropy

nesst-admin
July 19, 2017
Poland

Supporting Youth from Orphanages and Foster Families to Become Developers

nesst-admin
July 19, 2017
Poland
Supporting Youth from Orphanages and Foster Families to Become Developers

At the Coders Lab Schooling Program, young people at all levels of education learn programming from scratch, enabling them to work in IT. Coders Lab founded the "Keep Up the Pace" Foundation to implement the professional education program, Możesz ITy, that will make it easier for homestay and foster home children to live independently.

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