Retalhar is a social enterprise based in São Paulo that upcycles used textiles to make corporate gifts, blankets, and other textile products. The enterprise trains and contracts people from low-income communities.

On World Refugee Day, NESsT is launching a program to empower refugees from Ukraine to rebuild their lives with support from Cisco Foundation.

NESsT has been selected by ImpactAssets – an impact investing trailblazer dedicated to changing the trajectory of our planet’s future and improving the lives of all people – to its ImpactAssets 50 2022 list of impact fund managers.

NESsT will work to support our entrepreneurs in Central Europe, and with them, find ways to support the Ukrainian people forced to abandon their homes and livelihoods.

Lazarillo creates software products that enable people with disabilities to participate in digital and physical spaces of companies and public organizations that are not fully optimized for accessibility. Today, Lazarillo has more than 240,000 active users across 50 countries and supports 25 different languages.

In 2018, NESsT and Fundacion Wiese launched Fondo Emprendedor — its open call for high-impact initiatives received applications from more than 100 enterprises in Peru, which underscored the continued need for impact-focused entrepreneurship support in the country.

NESsT and CATALYZE Perú have launched a new partnership that will improve access to finance among small and medium enterprises generating economic development, creating quality jobs for underserved communities while supporting forest conservation in the Peruvian Amazon.