Ashoka
Citizen Base Initiative (CBI)
(Arlington, Virginia, USA)

NESsT was contracted by Ashoka's CBI to develop a series of case studies of innovative social enterprise strategies.  

AVINA Foundation

(Santiago, Chile)

NESsT has been contracted by AVINA to provide training to Foundation grantees and staff on social enterprise strategies.

Casa de la Mujer Mapuche

(Temuco, Chile)

NESsT was contracted to provide consulting and training to assist Casa de la Mujer Mapuche develop a self-financing strategy.

Civil Society Development Foundation (CSDF)

(Budapest, Hungary)

CSDF contracted NESsT to conduct the workshop "Venture Philanthropy and Social Entrepreneurship" at the conference "Sustainability of the Third Sector in Central and Eastern Europe."

CIVICUS

(Johannesburg, South Africa)

NESsT provided research and writing support and co-author several chapters in the CIVICUS book -- Sustaining Civil Society: Strategies for Resource Mobilization.

Community Wealth Ventures (CWV)

(Washington, DC, USA)

CWV contracted NESsT to provide advisory support for the Alcoa Foundation's Social Venture/Enterprise Initiative International Forum.

Education Development Center (EDC)

(Riga, Latvia)

NESsT was contracted to conduct a one-day training on organizational and financial sustainability for EDC and Soros Foundation Latvia staff.

European Foundation Centre (DFC), Grantmakers East Group

(Brussels, Belgium)

NESsT was invited to lead an introductory session on  NGO self-financing for international foundations supporting NGOs in Central & Eastern Europe.

Global Internet Policy Initiative (GIPI)

(NESsT was contracted to provide a three-day social enterprise workshop in Kyrgysztan for GIPI members from 8 countries.

Handicap International

(Belgrade, Serbia & Montenegro)

NESsT was contracted to provide a one-day introductory Social Enterprise Workshop in Belgrade for NGOs selected by Handicap International South East Europe (HI-SEE).

Information Centre for Nonprofit Organisations (ICN)

(Prague, Czech Republic)

NESsT was contracted to provide a one-day training on social enterprise for Czech NGOs.

Institute for Sustainable Communities (ISC) (Montpelier, Vermont, USA)

The ISC contracted NESsT to assist in developing a "financial viability" component of a four-year, nationwide effort to foster civil society in the Ukraine.

Inter-American Development Bank (IDB)

(Washington, DC, USA)

IDB's Country Offices in Guyana and Suriname contracted NESsT to deliver social enterprise trainings for local NGOs.

Jeunesses Musicales (JM)

(Brussels, Belgium)

JM contracted NESsT to conduct a training on self-financing for staff of JM local affiliates across Europe.

The Johns Hopkins University, Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, Program on Social Change and Development (Washington, DC, USA)

Johns Hopkins contracted NESsT to complete a study of self-financing in the developing world and design and teach the first graduate-level course on the topic.

Milieukontakt Oost-Europa

(Amsterdam,

The Netherlands)

Milieukontakt contracted NESsT to conduct a training on self-financing for environmental NGOs in Romania.

Mongolian Foundation for Open Society

(Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia)

Open Society Institute, Information Programme (Budapest, Hungary)

NESsT is providing on-going consulting and training support to several OSI Information Programme initiatives.

Open Society Institute, Mental Disability Advocacy Program (MDAP)

(Budapest, Hungary)

NESsT is providing on-going consulting and training support on social enterprise development to the MDAP network.

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Parques para Chile

(Chile)

NESsT was contracted by Parques para Chile to provide consulting and training to assess the feasilibility of a new social enterprise.

Perfekt

(Budapest, Hungary)

politika.lv

(Riga, Latvia)

NESsT was contracted to develop a handbook on self-financing for internet portals and to help politika.lv develop a financial sustainability strategy.

Prince of Wales International Business Leaders Forum (IBLF)

(London, UK)

IBLF contracted NESsT to conduct a workshop on "Enterprise Development and Self-Financing" for Romanian NGOs.

PROMAS

(Coronel, Chile)

PROMAS contracted NESsT to assist with plans to diversify its funding base, including assessing the feasibility of a for-profit organic agriculture enterprise.

Queensland University of Technology (QUT), Faculty of Business, Centre of Philanthropy and Nonprofit Studies

(Brisbane, Australia)

Regional Environmental Center for Central and Eastern Europe

(Szentendre, Hungary)

The Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship (Geneva, Switzerland)

Schwab contracted NESsT to review  Foundation candidates from Poland, Ukraine, and Slovakia.

The Smith Family

(Sydney, Australia)

Spiralis

(Prague, Czech Republic)

Spiralis contracted NESsT to conduct a session on social enterprise development for Czech NGOs.

Swinburne University of Technology, Asia Pacific Institute for Philanthropy & Social Investment

(Melbourne, Australia)

The Synergos Institute

(New York, NY, USA)

Synergos commissioned NESsT to complete three case studies on social enterprise among local grantmaking foundations in Latin America.

Tactical Technology Collective (TTC)

(Amsterdam, The Netherlands)

TTC contracted NESsT to deliver a 3-day training in Istanbul for TTC partners from Bulgaria, Georgia, Poland, South Africa and USA.

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United Methodist Committee on Relief (UMCOR)

(Tbilisi, Georgia)

UMCOR contracted NESsT to conduct a week-long training on resource development and social enterprise for Abkhaz and Georgian youth NGOs.

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VIA Foundation

(Prague, Czech Republic)

VIA contracted NESsT to conduct a 3-day workshop on social enterprise development for Czech NGOs.

World Learning

(Washington, DC, USA)

NESsT was contracted by World Learning to host a weeklong study tour for 23 Bulgarian NGOs to visit and learn Czech social enterprises in the NESsT Venture Fund portfolio.

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