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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 ...

Enterprises face a major challenge when it comes to accessing capital: limited access to credit and investment, as they are often deemed high-risk by traditional banks and investors. With this gap in funding, blended finance emerges as a strategic solution. It combines philanthropic, public, and private capital to reduce risk and attract investment in sustainable enterprises. By taking on the first risk, organizations like NESsT create the necessary conditions for banks and private investors to feel confident in supporting these businesses, thus increasing their access to credit and growth capital. 

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
June 6, 2025
Blog, Europe, Violet Fund
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The NESsT Violet Fund: Strengthening Support ...

As we kick off celebrations for Pride Month 2025, we’re revisiting the recent efforts of the NESsT Violet Fund that have helped drive our work to bring vital financial and technical support to enterprises that are advancing equality for the LGTBQIA+ community in Central & Eastern Europe.

The NESsT Violet Fund: Strengthening  Support for LGBTQIA+ Equality through Entrepreneurship
May 15, 2025
Blog, Featured
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NESsT Appoints Renata Truzzi Chief Impact & ...

NESsT announces Renata Truzzi has been named Chief Impact & Operations Officer. Truzzi – who joined the organization in 2012 – has served in multiple capacities within NESsT, most recently as Global Acceleration & Impact Director. Her background in impact investing, business development, marketing, and fundraising will further support NESsT’s organizational effectiveness and operational excellence. 

NESsT Appoints Renata Truzzi Chief Impact & Operations Officer
Renata Truzzi
October 18, 2017
Brazil, Event, Publication

Women are a majority treated as a minority

Renata Truzzi
October 18, 2017
Brazil, Event, Publication
Women are a majority treated as a minority

Empowering girls and women can save a country's economy. The British Council Brazil in partnership with NESsT published a study revealing the severity of gender inequality and the power of social entrepreneurship in solving it.

Tagged: Women, Social Entrepreneurship

Guest User
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

Guest User
August 1, 2017

Founders' Leadership Series: Key Values for a Successful Entrepreneur

Guest User
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

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