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Panel at SOCAP – Building the Impact Entrepreneur Movement.

Agora staff and entrepreneurs are live at SOCAP. We’ll be liveblogging their panel today at 1:45PM PDT. Stay tuned! Continue reading

Connecting Entrepreneurs with Investors.

Within 48 hours of completion of the Investor Conference, Agora Partnerships helped catalyze over U$3.5M in potential Impact Investments Continue reading

Tegu: The Wooden Block. Reinvented.

Tegu is a high-end manufacturing company innovating the traditional building block to give children better materials to play with at the same time as sending Honduran children to school on scholarship. Continue reading

Agora Impact Investor Conference

Welcome to the Agora Partnerships Impact Investor Conference in Granada, Nicaragua.  We’ll be liveblogging here, livetweeting in English @agoraprtnships, and livetweeting in Spanish @agoraes.  Please join us!

Francisco Noguera Repost

Francisco Noguera June 22, 2011 — 02:45 pm Agora’s Recent Entrepreneur Retreat, in Granada. Agora’s Impact Investor Conference: Accelerating the Central American Deal Flow In the midst of all the talk and philosophical discussions about the promise of Impact Investing, … Continue reading

Agora Founder Speaks at Georgetown Graduation

A month ago, Agora’s Founder Ben Powell was given the opportunity to address Georgetown University’s Masters of Science in Foreign Service graduates, along with Madeleine Albright. Being a graduate himself, Ben used this chance to tell the group of their … Continue reading

Agora Entrepreneur: Kiej de los Bosques in Guatemala

Agora entrepreneur Kiej de los Bosques is a social company established in 2004 with the objective of generating income for artisans – 90% women –  who although they have great abilities, are disconnected from markets, and are not able to … Continue reading

Agora Entrepreneur: Plantech

Agora entrepreneur, David García of Plantech, is dedicated to making products that have direct environmental impact by using organic compounds for fertilizer. Plantech is a biotechnology company that produces organic alternatives to traditional agrichemicals, allowing farmers to produce quality crops at … Continue reading

Agora Entrepreneur: Oscarito’s

Agora works to bring early stage entrepreneurs focused on creating social good the access to capital, knowledge, and networks. Oscarito’s is one such example. Continue reading

Entrepreneur Retreat Roundup!

Last week’s Entrepreneur Retreat ran from May 4th to the 7th, bringing together the best impact entrepreneurs from all over Central America and great mentors, advisors, and investors. Over those four days, friendships were formed, knowledge was shared, and business … Continue reading

Agora Entrepreneur: CO2 Bambu.

What keeps Agora going are the powerful mission-driven entrepreneurs that bring business and social good together to create positive change. One such organization is CO2 Bambu. CO2 Bambu’s founder, Ben Sandzer-Bell, believes firmly in the mission his organization seeks to … Continue reading

Agora’s 5th Anniversary

Celebrate Agora Partnerships’ Fifth Anniversary! Please visit http://agorapartnerships2010.eventbrite.com to purchase tickets or tables, or, if you are unable to attend, please visit our website to make a donation. Any questions, please contact Matthew C. Pietras.

Entrepreneurship Training

By Lissette Cuadra I’m proud to announce the sucessful culmination of one more project executed by Agora Partnerships and funded by Citi Foundation. During the week of the 16th of August, Agora hosted a series of workshops aimed at helping … Continue reading

Summer Cocktail Hosted by Agora’s Young Professional’s Board

Dear Friends, As many of you already know, Agora Partnerships is an organization that is near and dear to my heart. I had the pleasure of working for them last summer in El Salvador, and I’m currently serving on their … Continue reading

Reflections on my time as a Summer Associate

Originally uploaded by agorapartnerships1 by Andrew Zizmor As the end of the summer draws near, I wanted to share some insight into my summer internship with Agora’s Washington D.C. office. It was only 11 weeks ago when I first stepped … Continue reading

Not All Are Created Equal

Not all are created equal: differences in poverty abatement effectiveness among BoP business models accounted for by ownership By Sergio Figueroa Sanz Data from the World Bank Development Indicators 2008 reports that almost half of the world’s population lives on … Continue reading

Meeting an Impact Entrepreneur

Agora Partnerships Originally uploaded by agorapartnerships1 by Andrew Zizmor Throughout my internship this summer at Agora’s Washington, DC office, I became familiar with the term impact entrepreneur and the type of people who embody those characteristics. To clarify, impact entrepreneurs … Continue reading

Fresh Bread Anyone?

by Mike Herren One of the things I love about many Latin American cities is the ubiquity of freshly made bread.  I think it is one of our lost traditions here in the U.S.  When I heard we were going … Continue reading

The Face of What We Do

By Sergio Figueroa Sanz As my interview for the Summer Associate position at Agora Partnerships ended, I couldn’t help but be enthusiastic. It was late Spring in New York and I was finishing my second semester of graduate studies, navigating … Continue reading

Back to the basics: a note on fundraising

by Sergio Figueroa Sanz Agora Partnerships is not a fundraiser. Agora’s mission is clear: tackle poverty, inequality, and marginalization by broadening economic and social opportunities for the bottom of the pyramid while fostering private sector initiatives with a clear and … Continue reading