Wishes Granted--The Social Enterprise Fundraising Podcast

The 100+ Accelerator gives startups $100k and access to the biggest FMCG brands in the world: Coca-Cola, Unilever, ABinBev and Colgate-PalmOlive. Today I talk to 100+ and Chanzi, one of their investments.

Andrew Wallace, co-founder and CEO of Chanzi, traveled to Tanzania in early 2020 for a week. But due to Covid, the borders closed and he was stuck. He decided to make the most out of it and started a company in Tanzania that converts waste into high-quality animal protein. He joined the 100+ Accelerator when he turned a casual business connection into something more serious.

Carolina García Arbeláez is the Innovation Director at ABinBev. She runs the 100+ Accelerator which gives $100,000 non-equity investment to tens of startups each year PLUS access to the biggest FMCG brands in the world: Coca-Cola, Unilever, ABinBev and Colgate-PalmOlive. Apply here: https://www.100accelerator.com/

LinkedIn:

Andrew Wallace

Carolina García Arbeláez

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Amelia Hopkins Phillips is the Founder & CEO of Somo Africa. Somo Africa is an early stage entrepreneur accelerator based in Kenya helping entrepreneurs get training, get funding and sell their products. Really the whole thing and what I wish I had when I was starting as an entrepreneur. Invested in over 200 entrepreneurs. LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/amelia-hopkins-phillips-4871988b/

Rosaly Akinyi founder and CEO of Swahili Wear. Swahili Wear makes sandals from recycled tires. Yes recycled tires and from the images I’ve seen the sandals look very stylish. Somo africa made an investment in Swahili wear and we are going to hear more about that today.  LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rosaly-akinyi-ariwi-b94a5b171/

Swahili Wear: https://invest.somoafrica.org/public/96/Swahili%20Wear

Somo Africa https://www.somoafrica.org/reports/2021-Somo-Annual-Report/

Apply on Whatsapp  by clicking here https://wa.me/19295520992?text=Somo and text the word “Somo”.

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Kenneth Kou is the Crypto Lead at Mercy Corps Ventures. They have recently launched the Crypto For Good Fund to deploy $1M to 10 startups building crypto solutions for financial inclusion in emerging markets. Learn more about the Crypto For Good Fund here: https://bit.ly/C4G_Fund_MCV

Ken has worked across the developing world in Lagos, Laos, Rwanda, Indonesia and at organizations like Dalberg, Clinton Health Access Initiative and Julo, a fintech lender for underbanked individuals, among others. He has an MBA from INSEAD and before that a Bachelor's in Math, so quite a well rounded individual

Mercy Corps Ventures: https://medium.com/mercy-corps-social-venture-fund/fintech/home

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kennethkou/

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Matt Bonds is co-founder of Pivot Health, a primary healthcare provider in Madagascar. He previously worked for Partners In Health in Rwanda for 5 years.

Maria Franco is Director of Programs at Mulago Foundation, which means she recruits and selects fellows for Mulago Foundation. 

LinkedIn

Matt Bonds: https://www.linkedin.com/in/matthew-bonds-92440443/

Maria Elena Franco: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mariafranco1/

Other podcasts with Mulago Foundation:

https://aidevolved.com/podcast/kevin-starr/

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It's a very competitive process, less than 2% of applicants are accepted, so it's worth listening here to see how your application can stand out.

Apply here: https://globalebafund.org/ 

https://www.linkedin.com/in/wendyatieno/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/lismullinbernhardt/

Today we talk about Ecosystem-based Adaptation. This is the conservation, management and restoration of forests, grasslands, wetlands, mangroves or coral reefs. Global EbA Fund is looking for catalytic solutions. 

The next deadline is february 28, 2022, but even if you listen to this several years down the road there will probably be some other call for proposals. USD 50,000 to USD 250,000 in grant funding.

How to apply: https://globalebafund.org/how-to-apply/

LinkedIn:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/wendyatieno/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/lismullinbernhardt/

Tim Radjy is the Founder and Managing Partner at AlphaMundi. Incredible to speak with him. They have investments and grant throughout the developing world and have been doing this work for over 10 years and have invested in companies like Terrafertil and TwigaFoods. Tim is a pioneer in the space. It was a pleasure to learn from him.

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/timradjy/

Website: https://www.alphamundi.ch/

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Sara Eckhouse, executive director of Foodshot, a platform to fund and launch MoonShots for Better Food.  With the $525,000 GroundBreaker Prize, up to $10 million in equity investment, and up to $20 million in debt financing,

Previously, Sara worked with S2G Ventures, which has a portfolio of ag business.  And before that, Sara served as Senior Advisor at the U.S. Department of Agriculture, sustainable agriculture.  Sara also worked in the Obama White House and as a Field Organizer on the 2008 Obama Presidential Campaign.  She graduated from Harvard.

Apply here: http://www.foodshot.org/portfolio.html

Mentioned in this episode:

https://vence.io/

Dirt to Soil by Gabe Brown https://www.amazon.com/Dirt-Soil-Familys-Regenerative-Agriculture/dp/1603587632/

Healthcare outcomes vs. health care expenditure: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/disease-burden-vs-health-expenditure-per-capita

Majority of disease burden from poor diet:

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/disease-burden-by-risk-factor?country=~North+America

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TL;DR. Your donation page has WAY too much friction.

Tim Kachuriak is the founder of NextAfter, a fundraising research consulting firm. Their research approach is unlike anything I’ve seen in non-profit fundraising. He analyzes where donors get stuck at each stage of the sales funnel and why. On his website there are free eBooks which have in depth case studies that truly changed how I think about fundraising. You’re going to love this episode.

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/timkachuriak

Website: https://www.nextafter.com/ 

Donation Page Friction: https://donationpagefriction.com/the-donation-page-friction-study-download/

Mid Level Donor Crisis: https://www.nextafter.com/studies/mid-level-donor-crisis/

D-Prize is a grant of $10,000 to $20,000 for businesses that are pre-revenue or early revenue stage. They have two calls for proposals each year and are especially looking to fund local founders. They are specifically interested in a few sectors and within those sectors in rather specific problems. If you address one of those very specific challenges in the application you’ll have a lot better chance of winning. The broad areas are: Health Access. Clean Water, Education, Agriculture, Livelihoods, Energy and Public Services. Within health there are specific challenges like Self-Injectable Contraceptives or Develop Medical Oxygen distribution.

They are also looking for companies that can scale to 100,000 people impacted in 5 years. Usually, D-Prize is the first funding received by their grant recipients. Their funders include the Gates Foundation, DAK Foundation, and ThankYou. D-prize was co-founded by Andrew Youn of One Acre Fund, Paul Youn and Nicko Fusso. Will previously worked at One Acre Fund before his current role.

Apply here: https://d-prize.org/

Will’s LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/wisnider/

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