Small Business Development & ESD

When you take a township entrepreneur from nothing to something, that’s impact. When you help a business scale from three employees to 10, that’s impact. When you enable a company to successfully navigate the red tape around procurement, that’s impact. When your interventions result in notable pro-small business mindset shift within a large corporate, that’s […]

In the early years, equity capital had consequences because other stakeholders viewed the shareholders as the primary stakeholder. This was exacerbated by Milton Friedman’s doctrine in the 1970s that the sole purpose of the company was to make profit without deception. The consequence was that the 20th century was one of unsustainable development. By 1995

For green Small and Growing Businesses (SGBs), access to finance is one of the key constraints in scaling innovative business models. Investors – even those with the intention and mandate to support smaller deals – consider these early stage businesses to be risky. The Green Outcomes Fund (GOF) is a first of its kind structure