Agora Partnerships

Agora Partnerships accelerates the growth of early-stage impact companies in Latin America. We are a global community of entrepreneurs, investors, mentors, and individuals dedicated to using the power of business to effect positive change in their communities. We work only with early-stage entrepreneurs where the right kind of support can significantly accelerate their ability to create impact. Our aim is to help build a more just, sustainable world primarily though our Impact Accelerator program, which provides entrepreneurs with access to social, human, and financial capital. Over the course of the last two years, eighteen businesses have participated in Agora's Accelerator, which provid...

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Jun 11, 2013

Accelerate Women NOW : Impact Investing in Action

By Thembi Mdachi - Associate

Xochitl & Gabriel on Women's Panel

The Accelerate Women now campaign has helped two women entrepreneurs from Latin America attend Impact Investing in Action, a conference that was held at Georgetown University to help impact companies raise capital for their businesses. The conference brought together the brightest thought leaders and practitioners in government, investment, social enterprise, impact entrepreneurship and universities- all coming together to help strengthen the impact movement. Two phenomenal women entrepreneurs, Xochitl Palacios and Gabriel Flores, participated in a panel featured at the conference titled 'Building the Ecosystem to Support Women Entrepreneurs in Latin America.'

Around the world, women entrepreneurs face a myriad of social, economic and cultural challenges that inhibit them from launching new ventures and building them into thriving enterprises. Latin America is no different. The panel analyzed the current ecosystem, its strengths, weaknesses, and opportunities for collective engagement and partnerships to more effectively unleash a new generation of successful female entrepreneurs in Latin America.

Former Ambassador at Large for Global Women’s issues, Melanne Veerver, introduced the speakers for the women’s panel. Your support allowed Xochitl and Gabriel to share about some of the challenges they have faced in establishing their businesses in Latin America. Their unique perspective strengthened the conversation. Agora Partnerships appreciates all your support towards empowering women to become agents of change.

Apr 22, 2013

Final Project Report

By Oren Pollack - Project Manager

Shipment of Boxing Ring

Dear Donor,

We would like to thank all of our funders for helping us bring a Boxing ring from Miami down to Managua, NIcaragua. While we are currently waiting for it to pass through customs, once it does it will be sent immediately to Muelle De Los Bueyes, where we will construct it and allow Nicaragua's Olympic hero, Osmar Bravo, to begin working with the youth of his town. We are hoping that this is only the beginning for this project, and that once we have gained momentum in Muelle, we will expand this project to other areas of Nicaragua.

This ring has the potenial to have a great impact on the youth of Muelle De Los Bueyes, by offering them a fun activity that promotes great life skills, such as responsibility, hard work, and resilience. This would not have been possible without the efforts of our donors through GlobalGiving. We appreciate all your support. Thank you for your amazing help!

Boxing Ring

Apr 16, 2013

Final Project Report

By Maria Pacheco - President

Dear GlobalGiving Friends,

We want to thank you for your support in partnering with Communities of the Earth to provide rural Guatemalan families with filters and stoves. With your support, we were able to partner with two rural groups in the villages of Jocotan (Chiquimula), in the Eastern Part of Guatemala and Pastores (Sacatepequez), in the highlands of Guatemala. A total of 28 water filters and 16 stoves, were bought with the GlobalGiving project, in partnership with the rural families. 9 more filters will be delivered to the village of Pastores during the month of May 2013, finishing this first GlobalGiving Project.

Filters and stoves are part of the Wakami Village Program, which allows rural communities to learn and see first hand about products and services that transform their lives, improving especially the health of their families. Through the partnership with you and GlobalGiving, the Wakami Village Program has become stronger in these communities. Other organizations have also joined, partnering for solar panels and organic gardens. One partnership at a time, one home at a time, rural women are starting to transform their lives and families.

What we are seeing at Communities of the Earth is that when rural women have a source of income, and co-invest in products and services that improve their lives, real change begins to happen, starting with their children. Malnutrition decreases, education increases, communities prosper!!!

Thank you for joining us in this partnership with rural Guatemalan women!!! We also want to thank Agora Partnerships and GlobalGiving, for providing the connection between you and the families of Guatemala!!

Communities of the Earth

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