Double Your Donation to Village Enterprise
All donations to Village Enterprise will be matched up to US$100,000.
Village Enterprise equips the extreme poor in Africa with resources to start sustainable businesses through a four-part program:
- entrepreneurship training,
- a cash grant,
- business mentoring,
- and a savings group.
Village Enterprise also has a sustained focus on increasing gender equity. In 2021, 83% of first-time entrepreneurs in the program were women.
Many of the world’s very poorest people are caught in a cycle of poverty. They face multiple barriers to improving their standard of living, including a lack of access to capital for productive investments, poor information about managing assets, and the inability to make risky but potentially productive investments due to absence of a safety net or savings buffer.
Village Enterprise addresses the fact that poverty is multifaceted by providing a multifaceted program to support new entrepreneurs. They employ a group-based approach that brings together diverse skill sets, mitigates individual risk, builds social capital, and produces cost efficiencies. Because entrepreneurship can be risky and take time to pay off, the program offers grants, not loans, to allow vulnerable people to immediately improve their standard of living.
Frequently Asked Questions
All donations through this page will be matched (1:1, or 2X) until the campaign ends on 1 January 2025 or $100,000 in match funds is used.
Anyone can donate, but only donations from residents of the United States will be tax-deductible.
You can donate via credit card here or use the form on this page to donate by bank transfer. Please reference this match in your comment on the form to ensure it gets matched.
Donate to Village Enterprise
Donate by credit card below or by bank transfer over here. Please reference ‘Village Enterprise match‘ in your comment on the form to ensure it gets matched.
