Agora Partnerships

Agora Partnerships was gifted $15,000 for its Women Accelerators Program, which exists to find and support women in growing their small-to-medium-sized enterprises by brokering impact investment funding to provide low-interest business loans to the participants. This program operates much in the same way as the organization’s main program by matching candidates with MBA candidates to assist in developing a business plan, then holding an annual competition to pick the top plans to receive assistance. The organization then locates and brokers loans for the winners.

Started in Nicaragua in 2005, Agora Partnerships works to accelerate the success of early-stage impact entrepreneurs across Latin America who share a common commitment to solving social and environmental challenges through business.