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NESsT
Venture Fund (Fondo Nido) Portfolio in Latin America
After having received pre-feasibility study, feasibility study, and business plan development support during the early stage, NESsT Venture Fund (Fondo Nido) later-stage portfolio members receive an individually-tailored, multi-year venture financing and capacity-building package from NESsT to help start up or expand their social enterprise.
Click on the country names below to learn more about nonprofit
organizations that are receiving later-stage support from the NESsT Venture
Fund (Fondo Nido) in Latin America to develop their social enterprises:
- Chile
- Peru
- Argentina
- Ecuador
To learn more about other organizations that we have worked with in Latin America in social enterprise planning and development click here.
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Later-Stage Portfolio (Chile)
The following
organizations are currently members of NESsT's later-stage
portfolio in Chile:
Bresky
(Corporación Bresky)
(Valparaíso, Chile)
Creating opportunities in mental health.
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Social Mission: Bresky trains and creates employment opportunities for people with severe mental health problems, promoting their social integration and a better quality of life for them and their families. |
Social Enterprise: Bresky operates a workshop that produces high-quality handicrafts and jewelry using diverse techniques such as glass fusion, recycled paper, and ceramics. The products are sold to companies or directly in Bresky’s store. This social enterprise, known as “Art Fusion” (“Fusión Arte”), enables Bresky to generate income and provide paid jobs for its own beneficiaries. |
CORPAM
(Corp. Ayuda al Paciente Mental)
(Santiago, Chile)
Providing social reintegration for mentally disabled people.
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Social Mission: Provide treatment and rehabilitation for people with mental health problems, so that they may live a normal and self-sufficient life, through psychiatric therapy and help with reinsertion into the labor market. |
Social Enterprise: CORPAM has a workshop that offers product labeling and packaging services. The workshop employs people with varying degrees of mental illness who receive a wage for the services rendered. The principal clients are major pharmaceutical companies in Santiago. |
Corporación la Esperanza
(Santiago, Chile)
Supporting low-income people in drug rehabilitation.
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Social Mission: Rehabilitate and promote social and workforce reintegration of low-income drug addicts. Contribute to prevention, research, and development of individuals and groups. |
Social Enterprise: Esperanza has a carpentry workshop that employs the residents of its rehabilitation programs. The items produced in the workshop include household items, games and furniture, as well as corporate gifts. Residents employed in the workshop receive both therapeutic and economic benefits from their work. |
Fundación Domos
(Centro de Desarrollo de la Mujer)
(Santiago, Chile)
Promoting gender equity.
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Social Mission: Conduct research and create awareness among citizens, the public and private sectors to promote women’s rights, creation of opportunities, and cultural change in gender relations. |
Social Enterprise: Domos offers fee-based courses to public institutions and private companies on maintaining healthy families and preventing domestic violence. The workshops are designed to help improve worker productivity and reduce absenteeism, while reducing the incidence of domestic violence in the country. |
Fundación Coanil
(Santiago, Chile)
Promoting independence of adults with intellectual disabilities.
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Social Mission: Coanil works with and educates adults with intellectual disabilities, providing them with the tools they need to integrate into society and enabling them to improve their quality of life and self-worth, so that they may become autonomous and independent.
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Social Enterprise: Coanil operates a chocolate-factory workshop, which seeks to expand its market and develop closer relationships with companies. People with intellectual disabilities are employed in the workshop and make a variety of high-quality chocolate products which are distributed at diverse points of sales to individual clients and companies.
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Fundación Templanza
Ex Casa La Morada
(Santiago, Chile)
Fighting
gender discrimination.
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Social Mission:
La Morada is dedicated to improving
the lives of low-income Chilean women,
reducing domestic violence and workplace
discrimination, and advocating public policies
that benefit under-served women. |
Social Enterprise:
La Morada’s
Treatment Center makes therapy services
accessible to low- and middle-income
women by cross-subsidizing these services
with therapy offered to higher-income
clients. |
ONG Forestales por el Bosque Nativo
(Valdivia, Chile)
Protecting the endangered forests of Chile.
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Social Mission: ONG Forestales promotes sustainable development of the Chilean forest with a special emphasis on native forest and equitable distribution of the benefits of this resource. |
Social Enterprise: ONG Forestales operates two social enterprises:
-A marketing service for certified firewood from small producers under fair trade. NESsT supported this activity during its initial years.
-Hostal Bosque Nativo is a hostel that promotes awareness about the sustainability of the native forest. This is currently being implemented.
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UPASOL
(Unión de Padres y Amigos Solidarios)
(Vicuña, Chile)
Improving quality of life for disabled people.
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Social Mission: Improve the quality of life of children with physical disabilities and highly vulnerable groups through social and labor rehabilitation programs. |
Social Enterprise: UPASOL operates a free collection service for recyclable household goods. The waste is then sold to companies that use the material in their recycling and production processes, generating revenue for the organization, as well as environmental benefits. |
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Later-Stage Portfolio (Peru)
The following organizations are currently members of NESsT's later-stage portfolio in Peru:
AGTR
(Lima, Peru)
Supporting skills development, labor and human rights. and human rigthts |
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Social Mission: Defend the rights of domestic workers and prevent domestic child labor. Promote
empowerment of domestic workers and increase their formal participation in the labor market through a network of supporters and allies from the public sector and civil society. |
| Social Enterprise: AGTR operates an employment agency for domestic workers called "La Casa de Panchita". The agency provides integral training to domestic workers in all aspects, from cooking to child and elderly care. Upon completing the training program, the agency finds formal job placements with decent working conditions for the workers while generating income for the organization by charging a commission to the employer. |
Apprende
(Lima, Peru)
Supporting reproductive health and human rights.gthts |
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| Social Mission: Promote a preventive culture among Peruvians, contributing to responsible, healthy, and risk-free sexual behavior through education and awareness raising, and to a reduction in the rate of unwanted pregnancies, abortions, and sexually transmitted diseases. |
| Social Enterprise: Through its social enterprise, Apprende will place health promoters in the community, who will combine direct sales of a wide variety of safe, affordable and effective contraceptives to the target market alongside the distribution of educational information. |
Arpegio
(Lima, Peru)
Promoting cultural development through musical education. |
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Social Mission: Promote cultural development through music, providing musical education to low-income children and youth, in order to contribute to their personal growth and learning. |
Social Enterprise: Arpegio’s social enterprise is the “Arpegio Music Academy”, which offers music classes to children and youth. The Aca-demy charges fees to children from higher-income families, which are used to subsidize scholarships for low-income children. |
Grupo GEA
(Lima, Peru)
Supporting the environment and the economic development of under privileged communities. |
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Social Mission: Promote a sustainable development, economically, socially, and environmentally, by promoting technologies, processes and best practices in companies, schools and communities. |
Social Enterprise: “Vive Valle Verde”, is a “community tourist” agency for the Lurín river valley, targeted at school-children and university students. The agency provides environmental education through community participation, building on the entrepreneurial skills of the valley’s residents and fostering a responsible use of the valley’s cultural and environmental assets. |
Caritas Graciosas
(Asociación Promotora de
Educación Inicial
Caritas Graciosas)
(Lima, Peru)
Defending children's rights to play and exploration.
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Social Mission: Champion the rights of children and promote changes in traditional early childhood education through innovative methodologies and integration of play and exploration. |
Social Enterprise: Caritas Graciosas offers interactive games organized in the form of fairs for children between the ages of 2 and10 to companies, schools and families to celebrate events such as birthdays, anniversaries, company or community functions. The fair features the bus, “Rum Rum the Explorer”, an interactive museum that stimulates children’s senses. |
Red Uniendo Manos
(Lima, Peru)
Supporting civil and church associations to develop capacities.
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Social Mission:
Support civil and church associations in developing their capacities through an ecumenical network, building joint programs and affecting public policy that fosters integrated development. |
Social Enterprise:
Red Uniendo Manos sells handicrafts made by low-income Peruvian artisans who are organized in cooperatives. Their products include cotton and alpaca textiles (rugs, sweaters, dolls), clay pots and silver jewelery. Fair prices are charged for these products, increasing income for both the artisans and the organization. |
SUMBI
(Lima, Peru)
Supporting parents and educators on child education and rights.
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Social Mission: Sumbi trains and provides guidance to parents and educators through innovative education and training projects aimed at improving the quality of life and supporting the rights of children and adolescents in underserved sectors. |
Social Enterprise: Through its social enterprise, “Conamor”, SUMBI provides specialized consulting and workshops on childhood and family issues to companies, for their employees and families. Through this enterprise, SUMBI generates self-financing income, while at the same time taking its mission to companies, encouraging them to view social responsibility as a value. |
3. Later-Stage Portfolio (Argentina)
The following organizations are currently members of NESsT's later-stage portfolio in Peru:
Andar
(Buenos Aires, Argentina)hts
Generating opportunities for people with disabilities. |
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| Social Mission: Improve the quality of life of people with mental, sensory, or motor disabilities, generating increased opportunities for participation in their communities, strengthening their family ties and social inclusion. |
| Social Enterprise: Andar Catering offers gourmet products, baked goods and catering services for business lunches, coffee breaks and receptions, among others. Through this activity, the organization brings in revenue that allows it to cover part of the bakery’s costs while providing dignified work to its beneficiaries, thereby making a significant contribution to Andar’s social mission. |
Asociación Dignidad
(Buenos Aires, Argentina)hts
Creating employment opportunities. nman rigthts |
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| Social Mission: Dignidad trains the most impoverished members of its community in a wide range of trades, increasing their employment opportunities and enabling them to start up small businesses. |
| Social Enterprise: Through Dignidad’s social enterprise, students and graduates of Dignidad’s couture courses offer their services to clothing designers. This activity provides employment to low-income individuals, while generating revenue for Dignidad, enabling it to expand its training capacities to future beneficiaries and further its mission. |
Fundación Reciduca
(Buenos Aires, Argentina)hts
Supporting education. rigthts |
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| Social Mission: Reduce high school dropout rates among low-income youth, expanding their educational and employment opportunities and promoting respect for the environment. |
| Social Enterprise: Reciduca provides paid internships to low-income students, placing them in small and medium sized businesses that pay Reciduca for this service. This is a win-win scenario for all: students earn an income, learn skills, and receive workplace experience while they complete their studies, companies keep costs down by paying intern-level salaries, and Reciduca generates revenue to further its mission. |
Centro para el Desarrollo Local
(Buenos Aires, Argentina)hts
Supporting communities in poverty. |
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| Social Mission: Increase opportunities of people living in poverty, developing a social policy model that enables them to develop their capacities and strengthen their communities. |
| Social Enterprise: The organization will provide an integral gardening service that includes maintenance and plague prevention, providing employment opportunities to youth and others who have limited market access. It aims to create 50 jobs during the first 3 years, strengthening their entrepreneurial capacities for a more autonomous future. |
FARN
Fundación Ambiente y Recursos Naturales
(Buenos Aires, Argentina)hts
Promoting environmental sustainability. |
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| Social Mission: Promote sustainable development through public policy, law and the institutional organization of society. |
| Social Enterprise: FARN will offer online courses organized around its main spheres of action —sustainable development, governability, environmental policy, and social inclusion– to meet the ongoing educational needs and interests of a variety of professionals. |
Fundación Directorio Legislativo
(Buenos Aires, Argentina)hts
Supporting public participation in legislation. |
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| Social Mission: Strengthen the institutional role of congress, legislature, and/or parliament, generating, analyzing, and disseminating legislative information of public interest, placing emphasis on transparency and responsibility. |
| Social Enterprise: The foundation sells a legislative alert service that provides its clients with tailored reports containing information from congress and provincial legislature, including profiles of senators and congress-people, propositions and their legislative treatment. It also conducts an in-depth political analysis of each proposition on the table. |
Fundación Rumbos
(Buenos Aires, Argentina)hts
Giving a hand to people with motor disabilities. |
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| Social Mission: Encourage accessibility for all, in an inclusive environment, through an interdisciplinary task force that allows people with motor disabilities to exercise their human and citizen rights. |
| Social Enterprise: Rumbos Hogares Accesibles is an enterprise aimed at resolving accessibility problems in the home for people with motor disabilities and senior citizens, covering all aspects from assistance with design to actual construction. Through this process, it adapts the home environment, modeling spaces of common use (bedrooms, bathrooms), circulation (hallways), furniture, and objects. |
4. Later-Stage Portfolio (Ecuador)
The following organizations are currently members of NESsT's later-stage portfolio in Peru:
Fundación Hermano Miguel
(Quito, Ecuador)))hts
Generating health opportunities for people with disabilities. |
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| Social Mission: Provide a holistic health approach to people with physical disabilities, with services ranging from prevention and rehabilitation to job training and placement, emphasizing
patient respect through high-quality services at low costs. |
| Social Enterprise: Fundación Hermano Miguel runs a rehabilitation center which will be expanded to include new facilities with cutting- edge technology. The center aims to increase and improve the coverage of its current services in order to attract groups with greater purchasing power, such as corporations and beneficiaries of subsidized medical programs. Through expansion of its services, it will be able to reach more low-income people. |
FINE
(Quito, Ecuador)hthts
Improiving the quality of life of people with disabilities. |
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| Social Mission: Improve the quality of life of people with disabilities and their families, promoting independence through training, consulting, and job placement programs. |
| Social Enterprise: The organization runs a high-end bakery called “El Tulipán”, which produces a wide variety of breads, cakes, biscuits, chocolates, and sandwiches sold at stores and supermarkets. Through this activity, the organization generates its own income and provides paid employment to a number of its beneficiaries, thereby producing both a social and financial return for the organization. |
Quito Eterno
(Quito, Ecuador)hts
Promoting the arts, history and tradition of one of Latin America's richest cultures. |
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| Social Mission: Promote the arts, history and traditions of Quito using educational and theatrical tools, thereby contributing towards the development of a more diverse and integrated educational system that reflects Ecuador’s cultural diversity. |
| Social Enterprise: Quito Eterno offers a tour packagecalled “Rutas de Leyendas Nocturnas” to individuals and businesses. Typical characters lead guided night tours to historical sites and promote the city’s vast cultural diversity. This enterprise is also targeted at school groups and teachers during the day as part of the organization´s social program, offering subsidized tours with exclusive insight into Quito’s historical center. |
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