Village Enterprise
Village Enterprise equips people living in extreme poverty in rural Africa to start sustainable businesses and savings groups.
Why we love them
It’s a proven model to address extreme poverty in a cost-effective manner, with impressive scale numbers.
In the News
- Village Enterprise Chief of Impact and Innovative Financing Celeste Brubaker co-wrote the Inside Philanthropy op-ed Philanthropy’s Toyota Moment: Embracing Results-Based Funding to Increase Aid Effectiveness.
- Village Enterprise CEO Dianne Calvi was featured on the Do One Better podcast episode On ending extreme poverty in Africa.
- Village Enterprise received USAID’s Development Innovation Ventures’s largest grant in more than a decade.
- Village Enterprise was featured in the Nation article Building climate resilience through village-based banks.
- Village Enterprise CEO Dianne Calvi was awarded Stanford University’s President’s Award for the Advancement of the Common Good.
- Village Enterprise’s DREAMS model won Fast Company’s 2023 World Changing Ideas Award for Europe, the Middle East, and Africa.
- Village Enterprise CEO Dianne Calvi was featured on the Real Leaders podcast.
- Village Enterprise was featured on the BBC segment Uganda‘s refugee women turned entrepreneurs.
- Village Enterprise was the only nonprofit organization in the world to receive a perfect score on Charity Navigator.
- Village Enterprise co-authored the World Economic Forum op-ed World Refugee Day: How an innovative approach is helping build sustainable livelihoods.
