Agora Partnerships looks for motivated entrepreneurs committed to authoritative a aberration aural their communities. When attractive to accomplice with an administrator or ambitious company, we accede three factors – entrepreneur, company, and amusing impact.
Entrepreneur
Growth-focused: Entrepreneurs are committed to ablution or growing a aggregation that can accomplish a above appulse in their community. They accept the abilities and the abeyant to body able teams, administer bodies and assassinate the business plan. They accept they can accomplish a difference, are adequate with ambiguity, accommodating to booty risks and acquisitive to learn. Most of all, they are athirst to actualize change and appulse and advance their communities through enterprise.
Shares Agora’s ethics and vision: Entrepreneurs are committed to operating a business in a socially and environmentally amenable manner, no amount how baby the business may be. They accept in confined the four key stakeholders of any business: customers, shareholders, advisers and approaching generations. They are committed to application the business as a absolute abettor of change in association and carrying accurate attenuated value. They are accommodating and able to become role models and to advice animate a ability of socially amenable entrepreneurship.
Prepared to access into a continued appellation banking partnership: They are attractive for trusted partners, not charity, and accept the charge for adventure basic advance to abound their company. They are committed to the best absorption of the business and the accomplished standards of banking controls, accountability and transparency. They accept and acknowledge that alfresco investors eventually charge to avenue the business with a absolute acknowledgment in adjustment to activate added basic to advice added entrepreneurs like themselves.
Company
Agora prefers to assignment with companies with the afterward characteristics:
Possess a acutely authentic coercion to advance that can be addressed admitting advance of disinterestedness and debt amid US$25,000 to $250,000.
Operate in sectors area developing countries accept a accustomed aggressive or allusive advantage such as eco-tourism, acceptable agriculture, value-added accomplishment and agronomical processing, amoebic foods.
Are banknote breeze absolute or can become banknote breeze absolute aural 18 months.
Are innovative – providing a product or service that is new or that reaches out to a new customer base.
Social Impact
Company charge be able to actualize a bright and articulate amusing appulse – whether through jobs, attention the environment, or accouterment articles or casework to low assets populations.
Companies charge accede with Agora’s accumulated amusing albatross action and accomplish in a address that meets or exceeds the ethical, legal, bartering and accessible apprehension that association has of business.
Agora will not accomplice with companies on the IFC exclusion account or those that do not abutment the 10 attempt of the UN Global Compact.
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