• About Us

      Our Team

      Dr Frank Aswani

      Chief Executive Officer

      Nasri Adam

      Regional Director - East Africa

      Tochukwu Ezeukwu

      Regional Director - West Africa

      Matebe Chisiza

      Regional Director - Southern Africa
    • Our Impact Programs

      2024 Africa Impact Investing Fellowship

      Africa Climate Investing Forum

      African Healthcare Funders Forum

    • Upcoming Events

Measuring giving to women’s and girls’ causes

Measuring giving to women’s and girls’ causes

The Women & Girls Index (WGI) is the only comprehensive index that measures charitable giving to women’s and girls’ causes. The 2020 report offers the first longitudinal look at how philanthropic support for women’s and girls’ organizations has changed in recent years.  

The Angel Accelerator, powered by AVPA (video)

Has it crossed your mind if accelerators were just for startups?! Most are, but The Angel Accelerator has taken the learnings from those programs and applied them to teaching people how to be Angel investors for those startups. This video is an excerpt from the webinar that describes how the program works, what topics are […]

Resourceful Material to aid individual and organisational development

The global disruption caused by the novel coronavirus has had severe implications for life in general and the social sector is no exception. In a bid to better understand how social change organizations in Africa have been affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, ACT Foundation surveyed hundreds of organizations across Africa. This report examines the extent […]

The Angel Accelerator: INVESTING WITH OR FOR IMPACT

We hope you enjoyed the last webinar we had.  If you missed it, you can watch the edited version on http://theangelaccelerator.com/lessons/investing-with-or-for-impact/ and http://theangelaccelerator.com/lessons/measuring-impact/ If you have yet to see the lessons from the previous webinar, the edited version of those lessons are on http://theangelaccelerator.com/lessons/philanthropy-and-investing/ And if you want to skip ahead to other lessons we’ve yet to cover, http://theangelaccelerator.com/lessons/ has a […]

Co-Investing for Impact in Africa

  This webinar focuses on how Co-investment in Africa can be challenging. Investors face hurdles in navigating competition, building trust, and aligning expectations around social impact, financial returns, governance, exits, due diligence, and fee structures. And yet, co-investment comes with many benefits. Opportunities to reduce costs, share expertise, deepen networks, fill out funding rounds and […]

THE WOMEN & GIRLS INDEX 2020

Measuring giving to women’s and girls’ causes The Women & Girls Index (WGI) is the only comprehensive index that measures charitable giving to women’s and girls’ causes. The 2020 report offers the first longitudinal look at how philanthropic support for women’s and girls’ organizations has changed in recent years. The Women & Girls Index 2020: […]

GLOBAL GENDER BALANCE SCORECARD

20-first believes that the best measure of corporate progress towards gender-balanced businesses is the makeup of executive top teams. Board membership has received much focus and legislative pressure, but the ultimate evidence of long-term commitment and follow-through is the balance on Executive Committees – the CEO and their direct reports. Here’s how the world’s top […]

BECOME THE NEXT TONY ELUMELU ENTREPRENEUR

The Tony Elumelu Foundation (TEF) and the Deutsche Gesellschaft für internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH are proud to partner with the European Union (EU), the Organisation of African, Caribbean, and Pacific States (OACPS) and the German Development Cooperation to unlock the dynamic potential of African women entrepreneurs. The Tony Elumelu Foundation (TEF) is looking for African […]

Economic Empowerment and Livelihoods for Women and Girls

AVPA’s Gender Platform activities kicked off in the month of February 2021 with a series of webinar conversations on topics relevant to the three communities of practice the first one being “Empowering Women to Spearhead Socio-Economic Recovery“. AVPA and partners brought the attendees insights on how social investors are collaborating to empower women as drivers […]