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How to Write a Theory of Change That Funders Actually Fund

Most African social enterprise founders know they need a Theory of Change. Very few know how to write one that makes a funder want to…

JU Jun 2026 · 12 min read

Funding

Africa’s $42 Billion Women’s Funding Gap Is Finally Being Addressed — Here’s How to Access the Capital Moving In

Women lead more than half of Africa’s social enterprises. They face a $42 billion funding gap. And in 2026, the most significant coordinated effort to…

JU Jun 2026 · 11 min read

Agritech

Climate-Smart Agriculture Is Africa’s Next Social Enterprise Frontier — and $10 Billion Is Moving In

The continent that feeds a third of the world’s smallholder farmers is facing the sharpest end of climate disruption. The social enterprises building climate-smart food…

JU Jun 2026 · 12 min read

Creating impact

Africa’s Community Health Worker Is the Continent’s Most Undervalued Social Enterprise Asset — That’s Changing Fast

84% of Africa’s community health workers are currently unpaid. The African Union wants 2 million of them deployed by 2030. In between those two facts…

JU May 2026 · 10 min read

Agritech

Africa’s Informal Economy Is Not the Problem — It’s the Market

Almost everything written about Africa’s informal economy frames it as a challenge to be overcome. The most interesting social entrepreneurs on the continent have figured…

JU May 2026 · 12 min read

Blended finance

Why Growth-Stage African Social Enterprises Can’t Get Funded — and Why 2026 Might Be the Year That Changes

You’ve survived the startup phase. Your model works. You have proof. And you still can’t raise money. This is the growth-stage funding gap — and…

JU May 2026 · 11 min read

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