If you want to create change, you have to do something different. We call it "Disruptive Innovation."
Disruptive Innovation is a technology innovation, affordability initiative or value addition that disrupts the status quo for the betterment of all.
iDE Social Innovation Themes allow you to choose an area of interest, and invites your deeper engagement as advisors, investors and other stakeholders.
For more information about iDE Social Innovation Themes, please contact Heidi Cuppari at 720-235-3444 or hcuppari@ideorg.org
Base of the Pyramid Enterprise
iDE has been involved in rural marketing for 28 years and has found that market-based distribution systems are far more effective than subsidies and giveaways. Establishing these systems is the basis for sustainable transformative change and is the key driver for the Base of the Pyramid Enterprise Fund.
Disruptive Innovation
Disruptive Innovation is a technology innovation, affordability initiative or value addition that disrupts the status quo for the betterment of all. The Innovation Fund advances iDE's work to generate productivity and income opportunities for smallholder farmers.
Women's Impact
Women produce 60 to 80 percent of the food in many developing countries and are responsible for half of the world's food production, yet their key role as food producers and providers and their critical contribution to household food security are consistently undervalued. The Women's Impact Fund unleashes the potential of female smallholder farmers.
Rural Finance
Many farmers are not able to capture market opportunities because they don't have $100 to $500 to invest in innovative irrigation techniques or other technologies. The Rural Finance Fund provides farmers with the agricultural credit they need to increase their productivity and their income.
Core Leadership
The primary vehicle of IDE program effectiveness is the quality of the people engaged. The Core Leadership Fund invests in IDE's key human resources and a global information sharing network, recognizing that any organization prospers only when it has a strong leadership group.
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