Business development lies at the core of our mission. Our process begins with a careful selection of enterprises that participate in New Ventures mentoring and acceleration programs. Each Local Center has a locally-adapted curriculum, but the focus and results are the same across the board: enterprises prepared to manage growth, attract investment capital, and assess their financial, environmental, and social performance. Services offered by New Ventures include one-on-one mentoring with business leaders, access to investors, venues to connect with peers in order to share best practices and explore partnerships, and training workshops around key business and management skills. Click here to learn more about our criteria for enterprise selection.

In addition to our services for individual businesses, we work to drive systemic change around the development of environmental enterprises in emerging markets. We do this by engaging and creating partnerships with civil society, government, investors, multinational and large companies, and other stakeholders that are key to supporting a green economy and entrepreneurial solutions to sustainable development. These networks are critical to creating robust support systems in each country so that environmental entrepreneurs can grow their businesses.