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SHONA Wants Better Businesses, Not Better Pitches
In East Africa's crowded accelerator market, SHONA has built its case around an unfashionable idea: make the company work before polishing the pitch. Its wager combines long-horizon coaching, local networks, and loans designed for the awkward middle between microcredit and venture capital.
HIVE COLAB and the business of getting past the prototype
A shared workspace in Kampala grew into a proving ground for Ugandan entrepreneurs. Its real work happens between a promising idea and a business that can pay its bills.
Human Trafficking Institute
The Human Trafficking Institute is a Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit that fights modern slavery by going after the people who profit from it. Founded in 2015 by two former U.S. Department of Justice trafficking prosecutors, HTI embeds veteran experts inside criminal justice systems - training police and prosecutors, building specialized anti-trafficking units, and supplying the investigative tools and data needed to convict traffickers. It runs field programs in Uganda and Belize and publishes the annual Federal Human Trafficking Report, the only dataset compiling every U.S. federal trafficking case since the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000.
Untold
Untold, formerly CARE for AIDS, is an Atlanta-based faith-driven nonprofit that runs a nine-month, church-based program helping HIV-positive men and women across East and Southern Africa build a life beyond AIDS. Working through local churches with indigenous staff, its integrated model addresses physical, spiritual, emotional, and economic health at once - producing 97% viral suppression among clients and more than 50,000 program graduates.