Welcome to Business Fights Poverty
Business Fights Poverty is the leading online community for business and development, connecting over 10,000 professionals.
Business Fights Poverty is a vibrant community of individuals from business, the international donor community, non-government organisations and academia – all of whom share a passion for fighting poverty through business.
Business Fights Poverty provides its members with targeted peer-to-peer engagement and hot-off-the-press, mission-critical knowledge.
Business Fights Poverty provides its members with targeted peer-to-peer engagement and hot-off-the-press, mission-critical knowledge.
ENGAGE WITH THE RIGHT PEOPLE
Find out who’s who in the world of business and development. Connect and exchange ideas with like-minded professionals. Identify key opinion leaders and deepen your two-way stakeholder relationships.
KEEP YOUR FINGER ON THE PULSE
Get the inside track on what you need to know right now. Stay up-to-date on what your peers are doing. Share and showcase your knowledge with a targeted audience of professionals.
GET RESOURCES TO HELP YOU DELIVER
Access cutting edge how-to tools and resources to help you do your job. Find the people and partners that you need to deliver your mission.
“For me Business Fights Poverty is the Facebook of the business/development community. I value the social aspect of the network in particular. It gives me the opportunity to meet like-minded professionals and make new contacts. It enables me to see who the movers and shakers are, the people I should try to connect with if I want to stay up to date with latest thinking and developments in this field. I also feel that it provides a ready-made professional support network that I can access should I ever need it”
“Business Fights Poverty is a great website to learn about other initiatives happening in the area of inclusive business and to connect with others working in this field. For me it is like LinkedIn but much more focused. It brings together people passionate about their work and this is very inspirational.”
“Business Fights Poverty is a great website to learn about other initiatives happening in the area of inclusive business and to connect with others working in this field. For me it is like LinkedIn but much more focused. It brings together people passionate about their work and this is very inspirational.”
“Business Fights Poverty gives you a chance to find out what you don’t know – and what you didn’t even know you don’t know! There is also a lot of value in being able to bounce ideas around and get different perspectives from people who share your interest and may have faced similar challenges.”
“For me, Business Fights Poverty is a one-stop shop for all the information I need about what people are doing and what they’re discussing, and a great source for collaboration and opportunity.”
“If you are writing a blog you need to be posting it on this site as well. Not only will it help you be seen and understood by the Business Fights Poverty community, the site itself helps you get found on Google”
“For me, Business Fights Poverty is a one-stop shop for all the information I need about what people are doing and what they’re discussing, and a great source for collaboration and opportunity.”
“If you are writing a blog you need to be posting it on this site as well. Not only will it help you be seen and understood by the Business Fights Poverty community, the site itself helps you get found on Google”
“Business Fights Poverty is a fabulous entity… in a world where we are bombarded with information, it provides the most relevant stuff in an easy to use platform. I am a big fan.”
“I use Business Fights Poverty to make connections. It is a great mechanism for reaching out to people who are interested in this space. Through Business Fights Poverty, I have found both networking opportunities and potential partners for some of our projects”
“I find it very useful as a way of keeping up with the work of others in the field – many people seem to use Business Fights Poverty to announce new projects, reports or results. It is also a good networking platform – several people have used the Business Fights Poverty route to get in touch with me.”
“I use Business Fights Poverty to make connections. It is a great mechanism for reaching out to people who are interested in this space. Through Business Fights Poverty, I have found both networking opportunities and potential partners for some of our projects”
“I find it very useful as a way of keeping up with the work of others in the field – many people seem to use Business Fights Poverty to announce new projects, reports or results. It is also a good networking platform – several people have used the Business Fights Poverty route to get in touch with me.”
Membership is free (instead we encourage our members to make a loan to an entrepreneur through the Business Fights Poverty Kiva Lending Group). Our work is funded through support for our Knowledge Zones and online events. If you would like to support a Knowledge Zone or online event, please get in touch.
Business Fights Poverty is owned and managed by Inspiris, which specializes in creating platforms, programmes and partnerships that harness the power of business to fight poverty. We also developed and manage Business Action for Africa and Mentori, and played a role in developing the Business Call to Action and the Business Innovation Facility.
Business Fights Poverty is owned and managed by Inspiris, which specializes in creating platforms, programmes and partnerships that harness the power of business to fight poverty. We also developed and manage Business Action for Africa and Mentori, and played a role in developing the Business Call to Action and the Business Innovation Facility.
Welcome to
Business Fights Poverty
The leading online community for business and development, connecting over 10,000 professionals.
© 2012 Inspiris. Business Fights Poverty is the leading online community for business and development, connecting over 10,000 professionals.
