InVenture: Best Practices in Microfinance

Posted in: Best Practices, Featured, Projects by Marco Puccia on April 29, 2010 | No Comments

InVenture Fund is an organization taking a “Micro Venture Capital” approach to provide entrepreneurs in the developing world with growth-capital rather than the debt-capital provided by microfinance. This allows these small business owners to focus on building profitable and sustainable businesses without burden of debt and high-interest payments.

InVenture has, on its own, made concerted effort to be a leader in integrating transparency and accountability into their model. Through a partnership between InVenture and Transparency Solutions, we will be working on developing best practices and accountability systems to lower the risk and maximize the impact that InVenture makes on-the-ground.

We’re excited about this partnership and the doors that this work will open for both of our organizations, and for the microfinance sector as a whole!

Our Consultants Network

Posted in: Business Development, Projects by Marco Puccia on April 26, 2010 | No Comments

When you hire Transparency Solutions, you hire a network consultants who are experts in their respective fields. We are currently reaching out to prospective partner organizations and consultants to expand our capacity and extend opportunities to both the consultants and to our clients.

What kind of partners are we looking for? You name it! Here are a few ideas to get things rolling:

• Nonprofit Management
• Due Diligence / Risk Management
• Anti-Corruption
• Microfinance / Micro-enterprise

If you have a skill or area of expertise that can bring value to our clients, than we want to hear from you!

Why join Transparency Solutions’ Consultants Network?

• Opportunities to work on new and exciting issues!
• Expand the reach of your business!
• Surround yourself with creative people!
• Help social change agents “Do Good, Well”

So what does it mean to be a part of the Transparency Solutions Consultants Network?

• Free Marketing! You or your organization will be featured on our website with a logo and blurb about what you do!
• New Business! You will be invited to lend your expertise either as an advisor or sub-contractor for specific projects!
• Make a Difference! Our clients are doing amazing things around the world to create social change, and we want you to be a part of creating a better world!

The New Transparency Solutions!

Posted in: Business Development, Projects by Marco Puccia on April 22, 2010 | No Comments

International Transparency Solutions has been a work in progress for over three years now! The business was born out of the simple idea that access to credible and reliable information can dramatically change how we engage the developing world: allowing for more effective aid/investment, greater social impact, increased confidence in emerging markets, and a fundamental shift in the economic cost-benefit relationship that currently drives corruption and fraud.

Almost one year ago, we set out to create our vision of developing a global network of in-country Transparency Professionals to provide due diligence and investment oversight services to social investors (individuals/families, nonprofits, and government agencies). While the overall concept was there, the strategy for bridging the divide between concept and pilot proved elusive without major financial backing. After a year of traveling the country and meeting with entrepreneurs and social innovators from all over the world, Transparency Solutions has really matured and transformed into an amalgamation of feedback and input from some of the smartest people we know!

We’ve refined our business strategy to focus on how we can create value today, so that we can work towards our goal of creating the business and the world that we want for tomorrow! We’ve moved to Washington, DC so that we can be right in the mix of things — close to amazing prospective clients, supporters, advisers, and mentors. Our new strategy is focused on helping both nonprofit and for-profit social ventures develop strategies to combat risks such as corruption and mismanagement. We will be working to be on the cutting edge of developing innovative strategies for monitoring and evaluation, and putting those strategies to work here in DC. And we will continue to work towards our ultimate goal of radically transforming the investment landscape for emerging markets by creating systems of accountability, trust, and confidence.

As we move forward, we invite you to:

• Give us constant input and feedback!
• Tell your friends and colleagues about what we are doing!
• Subscribe to our Blog, Facebook Page, Twitter, and E-mail List!
• Join Our Team!

We’re really excited about this relaunch, and hope that you will help us change the world!