E2E’s mission is to generate positive social and environmental impacts by creating mutually beneficial relationships between the corporate and developing worlds. We do this by working with our Strategic Alliance and Emerging Partner to map out development challenges and design programs that will have a lasting impact. Then we connect them to our Established Partners and private sector funding. While working with Emerging Partners, we make a Case Study to showcase their project, detailing the projected social return on investment for our Established Partners to sponsor, and complete the collaboration by offering an impact report to the Established Partner.

First, we work with our Strategic Alliance of non-profits and public sector entities to teach development project skills based on community-driven approaches and impact measurement. Second, alongside our Strategic Ally and Emerging Partner, we successfully map out their challenges, design programs that will have a lasting impact and collect the data to prove it. Lastly, we connect our Established Partners, who are businesses or other public entities who want to invest in social and environmental good—to our activities with our Emerging Partners and strategic allies giving them the opportunity to invest their financial resources in our projects.When we work with an Emerging Partner, we make a Case Study which we upload to our website for Established Partners to review that details the problems Emerging Partners face-- and the solutions they collaboratively design. The Case Study details the projected social and environmental return on investment using innovative social and environmental valuation techniques. Monetary valuation and impact measurement allows E2E and our Established Partners that sponsor Emerging Partners to communicate impact in a powerful, universal language—money!We do our best to align our impact measurement outcomes with voluntary systems for corporate social and environmental reporting to facilitate transparent and easy impact reporting for our Established Partners. Through our model, Emerging Partners solve tough problems; Strategic Partners gain critical change-making skills and Established Partners benefit from investing in social and environmental good in a new, mutually beneficial design for sustainable development.

E2E has a 2-3 week long Development Practitioner training that we plan to launch in Colombia, based on one of the most innovative and effective trainings for development practitioners available: the Development Project Management Institute offered by the Middlebury Institute of International Studies. Here is how E2E plans to not only train development practitioners, yet also help them find financing to solve the challenges their communities face today:When we reach out to community leaders and Emerging Partners and offer the DPMI training, we request that the attendees come with a real-life, current problem they are facing in mind. We encourage more than one community leader to do the training in this case. They will spend the 2-3 week training course learning tools and techniques to look for solutions to their issue, and their final deliverable will be an analysis and proposal to the community.They will receive guidelines on HOW to proceed in a transparent way and receive insight, feedback from their community. When a project is developed, E2E will perform the due diligence on their process, help them measure their impact and proceed to create the case study and help them find a sponsor for their project on the E2E website.We feel that this process streamlines our activities, and will truly solve problems by taking advantage of the micro-level theory of change that comes from the community. This also allows E2E to reach a much larger Partner base of Emerging and Strategic Partners and create multipliers across Colombia.

E2E’s core team currently consists of 4 positions, supplemented by contracted professionals and volunteers. The E2E team has a legal Board of Directors, which will evolve as E2E grows. Our core team works with a Strategic Alliance of Partners, which includes community leaders, other NGOs and organizations that help us execute our mission. When E2E works with an Emerging Partner, it is likely that there is already a strategic partner in the Area that understands the context, issue at hand and other relevant variables. E2E leverages their experience to not only make sure we develop the most appropriate relationship with the community, work efficiently and effectively; but also, to make sure that we are providing the Strategic Partner with the tools they need to make their future efforts a success.Therefore, we reach out to our strategic alliance to offer them a series of workshops and trainings, then work right alongside them with their projects. The training that we offer them is an important factor that compliments their long term investment in the local community’s well-being.We believe that the solutions that make the difference are local—and we need to put them tools to effectively problem solve in the hands of the community. Therefore, instead of bringing practitioners in through E2E, we are training them to lead their own projects as we go.

Private sector stakeholders, developing communities and the non-profit sector.