Partners

INTER-AMERICAN DEVELOPMENT BANK

The Pioneers of Prosperity Awards Programs is being presented in partnership with the Multilateral Investment Fund (MIF) at the Inter-American Development Bank. The MIF promotes inclusive growth through private sector development.

Learn more about the IADB: www.iadb.org

JOHN TEMPLETON FOUNDATION

The mission of the John Templeton Foundation is to serve as a philanthropic catalyst for discovery in areas engaging life’s biggest questions. These questions range from explorations into the laws of nature and the universe to questions on the nature of love, gratitude, forgiveness, and creativity. The vision of the John Templeton Foundation is derived from John Templeton’s commitment to rigorous scientific research and related scholarship. The Foundation’s motto – “How little we know, how eager to learn” exemplifies our support for open-minded inquiry and our hope for advancing human progress through breakthrough discoveries.

Learn more about the John Templeton Foundation: www.templeton.org

S.E.VEN FUND

S.E.VEN (Social Equity Venture Fund) is a virtual non-profit entity run by entrepreneurs whose strategy is to markedly increase the rate of diffusion of enterprise-based solutions to poverty. We do this by targeted investment that fosters thought leadership through books, films and websites; supporting role models – whether they are entrepreneurs or innovative firms – in developing nations; and shaping a new discourse in government, the press and the academy around private-sector innovation, prosperity and progressive human values.

Learn more about the S.E.VEN Fund: www.sevenfund.org

OTF GROUP

The OTF Group has spent the last fifteen years advising leaders on building competitiveness in emerging economies, while providing them with the analytical tools to design and implement innovation-based strategies. Our unique approach has helped hundreds of companies, industry clusters, regions and nations worldwide create new levels of prosperity.

The OTF team pioneered the competitiveness approach to economic development as founders of the Country Competitiveness (MCC) practice within the Monitor Group. Spinning out of Monitor in 2000, our intellectual foundation comes from our work with some of the world’s most competitive companies and our association with leading business thinkers. We have worked with business leaders, government officials and entrepreneurs in more than thirty five countries and twenty industrial sectors.

Learn more about the OTF Group: www.otfgroup.com

LEGATUM

Legatum Global Development was an initial sponsor of the Pioneers of Prosperity Program in Africa during 2007 and 2008. Their support was instrumental in establishing the program in Africa, which has since grown to a global scale.