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Spring: Anticipation for a new Bridgebuilding Fellow for our Social Enterprise Internship Spring is a time for growth and for new life. We at TingaTinga see this not only in the change of seasons, but also in our organization. As we head into spring, we are gearing up for a time of growth for our [...]

Here at TingaTinga Capital, we have made a major impact on the lives of entrepreneurs living in poverty. By equipping them with the funding and support they need to be successful, we are changing lives, transforming communities, and bringing hope. Since we are a young organization, this process has been done in large part through [...]

Hi folks, We’re really excited to announce to you today that TingaTinga is launching a capital campaign to enable our growth and sustainability into the future.  All the details are on the Growth Campaign page, but we’ll give you the run-down here in the blog post as well: The TingaTinga Story TingaTinga started in 2010 [...]

A while back, The Economist published a fantastic perspective on progress in the developing world.  This article really captures the essence of our investment thesis with Benson / ILA.  The basic idea — to bring about substantive community restoration — because we can’t ignore the deep-rooted struggles of an impoverished culture. These struggles go beyond [...]

…but he does endorse the idea behind what we do.  At the F.ounders tech conference, Bono said that “it had been ‘a humbling thing for me’ to realize the importance of capitalism and entrepreneurialism in philanthropy, particularly as someone who ‘got into this as a righteous anger activist with all the cliches.’” (Read the entire article here.) [...]

Seed Capital for Ugandan Entrepreneurs Hey folks!  We’re really excited to tell you about another investment we recently made into Ugandan entrepreneurs.  As many of you are probably familiar, the term “seed capital” is a buzz term in the west for funds that are invested into fledgling companies.  A typical American seed investment can be [...]

Note: This visionary entrepreneur spotlight blog entry is a recap from our own summer intern, Alex Moore, who spent the majority of the summer on the ground in Uganda.  Here he gives an overview of what he was up to and reflects on his experience on the whole and development as a visionary entrepreneur. It [...]

Note:  The following blog post is an update from Alex Moore, our business development intern and visionary entrepreneur who is currently in Uganda.  He has been documenting his perspectives and experiences in real time, and here he reflects on his interactions with and impressions of the visionary entrepreneur who inspired Tinga Tinga: Benson Ocen I [...]

Working with Entrepreneurs in Uganda Things have really taken a turn for the better the last two days. After first starting at a slower pace than I expected, I have gotten to meet up with three very inspiring, entrepreneurial, and loving people. Two of these people are contacts that Tinga Tinga made in 2007 when [...]

Social Entrepreneurship Internship | Bridgebuilding Fellow As previously announced, TingaTinga has hired me, Alex Moore, as its first summer intern to do work in Uganda and help with web presence, while acting as their inaugural fellowship participant as well. In the post below, TingaTinga highlighted (very graciously) why the organization hired me for its social [...]