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How does E+Co find its entrepreneurs?

E+Co identifies potential clean energy entrepreneurs primarily through its Investment Officers. It is the responsibility of the locally-based Investment Officers working in over 20 developing countries to seek out potential clean energy businessmen and women through training workshops, technology networks and local NGOs.

How should an interested entrepreneur connect with E+Co?

E+Co's regional offices initiate the process of providing business development services and capital investment.  Interested entrepreneurs should reach out to the E+Co office nearest their area.  Contact Us 

Does E+Co provide grants?

No, E+Co does not provide grants, but rather makes loans and equity investments in cleaner energy enterprises.  Loans must be repaid with interest.  It is E+Co's objective to establish financially sustainable clean energy businesses.

Where does E+Co invest?

Currently E+Co has investments in the following countries: Cambodia, China, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Gambia, Ghana, Guatemala, Honduras, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Mali, Morocco, Nepal, Nicaragua, Philippines, Senegal, South Africa, Tanzania, Thailand, Uganda, Vietnam, Zambia.

How does E+Co choose the countries within which it works?

A number of factors determine whether E+Co will enter a new market including the relative political stability and business climate of a country.  

Does E+Co provide financing to U.S-based clean energy businesses?

No, while there are many valuable clean energy start-ups in the U.S., it is E+Co's mission to empower small and medium energy enterprises in developing countries where there is little traditional support for these types of endeavors.

How does E+Co estimate the energy, carbon dioxide and other benefits in its impact calculator?

E+Co maintains a rigorous accounting of the performance of its portfolio (the basket of all investments made). This is reported twice yearly. From this information it is possible to estimate the relationship among the various data collected. We know, for example, that every $1.00 in capital leads to $6.42 invested by entrepreneurs and financial institutions over time. We know that $5.72 of direct capital investment by E+Co leads to one person served with modern energy. But we also know that additional costs (about 30%) need to be incurred to make this investment succeed**.

We then take this accumulated historical information and match it against our plans and projections for the time ahead. We compare the two sets of information - historical and projected - making sure the results are reasonable. Once we are satisfied with the result we "plug" the projected data into the calculator to estimate the result that your donation will achieve. 

Is E+Co hiring?

E+Co posts its current job openings on www.Idealist.org

What is E+Co's Privacy Policy?

E+Co is committed to preserving your privacy and safeguarding your information online. The following statement describes the general information gathering and usage practices of our web site.

What information we collect: E+Co may ask for and collect from you personally identifiable information at various points throughout the site. Depending on the information and/or services you request, you may be asked to provide your name, email address, address, phone number, payment details, and similar information.

How we protect information: E+Co attempts to protect against the loss, misuse and alteration of your personal information. We store your personally identifiable information on secure servers. We also use other "anti-hacking" security measures. We accept credit card donations only via a secure server.

E+Co does not sell or trade names or other personal data that we collect on our web site nor do we maintain any credit card information. Credit card donations through our web site are processed exclusively by Independent Charities of America / Give Direct.