Archive for the 'Overseas Private Investment Corporation' Tag
Featured photo: Medical Credit Fund, winner of OPIC Impact Award for Access to Finance
A healthcare professional weighs a newborn at the Mission Mbagala clinic on the outskirts of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. The clinic was the recipient of an affordable loan from Medical Credit Fund, an OPIC-supported project and the... Read more...
Featured photo: Helios Investment Partners, winner of OPIC Impact Award for Private Equity
Nicholas Aoama Oyiek, who owns a garage employing 20 people in Nairobi, is just one of the small business owners who have benefited from the support of Helios Investment Partners LLC, a private equity firm that is managed by Africans... Read more...
Schwab Foundation names Bridge International Academies one of 2014’s top social entrepreneurs
Bridge International Academies, a low-cost network of schools in Kenya that is expanding with the support of OPIC financing, has been named one of the Social Entrepreneurs of the Year for 2014 by the Schwab Foundation... Read more...
Featured Photo: Inter-Mac International Inc., winner of OPIC’s Impact Award for Access to Finance
Some of the 5,000 residents of the Los Castanos de Choloma housing community in Honduras, which Inter-Mac International Inc. built with the support of OPIC financing. On March 11, OPIC awarded Inter-Mac an OPIC Impact award in the Access to... Read more...
OPIC supported San Andres Solar Plant named Project Finance International’s Latin American Solar Deal of the Year
Last year, OPIC provided financing to SunEdison to construct one of the largest solar power facilities in the world, a photovoltaic plant in San Andres, Chile. As a mark of its innovation and scope, the project recently received... Read more...
"My unique connection to Power Africa:" OPIC’s Alemayehou featured in USAID newsletter
In the summer of 2013, President Obama announced the Power Africa initiative, designed to help African countries responsibly develop extensive energy resources with the aid of private sector investors. OPIC committed up to $1.5 billion in financing... Read more...
Spotlight on OPIC Impact Award winners: Ellicott Dredges
Small businesses comprise the majority of all firms in the U.S. economy, and are powerful engines of job creation at home as well as drivers of development, innovative solutions, and economic efficiency in scores of developing nations. Small... Read more...
Spotlight on OPIC Impact Award winners: SunEdison
On a quiet plain in the rural center of South Africa sits a small town called Boshof. It’s far from the bustling cities of Cape Town and Johannesburg, and hundreds of miles from the dramatic, hilly coastline of the Cape of Good Hope. But... Read more...
Big visions, greater rewards – a look at the OPIC Impact Awards
By Judith Pryor Vice President, Office of External Affairs, Overseas Private Investment Corporation It’s hard to believe that the inaugural OPIC Impact Awards ceremony, which was held Tuesday, March 11, has already come and gone.... Read more...
Featured Photo: ContourGlobal’s Togo power plant, winner of OPIC’s Impact Award for Critical Infrastructure
Inside the 100 megawatt Lomé Thermal Power Plant in Togo, which was completed in 2010 with the support of OPIC financing and political risk insurance. The project was one of the largest investments ever made in the Republic of Togo and it... Read more...