It’s all about collaboration

The TBN Alliance represents a partnership between Belmont University Innovation Labs and TBN affiliates located throughout the Americas, Africa, Indonesia, and Singapore.

As members of the TBN Alliance and the Latimpacto network, we engage in strategic collaboration with global and regional partners to enhance the effectiveness and long-term sustainability of our work.

Care Initiative

Empowering Rural Communities Through Ecotourism and Opportunity

Conservation and Rural Enterprise (CARE) is actively proposing a holistic approach, rooted in ecotourism, to address endemic poverty, insufficient infrastructure and degraded environment in the Bwindi and Budungo forest areas of Uganda. 

Case Studies

We are part of an alliance committed to leveraging catalytic capital to drive meaningful change.

01. KUZUKO LODGE

  • Kuzuko was founded in 2001 with two main goals in mind – as an ambitious conservation project that forms an integral part of the broader Addo Conservation Area, and an ambitious social project with the aim of creating jobs and offering training in an area of high unemployment and limited opportunities.

02. JCI TOYP

  • Growing up in a small town in South Africa, Luvuyo Rani received an education in technical skills and business administration. To provide access to technology in his rural hometown, he opened an Internet café that also offered computer training and IT support for local citizens.

03. OLIVELINK

  • An inspiring story of Josephine Suleiman, Founder of Olivelink Healthcare who saw that the need to establish a clinic in Sinai slum due to inadequate access to quality healthcare in the area.

Meet our Funder Network

  • NOVASTAR

    "We see in Africa an unmatched opportunity to reimagine industries in ways that signal a new, sustainable, inclusive development path for the world."

  • INQO

    A Social Impact Investment company operating in sub Saharan Africa

  • GARDEN IMPACT FUND

    "We deploy catalytic capital into scalable impact-driven businesses. Through our investments, we seek to improve the quality of life for low-income communities and those living in disadvantaged circumstances."