Selected Client: Neumann Kaffee Gruppe
Neumann Kaffee Gruppe (NKG) is the world’s largest trader of green coffee. NKG is evolving a new sustainable sourcing strategy, NKG BLOOM, that aims to drive transformational change in smallholder coffee communities, while strengthening its coffee sourcing capacity. NKG BLOOM offers a unique combination of field-based educational efforts, real-time mobile technology and the industry’s first impact banking–backed initiative for coffee production.
Propelevate assists NKG BLOOM to identify and pursue funding opportunities with philanthropic funders to mobilize additional resources. Propelevate provides strategic guidance on positioning and navigating the investment processes of funders, facilitates program design to marry NKG BLOOM and funder objectives, and develops or reviews elements of funding proposals. Propelevate facilitates the adaptation of NKG BLOOM’s global theory of change to specific country contexts, identifies relevant metrics and lean data collection methodologies that provide timely feedback to staff on key operational questions, and incorporates a gender lens to the approach to increase the number of women accessing NKG BLOOM's services.
“The astute questions and deep knowledge of agribusiness development allowed us to refine and focus our model; Propelevate has played a critical role to navigate the world of philanthropic capital to translate the perspective of large funders and find alignment.”