# Tracker

<table border="1" id="bkmrk-name-type-priority-s" style="border-collapse: collapse; width: 100%; height: 1593.4px;"><colgroup><col style="width: 20.0203%;"></col><col style="width: 15.0152%;"></col><col style="width: 8.46094%;"></col><col style="width: 21.3311%;"></col><col style="width: 19.7819%;"></col><col style="width: 15.4919%;"></col></colgroup><tbody><tr style="height: 29.7969px;"><td style="height: 29.7969px;">**Name**</td><td style="height: 29.7969px;">**Type**</td><td style="height: 29.7969px;">**Priority**</td><td style="height: 29.7969px;">**Status**</td><td style="height: 29.7969px;">**Owner**</td><td style="height: 29.7969px;">Remarks</td></tr><tr style="height: 46.5938px;"><td style="height: 46.5938px;">Prince Gonahasa</td><td style="height: 46.5938px;">Recoverable Grant</td><td style="height: 46.5938px;">  
</td><td style="height: 46.5938px;">offered 3k USD, not yet contributed. </td><td style="height: 46.5938px;">  
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</td></tr><tr><td>Arinda Family </td><td>Recoverable Grant</td><td>  
</td><td>[1k Contributed](https://opencollective.com/nfe/contributions/866412)</td><td>  
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</td></tr><tr><td>Kimbowa Family</td><td>Recoverable Grant</td><td>  
</td><td>1k</td><td>  
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</td></tr><tr style="height: 57.7969px;"><td style="height: 57.7969px;">Tushabe Family</td><td style="height: 57.7969px;">Recoverable Grant</td><td style="height: 57.7969px;">  
</td><td style="height: 57.7969px;">[10k USD Contributed on Dec 1st 2024](https://opencollective.com/nfe/contributions/862499)  
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</td></tr><tr style="height: 293.938px;"><td style="height: 293.938px;">[Mercy Corp Ventures](https://www.mercycorps.org/what-we-do/ventures)</td><td style="height: 293.938px;">Equity   
</td><td style="height: 293.938px;">medium</td><td style="height: 293.938px;">Reviewed [the deck](https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1mNKqGWw_H6QyRjha-BIiT1UvxncdEzU3emUuIpv9T1g/edit?slide=id.p1#slide=id.p1) in May 2025.   
  
While the team liked the community angle, the key concerns were

1. The scalability of the model and
2. Traction (it's still early)

Requested to be added to investor newsletter

</td><td style="height: 293.938px;">Aaron Tushabe</td><td style="height: 293.938px;">We are no longer pursuing equity funders because as a co-op, we don't have equity to offer. </td></tr><tr style="height: 102.594px;"><td style="height: 102.594px;">[Energy Sector Management Assistance Program - ESMAP (World bank)](https://www.esmap.org/activities)</td><td style="height: 102.594px;">Grant</td><td style="height: 102.594px;">medium</td><td style="height: 102.594px;">  
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</td></tr><tr style="height: 80.1875px;"><td style="height: 80.1875px;">[Echoing Green Fellowship](https://echoinggreen.org/fellowship/apply/)

</td><td style="height: 80.1875px;">Recoverable Grant</td><td style="height: 80.1875px;">high</td><td style="height: 80.1875px;">Closed for 2025, planning to apply for 2026 in September 2025.   
</td><td style="height: 80.1875px;">Aaron Tushabe</td><td style="height: 80.1875px;">  
</td></tr><tr style="height: 80.1875px;"><td style="height: 80.1875px;">[EPP Africa (Nordic Development Fund)](https://eepafrica.org/financing#innovation)

</td><td style="height: 80.1875px;">Grant</td><td style="height: 80.1875px;">high</td><td style="height: 80.1875px;">Closed for 2025, planning to apply for 2026. Not sure when it opens again</td><td style="height: 80.1875px;">Aaron Tushabe</td><td style="height: 80.1875px;">  
</td></tr><tr style="height: 57.7969px;"><td style="height: 57.7969px;">[Africa Climate Change Fund](https://accf.afdb.org/en)

</td><td style="height: 57.7969px;">Grant</td><td style="height: 57.7969px;">  
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</td></tr><tr style="height: 57.7969px;"><td style="height: 57.7969px;">[African Green Banks (AFBD)](https://www.afdb.org/en/topics-and-sectors/initiatives-and-partnerships/african-green-banks-initiative)

</td><td style="height: 57.7969px;">Grant + Debt</td><td style="height: 57.7969px;">  
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</td></tr><tr style="height: 57.7969px;"><td style="height: 57.7969px;">[Alliance for Green Infrastructure (AFDB)](https://www.afdb.org/en/topics-and-sectors/initiatives-and-partnerships/alliance-green-infrastructure-africa)

</td><td style="height: 57.7969px;">Grants</td><td style="height: 57.7969px;">  
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</td></tr><tr style="height: 35.3984px;"><td style="height: 35.3984px;">[Beyond the Grid](https://beyondthegrid.africa/funding-rounds/)

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</td></tr><tr style="height: 57.7969px;"><td style="height: 57.7969px;">[US Department of Energy](https://www.energy.gov/osdbu/funding-opportunity-announcements-and-grants)

</td><td style="height: 57.7969px;">Grants</td><td style="height: 57.7969px;">  
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</td></tr><tr style="height: 35.3984px;"><td style="height: 35.3984px;">[Nithio](https://nithio.com/borrow/)

</td><td style="height: 35.3984px;">Debt</td><td style="height: 35.3984px;">  
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</td></tr><tr style="height: 130.578px;"><td style="height: 130.578px;">[Mission 300 (World bank)](https://www.worldbank.org/en/programs/energizing-africa)

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</td><td style="height: 130.578px;">low</td><td style="height: 130.578px;">  
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</td><td style="height: 130.578px;">Focusing on power for remote and off grid communities so no aligned with our early stage objectives  
</td></tr><tr style="height: 113.781px;"><td style="height: 113.781px;">[Factor E](https://www.factore.com/contact)

</td><td style="height: 113.781px;">Equity</td><td style="height: 113.781px;">  
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</td><td style="height: 113.781px;">We are no longer pursuing equity funders because as a co-op, we don't have equity to offer. </td></tr><tr style="height: 46.5938px;"><td style="height: 46.5938px;">Kiva.org

</td><td style="height: 46.5938px;">Debt</td><td style="height: 46.5938px;">  
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</td><td style="height: 46.5938px;">Check back on August 15th</td></tr><tr style="height: 80.1875px;"><td style="height: 80.1875px;">[Digital Africa](https://www.digital-africa.co/)</td><td style="height: 80.1875px;">?</td><td style="height: 80.1875px;">  
</td><td style="height: 80.1875px;">Applied on June 17th 2025. Waiting for Feedback</td><td style="height: 80.1875px;">Aaron Tushabe</td><td style="height: 80.1875px;">  
</td></tr><tr style="height: 46.5938px;"><td style="height: 46.5938px;">[Aquarious Foundation](https://theaquariusfoundation.org/)</td><td style="height: 46.5938px;">Grant or Debt</td><td style="height: 46.5938px;">  
</td><td style="height: 46.5938px;">Applied on June 17th 2025. Waiting feedback</td><td style="height: 46.5938px;">  
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</td></tr><tr style="height: 46.5938px;"><td style="height: 46.5938px;">[Start-coop](https://www.start.coop/accelerator)</td><td style="height: 46.5938px;">Grant</td><td style="height: 46.5938px;">  
</td><td style="height: 46.5938px;">Applied on June 18th. Waiting for feedback</td><td style="height: 46.5938px;">Aaron Tushabe</td><td style="height: 46.5938px;">Expect $5k to $50k</td></tr><tr style="height: 35.3984px;"><td style="height: 35.3984px;">[LabStart](https://www.labstart.co/apply)</td><td style="height: 35.3984px;">Grant</td><td style="height: 35.3984px;">  
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</td><td style="height: 35.3984px;">Aaron Tushabe</td><td style="height: 35.3984px;">  
</td></tr><tr style="height: 35.3984px;"><td style="height: 35.3984px;">[CataCap](https://catacap.org/raisemoney/)</td><td style="height: 35.3984px;">?</td><td style="height: 35.3984px;">  
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</td></tr><tr style="height: 35.3984px;"><td style="height: 35.3984px;">[Mission300](https://www.worldbank.org/en/programs/energizing-africa)</td><td style="height: 35.3984px;">Grant? </td><td style="height: 35.3984px;">  
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</td><td style="height: 35.3984px;">Aaron Tushabe</td><td style="height: 35.3984px;">  
</td></tr><tr style="height: 29.7969px;"><td style="height: 29.7969px;">[Energy IoT Open Source](https://www.eiot.energy/)</td><td style="height: 29.7969px;">Grant</td><td style="height: 29.7969px;">  
</td><td style="height: 29.7969px;">Pledged by Arila Barnes (founder and CEO)</td><td style="height: 29.7969px;">Aaron Tushabe</td><td style="height: 29.7969px;">This funding will require we help pilot some open software from Open AMI labs. Details to confirmed later in Q325</td></tr></tbody></table>