Technoserve Inc.

Filing Period

Jan 1, 2010 to Dec 31, 2010

Signed

Sep 29, 2011

Return Version

2010v3.4

Gross Receipts

$57,756,093

Mission

Major Activities

Activity 2

Central america & the caribbean:in el salvador, technoserve worked with ana rosa graf to develop her handicraft business in the wake of 2007's mudslides. Ana' high quality collages made of dried flowers attracted attention at the new york international gifts show. She now employs several women and their work sells in pottery barn. Small-scale farmers in honduras' fertile intibuc region were poor, in spite of the natural productivity of their lands. Technoserve worked with local farmers to improve their productivity, focus their work on the highest value crops and to connect them to markets that are more lucrative. As a result, local farmers increased their yields by 50 percent and some tripled their incomes. In nicaragua, technoserve worked with filadelfo and cesar sotelo to improve their land management and crop cultivation techniques and to link them directly to suppliers, eliminating costly middlemen. As a result, the sotelo's farming revenues grew by 4,000 percent, allowing them to send their children to school, build a safer home and create a better future for their families.

Activity 3

Technoserve has worked with nestle's nespresso business unit in colombia to help 3,000 small-scale colombian farmers in three cooperatives to increase their production of high quality, sustainably produced, high-value specialty coffee to meet nespresso's increasing global demand.technoserve's work in peru with a carlos vergara prevented the closure of his dairy production facility and saved the jobs of his employees. Technoserve helped vergara identify small-scale farmers to supply the facility, identified more profitable product lines, and improved the quality management at the factory. As a result, the business now employs 24 permanent staff, buys its supplies from local farmers, and serves as an economic driver for the community. In brazil, technoserve is working with farmers in the remaining fragments of the atlantic forest to improve their harvests and to come together to sell their crops to a high-paying processor. Farmers are enjoying better incomes while replenishing the famed but decimated hot spot of biological diversity.

Filer

EIN

13-2626135