Technoserve Inc.

“The draft form 990 is prepared and reviewed internally by senior management and provided to the audit committee for review. The final form 990 is distributed to the board of directors prior to filing with the internal revenue service.”

“Technoserve's conflict of interest policy requires each director, officer and key employee to disclose any potential conflict of interest and recuse him/her self from any involvement in a decision in which the individual has or may have a conflict of interest. On an annual basis, each director, officer and key employee is required to complete a statement that includes an acknowledgement that the individual has read and understands the policy, agrees to abide by the policy and discloses any conflicts. In addition, the organization has a policy that clarifies the process in which employees, volunteers and consultants may disclose any possible conflicts of interest.”

“The chief human capital officer (chco) regularly conducts reviews of compensation for the ceo and other senior mangement officials against relevant and location-specific pay and benefit benchmarks. The chco uses data to compare compensation for similarly qualified persons in functionally comparable positions at similarly situated organizations. Documentation is contemporaneously recorded for deliberations and decisions regarding the compensation arrangement. In addition, in cooperation with the compensation committee of the board, the chco commissions a custom survey of executive pay at least once every three years to assess ongoing reasonableness and competitiveness of executive pay (members of the c-suite). An executive compensation analysis is conducted yearly, the last one taking place february 2023. Any changes to the compensation of the ceo are recommended by the compensation committee to the executive committee for consideration and approval.”

“Audited financial statements, conflict of interest policy and governing documents are available upon request for the same period of disclosure as set forth in section 6104(d).”

“Founded in 1968, technoserve is a leader in harnessing the power of the private sector to help people lift themselves out of poverty for good. A non-profit organization working in about 35 countries, we work with people to build a better future through regenerative farms, businesses, and markets that increase incomes. Our vision is a sustainable world where all people in low-income communities have the opportunity to prosper. During the course of 2023, our work improved 3.4 million lives and helped people and enterprises across latin america, africa, and asia earn an additional $485 million of revenue and ensured 42% of those with improved revenues were women or women-owned businesses. Each dollar invested in our programs yielded $5.60 of financial benefits for the participants, and an estimated 60,000 mt of co2 emissions were avoided, reduced, or sequestered by projects that promote regenerative practices. 48,000 jobs were created, strengthened, or filled as a result of our work in 2023. This includes entrepreneurs who work with us to start their own business, new jobs created by businesses that expanded due to technoserve guidance, and low-income people who learned skills from technoserve that enabled them to land a new job. Below, we provide updates from several key projects and practices, representing a cross-section of technoserve's work in agricultural value chains and entrepreneurship around the world. Supporting agricultural value chains and food systems technoserve is working to build inclusive, regenerative agricultural value chains and food systems that deliver better livelihoods for farming families. As part of this effort, we are helping to support a sustainable global coffee sector. Technoserve's programs help farmers improve the quality and yields of their coffee, boost the resilience of their farms, protect natural resources, and combat climate change. In 2023, technoserve's coffee programs helped 150,059 farmers earn more than $134 million in additional income. Technoserve is also harnessing technology and innovation to improve farmer livelihoods. Technoserve labs and the university of minnesota partnered to map cashew-growing areas in benin using satellite imagery and machine learning. Nearly 200,000 smallholder farmers in the country rely on cashews as their main source of income, and cashew production contributes 15% of benin's national export earnings. However, there was limited information on where cashews were grown because cashew farms are often small, irregular, and hard to identify. Technoserve's geospatial technology work resulted in the first national map of cashew production, allowing the organization to target training and resources more effectively, ultimately reaching more smallholder farmers with the tools and connections they need to increase their incomes and improve their lives. Catalyzing enterprise development technoserve's entrepreneurship practice supports the micro, small, and growing businesses (sgbs) that create employment and economic activity in local communities. Using careful adaptation, a market-driven approach, effective capacity development, innovative application of remote-and-blended learning, and rigorous measurement and continuous learning, this work helped provide 310,707 people with an additional $185 million in financial benefits in 2023. In 2023, the alliance for inclusive and nutritious food processing (ainfp) a partnership between technoserve, the u.s. Agency for international development, and partners in food solutions delivered a women's leadership training program, one-on-one mentoring for women business leaders, and networking events for women entrepreneurs. The program works directly with local african companies that mill flour, refine cooking oil, pasteurize and bottle milk, and produce ready-to-eat yogurt, bread, porridge, and supplementary foods. Ainfp helped food businesses to more fully consider the needs of women as suppliers, workers, and consumers, addres”

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“In 2023, technoserve, inc. Had 2,683 employees worldwide. The number of employees reported in part i, line 5 and part v, line 2a only reflect those individuals receiving a form w-2.”