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The Organization: Hivos is a Dutch non-governmental organisation inspired by humanist values. Together with local organisations in developing countries, Hivos seeks to contribute to a free, fair and sustainable world in which citizens - women and men - have equal access to the resources and opportunities for their development. And where they can actively and equally participate in decision-making processes that determine their lives, their society and their future.
The Support: Hivos is funding a three-year blueEnergy project to strengthen blueEnergy's operational capacity and to bring energy, water and communication services to three communities, with a special focus on gender issues.
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The Organization: INATEC, that National Technical Institute of Nicaragua, is charged with building the technical capacity required by the nation. INATEC is a government agency but is outside of the Ministry of Education.
The Partnership: IPCC-INATEC, the Bluefields Campus of INATEC, is blueEnergy's primary partner and is the site of blueEnergy's shop. IPCC-INATEC and blueEnergy have worked in close partnership since blueEnergy's arrival in Nicaragua in 2004. blueEnergy provides IPCC-INATEC with renewable energy training, tools and backup energy for the school while IPCC-INATEC provides blueEnergy with tools, shop space, and transportation services.
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The Organization: Scoraig Wind Electric is small boutique wind turbine design company based in the UK.
The Partnership: Hugh Piggott of Scoraig Wind Electric is the original designer of the wind turbine that is at the heart of blueEnergy projects. Mr. Piggott has been a faithful advisor to blueEnergy since the very beginning. His website is a treasure trove for the do-it-yourself small-wind enthusiast.
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The Organization: Otherpower.com is a group of small wind turbine enthusiasts in Colorodo that have contributed a lot to the designs of do-it-yourself, small-scale wind systems.
The Partnership: Otherpower.com has advised blueEnergy on turbine and system design issues since blueEnergy's early days.
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The Organization: The Energy and Environment Partnership with Central America (EEP / AEA / Alianza) is a consortium of the Finnish Foreign Ministry and the Ministries of Energy and Environment from all the countries in Central America. The Finnish government funds the consortium which in turn selects ecological conservation and renewable energy projects to fund in Central America.
The Support: The Energy and Environment Partnership with Central America (EEP / AEA / Alianza) funded blueEnergy's pilot project in 2005 and a followup, expansion project in 2006/2007.
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The Organization: Good Energies is a leading global investor in the renewable energy and energy efficiency industry, focusing on investments in solar, wind, project finance and development as well as energy efficiency and green building. The company also makes investments in the developing world and in other renewable energy game changing technologies. Good Energies is a member of COFRA Group, a privately owned group of companies Good Energies is guided by the 3-P-principle (people-planet-profit) and is looking for meaningful long-term investments with outstanding growth potential. Being an investment firm, it seeks to help drive the transition to a low carbon, clean energy economy, including bringing affordable renewable energy to the developing world. Good Energies operates globally with offices in London, New York, Toronto, Washington D.C., and Zug. The current market capitalization of its portfolio is more than four billion Euros (five billion US dollars).
The Support: Good Energies is funding a one-year blueEnergy project to strengthen blueEnergy's operational capacity and to bring energy, water and communication services to a community, with a special focus on gender issues.
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The Organization: The Tech Museum is singularly focused on inspiring the innovator in everyone it reaches. Truly hands-on and interactive exhibits, divided among themed galleries, offer guests a truly memorable experience. The Tech Museum hosts an annual, international Awards program that honors innovators from around the world who are applying technology to benefit humanity.
The Support: blueEnergy was named one of the 25 Tech Awards Laureates for 2007 and was selected as the prize winner in the Economic Development category at the 2007 Tech Awards Gala.
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The Organization: The mission of The Philanthropy Workshop (TPW) is to create an active, global network of strategic philanthropists with the skills, commitment and imagination to make a significant contribution to pressing issues of our time. TPW values an approach to philanthropy based on the intellect, humility, creativity and will needed to foster social innovation.
The Support: The Philanthropy Workshop's Energy Collaborative arm has funded a blueEnergy initiative to convince the newly formed Ministry of Energy and Mines (MEM) of Nicaragua to accept small-scale wind power as a viable solution for rural and semi-urban electrification and to integrate this technology option into the national electrification plan.
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The Organization: La Guilde is a Frech nonprofit organization that helps fund and place volunteers in international projects in the developing world.
The Support and Partnership: La Guilde has funded two small blueEnergy projects and more importantly has helped place many French nationals in volunteering positions with blueEnergy in Nicaragua.
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The Company: Google is one of the pre-eminent IT companies in the world. It is based in Mountain View, California and currently has over 13,000 employees worldwide. Founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin, Google specializes in internet search and advertising but has expanded into other areas including but not limited to email, mapping and video sharing. Google’s mission statement is, “to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful.”
The Partnership: blueEnergy is a Google Grants recipient and receives free advertising through Google Adwords. This partnership is important in spreading the word about the good work that blueEnergy is undertaking, as well as helping to attract top tier volunteers and donors.
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The Company: NetSuite is the first and only company to give growing and midsize businesses on demand Web-based business applications to run their entire company. With thousands of customers globally, NetSuite has earned numerous awards for market leadership and innovation from such leading publications as eWeek, CRM Magazine, InfoWorld, PC Magazine, and The CPA Technology Advisor among others. Customers, analysts and press recognize that NetSuite alone provides integrated front office customer relationship management (CRM), back-office enterprise resource planning (ERP), and ecommerce in one powerful application with the modularity and flexibility to meet your specific business needs.
The Partnership: NetSuite provides blueEnergy with enterprise class licenses to its online software platform to meet blueEnergy's accounting and light manufacturing needs.
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The Company: Salesforce.com is the worldwide leader in on-demand customer relationship management services. Founded by former Oracle executive Marc Benioff, Salesforce.com pioneered the concept of delivering enterprise applications via a simple web interface. Salesforce.com has received world wide recognition for their products from Business Week’s Top 100 Innovators Award through to Forbes Best of the Web Award.
The Partnership: Salesforce.com provides blueEnergy with enterprise class licenses to its online software platform to allow blueEnergy's disperse staff memebers to collaborate and work together remotely.
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The Company: ETDE is an electrical engineering company that is part of France's largest construction company.
The Support and Partnership: ETDE has given blueEnergy a general grant and has delivered high-quality shop equipement to Nicaragua to strengthen blueEnergy's operational capacity.
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The Company: Photon Consulting is an industry leader in Solar PV consulting and publishes the industry standars magazine, Photon International
The Support: Photon Consulting has given blueEnergy a general grant and named blueEnergy as the potential beneficiary of a large wager on global solar PV production by the year 2010.
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The Organization: The Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) is Canada’s lead agency for development assistance. It has a mandate to support sustainable development in developing countries in order to reduce poverty and to contribute to a more secure, equitable, and prosperous world.
The Support and Partnership: The Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) funded a major upgrade to blueEnergy's shop capacity in Bluefields, Nicaragua in 2006. CIDA has also helped promote blueEnergy within Nicaragua by hosting a reception for blueEnergy at the Canadian Embassy in Nicaragua.
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The Organization: Île de France is the government body of the greater Parisian region of France.
The Support: Île de France has funded two blueEnergy hybrid power systems in the Municipality of Pearl Lagoon in Nicaragua.
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The Organization: The Edgerton Foundation is a not-for-profit public benefit corporation founded in 2001 to promote the well-being and general good of mankind throughout the world. The foundation supports public charities in the following endeavors: preservation of the planet's biodiversity; protection of human health and the global climate through wise energy policy; prevention of the spread and use of weapons of mass destruction; resolution of differences between nations that may lead to nuclear war; support of theater, dance, and music in Southern California; improvement of science, math, and environmental education in select schools; and technology innovation supporting enlightened public policy development in environmental and security policy by non-profit organizations.
The Support: The Edgerton Foundation funded a blueEnergy hybrid power system system for the INATEC campus in Bluefields, Nicaragua (IPCC).
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The Organization: BP, one of the world’s largest integrated energy companies, is looking beyond traditional energy choices. To help conserve the earth’s precious resources, we’re focusing on new, cleaner technologies – including solar. With over 30 years of experience and installations in over 160 countries, BP Solar is one of the world’s largest solar companies, with manufacturing facilities in the United States, Spain, India and Australia. A key part of BP’s Alternative Energy business, BP Solar is a global company with over 2200 employees focused on harnessing the sun's energy to produce solar power for electricity. We design, manufacture and market solar electric systems for homeowners, businesses and governments.
The Support: To date BP Solar has donated nearly 1 kW of solar panels for blueEnergy projects in Nicaragua.
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The Organization: Bradley & Company, LLC is an SEC-Registered Investment Advisor and Private Wealth Management firm located in San Francisco.
The Support: Bradley & Company, LLC, advises blueEnergy on the donation of securities and general fundraising strategy, as well as generously provides blueEnergy with high-quality meeting space in downtown San Francisco.
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The Organization: Solar Energy International (SEI) provides education and training to decision makers, technicians and users of renewable energy sources. SEI also provides the expertise to plan, engineer and implement sustainable development projects.
The Support: Solar Energy International (SEI) has provided partial scholarships to several blueEnergy employees and volunteers for their wind power workshops.
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The Organization: The French Embassy in Nicaragua is the embodiment of the French government in Nicaragua.
The Partnership: The French Embassy in Nicaragua helps promote blueEnergy in Nicaragua and provides a cultural connection for visint French volunteers.
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The Company: Projity is the world’s leading provider of web based, open source project solutions. Projity was founded by Laurent Chretienneau, Howard Katz and Marc O'Brien all of whom are leaders in the project software industry. Projity has won numerous awards for its products and now boasts clients such as BearingPoint, Corning, Tyco International, NASA and many others.
The Partnership: Projity provides blueEnergy with a license to its project management software which allows the international offices of blueEnergy to collaborate and plan online.
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The Company: Clicktools is a leader in enterprise feedback management solutions from designing templates through to complete outsourcing of feedback programmes. Their customers range from small startups to multinational corporations such as Shell, Airbus and The Economist.
The Partnership: Clicktools provides blueEnergy with a license to its software which allows blueEnergy to more efficiently capture leads from its website.
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The Company: Sesame Software specializes in data integration solutions, in particular for the integration of legacy systems with Salesforce.com.
The Partnership: Sesame Software provides blueEnergy with a license to its Relational Junction software which will allow blueEnergy to integrate its accounting system with its Salesforce.com implementation.
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