CORPORATE PARTNERS
 Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP
As Indego’s pro bono counsel since 2007, Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP (Orrick) has re-defined the prevailing approach to corporate responsibility partnerships. Orrick’s unprecedented support of Indego Africa – which includes thousands of hours of legal services, seed salaries for U.S.-based Indego employees, U.S. office space, and computer centers at two of Indego’s partner co-ops – has been profiled in The New York Law Journal, Law.com, Social Edge, and The American Lawyer.
Read more on Indego Africa's blog, Social Enterprising:
bliss pr
 BlissPR, Indego Africa's pro bono PR firm, is a business-to-business strategic public relations and marketing communications firm based in New York City, specializing in the financial services, professional services and healthcare fields. A proud member of the Worldcom PR Group and the Council of PR Firms, BlissPR is built around the belief that knowledge-based businesses differentiate themselves through the quality of their ideas and their speed to market. With offices in New York, Chicago and St. Louis, the firm specializes in creating and promoting thought leadership; BlissPR helps clients develop points-of-view, predictions, trend commentary and insights, positioning them as experts in the media and category leaders in their markets.
 Africa.com
Africa.com's mission is to change the way the world sees Africa and to be the online portal for the world's engagement with Africa. Africa.com is the fastest growing Africa-related internet site. Visitors access travel deals, news, maps, world-wide events related to Africa, and views from opinion-leaders.
85 BroadS
85 Broads is a global network of over 25,000 trailblazing women who are inspired, empowered, and connected. The “founding members” of 85 Broads were women who worked for Goldman Sachs at 85 Broad Street, the investment banking firm’s former NYC headquarters. Over the past decade, 85 Broads expanded its membership to include women who are alumnae and students of the world’s leading colleges, universities, and graduate schools worldwide. Members are located in more than 90 countries around the world and work for thousands of for-profit companies and not-for-profit organizations.
85 Broads honors members of the community who are doing outstanding work. Indego Africa founder Matt Mitro and President/CEO Ben Stone were recognized as 85 Broads “Guys Who Rock” and had the opportunity to present their work at an 85 Broads “Jam Session” on July 19th, 2011.
Womensphere
Womensphere is an innovative media organization, and global community of women leaders, networks, and companies, aligned by the shared mission and purpose of 1) empowering and connecting the world’s women to unleash potential, create opportunities, and enable positive impact in society 2) bringing together leaders -women, men, organizations –to collaborate on solving important global and local issues of our time. Members include CEOs and executives from business and finance, partners from law and accounting, entrepreneurs, managers and professionals throughout corporate America, social entrepreneurs and leaders at non-profit organizations, scientists and innovators, and student leaders from the top graduate and undergraduate programs.
The Supply Change
Founded by longtime Indego supporter Chrissie Lam, The Supply Change was formed to alleviate extreme poverty by connecting artisans in developing economies to the global marketplace. The Supply Change works by connecting its extensive network of creative professionals to philanthropic ventures to form empowering and mutually beneficial partnerships, with a focus on bridging the gap between traditional crafts and 21st century industry. Through these integrated collaborations, the Supply Change strives to create opportunity through marrying the expertise of accomplished industry insiders with the unique talents and economic needs of businesses in marginalized communities.
THE GLOBAL LEADERS
The Global Leaders is a business media company focused on networking key executives to collaborate and share business opportunities and create solutions. The company offers both online tools and in-person events for its growing community of over 2 million executive professionals.
Adiree Fashion Agency: Africa Fashion Week New York (AFWNY)
 Produced by Adiree Fashion Agency, AFWNY is a luxury multi-day fashion event designed to raise awareness of African fashion professionals by giving them a platform to showcase their collection in the world’s fashion capital, New York. AFWNY’s mission is to display the creative side of Africa while making a contribution to the continent’s economy. The event includes runway shows, exhibitions, industry networking affair and trunk shows. Proceeds from AFWNY go to not for profit organizations in support of African related causes.
 Eighty2degrees Design
Eighty2degrees is an innovative graphic design and web development studio that delivers personalized and results-driven solutions. For more than two years Eighty2degrees has provided Indego Africa with hundreds of hours of invaluable pro bono services, including brand strategy and event collateral.
 Incubator Studio
Incubator Studio (blog here) is a multi-faceted creative group residing under the collective umbrella of YF Creative and headed by Jamison Ernest. We are a newly launched creative team with our focus in graphic design, branding, packaging and marketing. Developed as the graphic design counterpart behind Yellow Fever Creative, Incubator Studio decided to separate itself to explore other opportunities in September 2010. Always looking forward to grow, currently the team consists of Zeynep Yildirim and Justin Lucey who have been working together since they were just little kids attending Parsons School of Design, and right after graduation, May 2010, they have relished the opportunity to work with each other, enjoying the every second of it.
Nomadsland: Social Video for Social Change
 Nomadsland is an innovative video platform and production company joining forces with social entrepreneurs and nonprofits to curate, create and distribute visual media that tells inspiring stories of social impact. Indego Africa extends to Nomadsland our deepest thank you for its production of the Indego Africa mini-documentary, "The Color of Indego: Empowering Women in Rwanda" (January 2010).
Service Partners
Samir Zarif Trio performed at Indego Africa's wildly successful 2010 NYC Ibirori.
Adagion Studio (Photojournalism & Lifestyle Photography)
Deutsch Photography generously donated its services at Indego Africa's 1st Annual NYC Ibirori! in 2008.
The Type-Smith has assisted Indego Africa with a variety of its printing and marketing needs on a no-cost basis. Leading professionals in the desktop publishing industry, The Type-Smith of Colorado has been an invaluable and unusually competent partner.
Experience Dynamics dedicated its time and resources to creating a much improved user interface for our website, greatly improving usability. Experience Dynamics' User-Centered Design solution services are used by Fortune 100 companies in enterprise, institutional and consumer facing software and web environments. Indego Africa highly recommends their services.
Vertical Response donates its cutting edge e-mail marketing services to Indego Africa, allowing us to effectively communicate with supporters via e-mail. All 501(c)(3) non-profits are eligible to send up to 10,000 e-mails per month without charge.
VoiceNation provides fax and voice mail services to Indego Africa at no cost through its industry-leading program, Care2Call./p>
PopFax provides fax-receiving and fax-sending functionality for Indego Africa on a cost-free basis. Their service is very reliable and critical to our operations given the continuining reliance on faxes in Africa.
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