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Bountifield International

Creating opportunities across Africa to process, save, and sell more food

aka Bountifield International   |   Minneapolis, MN   |  www.bountifield.org

Mission

MISSION: Create sustainable postharvest solutions to end hunger and poverty in Africa.

Ruling year info

1981

Executive Director

Alexandra Spieldoch

Main address

729 N. Washington Ave. Suite 600

Minneapolis, MN 55401 USA

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Formerly known as

Compatible Technology International

EIN

41-1400421

NTEE code info

International Development, Relief Services (Q30)

Management & Technical Assistance (K02)

Nutrition Programs (K40)

IRS filing requirement

This organization is required to file an IRS Form 990 or 990-EZ.

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Communication

Blog

Programs and results

What we aim to solve

SOURCE: Self-reported by organization

We envision an Africa free from hunger, poised to feed the world. We create opportunities across Africa for rural entrepreneurs with tools and services to efficiently process, save, and sell more food. Small businesses and farmers increase their incomes, more jobs are created, and Africa feeds herself and the world.

Our programs

SOURCE: Self-reported by organization

What are the organization's current programs, how do they measure success, and who do the programs serve?

Mavuno Bora

"Mavuno Bora" or "Better Harvest" in Swahili works with rural entrepreneurs to develop fee-for-service businesses to provide postharvest processing to smallholder farmers across Kenya. This creates much-needed access to mechanization for farmers, steering away from manual labor, and helps them to save time and labor, improve food quality, decrease food loss and increase incomes for both the entrepreneur and the farmers that they serve. Our program impacts predominately women as they are the ones who are traditionally responsible for postharvest labor and lack resources for support. We pay particular attention to women and youth entrepreneurs to emphasize inclusive growth opportunities to expand their agribusinesses, created jobs and postharvest support for rural communities.

Since the program started in 2020, we have served over 10,000 farmers, saved over 55,000 hours of labor, and processed over 2 million kg of crops, equitable to enough food to feed 33,000 Kenyans for an entire year

Population(s) Served
Farmers
Farmers
Women
Young adults
Extremely poor people
Self-employed people

Where we work

Awards

International Innovation Award for Sustainable Food Systems 2021

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations

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Our results

SOURCE: Self-reported by organization

How does this organization measure their results? It's a hard question but an important one.

Estimated number of people in smallholder communities with positively impacted through improved postharvest solutions.

This metric is no longer tracked.
Totals By Year
Population(s) Served

People of African descent, Farmers, Women and girls, Extremely poor people, Young adults

Type of Metric

Outcome - describing the effects on people or issues

Direction of Success

Holding steady

Context Notes

Estimated number of people in any given year include those both directly and indirectly impacted through improved access to postharvest tools and business training.

Estimated amount of crops processed (kg)

This metric is no longer tracked.
Totals By Year
Population(s) Served

People of African descent, Farmers

Type of Metric

Output - describing our activities and reach

Direction of Success

Increasing

Context Notes

The cumulative annual amount of crops that rural entrepreneurs were able to processes for the farmers they serve in their communities.

Estimated time and postharvest labor saved (hours)

This metric is no longer tracked.
Totals By Year
Population(s) Served

Women and girls, Farmers, People of African descent

Type of Metric

Outcome - describing the effects on people or issues

Direction of Success

Increasing

Context Notes

Most postharvest labor is conducted by women and children using manual labor. Bountifield programs create access to mechanized labor to significantly reduce time, labor and drudgery for women.

Our Sustainable Development Goals

SOURCE: Self-reported by organization

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Goals & Strategy

SOURCE: Self-reported by organization

Learn about the organization's key goals, strategies, capabilities, and progress.

Charting impact

Four powerful questions that require reflection about what really matters - results.

By 2025, our goal is reach millions of farmers, entrepreneurs, consumers with postharvest solutions that increase the efficiency of processing crops and creating valuable food products.

Bountifield's strategy is to partner with the African private sector, local entrepreneurs, and smallholder farmers to create holistic, sustainable solutions that will impact generations.

Bountifield has partnered numerous foundations and government entities to implement programs in target countries and regions. In addition, we have full-time local staff in Kenya and Malawi.

Over four decades, Bountifield/CTI tools have positively impacted over 1 million people in over 50 countries.

How we listen

SOURCE: Self-reported by organization

Seeking feedback from people served makes programs more responsive and effective. Here’s how this organization is listening.

done We shared information about our current feedback practices.

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  • What challenges does the organization face when collecting feedback?

Financials

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Operations

The people, governance practices, and partners that make the organization tick.

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Bountifield International

Board of directors
as of 06/26/2023
SOURCE: Self-reported by organization
Board co-chair

Todd Harper

General Mills

Term: 2021 -


Board co-chair

Dr. Bernhard van Lengerich

Seeding the Future Foundation

Ronald L. Christensen

Retired, Cargill

Paul Healey

TCF Equipment Finance

Al Sullivan

Kinnan Capital

Lee Wallace

Peace Coffee

Renee Munro

Bluescape

Robert Wilcox

Mironet Consulting, Inc.

Dr. Dieudonne Baributsa

Purdue University

LaToya Jones Burrell

Anderson Foundation

Steve Clarke

International Agricultural Development Specialist

Christina Connelly

Consulate General of Canada

Donna Gies

Retired, Thomson Reuters

Don Jacobson

Retired, General Mills

Lewis Kamiri

Retired, Syngenta Corporation

Meredith Kruger Kos

General Mills

Mark Ritchie

Global Minnesota

Susan Cornell Wilkes

Adventures in Giving LLC

Basil Ajuo

Minnesota Africans United

Janese Evans

Strategic Toolbox

Lisa Kitinoja

The Postharvest Education Foundation

Wan-Yuan Kuo

Montana State University

Buddhi Lamsal

Iowa State University

Nadia Martinez

International Fund for Agricultural Development

Jina Penn-Tracy

Centered Wealth

Angela Peterson

One Tree Planted

Donna Rosa

EFour Enterprises, LLC

Michelle Schoenecker

Thomson Reuters

Board leadership practices

SOURCE: Self-reported by organization

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  • Board orientation and education
    Does the board conduct a formal orientation for new board members and require all board members to sign a written agreement regarding their roles, responsibilities, and expectations? Yes
  • CEO oversight
    Has the board conducted a formal, written assessment of the chief executive within the past year ? Yes
  • Ethics and transparency
    Have the board and senior staff reviewed the conflict-of-interest policy and completed and signed disclosure statements in the past year? Yes
  • Board composition
    Does the board ensure an inclusive board member recruitment process that results in diversity of thought and leadership? Yes

Organizational demographics

SOURCE: Self-reported; last updated 8/6/2021
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Leadership

The organization's leader identifies as:

Race & ethnicity
White/Caucasian/European
Gender identity
Female
Sexual orientation
Decline to state
Disability status
Decline to state

Race & ethnicity

No data

Gender identity

No data

Transgender Identity

No data

Sexual orientation

No data

Disability

No data