Growing Businesses Foundation | Growing Businesses Foundation, empowering African women and youths in Nigeria.

GBF has Nigeria’s largest bottom of the pyramid Network and is the symbol of transformation that inspires people and well-intentioned organizations towards a sustainable future.

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25+ years of catalysing economic growth, poverty eradication, ensuring work creation and protection of our environment.

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Micro-entrepreneurs empowered in Nigeria

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Communities across the 36 states in Nigeria

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Years of sustainable social impact for the bottom pyramind In Nigeria

About Us

Growing Businesses Foundation (GBF) is a Grant-receiving nonprofit organization that has built Nigeria’s largest bottom of the pyramid Network. We are the symbol of transformation and we seek to inspire vulnerable people and well-intentioned organizations toward a sustainable future.

Social Impact Campaigns

GBF leans into the voice-for-good ideology, in doing so, we become a force for growth. We lead long term call-to-actions on issues to stimulate behavioural, institutional or policy change.

Entreprenuership Programs

We are committed To advocating for entrepreneurship as the key to accelerating Nigeria’s social and economic development.

GBF Plasticonomy

To solve big problems like climate change, waste, and pollution, GBF has partnered with global organisations to drive our vision for a sustainable and circular economy leveraging technology.

2022

GBF launched the Empowering Collectors Initiative in collaboration with the Coca-Cola Foundation, with the sole aim of mopping up solid waste from the environment with the use of technology: Market Linkage System.

2015

Under the project Shakti, GBF empowered 1,000 of the poor rest households in southeast and southwestern states in Nigeria. The project was named ‘Gbemiga’ and ‘mbuli’ respectively, which means to ‘lift up'

2014

GBF unveiled the Teenagers Growing Business Club with the unique value of providing business mentors from across different industries.

2015

In collaboration with the Bank Of Industry and the National Youth Service Corp, GBF implemented a training program for 1000 Youth Corpers with interest in Entrepreneurship.