Description
| - Devex is a social enterprise that aims to reduce operational inefficiencies in the field of international development. A for-profit membership organization, Devex employs more than 70 staff members in four locations, including its Washington, D.C. headquarters and offices in Barcelona, Manila and Tokyo.
The organization’s web site, , serves as a clearinghouse of business and recruiting information that allows interested parties to come together in service of thousands of foreign assistance projects worldwide. Devex claims more than 100,000 active users within the international aid community – including development organizations, donor agencies, suppliers and aid workers.
Devex’s president and founder, Raj Kumar, began the organization in 2000 as a student project at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government. Kumar’s goal was to lower the administrative costs of donor agencies so they could devote a greater share of resources to foreign-assistance projects themselves. “With $200 billion...
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