Program for Appropriate Technology in Health Grant

Organization - Program for Appropriate Technology in Health
Grant Amount - $170,000
Foundation - Rockefeller Foundation
Grant Purpose - toward the costs of exploring the establishment of Equity Investment Partners, L.P. (EQUIP), a double-bottom-line venture capital fund that will invest in technologies to fight infectious diseases and improve maternal and child health in developing countries, and a workshop on financing global health through social venture capital


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