Jahwar Amber Fund

Founded in 2012 by the Jahwar Amber Foundation, The Creative Enterprise provides access to capital, capacity building, business education and economic development opportunities to high-potential, minority handcraft entrepreneurs. It is a service oriented non-profit organization of private sector business and artisan community. It helps its members to improve their productivity, explore markets and introduce them to the international arena. It also works as liaison between its members and the Government and Non-Government Organizations. Why the Creative Enterprise? The Jahwar Amber Creative Enterprise is about an idea, a place, and people. For the past seven years, the Jahwar Amber Foundation has been home to a wide variety of creative businesses—from artists to architects, entrepreneurs to manufacturers. The new horizon brings opportunities and challenges. Our name highlights our effort to preserve and promote the members historic and creative character in the midst of change. The Jahwar Amber Creative Enterprise has a mission to cultivate and invest in minority entrepreneurs to inspire working together for economic growth in communities. The Jahwar Amber Fund is a private nonprofit that evolved to become part of a world movement developing in response to the traditional politics of socialism, liberalism, and conservatism. Our main tenets were ecology and sustainability, democracy and human rights, self-determination and justice. Placing a particular emphasis on gender democracy, meaning social emancipation and equal rights for women and men. We also committed to equal rights for cultural and ethnic minorities and to the societal and political participation of rural folks. Jahwar Amber Fund Inc. has 501(c) tax-exempt status in Canada and is registered as a community based organization (CBO) in Kenya. The Canada office helps with fundraising.