New website opens a window to Mozambique’s Cashew growers

Our monthly photo series highlights the beauty and emotion in the lives of our clients around the world. This November, as world leaders gather for COP31 in Antalya, Türkiye, we look back at the people working to make food systems more resilient in the face of a changing climate.

For 27 years as board chair, Paul Tierney guided TechnoServe through its greatest era of growth while helping build our pro bono advisory initiative into a world-class talent engine. Following a historic $5 million gift from the Tierney Family Foundation to support the newly renamed TechnoServe Tierney Fellows Program, Paul reflects on three decades of impact and his advice for the next generation of changemakers.

TechnoServe’s director of impact answers donors' most common questions about nonprofit impact measurement: how we calculate the return on every dollar invested, who verifies the numbers, and whether gains last after a project ends.