1. My Objectives 1.Present blueEnergy: What we do, who we are 2.Share our plan for seeking a social investment to build a sustainable financial model and grow our social impact 3.Get your feedback on: Does blueEnergy’s approach resonate? Comments on social investment plan Connections to resources: mentoring and financial

2. May 2010 Social Investment Opportunity blueEnergy is seeking social investment to strengthen its ability to help isolated, dependent communities break the cycle of reliance on relief

3. blueEnergy Targets Those Beyond the “Bottom of the Pyramid”

4. blueEnergy Breaks the Cycle of Reliance on Relief blueEnergy connects isolated communities to power, enabling them to transition from relying on relief to starting small business

5. blueEnergy’s Approach Creates Long-Term, Sustainable Change

6. All three founders have been heavily involved since inception and are all currently working in organization full-time 35 FTE in Nicaragua, operational headquarters; half local employees and half international professionals 3 FTE in San Francisco providing strategic guidance, fundraising, human resources and administrative support 3 FTE in Paris providing fundraising and international human resources Board of Directors brings business discipline and deep experience in Nicaragua blueEnergy Has Strong Leadership and a Strong Team

7. blueEnergy’s Core Competencies Recruit broadly, 20 highly-skilled international professionals on-site in Nicaragua. Work with communities to bring out their voice and ensure its appropriate position at the center of solution design. Strength in wind and solar power and energy efficiency; water filtration. Bringing various stakeholders together, even historic enemies, to work towards common goal. Creating physical spaces (office, workshop, housing) in which to design, build and implement plans.

8. blueEnergy’s Impact blueEnergy is working in 15 communities, providing fundamental services to nearly 3,000 beneficiaries. Estimated 4,500 service-connections Local Employees: 20 International Volunteers: 24 Wind-solar capacity: 12 kW Bio-sand water filters: 54 Home electricity kits: 34 Portable LED lights: 253 Energy efficiency savings: 49 kWh/d

9. Social Investment Opportunity to Drive Impact Growth Seeking $1,088,000 in strategic investment to: 1) Strengthen and implement business model to achieve financial sustainability and grow impact 2) Build hard and soft infrastructure to support revenue generation and effective operations 3) Leverage social investment 2x+ in project funding; 2x of local labor in international professional labor

10. An Opportunity to Significantly Increase Impact Growth

11. Contact Information For more information contact: Mathias Craig Executive Director & Co-founder +1 (415) 509 - 0155 mathias.craig@blueenergygroup.org www.blueenergygroup.org

12. APPENDICES

13. Transition From Relief to Social Business

14. Economic Model

15. Strategy Map

16. Service Pyramid blueEnergy specializes in energy services and catalyzes other necessary services by “seeding” them while working to connect additional service providers to a community

17. Strategic Investment and Initiatives (continued)

18. Co-founder Bios All three founders have been heavily involved since inception and are all currently working in organization full-time Mathias Craig Executive Director Guillaume Craig Director of blueEnergy Nicaragua Lâl Marandin Managua Office Director Mathias Craig started blueEnergy as a nonprofit corporation in late 2003. He provides the organization with administrative, programmatic, and fundraising leadership. Mathias has over seven years of involvement in wind energy and has had significant experience living throughout Latin America. He has spent a considerable amount of time in Nicaragua and has strong ties to the peoples of the Caribbean Coast. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Civil and Environmental Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley and a Master of Science in Civil and Environmental Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Mathias is fluent in English, French, and Spanish. Guillaume is a co-founder of blueEnergy and has been the Director of blueEnergy Nicaragua since the end of 2004. In this position, Guillaume has built blueEnergy’s presence in Bluefields, Nicaragua, by establishing its current office, workshop and housing facilities. He also created a network of partners at the local, regional, national and international levels that have been crucial to blueEnergy’s early successes. Guillaume has over 10 years of experience in the services industry. Fluent in English, French and Spanish, Guillaume provides the strategic vision for bE Nicaragua and leads the Program Board on all large projects providing guidance strategy and management expertise to the projects. Lâl Marandin launched blueEnergy’s activities in Nicaragua in 2004, as Mathias Craig’s Associate Director leveraging his engineering skills and past professional experience in Central America. In 2005 he joined blueEnergy Groups’s Board of Directors, as he returned to governmental activities in France, handing over Nicaraguan operations to Guillaume Craig. Along with Pr. Michèle Grégoire and Pr. Colette Grinevald, he co- founded blueEnergy France as a supporting non-profit to which he provided pro-bono organizational and fundraising leadership from 2005 until 2009. Lâl is a French Civil Servant of engineering and military background with several years of Management experience in international Information Technology projects. After being selected among the finalists of the ESA 2008-09 Astronaut Selection, Lâl has set his sights on the non-profit and renewable energy sector, to which he aims to apply his management and technical background, and passion for international cooperation. Lâl holds two Masters of Science, and is a licensed pilot.