Collaborators include Siemens Stiftung, The Level Market, Autodesk Foundation, Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves, CAWST, WFEO, ITU, Institute of Food Technologists, and United Nations Major Group for Children and Youth.

E4C facilitates the development of affordable, locally appropriate and sustainable solutions to the most pressing humanitarian challenges and shares them freely online as a form of open source appropriate technology.

In 2009, the American Society of Mechanical Engineers created a website to pull together the disparate sources of information on appropriate technology and solutions in global development.

E4C trains and manages ~50 Fellows each year, working with businesses, universities, non-profits and government organizations around the world to improve their programs with technical expertise.

The Web site provides educational webinars[7] and research seminars, as well as news, analysis, expert opinion and materials on how to design and implement solutions.