Welcome to
the Social
Ventures Foundation
Changing the paradigm of poverty reduction, by facilitating the development of market-based "franchisable" solutions to poverty reduction challenges that create jobs to deliver affordable social impact for those living in poverty.
We are focused on creating "bottom up" circular economies
not "trickle down" income dividing economies.
We Believe In Social Justice
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Economic access that is "bottom up" market creation, not trickle down.
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Economic equity that closes the income divide instead of widening it.
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Economic investment that frees the poor from the cycle of poverty.
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"If you want to 'save the children' you need to create jobs for their parents"
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Marc Blumenthal. Executive Director Social Ventures Foundation
Social Ventures Institute
The Social Franchise Pipeline
Social impact investors do not make equity investments in the "Bottom of the Pyramid" because they are risk averse and so "the poor stay poor".
The Social Venture Institute provides the building blocks for a social franchise pipeline that mitigates investor risk so they can make investments in scalable social franchises that create jobs for the poor to deliver affordable social impact for the poor.
Fewer than 5% of Universities worldwide offer social entrepreneurship training.
EPIC, the End Poverty Innovation Challenge, trains post-secondary students in social entrepreneurship by engaging them in the local development of sustainable social venture solutions to local poverty reduction challenges.
End Poverty
Innovation Challenge
Social Entrepreneurship Training for Universities
Epic innovation lab
Developing innovative technology solutions
Extreme poverty poses the greatest threats to democracies and the free enterprise system. There are over 2 billion people that make under $4 a day which is one in four people on the planet. No-one invests in the "base of the pyramid" because they are risk averse and so the poor stay poor.
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If you want to "save the children'" by providing jobs for their parents, we need to leverage investment from the portfolios of hi net worth individuals, foundations, equity and pension funds and religious institutions to facilitate the scaling of franchisable social venture solutions to the world's greatest poverty reduction challenges.
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