Goals
- Identifying extraordinary social enterprises with innovative approaches to serving poor in the areas of health, water, and housing;
- Supporting these enterprises to become financially sustainable with equity and debt financing and intensive support;
- Creating methods for measuring the social and financial returns of these investments;
- Building a global community of professionals (staff and Fellows), donors, institutional partners and social entrepreneurs capable of deploying financial, human and intellectual capital to solve problems of poverty.
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