our approach

We view giving as investing. We support projects that help break cycles of poverty and create opportunities that further financial security. This includes direct financial programming, like micro-lending, as well as longer-term strategies such as making environmental preservation efforts profitable.

We prioritize projects that reduce physical and/or economic waste. We are particularly excited about initiatives that gather products or materials that would otherwise be disposed of as garbage and recreate, refurbish or redistribute them so that they can fill an identified need.

We believe in responses that increase efficiency and decrease costs in service provision. We support programming that meets critical needs while also generating financial savings for key stake holders.

We appreciate the complexities of creating impactful programs in challenging political environments. We also understand that governments are uniquely situated to institutionalize services. We have a special interest in organizations that successfully navigate partnerships that intersect public and private sectors.

We stand for the premise that small actors and actions can make big differences. We support small, grassroots organizations that leverage limited resources to have outsized impacts in marginalized communities around the world.