SO WHY IS IT SO HARD TO GET EVERYONE ON THE SAME PAGE?
BY ADRIENNE DAY
SOCIAL
VENTURE
CAPITAL
COMPETITIONS
Dell Social Innovation Challenge,
Tech Awards, MI T IDEAS, Gates
Grand Challenges Explorations,
Ashden Awards
BANK LOANS
Citi Microfinance and Citi
Commercial Bank (with the Skoll
Foundation)
H YBRID BUSINESS MODELS
Linking a for-profit with a nonprofit.
Cross investing by selling products/
services to a mature market to fund
social programs.
CRO WDFUNDING
Kickstarter, IndieGoGo, Global
Giving, Start Some Good
IMPAC T INVES TORS AND
ACCELERATORS
Acumen Fund, Grassroots Business
Fund, Echoing Green, Omidyar
Network, Unreasonable Institute,
Village Capital, Y Combinator
GRANTS
Mulago Foundation, USAID DIV
Program, World Bank Development
Marketplace , CISCO Global Impact
Cash Grants
SOCIAL INNOVATORS
NEED MONEY, AND FUNDERS
WANT TO GIVE IT TO THEM.
The pathways for
funding and the
organizations involved
in funding social
innovators are varied.
The diagram, though
not comprehensive,
shows some of the
different mechanisms
for securing social
venture capital.
