Through the TOMS
Social Entrepreneurship Fund, Blake has pledged to put financial muscle behind the next wave of purposeful, committed, mission - driven companies.
Toms
Social Entrepreneurship Fund has so far invested from $ 25,000 to $ 250,000 in a dozen companies whose missions range from helping homeless and disabled artists to making organic food affordable.
Toms
Social Entrepreneurship Fund lets Mycoskie keep trying out new ways to improve lives.
Bain and Mycoskie have established the Toms
Social Entrepreneurship Fund to invest in social ventures — both initially contributed 1 percent of Toms» value to endow it with $ 12.5 million.
The judges will advance one or more winners to a final evaluation, at which stage TOMS
Social Entrepreneurship Fund will review the investment opportunity.
Not exact matches
What do Eva Longoria,
social entrepreneurship, and $ 1 million dollars of
funding have in common?
Author Shel Horowitz shows a new way to think about successful
social entrepreneurship — based on profit, not government
funding.
Business leaders have set up
social venture
funds, started
social entrepreneurship activities within their corporations, taken into account
social innovations; and governments have passed legislation in favour of the creation of
social enterprises
«Just as the formation of the venture capital industry ushered a new approach and mindset toward
funding innovation within the private sector, impact investment has started to bring opportunities to harness
entrepreneurship and capital markets to drive
social improvement.»
In addition to
funding the creation of new projects highlighting the work of global change - makers addressing the world's most pressing problems, the initiative brings together leaders in both independent filmmaking and
social entrepreneurship at key gatherings globally, including the Skoll World Forum (SWF), the Sundance Film Festival, and intensive workshops at the Sundance Resort.
Three 501 (c) 3
funding beneficiaries have been identified to date: StartupAZ Foundation, Global Blockchain Foundation and Jindal Centre For
Social Innovation and
Entrepreneurship.