Sample Grants
Grant Title Award Date Grant Amount
 
The S.E.VEN Fund: Building Linkages between Prosperity and Progressive Human Values for Citizens of Developing Nations

Mr. Andreas Widmer and Mr. Michael Fairbanks
The Social Equity Venture Fund (S.E.VEN) (Cambridge, MA)

This grant is to launch a new organization named The S.E.VEN Fund, headed by Michael Fairbanks and Andreas Widmer, that will run RFP competitions and engage in programmatic activities to advance entrepreneurship as a solution to help eradicate poverty.  S.E.VEN will run RFP competitions that seek answers to some of the "big questions" that the Foundation poses to the world:
June 2007 $2,628,292
"Success Stories of Africa" Grant and Award Program

Mr. Andreas Widmer and Mr. Michael Fairbanks
The Social Equity Venture Fund (S.E.VEN) (Cambridge, MA)

This yearly request for proposals initiative will identify five outstanding African entrepreneurs to receive a grant. Applicants will be sought throughout Africa through a continent wide and targeted outreach effort.  Winners will be selected through a competitive process and publicized via a PR campaign.  Current funding request is for inaugural year only.
 April 2007 $507,750
Discovering the Power of Free Enterprise to Create Wealth and Alleviate Poverty Through a New Applied General Equilibrium Enterprise Economics

Professor Robert M. Townsend
Department of Economics
The University of Chicago (Chicago  IL)

This three-year project, which is in collaboration with the Poverty Action Lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Economic Growth Center at Yale University, proposes to have a global impact on free enterpise-based solutions to poverty through the establishment of a new field of economics - Applied General Equilibirum Enterprise Economics ('AGE3' or 'Enterprise Economics') and the dissemination of research results within this new field to government and opinion leaders, as well as to the general public.
 August 2007 $3,344,351
New Book Promotion: You Can Hear Me Now: Connecting the World's Poor to the Global Economy

Nicholas P. Sullivan
Tufts University (Medford MA)

This grant supports promotion for the book "You Can Hear Me Now: Connecting the World's Poor to the Global Economy", by Nicholas P. Sullivan.
 November 2006 $90,000
For-Profit Schools Serving the Educational Needs of the Poor: A Global Research and Dissemination Project

Professor James Tooley, Director
E.G. West Centre

This project aims to increase scholarly understanding and raise popular awareness on how the educational needs and aspirations of the poor in developing countries are served by free enterprise. The focus is on the widespread but little understood phenomenon of private schools for the poor.
 April 2003 $ 902,020
Globalization Education Project

Ms. Marty Zupan, President
Institute for Humane Studies
George Mason University (Arlington VA)

The Institute for Humane Studies [IHS], based at George Mason University, created an interactive educational website that examines college students' manifest concern about globalization and free enterprise principles, especially in relation to the alleviation of poverty. IHS also initiated essay contests and seminars as methods to address these questions. The website includes empirical research, comparative analysis, and narratives of the impact that free markets represent for impoverished people.
 January 2003 $280,000
FINCA Client Assessment Tool and Its Impact on Free Enterprise Solutions to Poverty

John K. Hatch, Founder and Director of Research
Foundation for International Community Assistance [FINCA] (Washington DC)

The Foundation has invested in three separate phases of FINCA's data-gathering research to increase the efficacy of its services to the world's poorest families. The aim of the research is to provide state-of-the-art data on the benefits of microcredit programs.
 June 2003 $1,377,100
Exploring the Potential of Homestead Plot Ownership for Improving the Livelihoods of the Poor

Timothy Hanstad, J.D., LL.M.
Executive Director and Senior Attorney
Rural Development Institute (Seattle WA)

This grant will explore the development of a highly promising new avenue of economic opportunity for the world's poorest people: the opportunity to own a homestead plot, a parcel of land sufficient to erect basic shelter and cultivate a home garden to supplement family diet and income.
 March, 2006 $1,325,000
Creating an Index of Global Philanthropy

Carol C. Adelman, Senior Fellow and Director
Center for Global Prosperity
Hudson Institute (Washington DC)

This grant will support the creation of a new Center for Global Prosperity and the publication of a new annual Index of Global Philanthropy, which will detail the sources – and the magnitude – of U.S. private international giving.
 April 2006 $300,000
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