We believe in the need to put entrepreneurs at the heart of the poverty equation.To do this we take an enterprise-based approach, combining the elements shown below, to create financially viable solutions.Shell Foundation aims to create solutions to global poverty and environmental challenges linked to energy and globalisation. What makes us different is our application of what we call ‘enterprise-based’ approaches to developing these solutions. This involves applying market principles and ‘Business-DNA’ – business thinking, models and disciplines – to figure out how to tackle global developmental challenges. Other ingredients in our model include working with strategic partners, committing funds and, where appropriate, leveraging the value-creating resources – the knowledge, brand and infrastructure – of the Shell Group. Why an ‘enterprise-based’ approach? History shows that many charity-funded initiatives deliver expensive results that do not last. There is also not enough aid to help everyone. Moreover, reliance on grants insulates development actors from understanding what poor people really want. This is why we do not hand out cheques to good causes. Instead, we act as social ‘investors’ in solutions that deliver financial and social returns, with our partners sharing the risk and successes. We believe by using grants like an investor, pro-poor innovation occurs, costs come down and growth (helping more poor people) becomes funded by the market not scarce charity funds. Poverty is only going to be eliminated by the growth of businesses that are owned by or employ poor people.We believe in the need to put entrepreneurs at the heart of the poverty equation.To do this we take an enterprise-based approach, combining the elements shown below, to create financially viable solutions.Shell Foundation aims to create solutions to global poverty and environmental challenges linked to energy and globalisation. What makes us different is our application of what we call ‘enterprise-based’ approaches to developing these solutions. This involves applying market principles and ‘Business-DNA’ – business thinking, models and disciplines – to figure out how to tackle global developmental challenges. Other ingredients in our model include working with strategic partners, committing funds and, where appropriate, leveraging the value-creating resources – the knowledge, brand and infrastructure – of the Shell Group. Why an ‘enterprise-based’ approach? History shows that many charity-funded initiatives deliver expensive results that do not last. There is also not enough aid to help everyone. Moreover, reliance on grants insulates development actors from understanding what poor people really want. This is why we do not hand out cheques to good causes. Instead, we act as social ‘investors’ in solutions that deliver financial and social returns, with our partners sharing the risk and successes. We believe by using grants like an investor, pro-poor innovation occurs, costs come down and growth (helping more poor people) becomes funded by the market not scarce charity funds. Poverty is only going to be eliminated by the growth of businesses that are owned by or employ poor people.We believe in the need to put entrepreneurs at the heart of the poverty equation.To do this we take an enterprise-based approach, combining the elements shown below, to create financially viable solutions.Shell Foundation aims to create solutions to global poverty and environmental challenges linked to energy and globalisation. What makes us different is our application of what we call ‘enterprise-based’ approaches to developing these solutions. This involves applying market principles and ‘Business-DNA’ – business thinking, models and disciplines – to figure out how to tackle global developmental challenges. Other ingredients in our model include working with strategic partners, committing funds and, where appropriate, leveraging the value-creating resources – the knowledge, brand and infrastructure – of the Shell Group. Why an ‘enterprise-based’ approach? History shows that many charity-funded initiatives deliver expensive results that do not last. There is also not enough aid to help everyone. Moreover, reliance on grants insulates development actors from understanding what poor people really want. This is why we do not hand out cheques to good causes. Instead, we act as social ‘investors’ in solutions that deliver financial and social returns, with our partners sharing the risk and successes. We believe by using grants like an investor, pro-poor innovation occurs, costs come down and growth (helping more poor people) becomes funded by the market not scarce charity funds. Poverty is only going to be eliminated by the growth of businesses that are owned by or employ poor people.We believe in the need to put entrepreneurs at the heart of the poverty equation.To do this we take an enterprise-based approach, combining the elements shown below, to create financially viable solutions.Shell Foundation aims to create solutions to global poverty and environmental challenges linked to energy and globalisation. What makes us different is our application of what we call ‘enterprise-based’ approaches to developing these solutions. This involves applying market principles and ‘Business-DNA’ – business thinking, models and disciplines – to figure out how to tackle global developmental challenges. Other ingredients in our model include working with strategic partners, committing funds and, where appropriate, leveraging the value-creating resources – the knowledge, brand and infrastructure – of the Shell Group. Why an ‘enterprise-based’ approach? History shows that many charity-funded initiatives deliver expensive results that do not last. There is also not enough aid to help everyone. Moreover, reliance on grants insulates development actors from understanding what poor people really want. This is why we do not hand out cheques to good causes. Instead, we act as social ‘investors’ in solutions that deliver financial and social returns, with our partners sharing the risk and successes. We believe by using grants like an investor, pro-poor innovation occurs, costs come down and growth (helping more poor people) becomes funded by the market not scarce charity funds. Poverty is only going to be eliminated by the growth of businesses that are owned by or employ poor people.We believe in the need to put entrepreneurs at the heart of the poverty equation.To do this we take an enterprise-based approach, combining the elements shown below, to create financially viable solutions.Shell Foundation aims to create solutions to global poverty and environmental challenges linked to energy and globalisation. What makes us different is our application of what we call ‘enterprise-based’ approaches to developing these solutions. This involves applying market principles and ‘Business-DNA’ – business thinking, models and disciplines – to figure out how to tackle global developmental challenges. Other ingredients in our model include working with strategic partners, committing funds and, where appropriate, leveraging the value-creating resources – the knowledge, brand and infrastructure – of the Shell Group. Why an ‘enterprise-based’ approach? History shows that many charity-funded initiatives deliver expensive results that do not last. There is also not enough aid to help everyone. Moreover, reliance on grants insulates development actors from understanding what poor people really want. This is why we do not hand out cheques to good causes. Instead, we act as social ‘investors’ in solutions that deliver financial and social returns, with our partners sharing the risk and successes. We believe by using grants like an investor, pro-poor innovation occurs, costs come down and growth (helping more poor people) becomes funded by the market not scarce charity funds. Poverty is only going to be eliminated by the growth of businesses that are owned by or employ poor people.We believe in the need to put entrepreneurs at the heart of the poverty equation.To do this we take an enterprise-based approach, combining the elements shown below, to create financially viable solutions.Shell Foundation aims to create solutions to global poverty and environmental challenges linked to energy and globalisation. What makes us different is our application of what we call ‘enterprise-based’ approaches to developing these solutions. This involves applying market principles and ‘Business-DNA’ – business thinking, models and disciplines – to figure out how to tackle global developmental challenges. Other ingredients in our model include working with strategic partners, committing funds and, where appropriate, leveraging the value-creating resources – the knowledge, brand and infrastructure – of the Shell Group. Why an ‘enterprise-based’ approach? History shows that many charity-funded initiatives deliver expensive results that do not last. There is also not enough aid to help everyone. Moreover, reliance on grants insulates development actors from understanding what poor people really want. This is why we do not hand out cheques to good causes. Instead, we act as social ‘investors’ in solutions that deliver financial and social returns, with our partners sharing the risk and successes. We believe by using grants like an investor, pro-poor innovation occurs, costs come down and growth (helping more poor people) becomes funded by the market not scarce charity funds. Poverty is only going to be eliminated by the growth of businesses that are owned by or employ poor people.We believe in the need to put entrepreneurs at the heart of the poverty equation.To do this we take an enterprise-based approach, combining the elements shown below, to create financially viable solutions.Shell Foundation aims to create solutions to global poverty and environmental challenges linked to energy and globalisation. What makes us different is our application of what we call ‘enterprise-based’ approaches to developing these solutions. This involves applying market principles and ‘Business-DNA’ – business thinking, models and disciplines – to figure out how to tackle global developmental challenges. Other ingredients in our model include working with strategic partners, committing funds and, where appropriate, leveraging the value-creating resources – the knowledge, brand and infrastructure – of the Shell Group. Why an ‘enterprise-based’ approach? History shows that many charity-funded initiatives deliver expensive results that do not last. There is also not enough aid to help everyone. Moreover, reliance on grants insulates development actors from understanding what poor people really want. This is why we do not hand out cheques to good causes. Instead, we act as social ‘investors’ in solutions that deliver financial and social returns, with our partners sharing the risk and successes. We believe by using grants like an investor, pro-poor innovation occurs, costs come down and growth (helping more poor people) becomes funded by the market not scarce charity funds. Poverty is only going to be eliminated by the growth of businesses that are owned by or employ poor people.We believe in the need to put entrepreneurs at the heart of the poverty equation.To do this we take an enterprise-based approach, combining the elements shown below, to create financially viable solutions.Shell Foundation aims to create solutions to global poverty and environmental challenges linked to energy and globalisation. What makes us different is our application of what we call ‘enterprise-based’ approaches to developing these solutions. This involves applying market principles and ‘Business-DNA’ – business thinking, models and disciplines – to figure out how to tackle global developmental challenges. Other ingredients in our model include working with strategic partners, committing funds and, where appropriate, leveraging the value-creating resources – the knowledge, brand and infrastructure – of the Shell Group. Why an ‘enterprise-based’ approach? History shows that many charity-funded initiatives deliver expensive results that do not last. There is also not enough aid to help everyone. Moreover, reliance on grants insulates development actors from understanding what poor people really want. This is why we do not hand out cheques to good causes. Instead, we act as social ‘investors’ in solutions that deliver financial and social returns, with our partners sharing the risk and successes. We believe by using grants like an investor, pro-poor innovation occurs, costs come down and growth (helping more poor people) becomes funded by the market not scarce charity funds. Poverty is only going to be eliminated by the growth of businesses that are owned by or employ poor people.We believe in the need to put entrepreneurs at the heart of the poverty equation.To do this we take an enterprise-based approach, combining the elements shown below, to create financially viable solutions.Shell Foundation aims to create solutions to global poverty and environmental challenges linked to energy and globalisation. What makes us different is our application of what we call ‘enterprise-based’ approaches to developing these solutions. This involves applying market principles and ‘Business-DNA’ – business thinking, models and disciplines – to figure out how to tackle global developmental challenges. Other ingredients in our model include working with strategic partners, committing funds and, where appropriate, leveraging the value-creating resources – the knowledge, brand and infrastructure – of the Shell Group. Why an ‘enterprise-based’ approach? History shows that many charity-funded initiatives deliver expensive results that do not last. There is also not enough aid to help everyone. Moreover, reliance on grants insulates development actors from understanding what poor people really want. This is why we do not hand out cheques to good causes. Instead, we act as social ‘investors’ in solutions that deliver financial and social returns, with our partners sharing the risk and successes. We believe by using grants like an investor, pro-poor innovation occurs, costs come down and growth (helping more poor people) becomes funded by the market not scarce charity funds. Poverty is only going to be eliminated by the growth of businesses that are owned by or employ poor people.We believe in the need to put entrepreneurs at the heart of the poverty equation.To do this we take an enterprise-based approach, combining the elements shown below, to create financially viable solutions.Shell Foundation aims to create solutions to global poverty and environmental challenges linked to energy and globalisation. What makes us different is our application of what we call ‘enterprise-based’ approaches to developing these solutions. This involves applying market principles and ‘Business-DNA’ – business thinking, models and disciplines – to figure out how to tackle global developmental challenges. Other ingredients in our model include working with strategic partners, committing funds and, where appropriate, leveraging the value-creating resources – the knowledge, brand and infrastructure – of the Shell Group. Why an ‘enterprise-based’ approach? History shows that many charity-funded initiatives deliver expensive results that do not last. There is also not enough aid to help everyone. Moreover, reliance on grants insulates development actors from understanding what poor people really want. This is why we do not hand out cheques to good causes. Instead, we act as social ‘investors’ in solutions that deliver financial and social returns, with our partners sharing the risk and successes. We believe by using grants like an investor, pro-poor innovation occurs, costs come down and growth (helping more poor people) becomes funded by the market not scarce charity funds. Poverty is only going to be eliminated by the growth of businesses that are owned by or employ poor people.We believe in the need to put entrepreneurs at the heart of the poverty equation.To do this we take an enterprise-based approach, combining the elements shown below, to create financially viable solutions.Shell Foundation aims to create solutions to global poverty and environmental challenges linked to energy and globalisation. What makes us different is our application of what we call ‘enterprise-based’ approaches to developing these solutions. This involves applying market principles and ‘Business-DNA’ – business thinking, models and disciplines – to figure out how to tackle global developmental challenges. Other ingredients in our model include working with strategic partners, committing funds and, where appropriate, leveraging the value-creating resources – the knowledge, brand and infrastructure – of the Shell Group. Why an ‘enterprise-based’ approach? History shows that many charity-funded initiatives deliver expensive results that do not last. There is also not enough aid to help everyone. Moreover, reliance on grants insulates development actors from understanding what poor people really want. This is why we do not hand out cheques to good causes. Instead, we act as social ‘investors’ in solutions that deliver financial and social returns, with our partners sharing the risk and successes. We believe by using grants like an investor, pro-poor innovation occurs, costs come down and growth (helping more poor people) becomes funded by the market not scarce charity funds. Poverty is only going to be eliminated by the growth of businesses that are owned by or employ poor people.We believe in the need to put entrepreneurs at the heart of the poverty equation.To do this we take an enterprise-based approach, combining the elements shown below, to create financially viable solutions.Shell Foundation aims to create solutions to global poverty and environmental challenges linked to energy and globalisation. What makes us different is our application of what we call ‘enterprise-based’ approaches to developing these solutions. This involves applying market principles and ‘Business-DNA’ – business thinking, models and disciplines – to figure out how to tackle global developmental challenges. Other ingredients in our model include working with strategic partners, committing funds and, where appropriate, leveraging the value-creating resources – the knowledge, brand and infrastructure – of the Shell Group. Why an ‘enterprise-based’ approach? History shows that many charity-funded initiatives deliver expensive results that do not last. There is also not enough aid to help everyone. Moreover, reliance on grants insulates development actors from understanding what poor people really want. This is why we do not hand out cheques to good causes. Instead, we act as social ‘investors’ in solutions that deliver financial and social returns, with our partners sharing the risk and successes. We believe by using grants like an investor, pro-poor innovation occurs, costs come down and growth (helping more poor people) becomes funded by the market not scarce charity funds. Poverty is only going to be eliminated by the growth of businesses that are owned by or employ poor people.We believe in the need to put entrepreneurs at the heart of the poverty equation.To do this we take an enterprise-based approach, combining the elements shown below, to create financially viable solutions.Shell Foundation aims to create solutions to global poverty and environmental challenges linked to energy and globalisation. What makes us different is our application of what we call ‘enterprise-based’ approaches to developing these solutions. This involves applying market principles and ‘Business-DNA’ – business thinking, models and disciplines – to figure out how to tackle global developmental challenges. Other ingredients in our model include working with strategic partners, committing funds and, where appropriate, leveraging the value-creating resources – the knowledge, brand and infrastructure – of the Shell Group. Why an ‘enterprise-based’ approach? History shows that many charity-funded initiatives deliver expensive results that do not last. There is also not enough aid to help everyone. Moreover, reliance on grants insulates development actors from understanding what poor people really want. This is why we do not hand out cheques to good causes. Instead, we act as social ‘investors’ in solutions that deliver financial and social returns, with our partners sharing the risk and successes. We believe by using grants like an investor, pro-poor innovation occurs, costs come down and growth (helping more poor people) becomes funded by the market not scarce charity funds. Poverty is only going to be eliminated by the growth of businesses that are owned by or employ poor people.We believe in the need to put entrepreneurs at the heart of the poverty equation.To do this we take an enterprise-based approach, combining the elements shown below, to create financially viable solutions.Shell Foundation aims to create solutions to global poverty and environmental challenges linked to energy and globalisation. What makes us different is our application of what we call ‘enterprise-based’ approaches to developing these solutions. This involves applying market principles and ‘Business-DNA’ – business thinking, models and disciplines – to figure out how to tackle global developmental challenges. Other ingredients in our model include working with strategic partners, committing funds and, where appropriate, leveraging the value-creating resources – the knowledge, brand and infrastructure – of the Shell Group. Why an ‘enterprise-based’ approach? History shows that many charity-funded initiatives deliver expensive results that do not last. There is also not enough aid to help everyone. Moreover, reliance on grants insulates development actors from understanding what poor people really want. This is why we do not hand out cheques to good causes. Instead, we act as social ‘investors’ in solutions that deliver financial and social returns, with our partners sharing the risk and successes. We believe by using grants like an investor, pro-poor innovation occurs, costs come down and growth (helping more poor people) becomes funded by the market not scarce charity funds. Poverty is only going to be eliminated by the growth of businesses that are owned by or employ poor people.We believe in the need to put entrepreneurs at the heart of the poverty equation.To do this we take an enterprise-based approach, combining the elements shown below, to create financially viable solutions.Shell Foundation aims to create solutions to global poverty and environmental challenges linked to energy and globalisation. What makes us different is our application of what we call ‘enterprise-based’ approaches to developing these solutions. This involves applying market principles and ‘Business-DNA’ – business thinking, models and disciplines – to figure out how to tackle global developmental challenges. Other ingredients in our model include working with strategic partners, committing funds and, where appropriate, leveraging the value-creating resources – the knowledge, brand and infrastructure – of the Shell Group. Why an ‘enterprise-based’ approach? History shows that many charity-funded initiatives deliver expensive results that do not last. There is also not enough aid to help everyone. Moreover, reliance on grants insulates development actors from understanding what poor people really want. This is why we do not hand out cheques to good causes. Instead, we act as social ‘investors’ in solutions that deliver financial and social returns, with our partners sharing the risk and successes. We believe by using grants like an investor, pro-poor innovation occurs, costs come down and growth (helping more poor people) becomes funded by the market not scarce charity funds. Poverty is only going to be eliminated by the growth of businesses that are owned by or employ poor people.