To identify, fund and develop social venture opportunities that leverage philanthropic and capital market interests in generating sustainable economic, social and environmental value within developing world communities. Focusing specifically on fuel efficient stove projects in the developing world, The Paradigm Project is developing large scale projects linking private and donor capital and mixing the efforts of NGOs with private businesses to achieve robust outcomes in health, social welfare, environmental protection and demand reduction for biomass, and economic relief in impoverished communities.
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Our Focus
Early stage development of projects in Kenya, Haiti and Guatemala within communities that are characterized as the poorest of the poor within their countries. All 3 are national scale projects starting at a projected 400,000 stoves each.
Our Experience And Interest In The Four PCIA Central Focus Areas
We approach the problem from a product development standpoint, but link it tightly to NGO partners with a great depth of experience in community mobilization and behavior change. There are often significant barriers. Our goal is not to find the "right" product, but rather to develop and bring to market a suite of locally made and imported products that allow end users a choice, and then to constantly request their feedback into product design and development in order to increase demand and build a sustainable distribution channel.
Extremely high on both fronts. Our corporate experience in market development and business building is very high, although mostly centered in the developed world. Our interest is chiefly in building sustainable, locally managed manufacturing and distribution channels that are not reliant on carbon revenue for their long-term success.
We have no relevant experience in this area.
We are aligned with several partner organizations whose focus is community development and who are well-equipped to monitor the social outcomes from our programs. This is a key focus and deliverable of our projects as we mix foundation, donor and private equity dollars to achieve our outcomes.
Relevant Publications or Studies
None noted
Our Contribution to the Partnership
We'd be interested in contributing whatever expertise we can offer. We have exceptionally deep experience in business development and in the voluntary carbon markets.
