The Fisherman Foundation is a newly formed non-profit (501c3) organization. The foundation is based in Boston and is in the preliminary stages of looking for strategic partners in the Philippines. The partnership will create open source contests that in turn create positive systemic change whereby members of poor communities become self-sufficient and gradually improve their social, educational, economic, health and spiritual circumstances. The Foundation’s motto is: Give a man a fish, feed him for a day, Teach a man to fish, feed him for a lifetime.
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SEVEN Fund: S.E.VEN (Social Equity Venture Fund) is a virtual non-profit entity run by entrepreneurs whose strategy is to markedly increase the rate of innovation and diffusion of enterprise-based solutions to poverty. It does this by targeted investment that fosters thought leadership through books, films and websites; supporting role models – whether they are entrepreneurs or innovative firms – in developing nations; and shaping a new discourse in government, the press and the academy around private-sector innovation, prosperity and progressive human values. SEVEN runs requests for proposals globally on a range of issues related to enterprise solutions to poverty annually. SEVEN’s principals have cumulatively lead development projects for decades in some of the world’s poorest and most difficult post-conflict environments. SEVEN is a grantee of the John Templeton Foundation.