Our Approach
The Gratitude Network is on the look-out for paradigm-changing organizations (both for-profit and not-for-profit) that are applying innovation to making a lasting change to an existing system that will benefit children.
Our criteria for investment match up to these questions:
We conduct an annual, careful search for the world’s greatest “social Fellows” – particularly those serving the “base of the pyramid” or “Majority World“– people who are marginalized by society today and live in fear, poverty, or unhealthy conditions. To find “game-changing” Fellows, we partner with other firms in venture philanthropy, large humanitarian organizations (who already have the reach into most countries) and universities (who are turning up some of the most innovative new Fellows).
Once we find the Fellows we want to work with, the Gratitude then works closely with its portfolio companies, investing time into these areas: