Venture philanthropy

Venture philanthropy (see image below) is a modern and relatively young form of philanthropy. It is a new way of investing in social ventures with a social purpose to enable them to create a larger and more sustainable social impact. VP is also considered as the new model for ‘Grant making’: the making of a gift’. The biggest difference with a traditional gift, pure charity without the desire for anything in return, being that that VP requires compensation in the form of a social or financial return.

Distinction with traditional philanthropy

VP differs from traditional philanthropy by a combination of:

• A larger involvement of the venture philanthropist in the social venture
• Attention for organizational development
• Custom made financing
• Non-financial support
• Granting access to complementary networks.
• Multi-annual cooperation
• Impact management

Whealth fund

As the Active Health Foundation we have initiated a Whealth fund. An investment company aimed at facilitating ‘gezondernemers’ (healthy entrepreneurs) and gezondernemende organisaties (healthy organizations) which exist only to contribute to improving health in the broad sense.