There is an interesting article in the Swiss paper 'Neue Zürcher Zeitung', which highlights the work of the ARVINA foundation, founded by the swiss entrepreneur and philantrop Stephan Schmidheiny.
The foundation is promoting sustainable development throughout Latin America supporting civil society actors. AVINA believes in a bottom-up approach and supports many small initiatives, organisations etc.
AVINA formulates its strategy like this:
We facilitate links among individuals committed to sustainable development by promoting the creation of increasingly constructive and inclusive communities.AVINA gets its financial resources from the VIVA Trust, again founded by Stephan Schmidheyni.
Working with our partners, we identify opportunities, build agendas for social transformation, promote responsible citizenship and seek to expand social capital in order to contribute to the construction of more sustainable societies"
If you read german, read the piece the NZZ-piece otherwise go to the website of the Foundation.
3 comments:
seems like a great organization doing some innovative work.
Yes, it seems so. If someone knows some concrete action in the field, I would be happy to report on it.
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