OUR VISION AND MISSION
- To use the power of business to reduce poverty worldwide.
- To develop and promote a new prototype of capitalism for social and environmental benefits.
OUR PROGRAM Our Frontier Market Scouts program pairs training with field experience that benefits local entrepreneurs, students and investors. Read More
Launched in January 2011, our FMS program has trained 87 participants in impact investing and social enterprise management and placed 56 Fellows with 63 small and growing businesses in Brazil, China, Colombia, Ecuador, Egypt, India, Indonesia, Kenya, Lebanon, Mexico, Peru, South Africa, Turkey, the United States and Venezuela.
AWARD In 2013, just 2 years after its launch, our Frontier Market Scouts program won the prestigious Ashoka U-Cordes Award for Impact, Innovation and Potential For Replicability. Read More
NEWS This month we have launched the first US-based Scouts placements, in partnership with the Sorenson Center for Global Impact Investing Read More In January 2014 we are launching trainings at the de Baak Management Centre in Amsterdam, thus bringing our FMS trainings closer to Europe and the Middle East. Read More Later this year we are focusing on prototyping in India an innovative business model that elevates local people as shareholders in newly created companies. Read More
The Frontier Market Scouts program was developed by Sanghata Global, the Monterey Institute of International Studies and our partner Village Capital.