Wealth Inequality
CLUSTER
Egypt, project support 2022–2024
Grant amount p.a. CHF 100,000
Integrating the designers and manufacturers in Cairo’s formal economy with the artisans and craftspeople in its informal economy through collaborations that develop skills, market products, and connect creative talent to income opportunities in broader distribution networks.
Codespa
Philippines, project support 2021–2026
Grant amount p.a. CHF 110,000
Advancing economically, socially, and environmentally sustainable aquaculture through entrepreneurial collaborations between seaweed harvesters and processing companies in Hinatuan, Mindanao.
COES
Chile, project support 2022–2024
Grant amount p.a. CHF 150,000
Understanding the successful trajectories of social mobility in Chile, including a cross-country perspective, global literature review, and empirical data.
FA.VELA
Brazil, project support 2021–2026
Grant amount p.a. CHF 150,000
Bringing the privileged and underprivileged together to develop entrepreneurial culture, skills, and resources for resilient businesses and fairer, more inclusive local and digital economies.
FICA
Brazil, project support 2020–2026
Grant amount p.a. CHF 150,000
Establishing alternative ownership models to acquire and transform exploitatively priced real estate in central São Paulo into affordable quality housing for low-income tenants.
Fondation Forge
Mexico, project support 2024-2026
Grant amount p.a. CHF 150,000
Providing crucial job-readiness preparation, including socio-emotional and digital skills, to youths in Mexico, linking talent to open positions, and connecting privileged and disadvantaged students in a shared network- and skill-building campaign on the conscious use of social media.
FUNDES
Colombia, project support 2020–2025
Grant amount p.a. CHF 300,000
Economically and socially integrating the waste pickers of Cartagena by establishing a collaborative ecosystem with all the stakeholders in the city’s informal recycling supply chain.
IIHS (Indian Institute for Human Settlement)
India, project support 2023 – 2025
Grant amount p.a. CHF 100,000
Providing much needed child-care institutions for the children of mothers working in India’s informal sector and establishing best practice scenarios for scaling these institutions in key industries.
Impact Hub Ciudad de México
Mexico, project support 2024-2026
Grant amount p.a. CHF 110,000
Running an incubator programme for 100 young entrepreneurs in Puebla to develop business ideas in the tourism and retail sectors. Intensive mentoring by well-established entrepreneurs organised as a support community, seed funds and specialised strengthening for best performing ventures.
Jojoba Oil for Namibia
Namibia, project support 2019–2024
Grant amount p.a. CHF 110,000
Fostering gender equality, food security, and sustainability among women farmers through training in the organic cultivation and marketing of internationally sought-after desert crops.
MEET
Israel, project support 2022–2024
Grant amount p.a. CHF 150,000
Using STEM and entrepreneurial education to bridge the wealth divide, increase social capital, and build trust between Israeli and Palestinian high schoolers from diverse social, gender, and economic backgrounds.
Partners in Health
Malawi, project support 2022–2024
Grant amount p.a. CHF 150,000
Tackling health education in Malawi by developing a new teen club model for children and adolescents with HIV and creating opportunities for them to develop their skills and setting them up for success in life beyond managing their disease.
TAWAH – Tanzania Women Architects for Humanity, Tanzania
Tanzania, project support 2021–2026
Grant amount p.a. CHF 130,000
Promoting employment and income generation among women and girls in Tanzania through sustainable building materials production and home construction.
The Nature Conservancy
China, project support 2022–2024
Grant amount p.a. CHF 100,000
Partnering with local governments and herding communities to restore and sustainably manage Inner Mongolia’s grasslands, and reduce wealth inequality among herders, whose well-being and livelihoods are disproportionately affected by climate change and degraded natural resources.
Women for Women International
Rwanda, project support 2021–2024
Grant amount p.a. CHF 100,000
Developing skills and resources to improve personal and economic well-being among Rwandan women micro-entrepreneurs through comprehensive training and socioeconomically diverse collaborations that create access to supportive networks and potential start-up capital.
WOLWEDANS
Namibia, project support 2021–2024
Grant amount p.a. CHF 100,000
Creating learning, employment, and entrepreneurial opportunities within sustainable tourism for residents of Maltahöhe, near the NamibRand Nature Reserve, Namibia.
Education Inequality
Baan Dek Foundation
Thailand, project support 2023-2025
Grant amount p.a. CHF 60,000
Ensuring that vulnerable children migrating from Myanmar and Cambodia and living in construction site camps in North Thailand have sustainable access to education through complementary field programs supporting more than 1,600 vulnerable children each year in over 50 marginalized communities.
ChangemakerXchange
South and Southeast Asia, project support 2024
Grant amount CHF 167,000
“Changemakers for Education Equality” identifies, connects, and supports 50 of Asia’s leading young changemakers & social entrepreneurs who are pioneering tangible solutions to systematically address education inequality, with a focus on primary education and the crucial transition to secondary education.
ISF Cambodia
Cambodia, project support 2024-2026
Grant amount p.a. CHF 80,000
Through a comprehensive programme comprising education, healthcare, nutrition, sport and community development, ISF provides children and families from some of Phnom Penh’s poorest urban slum communities with the chance to access good quality education aiming at children with who either dropped out of or have never been to school.
ISRD Manipur
India, project support 2023-2025
Grant amount p.a. CHF 50,000
Supporting marginalised tribal girls aged 6 to 14 years old in four villages in Manipur where up to 80% of the girls drop out of elementary school or never got to school through a multi-stakeholder approach that enables them to (re)integrate into formal education in a culturally and socially challenging environment.
Christel House
South Africa, project support 2020–2024
Grant amount p.a. CHF 200,000
Supporting children in the most marginalised communities of Cape Town with free scholarships, a tailored education, and access to the more privileged strata of South African society.
JOBLINGE
Germany, project support 2019–2025
Grant amount p.a. CHF 150,000
Guiding and supporting disadvantaged young people and young refugees in entering the job market by acquiring necessary skills through vocational training.
Room To Read
Hong Kong, project support 2022–2024
Grant amount p.a. CHF 100,000
Supporting families in engaging their children on the path to literacy and a promising future by developing and distributing books that reflect the voices and cultures of young readers in Hong Kong’s marginalised, low-income communities.
Solutions Replacing Plastics*
*With the Foundation’s focus on reducing inequalities, completed Solutions Replacing Plastics projects will be replaced with grants for wealth or education inequality.
Junior Achievement
Bulgaria, project support 2021-2024
Grant amount p.a. CHF 120,000
Equipping Bulgarian youth with the knowledge, skills and mindset to devise proactive, green entrepreneurial solutions to the plastics crisis that target product design and use, life-cycle and research into alternative materials.
Further donations
Kunsthaus Pasquart
Switzerland, project support 2020–2024
Yearly grant amount p.a. CHF 50,000
Providing the elderly with access to art through a dedicated cultural participation programme, visiting the Centre Pasquart for group art discussions, and creative atelier work.
Université de Genève
Switzerland, project support 2024
Grant amount CHF 15,000
Funding the first module of the course ‘DAS in Philanthropy’ at the ‘Centre en Philanthropy’.
Global Stakeholder Initiative
Wealth Inequality Initiative
The Wealth Inequality Initiative aims to shed light on the global challenge of wealth inequality and follows a multi-stakeholder approach targeting four key goals: awaken interest in wealth inequality, circulate knowledge, mobilise stakeholders and drive action towards more equitable societies. www.wealth-inequality.net