We focus on getting more money into the pockets of the poor through their own efforts … which then empowers them to make choices on how to improve their lives.
Our Strategic Framework
Unitus approaches poverty alleviation opportunities with a strategic framework:
- Innovate: Seek out an innovative contribution
- Invest: Function as an investor and supporter, not an operator
- Scale: Pursue opportunities with potential for impacting millions of working poor families
- Take Risk: Take risk to prove efficacy of our methods and linkages so that others will follow in our tracks
- Catalyze: Attract capital markets to areas where the market doesn’t exist or is broken
- Exit: Exit from donor funded activities when we perceive we’ve reached (or won’t reach) a tipping point
Our Tactics
Unitus accelerates the development and adoption of innovative, market-based solutions to global poverty through the following principles:
- Identify significant opportunities that reduce global poverty and draw upon Unitus’ strengths to make a unique contribution and impact on the lives of millions
- Set ambitious multi-year goal(s)
- Setup the optimal structure for each effort and recruit strong teams to lead execution
- Raise, deploy and mobilize philanthropic and investment capital to fulfill Unitus’ goals
- Effectively measure and evaluate social impact and success, and pursue new opportunities once our catalytic role has been fulfilled and an underlying infrastructure has been established