Your donation towards Tearfund's forTomorrow Enterprise Program provides training, seed funding and opportunities for entrepreneurs in developing countries to build viable businesses that have a positive social impact.

“Without Tearfund Australia it’s hard to imagine we would have got to the point where we are today. Tearfund has helped us turn a nice idea into a business model on the cusp of changing the lives of many people facing poverty, and providing quality care for a growing middle class in India.” – Eddie Mall, GladRose

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How your donation is used:

Pillar 1: Create & Build

In Create and Build, we seek to work with existing Christian NGO partners to explore innovative market-based approaches to complement their existing development work. We do this by discussing ideas, facilitating training, and offering seed grants to start piloting and testing enterprise models. Our longer term aim is that these partners will be able to move their enterprises to be commercially viable and investment ready.

Key features

• Build capabilities and support existing Tearfund NGO partners to innovate new enterprise models that amplify their development work
• Provide/facilitate seed funding for pilot enterprises
• Support development of pilot enterprises to scale up and start accessing impact investments.

Pillar 2: Grow & Scale

Under Grow and Scale, the vision is to make seed and early-stage investments that enable enterprises to validate assumptions with products and services, and to scale their work for greater impact.

Key features

• Make impact investments in faith and mission-aligned enterprises (in the ‘missing middle’) who are preparing to scale
• Where possible, crowd-in other impact investors
• Facilitate technical assistance where relevant.

Our Impact Goals

We have identified the following impact objectives as focus areas for the program. We envision future projects will be screened and assessed on how the investment will contribute to these impact areas.

Poverty Alleviation

• Support income generation via employment or entrepreneurship opportunities
• Increase income resilience
• Provide better quality jobs

Gender Equality

• Invest with a gender lens
• Provide better access to services/products/jobs/training
• Promote women’s leadership

Social Inclusion

• Prioritise support towards people and groups who have faced oppression and marginalisation

Climate Action

• Do no harm to the environment at the minimum
• Indirect and direct positive impact to environment