Swiss Philanthropy Foundation
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Who is our customer?
Swiss Philanthropy Foundation (SPF), which is hosting the Growth Firm Alliance fund (GFA), a coalition of philanthropic foundations consisting of Argidius Foundation, Small Foundation, Ikea Foundation, The Lemelson Foundation, Vitol Foundation and Visa Foundation. GFA is dedicated to unleashing the potential of growth firms to transform low- and middle-income countries and drive widespread improvements in wellbeing.
What is our funding objective?
To co-fund the 'Market Creation as a movement project’ with the Growth Firms Alliance through a partnership development contribution. This project is focused on working together with a wide range of stakeholders (ranging from DFIs and philanthropic foundations to local market enabling organizations) to further define market creation and showcase its early successes. Final deliverable of this project will be a series of evidence-based thought leadership papers on market creation.
Why do we fund this investment?
Market creation (MC) as a field of work and cohesion around what it means amongst the donors, DFIs and local market actors is still nascent. Knowledge sharing on what MC looks like in practice and demonstrating early results from MC creation activities will help to further grow the support for the Market Creation Platform among donors.
What is the Environmental and Social categorization rationale?
Gender lens investing (GLI) is one of several themes and areas of expertise that can be applied to market creation practices. This project will help assess how current MC activities are aligned with GLI and engage stakeholders at the forefront of applying GLI. The traction and results of GLI models will be considered in how this project helps to showcase MC’s early successes.
- Website customer/investment
- https://www.swissphilanthropy.ch
- Country
- Global
- Sector
- Infrastructure, Manufacturing and Services
- Publication date
- 12/8/2025
- Effective date
- 10/22/2025
- Total FMO financing
- EUR 0.13 MLN
- Funding
- Other funding