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Legacy Foundation
Published: Monday, January 1, 2007
Investing in the power of dreams...
Sperry Van Ness continues to look for ways of improving our business that embrace Corporate Social Responsibility.
Sperry Van Ness Legacy Foundation has invested funds in the following charitable organizations:
ACCION International is a non-profit that fights poverty through microfinance. Every day, millions of enterprising women and men around the world struggle to better their lives by opening tiny businesses. They work exhausting hours yet they barely scrape by. What they need to break free is a little credit - a loan as small as $100. With ACCION, they can get it.
http://www.accion.org
Sperry Van Ness continues to look for ways of improving our business that embrace Corporate Social Responsibility. In 2005, Sperry Van Ness launched the Sperry Van Ness Legacy Foundation, a philanthropy that applies investment principles to non-profit organizations to help transform them from dependency to self-sufficiency. To accomplish this, the Sperry Van Ness Legacy Foundation makes loans to non-profit organizations for their social enterprises – earned-income businesses undertaken by non-profits to generate revenue in support of its social mission.
Every year thousands of non-profit programs are shut down due to lack of funding. Many organizations, while helping people to become self-sufficient, do not have the same goal for their own organization. Instead, they are continually dependent on donations to survive. Traditional giving fails to leverage much needed capital and perpetuates ongoing dependency.
The Sperry Van Ness Legacy Foundation is dedicated to helping such organizations become self-sufficient by providing their social enterprises with access to capital and credit. This will enable the non-profit organizations to not only survive, but to thrive without dependency on government grants or private donations.
What will your legacy be? Helping a child to leave a troubled background and get a college degree? Helping a struggling mother to become economically independent enough to buy a home to raise her children? Support the legacy foundation and let the dreams continue for generations to come.
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