Social business

From our point of view, self-fulfilment, success and wealth in the "developed world" is primarily a matter of personal choice and decisions. This is, however, not the case everywhere.

We seek to provide opportunities to those who lack them the most by helping people in the "developing world" to fulfil their dreams and plans. Frankly stated, we are not big supporters of development aid, charitable donations, remote adoptions, etc. We believe that the true impact of any support lies in helping people to help themselves.

For this purpose, we have established our social investment fund, to which we allocate a portion of our resources and 5% of our corporate profits.

We are currently involved in the following social business initiatives:

Through microfinancing portal kiva.org, we are investing into microentrepreneurs in the developing world.

In partnership with SENStation, social entrepreneurship network for CEMS students & alumni, we are preparing social business competition and will provide mentoring to its participants.

Through our social investment fund, we finance social businesses that fulfil the following criteria:

• - Based in the "developing world"
• - Capable of generating sufficient revenue streams sustainable in the long-term
• - Stem from a real need on the part of the local community
• - Have large potential for making a positive socio-economical impact

Feel free to approach us at social@flven.com with your own social business project.