WHO WE ARE

WHO WE ARE

Moonshot Philanthropy


From that very first library in Qidong to today, we have been on a journey of learning, building domain expertise, providing funding and putting up the capital for the causes we care about.


This is an approach known as 'moonshot philanthropy' - the uncompromising belief that philanthropic ventures can carry risk, in order to create real world-shifting change.


The risk of a moonshot endeavour? Failure. But as owners of capital, philanthropists have the personal capital to fund creative, moon-shot ideas, and the ability to take on the financial risks.


They do this by embracing a entrepreneurial mindset, building a domain expertise and persevering through inevitable setbacks. And it is through financing entrepreneurial, out-of-the-box ideas that moonshot philanthropists can strive to privatise their failures and socialise their successes.

This approach also means that we are willing to take calculated risks. As a philanthropic foundation, we are in the unique position to be able to privatise failure and socialise success. We can invest in unconventional ideas around a societal challenge issue with loss absorbing capital.


And we have seen is that it works. An audacious approach which creates lasting change in the communities you are supporting, rather than short-term fixes. It allows us as a Foundation to build domain expertise in these fields, which in turn enables us to take transferable lessons from one project to the next.