Spark Ventures is an innovative non-profit with a mission to provide sustainable solutions that lift communities out of poverty. Spark's vision is a future where all children have the resources and opportunity to achieve their potential.
Through philanthropic investments in social businesses, Spark Ventures leverages charitable contributions to provide ongoing funding for high-impact programming in education, health and nutrition. They call this "business driven philanthropy" and this innovative approach ensures that each dollar contributed results in exponential returns that are reinvested locally to continuously fund critical social programs for years after the initial contribution.
Spark Ventures' Impact Travel offers an opportunity for travelers to see this groundbreaking social enterprise work up close, to engage in meaningful volunteer work with children and local leaders, and to see cultural and natural highlights of the countries where Spark Ventures works (Zambia & Nicaragua).
How we're working together:
We're sending copies of JCT and materials we're developing for school children, with the Spark Ventures team on their trip down to Nicaragua this June, where they're planting 85,000 heirloom cacao trees. Stay tuned for lots more on this amazing project!