Bresky
(Corporación Bresky)
(Valparaíso, Chile)

Creating opportunities in mental health.

Click here to read the Bresky "Investment Brief."

Social Mission: Bresky creates employment and social integration opportunities for people with severe mental illness.

Social Enterprise: Bresky runs a sheltered crafts workshop that employs individuals affected by mental illness. They make recycled paper products, high-quality clay and glasswork items including pottery,
jewelry, and decorative dishes, and offer them for sale in their on-site store.

CORPAM
(Corporación de Ayuda al Paciente Mental)
(Santiago, Chile)

Providing social reintegration for mentally disabled people.

Social Mission: CORPAM provides treatment and rehabilitation for mentally disabled patients, reintegration into the workplace, social reintegration and training of disabled patients’ family members. Their programs include community education in
prevention, treatment and rehabilitation, organization and installation of employment training workshops, protected workshops, and children’s shelters.

Social Enterprise: This enterprise employs people
with mental disabilities, in assembly services, specifically for manually labeling and packaging products for pharmaceutical and cosmetics companies.

Corporación la Esperanza
(Santiago, Chile)

Supporting low-income people in drug rehabilitation.

Click here to read the Corporación la Esperanza "Investment Brief."

Social Mission: La Esperanza fosters the development
of individuals, families, groups and communities that live in poverty or are otherwise marginalized. Specifically, it rehabilitates low-income individuals who are addicted to drugs and want to recover but cannot finance their treatment.

Social Enterprise: Residents of drug rehabilitation programs make wooden items in La Esperanza's carpentry workshop, which are then sold to companies for corporate gifts and packaging of their own products (i.e. wine, chocolate).

Domos
(Centro de Desarrollo de la Mujer)
(Santiago, Chile)

Promoting gender equity.

Click here to read the Domos "Investment Brief."

Social Mission: Domos is dedicated to promoting
recognition and respect for women’s rights in Chile and creatíng opportunities for women to improve the quality of their personal, work, family and social life.

Social Enterprise: Domos offers fee-based courses on maintaining healthy family relationships and preventing domestic abuse to public institutions and private companies. The workshops are designed to help improve worker productivity and decrease absenteeism, while helping to decrease the incidence of domestic violence in the country.

Fundación Coanil
(Santiago, Chile)

Promoting independence of adults with intellectual disabilities.

Click here to read the Coanil "Investment Brief."

Social Mission: Fundación Coanil promotes independence and autonomy of adults with intellectual disabilities from a lower socio-economic sphere through social integration-inclusion and
job placement, thus contributing to their quality of life and self-esteem as successful and productive members of society.

Social Enterprise: Coanil is expanding and diversifying its the chocolate workshop known as
"Walking towards an adult life for people with intellectual disabilities". The disabled people who work in this workshop manufacture chocolate products
- chocolates and pastries - which are then sold to private customers and companies.

Fundación Trabajo en la Calle
(Santiago, Chile)

Supporting people from shanty-towns in their search for permanent housing.

Click here to read the Fundación Trabajo en la Calle "Investment Brief."

Social Mission: Fundación Trabajo en la Calle builds
confidence and creates opportunities and hope for families in shanty towns in the greater Santiago area. They assist and support them in the search for housing, by forging bonds between residents and young volunteers, organizing the residents to become
active participants in their own development.

Social Enterprise: The organization provides technical assistance and social services for families applying for housing that are eligible for the state-run Solidarity
Housing Fund.

La Morada

Corporacion para el Desarrollo de la Mujer La Morada
(Santiago, Chile)

Fighting gender discrimination.

Click here to read the La Morada "Investment Brief."

Social Mission:
La Morada is dedicated to improving the lives of low-income Chilean women, reducing domestic violence and workplace discrimination, and advocating public policies that benefit under-served women.

Social Enterprise:
La Morada’s Treatment Center makes therapy services accessible to low- and middle-income women by cross-subsidizing these services with therapy offered to higher-income clients.

ONG Forestales por el Bosque Nativo

(Valdivia, Chile)

Protecting the endangered forests of Chile.

Click here to read the ONG Forestales "Investment Brief."

Social Mission: ONG Forestales promotes the conservation and sustainable management of native forests in Chile.

Social Enterprise: ONG Forestales has developed a firewood certification program and also sells certified firewood purchased from small producers for a fair price and resold to customers in the southern city of Valdivia. The social enterprise, currently being replicated in 5 other Chilean cities, contributes to the local economy and helps to improve air quality and
educate consumers about damage caused by illegally harvested wood.

RUF Cunco    (Corporación Educacional RUF Cunco)

(Cunco, Chile)

Creating sustainable employment opportunities for indigenous women.

Click here to read the RUF Cunco "Investment Brief."

Social Mission: RUF Cunco promotes community development and the economic and civic advancement of rural women, specifically through training, vocational support, and cultural events in Chile's impoverished southern Araucanía region.

Social Enterprise: Clients of RUF Cunco will develop and produce a line of holistic beauty products made from extracts of medicinal herbs and native plants from the local area.

UPASOL                    (Unión de Padres y Amigos Solidarios)

(Vicuña, Chile)

Improving quality of life for disabled people.

Social Mission: Promotes the integration mainly of disabled people in a process of rehabilitation,
supporting their socio-economic insertion
and thus helping them improve their quality of life.

Social Enterprise: UPASOL's social enterprise is a
recycling center for domestic waste, which is sold to
companies who use the material in their production
processes.

Caritas Graciosas
(Asociación Promotora de Educación Inicial
Caritas Graciosas)
(Lima, Peru)

Defending children's rights to play and exploration.

Click here to read the Caritas Graciosas "Investment Brief."

Social Mission: Caritas Graciosas champions the rights of children through recognition of their unique qualities in the family, school, and community. It promotes the integration of play and exploration as
natural, basic childhood activities that provide building blocks for a happier, healthier person and a better citizen.

Social Enterprise: Caritas Graciosas offers interactive game fairs for children between 2 and 10 years old in both public and private settings for institutional
events, birthdays, anniversaries, or community events. The fair includes "Rum Rum, El Explorador", a bus that is an interactive museum that stimulates
the children's senses.

Nexos Voluntarios
(Lima, Peru)

Promoting development through volunteer work.

Click here to read the Nexos Voluntarios "Investment Brief."

Social Mission: Nexos Voluntarios promotes development in Peru by channeling value-added
volunteer work and promoting effective participation
by different sectors of society. They coordinate efforts between private enterprise, Peruvian and foreign universities, reputable NGOs, and international cooperation efforts.

Social Enterprise: Nexos Voluntarios runs a volunteer
program targeting foreign professionals interested in taking a mid-career break in order to carry out volunteer activities on specific projects.

Red Uniendo Manos
(Lima, Peru)

Supporting civil and church associations to develop capacities.

Click here to read the Red Uniendo Manos "Investment Brief."

Social Mission: Red Uniendo Manos aims to support
civil and church associations in developing their capacities through an ecumenical network, building joint programs, projects, proposals, and impacting public policy on integrated development, prioritizing the environment, local economic development, and
human rights issues.

Social Enterprise: Red Uniendo Manos sells Peruvian crafts made by artisans working in organized cooperatives in impoverished areas. The products are: Woven and knitted cotton and alpaca products (rugs, ponchos, dolls), fired clay pottery (from Ayacucho and Chulucana) and silver goods.

SUMBI
(Lima, Peru)

Supporting parents and educators on child education and rights.

Click here to read the SUMBI "Investment Brief."

Social Mission: SUMBI works with fathers and mothers,
as well as educators, through innovative parenting and educational projects focusing on infants, children and adolescents, respecting the full exercise of their human rights and promoting a better quality of life.

Social Enterprise: Provides specialized consulting
and workshops on childhood and family issues to companies and employees, to promote well-being
and prevent problems such as violent behavior and absenteeism.

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