Thursday, November 6, 2014 at 06:05AM 
Part 1 - RESULTS
Who got selected?
Part 2 - PROCESS
So how did we go about it?
We would like to think that our due diligence this year was uber successful – why not have a read and gage for yourself.
Thursday, July 18, 2013 at 10:03AM 
A key focus of several of VPF's portfolio ventures is on developing innovative and sustainable sources of financing, and breaking the cycle of dependency on handouts wherever possible. Homeless International is one such venture. HI turns slums into decent housing - assets that can then be used as collateral to attract further financing - by funding and tutoring partner organisations around the world. Since the beginning of HI's partnership with VPF, CEO Larry English has been shifting the organisation's emphasis from pure grant-making to providing loans that are recycled (see chart above), making the organisation sustainable and vastly extending its overall impact. Here he discusses how HI's relationship with the business world through VPF has helped revolutionise HI's outlook and increase its impact.
Monday, July 1, 2013 at 07:24AM 
Tuesday, January 8, 2013 at 05:20AM 
VPF portfolio venture Excellent Development details how VPF support has been a 'game changer'.
Excellent's latest impact report recognises the inspirational social venture's receipt of VPF support as one of the four most 'significant moments" that have "marked a big change in the impacts" Excellent has created since its beginnings in 2002.
Tuesday, November 20, 2012 at 12:58PM 
Topshop and The Telegraph are supporting ShelterBox this Christmas, which is good news for a charity whose fortunes are influenced by public reaction to the news.
Public Perception
ShelterBox has an interesting conundrum as far as fundraising goes.
