Korean

Past Programs

Global Drive Project (GDP)

WT Foundation, SK Happiness Foundation, and Wheel Wishers, a non-profit organization in the United States, worked together to connect impact investing to solve sustainable social problems. Traveling to more than 20 countries, we have conducted series of projects in search for sustainable social enterprise business models around the world.

Duration
April 2013 - July 2014
Purpose

To discover inclusive business among all social enterprises around the world

To connect them with impact investment for qualitative growth of the foreign social enterprises and enhance civil society’s awareness

History
March - April 2013
Initiated Global Drive Project expedition (Wheel Wishers)
May 2013 - January 2014
Overseas institutional visits in more than 20 countries to accumulate information on social enterprise business models: analyzing their know-how and ecosystem. With the collected data, we built up our network across the globe
February 2014
6 social enterprises with inclusive business model were considered
April 2014
4 social enterprises concluded the Letter of Intent (LOI)
June 2014
Held the impact investment forum (set impact investment methods and carried out negotiations)
July 2014
Concluded investment plans and confirmed investment
Description

Work Together Foundation has visited more than 20 countries on three continents with American NGO Wheel Wishers, starting in Korea, from April 2013 to April 2014, through Asia, Europe, and Africa.

Our project was to accumulate information on social enterprise business models around the world and bring in impact investment to our model to seek ways to solve social issues in sustainable manners. For this, Global Drive Project was proceeded by meeting with 87 social entrepreneurs and incorporating an inclusive business into our project.

We are striving to develop an investment model and attract investment funds, and raise donations through crowdfunding, to mobilize capital for social impact investing for the qualitative growth of overseas social enterprises.

Outcomes
  • Visited around
  • 20

    countries

  • in
  • 3

    continents

  • ,
  • 35,000

    km journey

  • in total
  • Met
  • 87

    social entrepreneurs
    (Change makers)

  • Came up with
  • 100

    solutions to
    resolve social issues

  • Selected
  • 4

    social enterprises and
    linked them with impact investment

    • Kyrgyz Community Based Tourism Association (KCBT)
    • Honey Care Africa (HCA)
    • Seaweed Center (SC)
    • Maharishi Institute & IOG (MI&IOG)
  • Published
  • 23

    foreign social
    enterprise due
    diligence reports

  • 13

    social enterprise
    status report for
    different countries

  • 24

    interview
    videos
     

  • 2,000

    copies of the book
    “100 sustainable
    hopes.”

    Held the Global Drive Project performance reporting session
    “To invest Inspiring Initiatives” with

  • 120

    participants

  • Raised
  • 5,300

    USD through
    crowdfunding