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The Rocket Foundation

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The Rocket Foundation empowers changemakers dedicated to creating a better world by providing mentoring, fundraising, and coaching to amplify their societal impact. Focusing on nutrition, education, equality, economic models, and the environment, they collaborate with partners to support innovative solutions addressing global challenges.

The Rocket Foundation is a collective of individuals dedicated to fostering a better society by supporting changemakers who strive to create and promote positive global impact. Through mentoring, fundraising, and coaching, the foundation empowers the most promising ideas and initiatives to enhance their societal contributions.

Vision and Mission

  • Vision: To leave a better world by supporting underserved communities and individuals, and by protecting the environment for future generations.
  • Mission: To identify, engage, and support changemakers who aim to create and promote a better world, providing a launch base for visionaries seeking to make a positive impact on our planet and society.

Focus Areas

Guided by the United Nations’ Agenda 2030 Sustainable Development Goals, The Rocket Foundation concentrates on five interconnected themes:

  1. Nutrition: Supporting innovative projects that can radically change the global food and agriculture system, promoting healthy diets and access to quality healthcare for all.
  2. Education: Advocating for inclusive and equitable quality education, supporting initiatives that use technology to scale positive impact, particularly for children.
  3. Equality: Focusing on projects aimed at reducing violence, delivering justice, combating corruption, and ensuring an inclusive society where gender inequality and income disparities are minimized.
  4. Economic Model: Backing social entrepreneurs who contribute to redefining economic and development models, driving sustainable and inclusive growth in their communities.
  5. Environment: Supporting projects that provide innovative and scalable solutions to environmental challenges, including climate action, clean energy, and biodiversity preservation.

How They Work

  • Selection Process: Conducting detailed due diligence on projects aligning with their mission, assessing business plans and potential impact to identify suitable social enterprises.
  • Fundraising: Providing funding through the foundation's capital and fundraising efforts, ensuring 100% of donations go directly to their portfolio projects.
  • Measurable Impact: Setting project-specific KPIs, actively monitoring performance, and reporting to donors on impact creation.
  • Coaching & Mentoring: Offering long-term partnerships, matching expertise from their network to projects in a mentoring capacity to help scale and multiply impact.

Partnership Opportunities

The Rocket Foundation collaborates with individuals, families, corporations, and foundations to pool resources and maximize impact. They offer various partnership models, including project sponsorship, recurring donations, and revenue pledges, providing benefits such as impact reports, marketing materials, and stakeholder engagement opportunities.

Belinda Klostermann

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