Venture Strategies is a unique nonprofit organization combining scientific evidence about tractable problems in health with opportunities inherent in the power of local market forces around the world. We are using business approaches to find ways to help large numbers of low income people.

Venture Strategies was launched in 2001 as a program of Population and Development International (PDI), the United States affiliate of the Population and Community Development Association.  In 2002 Venture Strategies achieved its current status as an independent, tax-exempt 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, incorporated in California.  In 2005, Venture Strategies was awarded the Global Philanthropy Forum Prize for social entrepreneurs with special recognition for our scalability, sustainability, and strategies to launch initiatives that will endure long past our direct involvement.

Venture Strategies was designed and its earliest programs initiated with support from The David and Lucile Packard Foundation.

Contributors to the work of Venture Strategies include the following:

Fred H. Bixby Foundation
The Brush Foundation
Conservation, Food & Health Foundation
Morris S. Smith Foundation
The World Bank

... and a number of family foundations and private donors.

Additionally we would like to acknowledge past support from:

Sapling Foundation
Shell Oil Foundation, U.K.
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Winrock International