Thriive

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Phone: 208-340-3397

PO Box 5339
Ketchum
Idaho 83340
USA
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Target demographics: Small businesses, typically with less than 12 employees, in challenged global communities.

Direct beneficiaries per year: 77,000 impoverished recipients received business donations of goods, services, and/or job training over the last 2 years. 101 currently active Thriive small businesses created 501 new full and part-time jobs over the same time period.

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Geographic areas served: Vietnam, Kenya, Palestine, and Nicaragua

Mission:

Building prosperity and local philanthropy in developing countries.

Results:

Thriive impacts global communities in 3 ways:
1) with charitable donations of job training, products, and services by Thriive businesses to vulnerable community members;
2) by helping Thriive businesses create new jobs, providing the best way out of poverty; and
3) by creating a culture of business-led community philanthropy.

In 2011-2012, 101 small businesses in the Thriive family across our 5 global programs served over 77,000 of the most vulnerable in their communities with donations of job training, products, and services; created 618 new full and part-time jobs, and saw over 52% of fully repaid Thriive businesses voluntarily continue with community charity.

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marcialiebich2

03/17/13

We have recently returned from visiting several businesses which THRIIVE supports in the Palestinian territories. THRIIVE works with the Small Enterprise Center in Ramallah to identify viable businesses and then to offer consulting services as well as funds. Emphasis is on promoting entrepreneurship... more »

Torydh

02/11/13

Thriive's model combines capital, technical assistance, community understanding and network building to grow small businesses, create jobs, improve lives and build new socially responsible business networks. Arthur Schultz's original vision has grown to address an important vacuum in the small and ... more »

anndown

02/11/13

I have known the directors of this foundation for many years and have traveled with Erik and Linn to the Occupied Territories in Isreal to see their projects. They have local managers who monitor the work and impact on the local communities. Their "pay-it-forward" approach encourages empathy and ... more »

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