We recognise that meaningful social change takes not just financial investment, but also time, skills and expertise. By leveraging Edelweiss’ human, financial and intellectual resources, we combine grant-making with hands-on capacity building support, in areas such as strategic planning, accounting and reporting, sustainability strategies, human resources, and impact measurement systems for non-profits and social entrepreneurs.

Our investing decisions are driven by sectoral transformations with:

-	Large organisations for creating game-changing models
-	Small grass-roots organisations in order to reach out to vulnerable communities
-	Sustainable low cost delivery models
-	Partnerships with Government and leveraging resources

Our goal is to build an enabling network and platform that consistently identifies exceptional, high potential and high impact organisations that will drive sustainable change.

We work closely with organisations to help them build capabilities by:

-	Leveraging our ongoing and active engagement in strategy building, financial and operations development with detailed workshops and the mentoring of Founders.
-	Using technology to assess and improve accounting, reporting and Human Resource systems and investing a significant amount of time and effort in measuring program outcomes and efficacy of program delivery.
-	Partnering with other funders to augment long-term sustainability, providing Non-Profits with direction on fund-raising strategies, financial planning and counseling.
-	Advising Non-Profits on second line leadership development including the evaluation of their Human Resource strategies.

Our experiences over the past two years have re-affirmed our belief that a holistic approach to social development, with significant community participation, from government, social enterprises and philanthropists is the only sustainable approach to delivering long-term solutions to deep-rooted socio-economic problems.