Impact Funding Resources
Social enterprises with brick-and-click delivery models that enhance low-income people’s access to quality primary healthcare in low- and middle-income countries are invited to apply for the Entrepreneurs for Resilience programme
Start Date07 May 2025 End Date01 Jun 2025 Funding AmountCHF 37.5k to CHF 350k Funding Resource TypeGrant
Funding ProviderSwissRe Foundation
Grant
SwissRe Foundation
https://www.swissrefoundation.org/dam/jcr:d91787c4-96bc-4eaa-8936-0cfc17f15d91/E4R26_Booklet.pdf
An enterprise must take a market-based approach and have a hybrid delivery model that combines the strengths of in-person (brick) care and virtual (click) care.
• Mission and purpose
Applicants must demonstrate high levels of social impact and ideally be able to reliably measure the benefits they create for their target groups (eg improved health indicators, lower out-of-pocket expenses).
• Target groups
Low-income populations must constitute at least 50% of applicants’ customer base. Applicants should have a deep understanding of the specific circumstances of the people they serve. Priority will be given to enterprises that are gender-inclusive, that is, that strive to reduce gender inequalities.
• Geography
Applicants must operate in countries that are defined by the World Bank as low income or lower middle income.
• Legal structure
Applicants must be formally registered organisations, established no later than 2022. Both for-profit and not-for-profit entities that fulfil the revenue model criteria (see below) are eligible.
• Revenue model
Applicants must have a market-based revenue model. While grant funding may account for up to 50% of their revenue, they must demonstrate an ability to grow and scale through earned revenue.
• Size
Applicants must serve at least 20 000 people and have the potential to reach at least 100 000 people in the next two years.
• Organisation Applicants
must have a solid management team in which responsibilities are well defined and distributed and a diverse, well-structured workforce. Preference will be given to enterprises with at least one female founder or at least 30% women in the management team.
• Legal compliance
Applicants must comply with the legal framework of the country or countries in which they operate and be allowed to receive funding from a Swiss nongovernmental organisation such as the Swiss Re Foundation.
