Across the globe, social innovators are reimagining what it means to thrive. In communities striving to build autonomy and lasting opportunity, something remarkable is happening.
Local changemakers are designing solutions, growing enterprises, and creating sustainable futures for their communities. They’re busy shaping a new future built on access, not aid.
At Sustainable Access Foundation (SAF), we remove barriers that limit this potential. Our 12-week accelerator equips Changemakers with business literacy, mentorship, and market connections, then continues to walk alongside them as they grow. We don’t impose solutions from the outside; we amplify those already taking root within communities.
In our first two years, more than 50 Changemakers have participated in our programs, launching ventures that increased household incomes by an average of 35%. Every dollar invested in a local innovator ripples outward, creating jobs, improving education, health, well-being, and fostering lasting independence from traditional aid.
When you support SAF, you're believing in local leaders. You're helping us build a world where the innovators closest to the problem get to solve it.
The Greater Sum provides strategic training and mentoring for early-stage nonprofit innovators. We invest in organizations that are creating new solutions to pressing challenges and are preparing to scale their impact. We share their stories so that philanthropists like you can join in supporting them.
If you represent a grantmaking organization and would like to be connected with this nonprofit, contact us directly and we’ll make an introduction. Individuals who want to learn more about Sustainable Access Foundation can visit sustainableaccessfoundation.org.
The Greater Sum supports organizations that are scaling either by expanding their service area or by teaching others to replicate their innovation. Because each nonprofit in the Promising Practices cohort is a graduate of our incubator, we know they are building a plan for sustainable growth.
Note on donations: Your gift goes directly to this nonprofit. The Greater Sum covers all matching funds and campaign costs; the only deduction is the standard platform processing fee.