AVINA Foundation

Fundación Avina (the correct name is Fundación Avina, even in English) is a Latin American foundation working towards the sustainable development of Latin America, encouraging alliances between social and business leaders.
Overview
Avina was founded in 1994 by Stephan Schmidheiny. Its Chairman is Sean McKaughan and its CEO is Gabriel Baracatt (both since January 2013. It is based in Panama, and has offices in Buenos Aires in Argentina, Santa Cruz de la Sierra in Bolivia, Rio de Janeiro in Brazil, Santiago in Chile, Bogota in Colombia, Cuenca in Ecuador, Asuncion in Paraguay, and Lima in Peru.
Fundación Avina works in Latin America as a broker, co-investor and facilitator, leveraging its resources, local presence and relationships with thousands of allies to incubate and scale up shared strategies for change. They have worked with the Jesuits on a joint "Centro Magis" programme of education. Its primary contribution to its allies is the promotion of collaborative action through services and financial support. Avina offers services that:
-Build the conditions for a diversity of allies from civil society and the private sector to work together towards common goals.
-Promote the development of shared agendas for change.
-Invest, leverage, and mobilize resources to support these agendas.
-Raise the visibility of shared agendas at the national, regional and global levels, connecting actors within the continent and internationally.
-Build relationships and broker alliances with global actors to accelerate and scale up impact.
-Link allies with public sector institutions to influence public policy.
-Produce, share and manage knowledge, innovation, lessons learned, skills, methods and best practices in order to strengthen all of the above.
Mission
Impact sustainable development from Latin America by creating favorable conditions for diverse actors to join forces in contributing to the common good.
Social Progress Index
The Social Progress Index, which ranked 50 countries by their social and environmental performance, was designed by Professor Michael E.Porter and The Social Progress Imperative working in collaboration with economists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and leading international organisations in social entrepreneurship, business, philanthropy, and academia including Cisco, Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Limited (DTTL), Skoll Foundation, Fundación Avina, and Compartamos Banco.

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