What We Stand For
Four problems. One structural solution.
As long as poverty, injustice and inequality persist, nobody is truly safe. The GCE exists to fund permanent change across all four.
Equality
Eliminating inequality, poverty and discrimination through sustained, evidence-based investment.
Justice
Protecting people from persecution and violence by funding the programs, institutions and communities that deliver safety.
Wellbeing
Delivering better health outcomes, safe housing, real opportunity, access to clean water and fresh food for all people.
Environment
Adequately protecting our fragile environment through permanent, compounding environmental investment.
The Model
Four steps. Permanent results.
The GCE is not a charity. It is a new kind of institution — one that uses the discipline and scale of commercial enterprise in deliberate and permanent service of the common good.
1
Raise Capital
Philanthropists, institutional investors and participating governments contribute initial seed capital.
2
Acquire Businesses
Essential-service businesses — one per marketplace — are acquired and operated commercially.
3
Generate Profit
Businesses operate at full commercial scale. Annual profits are audited and distributed.
4
50/50 Split
50% funds social programmes. 50% acquires more businesses. The cycle compounds forever.
The Engine
The 50/50 formula
Fixed in law. Irrevocable. Every year, from every business in the portfolio, profits are split exactly in half — permanently.
50%
Portfolio Growth
Reinvested to acquire additional businesses, compounding the GCE’s revenue base and growing the social impact exponentially over time.