Frontier Innovations Foundation

Established in 2013, Frontier Innovations is a 501(c)3 non-¬‐profit that promotes organizations, captures learning and insights from the field, aggregate capital from donors to invest in organizations’ ability to drive gender-lens solutions, and creates pilot experiments to find novel business models that can address two core challenges for last-¬‐mile organizations. Frontier Innovations Foundation’s mission to catalyze the scalability of organizations focused on last-mile access to base of the pyramid markets, with a strong focus on enterprises with women-centric business models and delivering impact-oriented solutions to vulnerable communities at scale and in a sustainable manner. The mission of Frontier Innovations Foundation (FIF) is to promote and support organizations that investing in the economic empowerment of women and vulnerable communities around the world. To do this, FIF aims to bring together the technologies, new business models and investment to grow and support a community of last mile distribution organizations. We believe that our approach will help social entrepreneurs address their common challenges that are necessary to scale global access to digital first solutions, high impact solutions in healthcare, finance, climate, agriculture, and more promoting opportunities for income and resilience for all. As it learns, FIF commits to share its insights with this growing community. We believe those challenges are: how to invest in a gender-lens model at scale, and how to finance growth women entrepreneurs. Vision We aspire to support a global community of last mile organizations around the world that comes together to collectively tackle common challenges for women Frontier Innovations Foundation (FIF) aspires to fund, facilitate and feature 15 experiments that will generate groundbreaking failures and replicable solutions in the next 5 years through its "She-Leads Impact Fund"