Capitalism With a Conscience
Reduce suffering. increase opportunity
Our Mission
To eradicate poverty by contributing to human well being…
Our Principals
We subscribe to a core set of moral and ethical principals principles, which inform all of our decisions…
Our Focus
We focus on trauma recovery, job creation, and replication of success…
The CapCon World View
We see market-based innovation as the engine of progress & prosperity. We believe it is best achieved with a three-step approach.
- It begins with unlocking human potential by supporting mental & physical well-being that empowers groups & individuals to seize economic opportunities.
- It continues with investments in job-creating initiatives to light the fires of innovation.
- It reaches full potential with application of mechanisms for identifying the most successful ideas and scaling them up to maximize impact.
The Latest News
Is “Financial Sustainability” Being Hijacked
Street Business School, a Capcon Foundation grantee, has partnered with Spring Impact to co-author a three-part blog series. The series will examine the Street Business School’s approach to scale and explore the experiences and issues that organizations may face when...
Jon Freeman Goes Door to Door With LivelyHoods
Capcon grantee LiveylHoods gave Capcon Founder & President Jon Freeman a lesson he’ll not soon forget. Visiting with Livelyhoods personnel in Kenya, Jon was thrown into the deep end as he was challenged to sell clean energy products door to door in an urban...
Capcon Lends Support to Refugees of Congolese Violence
Capcon is actively supporting the Enough Project, whose mission is to “support peace and an end to mass atrocities in Africa’s deadliest conflict zones”. Enough Project’s Founding Director John Prendergast has recently brought the organization’s focus to bear on...