IMAGINE THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE WHO DREAM ABOUT STARTING MINISTRY IN DIFFICULT PLACES.
WHAT IF THEY ALREADY CALL THESE FRONTIER PLACES "HOME"?
WOULD YOU HELP MAKE THEIR DREAMS COME TRUE?
"SOMETIMES YOU HAVE TO BE BRAVE WITH YOUR LIFE SO OTHERS CAN BE BRAVE WITH THEIRS."
MISSION VENTURE FUND
When you travel to Africa, Asia, Middle East, or Latin America, you will likely meet some exceptional people. Exceptional for their wealth of hospitality. Their creativity and ingenuity in solving problems. Their capacity to believe. They are unsung heroes.
Philanthropy typically favors international organizations in safer contexts while overlooking entrepreneurs who struggle to access capital and coaching. In other words, capital lacks courage. As a result, thousands of social and spiritual entrepreneurs, if not tens of thousands, are overlooked and underfunded.
It is only expected to get worse. Resource scarcity, income inequality, political polarization, human displacement, and ethnic divisions are on the rise, creating a world that is even “more contested, uncertain, and conflict prone.” Yet there are hundreds of ministry startups serving thousands of people in some of the most challenging places in the world. The Mission Venture Fund brings together visionaries with spiritual and social entrepreneurs to strengthen and scale these startups. We believe seed-funding, strengthening and scaling mission ventures can unleash exponential impact throughout the world.
“The Mission Venture Fund brings together visionaries with social and spiritual entrepreneurs to strengthen startups in some of the world’s most difficult places.”
CAPITAL
The Mission Venture Fund provides philanthropic capital, while also considering enterprise and local resources.
CAPABILITY
The Mission Venture Fund provides context-relevant coaching for strengthening capability, scale and impact.
COMMUNITY
The Mission Venture Fund strengthens the ministry community, or ecosystem, through apprenticing and peer-to-peer mentoring.
HOW THE MISSION VENTURE FUND WORKS
The Mission Venture Fund facilitates a process for a select group of partners, advisors and mission venture leaders:
Leveraging an extensive global network, the Mission Venture Fund curates a portfolio of mission startups for potential partnership.
Partners are invited to support mission ventures over a period of three years, with options to renew.
Grants are awarded to start-ups, ranging between $75,000 and $150,000 over a three year period.
A team accompanies each mission venture, facilitating context-relevant support in specific areas, such as innovation and strategy; pacing and growth; organizational resilience, resource diversification, and financial sustainability.
Partners join quarterly video calls to discuss progress, pray together, and engage with mission entrepreneurs.
New cohorts of mission ventures will be presented for consideration during an annual Partner Gathering.
Join us for our inaugural Partners Gathering at Yarnton Manor, Oxford, England on September 23-24, 2026.
The Mission Venture Fund is facilitated by Together International, a registered 501(c)3 charity in the United States, and OpenWell, a consulting group in Oxford, England. Philanthropic gifts are facilitated by TrustBridge Global, a donor advised fund based in the United States and Switzerland.