Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation
Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation seeks to dramatically improve the lives of underserved communities across the globe by supporting scalable, innovative, and impact-first solutions that leverage existing systems and stakeholders. Their goal is to find social entrepreneurs with dynamic products or services that have a proven ability to positively impact the lives of underserved people, and nurture those organizations at the early stages by providing capacity, capital, and community.
Borrowing from its venture capital legacy, the foundation finds exceptional entrepreneurs and provides them with:
- Capacity: The core of DRK’s model is deep and extensive operational and technical support for each portfolio organization, both through dedicated hands-on Board service and specialist capacity-building resources for fundraising, board and organizational development, leadership, financial support, and scaling strategy,
- Capital: DRK provides up to $300,000 USD in either unrestricted grant funding or investment capital over a three-year period, and
- Community: DRK convenes our portfolio and alumni annually, facilitating connections and community.
Applications are accepted on a rolling basis. To learn more and apply, click here.
