Our vision is an equitable world built on respect, access, opportunity, distributed power, and advancement for all people.

Our Mission: New Venture Fund is a force for social good – maximizing the impact of charitable dollars by:

  • Centering race, equity, diversity, and inclusion (REDI) in our culture and our work
  • Increasing and diversifying opportunity and access to funding
  • Promoting respect, cooperation, and collaboration
  • Simplifying, and helping our partners navigate complexity
  • Encouraging bold efforts to create necessary, transformative change

Equity

We believe in the bold pursuit of equity, access, opportunity, and advancement for underserved people and their communities.

INTEGRITY

We act with courage, respect, and integrity in everything we do.

IMPACT

We are willing to take smart risks in pursuit of significant impact.

Race, Equity, Diversity, & Inclusion Commitment

We envision a more equitable world, built on fair treatment, access, opportunity, and advancement for all.

As changemakers building the most effective charitable projects, we know that advancing race equity, equity, diversity and inclusion (REDI) is essential to solving our world’s most pressing problems. As such, we dedicate ourselves to integrating REDI into our work and our culture. As we learn more, we will do more — ours is a continuous journey of learning, growth, and innovation.

We commit to:

  • Unapologetically integrating REDI in our work culture and encouraging others to do the same,
  • Intentionally stewarding REDI within our programmatic work,
  • Fearlessly leading by example — joining with donors who share our commitment to REDI as well as challenging those who are earlier in their journey.