Strategic Financing Approach

In the pilot project carried out in Argentina (2016-2019), all teams were directly financed through the founders’ own resources and donations managed from Switzerland. This support enabled the execution of key activities within the revitalization and repopulation model, as well as the coordination and supervision of various “plug-in” solutions implemented by local actors from the public and private sectors. As a result, 80% of the project costs were covered by local and regional governments, which invested in infrastructure such as paving, public lighting, transformers, and housing.

In the scalability phase, initiated in 2022, we have maintained this diversified financing strategy, based on an intersectoral collaboration model, to expand the reach of the Welcome to My Village model. At this stage, investments from local partners cover between 70% and 80% of the costs of each project. The funding required by our foundation accounts for 20% to 30% of the total costs and serves as seed capital to ensure the implementation of the project across its six phases, as well as the coordination of the “plug-in” solutions required by our comprehensive model.

The main difference in this expansion stage is that financing for each project is sought jointly with the operational partners in each country, with whom the initiative is co-created. Contributions for this seed capital include donations, grants, and self-sourced funding from nonprofit foundations.