Ma’an, a Ghadan21 accelerator programme initiative, has released its first virtual investment platform, Ma’an Contribution Platform, under its Social Investment Fund. The new platform ambitions to elevate capital from Abu Dhabi’s network to facilitate sustainable solutions in precedence regions which include health, employment and education, own circle of relatives and network, fundamental human wishes and environment.
The platform is taken into consideration a key device to pressure contributions to Ma’an’s Social Investment Fund, it empowers Abu Dhabi’s 1/3 zone of social provider companies, non-income organisations, volunteer companies and social firms through growing a consant supply of investment for them, and allows organizations and people to select and directly fund strategic initiatives and programmes in their choice.
Through the brand new platform, Ma’an plans to allocate contributions thru applicable partners, with precedence given to network-orientated programmes. It fills an vital hole among authorities entities and the non-public zone to convey the ability, experience and expertise to directly deal with key social demanding situations and priorities.
The platform follows the Social Investment Fund’s first programme’s model, “Together We Are Good,” which stimulated Abu Dhabi citizens and private groups to make contributions more than Dh1 billion toward academic assistance, clinical substances and meals and fundamental wishes.
H.E. Salama Al Ameemi, Director General of Ma’an, said: “Through this new Social Investment Fund [initiative], we’re offering a long-time period basis for us all to paintings collectively to convey the imaginative and prescient of our leaders to existence to make sure all of us in Abu Dhabi can take part in and revel in a healthy, sustainable and wealthy society.”
Fahad Al Ahbabi, Executive Director, Social Investment Fund at Ma’an, said: “We are capitalising at the technological answers, ease of access to such structures and the generosity of Abu Dhabi residents and citizens, which we’ve felt withinside the preceding programmes released through Ma’an. Today this platform could be on the disposal of the network to offer extra and be a part of an included ecosystem that will assist triumph over societal demanding situations that the emirate would possibly face.”
The Social Investment Fund marketing campaign definitely recognized thru 4 touchpoints: elevating funds, handling contributions, deploying capital in social initiatives and measuring the impact.
