Venture Strategies is a nonprofit organization created to improve the health of low income people in resource-poor settings, by making use of local market forces around the world. For example, we are working to make needed high quality, low cost, off patent pharmaceutical products available to people not reached by government health services.

To qualify as a venture strategy, a project must have reasonable odds of achieving helpful systemic change in one or more developing countries on a significant scale in the near term, using opportunities offered by existing market structures. In doing this, a venture strategy is creating, implementing and/or expediting a selected lever on change.

• We focus on opportunities for achieving sustainable systemic change.
• Scale and cost effectiveness are of overriding importance.
• We concentrate on barriers to progress that can be minimized in the near-term.
• Our work is organized around a scientific evidence base.
• Prices for the poor must not contain costs in the U.S. or Europe.
• We are committed to staying administratively compact.