1.     Source of funding

 Donors

2.     Mission and objectives

Our programs are building an entrepreneurial ecosystem which provides a unique blend of resources, networks and funding to social entrepreneurs who have the potential to significantly address social and environmental challenges.

In pursuit of our mission we currently focus on 3 priority areas:
1. Incubating and Accelerating High-impact Women Social Entrepreneurs
2. Facilitate a system-wide change for youth social entrepreneurship by building the capacity in entrepreneurship education
3. Focusing Social Investments on Asia Pacific, a region with significant social and environmental challenges and a pool of outstanding social entrepreneurs

3.     Areas of work relating to youth employment

Skills and employability
Enterprise development
Green youth

4.     Partners and areas of partnership

 1. Dot.Asia: Since 2009 Dot.Asia, the regional host of the .asia domain, provides social entrepreneurs in our network with comprehensive online support through website development and hosting services.

2. Bain and Company: Since 2010 Bain and Company provides employees with the opportunity to utilize their skills and expertise to provide strategic consultancy on business planning and operational issues to our fellows to help them build sustainable business models and ventures.

5.     Potential or existing partnership with the ILO

6.     Successful youth employment interventions

1. The Paragon fellowship core impact lies in empowering Asia’s next generation of social entrepreneurs to accelerate their impact. It grows a community of young, dynamic role models which will become ambassadors for youth entrepreneurship by leading successful ventures.  By promoting those entrepreneurs we will inspire more young people to become entrepreneurs to escape the cycle of poverty and unemployment.

2.  Spark: Her inspires, connects and accelerates women social entrepreneurs in Asia. Women Entrepreneurship matters. Not only because social entrepreneurship is challenging the glass ceiling for women and provides an opportunity for gender equality. In fact, it is an economic issue that affects everyone, as entrepreneurship is key to economic development through job and value creation, and social entrepreneurship provides sustainable solutions to societies most pressing social and environmental challenges.