Genuine Development

Genuine Development is our philosophy that marginalized populations and communities deserve more than foreign aid handouts, development grants, which solidify foreign dominance, and general oversight of the enterprising spirit. Genuine Development is the paradigm of assisting people to become high impact community members, who learn how to improve their lives and share their knowledge with everyone in an expressive, clear, and outgoing manner. We foster this personality from day one by investing our time and confidence in the people we serve.

Confidence and pride is at the core of every successful person and community. Handouts and entitlements do not foster these traits; ownership does. Venture Trust services are marketed as products, and our charitable giving functions as financing. The result of this approach is a development framework in which responsibility for growth and improvement remains with the individual from the beginning of working with us until the day he or she attains full ownership of their Venture Trust product. When responsibility remains with the individual being served, the pride that comes with achieving set goals also remains with the individual.

Unlike conventional development models that emphasize the role of benefactors and beneficiaries, Venture Trust development takes place within communities and works alongside the people it serves. We prevent failure on our part through meticulous planning, not by dumping more and more funds into a project. We are not a quick-fix agency, which believes it can solve crosscutting issues like rural poverty with gadgetry manufactured in far off places. We believe that everything we do and know should be open to the world. We are an agency that works from the bottom up to empower the individual, preserve the environment, and spur entrepreneurship.