Insaan Group is formed as a global philanthropic fund of funds, focusing initially on Afghanistan and India, and qualifies as a tax exempt, public charity (501 c 3) under US law. Insaan's aim is to make philanthropy more effective by applying sound investment principles to the field of global philanthropy https://insaangroup.org/
Insaan works with philanthropists on four themes that it believes to be instrumental in addressing human needs in developing countries: Education Fund, Entrepreneurship Development Fund, Orphan Fund and Culture Fund
By connecting private wealth to innovative ventures in developing countries, both through funding charitable projects and through variants of loan or equity, Insaan increases the overall impact of philanthropic giving.
Amelie Zegmout took the Executive MBA (EMBA) in Dubai knowing it would open doors to new career opportunities. Within months of starting the programme in early 2015, she left a business development role for a general management one at Legrand, which develops electrical and digital infrastructure for buildings.
Insaan believes that the nature of ventures ‘invested' in for maximizing ‘philanthropic return on investment' should go beyond traditional charities to include nascent private companies, public entities and indigenous non profits - as often seeds of innovation, sustainability and macro-level impact lie across this organizational spectrum.
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Farahnaz Karim is the founder and CEO of Insaan Group, a philanthropy fund that connects philanthropists and corporations to impactful social enterprises around education and entrepreneurship in the monsoon region. She has worked in several development contexts including Tajikistan, Palestine, BosniaHerzegovina, Pakistan, India and five years on the ground experience in Taliban and postTaliban Afghanistan, with the UN, non-profits and the World Bank. She holds an MPA from the Harvard Kennedy School, and serves as Faculty at Zayed University in Dubai, where she teaches humanities and history at University College. backed by Insaan.
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