History and Mission

Ventures for Hope was founded by Kim Ogden in 2014 as a nonprofit dedicated to building hope and economic opportunity for the global poor.  Kim’s previous experience as a partner at Bain and Company, and later as a founding member of nonprofit Agape International’s management team, convinced her that the answer to global poverty was more job opportunities.  While increasing global job opportunities is obviously a complicated public/private scale challenge, Ventures for Hope believes in using what resources we do have to impact those we can.

Together with the VH board, all professional women with big hearts and big ideas, VH was launched as an “umbrella” organization to help resource nonprofits focused on creating job opportunities in economically disadvantaged communities.  VH supports such partner nonprofits through pro bono consulting, marketing and capital investment support.