Sekhon Family Foundation - Creating Mindful Impact ™
SEKHON FAMILY FOUNDATION - FEED LOVE TO SPREAD LOVE
- Promoting the well-being of humanity throughout the world, SFO Foundation serves as the is the Impact At Scale™ Investing arm of Sekhon Family Office. Our Initiatives go beyond the regions where our Sekhon Group Businesses operate addressing global challenges head-on.
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As a Global Society, We Face Many Complicated Challenges.
- The Sekhon Family Foundation is the independent entrepreneurial foundation of the Sekhon Group and the Sekhon family. We challenge the unacceptable, striving to change systems and tackle the world’s toughest issues for good.
Our Approach to Impact
- SFO is dedicated to supporting projects that deliver significant and sustained positive Impact At Scale™ in the developing world. Central to our mission is development impact, which we achieve through a strategic approach encompassing priority sectors and impact targets.
Impact Strategy and Management
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Project Assessment and Monitoring: Each project's potential development impact is evaluated before approval, and its impact is monitored throughout its lifecycle. This involves comparing development objectives to actual results, making necessary adjustments, and learning to enhance future projects.
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Portfolio Analysis: SFO aggregates development impact performance data at the portfolio level, comparing actual performance to targets and identifying trends. This helps pinpoint areas of underperformance and overperformance, informing strategic decisions.
Impact Management Tools
SFO employs a variety of tools and methodologies to assess and manage development impact:
- Impact Theses: Our evidence-backed approach aligns with the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the Five Dimensions of Impact, IRIS+, and HIPSO.
- Impact Quotient (IQ): This framework provides a standardized yet flexible methodology to estimate each project's development impact. Aligned with the Operating Principles of Impact Management (“OPIM”), IQ includes independently verified indicators and metrics.
- IQ Results Table: Key indicators represent the expected impacts of each project, tracked over time to measure progress towards development outcomes.
- Development Impact Screening Table: All prospective projects are pre-screened for their potential impact, aligning with SFO’s strategy and the SDGs.
- Development Outcomes Survey: An annual survey gathers development outcome data from all active projects.
- Site Monitoring: Annual site visits enhance our ability to track and follow up on project impacts.
IQ Indicators and Metrics
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Each pillar contains standardized indicators and metrics that are aligned with the Harmonized Indicators for Private Sector Operations (HIPSO) and the Global Impact Investing Network’s IRIS+ Catalogue. Key indicators and metrics for each project are identified during the project approval stage and tracked over time. For a list of all IQ indicators and metrics, please see below:
Sustainable Impact At Scale
- We believe that impact-focused organizations generating sufficient cash flows can deliver sustainable Impact At Scale™. SFO has initiated a program where foundations and NGOs can issue financial instruments to SFO as contingent liabilities, offering a ROI per month for the duration of the instrument.
SFO Impact Fund - Redefining Investment
- We also believe that making IMPACT mindful / purposeful is as important as funding IMPACT is. Hence we have developed a complete METRIC for our participation to drive Sustainable Impact At Scale™.
- Our Mindful Impact at Scale Funding Program involves a significant commitment to each project, using institutional channels for a substantial investment. This structure supports both the Trust/Foundation’s projects and our global outreach and intervention programs. Detailed structuring through direct banker engagements is required, and the Trust/Foundation must demonstrate their ability to coordinate with their bankers.
- SFO Impact Funds invests in companies driving measurable social and environmental impact alongside business performance and strong returns.
- Our Impact Investing funds work alongside growth stage, high potential, mission driven companies that have the power to change the world.
- Forecasting the social and environmental gains on an investment has historically been largely based on intuition and instinct.
- Impact Multiple of Money (IMM) - SFO Impact Fund has created a methodology to assess potential impact before a single dollar is committed. The new metric is called the Impact Multiple of Money (IMM).
- We deploy the IMM with the same rigor and commitment to diligence as our financial underwriting, and it enables us to manage, measure and track impact results throughout the course of our investment. Calculating the IMM allows direct comparisons between investment opportunities to evaluate their positive impact.
- You can read more in Calculating the Value of Impact Investing.
- Here are the six steps to calculate the IMM of a potential investment which are outlined in our impact services on this link where we focus on the following right impact creating avenues like the following
- We improve lives and the planet through innovation, dedicated to ensuring that all people have the right to health, food, power, and economic mobility. We advance these goals by leveraging science, data, and collaboration with partners and grantees.
- For meaningful outcomes, we focus our resources and expertise on specific endeavors, improving access to electricity, food, healthcare, and economic opportunity through creative partnerships and innovative investments.
- Rural Transformation
- Health Security
- Education Security
- Sports For Development
- Disaster Response
- Arts, Culture & Heritage
- Urban Renewal
- Women Empowerment
- Save The Children
- SFO - WFP - Feed The Hungry
- SFO - Marginalized Individuals
- Energy Security
- Material Security
- Nature Security
- Food Security
- Water Security
- Transportation & Mobility Security
- Living Space Security
- Digital Connectivity Security
- Water Financial Products Services Security
- 2030 - SDG's
- Future We Want
- Global Future Councils
- 2050 - Time To Transform
If you have within your network IMPACT projects that need funding or a Foundation / Trust which wants to generate ROI with us in order to make their impact sustainable, please reach out.
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- SEKHON FAMILY FOUNDATION - FEED LOVE TO SPREAD LOVE
- SFO Foundation is the Impact Investing / CSR arm of Sekhon Family Office. Our Initiatives go beyond the regions where our Sekhon Group businesses operate.