Opportunities Newscast From Frontrunners Development
Published 27 days ago • 2 min read
Hello Reader: In this newer revised edition of the Opportunities Newscast, you'll find the Frontrunners Founder Note (a focus on a challenge one of our Frontrunners has met). Under Collaborate on Global Projects, you'll learn about some projects we've been working on and how you might be able to get involved. We'll also share our latest Podcast and a featured Resourcefor Innovators link. We appreciate So, let's get started...
Frontrunners Founder Note
Frontrunner Alana Stott on how she's built a hybrid model that unites a venture fund, nonprofit infrastructure, and purpose driven businesses to create a powerful, scalable system where profit fuels systemic change.
Frontrunner: Alana Stott, MBE, Founder of Rakini Holdings
(Where Purpose Meets Profit)
Alana Stott, MBE
Challenge: Traditional philanthropy and venture capital often operate in isolation, impact initiatives depend on inconsistent donations, while profitable companies rarely channel meaningful funds into systemic change. This disconnect limits both innovation and long-term sustainability.
Solution: Rakini bridges that divide with a hybrid model uniting a venture fund, nonprofit infrastructure, and purpose-driven businesses. We invest in for-profit ventures that commit 100% of their profits to nonprofit causes, creating a self-sustaining ecosystem where business success directly fuels social change.
(Just a few projects on our desks now. How you can get involved: connect with us if you'd like to have a meaningful conversation that could open the door to collaboration on any of these projects.) Email: info@frontrunnersdev.com
Innovative energy project with conversations in the Caribbean, Africa, and soon, the Pacific Islands
Assisting Agriculture projects in Africa with positioning for funding - adding in a complete agtech platform for an entire farming community (as a JV arrangement)
Assisting AI-based medical device company in making connections for advancement toward market
Sustainable village projects - Africa but sourcing ideal locations globally
Resources for Innovators
(If you know of other resources, feel free to share with us at info@frontrunnersdev.com for potential inclusion in an upcoming edition of the Newscast. The featured resources shared here are staff-recommended and not sponsored commentary.)
A free well-organized grouping of articles, trends, training snippets, and AI tools, it is a great "go-to" for quickly getting caught up on resources that could be meaningful to your workflow and innovative processes.
Meet Catherine Griffin, Founder of ImpactableX Analytics. Frontrunners Innovate Host, Mary Kurek, says "Catherine and her team have finally cracked the code on helping impact project leaders secure the same predictive data that is expected in traditional investment models." She interviewed Catherine with the help of Co-Host, Ambassador Richard Swett, co-founder of Climate Prosperity Enterprise Solutions. An informative and lively conversation revealed an amazing resource that all founders should know. Listen when you can.
Connect Business ~ Change the World
Mary Kurek, Pres & CEO, Frontrunners Development
Frontrunners Development is a global business development consultancy that focuses on helping founders and innovators bring their solutions to where they are needed most. With a community of diverse resources in almost every space, we connect governments to projects, founders to sources, innovators to partners, diplomats to solutions, and businesses to locations of interest. We are relationship-based where trust is the path to bringing enterprise to impact. Let's have a conversation soon. info@frontrunnersdev.com
