The Globalegacy Foundation is a charity registered in England that recruits and connects talented and values-driven professionals to initiate and support experiments in enterprise-led poverty reduction. Specifically, the Foundation

• defines the principles and governs the kinds of experiments that can take place under the Globalegacy brand
• develops a global practitioner network dedicated to applying the principles
• sponsors exploratory research, feasibility studies and pilot projects facilitates partnerships to develop opportunities, including stakeholder engagement
• supports business planning for targeted opportunities

If a Foundation activity reveals a commercially viable business opportunity, this opportunity is referred one of the Globalegacy Group trading companies.

The Foundation is planning a suite of web-based management tools, that will actively facilitate the matching of resources between individual members and affiliated companies to support their own enterprise experiments.

In 2006, the Foundation will pilot a programme that delivers business planning expertise to an enterprise in South Africa, that will provide insight into the process of growing businesses in the developing economies.