About The Paradigm Project

The Paradigm Project is a low-profit limited liability company (L3C) operating in cooperation with The Paradigm Foundation (a 501c3 not-for-profit organization) whose collective mission is to create sustainable economic, social and environmental value within developing world communities. To do this, Paradigm comes alongside well-established global relief and development organizations such as World Vision, the World Food Program, Food 4 The Hungry and others to help them identify, fund and develop scalable projects that meet immediate development needs while creating a foundation for long-term community benefit through the realization of project-related carbon revenues.

"We became a B-corp because it fit with our core strategy as a social enterprise and was an extension of our values and mission. It's helps identify us as a business seeking to implement positive change." Neil Bellefeuille, CEO

One example of this strategy is the alliance World Vision and The Paradigm Project have formed to develop large-scale efficient stove programs all around the globe. Efficient stoves preserve the environment, reduce poverty, increase quality of life for the poor and save lives. Because of their environmental benefits, efficient cookstoves can also generate carbon offsets which can be sold to create a stream of revenue that covers ongoing project costs and funds other community benefit projects.

Currently we are focused on programs in Kenya, Haiti and Guatemala, and have identified a pipeline of future projects in at least 7 other countries. Each project is developed as a sustainable business operated by local partners, monitored for sustainable social outcomes and connected to carbon offset revenue as a source of early-stage financing and ongoing revenue generation. In Haiti, Paradigm intends to work in cooperation with World Vision and the WFP to distribute efficient stoves to Internally Displaced Persons and local communities over the next 6 to 12 months and to pursue a long-term program which will distribute up to 500,000 stoves over the next 5 to 10 years.

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The Change We Seek^®

The overarching goal of the Paradigm Project is to empower participating communities with project ownership and a path to determining their own future. To do so, they combine donor funds, grants and low-interest loans with traditional investment vehicles to create unique public/private partnerships wherein everyone's contribution is amplified by the others' to the benefit of the participating communities. Grants and donations are treated as equity investments made on behalf of participating communities-so donors, in effect, purchase a share of project equity and financial return for community participants. The result is community-driven projects that become self-sustaining by funding their own existence and creating ongoing social, economic and environmental value.

The Paradigm Project: Neil Bellefeuille, CEO. 719-433-0639 Direct.

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