CureKids - Charitable Investment Fund

CureKids™ is an innovative children's charity investing in children's lives by accelerating science and technology and catalytically bringing together the social entrepreneur with the socially-minded donor to bring about change in how philanthropic giving can make a difference in commercializing products & services in life sciences, IT and education to eradicate disorders and diseases in children. CureKids was established more than 30 years ago to address the lack of research into life-threatening childhood illness in New Zealand and has since become an international organization. Since then, the organization has invested more than $30 million in medical R&D and commercialization. This social investments has helped save hundreds of young lives and has improved the quality of life for thousands of children around the world. Our model is based upon the most leading edge venture philanthropy strategies for social investment.