Welcome to the Arthur B. Schultz Foundation
RARE ecotourism project: Rio Platano U.N. Biosphere Reserve, Honduras. RARE’S mission is to protect wildlands of globally significant biodiversity by enabling local people to benefit economically from conservation.
ABSF is dedicated to improving the quality of life on earth through support of social microenterprise, global understanding, and disabled mobility solutions.
ABSF is seeking additional financial partners and donors for two special projects: Social Microenterprise Initiative (Kenya, Palestine and Vietnam) and RoughRider Wheelchair Project (Vietnam).
Social Microenterprise
We consider funding a variety of small-scale microenterprise projects that subscribe to the general principles of social and/or environmental payback. ABSF firmly believes business has an obligation to be socially and environmentally responsible. Learn more >>
Global Understanding
Our objective is to promote peace, learning, and understanding among peoples of the world through opportunities for progressive education and dialogue, especially among students of the younger generation. Our current focus addresses the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the divide between Western and Islamic cultures. Learn more >>
Disabled Mobility Solutions
We hope to address the overwhelming need for appropriate wheelchairs and other mobility aids in the developing world by supporting a variety of innovative and replicable mobility solutions. Learn more >>
LATEST NEWS:
Building partnerships yields the RoughRider Wheelchair Project
We are proud to introduce the RoughRider Wheelchair Project, an idea that the Arthur B. Schultz Foundation has been developing for years to bring to reality. To address the overwhelming need for wheelchairs in Vietnam, ABSF has partnered with American and Norwegian wheelchair design and manufacturing companies to enable a Vietnamese wheelchair manufacturer to build and distribute rugged, easily repairable, and ultra affordable wheelchairs to disabled Vietnamese.
Since the Nov 2007 inception of our online sponsorship program, over 300 Vietnamese have received new wheelchairs from donations by individual sponsors. We hope to double these numbers by 2010.
Give the gift of mobility by sponsoring a RoughRider Wheelchair in Vietnam. DONATE NOW >>
ABSF wishes to thank Salesforce.com for donating their Appexchange Platform for both internal administration and start to finish management of our RoughRider Wheelchair Sponsorship Project. Please contact us for more information about this system.
Ketchum, ID, April 2009 -- The Opportunity Collaboration announced the selection of Erik Schultz, Executive Director of ABSF as a Delegate to the Opportunity Collaboration. He will join 250 other social venture capitalists, entrepreneurial nonprofit leaders, foundation executives and other activists at a strategic summit on World Poverty Day (October 17, 2009).
Mr. Schultz will present a program, entitled “Pay-it-Forward Financing for Small Buiness: the Social Microenterprise Initiative (SMI).” Mr. Schultz will present his foundation’s unique model for intertwining support of SME development with business-sponsored charitable social services. 15 years of SMI programs in diverse countries such as Russia, Vietnam, Palestine, and Kenya have helped hundreds of small businesses grow while creating new jobs and providing tens of thousands with business-sponsored charitable goods and services. He will share the Schultz Foundation’s ambitious plans for expanding SMI into a worldwide movement.