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THRIVE

Growing the world’s potential… One project at a time.

Our Focus 

Who is Thrive, and what do we do? We fund projects and help organizations grow. While we work with diverse project proposals and types of organizations, we tend to favor projects in agriculture, manufacturing, service industries and health. 

Our Projects

We are currently using AI in unique and creative ways to help organizations select and execute projects more effectively. Click here to find out more. 

Our Ethos 

Even though the Thrive Foundation works in some of the most challenging places in the world, we want you to know that we are committed to sustainability, ethics, and social responsibility. We, along with our investors, align both ethical and financial performance, keeping a close watch on the environmental and social impact as businesses are grown or created. We will not involve ourselves with issues or projects that deal with abortion, adult entertainment, animal testing, contraceptives, controversial weapons, fur, gambling, genetic engineering, nuclear power, embryonic stem cells tampering, and tobacco. We would like to grow with organizations that are aligned with our values and work towards capacity building for the most vulnerable strata of society, helping them to become self-reliant and self-sufficient through comprehensive livelihood partnerships.

See what AI can do for your organization

The Thrive Foundation is now using a unique, AI data-analysis process designed to help organizations make better decisions about which projects to pursue and how to execute them.

Though we work with organizations of any size, we tend to focus on mid-sized NGOs and businesses – the true engine of an economy.

Thrive purposefully works where the need is greatest and where others do not operate – where it is hard to do business due to war, conflict, corruption, or lack of financial infrastructure.

We invite you to contact us (use the form below) about how we can put AI and our team to work for your organization. 

Why Work with Us?

Funding

Unlike most non-profits, the Thrive Foundation has the ability to leverage considerable capital. Working with private funders and driving fundraising campaigns, we can fund business projects as small as $5,000 USD, to those which are much, much larger.

Experience

We bring over 50 years collective business, funding and development experience to your projects. We can help you with every aspect of your success, from your vision to your growth.

Networking

Our members work with some of the top business schools and largest companies in the world, and can leverage that network to help you grow and thrive as a business.

Meet Our Founders

Mr. Jeffrey Clark

Mr. Jeffrey Clark, is a 30-year Practitioner of Finance and Real Estate, including serving as post-secondary Lecturer. His Professional activities include personally leading programs, teams and organizations on 6 continents that have executed over 4,000 commercial real estate transactions, and developed more than 40MM SF of new offices, industrial, manufacturing, data center, retail, and logistics sites, valued at over USD $5 Billion. As an active investor in US multi-family and residential properties, Mr. Clark has created partnerships that have invested over USD $60MM.

Dr. Jeffrey Gardner

Dr. Jeff Gardner, Ph.D., earned his MA from the University of Kansas and his Ph.D. in Communication and the Arts from Regent University, Norfolk, VA., where he teaches and researches digital media persuasion, social media and global, humanitarian effort to relieve suffering and eliminate poverty. For over a decade and a half, Dr. Gardner has worked in media, writing, producing audio, video and taking photographs for various publications and non-profit organizations throughout 25 countries across North America, Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Middle East. In 2007, he co-founded and became CEO of Catholic Media International, a global humanitarian media and communication company. Dr. Gardner frequently travels to the Middle East, working in countries like Iraq, Syria, Jordan, and Egypt where he documents the lives of refugees and the victims of ISIS and its terror. Dr. Gardner’s writings, photographs, and media analysis have been featured in numerous national and international publications and broadcasts, and he is a frequent guest and Middle East expert on networks and news site such as EWTN, Relevant Radio, the National Catholic Register, Aletia, Conservative Review, Newsmax, Fox News, and Sean Hannity.

How Does the Thrive Process Work?

We want to hear from you.

On an ongoing basis, Thrive selects and invests in existing projects and business start-ups. Although we sometimes make loans, we prefer equity engagement with partners and businesses. We choose those that we invest in through a process that goes like this:

First, if you are an NGO with a business or project proposal, contact us using the form below.

Second, we will send you a Google form with some detailed questions about you, your partners, and your project(s) or business. Once this paperwork is complete, you will get a chance to speak with us face to face, discussing in detail how we can best invest in you and your business, helping them both to grow. Yes, there will be some legal documents to sort through, but we will help you each step of the way.

Ready to get started? Please fill out this short form, and we will get back to you soon.

Reach Us

Address

The Thrive Foundation

200 East Broadway, Suite 212

Columbia. MO 65201

Email

info@thrive2succeed.org

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