We want to share with you a apart of our participation on the Latin American Forum Impact Investment in the Future Panel Impact Investment (Mérida, Yucatán on February 2 to 4, 2011)

“We want to take the experience of Chiapas and Operating Fund to address our participation in this forum.

Since its inception Chiapas Fund was created as an initiative of a group of successful entrepreneurs who come together to contribute their talent and resources in order to support the major challenges overcome social and economic development of Chiapas. Why do they think they can do (from entrepreneurial experience) and believe the commitment to do so.

Be part of an entrepreneurial approach with long-term vision based on a strong commitment to the principles of economic, social and environmental where investments are characterized by:

• Being part of a knowledge-based strategy or in a consensual plan of great vision (strategic investments))
• Looking generate well-paying jobs, value added and regional development
• Market-oriented and international competition
• Achieving greater leverage or multiplier effect of resources “

Worth quoting a phrase deAdam Smith, in his book The Wealth of Nations, published in 1776: “In the right environment, the right business model will inevitably lead to social benefit chasing traditional financial objectives.”