Verena Sturm

I’m joining the ChanceMaker Foundation board because it fuses everything I care about — radical (re-)imagination, rigorous execution, and real-world impact. The ChanceMaker Foundation isn’t just writing grants; it’s underwriting bold ideas and turning them into on-the-ground projects that change lives. My journey has been about redesigning finance so capital rewards long-term value; working with the ChanceMaker Foundation gives me a laboratory to prove those models at scale, alongside a community of doers and dreamers that shares my appetite for audacious bets for good. I want to bring my ethics-driven valuation tools, venture networks, and policy know-how to help the foundation back ChanceMakers and their inspiring solutions for a better world. Most of all, I’m here because I believe money should feel like momentum for the people closest to the problems, and the ChanceMaker Foundation is where that momentum starts for those of us building a Utopia for realists.

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