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Poverty exists because of a lack of good jobs
Building the infrastructure that enables Africans to access good jobs
“Let him labor, doing honest work with his own hands, so that he may have something to share with anyone in need.”
Ephesians 4:28Let’s chat
We’d love to walk you through the strategy behind the fund. Join us for a next-step conversation designed for prospective givers who believe job creation is more than economic development: it is one of the most powerful ways to break the cycle of poverty.
At its core, poverty is more than a lack of resources: it is the loss of opportunity to live and work as God designed.
Nowhere is this more visible than in the absence of productive employment. Societies with the highest levels of flourishing consistently have the highest rates of meaningful work. That’s why solving joblessness is the most direct way to break the cycle of poverty.
Conventional economic analysis puts the official global unemployment rate between 5 and 6%, representing 190 to 210 million people (International Labor Organization). This underestimates the reality.
The SWGP Joblessness Fund uses a different metric as our starting point: Structural Joblessness, working-age people without stable work that supports a family. That includes people of working age with no employment at all, and people working far below their productive potential, earning insufficient income.
When accounting for all of the above, the global Structural Joblessness rate is 39%, representing 2.02 billion of the 5.2 billion people aged 15-64. But the highest rate of Structural Joblessness is in Sub-Saharan Africa, where 65% of people fall into that category.
What is Structural Joblessness?
Official unemployment numbers miss most of the story. This fund measures the problem the way families experience it:
Structural Joblessness means working-age people without stable work that supports a family.
Structural Joblessness takes two forms:
People of working age with no employment: the unemployed plus discouraged workers. The person who lost a job and is looking, the person who lost a job and quit looking, and the person who never had a formal job.
People working far below their productive potential, earning insufficient income. The engineer driving a motorcycle taxi, the street vendor making $3 a day, the subsistence farmer.
Solving joblessness is the most direct way to break the cycle of poverty. The solution? Increase economic productivity.
Backing Africa’s greatest problem solvers
The SWGP Joblessness Fund will deploy capital in a four-part, top down and bottom up strategy to holistically engage the continent’s workforce:
Sustaining Jobs
Sustaining jobs provide dignity by serving and sustaining the local community.
Growth Jobs
Growth jobs increase the wealth of a community by serving markets outside of that community, bringing new dollars into the community.
Jobs of the Future
Jobs of the Future are jobs and industries that are expected to be a significant place of job creation in 3 to 5 years.
Enabling Work
Enabling Work is about catalyzing the development of infrastructure and policy that enables work to be done effectively.
Turbocharging progress
Through the strategic combination of Capital, Content, and Community, we’re rallying the world around Africa’s greatest problem-solvers.
We facilitate collaborative ideation and raise capital through collaborative giving DAFs that are deployed in a comprehensive capital stack of grants and investments best suited to solve the problem. Any returns made on investments are circulated back into the fund to further solve the problem.
Catalyzing a solution to the point where market forces take over. In working towards those goals, success is defined by proving or disproving theories of change and scaling the winners until commercial markets can carry them forward.
The number of jobs created.
The income generated from those jobs.
The increase in productivity from those jobs.
The Joblessness Fund exists to systematically catalyze a spiritually vibrant and economically flourishing marketplace across Sub-Saharan Africa, where 65% of working-aged people are structurally jobless.
Learn2Earn
SWGP invested in Learn2Earn to support one of the fastest and most affordable alternatives to traditional higher education for African youth. Learn2Earn identifies high-potential talent through aptitude-based assessments, provides AI-enabled training and work experience, and places graduates into high-value jobs, creating a scalable pathway from untapped talent to employment. Through this investment, SWGP aims to help demonstrate a new investable model for training and placing talent, creating a blueprint for solving structural joblessness at scale.
Pika Insights
SWGP invested in Pika Insights to help build the data infrastructure for Africa’s informal economy. Pika enables informal traders to digitize their businesses, creating valuable data that catalyzes economic activity, expanding access to markets, financial services, and distribution networks while generating insights for companies and institutions. Through this investment, SWGP aims to help unlock economic opportunity for millions of small businesses that have historically operated outside formal systems.
We’re rallying the world around Africa’s greatest problem-solvers.
The Solving Joblessness Fund
SWGP Giving Funds unite world-class portfolio management with the Faith Driven content and community you trust, transforming generosity into impact.
God calls us to radical generosity: not obligation, not guilt, but an invitation to the joy-filled adventure. When you’ve been rescued you want to rescue others, this is your moment.
You want to give. You want to find that cause to rally around. But we don’t have the time or tribe to be intentional.
Busy lives don’t leave room to analyze every investment or vet every charity. We’re overwhelmed, pulled in a hundred directions: wallets clenched, hearts tugged, minds skeptical. Deep down, we know there has to be a better way. That’s why we’re building collaborative giving funds, uniting content, community, and tools that make it possible to do more, together.
We are committed to excellence and transparency, which is why we engage independent third-party organizations, including Calvin Edwards & Company, All Access International, and Brightlight Impact, to evaluate our work. Every two years, each fund undergoes an external review made available to prospective donors and partners. This review outlines the fund’s theory of change, portfolio analysis, governance, operations, and grantmaking practices. It also reviews investment activity and verifies the accuracy of reporting, ensuring donors can give with confidence and clarity.
Investment Committee
Board of Advisors
Solving the World’s Greatest Problems Leadership Team
We feel humbled by the opportunity to support this movement behind the scenes. This Leadership Team has a unique combination of proven scale in Content, Community and Funds.
Transfer from your DAF
The Solving the World’s Greatest Problems Giving Funds will be hosted through a Donor Advised Fund (DAF). Contributions can be made directly or from an existing Donor Advised Fund at trusted partners like:
Behind every fund is a group of people who decided that caring wasn’t enough. You want to give and a cause to rally around, but busy lives don’t leave much room to be intentional. No one was built to do this alone. This is where you find your people, and where generosity becomes something you do together.
A free, five-session course to find your why, discern your where, and build a plan for how you, your family, or your business will give. No cost. No catch.
Start the CourseLive, 90-minute Fund Premier Events, one problem at a time, with the entrepreneurs, investors, and ministry leaders already in the fight. Come to learn and feel free to bring a few friends.
See Upcoming EventsPartner Summits are invitation-only gatherings for Champions and Partners: about 50 to 60 givers, fund managers, and problem solvers in one room for deeper relationships and real collaboration.
Explore In-Person EventsA growing community of families and organizations is already giving together. There’s a place in it for you.
Become a MemberStories that started with givers like you
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One email when it matters: new deployments, measured results from the fund’s partners across Africa, and stories of jobs created and communities flourishing. No noise, ever.