1. Fondation Daniel & Nina Carasso
Leveraging investment and increased R&I impact through collaboration with philanthropic organisations
Mathilde Douillet
Fondation Daniel & Nina Carasso
FOOD 2030 HLE - Plovdiv June 15th
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2. Fondation Daniel & Nina Carasso
Sustainable Food systems
Art in the communities
French-Spanish family
foundation
MISSION
SUSTAINABLE FOOD SYSTEMS PROGRAM
6 m€ /year
60n grants /year
Diversity: 5K € - 1 m€/project
Granting strategy advised by experts committees
Research 1,3 m€ /year
Other projects = Social innovations 4,7 m€ /year
The fondation Daniel & Nina Carasso is a french spanish family foundation. It means that the family who decided to give parts of its personnal fortune to create the Foundation sits in the Board of the Foundation. In our case the only daughter of Daniel & Nina and its family members who decided to create the foundation to honour the memory of her parents.
There are many forms of philantropic organisations. We are a granting Foundation in the sense that we are autonomous in our budget and have a sustainable source of funding thanks to the endowment that the family as set aside for the use of the Foundation. We only grant the yearly profits of our investments.
Furthermore as more and more actors we are concerned about how are investments fund our mission, and involved in impact investing.
Compared to international standards we are a very modest foundation with a yearly budget of 13 milllions euros granted per year, half of which going to the subject of sustainable food systems.
IMPACT INVESTING
Budget : 15 m€
Sustainable Food fund (Quadia)
Mission related opportunities (ex: Aquaspark)
Generalist social business funds (ex: PhiTrust)

3. Our vision Sustainable food systems can be reached at 3 conditions :
Shared vision of food systems as complex systems with interlinkages between environmental, social, nutritionnal, cultural etc. stakes
Empowered territories and citizens to reach food democracy, and food justice
Shift in practices from agroecology to sustainable and healthy diets
We started our activities 6 years ago at a time where many actors where already in place on the issues at stakes within sustainable agriculture and food in France and internationally but not so many actors where interested in considering « sustainable food systems » as a subject.
Sustainable food systems can be reached at 3 conditions :
Shared vision of food systems as complex interlinkages between env, social, nutritionnal, cultural etc. stakes => work accross academic and policy silos, especially societal aspects often missing
Empowering territories and citizens to reach food democracy, and food justice => Supporting the emergence of social enterprises (enabling envt but often status different, unclear, and funding by Foundations different ex. Fr/SP)
Transitioning practices from agroecology to sustainable and healthy diets => Social organizations are to be rethoughts, economic models (logistics) and policy and regulatory incentives – work with actors
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4. Our vision Sustainable food systems can be reached at 3 conditions :
What role for R&I ?
Shared vision of food systems as complex systems with interlinkages between environmental, social, nutritionnal, cultural etc. stakes
Empowered territories and citizens to reach food democracy, and food justice
Shift in practices from agroecology to sustainable and healthy diets
Sustainable food systems can be reached at 3 conditions :
What role for R&I ?
Shared vision of food systems as complex interlinkages between env, social, nutritionnal, cultural etc. stakes => work accross academic and policy silos, especially societal aspects often missing
Empowering territories and citizens to reach food democracy, and food justice => Supporting the emergence of social enterprises (enabling envt but often status different, unclear, and funding by Foundations different ex. Fr/SP)
Transitioning practices from agroecology to sustainable and healthy diets => Social organizations are to be rethoughts, economic models (logistics) and policy and regulatory incentives – work with actors
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5. Our vision Sustainable food systems can be reached at 3 conditions :
What role for R&I ?
Shared vision of food systems as complex systems with interlinkages between environmental, social, nutritionnal, cultural etc. stakes => work accross academic and policy silos
Empowered territories and citizens to reach food democracy, and food justice
Shift in practices from agroecology to sustainable and healthy diets
Sustainable food systems can be reached at 3 conditions :
What role for R&I ?
Shared vision of food systems as complex interlinkages between env, social, nutritionnal, cultural etc. stakes => work accross academic and policy silos, especially societal aspects often missing
Empowering territories and citizens to reach food democracy, and food justice => Supporting the emergence of social enterprises (enabling envt but often status different, unclear, and funding by Foundations different ex. Fr/SP)
Transitioning practices from agroecology to sustainable and healthy diets => Social organizations are to be rethoughts, economic models (logistics) and policy and regulatory incentives – work with actors
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6. Our vision Sustainable food systems can be reached at 3 conditions :
What role for R&I ?
Shared vision of food systems as complex systems with interlinkages between environmental, social, nutritionnal, cultural etc. stakes => work accross academic and policy silos
Empowered territories and citizens to reach food democracy, and food justice => Supporting the emergence of local alternatives & social innovations
Shift in practices from agroecology to sustainable and healthy diets
Sustainable food systems can be reached at 3 conditions :
What role for R&I ?
Shared vision of food systems as complex interlinkages between env, social, nutritionnal, cultural etc. stakes => work accross academic and policy silos, especially societal aspects often missing
Empowering territories and citizens to reach food democracy, and food justice => Supporting the emergence of social enterprises (enabling envt but often status different, unclear, and funding by Foundations different ex. Fr/SP)
Transitioning practices from agroecology to sustainable and healthy diets => Social organizations are to be rethoughts, economic models (logistics) and policy and regulatory incentives – work with actors
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7. Our vision Sustainable food systems can be reached at 3 conditions :
What role for R&I ?
Shared vision of food systems as complex systems with interlinkages between environmental, social, nutritionnal, cultural etc. stakes => work accross academic and policy silos
Empowered territories and citizens to reach food democracy, and food justice => Supporting the emergence of local alternatives & social enterprises
Shift in practices from agroecology to sustainable and healthy diets
=> Social organizations, economic models (logistics) and policy and regulatory incentives are to be rethought
Sustainable food systems can be reached at 3 conditions :
What role for R&I ?
Shared vision of food systems as complex interlinkages between env, social, nutritionnal, cultural etc. stakes => work accross academic and policy silos, especially societal aspects often missing
Empowering territories and citizens to reach food democracy, and food justice => Supporting the emergence of social enterprises (enabling envt but often status different, unclear, and funding by Foundations different ex. Fr/SP)
Transitioning practices from agroecology to sustainable and healthy diets => Social organizations are to be rethoughts, economic models (logistics) and policy and regulatory incentives – work with actors
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8. How do we practice R&I alignement ?
Foundations networks
Joint research calls for projects
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9. How do we practice R&I alignement ?
Collaborations with investors and funders of social innovations and social business
2) Service accompagnement / Fonds d’ingénierie, le temps accordé au diagnostic afin d’ajuster le parcours d’accompagnement, et le fait que le montant accordé pour cet accompagnement est remboursable par les bénéficiaires en fonction de critères de « réussite ». (Le fonds d’ingénierie accorde des avances remboursables).
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