Here are four insights:
1. The portfolio offers innovative ways to consider financing and delivering transformation healthcare change in the most neglected communities.
2. Although billions of dollars are poured into programs helping those in poverty, patient outcomes are still falling short.
3. Without a strong focus on outcomes, many programs will not meet the desired goal of improving a population’s healthcare.
4. Portfolios provide the following benefits:
• Access to a diverse set of partners
• Successful programs in combination with promising new programs
• Creation of funding pool to accelerate growth of successful programs
• Increased probability of funding transformational change
• Cross-pollination of best practices between programs
• Set performance standards to keep programs on track
• Reduced risk associated with supporting a single program
• Support of a proof-of-concept model
“The new ‘Going Further’ portfolio offers UBS clients the opportunity to support a diverse set of world-renowned partners with best-in-class, result-focused programs that can drive the large-scale global change needed to ensure children thrive,” said Sergio P. Ermotti, UBS CEO and chairman of UBS Optimus Foundation’s board of directors.
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