Since our foundation, we have had a positive impact on the lives of more than 60 million people living in absolute poverty. In 2025, we added eight ventures to our portfolio, built and expanded partnerships, particularly in Southeast Asia, and further diversified our investor base.
Drawing on over ten years of experience, elea’s white paper (May 2024) offers a framework to distinguish between ways of deploying impact capital. It outlines the challenges of each approach, gives examples of suitable impact measurement methods, and shows how investors benefit from integrating impact measurement into impact management.
Since our foundation, we have positively impacted the lives of over 50 million people living in absolute poverty. In 2024, we initiated decisive steps toward realizing the elea Vision 2030 – through strategic partnerships and by consolidating our expertise in dedicated practice groups. Explore our 2024 Annual Review to learn more.
In the past year, we positively impacted the lives of over 3.5 million people totaling more than 49.6 million people since our inception in 2006. The successful exit of our long-term investment in Coffee Circle further confirmed the effectiveness of our model. Read our Annual Review 2023 to discover more!
In the past year, we positively impacted the lives of over 8.7 million people totaling more than 46.1 million people since our inception in 2006. Thanks to our intense pipeline work, we were able to invest in five new impact ventures. In addition, we opened the first elea Hub in Africa. We invite you to read our Annual Review 2022 to learn more!
While some countries returned to a fragile normality in 2021, many of those we work in were less fortunate. Despite this challenging environment, the growth of our portfolio and of many ventures allowed us to reach considerably more people and deepen our impact. Read more in our Annual Review 2021.
Published in 2020, the book summarizes insights from elea’s 15-year pioneering journey, from creating an investment organization, choosing purposeful themes, and sourcing opportunities, to partnering with entrepreneurs for impact creation.
Impact investing has sparked enthusiasm among investors, policymakers, entrepreneurs, and citizens as a way to build a more inclusive capitalism and tackle the economic, social, and ecological crises of our time. This primer by Vanina Farber, Patrick Reichert, and Peter A. Wuffli (elea Center for Social Innovation, IMD, September 2019) focuses on philanthropic impact investing.
Today’s social and environmental challenges call for rethinking global growth and turning capital markets into a force for good. In this extract from «Conscious Investing» (ed. Christin ter Braak-Forstinger, Harriman House, 2017, ISBN 978-0-8571-9617-0), Peter Wuffli and Andreas Kirchschläger explain elea’s philosophy as a philanthropic impact investor and how it connects to investors’ life cycles.
Published in «Schweizer Monat» 12/2016
Ever since it first appeared in 1921, the magazine «Schweizer Monat» has coupled a free-market perspective with a passion for intellectual debate. The article by Peter Wuffli (in German) discusses «ethical investing» from a practical perspective based on liberalism.
Book published by Springer
The new book from Peter A. Wuffli presents a framework for inclusive leadership based on his diverse experiences across various sectors and with a strong focus on ethics.
Special reprint from «Der Schweizer Treuhänder», 6-7/2013
The article explains the «Impact Measurement Methodology» of the elea Foundation and illustrates how it is used internally and externally for its work and communication.
Special not-for-sale reprint from «Stiften und Gestalten / Schriften zum Stiftungsrecht Band 4, Basel 2012»
Article by Harold Grüninger in «Stiften und Gestalten: Anforderungen an ein zeitgemässes rechtliches Umfeld, Schriften zum Stiftungsrecht Band 4, Basel 2012, S. 37 - 73, hrsg. von Dominique Jakob»; Helbing Lichtenhahn Verlag, www.helbing.ch.
Special reprint from «Schweizer Monat», July/August 2011
Ever since it first appeared in 1921, the magazine «Schweizer Monat» coupled a free-market perspective with a passion for intellectual debate. The dossier addresses issues linked to capitalism, ethics and investments. elea Foundation supported its launch and content design.
Specially reprinted from «Management – a Social Responsibility», by Sascha Spoun/Timo Meynhardt (eds.), Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft, 2010, ISBN 978-3-8329-5060-6
Confidence in the profession of management has been seriously undermined by recent events. More than ever, managers face questions about how their actions benefit society.
This article by Peter Wuffli and Andreas Kirchschläger examines ways of building ethical foundations and constructing a philanthropic initiative upon them. The authors take an in-depth look at one particular case: entrepreneurial philanthropy in the field of economic development and the fight against poverty.
Stämpfli Verlag, 2010, ISBN 978-3-7272-1308-3
Peter Wuffli’s book combines liberalism and ethics from the perspective of a practitioner, and highlights some possible solutions to issues in areas as diverse as politics, business management and philanthropy.
Drawing on his management experience and activities in various sectors of business and society, Wuffli bridges the gap between theory and practice. He also addresses his responsibility for developments at UBS during the financial crisis.
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