Socio-Economic Ventures, Inc.

socioeconomic ventures inc. was founded in november of 2008 as a not-for-profit corporation dedicated to addressing poverty with internet and social media driven ventures. founded by three friends and travel companions, sev inc. was inspired by a desire to utilize entrepreneurial innovation and the power of the internet to address the heart wrenching poverty they encountered on their international travels. libraryforlaos.org, a venture of sev inc., is a social web campaign to raise funding to increase opportunities for child literacy in the country of laos. in a 5 day blitz campaign that collected hundreds of twitter updates and blog posts around the web, libraryforlaos.org succeeded in funding reading programs and book purchases for 6 rural village schools giving between 500-600 impoverished students a chance at a better future. changeinfocus.org, a venture of sev inc., aides the proliferation of the "micro-lending by internet" movement.