The AVINA Foundation is a private foundation based in Basle, Switzerland.
It was founded in 1994 by Stephan Schmidheiny.[1] Its Chairman is Brizio Biondi-Morra and its CEO is Sean McKaughan.[2][3] It has offices in Buenos Aires in Argentina, Santa Cruz de la Sierra in Bolivia, Rio de Janeiro in Brazil, Santiago in Chile, Bogota in Colombia, Cuenca in Ecuador, Asuncion in Paraguay, and Lima in Peru.[4]
It promotes sustainable development in Latin America by encouraging social entrepreneurs to do so.[5] It has also donated money to the Glion Colloquium and Endeavor.[6][7]