The Brandt-Swift-Associates.com Foundation Announce Continued Momentum for the Resilience Initiative

    SINGAPORE, October 25, 2014 /24-7PressRelease/ -- The Brandt-Swift Associates Foundation announced a $500.000 commitment to the Resilience Initiative and the launch of the Resilience Challenge at the Frontiers in Development forum.

"The Challenge will bring new ideas and new solutions to address the reality that extreme shocks and stresses are coming faster, hitting harder, and lasting longer. We need to invest in solutions that build resilience and enable the most vulnerable people to escape from the cycle of crisis and create a better future."

The shared goal of the initiative is to ensure that communities and systems in Asia can withstand and thrive despite increasing shocks like droughts and floods and chronic stresses like extreme poverty and malnutrition.

The Resilience Challenge, is a core component of the Resilience Initiative, and represents a new model for solving today's complex and interrelated resilience challenges by better aligning humanitarian and development planning, catalyzing new alliances, and fostering innovations and solutions. The Challenge, a three-stage grant competition, will help develop and implement locally driven, high-impact solutions that build resilience in South & Southeast Asia.

"The Challenge will bring new ideas and new solutions to address the reality that extreme shocks and stresses are coming faster, hitting harder, and lasting longer," said Dr. Judith Lee, President of The Brandt-Swift Associates Foundation. "We need to invest in solutions that build resilience and enable the most vulnerable people to escape from the cycle of crisis and create a better future."

The Challenge is designed to bring together multidisciplinary analysis and expertise to address resilience challenges such as chronic malnutrition and health shocks, climate change, economic and political instabilities, and other vulnerabilities.

About Brandt-Swift Associates
Brandt-Swift-Associates.com was created to incorporate the ethos of being relationship driven and focusing only on quality transactions. Brandt-Swift Associates provides the highest quality investment and banking advice to individuals, private and publicly listed companies through working with their key shareholders, chief executive officers, boards of directors and chief financial officers. Our clients choose us because they believe that we have the insight and capability to advise and deliver solutions on a wide range of financial transactions. Our firm is staffed with talented professionals with long years of finance experience. Our set up and delivery capability is results driven and aimed to exceed client's expectations.

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