IDEAS
Empowering Livelihoods.
Empowering Livelihoods.
Enriching Lives.
Supporting the transformation from creative ideas to empowered and
viable enterprises. Enhancing the well-being of under-privileged communities.
What Defines Us
Identifying the needs, talents, skills and aspirations of individual and community-driven initiatives
Independent, flexible and bureaucracy-free operations
Interest-free and collateral-free funding support
Promoting sharing of knowledge, expertise, and experience
Empowering less privileged entrepreneurs
What Makes IDEAS Distinctive
- Many small entrepreneurs have creative business ideas but often lack finances to start ventures or working capital to expand ongoing businesses.
- Formal lending institutions, and even micro-credit facilities, can remain beyond reach due to collateral demands, guarantor requirements, and high interest rates.
- This is where IDEAS steps in. We enable less-privileged people to overcome stringent barriers that block entry into the entrepreneurial world.
- We support budding entrepreneurs through funding, mentoring, and training to help ideas grow into viable businesses and improve livelihoods.
- We provide grants as well as interest-free and collateral-free loans. The loan component is recovered in monthly installments after an appropriate grace period.
- IDEAS support is truly no strings attached.
30+
Years
Service
Beyond Philanthropy
At IDEAS, we believe that to “Do Good,” an organization must first “Do Well” through legitimate and sustainable avenues. Our financial independence is built on a model that goes beyond traditional donor-driven philanthropy:
- Professional Services & Ventures: Income is generated through management fees and dividends from our joint venture consulting company, Infotech IDEAS [Pvt] Ltd.
- Strategic Investments: Returns from carefully managed investments strengthen our financial base.
- Capital Fund Growth: A steadily expanding capital fund enables annual disbursement support for selected initiatives.
By not relying on external donor funding, IDEAS remains free to set priorities aligned with its governing principles—focusing on empowering low-income, less-privileged yet talented individuals with entrepreneurial potential. This approach ensures that our mission is not charity-dependent, but self-sustaining and impact-driven.
Entrepreneur Development
#enterprise
Mushroom Grower, Gampola [2024]
Oshani Warnapurage was a young undergraduate studying in the Agriculture faculty of the University of Peradeniya.
#enterprise
Upliftment of Grocery Store in Kosgoda [2024]
Asanka Kommalage who lives in Egoda Duwe, Kosgoda in Southern Sri Lanka had met IDEAS members initially during the aftermath of the 2004 December Tsunami.
#enterprise
Community Bee Keeping Project at Inginimitiya Irrigation Scheme [2023]
IDEAS initiated a Bee keeping Development Project in March 2023, at the Inginimitiya Irrigation scheme in Puttalam district.
Community Empowerment
#community
Emergency Relief Efforts – Cyclone Ditwah and Ensuing Floods [2025]
The last few days of November 2025 saw Sri Lanka being severely affected by its worst floods in 20 years as a result of cyclone Ditwah and the ensuing heavy rains.
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#community
Support to Grand Smile Elders Home, Haputale [2024]
The primary objective of this Care facility, initiated in 2008, is to provide improved care for marginalized and isolated individuals who are elderly, differently-abled and who are also in need of special mental health care.
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#community
Relief to Flood Victims in Akuressa [2023]
The Southern Province of Sri Lanka experienced unprecedented rainfall during the months of September and October 2023 leading to severe floods in several areas of the Matara district.
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