• Asia's development challenges are outpacing conventional funding models, with early-stage, high-risk innovations chronically underfunded
• Philanthropy Asia Alliance and Centre for Asian Philanthropy and Society's new research explores how Asian funders are bridging this gap, and the lessons to scale impact across the region

SINGAPORE - Media OutReach Newswire - 18 May 2026 - A new report released today at the sixth Philanthropy Asia Summit highlights what becomes possible when philanthropy in Asia is deployed as risk capital: funding that absorbs the risks of unproven solutions that governments are unable or unwilling to back, markets cannot yet price, and social innovators cannot bear alone.