Ms. Faye Lo is the Founder of the Good Soil Foundation. Faye believes in harnessing the transformative power of private capital to inspire and empower youth to drive meaningful change.
Faye founded the Good Soil Foundation Next Generation Philanthropy Leadership Program for students to learn about the philanthropic sector and to incubate student projects with a focus on ensuring positive social impact to communities in Singapore.
In 2010 Faye co-founded China’s first legally registered charity by a grassroots organization – the Guang Dong Mai Tian Education Foundation. Faye next founded the Sky3 Seed Foundation in 2013, where she supported the growth of over 55 successful charitable projects. In 2017, Faye began a poverty alleviation project in Sichuan’s Daliang Mountains through investigative journalism. Starting with an initial seed fund of 50,000 yuan, she fundraised over 600 million yuan in social and government resources leading to improvements within the vicinity of over ten schools. The project became the most influential charity project of 2017 in Tencent’s philanthropy rankings.
Faye’s keen ability to innovate saw her organise a donation drive for relief supplies at the National University of Singapore during the 2020 pandemic, mobilizing a vast network of volunteers to support eighty hospitals worldwide.
Faye has earned an Executive Master of Philanthropy by the China Philanthropy Research Institute of Beijing Normal University and the Indiana University Lilly Family School of Philanthropy. Faye also attended the Harvard Kennedy School for the Executive Leaders in Philanthropy Program as a scholarship recipient.