Through the donation of all his shares from GrupoNueva, including an investment portfolio, Stephan Schmidheiny created VIVA Trust in 2003.
The idea behind this irrevocable trust was to promote cooperation between the companies in the private sector and the civil society.
VIVA Trust finances, with a part of the dividends generated by GrupoNueva, the activities of the Fundación AVINA and other philantropic iniciatives which seek the susteinable development of the society.