The aim of the now one-year-old European Venture Philanthropy Association (EVPA) is to create a Europe-wide network of venture philanthropists. The long-term vision is to help create a diverse marketplace for non-profits at all stages of development, with venture philanthropy complementing the role played by more traditional funders such as foundations and government. Refreshingly, EVPA lacks the missionary zeal – the belief that this is the new way to do philanthropy – that proponents of venture philanthropy have sometimes seemed to have.