Supporting the development of impact ventures, investments, and field-building initiatives

Social ventures rising. From grassroots enterprises to large-scale ventures, service-driven organizations, entrepreneurial non-profits and breakthrough innovations - social ventures are emerging everywhere as powerful responses to the social and environmental crises of our time.

Common challenges. As they develop - they grapple with common opportunities and challenges. Engagement in complex systems, program, service, and product adaptation, strategic growth and development prioritization, financial sustainability, operational development, and more.

Enterprise development support - from idea to scale. We offer programs and services that support the development of scalable, high impact, sustainable social ventures. We help social entrepreneurs and their teams assess and prioritize enterprise development opportunities, refine their offerings and business models, mobilize the resources and support they need to succeed, build operational capacity, and develop and implement effective partnerships, business development, and growth strategies.

Harnessing finance for change. In the face of our social and environmental crises - impact capital is flowing toward projects, enterprises, and funds that tackle the major challenges of our time. From philanthropic endowments to family offices, corporate social investment funds, private asset managers and institutional investors - financiers everywhere grapple with are moving resources at unprecedented speed and scale to support equity, sustainability, and resilience.

Strategic and operational challenges. Investing for impact is an emerging field whose boundaries, strategies, and operating models are still evolving. Asset owners, fund managers, corporate impact investors and others who deploy impact capital face complex strategic and operational decisions. What is the blended value of my investment? What portfolio of ventures am I going to support? What is their social, environmental, and financial risk-return profile? Who will contribute the funds? How do I source my portfolio? What is my reporting framework?

Supporting the development of impact investments and funds. We work with asset owners and managers to develop ambitious, mission-aligned impact investments and funds. We help them clarify their impact goals, develop their investment thesis, select and design investment structures, raise funds, and operationalize their initiative with enterprise sourcing, fund management, and impact reporting support.

Building the field. For transformation at scale - single ventures and investments are not enough. Recognizing the need for systemic approaches, visionary leaders are developing field-building initiatives - capacity-building platforms and networks, accelerators, collaborations, and other field-building initiatives - that seek to create change at scale.

Developing effective field-building ventures. Field-building organizations share unique design and development challenges. Who should be in the network? How do I add value to network members? How do I design effective capacity-development and acceleration processes? What is my funding model? How do I measure results?

Supporting the development of field-building initiatives. Building for system change and acceleration. We work with field-building impact initiatives to design and implement capacity-building programs, accelerators, and collaborations. We help them develop their value proposition, design their offerings, build networks, develop their organizational and funding models - and execute on their value proposition.

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