Use your knowledge for social good—it’s easy and impactful. Participate in a 90-minute virtual session along with a small group of other Knowledge Partners to share your insights, skills and connections with a social venture looking to tackle a challenge to unleash its ability to scale. Add value, learn about the venture, and connect with other Knowledge Partners interested in the same space. At the end of each session, each Knowledge Partner will be asked to pledge a follow-up action, such as sharing a connection, reviewing materials, or building awareness of the venture’s impact among friends and colleagues. In turn, the social venture will keep you apprised of the impact of your knowledge.
See below the opportunities for you to mitigate climate risk, advance economic opportunity, expand access to education, and address core human needs. Indicate your interest in one or more of the sessions by completing the form below.
The Circular City Coalition (CCC) (PYXERA Global, Metabolic, Enel Group, Rheaply and First Mile) is a multi-stakeholder partnership with a shared vision to create regenerative and equitable cities around the world. The goals include designing out waste from product inception, reducing Co2 emissions, increasing ownership, and reshuffling the power dynamics of marginalized community members. CCC has advised more than 60 governments and cities on circular economy and climate policy and have collectively facilitated and implemented multi-stakeholder programs representing local community interests in more than 110 countries. The CCC team is seeking to attract the right mix of funding and to partner with investors with the same values to further expand its impact.
CCC would like to discuss what blended finance options would be helpful to consider, what type of investor mix would be most beneficial, and what businesses are investing heavily in reuse-repurpose-degrowth business models. Garnering the right funding and partnerships would enable CCC to expand its cross-sector impact across more urban hubs globally.
CorpsAfrica unlocks the human potential of local communities by recruiting, training, and placing young, university-educated Africans in underserved regions in their own countries to facilitate small-scale, high-impact projects identified by local people and funded by partners from Africa and around the world. To date, CorpsAfrica has helped around 250,000 people with the support of almost 500 volunteers. Liz Fanning, Founder and Executive Director, has received much recognition for her work, including the JFK Service Award from the Peace Corps in 2022.
CorpsAfrica would like help with how to leverage partnerships as a means to accelerate scaling impact to ultimately enable more young Africans to combat poverty in rural communities.
Education for Employment (EFE) is the leading nonprofit network in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) connecting youth to the world of work. EFE addresses the unemployment gap that youth in MENA face with a demand-driven model focused on employment to bring young people into the workforce. Having connected over 140,000 youth to the world of work, EFE is pioneering a new model for youth employment through training linked to jobs and entrepreneurship through nine local affiliates and other partners worldwide. To exponentially scale its impact and support 500,000 youth by 2025, EFE is seeking to raise $3 million in capital.
EFE seeks help from those experienced with capital campaigns to address how it might explain its need for a capital campaign and how to differentiate capital campaign contributions from annual contributions. A successful campaign will enable EFE to create systemic change by partnering with education institutions to incorporate EFE's employability models. It will also fund enhanced programming, tech-enabled network performance, and ultimately give 500,000 youth access to the world of work and a future with dignity.
Free The Mind Co is a global for-profit social enterprise that offers online and hybrid programs for children, teachers, parents and families to build the social emotional skills needed to realize inner potential and have mastery over their thoughts and emotions. Its vision is to be the go-to social emotional learning and wellbeing program for both schools and homes, reaching millions worldwide. To date, Free The Mind Co has impacted 21,000 children, teachers and adults directly through their interactive classroom, online curriculum, books and training. Kim Normand Dobrin, the Co-Founder and CEO of Free The Mind Co, is an Ashoka Fellow and was chosen as top 4 in the Ernst and Young World Social Entrepreneur of the Year award in 2011.
Free The Mind Co is looking for help to answer how it could scale in the United States to reach more households and schools, and seeks to learn from known best practices.
Inteleos is focused on delivering high standards of global healthcare through proficient clinicians. To date, it is accredited by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), has 18 medical certifications in 31 specialties and has cared for more than 2 million patients in over 130 countries. A key initiative is focused on reducing maternal mortality by training midwives and clinical officers around the world in the use of ultrasound, and creating a pipeline of women taking care of women through ‘train the trainer’ programs. This pilot initiative is planned for 13 hospitals in Kenya in 2022-2023, and is slated to expand into Nigeria, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda and tribal lands in The United States.
Inteleos is seeking help ideating a sustainable financial model to ensure clinicians have up to date devices in hand, manufacturers receive the value needed for that to happen, and clinicians and hospitals are part of the long term financial model to positively impact each community as well as its patient care. This will also enable Inteleos to expand its services in Africa, the Caribbean, and Southeast Asia.
Project Alianza is on a mission to improve educational opportunities in Central America through community-led, women-driven solutions. Local women are recruited as educators, trained, paid a decent wage, and are provided ongoing supervision, support, and opportunity for advancement. To date, Project Alianza has impacted more than 19,000 lives, with over 70% of students in their learning programs showing increased literacy skills in five months or less, and with a 90% retention rate among secondary school students. Government teachers and larger nonprofits are recognizing its impactful and efficient model, requesting partnerships to implement its program in new countries, regions, and communities. Project Alianza was recognized as a Gold Winner in the 2018 Global Accelerator, Mass Challenge, and Kristin Van Busum, Founder and Executive Director, is an Aspen Institute Global Leadership Fellow.
To scale to new countries and communities, bringing change to the young people of Central America, Project Alianza is seeking to diversify its funding from private foundations to include corporate donors, family offices, public foundations, etc. It would like help brainstorming potential funders and guidance on an effective pitch.
Share The Meal , an initiative of the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP), is an app enabling people to donate or “share their meals” with people in need, providing aid to some of the largest food crises in the world.
STM is looking for help on how it can best partner and integrate with existing digital platforms where users are transacting frequently, such as food delivery, eCommerce, eSports and gaming apps. Enable STM in the next 5 years to share 800 million meals, requiring tripling current donations.
Staiy Staiy is the marketplace for sustainable fashion working towards empowering the ecosystem for a better future. The main initiatives of the Staiy ecosystems are an online platform for customers to purchase sustainable clothing, a SAAS product for carbon/ESG tracking, an online magazine, and a physical store in Berlin. To date, Staiy has been able to save 20 million liters of water and 10,000 kg of CO2. A for-profit enterprise, it has also converted more than 3,000 customers from fast fashion to a better fashion. Staiy participated in the 2021 Startup Bootcamp and was named one of the top 10 FashionTech startups in the cohort. It also received the White Milano Sustainable Fashion award.
Staiy is looking for help on how it can scale its business in preparation for its seed financing round in Q1 2023. This next round of financing will help Staiy reduce the carbon and water footprint of the fashion industry by 300%+, helping customers save approx 1000 liters of water and 5kg of CO2 at every order.