Grow Your Impact

Scaling Impact

In reality, Scaling Impact is far more complex than we thought. The process is rarely a linear enterprise in which changemakers finalize the conditions for scaling in one big push. Instead, it is likely to be a relentless, long-term process of adaptation and change. Scaling requires organizations to be serious about learning from both successes and failures, and to have the capacity to build on those insights moving forward.

Social Enterprise

This stream helps organizations explore ideas for how they can further their social impact goals and generate revenue through an enterprise model. The focus is on helping established social-purpose organizations identify business opportunities, assess viability, and plan for launch.

Social Finance Investment Readiness

Over the next decade there will be $2 billion in social finance available for community organizations to enhance their impact through the Social Finance Fund. The federal government has committed a $50 million grant program to help organizations get ready to access and manage these investments. In partnership with ESDC, Innoweave’s new Social Finance Investment Readiness stream helps organizations explore how they can benefit from repayable social finance, clarify a viable project using social finance to enhance their mission, and access tailored services to become investment-ready.

Policy Engagement

Policy Engagement helps leaders of community-sector organizations understand, communicate, and work with policy-makers, practitioners, organizations, businesses, and/or segments of the public to promote policy changes that will advance the outcomes that their community seeks.

There is no one-size fits all in policy engagement processes. These are variable and impacted by numerous factors, including unpredictable changes and windows of opportunity in the political landscape. In addition, the intended impacts of such processes can take a long time to achieve.