Join us for the first event of the year! We will be hosting a talk with University of Cambridge Professor Christopher Marquis on how to achieve long-term growth with regenerative and circular models. A talk that highlights the advantages of a regenerative and circular model over the traditional “take, make, dispose” model and how to create such a model.

In this workshop on becoming corporate ready, you will have the opportunity to gain invaluable insights from startups of the 100+ program and their successful stories of collaboration with the partner companies. Participants will leave equipped with practical knowledge and strategies to enhance their corporate readiness and foster meaningful collaborations that advance sustainability efforts.

Join us for an exciting and informative session with Angels for Angels to discover how fiscal sponsorship can accelerate your impact. In this session, you’ll learn how fiscal sponsorship can empower you to focus on your mission while leaving the complex administrative fundraising work to experts.

Join on October 3 at 3pm GMT for an event facilitated by Connective Impact, a go to provider for resources for international non-profits, businesses, and funders seeking new and diverse partners. In this workshop, we will cover how to assess donor types, build a fundraising pipeline and access funders.

Join us on September 26th for a workshop facilitated by Sophie Lee, the Founder of Electric Peach to learn first hand from an experienced brand strategist on taking a storytelling approach to brand communications.

It’s no secret that we always dream of having more impact. When developing solutions we want these to benefit as many people and communities as possible. But scaling them can be a complex and daunting task. So how do we know when and how to scale our work? During this workshop, Spring Impact will guide you through their Scale Readiness Diagnostic - a tool to help you understand how ready your solution is to be taken to scale and how ready your organization is to lead the process.

Join us for on September 4th, 2024 for a workshop on the Fundamentals of Impact Measurement and Management. The audience will understand the importance of regularly monitoring your business's impact and creating social value for your stakeholders. This workshop provides tools and information to craft a robust Theory of Change, select relevant impact indicators, and align your activities with global sustainable development principles. Learn practical examples and expert advice on measuring and managing your social enterprise's impact, enhancing your value proposition to corporate buyers, and creating new financing models.

Join us on August 22nd at 3pm GMT. We will be hosting Eric Maltzer, Director of Sustainable Investment @ IFM Investors. Our workshop will focus on his popular curriculum to understand the investor mindset and position yourself to successfully raise capital. Topics covered include: - How different kinds of investors think about investment and impact - Skills for entrepreneurs to boost their ability to interact with investors - Wise investing: what investors are looking for and what makes a good investment - How investors work, think, what they prioritize, how a deal can fail

Join us on August 14 at 3pm GMT, for a workshop with Jamie Leidelmeyer where he will share advice on how social enterprises can position themselves to successfully navigate corporate value chains. In this workshop we will cover: - How to bring a product/service to market and scale with a private sector partner - Where you can insert yourself in a company’s value chain - Identifying intermediaries that will advocate on your behalf to corporations - Importance of certifications in corporate sales

What does it actually mean to be investment ready? Join us on August 8th at 3pm GMT to find out! Antonio Gutiérrez Aguayo, the head of the Transaction Services unit at New Ventures will take us behind the scenes of what makes a social enterprise investment ready. What to expect? - Real-world examples of what investors consider at each fundraising stage (i.e. Seed Round vs. Series A, B, C) - An overview of the business maturity indicators investors are looking for - Tips to help you stand out from the crowd, and resources to help you get investment ready

Join us on July 31st at 3pm GMT for “Sustainability opportunities in corporate supply chains” an event where we will host Jeff Halvorson, Sustainability Director at Pepsico. In this event, Jeff will discuss opportunities for social enterprises in corporate supply chains and what organizations should know when approaching corporations for B2B sales opportunities.

In this hands-on event on July 25th at 3pm GMT, you will have the opportunity to workshop your own fundraising needs with peers and mentors from the Miller Center. Connect with a diverse group of changemakers ready to revolutionize their funding approaches, hear from entrepreneurs who have successfully raised funds, and create your own action plan. Facilitator: Diana McKeage is the Sr. Manager of Impact Investing at Miller Center Capital, where she manages pipeline development and operations in service of funding Miller Center alumni working in climate resilience and women's empowerment. You will need to sign up separately for Part 2 as this is a continuation from Part 1: Art of the Ask.

What does raising capital entail and how can you do it in a way that saves you time and energy? In this session on July 18th, 3pm GMT, we’ll break down the four key components of an effective fundraising ask, and learn how to apply them to your business. - Learn about capital needs by enterprise stage - Get a template for how to structure your own fundraising ask Speaker: Diana McKeage is the Sr. Manager of Impact Investing at Miller Center Capital, where she manages pipeline development and operations in service of funding Miller Center alumni working in climate resilience and women's empowerment.

Join us on June 27 at 3pm GMT for a panel discussion on experteering with a social impact organization and hear from past experteers on how their volunteer experiences created change, and left them changed in return.

Amadou Sanankoua is the Founder and CEO of the Onpoint Africa Group. With over 20 years as a management consultant, Amadou started his career at the Boston Consulting Group and now runs the Onpoint Africa Group which includes a consulting and market research firm, as well as a B2B SaaS enterprise in West Africa. In this workshop, we will cover how to build a winning sales strategy ensuring you are selling to the right people in the right channels and preparing your organization to navigate the sales process to a larger organization.

Facilitated by Grace Veenman and Alice Kennerley of Spring Impact, this workshop will focus on Lean Impact principles to de-risk your scale strategy. You will understand what are the essential metrics that matter for impact at scale, and how to quickly test risks in your scale strategy so that you avoid wasting time and resources.

MovingWorlds and Yunus Social Business are excited to invite you for a roundtable discussion on B2B opportunities for social enterprises! This event will feature Daniel Nowack, the Head of Global Alliance for Social Entrepreneurship at the World Economic Forum and social entrepreneurs who have successfully closed B2B sales. We will discuss the current state of B2B sales opportunities for social enterprises, based on their own lived experiences and the latest research from the World Economic Forum’s Global Alliance for Social Entrepreneurship.

The TRANSFORM Support Hub is excited to invite you to an event with Taryn Gill, Founder and CEO of the Perfect Hair. Employing a multichannel sales strategy, The Perfect Hair boosted its sales through an ecommerce channel, retail store, and successful partnerships with national retailers to get their products to market. Join us to hear how Taryn built a successful sales strategy and what we can learn as we navigate different sales avenues to grow revenue.

During this workshop with Cindy Curtis, Founder and Business Design Consultant at Marea Alta, you’ll gain a deeper understanding of ecosystem mapping and its pivotal role in identifying gaps, streamlining operations, and improving communication and decision-making.

The TRANSFORM Support Hub is excited to invite you to ‘A Day in the Life of a Social Entrepreneur’ panel discussion! Hear from three veteran entrepreneurs about their experiences, entering into corporate partnerships, successfully raising funds, and expanding their operations.

Join the TRANSFORM Support Hub for a workshop, “Co-Creating an Interactive Theory of Change” with Changeroo’s Chief Changemaker, Martin Klein. He’ll cover what makes a Theory of Change the cornerstone of impact management, along with step by step guidance to turn yours into a living document that empowers a strategic learning process together with stakeholders.

Join our final MovingWorlds “Professional Development” series with special guest: Carol Squire. Carol is an entrepreneur, strategist, mentor and proven transformational leader. Carol has been creating, building and leading organizations globally for 40 years and brings a rich experience of developing effective leadership environments, facilitating executive management and organizational change in diverse cultures and business sectors. Session Agenda: 1. An understanding of the diverse motivations that drive us 2. Structural options that can create better teamwork 3. Fresh perspective on concepts of supervision, trust and accountability

Join the TRANSFORM Support Hub and special guests: Grace Veenman and Nora Dettor with Spring Impact, for a workshop that will cover how to choose the right strategy to scale. From social franchising to government adoption - we will explore different approaches you can take to scale up solutions, and to change systems, cultures and society. Network with industry peers and experts in scaling social impact, fostering collaborations, and knowledge sharing. Session Agenda: 1. Explore different pathways you can take to scale the impact of your enterprise 2. Identify the right strategy for your enterprise 3. Understand the benefits and tradeoffs of this choice

Join us as we kick off the MovingWorlds “Professional Development” series with special guest: Carol Squire. Carol is an entrepreneur, strategist, mentor and proven transformational leader. Carol has been creating, building and leading organizations globally for 40 years and brings a rich experience of developing effective leadership environments, facilitating executive management and organizational change in diverse cultures and business sectors. Session Agenda: 1. Ways to assess their own level of self-awareness 2. Concrete steps toward becoming more effective leaders 3. Tips to help decide whether to look for a coach or mentor and how to choose the right one

Join our Entrepreneur in Residence, Bita Diomandé, for a hands-on workshop to define your venture’s strategic plan for 2024. In the workshop, we will cover the inputs for a strategic plan, and how to develop a roadmap and financial forecast to keep track of key activities throughout the year. This is the first of a five part series that will be followed by quarterly check-ins for entrepreneurs to come together and discuss opportunities, challenges, and to take stock of their progress. Bita is MovingWorlds’ Entrepreneur in Residence, responsible for supporting the growth of TSH social enterprises. A seasoned entrepreneur, she has co-founded four social ventures focused on job creation in Africa and Asia. Over the past 10 years, through her consulting practice, she has helped build and scale over 20 ventures. Bita holds an MBA from MIT Sloan with a focus on Enterprise Management and was a Fellow at the MIT Legatum Center for Development and Entrepreneurship. Session Agenda: Inputs for Strategic Plan Translating strategy into a roadmap Defining an annual forecast and financial plan

In this first of a four-part series with Integrative Solutions Ltd CEO Deepti Sastry, Deepti will share best practices to help you develop a theory of change that can help you validate your pathways for impact and communicate that impact to external stakeholders.

In this second of a four-part series with Integrative Solutions Ltd CEO Deepti Sastry, Deepti will share tips on uncovering which impact measurement frameworks, methods, and tools are the most effective for your social enterprise.

In this third of our four-part series with Integrative Solutions Ltd CEO Deepti Sastry, Deepti returns to share tips on ways social enterprises can use their impact data to track their progress against the value chains they intend to disrupt or reinforce.

In this final workshop of our four-part impact measurement series with Integrative Solutions, Dr. Deepti Sastry returns to share tips on ways social enterprises can effectively package their impact data to attract funders and secure investment.

An interactive workshop with Tim Rann, Managing Partner at Mercy Corps Ventures, to help social enterprises frame their pitches to gain impact investment and partnerships.

In this second of our two-part series with Mercy Corps Ventures, fund manager Timothy Rann returns for a live coaching session to help social entrepreneurs effectively pitch their mission and win sales and sources investments.

What does it take to grow your social enterprise? In this webinar, the team from the Miller Center for Social Entrepreneurship shares their proven 'ScaleOut' framework that helps businesses determine if they are ready to expand into new markets.

This webinar is the second of a two-part series with the Miller Center for Social Entrepreneurship team about its ScaleOut framework to help social enterprises determine their readiness to expand into new markets. Register below to join us on June 22nd.