This is an overview of various organizations that help to educate and grow social entrepeneurs.
Accelerating the Accelerators
Accelerating the Accelerators (AtA) is a network dedicated to increasing the effectiveness of impact accelerators, incubators, fellowships, and business plan competitions. It is a structured program designed to support impact entrepreneurs in launching and scaling social enterprises.
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The Forum
The Forum is a Canadian charity that educates, mentors and connects women entrepreneurs. From raising capital to developing a pitch to growing your HR, sales, and leadership skills, The Forum supports women entrepreneurs leading business at any stage, of any size and industry, anywhere in Canada.
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Solve
Solve is an initiative of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) with a mission to solve world challenges. Through open innovation Challenges, Solve finds incredible tech-based social entrepreneurs all around the world. Solve then brings together MIT’s innovation ecosystem and a community of Members to fund and support these entrepreneurs to help them drive lasting, transformational impact.
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The DO School
The Do School offers a unique approach to innovation by curating a diverse group of start-ups, experts, and internal teams that collaborate to quickly develop and implement new solutions to company and government challenges.
It empowers impact entrepreneurs from around the world to solve the big challenges of our time.
The Fireweed Fellowship
The Fireweed Fellowship is the first national accelerator program for Indigenous entrepreneurship in Canada. The program consists of a 10-month-long, immersive, cohort-style fellowship program combining online educational sessions, self-directed on-the-land learning and leadership development. Additionally the program offers peer support, one-on-one coaching, mentorship, pro-bono professional services as well as investment-readiness prep.
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THNK School of Creative Leadership
THNK is an Amsterdam-based executive education institute that seeks solutions to global challenges through applying business tools and design thinking methodology. It attracts global cohorts composed of an intentional ‘clash’ of corporates and other senior professionals, creatives, and entrepreneurs (social and otherwise) with the stated goal of supporting “leaders to develop innovative solutions to the world’s greatest societal problems.” Highly recommended.
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Spring
Spring bills itself as a “global incubator, accelerator and advisory firm that helps impact entrepreneurs, investors and entrepreneurial ecosystem builders thrive.”
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Groundswell
Billing itself as an “Alternative Business School”, Groundswell is how I imagine SVI being if it had a permanent home. I feel deeply aligned with their philosophy that entrepreneurs are built from the inside out. In other words, it’s not just the soundness of someone’s business idea, it’s the inner process that needs to be considered first as the foundation for a successful venture.
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