Fund Launch & 2024 Impact 2 Innovate Program Now Open

7th March 2024 – EOI’s are now open for the 2024 round of our Impact 2 Innovate Program in two streams:

Investor Series

Prospective impact funders (govt, grant-making foundations impact investors) are invited to the private Investor Series to learn more about blended finance, and Impact Seed’s new WA Impact Loan Fund. More information on the fund here.

Social Enterprise Growth Program

Social enterprises who are gearing up to grow their ventures are invited to have a conversation with us about our capacity building support ranging from mentoring, advice and referrals, through to programmatic and intensive capacity building and investment readiness support through the I2I Social Enterprise Growth Program.

(we warmly welcome Aboriginal enterprises through our EOI process)

The Impact Seed Model

Impact Seed has taken a long term systems-change approach to development of the growing impact ecosystem in WA. We seek to support social enterprises from startup vision/inception stage through to developing capacity of impact funders and investors to engage with the social enterprises we work with once they are at growth and development stages

More About Impact 2 Innovate

Impact 2 Innovate (by Impact Seed) is a multi-year program to provide capacity building
support and investment readiness support to social enterprises and investors in Western Australia and includes:

  • Capacity building for social enterprises and impact ventures at the ideation and validation stage including advisory, and coaching on our toolkits; Workshops and programs for impact ventures at various stages of development
  • Accelerator residencies for growth-stage ventures
  • Mentoring from local and national domain experts
  • Impact strategy, measurement and management: co-design support for tools including program logic, theory of change and impact management strategies to deepen impact and support stakeholder communication of impact value propositions
  • Investment-readiness support
  • Catalytic stakeholder support across the impact and innovation ecosystem, corporate and government social investment enablers, investors targeting impact, not-for-profit organisations, and granting foundations

 Read the media 2022 media release here.

Free Tools

Just need some online help? Over the past 10 years Impact Seed has created a range of tools and resources for social enterprises and impact ventures to guide them in the establishment and validation journey, and build towards taking on impact investment.

Through building these important strategic foundations to your enterprise, funding and investment opportunities will also greatly expand beyond the limitations we see with so many early stage startups in Western Australia, which are often limited to very small grants.

We’re proud to make these valuable resources available freely as part of our community impact model.

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