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Change is happening every day, all around us. Every small step, action or idea takes us one step further to a more equitable, sustainable and purpose-driven world. The global movement of social entrepreneurship and innovation never stands still. Browse our latest news, heartening stories and key learnings. To reach for change.
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Baltics news projects 2025
Boosting Youth Employability through Cross-Sector Collaboration In Liepaja, Latvia
Reach for Change will together with House of Hope (HoH) and Liepaja City Municipality Central Administration (LCMCA) increase youth employment by strengthening the collaboration between social entrepreneurs and the municipality. Funded by the European Social Fund Agency’s Social Innovation Initiative, the partners of the new Joining Forces project are coming together to co-create a training program for disadvantaged youth.
Baltics news impact projects 2025
Impact Baltic: Building a new impact fund for social enterprises
Impact Baltic, a newly launched European Social Fund + (ESF) project, aims to fill the gap in social finance for Baltic social enterprises by establishing a new impact fund and increasing the investment readiness of these social enterprises.
Baltics news projects 2024
When online meetings lead to real-life collaboration: Baltic Sea Impact Network members meet in Riga
An exciting collaboration is taking shape as Baltic Sea Impact Network members take advantage of the mobility opportunity and meet in Riga.
Baltics news 2023 projects
Next phase of the Baltic Sea Impact Network: New members and opportunities
The Baltic Sea Impact Network - a transnational peer-learning network among social entrepreneurs from the Baltic Sea region - is entering its next phase. The network is expanding, as the membership increases from 32 to 50 social entrepreneurs, welcoming new members also from Denmark and Ukraine.
expertise ecosystem Baltics blogpost 2023 projects
Developing impact investing ecosystems
This fall, we launched the Nordic-Baltic Investor Skillsharing - a series of online workshops which gather investors from the Nordic-Baltic region who are already involved or interested in investing in social entrepreneurs. We give them an opportunity to exchange knowledge and foster new connections to strengthen the Baltic Impact Investing ecosystem.
global ecosystem news 2023 projects
Launching Buy Social Europe B2B
A new transnational initiative - Buy Social Europe B2B - is bringing the social procurement movement in Europe to a next level, further unlocking the $500 billion market opportunity for social enterprises. It gathers a consortium of 23 partners, who will cooperate to accelerate trade partnerships between mainstream and social enterprises in 17 countries in Europe.
2022 ecosystem impact Ethiopia equality projects
Voice of Change in Ethiopia
In 2022, in collaboration with the award-winning radio show Erq Ma’ed and funding from the Swedish Institute, we produced the Voice of Change - a much-needed radio series which highlighted 5 strong and successful Ethiopian women and their stories.
ghana 2022 impact projects
Scaling ed-tech solutions in Ghana
Despite significant progress in recent decades, the Ghanaian educational system continues to face several challenges. In our Scaling Readiness program, done in partnership with the Jacobs Foundation, we have equipped 10 outstanding edupreneurs with the resources and skills to strengthen and scale the impact of their ed-tech solutions.
ghana 2022 impact projects
Empowering youth and women in Ghana to advocate for their economic rights
Poverty is a major and multidimensional issue in Ghana, preventing individuals especially young people and women from enjoying a right to economic security. Through Forum CIV, together with Social Enterprise Ghana, we're enabling young people and women living in poverty to advocate for and gain access to services that should be made available to them to become sustainably self-employed or start a small business.
2022 Bulgaria projects
Enhancing the ecosystem for early growth social entrepreneurs in Bulgaria
To help close the funding gap for early-growth social entrepreneurs in Bulgaria, with the support of the European Commission, we launched the cross-sectoral initiative the Valley of Growth. The project included mapping and research activities to better understand the social entrepreneurial ecosystem in Bulgaria, designing and verifying a new financial instrument and creating an impact community of social entrepreneurs, investors and experts.
Sweden news 2023 projects
Gathering forces for increased youth employment
In 2021 in Sweden 10.3% of youths are registered as unemployed at the employment agency. In Eskilstuna municipality the number is 13.9%. If you look at it even closer, the number goes up to 26.7% for youths born outside of Sweden. The numbers show a city where young people do not have the same opportunities to reach their full potential. The coming two years, Reach for Change together with Right By Me and the municipality of Eskilstuna, and with support of Inkludera will join forces to turn this around.
Baltics 2023 projects
Empowering Baltic social entrepreneurs
Reach for Change is a partner in the newly launched Integrated Baltic Ecosystem for Social Innovation (IBESI) - a Horizon Europe project aimed at raising awareness and facilitating access of Baltic States’ social entrepreneurs to the resources of local and pan-European innovation ecosystems.