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Our Impact 2017

Unleashing the power of social entrepreneurship and innovation to create a better world for children

Around the world, millions of children’s needs are not being met. Addressing these needs is a vital part of reaching the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), as 56 % of the 169 SDG targets are either directly or indirectly connected to children.

Our core belief is that human innovation and entrepreneurship are strong and necessary tools for achieving the SDG targets, and we are committed to unleashing its power.

Welcome to reading about our impact in 2017.

From the problem we address
to the impact we aim to create

Problem

Around the world millions of children`s needs are not being met and our societies are still not set up as well as they need to be, if they are going to adequately respond to challenges. At the same time, there are a great number of individuals and organizations out there, with innovative solutions for how to improve children`s lives. However, these individuals and organizations often lack access to the support they need to realize their ideas and scale their impact.

Solution

This is where Reach for Change comes in. We find social ventures with high potential innovations addressing children`s needs and, through our Incubator program, provide them with a mixture of capacity-building, network connections and grant funding. in order to maximize their chances of success, we also work to strengthen the local and regional ecosystems surrounding social ventures.

Long-term outcomes

The ultimate goal is that the social ventures impact a significant share of the children in their target group, contributing to fulfillment of the Sustainable Development Goals.

Medium-term outcomes

The social ventures reach a point where they have an effective solution, are financially sustainable, are operationally ready for growth, and have started implementing their impact scaling strategy.

Our vision is a world where all children reach their full potential.

 

Resources

To deliver our solution, we combine our financial, human, intellectual and physical capital with those of our partners in the corporate, social and public sectors.

Short-term outcomes

The short-term goal of the incubator is that the social ventures have in place the strategy, processes, people, systems, credibility, and connections they need, to sustainably deliver and scale effective solutions for children.

Medium-term outcomes

The social ventures reach a point where they have an effective solution, are financially sustainable, are operationally ready for growth, and have started implementing their impact scaling strategy.

Long-term outcomes

The ultimate goal is that the social ventures impact a significant share of the children in their target group, contributing to fulfillment of the Sustainable Development Goals.

Our vision is a world where all children reach their full potential.

Improving the lives of children

During 2017, we supported a total of 191 social ventures in our Incubator program. In turn, the social ventures supported 442,601 children to have better lives, in accordance with eleven of the seventeen UN Sustainable Development Goals* (SDGs). You can read more about SDG 3;4;8 and 10 by clicking the staples below.

Social ventures in our portfolio split by SDG

1 %

(2)

2 %

(3)

19 %

(38)

35 %

(67)

3 %

(6)

11 %

(21)

1 %

(1)

23 %

(42)

1 %

(2)

2 %

(3)

3 %

(5)


*Read more about the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) here: www.un.org/sustainabledevelopment/sustainable-development-goals/

We find and help

scale social innovation

Through multi-sector partnerships we find and scale social innovations, which help children to lead better lives. Our core program is a three year incubator, specifically designed for early stage social ventures.

Featured
results 2017

191

social ventures were supported through our incubator program

67 %

of the social entrepreneurs felt they were considerably or greatly helped by Reach for Change advisory to overcome key challenges

74 %

of the social entrepreneurs think that Reach for Change considerably or greatly contributed to increasing their organization’s Credibility

84 %

of the social entrepreneurs report that they gained useful connections to people and/or opportunities through Reach for Change

Finding high potential
solutions

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Helping social ventures
scale their impact

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