Here on the blog, we've gathered five incredible tips to increase the positive impact and boost your social organization's strategy. Among the options, we present courses, certifications, mentorships, information sharing, fundraising tools, and much more! These are various forms of support to strengthen initiatives that seek a fairer and less unequal future for all. Check it out!
Phomenta,
founded in 2015 to act as a bridge between social investors and civil society organizations, has become a large impact business that brings management and innovation education to social entrepreneurs.
One of the platform's services is to certify organizations, providing diagnostics, conducting assessments, and recommending best practices. The Phomenta Certification analyzes legal aspects, financial matters, management, governance, potential impact, communication, and transparency.
There are also acceleration services – aimed at training social entrepreneurs, with modules being applied – and corporate social acceleration, with company employees becoming impact consultants to support the management of CSOs. With the pandemic, the Impact Portal , with the goal of providing high-quality, free content to civil society organizations.
The Open School of the Third was born from debates held at the 3rd Brazilian Congress of Foundations and Entities of Social Interest in 2011, aimed at improving the training of members of these organizations.
The organization's mission is to empower managers to better administer their institutions. Among its educational objectives are actions to stimulate knowledge and humanistic development, fostering reflective and critical thinking skills in relation to society, the state, and the market.
To that end, the School offers a series of courses targeting managers, employees, or volunteers of social organizations. The courses offered revolve around topics such as volunteering, fundraising, digital marketing, and ESG (Environmental, Social, and Governance).
Ekloos Institute
The Ekloos Institute was founded in 2007 and has already worked with over 600 social impact initiatives, providing free mentoring and training. Its work strengthens organizations and social businesses by improving management processes and increasing results.
Ekloos drew inspiration from startup accelerators to create a concept of social acceleration . This methodology differs significantly, mainly because of the individualized work that is promoted with each organization involved.
During the activities, a diagnosis is made that helps guide the development of an action plan, targeting the specific needs of each individual and highlighting what is a priority. Ekloos programs receive support from companies, institutes, and foundations, which allows social initiatives to have free access to training.
esolidar
emerged in Portugal in 2013 with the initial idea of being a marketplace for social causes, due to concerns about the lack of tools on the market to support social organizations in raising funds. After transformations to the initial project, it became a platform that brings together different solutions to help social organizations and companies generate social impact.
Initiatives that register with the 'esolidar community' gain free access to tools for managing fundraising campaigns. It's possible to create charity auctions, launch crowdfunding projects, participate in the charity marketplace, seek corporate support from the platform's client companies, and be part of a space for promoting social causes, receiving donations via PayPal.
The esolidar blog provides tips and information for managers in both the non-profit sector and private companies. Ebooks and webinar videos with materials to promote social responsibility strategies are also available.
Abong,
with the goal of strengthening civil society organizations that work in the defense and promotion of common rights and goods, was created in 1991. It currently has more than 220 members and is present in 22 states of Brazil.
The network provides a virtual learning environment with the AVA Platform of the Abong Training School , which offers courses, sharing knowledge and seeking to expand the reach of educational processes designed for civil society organizations.
Abong emphasizes that this platform also aims to enhance the use of technology in the initiatives' actions, improving the development of their capabilities and increasing their reach.
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