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Accelerating Impact Businesses

Impact Amplifier offers a range of acceleration and training programmes focused on getting impact businesses ready for investment.

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Impact Amplifier has developed various investment readiness models to support social enterprises. It delivers acceleration services directly as well as through its unique white labelled online platform, Impact OS, for other incubators and accelerators to use.

Direct Acceleration

Delivered either as a group-based process or with individual businesses, Impact Amplifier’s investment readiness accelerators are typically 3-12 months in duration, covering:

  • Impact Case – problem, solution, metrics;
  • Market Identification – customer segmentation and sizing;
  • Market Access – sales, distribution, competition, and value proposition;
  • Strategic growth planning;
  • Finance – modelling and long-term planning; and
  • Pitching – investment documents and presentations.

The structure of each accelerator is designed to suit the unique needs of our clients, but generally includes some combination of lectures, individual coaching, group discussions, webinars, videos, and homework assignments.  The end result is to get the participants ready to successfully solicit the capital needed to scale.

Online Acceleration Platform: Impact-OS

After hosting over 12 acceleration programmes for social enterprises, Impact Amplifier recognised the acute need for an online platform to both ensure the quality and consistency of content, but also accessibility. Trading under the brand Impact-OS, Impact Amplifier developed an end-to-end platform-based solution for incubators and accelerators to deliver investment readiness training, monitoring and evaluation, network management and impact assessments.

This platform provides a module-by-module approach to investment readiness where entrepreneurs can self-study or be facilitated through the process with a coach. Its flexibility caters to a broad spectrum of business development needs and pre-existing skills using a combination of videos, webinars, and step-by-step instructions through the process.

We invite Investors and Enterprise Support Organisations looking to build their investment readiness capacity to try the first module of our 9-module Investment Readiness Course, free.  Try it, free

Training and Workshops

Beyond its accelerators and virtual platform, Impact Amplifier also offers workshops on: the various aspects of the investment readiness process; building social enterprise ecosystems; impact investment; ethical supply chain creation; impact assessments; and how to build commercial solutions to social and environmental challenges.

Recent Work

The following reflects the projects Impact Amplifier was or is involved in from 2019 to the present timeframe.

Capacity Building Programme For Entrepreneurs and Intermediaries

South Africa, Namibia, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Tanzania, Malawi, Botswana

Client:

SAIS

Location:

South Africa, Namibia, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Tanzania, Malawi, Botswana

Date:

2019 – December 2022

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Africa Online Safety Fund

Sub-Saharan Africa

Client:

Google.org

Location:

Sub-Saharan Africa

Date:

June 2020 - Present

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Building Resilience and Impact Assessments

South Africa, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Malawi, USA, Australia, New Zealand

Client:

Nando's

Location:

South Africa, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Malawi, USA, Australia, New Zealand

Date:

2012 - Present

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Scaling Digital Skills

South Africa

Client:

The World Bank & YES (Youth Employment Service)

Location:

South Africa

Date:

September 2020 – September 2023

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Social Innovation Accelerator and Fund

South Africa

Client:

SAB Foundation

Location:

South Africa

Date:

2018 - Present

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Scaling Climate Adaptation Businesses

Nigeria

Client:

GIZ

Location:

Nigeria

Date:

July 2022 – Present

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Assessing Impact Of Climate Change Businesses

Benin, Burkina Faso, Madagascar, Senegal, Togo

Client:

PFAN

Location:

Benin, Burkina Faso, Madagascar, Senegal, Togo

Date:

March 2022 – August 2023

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Online Investment Readiness - Sahara and Leap Africa

Nigeria, Ghana, Kenya, Zambia, Burundi, Malawi, South Africa, Tanzania and Uganda

Client:

Sahara Foundation and Leap Africa

Location:

Nigeria, Ghana, Kenya, Zambia, Burundi, Malawi, South Africa, Tanzania and Uganda

Date:

July 2022 – October 2023

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Online Investment Readiness - Future Females

Kenya, Nigeria, Namibia, South Africa

Client:

Future Females

Location:

Kenya, Nigeria, Namibia, South Africa

Date:

May 2022 – December 2022

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Irish Tech Challenge South Africa

South Africa

Client:

DFA- Irish Embassy South Africa

Location:

South Africa

Date:

October 2020 – September 2022

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