The Impact Acceleration Group is an Impact Europe programme that gathers progressive corporate social investors (CSIs, i.e., corporate foundations, impact funds, CSR and Corporate Citizenship teams) to explore their role in accelerating the related corporate impact journey. This has been identified as a key opportunity in the corporate social investing ecosystem to accelerate positive change for people and planet at scale on top of their core mission to serve their end beneficiaries. The group dives into this topic during regular intimate meetups to innovate and share learning in that area. These meetups last 1h30 and are kicked off by an expert/ practitioner presentation followed by a peer discussion to share challenges, successes, and reflections.
The October meetup will take place on Thursday 17 October 11:00 – 12:30. The session will focus on "Inclusive Business Strategy: From Experimentation to Scale". We will explore the key success factors that enable large corporations to launch, and later scale, an inclusive business, building on key lessons learned gathered by Hystra after 15 years working with large corporations. The discussion will include practical tips on how to build a convincing business case toward different types of internal stakeholders, as well as mechanisms that can protect an inclusive business from leadership changes and budget cuts.
If you would like to learn more and join this programme, express your interest by sending an email to Charlotte Galbiati at cgalbiati(at)impacteurope.net. Please note that only corporate social investors (i.e. corporate foundations, impact funds, CSR and Corporate Citizenship teams) are admissible to join.
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