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Impact investment for all of us
Everyday people acting in collaboration and solidarity to lend their support to courageous impact enterprises worldwide, helping to unlock their positive potential and benefit communities.
Actionable Impact Management Guidebooks
Assessing the risk and impact of you investments, grants and social business is complex and time consuming. Often feedback from capital deployment to outcome created, and learnings are not properly aligned. Having an outcome lifecycle platform from defining the impact strategy, metrics selection, result data collection, analysis, insight, and reporting can bring necessary accountability that impact space demands.
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Crafting the Narrative
To educate children about the SDGs.
Government Engagement
To address varied inequalities of disenfranchised youth across Africa, Digital Jobs Africa partners with local organizations. It’s first partner/grantee in South Africa is Impact Sourcing Academy (ISA) and its partners - which provide training and job placement opportunities for disenfranchised youth through the business processing operations sector (BPO). This is called Impact Hiring. South Africa is a pioneer in Impact Hiring through BPO, with the largest market in Africa. This project targeted the province of Gauteng, holding 25% of South Africa’s population with a 33.3% unemployment rate.
Youth Retention in Work/Study Schemes
To address varied inequalities of disenfranchised youth across Africa, Digital Jobs Africa partners with local organizations. It’s first partner/grantee in South Africa is Impact Sourcing Academy (ISA) and its partners - which provide training and job placement opportunities for disenfranchised youth through the business processing operations sector (BPO). This is called Impact Hiring. South Africa is a pioneer in Impact Hiring through BPO, with the largest market in Africa. This project targeted the province of Gauteng, holding 25% of South Africa’s population with a 33.3% unemployment rate.
Accessing High Potential Youth
To address varied inequalities of disenfranchised youth across Africa, Digital Jobs Africa partners with local organizations. It’s first partner/grantee in South Africa is Impact Sourcing Academy (ISA) and its partners - which provide training and job placement opportunities for disenfranchised youth through the business processing operations sector (BPO). This is called Impact Hiring. South Africa is a pioneer in Impact Hiring through BPO, with the largest market in Africa. This project targeted the province of Gauteng, holding 25% of South Africa’s population with a 33.3% unemployment rate.
Impact Sourcing
To address varied inequalities of disenfranchised youth across Africa, Digital Jobs Africa partners with local organizations. It’s first partner/grantee in South Africa is Impact Sourcing Academy (ISA) and its partners - which provide training and job placement opportunities for disenfranchised youth through the business processing operations sector (BPO). This is called Impact Hiring. South Africa is a pioneer in Impact Hiring through BPO, with the largest market in Africa. This project targeted the province of Gauteng, holding 25% of South Africa’s population with a 33.3% unemployment rate.
The Future is Cubic
Great developments have been achieved in the past decade, creating resources of high quality in open format that are downloadable and usable offline: Wikipedia, Khan Academy Lite, MOOCs like FUN, Bloom books, Guthenberg project books, but also health promotion videos, legal resources etc. Organizations like LWB and many others, including libraries, use these contents in very different contexts, adapting them to each location according to community needs an project objectives. They are usually preloaded onto raspberry pi like servers and distributed through a local area network. In order to improve the impact of the projects, the key is therefore: improving access of ICT4D organizations to downloadable open resources (pdf, video, app, sound, ebook ...)
Collective makerspace
Creativity, entrepreneurial skills, risk taking adaptability and innovation capacity, problem solving skills, skills related to effective teamwork and sharing information and knowledge, may all be key competitive advantages for our societies, starting from young children. To make the best of this potential, it is essential that non-formal ways of life-long learning, empower citizens with the skills they need from early on in life. The objective is to empower ourselves as creators and shapers of the world around us and move away from passive consumption and old-fashioned models of education and business. The worldwide phenomenon known as the Maker Movement can contribute to an open knowledge based society, based on three crucial elements: 1) acquiring DIY skills and tools; 2) community infrastructure, including online resources and in-person spaces and events; and 3) the maker mindset, aesthetic principles, and habits of mind that are commonplace within the community.
Educate Global Fund
The solution was created to address the issue regarding lack of quality education in developing countries where according to UNICEF, despite the progress made in developing countries over the last decade, 67 million children worldwide, of whom approximately 53 per cent are girls, do not have access to basic primary education. The barriers to education are mainly greater to girls, children from minority ethnic groups, with disabilities, and living in conflict areas. As these barriers are broad and vary greatly by locality/region, we aim to take a cross sector approach looking at investable projects in health, nutrition, water and sanitation, transport, power and technology that affect children’s access to quality education. We will look for businesses developing high quality, affordable products and services locally where communities will lead the process of removing barriers to education themselves.
Inaugural Convening between KPF and the Ministry of Education in Kenya
In Kenya, there has been a gap and therefore an increase in interactions amongst organizations with an interest in philanthropy leading to heightened dialogue and consolidated efforts to focus on promoting philanthropy, cooperation and accountability. This evolution has come with an increased demand for an organized approach to philanthropy where actors have an opportunity to interact, share, engage and coordinate with peers, communities and other stakeholders. It is estimated that the country has over 200 active locally registered foundations and trusts contributing private resources for social good. This evolution of the philanthropy sector at a time of increased devolution and multisectoral expansion of development collaborations provides a window of opportunity for consolidating and growing an active philanthropy sector in Kenya. The KPF aims at enhancing cooperation and coordination among philanthropy actors in Kenya and with other stakeholders in the private and public spheres.
School teachers as agents of change
This solution was created to attend overage students between 9-14 years old in Valle del Cauca, Colombia to improve their skills in literacy and mathematics levelling them with their according to their age knowledge
Methodological Planification
This solution was created to attend overage students between 9-14 years old in Valle del Cauca, Colombia to improve their skills in literacy and mathematics levelling them with their according to their age knowledge
Inter sectorial Partnership
This solution was created to attend overage students between 9-14 years old in Valle del Cauca, Colombia to improve their skills in literacy and mathematics levelling them with their according to their age knowledge
Education for employment
The rate of youth unemployement in Colombia is high, which translates into limiited economic opportunities. The Foundation not only provides vulnerable youth with technical and vocational trainings, but also employees them, if they provide the necesary skills.
Go! (Vamos!)
To promote inclusion of girls in farming activities that were traditionally for boys (growing crops) and promote inclusion of boys in activities that were traditionally for girls (i.e. cooking.) To reduce violent behaviors in school kids through garden therapy and promote healthy lifestyles and teamwork by participating in fun experiential learning activities and be able to talk about bullying and other forms of school violence while working in the garden and playing together.
Eat (Come)
To promote inclusion of girls in farming activities that were traditionally for boys (growing crops) and promote inclusion of boys in activities that were traditionally for girls (i.e. cooking.) To reduce violent behaviors in school kids through garden therapy and promote healthy lifestyles and teamwork by participating in fun experiential learning activities and be able to talk about bullying and other forms of school violence while working in the garden and playing together.
Grow (Crece)
To promote inclusion of girls in farming activities that were traditionally for boys (growing crops) and promote inclusion of boys in activities that were traditionally for girls (i.e. cooking.) To reduce violent behaviors in school kids through garden therapy and promote healthy lifestyles and teamwork by participating in fun experiential learning activities and be able to talk about bullying and other forms of school violence while working in the garden and playing together.
Learn (Aprende)
To promote inclusion of girls in farming activities that were traditionally for boys (growing crops) and promote inclusion of boys in activities that were traditionally for girls (i.e. cooking.) To reduce violent behaviors in school kids through garden therapy and promote healthy lifestyles and teamwork by participating in fun experiential learning activities and be able to talk about bullying and other forms of school violence while working in the garden and playing together.
Youth Entrepreneurship empowerment
Evidence shows need for youth to obtain more skills to help alleviate povery
Collaborate at the Systems Level
We live in a world of problems that are so complex, so tangled up with other problems, so non-linear, ambiguous, and volatile — that they defy solutions and cannot be effectively addressed by any one organization or even by any one sector. Lasting change and the resolution of these systemic issues requires effective collaboration across silos, across organizations, and across sectors, in ways that serve both the self-interests of the participants and the shared interests of the collective. The effectiveness of any network or collaborative effort primarily depends on constantly managing a few basic activities: 1) Clarify Purpose, 2) Convene the Right People, 3) Cultivate Trust, 4) Coordinate Existing Actions, and 5) Collaborate at the Systems Level. See the building blocks below for more details.
Coordinate Existing Actions
We live in a world of problems that are so complex, so tangled up with other problems, so non-linear, ambiguous, and volatile — that they defy solutions and cannot be effectively addressed by any one organization or even by any one sector. Lasting change and the resolution of these systemic issues requires effective collaboration across silos, across organizations, and across sectors, in ways that serve both the self-interests of the participants and the shared interests of the collective. The effectiveness of any network or collaborative effort primarily depends on constantly managing a few basic activities: 1) Clarify Purpose, 2) Convene the Right People, 3) Cultivate Trust, 4) Coordinate Existing Actions, and 5) Collaborate at the Systems Level. See the building blocks below for more details.
Cultivate Trust
We live in a world of problems that are so complex, so tangled up with other problems, so non-linear, ambiguous, and volatile — that they defy solutions and cannot be effectively addressed by any one organization or even by any one sector. Lasting change and the resolution of these systemic issues requires effective collaboration across silos, across organizations, and across sectors, in ways that serve both the self-interests of the participants and the shared interests of the collective. The effectiveness of any network or collaborative effort primarily depends on constantly managing a few basic activities: 1) Clarify Purpose, 2) Convene the Right People, 3) Cultivate Trust, 4) Coordinate Existing Actions, and 5) Collaborate at the Systems Level. See the building blocks below for more details.
Convene the Right People
We live in a world of problems that are so complex, so tangled up with other problems, so non-linear, ambiguous, and volatile — that they defy solutions and cannot be effectively addressed by any one organization or even by any one sector. Lasting change and the resolution of these systemic issues requires effective collaboration across silos, across organizations, and across sectors, in ways that serve both the self-interests of the participants and the shared interests of the collective. The effectiveness of any network or collaborative effort primarily depends on constantly managing a few basic activities: 1) Clarify Purpose, 2) Convene the Right People, 3) Cultivate Trust, 4) Coordinate Existing Actions, and 5) Collaborate at the Systems Level. See the building blocks below for more details.