ImpactXcelerate is part of our 360°Program where we help social business entrepreneurs to strive by offering them tailored capacity-building programs and ad hoc consulting, building on growth-based and impactful models. On top of training and acceleration programs, we also connect the social business community through an innovative platform, where we connect entrepreneurs with each other and offer them insightful knowledge through chats and various resources.

This ImpactXcelerate is specifically dedicated to German entrepreneurs, and it will run from August 2023 until December 2023.

This Program is open for German social enterprises, NGOs, and welfare-based enterprises who are looking for new ways and inspirations to accelerate their impact and organizations in these tough times. The full program is accessible for free.

Anyone can access our community and capacity-building workshops (up to a maximum of 500 organizations within the platform). For the on-demand social business consulting we will select 10 social enterprises with the potential to scale up their model and impact fast.

The Acceleration Consulting Program is primarily offered for registered social businesses in Germany with the potential to scale up their operations and impact fast. Therefore, this program is not aimed at incubating social enterprises.

We will be sharing a form, specifically for the Acceleration Program in the community platform, where social enterprises can apply. A thoughtful screening process will be made, analyzing in depth the business models and impact framework of the applicants. Results will be announced on the 28th of August.

Our Program is open to people working within German social enterprises. Participants do not necessarily have to be German native speakers themselves. We understand that many social enterprises work within an international context, thus our facilitator will be well versed in both German and English through the Program’s primary language will be German.

All workshops will be directly held on the community Platform “Eventlabs”. This application will be your one-stop platform for the ImpactXcelerate Program.

This program aims to aid German social enterprises and public welfare organizations in enhancing their social and environmental impact. Skills that you will learn will range from impact assessment, monitoring, growth hacking techniques, and efficient tools to review your business model and accelerate it. Additionally, you will learn how aligning your personal purpose to your company impact and how this can drive your team. Finally, you will learn quick tips inspired by a social business that you can apply with low effort and high impact. These soft skills entail systemic and critical thinking, leadership with impact, and agile thinking that will be transmitted throughout all the parts of the program (community, workshops, and consulting).

The Social Business Gathering will be on the 10th and 11th of November 2023.

We will be providing free online access to the hybrid even through our application “Eventlab”, which will enable participants to gain the full experience. The possibility of attending the Gathering live in Berlin will be disclosed closer to the event, as this is dependent on our location capabilities. In the case live attendance is possible, we will offer discounted tickets for those part of the ImpactXcelereate community. Participants in the acceleration program will be able to join for free.

For this program, you will need a smart device, that would allow you to access this program community platform through the Grameen Creative Lab application “Eventlabs”. Additionally, we advise participants to use either a laptop or a Tablet/iPad to take part in the workshops. The larger format would allow participants to fill out our virtual workbooks with more ease.

You can flexibly join the online workshops on the 17th and 24th of October. For attending all the workshops, we are expecting participants to set aside a maximum of 8 hours.

3 Community chats will be offered throughout September with a maximum duration of 1 hour. You can freely decide which sessions to attend and for how long.

The acceleration program entails 10 compulsory hours for each social business enterprise from the 4th of September until the 1st of December. On top of this, we will be providing exercises, that each social enterprise needs to work on outside the compulsory consulting hours. We reassure you that these exercises will be all doable within your busy schedule and most importantly it will help your business to grow and level-up!