Funding
The Impact Amplifier Foundation was formed to specifically focus on funding social innovators in Africa and develop ecosystem solutions to the challenges confronting the continent. The public sector, charities and now social enterprises make up a tapestry of support for many social and environment issues in Africa. Although increasing in activity, the funding for and scale of the solutions to healthcare, housing, food security, job creation, energy and water access, climate adaptation and mitigation are grossly inadequate in relation to the size of the problems.
The Foundation does not have the ambition to resource all these challenges, but instead focuses on developing ecosystem solutions that can be a catalyst for increasing activity, support and coordination. The vast majority of social and environmental solutions being implemented in Africa are not done in collaboration, coordinated, nor within a clear framework and understanding of what is needed and who is already implementing solutions. As such, the existing resources allocated in a given sector or geography are often inefficiently being applied or wasted.
Because of Impact Amplifier extensive work with social innovators, impact investor, donors and the public sector it is uniquely suited to develop ecosystem solutions and models for others to utilize. The Foundation is both a donor and a doer, implementing some solutions internally and financially supporting other innovators to build ecosystems that work.
All donations from the Foundation are done via calls for applications. Please see the open calls page for current opportunities.
Investing
In addition to being a direct funder, Impact Amplifier also supports businesses to align their vision and plans with those of investors through its unique investment readiness process.
Post completing Impact Amplifier’s acceleration process it raises grant, equity or debt-based funding for social enterprise from a broad range of local and international impact investors.
The following reflects the projects Impact Amplifier was or is involved in from 2019 to the present timeframe.
Client:
SAIS
Location:
South Africa, Namibia, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Tanzania, Malawi, Botswana
Date:
2019 – December 2022
Client:
Google.org
Location:
Sub-Saharan Africa
Date:
June 2020 - Present
Client:
Nando's
Location:
South Africa, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Malawi, USA, Australia, New Zealand
Date:
2012 - Present
Client:
FoodForward South Africa (FFSA)
Location:
South Africa
Date:
June 2020 – July 2022
Client:
The World Bank & YES (Youth Employment Service)
Location:
South Africa
Date:
September 2020 – September 2023
Client:
SAB Foundation
Location:
South Africa
Date:
2018 - Present
Client:
PFAN
Location:
Benin, Burkina Faso, Madagascar, Senegal, Togo
Date:
March 2022 – August 2023
Client:
Sahara Foundation and Leap Africa
Location:
Nigeria, Ghana, Kenya, Zambia, Burundi, Malawi, South Africa, Tanzania and Uganda
Date:
July 2022 – October 2023
Client:
Future Females
Location:
Kenya, Nigeria, Namibia, South Africa
Date:
May 2022 – December 2022
Client:
DFA- Irish Embassy South Africa
Location:
South Africa
Date:
October 2020 – September 2022
Impact Amplifier offers a range of acceleration and training programmes focused on getting impact businesses ready for investment.
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