Skaffold:Impact Selects

At Skaffold Impact we have been fortunate to work in the U.S. and globally with partners committed to creating positive change for people and the planet. We always seek to find organizations focused on their outcomes, who aim to shift the status quo for systems change. These can be nonprofits, social ventures, or system enablers.

Financial Inclusion: Many of our Collaborators are job creators. The ripple effect of solving a social or environmental problem often creates job opportunities in places where they were not before.  When we focus on funding these organizations life-changing outcomes can happen.  These organization’s changing lives in communities often forgotten by traditional economic systems, knowing that the power of creating fair and climate-smart jobs is social impact.

Education & Training: We believe that access to quality education and skills training are critical to delivering and accelerating human potential. It’s vital to invest in the next generation no matter where they live in the world. In addition, in this rapidly changing world, we need to continuously learn and upskill working adults, especially the most vulnerable to being left behind.

A “Lensed” Approach”: Often we find that many persistent challenges or wicked problems intersect. It becomes hard to look at one problem in isolation without contemplating the follow-on effects of another area. This is where an added “lens” to addressing a problem and its solution ensures all key stakeholder needs are considered.

Here are some key lenses to consider:

  • Gender-Smart

  • Climate & Nature

  • Social Justice

  • Child-Lens

  • Worker-Lens

 

Upaya Social Ventures

Upaya Social Ventures is an award-winning impact-first nonprofit organization with a unique mandate: to fund the companies others won’t. These are the early-stage companies that are too large for microfinance but not yet ready for traditional investments and are driving the creation of dignified work for those in the most extreme poverty. Their investments in partners have created thousands of jobs and changed lives… More information →

Beneficial Returns

Expanding opportunities for people living in poverty in LATAM and Southeast Asia by leveraging conscious capital to catalyze positive change. They provide loans to support growing social enterprises that use market-based solutions to reduce poverty and protect the natural environment so the entrepreneurs can focus on growing their business, instead of fundraising. Supporting these SMEs is a path to jobs for half the world’s population that lives on less than $5.50 per day….  More information →.