The U&WE Hub program was founded in response to the war. With the help of partners, an online program was launched, which provided impressive results – 30% of women who didn’t have business registered during the program.
The DEC brings together 15 leading UK aid charities to raise funds quickly and efficiently at times of humanitarian crisis overseas. Pooling resources to work as one, they are pivotal in co-ordinating the UK public’s response to overseas disasters.
In collaboration with Rapid Response Network of national media and corporate partners, they raise the alarm to the UK public and set up easy ways to donate. Through The Possible Alliance, DEC provides vital financial support to Ukrainian businesses.
The Creative Impact Research Centre Europe (CIRCE) is based in Berlin and aims to promote the resilience of the cultural and creative economies and strengthen the sector in its innovative power. Through Europe-wide, practice-oriented projects and research, CIRCE emphasises the importance of diverse and open cultural and creative economies that focus on collaboration.
By experimenting with new approaches and ideas using creative methods, the network drives social change forward –and thus generates creative impact. CIRCE has actively supported The Possible Lab stream.
Save the Children operates in 120 countries to improve the lives of children, to make their world a better place, to help them learn, grow and become who they want to be. Save the Children has co-founded The Possible to bring sustainable change to the lives of children in Ukraine.
Save the Children Global Ventures offers a unique combination of investment expertise and a deep understanding of what it takes to achieve impact for children in the world’s most challenging places. Their work is backed by the unparalleled global reach and capabilities of Save the Children, which generates global pipeline opportunities and scaling support for portfolio companies.
Civic is an activator, helping unlock the latent capacity of communities to respond to the world’s pressing challenges. In 2023, Civic co-founded The Possible to help renew Ukraine with an enterprising spirit.
Hogan Lovells is one of the world’s top law firms advising on corporate, finance, litigation, regulatory and IP law.
In 2010, Hogan Lovells was created through the merger of Hogan & Hartson and Lovells, both established over 100 years ago. Described as the “transatlantic merger that set the standard for others to achieve,” (The Lawyer, 2021) the company has continued to evolve and excel over the years to become the firm they are today.
Hogan Lovells offers extensive experience and insights gained from working in some of the world’s most complex legal environments and markets for corporations, financial institutions, and governments.
Their 2,800 lawyers on six continents provide practical legal solutions, help identify and mitigate risk, and make the most of opportunities. At The Possible, Hogan Lovells provides technical assistance and legal support.
ID Partners is a boutique Ukrainian legal firm with a particular interest in serving impact-driven enterprises. They offer legal services in business, trading and shipping, creative and cultural industries, anti-crises management, and lobbying and advocacy campaings.
Working with a community, the Restart team explores solutions for both current issues, like “How to optimise the spatial network of schools considering the number of their students?”, and future challenges: “Which territories will be most vulnerable to climate change in the next ten years and how to deal with that?”
As a result, the Restart team provides complex analytics for the community’s spatial development, a conceptual document offering answers to the key issues, and a list of projects intended to activate the community, leading it to stable development.
School of Mindful Entrepreneurship (School of ME) is an NGO/startup that develops and implements social, school, and youth entrepreneurial projects to achieve change of values in the business ecosystem. They empower and support driven individuals in embracing mindful entrepreneurship through our educational, consulting, and supportive initiatives.
CSR Ukraine has been promoting socially responsible business in Ukraine for 15 years, and is currently focussed on building Hubs to support female entrepreneurs around the country.
CSR Ukraine promotes the principles of sustainable business and social responsibility in Ukraine by implementing social projects, providing consultations, and conducting seminars and training on CSR issues. CSR Ukraine has launched Ukraine Women Entrepreneurs Hub, a community of conscious female entrepreneurs and a training program designed to help Ukrainian women create/develop their own businesses in Ukraine or in the host country, achieve financial independence, develop soft skills and become effective leaders.
Promprylad.Renovation is an innovation center on premises of an old plant. It focuses on four areas of region development — new economy, urban design, contemporary art, and education. Project follows the impact investing model, where investors contribute to social changes in the region and get a return on investment in the form of dividend payouts.
SILab is a professional platform for social entrepreneurship and social innovation development, impact investment promotion, and social partnership building.
They are building an ecosystem of social entrepreneurship and social innovation development as tools for the formation of social responsibility culture in society.
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Within the Possible Alliance, SILab is actively supporting Ukrainian entrepreneurs both with funding and technical assistance. They are also co-founders of USVF.
Greencubator is an ecosystem organisation for sustainable entrepreneurship, low-carbon innovations and green economy development in Ukraine and Eastern Europe. Greencubator offers a platform for connecting energy talents and driving green entrepreneurship.
For Ukraine’s green startups, social enterprises and sustainable innovators, Greencubator opens business development, networking and investment opportunities. They also build energy and sustainability awareness by educating society and the media about green economy opportunities and low-carbon innovations.
Ukrainian Social Venture Fund was established to gather resources to aid in the development of social entrepreneurship and to cooperatively address challenges to the field. As an impact fund, they help social enterprises to develop sustainable and efficient business models, and to maximize social and environmental impact. They also provide financial support and business expertise aimed at employing new technologies and business practices, improving product quality and increasing social value.
Since 2021, USVF has been actively cooperating with the European Venture Philanthropy Association, a leading organization in the field based in Brussels. Within the framework of the Collaborate for Impact project, USVF studies the experience and outcomes gained by various European social investing organizations and tries to tailor them to both the unique opportunities and challenges present in today’s Ukraine. The core activity of USVF is development of impact investing practices.
In 2024, USVF and The Possible are piloting the country’s first program for partially repayable investments aimed at creating a model that would allow combining international investment practices with scaling social impact in Ukraine.