About the program
Intensive business development program for social startups and existing social enterprises. The purpose of the program is to help participants improve their products and services, pump up business and entrepreneurial competencies, scale and attract investment. We will teach you to earn steadily by solving a social problem.
Accelerator of social entrepreneurship provides online training, mentoring and expert support.
The program is for you if you are:
1. A founder or manager of a small/medium business who wants to make own business socially responsible:
- employment and social well-being of persons with disabilities, military, displaced persons, orphans and other socially vulnerable segments of society;
- youth unemployment;
- youth vocational education;
- ecological safety;
- community development assistance;
- systematic financial support of social projects
2. A founder or manager of an existing social enterprise who seeks to increase sales and scale business
3. A graduate of the Pre-accelerator of the Ukrainian Social Academy who wants to turn own startup into a working business
4. Having a social startup with a working model and an existing product/service prototype
Schedule:
- projects introduction
- 7 stages of turning ideas into business
- check of the project status
- analysis of own business model and value proposition
- marketing strategy for a startup
- brand attributes and the strategy of bringing the brand to market
- sales communication channels
- sales skills
- strategic and operational financial planning
- budget planning
- setting financial goals and analyzing results
- how to make decisions based on financial indicators
- forming a role profile
- how to understand whether an employee will suit your business and the current team at the selection stage
- setting goals and objectives
- performance evaluation and team motivation
- where to look for investors
- how to present your project to an investor
- how to properly enter into a contract and work with investors
- project protection
What you will get:
- comprehensive training in social enterprise management
- individual mentoring for each of the teams from key experts
- consultations with the team of the Ukrainian Social Academy
- involvement in the ecosystem of social entrepreneurship
- practical work with experts, setting individual goals and independent work "in the field" with customers and users of your products
- investments from Ukrainian Social Academy and other investors. The amount of investment will depend on the needs of each startup
