How can charities unlock real innovation and impact — while also building long-term sustainability?
Join us for a live webinar in collaboration with Firetail, featuring Sonnet’s founder Jim Clifford OBE, and senior consultant, Kirsten Hopkins, as we explore how innovation funds can be a game-changing strategy for social impact organisations.
Drawing on real-world examples and decades of experience, Jim will walk you through:
- Different innovation fund models — internal, external, hybrid — and how each one works in practice
- How investment-style thinking can unlock innovation, improve decision-making, and stimulate scalable change
- The strategic benefits of adopting a venture-style approach to social impact, including
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- Focusing innovation for measurable impact
- Encouraging sustainability through commercial discipline
- Attracting co-investment and influencing others to fund wisely
- Building a strong pipeline of projects — and learnings
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- Pitfalls to avoid, including weak pipelines, unrealistic return expectations, and under-investing
- The role of charities, foundations, and corporates in shaping and sharing risk to fund real solutions
Whether you’re just starting to explore innovation funding, or actively developing a fund model, this session will provide both strategic insight and practical takeaways to support your thinking. This session is ideal for CEOs, trustees, and senior leaders in charities and foundations looking to think differently about strategy, funding and future sustainability.
Grab your lunch, log on, and learn something new with peers across the sector:
Date: Wednesday 15 May
Time: 12:00pm–12:45pm (UK)
Free Registration here
