Next cohort April 17th 2023
What Will You Learn?
- Strategies to Unlock Untapped Sources of Funding
- Building a Unique Financing Strategy
- The Key Metrics to present to Investors and Funders
- Who Funders are and How to Find Them?
Course format
- 90 minutes live sessions twice a week (everything is recorded)
- 1 facilitator led working group a week with peers
- Weekly assignments
- Pre recorded videos
The course is 100% online
Time commitment: From 6 to 10 hours a week (you are welcome to invite someone from your organisation)
Fredrik Galtung
Ashoka Fellow & Founder of Integrity Action
"Remarkable thing is introducing basic concepts that encapsulate what is essentially needed. This has been extremely helpful."
Pam Warhust
Ashoka Fellow & Founder of Incredible Edible
"What a brilliantly presented day. I truly have put my brain in gear around what I am, who are the customers, the products and the pitch. I'm so glad I came."
Wietse van der Werf
Ashoka Fellow & Founder of Sea Rangers
"It was brilliant. I have some experience, but going over all the material again was extremely helpful and it was perfectly delivered."
Meet the instructor
Mark Cheng is an experienced impact investor who has helped more than 100 leading social enterprises around the world unlock new sources of funding. Since 2007, he has held the role of Senior Advisor on Social Finance at Ashoka, the global network for social entrepreneurs. He helped Ashoka Fellows raise over USD 250mn in social finance. In 2018, Mark wrote the Social Investment Toolkit to share insights and learnings from his work with a much broader audience, and 'de-mystify' the process of raising finance for a new generation of social entrepreneurs. This Live Course is based on the content from the Social Investment Toolkit.
