Innovative Finance: Hacking for Social Change
Learn to build innovative financing strategies for social impact. Explore resource mapping, outcome-based contracts, and impact measurement.
Learn to build innovative financing strategies for social impact. Explore resource mapping, outcome-based contracts, and impact measurement.
This course on Innovative Finance: Hacking finance to change the world equips learners with the skills to develop innovative financing strategies for social and environmental outcomes. The curriculum covers five key components of the innovative finance process: identifying outcomes, due diligence using design thinking, mapping available resources, discovering opportunities, and designing financing strategies. Through real-world case studies from social entrepreneurs, non-profits, development funders, impact investors, governments, and foundations, students explore new types of revenue creation, financing approaches, business models, and partnerships. The course focuses on impact areas such as financial inclusion, access to energy, education, housing, health, agriculture, and water, sanitation, and hygiene. Learners will gain practical skills in mapping resources, identifying outcomes, innovating financing strategies, discovering opportunities, and conducting due diligence in their chosen issue area. By the end of the course, participants will be able to hack finance for social change, addressing global challenges with innovative financial tools and strategies.
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What you'll learn
Understand the innovative finance process and its application to social impact
Develop skills in mapping available resources for social and environmental outcomes
Learn to identify and measure impact in various social sectors
Master the use of design thinking in due diligence for social initiatives
Explore multi-stakeholder partnerships and their role in innovative finance
Understand business model innovation in the context of social impact
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This course includes:
3.5 Hours PreRecorded video
14 quizzes
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There are 5 modules in this course
This course on Innovative Finance: Hacking finance to change the world provides a comprehensive exploration of innovative financing strategies for social and environmental impact. Designed for beginners, the curriculum covers the five key components of the innovative finance process: identifying outcomes, conducting due diligence using design thinking, mapping available resources, discovering opportunities, and designing effective financing strategies. Through real-world case studies from various sectors including social enterprises, non-profits, impact investors, and governments, students learn about new types of revenue creation, financing approaches, business models, and partnerships. The course focuses on impact areas such as financial inclusion, access to energy, education, housing, health, agriculture, and water, sanitation, and hygiene. Participants will develop practical skills in resource mapping, outcome identification, innovative strategy development, opportunity discovery, and issue area due diligence. By the end of the course, learners will be equipped to hack finance for social change, applying innovative financial tools and strategies to address global challenges.
Choosing Your Issue Area
Module 1 · 3 Hours to complete
Understanding Challenges and Roadblocks
Module 2 · 4 Hours to complete
Identifying Resources
Module 3 · 3 Hours to complete
Discovering Opportunities
Module 4 · 4 Hours to complete
Designing for Impact
Module 5 · 2 Hours to complete
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Instructors
Innovator in Social Impact Finance and Educator at UC Cape Town and Oxford
Aunnie Patton Power is the founder of Intelligent Impact and serves as an advisor to the Bertha Centre for Social Innovation and Entrepreneurship at the University of Cape Town’s Graduate School of Business. She is also an Associate Fellow at the University of Oxford’s Saïd School of Business. In her roles, Aunnie manages projects related to Social Impact Bonds, Development Impact Bonds, impact investing, and sustainable philanthropy. She consults with various organizations, including start-ups and investment funds, on social investment strategies and lectures on social finance across multiple programs, including EMBA and MBA courses.
Driving Impact Investment Strategies at AHL Venture Partners
Tsakane Ngoepe is based in Nairobi, where she supports the investment activities of AHL Venture Partners through the entire cycle, including origination, structuring, and post-investment portfolio support. Before joining AHL, she was an impact investment analyst at the Bertha Centre for Social Innovation and Entrepreneurship, focusing on researching and testing innovative financing instruments and projects. Additionally, Tsakane served as a research and writing assistant to Julia Balandina Jaquier for the second edition of “Catalyzing Wealth for Change,” an impact investing guide aimed at high-net-worth individuals and family offices. She holds a BCom Honours degree in Financial Analysis and Portfolio Management from the University of Cape Town.
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