Become a Host
Bring SIA to youth in your country! We work with like-minded organizations who run the SIA program locally and become a part of our international network of hosts.
Since 2012, we’ve developed an innovative licensing model that allows us to extend our reach globally while at the same time being deeply rooted in local realities. To make this possible, we work with organizations that are embedded in their local ecosystem who run our ready-made program. We offer them a set of centralized services at low costs, therefore maintaining alignment beyond borders.
We call our licensees “hosts”. Our hosts are much more to us than contractual licensing partners, but rather collaborators for impact that share our mission.
Benefits
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International Network
You become part of a collaborative community of social entrepreneurship organizations active in over 17 countries. You gain access to our internationally recognized brand and meet with our network of hosts twice a year.
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Ecosystem Enablement
You are able to accelerate the development of your local social entrepreneurship ecosystem. SIA has been designed to convene a wide array of stakeholders with its program and foster the creation of new social ventures, enabling meaningful connections and collaborations across your country.
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Individualized Support
You get access to our 7 clusters of services as well as our tried & tested program design for both offline and online gatherings.
Licensing Journey
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First Contact
Let’s get to know each other! If there is a mutual fit, we will provide you access to our SIA Playbook where you will find all the information you need to decide if you want to pursue the opportunity.
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Candidate Application
Before becoming a SIA host, you can apply to become a SIA candidate. As a candidate, you will prepare the implementation of the next edition of the program with our help. Once you apply, we review your application together and answer any questions you may have. If your application is approved, you sign the license agreement and become a candidate.
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Implementation Period
Once a candidate, we need to make sure you have the financial and human resources necessary to run the program. To do this, we ask candidates to appoint a country coordinator and secure a portion of the budget needed to run SIA locally. We provide you with a comprehensive Candidate Toolkit to help you with this.
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Becoming a Host
Once all is ready and another agreement has been signed, you are a member of the SIA community! We take you through a tailor made onboarding process and answer any questions or concerns you might have.
Host Experiences
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What I like about SIA is that it focuses on a segment that is often neglected in social entrepreneurship programming. There are very few programs focusing on the idea-stage, which limits the number of new ideas in the pipeline. SIA has a structured and longer-term scope in supporting this stage, particularly from idea to business modeling and prototyping.
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SIA is a great value offering for students and youth. Being a global program with a great track record, it is easier to fundraise with foundations and corporations. Currently, the largest Czech Bank and Google are funding our program, along with other non-financial partners like PWC.
Looking to run the SIA program in your country?
Get in touch with our scaling manager to ask any questions you might have about licensing our program.
Our Hosts
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Center for Youth Education
NGO “Center for Youth Education” is a non-governmental, non-profit and non-political youth organization, founded in Podgorica in 2009, with the aim of supporting, affirming and encouraging young people to strengthen activism, volunteerism, mobility and non-formal education.
As a socially responsible organization, we have been implementing projects for years related to strengthening the capacity of young people, their informal education, development of a culture of youth participation, providing mechanisms for their activism and development of youth work.
We strive to contribute to the creation of better conditions for growing up, maturing, living and working of young people in our environment with our ideas and projects. As values that we provide, we can mention teamwork, tolerance, transparency, desire for networking and innovation in work, as well as readiness and openness to new experiences and knowledge.
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Cosmo Foundation
Cosmo Foundation is a non-profit organization committed to empowering refugees and marginalized youth in Uganda to forge their own opportunities through social entrepreneurship and personal development. Our goal is to cultivate self-reliance, resilience, and sustainable community development by granting access to education, training, and resources aimed at addressing social and environmental challenges within both refugee and host communities. We invite you to join us in making a positive social impact and changing lives within refugee communities.
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Coworking Cvernovka
A community coworking space for a diverse community of freelancers, small entrepreneurs, non-profits and social innovators. In addition to basic services. The coworking space also offers regular networking events for its members and a wide range of educational events, discussions, workshops, lectures and seminars, both offline and online.
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HUKI
The Croatian Office for Creativity and Innovation (HUKI) is an association founded to promote entrepreneurship, social innovation, networking and mutual assistance in developing personal skills for employment and personal advancement. The association focuses on youth networking and non-formal education, whose ultimate goal is to raise the motivation, entrepreneurial spirit and willingness of young people to participate in shaping positive social change with a lifelong personal development and enhancement of personal competences with the aim of creating a prosperous future for each individual and therefore the entire community.
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Impact Hub Budapest
Impact Hub Budapest provides a home for a diverse community that supports positive social change. They believe that a more sustainable world evolves from the combined accomplishments of creative, compassionate, and collaborative people who see and do things differently and have the entrepreneurial passion to create REAL impact. Impact Hub Budapest hosts many inspiring events to educate and connect their members and their local community. Ever since their launch in March 2016 they’ve been spreading the news of impact in the city.
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Impact Hub Hyderabad
Impact Hub Hyderabad is a dynamic community that provides a supportive ecosystem for entrepreneurs and innovators who are working to solve pressing social and environmental challenges.
Our diverse community brings together individuals, companies, and organizations who share a common vision of creating positive change in the local communities.
We empower changemakers to turn their passion for social responsibility into profitable and sustainable business ventures. At Impact Hub Hyderabad, we believe that by balancing social impact with profitability, we can create a world that works for everyone.
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Impact Hub Innovation
Impact Hub Innovation has unlimited opportunities for everyone who wants to educate, entertain, inspire and develop. As part of a global network, their community and coworking spaces offer the perfect work environment and event venue for individuals, start-ups and small companies in the Czech republic. So far, since their launch in 2010, they have run 8 acceleration programs for smart ideas and – with a panel of consultants and experienced mentors in the back and proven models for years – they continue to enable entrepreneurs to grow across the market.
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Impact Hub Istanbul
Impact Hub Istanbul offers a membership based co-working space to empower impact driven, creative people. The community consists of people from a wide variety of disciplines like entrepreneurs, consultants, investors, software developers, designers, artists, creatives, and freelancers. Impact Hub Istanbul provides institutions and community members not only with an environment and events that get them inspired to increase their impact, but also with an authentic ecosystem where there’s strategic resources and collaboration opportunities. Impact Hub Istanbul is a part of Impact Hub global network, operating in more than 100 centers around the world with more than 16.000 members.
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Impact Hub Monterrey
Founded in 2013, Impact Hub Monterrey is a non-gubernamental and non-profit organization whose mission is supporting people from vulnerable communities, like women, people with disabilities, people from indigenous communities, and most recently youth, to develop their business through teaching and mentoring, with the objective they could start a venture that will bring incomes to support themselves and their families.
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Impact Hub Tbilisi
Impact Hub Tbilisi is a co-working space where one can meet, collaborate, produce, learn, network and create. It is a place, where individuals and organizations strive to create a better world. They are a team of thinkers and doers with different personalities and diverse professional backgrounds, including but not limited to business, commercial and development banking, media, government, non-profit and private sectors. Their vision is to foster trust, collaboration, transparency and knowledge sharing among diverse group of people.involving over 2700 youths in 25 cities; incubating 70 start-ups each year; accelerating over 20 social innovators yearly and gathering over 550 innovators in Future Summit every November.
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Impact Hub Yerevan
Impact Hub Armenia Social Innovation Development Foundation (a.k.a Impact Hub Yerevan) is a social innovation space and community with a mission to support social impact projects and enterprises which propel the positive development of Armenia. We have proven to be one of the most successful social enterprises in Armenia: 50+% of our annual income is generated from the business activities we run, such as offering a unique coworking space, consulting services and so on.
Since opening its doors in 2016, Impact Hub Yerevan has designed and implemented 30+ programs, hosted over 500 social and educational events, and has hosted over 1000 members with different projects/organizations representing every sector in Armenia.
We are passionate to make a positive impact, to help pave the way for a better and just future. We value diversity in perspectives, knowledge and experience because we understand that the best way to solve complex challenges is by creating multi-faceted and innovative solutions. We inspire, connect and enable entrepreneurs and individuals to take on Global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
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Razlivalište
Razlivalište was initiated by a group of students that were – and still are – determined to make the environment more fruitful for those who want tackle societal issues. Since its launch in 2014, the organization is an integral part of the community dealing with the field of social entrepreneurship and youth education, in Serbia and in the world. Through various programs, young people are encouraged to initiate as well as participate in social change by evoking their entrepreneurial skills.
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SENTA Bukavu
Social Entrepreneurship Academy (SENTA) supports local youth in the Democratic Republic of Congo to become social entrepreneurs. As many refugees have fled the Kivu region into Uganda, creating economic opportunities is a prerequisite to stability and peace. SENTA is part of the Social Innovation Academy (SINA), who tackles failing education and resulting unemployment in Africa by creating self-organized and freesponsible learning spaces where disadvantaged youth and refugees unleash their potential for positive change as social entrepreneurs.
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SLOAM – Slovenian Youth Agency
The Slovenian Youth Agency (SLOAM) represents the juncture between young people, non-governmental organizations, public institutions, and responsible companies. Through the development and implementation of programs and regular communication, we encourage young people into active citizenship, social and environmental responsibility and enable their personal growth.
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School of ME
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.
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Social Impact Award Deutschland gGmbH
Social Impact Award Germany (SIA) is the sister company of Social Impact Award and is focused on empowering youth to make a difference in Germany. We support their development into active agents of change that build social ventures and innovative solutions to the world’s most pressing issues.
We do so by hosting local events and organizing workshops on social entrepreneurship, running incubation programs to help validate and prototype impact and business models, and nurturing this global community of resilient social entrepreneurs whose stories raise awareness about the field and inspire local youth to take action.
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Social Impact Award gGmbH
Social Impact Award (SIA) empowers youth to make a difference in 15+ countries across Europe, Central Asia, and Africa. We support their development into active agents of change that build social ventures and innovative solutions to the world’s most pressing issues.
We do so by hosting local events and organizing workshops on social entrepreneurship, running incubation programs to help validate and prototype impact and business models, and nurturing this global community of resilient social entrepreneurs whose stories raise awareness about the field and inspire local youth to take action.
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Social Innovation Academy
The Social Innovation Academy (SINA) is tackling failing education and resulting unemployment in Africa through creating self-organized and freesponsible learning spaces, where disadvantaged youth and refugees unleash their potential for positive change as social entrepreneurs. Tailor-made empowerment stages and self-management processes support scholars to define their own path and put the power of education in their own hands. Enabled as changemakers, scholars often turn challenges into opportunities to make a sustainable living out of what they are passionate about.
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The Social Incubator
The Social Incubator Association is founded in April 2014, to increase the chances of social and professional integration of youth from vulnerable backgrounds through the development and implementation of tailor-made services and innovative entrepreneurship solutions. Most often they deal with the educational sphere, integration, and mentoring, but also artistic area.
Hosting Eligibility Criteria
To ensure a successful relationship for both parties, we have carefully crafted a set of eligibility criteria for hosts.
- Mission Fit: your organization is impact-driven, has a strong focus on entrepreneurship, and believes in the innovative potential of youth.
- Implementation Capacity: your organization has the experience and human resources necessary to run a full-year program with multiple stakeholders.
- Fundraising Capacity: your organization has the necessary experience, knowledge, and networks necessary to fundraise for SIA’s national implementation costs.
Get in touch with us
Are you interested in running SIA in your country?
Our team
Our team works tirelessly to improve the quality of our program and deepen our impact.
