You cannot achieve the desired impact with the size of your current business?
We invite you to evaluate your own potential to scale your impact and face the challenges of today and the future.
Are you tired of managing projects in a traditional way?
With our methodologies, we help you build collective strategies by listening to the protagonists and aligning the stakeholders involved.
Are project participants heading in different directions? Is it difficult to reach a collective goal?
Learn the role of an effective intermediary, and communicate through a common language among the leaders of your organization or project.
Have you enrolled in predefined courses that do not fit what you are looking for?
VIVA Idea analyzes your needs and creates training spaces that help scale the impact of your projects.
“The heart next to the invisible hand” is impact investing, says GSG founder Sir Ronald Cohen. “The time is now,” was the main message that organizations from around the world delivered at the Global Steering Group for Impact Investment (GSG) Leadership Meeting, as it is known around the world.
Inequality, exclusion, poverty and the climate crisis are just a few examples of the global challenges we are currently facing and which make it clear that no single sector of society can solve on its own. The Sustainable Development Goals will not be achieved if companies, organizations and States do not commit to them.
“The governance of international non-governmental organizations: intermediation between developed countries and the developing world” is the chapter that Urs Jäger and Jose Pablo Valverde wrote in the book “Research Handbook on nonprofit governance” published by Edward Elgar Publishing in London and edited and compiled by Gemma Donnelly-Cox, Michael Meyer and Filip Wijkström.
WE WORK ON THREE CORE TOPICS:
Sustainability and social progress
Formal and informal markets
Impact Investing
HOW DO WE SUPPORT YOU?
You will find solutions to achieve your impact objectives:
Increase the impact
of social and environmental businesses and projects through collaboration with others.
Create business opportunities
in informal markets through capital found in local environments.
Create an action plan
between various stakeholders (including potential conflicting stakeholders) where no time is wasted.
Lead projects with many actors
in which the main connection is the purpose and not the .
Negotiate impact for resource
to scale the scope of projects.
Find companies
that meet the investment selection criteria based on their growth potential.
HOW DO WE GENERATE OUR SOLUTIONS?
We have created a process of social innovation based on scientific research that guarantees an increase in your project’s impact:
Impact Network
We work, collaborate and exchange knowledge with a large number of actors who have generated large-scale impact towards sustainability.
Yolanda Kakabadse
"We have to reflect on the importance of new businesses having a long-term perspective as well as a compatible social, environmental, and economic conscience."
Tasso Acevedo
, MapaBiomas
"We needed to organize ourselves to fight against deforestation intelligently. We have the information and the capacity to work with many of the innovative tools that civil society is creating."
Michael Green
, Social Progress Imperative
"We develop data-driven tools that measure whether people have what they need to thrive; from their basic needs to whether they are treated fairly, to help improve the quality of life for everyone.”
Albina Ruíz
, Ministry of Production of Peru
"We seek to achieve more and more healthy cities so that there are no longer any recyclers on the streets or in dumps, but instead, for all of them to have their own decent and sustainable companies."
Hernando de Soto
, Institute for Liberty and Democracy
"Reality is constantly changing and the law is always several steps behind. That huge gap needed facts and indicators, and with the help of Stephan Schmidheiny we managed to support the legitimization of farmers."
Martin Burt
, Fundación Paraguaya
"The concept of microfinance is brilliant because it is not about finances, but about dignity. We have created financially self-sufficient agricultural schools for the poor, using these same microfinance concepts."
Norine MacDonald
, International Council on Security and Development (ICOS)
"One of the greatest challenges to environmental, social and economic sustainability is engaging young people at social risk, making them participants in the future prosperity and not the source of future instability."
Ligia Chinchilla
, Tero Lá
"What is necessary is the confidence to share more information to obtain feedback. Being an angel investor stems from the desire to have a greater impact on entrepreneurs who can improve Latin America."
Paul Rice
, Fair Trade USA
"Fair trade is all about improving lives, but we don't do that through charity, there is no hand out in the Fair Trade movement. People are solving their own problems through Fair Trade."
