Tools & Resources Library
Access free and discounted tools and resources from ecosystem partners like Acumen, Global Innovation Fund, LinkedIn Learning, and more designed to help social enterprises survive and thrive through COVID-19 and beyond.
Microsoft
Free
The Cloud Toolkit
The toolkit provides non-technical entrepreneurs and small businesses with the know how on adopting cloud technology.
Microsoft
Free
SkillsLab
An Apprenticeship programme to upskill talented youth and address the digital skills gap in the industry.
EY
Free
EY Enterprise Resilience Tool
This free tool provides a broad assessment to help you understand your enterprise’s resilience and more clearly prioritize your actions.
EY
EY Consulting Services
EY professionals provide hands-on or virtual services on a not-for-profit basis to help impact enterprises respond to COVID-19.
TRANSFORM
Free
10,000 Women: Business Education for Women Entrepreneurs
Take your business skills to the next level with the Goldman Sachs 10,000 Women online business education program.
GSMA
Free
Digital Dividends in Plastic Recycling
This report explores the benefits that plastics organizations in LMICs reap from using digital tools or services or partnering with technology organisations.
UK-Kenya Tech Hub
Free
How to Start and Grow Your Business in Kenya
A resource packed book with lessons and tips on starting and growing a business.
Thomson Reuters Foundation
Free
TrustLaw Pro Bono Network
TrustLaw is the world's biggest global pro bono service. We connect non-profits and social enterprises with law firms that can provide free legal assistance.
LinkedIn Learning
Protecting Profitability by Reducing Financial Risk
This course offers practical and implementation-ready solutions to protect organizational knowledge and valuation while reducing financial risk for businesses.
LinkedIn Learning
Running a Profitable Business: Calculating Breakeven
Breakeven analysis and cost-volume-profit analysis will help you understand when - and if - your business will start to recover those costs and begin making a profit.
LinkedIn Learning
Running a Profitable Business: Understanding Cash Flow
This course reviews all the important topics you need to know for proper cash flow management and analysis.
LinkedIn Learning
Managing Your Small Business
In this course, learn strategies and techniques for running a small to medium business with confidence.
LinkedIn Learning
Lead Generation Foundations
You can't build a business without loyal customers. Lead generation is the proven way to grow your customer base and your business, year after year.
LinkedIn Learning
Marketing on LinkedIn
Get tips for sprucing up your LinkedIn and building an effective company page that's optimized for search.
LinkedIn Learning
Social Media Marketing for Small Businesses
Facebook, Instagram, or Twitter help keep you tuned into your customer base and helps drive traffic to your website or brick-and-mortar store.
LinkedIn Learning
Building a Small Business Website with WordPress
Build a professional website for your small business with WordPress.
LinkedIn Learning
Marketing for Small Businesses
Every small business is different. However, the common secret of successful small businesses lie in a solid marketing plan.
LinkedIn Learning
Building Resilience
What, why, and how to become resilient.
LinkedIn Learning
How to Manage Feeling Overwhelmed
Discover how to prevent feeling overwhelmed.
LinkedIn Learning
Managing Stress for Positive Change
Learn what stress is and how you can train yourself to use stress in more effective ways.
LinkedIn Learning
The Way to Create Value
Tomorrow's sales organisations can be built today by leaders who balance short-term needs with long-term priorities.
LinkedIn Learning
Financial Analyst
Gain the skills that make a successful financial analyst, including understanding financial statements, working with economic data, and analytical analysis skills.
LinkedIn Learning
Sales Representative
Learn core concepts and skills necessary in today's selling environment - from negotiation and closing strategies to selling with authenticity.
LinkedIn Learning
Project Manager
Learn project management fundamentals, Microsoft Project essential training, and more.
LinkedIn Learning
Customer Service Specialist
Become a customer service specialist by learning skills from LinkedIn Learning. Learn to listen to customer needs and build rapport with those you're helping.
LinkedIn Learning
Digital Marketing Specialist
Become a digital marketing specialist by learning analytical and tactical skills from LinkedIn Learning.
LinkedIn Learning
Data Analyst
Become a data analyst by learning skills from LinkedIn Learning and Microsoft Learn, then get a Microsoft Certification to validate your skills.
Johns Hopkins Center for Communication Programs
Free
COVID-19 Communication Network
The CNN curates tools and resources to help health and development professionals use social and behavior change communication to address COVID-19.
Acumen
Dan Ariely on Changing Customer Behaviour
In this Acumen Academy course, you will learn how to harness the principles of behavioural change to reach more customers and create impact.
Acumen
Free
Lean Data Approaches to Measure Social Impact
In this Acumen Academy course, you'll learn the Lean Data Methodology, a low-cost technology to gain high-quality customer data and insights.
Acumen
Free
Social Impact Analysis
In this Acumen Academy course, you'll explore frameworks and practical tools for measuring the social impact of your company, organisation, or initiative.
Acumen
Free
Designing for Environmental Sustainability and Social Impact
With this course, you will learn how to develop entrepreneurial solutions that promote environmental conservation and address problems of poverty.
Acumen
Free
Introduction to Human-Centred Design
In this hands-on Acumen Academy course, the pioneers of human-centred design will guide you through a process for designing breakthrough ideas.
Acumen
Free
Human-Centred Design 201: Prototyping
This Acumen Academy course will help you use prototyping to get your ideas into the hands of the people you're trying to change.
Acumen
Free
Lean Startup Principles for the Social Sector
With this Acumen Academy course, you will learn how to apply the lean methodologies from Silicon Valley to social issues.
Acumen
Free
Adaptive Leadership
This Acumen Academy course equips people with the skills needed to lead change in times of uncertainty in an increasingly complex world.
Acumen
Daniel Pink on the Art of Selling
In this course, you will learn to better understand your audience and convince them to take clear actions in a personal and purposeful way.
Acumen
Debbie Millman on Branding for Social Change
This Acumen Academy course guides you through the foundations of branding for social change to develop your own purpose-driven brand.
Acumen
Free
Storytelling for Change
In this hands-on Acumen Academy course, you'll develop your personal story and integrate it into a larger presentation to inspire change.
Acumen
Free
Nonprofit Fundraising Essentials
This hands-on Acumen Academy course will introduce entrepreneurial mindsets and practical tactics for bringing your fundraising efforts to the next level.
Acumen
Free
Business Models for Social Enterprise
This course, offered by Acumen Academy, explores different business models to launch social enterprises.
Global Innovation Fund
Free
ADVANCE Fund
ADVANCE is GIF's corporate partnership led by Unilever that will help unlock the private sector investment needed to scale up new business models and achieve impact.
Microsoft
Free
Finance Toolkit
Guide to entrepreneurs and small business owners in understanding their finances and to enable them to get better insight into the financial performance of their businesses.
Microsoft
Free
Marketing Toolkit
This Marketing Toolkit is designed to help you transform your business by developing your own marketing to stand out against competitors.
Microsoft
Free
HR Toolkit
Maximize employee performance with this Human Resources Toolkit.
Microsoft
Free
PR Toolkit
Build your business through effective communications.
TRANSFORM
Free
TRANSFORM Measurement and Evaluation Guide
This guide outlines five steps to measuring and evaluating your impact, including building your own Theory of Change using our ToC template.
GSMA
Free
Building Synergies Framework
The Building Synergies Framework provides in-depth assessment on how Mobile Operators and Start-Ups can partner for impact in emerging markets.
GSMA
Free
mHealth Design Toolkit
A collection of insights, tools, and key principles to increase adoption and customer uptake of mobile health services by involving end-users.
Mastercard
Free
StartPath Programme
An award-winning programme that enables later-stage tech startups to scale through a powerful global network, innovative technology, and deep expertise.
GSMA
Free
Mobile Internet Skills Training Toolkit
A set of resources to promote digital literacy, help people use the internet more safely on their mobile and ensure they have the skills required for a digital future.
EY
Finance Navigator
Specifically designed for start-ups, this online financial planning software is trusted by entrepreneurs in more than 80 countries worldwide.
EY
Free
EY Velocity
This free digital platform helps ambitious CEOs, business leaders, and entrepreneurs identify and focus on their high-impact, high-urgency priorities.
MovingWorlds
Free
How to Measure Your Social Impact as a Social Enterprise
A comprehensive MovingWorlds guide with the context, resources, and templates you need to start or improve the way you measure and report on social impact.
MovingWorlds
Free
Complete Guide to Growing & Scaling Your Social Enterprise
In this guide, you'll learn 9 proven steps with templates and examples to successfully scale your social enterprise, backed by research.
MovingWorlds
Free
Growing Your Social Enterprise Through Corporate Partnerships
In this MovingWorlds guide, find six steps to help you identify and take advantage of revenue growth opportunities with corporates.
MovingWorlds
Free
Human-Centred Design vs. Design-Thinking: Using Them Together to Create Lasting Change
Learn the frameworks of human-centred design and design thinking, how they are different, and how they can be used together to create lasting change.
Miller Center for Social Entrepreneurship
Social Enterprise Accelerator Programs
For entrepreneurs working on women’s economic empowerment and/or climate resilience with an outsized impact on eliminating poverty.
Global Distributors Collective
Free
Knowledge Hub
A collection of guides, reports, tools, and webinars related to last-mile distribution.
Spring Impact
Free
Scale Readiness Diagnostic
The scale readiness diagnostic allows you to assess your readiness to scale, understand your strengths and weaknesses, and address areas for improvement.
Spring Impact
Free
The Scaling Impact Toolkit
An open-source toolkit providing mission-driven organizations and individuals with resources to navigate their journey to scale, at any point on the journey.
Mastercard
Free
Africa Small Business Training Chatbot
This chatbot content addresses challenges uncovered by in-depth needs assessments of more than 1,700 business owners in Kenya, Uganda, Nigeria, and Côte d'Ivoire. The material provides clear, actionable tips on how to improve operational efficiency, better manage finances, and safely sell online.
Mastercard
Free
Selling Through E-Commerce and Social Media Course
This course provides practical, actionable tips on how to grow a customer base, increase online sales and profits, and boost customer satisfaction. Topics are based on knowledge gaps identified through interviews with 120 business owners in Brazil, India, Indonesia, Kazakhstan, Mexico, and Nigeria.
MIT Solve
Free
Global Challenges
MIT Solve’s Global Challenges seek social entrepreneurs who are using technology to solve today’s most pressing problems. Those selected as a Solver team join our nine-month support program, receive access to over $1 million in funding, grants, and investments, join a powerful network of impact-minded leaders, receive coaching and strategic advice from experts, and gain exposure in the media, among many other benefits.
MIT Solve
Free
Indigenous Communities Fellowship
The 2023 Indigenous Communities Fellowship is open to all innovators supporting community-based solutions by and for Indigenous communities across the United States and Canada.
MIT Solve
Free
Custom Challenges
Apply to challenges and prizes powered by MIT Solve, which we run year-round with our clients. You can also apply to Solve’s Global Challenges.
New Ventures
Free
Resource Framework
A virtual library with general resources for impact enterprises.
Johns Hopkins Center for Communication Programs
Free
WASH Toolkit for Social Enterprises
A toolkit that helps WASH-focused social enterprises to grow their business by understanding and leveraging the relationships and connections that exist within and around their organization.
Connective Impact
Free
ChatGPT for Prospecting
A step-by-step guide for using Chat GPT to create a dynamic fundraising prospect list.
Connective Impact
Free
Fundraising Assessment
10 questions to help you determine where you are on your fundraising journey.
Connective Impact
Free
Text-Based Fundraising 101 Learning Course
An SMS or WhatsApp-based quick guide to build the basics of your fundraising strategy.
Connective Impact
Free
Recommendations for Quarterly Donor Communications
Recommendations for outreach that works with the donor's timing.
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TRANSFORM Support Hub, powered by MovingWorlds, is a joint initiative between MovingWorlds, SAP, TRANSFORM, and Unilever.
TRANSFORM is an impact accelerator which connects funding, ideas and resources to support visionary impact enterprises in testing and scaling new solutions that tackle environmental challenges, improve health and wellbeing, and build inclusive economies. Led by Unilever, the UK’s Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office and EY, TRANSFORM operates across Africa, Asia and beyond.
