About the company
Amplify Impact is about more than just the bottom line. Our vision is to empower mission-driven people and companies to achieve greatness. We believe that people who work for the good of their communities and the marketplace are the ones who will win. And we’re here to stack the deck in your favor. Leverage all of our tools, expertise and experience to amplify your voice.
Neighborhoods/CSR officers in companies/Smart Cities:
Issues we are solving:
- Lack of accountability even within 311 and reporting systems for ongoing neighborhood problems
- Lack of accountability for moving community issues forward. Money comes into neighborhoods but what is the real collective impact if any
- Incenting people to buy local on our neighborhood main streets using stories and local deals
- Matchmaking local small businesses with opportunities with larger businesses (supplier diversity)
- Communities own their own their own content and research to promote their policies
- Transparency for all government, local, and business projects going on
- Way to track community benefits that seem to disappear
- How do you measure impact on a community/zip code level to know what has and has not worked
- How do we connect daily decisions to the Social Impact/Corporate Social Responsibility goals that the UN outlined
Non-profits:
- Sustainability for the long term Mission aligning their endowment
- VCs
- Source deals
- Fund deals
- Measure long term impact
Government issues:
- Are you trying to get real community impact and involvement?
- Are you a government program or department trying to measure community impact? Are you trying to go beyond reaching only 10% of your community?
- Do you want to get interaction from 50% or more on important issues? Do your metrics of success have to improve?
Foundation:
- Earned income: productize Additional funding sources -> stable funding -> operational stability by redeploying cash saved on investment fees
These are some additional challenges faced by nonprofits.
- Philanthropy and the War Against Economic Inequality.
- Shrinking Help From the Government.
- Stable Income and Accurate Budgeting.
- Pressure to Show Results.
- Not Running It Like a Business.
- Attracting the Right Staff With Limited Resources.
- Increase in Need for Services.
As a foundation are you looking at ways to increase the impact of your programs and that of your grantees?
- Have you done a market analysis – do you reach less than 10% of your target population?
- Do you have to deal with building their capacity so they can reach the right audience
- Amplify impact of foundations
- Amplify impact of programs in community Amplify impact of social impact programs