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Funding What Matters: Making Social Impact Visible​

Tampere

Human Beings in the Modern World

Funding What Matters: Making Social Impact Visible​

Description
Social innovations are created to address deep-rooted issues such as inequality and environmental degradation. Their real value lies in long-term, systemic change – matters like improving community resilience, strengthening social cohesion, and fostering ecological regeneration. Yet, the language of funding is still tied to traditional economic ROI. This creates a disconnect: funders often ask for financial projections, while innovators speak in terms of human and ecological well-being. This gap presents an opportunity to reimagine how we measure and communicate impact, enabling mission-driven projects to secure the investment they need to thrive. How can we bridge the gap between social innovation and traditional funding by making non-monetary impact tangible, credible, and financially compelling? The goal is to design a framework or communication tool that helps social innovators narrate and visualise their value in a way that resonates with funders, demonstrating returns that extend beyond economic profit. How to identify and translate intangible outcomes (e.g., empowerment, community trust) into visible, credible, and fundable metrics. What forms of visual storytelling or data representation can best convey this value? How might such a framework support better funding decisions and policy goals? In this project, we will design a tool, framework, or model that quantifies and visualises the often-intangible outcomes of social innovation. The solution should help innovators map their impact, translate it into a credible narrative, and justify investments based on long-term, non-monetary benefits.
Contact person
Jere Wessman
Jere Wessman

Head of Talent Development

+358 40 631 4029

jere@demola.net

Heini-Marja Rintaniemi
Heini-Marja Rintaniemi

Program Manager

+358 50 582 7401

heikku@demola.net

Basic information

Apply by

14 Sept 2025

Location

Tampere

Teamwork

In person

Language

English

Timeline

Project starts

30 Sept 2025

Kick-off day1

30 Sept 2025

Kick Off day2

01 Oct 2025

Mid-event

22 Oct 2025

Final session

03 Dec 2025

Project ends

03 Dec 2025

Related tags

#impact

#investments

#roi

#social innovation

#sroi

#visualization