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Hi, Office for Audacity
After months of deliberation, dozens of conversations and ongoing testing of our ideas, we are enormly excited to embark on our entrepreneurial adventure. Today we officially launch The Office for Audacity.
20.09.2023 - We consider ourselves as the external resource and expertise for visionaries and philanthropic organizations that want to break new ground.
We support organizations in the design and implementation of bold social innovation projects - tailormade, practical and effective.
Because our world is changing, so must our approaches to find solutions for the most pressing problems of our times: climate change and biodiversity loss, erosion of democracy and media freedom, technological disruption, just to name a few.
Yet, besides money and courage, bold social innovation projects with the ambition to change the status quo require support - especially in the beginning. Philanthropic organisations do not always have the time, methodological knowledge and due to the power relation not always have a deep insight into the projects.
This is where we come in.
Together, we combine the practical experience of implementing innovation projects and the strategic accompaniment and enablement of these from the perspective of the funding institutions. We promise a concentrated dose of expertise, creativity, tools and moonshot mentality.
We focus on the topics that are essential for the resilience (strategic risk management) of an organization:
Impact orientation
Governance and structure
Sustainable financing
Thus, we are beyond happy to already working together with first partners:
SKKG - We accompany the foundation on an internal process towards more impact orientation.
SwissFoundations, the most important association of charitable grant-making foundations in Switzerland, we support a new digitalization project.
We are looking forward to working with these and future projects with the vision to empower bold innovation projects, amplify impact, and accelerate (system) change.
Many thanks to the ones who supported us on the way:
Design / Logo: Isabella Furler, lugma
Website: Jonas Huber, modem
Fotos: Leo Päffgen
Büro: Karl der Grosse, Fabienne Schellenberg
What's our starting point?
The philanthropy sector as a key player for social innovation
20.09.2023 - The philanthropy sector is a key player and catalyst for finding solutions to the great challenges of our time: social innovation projects receive venture capital to develop and test new approaches to solutions. Such daring projects are complex and thus have an increased risk of failure. With targeted support, this risk can be reduced and the innovative power of the projects can be strengthened - so that courage, both for the projects and for the funding institutions, pays off even more.
Relevant literature on the topic: