AIR: Accelerating Investment Readiness (Finance4SocialChange)

AIR: Accelerating Investment Readiness (Finance4SocialChange)

Welcome to the "AIR: Accelerating Investment Readiness" Competition and Blended Learning. AIR is brought to you by the EU Interreg project Finance4SocialChange. We aim at joining impact investing and social entrepreneurship for more positive social change. Imagine acquiring useful impact skills and excelling as one of the best social ventures in our international pitch competition!

Corona and other social challenges of our times have shown us how much we need organizations that create social and ecological value—and an ecosystem in which they can thrive. #AirMOOC (AIR: Accelerating Investment Readiness) aims at joining Social Entrepreneurship & Impact Investing for more positive social change. #AirMOOC offers six modules focusing on topics at the intersection of social entrepreneurship and impact investing: Impact, Strategy, Finance, Governance, Scaling and Communication.

This MOOC is for professionals and students interested in sustainability, business ethics, responsible leadership or grand challenges, independent of whether you are attracted by for-profit impact organizations, non-profits, non-governmental organizations, citizen-led movements, or public policy.

INCENTIVES
The #AirMOOC (and "offline trainings" in smaller groups for selected organizations):
I. Is free of cost & accessible to all
II. Delivers high-quality content on impact investing and social entrepreneurship
III. Links impact investors, social enterprises and policy makers
IV. Prepares you and your organization to succeed in the competition
LAUNCH
#AirMOOC will go live on 25th May, 2020!

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