Customised Capacity Building

WOMEN IMPACTING SOCIAL ENTERPRISES (WISE) PROGRAM

Women Impacting Social Enterprise (WISE) is our flagship capacity-building program that has a vision of building a community of learning and funding support for community-based enterprises in ASEAN. We support social enterprises to become credit-worthy thereby overcoming biases against women entrepreneurs and promoting prosperity for these marginalized communities.

This is not a typical accelerator, workshop or mentorship program but offers extra hands for customised help with the goal of getting funded. We stand for building deep, long-standing relationships through authentic interaction and work on actual business needs to help them get funded.

Our customized capacity building is three-pronged: we focus on business planning, financial literacy and financial planning and funding.
Business planning:

We offer customized skills-based volunteering according to each enterprise’s needs:
- Experts are paired according to their skillsets
- A scope of work is developed together with the social enterprises to identify their needs and ensure that it remains a top priority throughout the program
- We adopt a 2-way, consultative approach as it allows room for transparency (building trust) and empowerment (learning on both ends, from the volunteers and the social enterprises

Financial literacy and management:

Help enterprises develop their revenue projections and cash flow management
Work closely with our female entrepreneurs to understand fundamentals of accounting, including profit loss statements and balance sheets.

Eligibility Criteria:

Women-led and/or women owned
Registered business entity
Not a start-up (2 years at least in operation)
At least $30K in revenue p.a.
Following some basic accounting practices
Seeking investment
Impact at least 50 women as employees or in supply chain (aggregate and value-add)
Community based and environmentally friendly business
Have a clear social mission and can communicate in English

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