Customised Capacity Building

WOMEN IMPACTING SOCIAL ENTERPRISES (WISE) PROGRAM

Women Impacting Social Enterprise (WISE) Accelerator is our flagship 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 promote prosperity for these marginalized communities.

This is not a typical accelerator, workshops or mentorship program but offers an 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