Focus Areas
BridgeImpact looks for business opportunities in three areas, nonprofit self-reliance, regional and urban regeneration, and global impact, and works on business model design and investment themes for each.
Three Focus Areas
The social needs and business areas we focus on. How we build businesses is explained on the Business page.
Nonprofit Sustainability
We find earned-income business models for nonprofits and mission-driven organisations beyond donations, and help them build the systems to run them.
Regional & Urban Regeneration
We find business models that draw on local resources and the strengths of local companies, and design joint projects between local start-ups and established firms.
Global Impact
To turn social needs abroad into businesses run by local people, we find local founders and help them build revenue models and operating systems.
Strategic Initiatives
Fields we are reviewing and pursuing under the three focus areas. They do not describe investment results.
Businesses where creative and production skills become jobs and income
Start-ups and local brands built on local resources and people
Services for community needs such as care and daily life, run on their own income such as user fees
Locally led start-ups and companies
Combining companies that have skills and customers with new ventures
From Focus to Execution
In each area, we review and pursue opportunities in this order.
Spot recurring problems and gaps in the field.
Check there are paying customers and someone to run it.
Design how it earns and how it operates.
Review funding options and find execution partners.
Take part in early operations, track results and scale the business.
Investment, venture building, regional cooperation or global partnership: we welcome proposals that connect to our focus areas.