The International Centre of Social Franchising is now Spring Impact

Social Impact Organization Aims to Help Hundreds More Nonprofits and Social Enterprises to Scale Up and Transform Millions of Lives

Press Release: 13.12.2017

The International Centre for Social Franchising (ICSF) has rebranded to Spring Impact – as part of its wider plans to expand globally and work with hundreds more nonprofits, social enterprises, and funders to transform lives across the globe. The nonprofit social enterprise was originally set up in the UK in 2011 to help nonprofits and social enterprises use techniques often associated with the business world (such as franchising) to scale up and replicate what they do to in order to increase their impact.

Since then, they have worked with over 120 organisations – from small nonprofits and social enterprises to institutions such as The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Save The Children and The Rockefeller Foundation – helping to have a positive social impact on tens of thousands of people’s lives. They currently have offices in the UK (London), the US (San Francisco) and maintain a presence in Australia through their strategic partners Community
Works in Melbourne.

Spring Impact founder Dan Berelowitz, who was recently named a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum and has just relocated to San Francisco, said, “When it comes to solving some of the world’s greatest social problems, we believe too much focus is placed on innovation and, actually, there are some fantastic social solutions that already exist.  Our aim is to work with the people providing these solutions and help them scale up what they are doing to match the true scale of the problem.”

On becoming Spring Impact Berelowitz continues, “We have big plans of expanding and working with many more organizations over the coming years and we felt we needed a stronger and more memorable brand that better reflected who we are and what we do. We are really excited about becoming Spring Impact and believe it will further establish us as the go to experts for scaling social impact.”

Another reason The International Centre for Social Franchising is rebranding as Spring Impact is that “social franchising” itself is no longer the only scaling solution they provide.

According to Greg Coussa, the US Director of Spring Impact, “we’ve learned so much over the past few years and have to come to realize there are multiple ways to help organizations grow – not just through franchising models. Our rebrand reflects our open, questioning approach, working in partnership with people to find the right path for them to scale their impact.”

For more information about Spring Impact and how they help nonprofits and social enterprises scale up their social impact please contact [email protected]. For examples of their work click here to read about their case studies 

 

Notes to Editor

  • Spring Impact was founded in 2011 by Dan Berelowitz – who was recently named a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum (2017)
  • Originally called The International Centre for Social Franchising, today Spring Impact has offices in the UK and US and maintains a presence in Australia.
  • Since launching they have worked with over 120 organizations across over 30 countries impacting the lives of tens of thousands of people
  • They have worked in partnership with well known institutions including The Bill & Melinda Gates foundation, The Big Lottery Fund, Save The Children, The NSPCC, Nesta, The Rockefeller Foundation and the J.P. Morgan Foundation
  • Spring Impact has updated their impact goal and aims to help 20 social innovations scale by 2024. In a bid to transform the lives of hundreds of thousands, if not, millions of people.

 

 

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