Deep Consultancy

Over the course of 9 months, organizations envision the impact they want to make relative to the size of societal problems, and explore the right scale pathways – be that partnership with others, technology, public policy, movement building, etc – to realize that vision. Spring Impact supports teams to test risks and unknowns with Lean Impact methods, ultimately ensuring their scale pathways are viable and responsive to constituents and stakeholders.

Meet the selected organizations:

1. ICA Fund provides coaching, connections, and capital to grow Bay Area (San Francisco, California) businesses and close the gender and racial wealth gap.

People of color, especially women of color, start businesses at higher rates than white people — but they are constrained by structural inequities and often overlooked by mainstream funders.

To face this issue, they partner with, mentor, and invest in underrepresented Bay Area entrepreneurs to accelerate great businesses and build an economy that works for all.

Spring Impact is supporting the ICA Fund to nationally scale their coaching, connections, and capital model for financial inclusion of BIPOC, women, and LGBTQ+ small business owners.

2. GirlTrek  is a powerful sisterhood movement among Black women, utilizing walking and self-care to promote healing. It’s more than just a walking group; it’s the largest health movement for Black women in the U.S., aiming to bring health and happiness to millions worldwide while addressing intergenerational trauma and systemic racism.

By encouraging Black women to walk regularly and organizing walking teams, GirlTrek fosters community support and leads a Civil Rights-inspired health movement.

They have proven to be a highly effective public health intervention, with significant benefits including weight loss, reduced depression symptoms, decreased medication usage, and sustained walking habits among its participants.

Spring Impact is helping the largest health movement for Black women in the U.S develop a new intervention that integrates workforce development into their existing wellbeing offerings.

3. National Domestic Workers Alliance – NDWA works to win respect, recognition, and labor rights and protections for the nearly 2.5 million nannies, housecleaners, and homecare workers who do this essential work.

The majority of domestic workers sit at the center of some of U.S. most decisive issues because of who they are and what they do: they are mostly women of color, immigrants, mothers, and low-wage workers.

They are impacted by almost every policy affecting the future of the U.S. economy, democracy, and country. This organization is working to shift the way care work is understood, valued, and compensated, ensuring that these much-needed jobs are good jobs with dignity, economic security, and opportunities for advancement.

Spring Impact is supporting NDWA to test strategies that close the gap between won rights for and material improvement for nannies, house cleaners, and home care workers.

Lean Impact for Scale training

Leaders from four additional organizations developed and tested their scale pathways in a cohort of their peers. Over the course of 10 weeks they received support to:

• Define their scale strategy, identifying viable partners and payers.
• Learn how to de-risk uncertainties by testing with communities, partners, and payers. 
• Use data-driven insights to improve their strategy.
• Develop a roadmap for continuous testing and improvement.

Meet the selected organizations:

4. Empower Work is changing the lives of historically excluded workers and building more equitable, inclusive workplaces.  They help people thrive, particularly BIPOC, women, LGBTQ+,  ensuring they have the support, information, and resources to navigate complex work challenges – via technology.

Their text line meets workers where they are – on a bus or in a break room – providing coaching and resources like job search tools or unemployment guidance that improves both economic security and mental health, keeping people on paths of opportunity.

By bridging emotional and tactical support to key resources including benefits, they ensure people have holistic support where their financial, emotional, and career needs are met.

5. Family Values @ Work is a national network of 27 state and local coalitions helping spur the growing movement for family-friendly workplace policies such as paid sick days and family leave insurance.

These policies will result in better individual and public health and greater financial security for families, businesses, and the nation.

They have engaged thousands of people affected by the lack of leave and enabled them to see that change is possible and that they are the agents of that change.

6. Girls Who Invest is dedicated to transforming the investment management industry by attracting and advancing women investors, change-makers, and leaders.

There is broad agreement that gender diversity is good for business. However, young women are less aware that a career in investment management can be meaningful and impactful work.

To change this reality, they are creating a pipeline of talented and motivated young people who are prepared to succeed in the industry through intensive educational programs, a meaningful paid internship, and a robust ongoing community.

7. New Door Ventures  is an early-intervention employment and education program for Bay Area (San Francisco, California) youth aged 17-24 who are disconnected from work and school.

They work with communities facing systemic racism, structural inequities, and other barriers to economic opportunity.

Their services are focused on the critical transition period between childhood and adulthood when skill development and work readiness become key to lifelong employability and financial independence.

To do so, they prepare the youth by providing the jobs, training, education, and support they need to discover and achieve their potential so that they can transition to independent adulthood.