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.