Impact Ecosystems - power in socio-environmental systemic transformation

• In Event: Social Economy and Local development initiatives

Abstract

This case study features Coalizão Pelo Impacto, a national initiative for more and better businesses with social impact, co-organized by the Instituto de Cidadania Empresarial (ICE), Instituto Helda Gerdau, Instituto Humanize and Somos Um, with the strategic partnership of Cosan, Fundação Educar, Fundação FEAC, Fundação Boticário Group, Sabin Institut and Raia Drogasil. By 2026, it will invest R$36 million to transform six cities (Belém, Brasília, Campinas, Fortaleza, Paranaguá e Porto Alegre) into reference ecosystems with social impact for the country and the world. The Coalizão Pelo Impacto aims to enhance local ecosystems together with dynamic organizations that support entrepreneurs.

We believe that business models can solve social and environmental problems and that Every enterpreneur committed to transforming their territory should recieve adequate technical and financial support.
We start from the premise that expanding and strengthening organizations that support the impact ecosystem problems and in more investments for them.

Our strategy is to work from the national to the local and have an action plan built together with local Governance, partnership with public and private agentes, and connected to the national ecosystem of investments and impact business.
Our impact vision is to have, over five years, six potentialized and structure ecosystems with up to 600 impact businesses in the regions of Brazil.
We seek to transform Brazil´s entrepreneurial potential into a more inclusive and regenerative development.

The Institut of Entrepreneurs (ICE) co-ornanizes and is responsable for the executive secretariat of the Coalizão pelo Impacto. It has been operating for 20 years in promoting social innovations that generate positive, lasting and far reaching social impact. Since 2012, it has been active in the ecosystem of impact investmentes and businesses with the view that the consolidation of this field in Brazil plays a relevant role in overcoming the social and environmental issues faced.

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Authors

• Camila Aloi, Instituto de Cidadania Empresarial

• Armindo dos Santos de Sousa Teodosio, Pontifical Catholic University of Minas Gerais