LIFT offre un soutien pluriannuel aux organismes à vocation sociale (OVS) qui composent sa clientèle. Notre approche hautement spécialisée et engagée comporte des conseils pratiques sur la gestion assurés par notre équipe des progrès sociaux, par l’expertise et les ressources de notre réseau de partenaires bénévoles nationaux ainsi que par la possibilité d’obtenir un financement stratégique grâce à la contribution de nos investisseurs. Nous optimisons le concept de philanthropie spéculative qui a déjà fait ses preuves ailleurs dans le monde et favorisons l’esprit d’entreprise et la mise à disposition des ressources dans le secteur de l’économie sociale.

Organisation

Stratégie

Leadership

Cohorts
We increasingly work with SPOs in cohorts, bringing organizations together to create a peer-learning network. Cohorts have been proven to fuel collaboration, increase learning, improve outcomes and innovation, and have the potential to deliver new solutions to complex social issues. We design activities that foster collaboration across and between cohorts, providing a platform for strategic discussions, while building connections that will continue well beyond the life of the engagement.
We seek out SPOs with the greatest potential for scale. Through careful screening, tapping into networks and deploying marketing strategies, we reach out to those SPOs best suited to our model.
The process can take months and demands commitment from the SPO’s senior leadership team. Areas reviewed during the due diligence period include: business planning, financial history, measurement data and market analysis.
An internal case for investment, including growth potential and milestones, is presented for decision.
Two members of the social impact team are dedicated to co-lead the engagement, providing direct management support to the SPO, strategic guidance and business expertise throughout the investment, and monitoring progress against agreed upon targets.
In the early investment stage, we focus on long-range business planning and establishing specific milestones along the way that will position the SPO for a step change in its operation.
Strategic support is provided in capacity-building activities like business analysis, systems review, process improvement and recruitment of senior leadership. During this phase, the focus is on building the capacity of the SPO through the transfer of skills.
We only scale those aspects of the SPO’s offering that demonstrate measurable change in the lives of beneficiaries they’re serving. Our focus is not on how many youth attended a skills workshop, but on how many youth found and kept jobs.
Our endpoint is when an SPO is capable of meaningful, measurable and scalable social outcomes, and is prepared to move on to the next phase of its growth and development.
Nos raisons d’agir
On estime que plus de la moitié des 170 000 organismes sans but lucratif et de bienfaisance au Canada sont entièrement gérés par des bénévoles. De nombreux OVS ne disposent pas de systèmes et de structures robustes, de financement constant, de gouvernance efficace, de données précises sur la mesure de l’incidence, ni de la capacité à répondre aux besoins sociaux essentiels. Nous sommes en train de changer les choses.