Rise is a national organization dedicated to empowering people with mental health and addiction challenges to achieve greater social and economic inclusion through entrepreneurship.
The Opportunity
- Build on the work accomplished in previous engagements with LIFT, which focused on developing and implementing a national scaling strategy.
- Improve Rise’s organizational capacity as it moves to its next stage of strategic growth, including bolstering partnerships, resources, and profile to increase social impact and to continue expanding its model across the country.
The Impact
Rise’s operations have grown significantly, and the organization is successfully attracting new partners and resources. Annual revenue has increased 62%, and the number of clients reached has increased by 54%. Rise has invested in creating its first capital raise roadmap and strategy to support its venture into social
finance, which will create transformational impacts for Rise and its clients in the near term.
Rise is now a truly national organization, characterized by a more confident, cohesive, and impact-driven leadership team. Through enhancements in virtual offerings and new ways of serving clients in remote communities, Rise has expanded its presence coast to coast with programming reaching clients across nine provinces, up from three provinces in 2019.
With this increased capacity, Rise is positioned to empower more Canadians to achieve social and economic inclusion through entrepreneurship:
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Lori Smith Chief Executive OfficerThe last three years with LIFT have been transformational for Rise, not only for the organization, but one of the most enduring changes has been with the broader team skill building. In working as part of this LIFT cohort, we’re now a much stronger team.”