Boardwave Impact Partners
Fostering Profit With Purpose
In today's business landscape, there's a growing desire amongst companies and employees alike to not only succeed, but to do so with a conscience. But finding the right charity or organisation to partner with can be daunting. We’re here to change that by making it a simple and rewarding process.
Below, you’ll find details of our vetted Impact Partners, a brilliant range of organisations who champion a broad range of causes and initiatives that profoundly benefit society.
About
Isabel Kelly
We're lucky enough to have one of the most eminent ESG experts, Isabel Kelly, within Boardwave.
Isabel is the founder of Profit with Purpose and co-founder of ESG Experts, and consults with companies (many of whom are in the tech sector) to develop a social impact strategy that is aligned to their core business. She also offers advice through OCSO (Outsourced Chief Sustainability Officers). From 2002-2014 she was the International Director of the Salesforce Foundation, and before that worked for 11 years at Amnesty International on the East Asia desk.
If you would like to bring on a consultant or need help developing your strategy, then please do get in touch with her below.
Impact Partners - Education
Bookmark Reading
Mission: Over a quarter of children in England leave primary school unable to read well, contributing to poor education results, which has a devastating impact on their life chances. Bookmark Reading is a charity that partners with primary schools to develop reading cultures and provide one-to-one reading support.
How You Can Help: Donations, reading volunteers, brand awareness, mentoring.
EYW
Mission: Within 3 generations 41% of the world’s young people will be African. But right now poverty, drugs, alcohol, violence, sexual abuse, prostitution, and rejection are everyday risks for young women living in vulnerable environments like slums. Empowering Young Women aims to foster a culture of opportunity to enable young women to play a role in the world as leaders.
How You Can Help: Donations, volunteers, brand awareness, mentoring.
Inner Wings
Mission: To build confidence in children aged 6-12, especially girls. We do this by providing free confidence-building programmes, informed by teachers and psychologists, to primary schools across the UK. With a view to achieving gender equality across all different industries – particularly seeing more girls having the confidence to study STEM subjects.
How You Can Help: Raise awareness, funding, donations.
Maths4Girls
Mission: Maths4Girls is run by the charity Founders4Schools, which is pioneering a national campaign to inspire and empower 11–14-year-old girls to pursue maths to achieve their ambitions and open pathways into sectors like finance, investment and STEM.
How You Can Help: Career Support/Development, funding, mentoring.
School of Code
Mission: To give everyone a route into technology, and teach them the skills they need to leap into the industry. The rise in automation will have a dramatic impact on the job market. We aim to prepare people with the tech skills and soft skills to become collaborative, creative coders.
How You Can Help: Career Support/Development, Funding, mentoring
Impact Partners - Ethnic Diversity
Black Seed Ventures
Mission: In the past decade only 0.24% of venture funding has been raised by Black British founders. Black Seed is a new VC fund on mission to change the face of entrepreneurship by investing in the UK's best black founders
How You Can Help: Funding, mentoring, career support/development.
The BAE HQ
Mission: The BAE HQ is the #1 community for British Asian entrepreneurs that supports from the classroom to the boardroom. They inspire, connect and scale members of their community through media coverage, events and access to capital and much more.
How You Can Help: Funding, Mentoring, Internships.
Journi
Mission:
Journi’s mission is to improve the career progression of high-potential black, female or low-household-income professionals across their entire career lifecycle, from school leavers (Day One) to Board Level. They do this by delivering programmes, in partnership with ambitious UK businesses, to help those in its community reach their next career milestone.
How You Can Help: Funding, Mentoring, Internships.
Impact Partners - Gender Equity
illumyn Impact
Mission: illumyn Impact (formerly Him For Her) engages business luminaries to connect the board qualified diverse executives to board service. Drawing from its ever-growing referral-only talent network of 8000+ diverse executives, a third of whom are women of color, illumyn Impact introduces board-building companies to board-qualified candidates.
How You Can Help: Career support/development, funding, mentoring.
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Supermums
Mission: Supermums is empowering women and others with the most in-demand tech skills. We provide first class training in leading cloud technology and help businesses recruit a diverse team with experienced and emerging talent to accelerate their tech projects in a cost effective way.
How You Can Help: Career support/development, brand awareness.
Impact Partners
GroundBreaking Medical Research
Wings for Life
Mission: A global foundation with one sole mission: to find a cure for spinal cord injury. 100% of all donations support promising research projects and clinical studies worldwide to heal the injured spinal cord. Because science agrees: injured nerve cells are capable of regeneration.
How You Can Help: Donations, volunteers, funding.
