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About the Course

To address global poverty - do we really not have enough resources or do we not have the right tools to allocate our resources? The tools of finance, when applied correctly, can be an enabler of social and environmental outcomes. This course is designed to give you the ability to build innovative financing strategies that work towards outcomes such as financial inclusion, access to energy, and access to education. The innovative finance process has five key components. It starts with identifying the outcomes you are looking to achieve and next moves on to due diligencing your issue area using techniques like design thinking to make sure you are designing with the end user. Next, you must map all of the resources available for your outcome and then discover opportunities to augment these through business model innovation, multi-stakeholder partnerships, and innovative financial structures. Finally, the last step is to put all of these pieces together to design an innovating financing strategy. Each week dives into a component of the process using examples and real case studies from social entrepreneurs, non-profits, development funders, impact investors, governments, foundations, and more. Over five weeks you’ll learn about new types of revenue creation, financing approaches, business models, and partnerships. By the end of the course, you’ll have the ability to hack finance for social change....

Top reviews

DE

Mar 30, 2021

The course helped me understand innovative ways of financing and provided me with the tools and skills to further develop and apply in my professional career.

MM

May 18, 2020

This course fulfilled my expectations on learning some finance aspects to reach funds for a social enterprise I am heading for. Totally recommended!

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26 - 50 of 51 Reviews for Innovative Finance: Hacking finance to change the world

By Samuel

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Jan 13, 2018

Well produced content and interesting cases. I would definitely recommend this course to others.

By Deleted A

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Nov 18, 2019

Great course. I enjoyed the resources, case studies and interaction with other students.

By Asil G S

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Mar 28, 2023

Strongly recommend this course. The content and delivery are well-designed.

By Jacques U V

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Jul 6, 2020

Great course for introducing Sustainable Finance and impact investing!!

By Nada H E

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Aug 26, 2018

It was great course full of new topics and engaging with real cases wa

By V.V.L.N. S

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Aug 7, 2019

Excellent course with contemporary issues of Society where we live.

By Thembisile N

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Dec 4, 2023

It a amazing course I would to like to know more of this course

By Mandy L G

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Jan 9, 2018

An excellent course for anyone involved in social work!

By Thando K

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Apr 16, 2023

Very informative course, lots of material and ideas.

By Russell B S

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May 25, 2020

Excellent material, case studies and instructors

By Zaakir E

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Apr 18, 2019

The best online course I have done so far!!

By Jay S C

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May 10, 2019

Amazing, informative and very relevant!

By Donna-Luisa E

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Nov 16, 2020

It was very in depth. Good course

By Tammy D M

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Dec 10, 2018

Thanks for another great course!

By Alphonso S

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Jun 5, 2018

Excellent! Quite an eye opener.

By Andrew K K

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Jun 8, 2018

Wonderful insights!!

By Tommy F

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Oct 23, 2020

Great and intuitive

By Adeline P

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Oct 6, 2022

Innovative course

By Deleted A

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Oct 4, 2020

Muy bueno

By Ishel B

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Feb 3, 2023

The course is wonderful and very enriching . Overall loved the content but I wish the system of peer review grading is inefficient I would prefer grading ,would be more directly related to the quizzes than to abstract peer reviews.

By Mayuri D

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Apr 8, 2020

Course is very nice but during checking assignments classmates are very less . Only few students checking assignments. Grades came too late.Even my 2 nd ,3rd and 4th assignment not checked .Please noted that.

By Alexandre R

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Apr 16, 2020

Thoroughly enjoyed this Innovative Finance course as it ties in perfectly with the work I do at Edge Growth managing the ASISA ESD Fund as an impact investor. Alex Rodrigues

By Ashok R

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Jul 26, 2018

A well-packed course delivering essential knowledge of unique financing options for social projects.

By Neo L

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Jul 24, 2023

Please Make peer to peer graded assesments optional

By Mayuri D

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Apr 3, 2020

great course