Want to multiply your company’s social impact?

This article from CEO Magazine features IKEA Social Entrepreneurship and Ashoka's global accelerator, the Dela programme. 

Through this program, IKEA supports cohorts of social entrepreneurs both in terms of strategy and hands-on experimentation. Business leaders, co-workers and social entrepreneurs exchange knowledge and inspiration in a mutually-enriching partnership.

The partnership between IKEA and Ashoka’s social entrepreneurs has provided practical education and a diverse array of solutions. Feldt believes that larger companies should consider forming similar partnerships.
 

Lifelong learning opportunities

The program offers a co-creation space for the corporate and social entrepreneurship sectors to exchange new knowledge and collaborate on an equal footing.

“By supporting the scale-up of social innovations, we can contribute to social impact both directly – through improving income for vulnerable people – and indirectly, through enabling access to products and services that improve their livelihood.”

“At the same time, we can learn about important topics, share new ways of working across our own franchise system and develop our co-workers.

“We have also expanded with other partnerships and more local accelerators, so it has influenced our way of working in several ways. Ashoka is a great partner because they see true value in cross-sector co-creation.”, Feldt says.

Dela programme

Find out more about how this unique partnership between #Ashoka and #IKEASocialEntrepreneurship has triggered lifelong learning opportunities and a co-creation space for the corporate and social entrepreneurship sectors to exchange new knowledge and collaborate on an equal footing.