The Framework
About IF
Innovator Farm, organized by Fullness Social
Enterprises Society (FSES), was recently appointed as a collaborative organization again by the Social Innovation and Entrepreneurship Development Fund (SIE Fund) under the Commission on Poverty in early 2023. Innovator Farm provides funding, social innovation knowledge training, cross-sectoral networking, and industry exchange platforms for social innovation projects at different stages (including mature prototypes and startups) to help social entrepreneurs and their projects overcome the "valley of death" in entrepreneurship, continue to solve poverty and social isolation issues in Hong Kong and expand their social impact.
The program is designed to support social entrepreneurs with different support services centered around their needs, in conjunction with a flexible incubation program. This helps social entrepreneurs equip themselves with economic, strategic, social, and cultural capital to establish sustainable, scalable, and impactful social enterprises. Since 2020, Innovator Farm has fostered over 79 social innovation projects, providing over $10,000,000 in funding and over $3,500,000 in matching funds.
Fullness Social Enterprises Society (FSES) was established in 2011 as a non-profit organization in Hong Kong, dedicated to mobilizing professionals from various fields as volunteers to promote the development of social entrepreneurship and social innovation in Hong Kong. In recent years, FSES has been committed to integrating social innovation concepts into local high school and tertiary education curricula, nurturing young social entrepreneurs in Hong Kong.
Training and Support
Innovator Farm provides a series of tailored social entrepreneurship training programs to funded projects, including strategic planning, decision analysis, marketing and sales management, resource mobilization, and stakeholder management. The training helps to transform knowledge into practical execution skills and provides a set of applicable management tools and templates to translate goals into detailed and achievable success indicators and execution plans.
Capacity-building training
Social impact measurement helps projects understand what social impact is and how to measure it, and provides a set of tools, including templates, reports, and standard questionnaires, with a focus on effective use rather than just knowledge learning. "All funded projects must attend."
Social impact measurement
Innovator Farm arranges professional mentors from various industries with rich industry knowledge and experience to each funded project, providing specialized knowledge, networks, and matching suitable resources.
Professional mentorship
Innovator Farm arranges different media interviews and reports on suitable funded projects, helping to increase their visibility. In addition, Innovation Farm also uploads brief introductions of funded projects to its website and occasionally promotes them through different media.
跨界別網絡
Cross-sectoral networking
Cross-sectoral networking connects government, business, society, academia, and civilians, and is committed to promoting knowledge-based volunteer contributions of knowledge, time, and interpersonal networks, working with social enterprises to help the disadvantaged, allowing Hong Kong social innovation to deepen its roots and transform the city through social innovation.
Innovator Farm arranges different media interviews and reports on suitable funded projects, helping to increase their visibility. In addition, Innovation Farm also uploads brief introductions of funded projects to its website and occasionally promotes them through different media.
Media promotion
Innovator Farm helps to obtain matching fund support. through pitch days and showcase days.
Pitch Day
Innovation Farm applicants can choose to receive assistance in finding matching funds. On pitch day, they can introduce their projects to foundation representatives or potential investors, listen to their opinions and suggestions for improvement, and have the opportunity to obtain matching fund support.
Showcase Day
Funded projects from various social innovation organizations have the opportunity to attend, showcase their achievements and exchange ideas with potential customers, investors, or cooperative organizations, seeking opportunities for business cooperation or funding investment, and also have the opportunity to win prizes to enhance team or project abilities or business.
Assistance in finding matching funds
Innovation Farm team regularly meets with funded projects to understand and follow up on project progress, and provides advice on project management, execution, project progress reports, and financial reports.
Innovation Farm team support
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Driving the development of social innovation in Hong Kong doesn't mean that everyone has to become a social entrepreneur. It means that everyone can contribute in their own way. As a key player in nurturing social innovation projects and connecting social entrepreneurs with different sectors, our employees are an important part of Innovation Farm and the social innovation community. We are committed to unleashing the potential of our employees, providing regular training, and offering appropriate support for funded projects.