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Creating large-scale change

Scaling impact is a very serious and challenging issue, but we need a better way of framing the conversation.

How can social entrepreneurs create large-scale change?

Glossary for Strategy Partners

We put together the following definitions of terms that you may find when going through the Strategy Decks of the social entrepreneurs you have been matched with.

Social Entrepreneurship & Systems Change

Have a read of an introduction to social entrepreneurship and systems change, where we outline the systems change pedagogy used during the Dela Accelerator.

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Online courses

Want to dive deeper? Before or even after the Summit, we encourage you to take a look at our free online systems change courses.

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Dela's impact

The Dela accelerator shows how the corporate and social entrepreneurship sectors can combine their efforts, learn from each other and, in the process, create lasting positive change. The participating social entrepreneurs (SE) receive support from Ashoka and IKEA to improve the impact of their solutions. On the other hand, by working closely with social entrepreneurs, IKEA co-workers gain insights into markets, business models, and local contexts that would otherwise be difficult to reach. Both parties are able to see new realities and bring new approaches into their everyday lives and work.

DELA IMPACT BROCHURE

editions

participants

560+

participating social entrepreneurs

55+

co-workers

300+

The Dela Accelerator

The Dela programme is based on the 10-year-old Ashoka Globalizer systems change accelerator, which contributes its unique competencies to the programme as part of a joint vision with IKEA Social Entrepreneurship. The Dela programme fosters collaboration between social entrepreneurs and other leaders from the business and social sector, with the goal of scaling the impact of their solutions (rather than simply scaling the social enterprise itself).

You can learn more about the accelerator through Stacey Epperson's journey, who participated in the second edition of the Dela programme. She is addressing the underlying obstacles that prevent access to affordable housing in the US.

How do we find, strengthen and scale innovative solutions?