For over 20 years, Social Impact has been developing products and services that contribute towards securing future viability and social equity. Social Impact gGmbH was founded in 1994 under the name ‘iq consult’. Since then, Social Impact has been instrumental in designing and implementing innovative qualifications and start-up support for socially disadvantaged groups. Our focus is to support social start-ups that use their ideas to solve social challenges in an entrepreneurial way. Social Startups are given grants that fund up to eight months of professional consultancy, coaching, workshops and co-working workplaces. Social Impact also offers start-up programs for special target groups (migrants, young freelancer and founder, integrative services etc.) and is partner in various international programs and programs of the EU (like SOCENT SPAs, SENTINEL and Social(i)Makers). START-UP CONSULTANCY Social Impact provides expert start-up consultancy. To date, several thousand companies have been set up with the support of Social Impact. For several years, Social Impact has focused on supporting social start-ups that use their ideas to solve social challenges in an entrepreneurial way. Social start-ups are given grants that fund up to eight months of professional consultancy, coaching, workshops and co-working workplaces. SOCIAL IMPACT LABS Since 2011, Social Impact gGmbH has been developing labs offering the start-up programs. There are already Social Impact labs in Beelitz, Bremen, Hamburg, Frankfurt, Leipzig, Munich, Potsdam and Stuttgart. The labs provide scope for co-working, networking and events in addition to the programs already mentioned. ADDITIONAL SERVICES In addition to our start-up programs, we focus on social innovation in rural areas, innovation in education and innovation in the social sector and welfare. Our company is aligned to data protection declaration: https://socialimpact.eu/datenschutz/