LEAP Pecaut Centre for Social Impact
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Mission Statement
We believe in a society where everyone has the opportunity to reach their full potential. We catalyze large scale social impact by selecting, supporting and scaling breakthrough social ventures and unleashing the potential of collaboration.
About This Cause
LEAP | PECAUT CENTRE FOR SOCIAL IMPACT: DOING 'GOOD' BETTER! We believe in a society where everyone has the opportunity to reach their full potential. Our work is inspired by the late David Pecaut, who was a Canadian civic leader, city-builder, and corporate strategist. He had the organic ability to connect and convene individuals from a diverse set of backgrounds and sectors to address complex social issues. Our approach drives results. LEAP initiates and leads such multi-sector collaborations to tackle some of society’s biggest problems in education, employment, and health. We conduct a deep dive to define the most pressing social issues. To deliver significant social impact, we lead targeted initiatives to scale a cohort of organizations. Our model is built on the following four pillars that represent how LEAP adds substantial value to the selected social purpose organizations, to donors who work with LEAP and to the overall social sector: 1. Data-Driven Due Diligence and Selection Process of high impact, high potential social purpose organizations and their leaders to effectively scale, expand their reach, and measure impact over a five-year term. 2. Strategic and Financial Engagement: LEAP’s team develops tailored engagements with the senior leadership of the social purpose organizations with a focus on growth strategies, organizational competencies, and revenue generation. LEAP’s venture philanthropy model leverages significant and diverse resources to support these engagements, which include: Millions of dollars of pro-bono expertise from best-in-class business partners including Boston Consulting Group, EY, McCarthy Tétrault, Hill + Knowlton Strategies, Offord Group and Google.org. This pro-bono support is leveraged in partnership with LEAP to provide targeted and appropriate interventions for the social purpose organizations, i.e. strategy, technology, fundraising, communications, and government relations. The attraction of smart capital to our portfolio as this data-driven model facilitates an increase in donor confidence in the selected social purpose organizations and as a result, an increase in investment. 3. Issue-Focused Cohort Model: We curate collaborative cohorts of like-minded, innovative social entrepreneurs who can learn and share insights, expertise, and develop partnerships that elevate the sector. Further, by leading issue-specific, cohort-based initiatives, LEAP enables philanthropists to uniquely engage in a collaborative manner that leverages their resources to address systemic issues and create social impact at scale. 4. Commitment to Impact Measurement: We help each venture to effectively scale its programs and services with beneficiaries and communities by a factor between 4x and 10x. A significant area of LEAP’s focus is the measurement of social impact. We are currently developing a model to measure our impact across four levels: (i) the cohort’s collective impact on the issue; (ii) the evolution of each social purpose organization; (iii) their direct impact on their beneficiaries; and (iv) sector level contributions through sharing of tools, resources and learnings. The implementation of each issue-focused initiative has four main stages: ● Define: In consultation with subject matter experts and through research, LEAP defines the issue and identifies the biggest needs and target populations where vital change is needed. This informs our call for applications and selection criteria for the organizations we support. ● Select: LEAP employs a data driven due-diligence framework to select extraordinary changemakers with high impact, highly scalable community-based solutions. The four criteria are: strong and passionate leadership, potential for impact creation, scalability of the intervention and operational health and readiness. ● Invest: Over five years, taking their needs and stages of development into account, LEAP’s staff: ○ Provides tailored, hands-on strategic engagements with each organization that includes: co-development of a growth strategy and a scaling plan; execution of highly leveraged interventions from leading professional services firm; and leadership coaching. ○ Develops a collaborative network among the organizations that enables peer to peer learning and explores the potential for partnership development. ● Sustain: LEAP provides some funding and knowledge support to organizations including: ○ Supplementary fundraising opportunities; and ○ Insights, lessons learned, workshops and convenings.