Changemakers' Friday in The Hague
Calling all changemakers at social and impact-driven companies! Join us for Changemakers' Friday, a full day of connection, learning, and co-working in The Hague - every last Friday of the month.
This edition starts at 9:00 with coffee and first introductions.
Program highlights
9:00 - Walk in
9:30 - Coffee and introductions
10:30 – 12:00 Friday Pause & Shift for Changemakers (10 max) & Impact Driven Business Models
12:00 - 13:00 Lunch
15:00 – 16:00 Open desks by trainers & experts (see below)
17:00 – Drinks, networking, and a moment of reflection for those who still have some energy left 🍹
Come for the co-working, stay for the community—and leave inspired for the weekend ahead.
About our additional workshop by Jacques Webers:
We know that maximizing shareholder value is potentially not the best way to positively impact your stakeholders, such as your customers, nature and society. So, if you want to have a positive impact, can you only do so as a non-profit? In other words, is there a trade-off between impact and return, or could they also reinforce each other?
In this workshop we will explore how impact and return can go hand in hand, and how you can implement this to make your business model impact-driven. Curious how? Come find out at the workshop!
About our open desk experts:
Augaly Kiedi is a senior expert in fundraising. She is both member of We Are Changemakers and The Hague Humanity Hub.
Check out her story here:
https://www.humanityhub.org/news/augaly-kiedi-avenue-consultancy/
On Changemakers' Friday Augaly will be running an Open Desk on funding for early-stage companies.
Sina Tahoori, Technical Advisor from Xanboor, is offering simple, practical, and founder-friendly technical support to our impact-driven startups. Many founders have strong visions and clear customer strategies but often get stuck on the technical side and struggle choosing the right technology, designing reliable software, building or improving web and mobile apps, and ensuring their product is scalable and accessible.
On Changemakers' Friday, Sina will be running an Open Desk for technical help and advice. Founders are welcome to drop by for practical guidance on software architecture, tech decisions, development, or any other technical challenges.
What does success look like when our main goal is not profit or growth but contributing to a better world? When can we confidently say that what we did made a meaningful difference? These are the questions Laura de Franchis works on. As a senior expert from The Alternatives Factory, she defines and assesses results for purpose-driven people and organisations. On Changemakers' Friday, Laura will run an Open Desk to help founders define what success looks like for their initiative, map out how to get there (sometimes called a theory of change), and plan how to track the change along the way.
Laura brings 20 years of experience in results monitoring, evaluation and theories of change for non-profits ranging from local NGOs to large humanitarian UN organisations. Founders are welcome to drop by with whatever they are wrestling with: a definition of success that does not yet feel right, a theory of change to pressure-test, or a funder asking for evidence of impact.
Changemakers' Friday is organised in partnership with The Hague Humanity Hub, which hosts the in-person programme and connects participants to The Hague’s peace and justice impact ecosystem.