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Y Solve Foundry delivers expertise to Lab portfolio companies and the broader impact sector.
The Lab and Foundry work together to scale impact
Y Solve Lab and Foundry (a US non-profit) work in tandem to accelerate innovation, scale impact, and drive measurable results for portfolio companies. At the core of this relationship lies the Foundry's unique value proposition, which addresses three critical dimensions: driving top-line revenue, mitigating risks, and reducing operational costs.
By providing tailored solutions to companies emerging from the Lab, the Foundry ensures that early-stage businesses have the necessary tools and expertise to move successfully from growth to scale phases. This integrated approach allows companies to focus on product development, client engagement, and revenue generation.
Purpose
The Foundry is comprised of four centers of excellence: Social Impact Measurement, Training, Leadership, and Advocacy.
We drive systems change by providing advances in measurement, education and advocacy. The Foundry enhances the growth and capability of mission-aligned organizations by delivering expertise and services. These activities enable organizations to scale high-value solutions effectively.
Integrated with Y Solve Lab, we fulfill our mission by unlocking human potential, tackling the critical challenges of our time, and delivering transformative outcomes that drive social progress.
Centers
Social Impact Measurement.
The Social Impact Measurement Center of Excellence (SICoE) delivers Coherence Measure, a proprietary measurement system for enhancing every portfolio company's strategic implementations and social impact.
The Center’s proprietary impact measurement system provides external 3rd party verification of social impact and an accompanying suite of management tools that power the Lab’s portfolio companies to better evaluate progress and communicate impact. As a result, companies can better connect with mission-aligned ecosystems, drive capital formation activities and consistently improve products and services to accelerate and expand impact.
As social impact is central to all Lab companies, rooted in each company’s theory of change and logic model, all Lab companies use the expertise and services of the SICoE throughout the company’s lifetime.
Training.
The Training Center of Excellence (TCoE) develops high-quality, customized training solutions that drive continuous learning and workforce transformation.
By creating company-aligned curriculum, cutting-edge programming and strategic credentialing the center equips companies to meet emerging demands and scale more effectively. Ongoing commitments to research and development fosters learning innovations to grow higher-value skills needed within organizations and industries.
This center supports Y Solve Lab’s education portfolio companies (e.g. ADAC Digital, Beamyn, Codey, Cyyber, and Grayl) and non-education area of impact companies to better anticipate and navigate human capital constraints.
Leadership.
The Leadership Center of Excellence delivers innovations in human capital, leadership theory, social and organizational modeling while providing advancements in skill development practices and principles. Offerings delivered by expert practitioners equip leaders and teams to thrive in high-velocity, complex environments where systemic impact and growth are critical. Grounded in the Human Capital 3.0 framework, the center operates at more foundational layers of productivity than performance management practices. It enables organizations to increase employee and team contributions to more effectively navigate the pace of rapidly changing environments startups face.
The LCoE solves persistent gaps in leadership development programming rendering most leadership trainings ineffective at demonstrating measurable organizational value. Current leadership development methodologies build programming separated from the strategic organizational activities creating costly programmatic gaps. Second, leadership trainings often bias trainings towards instructor comfortability and fail to effectively leverage current high-value motivations within the leaders undergoing trainings. Finally, and most perniciously, leadership programming often over invest in knowing about leadership topics and perennially fail to grow high-relevance applied leadership skills. Our proprietary learning, training and application methodologies solve these gaps putting complex leadership capabilities directly into organizational action.
Advocacy.
The Advocacy Center of Excellence (ACoE) specializes in three areas of expertise. First, this center captures the voice of impact customers, broadcasts lab company impact reporting activities and amplifies community concerns to promote positive change. Second, our teams leverage data driven insights and proprietary frameworks to foster needed policy reforms. Third, the Advocacy Center of Excellence supports transformations in tax codes for individuals and public benefit companies demonstrating needed social change.
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