Acando supports Nordic push for inclusion - provides consulting services to social entrepreneurs
Ashoka, the world leading organisation for social entrepreneurship and changemaking, has chosen ten social entrepreneurs to take part in a four month accelerator program – Hello Nordics. As part of the program the entrepreneurs will get access to consultants from Acando helping them to scale their activities.
- Acando’s vision is to create a more capable world by aggregating our clients’ and employees’ knowledge and capabilities, and we have a strong belief in that the private sector can and should contribute to social causes utilizing their knowledge capital rather than just financial funds. Therefore, we’re extremely happy to be able to support this great effort to improve inclusion in the Nordic region as part of a network of partners all contributing with their unique expertise. To bring about real change the non-profit, public and private sectors need to cooperate to a much larger extent, says Carl-Magnus Månsson, CEO of Acando.
The accelerator has looked for system changing solutions that can address the root cause of a problem in a systemic way by involving policy makers, lawmakers, communities and target groups. Ten social entrepreneurs have been selected – eight in total from Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden, and two international. They all have different approaches to fostering integration and inclusion, but a common goal to scale their solutions to improve both social and financial inclusion of marginalized people in the Nordic region.
The aim of the accelerator program during the coming four months is to help the entrepreneurs significantly scale up their activities, primarily by entering one or several Nordic countries outside their origin. Acando will support and coach the entrepreneurs when it comes to strategy, growth, leadership, digitalization or other questions depending on their specific needs. Nordea, Oliver Wyman and Vinge are also partners in the Hello Nordics program.
- Ashoka’s ambition is to create positive systemic change in society. We know that these ten entrepreneurs can create a more inclusive Nordic region by bringing their concrete and proven solutions to scale, says Maja Frankel, Head of Ashoka in the Nordics.
For more information please contact:
Anna Ohlsson, Head of Marketing and Communications, +46 (0)70 413 4179, anna.ohlsson@acando.com
About Acando:
Acando is the consulting company who with equal parts of technical excellence and insight into human behavior - innovates, streamlines and mobilizes organizations for sustainable change. The Group has approximately 2000 employees allocated over five countries. Acando had sales of more than 2,4 billion SEK in 2017 and is listed on Nasdaq Stockholm.