Our Process

We support social ventures with holistic, deep engagements, as they tackle some of society’s biggest problems

Accelerator

A one- to two-year partnership focused on scaling, for early-stage social ventures with identifiable impact potential and extraordinary leadership.

For our first accelerator, launched in 2016, LEAP partnered with Google.org. on the Google Impact Challenge across Canada. The Impact Challenge supported Canadian social innovators using technology to tackle the world’s most pressing social challenges. The ten selected social ventures each received funding and mentorship from Google, LEAP, BCG and our sector partners to help bring their ideas to life.

Scale-a-rator

A three- to five-year partnership focused on long-term support for growth-stage ventures with proven impact and exceptional leadership.

LEAP assessed more than 700 ventures to enter our scale-a-rator, which scales best-in-class ventures to drive the greatest impact through strategic and hands-on support, coaching and capacity building.

Alumni Stream

All of our ventures graduate to our Alumni Stream, where they continue to receive support from LEAP and share insights through workshops and networking events.

It is much more difficult for a social entrepreneur to scale their organization than it is for a more conventional entrepreneur. LEAP is tackling those challenges with a very innovative model that enables Canada’s most promising social innovations to have breakthrough impact.

Our Portfolio

We scale what works. We invest in a portfolio of social ventures as they tackle some of the biggest problems in Canada and beyond.

15 $12 M

Portfolio Ventures in pro unlockedbono

100 K

Bill Young

Advisory Board Member, LEAP | Pecaut Centre for Social Impact

Bill Young is a Canadian leader in the social impact sector. He is a practitioner, enabler, advisor and funder of social innovation projects across Canada and is a Member of the Order of Canada.

$55M

Total $ LEAP has influenced towards portfolio ventures

$100M+

Lives Impacted

Societal Impact