Finanzierungsagentur für Social Entrepreneurship
Budget
€1 — €250
EP Access
0
accredited persons
Staff
15
11.25 FTE
EU Grants
€575,000
Mission & Goals
The Financing Agency for Social Entrepreneurship (FASE) supports selected social enterprises in raising growth capital on behalf of Ashoka - the world’s first and leading organization supporting and connecting social entrepreneurs. We identify investors and financiers of the entire spectrum ranging from private investors, family offices, foundations, social investors and banks. We put an emphasis on combining several investors with different financing components in order to develop innovative financing approaches that can serve as role models for the social finance sector. We focus on the social and environmental impact of our projects and seek to advance the social finance sector. Our mission is to assist social enterprises with outstanding concepts in finding appropriate financing. Through our coaching and consulting we want to enable social enterprises to finance significant growth steps across the often rigid boundaries between donors, investors and the public sector.
EU Legislative Interests
Social Economy Action Plan (EPR) Social Business Initiative (SBI) Programme for Employment and Social Innovation (EaSI) European Fund for Strategic Investments (EFSI) InvestEU
Communication Activities
- First EU-funded project on "Creating fine-tuned hybrid financing packages for social enterprises on a deal-by-deal basis with an orchestrated approach combining different types of donors and investors and integrating a range of financial instruments " as part of preparatory action "Social innovation driven by social business and young entrepreneurship" in 2014/2015 - Second EU-funded project on "European-wide rollout of customized deal-by-deal support for social enterprises with fine-tuned hybrid financing packages" as part of call for proposals "Actions to boost the demand and supply side of the finance market for social enterprises" in 2016-2018 - Third EU-funded project on "Building an open, pan-European pipeline of early-stage, investment-ready social enterprises with customized deal-by-deal support" as part of call for proposals "Transaction cost support for social enterprise finance" in 2018-2020 - Fourth EU-funded project on "Building an open European pipeline of investment-ready social enterprises with customized deal-by-deal support" as part of call for proposals "Transaction cost support for social enterprise finance" in 2023-2025 - Publication of case studies on closed financing transactions of social enterprises (https://fa-se.de/en/category/case-studies/) - Social finance roundtables in Berlin, Hamburg, Düsseldorf, Stuttgart, Frankfurt, Munich, Vienna, Salzburg, Brussels, Warsaw, London and Paris
Interests Represented
Promotes their own interests or the collective interests of their members
Member Of
Impact Europe (formerly, European Venture Philanthrophy Association (EVPA)) (https://www.impacteurope.net/) Social Entrepreneurship Netzwerk Deutschland (SEND) (www.send-ev.de/) Deutscher Startup-Verband (https://startupverband.de/)
Organisation Members
Ashoka Germany (http://germany.ashoka.org/)
Commissioner Meetings
No recorded meetings with EU commissioners.