Zorlu Holding operates in five industries in Turkey, namely textile, consumer electronics and white goods, energy, real estate and mining-metallurgy. As a founding partner of imece, Zorlu Holding works for a more livable world, drawing on its well-established experiences, knowledge, and Smart Life 2030 sustainability strategy driven by technology and innovation.

imece is a social innovation platform where people and institutions that create change come together and work together to find solutions to social, ecological and cultural issues.

It was founded by ATÖLYE, S360 and Zorlu Holding in 2016. imece’s programs and content aim to support the need to accelerate and establish “more effective partnerships” for the solutions of the issues in order to implement more humane systems, more equitable approaches and a more sustainable world indicated by the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.

Working towards developing new approaches, learning from experience and acting collaboratively; imece conducts its main programs imece impact, imeceLAB and imece dialogues through the activities it carries out with different partners and the content it produces.

De-Coder is a social impact focused content agency. It curates and produces content that inspires, encourages, and provides information and tools by centering positive transformation.

ATÖLYE is a community-powered creative services organization that places an Academy and a Strategic Design Studio within a vibrant Creative Hub. Through its diverse ecosystem and a community-oriented approach, ATÖLYE provides individuals, teams, and organizations with opportunities to build relationships, exchange ideas, and collaborate on impact-oriented projects.

B Lab Europe is a nonprofit organization that serves the European geographical area within the global movement of people using business as a force for good. Its vision is that one day all companies will compete to be Best for the World and as a result society will enjoy a shared and durable prosperity. B Lab drives this systemic change through a number of interrelated initiatives: 1) building a community of Certified B Corporations to make it easier for all of us to tell the difference between “good companies” and good marketing; 2) promoting usage of Mission Aligned corporate structures to increase efficacy of social entrepreneurship and impact investing; 3) promoting Measure What Matters campaigns to increase use of free, powerful tools for businesses to measure, compare and improve their social and environmental performance.

The BMW Foundation Herbert Quandt promotes responsible leadership and inspires leaders worldwide to work towards a more peaceful, just and sustainable future. Through its Responsible Leadership programs, global network, and impact investments, the BMW Foundation Herbert Quandt aims to promote the Sustainable Development Goals of the United Nations 2030 Agenda.

S360 consists of sustainability specialists helping brands and corporates to make better choices. S360 believes in the power of businesses in driving positive change and scaling impact across the globe. S360 offers strategic advice to address today’s most important sustainability challenges by putting shared value into practice and unearthing opportunities. Briefly, S360 connects profit with purpose and walks with its clients to activate targets.

SIX is a social innovation exchange built on mutual value, relationships and knowledge. SIX works globally to facilitate purposeful cross-sector conversations that challenge and inspire people to use innovation to increase social impact. Its vision is that everyone can use innovation to grow social impact, and live the life they want to live.

Ashoka is the first and the largest network of social entrepreneurs worldwide, with nearly 3,600 Ashoka Fellows in 93 countries putting their system changing ideas into practice on a global scale. Founded by Bill Drayton in 1980, Ashoka has provided start-up financing, professional support services, and connections to a global network across the business and social sectors, and a platform for people dedicated to changing the world. Ashoka launched the field of social entrepreneurship and has activated multi-sector partners across the world who increasingly look to entrepreneurial talent and new ideas to solve social problems.

Operating in more than 100 centers and 60 countries around the world, Impact Hub is a platform which brings the impact driven changemakers together and provides the collaborative environment they need. Serving as a member of the global  Impact Hub network, Impact Hub Istanbul designs collaborations with influential  partners and provides programs, events, mentorship, office areas and networking support for social entrepreneurs and impact oriented individuals and institutions. The Impact Hub membership is based on a system that consists of people from a wide variety of disciplines like entrepreneurs, consultants, investors, software developers, designers, artists, creatives, and freelancers. Vibrant community, inspiring space and meaningful content are the core of the Impact Hub experience.

With the local community and global network, Impact Hub Istanbul is making progress to build a better and more sustainable world for everyone and have a common language on the Global Sustainable Development Goals (SGDs) for the global issues that demand urgent action.

IstasyonTEDU, TED University Center for Social Innovation, founded in April 2016, is a not-for-profit social incubator and an open collaborative space located at Ankara’s city center. lstasyonTEDU supports social entrepreneurs through its incubation and capacity-building programs providing access to office space, meeting facilities, community and network as well as training opportunities. The Center also contributes to research and network projects in the fields of social innovation, social entrepreneurship and social finance, provides training, hosts/organizes ecosystem building events, and coordinates policy dialogue meetings in collaboration with other ecosystem actors in Ankara.

Koç University Social Impact Forum (KUSIF) was founded in 2012 within Koç University as a research and practice center on social impact to foster social innovation through research, education and collaboration.  KUSIF is one of the leading organizations on social impact field in Turkey and has become a reference point in social impact studies. KUSIF has been leading the Turkish Social Impact Group and working to set standards for social impact measurement and management in Turkey.

KUSIF has a special focus on social entrepreneurship as we consider social entrepreneurs are one of the important and new social impact actors in Turkey. In this regard, KUSIF has been leading and partnering in various social entrepreneurship projects on ecosystem development, capacity building, access to social finance, and investment readiness. KUSIF launched Social Impact Lab at Koç University in 2018 to create a common space where students interested in social entrepreneurship can come together, providing an incubation service to young social entrepreneurs such as mentorship, network and intense training. Additionally, KUSIF team has been co-teaching social entrepreneurship and social impact courses at Koç University since 2015.

Established in 2007, MIKADO Sustainable Development Consulting is a social enterprise committed to serve sustainable development and to yield social impact through crafting innovative models and solutions. Mikado believes in and strives to create partnerships among private sector, civil society, academic institutions and international organizations for multidimensional development. Mikado is the first B Corp Company in Turkey and is a Board Member of Global Action Plan International.

NOW is a global partnership of 100+ senior business leaders, change experts and their teams united to accelerate the economic evolution of multinationals, large family companies and systems institutions. We empower our client-partners in their transition towards fully integrating economic success with equitably benefiting all stakeholders, including shareholders and Nature. We call this regenerative value creation, which must become the DNA of a healthy economy. Together we co-create concrete corporate models and a new logic for the necessary economy that respects our unavoidable planetary boundaries and catalyzes our full human potential.

The Turkey Social Entrepreneurship Network (TSGA) aims to strengthen the social entrepreneurship ecosystem; and help the spread of social entrepreneurship as an alternative solution to social, economic and environmental problems in Turkey. To achieve this goal, TSGA carries out activities to meet the need for information, connectivity and visibility that social entrepreneurs need and increase awareness of social entrepreneurship.

The TSGA Network established a social entrepreneurship platform as a result of the project, and eager to continue its ecosystem-level efforts through this platform: sosyalgirisimcilikagi.org. Currently, the founding partners are focusing on institutionalising the TSGA network to include all ecosystem partners and sustain the growth of social entrepreneurship in Turkey.

In 2019, UNDP built the world’s largest and fastest learning network on sustainable development challenges. UNDP Accelerator Labs started with 60 Lab teams covering 78 countries and are now expanding to 90 Labs covering 114 countries. They are part of UNDP’s global policy teams and country offices. The Accelerator Labs are designed to close the gap between the current practices of international development in an accelerated pace of change. They model a new capability to make breakthroughs on the future of development: inequality, decarbonization, the 4th industrial revolution and new forms of governance.