ChangeX, founded in 2015, has been supporting community-driven initiatives like community gardens and coding clubs. The platform's latest phase focuses on scaling high-impact innovations globally through partnerships and a rapid testing methodology. ChangeX now operates in 26 countries, employs 26 people, and has experienced consistent growth, funding nearly 1,500 projects and impacting over 750,000 people.
Social entrepreneurship platform expanding rapidly over recent years and now operates in 26 countriesThe organisation, which was founded in January 2015, has previously focused on transformation within communities, with simple ideas such as community gardens and coding clubs backed by funds and other supports from larger organisation.
Fred Cooke: ‘Once when I was hungover, I accidentally put €50 in the basket at Mass, thinking it was €10. You live and learn’“For us it was a big breakthrough, because if we can do it for a few ideas, then there’s no reason we can’t do it for thousands of ideas. The next phase now is taking all that we’ve learned and trying to take 1,000 proven innovations to global scale.
That expansion included Asia, where the company is now active in Japan, Indonesia, Vietnam and Singapore.
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