How To: Fund Your Social Enterprise with Jacqueline Sofia, Noora Sharrab and Sagal Dualeh

Impact isn’t always a number or a dollar amount. Often it is a story.

Jacqueline Sofia and Noora Sharrab are the founders of SITTI Social Enterprise, a venture that exists to improve the lives of refugees and displaced communities. Sagal Dualeh is the Senior Director of the Investment Readiness Program at Canada’s Women Foundation, supporting women and gender-diverse entrepreneurs to fund their impact-first businesses. Together, we discuss how to navigate operating as a social enterprise and how to acquire funding for important missions like this.

Guests:

Jacqueline Sofia and Noora Sharrab are the founders of SITTI Social Enterprise, a venture that exists to improve the lives of refugees and displaced communities. SITTI received funding from the Investment Readiness Program in 2020.

Sagal Dualeh is the Senior Director of the Investment Readiness Program at Canada Women’s Foundation where she supports women and gender-diverse founders to access government funding so they can scale their social ventures.

Resources:

Startup Canada: Startup Women Advisory Program

Applications for the Investment Readiness Program open November 30th - Learn more

Tips for Communicating Your Impact 

The Common Approach - Measuring Your Impact

Learn more about Social Finance and Social Innovation through SETSI