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The Global Impact Citizen Alliance offers you unparalleled opportunities to multiply your outreach, build lobbies for your cause, and enjoy your personal innovation radar.

BENEFITS

Accelerated Goal Achievement

• Faster path to ambitious ESG goals through direct access to proven solutions
• More efficient resource management by avoiding duplication of efforts
• Reduced time from concept to implementation

Risk Minimization

• Early detection of emerging ESG trends and regulatory developments
• Validated solutions with success evidence from the global network
• Collective intelligence to navigate complex sustainability challenges

Competitive Advantages

• Differentiation through access to unique and innovative solutions
• Improved employer branding through engagement in forward-looking initiatives
• Higher attractiveness to sustainability-oriented investors and customers

Organizational Development

• Strengthening of internal sustainability competencies
• Inspiration and engagement of employees through global perspectives
• Development of a future-proof corporate culture

WHY CROSS-SECTORAL CONNECTIONS?

As an ESG manager, you face the challenge of guiding your company through the complex landscape of sustainable transformation.

GICA offers you a unique strategic advantage: direct access to a global network of impact innovators developing solutions to your most pressing sustainability challenges.

Diverse and from different sectors will other impact citizens help you with your mission.

WHY GICA?

GICA uses an advanced concept that was created by Europe’s most experienced impact-networking expert Alexander S. Wolf.
The new system establishes a “sharing culture” across the impact sectors – leveraging the swarm intelligence of impact actors worldwide to scale impact innovations.

• Fight Club for Impact: GICA is a mutual-support network of impact startups, investors and ESG leaders who connect as equal allies.

• Interactive Club-TV: A new hybrid networking format: Exchange, collaboration and entertainment through monthly, “GICA Glocal Congresses” – connecting impact hubs across continents

• Club App: Advanced, tailor made features for impact citizens: Mentoring, Swarm Support, Rapid Matchmaking (launching June 2025)

• Networking Training: GICA’s own “17ACADEMY for impact networking” boosts the skills of startup teams, investors and ESG leaders with a unique, app-based certification masterclass

• Tailor Made Services: GICA offers expert consultancy, project and hub development, strategy creation, and network building

• HQ Urban Tech Republic: GICA operates from .GUT hub at Berlin’s Urban Tech Republic (former Tegel Airport), the world’s largest development area for the impact economy

Membership Options

1. GICA Strategic Corporate Partner
(€50.000/year)

Exclusivity: One of max. 5 GICA Strategic Partners
Memberships: GICA memberships for 5 team members of the partner
Premium Access: VIP participation in all GICA Glocal Congresses with an opportunity for a flash keynote
Network Strengthening: Personal connection to other ESG teams worldwide to better master your own challenges
Certification in Networking + cross-sectoral collaboration: Participation for 5 team members in the certification course “Global Impact Networker” of our 17ACADEMY
Visibility Package: Fund logo/profile on the GICA website, materials and relevant communications. Mention and display at all GICA Glocal Congresses as Strategic Corporate Partner
Advisory Board Seat: Participation in semi-annual advisory meetings on GICA’s strategic direction
Solution Scouting: Identification of specific impact solutions for your sustainability challenges
Global Impact Challenge: Hosting a company-specific challenge addressing your sustainability issues across the entire GICA network

2. GICA Ally
(€15.000/year)

Memberships: GICA memberships for 2 team members of the partner
Premium Access: VIP participation in all GICA Glocal Congresses with short personal presentation
Network Strengthening: Personal connection to other ESG teams worldwide to better master your own challenges
Certification in Networking + cross-sectoral collaboration: Participation for 2 team members in the certification course “Global Impact Networker” of our 17ACADEMY
Visibility Package: Fund logo/profile on the GICA website, materials and relevant communications. Display at all GICA Glocal Congresses as GICA Ally
Advisory Board Seat: Participation in semi-annual advisory meetings on GICA’s strategic direction

3. GICA member
(€2.900/year)

Memberships: GICA membership for 1 team member of the partner
Access: Participation in GICA Glocal Congresses and regional events
Network Strengthening: Personal connection to other ESG teams worldwide to better master your own challenges

Specific Programs for ESG Departments

GICA Corporate Impact Venture Building

Development of innovative spin-offs or ventures that complement your core business and advance ESG goals:

Ideation Workshops: Identification of potential impact ventures from your business
Market Validation: Assessment of market size and impact potential
Prototype Development: Support in developing and validating Minimal Viable Products
Talent Matching: Connection with experienced impact entrepreneurs to lead ventures
Impact Investment Readiness: Preparation for external financing

GICA Corporate Impact Lab

Establishment of a dedicated impact lab within your company or at a GICA location:

Co-design of a physical or virtual innovation space
Curated startup residencies to solve your ESG challenges
Regular innovation sprints with global impact innovators
Comprehensive program for employee engagement and idea development

GICA Executive Impact Fellowship

Intensive program for ESG executives to develop transformative capabilities:

Global immersion program with visits to impact hubs on different continents
1:1 mentoring with global impact leaders and systems thinkers
Development of a personal impact leadership vision
Support in implementing transformation projects

GICA Corporate Impact Academy

Customized educational programs to strengthen sustainability competencies in your company:

Development of company-specific learning modules and curricula
Training of internal ESG champions
Integration of sustainability thinking into various business functions
Measurement of competency development and behavioral change

GICA Regional Impact Ecosystem Builder

Become a catalyst for regional impact innovations:

Co-design and co-financing of a GICA Regional Hub in your key region
Development of local impact ecosystems and capacity building
Strengthening of local impact startups and innovators
Increased visibility as a regional sustainability leader

“GICA is the game changer your company needs to transform sustainability vision into measurable results. In a world where breakthrough solutions often remain in silos, we offer you a structured way to leverage global innovations and achieve your ESG goals faster.”

PARTNERSHIP PROJECTS

GICA has several own projects that are open for partnerships.

GICA Impact
City
Transformation

Partnership to transform Berlin into the Global Impact Capital:

• Joint development of local infrastructure (e.g., former Tegel Airport) for impact innovation

• Development and implementation of communication campaigns

• Stakeholder lobbying for Berlin’s transformation into a hub of the global sustainability economy

• Identification and strengthening of pilot projects to reinforce the narrative

• Building specific support networks

Top 100
Impact
Ranking

Partnership to establish a ranking of the best impact startups:

• Building a system to identify and select the most promising impact companies

• Conception and implementation of an annual award event

• Conception and implementation of continuous communication measures to promote the ranking

• Targeted support of the Top 5 to develop globally recognized impact “love brands”

GICA Impact Innovation
Labs

Establishment of a physical
or virtual lab focused on your fund’s impact themes:

• Hosting startups, researchers, and corporate partners

• Conducting acceleration programs around specific SDGs

• Creating prototyping facilities for impact solutions

GICA Global
Impact
Expedition Series

Co-design of impact-focused learning journeys:

• Visiting multiple impact hubs across continents

• Connecting with local innovators, investors, and policymakers

• Identifying investment opportunities in emerging markets

GICA Impact
Investment
Summit

Co-hosting an annual summit:

• Bringing together global leaders in impact investing

• Shaping the agenda and leading key discussions

• Presenting your portfolio and investment approach