CONTEXT FOR THE PHICUS ENGAGEMENT
Through its early stage grants to social entrepreneurs and innovative climate solutions providers across the globe, Growald supports their grantees over a year, to help them build strong and viable business plans, that then further fuels their ability to grow and scale. In this context Growald has partnered with Phicus as an Organization Development (OD) partner to engage with each of their grantee partners to support them in crafting their business plans.
THE COLLABORATION
Phicus is introduced to a new grantee partner, once they are onboarded by Growald. Phicus spends time initially to understand their context and business/research/product/service idea. Over a series of monthly conversations, Phicus helps the grantee leaders in articulating their vision and mission, their unique value proposition, their theory of change and logical framework and an operational plan with targets, milestones and timelines. Aiding this process is a self-help online resource library, set up by Growald, of relevant samples, guidelines and tools to assist the grantee partner in creating their business plans. In its role as an OD partner to the grantee, Phicus plays the role of a coach, guiding and steering the leaders through this process of business plan creation.
Currently, in its portfolio of grantees, Phicus is working with grantee partners based in South Africa, Kenya, Japan, Columbia and Ukraine.
GOING FORWARD
Phicus continues to be the OD partner for Growald’s portfolio of organizations. Crafting business plans for their growth and scale will continue to be the focus of our work. With expanding grantee partners portfolio, Phicus hopes to understand specific and common needs across the portfolio and make recommendations to Growald on ways to deepen the engagement for greater impact.
