CO-OPERATING EXPERTS
– WHO YOU CAN WORK WITH THROUGH OUR COURSES –
GÁBOR LÉVAI
Civil Support
Gabor is an economist, coach and mediator, happy father of 4 boys. He has worked for almost 20 years in the financial sector, lastly as secretary general of the Hungarian Leasing Association. Six years ago he founded Civil Support Public Benefit Ltd, a strategy development and impact assessment agency focusing on purpose driven organisations, which become the first accredited B Corp in Hungary.
Since 2016, he has been involved in the development of social enterprises and impact investments, working in various projects and organizations (Magnet Bank, Ashoka, Fa-Se, Fehér Albatrosz).
ZSOLT PETHE
Ashoka
Over the past 20 years, Zsolt has been accumulating experience in the non-profit field in diverse functions from volunteer to Director of Development, Board member and consultant at various organizations globally.
Zsolt was elected an Echoing Green global Fellow in 2001. He has always enjoyed helping organizations figure out their organizational strategies, impact measurement as well as ‘package’ their projects in a form of successful grant applications.
GYÖNYGYVÉR BALOG
Gyöngyvér is the co-founder of impact.design, a full-service agency that partners with mission-driven organizations to help them expand their impact through design. By using agile techniques that put humans first, they aim to design solutions tailor-made to the communities where they focus on the people and their experience. As Gyöngyvér is a firm believer of the inclusive approach, she loves to facilitate workshops and co-design sessions to find the best solutions to their clients needs.
Prior to founding impact.design, she led the digital communication team of Sziget Festival and served as a communications expert at UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency where she had the chance to take part in several missions to Africa and the Middle-East.
PETRA PÉNTEK
Ashoka
Petra is an economist with a degree in environmental and regional development, working in the environmental field, with a focus on sustainability and green economy.
She started working in the social economy at the end of her university years. She carried out a research on the impact measurement of Hungarian social enterprises and gathered a lot of experience and important knowledge during conversations with social entrepreneurs. Since 2018, he has been the community manager of Impact Academy and a member of the Impact Academy and Ashoka team.
DR GÁBOR HÉRA
HOLO.
Gábor is a researcher, sociologist, founder of HOLO, a research hub working with impact measurement. Since 1998 he does social sciences research and holds research methodology courses in higher education. He is a co-author of the book Research Methodology. He is a part of around forty Hungarian and international research program as a researcher or coordinator. He worked for almost ten years in the civil sector, as an assistant for research and organizational leader.
Using this knowledge and experience, he supports the impact assessment of NGOs and the work of donor organizations by research and by education about benefits and opportunities of impact measurement.
JULIANNA NYÁRI
Juli Nyári has been working in the communication field for nearly 30 years. She started her career as a PR manager at Népszabadság. Since then she has tried many things, she was press agent, communication adviser and led her own PR agency for 11 years. Then she moved to the other side of the microphone and became a presenter, in which she fell in love. Training was also part of her life, as a trainer she prepared for a pitch, helped setting up communication strategies and planning campaigns for a large number of civil organizations and social enterprises. As a coach, she supports personal development and change.
OUR PARTNERS
ASHOKA
Ashoka supports and connects leading social entrepreneurs. The organization has 3500 fellows across 90 countries world-wide, 36 of the fellows are from Hungary.
CIVIL SUPPORT
Civil Support Public Benefit Ltd. works on the development of social organizations and to build bridges between the civil and corporate sectors. Through the development of sectoral co-operation it works for the enhancement of social organizations’ impact.
MAGNET BANK
The first new-bank in Hungary, as a value-based bank, it is a community building financial institution, which aspires for active social participation together with its clients and consciously develops its environment.
OPEN SOCIETY FOUNDATIONS
Open Society Foundations came to Hungary in 1984, in the last decades it provided financial support for a number of NGOs and social issues working to overcome the economic and social problems.
THBE
THBE is a community of investors committed to contribute to positive social change. It works to stimulate the impact ecosystem and to increase the number of social impact investments by developing the sector through knowledge-sharing and professional networking events.
KPMG
KPMG is an international auditor, tax and business consultant company. Through responsible corporate governance and alongside their clients KPMG is dedicated to think responsible, be sustainable and maximize the positive social and environmental impact.
SIMPACT
SIMPACT makes non-profit and church organizations, social businesses, and their supporters more effective in Hungary and at an international level. With economists and sociologists in their team, they help their clients to maximize their social impact on strategy development, business planning, fundraising, impact measurement, CSR and more.
ELTE TáTK
The main mission of the Faculty of Social Sciences (TáTK) at Eötvös Lóránd University (ELTE) is to train professionals who are open and willing to understand social processes. As part of this, ELTE TáTK launched the Social Impact Measurement Course, which aims to introduce students with the basics of social impact measurement, therefore the students are joining join the Impact Academy program as well.
Next9
Next9 is a think tank, a creative creative communication workshop where ideas are created that change the habits of consumers, partners, employers and employees.
In addition to non-profit cultural and tourism projects, they are also working on digital solutions, classic strategic communication campaigns and plans answering to the 21st century challenges.
CMS
The CMS Budapest provides legal and tax services in Hungary since 1989. The CMS Team offers unique, sector-specific legal advice on commercial law, for Hungarian and international companies. As a member of the Global CMS Network, it is the sixth largest law firm in the world and the largest law firm in Europe.
Impact Design
Impact Design partners with mission-driven organisations to help them grow, expand their impact through design and communication. By using agile design techniques that put humans first, they help organisations grow in a sustainable way.
METU
The Budapest Metropolitan University (METU) launched originally only communication courses, but in the recent years, METU extended their courses with management and art courses. Students participating in the recent METU MBA Strategic Marketing Course help developing marketing strategies and campaigns for some participants of the IA.
Hiflylabs
Hiflylabs deals with intelligence solutions, consulting and mobile development. In 2017 they were added to the list of the most dynamically growing Central European technology companies.
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Civil Hírügynökség
Civil Hírügynökség is a database-based, dynamically renewing communications platform for socially-driven organizations, and those interested in them, that provides constantly growing number of new services.
Neticle
Neticle provides MI supported automated media analysis. It offers online and offline media monitoring and media analysis by finding the most relevant web reviews and analyzing the automatic insights.
10xONE
10xONE has redefined the concept of business software – it provides automated, customized enterprise management software implementation and tracking from small businesses to multinational companies.