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Impact Lab Accélération: a year of scale and impact for Impact 40/120
On October 17, 2024, the IMPACT 40/120 prizewinners reached a key milestone in their journey, joining the 3rd promotion of Impact Lab Acceleration. For five months, these impact structures benefited from tailor-made support to take up a major challenge: to become the impact unicorns of tomorrow.
IMPACT 40/120: Working together to propel the new generation of entrepreneurs to the top
From Impact Score to action: a look back at the premiere of this new format in Montpellier
Impact Unicorns: towards a global valuation of the value created by companies
European elections: deciphering the candidates' economic programs
The committed entrepreneurs and managers of Mouvement Impact France offer you their analysis of the economic programmes of the candidates in the European elections!
27 managers elected as new regional spokespersons for Mouvement Impact France
The election period for Impact France's regional ambassadors came to an end this Thursday, November 9, 2023. In the final weeks of voting, members of the movement were asked to decide on their regional representatives for the next two years.
Cyril Noury, CEO of Informatruck: utility before profitability
Cyril Noury, CEO of Informatruck, shares with Mouvement Impact France his vision of impact enterprises, whose status as SSE commercial companies enables them to put utility before profitability!
Mouvement Impact France at the EN Impact Summit to promote impact entrepreneurship in Europe
Mouvement Impact France was present in The Hague to contribute to the structuring and development of impact entrepreneurship in Europe!
Frédérick Marchand, CEO of Digital4Better, SSE at the heart of the sustainable transformation of our economy
Find out why SSE status is at the heart of Digital4Better's business model.
For Anne-Sophie Thomas of Gestia Solidaire: SSE companies are the pioneers of tomorrow's economy!
For Anne-Sophie Thomas (Gestia Solidaire), social economy companies are the pioneers of the impact economy, which needs to be supported and developed on a massive scale.
Official launch of the Business for a Better Tomorrow coalition
On February 1, 2024 in Brussels, 15 European and national business networks representing nearly 100,000 companies across Europe announce the official launch of the Business for a Better Tomorrow coalition ahead of the 2024 European elections.
AI: between opportunities and dangers, how to reconcile technology and sobriety?
While AI brings pragmatic and promising solutions to crucial issues such as health, safety and the ecological transition, which drive us to explore its applications ever further, it is imperative to beware of the risks and the danger of rebound effect inherent in its intensive use!
Impact companies are on the move in French Polynesia!
On April 16, Margot Chaptal de Chanteloup and Laurent Devemy, co-director and co-leader of Club Ideo, launched the movement's new dynamic in French Polynesia at an event bringing together players in the Impact economy in Papeete on the island of Tahiti.
Proposition de loi "visant à accroître le financement des entreprises et l'attractivité de la France" Impact France mobilisé pour la démocratie actionnariale
Currently being drafted by Parliament, the bill to boost business financing and France's attractiveness proposes a series of measures designed to facilitate company IPOs.
Tech for time: Rethinking our relationship to time with the 4-day week.
At Carbo, we're convinced that the 4-day week is a great way to reclaim time for a better connection to ourselves, to others and to life.
Mouvement Impact France announces the launch of the new Impact 40/120 index to highlight future Impact unicorns.
Come and discover the future unicorns of impact at the launch of the IMPACT40/120 index on Tuesday March 26 at 6.30pm at ChangeNOW!
QVEMA: a testimonial from Pimpant!
After the show aired, the company achieved sales of 150,000 euros in just one hour (the amount initially requested from investors), and raised 3.6 million euros in financing!
Launch of the Impact Lab Academy to support the entrepreneurial ecosystem in its drive towards impact
On Friday February 2, an Academy led by France's leading Impact experts was launched to help the entire start-up ecosystem become more professional in this area. For these well-known and recognized pioneers, Impact can no longer be an option or a marketing argument, but must become a core part of support programs to improve the economic, ecological and social robustness of start-ups and scale-ups.
2024: Carry your voice, louder and further!
Greetings from the co-presidents of Mouvement Impact France
Impact Lab Accélération launches its 2nd class to support future social impact unicorns
1 year after the launch of the #1 Impact Lab Acceleration class, the 2nd class began in November 2023 to support 20 social impact entrepreneurs as they scale up. Perhaps the unicorns of tomorrow? Discover them!
French impact startups have raised nearly €10 billion since their creation
France Digitale, Bpifrance Le Hub and Mouvement Impact France have worked together to produce this year's 4th edition of the mapping of French impact startups!
Impact France unveils the Impact Score strategic committee
Meeting for the first time in plenary session on Monday November 20, 2023, and made up of 13 standards and impact experts, the committee will focus on defining the main strategic priorities to make the tool more robust, user-friendly and aligned with new European regulations (CSRD).
Advancing social procurement with the Buy Social Europe B2B project
#PLF2024: For a budget to match our ecological and social ambitions
Finance bill for 2024, discover our proposals for fair taxation!
CSRD: The challenges of dual materiality
Dual materiality: combining financial materiality and impact materiality
Mouvement Impact France at SEWF 2023!
Mouvement Impact France was in Amsterdam for the Social World Enterprise Forum 2023!
CSRD: We've run out of time to slow down the behavioral transition of companies.
The Corporate Social Responsibility Reporting Directive (CSRD) is one of the flagship texts of the Green Deal.
Why and how to obtain ESUS accreditation?
There are now almost 2,000 ESUS-accredited companies. What were their motivations? How did they obtain this accreditation?
Entreprise à Impact, why adopt the status of an SSE commercial enterprise?
Start Up à Impact, you put your Social and Ecological Impact at the heart of your strategy: to benefit from advantages and greater recognition, you can become a 'SSE commercial enterprise': but why? But why? How?
Jean Moreau: "making social, ecological and solidarity-based entrepreneurship the new reference model".
Jean Moreau (Phenix) and the SSE Business Enterprise: making social, ecological and solidarity-based entrepreneurship the new reference model.
Tech for bullshit: do we stop?
Spearheading the definition of our way of life, tech innovation is struggling to establish itself as a systematic tool in the service of a desirable future for all. Between the absurd and the beneficial, it is possible - and recommended! - to be critical and take sides.
Julia Faure and Pascal Demurger elected co-chairs of the Impact France Movement
The list and the project led by Pascal Demurger (MAIF) and Julia Faure (LOOM) have been widely acclaimed by the members who have given them their confidence at 86%.
Renewal of the governance of the Impact France Movement
Press release: Impact France renews its governance on May 24
Green industry bill: one more effort to combine reindustrialization and sobriety
Green industry: before the debates on the bill, the pioneer actors formulate their proposals to combine reindustrialization and sobriety!
Unicorns at Impact What are we talking about?
Discover the BCG, ESSEC and Mouvement Impact France study on Impact Unicorns and the new criterion to identify them: avoided costs for society.
Tech for Good in the age of artificial intelligence
Discover the editorial of Théo Alves da Costa, Tech for Good France ambassador: Tech for Good in the age of artificial intelligence
Night Session in Bordeaux: impact or performance, should you choose to succeed?
In Bordeaux: a Night Session to bring together the tech and tech for good ecosystem and move forward together to advance impact and place it at the heart of business models.
TOWT: towards one billion tons of goods transported without CO2 emissions?
What are the next Unicorns at Impact? Discover TOWT, the Breton company that allows the decarbonization of long-distance freight transport!
Unicorn at Impact: the new age of valuation?
A fourth Night Session of Tech for Good France to address the success of companies and a new horizon for the valuation of startups: the Unicorn at Impact!
Vita Dx, a triple win health system, and an impact unicorn?
At the Universités de l'Economie de Demain: Vita Dx, artificial intelligence at the service of the health system to improve cancer screening.
Cool Roof: towards one billion m² of repainted roofs
Discover COol Roof, an upcoming impact unicorn unveiled at the Universités de l'Economie de Demain in Rennes: a goal, repainting roofs to eliminate the use of air conditioners.
Financing start-ups, the revenge of the Tech for Good?
Tech for Good France gathered the Tech ecosystem, investors, France Digitale, La French Tech to discuss with FAIR the funding crisis of startups and the opportunity it represents for tech for good.
In Fond Gaston: "before we scale up, let's make sure we have an impact"
A Fond Gaston, the next sober unicorn? The Lyon-based company presented at the Universités de l'Economie de Demain wants to make sure of its impact before going to scale.
1 billion square meters decontaminated with the Biomede impact unicorn
Lyon-based start-up Biomede unveiled at the Universités de l'Economie de Demain as the next unicorn with an impact, decontaminating soils of heavy metals in a circular economy approach
2nd Universities of the Economy of Tomorrow in Lyon: Sobriety, I write your name!
For a region spearheading the sobriety economy: participate in the Universities of the Economy of Tomorrow in Lyon on November 29!
The naked drive: the first zero waste drive and the next impact unicorn?
Discover the Naked Drive, the first zero waste drive that aims to avoid a billion unnecessary packaging: a future unicorn with impact?
Ecomatelas: the next impact unicorn that circularizes the mattress industry
Discover Ecomatelas, the next impact unicorn unveiled at the Universités de l'Economie de Demain in Montpellier!
Return on the Universities of the Economy of Tomorrow in Montpellier
On October 18, the Universités de l'Economie de Demain will return to Montpellier: a day to put economic sobriety, a source of prosperity, at the heart of the debates and businesses in the region.
MagicPallet, a unicorn with impact? Objective 1 billion kilometers avoided
Discover the 3 impact unicorns unveiled at the Universités de l'Economie de Demain in Montpellier!
PLF 2023: The Impact France Movement calls for the greening of the budget
2023 Finance Bill: Impact France calls for a greener budget by focusing on business transformation
What will be the next 10 sober unicorns?
Unveiled exclusively at the Universités d'Eté de l'Economie de Demain, discover who will be the 10 future sober unicorns!
Committed entrepreneurs answer Elisabeth Borne's call
At the Summer University of the Economy of Tomorrow, visionary entrepreneurs formulate their 10 proposals to the Government for an economy of sobriety!
The 10 commandments of the sober company
In order for each company to progress and commit to the path of sobriety, the 10 commandments of the sober company were presented at the Summer University of the Economy of Tomorrow
4th edition of the Summer University of the Economy of Tomorrow: Sobriety, I write your name!
Sobriety, I write your name! The fourth edition of the Universités de l'Economie de Demain is coming up
#What's next? Towards sober companies
The IPCC has reminded us that we have three years to act. The companies in the Impact France Movement are mobilising and making progress together.
"Making sobriety a collective choice": the appeal of 84 French business leaders
Eighty-four French business leaders are calling for sobriety to become a collective choice. Here is their statement: "Moving from 'emergency sobriety' to organised sobriety. This is the challenge that we, business leaders, have decided to collectively face.
Sobriety & Tech, enemy sisters?
For this second Tech for Good Night Session, entrepreneurs met at Station F to discuss sobriety issues and new sober tech models.
French Presidency of the EU Council: time to take stock
After 6 months of PFUE and mobilisation of committed entrepreneurs, what concrete progress has been made to transform businesses? What projects have been opened and will be pursued?
Legislative: making business transition the priority of the mandate
On the occasion of the legislative elections, the Impact France Movement is calling on the various candidates to engage them on the proposals of impact entrepreneurs.
Sobriety & Mobility: Utopia or reality?
The Territoires & Logement community unveils its mapping of solutions for tomorrow's mobility during an event to invent a more sober sector compatible with the Paris Agreements.
Will impact start-ups be the unicorns of tomorrow?
What if the Unicorn that will make all start-ups dream was an Impact Unicorn? With BCG and Ipsos, Impact France unveils its major study to accelerate the impact economy.
General Assembly 2022: bringing the voice of all committed companies
During our General Assembly, more than 200 members were present for this high point in the democratic (and convivial!) life of our movement
EDF, the first major group to publish its Impact Score and to commit to a transparent improvement process
By publishing its Impact Score in full transparency, EDF has become the first major French group to take a stand against green and social washing and to commit to a process of measurable progress.
Letter to Emmanuel Macron: 100 days to align economy, ecology and social progress
On the eve of the appointment of the new Prime Minister, committed entrepreneurs send an open letter to Emmanuel Macron: 100 days for impact
Presidential election: a clear choice, to block the extreme right
Faced with the threat to fundamental freedoms posed by the extreme right, Impact France, the employers' organisation for committed entrepreneurs, calls for a clear choice by voting for Emmanuel Macron in the second round of the presidential election.
Impact Score: the common reference framework for 360° social and ecological impact assessment
Common to 30 business networks, the Impact Score is the tool already adopted by more than 2,000 companies to situate and improve their impact on the 5 pillars of the impact enterprise.
Business commitments: strong expectations from the French
Commitment, what do the French expect from companies? Harris Interactive conducted a survey for the Impact France Movement to find out.
Draw me a Unicorn at Impact, the AgoraTech of Tech for Good France
On 7 April at the Morning de Concorde, the Tech for Good France community is organising an AgoraTech to define the Unicorn with Impact.
Objective Zero Carbon in housing, meeting of the territories and housing community
The territories and housing community is proposing a meeting on zero-carbon housing, an exceptional digital meeting on 6 April.
Universités de l'Economie de Demain in Rennes: "Equality is not an objective, it is a prerequisite
On the eve of the presidential election, entrepreneurs and committed leaders are gathering in Rennes to make their voices heard in the final stretch of the election.
What a manager says: "At Simpliciti, variable pay depends on the Impact Score".
While the Impact Score aims to provide a 360° mapping of its impact in order to make progress, other leaders have integrated the tool into the heart of their strategy.
Marseille, capital of the economy of tomorrow: 800 entrepreneurs present at #UED2022!
The Universities of the Economy of Tomorrow in Marseille: a day to influence the debates and set the framework for social and ecological competitiveness!
#RoadTo2022 Meeting of the community of impact coaches
The actors of the accompaniment are gathering on March 1st in Paris for a first meeting of the Accompagnateurs community.
Manifesto of the economy of tomorrow: entrepreneurs meet all over France
The committed entrepreneurs and leaders who are signatories of the Manifesto are deploying their mobilisation in all regions with 8 meetings.
Presidential election: deciphering the programmes
What do the candidates propose to put the economy back at the service of the common good? Committed entrepreneurs decipher the programmes.
Presidential election: 4 proposals to change the rules of the game of the economy
More than 6,500 committed entrepreneurs and leaders support the proposals presented in the Manifesto for the Economy of Tomorrow.
Presidential election: our sectoral proposals to transform the economy
The thematic communities are formulating their proposals so that all sectors of the economy can take the turn towards ecological and social transformation.
Presidential election: launch of the Manifesto of the Economy of Tomorrow
Presidential elections 2022: what are employers asking for? More social and ecological justice, more room for the impact economy!
Proposed Directive on Corporate Due Diligence: the European Commission's missed opportunity
The European Commission has unveiled its proposal for a "Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence" directive which aims to impose a duty of care on companies
#RoadTo2022 Finance community meeting
To prepare for 2022 and to meet each other, the Finance community is organising a meeting on 17 February at Morning Concorde.
#ROADTO2022 Meeting of the Tech for Good France community
To prepare for 2022 and to meet each other, the Tech for Good France community is organising a virtual meeting on 25 January at 18:00
#ROADTO2022 Meeting of the Territories and Housing community
To prepare 2022 and to meet each other, the Territories community is organising a first virtual meeting on 20 January at 6 pm.
#ROADTO2022 Education & Employment Community Meeting
To prepare for 2022 and to meet each other, the Education and Employment community is organising a first virtual meeting on 18 January at 6 pm.
For a Europe at the forefront of the ecological and social transition
On the occasion of the French Presidency of the European Union, the EU must more than ever take the path of ecological and social transformation, the Impact France Movement is mobilising.
Advent calendar: for responsible gifts
Before the end of the year celebrations, the Movement and the Consumption community are offering their offers to Impact France members for responsible gifts! This is an opportunity to rediscover the actors of responsible consumption and to propose gifts in line with its values.
Wage increases, companies can do (much) better!
According to an ELABE survey for BFM TV published on 20 October 2021, purchasing power is now the number one concern of the French.
Impact.gouv: a false start for the impact economy in France
Faced with repeated crises and the ecological and social emergency, we need to change our model. But to be up to the challenge and fight against the green & social washing that is developing, we need clarity and political will: unfortunately, this is not what is being presented today by the (re)launch of the Impact.gouv platform
France2030: For an innovation strategy that is also social and ecological
On 12 October, Emmanuel Macron unveiled the broad lines of the "France 2030" investment plan. This represents a budget of 30 billion euros
Tech for good actors, pioneers of tomorrow's economy
More and more start-ups are claiming to be Tech for Good, but what is it?
#UEED2021: The Impact France Movement at the forefront of the (future) economy
Organised by the #WeAreTomorrow coalition, which brings together more than 25 networks of committed entrepreneurs (from the CJD to the Christian Entrepreneurs, from B-Corp to the Community of Companies with a Mission), the third Summer Universities of the Economy of Tomorrow brought together more than 2,000 entrepreneurs on 26 and 27 August!
Presidential election: the proposals of committed entrepreneurs
The committed entrepreneurs of the Impact France Movement have worked on drafting 30 proposals for scaling up the impact economy and accelerating the ecological and social transformation of all businesses.
Proposed law on professional equality: the Movement is moving the law!
The bill "aimed at accelerating economic and professional equality", put forward by LREM MP Marie-Pierre Rixain, President of the Delegation for Women's Rights and Equal Opportunities between Men and Women, was debated at the National Assembly. The Impact France Movement was able to contribute positively to this text by proposing 3 amendments to go further.
Salomé Géraud & Jonathan Jérémiasz, portraits of entrepreneurs and a cross-section of ESUS approval
The Impact France Movement currently brings together more than 250 ESUS-approved companies out of the 1,700 listed by the Ministry of the Economy and Finance.
Climate and resilience bill: Impact France's proposals
Within the framework of the "Climate and Resilience" bill currently being examined by the French National Assembly, the Impact Movement, in collaboration with the actors of the Nous Sommes Demain coalition, has drafted