The Social Finance Academy (SFA) was incubated by Roots of Impact with a clear mission: to empower impact entrepreneurs on their journeys with the help of practice-driven knowledge and high-quality capacity-building. We are very grateful for the early support we received from the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation: This allowed us to develop and provide state-of-the-art courses, toolkits and programs for impact enterprises and their service providers across the globe -> CHECK OUT OUR CORE EXPERTISE: IMPACT INTELLIGENCE
ABOUT US
The mission and people behind our Social Finance Academy
What drives us
Empowering impact entrepreneurs to scale
Our journey to date
From incubation in 2017....
The kick-start to our Academy was a co-creation with VIVA Idea in Latin America in 2017: our course “Access to Impact Investment for Social Enterprises”, the first-ever online learning opportunity for entrepreneurs focused on social finance. After running it successfully on Novoed, combined with in-person training by select Impact Hubs across the globe, we gradually expanded our train-the-trainer offers in impact finance, investment readiness and impact management -> LEARN MORE
...to programs across the globe
A big step in our scaling is the cooperation with the B-BRIDDHI program that started in 2020. Since then, we provide our entire scope of expertise to this unique impact ecosystem building program in Bangladesh. The state-of-the-art toolkits, capacity building components and bootcamps that we have co-created on the way are increasingly plugged into other programs world-wide. One example: our Impact-Linked Finance Readiness Bootcamp for the ILF for WASH-> VISIT THE PROGRAM PAGE
Our SFA core team
Melanie Rodriguez Siow
TA Portfolio Manager
Melanie Rodriguez Siow is Technical Assistance Portfolio Manager at Roots of Impact, where she manages the full portfolio of capacity-building activities under the Social Finance Academy brand to strengthen the pipeline of impact enterprises ready for Impact-Linked Finance.
Fannely Mbewe
Associate TA Assistance
Fannely Mbewe is Associate Technical Assistance Coordination at Roots of Impact and supports the entire team in various tasks and programs, specifically in managing the learning management system of our Social Finance Academy.
Christina Moehrle
Lead Communications
Christina Moehrle is the Lead Communications & Community Management at Roots of Impact. Her main role is to lead the communication and branding activities for multiple programs of Roots of Impact. In addition, she is supporting the impact investment readiness activities of our Social Finance Academy.
Our "Ready for ILF" core team
Karoline Rodriguez Rivera
Senior Associate
Karoline Rodriguez Rivera is Senior Associate Impact Intelligence & Education at Roots of Impact and specializes in strategic consulting and impact measurement with a focus on social and technological innovations. She primarily manages our new program “Ready for Impact-Linked Finance” in Germany under the Social Finance Academy umbrella.
Louisa Wolf
Senior Associate
Louisa Wolf joined the Impact Intelligence & Education team at Roots of Impact as a Senior Associate in March 2025. Together with Karoline and Jordan, she is instrumental in bringing the “Ready for Impact-Linked Finance” program to life.
Jordan Wolken
Senior Associate
Jordan Wolken is Senior Associate Impact Intelligence & Education at Roots of Impact. He coordinates the company-wide research agenda, trains entrepreneurs in impact measurement and management, and structures Impact-Linked Finance transactions. For the “Ready for Impact-Linked Finance” program, he particularly contributes his experience in designing and training the Impact-Linked Finance Readiness Bootcamps.