Impact Hub Montréal has been committed to being a driver for the achievements of the SDGs through multi-stakeholder convening. After two years of operations, we are sad to see Impact Hub Montreal leave the network.  We have come to a strategic agreement to part ways as the local team will follow a more regional approach […]

Impact Hub is one of 40 leading organizations to form ‘COVID Response Alliance for Social Entrepreneurs’. Alliance has already made USD$75 million available to mitigate impacts of pandemic. Alliance will launch a dashboard with a searchable database of available emergency relief funds.  Members committed to boosting the debate for a more equitable, sustainable future. More […]

After 5 years, Impact Hub Honolulu has decided to depart from the global Impact Hub Network in an effort to localize their focus and best serve their local community.  “Hawai’i is unique in so many ways, and we want to move purposefully and recognize that.  […] We are putting our attention and resources into building […]

At a truly unsettling time, the Impact Hub network believes that our responsibility for one another should override our fear!  COVID-19 (Coronavirus). Until some weeks ago, you had probably never heard of it. Fast-forward to today and it is dominating the headlines, leaving question marks hanging over your daily routines and wellbeing, and highlighting our […]

Impact Hub San Francisco has been a driving force in growing both the Impact Hub Network and social innovation movement in North America and beyond.  However, after over 10 years of operations we are sad to share Impact Hub San Francisco has had to close. As one of the first spaces to open in North […]

Climate change, social injustice, access to education: now more than ever, the complex challenges and pressing issues our societies are facing globally can only be tackled through unprecedented cooperation. Our methods of interacting are rapidly changing; we already live in an interconnected world where technology has become an essential part of everyday life and allows […]

From 24-26 June 2018, Montreal hosted the Makers Festival, the annual gathering for the global Impact Hub network. The following is an English translation of this article’s first appearance in Les Affaires… Christoph Birkholz is from Switzerland and a graduate from INSEAD Business School. He carries out consultancy assignments for big firms such as Swisscom, […]

When the first Impact Hub co-working space opened up in London in 2005, could they have guessed what it would become just eight years later? Today, Impact Hub reports 40 operating locations around the world with another 20 on the way.

“Hundreds of companies are using Holacracy, a system of organizational governance that distributes decision-making authority to self-organizing teams. Companies of varying sizes across industries are putting this nascent approach to use.”

“One of the pioneers of social innovation labs are impact hubs with 80 locations worldwide. First time I stayed in an impact hub in London 10 years ago and I was impressed how at that time they were already working on a more holistic innovation model.”

“Seven Impact Hub Members recognized in Forbes 30 Under 30 Europe List 2016. Impact Hub members from across Europe including Impact Hub King’s Cross, Impact Hub Amsterdam, Impact Hub Berlin, Impact Hub Athens and Impact Hub Madrid.”

“Enter the global Impact Hub network, a franchise of 76 co-working spaces that bring together entrepreneurs, activists, creatives, and other professionals driving positive social and environmental change in the world.”

“It is perhaps fitting that a city often talked about as being a pivotal location for the central European region should have as one of its most innovative and fast-expanding companies an outfit called The Impact Hub.”

“After a period of transition, Impact Hub has emerged as a global structure that is partly a movement, partly a business and partly a network. Its leaders, a group of people devoted to social innovation had to master the art of organizational innovation.”

“When the first Impact Hub co-working space opened up in London in 2005, could they have guessed what it would become just eight years later? Today, Impact Hub reports 40 operating locations around the world with another 20 on the way.”