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Incubator Tool Library

A collection of vetted tools and resources to help impact incubators run smarter, scale bigger, and better support their entrepreneurs.

Pollinate Impact Tool Library

Welcome to your shortcut to the good stuff.

When we say “tool”, we mean anything that helps incubators thrive—software, templates, handbooks, or any resource that lets you level up your game. We’ve curated the best for impact incubators across the Global South, so skip the search, grab what you need, and get back to making magic happen. 

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Incubator Toolkit

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Launching an incubation program for Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) requires a strategic approach to nurture and accelerate their growth. The incubator Toolkit is designed to guide incubators in developing comprehensive programs tailored to the unique needs of these MSMEs. From initial assessment to post-incubation support, this toolkit equips you with methodologies and best practices, to foster innovation and improve their business capabilities. This toolkit empowers incubators to not only guide MSMEs towards success but also to adapt and evolve with the ever-changing business landscape, ensuring long-lasting impact & resilience.

  • Category: Incubator Design, Strategy & Impact
  • Type: Toolkits

Organization: Instellar, Koalisi Ekonomi Membumi & SEED Indonesia

Smarter Systems Accelerator Implementation Guide

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This implementation guide outlines three steps we found that accelerators
can incorporate into their selection processes to consistently evaluate all startups more
accurately.

  • Category: Pipeline Sourcing & Selection
  • Type: Handbooks, Playbooks, & Guides

Organization: IFC / Vilcap / WeFi

Lessons from accelerators supporting women-led startups in emerging markets

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This publication contains case studies, strategies, and practical advice from five accelerators and entrepreneur support organizations awarded by ScaleX for their successful efforts to help women-led startups in emerging markets overcome barriers and secure capital post-acceleration.

  • Category: Enterprise Support & Portfolio Management
  • Type: Best Practices & Lessons Learned

Organization: IFC

Enabling inclusive and empowering workplaces for migrant women through entrepreneurial support. A guide for Business Support Organisations

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This toolkit is about equipping BSOs with principles, tools, activities and
methods that they can use with the entrepreneurs and ventures they support,
so that enterprises can make their workplaces more inclusive and empowering
for migrant women.

  • Category: Incubator Design, Strategy & Impact
  • Type: Best Practices & Lessons Learned

Organization: Impact Hub

Embedding Circularity

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A practical learning journey for incubators and accelerators to integrate circular design principles into their entrepreneur support services. This online curriculum will help you identify ways to enable a more circular and sustainable economy by supporting startup and growth stage ventures to apply circular design principles early on.
You will also be generating a pipeline of innovation for key industries and value chains that need to become more circular to build for a just and sustainable society.

  • Category: Incubator Design, Strategy & Impact
  • Type: Trainings & Capacity Building

Organization: Impact Hub

The Circularity Toolkit

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This toolkit offers insights, tools and methodologies for Entrepreneur Support Organizations (ESOs) to take a Circular Economy lens to their entrepreneur support programs, particularly incubators and accelerators, in order to mainstream circular design principles across small and growing businesses regardless of whether they are social, environmental or profit-driven.

You can use this toolkit to develop a program explicitly focused on supporting ventures with Circular Economy solutions, or to embed circular design principles into other programs that aren’t explicitly focused on the Circular Economy.

  • Category: Incubator Design, Strategy & Impact
  • Type: Toolkits

Organization: Impact Hub

Incubation Tools and Templates

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A collection of tools and templates that guide you in the process and activities of incubation as laid out in the Innovation Playbook by Villgro Philippines

  • Category: Incubator Design, Strategy & Impact
  • Type: Toolkits

Organization: Villgro Philippines & USAID

The Innovation Playbook

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The primary purpose of this Innovation Playbook is to provide a structured yet
comprehensive guide for stakeholders involved in the creation, management, and growth of
incubation and acceleration programs. The Playbook can serve as a guide to those looking to
support innovations, specifically in the health sector, with a lens of affordability and
accessibility. This playbook has been designed to simplify the processes associated with
establishing and operating successful incubation initiatives, ensuring consistency, efficiency,
and effectiveness across programs and mitigate challenges for new operators.

  • Category: Incubator Design, Strategy & Impact
  • Type: Handbooks, Playbooks, & Guides

Organization: Villgro Philippines & USAID

Empowering FP/RH innovations for scale – Summary

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Empowering FP/RH Innovations for Scale is a set of resources to provide an approach to stakeholders to better assess and support the scale-up of FP/RH innovations and accelerate progress towards FP/RH goals. Along with a summary, this includes a scale-up guide, toolkits and templates, and scale-up lessons and case studies. These resources are not exhaustive and build off and reference other tools and resources.
Resources include –
1. Summary and user’s guide
2. Scale-up guide
3. Toolkit & Templates
4. Scale-up lessons and case studies

  • Category: Incubator Design, Strategy & Impact
  • Type: Handbooks, Playbooks, & Guides

Organization: USAID & MOMENTUM Innovation Accelerator

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Launch League Idea-stage Programme

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The Launch League Idea-stage Programme toolkit, developed by the UK-South Africa Tech Hub and Viridian, consists of all the open licence resources you need to run an idea-stage programme for the entrepreneurs in your community. The programme is designed to help entrepreneurs understand the different parts of their business and how these hang together as a viable business model.

  • Category: Enterprise Support & Portfolio Management
  • Type: Toolkits

Organization: Launch Leage

5 Questions to Help Your Team Make Better Decisions

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Five questions to help sharpen your decision-making process, whether in personal matters or business strategy.

  • Category: Talent
  • Type: Media Resources

Organization: Steven Morris

A Playbook for Employee Ownership in Sub Saharan Africa

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It provides a roadmap to
pursue EO across seven countries and offers an
analytical approach that could be replicated in other
regions where EO remains nascent.3

  • Category: Governance
  • Type: Handbooks, Playbooks, & Guides

Organization: Pre Distribution Initiative

Unlocking New Capital for Social Enterprises and Nonprofits

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Funding models for SEs and non-profits

  • Category: Financial Sustainability
  • Type: Research, Reports, Data & Insights

Organization: Eliana Summer-Galai

Developing a Theory of Change: Practical Guidance

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Overview of TOC concepts, and language, concrete steps and provides exercises, examples and resources to help groups aiming to develop and use a theory of change.
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  • Category: Incubator Design, Strategy & Impact
  • Type: Toolkits

Organization: The ANNE E Casey Foundation

Scaling Pathways

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Aims to equip enterprises to more effectively navigate the journey to scale by capturing tactical insights and hard-won lessons from social enterprises.

  • Category: Scaling & Growth
  • Type: Best Practices & Lessons Learned

Organization: DUKE

CASE Scale Readiness Diagnostic

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The Scale Readiness Diagnostic helps your impact organization assess relative areas of strength and priorities for improvement as you navigate your scale journey.

  • Category: Scaling & Growth
  • Type: Templates

Organization: DUKE

Impact Measurement & Management for the SDGs

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The course was designed around the fundamental elements of the SDG Impact Standards, the only management standards that embed sustainability at the core of an organization in the holistic way intended by the creators of the SDGs. The course demonstrates how the SDG Impact Standards help organizations align with responsible business principles, other standards, and best practices in impact management.

  • Category: Incubator Design, Strategy & Impact
  • Type: Trainings & Capacity Building

Organization: DUKE

Accubate

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Accubate is a cloud-native enterprise-grade innovation management platform which offers an advanced suite of features every step of the way from ideation through to implementation.

  • Category: Scaling & Growth
  • Type: Technology Platforms & Software

Organization: Cunomial

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