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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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Screening Selection & Due Diligence

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A collection of templates that are utilized by incubators to screen and select the right entrepreneurs to their program.

  • Category: Pipeline Sourcing & Selection
  • Type: Templates

Organization: Miller Center / Villgro / Villgro Africa / Villgro Philippines / Impact Hub Abidjan

New Leaders: Here’s how to hire a top talent

A great hiring strategy can have a positive impact on a manager’s career. While you may not always have the power to choose your team, learning how to spot and appeal to high-performing candidates can fundamentally impact your trajectory.

  • Category: Talent
  • Type: Media Resources

Organization: HBR - Ryan Renteria

Supporting Women Entrepreneurs in Developing Countries: What Works

This paper summarizes the evidence base on women’s entrepreneurship
and serves as an update to the 2022 version, Supporting Women
Entrepreneurs in Developing Countries: What Works?

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

Organization: We-Fi

Developing a Data Collection Plan

This guide provides accelerators with an overview of how to approach designing a data collection plan to generate actionable insights.

  • Category: Incubator Design
  • Type: Handbooks

Organization: GALI

Conducting Layoffs with Purpose

A guide providing a structure to conducting layoffs responsibly

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

Organization: Rippleworks

Defining Success for your Accelerator Program

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This presentation provides an introduction to using a Theory of Change to clearly articulate what your program hopes to achieve, and an example of what an accelerator Theory of Change could look like.

  • Category: Incubator Design
  • Type: Handbooks

Organization: GALI

Innovators Academy for Impact

The academy aims to empower individuals and organizations to build and scale social business models that not only generate value but also contribute to social and environmental change. This platform provides learning opportunities for growth and resources tailored to the needs of social entrepreneurs and changemakers around the world. Our goal is to equip you with the knowledge, tools and networks you need to increase your social impact and turn your vision into action. Whether you’re starting out or looking to expand your skills, our Academy has everything you need. Watch the video to find out more.

  • Category: Enterprise Support & Portfolio Management
  • Type: Trainings & Capacity Building

Organization: Seimens Stiftung Foundation

Incubator Budget and Cash Flow Template

This is an example of an incubator’s budget and cash flow tracker.

  • Category: Governance
  • Type: Templates

Organization: SHE Investments

Recruitment, Hiring, Onboarding Processes

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This is an example of an incubator’s documented recruitment, hiring, and onboarding processes.

  • Category: Talent
  • Type: Templates

Organization: SHE Investments

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ynos

YNOS is India’s largest information and analytics platform for early-stage startups and investors. The platform uses advanced data integration tools, analytical search methods, and powerful filters to screen and search startups, investors, and incubators across hundreds of industries and sectors.

  • Category: Pipeline Sourcing & Selection

Organization: IIT Madras

Gender Lens Incubation and Acceleration Toolkit

(GLIA) toolkit is an interactive resource, to guide accelerators and incubators (or ‘intermediaries’) through the journey of uncovering how our activities impact, and are experienced by, different gendered groups.

  • Category: Incubator Design
  • Type: Toolkits

Organization: Sasakawa Peace Foundation, ygap, Conveners.org and SecondMuse

Accelerating Women Entrepreneurs – A Handbook for Practitioners

This handbook is an interactive resource for you, whether you want to attract
more women entrepreneurs and/or better support them, want to improve the programme
or learn from the challenges and successes of others, select the right partners to run a programme, new to entrepreneurship support programmes &
women’s empowerment

  • Category: Incubator Design
  • Type: Handbooks

Organization: GIZ

ESO Collaborative

This platform is a community resource developed by the ESO Collaborative which brings together government, the Ghana Hubs Network, and other enterprise support organisations. It provides entrepreneurs, startups, businesses, freelancers etc. with extensive details of programmes provided by Enterprise Support Organisations (ESOs) in Ghana.

  • Category: Pipeline Sourcing & Selection
  • Type: Research

Organization: Impact Investing Ghana

Academy

The AfriLabs Academy is an initiative of AfriLabs and implemented under the AfriLabs Capacity Building Programme that is designed to equip African Hub managers and staff with the training and management skills needed to improve their ability and capacity to support the growing number of startups and MSMEs in their communities

  • Category: Talent
  • Type: Trainings & Capacity Building

Organization: Afrilabs

NEX Portfolio

Please find our detailed database of some of our portfolio businesses here. Our aim is to provide more connections and global network opportunities to businesses that have participated in NEX programming as well as offer market expansion opportunities.

Listing of companies, many of which are seeking out collaborators, we’ve supported in 12 countries. This database is still being enriched and more data to be added by end of March.

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

Organization: New Energy Nexus

Satsense App

This tool uses satellite earth observation for transparent digital monitoring reporting and verification of Natural Capital projects. It can evaluate the positive impacts of land management practices to help generate carbon, biodiversity and other green credits.

  • Category: Enterprise Support & Portfolio Management
  • Type: Technology Platforms / Software

Organization: Satsense Solutions

Due Diligence Check list

Checklist of documents to put in your Data Room for a DD process

  • Category: Pipeline Sourcing & Selection
  • Type: Templates

Organization: Impact Hub Abidjan

Creative Metier 4V Model Diagnostic Tool

The Creative Metier 4V Model offers socially committed impact networks, and their funders, the opportunity to significantly accelerate their impact by drawing on our work with national, regional and global networks.

It provides a diagnostic, a 360 view and a fresh perspective to strengthen network performance and impact.

The 4V Model Diagnostic Tool benchmarks your network now, informs strategic planning, sets annual priorities, reviews and refocuses, and stretches thinking about what might be possible.

  • Category: Incubator Design
  • Type: Templates

Organization: Creative Metier

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