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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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The Hub Specialization Playbook

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This playbook covers the ten success factors to consider in your specialisation strategy.

  • Category: Incubator Design
  • Type: Handbooks

Organization: GIZ Make-IT in Africa

Mentoring Assessment Tools

Receive personalised feedback and clear recommendations on your assessment, as a mentor, mentee or mentoring program managers

  • Category: Enterprise Support & Portfolio Management

Organization: The Human Edge

Make the Most of Mentoring

Whether you’re actively seeking a new mentor or simply curious about the benefits of mentoring, our “Make the Most of Mentoring” course will equip you with the tools and strategies needed to succeed.

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

Organization: The Human Edge

Tips for Sourcing a Diverse Accelerator

Vilcap and IBM share the intentionally inclusive process of reaching founders outside their traditional networks, and using an inclusive and equitable diligence process in their cohorts. Here’s what we did differently – and what any decision-maker in tech: any investor, accelerator leader or corporation, can do to reduce implicit bias when they’re working with early-stage entrepreneurs.

  • Category: Pipeline Sourcing & Selection
  • Type: Best Practices & Lessons Learned

Organization: Vilcap & IBM

Creating an Impact Investment Ask

Diagnose a venture’s business growth readiness using a structured seven-element framework

Build a four-step impact management process aligned with investor expectations

Integrate business and impact insights to craft a compelling and credible investment ask

Communicate investment needs in a way that aligns with both financial and impact goals

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

Organization: CASE

Impact Investment Finance

What are impact investors looking for? This course offers a practical introduction to the impact investing marketplace. You’ll learn how the market is structured, including the roles of asset owners and asset managers, and how capital flows between them. The course explores how impact investors pursue both financial and social or environmental returns, and the different types of investors involved along with their motivations, constraints, and preferred investment vehicles.

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

Organization: CASE

Tools & Strategies | Identifying & Qualifying Deeply Aligned Funders

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Explore tips on how to shape funder research priorities and criteria to assess funder fit and uncover the information your organization needs to support this step in the fundraising process.

  • Category: Governance
  • Type: Trainings & Capacity Building

Organization: Black Fox Global

Actionable Strategies for Engaging your Board

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  • Category: Governance
  • Type: Trainings & Capacity Building

Organization: Black Fox Global

Grant Ready Communications

Tried and true strategies to ensure your organization is ‘grant ready’ when you do secure invitations to submit proposals and letters of inquiry (LOIs).

  • Category: Governance
  • Type: Handbooks

Organization: Black Fox Global

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Building a Fundraising Board: Recruiting and On-Boarding New Board Members

How do you then save your nonprofit and board from this quagmire? By creating a culture of success by recruiting members who can be effective, then giving them the tools to be successful.

  • Category: Governance
  • Type: Handbooks

Organization: Black Fox Global

Building Authentic Funder Relationships and Maximizing Opportunities for Funding

Explores ways to build authentic funder relationships through professional persistence.

  • Category: Governance
  • Type: Trainings & Capacity Building

Organization: Black Fox Global

Crafting Convincing Funder Centric Communications

Black Fox Philanthropy’s proven message development process, offering best practices and actionable insights to boost organisations fundraising success.

  • Category: Governance
  • Type: Trainings & Capacity Building

Organization: Black Fox Global

Fundraising Self-Identification and Engaging Your Networks

By leveraging this framework, you will identify your unique strengths—whether as an Asker, Connector, or Nurturer—to optimize your effectiveness. Further, the session provides practical guidance and tools to support your board members in mobilizing their networks to bring in new funding.

  • Category: Governance
  • Type: Trainings & Capacity Building

Organization: Black Fox Global

Fostering Authentic & Lasting Funder Relationships

Whether you’re just starting out or seeking to strengthen existing relationships, this guide will help you build authentic connections with funders and create a path toward long-term success.

  • Category: Governance
  • Type: Trainings & Capacity Building

Organization: Black Fox Global

Turning a Funder Denial into Future Success

List of questions to seek feedback and guidance that can increase your chances in the next round

  • Category: Governance
  • Type: Handbooks

Organization: Black Fox Global

Fundraising Handbook

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Fundraising is both an art and a science, and Black Fox Global has mastered both. Drawing on decades of experience mobilizing resources for mission-driven organizations, the Fundraising Handbook distills proven strategies, field-tested practices, and expert insights into one trusted guide.

  • Category: Governance
  • Type: Handbooks

Organization: Black Fox Global

Mentor Onboarding Form

This is a sample mentor onboarding form that can be used to learn about new mentor interests, expertise, and availability to serve as a mentor.

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

Organization: Purdue Innovates

Indicator Tool

We’ve compiled this tool to help make that process a little easier. While by no means exhaustive, the indicators in this database are drawn from a wide range of sources and have relevance across a variety of intervention models and the full spectrum of SDG sectors.

  • Category: Incubator Design
  • Type: Toolkits

Organization: Segal Family Foundation

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