WHO WE ARE

SILab Ukraine is a professional
platform for:

Social entrepreneurship and social innovation development

Impact investment

promotion

Social partnership

building

OUR MISSION

Building an ecosystem of social entrepreneurship and social innovations development as tools for the formation of social responsibility culture in society.

Our activities are aimed at:

promoting the creation of new social enterprises and supporting the experienced ones;

stimulating social innovations among civil society organizations and social entrepreneurs;

cultivating social investment practice;

mobilizing communities and strengthening social partnerships to achieve social impact;

upholding a favorable environment for the development of social entrepreneurship, social innovation and impact investment.

OUR IMPACT

65+

social enterprises

are launched by graduates of our acceleration programs

For the last 5 years:

58 social entrepreneurs-graduates of SELab acceleration programs have launched their activities;

50 mentors — make up the expert pool of the SELab school and provide advice on various aspects of the business activities of social enterprises;

3 social enterprises attracted social investments;

SELab training events covered 15 cities of Ukraine;

We became co-founders of the Ukrainian Social Venture Fund.

An assessment of the ecosystem for the development of social entrepreneurship in the city of Vinnytsia;

A Forum on social entrepreneurship and corporate social responsibility was held in Kharkiv together with partners.

We participated in the development of the Program for the development of social entrepreneurship in the Ivano-Frankivsk city territorial community.

12 social entrepreneurs are preparing to launch in the next six months;

MORE ABOUT OUR IMPACT

Culture of social responsibility is the basis for a healthy, fair and sustainable society full of meaning, rule of law and prosperity.

The Board

Olesya Volska-Zaluska

An expert in economic development specialising in the development of SME enterprises, impact businesses, and digital innovations. Country Consortium Director for the FCDO-funded BLOOM programme at Mercy Corps Ukraine.

Dmytro Murashko

An expert in reputation management, strategic communications, partnership development, and crisis management, who helps startups find their business model and create social impact in communities.

Anastasiia Sleptsova

Co-founder of HATA Hub, an ecosystem for cultural and technological innovations, the Hatathon ideathon, and the Digitizing.Space agency, specialising in building strategic alliances between business, investors, and society.

Uliana Dolyniak

A specialist in clinical, crisis, and health psychology. She has over 20 years of experience working with family-based care formats and centres for social and psychological rehabilitation in Ukraine, Poland, Czechia, and Switzerland.