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TikTok

TikTok and Rethink Ireland launched the TikTok Digital Future Fund in 2024.

The TikTok Digital Future Fund is a €750,000 three-year fund created by Rethink Ireland in partnership with TikTok to enhance the lives of young adults in Ireland. The objective of the Fund is to support non-profit organisations that build digital and/ or creative skills to enhance the lives of marginalised young people aged 15-24 who are experiencing unemployment, underemployment, or wish to upskill.

Bank of America

Bank of America proudly supported the Mná na hÉireann, Women of Ireland Fund – a €1.8 million fund, delivered over three years: 2020-2023.

The fund, the first of its kind in Ireland, was established to support non-profit organisations seeking to enhance the economic mobility of women by providing training, upskilling, education and other services directly to disadvantaged women. It supported over 1,000 women into employment and over 700 women into accredited education, exceeding its original targets. It was extended for an additional year owing to the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic.

Building on the success of this fund, the Mná na hÉireann, Women of Ireland Empowerment Fund opened in 2023 and aims to support women facing intersecting forms of disadvantage into sustainable employment and educational pathways over a three-year period.

Vodafone Foundation

Vodafone Foundation proudly supports the Hi Digital Fund – a €540,000 two-year fund created by Rethink Ireland in partnership with the Vodafone Foundation, SmartSimple, private donors and the Department of Rural and Community Development via the Dormant Accounts Fund.

The Hi Digital Fund is aimed at addressing the digital skills gap among Ireland’s ageing population and will support five awardees over two years.

IPB Insurance

IPB Insurance has been proudly supporting the social enterprise investment area with Rethink Ireland since 2018 through a number of multi-year funds including:

The Social Enterprise Development (SED) Fund 2018-2023
The Start a Social Enterprise Course Fund (2023-2026)

Together, these funds have provided critical support to the most innovative and impactful projects from idea stage right through to trading as sustainable social organsations, helping them to increase their social impact, increase their traded income, create more jobs and develop long-term, effective and sustainable solutions across Ireland.

Mason Hayes & Curran

Mason Hayes & Curran was one of Rethink Ireland’s earliest corporate partners, working with Rethink Ireland to successfully widen education access and attainment on two consecutive Engage & Educate funds – 2016 to 2019 and 2021-2024.

The most recent Engage & Educate Fund 2021-2024 saw 672 people supported through the fund including: 260 migrants helped to identify courses, training and employment opportunities; 234 students from minority backgrounds supported educationally and emotionally through a school-based Diversity Hub in Galway; 35 students who previously left the education system supported to continue their studies; and 143 people with lived experience of incarceration assisted to reintegrate back into society.

Launched in 2025, the three-year, €1.5 million Connected Communities Fund, created in partnership with Mason Hayes & Curran and the Department of Rural and Community Development will aim to promote equity and inclusion, encourage media literacy and community awareness initiatives, and empower communities to develop meaningful connections across diverse groups.

Z Zurich Foundation, the non-profit organisation through which the Zurich Insurance Group implements its global strategy for investing in communities has been proud a supporter of Rethink Ireland on two funds since 2020:

Innovate Together (2020) was a one-year fund that focused on supporting innovative responses to the COVID-19 crisis.
The HeadStart Fund (2023-2026) is a three-year, €3 million fund created by Rethink Ireland in collaboration with the Z Zurich Foundation and the HSE.

The HeadStart Fund supports organisations working with young people aged 15-24 in the Republic of Ireland that help groups such as young people, women, and those experiencing socio-economic disadvantage to improve and maintain their mental health and wellbeing over time.

Zurich Insurance Group

Zurich in Ireland is a proud supporter of the Sustainability Step-Up Fund. This fund is a €1.5 million, two-year fund supported by Zurich in Ireland and the Department of Rural and Community Development and the Gaeltacht (DRCDG) via the Dormant Accounts fund.

The fund supports social innovations across Ireland to step up their impact and address the climate crisis and its interconnected challenges. It is aimed at grassroots organisations, community-led initiatives, social enterprises and other non-profits that build resilience, promote sustainable practices, foster climate action and environmental stewardship and support the circular economy so that the benefits of the green transition are shared equitably

JPMorganChase

JPMorganChase has proudly continued supporting Rethink Ireland through 2 multi-year funds:

The Urban Uplift Fund (2022-2025) was a two-year fund that supported organisations working towards employment and/or employability among young adults in Dublin’s most disadvantaged areas.

The Empower Tech Futures Fund (2024-2027) is a three-year fund supporting vulnerable young adults aged 18-30 into employment, with a special focus on digital and technology skills and the Dublin and/or Cork regions.

Deloitte

Deloitte Ireland supported the Freedom From Fear Fund, which supported projects working to address gender-based violence, meeting the needs of victims or survivors and their families through innovative service provision.

Launched in October 2024, the €500,000 People’s Impact Fund, supported by Deloitte Ireland and the Department of Rural and Community Development, aims to address youth unemployment. The one-year fund will promote equitable access to employment opportunities for marginalised young people across Ireland, empowering young adults through enhanced employability skills and employment facilitation.

Ei Electronics has proudly supported Rethink Ireland for the past number of years through 3 consecutive funding rounds for the Munster region:

Impact Fund for Munster 2022 supported the physical and mental health of local communities through music, creativity, and the arts.

Impact Fund for Munster 2023 supported the sustainable development of Munster communities through social and/or environmental innovations shaping a more sustainable future for all.

Impact Fund for Munster 2024 supported the development of a sustainable and inclusive future for the Munster region by investing in innovative projects that addressed interconnected social and environmental challenges. An additional focus of the fund was to support the inclusion, involvement and recognition of the diverse communities of the Munster region and to empower communities that tend to be left out of conversations.

State Street

State Street proudly supported our Ability to Work Fund, 2020-2023 – a €1.5 million fund supporting four innovative projects to empower more people with disabilities to gain employment. The fund enabled these projects to positively impact the lives of people with disabilities throughout the Covid-19 pandemic and build the capacity of the organisations so that their impact could be sustained into the future. Thanks to the support of State Street and the Department of Rural and Community Development, the Ability to Work Fund helped 1,027 people with disabilities progress along pathways to employment. Learn more about the impact here.

State Street currently supports the Breaking Barriers Fund. This three-year €1.37 million fund aims to support awardees who tackle discrimination and inequality in the Irish labour market and education system.

Google.org

Google.org was one of Rethink Ireland’s first donors, creating the ThinkTech Fund together in 2017, to find tech-based solutions to address some of Ireland’s most critical social issues. The fund helped organisations like FoodCloud and iScoil to scale their innovations to reach more people.

In 2021, Google supported the Rural Recovery Fund in partnership with the Department of Rural and Community Development and the Gaeltacht. This fund was created to address some of the most crucial challenges facing rural Ireland in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic: economic disadvantage, lack of job opportunities and social isolation.

Hear Cera Ward, Managing Director at Google.org talk about the partnership with Rethink Ireland in this video.

In 2026, with the support of Google.org, the AI for Good Fund was launched, a capacity-building initiative to empower the nonprofit, social enterprise, community, and voluntary sectors to build pathways for responsible AI learning and adoption in Ireland. This is a €1.75 million total investment, with €750,000 matched by the Department of Rural and Community Development and the Gaeltacht via the Dormant Accounts Fund.

Tomar Trust

Tomar Trust has been proudly supporting the resilience of communities in Cork and the Munster region since 2017 through several key funds: the Resilient Cork Communities Fund in 2017; the Social Enterprise Step-Up Fund in 2022, Impact Funds for Munster in 2023 & 2024 and Resilient Cork Fund 2024.

Through their support in these funds, Tomar has helped make their communities more equal, sustainable, just and climate resilient.

The Sunflower Charitable Foundation has supported a number of our key regional funds since 2021 including: Ignite Mid West Fund (2021), Impact Fund for Munster 2022, Impact Fund for Munster 2023 and Impact Fund for Munster 2024.

Aligning with the foundation’s areas of focus, their support has helped make regional communities more resilient and their environment more sustainable.

The Michael Guinee Charitable Foundation is proudly supporting the place-based Clare Communities Fund.

Launched in 2025, this 3-year fund in a collaborative initiative between Rethink Ireland, the Michael Guinee Charitable Foundation and the Department of Rural and Community Development and the Gaeltacht, dedicated to fostering participation, accessibility and social inclusion in County Clare through embodying a strong sense of community and wellbeing

Parkes Properties has been a proud partner with Rethink Ireland since 2019 having supported on several funds including:

The first Ignite Fund (2019) supported six Awardees under the themes of ‘Empowering Families’, ‘Youth Resilience’, ‘Harnessing Ability’ and ‘Music to Impact’.
Ignite Mid West (2021) supported seven organisations in the counties of Clare, Limerick and Tipperary working to tackle poverty, social exclusion, and inequality.
Impact Fund For Munster 2022 supported projects working to enhance the physical and mental health of communities across Munster.
Impact Fund for Munster 2023 supported the sustainable development of Munster communities through funding social and/or environmental innovations which shape a more sustainable future for all.
Impact Fund for Munster 2024 supported organisations that fostered a sustainable and inclusive future for the Munster region by investing in innovative projects that address interconnected social and environmental challenges.
Impact Fund 2025 is a two-year fund aimed at supporting innovative, community-led responses to some of the most significant and interrelated challenges affecting communities in Munster and Wexford.