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 supports the Mná na hÉireann, Women of Ireland Fund – a €1.8 million fund, delivered over three years: 2020-2023. The fund, which is the first of its kind in Ireland has been established to support charitable and social enterprise organisations that seek to enhance the economic mobility of women, by investing in organisations that provide training, upskilling, education and other services directly to disadvantaged women. Employees from the bank provide mentoring and further tailored training to the successful organisations. 

The Fund aims to help 1,000 women progress along the pathways to employment.

IPB Insurance

IPB Insurance proudly supports the Social Enterprise Development (SED) Fund – a €3.2 million fund delivered over four years; 2018 – 2022. The fund provides critical support to the most innovative and impactful projects proposed by social enterprises, helping them to increase their social impact, increase their traded income, create more jobs and develop long-term, effective and sustainable solutions across Ireland.

Since 2018 the fund has supported 33 social enterprises who, in turn, have provided services to 35,000 people and created 164 jobs.

Mason Hayes & Curran

Mason Hayes & Curran proudly supported the Engage & Educate Fund – a €450,000 fund which was delivered over three years: 2016-2019. The fund supported 13 inspiring projects to empower people through education to achieve their full potential and to contribute to their community

The Engage & Educate Fund Awardees delivered over 2,100 learning interventions such as third level courses, mentoring sessions and work placements to nearly 3,000 students and engaged with over 1,150 volunteers.

Zurich

Zurich, through the Z Zurich Foundation, proudly supports the Innovate Together Fund. The Innovate Together Fund focuses on supporting innovative responses to the COVID-19 crisis that will also be part of the “new normal”.

The Innovate Together Fund is supported by a commitment of €5 million from the Department of Rural and Community Development through the support of the Dormant Accounts Fund. Rethink Ireland pledges to raise additional funds from philanthropic donors to further boost this fund to reach as many people as possible.

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J.P. Morgan

J.P. Morgan proudly supports the Urban Uplift Fund. The Urban Uplift Fund is aimed at supporting organisations working towards employment and/or employability among young adults in Dublin’s most disadvantaged areas.

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.

State Street

State Street proudly supported our Ability to Work Fund – a €1.5 million fund delivered over three years: 2020-2023.

The Ability to Work Fund supported four innovative projects to empower more people with disabilities to gain employment. The Fund enabled these projects to continue positively impacting the lives of people with disabilities throughout the Covid-19 pandemic, expand that impact over the course of three years, 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 of the Fund here.

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. FoodCloud were able to create an app which allowed them to rescue larger volumes of food, creating 16 times more meals for people who need them.

In 2021, Google supported the Rural Recovery Fund in partnership with the Department of Rural and Community Development. 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.

The fund was a catalyst for positive change. Together, our awardee organisations supported a total of 297 people. The funded projects provided innovative support services to people living in rural areas that had the potential to scale. Through support from these projects, 161 people gained a qualification, 139 people found employment or work placements and at least 107 new jobs were created in rural areas.

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

Medtronic

Medtronic proudly supported the 2017 Animate Healthy Community Fund. The fund was designed to create a wide‐reaching impact toward a healthier Ireland.

Through the duration of this programme 9 outstanding Awardees provided much-needed services to almost 350 people in underserved and marginalised communities including metastatic cancer patients, Traveller women, elderly people in rural areas, people experiencing homelessness, people experiencing socioeconomic disadvantage, and more.

Medtronic also supported the Innovate Together Fund 2020 -2021, which focused on innovative solutions to the COVID-19 crisis. The fund supported 71 awardees all over Ireland delivering responses to the crisis across 9 categories: Mental Health, Physical Health, Online Education, Food Security, Reskilling the Workforce, Economic Recovery, Community Outreach, Sustainable Ireland and other Cross-Cutting issues.

Cork Chamber

Cork Chamber supported the Sustainable Cork Fund – a €200,000 fund which was delivered from 2020-2021. The fund set out to support new initiatives that strengthened Cork’s social, environmental or economic sustainability and resilience. The fund was the outcome of a Cork Chamber fundraising drive to raise €100,000 through the support of the Cork business community, which was match funded by the Department of Rural and Community Development Dormant Accounts Fund..

Tomar Trust

Tomar Trust proudly supported the Resilient Communities Fund – a €500,000 fund which was delivered in 2017-2018. The fund provided grants and support to 5 innovative projects that strengthened community resilience and had an economic, social or environmental impact in Ireland.

The Ireland Funds

Peter Kinney and Lisa Sandquist Foundation & The Ireland Funds

The Peter Kinney and Lisa Sandquist Foundation and the Ireland Funds proudly supported our Equality Fund – a €400,000 Fund which was delivered in 2019. It provided critical support to social innovations aimed at strengthening equality, while supporting some of the most marginalised and vulnerable communities in Ireland.

In the first half of 2019, our 5 Equality Fund Awardees delivered a total of 284 interventions to 269 participants and beneficiaries. These included 220 treatment days, 8 training days and 18 mentoring sessions.

Awardees engaged 18 regular volunteers and recruited two co-ordinators and one therapist to assist in delivering life-changing service outcomes to their marginalised and/or hard-to-reach communities. A total of €148,000 in follow-on funding has been raised by awardees to date.

Oakfield Trust

Oakfield Trust proudly supported the Innovate Together Fund 2020-2021 which focused on supporting innovative responses to the COVID-19 crisis.

The fund supported 71 awardees all over Ireland delivering responses to the crisis across 9 categories: Mental Health, Physical Health, Online Education, Food Security, Reskilling the Workforce, Economic Recovery, Community Outreach, Sustainable Ireland and other Cross-Cutting issues.

Twitter

Twitter proudly supported the Innovate Together Fund 2020-2021, which focused on supporting innovative responses to the COVID-19 crisis.

The fund supported 71 awardees all over Ireland delivering responses to the crisis across 9 categories: Mental Health, Physical Health, Online Education, Food Security, Reskilling the Workforce, Economic Recovery, Community Outreach, Sustainable Ireland and other Cross-Cutting issues.