GiveBackHack is a social enterprise founded in 2015 that provides education and training in design thinking, lean startup methodology, and product management to support social entrepreneurs. In 2022, GiveBackHack saw significant growth, training over 625 people through its programs. It expanded its community of facilitators, tested new program offerings, and increased partnerships both in Columbus and other regions to further support social innovation and entrepreneurship. The document provides updates on several social enterprises that participated in GiveBackHack programs and highlights some of GiveBackHack's key partnerships and initiatives during the year to promote social impact.

1. REPORT
IMPACT
2022

2. WhoisGiveBackHack?
GiveBackHack was founded in 2015
under the principle that we all have
everything we need within ourselves
to create the change we wish to see
in our communities.
We believe that by bringing together
passionate people, facilitating
discussion around ideas to solve
problems, and providing a framework
to work through those ideas to ensure
they are built with a human and solid
business foundation, we can create
true change in big & small ways.
To fulfill this, GiveBackHack
leverages Design Thinking, Lean
Startup & Product Management best
practices to provide high-
engagement, experiential education
and action via social
entrepreneurship.
In this way, GiveBackHack equips the
social entrepreneurs of the future.
SO FAR
ourstory
625
TOTALPROGRAMPARTICIPANTS
FROM2021
30% INCREASE
5X INCREASE
FROM2020

3. To our amazing community,
Our team is known to always say that we stand on the shoulders of giants here at GiveBackHack.
Everything we do has been built off of countless selfless hours of brilliant and passionate people
dedicated to developing a movement that empowers social innovation. We continue to have more
opportunities to ensure our trainings reach new audiences in new formats and communities. Our journey
from a single event to a sustainable social enterprise has not been easy - but every single one of you made
it possible for us to accomplish this together. Next year we will continue to dream big, take on new and
bigger projects, and look to strengthen our core communities. Most importantly - social enterprises
everywhere need your help. As thought-partners, volunteers, donors, co-founders, social media re-posters,
connectors, and community members we can lend a hand in developing new products that truly shape the
world around us for the benefit of all. Next year will bring new levels of opportunity to get involved and
engage in the GiveBackHack community at large - and we can't wait to see you there.
Cheers to the accomplishments of 2022 - families housed, lives saved, students taught, stories told, and
many more beautiful impact stories behind every logo below.
We truly could not make the magic you are about to read in the rest of this impact report happen without
you. You have our endless gratitude.
ALETTERFROMTHETEAM
Emily, Suzy, and Team GiveBackHack

4. We always knew 2022 would be a big year for us here
at GiveBackHack. This was our second full year of
growth towards our goal of becoming a sustainable
social enterprise. We've had our sights on finding
ways to expand our programming to reach new
communities and support growth of our impact - and
we've made a lot of progress.
Testing of New Product
Offerings
2
Growth of Talent and Facilitators
4
3
Growth of Partnerships
Support of the Columbus Social
Enteprise Ecosystem
1
2022
Lookingat
Columbus is the best place in the
nation to start a social enterprise,
and we are lucky to play a key role
in developing the next evolution of
our community through the Social
Impact Alliance. Close
partnerships, global ties, and a
strong love for our community is
more important now than ever.
GiveBackHack prides ourselves on
our abilities to bring best practices
from the start-up space into the
strategies of social innovators of
all kinds. We set out this year to
create new modules from our
principles to meet the needs of
new audiences like established
nonprofits and student groups.
Here at GiveBackHack we practice
what we preach. We always
encourage our entrepreneurs to
partner with organizations in their
communities to compound their
impact, and we do it too! Through
paid-partnerships, we are able to
grow our impact in a sustainable
way.
Our goal is to train future
entrepreneurs and impact leaders
through every workshop, event,
and engagement. When we train
new facilitators we not only
strengthen our ability to expand
programming, but also arm local
entrepreneurs with the skills to be
able to share our teachings with
others.

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2022Bythenumbers
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6. After two successful years of global virtual events, GiveBackHack made its return
to be in-person at Columbus College of Art and Design! Our home in Columbus
means so much to us and our team of community organizers were thrilled to bring
this format to life;
On Friday night attendees gathered to connect and create alongside a passionate,
talented, and inspiring community in hopes of launching the next social enterprise
that will have echoing impact across our community.
Through the weekend our teams worked hard, pivoted, consulted their
stakeholders, learned from mentors, and ultimately prevailed in creating new
social enterprises aiming at sustainable social impact.
All of our teams are still moving forward 3 months post-event, and many have
made strong progress toward finding their product-market fit and growing their
impact.
Issues our teams are tackling:
Mental Health - Education - Accessibility - Inclusion + more!
Attendees
85+
Teams
5
In early stage funding
$15k
EVENT SPOTLIGHT
GiveBackhAckColumbus

7. Ever since the Youth Critical Issues Summit we co-hosted with Rustic Pathways
in Thailand in 2019 we have been looking for new ways to expand
GiveBackHack's global network and put Columbus on the map as the best place
to start a social enterprise.
This year, GiveBackHack hosted our first two YSEALI Fellows, Annie Tran and
Ryani Sisca who immersed themselves in the social enterprise community,
shared best practices, and fundamentally impacted our growth as an
organization.
We used the fellowship to not just drive value for the GiveBackHack community,
but more importantly, to showcase the leading vibrant social enterprise
ecosystem. Fellows volunteered at local social enterprises, took on projects from
various support organizations, and immensely impacted the new social
enterprises coming out of GiveBackHack Columbus 2022.
GOING GLOBAL
YSEALIFellowship
Columbus seems to be the best city for social enterprise in the United States. We were close with the other
YSEALI fellows who had opportunities across the US – from Hawaii to New York City – and our experience
was by far the best of any program in the United States" - Ryani Sisca
Ryani Sisca
Program Director at Social Innovation Acceleration
Program (SIAP) from Jakarta, Indonesia
Annie Tran
Founder of Sustainable Entrepreneurship
Fellowship (SEF) from Hanoi, Vietnam

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2022
Team
Updates

9. "Since we started working on this project a few months ago, we
have secured funding from GiveBackHack and we are working
with a local video production company to create a demo video to
use as an example. We have established a business entity with
the state of Ohio and are working on developing relationships
with long-term care facilities to talk to them about hosting a story
day at the facility."
TEAM SPOTLIGHT
MemoryLane
Documenting family history from
those that lived it.

10. "Our team is growing quickly and eager to utilize scalable technologies to serve
the community at large. We are excited to continue our work in 2023 as we
collaborate with leaders working to improve sidewalk safety and infrastructure"
TEAM SPOTLIGHT
SidewalkSidekick
Empowering community members to utilize alternative
forms of transportation with real-time data on
accessible, walkable routes.

11. Carry A Mood is a streetwear clothing brand that emphasizes and communicates the
importance of mental health, self-expression, and self-reflection. Through clothes,
community, and workshops we are working to change the stigma around mental health.
It's our mission to help others not only advocate for themselves but for others as well.
"Next year will be a lot of fun! Currently working on our soft drop, workshop calendar,
weekly email list, and our discord community. Those will all be things coming in January.
There will be more pop up shops, events, heavy social media engagement that people
don’t want to miss out on! Planning for the official launch will also be in the works during
that time. In the spring time I will be apart of the KBK social Entrepreneurship/SEA
Change program."
TEAM SPOTLIGHT
CarryaMood

12. GIVEBACKHACK
Columbuspartnerships
GiveBackHack catalyzed Can't Stop Columbus
Teams this year through Design Thinking Training
Workshops as well as 1-1 coaching of individual
projects supporting issues from women's
empowerment to voter registration in the
Columbus Community.
GiveBackHack embarked on our biggest partnership
to date developing curriculum to empower K-5
Columbus City Schools students through
entrepreneurship. Over the course of 4-weeks
students developed their own businesses and
resulted in a final "Shark Tank" style pitch event.
The "GiveBackHack Labs" initiative kicked off
to help the Workforce Development Board of
Central Ohio (WDBCO) member orgs learn
Design Thinking and leverage prototyping to grow
a stronger workforce development ecosystem. This
work was inspired by the work we did with the
Columbus Impact Alliance.

13. GIVEBACKHACK
Regionalpartnerships
GiveBackHack is thrilled to support the work of
the Veale Youth Entrepreneurship Forum in the
Greater Cleveland Area. This year, we brought
exposure to social enterprise education to 80+
High School students through the facilitation of
2 Design Thinking sprints.
GiveBackHack has been honored to co-create a
Health Equity Entrepreneurship ecosystem with the
University of Louisville. We've curated a series of
workshops to educate and inspire entrepreneurship
on campus and kicked off our first Cardinal Impact
Weekend in October launching 12 startups!
GiveBackHack loves the opportunity to dive deep
with topic experts and leverage Design Thinking
to help build new efforts based in research. We
are working alongside Eyes Up Appalachia to
prototype new efforts to combat human
trafficking in Appalachian Ohio.

14. In 2021 Columbus City Schools reached out to our team to play a big role in
developing the K-5 entrepreneurship pathway for the new Summer Pathways
program.
Our goal? Empower students to feel that they can make an impact on the things
most important to them, and inspire them by exposing them to local
entrepreneurs.
GiveBackHack created a 4-module, repeatable, entrepreneurship curriculum
catered to K-5 experiential learning. Every lesson was hands-on and covered both
social-emotional learning as well as exposure to entrepreneurship as a career and
economic empowerment pathway.
We pulled together an incredible team of facilitators from a diverse set of
organizations and backgrounds in the Columbus entrepreneurship community.
All together, the summer was such a huge success that we've been asked to come
back for 2023 and build out even more robust lesson plans to expand student
learning.
K-5 Students
200+
Classroom Hours
90
Facilitators Employed
8
PARTNER SPOTLIGHT
ColumbusCitySchools

15. The GiveBackHack team is excited about the ways in
which we hope to grow and expand in 2023. We've
learned so much in the past few years, practicing what
we preach: iterating through new ways to empower
individuals to make greater impact through technology
best practices, moving further, faster.
Strengthen Our Community's
Connectivity
2
Support Columbus in it's Growth
Phase
4
3
Grow Talent in the Social
Enteprise Community
Productize and Grow our
Services
1
2023
Lookingto
If we want our sector to continue
to grow, we need to have clear
opportunities to train and employ
talent. We find this to be especially
critical in Columbus, but for the
sector at large as we move
forward. We are looking forward to
increased paid-engagements
community members this year.
With the kickoff of the Social
Impact Alliance at the forefront,
record breaking numbers of active
social enterprises, and increased
attention on our work we are
committed to stepping up to
collaborate and support the
Columbus ecosystem through it's
evolution this year.
Now that we have had a few years
to grow in breadth of service
offerings, it's time for us to hone in
on refining and productizing those
into a scaleable model. This might
not sound exciting - but it's the
singular key to unlock our growth
at a larger scale.
There are over 2,500 people who
have engaged with GiveBackHack
in some capacity since our
inception. Not everyone is ready to
be a founder, but a large
percentage of these people want a
way to support social innovation.
We are dedicated to making it fun
and easy to do so in 2023

16. WE THANK YOU
OUR PROGRAMS
FORYOURCONTINUEDSUPPORTIN
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
+YOU!