Our 2024.
Collaboration, data, and curiosity: Guiding 2024’s impact.
As we look back on 2024, we’re proud of the progress made in such a short time. It has been a year marked by the establishment of new partnerships, new dialogues and networks as well as the addition of new talent to our team.
Each milestone reflects our shared commitment to exploring and creating new pathways alongside social organisations, public institutions, and social entrepreneurs. As we continue along this path, we remain guided by data, curiosity and collaboration, eager to engage in new meaningful alliances.
The road ahead is full of potential — and together, we are taking deliberate steps towards building deeper dialogues and identifying opportunities for connection, as we aim to tackle challenges with innovative solutions and shared responsibility.
Highlights.
Measuring social impact is at the core of our very existence and we know that true impact needs time to happen. That is why we employ an average commitment period of 3.6 years. In 2024, we have brought on seven new projects and partners resulting in a total of DKK 34 million new donation commitments.
New projects and partnerships
Partnerships in total
SROI reports published
Million DKK in total donation commitments
Years of average commitment period
Distribution of commitments in Denmark and internationally
In weighted average SROI ratio across evaluated partnerships in 2024
Volunteers across partnerships
People reached by our partners
A word from our CEO.
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Our firm belief is unchanged! Everyone has potential and dreams — and the ability to realise them, if given the right conditions. Through close partnerships and collective efforts, we help people lead their own change regardless of differences and starting points.
Looking ahead, we continue focusing on improving life paths for people in vulnerable positions through interventions promoting agency, wellbeing and life skills.
— Jens Bruun, CEO
Our strategy
Proving New Ways.
Since our establishment in 2022, Lind Foundation has committed DKK 73 million through 15 new partnerships and extensions of existing ones. We published +15 SROI reports showing significant social value creation for individuals and society.
Looking ahead to 2025-2026, we remain committed to our ‘Proving New Ways’ strategy, and our ambitions remain unchanged. Our focus continues to be improving life paths for people in vulnerable positions, with emphasis on wellbeing and life skills. We want to fund, support, and evaluate impactful social interventions and rethink projects focusing on human interactions and holistic approaches. Together, we aim for scaling and anchoring interventions and sharing results and knowledge, so that more people are empowered to lead their own change.
We will insist on measuring social and economic impact using data, Social Return on Investment (SROI), and the latest scientific methods — as to us, impact means measurable change. In the coming years, we plan to commit DKK 25-35 million each year through 8-10 multi-year grants annually, empowering social change makers to create lasting impact.
We aim to find the right and strong partnerships, which is guiding our total commitments at all times, with the ambition to facilitate minimum DKK 400m in total social value creation via our commitments during 2025-2026.
A word from our founder.
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Since establishing Lind Foundation in 2022, we’ve built 20 partnerships. Now, we are beginning to see the results of the collective efforts, driving meaningful and measureable change for more than 30,000 people in collaboration with our partners.
We stay committed to our data-driven ambitions and supporting and scaling effective interventions to create improved life paths.
— Henrik Lind, Founder and Chair
2024 at a glance.
The SROI method.
How can we be sure that we have made actual impact? We employ the Social Return on Investment (SROI) method. It allows us to gather key insights for the people, projects, and organisations we partner with and more importantly; analyse and prove their effort.
Measuring the ratio is not about increasing earnings. Finding the ratio helps ensuring that actual change can be attributed to initiatives and that this change is sustainable for specific audiences — also in the long run.
Our partners.
Our current partnerships range across Denmark, India, Nepal, Kenya, Mauritania, Malawi, Burundi, South Africa and Uganda.
Denmark
India
Nepal
Kenya
Uganda
Malawi
South Africa
Mauritania
Burundi
Denmark
India
Nepal
Kenya
Mauritania
Malawi
Burundi
South Africa
Uganda
UNICEF.
In 2024, we entered a new partnership with UNICEF to create access to education and skills for out-of-school girls in Mauritania through the programme ‘Skills4Girls’.
Girls in Mauritania, particularly in rural areas, face numerous challenges limiting their access to education, with implications for their autonomy and wellbeing. Efforts are needed to combat obstacles preventing girls from realizing their potential and becoming active and equal members of society.
In Mauritania, the programme supports 2,800 girls aged 15 to 24 who are out-of-school. Central to the initiative is a strong focus on digital literacy as a key tool to unlock the girls’ talents, skills and potential, so they can live out their dreams, overcome limitations, and open doors to further education, employment, and personal growth.
Where: Mauritania
Duration: 2024-2026
Focus areas: Sustainable livelihoods
Commitment: USD $680,000
One Acre Fund - Burundi.
In 2024, we extended our partnership with One Acre Fund will help more farmer families to grow their way out of hunger. In a new four-year partnership, Lind Foundation will support One Acre Fund’s programme in Burundi, making it possible to train more than 50,000 farmer families.
Burundi represents one of One Acre Fund’s highest-need markets, currently home to the world’s lowest per-capita GDP. Burundi’s economy is deeply rooted in agriculture, contributing about 40% to of the country’s GDP and providing 95% of the food supply. However, about 70% of smallholder farmers, who make up the backbone of this sector, still face food insecurity caused by the effects of climate change, soil acidity, ineffective farming techniques, and limited access to quality farming inputs.
Lind Foundation has donated EUR 1.3m to the programme in Burundi and we are looking forward to following and measuring the farmers’ financial and social changes over the next four years.
Where: Burundi
Duration: 2024-2028
Focus areas: Sustainable livelihoods
Commitment: DKK 9.7m
GRÅK & FGU.
We support a new initiative called “Strength and Balance” which aims to help 700-800 vulnerable young people improve their physical and mental well-being through movement, community, and personal development. Launched by the organisation GRÅK, the project will run over three years at 13 FGU schools in Jutland, Denmark. The project is made possible by donations totaling DKK 6.6 million from the Lind Foundation, Grundfos Foundation, and Gl. Skanderborg Foundation.
GRÅK offers a unique approach to movement and life skills for young people, combining functional training (inspired by CrossFit), nutritional education, mental well-being support, and mentorship in a safe, non-competitive environment. The goal is to help young individuals build confidence, improve health, and increase their chances of continuing education or finding employment.
Where: Denmark
Duration: 2025-2027
Focus areas: Mental health
Commitment: DKK 4.1m
UNIK.
Børn og Unges Trivsel offers youth a wide range of activities through the initiative ‘UNIK’. Here, professionals and dedicated volunteers focus on mental well-being for young people in vulnerable positions, supporting them after completing clinical treatment in psychiatry or in foster care systems, with extended aftercare during the transition to adulthood. UNIK is a holistic, time-unlimited effort where young people and their families can access free help without a waiting list.
In 2024, Lind Foundation entered a partnership with Børn og Unges Trivsel so more young people with mental health diagnoses and complex life conditions will have access to UNIK.
The UNIK programme offers young people services such as psychological counseling, group therapy, nature therapy, mindfulness, yoga, and a supportive community focused on empowerment, self-esteem, and managing everyday life during their transition to independent living.
Where: Denmark
Duration: 2024-2027
Focus areas: Mental health
Commitment: DKK 4m
Talents United.
Talents United is an innovative project with Randers FC and Randers Municipality aiming at bringing parents outside employment back into employment by leveraging the experiences from the current spare time job initiative ‘Talents of Tomorrow’ at Randers FC.
At Talents United, selected young individuals and their parents are offered an intensive program aimed at strengthening family relationships and communication through team-building and shared activities. Parents facing unemployment are also provided with targeted training to clarify and enhance their job market skills, bringing them closer to employment opportunities. This holistic approach supports both the young individuals and their families in achieving greater stability and development.
The partnership had its kick-off in late 2024 and is ramped up during 2025-2026.
Where: Denmark
Duration: 2024-2027
Focus areas: Employment
Commitment: DKK 3.1m
HF Fundamentet.
At the end of 2023 we entered a partnership with HF Fundamentet, who supports young people facing psychological challenges such as anxiety, depression, and loneliness. These challenges often hinder their ability to complete secondary education without extra educational support.
Through our partnership with HF Fundamentet, we are helping to test an innovative approach to education in Denmark. As part of this collaboration, we provide detailed analyses of the program’s social return on investment, assessing its long-term impact and the meaningful changes it generates.
During 2024, an economic analysis of the potential impact on the target group of students attending HF Fundamentet has been created.
Where: Denmark
Duration: 2024-2026
Focus areas: Education
Commitment: DKK 1.5m
Hand in Hand.
Hand in Hand is an international network of NGOs fighting poverty through entrepreneurship training and job creation in India, Asia, and Southern and Eastern Africa. Through Hand in Hand Sweden, we’re currently part of an entrepreneurial programme in Kenya.
In collaboration with Hand in Hand, we assist in measuring and documenting the impact of the entrepreneurship programmes in the Rift Valley region and communities.
So far, more than 6,000 people have been trained in creating resilient livelihoods and sustainable enterprises, and positive changes in income are experienced – despite being affected by a drought during the past season.
In 2024, we had the privilege of visiting the programmes in the Rift Valley region in the Western part of Kenya and experience the positive changes first-hand.
Where: Kenya
Duration: 2021-2026
Focus areas: Sustainable livelihoods
Commitment: DKK 13.3m
WAWCAS.
Women at Work, Children at School is an entrepreneurship-training programme that empowers extremely poor women and their families and helps them achieve personal, social, and economic change through education.
Together with the WAWCAS team, we are actively collecting data and measuring specific social efforts over time to learn and provide increased value to women, children and their families.
Year 2024 has been a great year for WAWCAS. For the first time, they can demonstrate that 10 years after the WAWCAS women finish the 16 months training programme, 96% are still owners of one or more profitable businesses, and 97% of their children go to school.
Where: Nepal
Duration: 2016-2025
Focus areas: Sustainable livelihoods
Commitment: DKK 3.1m
HackYourFuture.
HackYourFuture is a coding school for refugees and asylum seekers, who have limited access to education and the job market in Denmark. Through an intensive training program, participants acquire the necessary skills to become web developers and enter a highly in-demand field.
The nonprofit coding school, founded in Amsterdam in 2016, is now active in the Netherlands, Belgium, and Denmark. The curriculum is open-source and is also used by coding schools in Greece, Spain, and the UK.
In partnership with HackYourFuture since 2023, we are supporting their expansion in both Copenhagen and Aarhus. Our five-year commitment enables HackYourFuture to demonstrate their long-term impact while developing new shorter (10-12 weeks) programmes targeted at the most disadvantaged members of their community. During 2024, 80 trainees completed the programme across courses.
Where: Denmark
Duration: 2023-2027
Focus areas: Employment
Commitment: DKK 3.75m
UngiFokus.
UngiFokus aims to provide more intensive counseling to 500 young unemployed individuals by significantly reducing the caseload for counselors to roughly 20 young people each, compared to the typical caseload of 60 to 70.
In collaboration with Aarhus Municipality, we are testing a new approach to counseling designed to better and more efficiently guide young unemployed people toward improved life skills and meaningful outcomes.
By mid-2024, the evaluation work is well advanced, with preliminary findings including contributions from university students showing promising signs of success. As we progress through the end of 2024, this evaluation has expanded to include more detailed work on well-being, focusing on areas such as mental health and motivation. This deeper analysis aims to refine the approach further, ensuring it meets the diverse needs of the young people it serves and maximises the programme’s overall impact.
Where: Denmark
Duration: 2023-2026
Focus areas: Employement
Commitment: DKK 925,000
LittleBigHelp.
LittleBigHelp is an NGO established in 2010 to create better opportunities for vulnerable children and women in West Bengal, India. We support two projects: Boys’ Hostel and Girls’ Hostel.
Together with the LittleBigHelp team, we help collect data and measure the effect of both the hostels and follow the development of the children’s education.
In 2024, more of the eldest children have graduated from their vocational diploma and moved out of the homes, ready for new adventures.
Where: India
Duration: 2014-2026
Focus areas: Sustainable livelihoods
Commitment: DKK 5m
Gallo Kriserådgivning.
Gallo Kriserådgivning (Gallo Crisis Counselling) is a nonprofit organisation located in Aarhus. Gallo Kriserådgivning volunteers to help and support socially disadvantaged citizens and offers free, anonymous counselling to everyone in the need of it.
In collaboration with Gallo, we collect data and measure the impact of the social work and free counselling to document the effect of their work to inspire others.
Gallo Kriserådgivning celebrated their 25th anniversary in 2024. Over the past 25 years, they have annually handled between 7,000 – 12,000 inquiries from 400 – 600 individuals across their various initiatives.
Where: Denmark
Duration: 2013-2025
Focus areas: Mental health
Commitment: DKK 3.6m
Educate!
Educate! tackles youth unemployment by partnering with youth, schools, and governments to deliver solutions that equip young people in Africa with the skills to start a business, acquire a decent pay, and drive development in their communities.
By supporting Educate! we help enable them to scale their out-of-school programme to reach more of the hardest-to-reach youth in Uganda. Girls face greater barriers to success in the labor market. In rural areas of East Africa, less than 1 in 20 girls graduate from secondary school. That is a lot of lost potential. These bootcamps aim to give this marginalised population of youth the skills and support to thrive in the labor market.
During 2024, Educate! reached 1,600 out-of-school youth in Uganda through their livelihood bootcamps, empowering them to build businesses and uplift others.
Where: Uganda
Duration: 2023-2026
Focus areas: Education
Commitment: DKK 4m
Ungebudgetter.
Ungebudgetter is a partnership with the municipalities of Esbjerg, Holbæk, Køge and Roskilde, building on the successful pilot in Aarhus Municipality from 2021-2023. The project tests an innovative employment initiative by allocating a budget of DKK 25,000 to randomly selected young people aged 18-29 who have been unemployed and on ‘uddannelseshjælp’ for at least 26 weeks.
The participating municipalities finance the first DKK 7,500 of each budget, with Lind Foundation providing the remaining funding. As of October 2024, 250 young people have accessed their budgets and are working with employment counsellors to plan how these funds can support their path toward employment and education.
The initiative is evaluated through a randomized controlled trial, using a corresponding control group to measure impact. We look forward to examining the preliminary results in 2025.
Where: Denmark
Duration: 2024-2027
Focus areas: Employment
Commitment: DKK 4.4m
ReDI School.
ReDI School works to provide women with refugee and migrant backgrounds with valuable digital skills and a strong network of other students, volunteers, and alumni to provide new social and professional opportunities.
In 2024, the programme continued to grow, with 250 students completing their courses throughout the year, exceeding the target of 200 participants.
Through our partnership we help ReDi School scale their programme in Aarhus and document their social impact through calculating the social return on investment.
Where: Denmark
Duration: 2023-2025
Focus areas: Employment
Commitment: DKK 2.25m
FlexFabrikken.
FlexFabrikken is a Danish agency with the aim of boosting readiness for the job market, matching people with relevant jobs and creating better conditions for people out of employment for longer periods.
Together with the FlexFabrikken team, we are actively collecting data and measuring specific social efforts over time in order to learn and provide increased value to further roll out the concept in municipalities.
In 2024, our partnership facilitated that 90 participants, who were long-term unemployed, received and finalised FlexFabrikken’s course across Kolding, Thisted and Aarhus municipalities.
Where: Denmark
Duration: 2022-2025
Focus areas: Employment
Commitment: DKK 3.9m
Fundamentet.
The Aarhus-based nonprofit organisation, founded in 2014, continues its mission of rethinking social work in 2024. Fundamentet remains dedicated to enhancing the well-being of youth through close dialogue, building strong and trusted relationships, and addressing individual needs.
In 2024, Fundamentet has further refined its approach to working with young people. Participants are now assessed and supported through tailored pathways: they are either matched with a mentor, assigned a contact person, or identified as ready to navigate independently.
Additionally, further improvements in data collection have secured higher response rates, providing a robust foundation for evaluating and demonstrating the impact of the social initiatives at Fundamentet.
Where: Denmark
Duration: 2016-2026
Focus areas: Mental health
Commitment: DKK 6m
Fundabolig.
Fundabolig is a partnership between AL2bolig, Fundamentet, and Lind Foundation, built on the Housing First approach. Its mission is to provide young people experiencing or on the verge of homelessness with access to affordable housing while creating a supportive network that helps them transition into education and employment.
In collaboration with Fundamentet and AL2bolig, we continue to evaluate the impact of combining affordable housing with dedicated support for young people facing homelessness.
By the end of 2024, all 14 apartments are fully occupied, and our year-end well-being survey showed significant improvements in the lives of the young residents. This progress sets a strong foundation for expanding and refining the initiative in the next years.
Where: Denmark
Duration: 2022-2027
Focus areas: Housing
Commitment: DKK 4.2m
One Acre Fund - Malawi.
One Acre Fund is an agricultural service provider that supports Africa’s smallholder farmers to build resilient communities. Through One Acre Fund, we help train farmers in Malawi, providing farmers with the knowledge and means to achieve bigger harvests, healthier families and cultivate rich soils.
Malawi’s agricultural sector has been hit hard by different climate conditions during 2024. One Acre Fund is working to build multiple layers of resilience for farmers: crop diversification, soil health training and products, and locally-optimised seed varieties as a defense against climate shocks.
Where: Malawi
Duration: 2022-2025
Focus areas: Sustainable livelihoods
Commitment: DKK 4.2m
Where Rainbows Meet.
Where Rainbows Meet was established in 2008 as a nonprofit training and development organisation located in one of Cape Town’s slum areas, the so-called townships, helping and advising both children, youth, and adults. By addressing multifaceted challenges such as extreme poverty, unemployment, crime, abuse, and limited educational opportunities, the organisation makes a vast impact on the community.
Offering a diverse range of activities and programmes, Where Rainbows Meet fosters personal development, well-being, education, and social cohesion. From skill-building initiatives to counselling services, Where Rainbows Meet empowers the community, providing essential support and fostering resilience in a challenging environment.
We assist Where Rainbows Meet in measuring the effect of their social work enabling them to share the lasting impact of their efforts with others.
Where: South Africa
Duration: 2014-2024
Focus areas: Sustainable livelihoods
Commitment: DKK 1.4m
Words from our partners.
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Girls are a tremendous engine for change, if equipped with the right opportunities. Yet gender-based discrimination and limiting stereotypes makes many girls lag behind.
That’s why our new partnership with Lind Foundation to train out-of-school girls in Mauritania in entrepreneurship and digital literacy is so vital. I’m grateful that our combined efforts are empowering these girls to enter the labor market, build businesses, and uplift others along the way.
Susanne Dahl
Executive Director, UNICEF Denmark
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At UNIK, socially sustainable solutions are an important agenda in our work with vulnerable young people in Denmark. When we work with the S in ESG, it’s about strengthening diversity, equality and inclusion.
We do this at UNIK when we work with vulnerable young people’s physical and mental health, their wellbeing and joy of life during the difficult transitions in their lives. Our strong partnership with Lind Foundation makes it possible to strengthen this sustainable agenda with children who’ve grown up in foster care and create a safe space for them in our UNIK centres.
Heidie Graversen
Founder & Managing Director, UNIK