Six silver trophy cups and bowls displayed on a draped two-tier stand, 1921
A painted white and red trail blaze on a rock above an Alpine valley and mountains
A painting of jurors in top hats raising canes to vote on framed paintings held up in a salon hall

SkaFld.Impact

Open it to the public.

Challenges and programs

Impact opens hard problems and learning to the public. It runs innovation challenges and prizes, and programs for schools, job-seekers and their funders. We work with governments, foundations and impact investors. Programs are held to the same value standard as any other decision.

Talk to usHow the Synthetic Balance Sheet works

The decisions SkaFld.Impact takes

SkaFld.Impact decides on the Synthetic Balance Sheet, the one standard every division uses.

  • Which public problems become challenges.
  • How entries are judged, and who wins.
  • Which winners move on to a pilot, an investment or a build.
  • Which schools, cohorts and partners join a program.

Home to 2 products

  • SkaFld Champions

    In development

    Post a problem, fund a prize, judge fairly, and carry the winner into a pilot, an investment or a build.

  • Learners build a real portfolio for a real sponsor, coached by Guide and scored by people.

One gate, four divisions

Each division is named by how it captures value. The gate routes every initiative to exactly one of them, and SkaFld Scout finds opportunities for all four.

SkaFld Scout finds the opportunities

The shared front door for all four divisions. Every opportunity is scored on the Synthetic Balance Sheet, and the gate routes it to exactly one division.

  1. SkaFld.Ignite

    Build it.

      Ignite sells no products. It builds with SkaFld Build, an internal tool that is not for sale.

    • SkaFld.Capital

      Back it or buy it.

    • SkaFld.Elite

      Bring it to a client.

    • SkaFld.Impact

      Open it to the public.

    What SkaFld.Impact does

    In Practice

    SkaFld Trailhead is piloting with schools. SkaFld Champions is in development. Impact is also the city partner for SkaFld Site for Cities.

    Challenge Design
    A sponsor's hard problem framed as a challenge with clear success criteria.
    Fair Judging
    Rubrics mapped to the Synthetic Balance Sheet. Panels score; people decide.
    Learning Programs
    Portfolio-based AI learning for schools and workforce cohorts, scored by people.
    Public Partners
    Programs run with governments, foundations, impact investors and partner cities.
    Outcome Reporting
    Outcomes reported to districts, funders and partners, with theory of change and logic models as evidence.
    Lithographed map of Boston harbour with rail lines converging on the city from every direction, 1840s
    Students in aprons working at rows of workbenches and lathes in a school woodworking shop, around 1919
    Engraved railroad map of the American West with one route highlighted across the country, 1883

    Work with SkaFld.Impact

    We open problems and programs to the public: challenges, prizes and learning.

    Talk to us

    Pictures. Trophies for the prettiest cows and horses in the show? (1921), National Library of Ireland, No known copyright restrictions; Swiss trail marker in Tenna (2011), Jay.Jarosz, CC BY-SA 4.0, adapted (greyscale); A Session of the Painting Jury (Une séance du jury de peinture, by 1885), Henri Gervex, Public domain; Plan of Boston and its vicinity showing the connection of the Grand Junction Rail Road (1840s), Tappan & Bradford, Public domain; Vocational studies, public schools (between 1918 and 1920), National Photo Company Collection, Public domain; Map showing the new transcontinental route of the Atlantic & Pacific Railroad and its connections (1883), G.W. & C. Colton & Co., Public domain.