Case Study — Impact-Investing Adaptive Learning Accelerator
Spotlight
A coalition of health foundations and impact investing organizations needed a single, credible learning platform where their executives could access targeted content, engage in adaptive learning, and provide sponsors with reliable proof of outcomes—without sifting through scattered resources or generic templates.
Executive Voice
“We finally gained clarity, accountability, and actionable insights for our investment decisions.”
The Challenge
Content and crucial frameworks were dispersed across PDFs, emails, and shared drives, with unclear credibility and version control.
Sponsors demanded robust evidence of learning, engagement, and organizational impact.
Executives lacked the time and tools to navigate lengthy reports or apply generic templates to real-world investment cases.
What We Put in Place
1. Unified Knowledge Layer

Centralized all learning resources—articles, memos, decks, frameworks—in one platform, each with source links and timestamps.

Enabled content filtering by role, sector, and investment lens, so leaders accessed only the most relevant materials tied directly to capstone decisions.
2. Engagement Layer: Adaptive Learning

Powered by UpGenie, adaptive cohort prompts, office-hour nudges, and progress-based follow-ups kept learners engaged.

Automatically drafted deal memos, checklists, and reflection briefs—all linked to source material and evidence.

Threaded discussions allowed real-time peer and expert collaboration with cited evidence for every discussion point.
Operations You Can Trust

Sponsor dashboards delivered real-time reporting on engagement, cited capstones, and participation—without exposing private cohort conversations.

Platform supported SSO, role-based access, and exportable evidence packs for seamless donor, board, and accreditation use.

Enforced strict privacy with no leakage between cohorts or partner groups.
Outcomes
Participation and program completion rates increased.
Facilitator prep time and sponsor reporting burden decreased.
Capstone projects and cohort discussions consistently cited credible sources and demonstrated clear, measurable impact.
Executives adopted new strategies faster; sponsors gained trusted, actionable evidence; facilitators refocused from delivery to high-value coaching.
Why It Matters
Executives and sponsors can now trust the rigor and outcomes of their accelerator experience, drive greater impact through adaptive learning, and scale results—all in a unified, secure, and engaging digital environment.
Spotlight
A coalition of health foundations and impact investing organizations needed a single, credible learning platform where their executives could access targeted content, engage in adaptive learning, and provide sponsors with reliable proof of outcomes—without sifting through scattered resources or generic templates.
A coalition of health foundations and impact investing organizations needed a single, credible learning platform where their executives could access targeted content, engage in adaptive learning, and provide sponsors with reliable proof of outcomes—without sifting through scattered resources or generic templates.
Executive Voice
“We finally gained clarity, accountability, and actionable insights for our investment decisions.”
“We finally gained clarity, accountability, and actionable insights for our investment decisions.”
The Challenge
Content and crucial frameworks were dispersed across PDFs, emails, and shared drives, with unclear credibility and version control.
Content and crucial frameworks were dispersed across PDFs, emails, and shared drives, with unclear credibility and version control.
Sponsors demanded robust evidence of learning, engagement, and organizational impact.
Sponsors demanded robust evidence of learning, engagement, and organizational impact.
Executives lacked the time and tools to navigate lengthy reports or apply generic templates to real-world investment cases.
Executives lacked the time and tools to navigate lengthy reports or apply generic templates to real-world investment cases.
What We Put in Place
1. Unified Knowledge Layer
Unified Knowledge Layer


Centralized all learning resources—articles, memos, decks, frameworks—in one platform, each with source links and timestamps.


Enabled content filtering by role, sector, and investment lens, so leaders accessed only the most relevant materials tied directly to capstone decisions.
2. Engagement Layer: Adaptive Learning
2. Engagement Engine


Powered by UpGenie, adaptive cohort prompts, office-hour nudges, and progress-based follow-ups kept learners engaged.


Automatically drafted deal memos, checklists, and reflection briefs—all linked to source material and evidence.


Threaded discussions allowed real-time peer and expert collaboration with cited evidence for every discussion point.
Operations You Can Trust
Operations You Can Trust


Sponsor dashboards delivered real-time reporting on engagement, cited capstones, and participation—without exposing private cohort conversations.


Platform supported SSO, role-based access, and exportable evidence packs for seamless donor, board, and accreditation use.


Enforced strict privacy with no leakage between cohorts or partner groups.
Outcomes
Participation and program completion rates increased.
Cross-city introductions ↑2.6×; resource find-time ↓58%
Facilitator prep time and sponsor reporting burden decreased.
Event attendance conversion ↑31%; duplicate requests ↓37%
Capstone projects and cohort discussions consistently cited credible sources and demonstrated clear, measurable impact.
Capstone projects and cohort discussions consistently cited credible sources and demonstrated clear, measurable impact.
Executives adopted new strategies faster; sponsors gained trusted, actionable evidence; facilitators refocused from delivery to high-value coaching.
Executives adopted new strategies faster; sponsors gained trusted, actionable evidence; facilitators refocused from delivery to high-value coaching.
Why It Matters
Executives and sponsors can now trust the rigor and outcomes of their accelerator experience, drive greater impact through adaptive learning, and scale results—all in a unified, secure, and engaging digital environment.
Executives and sponsors can now trust the rigor and outcomes of their accelerator experience, drive greater impact through adaptive learning, and scale results—all in a unified, secure, and engaging digital environment.
Spotlight
A coalition of health foundations and impact investing organizations needed a single, credible learning platform where their executives could access targeted content, engage in adaptive learning, and provide sponsors with reliable proof of outcomes—without sifting through scattered resources or generic templates.
Executive Voice
“We finally gained clarity, accountability, and actionable insights for our investment decisions.”
The Challenge
Content and crucial frameworks were dispersed across PDFs, emails, and shared drives, with unclear credibility and version control.
Sponsors demanded robust evidence of learning, engagement, and organizational impact.
Executives lacked the time and tools to navigate lengthy reports or apply generic templates to real-world investment cases.
What We Put in Place
Unified Knowledge Layer


Centralized all learning resources—articles, memos, decks, frameworks—in one platform, each with source links and timestamps.


Enabled content filtering by role, sector, and investment lens, so leaders accessed only the most relevant materials tied directly to capstone decisions.
2. Engagement Engine


Powered by UpGenie, adaptive cohort prompts, office-hour nudges, and progress-based follow-ups kept learners engaged.


Automatically drafted deal memos, checklists, and reflection briefs—all linked to source material and evidence.


Threaded discussions allowed real-time peer and expert collaboration with cited evidence for every discussion point.
Operations You Can Trust


Sponsor dashboards delivered real-time reporting on engagement, cited capstones, and participation—without exposing private cohort conversations.


Platform supported SSO, role-based access, and exportable evidence packs for seamless donor, board, and accreditation use.


Enforced strict privacy with no leakage between cohorts or partner groups.