Built in Africa. Built for Impact.Assess your impact governance

The Corporate Impact Operating System

Turn impact capital into
governed, evidence-backed outcomes.

Make sure the money you set aside to help society is used for what it was meant for. Govern the capital, track execution, and keep the evidence connected.

CSRise / Product overview
Supplied CSRise portfolio dashboard showing project status, portfolio value, and a completion pipeline

CSRise product views. Figures shown are not presented as verified customer outcomes.

Govern the capital.Track execution.Verify the evidence.Prove the impact.

DESIGNED FOR COMPLEX
IMPACT PORTFOLIOS

EnterprisesFoundationsDevelopment organizations

01 / THE ACCOUNTABILITY GAP

You may know what was spent.
But can you prove what changed?

When information is distributed across spreadsheets, email, partner reports, and finance records, it becomes harder to maintain a complete view of execution and outcomes.

What works for a few projects becomes harder to govern across a portfolio.

Slow Management Reporting

Portfolio reporting starts with collecting files, not seeing the complete picture.

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Teams spend significant time collecting and consolidating information from spreadsheets, email, documents, and partner reports before management can see the complete portfolio.

Limited Milestone Visibility

On-track, delayed, and evidence-pending milestones become harder to identify.

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It becomes harder to identify which initiatives are on track, delayed, awaiting evidence, or requiring intervention.

Fragmented Partner Information

Due diligence, performance, and program history sit in different places.

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Due diligence, documentation, performance information, and program history may sit across different systems, inboxes, and files.

Evidence Traceability Challenges

Reported results become disconnected from the records that support them.

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Reported activities and outcomes can become difficult to trace back to milestones, approvals, documentation, and supporting evidence.

Audit & Governance Burden

Teams reconstruct information across records for Finance, Risk, and Audit.

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Finance, Risk, Compliance, and Internal Audit may require information that has to be manually reconstructed across multiple records.

Difficult Capital Allocation Decisions

Leadership lacks consistent information to compare programs and future funding.

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Without consistent portfolio-level information, leadership has a weaker basis for comparing programs, partners, outcomes, and future funding decisions.

Can we defend these results to management, auditors, the board, and stakeholders?

Follow the evidence

HOW GOVERNED IS YOUR IMPACT PORTFOLIO?

CSR Portfolio Governance Diagnostic™

Examine execution, evidence, partner management, measurement, reporting, and decision-making.

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02 / ACCOUNTABILITY BY DESIGN

Accountability has to begin before the money moves.

Impact reporting is only as reliable as the evidence captured during execution. Define outcomes, milestones, responsibilities, and evidence requirements from the beginning.

Old model
  1. Fund
  2. Execute
  3. Collect reports
  4. Reconstruct impact
CSRise model
  1. Define
  2. Govern
  3. Deploy
  4. Capture
  5. Verify
  6. Measure
  7. Prove

Accountability becomes part of execution - not an exercise performed after it.

Mandate to audit trail

Authorization, approval and payment
are separate decisions.

CSRise links every amount to a decision, a milestone, evidence, an approval and a report - so a CSR leader can answer an auditor or board member from the record.

Authorize & allocate

  • A mandate sets an approval ceiling for social-investment spending. It is not cash held by CSRise.
  • Allocations assign authorized capital to programs and projects.
  • Allocation, commitment, release, payment and receipt are kept as separate records.

Review & approve

  • Milestones carry measurable acceptance criteria.
  • Implementing partners submit evidence. A reviewer assesses it and a designated approver decides.
  • Evidence approval never triggers payment.

Pay, reconcile & prove

  • Payment is authorized separately, with approval thresholds each organization configures.
  • Milestone approval, payment authorization, recording and reconciliation are performed by different people on each payment.
  • Every material action is recorded in the audit trail.

Organizations pay implementing partners directly from their own bank accounts. CSRise approves, tracks, reconciles and audits those payments. These controls describe the product design for the controlled pilot - confirm availability and scope in an executive briefing.

03 / THE PLATFORM

One system for accountable corporate impact.

Govern programs. Coordinate partners. Capture evidence. Understand outcomes. Report with greater confidence.

GOVERN. DEPLOY. VERIFY. PROVE.

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Module previews illustrate the operating model. Confirm current feature availability for your deployment.

Impact Portfolio

Define initiatives, outcomes, resources, and milestones across your portfolio.

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Govern your impact portfolio. Create initiatives, define objectives and outcomes, allocate resources, establish milestones and maintain visibility across programs. Explore Impact Portfolio

Partner Network

Discover, evaluate, onboard, and manage implementation partners.

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Manage the organizations delivering impact. Discover, evaluate, onboard and manage NGOs and other implementation partners across your portfolio. Explore Partner Network

Employee & Stakeholder Engagement

Connect people with approved programs and activities, where supported.

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Connect the people behind impact. Enable relevant employees and other stakeholders to participate in approved programs and activities where supported. Explore Employee & Stakeholder Engagement

Evidence & Verification

Connect milestones, documentation, approvals, and outcomes in a traceable record.

Module details
Build evidence into execution. Connect milestones, documentation, deliverables, approvals, beneficiary information and outcomes to create a traceable program record. Explore Evidence & Verification

Impact Intelligence

Understand performance and inform allocation, where supported by production functionality.

Module details
Turn impact data into decisions. Understand portfolio performance, identify risks, surface patterns and improve future allocation decisions where supported by production functionality. Explore Impact Intelligence

Governance & Reporting

Maintain audit trails and leadership-ready reporting, where supported.

Module details
Move from reporting burden to decision-ready information. Maintain audit trails, structure reporting, map programs to relevant impact frameworks and generate leadership-ready information where supported. Explore Governance & Reporting

04 / THE EVIDENCE CHAIN

Don’t just report impact.
Show the evidence behind it.

Instead of rebuilding the story when reporting is due, maintain a continuous accountability record from capital allocation to evidence-backed outcomes.

06 / ACCOUNTABILITY CHAIN

Evidence

Capture documentation, beneficiary information, field activity and supporting records.

Connected to the underlying program record.

Select a stage above to explore the record.

IMPACT EVIDENCE RECORD

Community Education Initiative

An example of capital-to-outcome traceability.

Capital allocated
₦180,000,000
Implementation partner
Riseup Foundation
Milestones completed
4 of 6
Evidence records
54
Beneficiary records
1,140
Locations
3 states
Outcome status: Measured / In progress

Illustrative record. Not a customer case study or a claim of independently verified results.

One continuous accountability chain.Explore verification methodology

05 / BUILT FOR DECISION-MAKING

One system. Different answers for every stakeholder.

Corporate impact crosses organizational boundaries. Give stakeholders the visibility, evidence, and governance information relevant to their responsibilities.

CSR / Sustainability

What is happening across our impact portfolio?

See programs, partners, milestones, evidence, KPIs, and outcomes in one operating environment.

Programs & partnersMilestones & evidenceKPIs & outcomes
CSRise   /   Portfolio view
CSRise portfolio dashboard from the supplied source

Product interface shown for context, not a role-specific view.

Different stakeholders need different answers. One underlying source of accountability.

06 / ENTERPRISE GOVERNANCE

Infrastructure for accountable corporate impact.

Organizations managing significant social-investment portfolios need controls, accountability, evidence, traceability, and decision-ready information.

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Role-Based Access & Approval Workflows

Structure access and approvals across the impact portfolio.

Audit Trails & Evidence Management

Keep program activity connected to a traceable record.

Data Protection, Reporting Controls & Security

Bring governance to access, evidence, and reporting.

SCOPE & LIMITS

What we don’t claim.

Illustrative workflows are not customer results. Product direction is not the same as current functionality.

Illustrative examples are not customer case studies

The scenarios and evidence records illustrate the intended CSRise operating model. They are not customer case studies. Potential operational outcomes must be evaluated, not assumed.

CSRise does not hold or move money

Organizations pay implementing partners directly from their own bank accounts. CSRise records approvals, payments and reconciliation against each milestone. It does not provide escrow, tamper-proof evidence or independent assurance.

Some capabilities depend on production functionality

Employee and stakeholder participation, impact intelligence, framework mapping, and leadership reporting retain the source’s “where supported” qualifications. Confirm availability and scope during an executive briefing.

The Impact Graph is a long-term product vision

Over time, appropriately governed impact data can support a stronger understanding of patterns across portfolios. Benchmarking, partner intelligence, risk identification, outcome comparison, and capital-allocation insight are product direction, not all currently available.

START WITH A CONTROLLED PORTFOLIO

Prove the operating model before scaling it.

Begin with a defined portfolio. Establish workflows and evaluate practical improvements before considering wider deployment.

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CSRise product view

CSRise product view. Displayed figures are not presented as verified customer outcomes.