Maximise your Organisation's Impact with Slingshot
An organization that undoes the damage done to ourselves, our society and our planet ensures that its customers, employees, shareholders, but also society and planet benefit from its existence.
To truly make your organization undo the damage done to ourselves, our society and our planet, a renewal of its business economic foundations is needed. Different rules of the game with different priorities without losing sight of business economic logic. This is where the Slingshot model supports.
The problems
No flexibility at startup
Even before the company has any real value, co-founders must determine how they will split ownership of the company and associated dividends. This often leads to long discussions and friction, exactly what a starting company can miss like a toothache.
A predetermined, rigid ownership structure also limits the ability to change things flexibly. Young companies often run aground because co-founders shift their life priorities or because the company must take an unexpected turn.
An unbalanced profit distribution
Once a company is successful enough to reap the benefits, the generated profit is often distributed to the company's shareholders in an unbalanced way. This throws the company out of balance and misses opportunities to involve all stakeholders in the organization.
A board of directors with limited value perspective
The business economic framework within which the board of directors must work does not lend itself to looking after the interests of all stakeholders. Often continuity, growth and profit determine the direction and the interests of people and planet do not receive the attention they deserve. The pronounced financial logic that a Board of Directors is forced to use also stands in the way of value maximization.
How Slingshot is regenerative
Slingshot flips the logic: instead of extracting, an organization actively repairs the damage done to ourselves, our society and our planet. It does this by anchoring security, fairness and impact in its foundations.
Financial security
Through regenerative equity, contributors build a financial buffer with a guaranteed Good Life Budget that protects everyone's basic needs — security that doesn't depend on depleting others or the planet.
Fairness
Value is shared fairly with everyone who helped create it — founders, employees, money contributors and partner organizations — instead of flowing only to capital. Balanced decision making keeps every stakeholder at the table.
Impact
Profit beyond the Good Life Budget flows to a regenerative fund and to partner organizations that actively repair our society and planet, turning surplus into lasting positive impact.
Corporate Model
1. Anchor value in the articles of incorporation
Whether you want to start a new company from scratch or transform a mature non-profit so it undoes the damage done to ourselves, our society and our planet, the articles of incorporation are the backbone of every organization. That's why we developed 3 statutory clauses that you can install in your articles of incorporation to embed value maximization in the foundations of your organization.
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2. Slingshot's management principles
The management or 'governance' of your organization determines to what extent you undo the damage done to ourselves, our society and our planet in daily practice. That's why we developed an overview of management principles that you can implement step by step to put this repair at the center.
Working together?
Whether you're considering starting a business or are already well on your way, you don't have to realize your mission alone. Happonomy has a network of value-driven legal and HR specialists who can guide you in implementing the Slingshot model, both on management and legal levels.
Slingshot, together with Vlaanderen Circulair
Slingshot was created thanks to a collaboration with Vlaanderen Circulair.
Vlaanderen Circulair believes, just like Happonomy, in a world where organizations can function circularly. Production without waste, business models that stimulate reuse, chain thinking - these are just a small sample of the principles of the circular economy.
If you want to know more about the circular economy, be sure to take a look at their website.