Cases

After joining the Platform for Social Change program, a farmer from Podillia moved from intuition-driven operations to structured growth — with financial planning, a clear business model, and investments in scaling.

With the support of the Platform for Social Change, the “Dary Hutsulshchyny” cooperative has gained new momentum for growth: implementing digital tools, expanding market access, and preparing to scale production. Today, this model provides income for over 1,000 local residents, processes up to 200 tons of products annually, and keeps more than UAH 20 million within local communities.

A few years ago, “Epiravlyk” was just an idea. Today, it is a full-scale production facility, гастро-tours, and new directions for growth. This is a story about the courage to act — and about how structured support can turn intuition into a strategy for sustainable growth.

Liubov Korinovska is the founder of a home-based confectionery in Kamianets-Podilskyi. She creates desserts and candy bars with a strong focus on high-quality ingredients and clean, safe recipes. Her business was not born out of an ambition to “start a company,” but from a deeply personal story.

How a single application to the Impact Projects Accelerator by the Platform for Social Change became the turning point for scaling her business — read the full story in the article.