Your partner in impact.
Ibrahim Rashid has built a career in public-policy advocacy, digital health entrepreneurship, impact investing, and memoir-writing. Rashid Impact Strategies is Ibrahim’s freelance consulting company supporting social entrepreneurs, impact investors, and aspiring writers with maximizing their impact for others.
Ibrahim has held leadership roles supporting Presidential Campaigns, advised philanthropic and public officials on climate and place-based investing, lobbied congressional staff on innovation policy, and ran a startup using technology to help patients with chronic illnesses.
He hold’s a B.A. from Boston University and a Master’s in Public Policy from the University of Chicago and is an alum of the Clean Energy Leadership Institute and Chicago:Blend VC Fellowship.
He’s writes about investing and entrepreneurship on substack and speaks regularly about his book on illness and recovery.
AS FEATURED ON
SERVICES OFFERED
Public Policy Insights
We can help you understand how changes in ESG, climate, healthcare, and public finance policies affect your organization and connect you with the right experts.
Storytelling & Op-ed writing
We can coach you on how to communicate and interview with journalists, pitch and write op-eds, and guide you through the self-published author journey.
Capital Raising & Investor Relations
For impact entrepreneurs, we can help you assemble your data-room and pitch-deck, build a target-list of investors, and coach you through the fund raising process.
Career Coaching for Impact Professionals
We work with young professionals and students (undergrad/graduates) interested in pursuing careers in impact investing or social entrepreneurship. We do 1 on 1 coaching sessions, meet with student-groups, lecture in classrooms, and judge student startup-competitions.
Customer Discovery & Market Mapping
We can assist you with customer discovery and facilitating expert interviews.
Impact Fund & Startup Diligence
We can support you with underwriting impact investments. These include early-stage startups in the health and climate space, alongside fund managers in traditional and alternative asset classes.
SELECT CLIENT ENGAGEMENTS
mHUB Ventures: Blog writing on tends in hardware investing, energy innovations and data centers, alongside fundraising support.
Kaplan Institute - Illinois Tech: Conducted due-diligence on faculty AI startups for consideration for non-dilutive funding.
Refugee Investment Network: Identified prospective real-estate lenders for an affordable-housing refugee impact fund.
Illinois Facilities Fund (CDFI): Created sales-prospect list for health system investors interested in place-based investing
i-Care Foundation (DAF): Wrote strategy on how to increase trust and raise philanthropic capital from the Pakistani-American Diaspora.
Ryan Prior - Author of the Long Haul: Conducted joint-interviews with national outlets promoting our respective books on patient-led innovation and Long COVID, and promoted / hosted book talks & conference discussions around the United States
