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The Rare Genomics Institute (RGI) is a non-profit startup that helps patients with undiagnosed genetic diseases design personal research projects, rather than wait for breakthroughs that may never come by connecting them to a highly selective network of clinicians, researchers and geneticists.
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Created on 04/7/2013 by vk76
The Rare Genomics Institute (RGI) is a non-profit start-up biotech (501(c) 3 status pending) that enables patients with undiagnosed rare or orphan genetic diseases gain access to genome sequencing and analysis technologies by connecting them with a world class network of leading academic scientists, clinicians and commercial institutions.
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United States, MO, St Louis, Saint Louis County
Organization's Country of Operation
United States, MO, St Louis
Type of Organization
Non‐profit/NGO
Year of launch of the organization
Years in Operation
Operating 1-5 years
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As a medical student, Jimmy Lin was driven to found RGI through an encounter with a patient. A family brought their son with a rare genetic disease, looking for answers, yet his condition confounded the experts. Jimmy’s expertise in genomics led him to see the potential of personalized genome sequencing and crowdsourcing to transform how patients like this are diagnosed and treated.
المعلومات التي تقدمها هنا ستُستخدم لملء أي جزء من أجزاء ملفك الشخصي التي تم تركها فارغة، مثل الاهتمامات ومعلومات المؤسسة وموقع الويب. لن تتاح أية معلومات اتصال بشكل عام. الرجاء إلغاء تحديد المربع هنا إذا كنت لا تريد حدوث هذا..
مزيد من المعلومات↓↑ إخفاء↑ إخفاءName Your Entry
Empowering patients and families affected by rare diseases
Explain what the "innovation" is about, e.g., is it the idea and/or the model you use to accomplish the idea, or your understanding of the target population, etc.?
There are an estimated 250 million people worldwide suffering from rare genetic diseases which are poorly understood or undiagnosed leaving patients and their families with uncertainty and lack of options. Since the individual diseases affect such a small number of people, little federal or corporate funding is devoted to studying these life-threatening conditions. Patients with rare genetic disease present complex clinical symptoms that make diagnosis a big challenge.Sequencing the genomes of these patients will help them with: Diagnosis - Sequencing will help researchers and clinicians to diagnose previously characterized diseases, and identify candidate genes for unknown diseases. Treatment: the identification of the genetic cause of a disease may bring to light immediate avenues for treatments. In recent cases, sequencing data allowed doctors to treat patients through changes in diet, a bone marrow transplant, or prescription of an existing drug. Research: The information gained from personal genome projects will help guide existing researchers and may also attract new experts to study these diseases. Despite the availability of breakthrough sequencing technologies at costs that continue to drop, significant barriers prevail for patient access. Sequencing costs are not covered by insurance and the great majority of clinicians lack the skills needed to interpret the results. RGI will be a platform for parents to raise funds and bridge the skills gap by connecting them with experts who can provide actionable follow up to these patients.
Describe how your innovation model is distinct from any other organization in your field?
RGI is fundamentally unique from the for-profit companies that offer genetic testing and sequencing, such as 23andme, Complete Genomics etc. Whereas these companies are just service providers offering sequencing on a direct-to-consumer (DTC) basis, access to genome sequencing is just one aspect of RGI's value proposition. At RGI, first we connect families with clinical geneticists, and the families have the opportunity to consult with the leading clinical geneticists in our network. Second, our clinical geneticists work closely with the scientists at each site to evaluate and interpret the information generated by sequencing. This close collaboration is key in enabling top analysis of the data. Third, RGI helps the families raise money by creating crowdfunding pages on the RGI website.
What type of operating environment and internal organizational factors make your innovation successful?
RGI's approach in bringing together patients and their families along with highly accomplished genomics researchers and clinicians provides a complete ecosystem required for patient diagnosis and follow on medical intervention. RGI offers an avenue of hope – as scientists themselves, the founders of RGI have both witnessed and participated in the revolution in genetics and genomics research and have forged invaluable relationships with leading organizations that support RGI in fighting the disabling rare diseases and empowering patients and their families.
How do you make sure you constantly innovate in light of (potential) external challenges, or your growth plan?
RGI is a dynamic organization that through close partnerships with leaders in academia, industry, and patient advocacy constantly strives to refine its practices and the services it offers to best meet the needs of patients with rare genetic diseases. As evidence of this, RGI is working with the above stakeholders to develop innovative approaches to leverage the findings from genome sequencing to validate diagnoses and develop treatment approaches. RGI also has an expert Scientific Advisory Board and Board of Directors that provide oversight and ensure that RGI makes any changes required to achieve its goals.
This Entry is about (Issues)
مزيد من المعلومات↓↑ إخفاء↑ إخفاءThe systemic challenge you are trying to overcome (select one)
Realign the incentives in the public healthcare system in mature markets, or
Health area (target market) where the need is [select only one]
Care for rare diseases
Categories along the health continuum you are covering [select all that apply]
Detection, Intervention, Follow-up.
Please describe in more detail: what problem are you trying to solve in the organization's specific context?
The problem RGI is committed to address is best understood by considering Maya and Robert – the first two patients RGI has helped through genome-wide sequencing . Maya is a three year old with a cheerful, upbeat personality. But unlike her peers, she cannot speak, run or even climb stairs. Robert’s health appeared fine until shortly after his first birthday, but over the course of a few days, his strength suddenly deteriorated and he was left with speech, mobility and feeding impairments . In their quest for a diagnosis, Maya’s and Robert’s parents have taken their children to specialists around the country and had to see them subjected to countless tests. But even the best medical care out there has been unable to provide answers. Without a diagnosis, clinicians kept working in the dark.
Stage that best applies to your solution [select only one]
Start-up and growth (pilot is successful and starting to expand)
Core strategies of your business model [select all that apply]
Patient-centered design, Unconventional partnerships (between traditional healthcare players and players outside healthcare), New financing strategies for health.
Most relevant tools you are using to implement the strategies outlined above [select only two]
Technology, Consultation, Community financing, Others.
Please describe your solution in more detail
RGI empowers patients to accelerate research into their specific, individual conditions by connecting them with a network of world class researchers and clinicians, who can harness the latest genome sequencing technologies. This will help them with: Diagnosis - Sequencing will help researchers and clinicians to diagnose previously characterized diseases, and identify candidate genes for unknown diseases. Treatment: the identification of the genetic cause of a disease may bring to light immediate avenues for treatments. Research: The information gained from personal genome projects The information gained from personal genome projects will help guide existing researchers and may also attract new experts to study these diseases.
What are your vision and overall objectives?
RGI was founded based on the mission to help rare disease patients find hope for a cure. RGI community works closely with patients and their families and providing them with the necessary tools, knowledge, and connections so that they can better understand the cause of their disease.
RGI's objectives are to:
1) Provide services at affordable cost to all in need
2) Leverage crowdfunding capabilities of the Internet for RGI’s patients
3) Facilitate in providing access to genome sequencing and expert analysis
4) Help families utilize genomic information to continue their research
What is your value proposition?
RGI's approach is unprecedented in that it is marrying a microphilanthropy funding model to cutting edge genomics research. RGI empowers patients by connecting them with a network of world class researchers and clinicians, who can leverage latest genome sequencing technologies that can enable diagnosis and potentially guide treatment for patients. We provide all the necessary tools for patient communities to create and fund their own research projects that has been made possible mainly by crowdfunding. Crowdfunding is a bottom-up grassroots funding mechanism that accumulates many small donations for a large impact. In fact RGI raised 142% of the funds necessary to sequence the genome of Maya with an unknown genetic disease in just 6 hours.
Who is your customer(s)?
There are about 250 million individuals afflicted by 6000 and 8000 rare diseases worldwide (20 million individuals in the U.S. according to the NIH) which are often chronic, progressive, degenerative, and life-threatening diseases.There is no existing effective cure for many of these patients. 75% of rare diseases affect children, and 30% of rare disease patients die before the age of 5. Affected patients and families undergo tremendous suffering and frustration due to lack of options for diagnosis and appropriate treatment. 80% of rare diseases have identifiable genetic origins, however market forces make it economically unattractive for for-profit pharma to target these rare diseases and public funding sources lack sufficient funds needed to study this diverse group of diseases.
What approaches to you use to reach your customers?
Patients will be recruited through referrals from physicians in our network, patient advocacy and support groups, and directly though our website. RGI has already partnered with the largest rare genetic disease advocacy groups (e.g. Genetic Alliance, National Organization of Rare Diseases (NORD), and RARE Project) and has been approached by smaller groups for collaboration. For undiagnosed diseases, RGI has a strong working relationship with the nonprofit organization Syndromes Without a Name, which is currently acting as a fiscal sponsor for our fundraising. A key marketing initiative we have launched is a campaign to give away sequencing for 99 patients through our partner site at Washington University.
What are your primary activities?
RGI engages in research sourcing, fundraising and helping translate research findings into action. In terms of research, RGI has been able to recruit many leading genomics researchers from the US and overseas. Furthermore, RGI has fostered collaboration between researchers and clinicians to work more closely together than they would otherwise, creating synergies that will spur rare disease research. For fundraising, RGI has developed an online platform that patients can use to raise funds for research costs. Finally, RGI will work with the researchers and clinicians to ensure that patients are able to translate the results from sequencing into action such as recommending a CLIA certified diagnostic test and will enable further research to understand biological pathways.
Who are your peers and competitors? What problems could these players pose to your success or growth?
RGI's closest competitors are the group of for-profit direct to consumer DNA sequencing companies such as Illumina, Complete Genomic, 23andme. These companies offer sequencing services, however RGI is fundamentally different as access to genome sequencing is just one aspect of the entire RGI value proposition. We think that in the future sequencing will become price competitive and will eventually become a commodity. However RGI is creating significant value beyond providing sequencing service. RGI offers tremendous value to patients and families through its extensive network of clinical geneticists and researchers at each site to evaluate and interpret the information generated by the genome sequencing. This close collaboration is key in patient diagnosis and finding treatments.
What other challenges - individual, organizational, or environmental – are you currently facing or might hinder future success of your business, and how do you plan to overcome those?
Our biggest current hurdle is raising the financing required to allow some of our volunteer team to work full time with RGI. This will be critical in allowing us to leverage the efforts of our dedicated volunteers and grow the organization in a more systematic manner. To overcome this we have actively engaged in fundraising through grants and high net worth donors and we are confident that this will be achieved in the current year.
Briefly describe your growth strategy going forward
Our growth strategy is focused on partnerships . Central to RGI's model and services are the partnerships we are able to forge between the key stakeholders. Encouragingly, we continue to form strategic alliances with patient groups, clinicians and researchers at an increasing rate. Engaging the community through social media, conferences and the press has been critical.
What dimensions for growth are you currently targeting for your innovation [select all that apply]
New regions(s), New market(s)/country(ies).
What makes your business "ready" for growth?
RGI's crowdfunding model has been very successful in raising funds specifically for patients' genome sequencing projects. RGI's crowdfunding platform secured 100% or more funding for over 22 patients to this date. RGI has formed close relationships with leading researchers and clinicians, enabling patient diagnosis and creating opportunities for follow on research and medical guidance.
What are your key growth objectives?
1) Increase the number of research collaborations by 10% each year for the next 5 years, without sacrificing quality.
2) Sequence 200 patient genomes in the next 3 years
3) Employ full time chief operating officer and full time support staff
4) Establish a research pipeline for patients after sequencing that moves patients from diagnosis to treatments
What is your timeframe for growth, in the short and mid-term? What are the growth milestones and key activities going forward?
The key metrics for growth are the number of genome sequencing projects started and completed, the amount of funds raised, and the number of follow up research projects initiated. In the next year we plan to sequence 50 genomes, raise $500,000 for sequencing via crowdfunding, and initiate a pilot follow up project. In the next 3 years we plan on completing a cumulative total of 200 sequencing projects and initiating 10 follow up projects.
مزيد من المعلومات↓↑ إخفاء↑ إخفاءWhat has been the impact of your solution to date?
Maya (http://www.raregenomics.org/rgi-3.php) is our first patient to be sequenced through a crowd funded genome project. Through our online platform, her family was able to raise funds to cover the costs of her sequencing in less than a day, and a team of researchers and clinicians at Yale recently completed the sequencing and analysis of her genome. The team identified the genetic mutation responsible for her condition and are now working to discover avenues for treatment.
What methods for quantification of social impact are you applying (if at all)?
RGI’s social impact can be measured in terms of patients helped (number of patients sequenced, number of diagnoses, treatment options, improved quality of life) and knowledge gained through research (new disease genes identified, genomic data). We will maintain a database to keep track of patient outcomes as well as publications, presentations and articles resulting from work initiated through RGI
Could your solution work in other geographies or regions? If so, where?
The RGI model is easily translated into other regions. Currently, we have already established research collaborations with scientists in Singapore, Malaysia, Israel, Spain, Australia and the UK. Additionally, while the majority of the patients we work with are US based, we have started to help patients from New Zealand, Israel, Chile.
What is your projected impact over the next 1-3 years?
Over the next 3 years we expect to sequence the genomes of 200 patients and help them not only identify the cause of their rare genetic diseases, but also to begin the process of developing therapies. We have started to develop partnerships with researchers to conduct follow on work and have already been raised over $400,000 in donations, products and services from individuals and corporations to study rare genetic diseases that have been identified.
مزيد من المعلومات↓↑ إخفاء↑ إخفاءElaborate on your current financing strategy
RGI has been incorporated and we are in the process of registering as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. Our financial strategy is centered around two key aims: (1) to become self-sustaining and (2) to provide our services at a cost that is affordable to everyone who is in need. To achieve these goals, we plan on charging patients a flat fee of $7500 per study. Families can utilize the microfunding platform or self pay.This will cover the sequencing costs (that are paid to the partnering institution) for both the patient and their parents, the fundraising costs (credit card transaction and processing fees), RGI overhead costs and allow for extra proceeds to be used to cross subsidize patients that have trouble raising the required funds.
Staffing: We are all currently volunteers. However, for the next year we plan on a staff of one executive director ($100k/FTE), a patient advocate at ($50k/FTE) and one support staff (administrative assistant,for bookkeeping, accounting, general administrative functions at $50k/FTE). As of February 2012, we have 30 patients who have contacted us and are waiting to be enrolled in our program. We expect rapid growth once our work is publicized and once we start accepting referrals from our in-network clinicians and other patient groups. Additionally, we expect further growth to come from international patients.The executive director will do most of the fundraising ; extra support staff will be added in years 3-5. Staff will work remotely.
Share of revenue generation in total income of organization (in percent)
Direct sales to patients or other beneficiaries (in percent)
Of the possible sources of these sales listed below, check all that apply to your current strategy
Friends and family, الأفراد, Patients, Private businesses, Other beneficiaries.
Licensing fees, e.g., for technology/franchise model (in percent)
Of the possible sources of these licensing opportunities listed below, check all that apply to your current strategy
Service contract with organizations, e.g., government, NGOs (in percent)
Of the possible sources of the service contracts listed below, check all that apply to your current strategy
Explain your revenue generation strategy in more detail
RGI generates revenues from patients/families who generate funds for personal sequencing projects via RGI's crowdfunding platform. RGI also receives cash and in-kind donations from different organizations.
Share of philanthropy in total income of organization (in percent)
Philanthrophy strategies you are using
Diversified strategy.
Explain your philanthropic approach in more detail
RGI generates revenues by a combination of approaches. Through RGI's crowdfunding platform patients' families raise funds that support the personal sequencing projects. RGI supports personal genome crowdfunding projects by providing social media support and promotional information and materials, RGI also direct raises funds from high net worth individuals, local organizations,companies, foundations, grants and through pharma/biotech companies with drugs for orphan diseases approved or in development. We are also building a database of funding resources to complement all the above efforts and secure adequate financial support to sustain the next phase of our organization's growth.
Expand on your selections; explain how you will sustain funding over the next 1-3 years.
Our financing strategy for the next 1-3 years has three arms: donations, grants and revenue (overhead costs passed onto patients for services provided). As RGI grows and the volume of patients we serve increases, the percentage overhead fee we charge will decrease, allowing us to provide greater value to the patients. Similarly as patients volume increases, RGI's dependence on grants and donations will fall, allowing us to have greater predictability in managing our core business. However, we plan to continue actively seeking grants and donations in order to diversify the services we can connect patients to. We intend to expand our activities into the critical downstream research projects that will help patients translate the findings of the genome studies into clinically actionable findings. Thus, the overall balance of our fundraising sources will remain the same.
Partnerships are key to our model and over the next few years we anticipate that the strategic alliances we have formed with patient groups and industry will lead to long term support that will also help us achieve sustainable and predictable financing of our operations
Created on 04/2/2013 by danielchristopheryoung
The main goal of this is to allow people in the community to contribute in helping children with Autism, a disorder that affects children all around the world.
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United States, FL, Delray Beach, Palm Beach County
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United States, FL, United States, Palm Beach County
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المعلومات التي تقدمها هنا ستُستخدم لملء أي جزء من أجزاء ملفك الشخصي التي تم تركها فارغة، مثل الاهتمامات ومعلومات المؤسسة وموقع الويب. لن تتاح أية معلومات اتصال بشكل عام. الرجاء إلغاء تحديد المربع هنا إذا كنت لا تريد حدوث هذا..
مزيد من المعلومات↓↑ إخفاء↑ إخفاءحدد الهدف الذي ينطبق بشكل مثالي على الحل الذي تقدمه:
Established (past the previous stages and has demonstrated success)
This Entry is about (Issues)
Summary: What specific issue or problem does your Venture address?
My Venture addresses the issue of Autism Spectrum Disorder, which disables children all around the world. The way this problem will be addressed is through many different methods, such as fundraisers and volunteering at schools for children with Autism. Raising money towards Autism research helps, and so does helping individual children with autism. A way to help children with Autism, as I have found, is to use music as therapy for these children. I have played my instrument for children at a school, and it allows them to calm down or even to focus. My efforts have gone further than this, and I have donated iPods which are used for music and for audio clips used for learning. In the future, I look forward to gaining more technological devices to donate such as iPads and other devices.
Misson Statement: What will your venture do?
My venture is geared to help children with Autism in any way possible. It will raise money towards Autism Research, the building of schools, and the supplying of school materials. As well as this, my venture stresses an importance on volunteer work, and it is crucial that I gain volunteers that are willing to help a child with Autism. The musical aspect of my venture will also be important, as I will continue to search for others who are musically inclined to volunteer at schools. As well as volunteering at schools, I will make it a goal to host benefit concerts, and to play at charity events for Autism. Although music is an important part of my venture, it is not the only part, and I also see an importance in allowing children with Autism to receive the best education that they can possibly achieve. I will do this through using raised money to buy supplies, help renovate and build schools, and create the opportunity for new technological advances at this school.
The Model: Walk us through a specific example of how your solution makes a difference; include your primary activities
Ways that my venture will make a difference have a larger scale of impact, and a smaller, more concise scale of impact. What I believe to be the larger scale is the raising of money towards Autism research and the raising of money to benefit schools for children with Autism. These two ideas will be important, for once I raise enough money, I will be able to donate this money to more and more locations, therefore spreading my venture. On a smaller scale, volunteer work will also be one of the activities in my venture. Although volunteering at a school for children with Autism will not raise money to find a cure, it will positively affect the life of the child, who needs as much help as he or she can get when it comes to an education. As I have previously addressed, music will also be an important part of my venture. Whether it is through volunteering musicians visiting nearby schools, or benefit concerts, music is a crucial part of my venture. It allows for the raising of money, but also allows children with Autism to experience music while they are being educated. It is said that music is therapeutic to these children, and it allows them to focus, therefore helping them learn.
The Community: Define your community, local or international, that you will work on behalf of. What population is affected? Are there other organizations working in this space?
Initially, my goal will be to work on behalf of the area around me, and let my venture grow from there. The entire population should be aware of Autism, and by raising money for the cause, I will also be able to spread the world to communities around mine. As these communities become more aware, I am hoping that they will spread their knowledge to others. As this knowledge is spread, my venture will also be spread further, until it has reached a nationwide level. This may be wishful thinking, but I believe that with the help of difference makers around the country, I will be able to accomplish this, especially considering that Autism is an important topic that should be known about by anyone.
Founding Story: What inspired your venture? Why?
The way I first heard about Autism was through a video that was sent to my email. This video affected me, and I thought that with my musical ability and willingness to help, I could make an impact somehow in the community. As I began raising money by playing violin at events, I discovered that there were other ways that I could still help the cause. I began donating the money I had raised to a nearby school, and after speaking with the school, they believed that I should go to the school to play for the children there. Going class to class, I would play music for the children, and I could see how it positively affected them. From that point on I have continued to find other methods of benefitting Autism research, and the education of children with Autism
What is your long-term vision for your Venture?
The long term vision of my Venture is to eventually see my venture spread outside of my community to around the nation. This way, people around the nation will raise awareness for Autism, donate money, and volunteer at schools in their areas. As my Venture spreads, I would also like any others to pitch in with their own ideas for ways to help children with Autism. This way, we will be able to find more and more ways to raise money, volunteer, or do any other activities that may benefit the cause.
Define your company, program, service, or product in 1-2 short sentences
The main goal of this is to allow people in the community to contribute in helping children with Autism, a disorder that affects children all around the world.
مزيد من المعلومات↓↑ إخفاء↑ إخفاءWhat do you want to accomplish in your first year?
The goal I wish to accomplish in my first year is to raise awareness in my community and hold many fundraisers to gain money for local schools. Another thing I wish to do is to host benefit concerts for Autism. While spreading the word, I also would like to search the community for others who are willing to volunteer at local schools. I don't wish to spread my venture too wide the first year, and I would rather establish a large amount of success locally before venturing out further.
Winning entries present a strong plan for how they will achieve and track growth. Identify your six-month milestone for growing your impact
My milestone will be to raise over 10,000 dollars in fundraising
المهمة الأولى
Improve the supplies, classrooms, and technology of local schools for children with Autism
المهمة الثانية
Gain a wide population of volunteers
المهمة الثالثة
Find other difference makers in the community who are willing to advertise my venture.
Now think bigger! Identify your 12-month impact milestone
Spread my venture outside of my area into other regions of Florida
المهمة الأولى
Find major music personalities that are willing to help in a benefit concert
المهمة الثانية
Assist in the building of a new school for children with Autism
المهمة الثالثة
Prepare to spread my venture nationally
مزيد من المعلومات↓↑ إخفاء↑ إخفاءHow will your Venture define success in the short term (1-12 months)?
By spreading the word of my venture throughout the State in order to prepare for a longer more difficult phase in which I will expand my venture nationally
In the long-term (1 year?)
By gaining recognition on a national level as an organization that positively effects communities around the nation
How will you measure success?
I will measure success not by the amount of money I raise towards my cause, but by the amount of people which my venture affects. Although it is only aimed towards helping children with Autism, I believe that my venture will allow communities around the nation to come together in order to fight for a common cause.
Why?
I believe that money is important, but should not be the critical point of whether something is successful or not.
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Created on 03/29/2013 by n_k_ram
Rang De is a pioneering web based social initiative that supports rural entrepreneurs with access to cost effective loans. Through an online portal, Rang De enables individuals to become social investors by lending Rs. 100 or more to an entrepreneur of their choice.
Since January 2008, Rang De has reached out to over 20,000 entrepreneurs across 14 states and has disbursed a little more than Rs.130 Million with the help of around 4,700 individuals across the world.
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المعلومات التي تقدمها هنا ستُستخدم لملء أي جزء من أجزاء ملفك الشخصي التي تم تركها فارغة، مثل الاهتمامات ومعلومات المؤسسة وموقع الويب. لن تتاح أية معلومات اتصال بشكل عام. الرجاء إلغاء تحديد المربع هنا إذا كنت لا تريد حدوث هذا..
مزيد من المعلومات↓↑ إخفاء↑ إخفاءحدد الهدف الذي ينطبق بشكل مثالي على الحل الذي تقدمه:
Established (past the previous stages and has demonstrated success)
What problem is your organization committed to solving? In particular, share what is innovative about your approach.
Rang De is a pioneering web based social initiative that supports rural entrepreneurs with access to cost effective loans. Through an online portal, Rang De enables individuals to become social investors by lending Rs. 100 or more to an entrepreneur of their choice.
Since January 2008, Rang De has reached out to over 20,000 entrepreneurs across 14 states and has disbursed a little more than Rs.130 Million with the help of around 4,700 individuals across the world.
Rang De leverages the internet and crowdfunding model to lower the cost of microcredit. Rang De provides loans at interest rates that range from 5% flat p.a.(9% APR) to 10% flat p.a.(18% APR).
Our goal is to reach out to half a million low income households in the next 5 years.
What are your organization's top three priorities in the next year?
In the next year, Rang De's top three priorities are as follows:
1) Create Brand recall value for Rang De among the urban middle class in India
2) Reach an inflection point in terms of social investors who invest on Rang De
3) A sustainable strategy for engaging the diaspora across the world
Need #1
Consumer/Audience Acquisition
Need #2
Peer Benchmarking Analysis
Based on your first choice of the eight technical categories you selected above, what is your specific project need? Please be specific!
At Rang De, our biggest challenge has been to acquire a social investor for the first time. It is here that the progress is painfully slow, Our retention rates are extremely high with very few people wanting to leave the platform once they join our community of social investors. Our project therefore is to come up with a sustainable strategy and remove entry barriers for people to join Rang De. We believe a multi-pronged approach is needed for this.
Similarly, we believe that we can do a lot better in terms of positioning ourselves . Rang De is distinct and unique from other peer to peer lending models. We need to think of ways in which we can position Rang De and showcase the advantages and uniqueness of our offering.
Will support from American Express be focused on your organization overall or a specific product/service? Please describe.
We hope we will be able to benefit with a sustainable strategy for customer acquisition and improve the product and service offering to our customers. Support from American Express will thus be focused on addressing the current challenges of the organisation with regard to customer acquisition.
Have you focused on the above area previously? If so, please explain, including whether you have worked with outside consultants before.
Rang De has been using a combination of offline and online strategies to acquire and retain social investors. We use digital marketing - SEM and Social Media to get people to the platform, While this has been the key strategy to acquire customers, We have also adopted various strategies to retain customers. Here are a few initiatives of Rang De that are aimed at customer retention:
Social Accounting : To build transparency
Field Visits : Experiential marketing that helps social investors understand the impact of their contribution
Online Fundraising
Are you able to commit 3-5 hours/wk over 10-12 weeks?
Yes
Are you able to meet virtually or at a convenient in-person location?
Yes
Are you able to meet in the city where your organization is based?
Yes
1.
To design and implement a sustainable strategy to acquire new social investors
2.
To provide world class user interface to our social investors that will lead to customer delight and positive word of mouth
3.
To engage social investors meaningfully as brand ambassadors for Rang De
What has been the impact of your solution to date?
Since January 2008, Rang De has reached out to over 20,000 low income entrepreneurs across 14 Indian states and has disbursed a little over Rs.130 Million with the help of around 4,750 individuals across the world. The entrepreneurs supported by Rang De are individuals who do not have access to credit. Their only recourse previously was a local money lender charging exorbitant interest rates thus making them indebted. Rang De provides a realistic opportunity for individuals to come out of poverty. By leveraging the internet and the peer to peer model, Rang De raises social investments from the civil society and provides access to credit at interest rates that are unheard of. More than 50% of the individuals funded by Rang De are first time borrowers and more than 90% are women.
What is your project future impact after receiving professional support from American Express?
We would like social investing to become a way of life and engage thousands of individuals across the world as social investors - each of them investing as little Rs. 100 to connect to a rural household. The Rang De Model has now been recognised as a feasible model. The organisation currently needs to increase the number of social investors who contribute through the platform.
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Created on 03/26/2013 by mikent
When is the last time you did something unexpected? Fulfilled a dream? Or executed an important goal, big or small? Moving our lives from regrettable to remarkable can't be accomplished through good intentions alone. Yodel.org is a fun online community & social fundraising platform that inspires, kickstarts & supports people who want to make a difference in their own lives & the lives of others. Users set a challenge for themselves, go through a virtual coaching session, & start to make change that is meaningful to them.
مزيد من المعلومات ↓↑ إخفاء↑ إخفاءاسم المؤسسة
Copper Hut Technologies, Inc
البلد الذي تعمل به هذه المؤسسة على إنشاء تأثير اجتماعي
المعلومات التي تقدمها هنا ستُستخدم لملء أي جزء من أجزاء ملفك الشخصي التي تم تركها فارغة، مثل الاهتمامات ومعلومات المؤسسة وموقع الويب. لن تتاح أية معلومات اتصال بشكل عام. الرجاء إلغاء تحديد المربع هنا إذا كنت لا تريد حدوث هذا..
مزيد من المعلومات↓↑ إخفاء↑ إخفاءحدد الهدف الذي ينطبق بشكل مثالي على الحل الذي تقدمه:
فكرة (أنت متأهب للإطلاق)
What problem is your organization committed to solving? In particular, share what is innovative about your approach.
When is the last time you did something unexpected? Fulfilled a dream? Or executed an important goal, big or small? Moving our lives from regrettable to remarkable can't be accomplished through good intentions alone. Yodel.org is a fun online community & social fundraising platform that inspires, kickstarts & supports people who want to make a difference in their own lives & the lives of others. Users set a challenge for themselves, go through a virtual coaching session, & start to make change that is meaningful to them. They partner their action with a change organization, & use their personal stories to inspire others & gather pledges from their networks. Pledges go directly from Yodel.org to the organization. Yodel.org - the platform for creating a remarkable life on your own terms.
What are your organization's top three priorities in the next year?
1. To launch our yodel.org platform
2. To acquire and maintain 2,500 users
3. To acquire and maintain 25 changemaking organization partners
Need #1
Consumer/Audience Acquisition
Need #2
Customer Relationships
Based on your first choice of the eight technical categories you selected above, what is your specific project need? Please be specific!
Yodel would use the support offered to
- Develop a user base that utilizes the platform to design and accomplish personal goals.
- Ensure that beta users of Yodel.org are engaged and sharing with their networks through the tools on the site
- Attract changemaking organizations to partner with yodel.org as recipients of funds raised by the users
- Identify target market and build strategic communications plans to reach them
- Connect with potential corporate partners that embrace social responsibility and employee wellness programs to beta test the plaform
- Connect with potential advertising partners to further develop the concept of a value added reward system for Yodel.org members
1.
Open, honest, clear communication. Yodelling is encouraged.
2.
Time well spent through mutually beneficial collaboration
Will support from American Express be focused on your organization overall or a specific product/service? Please describe.
The support will be focused specifically on the yodel.org web platform.
Have you focused on the above area previously? If so, please explain, including whether you have worked with outside consultants before.
We have not focused on consumer/audience acquisition in the past. We are currently in the process of creating a strategy to identify and engage target market, including a beta group.
Are you able to commit 3-5 hours/wk over 10-12 weeks?
Yes
Are you able to meet virtually or at a convenient in-person location?
Yes
Are you able to meet in the city where your organization is based?
Yes
1.
Thousands of people will have become members of the yodel.org community, and will complete meaningful personal challenges.
2.
Raise millions of dollars in donations for diverse change making organizations around the world.
3.
Create a resource rich platform that supports yodel.org members in living the life they have always imagined.
What has been the impact of your solution to date?
We are in the infancy stage of the project. Thus far we have built a dynamic and diverse leadership team and advisory board dedicated to the creation of yodel.org.
What is your project future impact after receiving professional support from American Express?
We will change the world, one yodel at a time. The impact of this professional support will see us through our final build and launch of the platform. We expect to be more successful in defining and building a user base of individuals for whom a change action holds appeal, and who are also keen to dedicate their pledge support to change organizations that are meaningful to them. We also project that the consulting support will help us to develop strong and trusted partner relationships, so that organizations will want to build a relationship with Yodel.org, and are confident that the pledge process will result in successful fundraising. We believe in the power of strategic partnerships and look forward to the support and smarts of American Express, who are masters of transaction!
This Entry is about (Issues)
Created on 03/21/2013 by changingworlds
Changing Worlds is an educational arts nonprofit organization whose mission is to foster inclusive communities through oral history, writing and art programs that improve student learning, affirm identity and enhance cross-cultural understanding.
Each year, our combined school-based, teacher professional development, traveling exhibits and community outreach programs engage more than 14,000 participants in the Chicago area; 80% of the families we serve are from low-income households and 84% are of African American and Latino backgrounds.
مزيد من المعلومات ↓↑ إخفاء↑ إخفاءTitle
Manager of Earned Revenue, Marketing and Communications
بلد المؤسسة
United States, IL, Cook County
البلد الذي تعمل به هذه المؤسسة على إنشاء تأثير اجتماعي
United States, IL, Cook County
المعلومات التي تقدمها هنا ستُستخدم لملء أي جزء من أجزاء ملفك الشخصي التي تم تركها فارغة، مثل الاهتمامات ومعلومات المؤسسة وموقع الويب. لن تتاح أية معلومات اتصال بشكل عام. الرجاء إلغاء تحديد المربع هنا إذا كنت لا تريد حدوث هذا..
مزيد من المعلومات↓↑ إخفاء↑ إخفاءName Your Entry
Changing Worlds' Serve 2Gether
حدد الهدف الذي ينطبق بشكل مثالي على الحل الذي تقدمه:
بدء (إصدار تجريبي قد بدأ تشغيله للتو)
What problem is your organization committed to solving? In particular, share what is innovative about your approach.
Changing Worlds is an educational arts nonprofit organization whose mission is to foster inclusive communities through oral history, writing and art programs that improve student learning, affirm identity and enhance cross-cultural understanding.
Each year, our combined school-based, teacher professional development, traveling exhibits and community outreach programs engage more than 14,000 participants in the Chicago area; 80% of the families we serve are from low-income households and 84% are of African American and Latino backgrounds.
Our innovative approach integrates culture, family and community histories with writing and the arts to help participants explore their own backgrounds, promote peace and learn about others while strengthening their academic and arts learning skills.
What are your organization's top three priorities in the next year?
Changing Worlds’ top three organizational priorities in the next year are as follows:
1. Strengthen and expand our earned revenue structure.
2. Explore new strategies to incorporate technology into our school and community-based programs.
3. Design and implement new data management systems.
Need #1
Consumer/Audience Acquisition
Need #2
Peer Benchmarking Analysis
Based on your first choice of the eight technical categories you selected above, what is your specific project need? Please be specific!
In Chicago, 54 elementary and high schools are on track to shutter their doors in the fall. Displaced students will be transferred to neighboring schools, located in the city’s most high crime areas, where youth maybe at risk of increased exposure to violence.
Changing Worlds has been preparing to address a rapidly growing demand for services that build inclusive communities. In 2012 we increased our partnerships by 100%, but had to turn away 70% of schools that requested our support because we did not have the necessary unrestricted financial resources.
Support from American Express will help bolster our ability to reach schools with the greatest need for our programs, engaging students in experiences that can impact social emotional learning, academic achievement, creativity and cultural awareness.
Your support will drive enhancements to our earned revenue structure, as we seek to learn best practices and gain experience in conducting market analysis, developing messaging strategies, creating market profiles and establishing performance measures. This will lead us to balance our dependence on grants and individual contributions and more effectively focus on our mission.
1.
Dedicating the necessary time and resources to ensure the collaborators can achieve its mutual goals.
2.
Fostering an environment where all partners are respected and valued for their contributions.
3.
Ensuring that all partners are committed to achieving the agreed upon goals and outcomes.
Will support from American Express be focused on your organization overall or a specific product/service? Please describe.
Support from American Express will focus on developing strategies for new market research and customer acquisition in connection with Changing Worlds’ earned revenue products and programs. These organizational areas include our traveling exhibit, greeting cards, an activity resource guide for teachers and additional programs. The resources and expertise from American Express will be used to help develop strategies to identify new customers that are located beyond Changing Worlds’ regional network in the Chicago area.
Have you focused on the above area previously? If so, please explain, including whether you have worked with outside consultants before.
Changing Worlds is in the start-up phase of developing our earned revenue structure. In 2012, the foundation of this area was developed and included defining staff roles, developing strategies and reviewing our fee-for-service products. The area is entirely staff-driven.
While Changing Worlds has not previously worked with a marketing consultant, we have a history of partnering with professionals on projects that include programs, strategic planning and technology planning. Recently, we worked with a communications agency, which provided design services for our annual report.
Are you able to commit 3-5 hours/wk over 10-12 weeks?
Yes
Are you able to meet virtually or at a convenient in-person location?
Yes
Are you able to meet in the city where your organization is based?
Yes
1.
Develop a market / customer acquisition framework to help guide and train Changing Worlds’ staff.
2.
Develop sales, marketing and communication strategies that can be maintained by Changing Worlds.
3.
Learn and apply best practices in testing Changing Worlds’ products with intended audiences.
What has been the impact of your solution to date?
In 2012, Changing Worlds restructured its development department to transition a team member into a new role to oversee and formalize an earned revenue structure of our programs. The focus was to create standard practices, policies and profit margin scales for programs that include traveling exhibits, in-school and after-school programs, community outreach workshops and products such as greeting cards and an activity resource guide for teachers.
With nine months into the fiscal year, this change led to a 131% increase in earned income compared to the year prior. This directly contributed to enabling us to allocate the necessary resources to support some of Chicago’s most underserved schools, and reach our goal to double our school partners by 100%.
What is your project future impact after receiving professional support from American Express?
To build on past success, Changing Worlds will leverage support from American Express to strengthen our portfolio of fee-for-service programs and products, helping us to maximize earned revenue efforts and diversify our funding sources. We see the partnership informing our efficiency in learning about the needs and desires of potential customers and developing tailored approaches that introduce our programs and products as solutions that address their needs. We also seek to improve our efficiency in cultivating new partners around the country, while providing our staff with supportive structures that can increase productivity.
Co-creating this framework will serve as a valuable training opportunity for our team, which can be leveraged in areas such as donor relations and communications.
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Created on 03/14/2013 by earthcustomdesigns
Earth Custom Designs (ECD) is a social venture business, which supports students in third world countries by acquiring products from those same third world countries and distributing them in the United States. ECD was founded and managed by high school students.
Created on 03/13/2013 by Star143
Muoody! LLC sells its premier product Taste Buddies; a colorfully, tastefully, and emotionally customizable fortune cookie. This business supplies unique inerior design and architectural materials.
Created on 03/12/2013 by jbenun
Team U is an intercollegiate running team that fundraises for and spreads awareness about global health and poverty issues while promoting healthy lifestyles.
My project is about my running awareness team which encourages children with learning disabilities and physical disorders to be more active in life. My running awareness team is made of children with learning disabilities and physical disorders, their siblings and parents, regular education children, friends and family. We promote camaraderie between teammates and our team's message to special needs children in our community is to be healthy, happy, confident and ambitious with life. Once a month we try to do an awareness 5K run.
Created on 03/10/2013 by Hoe Zong Huan
Hi I have started a company called Love Cruise in april last year 2012. we provide charter of yachts to people and company for dinner and dance, wedding, birthday, fishing and travel. But we want to make it better by introducing a fund raising component into it, so for every
مزيد من المعلومات ↓↑ إخفاء↑ إخفاءالبلد الذي تعمل به هذه المؤسسة على إنشاء تأثير اجتماعي
المعلومات التي تقدمها هنا ستُستخدم لملء أي جزء من أجزاء ملفك الشخصي التي تم تركها فارغة، مثل الاهتمامات ومعلومات المؤسسة وموقع الويب. لن تتاح أية معلومات اتصال بشكل عام. الرجاء إلغاء تحديد المربع هنا إذا كنت لا تريد حدوث هذا..
مزيد من المعلومات↓↑ إخفاء↑ إخفاءحدد الهدف الذي ينطبق بشكل مثالي على الحل الذي تقدمه:
Established (past the previous stages and has demonstrated success)
What problem is your organization committed to solving? In particular, share what is innovative about your approach.
Hi I have started a company called Love Cruise in april last year 2012. we provide charter of yachts to people and company for dinner and dance, wedding, birthday, fishing and travel. But we want to make it better by introducing a fund raising component into it, so for every
What are your organization's top three priorities in the next year?
My organisation's first priority is to form a core team which could manage the cold calling and emailing to companies to introduce our services with the intention that they will use our yachts for gala dinner and dance and team bonding to generate more sales from yacht chartering.
My organisation's second priority is to generate greater revenue this time round. With greater revenue we would like to donate 10 to 20% of our annual revenue to any charity organisation in the world.
My organisation's third priority is to able to send at least one charity organisation on a yacht trip one a year to let them have a good enjoyable time in the sea for free.
Need #1
Message & Brand Strategy
Need #2
Performance Management
Based on your first choice of the eight technical categories you selected above, what is your specific project need? Please be specific!
Message & Brand Strategy:
To clearly articulate your mission, describe programs/services, and develop a differentiated positioning from the market
With the funding, I will be able to articulte my mission to the public and public will know that my company mission is not to generare sales but also know that we will be donating 10 to 20% of our annual profit to charity orgnisation and also we will send at least a charity group to free yacht trip once a year.
Will support from American Express be focused on your organization overall or a specific product/service? Please describe.
Focusing on my orgnisation overall
Have you focused on the above area previously? If so, please explain, including whether you have worked with outside consultants before.
I have not worked with any consultants due to financial constraint.
Are you able to commit 3-5 hours/wk over 10-12 weeks?
Yes
Are you able to meet virtually or at a convenient in-person location?
Yes
Are you able to meet in the city where your organization is based?
Yes
1.
More sales and more awarenss of our company
2.
More people will know our company has a mission to help the charity
3.
To help more people who are in need of our help
What has been the impact of your solution to date?
I have not implemented our solution/
What is your project future impact after receiving professional support from American Express?
A better website with datebase and more information and services will be shown in the website which will generate a higher volume of traffic which will generate more interest and awareness from the public and as such more people can aldo donate some funding to the charity benfificary in our website.
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Created on 03/5/2013 by PacificCommuter
We are trying to take our product to market and find other interested charities who could be interested in engaging with a younger donor pool.
مزيد من المعلومات ↓↑ إخفاء↑ إخفاءالبلد الذي تعمل به هذه المؤسسة على إنشاء تأثير اجتماعي
المعلومات التي تقدمها هنا ستُستخدم لملء أي جزء من أجزاء ملفك الشخصي التي تم تركها فارغة، مثل الاهتمامات ومعلومات المؤسسة وموقع الويب. لن تتاح أية معلومات اتصال بشكل عام. الرجاء إلغاء تحديد المربع هنا إذا كنت لا تريد حدوث هذا..
مزيد من المعلومات↓↑ إخفاء↑ إخفاءحدد الهدف الذي ينطبق بشكل مثالي على الحل الذي تقدمه:
بدء (إصدار تجريبي قد بدأ تشغيله للتو)
What problem is your organization committed to solving? In particular, share what is innovative about your approach.
We are trying to take our product to market and find other interested charities who could be interested in engaging with a younger donor pool.
What are your organization's top three priorities in the next year?
1 Message & Brand Strategy: To clearly articulate your mission, describe programs/services, and develop a differentiated positioning from the market
2 Digital Marketing Strategy: To optimize digital channels (e.g., mobile, search engines, blogs, social media) and digital marketing to achieve your objectives
3 Consumer/Audience Acquisition: To develop strategies for identifying and engaging important new clients or audiences
Need #1
Message & Brand Strategy
Need #2
Consumer/Audience Acquisition
Based on your first choice of the eight technical categories you selected above, what is your specific project need? Please be specific!
We want to refine who we are and what we're doing.
Will support from American Express be focused on your organization overall or a specific product/service? Please describe.
I feel like we have a great product developed and created in Canada and I’d like to keep in being developed and made in Canada (not have to cheap out and outsource the development to the US or Argentina).
I believe partnering with Amex will allow us to have much strong productivity improvements as we work to measure the value and market validation of the product. It’ll be nice to have you and other validate what we’ve created. We’d really like to increase our capacity and figure ways to scale this product and figure out how to most strategically commercialize what we’ve created.
Have you focused on the above area previously? If so, please explain, including whether you have worked with outside consultants before.
We haven't worked with outside consultants yet.
Are you able to commit 3-5 hours/wk over 10-12 weeks?
Yes
Are you able to meet virtually or at a convenient in-person location?
Yes
Are you able to meet in the city where your organization is based?
Yes
1.
See more charities benefitting from the App
2.
See more people using the App. More jobs for Canadians to develop and promote the app.
3.
See the App raising LOADS of support and awareness for charities
What has been the impact of your solution to date?
We've seen over 3,000 users engage with the gamification of charity.
We've seen over 1200 users invest financially into charity through the game
We've seen over 500 users follow up to engage with the charity directly because of the app.
What is your project future impact after receiving professional support from American Express?
We'll see 300,000 users engage with the App.
We'll see 120,000 users invest financially into various charities through the game
We'll see over 100,000 users follow up to engage with charities directly.
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Created on 03/4/2013 by Mike Tan
Our mission is to one day see a world where every child has access to free education. Change Heroes is a friend-funding platform that enables anyone to raise $10,000 with their friends to build a school in a developing country. In our initial beta test campaigns, 100 individuals have raised over $500,000 funding over 50 schools. www.changeheroes.com
مزيد من المعلومات ↓↑ إخفاء↑ إخفاءالبلد الذي تعمل به هذه المؤسسة على إنشاء تأثير اجتماعي
المعلومات التي تقدمها هنا ستُستخدم لملء أي جزء من أجزاء ملفك الشخصي التي تم تركها فارغة، مثل الاهتمامات ومعلومات المؤسسة وموقع الويب. لن تتاح أية معلومات اتصال بشكل عام. الرجاء إلغاء تحديد المربع هنا إذا كنت لا تريد حدوث هذا..
مزيد من المعلومات↓↑ إخفاء↑ إخفاءحدد الهدف الذي ينطبق بشكل مثالي على الحل الذي تقدمه:
نمو (إصدارك التجريبي في حالة جيدة ويعمل ويبدأ في التوسع)
What problem is your organization committed to solving? In particular, share what is innovative about your approach.
Our mission is to one day see a world where every child has access to free education. Change Heroes is a friend-funding platform that enables anyone to raise $10,000 with their friends to build a school in a developing country. In our initial beta test campaigns, 100 individuals have raised over $500,000 funding over 50 schools. www.changeheroes.com
What are your organization's top three priorities in the next year?
- Run 1000 successful campaigns, raising over $10M and funding 1000 schools
- Raise our Series-A round by June 15
- Be cash flow positive by Q3
Need #1
Consumer/Audience Acquisition
Need #2
Message & Brand Strategy
Based on your first choice of the eight technical categories you selected above, what is your specific project need? Please be specific!
1) Acquisition of new fundraising campaign runners through the following channels:
- corporate campaigns
- university campaigns
- PR & social media
- viral loop: converting past donors into campaign runners
2) Connecting with Impact Investors for our Series-A financing round
1.
Values & mission alignment
Will support from American Express be focused on your organization overall or a specific product/service? Please describe.
Support from American Express will be focused on our overall organization.
Have you focused on the above area previously? If so, please explain, including whether you have worked with outside consultants before.
No, all of above have been handled internally to date.
Are you able to commit 3-5 hours/wk over 10-12 weeks?
Yes
Are you able to meet virtually or at a convenient in-person location?
Yes
Are you able to meet in the city where your organization is based?
Yes
1.
Develop an implementable customer acquisition plan
2.
Develop a brand and communication strategy for Change Heroes
3.
Raise our Series-A round by June 15
What has been the impact of your solution to date?
$500,000+ raised by 100 individual campaigns funding over 50 schools which will educate over 50,000 children in developing countries.
What is your project future impact after receiving professional support from American Express?
Our goal is by the end of 2015 to have helped raised over $100 million through Change Heroes, funding over 10,000 schools which will educate over 10 million children.
This Entry is about (Issues)
Created on 03/4/2013 by jordanbober
Seedstock takes an innovative approach to the problem: "How do we keep money ciruclating in the community and build a more resilient local economy in today's highly globalised and mobile world?"
مزيد من المعلومات ↓↑ إخفاء↑ إخفاءاسم المؤسسة
Seedstock Community Currency
البلد الذي تعمل به هذه المؤسسة على إنشاء تأثير اجتماعي
المعلومات التي تقدمها هنا ستُستخدم لملء أي جزء من أجزاء ملفك الشخصي التي تم تركها فارغة، مثل الاهتمامات ومعلومات المؤسسة وموقع الويب. لن تتاح أية معلومات اتصال بشكل عام. الرجاء إلغاء تحديد المربع هنا إذا كنت لا تريد حدوث هذا..
مزيد من المعلومات↓↑ إخفاء↑ إخفاءName Your Entry
Seedstock Community Currency
حدد الهدف الذي ينطبق بشكل مثالي على الحل الذي تقدمه:
نمو (إصدارك التجريبي في حالة جيدة ويعمل ويبدأ في التوسع)
What problem is your organization committed to solving? In particular, share what is innovative about your approach.
Seedstock takes an innovative approach to the problem: "How do we keep money ciruclating in the community and build a more resilient local economy in today's highly globalised and mobile world?"
We do this by going beyond the mere exortation to "buy local", and instead give people a way to "buy community" by using community currency as partial payment for good and services at participating local businesses. Businesses then recirculate Seedstock Communty Currency into their communities as well, keeping the money going 'round and generating unprecedented customer loyalty to local, community-minded businesses.
Furthermore, because businesses kick off the cycle by making a Seedstock gift to a local cause, Seedstock helps communities fund the things that are important to them.
What are your organization's top three priorities in the next year?
1. Grow the number and diversity of participating businesses to increase the attractiveness and usefulness of Seedstock, and to encourage trading among different kinds of businesses as well.
2. Grow the number of community members who purchase Seedstock from their favourite local causes on a regular basis.
3. Create a strong organisational structure that will enable us to sustain and enhance the services we offer to the community.
Need #1
Consumer/Audience Acquisition
Need #2
Message & Brand Strategy
Based on your first choice of the eight technical categories you selected above, what is your specific project need? Please be specific!
Although the benefits (both individual and to society) of participating in and using Seedstock are demonstrably far superior to other methods that businesses typically use to acquire and retain customers (coupons, discounts, loyaly points, etc), the concept of "community currency" is still very novel to most, so there is still a high need to educate potential participants. We need effective strategies for reaching out to and educating large numbers of businesses all at once.
Similarly, we need strategies for encouraging members of the public to make a habit of buying Seedstock from local causes, then spending it at local businesses.
1.
Collaborative: working together to further a common goal
2.
Mutual: partners show mutual respect, reciprocity and generosity
3.
Openness: the partnership takes place in a spirit of openness and sharing with each other and the community.
Will support from American Express be focused on your organization overall or a specific product/service? Please describe.
We would specifically be looking for assistance with our promotion of Seedstock Community Currency to more users (businesses and community members)
Have you focused on the above area previously? If so, please explain, including whether you have worked with outside consultants before.
Our promotional strategies have been an ongoing, evolving and iterative process for us, with cycles of ideas, experiments and evaluation. We have not worked with outside consultants.
Are you able to commit 3-5 hours/wk over 10-12 weeks?
Yes
Are you able to meet virtually or at a convenient in-person location?
Yes
Are you able to meet in the city where your organization is based?
Yes
1.
A more vibrant, resilient and interconnected local economy in communities with widespread usage of Seedstock Community Currency.
2.
The creation of a powerful new tool for community-based fundraising and even business financing.
3.
Enhanced opportunities for economic participation and right livelihood
What has been the impact of your solution to date?
6 weeks after launching our pilot, Seedstock Community Currency has the participation of 30 businesses and growing, has generated over $ 15,000 in Seedstock donations to local non-profits, and over 3000 ss$ has been exchanged for $Cdn with members of the public. Local causes have already raised money they would not have otherwise, with minimal effort on their part, and local businesses have already generated sales from Seedstock. The model has been shown to work, and now only needs to be scaled up.
What is your project future impact after receiving professional support from American Express?
We hope that the support of American Express can help us acquire a critical mass of Seedstock participants and users ("the early adopters") that will fuel further growth of the user base largely by word-of-mouth advertising and referrals. In the long term, we do not see why every independent, locally-owned business in the Lower Mainland would not want to be involved. This could one day result in Seedstock worth several hundred million dollars circulating in our communities each year, generating tens of millions in funding for local causes, projects and social enterprises. Seedstock's objective is to focus on projects that will leave a lasting impact for a more resilient local economy, including investments in our local food system and in arts and cultural infrastructure.
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Created on 03/3/2013 by SharonDR
Limited family support in the rural communities unless the family comes to Penticton. The population served is 30,000 (2010 census). Families are hesitant to reveal they have a mentally ill member due to stigma. Community agencies report a lack of expertise to support these families adequately. Taking family support to these communities is new in our area. caregivers need skills to care for themselves as well as support the person in their recovery.
مزيد من المعلومات ↓↑ إخفاء↑ إخفاءعنوان URL لـ Facebook
http://www.facebook.com/?ref=tn_tnmn#!/pages/Mental-Wellness-Centre/122036441143028
اسم المؤسسة
BC Schizophrenia Society Penticton Branch
البلد الذي تعمل به هذه المؤسسة على إنشاء تأثير اجتماعي
المعلومات التي تقدمها هنا ستُستخدم لملء أي جزء من أجزاء ملفك الشخصي التي تم تركها فارغة، مثل الاهتمامات ومعلومات المؤسسة وموقع الويب. لن تتاح أية معلومات اتصال بشكل عام. الرجاء إلغاء تحديد المربع هنا إذا كنت لا تريد حدوث هذا..
مزيد من المعلومات↓↑ إخفاء↑ إخفاءName Your Entry
Mental Illness Family Support in Rural Communities
حدد الهدف الذي ينطبق بشكل مثالي على الحل الذي تقدمه:
نمو (إصدارك التجريبي في حالة جيدة ويعمل ويبدأ في التوسع)
What problem is your organization committed to solving? In particular, share what is innovative about your approach.
Limited family support in the rural communities unless the family comes to Penticton. The population served is 30,000 (2010 census). Families are hesitant to reveal they have a mentally ill member due to stigma. Community agencies report a lack of expertise to support these families adequately. Taking family support to these communities is new in our area. caregivers need skills to care for themselves as well as support the person in their recovery.
What are your organization's top three priorities in the next year?
1. Implement a Family Support Worker for Rural Communities
2. Implement a Manager position for the Society that inclusive of a fundraising development program
3. Explore options to develop Martin House (young adult program) as its own society
Need #1
Peer Benchmarking Analysis
Need #2
Consumer/Audience Acquisition
Based on your first choice of the eight technical categories you selected above, what is your specific project need? Please be specific!
Developing a case for financial support to augment the basic contract with Interior Health Authority for Family Support to provide funding to provide the family support program in situ.
Will support from American Express be focused on your organization overall or a specific product/service? Please describe.
We need to learn how to do more effective fundraising including grant writing and events
Have you focused on the above area previously? If so, please explain, including whether you have worked with outside consultants before.
We did receive a grant (2011) from Bell Let's Talk Community Fund for vehicle expense ($5,000) and have a current campaign to raise a similar amount ($1250 from December to date).
Yes. Sharon Evans, our President, is registered for the Simple Development Program with Pamela Grow Consulting GrowConsultingPA | PO Box 274 | Haverford, PA 19041. A personal contribution of time and money.
Are you able to commit 3-5 hours/wk over 10-12 weeks?
Yes
Are you able to meet virtually or at a convenient in-person location?
Yes
Are you able to meet in the city where your organization is based?
Yes
1.
Every community will have direct weekly family support access so families can learn how to cope.
2.
We will have a development program for donor acquisition and retention.
3.
Volunteers will assist with community projects to combat stigma and discrimination
What has been the impact of your solution to date?
Family Support Worker has been able to connect in the rural communities at least monthly with other agencies. At this time, she is attending the Neighbourhood Hub in Oliver weekly for 2 hours with some volunteer support. Family member contacts have increased by 2.5 times during the past 4 years.
What is your project future impact after receiving professional support from American Express?
We will improve our expertise in sustainable fund development for society operations including maintaining 2 Family Support Worker positions and a Society Manager.
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Created on 03/1/2013 by Karen Young
Escalating healthcare issues threaten our future leaders and caregivers, namely, our teens. Alzheimer's (AD), a devastating brain disease, exhausts families and caregivers, costs America $200 billion annually, affects 1 in 8 adults by age 65 and is projected to affect 106 million worldwide by the time our 13 year olds are 51. 37 million people suffer right now. Absorbed in their own needs and living in an increasingly fast-paced, high tech world, teensʼ human engagement and ability to lead are at risk.
مزيد من المعلومات ↓↑ إخفاء↑ إخفاءTitle
Co-Founder & Executive Director
بلد المؤسسة
United States, NY, New York, New York County
البلد الذي تعمل به هذه المؤسسة على إنشاء تأثير اجتماعي
United States, NY, New York
المعلومات التي تقدمها هنا ستُستخدم لملء أي جزء من أجزاء ملفك الشخصي التي تم تركها فارغة، مثل الاهتمامات ومعلومات المؤسسة وموقع الويب. لن تتاح أية معلومات اتصال بشكل عام. الرجاء إلغاء تحديد المربع هنا إذا كنت لا تريد حدوث هذا..
مزيد من المعلومات↓↑ إخفاء↑ إخفاءحدد الهدف الذي ينطبق بشكل مثالي على الحل الذي تقدمه:
تطوير (ستكون الخطوة التالية تأثيرًا متزايدًا على النطاق الإقليمي أو حتى العالمي)
What problem is your organization committed to solving? In particular, share what is innovative about your approach.
Escalating healthcare issues threaten our future leaders and caregivers, namely, our teens. Alzheimer's (AD), a devastating brain disease, exhausts families and caregivers, costs America $200 billion annually, affects 1 in 8 adults by age 65 and is projected to affect 106 million worldwide by the time our 13 year olds are 51. 37 million people suffer right now. Absorbed in their own needs and living in an increasingly fast-paced, high tech world, teensʼ human engagement and ability to lead are at risk. We train middle school kids to understand AD and communicate effectively with those in need. Our innovative training and creative program structure enables kids and adults to together discover the arts and each other more fully with both empowered and transformed by the experience!
What are your organization's top three priorities in the next year?
1. Raise seed funding in order to hire our core team;
2. Expand and deepen our community of Sweet Readers and their families from 300 + families to 700+;
3. Continue to raise awareness that AD impacts three generations and kids are the key to helping and learning from those in need right now, raising money to help find cures and prevention and being prepared as the next generation of caregivers and advocates for better healthcare.
Need #1
Digital Marketing Strategy
Need #2
Peer Benchmarking Analysis
Based on your first choice of the eight technical categories you selected above, what is your specific project need? Please be specific!
We need to utilize social media to help us grow our community of kids; raise awareness for what we're doing (specifically with potential funders, partners and media) and communicate most effectively with our various stakeholders (museums, schools, care centers, families with both aging adults and middle school - college age kids). We aim to do this through an effective Facebook page, more effective twitter and whatever other social media is appropriate - we need to learn this!
1.
Shared interest in empowering and transforming people with AD and/or our youth.
2.
Commitment to achieving excellence with positive thinking, flexibility, innovation and hard work.
3.
Working with integrity: partners who keep their word and follow through.
Will support from American Express be focused on your organization overall or a specific product/service? Please describe.
We're a growing community and in order to most effectively utilize social media and evaluations to help us expand and deepen our impact, we'd like the support from American Express to understand and start with a focus on the organization as a whole.
Have you focused on the above area previously? If so, please explain, including whether you have worked with outside consultants before.
We have built a web site and Part 1 of what will be a four part documentary. On our web site, we also have a twitter feed. These have been effective, but we could use more help. We also began a Facebook page, but it's not yet operational because we don't yet have the staff or funding to support it. As for evaluations, we believe we have a deep understanding of our programs and their impact through an existing set of evaluations. We would like to strengthen them further! We have advisors, but have not hired any outside consultants.
Are you able to commit 3-5 hours/wk over 10-12 weeks?
Yes
Are you able to meet virtually or at a convenient in-person location?
Yes
Are you able to meet in the city where your organization is based?
Yes
1.
Raised awareness for what we do;
2.
Deepened connections for our community of families and kids;
What has been the impact of your solution to date?
Over 300 middle school kids have impacted and learned from over 150 adults with Alzheimer's Disease - in five cities! These kids have been transformed by the impact of their intellects and empathy working together to meaningfully effect another person's life. Isolated adults living with Alzheimer's have felt a renewed sense of purpose and empowerment; many have had significant personality shifts for the better, some even speaking again for the first time in months. And the impact on the adults with AD has further impacted their families and caregivers who have felt relief and their own joy from the kids. Our participants have also enjoyed a renewed interest in the arts and many of our kids have developed a curiosity for medicine, healthcare and science.
What is your project future impact after receiving professional support from American Express?
After receiving professional support from American Express, our programs will be better known, attract more funding and our community of kids and families will have more and deeper ways to connect. Building our community is of particular importance to us because one of the innovative aspects of Sweet Readers is that these kids are not only trained and participating in innovative programs, but that they are part of something bigger than any one program and together they are effecting change on a larger level.
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Created on 02/28/2013 by manjulad
According to UNESCO, 71 million children in secondary school age were out of school in 2010. Participation in higher education remains at only 7%. Among many factors, poverty has been identified as the biggest impediment for access to education. In Sri Lanka, nearly 200,000 students drop out of school every year. Among these are thousands of promising students who could become the future leaders of the country.
مزيد من المعلومات ↓↑ إخفاء↑ إخفاءاسم المؤسسة
Educate Lanka Foundation, Inc.
بلد المؤسسة
United States, MD, Silver Spring, Montgomery County
البلد الذي تعمل به هذه المؤسسة على إنشاء تأثير اجتماعي
Sri Lanka, XX, Entire Country
المعلومات التي تقدمها هنا ستُستخدم لملء أي جزء من أجزاء ملفك الشخصي التي تم تركها فارغة، مثل الاهتمامات ومعلومات المؤسسة وموقع الويب. لن تتاح أية معلومات اتصال بشكل عام. الرجاء إلغاء تحديد المربع هنا إذا كنت لا تريد حدوث هذا..
مزيد من المعلومات↓↑ إخفاء↑ إخفاءحدد الهدف الذي ينطبق بشكل مثالي على الحل الذي تقدمه:
نمو (إصدارك التجريبي في حالة جيدة ويعمل ويبدأ في التوسع)
What problem is your organization committed to solving? In particular, share what is innovative about your approach.
According to UNESCO, 71 million children in secondary school age were out of school in 2010. Participation in higher education remains at only 7%. Among many factors, poverty has been identified as the biggest impediment for access to education. In Sri Lanka, nearly 200,000 students drop out of school every year. Among these are thousands of promising students who could become the future leaders of the country. With over 1 million Sri Lankans accounting for $5 billion annual remittances, we developed a unique micro-philanthropic platform that crowd-funds mainly from the global Diaspora community to underwrite the cost of education of deserving students through micro-scholarships. Our unique high-impact model provides funders a platform that transfers 100% of their funds to the students.
What are your organization's top three priorities in the next year?
1). Implement our global chapter expansion strategy to facilitate our scale on the ground in Sri Lanka
2). Strengthen our financial sustainability and expand our web presence and donor engagement
3). Move from a centralized operations to a decentralized governance and operational structure
Need #1
Consumer/Audience Acquisition
Need #2
Message & Brand Strategy
Based on your first choice of the eight technical categories you selected above, what is your specific project need? Please be specific!
Having operated Educate Lanka's crowd-funding platform from the Greater Washington DC area with proven impact during our pilot period, we are focused on a two-fold expansion strategy for next five years: 1). chapter-level expansion across global Diaspora strongholds to extend our reach to new philanthropic markets for direct student sponsorships; 2). global-level strategy to increase fundraising revenue to underwrite the cost of overhead and administration of our scaled up operations. Therefore, our project need is also two-fold: 1). develop strategy to extend operations from a centralized to a more decentralized chapter-level structure in new customer markets across the developed world; 2). develop strategy to increase global-level fundraising through high net-worth donors, foundations, and corporate sponsors. While we have already begun putting together high-level strategies for these two expansion areas, we hope American Express executives could guide and advise us on implementation and proper execution of those strategies to meet our impact goals over the next five years.
1.
Transparency: in communication and delivery
2.
Retention: of commitment and service
3.
Satisfaction: maximizing the return (financial or otherwise) on investment/donation
Will support from American Express be focused on your organization overall or a specific product/service? Please describe.
Since the need is for strategy on our expansion of core programs, the support from American Express will be focused on our overall organization. However, we have identified two specific areas within the overall strategy for the Serve2Gether consulting opportunity.
Have you focused on the above area previously? If so, please explain, including whether you have worked with outside consultants before.
Yes. We have focused on the area before at a very high level. We have begun efforts for chapter expansion strategy by engaging outside pro-bono consultants from NYU Stern MBA Program (Stern Consulting Corps) who are currently assessing our current operations, market research, and analysis for future financial need and gaps. However, they are not focusing on the execution, implementation, and operations of global chapter strategy or on the global-level fundraising strategy to underwrite our cost of scaling.
Are you able to commit 3-5 hours/wk over 10-12 weeks?
Yes
Are you able to meet virtually or at a convenient in-person location?
Yes
Are you able to meet in the city where your organization is based?
Yes
1.
An implementation strategy for chapter expansion
2.
An operational guideline for decentralized governance structure
3.
A global-level fundraising strategy to meet our overhead and administrative needs for scaled up operations
What has been the impact of your solution to date?
To-date, operating on a volunteer-basis from just one location through our online crowd-funding platform, we have provided nearly $150,000 in micro-scholarships to nearly 500 promising students from underprivileged backgrounds who otherwise would not have had the opportunity to achieve the education they deserve. This equals to funding of over 1,500 school years and an indirect impact of over 2,000 individuals through the ripple impact our students create in their families and communities. Among the 500 future leaders whose education we have funded, nearly 100 have already completed higher education, realizing their academic potential and opportunities for employment.
What is your project future impact after receiving professional support from American Express?
With the support of American Express, we will be able to successfully implement our expansion strategy that would allow us to scale our operations to nearly 40 global chapters with an overall annual operational budget of nearly $1 million. With such scale in operations, we would directly impact nearly 5,000 deserving students with over 10,000 school years of funding. These future leaders who receive the opportunity to realize their full academic potential would have indirectly impacted the lives of over 20,000 through the immediate positive ripple impact they create in their families and communities, leading to social, human, and economic growth of the nation.
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Created on 02/27/2013 by micahgreen7
SharkPuncher is a smartphone game that incorporates Facebook so users can play against friends and be more interested in playing for a longer period of time. By selling the app and selling in-game purchases, users will contribute to the vastly ignored Malaria issue that can positively be eradicated.
Organization: Apps for Cures
more ↓↑ إخفاء↑ إخفاءالبلد الذي تعمل به هذه المؤسسة على إنشاء تأثير اجتماعي
United States, MD, Potomac, Montgomery County
Do you work with any social organizations?
How did you hear about the competition?
The Youth Venture Webinar
مزيد من المعلومات↓↑ إخفاء↑ إخفاءSelect the stage that best applies to your venture
Idea (you're ready to start)
This Entry is about (Issues)
Summary: What specific issue or problem does your Venture address?
By collecting donations and profits from selling the apps and merchandise in the app, people will be able to help support distribution of medications for Malaria throughout Africa and other parts of the world. The money will collectively go to vaccines and medications for those that have already been diagnosed with Malaria.
Misson Statement: What will your venture do?
SharkPuncher will provide a very fun interactive experience for users to play on their smartphone devices and avoid being bored. Along with entertaining users, proceeds will go to purchasing and shipping Malaria vaccinations throughout the world's most affected areas.
The Model: Walk us through a specific example of how your solution makes a difference; include your primary activities
First, a consumer will download the SharkPuncher app through their smartphone marketplace. After purchasing it, they will be able to access all levels of gameplay and will be able to purchase items to use in the game. Both the profits from the cost of the app itself and the cost of the items sold in game will potentially generate a large amount of revenue. This revenue will be used to purchase medications for Malaria through a certified pharmaceutical distributer. Then, the medicine gets ship to affected areas. Users are also encouraged to donate money through the app to assist more in the efforts.
The Community: Define the community that you work on behalf of. What population is affected? Are there other organizations working in this space?
Millions of people worldwide are diagnosed with Malaria every year. Of those millions, over one million die annually because of the harm this preventable disease instills. The community includes all of the millions, and their families, that are affected already or are in a dangerous environment that contains the risk of obtaining the disease. This includes many parts of Central and South Africa, South East Asia, and parts of South America. Malaria no more and the Gates Foundation are two major contributors to the continually growing effort.
Founding Story: What inspired your venture? Why?
After continuously riding public transportation, I found myself awkwardly staring off into space or falling asleep. Many smartphone games that exist today are able to give the user a brief splurge of fun that gets repetitive or boring over time. To fix that, I came up with the idea of a fun game with many levels that will be engaging for users for a long time. After researching Malaria for a school project, I recognized not much attention is focused on one of the most preventable social issues of our time. I felt combining fun with philanthropy would encourage users to contribute more and help make the world a better place.
Define your Venture in 1-2 short sentences
SharkPuncher is a smartphone game that incorporates Facebook so users can play against friends and be more interested in playing for a longer period of time. By selling the app and selling in-game purchases, users will contribute to the vastly ignored Malaria issue that can positively be eradicated.
مزيد من المعلومات↓↑ إخفاء↑ إخفاءWhat do you want to accomplish in your first year?
In the first year, I am hoping to establish SharkPuncher as a wide known smartphone application that consists of more than a million users. Through this, I am projecting to be able to collect over $2 million in revenue to purchase and ship the medicines and vaccines to affected areas.
Set your first goal or milestone for your Venture Team in the next 6 months that will bring you to your vision
المهمة الأولى
Provide a high quality smartphone application
المهمة الثانية
Expose the world to the app to gain membership and contributions
المهمة الثالثة
Get media coverage and support on the application.
Set a second goal or milestone for your Venture Team in the next 6 months that will bring you to your vision
Receive over $750,000 in revenue
المهمة الأولى
Educate users and nonusers about the impact they can have on helping to solve this issue.
المهمة الثانية
Gain widespread support on the project.
المهمة الثالثة
Gain enough users to purchase in-game products as well as the app itself.
Set a third goal or milestone for your Venture Team in the next 6 months that will bring you to your vision
Set up a good relationship with a pharmaceutical company that will be able to sell appropriate medications.
المهمة الأولى
Research many different companies that produce the medicines.
المهمة الثانية
Set up meetings to discuss potential relationship opportunities with companies.
المهمة الثالثة
Get the price lowered to be able to purchase more medicine and vaccinations.
مزيد من المعلومات↓↑ إخفاء↑ إخفاءHow will your Venture define success in the short term (1-12 months)?
When the venture increases its users exponentially, it will be considered successful. In the first year, we hope to reach close to a million users or more and a large number of donations. It would be incredible if we were about to send a million dollars worth of medicine to affected nations in the first year.
In the long-term (1-3 years)?
After a year, we would hope that products such as SharkPuncher and Flo be a household name. This would mean people are talking about it and spreading the word. Hopefully at this point, there will be millions of users and a lot of media coverage to attract more people. We want to see the Malaria death rate drop dramatically within a decade and hopefully be fully terminated not much later.
How will you measure success?
I will measure success by the amount of people that consistently use our products. If people don't delete it and continue to use it, it will prove to be truly useful and entertaining. The main point of success I hope to see shortly after launch would be the end to the preventable disease Malaria and then hopefully many others.
مزيد من المعلومات↓↑ إخفاء↑ إخفاءHow will you recruit new members for your venture?
I will recruit teens that are in college and high school to help in different aspects and spread the word about the products. I will find people that find the products enjoyable and are committed to the cause. More technical members such as programmers and lawyers will also need to be loyal to the cause. They will be added on through the growing network I hope to develop.
How will you appoint new leaders and transfer leadership when the founding members want to leave the team?
I am hoping that everyone that gets involved will be committed to months, if not years of loyalty to the cause. However, if some do decide to leave, I will ask advice from the people in their department for potential replacements. For example, if a programmer leaves, I will ask other developers to give me a name of candidates to replace them.
How will you continue your project in 6-months time or once you have spent all of its initial capital?
After initial capital is used, I hope to sustain the project with revenue and profits from the apps and their virtual products. People will also be able to donate to help support the shipment and distribution costs of the medicine.
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Created on 02/18/2013 by nithinjilla
Dreams for Schools cultivates the importance of giving back at a young age to the community among students between the ages of 14-24 by enabling them to pursue projects within the areas of education, health & wellness. Our mission is to help students Discover, Strive, and Inspire them to give back to their greater community.
CentUp is an intentionally simple button that lives next to all kinds of web content. It lets people toss a few cents at blog posts, photos, videos, and songs they really love. The kicker? Half that money goes to charity.
I noticed Pullman needs a sober way to have fun,I want to show my fellow students that you don't need alcohol to have fun. I want to throw parties that not only provide a fun and alcohol free environment, but I want my parties to also raise money for various charities.
Ubuntu-Pesa is not an aid agency or a charity. It is a a global co-operative for commercial and social development ~ a more-than-profit company that with a triple bottom line of People, Planet and Profit. Its commercial venture is aligned with its mission in such a way that it makes money by achieving social good and, therefore, the more social good it achieves the more money it makes.
Created on 01/15/2013 by pattymorrissey
Groupon Grassroots uses the world's largest ecommerce marketing system to connect our subscribers with new causes, rally people together, and lend a helping hand. We empower our subscribers to give a little to make a big difference.
مزيد من المعلومات ↓↑ إخفاء↑ إخفاءTell us about yourself/your team.
Our team is composed of seven full-time staff and two interns. We've used our backgrounds in advocacy, sales, and international development—to name a few—to launch the program, and we continue to drive its development as a central feature of Groupon's social innovation efforts. Campaign organizers currently manage Groupon Grassroots regionally and across the United States.
What makes you an intrapreneur? What are the skills, capabilities, and personality traits that make you an intrapreneur?
Innovation is about creating solutions for unmet needs. We leverage Groupon’s core assets to drive societal change and bottom-line business value. Groupon Grassroots is our first endeavor and we’ve already started expanding our scope of work to find opportunities that marry our strengths with the needs of the community. We’re relentless about translating the benefit of our ideas into something that the entire company can understand. We have confidence to take risks piloting new initiatives and don’t wait to be granted permission to execute on ideas. Our role is to connect the dots between our core business and our footprint on the world and ensure that our legacy is one we can be proud of.
Company Country
United States, IL, Chicago, Cook County
Primary country where this project is creating social impact
United States, National (U.S.)
Additional countries or regions
المعلومات التي تقدمها هنا ستُستخدم لملء أي جزء من أجزاء ملفك الشخصي التي تم تركها فارغة، مثل الاهتمامات ومعلومات المؤسسة وموقع الويب. لن تتاح أية معلومات اتصال بشكل عام. الرجاء إلغاء تحديد المربع هنا إذا كنت لا تريد حدوث هذا..
مزيد من المعلومات↓↑ إخفاء↑ إخفاءحدد الهدف الذي ينطبق بشكل مثالي على الحل الذي تقدمه:
تطوير (ستكون الخطوة التالية تأثيرًا متزايدًا على النطاق الإقليمي أو حتى العالمي)
The Need: What social or environmental problem are you trying to solve?
We solve the challenge that nonprofits and mission-driven social ventures have with connecting to new donors. We've found that smaller and newer organizations in particular find online engagement to be challenging because they don't know how to employ online marketing tools, and they don't have the reach to engage a wide enough audience to support an online marketing campaign. The problem we're solving for individual donors is helping them overcome the decision-making paralysis that is caused by lack of knowledge on how to vet organizations properly or the feeling that a small gift won't have an impact.
The Solution: What is your solution? Be specific!
We use the power of the Groupon platform, which works to connect thousands of small businesses with millions of new customers, to help small grassroots organizations connect with new supporters; the program is called Groupon Grassroots. Groupon Grassroots features a collection of 10–15 crowdfunding campaigns every single week on Groupon, with the goal of connecting a critical mass of local donors with quality organizations to fund tangible, high-impact projects that make a difference in the communities of our subscribers. A Groupon Grassroots campaign is convenient (it meets people where they already are—in their inbox); it's credible (our customers trust Groupon's brand); and it instills a sense of urgency to give (people have a limited window of time to support a campaign).
The Solution: Why is this solution innovative for your company and industry?
Most people don't realize that Groupon was born out of a collective-action platform called The Point, which was one of the first crowdfunding platforms in existence. When Groupon pivoted to focus on ecommerce and began pioneering the daily deals business, it only made sense to leverage the collective power of our consumers for our original purpose for being.
The Model: Walk us through a specific example of how your solution makes a difference; include your primary activities.
Please see the video included for an overview of how our Groupon Grassroots program works. One example of our work is our campaign with City Harvest, which benefited merchants and subscribers impacted by Hurricane Sandy. Kyle, the Groupon Grassroots supervisor, worked with City Harvest to develop a compelling project idea, and our dedicated editorial team crafted a compelling and fact-based write-up for the campaign based on information that City Harvest provided. Kyle shared tools in our community resource center with City Harvest and talked with the organization about building out a promotion plan. Once the campaign went live, the organization turned its existing supporter base into evangelists to further the cause, and Groupon promoted the campaign via email, the Groupon website, and the Groupon mobile app. Together we enticed 15,619 subscribers to donate $220,410 to feed 881,640 food-insecure residents. Groupon takes no cut of any donation through Groupon Grassroots, and it even absorbs credit card fees; all donations collected go toward the cause. After the campaign ended, we asked the organization to follow up with an impact update—which we put on our website—to share its progress, engage donors, and ensure transparency about how the funds are used.
The Marketplace: Who are your peers and competitors? Identify others also working to address the needs you are and what differentiates you from them. What challenges could these players pose to your success or growth?
We don't view other crowdfunding platforms as our competitors. Rather, we celebrate their successes. We have even partnered with CrowdRise on an Earth Day promotion in 2012 that featured Edward Norton. Crowdfunding sites are most successful when they know their niche; with Groupon Grassroots, we're uniquely positioned to localize content and serve as a bridge to an organization that doesn't yet have the capacity to succeed on its own through other crowdfunding platforms. This falls in line with our goal to help small nonprofits build their capacity in online engagement.
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مزيد من المعلومات↓↑ إخفاء↑ إخفاءFounding Story: We want to hear about your "Aha!" moment. Share the story of where and when the founder(s) saw this solution's potential to change the world.
There wasn't a specific light bulb epiphany; Groupon Grassroots is simply the natural extension of how Groupon was born, with the site The Point. Using our platform and technology for good is in our DNA—it's who we are. Compared to other for-profit corporations that may have corporate citizenship programs as an add-on, social innovation has always been an important part of our success, and it fuels our sense of purpose as an organization year-round.
What has been the impact of your solution to date?
To date, Groupon Grassroots has raised $4.5 million from more than 180,000 individual supporters to fund more than 1,200 campaigns nationwide. Here's what some of our community partners say: "This is a phenomenal program that has had a huge impact on our organization. Our community was excited to see Little Bit represented in a new and different way, and everyone was eager to support the project. Setting up the campaign was very easy…I can't recommend [Groupon] Grassroots enough. Our organization has nothing but praise."
"I think this program is fantastic! I really appreciate such a reputable company such as Groupon giving back to the community!"
Though the exposure and raised funds are great, we’re also providing capacity building to these organizations.
What is your projected impact over the next 1 to 3 years?
Currently the Groupon Grassroots program is operating in the United States only. Now that we have a model that works domestically, we plan to scale this solution globally in the 48 countries where Groupon has a footprint, with immediate plans to expand to Europe. We also have plans to expand the scope or our work beyond campaign organizing. We recently changed the team's name to 'Social Innovation' to reflect this next phase of our evolution, having recently launched our Employee Volunteer Program, Green Committee, and near-term plans to launch a social innovation lab to support intrapraneurs from across the company.
What barriers might hinder the success of your project? How do you plan to overcome them?
Working for an innovative company means our company is constantly changing. Though it's challenging to incorporate changes into our program, we have great relationships internally and have open communication that supports our capacity to add value to ongoing innovations. Our current goal is streamlining our growth with Groupon's growth internationally. While we scale, our greatest challenge will be staying informed about innovations at Groupon internationally to incorporate them into our programs abroad.
مزيد من المعلومات↓↑ إخفاء↑ إخفاءWhat is the benefit or value you're creating for your business?
Customer engagement: first-time customer activations (about 25% of people who donate to a Groupon Grassroots campaign have never purchased a Groupon before). Brand: measurement of PR stories, which have the dual benefit of showcasing our work to the broader community while garnering media attention for our Groupon Grassroots partner organizations. Employee engagement: We partner closely with HR to track awareness of how participation in social innovation activities impact their talent-development goals.
How are you leveraging internal resources (funds, time, knowledge, etc.) to support this initiative?
We have a small, scrappy team of seven full-time staff, but as a fully integrated business unit, we have support and access to Groupon's resources. Our team of editorial writers put together compelling and straightforward write-ups for the campaigns. We work closely with our Communications team to raise the profile of Groupon's social innovation efforts and community partners' promotion efforts. We work closely with our Talent Development team to tie social innovation activities with employee engagement opportunities. The robust marketing tools for Groupon Grassroots' community partners are the result of collaboration with our designers, copywriters, and video teams.
Expand on your answer, explaining the long-term funding and support plan.
The reason we could grow the team from one to seven (plus two student interns) in a short period of time from June 2011 to today is because we've shown the direct link of our efforts to Groupon's bottom line. As we improve operational excellence domestically, we can maintain our commitment to local impact while putting resources into global expansion and development of new social innovation initiatives, such as our newly formed Employee Volunteer Program (EVP) and Green Committee, as well as the social innovation lab that is currently in development.
Tell us about your partnerships across your company and externally that are key to your project's success.
The feel-good factor of our work gives us a competitive advantage over other department leaders vying for the time of our talented—and very busy—employees. Externally, we partner with community organizations across the United States, and soon we will partner with organizations internationally to source and spotlight the great work they're doing.
What internal support have you gotten for your project? What kind of push-back have you received?
Our internal surveys show that employees—C-suite and front-line employee included—value our work. Internal push-back usually stems from a traditional mindset and bias toward charitable work along with the assumption that if it's good for the community, it MUST be a cost-cutter. We are always saying, "Just because it smells like philanthropy doesn't mean it's not good business."
Created on 01/15/2013 by MarkusV
We seek to transform hundreds of small charitable organizations from cash strapped “beggars of funding” into wealthy owners of small consumer brands. We aim to achieve this by providing a comprehensive “branding, product sourcing and e-retailing” service to these charitable organizations.
مزيد من المعلومات ↓↑ إخفاء↑ إخفاءTell us about yourself/your team.
Our team comprises of three core members.
I am myself a marketing scholar (PhD in Marketing) with extensive marketing consulting, research, and teaching experience in both undergraduate and post-graduate programs.
My two teammates operate and own a dynamic low-cost e-retailing business in Hong Kong and China. Their more specific expertise relates to e-retail software development, customer relationship management (CRM), and product sourcing in China. More importantly, their current e-retailing business gives this venture well-functioning organizational processes, which can be directly leveraged to benefit this new venture.
What makes you an intrapreneur? What are the skills, capabilities, and personality traits that make you an intrapreneur?
Having researched and taught marketing subjects at various universities, I am all too aware of how consumer marketing (as propaganda) often hinders progressive social and economic development. Yet, I believe this is to be largely a result of ignorance and lack of imagination. Accordingly, I have a professional interest in inspiring better marketing strategies that can genuinely enhance our societies. This passion is share by my team members.
This charitable business plan has been specifically designed to derive maximal social benefit from the organizational capabilities at our disposal. This includes the preexisting e-retailing, product sourcing and customer service processes. Accordingly, we can quickly kick-start this venture with minimal investment and product development.
Company Country
Hong Kong S.A.R., China, XX, Kowloon
Primary country where this project is creating social impact
n/a
Additional countries or regions
Industry
Consumer Products
المعلومات التي تقدمها هنا ستُستخدم لملء أي جزء من أجزاء ملفك الشخصي التي تم تركها فارغة، مثل الاهتمامات ومعلومات المؤسسة وموقع الويب. لن تتاح أية معلومات اتصال بشكل عام. الرجاء إلغاء تحديد المربع هنا إذا كنت لا تريد حدوث هذا..
مزيد من المعلومات↓↑ إخفاء↑ إخفاءحدد الهدف الذي ينطبق بشكل مثالي على الحل الذي تقدمه:
فكرة (أنت متأهب للإطلاق)
The Need: What social or environmental problem are you trying to solve?
The objective of this non-profit venture is to transform hundreds of small charities from cash strapped “beggars of funding” into wealthy owners of their own consumer brands. These products are sold via each charity's own e-retailing stores.
Our vision is that the new era of Interactive Marketing Communications has changed the rules of branding. In this new era, charities possess some of the very best brand stories, that can be easily used for the purposes of consumer marketing. As a result, charitable consumer brands can potentially operate at considerable cost advantage, in comparison to non-progressive (TV-era) brands.
Problematically, most small charities lack the required commercial infrastructure and know-how to maximally benefit from this tremendous fund-raising potential.
The Solution: What is your solution? Be specific!
This venture provides small charitable organizations an effortless and highly cost effective path to sell their own branded products via their very own e-retailing stores.
We offer a comprehensive “Branding, Product Sourcing and Internet Retailing” service. This includes product sourcing, packaging and warehousing, e-retailing activities (including credit card payment linkages), shipping of finished goods to consumers, and after sales services, in addition to providing charities the required training in key marketing and e-retailing activities.
The primary consumer segments are the core supporters of each charity. We will hence serve the needs of multiple small charitable communities, also known as "consumer tribes". Yet, as the core operational activities are the same, this allows most for extensive mass-customized of our services, resulting in considerable economies of scale. No small (or even medium size) charity can achieve these capabilities in isolation.
The Solution: Why is this solution innovative for your company and industry?
This innovative solution stems from our vision of the future of consumer branding:
Our vision is that inter-active marketing communications will give charitable brands a considerable cost advantage, in comparison to today's non-progressive TV-era brands. This will result in an inevitable redistribution of market share and in favor of charitable brands. We believe that direct ownership of consumer brands will yield the maximal social and economic benefits.
The Model: Walk us through a specific example of how your solution makes a difference; include your primary activities.
Small charitable organizations do not have the required capabilities to establish and operate professional e-retailing stores selling their own branded product lines. This requires a broad range of technical and commercial capabilities, which are beyond the means of small charities. In addition, operational profitability would require considerable economies of scale. In contrast, based on our preexisting organizational capabilities, we can offer even small charities a comprehensive service package to manage all aspects of this branding / e-retailing operation. This allows our client charities enhance their of fund-raising capabilities, while fully focus their own efforts on core charitable activities.
In addition, the use of these branded products will spread the core message of the charity as a form of unpaid advertising. In addition, the use of these branded products is like to strengthening the bond supporters have with the charitable cause, while strengthening the bond between core supporters.
The Marketplace: Who are your peers and competitors? Identify others also working to address the needs you are and what differentiates you from them. What challenges could these players pose to your success or growth?
There are thousands of commercial entities providing e-retailing solutions to companies. Yet, there are relatively few firms that can offer the full range of services required to operate a comprehensive e-retailing venture, combined with Chinese sourcing, after-sales service and branding capabilities. Accordingly, our competitive position is to some degree protected by the combination of capabilities required (see Resource-Based View of the Firm)
In addition, our competitive position is protected by our chosen target segment, small charities. Should for profit firms offer such comprehensive solutions, there primary target segment is likely to be other companies due to higher profit potential. This means that small charities are likely to remain a relatively unserved market niche.
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مزيد من المعلومات↓↑ إخفاء↑ إخفاءFounding Story: We want to hear about your "Aha!" moment. Share the story of where and when the founder(s) saw this solution's potential to change the world.
Traditionally, charitable organizations have relied on donations to fund their activities. Our first "Aha" moment was the realization of how this charitable "beggary" has marginalizes the power of charitable movements, in comparison to commercial entities, e.g. limited “share of voice” in media and economic power to advance their cause.
Even worse, due to this "beggary" charities have indirectly surrendered the entire domain of consumer branding to amoral corporate entities. As an outcome, today media space is filled with largely pointless brand messages. This has radically altered consumer values and aspirations. As an extreme example, consumerism is one of the main causes behind environmental degradation, which may very well fasten then end of our civilization. As a result, it is all important for charitable organizations to establish a meaningful presence as consumer brands, to allow for their more progressive visions to gain wider influences in public consciousness.
What has been the impact of your solution to date?
At this point in time, we are only about to launch this business venture. Hence, up-to-date, our impact has been primarily to be a message of hope: There is a meaningful and plausible way to peacefully improve consumer societies, while operating within the existing social structures and market mechanisms.
We believe that if consumers are given an informed choice between two similar brands, most of then can be made to choose the brand that is owned by their favorite charity. In short, "Who Owns the Brand" matters. This can be facilitated by mass-customized e-retailing and branding.
It is this simple change in brand preferences that can result in substantial improvement in the financial position of hundreds of small charities. In addition, we believe that changes in brand ownership will result in more progressive advertisements, and corresponding positive changes in consumer aspirations and consumption patterns.
What is your projected impact over the next 1 to 3 years?
As with any new venture, it is difficult to make accurate projections or our future impact. Nevertheless, over the next 1-3 years we will seek to influence two inter-related customer segments:
1. Charities: During the first three years our objective is to recruit hundreds of charitable organizations as members in our movement. Importantly, all products sold will directly enhance the financial prospects of small charities. But as with any branding project, these brands will also require considerably more than three years to achieve their full potential.
2. Consumer attitudes: We will seek to gradually increase consumer consciousness regarding the profound the importance of brand ownership. Here our 3 year objective is to establish a core follower base among young consumer activists.
What barriers might hinder the success of your project? How do you plan to overcome them?
- Operational efficiency: Our largest challenge will be achieving the required operating efficiencies. This will require careful segmentation customers and standardization of operating activities.
- Competition from similar charitable organizations: As we operate in an organizational market, we expect there to be considerable geographic fragmentation in market share. While hindering our growth, this can also offer protection against direct competition. However, as an ideological charitable movement, our own growth and market share cannot be seen as our primary measure of the success. Instead, it may be more beneficial to closely collaborate with "competing" organizations to better achieve the greater good.
مزيد من المعلومات↓↑ إخفاء↑ إخفاءWhat is the benefit or value you're creating for your business?
As a facilitator of charitable retailing operations, our mission is to pass as much of the value added to our charity clients as possible. Yet, to protect our own survival as a commercial entity, we need to periodically evaluate the mark-up which is required to sustain our own survival and growth, while ensuring a continuous improvement in the service we provide.
How are you leveraging internal resources (funds, time, knowledge, etc.) to support this initiative?
This venture has been specifically designed to maximally benefit from our preexisting capabilities, including the skills of the founding members and affiliated organizations processes. As a result, there is very limited need for product development or investment in operation processes.
The primary need for financing relates to the sales function of the firm. As a result, there will be an initial funding gap, particular during the first 6 months of operations.
In addition to the sales function, our other costs are directly tied to our level of sales. As a charitable entity, we have negotiated to buy these services at a low price that only covers the suppliers direct costs. As we benefit from preexisting infrastructure, we have no fixed costs.
Expand on your answer, explaining the long-term funding and support plan.
We expect this venture to break-even within the first year of its operations.
As this venture will be structures as a "Corporation Limited by Guarantee", we will not have the possibilities to raise share capital to finance our growth. Instead, this venture serves the interests of its members, the charitable organizations. These organizations will pay a small annual fee to maintain their membership. In addition, we will seek to acquire Corporate Support Members, and Individual Support Members who can offer their skills and resources to further the cause of this venture. In addition, our underlying charitable clients may have members with the right skills to further improve the service we are offering our clients, such as software coding skills.
Tell us about your partnerships across your company and externally that are key to your project's success.
The launch of this project relies upon the technical and operational support of a preexisting affiliated e-retailing business. This operational support allows us to launch this venture with very limited product development costs or investment in expensive facilities. Also, we benefit from the preexisting operational efficiencies, which will have a material impact in ensuring the operational success of this project.
What internal support have you gotten for your project? What kind of push-back have you received?
As we are in the very early stages, it is too early to say.
É crescente o número de instituições, nas mais diversas áreas sociais, culturais e ambientais, que desconhecem as opções de patrocínio e/ou convênios para manutenção das mesmas. Por outro lado o governo disponibiliza redução fiscal para as empresas que se comprometem com os projetos que foram aprovados pelos órgãos competentes. E as empresas ignoram os incentivos fiscais ou não possuem profissionais experientes para habilitar tais empresas a participarem do trâmite de patrocínio dos projetos das instituições. Instituições sem gestão.
Created on 12/19/2012 by ksimmonshamer
I plan on helping kids with Sickle Cell Disease by creating gift baskets for thses kids. I also want to provide there parents with gas cards that will be used to get to and from the hospital and doctors visits.
مزيد من المعلومات ↓↑ إخفاء↑ إخفاءTell us about yourself/your team.
I'm a mother of three daughters 11 yr., 2yr., and 6 months. My 2 year old has a genetic disease called sickel cell. I see the pain that she goes through and wanted to help other children with gift basskets filled with things that can help keep their mind off the pain when they are at one of their many hospital stays. I want to provide the parents with gas cards to ease the finacial burden that this disease can cause.
What makes you an intrapreneur? What are the skills, capabilities, and personality traits that make you an intrapreneur?
Well for one I'm luck enough to be a stay-at-home mom, so I have time to invest in my ideas for starting up a organiztion that helps kids with Sickle cell disease. I spend day in and day out trying to support these kids. I'm a very passionate person and when I have a idea that can change someone else's life then I will pursue it to the end. I believe life is about helping those in need around you. I have a 11 year old daughter as well and I want to teach her that supporting people and making a diffrence in the world is such an important factor and she helps other kids her age aware of the gift of giving.
Company Country
United States, NC, Raleigh, Wake County
Primary country where this project is creating social impact
United States, NC, Raleigh, Wake County
Additional countries or regions
المعلومات التي تقدمها هنا ستُستخدم لملء أي جزء من أجزاء ملفك الشخصي التي تم تركها فارغة، مثل الاهتمامات ومعلومات المؤسسة وموقع الويب. لن تتاح أية معلومات اتصال بشكل عام. الرجاء إلغاء تحديد المربع هنا إذا كنت لا تريد حدوث هذا..
مزيد من المعلومات↓↑ إخفاء↑ إخفاءحدد الهدف الذي ينطبق بشكل مثالي على الحل الذي تقدمه:
بدء (إصدار تجريبي قد بدأ تشغيله للتو)
The Need: What social or environmental problem are you trying to solve?
I want to help inform the public about sickle cell disease in children. I want to be able to help kids that have this disease receive gift baskets that are personalized just for them these baskets will be given to the child on their admission to the hospital (as these kids require many hospital stays due to the nature of the disease). I also want to help the parents or caregiver of these kids with gas cards to help them get to and from the hospital. I want to show the world that giving to others in need is very important and teaching our youth is what we need to do as they are our future. I will be in contact with hospitals and clinic that treat children with this disease. I will also be in contact with the Department of Health and Human Services who can give the public.
The Solution: What is your solution? Be specific!
We need donations to help support this cause whether it be donations of money or donations of new gifts(such as toys, teddy bears, stickers, journals, coloring paper, bubbles, photo albums etc.) that can be put into the baskets. The money will be used to buy the supplies needed to make the baskets. It will also be used to purchase gas cards for the parents or caregivers of these children.
The Solution: Why is this solution innovative for your company and industry?
There are not any other organizations out there that provide what I want to provide for kids with sickle cell disease. All donations will go directly to support these kids and their parents. Upon request we can provide receipts showing what has been purchased to supply the need. We will also be showing the amount of money that has been collected thus far and people can remain anonymous or leave a comment when they donate. There will also be a section with testimonials.
The Model: Walk us through a specific example of how your solution makes a difference; include your primary activities.
Once we start to collect money and donations of gifts. I will go and order supplies needed to fill the baskets. I will either purchase bulks of toys and goodies online or I will go to one of the retail stores and buy a bulk supply. I will be in contact with gas companies to purchase reloadable gas cards for the parents. I will also ask that these companies help sponsor our organization. I will do all of the work needed to make up the gift baskets. I will also use my own money and time to contact hospitals and clinics and let them know about this project and give them information on contacting me when they have a child in need. I also want to inclube a letter of support that will be included in the baskets for the children. Everytime that we recieve a donation it will be updated in our system for public viewing. I will organize a yearly event to honor the kids with sickle cell disease.
The Marketplace: Who are your peers and competitors? Identify others also working to address the needs you are and what differentiates you from them. What challenges could these players pose to your success or growth?
The people that I will be working with will be hospitals, clinics, DHHS, the companies that I will be purchasing supplies from as well as people that want to help spread the word of what we are all about and what we are trying to do. There are many foundations and organizations out here that help with information about sickle cell disease but I find that they only support people in the area that their foundation is located this inhibits many people from receiving help. On the other hand I will be providing services to anyone in need and not neglect a person just because they do not live in my same state. I believe so much in helping people that I will never not give to a person in need because they are too far away.
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مزيد من المعلومات↓↑ إخفاء↑ إخفاءFounding Story: We want to hear about your "Aha!" moment. Share the story of where and when the founder(s) saw this solution's potential to change the world.
Arrick is a man that I meet in a clinic for kids with Sickle Cell disease. Arrick has inspired me to start this organization, he has shared with me that one of his nephews has a bad case of sickle cell disease and at the age of 4 has been hospitalized numerous times and has had to have surgery due to this disease. So I put together a bassket of goodies and provided him with a gas card to be able to make it to the hospital to visit his newphe before surgery. He was so greatful and ever since then this has been a goal of mine, as he told me how happy the newphe was when he got his bassket. Ever since then I have been trying to make this happen and I will spend day in and day out to see this grown.
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What has been the impact of your solution to date?
I have been spreading the word and trying to get people to help fund this project so far I have collected 11 dollars. The peope that have given the money thus far have recevied a thank you note from me. Does not sound like much but every bit counts. I was and will be grateful for what every amount anyone can donate.That money will sit in a account until I get enough to make my first basket and get the first gas card.
What is your projected impact over the next 1 to 3 years?
In the next couple of years I hope to have collected at least $10,000 this would be enough money to fund 100 kids and their parents TEDDY BEARS $10 each total is $1000, TOYS $12 each total is $1200, PHOTO ALBUM $10 each total is $1000, STICKERS $5 each total is $500, COLORING BOOKS $3 each total is $300, JOURNALS $10 each total is $1000, GAS CARDS $50 each total is $5000, PERSONAL LETTER FROM ME Free total budget needed for 100 kids is $10,000
What barriers might hinder the success of your project? How do you plan to overcome them?
Getting people to understand what I'm doing and knowing about this project of mine will be the biggest hinder. I will try my best to get past this by spreading the word through social media and posting flyers.
مزيد من المعلومات↓↑ إخفاء↑ إخفاءWhat is the benefit or value you're creating for your business?
Through public and or private donations I hope to fund my project. I think that once I have been able to helpa few families they will spread the word about what I'm doing and in turn this will increase public awareness of my project and people will donate.
How are you leveraging internal resources (funds, time, knowledge, etc.) to support this initiative?
All monies gained through donations will be divided equally with a certain percentage set aside to ensure that the budget is used in a manner as to allow the profit and secure that this project will be available for sometime. Making sure that we keep a certain amount of funds in the account when there are times that the donations have slowed. This will ensure that we can still provide baskets and gas cards for our clients.
Expand on your answer, explaining the long-term funding and support plan.
I feel as if we start to get donations and help the families they will spread the word. I feel like hospitals and clinics will want to donate to this project because in turn it can benifit them as well as they will get recognition for their support and I will recommend a patient to a certain clinic in return for funds donated to this project by the sponser.
Tell us about your partnerships across your company and externally that are key to your project's success.
I'm doing this all by my self now as I have a few family members that will be willing to share their time in helping me. I have campaigned online to help fund this project.
What internal support have you gotten for your project? What kind of push-back have you received?
I have been told by all my freinds and family that they will help spread the word. I have only received a small amout of funds not even enought to make one gift basket. The funds that I have so far have been given by individuals not any companies or sponsers. I have spread my word to many people but as of yet have not heard back from any.
Creating donation vending machines not only brings non-profits and NGOs directly to the public, but allows the citizen sector to take the management of their donations into their own hands. Values would not be pre-set, so if an individual wishes to charge $1.75 for Red Cross, they are able to do so. Economically, this room for flexibility will allow a larger pool of donations to be amassed, benefiting both non-profits and NGOs significantly in the long term.
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مزيد من المعلومات ↓↑ إخفاء↑ إخفاءTell us about yourself/your team.
We are a passionate group of people working in Islamic Banking at Standard Chartered Bank, who fundamentally want to make it easier to make a difference.
‘My Sadaqah’ is a culmination of various initiatives the team has been involved in and shows the team’s desire to engage and make a connection with our customers and the communities we operate in.
What makes you an intrapreneur? What are the skills, capabilities, and personality traits that make you an intrapreneur?
An intrapreneur is a person who sees something they want to do, or change, and does something about it. They do not let their day job or job description define them and quite simply see possibilities in everything.
They are not afraid to change the status quo, ask difficult questions, overcome obstacles and make a genuine positive impact on their surroundings.
Primary country where this project is creating social impact
United Arab Emirates, DU, Dubai
Additional countries or regions
In all the countries Standard Chartered Bank operates in where customers' have access to online banking.
Industry
Finance, Insurance, Real Estate
المعلومات التي تقدمها هنا ستُستخدم لملء أي جزء من أجزاء ملفك الشخصي التي تم تركها فارغة، مثل الاهتمامات ومعلومات المؤسسة وموقع الويب. لن تتاح أية معلومات اتصال بشكل عام. الرجاء إلغاء تحديد المربع هنا إذا كنت لا تريد حدوث هذا..
مزيد من المعلومات↓↑ إخفاء↑ إخفاءحدد الهدف الذي ينطبق بشكل مثالي على الحل الذي تقدمه:
فكرة (أنت متأهب للإطلاق)
The Need: What social or environmental problem are you trying to solve?
There are many charities in the world who do great work and by making it easier to donate to them, will speed up the time it takes for them to receive contributions.
Furthermore, many people in the world today do not have access to basic financial services as they may work in the informal business sector or lack collateral and credit history, therefore, by allowing our customers to select micro-entrepreneurs to finance, we are able to make a connection and bridge this gap.
The Solution: What is your solution? Be specific!
'Sadaqah (charity) does not decrease wealth.' (The Prophet, PBUH)
We are in the process of developing an online interactive platform called 'My Sadaqah' using the Bank’s existing online infrastructure to allow our banking customers' to make donations to charities easier, as well as provide micro-funding to aspiring entrepreneurs in the communities the Bank operates in.
By engaging our customers and our communities, we seek to create an interface to not only raise awareness but also to encourage charitable giving and responsible financing of micro-entrepreneurs. The goal is to expand access to financing to vulnerable groups in our network, empowering them to improve their livelihoods and break the cycle poverty.
The Solution: Why is this solution innovative for your company and industry?
‘My Sadaqah’ is a facilitator and a single gateway which will allow the Bank’s customers to donate to multiple charitable causes as well as support individuals in our communities who seek micro-financing. No other Bank is offering this single gateway to their customers alongside their online banking platform.
The Model: Walk us through a specific example of how your solution makes a difference; include your primary activities.
When a customer logs into their online account they can view their current/salary account as well as their ‘My Sadaqah’ (charity) account, where they can transfer money into, to use for charitable giving and financing micro-entrepreneurs.
Now the customer has two choices, first to read about the various charities listed and make a simple cash donation from their ‘My Sadaqah’ account to the charity of their choice. They will receive updates from this charity to learn about how this money is spent.
The second is to read about various micro-entrepreneurs who are looking for financing, (sourced and managed through Microfinance Institutions/ Field Partners). Once they make a selection, our customer can finance a minimum of USD 25 to that micro-entrepreneur. Throughout the term of the finance they will receive updates on how this micro-entrepreneur is progressing and as they repay the financing they received (monthly/quarterly/etc) a proportional amount becomes available again in their ‘My Sadaqah’ account until the amount financed by our customer is completely paid.
Our customer then has the choice to finance another micro-entrepreneur, making the whole process sustainable. As well as giving the customer the option to donate to a charity of their choice. Ultimately, it is about giving our customers’ choices and options for how they choose to support charities and micro-entrepreneurs.
The Marketplace: Who are your peers and competitors? Identify others also working to address the needs you are and what differentiates you from them. What challenges could these players pose to your success or growth?
Many banks are offering opportunities to make donations to charities through their ATMS, fewer through their online banking facilities, none are combining charitable donations with micro-entrepreneur financing in a single platform. The microfinance element of our platform we model ourselves on is the KIVA.org model who we would like to partner with as well various microfinance field partners existing in our network countries to identify micro-entrepreneurs. Technological challenges would hinder the success of ‘My Sadaqah’, however can be mitigated by launching in stages and building a good base.
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مزيد من المعلومات↓↑ إخفاء↑ إخفاءFounding Story: We want to hear about your "Aha!" moment. Share the story of where and when the founder(s) saw this solution's potential to change the world.
As a team we are always thinking of ways to reach people who are in need and one day as we stood in our pantry discussing how the main challenge people face is access to capital to support their business idea and get it started. We realized by creating a single platform we could create value for our existing customers by making it easier to connect them to charitable causes and micro-entrepreneurs across our Bank’s network countries. The scale and impact of this could potentially be so significant that forced us to look into how we could get this up and running.
What has been the impact of your solution to date?
To date we have decided to launch the project in two stages, first to get the online charitable donation platform live (slides attached for how the website will look like). The second stage requires further detailed analysis of microfinance fieldwork partners to identify micro-entrepreneurs and how to connect them to our customers.
What is your projected impact over the next 1 to 3 years?
Within the first year we would like to launch the online platform and see our customers donating to charities of their choice. In the second year to launch the micro-entrepreneur financing portion of the platform and by the third year to have an engaged customer base who are actively donating to charities and financing micro-entrepreneurs through their online ‘My Sadaqah’ account.
Furthermore, to track the progress of the impact this has on My Sadaqah recipients: charities and micro-entrepreneurs, success would be measured by the amount of contributions the recipient charities receive as well as the number of micro-entrepreneurs reached and the effect of the financing they have received has had on their life.
What barriers might hinder the success of your project? How do you plan to overcome them?
Lack of interest from our customers to use their ‘My Sadaqah’ account on their online banking platform. We plan to mitigate this by running marketing campaigns as well as providing offers such as to convert credit card points to US dollar equivalent amounts and credit them to customer’s online ‘My Sadaqah’ account and encourage them to choose a charity to donate to or a micro-entrepreneur to finance. Furthermore, by showing success stories of the effects on recipient charities and micro-entrepreneurs have had by ‘My Sadaqah’.
مزيد من المعلومات↓↑ إخفاء↑ إخفاءWhat is the benefit or value you're creating for your business?
My Sadaqah goes back to the roots of the Standard Chartered Bank’s ‘Here for good’ philosophy, emphasizing the commitment we have to the communities we operate in. As an emerging markets bank we are able to create a strong emotional connection and engage our customers and communities across our network countries and give a larger pool of people access to finance.
How are you leveraging internal resources (funds, time, knowledge, etc.) to support this initiative?
We are building on our existing online platform and expanding it to enable ‘My Sadaqah’. It is being developed with the support of the Consumer Banking, IT and Marketing teams from within the Bank, as we are tapping into our existing Islamic Banking customer base and online customer platform. Strong support has been received by the CEO of Islamic Banking and the Head of Islamic Banking for Consumer Banking in the UAE – both are critical for the launch of ‘My Sadaqah’.
Expand on your answer, explaining the long-term funding and support plan.
Long-term plan is for the ‘My Sadaqah’ to be an integral part of the existing online banking platform. The initial costs are for the set-up of the online platform and marketing it to our customers. The support will largely be focused on having a strong, accessible, easy-to-use platform and marketing it heavily to develop strong engagement with our customers. Costs incurred cannot be measured at the point of ‘breaking-even’, but instead by making it convenient to connect our customers with charities and micro-entrepreneurs on an ongoing basis.
Tell us about your partnerships across your company and externally that are key to your project's success.
'My Sadaqah' is being led by the Islamic Banking team in Dubai and currently we are working with Marketing and IT to develop the platform internally, as well charities externally to decide how they will be listed on the platform. In the second stage it is critical for us to partner with micro-finance fieldwork organisations to source micro-entrepreneurs and manage funding them.
What internal support have you gotten for your project? What kind of push-back have you received?
Critical support from the CEO of Islamic Banking as well as Islamic Banking Wholesale Banking and Consumer Banking teams have committed resources to the project. Islamic Banking Product head commitment to develop suitable Islamic microfinance products. Islamic Shariah scholar approval and desire to work on this project.
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This project also has a Changeshop where you can read more about its latest progress.
Go to Changeshop: LOCOLIZE AFRICA.
Created on 10/30/2012 by Locolize
Locolize's vision is to be a pioneer crowd funding online platform in Africa that inspires creative enlightenment, funds creative projects and ultimately contributing to Africa’s Renaissance.
مزيد من المعلومات ↓↑ إخفاء↑ إخفاءTell us about yourself/your team.
Founder. Creative Director, Locolize. Creative Director, Nanji’s Creative Designs. Senior Creative Designer, EXP Kenya. Experiential Designer. Calligrapher. Dancer. Swimmer. Blogist. Lover of Nature. Bachelors of Arts in Design (UoN). 2nd Class Honours, Upper Division.
Norah Gitobu: Co-Founder. Industrial Designer, Locolize. CEO, GoGaGa, M.A. in Industrial Design.(UoN) - 2012, Bachelors of Arts in Design (UoN) - 2005. 1st Class Honours.
Our passion is in mentoring and creating commercially viable solutions to exceptionally talented Creatives in Africa; with a focus in Kenya. Our goal as professionals is to contribute in Africa's Renaissance by volunteering our skills in aiding African Creatives see Visual Arts & Creative Innovation as a viable and empirical career choice.
What makes you an intrapreneur? What are the skills, capabilities, and personality traits that make you an intrapreneur?
Passion and compassion motivates me. I care for what is good. My childhood nickname was ‘Tiger’; in reference to my fierce, determined and ambitious character.
Creativity is simply my ‘calling’. I've been fortunate enough to pursue a career in Design and excel. Some of my fellow colleagues haven’t been that lucky. I believe that I'm fluent, talented and a competent candidate to champion and voice their needs. Moreover, having worked in established creative agencies for the last 7 years, has given me the experience to comprehend the power of social entrepreneurship and notice the impact that proper marketing can have a tremendous impact on a community.
Finally, I possess an inborn motivation to fulfill my ethical purpose of giving back to society. Locolize was born out of this need.
Primary country where this project is creating social impact
Additional countries or regions
Industry
Arts, Entertainment, Recreation
المعلومات التي تقدمها هنا ستُستخدم لملء أي جزء من أجزاء ملفك الشخصي التي تم تركها فارغة، مثل الاهتمامات ومعلومات المؤسسة وموقع الويب. لن تتاح أية معلومات اتصال بشكل عام. الرجاء إلغاء تحديد المربع هنا إذا كنت لا تريد حدوث هذا..
مزيد من المعلومات↓↑ إخفاء↑ إخفاءحدد الهدف الذي ينطبق بشكل مثالي على الحل الذي تقدمه:
بدء (إصدار تجريبي قد بدأ تشغيله للتو)
The Need: What social or environmental problem are you trying to solve?
Kenya has a huge number of struggling creatives, handicraft artisans, ‘jua-kali’ artisans in the cottage industries, film artistes and musicians who are trying to eke a living with their talent. Even artistes who studied abroad who’ve come back home are challenged to find jobs & use their skills for viable entrepreneurial endeavors. Some even give up and end up taking jobs in other professions. Others just resign to using their talent as a hobby.
As a professional designer, I have spoken to a good number of these Creatives, some of their projects are life-changing or entrepreneurial. They are merely hindered to realize their full potential because they lack the funds to actualize their ideas. What they simply need is monetary aid.
The Solution: What is your solution? Be specific!
LOCOLIZE is passionate about funding local Creativity. An overview of LOCOLIZE business:
1. Crowd funding platform for African 'Project Creators. Our goal is to fund not just great ideas, but those that have entrepreneurial potential. 100% of the funds (less LOCOLIZE marketing fee + transaction fee) will go into facilitating the realization of their dreams and motivate them to pursue their talent.
2. Provide a ‘digital + entrepreneurial launch pad’ for exceptionally talented people. This global exposure will give the Creatives a more open market to get noticed and excel in their careers.
3. The LOCOLIZE Team of expert Designers/Creatives will be providing coaching and mentorship to each of the Creators as they ensure that they follow through with their projects. LOCOLIZE shall be holding mentoring workshop with these Creatives on a monthly basis.
4. Curate and award the best of the best ideas - those that stood out - in the year at an Annual LocoMoto Africa Awards Ceremony.
The Solution: Why is this solution innovative for your company and industry?
No such crowd funding organization exists in Africa, one that is totally dedicated to Creatives needs.
Crowd funding is relatively new in this market. However, this is not a novel concept. Africans have been pooling finances together as community to aid a smart child pursue higher learning, or even help couples to pay for dowry/ marry. Together making an impact, a difference. Moreover, the use of mobile phones in this continent is soon making cashless economy a reality.
The Model: Walk us through a specific example of how your solution makes a difference; include your primary activities.
Keith is a young ambitious film producer, in his late 20’s, he recently completed his studies in New York School of Film & decided to come back to Kenya 2 year’s ago. He did an internship at a popular agency & after 3 months the agency informed him they couldn't hire him.
He started making his own short films. One day, he is introduced to a friend who happens to know about LOCOLIZE. He simply logs onto their website and opens his Project Idea account. He uploads his film trailer and makes a request of how he needs to fund his tours to screen the films in schools. He then writes a short synopsis of the film. Ocne he had done that, he then tailor makes a few ‘zawadi’ (rewards) that he can share to say thank you to his potential funders once he gets the funding.
Once he submits the form, LOCOLIZE will have the project/ idea incubate for 2 – 3 days where a panel of 5 expert Creatives will assess its viability, authenticity, what makes it remarkable and ‘fundworthy’. If it passes this test it will be made public to the audience who will be able to fund the project. Locolize will also leverage on Social Media, Twitter and its blog www.locolize.wordpress.com
Funders will make their pledges and when the deadline ends, the money will be credited to Keith's account.
Meanwhile, Keith will be assigned a personal Creative Guru from the expert panelist who will mentor him and follow-up with him to ensure he completes his project and keeps his 'zawadi' promise to the funders. Locolize will then curate his work and use it as an inspiration for anyone visiting the website.
The Marketplace: Who are your peers and competitors? Identify others also working to address the needs you are and what differentiates you from them. What challenges could these players pose to your success or growth?
Online transactions is still seen as a new way of transaction. But with the adoption of MPesa is a good avenue to adopt for sending money so as not to lock out the peri-urban, middle class and low income earners from participating. Locolize is in the progress of negotiating with players such as MPesa, PesaPal Digital African Arts in seeking collaborations
Though they may appear to be hugely popular and established platforms in the West; Kickstarter, Indiegogo, RocketHub are little known. (i.e. To participate on KickStarter, one has to have a Social Security No. which locks out anyone who doesn't have it).
Locolize is different because it will adopt models that are relevant to the African market.
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مزيد من المعلومات↓↑ إخفاء↑ إخفاءFounding Story: We want to hear about your "Aha!" moment. Share the story of where and when the founder(s) saw this solution's potential to change the world.
There is a huge number of Youth in Kenya who are 'hustling' to make ends meet. Most of the ideas are in the creative arts industry i.e. Djaying small gigs, Calligraphy, Fashion Line etc. Most of these ventures are really exceptional, and they have big dreams of changing the world. Also most of them want to be creative entrepreneurs rather than wait to get jobs.
But the biggest hinderance for them is lack of funds to realize their dreams. We felt this need was reciprocated across the board, from the youth, professionals and even in the cottage industry. On the flip side, Africa is a community that believes, 'all the children in the village are our child' and there is a spirit of giving & caring for other. We believe that this extends to financing an idea that one will believe in. Since the coming of MPesa, we are seeing successfully funded social causes e.g. KenyansforKenya, #BringZackBackHome etc
If crowd funding works for social causes it can work for entrepreneurial ideas!
What has been the impact of your solution to date?
So far the idea is maturing into a potential pilot study:
1. Liaising with Project creators, have committed to funding www.nkt.co.ke transportation for actors fees through my own private donations
2. Also using my own resources to startup the website
3. Conducting an online survey that will give me more perspective with what Creatives want
4. Doing one-on-one interviews with potential and credible ‘Project Creators’ and ‘Funders’ to start off the pilot
5. Looking for an expert team of Co-Founders
6. Finishing drafting a comprenehsive Business Plan
7. Locolize blog getting 'eyeballs' and viewers are encouraging me to go on with the idea as they feel its different, refreshing and gives Creatives an avenue to seek funding for their projects in the Continent
What is your projected impact over the next 1 to 3 years?
1. Use Mpesa mainly as a means for funding EA project and areas with access to MPesa.
2. Pilot will be to have 'Project Creators from Kenya and then spill over to the rest of Africa in 3 year.
3. Coaching and mentoring to exceptional ideas, showcased on Locolize (whether they are successfully funded or not)
4. Develope a full proof, integrity crowdfunding website that is easy to comprehend and easy to fill by semi - literate to literate Africans
5. Seek partnerships (monetary and in kind) with flagship brands or organizations that are keen to see African creativity offer viable enterprenueral avenues for Locolizes clients
6. Have success stories to tell that will shape society to appreciate the advances and contributions that Creativity makes in Africa.
What barriers might hinder the success of your project? How do you plan to overcome them?
Kenyans (Africans in general) dont like admitting that they need help. They need to be prompted. They need real success examples for them to actually see the need of doing something different. But with the use of a credible reputation from a recognized Partner/ Backer and key influencers being used in Social Media. Locolize can turn around the perception & have both 'project creators' and 'funders' on board.
Also there online transaction is still a novel concept. But with the coming of MPesa to make transaction (a mobile based money transfer & microfinancing service for Safaricom, the largest mobile network operator in Kenya and Tanzania.) we see a nation that is steadily embracing and relying on mobile phone transactions. Our pilot phase will focus on using Mpesa platforms for funding.
مزيد من المعلومات↓↑ إخفاء↑ إخفاءWhat is the benefit or value you're creating for your business?
Mentoring creators and ensuring that they have the right skills and knowledge of how to go about being entrepreneurs.The core team volunteers this and it's a way of giving back to society through use of our skills
Enlightenment by showcasing the best projects/ideas ultimately inspiring young, upcoming artistes in Africa.
A focal point where Investors can get a portfolio of great African talent and hopeful fund these exceptional ideas
Affiliation of putting African Creativity on the map and give it the reputation and status it deserves.
How are you leveraging internal resources (funds, time, knowledge, etc.) to support this initiative?
Currently I am assuming different roles ie. Marketer, designer, manager and resource seeker for Locolize. Also collaborating and networking with Afritorial, Africandigitalarts, Safaricom and other African creative partners in harnessing my platform to a larger audience. Dedicate roughly 3-4 hours a day just following up on what needs to be done on Locolize. I have put in place legal requirements, website domain (website is underway), a blog and using my social media network to broadcast my platform.
For financing, I am using my own money and doing small graphic jobs for people to raise funds that I put back into the expenses incurred during this set-up phase. Also I am collecting a database of potential ‘LocoCreators’.
Expand on your answer, explaining the long-term funding and support plan.
So far the portal and domain is in progress but the CrowdFunding platform is yet to be integrated. Coding for this platform is fundamental, complex and is costly.For Locolize to have a successful of launch this platform needs to be in place. 30% of the funds will go into completion of the website.
50% of the funds goes to Locolize’s strategy where the first 30 projects that will be placed on the portal get a 50% funding each, from Locolize. This will not only boost the morale of the LocoCreators who would have ‘pioneered’ but also facilitate ‘hits’ and potential funders to also recognize our platform.
The rest of the 20% of the funds will go into website maintenance, iMac station, software & backups, stationary, financial books, legal consultation, meetings with potential clients
Tell us about your partnerships across your company and externally that are key to your project's success.
Creative Gurus are fundamental to my platform. Still seeking the right team to champion the judging and mentorship forums
PesaPal - Transaction partner whom im negotiating a minimum price on fees charged to LocoCreators
MPesa - Integration that will make it possible for anyone to easily give as little as 5 shillings to fund any LocoCreators
AfricanDigitalArts & Afrotorial, Scanad - These are creative partners whom I can leverage my business and tap into their networks
What internal support have you gotten for your project? What kind of push-back have you received?
Creative networks & contact sharing - most of my friends are giving me ‘leads’ of gurus in the entrepreneurship industry and potential LocoCreators. Have a database of over 70 creatives. The team member is volunteering to critic logo design, visuals & branding elements that will be suitable and appropriate for the brand. Legal is being done pro-bono by a friend, she shall invoice later. Mpesa/PesaPal is willing to come on board and have sent costs & plans of their model
Created on 10/29/2012 by Ethix
Ethix processes debit and credit card transactions at the industry's lowest rates and then delivers 25% of our total revenues to non-profits and community organizations selected by our merchant clients. Saving businesses money and converting fees to funds for communities nationwide.
مزيد من المعلومات ↓↑ إخفاء↑ إخفاءTell us about yourself/your team.
A passionate social entrepreneur pragmatically grounded in using the economy we have to get the economy we want. I believe in utilizing the power of the purpose driven brand in the age of social media to support the introduction of re-purposed business models that broaden the bottom line to include social impact. We are a small but quickly growing team of very excited and broadly talented intrapreneurs with the technology, communications, marketing, industry and start-up experience to really make things happen.
What makes you an intrapreneur? What are the skills, capabilities, and personality traits that make you an intrapreneur?
I started my career with Accenture in London and learned a couple of important things that have charted my course ever since. Firstly, a solid foundation in business and technology and the ability to navigate existing organizational systems and cultures is critical to change-making. Secondly, change is born through innovation but must ultimately come from within. I have learned to apply the skills that I learned working in large financial services organizations to the creation of an alternative model that rides on the tracks of the traditional economy but applies a different value system and drives better social and local outcomes. I am a skilled communicator of a vision of a future in which we can all share and a competent executor of a framework that will support it.
Company Country
United States, CA, Oakland, Alameda County
Primary country where this project is creating social impact
United States, CA, Oakland, Alameda County
Additional countries or regions
The Continental United States
Industry
Finance, Insurance, Real Estate
المعلومات التي تقدمها هنا ستُستخدم لملء أي جزء من أجزاء ملفك الشخصي التي تم تركها فارغة، مثل الاهتمامات ومعلومات المؤسسة وموقع الويب. لن تتاح أية معلومات اتصال بشكل عام. الرجاء إلغاء تحديد المربع هنا إذا كنت لا تريد حدوث هذا..
مزيد من المعلومات↓↑ إخفاء↑ إخفاءحدد الهدف الذي ينطبق بشكل مثالي على الحل الذي تقدمه:
نمو (إصدارك التجريبي في حالة جيدة ويعمل ويبدأ في التوسع)
The Need: What social or environmental problem are you trying to solve?
Ethix delivers a powerful fundraising tool to non-profits and community organizations that are trying to raise money in the face of budget shortfalls and declining charitable donations. We do this by redirecting funds that would otherwise be absorbed into the financial services industry back into local communities. Every dollar kept local and spent local delivers 4 times the economic benefit to communities than dollars that are taken into large corporate structures. Ethix also addresses the need for ethical standards in banking and re-purposed business models that make social impact part of their bottom line.
The Solution: What is your solution? Be specific!
We process credit and debit card transactions at the industry's lowest rates and then deliver 25% of our total revenue from each merchant account as residual, monthly, non-stipulated income to a non-profit or community organization selected by the merchant client. We save businesses money, deliver residual income to non-profits, keep money local and allow consumers to give back with every swipe of their card. Our fees structure is transparent and easy for merchants to understand and our value system puts community first.
The Solution: Why is this solution innovative for your company and industry?
Several merchant services companies donate a percentage of their profits or "proceeds" to charitable causes. This real numbers associated with these CSR programs are difficult to discern as most merchant services firms do not exist to make profits and service shareholders. Returning 25% of gross revenues is unheard of and completely transparent as every merchant knows every month exactly how much he/she paid in fees and the corresponding value of the 25% donation.
The Model: Walk us through a specific example of how your solution makes a difference; include your primary activities.
Our home city of Oakland provides a great model of how this works and what I spend much of my time working on. I developed and am implementing our community partnership program. This allows any organization, regardless of non-profit status, to introduce Ethix to an existing network of merchants as a way for them to save money and help the introducing organization raise money for programs that support the neighborhood. Here in Oakland we are working with the Oakland Merchants Leadership forum which is the umbrella body of all the Oakland District Associations. We are working on a city wide outreach to all merchants affiliated with their local association in order that they may participate in the Ethix Program. Our infrastructure allows us to divide a merchants monthly donation 5 ways. This means that merchants can participate in a program that saves them money, delivers a portion of their donation to their local neighborhood association, a portion to their city wide merchant association, the OMLF and a portion to a cause of their choice. In this way we can deliver a residual, reliable income stream to the organizations that are working to bring economic improvements and support businesses in their areas. We are also funding local schools and other organizations supported by local merchants and their associations. These organizations are typically conically underfunded and this is money that comes to them at no cost to the participating businesses. It's a win, win, win for business, the organizations that support them, local non-profits and consumers.
The Marketplace: Who are your peers and competitors? Identify others also working to address the needs you are and what differentiates you from them. What challenges could these players pose to your success or growth?
There are a couple of other companies in our space. The most notable and largest of these is Dharma. Dharma delivers 10% of profits to green causes and is working on making their model more flexible and transparent so merchants can select the recipient of their donation. Another example would be Hope Merchant Services which is local to our operations here in Oakland. They are largely responsible for driving the Oakland Grown loyalty card program that many merchants participate in. We are different in that we go a huge step further in the amount that we donate and we also create a system that is entirely flexible, agnostic and transparent. Loyalty cards have high processing fees for the merchants and lock consumers into using a particular card. Profit based donations are uncertain.
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مزيد من المعلومات↓↑ إخفاء↑ إخفاءFounding Story: We want to hear about your "Aha!" moment. Share the story of where and when the founder(s) saw this solution's potential to change the world.
We are on a mission to prove a point and that is...
It is possible to take existing models in our financial service industry and carve out a huge chunk of revenues to put back into growing the communities where the economic activity is originated. Our current financial services industry serves to extract wealth from the local level and deliver it to institutional wealth holders in the form of shareholders, executives and so on. We believe that making and proving this point and building our brand on the success we are having doing that will raise the bar across a multi-billion dollar industry and ultimately drive the return of billions of dollars back into local communities. Communities and the people who create them are no being appropriately represented by the financial institutions that serve them. We want to change that and provide an solution that is both profitable as an enterprise and responsible to each community and individual that we serve.
What has been the impact of your solution to date?
We are in the early stages of growth having launched the brand and opened our office in early September. Already however we are boarding accounts on behalf of our own local district association, Jack London District Association and will be a significant factor in their efforts to complete their CBD/BID application. This will have a meaningful impact on local business development, neighborhood improvement and employment in the area. More broadly we are working with organizations such as Missy, NCLR, Thrive, YEAY Foundation, Cycles of Change to develop outreach initiatives to their communities and support their fundraising efforts. I am largely responsible for driving these initiatives and we have been incredibly well received by the organizations that I have approached with the intention of implementing our early community and non-profit partnership programs. By way of example. We have boarded 3 merchants on behalf of the JLDA contributing approx $150 per month residual income.
What is your projected impact over the next 1 to 3 years?
Over the next 3 years we will grow our operations exponentially through internal and external sales operations. We will also create teachable models for community and non-profit partnerships that allow organizations to take Ethix into their own community and benefit from our program. What we are working on now in Oakland, a city wide outreach that will funnel tens of thousands of dollars back into community development every month, can be replicated in cities and towns across the US with support from our team of community representatives and sales support staff. The benefits are local and will be defined by the organizations that utilize Ethix. We are a tool that can be used to further any mission in any town in any state across the US.
What barriers might hinder the success of your project? How do you plan to overcome them?
As a start-up we are faced with the challenge of reaching break even point for revenues and expenses. We currently burn about $50k per month and have revenues that are dwarfed by that. The deal flow and sales cycle mean that we are a pipeline sales model with a 30-90 close on accounts. We are planning for this by pursuing multiple options for supplemental funding. Debt capital that is available from FTS, our acquiring partner, an SBA loan, conversations with early sage investors and social impact venture funds. Another challenge is the core assumption at the center of our business model. That the social impact component of our brand is a compelling motivator for merchants to switch providers. This is where we have taken a leap of faith.
مزيد من المعلومات↓↑ إخفاء↑ إخفاءWhat is the benefit or value you're creating for your business?
I bring 18 years of experience in financial services consulting, marketing and communications. Prior to founding Ethix, I ran a strategic communications firm focused on delivering brand and business strategy to purpose driven organizations. I am the main interface between Ethix and our local and broader community. I am operating on a skinny budget so I get creative and leverage relationships and my own skills at networking to build and grow our brand. Our brand and messaging is critical to our success. It looks great and is getting results.
How are you leveraging internal resources (funds, time, knowledge, etc.) to support this initiative?
We have a small team of skilled entrepreneurs who are vested in the business and our angel investor is also a strategic partner with a strong interest in our success. I have access to deep skills in technology, this industry, operations, accounting and we have full administrative support. We are all on skinny start-up pay:) I have secured opportunities through networking such as the Oakland wide merchant initiative and a 45 second television commercial that we were selected for by SFDFS. My partners are awesome and committed and brilliant and we build of one another's energy and drive every day in the office. It's pretty great!
Expand on your answer, explaining the long-term funding and support plan.
Current invested funds are budgeted until the end of December. At that point we become eligible for $50 in debt capital from FTS, our acquiring partner, for every $5k increase in our monthly revenues. We have completed an application for an SBA loan and are in conversations with a couple of early stage investors and venture funds. We are expecting to go cash flow positive in month 13 of plan and are building a contingency around that will carry us through another year of capital supported growth.
Tell us about your partnerships across your company and externally that are key to your project's success.
The partnerships at the core of the company, those that exist between the founding partners are at the heart of what we are doing and are central to our success. The values of shared commitment, social impact, interpersonal respect, health and well being and open communications are very much in evidence in our working relationships and in the environment that we create in the office. This is probably the aspect of the company of which I feel the most proud at this point.
What internal support have you gotten for your project? What kind of push-back have you received?
I have the full support of my partners in this venture. They have consistently shown a great degree of confidence in my work. We are very collaborative so most outcomes involve a conversation but there is little in the way of push back. I have been able to clearly express my skills and my experience in the creation of the brand and messaging and in the development of the partnership programs but in the context of the ongoing input and support of my colleagues.
Created on 10/26/2012 by casey.hinson
BrainFund changes the economics of college finance by giving students a new way to pay for college, allowing them to graduate debt-free through a new concept that we like to call “Crowd Scholarships”.
مزيد من المعلومات ↓↑ إخفاء↑ إخفاءTell us about yourself/your team.
As the founder & CEO of BrainFund.net, Casey Hinson has had the vision and the foresight to build this company from the ground up. His experience and leadership ability, combined with his passion and drive will be exactly what it takes to propel this company into a new frontier.
Matt Hinson is the Co-Founder & President of BrainFund.net. He has more than 8 years of business experience and is currently and MBA student at the University of Texas at Dallas with a focus on Entrepreneurship and Innovation.
Adam Sunderland is the VP of Technology and has experience with Accenture, LLP. He helped manage and develop key information systems for a fortune 500 company during his work at Accenture. He is deeply dedicated to the mission to transform how we fund college education.
What makes you an intrapreneur? What are the skills, capabilities, and personality traits that make you an intrapreneur?
Casey Hinson is an Innovator and Entrepreneur. Having always been plagued by innovative thoughts to change the world, he now hopes to change the economics of college finance with his new concept of "Crowd Scholarships" through BrainFund.net. Casey has over ten years of business experience with companies such as Accenture, State Farm, Mutual of Omaha, and more. He holds a finance degree from the University of Houston and is currently an MBA student at the McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas at Austin.
Company Country
United States, TX, Houston, Harris County
Primary country where this project is creating social impact
Additional countries or regions
المعلومات التي تقدمها هنا ستُستخدم لملء أي جزء من أجزاء ملفك الشخصي التي تم تركها فارغة، مثل الاهتمامات ومعلومات المؤسسة وموقع الويب. لن تتاح أية معلومات اتصال بشكل عام. الرجاء إلغاء تحديد المربع هنا إذا كنت لا تريد حدوث هذا..
مزيد من المعلومات↓↑ إخفاء↑ إخفاءحدد الهدف الذي ينطبق بشكل مثالي على الحل الذي تقدمه:
بدء (إصدار تجريبي قد بدأ تشغيله للتو)
The Need: What social or environmental problem are you trying to solve?
Our nation is currently experiencing a student loan debt crisis with over 70% of college students being forced borrow money in order to finance their education and roughly 35% of students leaving college without a degree due to lack of adequate funding. Rising costs of education and lower savings for college have left the majority of college students with a grim choice - Drop out of college or go into debt to receive a college education. There are over 20 million enrolled college students in the United States. The average debt of all graduating students is over $46,000. Crippling student loan payments are keeping students from getting married, starting a family, buying a home, and more. Imagine the economic effects if those payments were freed up to be injected into their local economies!
The Solution: What is your solution? Be specific!
BrainFund changes the economics of college finance by giving students a new way to pay for college. It allows students to encourage donations through a concept that we like to call “Crowd Scholarships”. Similar to the way Kickstarter.com works, BrainFund allows college students the ability to raise small amounts of money from large amounts of people, and this can add up to allot of money for a college student. If 100 people give just $25 to a student each semester, that is $2,500 each semester that will help the student pay for tuition, fees, rent, food, gas, and other college related expenses.
The Solution: Why is this solution innovative for your company and industry?
We provide a web based platform that connects students and donors in one central location. Donors can give to an individual student of their choice. We verify enrollment for every student that uses our system to ensure proper representation and to give the donor peace of mind. Students create a profile to tell donors about their goals and aspirations. Donors can track the student's fundraising progress and students can update donors on their goals and accomplishments.
The Model: Walk us through a specific example of how your solution makes a difference; include your primary activities.
Crowd Scholarships is a concept that allows the student to encourage large amounts of people to give small amounts of money. This term originates from the term Crowd Funding, which is the concept that an entity can raise a significant amount of money by receiving relatively small contributions from a large amount of people. Typically these people are from inner circles of friends or social networks. An example of this would be raising money for a cause whereby an individual has a network of 1,000 individuals. Out of these 1,000 individuals, if only 100 of them each contribute only $50 to the cause, the total contribution would be $5,000. This is the power of Crowd Funding. BrainFund takes this concept even further and specializes it for college students. We connect donors and students in one central web based community, empowering the student by allowing that student to set up a profile that utilizes a student’s current network to attract donors, who are able to donate to a specific college student of their choice through our unique patent pending process. We will also attract outside donors from corporations to give to students that they can search for by their own alma mater, degree, key words, and more! Corporations will be able to sponsor giving campaigns and encourage their employees to give to students on BrainFund.net to provide a tremendous impact on our nation and economy. Companies will participate in partnering with BrainFund, because it promotes great corporate responsibility for the future of our nation and our economy!
The Marketplace: Who are your peers and competitors? Identify others also working to address the needs you are and what differentiates you from them. What challenges could these players pose to your success or growth?
The Status Quo is our main competition. It is easy to get a student loan, but we believ we can educate students on why this is a bad decision and help change the way people think about paying for college. There are currently no other crowdfunding concepts in the market that allow student the ability to raise money in this capacity that they do not have to pay back in some way. Other player may try to come along, which would challeng our growth, however, we offer a solution that truly helps students graduate debt-free.
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مزيد من المعلومات↓↑ إخفاء↑ إخفاءFounding Story: We want to hear about your "Aha!" moment. Share the story of where and when the founder(s) saw this solution's potential to change the world.
The concept of BrainFund was born as an idea in the mind of an MBA student at the University of Texas McCombs School of Business. Casey Hinson graduated with an undergraduate finance degree from the University of Houston in 2008, but was left with a mountain of student loan debt in return. Having personally realized the heavy burden that student loan debt causes, he began dreaming of ways to help future students avoid this same fate. After some research, he found that an alarming 70% of all college students graduate with significant student loan debt, and that roughly 35% of students leave college without a degree due to lack of adequate funding.
Being an entrepreneur at heart, Casey wanted to create a solution to this problem by providing an avenue for college students to raise funds to finance their education without using student loans or federal grants. He envisioned the Crowd Scholarship concept that would benefit both students and donors.
What has been the impact of your solution to date?
We launched our site at the beginning of the Fall 2012 semester and have gained significant traction over the past few months, gaining over 130 new users with virtually no marketing funds. We have been interviewed by a new tv show and by online college websites who will be featuring our story over the next few months. We hope to grow awareness of our social cause at a rapid pace over the next few years.
What is your projected impact over the next 1 to 3 years?
Students now borrow over $100 Billion dollars each year, which is double the amount of just 5 years ago. We hope to offset the need for student loans by over $500 Million to $1 Billion over the next 3 years. this could potentially help millions of college students graduate debt-free or reduce the aggregate amount of their debt burden tremendously.
What barriers might hinder the success of your project? How do you plan to overcome them?
The barriers we may face will be resistance to change, scepticism, and the status quo. We believe that if we can properly educate students on the negative impacts of student loan debt and bring a very visible awareness of the problem and our solution to donors and the general public, that this concept will succeed and help to change the economics of college finance.
مزيد من المعلومات↓↑ إخفاء↑ إخفاءWhat is the benefit or value you're creating for your business?
To support the operation of BrainFund.net, which is owned under the corporate parent named Collanthropy, LLC, we charge a very modest 2.9% for every donation made on our web site. We are currently self-funding the operation, but are in advanced discussions with investors for a Series A Seed Capital round of financing. This will help us launch a nationwide advertising campaign as well as provide funding for application development to continue to make our application better for our end users.
How are you leveraging internal resources (funds, time, knowledge, etc.) to support this initiative?
We are leveraging our knowledge and we are currently client candidates at the Houston Technology Center, which is an incubator for new technology start-ups.
Expand on your answer, explaining the long-term funding and support plan.
We will raise a seed round of capital over the next 2 months, followed by a second round in 6 months which will get us to our next inflection point. This will allow us to build our valuation between financing rounds, which will ultimately allow us to retain the most equity possible, thereby helping us maximize the value of our company for all customers and stakeholders.
Tell us about your partnerships across your company and externally that are key to your project's success.
We have partnered with a third party Enrollment verification service provider that has been a key partnership in our ability to succeed. We are also partnering with Students In Need Foundation, a 501(c)3 charitable organization, to give corporate donors and individuals with large gifts the ability to donate to a general scholarship fund in order to receive a tax deduction for their donation.
What internal support have you gotten for your project? What kind of push-back have you received?
We are a start-up and have gotten allot of support from the local community and the Houston Technology Center. We have given interviews with online college websites and also a tv show called ZNation TV. We have not face any push-back.
Crowd funding is relatively new in this market. However, this is not a novel concept. For many years, Africans have been pooling finances together as community to aid a smart child pursue higher learning, bury a family member or even make it possible for couples to pay dowry & marry.
‘Harambee, is a common Kenyan tradition of community self-help event that means “Pulling together Africa Style”. The concept of ‘Harambee’ is of people coming together, each bringing whatever they have, together making an impact, a difference.
FundWeaver is an online platform weaving communities, people and organizations together to collaboratively finance Inuit, Metis and First Nations project ideas.
El Zapato de Lona. The Ecuadorian street shoe.
Worn by the working class, day in, day out, they’re an iconic part of the landscape - part functional necessity, part social signifier.
Juntos embraces this heritage and brings it to you, refining and repurposing the design while preserving everything that makes the shoe, the shoe.
That’s why you’ll find a map of Ecuador on the inside of every pair, so you never forget where they came from.
Benefits
Bread for Lunch provides a venue for young professionals to have the freedom of exploration
Bread for Lunch provides practical care that addresses every aspect of the Young Professional’s life.
Bread for Lunch provides a venue for business leaders to have the opportunity to mentor young professionals and pass down legacies to the next generation of leaders
Bread for Lunch provides quality engagements with world class business leaders of whom young professionals would not have access elsewhere.
Created on 10/3/2012 by windson
The main aim of this service is to enable lessors to advertise their lease offers, enable Lessees to find Lease offers. and to make this project in such a way that one thinks of leasing think of LeaseDedo.com
مزيد من المعلومات ↓↑ إخفاء↑ إخفاءTell us about yourself/your team.
I am an Enthusiastic Software Engineer with very creative and innovative Ideas. I am Microsoft certified Professional, working as .NET Developer at Virtusa Corporation.
I completed my bachelors in the field of Electronics & Communication Engineering in the year 2010. I am the winner of Sir Mokshagundam Visweswaraiah Best Essay Award in the year 2009 for my writings on "Engineering Solutions to Combat Climate Changes".
In my leisure time, I enjoy listening to the music and I seldom paint and do some self-introspection.
I hail from a family that has strong roots in the business. My Father is a Cloth Merchant who runs a independently managed Textiles and Showroom in a small town Tadpatri of Anantapur Dist Andhra Pradesh.
What makes you an intrapreneur? What are the skills, capabilities, and personality traits that make you an intrapreneur?
As I hail from a family of strong Business background, I have the en/intrapreneur characteristics well rooted in me. I also learnt the basics of corporate management which is an added advantage during the work as software engineer at Virtusa.
I have the ability to manage people and get the work done. Professionalism in the quality of work and dedication towards it makes me feel complete.
Some small and live examples include my ability to sell quality clothes for good profits at my father's cloth shop in the leisure time during my childhood and also sometimes now.
I had lead a small team of two being the junior folk because of having the skill gripped in my own hands in an IT Quality Development project at Virtusa.
Primary country where this project is creating social impact
Additional countries or regions
I have plans to globalize this project soon.
Industry
Finance, Insurance, Real Estate
المعلومات التي تقدمها هنا ستُستخدم لملء أي جزء من أجزاء ملفك الشخصي التي تم تركها فارغة، مثل الاهتمامات ومعلومات المؤسسة وموقع الويب. لن تتاح أية معلومات اتصال بشكل عام. الرجاء إلغاء تحديد المربع هنا إذا كنت لا تريد حدوث هذا..
مزيد من المعلومات↓↑ إخفاء↑ إخفاءحدد الهدف الذي ينطبق بشكل مثالي على الحل الذي تقدمه:
بدء (إصدار تجريبي قد بدأ تشغيله للتو)
The Need: What social or environmental problem are you trying to solve?
This project deals with the solution to the need for an ultimate and unique platform dedicated for lease offers.
There is a huge demand for the lessors to publicize their holdings in the areas of Ad Space, Automobile, Vehicle and Property. But there is no single dedicated place that makes all these leasing needs to stand out for.
LeaseDedo.com, One stop for all your Leasing needs solves this problem thereby allowing lessors to happily post their offerings on this website for free of cost with the features that it possess till date.
The Solution: What is your solution? Be specific!
This project handles the need of people who want to publicize their offerings on Lease in the areas of Ad Space, Automobile, Business and Property Lease.
This website has a good future in the Internet marketing because of the tremendous response that exists in market by the lessors offering various things for Leasing.
As from real time market analysis I foresee that there's going to be an overwhelming response to this project if implemented to reach customers globally. The web analytics shows 55% to 60% of the visitors are from United States and for the rest of 45% to 40% there is a parallel competition between India and China.
Even as of now, the project only allows Lessors to speak saying 'we offer so and so' and there is no scope for Lessee to ask saying 'I want so and so'. This feature is also planned and expected to release in next version of this project.
Note: The last paragraph presents a challenge cum solution scenario.
The Solution: Why is this solution innovative for your company and industry?
LeaseDedo.com is established keeping in view of the market analysis made by its founder Pavan Kumar Rao Navule, in areas of leasing websites that are available on the Internet.
The analysis resulted that there is no website uniquely designed to offer its services in Four Lease Subjects viz., Ad Space, Automobile, Business and Property.
Hence this website proves itself to be a unique & it’s however an emerging platform for those who seek to offer their holdings for Lease.
The Model: Walk us through a specific example of how your solution makes a difference; include your primary activities.
Mr.Shanmuga Sundaram is having commercial space suitable for Shopping Mall and he wants to lease the space. He made advertisement in a local newspaper. But to his surprise no potential customer knocked his door. One fine day while browsing on the Internet, Shanmuga found an interesting website www.LeaseDedo.com that exactly fits his need to post his commercial space lease offer.
He was amazed to see that the registration and posting advertisement on that website is completely free. He advertised with images on website. He waited for couple of days and got calls from potential customers all over the country. Mr.Shanmuga is very happy with that service that he was facilitated from LeaseDedo.com and he thanked it.
Yes, LeaseDedo.com provides a unique platform to its users to post their offers on Lease. The users are not only limited to post their lease offers, but also allows them to post their properties they wish to Sell or Rent too.
Not only Property Lease this is just a specific example. There are many people who want to lease their Car/Vehicle as they are going long term tours or get onsite opportunity. And people who want to lease/sell their business because of having multiple businesses in their hand and are spread across multiple cities/towns. Not that all there are also people who are offering their Ad Space be it a outdoor media like Hoarding, Gantries or be it a space on their automobile (practical examples include advertising on buses and in metro trains).
The revenue comes with the premium ad facility which is in its design phase and yet to be implemented.
The Marketplace: Who are your peers and competitors? Identify others also working to address the needs you are and what differentiates you from them. What challenges could these players pose to your success or growth?
The competitors for this website are quite many at nation (India) level.
In Property Lease category 99acres.com, makaan.com to name a few are the biggest competitors in terms of property lease. These sites concern only about buying and selling property but not specially for leasing property.
For Automobile lease category carwale.com, gaadi.com are some of the competitors. For Ad Space & Business lease the competitors are News Paper Classifieds.
The main differentiation between LeaseDedo & all the above mentioned competencies is that they are limited to their specific area of interest whereas LeaseDedo is an integration of all the categories of Lease mentioned, thereby easing netizens to find a unique site specially for Lease offers.
Challenges: Search Engine Visibility, Marketing.
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مزيد من المعلومات↓↑ إخفاء↑ إخفاءFounding Story: We want to hear about your "Aha!" moment. Share the story of where and when the founder(s) saw this solution's potential to change the world.
I started to work on LeaseDedo.com in the month of December 2011. This project fell into my mind when I used to go to my office by city bus and watching to the sideways of beautiful Hyderabad with many buildings and corporate houses with "For Lease/Sale" board on it.
Also there are many hoardings that are left deserted without running ads on it saying 'This Ad Space is for Lease' message with contact numbers lacking the attraction potential customers who are present all over the world.
I researched on internet whether there exists a website specially designed for these types of Lease Offers?
I came to see that there are very few websites with limitations to Lease Offers & henceforth I started to implement a new and distinguished website especially for Lease Offers. It is LeaseDedo.Com
What has been the impact of your solution to date?
Launching this project has proven impact with the various lessors got their offerings listed on LeaseDedo.com
It is observed that the advertising with 5 Images per post is an amazing service ever provided for Free of cost.
Many of the customers are benefited from this project and for the benefit rate to get increased needs better place of marketing either it be via email , short messaging services, news paper classifieds, or Google AdWords.
What is your projected impact over the next 1 to 3 years?
As of now there are just 55 customers registered since this project's inception who are well educated about the tactics of online advertising.
In the next 1 to 3 years we can see every lessor and lessee in the world will seek to post his/her offering and inquiry respectively on LeaseDedo.com.
This estimation also includes the features like "Lessee inquiry" and "Globalization of the Project from Nation (India) wide reach" that are yet to be integrated in to the existing project.
Even this website will be assumed as a huge requirement for the bigger nations like US and China which could be analysed after a thorough research on LATimes and NYTimes as well as some of the websites from china.
The project impact ahead can definitely reach greater than assumed number of users of this website.
What barriers might hinder the success of your project? How do you plan to overcome them?
The root cause for the hindrance of the success of the project are like
-> Lack of Marketing due to inadequate monetary funds.
-> The founder needs to be multi-tasking amongst his job and developing this project.
-> Unexpected Hosting Server down times (very rare chances)if any are also considered to cause interference with the success of the project.
مزيد من المعلومات↓↑ إخفاء↑ إخفاءWhat is the benefit or value you're creating for your business?
The main theme by which the visitors of this website get benefited from is they are lessors and lessees who find a unique platform for them to showcase and find lease offers respectively. This in turn facilitates each other to share their details including price, contact details and lease duration. This stands out to be a value for both the parties to know each other without having directly contacting each other and once agreed can proceed with the contact details provided.
How are you leveraging internal resources (funds, time, knowledge, etc.) to support this initiative?
Funds are coming from my own earnings that are earned as Software developer. Time spent for this project are 5-6 hours every weeknight and on weekends. Knowledge is gained from the work that I do at my office and thorough research on the theme of this project from City and real estate market.
If gained workmanship, I have the plans to make this a huge platform for all the lessors where they can even be able to upload lease agreements in the form of Microsoft word or pdf documents at premium features this is a feature supposed to be developed in future.
Expand on your answer, explaining the long-term funding and support plan.
This project requires 2 full time developers who are having their expertise in SDLC and Microsoft.NET. The funding required for the project will be spent on development, maintenance and marketing.
One the marketing is done effectively there will be a tremendous increase in page hits.
This project will get support from all the resources mentioned above. Implementing the planned features to the project like taking the user needs and publishing on the website, collecting the lease agreements at premium charges, collecting charges in the form of commission from the lessors after providing them with the details of the lessees who are seeking the similar lease offer posted by any respective lessor etc., will offer good support to the project.
Tell us about your partnerships across your company and externally that are key to your project's success.
As of now there are no partnerships associated to this Project and is eagerly waiting for to establish its own company and seeking partnerships.
What internal support have you gotten for your project? What kind of push-back have you received?
Internal support for this project is completely internal from my heart. This seems to be ironic answer but its true. As of now the investment in this project reached approximately 40000.00 INR. I didn't loose hope and still striving hard to improve it as I presume this project has a really very good future.
Created on 10/1/2012 by ADELVA
The investment fund: a successful experience supporting micro-enterprises in Valverde, Republica Dominicana.
مزيد من المعلومات ↓↑ إخفاء↑ إخفاءاسم المؤسسة
Agencia de Desarrollo Económico Local de Valverde (ADELVA)
بلد المؤسسة
Dominican Republic, VA, Mao
البلد الذي تعمل به هذه المؤسسة على إنشاء تأثير اجتماعي
Dominican Republic, VA, Mao
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تعمل منذ ما يزيد عن 5 سنوات
Has the organization received awards or honors? Please tell us about them
المعلومات التي تقدمها هنا ستُستخدم لملء أي جزء من أجزاء ملفك الشخصي التي تم تركها فارغة، مثل الاهتمامات ومعلومات المؤسسة وموقع الويب. لن تتاح أية معلومات اتصال بشكل عام. الرجاء إلغاء تحديد المربع هنا إذا كنت لا تريد حدوث هذا..
مزيد من المعلومات↓↑ إخفاء↑ إخفاءحدد الهدف الذي ينطبق بشكل مثالي على الحل الذي تقدمه:
Established (past the previous stages and has demonstrated success)
كم مضى على عملك؟
تعمل منذ ما يزيد عن 5 سنوات
Which of the following best describes the barrier(s) your innovation addresses? Choose up to two
Access, Equity.
The Need: What problem are you trying to solve?
More than 51% of Valverde’s population lives below poverty line. In that context, micro-enterprises are a valuable tool for income generation. However, small producers find strong barriers to access to formal financial system, mostly for the lack of credit history and property title. This makes them ask for informal loans, with unsustainable interest rates.
The Solution: What is your solution? Be specific!
ADELVA’s strategy is to support micro-enterprises owners to access to formal credit mechanisms. Through a Guarantee Fund created in 2001 with PNUD’s support and the allied Banco Popular, ADELVA has given loans to 203 small entrepreneurs in Valverde province in order to strengthen their productive units and give them full access to formal banking system. However, ADELVA hasn’t had the resources to offer property titles to producers to promote their business.
The Model: Walk us through a specific example of how your solution makes a difference; include your primary activities
Ramon Jimenez, a small rancher, needed genetic improvement to increase his productivity and also capital to buy some milk to make cheese. He couldn’t get a credit because he has neither property nor title credit history. He received a Banco Pupular funding for US$ 1,350 at a market rate, through Guarantee Fund of ADELVA. He showed a correct payment behavior, so he received a US$ 13,000 direct loan from the Banco Popular.
This story has been reiterated for more than 180 (89% of direct beneficiaries), men and women entrepreneurs (trade, services, industry and agriculture) that today are current clients of formal banking. They also receive other banking products, such as credit cards. ADELVA supported micro entrepreneurs by training and technical assistance programs, which help to develop an entrepreneur’s culture for a sustainable productive unit.
The Marketplace: Who are your peers and competitors? Identify others also working to address the needs you are and what differentiates you from them. What challenges could these players pose to your success or growth?
There are 5 institutions in Valverde that give micro-credits for entrepreneurs without credit history at a 35% annual rate. ADELVA makes a difference by facilitating access to 24% annual rates loans and being supported by a bank committed to turn them in credit consumers. ADELVA also makes a difference offering technical assistance in managing and accounting. The Guarantee Fund encouraged the association between entrepreneurs to include them in the city’s value chain.
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مزيد من المعلومات↓↑ إخفاء↑ إخفاءFounding Story: We want to hear about your "Aha!" moment. Share the story of where and when the founder(s) saw this solution's potential to change the world.
In October 2001, with the support of PNUD and Cooperación Italiana, we created a Guarantee Fund in the Banco Popular (US$ 290,000) to strengthen ADELVA in Valverde and build other ADELVA in Dabajón. Our goal was to stimulate local development, mostly through micro-credit activities. The agencies work independently, integrating partners of the public, private and social sector, joined by the Red ADECOM. ADELVA’s mission is to promote competitiveness in the province, based on a human development approach. Through its micro-credit program, ADELVA is the most successful experience developed to date.
Please describe the goal of your initiative; outline what you are trying to achieve
The Investment Fund improves credit capacity and productive potential of micro-entrepreneurs. ADELSA seeks not only to improve their productive processes but also contribute in strengthening the social capital of the area and the participation of the local financial sector in productive units. In addition, ADELSA will offer property tittle services for an easier productive funding.
Which barrier(s) to financial inclusion does your solution seek to address? (select all applicable)
The lack of affordable financial products tailored to the needs of underserved and excluded communities,, Powerful incentives for financial service providers to move up-market.
If you selected 'other' above, please specify which other barriers to financial inclusion you solution seeks to address:
For which underserved or excluded communities will your solution create access to valuable, affordable, secure and comprehensive financial services?
The loans, given by the Investment Fund, have benefited 203 micro producers (see point 7). With the support requested, we seek to directly benefit 1,050 entrepreneurs in ten years, who have been excluded from the formal financial system. To be more specific, the direct beneficiaries are: 250 micro- agricultural producers with 1 to 7 hectares (property title services) and 800 micro-entrepreneurs with total annual sales of US$ 27,000 and 1 to 8 employees (credit and technical assistance). On the other hand, the activities planned will indirectly benefit Valverde population, through inclusion processes and social cohesion.
Could your solution work in other geographies or regions? If so, where?
Most micro-entrepreneurs and small agricultural producers of Latin America and the Caribe, have huge difficulties to fulfill the formal banking’s requirements. In this sense, an Investment Fund, managed by ADEL and with an allied bank, becomes an alternative to improve the access to funding in ALC. Some ADEL agencies of Republica Dominicana are executing this alternative in their own provinces.
If your solution is dramatically successful, how will things be different in 10 years?
In the past ten years, ADELVA has widened its services coverage and offers, adding property titles to obtain funding. The planned results for the next 10 years are the followings: 1) 800 entrepreneurs turn into banking services consumers, 2) 250 people obtain their property title, 3) ADELVA achieve supporting resources from public, private and international cooperation to increase the Investment Fund. The main idea is to have much more beneficiaries and integrate the funds of companies identified as part of the local value chain.
What will have had to have changed to make this happen?
Adelva creates the Technical Unit of Property Tittle equipped with a topographic station (with highly precision GPS, distance control system, a theodolite and a micro computer) addressed to reduce services costs. The Agency makes agreements with official workers to fasten property title’s process. The Agency also expands its training and technical services to assist beneficiaries, improving their entrepreneur culture and productive technics. ADELVA contributes to introduce activities of the 5th action line of the third specific goal, part of the National Strategy of Development.
What has been the impact of your solution to date?
Since Fund creation, we have received more ?????than credit requests with a total amount of US$ 420,382. ADELVA achieved in positively responded to 203 requests. 41% of the approved credits benefited women. The total amount of given loans are US$ 296,020, with the following distribution: 72.43% Services (142 loans), 10.64% Industry (25 loans) and 16.93% Agriculture (36 credits). This population was able to access formal banking services and sustained more than 170 enterprises, guaranteeing income and jobs for more than 760 families.
What is your projected impact over the next five years?
In 5 years ADELVA will achieve the following outcomes:
1) Strengthen the micro-credit mechanism for micro-enterprises and small agriculture producers of Valverde.
2) A services office to assist micro-entrepreneurs and small agriculture producers in property services, located in Valverde (125 beneficiaries).
3) Over the first year we’ll be operating the strategy to increase the Guarantee Fund up to 300%.
What barriers might hinder the success of your project? How do you plan to overcome them?
Outcome 1) strong storms and hurricanes might hurt the supported productive units. In that case, it will offer a grace period, according to the partial or total damages.
Outcome 2) if property title’s demand is superior to offers, we will make agreements with other companies offering the same service.
Outcome 3) if there is rate instability between dollar and peso, we will transfer part of the fund to a certificate in dollars.
Winning entries present a strong plan for how they will achieve and track growth. Identify your six-month milestone for growing your impact
1) Micro- credit – 12 assisted entrepreneurs. 2) Property title operation – 12 producers starts this operation. 3) Investment Fu
المهمة الأولى
Divulgación del fondo, evaluar solicitudes, colocar préstamos, darle seguimiento y acompañar con asesoría a los emprendedores.
المهمة الثانية
Contratar un Equipo Técnico, adquirir estación topográfica, divulgar el nuevo servicio y enlace con la Oficina de Catastro.
المهمة الثالثة
Colocar el 64% del eventual premio Changemakers en el existente Fondo de Inversión.
Now think bigger! Identify your 12-month impact milestone
1) Micro- credit – 25 assisted entrepreneurs. 2) Property title operation – 25 producers starts this operation. 3) Investment Fu
المهمة الأولى
Divulgación del fondo, evaluar solicitudes, colocar préstamos, darle seguimiento y acompañar con asesoría a los emprendedores
المهمة الثانية
Divulgar el servicio y consolidar la relación entre ADELVA y la Oficina de Catastro para agilizar el proceso de titulación
المهمة الثالثة
Apalancar el fondo aproximadamente en 26,316.00 US$ con recursos gestionados por ADELVA.
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As we mentioned before, ADELVA is an institution that incorporates 38 associates of the public, private and social sector (Universities, GNOs, business unions, value chains, etc.). It is a social actor’s catalyst that contributes to create territorial development strategies in Valverde. ADELVA receives technical assistance from PNUD, is part of the managing network ADELCOM, along with national governmental institutions, ILS LEDA and ReMALDH.
Are you currently targeting other specific populations, locations, or markets for your innovation? If so, where and why?
See point 7 of Social Impact for current targeting population.
See point 8 of Social Impact for targeting population for the next 5 years.
What type of operating environment and internal organizational factors make your innovation successful?
Since 2001, ADELVA has operated as a “local Micro-finance company”, learning how to manage a micro-credit fund. This experience is part of a wider strategy for local development of Valverde, through internal potential identification of the territory. Having members of the productive sector in our Board of Directors, it helps to supply and demand services mentioned in outcomes 1 and 2, by reducing transaction’s costs significantly.
Please elaborate on any needs or offers you have mentioned above and/or suggest categories of support that aren't specified within the list
We’ll use Changemakers Prize for:
Contribution to outcome 1-3 US$ 64,000 (investment)
Contribution to outcome 2 US$ 16,000 (human resources)
Contribution to outcome 2 US$ 20,000 (investment)
For more information about needed resources used, see point 12 of Social Impact.
For Partnerships / Networks: ADELVA has their own supportive associates (see point 4 od Sustainability)
GridGiver is an online fundraising tool which enables small and medium non-profits and charities to visually illustrate their progress toward a donations goal.
In the offline world, charities and non-profits have long used a part of a larger whole as a mechanism for fundraising. For example, donors purchase a brick in the wall of a new hospital, or 'buy' a seat as part of a theatre renovation.
International NGOs have transferred this approach to the online space by enabling donors to buy a piece of a virtual space. Here are some recent examples:
Created on 09/13/2012 by gargdheeru@gmail.com
networking @ its BEST
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mLm social networking cum business
البلد الذي تعمل به هذه المؤسسة على إنشاء تأثير اجتماعي
This Entry is about (Issues)
مزيد من المعلومات↓↑ إخفاء↑ إخفاءThe Need: What problem are you trying to solve?
TIME = MONEY
In this world we always hear people saying TIME = MONEY but hardly see because the rich is only enjoying this.
Majority of the educated or we can say highly educated people are also unable to find themselves a reasonable job which can satisfy their qualification or needs.
So to provide a job or can say a business or doing partnerships or joint ventures with not only educated but talented and uneducated people we can try to bring self dependence to almost every individual irrespective of cast,color,gender,age,etc.
Making use of every possible time available and every person either working or unemployed or rejected by society to make a lively hood by his own and make world a better place to live with unity and peace , love and affection ,money and fame.
The Solution: What is your solution? Be specific!
It is based on the pooling of talent,time,knowledge,hard word,dedication,human resource,funds,etc as much as possible available and using them to provide the best solution or service or job or what ever the case may be in as much areas as possible.
This is like planning and creating a new world where main focus would be on unemployed people and improving the life and living standards of all the people joining by the way of MULTI-LEVEL MARKETING CUM BUSINESS CUM PROFESSION CUM SERVICING.
The Model: Walk us through a specific example of how your solution makes a difference; include your primary activities
collecting the data of people who are unemployed and providing them to work for a specific area according to their desire and at a designation suitable to them after a short training session and try to gather funds for the company or the needed talent.
Funds collected would be for a service or a product(s) but it would be including a profit or advance as the case may be and after about, say 3 months the investor will be getting the funds given by them back in the form say maybe coupons or gift vouchers or special offers or money back into the bank account (if working with us(full time or part time) doesn't matters)
The funds collected will be used in such a manner that it is seen the minimum fixed obligation is achieved with a surety and the balance would be invested in establishing new business which could be small in size but would be providing the best output and results.
it is a type of both investment and/or partnership as the case maybe.
The Marketplace: Who are your peers and competitors? Identify others also working to address the needs you are and what differentiates you from them. What challenges could these players pose to your success or growth?
Few companies from which the basic plan matches are the general MLM COMPANIES like N-mart,RMP,Amway,Tupperware etc but the way of their working and that of ours Company is totally different and almost every one running legal business from a simple grocery shop to a big business man manufacturing almost every thing would be our competitor .
All the existing Companies just do the work in their own way but if they try and change their strategy then they may pose a challenge but this being a different strategy currently has nothing like competition or challenge from anyone.
Net Tuesday brings together community leaders interested in the use of technology to bring about positive social change. It is the largest convener of its kind in Vancouver, with 1000 members representing nonprofit organizations and foundations, government agencies and service providers, designers and developers, innovators and social entrepreneurs. Net Tuesdays are part of a dedicated network of volunteers operating in 25 countries around the world.
Created on 09/12/2012 by Neil Salmond
Pekish offers a healthy, high quality and convenient alternative to vending machine chocolates and chips.
مزيد من المعلومات ↓↑ إخفاء↑ إخفاءCountry where this solution is creating social impact
Region in BC where your solution creates social impact
Vancouver.
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المعلومات التي تقدمها هنا ستُستخدم لملء أي جزء من أجزاء ملفك الشخصي التي تم تركها فارغة، مثل الاهتمامات ومعلومات المؤسسة وموقع الويب. لن تتاح أية معلومات اتصال بشكل عام. الرجاء إلغاء تحديد المربع هنا إذا كنت لا تريد حدوث هذا..
مزيد من المعلومات↓↑ إخفاء↑ إخفاءحدد الهدف الذي ينطبق بشكل مثالي على الحل الذي تقدمه:
فكرة (أنت متأهب للإطلاق)
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Which of the following best describes the barrier(s) your solution addresses? Choose up to two
Access, Quality.
The Need: Describe the need for your solution and the size and characteristics of the community(ies) your solution is engaging
Pekish addresses four pressing social issues confronting our society today: Obesity and nutritional problems related to the convenience diet in BC and North America in general, a lack of good quality jobs for rehabilitated and untrained workers (specifically in Vancouver’s downtown eastside (DTES)), a broken food distribution system in BC and North America where eating local is the exception rather than the norm, and the need to teach more sustainable farming methods to people in the developing world to encourage more sustainable food production systems.
The Solution: What is your solution? Be specific!
Pekish offers a healthy, high quality and convenient alternative to the chocolates and chips many eat from the vending machine, or the cookies and doughnuts they buy from the corner store. We match the convenience of these two distribution channels, sending our food by post, with a significant improvement on the health and nutritional value of the product. In 2008 a speaker from Vancouver Coastal Health described food from vending machines, and chips in particular, as the "cigarettes of the 21st century", placing a huge burden on our social health system. Pekish helps get people off these “cigarettes”, eat local, and promote healthy lifestyles and sustainable farming methods here and in an African location to be decided.
The Model: Walk us through a specific example of how your solution makes a difference; include the primary activities involved in your solution.
The typical customer will eat Pekish’s healthy and nutritionally balanced food products as a convenient alternative to the over-processed vending machine and convenience store foods they reach for at the moment. The communications channel will be through the Pekish website. When a user logs on they will be asked to complete a short five-point questionnaire, ranking their taste preferences on a five-point scale. These tastes will then correspond to a wide range of nutritionally balanced and healthy recipes on offer. The user then selects the delivery frequency of their Pekish box, defaulted to Monday and Thursday every week, and receives their surprise snack box via Canada Post, complete with different, personalized snacks in four different containers based on the preferences selected on-line. The user is then encouraged to update their profile, stating what they did or did not like. These preferences are then reflected in their next Pekish delivery. The communications experience with Pekish is engaging, fun and informal, which will allow for the effective use of our influence to see the lifestyle changes we wish to see in our community. All snacks are locally sourced, nutritionally balanced, healthy, tasty, and packaged in environmentally friendly containers by rehabilitated workers from Vancouver’s DTES.
The Marketplace: Who are your peers and competitors? Identify others working to address the same needs as you and indicate what sets you apart from them.
Pekish’s competitors are the makers of the over-processed foods that dominate such a large portion of the average North American diet, as well as the vending machine and multi-national convenience store brands who promote their products. Our peers are other local BC organisations promoting healthy alternatives. Similar others include Saul Good Gifts, which uses a similar subscription commerce model to ship healthy and nutritious goods to customers. Saul Good focuses on larger, high end products rather than snacks. Health conscious retailers like Whole Foods offer similar products, but without the convenience afforded by Pekish’s easy to use website, custom recipes, and straight-to-your door postal service.
This Entry is about (Issues)
مزيد من المعلومات↓↑ إخفاء↑ إخفاءFounding Story: We want to hear about your "Aha!" moment. Share the story of where and when the founder(s) saw this solution's potential to change the world.
During the UBC MBA program in 2008 a speaker from Vancouver Coastal Health described the food in vending machines, and chips in particular, as the "cigarettes of the 21st century", placing a huge burden on our social health system. When one of the founders was working in London, UK he became aware of a company using a similar approach to what Pekish is proposing. A few years later after completing his MBA at UBC and working in the sustainability space, he realised that the drive in the industry is to identify a social cause and then work hard to build a business case for it. Why not do the reverse - take a successful business model and align its purpose to maximising a specific social objective?
Please describe the goal of your initiative; outline what you are trying to achieve
Our goal is to raise awareness for poor diet choices by offering healthy and nutritious alternatives to our customers. As Peckish gains more customers and we build the brand, we will use our influence to educate people about our three core themes of eating healthy, eating locally, and practicing sustainable agriculture. The Peckish business model has a donations component built into it, similar to the opportunity that Whole Foods provides to their customers to donate the money they didn’t have to pay for a bag to a charity of their choice. Our choices will relate to sustainable agriculture initiatives in Africa.
What has been the impact of your solution to date?
The founding team has been working on this idea for a little over a month now. Many of the fundamental aspects of the business have become clear, however, the company is not yet operational.
What is your projected impact over the next five years?
After proving the concept in Vancouver, Pekish intends to expand to Toronto and the US where processing and shipping costs are lower and there are more large urban centres of sufficient density to achieve the economies required by the model. This is a critical time for the US in particular - 67% of adults over the age of 20 are considered overweight, and half of those are considered obese. 25.8 million children and adults in the United States - 8.3% of the population - have diabetes. Peckish hopes to play even a small role in improving these figures.
What barriers might hinder the success of your project? How do you plan to overcome them?
Vancouver is a difficult test bed for this business model. Shipping is considerably more expensive in Canada than the US and it’s more difficult to achieve economies of scale for processing and distribution. That being said, if Peckish can overcome the adversity inherent in this market and successfully prove that the model works then this puts the company in a very strong position for expansion to larger urban centres in the US and perhaps Toronto. Operations and supplier costs during the first phase will have to be carefully managed to ensure our social mandate is met while achieving profitability.
Winning entries present a strong plan for how they will achieve and track growth. Identify your six-month milestone for growing your impact
After six months we intend to have reached our breakeven volume in Vancouver of 500 subscribers.
المهمة الأولى
At six months Peckish will have a processing facility in the DTES and employ five full time staff.
المهمة الثانية
We will have fully developed our campaign materials for nutritious eating, eating local to support sustainable agriculture in BC
المهمة الثالثة
and have developed appropriate metrics for recording each of these
Now think bigger! Identify your 12-month impact milestone
After 12 months we intend to have expanded into one other major metropolitan area, and achieved 2000 subscribers
المهمة الأولى
efficient and cost effective network of local suppliers, healthy relationship with Can.Post and USPS local processing facilities
المهمة الثانية
a fully functional website complete with marketing front-end and data storage and recipe algorithm back-end
المهمة الثالثة
The first cheque - from customers' donations - to our chosen African agricultural college
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Three of the partners have known each other since they met in the UBC MBA in 2008, and I worked with two of the partners at ISIS in 2010. All of the partners have trust in and respect for one another’s professional abilities and beyond that, have many similar interests and thoroughly enjoy each others company on a personal level. The partners own the company in four equal shares.
Are you currently targeting other specific populations, locations, or markets for your solution? If so, where and why?
After proving the concept in the Vancouver market and setting up the structure for the company, Pekish intends to expand to the US where supplier, processing and shipping costs are lower and there are more large urban centres of sufficient density to achieve the economies required for success. The expansion plan is to enter the US market because that’s where the health impact of Peckish will be greatest.
What type of operating environment and internal organizational factors make your innovation successful?
Pekish will come to life in an environment where professional and personal matters are openly shared and supported by like-minded colleagues. Creativity and new ideas are encouraged at Pekish, as is enjoyment in the day’s work and a willing to take risks. At the core of Pekish is the belief that the company is about more than the revenue coming through the door. Although this is important to keeping the door open, we’re doing this because this is a service we want to see exist. Be the change you wish to see in society!
Please elaborate on any needs or offers you have mentioned above and/or suggest categories of support that aren't specified within the list
In order to develop emotional literacy in youth, we have invested in Quirky Kid resources and programs, this will support our programs and youth and families.
Created on 09/12/2012 by pbartel
Our solution is a central 5050 system to support grassroots curling efforts across BC, building a strong, cohesive and collaborative curling community
مزيد من المعلومات ↓↑ إخفاء↑ إخفاءCountry where this solution is creating social impact
Region in BC where your solution creates social impact
Vancouver, Coast and Mountains, Vancouver Island, Thompson Okanagan, Northern British Columbia, Cariboo Chilcotin Coast, Kootenay Rockies, Columbia Basin.
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المعلومات التي تقدمها هنا ستُستخدم لملء أي جزء من أجزاء ملفك الشخصي التي تم تركها فارغة، مثل الاهتمامات ومعلومات المؤسسة وموقع الويب. لن تتاح أية معلومات اتصال بشكل عام. الرجاء إلغاء تحديد المربع هنا إذا كنت لا تريد حدوث هذا..
مزيد من المعلومات↓↑ إخفاء↑ إخفاءحدد الهدف الذي ينطبق بشكل مثالي على الحل الذي تقدمه:
فكرة (أنت متأهب للإطلاق)
كم مضى على عملك؟
لا تزال في مرحلة الفكرة، لكنك تتطلع لإطلاقها قريبًا
Which of the following best describes the barrier(s) your solution addresses? Choose up to two
Cost.
The Need: Describe the need for your solution and the size and characteristics of the community(ies) your solution is engaging
Curling centres across BC operate independant, small 50/50 raffles. These generate small revenues for grassroots activities, do not have accurate data collection, and rely on volunteer ticket sales.
Curl BC has a solution to support the volunteer efforts of curling volunteers across BC, generating grassroots club support and a larger community of sport across the provine.
The Solution: What is your solution? Be specific!
Curl BC is partnering with Pointstreak Sports Technologies to provide virtual 50/50 terminals to the majority of curling facilities in British Columbia.
This is an eletronic 50/50 raffle management system that drives consumer participation in raffle events while providing accountability to the raffle process. Tickets are sold to curlers and fans through virtual terminals installed in all facilities, creating an effortless data collection system providing faster sales transation, longer selling periods, accountability and substantial increases in average raffle proceeds.
These raffle proceeds will be used to support grassroots curling activities in communities across BC, and also to support provincial level activities. The promotion of this idea among curling centres has generated much excitement and positive energy and has already enhanced collobaration in our sport community!
The Model: Walk us through a specific example of how your solution makes a difference; include the primary activities involved in your solution.
Curl BC and Pointstreak Technologies are poised to install virtual terminals in curling centres in BC. The terminals will allow an individual to collect data, collect payment, and generate tickets. Ticket stubs will be collected in a central hub (Curl BC offices) and the weekly revenue will accumulate provincially. Funds raised are divided between the weekly draw winner (50%), the local curling facilities selling tickets (35%), and the provincial sport organization (Curl BC, 15%, to cover management fees and equipment purchase)
The Marketplace: Who are your peers and competitors? Identify others working to address the same needs as you and indicate what sets you apart from them.
Other Provincial Sport Organizations and their member clubs. Curl BC will be the first organization in BC to implement this program.
This Entry is about (Issues)
مزيد من المعلومات↓↑ إخفاء↑ إخفاءFounding Story: We want to hear about your "Aha!" moment. Share the story of where and when the founder(s) saw this solution's potential to change the world.
When we heard the results of the successful 50/50 Central raffles held at the 2011 Canada Cup in Cranbrook and the 2012 Continental Cup in Langley. We realized the electronic 50/50 raffle concept could be expanded beyond events.
Please describe the goal of your initiative; outline what you are trying to achieve
We are trying to achieve several goals:
- Build one large cohesive community of curlers within the province rather than many small communities of individuals
- Raise funds to support grassroots curling efforts, as well as provincial level endeavours
What has been the impact of your solution to date?
Discussion around the proposed 5050 Central project has generated much enthusiasm around curling centres of the province.
What is your projected impact over the next five years?
Raise $1,000,000 of which $350,000 will be invested into curling centres across the province.
What barriers might hinder the success of your project? How do you plan to overcome them?
We are currently awaiting approval of our application to the Gaming Branch and are in the final stages of this review. Once it is approved we will move forward.
Winning entries present a strong plan for how they will achieve and track growth. Identify your six-month milestone for growing your impact
Weekly 5050 draws in 30-40 curling centres in BC
المهمة الأولى
Approval of Gaming Application
المهمة الثانية
Operating contracts with 20 curling centres in Phase 1
المهمة الثالثة
Coordination of installation around curling activities
Now think bigger! Identify your 12-month impact milestone
Bi-Weekly 5050 draws in 40 curling centres in BC
المهمة الأولى
Operating contracts with 20 curling centres (Phase 2)
المهمة الثانية
Coordination of installation during summer holiday period
المهمة الثالثة
Weekly draws begin October 2013
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Poinstreak Sports Technologies - provides innivative technologies to enhance the experience of the global sports community. They have committed to match Curl BC's financial commitment to this project through installation of virtual terminals at curling centres.
Curling Centres in BC - There are approximately 100 curling centres in the province and these are all potential partners in the delivery of this project.
Are you currently targeting other specific populations, locations, or markets for your solution? If so, where and why?
Working collaboratively with Saskatchewan Curling Association to implement similar projects in both jurisdictions.
What type of operating environment and internal organizational factors make your innovation successful?
Well managed curling centres.
Please elaborate on any needs or offers you have mentioned above and/or suggest categories of support that aren't specified within the list
Created on 09/12/2012 by FundingHunter
Fundinghunter.com is a social funding platform.
مزيد من المعلومات ↓↑ إخفاء↑ إخفاءبلد المؤسسة
United States, FL, Fleming Island, Clay County
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المعلومات التي تقدمها هنا ستُستخدم لملء أي جزء من أجزاء ملفك الشخصي التي تم تركها فارغة، مثل الاهتمامات ومعلومات المؤسسة وموقع الويب. لن تتاح أية معلومات اتصال بشكل عام. الرجاء إلغاء تحديد المربع هنا إذا كنت لا تريد حدوث هذا..
مزيد من المعلومات↓↑ إخفاء↑ إخفاءحدد الهدف الذي ينطبق بشكل مثالي على الحل الذي تقدمه:
بدء (إصدار تجريبي قد بدأ تشغيله للتو)
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لا تزال في مرحلة الفكرة، لكنك تتطلع لإطلاقها قريبًا
Which of the following best describes the barrier(s) your innovation addresses? Choose up to two
Access.
The Need: What problem are you trying to solve?
We are tyring to solve the problem of the underserved and underprivaleged not being able to find good financing to aid in the growth of their local economy on a global scale.
The Solution: What is your solution? Be specific!
Our solution is simple, Social Funding. With the concept of social funding, people from all over the globe can go to fundinghunter.com a free social network and either ask for funds for their cause or donate funds to help those in need on a global scale.
The Model: Walk us through a specific example of how your solution makes a difference; include your primary activities
Our model is straight forward, people helping people. Anyone from anywhere can sign up for our free social network and ask for funds for their underserved community or cause, at the same time anyone from anywhere can see those causes on our site and sign up and donate funds to aid those underprivaleged.
The Marketplace: Who are your peers and competitors? Identify others also working to address the needs you are and what differentiates you from them. What challenges could these players pose to your success or growth?
With our innovative style and constant progression, we feel we may never competitors in our field. We are going to break new ground in providing a platform to help get funding or donations to underprivaleged and underserved peoples in an accessible manner.
This Entry is about (Issues)
مزيد من المعلومات↓↑ إخفاء↑ إخفاءFounding Story: We want to hear about your "Aha!" moment. Share the story of where and when the founder(s) saw this solution's potential to change the world.
Our founder saw this concept of social funding through a free social network as a means to provide a platform for anyone with a noble cause to be heard on a global scale via the web.
Please describe the goal of your initiative; outline what you are trying to achieve
At Funding Hunter, we are trying to achieve a sense of financial equality. Equality for anyone needing funding anywhere to raise money through a social platform. People helping people on a global scale.
Which barrier(s) to financial inclusion does your solution seek to address? (select all applicable)
Physical and other accessibility obstacles that prevent communities from reaching financial services, The lack of affordable financial products tailored to the needs of underserved and excluded communities,.
If you selected 'other' above, please specify which other barriers to financial inclusion you solution seeks to address:
For which underserved or excluded communities will your solution create access to valuable, affordable, secure and comprehensive financial services?
With this concept of social funding virtually anyone anywhere can raise funds through our social platform.
Could your solution work in other geographies or regions? If so, where?
We see fundinghunter.com on a global scale, immediately from the launch. Essentially people in the U.S. can help fund people in Mexico, and so on. Essentially anyone, anywhere can help any noble cause presented on our social network.
If your solution is dramatically successful, how will things be different in 10 years?
I believe our initiative will be very successful, and in ten years areas and geographies that were underserved for a very long time will see a huge jump in there economies through our social funding platform.
What will have had to have changed to make this happen?
The change must begin in the individual first. People must not need to be afraid to reach out to peoples from all over the globe to help them prosper and grow. People also must not be afraid to ask for help.
What has been the impact of your solution to date?
We are in the early stages of development, but we see a change in ourselves first and then that grows to reaching out to others.
What is your projected impact over the next five years?
Our impact will be massive, communities that have never had proper funding will recieve the needed capital to grow and prosper and things will grow from there. When you help one community, that community grows and it helps another and so on.
What barriers might hinder the success of your project? How do you plan to overcome them?
Any barrier that may arise we will overcome with an innovative tenacity.
Winning entries present a strong plan for how they will achieve and track growth. Identify your six-month milestone for growing your impact
المهمة الأولى
Launching our concept to the world.
المهمة الثانية
Raising awareness for underserved communities from all over the world
المهمة الثالثة
Encouraging people to help fund underserved communities
Now think bigger! Identify your 12-month impact milestone
المهمة الأولى
Continue growing our cause to help underserved communities
المهمة الثانية
Continue raising awareness for underserved communities
المهمة الثالثة
Continue to encourage growth and development
مزيد من المعلومات↓↑ إخفاء↑ إخفاءأخبرنا عن شراكاتك:
We do not currently have partnerships but are looking to find partners in this field of service
Are you currently targeting other specific populations, locations, or markets for your innovation? If so, where and why?
What type of operating environment and internal organizational factors make your innovation successful?
We have a dynamic and dedicated group of people that are experts in their fields
Please elaborate on any needs or offers you have mentioned above and/or suggest categories of support that aren't specified within the list
We hope to provide a dynamic and innovative platform for anyone anywhere to recieve necessary funding.
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SurreyONE is a community based game that generates spending from consumers and businesses alike, within the Surrey communities. This innovative idea provides members of the city of Surrey the opportunity to benefit from entrepreneurial training that will allow for better chances of success for those interested in pursuing a future in business as an entrepreneur or business professional.
Seedstock is Vancouver's first community currency: money that sticks around and goes 'round in our community, supporting local businesses and non-profits.
Created on 09/12/2012 by salomonraydan
OFL mecanismo de Inversión y Crédito, autogestionado y autofinanciado, facilita el acceso a servicios financieros de una manera, sencilla, segura y rentable
مزيد من المعلومات ↓↑ إخفاء↑ إخفاءالبلد الذي تعمل به هذه المؤسسة على إنشاء تأثير اجتماعي
كم مضى على عمل مؤسستك؟
تعمل منذ ما يزيد عن 5 سنوات
Has the organization received awards or honors? Please tell us about them
Premio a la excelencia, Venezuela competitiva. Finalistas World Development Award, Finalista “ASHOKA” Globalizer 2010
المعلومات التي تقدمها هنا ستُستخدم لملء أي جزء من أجزاء ملفك الشخصي التي تم تركها فارغة، مثل الاهتمامات ومعلومات المؤسسة وموقع الويب. لن تتاح أية معلومات اتصال بشكل عام. الرجاء إلغاء تحديد المربع هنا إذا كنت لا تريد حدوث هذا..
مزيد من المعلومات↓↑ إخفاء↑ إخفاءحدد الهدف الذي ينطبق بشكل مثالي على الحل الذي تقدمه:
تطوير (ستكون الخطوة التالية تأثيرًا متزايدًا على النطاق الإقليمي أو حتى العالمي)
كم مضى على عملك؟
تعمل منذ ما يزيد عن 5 سنوات
Which of the following best describes the barrier(s) your innovation addresses? Choose up to two
Access, Cost, Transparency, Quality, Equity.
The Need: What problem are you trying to solve?
La velocidad de cobertura de los servicios financieros ha sido especialmente lenta. Después de 40 años Las micro finanzas tradicionales han alcanzado menos del 2.5% de la población necesitada y aún existen 2.5 billones de personas sin acceso a servicios bancarios formales. A esta velocidad de crecimiento harían falta más de mil (1.000) años para cubrir la demanda. Estas cifras demuestran que la estrategia de formalización financiera ha sido lenta, costosa e ineficiente. Hace falta un cambio de estrategia que simplifique, abarate y acelere la inclusión financiera. Nuestra propuesta busca esencialmente dar una respuesta a este problema.
The Solution: What is your solution? Be specific!
Mientras menos del 40% de la población usa servicios financieros formales, cerca del 90% usa mecanismos informales. Muchos de esos mecanismos informales están mal diseñados y son de alto riesgo para sus usuarios. Si en vez de tomar el tradicional camino de la formalización, rediseñamos y mejoramos esos mecanismos informales, para otorgarles eficiencia, transparencia y sobre todo seguridad, podremos acelerar sustancialmente con instrumentos sencillos y económicos el acceso a servicios financieros de calidad.
Nuestra solución son grupos locales, auto gestionado y propiedad de sus usuarios, quienes pueden utilizar una metodología segura, para captar fondos entre ellos mismos, con la cual son capaces de cubrir un alto porcentaje de las necesidades de ahorro, crédito e inversión de la población, sin acudir a complejos modelos formales
The Model: Walk us through a specific example of how your solution makes a difference; include your primary activities
Un grupo de personas se reúne en una comunidad. Discute y establece normas financieras y operativas y luego cada persona compra acciones en base a sus posibilidades. Se reúne un primer capital e inmediatamente se otorgan créditos a quien necesite, se cobran los intereses y al final se hacen los cierres contables.
Días más tarde se reúnen nuevamente. Algunas personas nuevas y otros ya miembros, compran más acciones. Estos montos junto con las cuotas que pagan algunos de los que ya recibieron crédito, permite tener nuevamente capital y otorgar nuevos créditos. Este proceso se repite constantemente, pero como para obtener mayor monto de crédito, debo comprar más acciones, el capital va aumentando progresivamente, lo que permite otorgar más y más créditos. Los intereses pagados constituyen las ganancias, las cuales son repartidas en proporción a las acciones adquiridas. De esta manera el dinero del grupo en vez tomar el costoso camino hacia el sistema formal, se aprovecha para satisfacer de forma rentable, económica y segura, tanto las necesidades de crédito y ahorro, como las de inversión de la comunidad.
Hemos desarrollado un especial sistema operativo y contable, que disminuye drásticamente los riesgos y hace el modelo muy seguro.
The Marketplace: Who are your peers and competitors? Identify others also working to address the needs you are and what differentiates you from them. What challenges could these players pose to your success or growth?
• Nuestros elementos diferenciadores son:
• Utilizamos la inversión y no el ahorro como instrumento de captación.
• Sistema de distribución de riesgo que hace el modelo muy seguro.
• Es un complemento perfecto para la bancarización, pues atiende necesidades muy difíciles de ser satisfechas por los servicios formales
• El modelo operativo y el sistema contable disminuyen riesgos y hacen el modelo muy transparente para sus usuarios.
• Todo está basado en la autogestión, por lo tanto los costos operativos son muy inferiores a otros modelos.
• Incorporamos a la propia metodología educación financiera sin necesidad de actividades extras
This Entry is about (Issues)
مزيد من المعلومات↓↑ إخفاء↑ إخفاءFounding Story: We want to hear about your "Aha!" moment. Share the story of where and when the founder(s) saw this solution's potential to change the world.
Un cooperante nos aprobó un proyecto que contemplaba un fondo de crédito que debía ser prestado a las OFL que habíamos ayudado a crear. Hasta ese momento esas OFL habían dado créditos usando solo su propio dinero, pero por necesidad obtener recursos operativos para nuestra ONG, acepte fondos para otorgar créditos a la comunidad. Eso significaba pedirles que prestaran dinero de nuestra fundación y no solo los suyos. El primer grupo que acepto los fondos nuestros vino a mi oficina y me regresó el dinero, argumentando que ellos preferían prestar su propio dinero porque así todos los intereses que pagarían serian para ellos y no para nuestra fundación.
Claramente entendí que el auto financiamiento era posible y bueno para la gente.
Please describe the goal of your initiative; outline what you are trying to achieve
Nuestra solución son grupos locales, auto gestionado y propiedad de sus usuarios, quienes pueden utilizar una metodología segura, para captar fondos entre ellos mismos, con la cual son capaces de cubrir un alto porcentaje de las necesidades de ahorro, crédito e inversión de la población, sin acudir a complejos modelos formales.
Which barrier(s) to financial inclusion does your solution seek to address? (select all applicable)
Physical and other accessibility obstacles that prevent communities from reaching financial services, The lack of affordable financial products tailored to the needs of underserved and excluded communities,, Powerful incentives for financial service providers to move up-market.
If you selected 'other' above, please specify which other barriers to financial inclusion you solution seeks to address:
For which underserved or excluded communities will your solution create access to valuable, affordable, secure and comprehensive financial services?
Nuestro modelo es accesible a cualquier grupo que desee conformarse como Organización Financiera Local, sin límite de ubicación geográfica, educativa o estrato social.
Could your solution work in other geographies or regions? If so, where?
Como emprendedor social mi trabajo es desarrollar modelos, más que ejecutar proyectos, por lo tanto hemos hecho un esfuerzo de probar el modelo en distintas comunidades en el Mundo. Hasta ahora hemos probado en más de 350 comunidades de 12 países de 4 continentes (América, África, Asia y Europa). Hemos replicado entre comunidades rurales, urbanas y semi-rurales. Hemos hecho grupos entre obreros, campesinos, pescadores, estudiantes, gremios, ONGs, etc. Y con niveles educativos muy diversos. Hemos trabajado con comunidades de alta pobreza y de ingreso bajos y medios.
If your solution is dramatically successful, how will things be different in 10 years?
En 10 años habrá un sistema financiero más eficiente, diverso, democrático y propiedad de la gente. Miles de organizaciones locales financiarían las actividades personales o empresariales de sus miembros, con dinero que aportan y gestionan ellos mismos, en una manera diferente de hacer banca, más cercana a los usuarios y que responde exactamente a la necesidad de la comunidad. De esta manera, poblaciones actualmente excluidas del sector financiero formal, contarían con un mecanismo que les daría acceso a servicios financieros de calidad, educativos, rentables y seguros
La banca y las IMF podrán concentrar sus esfuerzos donde son verdaderamente eficientes y rentables. Los estados deberán concentrar sus esfuerzos en supervisar a la banca formal, mientras que solo facilitarán instrumentos legales para que los grupos se auto-regulen.
What will have had to have changed to make this happen?
• En primer lugar tendría que aceptarse que en las comunidades existen suficientes recursos económicos y humanos, para gestionar servicios financieros propios, seguros y de calidad.
• Cambiar el viejo paradigma que considera todo mecanismos financiero informal como perverso e ilegal
• La Banca tradicional debería iniciar un proceso de apertura y apoyo a estas iniciativas, lo cual además le permitiría contar con aliados locales que facilitarían el acceso a nuevos clientes, en los niveles de montos y localización rentables para ellos.
• Los gobiernos deberán desarrollar el marco legal para la supervisión de estos grupos, para darle mayor seguridad y confiabilidad al sistema.
• Mayor consciencia de que la auto regulación financiera es posible si todos son propietarios.
What has been the impact of your solution to date?
Hemos probado el modelo en más de 350 grupos, en 12 países de 4 continentes. Con estos ensayos hemos llegado a más de 20 mil miembros directos y cerca de 100 mil indirectos. Hemos logrado movilizar en inversión local más de 50 millones de dólares entre sectores de alta pobreza, utilizando únicamente dinero aportado por la misma comunidad. Esos 50 millones de dólares han permitido desarrollar actividad económica por cerca de 400 millones de dólares adicionales y se han generado ganancias superiores a 15 millones de dólares que en vez de ir a agentes externos, han ido a las manos de los mismos miembros de la comunidad. El promedio actual de duración de nuestros grupos es superior a los 8 años
What is your projected impact over the next five years?
El modelo de Organizaciones Financieras Locales OFL se habrá expandido a todos los países de América Latina y comenzara a ser una alternativa financiera valida y reconocida como resultado de dos estrategias para la globalización, claramente definidas:
• Alianzas con Socios Locales en cada uno de estos países, que promuevan el desarrollo de un Programa de Creación de Organizaciones Financieras Locales a nivel Nacional
• Desarrollo de una plataforma tecnológica, que facilite la creación, gestión y seguimiento de las Organizaciones Financieras Locales, para todas aquellas personas con acceso a Internet o telefonía celular, que deseen conformar su grupo de autofinanciamiento.
What barriers might hinder the success of your project? How do you plan to overcome them?
Falta de confianza en el modelo. Esto se ve reflejado en la creencia de que se estaría apoyando un sistema inseguro que podría estafar o generar pérdidas de capital a los usuarios. Para ello hemos desarrollado un sistema de funcionamiento, supervisión y revisión, que garantiza la seguridad de los fondos. Este sistema cuenta con procedimientos sencillos pero eficientes de control, un sistema de registro de operaciones, que facilita la rendición de cuentas, así como indicadores financieros y de gestión que brindan transparencia al sistema.
Winning entries present a strong plan for how they will achieve and track growth. Identify your six-month milestone for growing your impact
Consolidación de la Plataforma Virtual para Creación, Gestión y Seguimiento de las Organizaciones Financieras Locales.
المهمة الأولى
Desarrollar la plataforma tecnológica para la gestión y expansión del modelo.
المهمة الثانية
Desarrollar un plan de mercadeo del modelo
المهمة الثالثة
Gestionar las primeras alianzas estratégicas a nivel de países latinoamericanos.
Now think bigger! Identify your 12-month impact milestone
• Lanzamiento de la Plataforma Do it yourself Banking en América Latina
المهمة الأولى
Aliados Internacionales para el desarrollo del Programa Do It Yourself Banking en cada país de América Latina identificado
المهمة الثانية
Promoción del uso de la metodología, de acuerdo al Plan de Mercadeo establecido
المهمة الثالثة
Alianza con al menos una institución financiera formal que contribuya a darle reconocimiento al modelo
مزيد من المعلومات↓↑ إخفاء↑ إخفاءأخبرنا عن شراكاتك:
Hemos hecho Alianzas con otras Organizaciones de Desarrollo y fellows de Ashoka, con la finalidad transferirles el modelo y desarrollar un programa de Organizaciones Financieras Locales como complemento de su acción.
Necesitamos alianza con Empresas consultoras para el desarrollo de un plan de negocios para la expansión del modelo y con la banca Comercial para la identificación de potenciales clientes de microcrédito entre los asociados de las Organizaciones Financieras Locales existentes
Are you currently targeting other specific populations, locations, or markets for your innovation? If so, where and why?
Estamos trabajando en programas de tamaño medio en venezuela, colombia, españa y senegal. Tenemos ensayos de la metodologia en chile, republica dominicana, Portugal, haity, indonesia y hemos probado con anterioridad en bolivia y brasil. Estamos trabajando en comunidades muy diversas, campesinos, imigrantes, zonas urbanas, rurales, grupos de estudiantes, gremios profesionales in lusive un grupo con los fellows de Ashoka en venezuela.
What type of operating environment and internal organizational factors make your innovation successful?
Una organizacion muy pequeña, dinamica y tecnologica, orientada y centrada en el tema de la expansion metodologica. Un altisimo proceso de sistematizacion de la metodologia que nos permite haber recogido los errores y exitos de los muchos ensayos que hemos realizado en mas de 350 comunidades y tener productos metodologicos practicamente para cada realidad y comunidad.
Please elaborate on any needs or offers you have mentioned above and/or suggest categories of support that aren't specified within the list
Estamos especialmente interesados en apoyos legales, de marketing y medios de comunicación.
Ofrecemos cooperación gratuita a otros Emprendedores Sociales con transferencia de nuestra metodología para ampliar y profundizar las acciones que realizan en las comunidades
