Here's a story about how members of the Changemakers community are working with businesses to help people in poor communities invest in building or expanding their homes:
For thousands of Mexicans like Rosa Magaña, the dream of living in a home large enough to humanely accommodate her family hovered far on the horizon. Then an initiative by a local building supply company in Guadalajara gave her the tools to make her dream come true. “Now I have a house in which my family lives a much better and more dignified life,” she said.
The company, cement manufacturer Cemex, found a way to address the numerous barriers to home building and home expansion for the millions of families living in single room shacks of corrugated metal or cardboard.
Read more about this solution, or discuss this topic below.
This project also has a Project where you can read more about its latest progress.
Go to Project: World Hunger and You.
Created on 06/19/2013 by Meet Mukesh
World hunger and Slum management have always been pressing issues in developing countries, hampering public sanitation and causing food scarcity. We created a solution which not only provides food to slum dwellers but also gets them employment and also generates profit to sustain the organization.
مزيد من المعلومات↓↑ إخفاء↑ إخفاءStage
Idea (poised to launch)
This Entry is about (Issues)
Elevator Pitch
World hunger and Slum management have always been pressing issues in developing countries, hampering public sanitation and causing food scarcity. We created a solution which not only provides food to slum dwellers but also gets them employment and also generates profit to sustain the organization.
Problem
Hunger and Slums are one of the major problems in developing countries like India, China, Africa, where the population is high and this is no proper allocation of food or space for the people.
1/3 of the food is wasted everyday in people home and a plethora of people in the slum go to bed hungry.
The slum dwellers themselves are handicapped in buying food because of unemployment due to lack of skill and opportunity.
Solution
The root cause of the problem here is lack of efficient food distribution, we tried to build up a setup which would provide nutritious, tasty and enough food to the slum dwellers from Restaurants, Homes, Food Factories, Messes and other places and in return they would get discounted labor and other benefits from the slum dwellers (who are getting employment+food) and restaurants(discount coupons which also is a form of ad for restaurants).
All if this would happen if the participating units pay a minimal fee to keep the organization running (and that would be the profit)
the entire idea can be seen here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VSVxKSV1bLM
Example
A slum dweller names Ram lives in a slum in Delhi, he comes to us for help and food. We give him a choice of providing food for a month and employment for a minimal cost of 10 INR. He accepts, we give him the food that the restaurant near him have made n abundance which is both tasty and nutritious, he also starts working in the same restaurant and starts earning as a waiter (Since there is no money spent on food he only saves). The restaurant owner on the other and is glad that his wasted food is being spent on a good cause and it builds his market reputation and also he gets free labor, all for spending 500 INR that he gave to our organization (WHY), the same or similar things happend to other participants (Bakeries, homes, factories etc)
Impact
We did a survey in our college "Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee" and came across a lot of shocking facts, half the food in out mess is wasted and about 1/4 of the food is wasted in the restaurants in the city. This wasted food could be used to feed the slums near our college but its just thrown away.
Also we observed through the survey that the mess staff has a shortage of cleaning staff and waiters which could be easily filled if the college administration allows the slum dwellers to work for them and if somebody could vouch for them.
These surveys made us to think that the is a great need for employment but there is no one to vouch for these people to be trustworthy which causes a deadlock.
also the food wasted in a day could very easily be used to feed all the slum dwellers for a month if distributed efficiently.
Marketplace
This problem is also being addressed by the dabbawalas in Mumbai, which is a very appreciable startup. But in their case they cook the food for people around them and then sell it. The cost of cooking causes their investment to rise and thus cause an instability if there is a lack of raw materials or the prices of the raw materials go up.
Also this only brings about employment to the slum dwellers and then they buy food, in our case they already get food and also employment so their saving increase by manifold, also the restaurant and other participants also benefit from the setup.
Sustainability Plan
All the participants in the organization viz Slum Dwellers, Restaurants, Messes, Homes, Food Factories etc will have to pay a small fee depending on their financial status (which would be pre-defined) i.e Slum Dwellers
Founding Story
We were in the One Young World conference to discuss our other project to stop world hunger which was a very long term plan and we thought "what about the present? what about the things that are happening now? what about the slums?" and the idea gradually formulated to what it is now.
مزيد من المعلومات↓↑ إخفاء↑ إخفاءWhere do you ensure the availability of nutrients?
Healthy environments., Full nourishment foods, Human wellness and vitality.
If you had greater capacity, which additional sectors would you like your solution to target - either through expansion, partnership, or thought exchange?
Full nourishment foods, Human wellness and vitality.
How specifically would this added capacity help you improve the quality, efficiency, or sustainability of your existing product or service?
This would help our organization, if we have a collaboration with a full nourishment food organization, they could get discounted labor from us in return for a percentage of their food products which the slub dwellers could use.
Human Wellness and vitality of course would help increase the sanitation and living conditions of the slums.
مزيد من المعلومات↓↑ إخفاء↑ إخفاءHow is your product or service connected to vitality for the people and planet?
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People need appropriate nutrients to grow, learn, and fight off disease. How do you measure, track, or make use of information about nutrient levels in your own work?
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Considering the flow of nutrients from ecosystems to soil to farms to food to communities, what are the barriers to achieving vitality for people and the planet?
Other barriers you have identified
In your view, what developments need to happen in order to help overcome those barriers and produce a more nutrient rich and vital public and planet?
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What do you consider the most promising trends or evidence that indicates that the developments you described are emerging? Please elaborate.
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World hunger and Slum management have always been pressing issues in developing countries, hampering public sanitation and causing food scarcity. We created a solution which not only provides food to slum dwellers but also gets them employment and also generates profit to sustain the organization.
The project is designed with a purpose of enhancing the physiological nourishment of the urban farmers, their households and communities without compromising but enriching the environment. It is also aimed at empowering the urban poor-youth and women with capacities and abilities to generate income.
Created on 06/17/2013 by gunteitb
PWSS (Paguyuban Warga Strenkali Surabaya, Association of Strenkali Residents in Surabaya) fought to promote participatory and self-reliant villages development. Therefore the concept Promotion of Urban 2-Stories Vertical Agriculture Small-Scale Testing is proposed.
مزيد من المعلومات ↓↑ إخفاء↑ إخفاءاسم المؤسسة
Petra Christian University
البلد الذي تعمل به هذه المؤسسة على إنشاء تأثير اجتماعي
Has the organization received awards or honors? Please tell us about them
مزيد من المعلومات↓↑ إخفاء↑ إخفاءName your entry
PROMOTING URBAN 2-STORIES VERTICAL FARMING IN THE RIVERSIDE AREAS
Stage
Idea (poised to launch)
This Entry is about (Issues)
Elevator Pitch
PWSS (Paguyuban Warga Strenkali Surabaya, Association of Strenkali Residents in Surabaya) fought to promote participatory and self-reliant villages development. Therefore the concept Promotion of Urban 2-Stories Vertical Agriculture Small-Scale Testing is proposed.
Problem
- The vertical urban agriculture was needed for the PWSS community for producing the vegetables for daily consumption and prevent the economical impact from expensive vegetables.
- The compost produced with Takakura methods and river water supply could support the vegetables production,
- The greenery of area could reduce the local urban heat island,
- The vertical urban agriculture can generate the local income for the PWSS women member,
Solution
Therefore the program concept proposed is the Promotion of Urban Vertical Farming but for 1-2 stories building in the Surabaya Riverside Villages. The Promotion will involve the Architect, Planner, Agriculture Expert and Social Organiser. And the community would be involved to participate in the Focus Group Discussion to plan, organise and try the Urban 2-Stories Vertical Farming. Later on, a guideline Urban 2 stories Vertical Farming would be developed for other Riverside areas in Surabaya. Small-scale testing is to be implemented in the form of experiments using 3 different media composition for amaranth (Amaranthus hybridus), mustard (Brassica few), tomato (Solanum lycopersicum), pepper (Capsicum annuum) and leek (Allium fistulosum).
Example
Fraser, Evan D.G. (2002) described two lessons learned from the Bangkok Urban Farming Project. First, the community participation was a viable way of meeting both community needs and environmental goals. Both communities were engaged and excited to improve their environment translated in the communities’ green plans .
In Bangkok Noi, residents decided that they wanted their site to (1) improve local ecology, (2) create recreational areas, (3) provide an ecological demonstration area for local school children, (4) improve community relations, and (5) provide a source of vegetables and other foodstuffs. In addition, as the project unfolded, the communities became more and more excited to improve their neighbourhoods.
Impact
The urban environment became a lens through which communities re-evaluated their own relationship with the city, the impact of urbanization in a global context, and how small groups can exert some control over the shape of their neighbourhoods. In 2001, inspired by the work done in these two communities, the BMA decided to provide funding to replicate this process in one community from each of Bangkok's fifty Kehts. The BMA convened an initial meeting with community leaders and distributed the booklet describing this process that was produced by TEI. It is unlikely that this project would have had this scope if TEI and ICSC had merely hired a landscaping company to establish parks. Instead, by working with communities, and providing a basic framework that any group could follow, this project has been able to grow far beyond its original scope.
Marketplace
They sold the products to surrounding market and use the vegetable themselves
Sustainability Plan
The PWSS supported the greening by collecting funding from themselves and some from the local government. Further vegetable sales also will support them.
Founding Story
We met a year ago discussing the possibility of urban farming. And we just met the community willing to implement them. Therefore, we tried to implement this program this year!
مزيد من المعلومات↓↑ إخفاء↑ إخفاءWhere do you ensure the availability of nutrients?
Healthy environments., Full nourishment foods, Human wellness and vitality.
If you had greater capacity, which additional sectors would you like your solution to target - either through expansion, partnership, or thought exchange?
Healthy environments, Nutrient-rich farming, Full nourishment foods, Human wellness and vitality.
How specifically would this added capacity help you improve the quality, efficiency, or sustainability of your existing product or service?
Hampwaye, G.; Nel, E. and Ingombe, L. (2009) study showed that urban agriculture contributed significantly towards household total income and access to cheap food, and consequently to poverty reduction. Our Program also would contributed to urban agriculture towards poverty alleviation and also to the nutrient provision for low income people in the urban villages.
مزيد من المعلومات↓↑ إخفاء↑ إخفاءHow is your product or service connected to vitality for the people and planet?
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People need appropriate nutrients to grow, learn, and fight off disease. How do you measure, track, or make use of information about nutrient levels in your own work?
Approximately 100 words left (800 characters).
Considering the flow of nutrients from ecosystems to soil to farms to food to communities, what are the barriers to achieving vitality for people and the planet?
Other barriers you have identified
In your view, what developments need to happen in order to help overcome those barriers and produce a more nutrient rich and vital public and planet?
Approximately 125 words left (1000 characters).
What do you consider the most promising trends or evidence that indicates that the developments you described are emerging? Please elaborate.
Approximately 100 words left (800 characters).
PWSS (Paguyuban Warga Strenkali Surabaya, Association of Strenkali Residents in Surabaya) fought to promote participatory and self-reliant villages development. Therefore the concept Promotion of Urban 2-Stories Vertical Agriculture Small-Scale Testing is proposed.
Created on 06/9/2013 by Freedom7
Aquaponics. This is about a new way.It is a steadfast belief that by producing pesticide free, hormone and GMO free, organic fruits ,fish and vegetables locally at competitive prices we can end food deserts, employ local residents and educate children and adults on a healthier way of living. Join Us
مزيد من المعلومات↓↑ إخفاء↑ إخفاءStage
Start-Up (a pilot that has just started operating)
This Entry is about (Issues)
Elevator Pitch
Aquaponics. This is about a new way.It is a steadfast belief that by producing pesticide free, hormone and GMO free, organic fruits ,fish and vegetables locally at competitive prices we can end food deserts, employ local residents and educate children and adults on a healthier way of living. Join Us
Problem
Health: Chronic ailments like Heart Disease, Diabetes,
Obesity and Stroke. In the African American community these ailments are far too common and are the leading causes of death in some age groups.
Unemployment: Certain communities in DC have unemployment numbers that are more twice the national average.
Undeveloped or derelict land:DC has a large number of undeveloped or under utilized spaces that need profitable low investment aplications.
Solution
Aquaponic Farming brings a lucrative industry into depressed communities and offers residents with little or no education a pathway to economic security. For youth, single mothers and returned citizens Aquaponic Farming is a vital bridge into the workforce. By employing these “hard to hire” residents we can begin to change the economic landscape in Wards 5, 7 and 8.
Locally grown means less pollution. Aquaponic gardening cuts out the “middle man” when it comes to fresh produce. By avoiding the costly shipping can cut costs and pollution.
Growing healthy Communities s one of the foundational tenets of Freedom Farms. We will end food deserts and change eating habits
Example
An Oasis In The Desert The The US Department of Agriculture reports that about 18,000 D.C. residents live in food deserts, where there are also high concentrations of children. In one such food desert, 39 percent of residents are children. By providing fresh healthy local food choices to these underserved populations we can improve health outcomes for children and adults. This is about providing access to residents who have not been able to find or afford locally grown fresh produce.
Impact
Growing healthy Communities is one of the foundational tenets of Freedom Farms. Our produce will not only grace the tables of high end restaurants in the District of Columbia, it will also grace the cafeteria tables of DC public Schools both charter and traditional. We have the opportunity to become a national model for putting locally sourced organic produce on the plates of public school students in school and in their homes. Within 90 days of opening our doors we will be able to begin food deliveries.
Marketplace
Not only organic but local. In an industry where organic equals dollar
signs and freshness equals desirability our business model serves a growing need for fresh locally grown organic fruits and vegetables. With relatively low overhead and high production output, Freedom Farms will become the source for high end produce not only for elite restaurateurs but also local school children and seniors. This mix of public and private revenue streams will defer any unexpected market fluctuations.
Sustainability Plan
Invest in the Future The Organic food market is growing. That means there is a demand that must be met. Our business model meets that need with an eco friendly community building system that produces significant profits and is scalable in order to meet demand. With DC's population growing and food instability nationwide growing as well, commercial aquaponic farming is the future of production for urban communities.
Founding Story
When I walk through my city I see people looking for a chance. A chance for a job, a chance for an education, a chance for a better life. The systems that are supposed to work together to create those chances are often out of sync and provide less than ideal results. So I endeavored to find a way to provide residents with a catalyst for change. I looked at the major issues as I saw them; unemployment, unheathy living and lack of an interest in education. I looked at these problems and began to search for solutions that would address all three. I settled on Commercial Aquaponics because it is in fact a lesson on how systems can work together to produce a desired outcome. Not only in terms of plants and fish, but also in residents lives.
مزيد من المعلومات↓↑ إخفاء↑ إخفاءWhere do you ensure the availability of nutrients?
Healthy environments., Nutrient-rich farming, Full nourishment foods, Human wellness and vitality.
If you had greater capacity, which additional sectors would you like your solution to target - either through expansion, partnership, or thought exchange?
Healthy environments, Nutrient-rich farming, Full nourishment foods, Human wellness and vitality.
How specifically would this added capacity help you improve the quality, efficiency, or sustainability of your existing product or service?
Our business model is one that not only maximizes profits but also creates a pathway for community revitalization and empowerment. It is also easily scalable. The more we can grow as a company the more residents we can employ. This will change lives and provide healthy organic food in the process.
مزيد من المعلومات↓↑ إخفاء↑ إخفاءHow is your product or service connected to vitality for the people and planet?
Approximately 125 words left (1000 characters).
People need appropriate nutrients to grow, learn, and fight off disease. How do you measure, track, or make use of information about nutrient levels in your own work?
Approximately 100 words left (800 characters).
Considering the flow of nutrients from ecosystems to soil to farms to food to communities, what are the barriers to achieving vitality for people and the planet?
Other barriers you have identified
In your view, what developments need to happen in order to help overcome those barriers and produce a more nutrient rich and vital public and planet?
Approximately 125 words left (1000 characters).
What do you consider the most promising trends or evidence that indicates that the developments you described are emerging? Please elaborate.
Approximately 100 words left (800 characters).
Created on 06/9/2013 by Freedom7
This is about an idea. It is a steadfast belief that by producing pesticide free, hormone and GMO free, organic fruits ,fish and vegetables locally at competitive prices we can end food deserts, employ local residents and educate children and adults on a healthier way of living.
مزيد من المعلومات↓↑ إخفاء↑ إخفاءThe Need: What problem are you trying to solve?
Across the country Americans are eating better and living longer healthier lives. This however is not true in urban African American communities where food deserts and food instability have reached crisis levels. Chronic ailments such as heart disease, high blood pressure, diabetes stroke and obesity are leading killers and can all be linked to an unhealthy diet. Our communities deserve better and that is what we are going to give them.
The Solution: What is your solution? Be specific!
Freedom Farms will change the food landscape in wards 5,7 & 8 by ensuring that fresh healthy food choices are available locally at affordable prices. Freedom Farms will also provide education and empowerment by teaching healthy eating and cooking at it’s state of the art facilities. We shall be a beacon of healthy living and sustainable technology for not only the District but for the nation as a whole. This is about creating a new model for for community development that creates jobs, improves health outcomes and educates residents about the benefits of sustainable living..
The Model: Walk us through a specific example of how your solution makes a difference; include your primary activities
Aquaponic Farming brings a lucrative industry into depressed communities and offers residents with little or no education a pathway to economic security. For youth, single mothers and returned citizens Aquaponic Farming is a vital bridge into the workforce. By employing these “hard to hire” residents we can begin to change the economic landscape in Wards 5, 7 and 8.
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 no other commercial aquaponic facilities currently operating in the District of Columbia. We do however share a vibrant sustainable living gommunity that is full of ideas and innovaiton. DC is ready for change. We are the vanguard of that change.
This project also has a Project where you can read more about its latest progress.
Go to Project: Nashville Grown.
Created on 04/22/2013 by Sarah Johnson
An entire city can efficiently feed itself on local produce alone, and we're out to prove it. First stop? Nashville. By aggregating produce from everything from tiny backyard gardens to multi-acre farms, we're building a wholesale distribution system for urban-farmed food that rivals Sysco.
مزيد من المعلومات ↓↑ إخفاء↑ إخفاءبلد المؤسسة
United States, TN, Nashville, Davidson County
البلد الذي تعمل به هذه المؤسسة على إنشاء تأثير اجتماعي
United States, TN, Nashville, Davidson County
Has the organization received awards or honors? Please tell us about them
We received 2nd place and the audience favorite award in the Social Enterprise Alliance's Business for Good pitch competition in March 2013. The award included $2,500, office space for a year, and a 9-month seat in the Entrepreneur Center's incubator and mentorship program.
مزيد من المعلومات↓↑ إخفاء↑ إخفاءName your entry
Urban Farming Reimagined: Creating Large-Scale Distribution Opportunities for Micro-Sized Farms
Stage
Growth (the pilot has already launched and is starting to expand)
This Entry is about (Issues)
Elevator Pitch
An entire city can efficiently feed itself on local produce alone, and we're out to prove it. First stop? Nashville. By aggregating produce from everything from tiny backyard gardens to multi-acre farms, we're building a wholesale distribution system for urban-farmed food that rivals Sysco.
Problem
Most gardens and small farms lack the time, scale, and funds needed for refrigerated trucks, efficient cold storage, and other services like washing and packaging that most larger buyers require. As a result, local farms and gardens are stuck inefficiently selling via farmers markets and CSAs, the mainstream food system is largely unable to access local produce sources, and our average meal travels 2,000 miles before reaching our plate.
Solution
Nashville Grown is establishing Nashville's first urban food hub: a facility where urban farms and backyard gardens can wash, package, can, freeze, and store their produce to ensure that local food is available year-round. Most importantly, the food hub serves as an aggregator of produce, coordinating the supply chain and offering refrigerated delivery services, so ordering a hundred pounds of lettuce from a dozen backyard farms is just as easy as ordering from Sysco--but unlike Sysco, the product is more nutrient-dense, has a far smaller carbon footprint, and was literally grown next door. And since all produce items sold for retail are co-branded with farm bios, consumers can actually know where their food comes from.
Example
The main disadvantage of urban agriculture is the ultra-small scale of urban farms. For example, Greenwood Gardens in East Nashville is a hydroponic lettuce, tomato, and herb grower operating out of a residential backyard. Even if they were able to produce enough to make it onto a wholesale buyer's Rolodex, they would never be able to afford a refrigerated truck, GAP-approved washing facilities, produce labels, or other equipment necessary to gain entry into the mainstream food system. By aggregating their produce with that of dozens of other growers like them and doing all the post-harvest handling and marketing for them, Nashville Grown eliminates this disadvantage, giving farms like Greenwood entry into the food system.
Impact
Since launching in mid-September 2012, Nashville Grown has sold over 11,000 lbs of produce from 17 different small farms to 26 wholesale customers. With only a minimal 15% markup to cover our operating costs, we were able to return $25,856.24 to our farmers by the end of April. Note that these sales occurred almost entirely during the off-season for middle Tennessee farmers, a time when many farmers markets and food hubs would not even be in operation, and we expect monthly sales to triple over the summer. Now that we have a strong base of local farms, we can focus our energies more on cultivating more inner-city farms in order to realize our vision of being the first large-scale food hub working with primarily urban growers. Once the model is proven, we hope to build a movement to replicate this model across the US.
Marketplace
Aggregating locally grown produce is not unique; there are approximately 170 examples in the United States, according to 2012 USDA AMS research. What's unique is the size and location of farms we work with. While other food hubs source from traditional farms, Nashville Grown has worked with the city zoning and health offices to ensure that even the tiniest of backyard gardens can legally participate in the food hub. In the process, we are redefining what it is to be a farm, and who has a right to participate in the wholesale food marketplace.
Sustainability Plan
Most of our funding comes from earned income; we keep 13% of the revenue from each item of produce sold. At our current size, however, this only covers our operating costs, and we are seeking grants, competition awards, and private donations to raise the capital (approximately $750,000) needed to outfit a facility and purchase refrigerated vehicles large enough to serve all of Nashville's farmers.
Founding Story
A few years ago, I learned that 80% of the produce consumed in Havana, Cuba is grown in the city, by a network of small urban gardens (organóponicos). This system was established by the government practically overnight when the fall of the USSR left Cuba without the resources needed for conventional agriculture. First thought: Amazing! Second thought: Can it be done in the US? I decided it could, but we needed to, like Cuba, start thinking of the city as one giant urban farm, rather than a collection of little farms--with an efficient mechanism for aggregating and distributing food, even the tiniest of green patches could be used to grow food, and urban farming could reach the scale needed to compete with conventional produce distributors.
مزيد من المعلومات↓↑ إخفاء↑ إخفاءWhere do you ensure the availability of nutrients?
Healthy environments., Nutrient-rich farming.
If you had greater capacity, which additional sectors would you like your solution to target - either through expansion, partnership, or thought exchange?
Full nourishment foods, Human wellness and vitality.
How specifically would this added capacity help you improve the quality, efficiency, or sustainability of your existing product or service?
Currently, we are indirectly promoting the growth of new farms by providing them with a ready-made market, but I would love to establish a farmer incubator program that could more actively work to ensure that our area has a diverse, healthy, and happy base of farmers who are trained to maximize the environmental well-being of their land and the nutrition and taste of their crops. We would also like to work more closely with buyers to help make purchasing decisions that maximize the benefit, in both health and flavor, of using locally grown produce.
مزيد من المعلومات↓↑ إخفاء↑ إخفاءHow is your product or service connected to vitality for the people and planet?
Approximately 125 words left (1000 characters).
People need appropriate nutrients to grow, learn, and fight off disease. How do you measure, track, or make use of information about nutrient levels in your own work?
Approximately 100 words left (800 characters).
Considering the flow of nutrients from ecosystems to soil to farms to food to communities, what are the barriers to achieving vitality for people and the planet?
Other barriers you have identified
In your view, what developments need to happen in order to help overcome those barriers and produce a more nutrient rich and vital public and planet?
Approximately 125 words left (1000 characters).
What do you consider the most promising trends or evidence that indicates that the developments you described are emerging? Please elaborate.
Approximately 100 words left (800 characters).
This is a book written by a young Kenyan budding author about the challenges that face African youth such as climate change and unemployment and lack of opportunities. The a step by step practice and workable solutions that are brand new, innovative creative and perfect not just for developing countries but also for developed countries suffering from economic downturns. The book will spur thinking, debate, change, and growth world wide putting the youth agenda first in a remarkable way just needing more publicity to change the entire system.
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 03/7/2013 by Ukuli Homeofprojectu
Project U is a program that I am passionate about. We help people by giving back to the community, two-fold: We sell donated lightly used or new professional clothing at a discounted price via our online store. All garments will be priced below $10.00 so that anyone can "dress for success" on a budget. Project U is making it professionally affordable for people who may need help for an interview (for the unemployed), new job, business meeting/functions, and etc. 6% of our sales goes to charities like ADA (American Diabetes Association), Children's Hospital of Richmond, VA, and more to come.
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:
فكرة (أنت متأهب للإطلاق)
What problem is your organization committed to solving? In particular, share what is innovative about your approach.
Project U is a program that I am passionate about. We help people by giving back to the community, two-fold: We sell donated lightly used or new professional clothing at a discounted price via our online store. All garments will be priced below $10.00 so that anyone can "dress for success" on a budget. Project U is making it professionally affordable for people who may need help for an interview (for the unemployed), new job, business meeting/functions, and etc. 6% of our sales goes to charities like ADA (American Diabetes Association), Children's Hospital of Richmond, VA, and more to come. Project U is a win-win for everyone! Donated cloths makes room in for new cloths, helps others "dress for success", and in turn helps charities. The job market is fierce, we need to help each other win.
What are your organization's top three priorities in the next year?
Priority 1: Make a presence, connect with people and other organazations or companies that are like-minded.
Priority 2: Make a considerable donation to a charity from sales of the Project U Program
Priority 3: Find other ways we can empower people as it pertains to the professional success of others.
Need #1
Message & Brand Strategy
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!
We need donations of lightly used or new professional work cloths/attire. 6% of all sales goes to charity and in turn we have helped someone "dress for success" for whatever professional event, interview or otherwise, at a really affordable price. Its all about helping others; People help us, we help people, and we all help charities save the lives of others. HELP US GET OUR MESSAGE OUT!! HELP ME BUILD MY BRAND,...MY PROJECT,...MY PASSION!!
Will support from American Express be focused on your organization overall or a specific product/service? Please describe.
American Expresses focus will be on the overall program.
Have you focused on the above area previously? If so, please explain, including whether you have worked with outside consultants before.
I have worked with marketers via elance.com and used various social media connections aside from our website at teamukuli13@wix.com
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
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Hold an event that helps and empowers upcoming professionals
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Connect or partner with a company or organization that will help us continue to impact others
What has been the impact of your solution to date?
What is your project future impact after receiving professional support from American Express?
Our project could help someone who has been unemployed for a while and may not have the means to buy new clothing for an upcoming interview, or business engagement. Sometimes the way you look can break the deal. Also, by helping our project, you help charities. Helping to get our project out to the world will help me spread the word for other causes.
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Created on 03/6/2013 by cferrara
The most vulnerable populations in Mexico have limited access to banking services. Barared´s goal is to provide this segment of the population with the essential banking services to help them escape their poverty cycle, while at the same time helping small merchants to increase their income. The company does so by installing kiosks (1,117 installed to date) in small mom and pop stores that allow customers to access a wide variety of services , ranging from making a phone call to opening a bank account or paying their utilities.
مزيد من المعلومات ↓↑ إخفاء↑ إخفاءبلد المؤسسة
Mexico, DIF, Distrito Federal
البلد الذي تعمل به هذه المؤسسة على إنشاء تأثير اجتماعي
Mexico, DIF, Distrito Federal
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
Barared: Banking for the rest of Mexico
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.
The most vulnerable populations in Mexico have limited access to banking services. Barared´s goal is to provide this segment of the population with the essential banking services to help them escape their poverty cycle, while at the same time helping small merchants to increase their income. The company does so by installing kiosks (1,117 installed to date) in small mom and pop stores that allow customers to access a wide variety of services , ranging from making a phone call to opening a bank account or paying their utilities. These kiosks operate with top of the line technologies, such as Apple iPads and propietary information systems based on iOS.
What are your organization's top three priorities in the next year?
- Stabilization and consolidation of our systems and the technologic platform that operates our banking transactions.
- To bank both the working and the elderly population that live in our áreas of coverage
- To reach our goal of 1,900 installed kiosks, with every one of them operating between 300 and 450 transactions per day.
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!
- ARPU increase (more transactions per site)
- Bulding brand trust to acquire more customers
- Building customer loyalty
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- Honesty and truthfulness in everything we do
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- Proactivity and Positive attitude
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- Eagerness to grow and solidify our project through teamwork.
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 banking services (Opening bank accounts, cash deposits, cash withdrawal, etc.)
Have you focused on the above area previously? If so, please explain, including whether you have worked with outside consultants before.
Banking services is the area we are most working on right now. We have worked this with the help of our business partner Banamex.
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
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By the end of 2013: 1950 points of presence
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By the end of 2013: 39 municipalities within our coverage range
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By the end of 2013: 1,755,000 customers per month
What has been the impact of your solution to date?
What is your project future impact after receiving professional support from American Express?
- People who would normally spend between 1 and 2 hours to make their banking operations (this time includes moving towards and from the bank) are now able to make these transactions within meters of their homes.
- People would normally have to carry cash with them on very long routes, with the inherent danger that this represents. With Barared, people don´t have to carry cash anymore, as they are able to withdraw money as needes at our points of pressence.
- People used to spend between $25-$35 pesos on transportation going to the Banks. Now they ara at walking distance of our points, and the average cost per transaction within our sites is only $7 pesos
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We are at a crossroads when it comes to feeding the world. As food prices rise and food availability decreases it will become ever more difficult to survive.
Sun State Organics, LLC believes the answer lies in a revised growing method. A method that does not require tractors, shovels, inorganic chemicals or massive amounts of water, energy and labor. They believe that better systems can provide more with less and produce an abundance of food that is healthier, safer and more secure.
Jazzaponics is a project in which a vacant 60 ft. by 100 ft. lot is transformed into an urban high volume food production farm)and local residents and establishments take monthly subscriptions to receive fresh produce such as vegetables, fruit, herbs, and eggs (and fish a few months down the line) grown locally.
The vegetables are grown using Aquaponics farming techniques (a symbiotic relationship between fish and plants) and vertical growing.
Created on 01/21/2013 by LouiseKoch
Grundfos Lifelink is delivering a new model for sustainable water supply in the developing world that enables long-term financial and technical sustainability through an innovative combination of pump solutions, revenue management, and professional service support.
مزيد من المعلومات ↓↑ إخفاء↑ إخفاءTell us about yourself/your team.
The drive of my work is to develop new models for sustainable development building on business and cross-sector partnerships. My background is a master’s degree in anthropology and innovation, which I apply in my work as a Programme Manager of Global Partnerships & Communication in Grundfos Lifelink. I am part of a dedicated team of 10 people in Denmark, 4 in Kenya, and one in Thailand. I am 34 years old, from Denmark, and considering myself a global citizen. I feel most passionate and alive when I am together with engaged people exploring new ideas and solutions.
What makes you an intrapreneur? What are the skills, capabilities, and personality traits that make you an intrapreneur?
With my combined background in anthropology and innovation, together with my experiences in the intersect ion between business, innovation and international development, I am able to see the bigger picture of a situation, to understand human relations and motivations, to work and mediate across sectors and cultures, and to develop new ideas and solutions in collaboration with other people. I have always been driven to find solutions to social challenges. I keep my vision and passion as my guiding star and let this guide me to where I can make the biggest difference through my work.
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:
تطوير (ستكون الخطوة التالية تأثيرًا متزايدًا على النطاق الإقليمي أو حتى العالمي)
The Need: What social or environmental problem are you trying to solve?
What social or environmental problem are you trying to solve? [100 words]
884 million people do not have access to safe water. This causes 2 million deaths annually due to waterborne diseases, and it causes a great loss of human potential, when people struggle daily to cover their most basic needs. 8 billion USD are invested annually in total aid for the water sector. Unfortunately, the current models for water projects cannot cover the needs and are not sustainable. Most evaluations conclude that 50% of rural water projects fail within two years. The failures are primarily caused by lack of financing, capabilities, and spare parts for operation and maintenance.
The Solution: What is your solution? Be specific!
The Grundfos Lifelink (GLL) solution is an innovative water supply system for rural and urban water projects in the developing world. It combines a pump driven by solar energy with an automatic water dispenser including an innovative payment system based on mobile payment, remote monitoring and a professional service contract. The small user fee for water is transferred in a closed system to a service account, which covers for service and maintenance. A Grundfos certified technical team monitors all projects remotely via the internet and carry out service on behalf of the community. With the water revenue financing the on-going service and maintenance, this is a new and scalable model for long-term sustainable and self-financing water projects.
The Solution: Why is this solution innovative for your company and industry?
Why is this solution innovative for your company and industry? [70 words]
For Grundfos, this is the first initiative directly focused on the Base of the Pyramid segment. This requires an innovative approach in terms of technology, business models, value chains, partnerships, and service set-up compared to Grundfos’ main markets. For the water and development sector, GLL changes the game from low tech and unsustainable solutions to an intelligent and holistic approach that overcomes the main challenges of financial and technical sustainability.
The Model: Walk us through a specific example of how your solution makes a difference; include your primary activities.
Musingini is a community of 2000 inhabitants in rural Kenya and was the first community to benefit from a Grundfos Lifelink system in March 2009. Before, they had a hand pump, but it was broken down, so people walked several kilometers to the river to fetch water.
The pump was installed in the borehole and the entire Lifelink system implemented by the Kenyan Grundfos Lifelink team. Each household got a smart card ‘water key’ and the community received training on how the system works and on the relation between safe water and good health.
The community reports that water is now near and easy to tap, that there is no waiting time, that water borne diseases have gone down and children are more in school. Several young men have started a ‘water distribution business’ and others use the water for growing vegetables and tree seedlings. One year later, the community raised funds for extending a distribution line to the school, the health clinic and the central market place. Since inception, nearly 4 years ago, the community has only seen one day with interruption in the water supply, which was solved by the Kenyan technical service team from Grundfos.
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?
Who are your peers and competitors? Identify others who are working to address the same needs you are, and explain what differentiates you from them. What challenges could these players pose to your success or growth?
Water Health International also works holistically with payment system on a safe water solution. There is no direct competition yet, but possibly in Asia on water treatment in the future.
Elster Kent offers water metering and payment systems in Africa, but do not provide a total solution with remote monitoring and service team.
The primary challenge for GLL is to change the mindset in the sector from the traditional and often unsustainable approach with short term investment in low tech hand pumps, towards a long-term approach focusing on lifecycle cost and the sustainability of the solution.
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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 story of Grundfos Lifelinks starts back in 2006 when the chairman of Grundfos, Mr. Niels Due Jensen, was travelling in Thailand and saw how poor people struggled to get clean water. Mr. Jensen declared that Grundfos should do something about this and established a team to develop a sustainable solution. Both the solar driven pump and the remote monitoring system were existing products, but now combined in a totally new solution with the water dispenser and the integration of the MPESA mobile payment system developed by Safaricom in Kenya.
What has been the impact of your solution to date?
38 projects in Kenya and 2 projects in Uganda provide reliable access to safe water for nearly 100,000 people. On average, each community consumes around 1000 m3 of safe water each year. The social impacts in the community are multiple. Health clinics report that incidences of water borne diseases has reduced significantly; school teachers report that children are performing better in school due to better health and more time spent studying; micro-business activities with water distribution, brick making, and growing of vegetables and tree seedlings have started. Conflicts around management of water and money have reduced in the communities. And even the men have become more involved in fetching water, alleviating women to spend more time and energy on family and productive activities.
What is your projected impact over the next 1 to 3 years?
On all our demonstration projects in Kenya we have committed ourselves to service and maintain the water systems for a minimum of 10 years. This will provide a reliable platform for a continued socio-economic development.
In the next 3 years we will scale up operations to a range of countries in East and West Africa through networks of local sales & service partners and partnerships with government, NGOs and water companies as our customers. Our goal is to reach 3 million people in 2015 with safe water from a Grundfos Lifelink dispenser, and continuously scaling up from there.
What barriers might hinder the success of your project? How do you plan to overcome them?
A: It takes time to establish a new organisation in a new country.
Solution: Alliances with local Grundfos companies or distributors as sales and service partners.
B: The cost of the water dispenser was too high to demonstrate a clear value for money.
Solution: Redesigning the dispenser from scratch and launching a new version in early 2014 at 10% of the price.
C: The ‘total project solution’ does not always match the need of the customer.
Solution: Apply a modular approach where the customer can buy only the dispenser or a larger set-up with pumps solutions according to needs.
مزيد من المعلومات↓↑ إخفاء↑ إخفاءWhat is the benefit or value you're creating for your business?
A: Building a new market for Grundfos in the BOP segment
B: Creating positive awareness through e.g. BBC Horizons documentary on Grundfos Lifelink and receiving the ‘World Business and Development Awards’ by UNDP a.o. at Rio+20.
C: Pioneering new models for business, service and partnerships in Grundfos.
D: Creating pride internally amongst Grundfos employees about the initiative
How are you leveraging internal resources (funds, time, knowledge, etc.) to support this initiative?
Grundfos is investing long-term in the development of GLL as a new business company. From being a very independent start-up company and platform for radical innovation, GLL is now becoming more integrated in the larger Grundfos Group in order to scale up. This means leveraging R&D knowledge, production facilities, market analysis, marketing and communication efforts, and not least distribution, sales and service through the local Grundfos companies in Africa and later Asia. With this set-up, we can rapidly scale up production and delivery by building on the global capacity and reach of Grundfos across 50 countries.
Expand on your answer, explaining the long-term funding and support plan.
Sustainability and social responsibility is in the DNA of Grundfos, a family owned global company with 18,000 employees, strong values and strong economy. With GLL, Grundfos is pioneering a new model of ‘business with a social purpose’ with top-level commitment. Grundfos is investing in the development of new products for GLL, including the new water dispenser and a new water treatment system. During 2013, GLL will get three dedicated business development managers in East Africa, West Africa, and in Southern Africa to drive the scale up. A business development manager in Thailand is preparing the introduction to the Asian market.
Tell us about your partnerships across your company and externally that are key to your project's success.
Internally, the support from top management and product development is key, together with buy in from regional managers in Africa and Asia.
Externally, we have benefitted from partnerships with Safaricom, from the support of the Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Government of Kenya, and from partnerships with development actors like the UN and the Red Cross, who are our customers.
What internal support have you gotten for your project? What kind of push-back have you received?
The vision and commitment from the chairman Niels Due Jensen and the management to invest in this initiative has been crucial to keep momentum.
Being a radical new business, there has been many disbelievers, but the people who believe in our mission and support us directly or indirectly is growing both internally and externally.
Created on 01/10/2013 by cihenacho
The organization that we propose looks to pioneer a new model for road development within poor developing communities. Through circumventing the traditional model of vast, expensive government-funded projects we offer a means of shifting to smaller, cheaper privately funded road construction & maintenance projects.
مزيد من المعلومات ↓↑ إخفاء↑ إخفاءTell us about yourself/your team.
Our core team leading the initiative consists primarily of a multi-displinary group of 7 undergraduate and graduate engineering students. Representative disciplines include civil engineering, biomedical engineering, mechanical engineering, industrial design, and transportation engineering. Aside from this working team, our larger team of partners stretches across the globe and includes individuals from academia, government, and the private sector. Myself and our team believe completely in intrinsic power of community. Time and time again we've seen, politically and economically, that real and sustainable change is only possible it builds on the time tested institutions and cultures of the community. In the realm of infrastructure, this is what we wish to build; a sustainable cup
What makes you an intrapreneur? What are the skills, capabilities, and personality traits that make you an intrapreneur?
An intrapreneur is a person that appreciates the potential & capacity of "the establishment" to make meaningful impacts on the world. These institutions, be them corporations or governments, while often demonized are among the most efficient, time-tested means of bringing about widespread & sustainable change. To me these institutions show the constructive power of community & unified determination. I love people. I love the complexity of community & working to exploit the unrealized potential of individuals & groups alike. Its my belief that we need not always create & re-create, but instead cultivate & invest in that which exists.It’s my belief the potential of those present, the establishment & individuals to do great is not fully appreciated. I feel all intrapreneurs look to prove this
Company Country
United States, GA, Atlanta
Primary country where this project is creating social impact
Additional countries or regions
Africa, Haiti, South America, India
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?
We're looking to address all the social, environmental, health, and economic problems that arise from outdated, under-maintained, and mis-managed transportation networks. Roads are very important to poor economies. For many of these countries their extensive networks of roadways are often the nations’ biggest assets. Despite their importance though, most roads in Africa are poorly managed, funded & maintained. The economic costs of bad roads are surprisingly high and these costs are largely borne by the road users. For example many times roads become impassable during rainy season & poor road maintenance thus has a huge negative effect on agricultural output. There is an overwhelming need in the private and public sector alike for a innovative solution in this sector & we feel we have one.
The Solution: What is your solution? Be specific!
Our larger vision is to develop a platform or independent entity that's able to directly grow communities through optimizing transportation networks of individual entities (ie. private businesses highly dependent on road networks, farmers' co-ops, NGOs, local governments, etc.) We’d help organizations through optimizing supply-chains & coordinating the unique service of individualized maintenance and patching of the organization’s road network. An initial array of economic analyses and engineering surveys of our client’s transportation networks would allow us to quantify the effects of existing local inefficiencies and then propose cost-saving maintenance and optimizing solutions. By improving transportation networks & the productivity of these individual community institutions we incrementally develop the larger transportation network in a strategic, cost-effective way. Comparable to micro-financing, this could be loosely thought of as "micro-infrastructure" development.
The Solution: Why is this solution innovative for your company and industry?
It proposes a way of taking the massive prognosis of reforming infrastructure & decomposes it into small, affordable, and targeted projects that have almost immediate & measurable effects.It proposes a method of effectively & sustainably subsidizing a service that alternatively would be done by government at higher cost, often times to a lower standards.We propose a scheme for the bottom-up infrastructure development & encourage private-public collaboration among other things
The Model: Walk us through a specific example of how your solution makes a difference; include your primary activities.
In areas heavily dependent on agribusiness, a common problem is the severely under-maintained network of rural, farm-to-market roads. Often times, after crops are harvested or even during growing season, extreme flooding during or complications often have particularly negative effectives on the translation of crop yields into market productivity. For example in Nigeria flooded roads often isolate whole communities and prevent goods from effectively being transported. In the event we’re working with a large farmers’ co-op in a particular rural area, our organization would first study & survey the relevant farm-to-market routes to quantify how the existing damaged/dilapidated system is costing the farmers and local community. We’d then propose minimalist maintenance solutions. In such cases, an appropriate solution might be the monitoring and continuous upkeep of a 5 km stretch of road along a high priority trade route for 3 months during the height of rainy season. The proper laying of gravel or cobble roads during this time could even function as technically viable solutions. By guaranteeing a functional trading route we’re in turn guaranteeing that farmers’ are able to maximize their profits during a time when they would otherwise be incurring losses. The extension of informal rural networks to larger, well-maintained government roads is another example of possible applications of our model within a rural setting. There are also a variety of scenarios that would allow for the application of our model with more urban settings.
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?
Broadly speaking there isn’t a very significant number of private transportation consulting firms in developing regions. Thus our distant peers & competitors would include organizations such as CDM Smith & Balfour Bueatty, as well as the likes of Accenture & The Boston Consulting Group. We look to differentiate ourselves by combining supply chain, financial, management, & transportation consulting services of these entities to corporate and non-corporate business entities within developing economies. We look to adapt different existing models found within this corporate service industry to better serve & directly impact BOP markets. Our big challenge to competing with them and local firms would be access to resources and technical talent.
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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 my travels, in conversations about Nigeria and Africa, in almost all African circles or of those individuals from poor regions, I noticed problem of bad roads consistently and perpetually emerged as a problematic motif or sorts. To a point, it has even become an engrained part of the "African experience". I began getting curious about solutions. I noticed it was a sector that seemed hopelessly stagnant and had been so (in the case of Nigeria) for almost 50 years. After doing some initial research & discovering the true impact of roads on economies, addressing this particular issue became a matter of necessity. Being a biomedical engineering major, it might have been my exposure to many medical scenarios that valued minimally invasive scenarios, but one night (possibly right after a shower) the basic premise of minimalist, highly specific solutions suddenly seemed relevant for the space. From there I began the extremely slow process of building the idea integrity & a viable model.
What has been the impact of your solution to date?
Our team has been developing and incubating our idea for almost 2 years now. We're just now at the stage we're moving to start organizing and launching our pilot. Thus our impact to this point has been limited. However our presence at a variety of conferences & events such as the 2012 Global Health & Innovation Conference held a Yale University and the 5th Harambe Bretton Wood Symposium has helped to start conversations about the infrastructure development, the importance of private-public relationships in development, and inspired many individuals to mobilize and work towards making this mere idea a reality.
What is your projected impact over the next 1 to 3 years?
Over the next 1-3 years we look to be able to have successfully completed our pilot and proven concept. During this process we look to heavily document and study all points of our interventions and use our experience to potentially assemble a toolkit that might allow us to establish a platform and model of doing business that might then be incorporated into the advisement services of other existing firms looking to do similar work. We'd look to do this in a way that emphasizes transparency, encourages private-public partnerships, and effectively integrates our new business culture and paradigm into communities. As we develop our social impact model and logistics we'd focus on maximizing social, economic, and environmental impact on the citizens of communities which we're working within.
What barriers might hinder the success of your project? How do you plan to overcome them?
There are many significant problems that currently stand to hinder the success of our project. Due to our relatively young and inexperienced team consisting primarily of students we're severely limited in our capacity to gain access to funds, resources, and technical expertise that could be would be helpful in accelerating the speed at which this project progresses as well as aiding the formation of our logistical, social impact, and business models. At the present moment, we're limited our capacity to obtain more current market and on-the-ground info. Knowing this could aid us in better predicting project costs and determining the true margins our intervention could generate. We feel many of these issues can be resolved as we continue to grow our effort, make partners & market ourselves.
مزيد من المعلومات↓↑ إخفاء↑ إخفاءWhat is the benefit or value you're creating for your business?
Direct economic returns would be evident by looking at the comparative savings in operational costs, employment rates, and marginal profits of our clients. Monitoring everything from traffic mortality rates, traffic wait times, vehicle speeds, and comparative trip times will allow us to measure our larger economic, social and environmental community impact. Long term figures that would be indicative of our impact would include local rates of inflation, stats relevant to agribusiness activity, and local employment rates.
How are you leveraging internal resources (funds, time, knowledge, etc.) to support this initiative?
As a team of students and this initiative being within its early stages, it is currently being pursed on a part-time basis as we also pursue our studies. A significant amount of my own personal money has already been invested as well as funds from local school grants. They've gone towards travel costs for conferences and summits, as well as towards promotional/advertising items needed for conference & competition appearances. Other resources we've leveraged over the past few months of working as an assembled team include the knowledge and expertise of professors and on-campus staff, as well as from individuals within our personal & professional networks. We're plugged in the international network of Harambe Entrepreneurial Alliance as well as Atlanta's own community of entrepreneurs.
Expand on your answer, explaining the long-term funding and support plan.
Our plans for ensuring our long term sustainability employ a variety of means. Following our pilot we'd look to begin the establishment of an internal road fund. As a condition for our service, our clients would pledge to pay a percentage of our service fee towards this fund. Like an endowment, such a fund would be restrictive in its use and partially invested. We'd work from an entrepreneurial standpoint to adjust & maximize our services like any other consultant group. Also, as we establish and come to understand the value proposition of our model, we'd then work to build a toolkit and flexible platform we could distribute & sell to existing private entities and even government-aligned groups to promote the active engagement of the private sector in helping fund infrastructure projects.
Tell us about your partnerships across your company and externally that are key to your project's success.
As our project is still within its very early stages, we feel that many of these key partnerships have yet to have been made. However so far we have garnered a lot of help and support from our local network of Georgia Tech & Emory students and faculty as well as from several Atlanta entrepreneurs, local cultural grassroots organizations, and those members within the Harambe Entrepreneurial Alliance. We have other budding partnerships we look to continue cultivating.
What internal support have you gotten for your project? What kind of push-back have you received?
I've gotten a wide variety of support in the form of information, pledged expertise, design & branding assistance, and some financial support for the project so far. The team's been utilizing our own time, talents, & hard work to push the initiative forward. The biggest pushback this project has received has to do with speculation on how government corruption will effect the project, concerns about financial sustainability, & the actual marginal benefit of our intervention.
Student to Student is dedicated to addressing the achievement gap by providing low-income NYC students high quality SHSAT test preparation. The sad reality is that high-income students are a step ahead of their lower income peers because they have access to important and expensive resources outside of the classroom. Student to Student will allow motivated and talented NYU students to mentor and tutor NYC middle school students, thereby giving NYU students an invaluable opportunity to gain real-world experience and engage with their community.
Created on 01/6/2013 by iwillhelp
iWillHelp is a SaaS application launched in the fall of 2012 has the overall purpose to provide a means by which business relationships can be fostered around Strategic Giving to charities.
iwillhelp closes the gap between companies, clients and community.
مزيد من المعلومات ↓↑ إخفاء↑ إخفاءTell us about yourself/your team.
From very early on, Grant has demonstrated his consummate creative entrepreneurial tendencies by recognizing, and then creating solutions for business and community processes for his own and for others companies. Being raised in the bastion of entrepreneurship, (Alberta, Canada), he has a deep understanding of what motivates business people, but also what social entrepreneurship can accomplish. His early days found Grant deep in service to others, where his involvement with Camps for underprivileged children lead him down the path of volunteerism and community service that has consumed his life. “Doing Good” is not a passing thought, it’s his mantra for living a good and wonderful life.
What makes you an intrapreneur? What are the skills, capabilities, and personality traits that make you an intrapreneur?
Grant was brought into an entrepreneurial family that created their own future upon arriving in Western Canada from Romania many years ago. A bit of a rebel within business circles, he has shaken things up for companies and industries through seizing on opportunities that he sees within certain sectors. Often miss-understood but always respected, if you were to list the most common traits of entrepreneurs; you would be describing Grant to the letter. Currently working with the largest promotional product distributor in Canada and one of the largest in North America, Grant has brought significant value to the creation of new processes, innovative products and unique marketing aspects to the company.
Primary country where this project is creating social impact
Additional countries or regions
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?
It has been reported that in both Canada and the United States that Small to Medium Enterprise (SME) do very little with respect to donating part of their income to charitable causes. In fact, only about 4-5% of all charitable giving comes of this 95% of the business sector. With the volume of transactions within this sector being of Billions of dollars on any given day, there is a huge opportunity to get these companies to donate more if they were able to justify it as a business investment, rather than a philanthropic event.
You see, companies by their very nature are not geared to give away their profit. However, if we could turn that into an investment in marketing, then there would be a greater likelihood that they would allocate more to it.
The Solution: What is your solution? Be specific!
Recognizing this huge opportunity for companies to give more, and also for recognizing that more and more smaller companies are incorporating Customer Relationship Management (CRM) solutions into their business, we have created iwillhelp which is a CRM that actually has the added component of incorporating a charitable gifting platform into the client management program. Our CRM actually allows users to grant charity credits to their clients that the client can then direct to a charity of their choice. This effectively takes companies philanthropy budget and turns it into a marketing opportunity because they empower their clients to choose the charity it goes to. This effectively is a client rewards program where the benefit ends up with a charity, rather than the individual.
The Solution: Why is this solution innovative for your company and industry?
The Growth of CRM’s for SME’s is huge with many different creators of these types of applications popping up all the time. The one thing we have not seen is a CRM that not only tracks a client’s activity, but also incorporates a valuable “thank you” component. Our CRM has a built in rewards program where a user can provide a thank you, reward or acknowledgment to their client by giving them the opportunity to direct funds to a charity of their choice.
The Model: Walk us through a specific example of how your solution makes a difference; include your primary activities.
A company can sign up for free and use the iwillhelp CRM component as a free utility for client management. Once they load their clients into the CRM they can allocate charity credits to each one of them at any time and for any reason. Once these charity credits are allocated, iwillhelp let’s the client know that their account has been credited and by whom. The client simply clicks on a link in this email to open their space within the CRM where they can select from over 83,000 registered charities in the iwillhelp data base. Through a few simple clicks the client indicates which charity should get the donation and when this happens the user of the CRM gets billed for the transaction. The company is only invoiced for the transaction when the charity is selected by the client. If the client never makes the selection then the company gets all the touch points, but never gets charged for it. It’s customer engagement of the highest caliber when they work together to allocated a portion of a business transaction to a charity.
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 many charitable gifting programs and many CRM’s out there. However, within our realm of research there are no other applications that bring together the client management systems with the component of a charitable gifting platform. Our CRM has huge potential of being a significant mover of funds because our software is portable and we intend on bringing it to other jurisdictions so we can tap into local economies as well. We will create iwillhelpcalifornia.com iwillhelporegon.com iwillhelpUK.com, and so on.
In addition, we intend on setting up API interface where other CRM’s can access our data bases of charities and money movement system. Even companies that already use other CRM’s will be able to use us to move money and engage with their clients on a deeper level.
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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.
When I was looking a way to thank my clients that I had worked with over the years I hypothesized that there was a way that could mean more to both of us. “What if we could agree that a portion of my profit would be directed to a charity of their choice, and not mine?” This not only engages them in the gifting process because they get to allocate the funds to where they want, but also it gives me a value added touch point with them, which for me translates into a marketing opportunity. I also thought that if saw this as a wonderful marketing opportunity, what impact would this be if I made it available to others around the world. What a huge difference this could make. So what started as a personal endevour to "Do Good" and get corporate credit for it, has blossomed into a movement that all SME's could benefit as well as the charitable sector.
What has been the impact of your solution to date?
Our application has only been up and running for about 6 weeks, but we have already channeled money to charities through the early adopters of our program. It takes only a minute to allocate charity credits and less than a minute to donate them, so the process is very simple and convenient for all. We have had some very early good press and the program has been endorsed by some of my clients as unique, innovate and brilliant. (Isn’t that what you want your clients to say about you?)
What is your projected impact over the next 1 to 3 years?
With the amount of money that is transacted within the SME sector and with such a small amount of funds coming from this sector to charitable casuses, (largely because there hasn’t been a vehicle to facilitate this and turn it into a marketing and investment opportunity) there is simply an amazing impact that we could have around the world. It would be impossible to measure or predict, but our software is working now and is scalable. Our capacity is limitless which makes our potential astronomical.
What barriers might hinder the success of your project? How do you plan to overcome them?
With our programming working and only being tweaked, our biggest hurdle will be adoption of our process. It will take tremendous resources to market and spread the word of how iwillhelp can work for a company to not only enhance their relationships with their clients but also be able to move money to charities. There is great competition with similar software programs so standing out will be a significant challenge that can be overcome by employing strategic marketing and relationship strategies. The thing is, we are a working business pushing money to charities now, so we will focus almost all of our attention on marketing with public relations being a significant part of this. Hopefully success in this contest will be a part of PR campaign.
مزيد من المعلومات↓↑ إخفاء↑ إخفاءWhat is the benefit or value you're creating for your business?
Our business is working and we are pushing money to charities for about 40 companies that have signed up thus far. iwillhelp is building a bank of charity credits that can be turned into donations at anytime. And with iwillhelp’s commitment of only charging a 5% administration fee, we have monetized our business process.
How are you leveraging internal resources (funds, time, knowledge, etc.) to support this initiative?
I personally have gifted all of my LinkedIn connections $10 each for their Christmas which has caused a great stir of interest in what this iwillhelp is all about and what it can do. It has already translated into business for me through the business that originally was doing prior to me setting up iwillhelp. This is also allowing me to play with the application so we can make it even better for business poeple to use.
Expand on your answer, explaining the long-term funding and support plan.
We can operate the business as it is through our own start up funds and through growing it organically. However, we want to make a significant impact on the gifting process by raising a significant amount of capital by way of a share offering that will secure the dedicated marketing funds required to make significant inroads in user ship.
Tell us about your partnerships across your company and externally that are key to your project's success.
Our program is being supported by myself and by the technology company, Lexicom whom I have worked on internet projects with since 1994. They are not only creating the programming but two of their principals have invested cash into iwillhelp because of all the programs that have viewed over the years, they feel this one has the greatest potential.
What internal support have you gotten for your project? What kind of push-back have you received?
Management of BrandAlliance has been incredibly supportive of my endeavor. They see it as yet another one of my creative ventures that can provide us with a significant rewards program that can provide great benefits to our clients personal causes, which will endear us to them even more.
Created on 01/2/2013 by Sacha Carina
Millions of small businesses exist in slums worldwide. Most of them do not have formally recognised addresses, which makes it difficult to send and receive goods. TNT and Vodafone have studied the opportunities of mobile-based addresses, which could enable local stores to rise above poverty by connecting their business to a larger market in the future.
مزيد من المعلومات ↓↑ إخفاء↑ إخفاءTell us about yourself/your team.
www.sachacarina.com
(a Pinterest style overview with photos/videos of the field researches I have conducted in Kenya, India and Tanzania)
I would like to start with a saying I truly believe in: "If you are working in an institution with the means to truly make a difference in the world,optimism of the spirit is a moral responsibility" (world bank)
I work at TNT Express as Global Program Manager Innovation. The global program I have developed focusses on the area where our business, technology (ICS) and society meet. Within this triangle, my ambition is to create shared value for all.
Within the slum logistics project, I have successfully developed the partnership between TNT, Vodafone's Mpesa team and a group of representatives of a local slum in India (Mumbai).
What makes you an intrapreneur? What are the skills, capabilities, and personality traits that make you an intrapreneur?
There are three key characteristics that I believe every entrepreneur should have (...and I hope I have): 1.Go out and meet people, 2.Have a strong believe in your ideals and 3. Think different!
Connect with people: I do not want to work within an office environment. Every possible moment, I want to go into the field and meet locals. I have spend 2 months in Kibera slum, visited rural areas in Tanzania and explored the maze-structured streets of Dharavi (India).
Believe in your ideals: My true believe in this project made that TNT and Vodafone wanted to be part of this project. If you speak from the heart, you can move mountains!
Think different: I mixed logistics with mobile phone locations to create a better world...and it works!
Company Country
Netherlands, NH, Amsterdam
Primary country where this project is creating social impact
Additional countries or regions
all developing countries worldwide
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?
Millions of small businesses exist in slums worldwide. Most of them do not have formally recognised addresses, which makes it difficult to send and receive goods. An address can enable local stores to rise above poverty by connecting their business to a larger market.
Chris, a Kibera slum resident explains: "One million people live in Kibera, but we do not have addresses. So when I ordered a camera to use as a journalist, I could not receive the package directly. I had to walk to the nearest postal office at a 3.5km distance. And not just once, I did not know when the package would arrive, so I had to walk back and forth regularly. The people who live in Kibera have little money, so when a package arrives, we even have to bribe the the local authorities to ensure the delivery..."
The Solution: What is your solution? Be specific!
The study showed that mobile phone locations (Geocodes) could be connected to TNT's express global logistics network. In the future, mobile based addresses could leapfrog street names and postal codes in extremely dense and maze-structured urban areas; slums.
An extra added value will be the option to transfer money via the reliable Mpesa (Vodafone's mobile payment system). Local slum businesses could securely do business on the global market place, because cash payments are impossible when doing businesses abroad!
Want to read more about the project? Check out the published articles:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/sustainable-business/delivery-slum-business-mo...
http://urbanpoverty.intellecap.com/?p=558
The Solution: Why is this solution innovative for your company and industry?
This solution is innovative for TNT express and the transport industry, because currently formal addresses are based on street names and postal codes. The technology of linking mobile phones to address locations is new to this industry.
The solution will not only be innovative for the transport industry; it will have a huge positive impact on all other sectors; food security, access to healthcare, emergency responses... Logistics are at the core of all global challenges.
The Model: Walk us through a specific example of how your solution makes a difference; include your primary activities.
a local slum entrepreneur sells leather bags via internet. He receives an order from a customer in Europe. Via a text message from Mpesa, he knows that the money is being paid by the customer. The mobile money will be released when he send the bag. When the bag is ready, he calls TNT for pick up of the package. TNT identifies his location via the GPS coordinates. The package is being collected. If the bag has been delivered to the customer via TNT, Mpesa directly transfers the money to the local slum entrepreneur.
Visa versa, if a local slum entrepreneur orders spare parts for his bike shop, he can use his mobile phone number as address location. He pays via Mpesa. Mpesa holds the money until the entrepreneur receives the spare parts. Then, the money is being transferred. TNT delivers the spare parts to the GPS location that has been registered with the mobile phone number.
Reliable logistics and secure payments stimulate local slum businesses to rise out of poverty by connecting them to the global market place.
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 2 key differentiators that could potentially give an advantage to the mobile-based address system: First, the mobile-based addresses could directly be linked to a global network. Local carriers do not have this direct connection to a global network. Second, this mobile-based address system could combine the option to securely transfer money via mobile payments. Secure payments are key to stimulate local businesses to participate in the global market place.
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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.
With a group of 5 students, I have spend 2 months in Kibera slum (Nairobi, Kenya) for a field research in 2010. Back in the Netherlands, one of our friends from Kibera asked if we could send him a camera. Willing to support his career as a journalist, we tried to send him a camera. At this moment, I noticed that it is almost impossible to send a camera to someone living in a slum! Aha, the idea of creating addresses for informal settlements was born!
What has been the impact of your solution to date?
Up to this date, we have conduced a local field research in Dharavi slum. The outcome of this research is that there is a lot of potential for Geocode (GPS) based address locations.
We did as well identify other areas of potential impact: formal parts of mega cities in emerging markets (there are many 'formal' houses in Mumbai that do not have an address either), rural areas and emergency situations (e.g.: geocode locations can be used to deliver goods after a disaster has occurred).
What is your projected impact over the next 1 to 3 years?
Within three years, we want to have mobile based addresses implemented in Honduras. Honduras is one of the first countries that we want to support to develop logistics and infrastructure to empower local 'BoP' communities.
TNT supports the logistics development of Honduras via our partnership with SUSTAIN (SUSTAIN is an NGO founded by TNT, UPS, WVI and Care International) to give consultancy advice on sustainable supply chain solutions for underdeveloped countries.
What barriers might hinder the success of your project? How do you plan to overcome them?
Barriers can arise by implementing local ICS infrastructure and combining it to existing logistics. Honduras is a completely different than India, so the solution needs to be adapted to local differences.
We can overcome these problems by doing a good local field research, involve ICS experts and work together with local government and the BoP societies to establish a new type of address system.
مزيد من المعلومات↓↑ إخفاء↑ إخفاءWhat is the benefit or value you're creating for your business?
The value of the research for TNT's business is to learn more about mobile based addresses. Leapfrogging technologies can always be useful in the future for core processes.
How are you leveraging internal resources (funds, time, knowledge, etc.) to support this initiative?
TNT supports SUSTAIN's developments in Honduras, which could be a location to pilot geocode based addresses for local farmers. The pilot would be executed via the SUSTAIN partnership, which means that the funds and time will be covered by them. Potentially extra funds are needed. Option can be to look at a Public Private Partnerships to obtain the initial investment. TNT will bring in the knowledge of the research on mobile-based addresses by sending out TNT employees to Honduras to manage the project.
Expand on your answer, explaining the long-term funding and support plan.
Currently we do not have an long-term funding and support plan. A more detailed plan will follow from a potential Honduras pilot.
Tell us about your partnerships across your company and externally that are key to your project's success.
The 3 key external partnerships for TNT to support this research have been; the WBCSD (Technology enablers initiative), Vodafone Group Ltd. (Mpesa) and SUSTAIN (partnership of TNT, UPS, WVI and Care International). The WBCSD serves as a catalyst to start innovative projects and has linked TNT to Vodafone for the slum research.
What internal support have you gotten for your project? What kind of push-back have you received?
Internally, we have had top-down and bottom-up support. Top Down: The TNT Board of Management has supported the local field research in India. Bottom-up: we have had strong support from TNT Mumbai and the local depot managers to execute the field research.
Created on 12/11/2012 by LBustani
Mandalah has been helping organizations of all shapes and sizes throughout the world become sensitive to the changes going on around us and the need to redefine the role business plays not merely within a marketplace, but within society as a whole. Mandalah exists at the magical intersection between profit and purpose.
مزيد من المعلومات ↓↑ إخفاء↑ إخفاءTell us about yourself/your team.
Born in New York, raised in a few different countries, and trained at the University of Pennsylvania and Schumacher College (UK), people and places have always left their marks on me. In 2006 I started up Mandalah alongside my friend Igor Botelho. Our mission is to bring new perspectives to how organizations see their roles within society, inviting them to a more systemic discussion on how commerce can be at the service of society’s overall wellbeing.
In 2012, I was:
- Included in Fast Company's list of the 100 Most Creative People in Business;
- Chosen by Trip Magazine as one of 11 Brazilians under 40 changing the country and the world;
- Selected by Época Magazine as one of the 100 Most Influential Brazilians of the year.
What makes you an intrapreneur? What are the skills, capabilities, and personality traits that make you an intrapreneur?
First off, I believe in the possibility – and power – of change, and that it is always within our reach. I am committed to dialogue as the only effective and genuine means of bringing about sustainable change, as dialogue implies we will “meet in the middle” and co-exist, even in the face of adversity. I have a deep conviction that change must be organic – come from within, from each individual’s consciousness – in order to withstand the test of time. And I believe change is contagious, when people see the benefit in embracing it. Finally, I have a strong intuition that power and love must be balanced – power without love is authoritative, and love without power is anemic. To bring about effective and long-lasting change, both must be in equilibrium.
Primary country where this project is creating social impact
Additional countries or regions
Mexico, USA, Germany and Japan
Industry
Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services
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?
I try not to see our work as solving a problem. I prefer to see it as an evolutionary challenge. After decades doing business in a vacuum via Cartesian, mechanistic and short-term thinking, we have come to realize that this modus operandi is not sustainable and that whatever progress we seem to be making is clouded by the catastrophic impact business is having on the planet and on the quality of peoples’ lives. Time to shift gears, adopt a more systemic view of business and understand how commerce can create shared value through common agendas where everyone wins. Helping people become sensitive to this moment of reflection (and inflection) and open to new ways of doing business is at the crux of this evolutionary challenge.
The Solution: What is your solution? Be specific!
Our solution lies in the magical intersection between purpose and profit, where dialogue reigns and value is shared.
- Find order in chaos – The world is a complex environment, in constant flux. Either create an illusory sense of stability and try to make everything as secure as possible or accept the chaos and find order within it by quickly adapting. Go with the latter.
- Think systemically – No man is an island and the same is even truer for corporations. Time for them to recognize that the ramifications of their actions transcend the marketplace and have a broader, societal component that must not be neglected.
- New “C” – We are citizens before consumers. Understanding this will help companies focus on unmet human needs rather than mere consumer aspirations.
- Dialogue – Identify those that are usually not on your radar but that are impacted by your business. Hear them out. Empathize.
- Share the value – Identify where all stakeholder interests align; win-win opps.
The Solution: Why is this solution innovative for your company and industry?
The approach outlined above is somewhat liberating, as it invites us to leave the office and explore the world first-hand. Frameworks and theories are helpful but experiential, transformative learning is more insightful. This approach also requires us to tap into both our right and left brains, mixing reason with intuition. From an industry-perspective, our approach represents a new mental model aimed at helping businesses do well while doing good.
The Model: Walk us through a specific example of how your solution makes a difference; include your primary activities.
In 2010 Nike asked us to help develop a systemic vision for the brand in Rio de Janeiro in anticipation of the 2014 World Cup and the 2016 Olympics. We engaged in dialogue with artists, community leaders, athletes, social entrepreneurs, musicians and cultural producers to understand their views on the city as well as their needs and interests as citizens (not just consumers). Based on our findings, we advised Nike on a bottom-up approach based on 2 adjacent principles: sport as a catalyst for social transformation and sport as an integrative force among residents of the city (shared value).
Over the past year, a number of initiatives in different neighborhoods were conceived based on this concept, such as: refurbishment of facilities, creation of football training centers, sport competitions, sponsorship of athletes from low income neighborhoods, etc. These activations have had a resounding success and late last year, research conducted by Rio’s main newspaper reported that Nike was the top of mind sports clothing brand among residents of the city. The take-aways from this case are numerous:
__Do more, say less – focus on getting things done, connecting with people and less so on selling yourself.
__Be the Nudge – always encourage people to do things that are essentially good for them.
__Bottom up – start from the bottom, where real change is most necessary, and see your efforts trickle up.
__Empower the mobilizers – give resources to those people that are already moving the masses and making things happen.
__Be an integrative force – bring people together.
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?
I do not believe in competition in the traditional sense, where a single player is a threat to one’s survival and prosperity. In fact, to the extent that other well-intentioned companies are emerging, wanting to help organizations do better business, we should celebrate, not only because we were the first to bring this discussion to the forefront back in 2006, but especially since there are still too few of us who think differently to serve the entire market. In terms of differentiation, I would highlight our multidisciplinary team, our humanist approach to all that we do, our creative flair given our Brazilian origins as well as our tireless (and non-negotiable) commitment to only engaging in projects that necessarily improve peoples’ lives.
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.
Fortunately, it seems that everyday is an “Aha” moment, in varying degrees, of course. However, one special moment does in fact stand out.
In 2011 we completed a 1-year study for General Motors (GM) on the future of urban mobility, with a focus on developing megacities (cities with more than 10 million inhabitants). We researched renewable fuels, public private partnerships, new technologies and materials, public transport and urban planning. The output of the study was a suite of 32 “better future” scenarios and ironically few, if any, had to do with cars. We were desperately trying to signal to GM that the future of urban mobility went beyond motorized vehicles.
A few months after the project, an employee from GM forwarded us an internal memo from GM’s South American President making reference to this study and stating that it was time for GM to transition from “General Motors” to “General Mobility.”
They got it. They turned the key and never looked back.
What has been the impact of your solution to date?
As a result of our project, a specific Urban Mobility department was created at GM, consisting of reps from all the major regions, where knowledge was pooled and the 32 innovation opportunities we put forth in our study were subjected to feasibility studies. Quantitatively, it is too early to measure the impact, only because this project is about re-engineering GM’s core activities. Qualitatively, however, we can clearly sense a paradigm shift among GM’s leadership, who are much more open to discuss these alternative futures where cars are not the protagonists. The end result of all this will be that GM will soon be better prepared to offer solutions that effectively and sustainably meet people’s mobility needs as opposed to saturating congested streets with expensive, inefficient and oversized machines that are responsible for respiratory illnesses and ozone layer deterioration. We believe GM professionals stand to gain from this as well as citizens all over the world.
What is your projected impact over the next 1 to 3 years?
In terms of Mandalah as a company, I project our impact along several lines:
- More companies – As we start scaling our business and accumulating a solid track record with organizations of all shapes and sizes, I anticipate that we will manage to engage in more and more relationships with leaders from different organizations.
- More people – As a result of this, more individuals will be impacted by these alternative mental models which we are proposing and as a result, will become the change they want to see in the world.
- More impact – The end result of all this is a world better served by the private sector (and other organizations as well) through solutions that truly improve peoples’ lives.
- More health and happiness – At the end of the day, this is what we’re all after.
What barriers might hinder the success of your project? How do you plan to overcome them?
Looking forward, the only real barrier that I foresee would come in the form of budget cuts from organizations as a result of a weak economic environment. When things get tough, companies stop investing in innovation, unfortunately. This is somewhat counter-intuitive , in fact: it’s precisely when the going gets rough that you should look to re-invent yourself and do things differently. Since I cannot award pro-bono status to all my clients, I will always run the risk of serving a market with no available cash to invest. Thankfully, I am learning to deal with this now, since markets are lukewarm globally. By keeping my structure lean, I keep my costs low, which allows me to not only pursue more aggressive pricing but attain better margins. It’s about learning to do a lot with a little.
مزيد من المعلومات↓↑ إخفاء↑ إخفاءWhat is the benefit or value you're creating for your business?
For all the different businesses that we service, I feel we are producing an instrument that will help them turn the key and operate successfully in this new environment we are getting acquainted with. Ultimately, the benefit they will reap from continued relevance is strong performance along with a long-lasting legacy. For Mandalah specifically, I feel we are becoming more knowledgeable and conscious to do what we do increasingly better every day.
How are you leveraging internal resources (funds, time, knowledge, etc.) to support this initiative?
From Day 1, we have grown organically, re-investing our profits into our company. We have come to understand over time that our best investments are in people (best-in-class professionals with right/left brain versatility), information technology (integrating our offices and optimizing research capabilities), our office space (where we work, brainstorm, create, eat, socialize and rest), and knowledge acquisition (trips, conferences, courses, literature). We have also developed a vast group of thought leaders who we are in touch with and who support us when we need to evolve our business. And finally, we are investing time, money and energy in consolidating our network of 6 offices, with 2 more offices in sight until 2014.
Expand on your answer, explaining the long-term funding and support plan.
Since what we are doing is still very new and emerging, it is hard to project where all of this will go in the long term. My intuition tells me that we will be able to continue scaling our business without having to turn to outside investors, since we enjoy respectable margins which we are willing to re-invest. Perhaps this is rooted in a belief that we must be careful on how fast we grow so as to not dilute our value proposition, which is essentially what got us to where we are in the first place. There is also no point growing faster than the market's disposition to engage in the types of disruptive conversations we so enthusiastically put forth. As Bruce Lee says "one must flow like water", and so we plan on letting things fall into place without worrying about getting too big too fast.
Tell us about your partnerships across your company and externally that are key to your project's success.
Internally, we all partner up with each other. Everyone gets involved in research, strategy, production and creative work, more or less so depending on nature of project. External relationships include two schools where we teach classes (Escola São Paulo & Fundação Getúlio Vargas), the latter for whom we train a student-led consultancy. We also team up with NGOs and government entities on a project-by-project basis.
What internal support have you gotten for your project? What kind of push-back have you received?
For one reason or another, our value proposition resonates quite strongly with people, both inside and outside the company. Perhaps this can be explained through the increasingly popular notion that it’s time to inject new blood, new energy, and more consciousness into the business world. In terms of push-back, I see it merely as a question of timing; we need to appreciate that not everyone is ready to turn the key.
I am a dancer. I have danced ballet since I was three years old. I am also a capoeirista, training with groups in Gauteng, and I have dabbled in other urban dance styles.
Because I have experienced the life changing lessons and beliefs that dance offers a person, I believe that this is an important project to implement in the city. Apart from the obvious benefit of keeping youth off the streets and out of trouble, it offers a sense of achievement, belonging and support that young people need in a sometimes crazy world.
Created on 10/26/2012 by prashant7135
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مزيد من المعلومات ↓↑ إخفاء↑ إخفاءTell us about yourself/your team.
I am working as Black Belt in Finance Shared Service Department of Standard Chartered Bank in Chennai. I am MBA in Finance
Have 12 years of work experience in multiple industries
1) Insurance
2) Banking
3) Telecom
4) Shipping
What makes you an intrapreneur? What are the skills, capabilities, and personality traits that make you an intrapreneur?
Being worked for 12 years, I have gain enough knowledge, expertise and innovative ideas to start a business. Todays business is all about innovation and you can grow business only by innovation, everything else is secondry.
Primary country where this project is creating social impact
Additional countries or regions
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?
Air Pollution, Noise Pollution & Mass Transportation
The Solution: What is your solution? Be specific!
Solution is to build new way of Transportation in the city which uses Gravitational force to run. No pollution, No Traffic jams. Just need huge investment in modelling and implementation.
Have the idea, just need drawing board to explain it.
It will be like following.
Suppose city is 10 Kms. from A to B area
At area A, Need to have two station, one for departure and another for arrival. Departure will be little height and arrival will be at lowest point.
At area B, Same structure. Departure will be at height and arrival at lowest point.
Now there is only one rope connected to both area in the following way Departure A to Arrival B, Arrival B to Departure A, Departure A to Arrival B & Arrival B to Departure A. It will be connected through only one rope
The ideas is that gravitational force will pull it down from A to B and same from B to A, saving on fuel, reduced pollution and modern way for transportation
The Solution: Why is this solution innovative for your company and industry?
Its not directly related to my company or Industry but its more from social cause and overall benefit to human being.
It will have indirect impact in terms of finance needed to set up such huge project and it may be from my Bank.
The Model: Walk us through a specific example of how your solution makes a difference; include your primary activities.
Its as given in the solution. ( and its not related to my primary activity)
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?
Competitors are all innovators who are working on new source of energy for transportation. If my idea is successfull, it will be the biggest and might impact in a big way for mass tranportation system.
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.
Its yet to be shared. Its just an idea
What has been the impact of your solution to date?
Its yet to be shared. Its just an idea
What is your projected impact over the next 1 to 3 years?
Reduction of pollution, improvement in mass transportation and Cost effective
What barriers might hinder the success of your project? How do you plan to overcome them?
It needed huge finance for implementation. Once idea gets go ahead, we can discuss with engineers and model it before we propose to government to build this or get finance from big institute
مزيد من المعلومات↓↑ إخفاء↑ إخفاءWhat is the benefit or value you're creating for your business?
Its not related to my business but impact the environment as in whole and will be cheapest mode for mass transportation
How are you leveraging internal resources (funds, time, knowledge, etc.) to support this initiative?
It needed huge finance for implementation. Once idea gets go ahead, we can discuss with engineers and model it before we propose to government to build this or get finance from big institute
Expand on your answer, explaining the long-term funding and support plan.
Need government support as it solve government proble of providing cheapes, pollution free mass transportation to its people
Tell us about your partnerships across your company and externally that are key to your project's success.
Its just an idea. Not yet discussed further
What internal support have you gotten for your project? What kind of push-back have you received?
Its just an idea. Not yet discussed further
In simple words www.midnightcake.com is working fast on spreading its business across world with simple franchise model of sharing operations and support in the form of channel partners, where the profit is shared with young entrepreneurs in turn of service provision in their territory. A huge potential marketing emerging out of new & existing internet users is the main scope of interest. Midnight delivery at sharp 12:00 a trademark service is the USP of midnightcake.com.
This project also has a Project where you can read more about its latest progress.
Go to Project: MDG Insights.
Created on 10/15/2012 by visual earth
MDG Insights is a geospatial analysis and visualization platform, geared at providing a multi-faceted framework of services, solutions and strategies, targeted at addressing health and social intervention challenges, especially evaluation and monitoring, for developing countries.
مزيد من المعلومات ↓↑ إخفاء↑ إخفاءTell us about yourself/your team.
WE ARE A GEOSTRATEGY AND LOCATION INTELLIGENCE GROUP. OUR CORE FOCUS IS ON DELIVERING TO OUR CLIENTS, THE BENEFITS BORNE FROM GEOGRAPHY AND TECHNOLOGY IN BUSINESS . WE ARE VERY PASSIONATE ABOUT STRATEGIC POSITIONING AND THE VALUE GEOGRAPHY OFFERS, AS A CATALYST TO CORPORATE AND ORGANIZATIONAL STRATEGY.
What makes you an intrapreneur? What are the skills, capabilities, and personality traits that make you an intrapreneur?
Curiosity into cause of pre-existent development issues and failed policy across Africa, analytical reasoning to identify collaborative strategies to facilitate solution creation, attention to detail and creativity in developing solution, service and applications to tackle identified issues.
Primary country where this project is creating social impact
Additional countries or regions
Industry
Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services
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?
Our solution potentially presents a geospatial insight and analysis platform to organization funding and executing projects associated with the 8 MDGs; to enable them effectively undertake intervention projections and budget forecasting, monitoring and evaluation and field capture of information with direct interface with back-office operations
The Solution: What is your solution? Be specific!
It is a three tier geospatial service platform; Tier 1: Web visualization and spatial + data analysis interface and a lighter field application pre-loaded on mobile devices, provided to the client with connections to a central data warehouse, delivered via a multi-tiered access subscription model. Tier 2: A flexible big data (warehousing) infrastructure implemented across a federated architecture; each module of the federated architecture is built to suit a specific geography. Geospatial analysis solution framework built into a central system and based on a REST architecture, with dedicated solution modules for each MDG framework (MDG 1 to MGD 8). Tier 3: Technical Consultants available at the back office to offer users of the platform, access to expertise and data development resources to deliver services needed fast, such as new vector data-sets, associated household/ demographic information and imagery data, or spatial analysis tools.
The Solution: Why is this solution innovative for your company and industry?
Our platform offers the capacity to run spatial analysis intended to help deal with all scope of issues under the MDGs; technical consultants provide customize elements within the platform to suit any bias identified within a region. Most geospatial platforms are predominantly visualization services. Our platform will offer analysis capabilities.
The Model: Walk us through a specific example of how your solution makes a difference; include your primary activities.
It eliminates challenges associated with the manual processes associated with field data collection tasks; the field application pre-loaded on a mobile device, facilitates collection of data tied to a given location and associates this with collected data. This information is delivered in real time to the server which becomes available to the back office administrators. The administrators examine trends in the information and can amend the questionnaire structure and have these changes made, reflect on the field device immediately. The web geospatial + data analysis interface provides a user with access to several tools; the primary web interface opens to a geographic visualization space and offers a layout of several user related tools, that enables the user select from MDG frameworks 1 to 8. It also, provides access to analysis tools for stochastic assessments, budgeting and forecasting, project management and resource management as well as accessing platform support tools etc. A user is able to use the web interface to run analysis for actual project planning, visualization of data collected from site and also, can be utilized for monitoring and evaluation of intervention projects being executed. Snapshots of project updates (as maps) can be printed. It also provides the capacity for time related visualization of phenomena and impact of intervention (positive or negative).
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 organization provide geographic web services like ushahidi, google maps etc. However, the platforms they provide are visualization (map viewing) systems and do not focus on analysis of data to household level for monitoring and evaluation. Also, a uniform projection is used on most platforms. Our solution delivers region specific projections so data presented is in the appropriate region designated geographic projection. The main challenge we may face with the likes of Google is access to cash to continually expand the capabilities of the platform and volume of storage made available to users/ subscribers.
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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 idea for the solution was developed during research work for a Ph.D recently concluded. The idea was roughly suggested in the document as a central point of information and application access (access via SaaS - software as a service and DaaS - data as a service) to remove the issues surrounding access to accurate data and tools needed to address population insight at household levels in developing countries.
What has been the impact of your solution to date?
When it is presented, the value is immediately obvious to organizations. For the international funder, they see the potential for evaluation and monitoring as well as pre-budget determination for intervention projects; the also see the value in being able to identify the spatial extent which funds provided can potentially cover. For the project executor, they can relate with the field team faster and change survey metrics on the fly. The are better able to identify salient issues that will probably not have been identified using manual data collection processes. It also enables both the funder and the intervention executor, agree on the extent of spatial dispersion of the project as well as identify areas actually concluded within the scope of work assigned to the executor. It also offers a potential source for information research on the various MDGs with access to information at a household resolution.
What is your projected impact over the next 1 to 3 years?
We intend in the next 3 years, to have all projects related with the MDGs to be planned, monitored and evaluated as well as implemented using the platform. Provisions are made to ensure that organizations with existing infrastructure can leverage on their past investments and still utilize the service from the platform - MDG Insights
What barriers might hinder the success of your project? How do you plan to overcome them?
Access to greater amounts of funds to retain capacity and build increased capacity, infrastructure and staff wise; access to adequately qualified staff in country, especially in Nigeria, with requisite geospatial server management and solution administration skills. As well as technical skill in geoprocessing tasks, to deliver some of the services local within the region; thereby, reducing the need to either depend extensively on skill from developed country professionals unable to live in places like Nigeria. Also, the need to establish a federated architecture between the UK and Nigeria to tackle the issue of unstable and erratic power supply.
مزيد من المعلومات↓↑ إخفاء↑ إخفاءWhat is the benefit or value you're creating for your business?
We become providers of innovative geospatial services and associated strategy, for social and health intervention in the global south; this becomes one of the values we potentially become known for.
How are you leveraging internal resources (funds, time, knowledge, etc.) to support this initiative?
We currently execute some client projects which helps us generate some funds to undertake basic operations; we however find the close out time from pipeline to execution for project in Nigeria spans between 6 to 12 months for private sector and 12 to 24 months for public sector engagements in Nigeria. So we tend to not often have enough running cost funding. Hence, we keep operational team small and focus on closing some of the fairly large projects to boost our funds availability
Expand on your answer, explaining the long-term funding and support plan.
We intend getting the core infrastructure developed to an appreciable level with own funding and then seek investment to expand the platform capacity to cope with multiple access from multiple geographic locations and executing complex analysis in real time. We expect some of the funding to also arise from revenue generated from subscription by organization to use the platform or its services (SaaS and DaaS). We also intend to develop associated products from within the platform that can be offered as commercial products that will also aid with funding.
Tell us about your partnerships across your company and externally that are key to your project's success.
Our organization is currently partners with Trimble and representing its MGIS division for the Nigeria trade area; the mobile devices intended will be the low range GPS devices with windows installed. While our other partners are ESRI and most recently, Bentley Systems. We are a Silver Tier partner within the ESRI EPN Network and intend using some ESRI and Bentley Systems technologies within the REST architecture being built.
What internal support have you gotten for your project? What kind of push-back have you received?
I have slowly built a multi regional team, with members in UK and Nigeria. The UK members are the current geospatial technical and development team, working along side with me to develop the central REST architecture, for MDG Insights and for the organization as a whole. The Nigeria team work with me on client project delivery to undertake projects, examine strategies and execution on site; their managed projects provide us with the initial funds we presently run off.
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.
The life chances of marginalized individuals and subsequent growth of the local economy are bolstered through the wrap-around support offered at Street School.
Created on 09/10/2012 by paradurumu
ParaDurumu is a financial literacy social initiative started by Özlem Denizmen whose main purpose is to take out ‘money’ to be a secret issue.
مزيد من المعلومات ↓↑ إخفاء↑ إخفاءالبلد الذي تعمل به هذه المؤسسة على إنشاء تأثير اجتماعي
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Has the organization received awards or honors? Please tell us about them
Ozlem Denizmen;
-‘Young Global Leader' of 2011 by the World Economic Forum.
- White House Delegate at the 2010 OBAMA’ Presidential Summit on
Entrepreneurship, held in Washington, D.C.
- ‘Top 100 Powerful Women of Turkey’ by Dunya Newspaper in 2011.
- “Young Society Leader 2011” of the American Turkish Society
- OECD financial literacy trainer accreditation
-Child&Youth Finance international country delegate
-National saving comittee member
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)
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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?
Para Durumu is a financial literacy social initiative whose main purpose is to take out ‘money’ to be a secret issue that is be ashamed of talking , being accused of its absence, managing without responsibility and to build up a widespread awareness about it , as a talkable, consultable, manageable issue. Para Durumu is using all conventional platforms such as radio, daily press as a weekly column journalist, a TV show, book in the top 10 selling list of the highly recognized local book stores, internet, apple application as well as edutainment program and seminar activities for to reach out masses, especially women and youth.
Why Fin. Literacy?
•Repeated Financial Crises. Increased unemployment necessitates better money management.
•New financial products. Complexity and variety.
The Solution: What is your solution? Be specific!
Para Durumu, a financial literacy social initiative, is using all conventional platforms such as radio, daily press as a weekly column journalist, a TV show, book in the top 10 selling list of the highly recognized local book stores, internet, apple application as well as edutainment program and seminar activities for to reach out masses, especially women and youth.
The Model: Walk us through a specific example of how your solution makes a difference; include your primary activities
It is an innovative solution not only in terms of subject ‘Financial Literacy’ (FL) but also in terms of how it is delivered to masses. Turkey had no national strategy when Para Durumu activities began two years ago now they became the main supporter and even began creating working groups which Para Durumu is a member. Edutainment and 360 degree communication is the key success methods Para Duru use to have the highest impact especially on the unbanked and underserved. To be more specific on how deliver our messages please watch http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQjftmbPR0M&feature=youtu.be
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?
Limited knowledge about the banking, budgeting, and making investment.
Based on a research performed by Citibank in 2010 in Turkey, following are the participants’ answers to some financial literacy questions;
78% of people `Never Do Saving`
13% of people `Have Saving for Emergency Situations`
20% of people `Do Budget Planning`
89% of people `Believe The Importance of Knowledge on House Economics`
More than 50% of people `Need Financial Advisory (e.g. Budget, pension funds, mortgage etc)`
Only 18% of people `Have Knowledge on Investment Tools (e.g. stock exchange, gold, Iinterest, investment funds etc.)`
And also there are Goverment Interest and support because Istanbul is being a Financial Center in the next 3 years , IPO Initiative
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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.
Its social impact has been tremendeous. The survey results, implemented to 475 seminar attendees by Infakto Research Company, showed that their money issues knowledge increased up to %74.
After attending the education,
• Attendees habit of writing to their spending increased to 81%
• Distinguish of obligatory and luxury spendings increased to 87.6%
• Knowledge about financial instruments increased
• Credit card useful and must know knowledge increased to 57%
• Before education, the women’s only knwoledge about investement was “gold”. After education they have the knowledge about other instruments
• The most distinct increase is about savings evaluate ways. (pre 54% had knowledge, post 81% have knowledge)
Please describe the goal of your initiative; outline what you are trying to achieve
TARGET GROUP
All ages and education level of women and youth that wants to have the core knowledge about personal finance management issues such as budgeting, debt, savings, investments and entrepreneurship.
PURPOSE
-To create awareness for ‘Financial Literacy’ to every Turkish citizen.
-Providing access to the right information in Turkey about personal money management issues such as saving, budgeting, debt, investment, credit card usage, personal loans, etc. in a simple, intuitive, innovative way.
-To introduce budget notion and its benefits
-To raise awareness about debt and its instruments
-To contribute the raise awareness of having savings
-To promote financial instruments
-To introduce micro credit and enlighten about setting up a business with micro credit
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, Other (Please describe below).
If you selected 'other' above, please specify which other barriers to financial inclusion you solution seeks to address:
-The lack of awareness, content and national strategy about financial literacy
For which underserved or excluded communities will your solution create access to valuable, affordable, secure and comprehensive financial services?
Women; because they cover 50% of Turkish population(75M) and most of them are under-served.
Kids&Youth; Because this segment is 61% of Turkish population. So they need a guidance
Enterepreneurs; It is a trend topic in Turkey as the positive economic growth. There are lots of national&international angel investors for Turkish Entrepreneurs. So those entrepreneurs need a guidance for `starting a business` content like building business plan, business strategy etc.
Could your solution work in other geographies or regions? If so, where?
In our strategy there is the plan to expend internationally with social franchising, towards to MENA&East side especially under privileged parts of the world, because those regions have similar needs & opportunities with Turkey after the national proved concept.
If your solution is dramatically successful, how will things be different in 10 years?
People will be literate about financial issues and they will start to use investment tools more often and they will start to save more, so that capital shift towards to market will provide an economical growth. Create sustainable welfare of the economy with financial peaceful families, that are composed of "financially free" individuals, people manage their money will be able to manage their lives
What will have had to have changed to make this happen?
Awareness, importance and effect of financial literacy should be accepted and supported by regulatory bodies which we are trying to create the awareness by seminars, one to one visits, and by delegation in the related committiees
What has been the impact of your solution to date?
We have an ongoing project to educate 20.000 women in Turkey; project started in December 2011 and will finish in May 2012. According to the survey results, implemented to 475 seminar attendees by Infakto Research Company, showed that their money issues knowledge increased up to %74.
After attending the education,
•Attendees habit of writing to their spending increased to 81%
•Distinguish of obligatory and luxury spendings increased to 87.6%
•Knowledge about financial instruments increased
•Credit card useful and must know knowledge increased to 57%
•Before education, the women’s only knwoledge about investement was “gold”. After education they have the knowledge about other instruments
•The most distinct increase is about savings evaluate ways. (pre 54% had knowledge, post 81% have knowledge)
What is your projected impact over the next five years?
We will be transforming most of our education to online platform. So that it can be sustainable and replicable.
What barriers might hinder the success of your project? How do you plan to overcome them?
Accessibility is one of the critical factors in our project. Though physical touch is the key to success to overcome the accessibility issue we have created the website (paradurumu.tv). We answer members questions, create tools to help their financial decisions, We collect the data of attendees when we get a physical contact, after that we are trying to get those people to our online platform (www.paradurumu.tv) so we can keep our connection and continue to educate
Winning entries present a strong plan for how they will achieve and track growth. Identify your six-month milestone for growing your impact
To create national financial literacy council
المهمة الأولى
To build up the first&only NGO on Financial Literacy Inclusion
المهمة الثانية
To reach 20.000 underserved women to get the financial literacy training
المهمة الثالثة
To maintain the number one "reach" in the media and financial literacy& personel finance topic
Now think bigger! Identify your 12-month impact milestone
To widen the target other than women
المهمة الأولى
To make a nation wide child launch with international impact (child&youth finance organization)
المهمة الثانية
To reach more than 10.000 students in all over the Turkey
المهمة الثالثة
To be accepted and proved, to be in the nation wide curriculum by Ministry Of National Education
مزيد من المعلومات↓↑ إخفاء↑ إخفاءأخبرنا عن شراكاتك:
We build partnerships with financial institutions as a sponsor of the projects like private & national banks, private sector companies like Dogus Holding, regulatory bodies like BKM(interbank bank center, credit bureau, BDDK-banking audit regulatory, banks council, TBB, Central Bank of Turkey)to deliver their content to mass with simple & entertaining language.
Are you currently targeting other specific populations, locations, or markets for your innovation? If so, where and why?
In 2012-2013 we will expand our model in all over the Turkey, after 2015-16 we will expand our model internationally.
What type of operating environment and internal organizational factors make your innovation successful?
Activist of the ParaDurumu is a very well known business woman as well as being the celebrity in the media. Her wide network ability supported by experienced stuff(20 years in banking sector + 15 years in banking branch networks + one engineer + 20year experienced in leading FMCG sector director + very senior editoring chief + trainers etc.)
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 09/5/2012 by fornelli
The Kisiwani Environmental Group is a CBO that collects waste in unplanned settlements in the Buguruni Ward. The KEG has developed a new Solid Waste Recycling and Composting Project. Through this project, collaborating organizations aim to catalyze composting and recycling as an effective measure for generating revenue, while reducing the amount of waste transferred to the city’s dumpsite.
مزيد من المعلومات ↓↑ إخفاء↑ إخفاءاسم المؤسسة
The Kisiwani Environmental Group
بلد المؤسسة
Tanzania, DS, Dar es Salaam
البلد الذي تعمل به هذه المؤسسة على إنشاء تأثير اجتماعي
Tanzania, DS, Dar es Salaam
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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↑ إخفاءName Your Entry
The Kisiwani Environmental Group: Solid Waste Management in Dar es Salaam
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نمو (إصدارك التجريبي في حالة جيدة ويعمل ويبدأ في التوسع)
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The Need: What problem are you trying to solve?
This project addresses issues surrounding solid waste management in one of Dar’s many unplanned settlements. Currently, solid waste management in unplanned settlements is either non-existent or is organised through community groups because of poor access roads.
There are many community based organisations collecting waste in unplanned areas of Dar es Salaam. Most of these groups face serious challenges relating to revenue collection, access to land for waste transfer stations, and lack contracts from local government for collection service.Collection of revenue from households, businesses and institutions, is a major challenge for CBO’s working in solid waste management.
The Solution: What is your solution? Be specific!
The KEG project is an important innovation because it represents a local solution to the unmet basic service needs of the majority of Dar citizens who live in unplanned settlements (70-80%).
The KEG, in collaboration with SCI, BORDA and the Ilala Municipality, is working towards improving their push-cart collection service and introducing waste separation in the ward.
The main objectives of the project are:
•To reduce the amount of waste dumped at the Pugu dumpsite through waste separation and composting at the KEG transfer site
•To extend the solid waste separation process to the household level
•To increase the fee payment compliance of residents
•To increase KEG’s revenue; through revenue collection and the selling of compost and recyclables.
•To have long term formal contracts between the Municipality and KEG for solid waste management services
The Model: Walk us through a specific example of how your solution makes a difference; include your primary activities
The Kisiwani Environmental Group (KEG) provides waste collection for households, businesses and institutions, within unplanned settlements in the Buguruni Ward.
The KEG consists of 10 members (7 men and 3 women) and employs an additional 26 youth from the community.
At the transfer site, KEG workers separate the waste into organics, recyclables and residual waste. By separating out recyclables and organic material, the KEG reduces the amount of waste the Ilala Municipality delivers to the city dump, therefore cutting down on Municipal costs.
On average, each pushcart collects 500kg of waste per day. From that 500kg, 300kg is organic waste and recyclables. After separation, only 200kg of waste remains to be transported to the final dumpsite.
Other activities achieved in collaboration with SCI, BORDA and Ilala Municipality are:
a)The facilitation of a formal agreement between the KEG and the ward allowing KEG to collect waste for 2 years
b)Anglican Church accepted the KEG using the site as a transfer station
c)Facilitated the signing of an MoU between KEG, SCI, BORDA and Ilala Municipality
d)The training of the KEG on waste management, recycling and composting and the production of a composting manual
e)The procurement of equipment such as protective clothing; waste collection equipment and waste recycling equipment
f)The production of compost, by the KEG, at the end of June 2012; the testing of the quality of compost for (nutrients, heavy metal and faecal matter) by Ardhi University
g)The development of a database in order to improve revenue collection
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?
Currently, three other CBO’s collect waste in the Buguruni Ward, where KEG collects from. Other competitors include compost sellers within the Ward, including individuals who sell compost along the roadside and those who collect and sell plastics.
Other challenges competitors pose:
•Competition for land; land is a diminishing resource in Dar es Salaam and long term land agreements are often difficult to acquire
•On occasion the market for recyclables is flooded, this leads to decreased market value of the plastics KEG can sell
•Competition in selling compost; KEG may have to compete with those selling compost at a lower price and lower quality.
KEG is set apart from other competitors because they are the only known waste collectors producing compost from the waste they collect.
مزيد من المعلومات↓↑ إخفاء↑ إخفاءThis Entry is about (Issues)
What solution(s) does your initiative address to help emerging entrepreneurs and small businesses grow and thrive in underserved communities? (select all applicable)
Access to financing, Access to supply chains, Access to technology, Access to economic opportunity, Policy change/advocacy.
What has been the impact of your solution to date?
The KEG waste separation and composting project has provided a unique opportunity to improve waste collection for and gather new data on the residents and businesses in the Buguruni area of Dar es Salaam . This project has improved the KEG's revenue generating potential and has reduced the total waste transferred to the dumpsite, decreasing costs for the Ilala Municipality.This project has built the capacity of individual members of the KEG and has improved the relationship between the community group and the local municipality.The research component of this project, in collaboration with Ardhi University, has increased local knowledge of waste composition.This means that the project's impact will be much larger than just the Buguruni ward. Many local stakeholders will be able to see the benefits of waste recycling and composting, in terms of both revenue generation and cost savings.Furthermore, the KEG has provided employment opportunities to youth in the area.
What is your projected impact over the next 1-3 years?
•To convert the existing transfer station into a simple solid waste separation, recycling, and composting centre for push cart collected waste
•To secure a formal long term solid waste management contract between the Ilala Municipality and KEG
•To train the KEG in waste separation, recycling, composting and business management
•To generate additional revenue for the KEG through the selling of plastics, bottles, and compost
•To reduce truckloads, and the cost of transporting waste, to the Pugu dumpsite by the Ilala Municipal Council.
What barriers might hinder the success of your project? How do you plan to overcome them?
Challenges:
•Residents, businesses, institutions not paying for waste collection service
•Short term contracts for waste collection
•Access to land for a transfer station
•Insufficient financial resources provided by the Dar es Salaam City Council and its municipalities (from their budgets) to put in place solid waste management schemes.
Resolutions:
•Facilitate Ilala Municipality establish a revenue collections officer for Buguruni Ward
•Facilitate signing of MOU between Ilala Municipality and KEG; long term contract for waste collection
•Engage with Municipalities in allocating land for solid waste management facilities, such as transfer sites
•Assist KEG with improving their waste collection service and compost making
Winning entries present a strong plan for how they will achieve and track growth. Identify your six-month milestone for growing your impact
Increase KEG’s revenue (to minimum wage or higher) with selling recyclables and compost. Minimum wage is TSH 120,000($80 CDN)
المهمة الأولى
Identify markets for selling recyclables and compost
المهمة الثانية
Assist in networking with local government and other community groups
المهمة الثالثة
Assist in building the capacity of KEG in managing finances and book keeping
Now think bigger! Identify your 12-month impact milestone
Increase KEG’s revenue with the collection of waste collection service fees. Extend solid waste separation process to households
المهمة الأولى
Facilitate the Ilala Municipality in establishing a revenue collection officer for Buguruni Ward
المهمة الثانية
Facilitate long term solid waste management contract between KEG and Ilala Municipality
المهمة الثالثة
Facilitate Ilala Municipality in assisting KEG in improving collection service;bins for households; more municipal trucks
Founding 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.
Since the KEG started the compost making process,all stakeholders involved have been holding monthly meetings. It was at the second of such monthly meetings that profound progress was made. At this meeting relationships between all stakeholders involved were strengthened, project progress was noted and the future of the project as an achievable and viable endeavour was realized. Realizing their potential to become a leader in solid waste management within their community, and in Dar es Salaam; as well as their ability to function as a viable business, a behavioural change occurred within the KEG. The KEG realized that the success of the project depended on them taking on additional responsibilities to achieve ownership of the project.Since this meeting, the KEG has done just that. The KEG stands as a leader in Solid Waste Management in Dar es Salaam and has had a profound impact on improving the environment through the recycling, reusing and reducing of solid waste.
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The Kisiwani Environmental Group (KEG) has developed parternerships with SCI, BORDA,the Ilala Municipality, and Ardhi University. Through these partnerships, the KEG has enhanced their capacity in functionning as a viable business. At the end of July, the KEG took part in a Solid Waste Management Workshop,organized by SCI and BORDA. At this workshop the KEG made valuable contacts throughout the Dar es Salaam solid waste community, including representatives from other community groups, local government, and the private sector.
Please elaborate on any needs or offers you have mentioned above and/or suggest categories of support that aren't specified within the list
Any external funding the KEG could receive would assist the project substantially.Extra funding would assist the KEG in purchasing compost bags for the selling and marketing of the compost they are making.
Being able to network with other community groups, local government, as well as with international organizations, would assist in the skill and knowledge development of the KEG.
Made in Montreal is an advocacy planning firm working to promote local manufacturing and consumption in Montreal. Our objective is to strengthen Montreal’s local economy by supporting the manufacturing sector. Local manufacturers are an important part of Montreal’s rich creative fabric, employing a significant number of people and contributing to the world-famous identity of this city.
Created on 09/5/2012 by moWoza
moWoza improves access to goods, livelihoods and economic opportunities in grassroot communities through a mobile commerce platform
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South Africa, GT, Johannesburg
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Gender of Innovator
Female
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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..
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moWoza: Simplifying Access to Goods
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The Need: What problem are you trying to solve?
- 70% (560 million) of Sub-Saharan Africans (SSA) live outside of urban areas, making it difficult to find work and goods.
- 10% (300 million) migrate outside of their homelands to find work so that they can support their families.
- They hope that the remittances and goods they send make it home to feed their families. But theft, accidents and border-post corruption means that sometimes the families in the village do not get these cash/goods remittances.
- Crossborder trade and shopping is a trillion dollar industry that is being catered by women acting as informal crossborder traders/microtraders.
The Solution: What is your solution? Be specific!
moWoza allows people to remit, order and pay for goods easily via mobile phone.
- migrants can remit and pay for goods easily, while villagers can securely order and pay for goods.
- 1 text message notifies them that their goods are ready for pick from a local merchant.
- informal crossborder traders (micro-traders) don’t need to travel long distances to place orders.
- moWoza fills the gap for approximately 16 million migrants who are based in Southern, East and West Africa
- This improves livelihoods through the trusted supply chain of access to goods. For micro-traders their economic opportunities are increased.
http://vimeo.com/37275089
The Model: Walk us through a specific example of how your solution makes a difference; include your primary activities
David, is a Mozambican migrant worker in South Africa and his family live in a village outside the capital of Mozambique.
1. A moWoza agent helps David registers on moWoza,
2. David places an order and pays via mobile. The order he places consists of food products which the family normally struggle to access.
3. This order is routed to a moWoza partner in Mozambique who fulfils the order and distributes it to a village merchant.
4. Simultaneously, David’s family is notified of the order via SMS. The SMS let’s David’s family know when they can pick up the order from the merchant.
5. The merchant verifies the order against the data that David’s family shows him and hands over the goods.
With this new mobile shopping solution, a new lifeline is created in the form of food security for families across Africa.
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?
Formal competitors: To date our target market has only used Western Union in times of emergencies, but if they dropped their fees we would look to incorporate there services into our business.
Similar new innovative business models like mypaga and willstream. However these two competitors are based in West Africa and are the providers of the technology. We are ensuring that the goods are where the family members need them most.
Informal competitors: family and friends who are travelling back to the home country. Although they do not offer the regularity that our service provides.
مزيد من المعلومات↓↑ إخفاء↑ إخفاءThis Entry is about (Issues)
What solution(s) does your initiative address to help emerging entrepreneurs and small businesses grow and thrive in underserved communities? (select all applicable)
Access to supply chains, Access to technology, Access to economic opportunity.
What has been the impact of your solution to date?
We ran a proof of concept with 75 migrants who were supporting between 350 and 500 family members. (We worked with two agents in South Africa and two merchants in Mozambique). For each order a migrant placed they were saving 33% compared to sending a Western Union remittance and 12% compared to asking family/friends/informal couriers to send the goods to their families.
moWoza customers / beneficiaries are new customers for the agent and merchant and therefore we were increasing their trading activity and revenues.
Further research indicates that we can have a similar impact on micro cross-border traders and on the livelihood of rural and urban migrants within the local country.
What is your projected impact over the next 1-3 years?
By year three:
- Our impact is to impact the lives of 14,000 migrant workers and their family members (average of 70,000) in Southern Africa. To achieve this we will work with a crossborder labour broker and informal cross-border traders.
- increase revenue streams for 100 village merchants and 75 agents.
- increase the economic opportunity of 1,000 informal Mozambican crossborder traders by reducing the amount the costs incurred from the travel that they are currently doing to purchase products (inventory).
http://vimeo.com/46988292
What barriers might hinder the success of your project? How do you plan to overcome them?
The success of our project will be hampered by operational costs of running a business in two areas. For this reason, each of the crossborder operations needs to become self-sustainable and for that we are looking at selling directly to the local community too (opposed to just being a crossborder service targeting migrant workers).
Winning entries present a strong plan for how they will achieve and track growth. Identify your six-month milestone for growing your impact
Signed agreement with a distribution partner to easily access migrant workers. Demo a mobile phone supply chain solution.
المهمة الأولى
Expand the pilot and expand to several new areas to impact 1100 migrants
المهمة الثانية
Fundraise to support the development of the technology and to employ sales force
المهمة الثالثة
Develop a mobile phone supply chain module incorporate this into the pilot
Now think bigger! Identify your 12-month impact milestone
500 registered customers & 250 cross border traders. Customers making monthly repeat food purchases for their family members.
المهمة الأولى
Be present in 3 major migrant areas in South Africa.
المهمة الثانية
Be present in 20 villages in 2 districts in Mozambique
المهمة الثالثة
Identified one major corporate sponsor (e.g. Nestle)
Founding 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 was travelling across the border to Mozambique and witnessed how migrants are carrying goods from South Africa into Mozambique. For decades migrant workers and their families in Mozambique have relied on products from South Africa yet they all have a mobile phone. So it became clear that if they could easily buy the goods in South Africa and then partner in Mozambique with established retailers we could solve some of the burden that migrants and their families have in accessing goods. From this moment I started to research and understand the social fabric of migrant workers in South Africa and across the African continent and it became apparent that I could contribute through a service like moWoza.
مزيد من المعلومات↓↑ إخفاء↑ إخفاءأخبرنا عن شراكاتك:
We have started initial conversations with a FMCG provider, a crossborder labour broker and a informal crossborder association. This ensures that we have access to products, customers and crossborder traders.
We are also partnering with a technology developer in order to have the relevant software skills at hand.
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 09/4/2012 by Milieu Family Services Inc
Self Advocates will engage with local citizens, formal/informal groups and municipalities in creating a Community Asset Map of the cities of Surrey and Delta.
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Milieu Family Services Inc
Country 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..
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Which of the following best describes the barrier(s) your solution addresses? Choose up to two
Access, Cost.
The Need: Describe the need for your solution and the size and characteristics of the community(ies) your solution is engaging
Need : Empower Self Advocates to lead a community development project that looks at the Surrey/Delta communities from an asset perspective, recognizing commonality and uniting people around a positive identity. Self Advocates will lead a process of mapping assets within these communities that can and will enhance the inclusion of people with disabilities, with the emphasis being strengthening the connectedness of all citizens.
The Solution: What is your solution? Be specific!
Solution: Self Advocate lead, engage with like-minded Inclusion Focused Citizens, Businesses and Municipalities in creating a Community Asset Map of the micro communities of Surrey and Delta. We believe such a project will provide a platform to enhance the engagement and inclusion of all citizens. The project's short-term goal will be through an Asset Based Mapping project, identify people, places and things that are considered important/meaningful that could be used to leverage inclusion and connectedness of persons with disabilities in Surrey/Delta. Our long-term goal is to create asset mapping tools that provide a powerful starting point for community members, municipalities, and formal/informal groups to engage in future strength-based planning processes for enhancing the social inclusion of all citizens.
The Model: Walk us through a specific example of how your solution makes a difference; include the primary activities involved in your solution.
Model:
We are proposing
• To collect an inventory of all the good things about the Surrey and Delta communities using strategies such as, Roving Listener (PAR, Participatory Action Research), Photo-Visioning Mapping and Video-based Mapping.
• We aim to discover the reasons why people place value on the assets in these communities.
• Lead by Self Advocates who will collaborate and strategize with other like-minded citizens, families, municipalities, formal/informal groups, businesses and community leaders about how to build on local community assets in order to sustain and enhance them for the future.
• Ensure the community asset mapping tool is a participatory planning process that is lead by Self Advocates who will be supported to engage with a diverse amount of citizens in exploring the assets within the physical and social environments of their communities.
• Create a concrete output – a map, either in paper or web based format, which can be incorporated into formal and/or informal community planning processes.
• Ensure an “assets based” philosophy is utilized in all of the community mapping processes; rather than focus on problems or deficiencies, focus on identifying the community’s capacities and assets, including those of its residents, and then use these assets to build a long-term action plan.
• Use the mapping as an entry point for engaging citizens in different planning contexts such as, formal and informal groups, municipal planning and actions that individual citizens can engage in that contribute towards more inclusive Surrey/Delta community.
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.
Marketplace:
Many groups and agencies provide a list of activities and/or develop programs that are available to individuals with developmental disabilities. The lists provided are generally focused on the formal resources available with little to no information on the informal and non-resource based groups and clubs that exsist; which in fact can often be the best way for people to connect with others. We feel our idea will highlighting a variety of community assets both formal and informal, focusing on the possibilities of inclusion that already exsist and working to leverage these "inclusion gems" for future commmunity development.
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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.
Founding Story:
We feel the difference maker in many success stories has been centered on finding individual connectedness in community that was reflective of each person’s ideal conditions for inclusion. Our thought is through engaging in a discovery-based community asset mapping project the citizens of Surrey and Delta would become better prospectors of the multiple opportunities for inclusion and connectedness. Lead by Self Advocates, we believe an asset based mapping of our communities will engage a diverse group of citizens to find and celebrate the community niches and gifts and mapping the many possibilities that will enhance the inclusion and connectedness of all citizens.
Please describe the goal of your initiative; outline what you are trying to achieve
Describe the goal of this initiative: what are we trying to achieve?
Lead by Self Advocates from Surrey/Delta who will engage with citizens and groups who are champions for inclusion in developing a vision for their community, and to utilize creativity to imagine the ideal community conditions for inclusion. Incorporate stories, pictures, words and video into an Asset Mapping Guide to Enhance Community Inclusion and showcase the community inclusion asset information collected at public information sessions.
What has been the impact of your solution to date?
What has been the impact of our solution to date?
To date, asset mapping has been used as a powerful tool to identify resources that can support the enhancement of social inclusion. It assists in the future mapping of strategies with the natural strengths that already exist in communities. Asset mapping has proven to lay the foundation for forward planning and can provide a benchmark from which to measure progress over time, it’s also helpful in understanding key regional systems and linkages. We are proposing to emulate this sucessful initative in the cities of Surrey/Delta.
What is your projected impact over the next five years?
What is our projected impact over the next five year?
We foresee the Asset Mapping process becoming a catalyst for creating partnerships with others with common interests that the Self Advocates involvd in this project and others will mobilize into a more formalized social inclusion movement in the Surrey/Delta area. The aim is to have the asset maps created become the cornerstone of a variety of future inclusion development activities.
What barriers might hinder the success of your project? How do you plan to overcome them?
What barriers might hinder the success of our project? What is our plan to overcome them?
The size and multitude of the micro-communities within the cities of Surrey & Delta may hinder the progress of the project due to the time that will be necessary to adequately complete a thorough asset map of each community.
We will be thoughtful and thorough in our engagement, allowing sufficient time to complete each micro-community and work collaboratively with other interested /like-minded groups in the regional implementation of the asset mapping project.
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
1. Self Advocate leaders define and establish who will be part of the mapping team
المهمة الثانية
2. Establish the terms of reference for the group and Mission/Vision
المهمة الثالثة
3. Mapping Technique Training and Initial Asset Mapping Begins
Now think bigger! Identify your 12-month impact milestone
المهمة الأولى
1. Complete Asset Mapping of the cities of Surrey & Delta.
المهمة الثانية
2. Engage with Groups & Municipalities (Surrey/Delta) in interpreting the Asset Mapping trends.
المهمة الثالثة
3. Work collaboratively to plan at an municipal level to enhance the social inclusion of all citizens
مزيد من المعلومات↓↑ إخفاء↑ إخفاءأخبرنا عن شراكاتك:
We are hoping that the community asset mapping will benefit not only persons with developmental disabilities, but become an important guide for all community members living in Surrey and Delta. This project looks to be truly inclusive and would be useful for all community members. We believe groups such as, local municipalities, rotary groups, school districts and businesses will be interested partners in this endeavor.
Are you currently targeting other specific populations, locations, or markets for your solution? If so, where and why?
What type of operating environment and internal organizational factors make your innovation successful?
The mission and values of our Organization,an active Self-Advocacy group and Self Advocate leaders, dedicated volunteers and staff members,community partners that include, volunteer groups, clubs, employers etc…
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 09/4/2012 by ltdn
a mobile service that gets you from .a to .b using public transport.
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South Africa, GT, Johannesburg
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South Africa, GT, Johannesburg
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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..
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بدء (إصدار تجريبي قد بدأ تشغيله للتو)
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The Need: What problem are you trying to solve?
Access to and using public transport in Africa.
The Solution: What is your solution? Be specific!
A Way To Be ( http://awayto.be ) is a mobile service that shows you how to get from a to b using public transport.
It not restricted to a single mode of transport but a successful and complete routing —including multiple modes of public transport: train, bus and/or mini-bus taxis— from anywhere to everywhere. Including total time travelled, cost and distance.
The Model: Walk us through a specific example of how your solution makes a difference; include your primary activities
For any individual, especially a small enterprise owner, business opportunities are limited by the geography we are in and our ability to navigate a city to access new markets (and clients).
The idea of A Way To Be, is provide public transport information of how that individual can get to any location that a market (and clients) are from wherever anywhere.
And thus, A Way To Be, allows an SMME's & Individuals to cast their business net wider and improve their access to potential business and services. A Way To Be is a mobile service, the information will be within reach, accessible, real-time an accurate. A Way To Be is also not locked to any specific public transport provider and thus will provide the commuter with complete and accurate information of how to get anywhere within Africa.
Inasmuch as this A Way To Be, will make it easier for SMME's to engage in business, it will also improve the sense of safety for commuters. In that, A Way To Be's routing informs the commuter of when a bus or train is expected to arrive and so, it will minimise exposure to typical dangerous areas.
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 is a few competitors within South Africa are mostly focused on one mode of public transport. They do not provide routing from anywhere to everywhere but from one known bus stop (or train station) to another. A Way To Be provides routing with includes a combination of different public transport from any location (with South Africa for now) to any other destination.
Other competitors involved American/European companies with an interest in public transport information systems. But, because the public transport in those areas is all formalised, they lack interest in African modes of public transport. Which is where A Way To Be is at advantage.
مزيد من المعلومات↓↑ إخفاء↑ إخفاءThis Entry is about (Issues)
What solution(s) does your initiative address to help emerging entrepreneurs and small businesses grow and thrive in underserved communities? (select all applicable)
Access to supply chains, Access to economic opportunity.
What has been the impact of your solution to date?
We have only been live for 2 months. We are yet to measure our impact as we have not grown to a state where it is measurable.
What is your projected impact over the next 1-3 years?
We expect to firstly improve the public transport update in Johannesburg, Pretoria and Cape Town (all in South Africa). These three cities have a vested interest in increasing public transport uptake. We believe A Way To Be will the key technology for them to achieve this.
SMME's will benefit from this service as they will be able move about a city with easy and expand their potential business. We expect to have an impact in local tourism as most tourists are generally uninformed of public transport that is available, A Way To Be, will allow them to know what is available and how to get to any point-of-interest.
After which, as more and more people use public transport, there will be an environmental impact because less private vehicles will be used for commute.
What barriers might hinder the success of your project? How do you plan to overcome them?
Our greatest challenge is expanding the service to include public transport from different areas from all of South Africa and growing it into most of Southern Africa. To achieve this we need more skills to hire and employ. This can only be achieved through funding at this stage.
We are, albeit at a slow pace, growing the service regardless of the funding. Using funds generated from doing client work to maintain the service and the time required to collect, digitise, correct and add new routes.
Winning entries present a strong plan for how they will achieve and track growth. Identify your six-month milestone for growing your impact
Provide public transport routing for all major cities in South Africa.
المهمة الأولى
Integrate all public transport in Johannesburg
المهمة الثانية
Integrate all public transport in Pretoria
المهمة الثالثة
Integrate all public transport in Cape Town
Now think bigger! Identify your 12-month impact milestone
Expand outside of South Africa
المهمة الأولى
Integrate all public transport in South Africa
المهمة الثانية
Grow the user base to 40% of all public transport commuters
المهمة الثالثة
Translate the service to other languages including all the 11 official langauges in South Africa
Founding 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.
Sometime in 2004 my uncle had a car accident, which meant I had to lend my car to my aunt. During that time I had to learn how to use buses. My biggest problem wasn't that I didn't know where the stops where but when will a bus arrive; how long will my trip be; and which buses (and stops) were heading where I wanted to be.
Then, "A Way To Be" was conceptualised.
مزيد من المعلومات↓↑ إخفاء↑ إخفاءأخبرنا عن شراكاتك:
We haven't created any so far, we are in the process of formalising these partnerships.
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 09/3/2012 by fernanda@loowatt.com
Valuable system outputs generate new economies;
A unique toilet uses that biodegradable lining instead of water, and creates a clean, odour-free seal;
The anaerobic digester converts the toilet contents into natural gas and fertilizer;
Design and collaboration create a better user experience.
مزيد من المعلومات ↓↑ إخفاء↑ إخفاءبلد المؤسسة
United Kingdom, WND, London
البلد الذي تعمل به هذه المؤسسة على إنشاء تأثير اجتماعي
Madagascar, AN, Antananarivo
Gender of Innovator
Female
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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↑ إخفاءName Your Entry
Loowatt: Value Generating Waterless Toilet Systems in Madagascar
حدد الهدف الذي ينطبق بشكل مثالي على الحل الذي تقدمه:
نمو (إصدارك التجريبي في حالة جيدة ويعمل ويبدأ في التوسع)
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تعمل منذ 1-5 سنوات
The Need: What problem are you trying to solve?
2.5 billion people worldwide lack access to sanitation, creating a crisis for human health that desperately needs financially sustainable solutions (UN Millennium Development Goals, 2011 Goals Report).
In Madagascar, 68% of people live below the poverty line of $1.25 income per person per day, with about 80% lacking access to adequate sanitation (WHO/UNICEF, 2012).
Loowatt is building a profit-generating sanitation system in Antananarivo, the capital, where there is widespread need for improved sanitation, energy and new sources of income. Electricity is expensive, hard to access and charcoal is the leading source of cooking fuel (Loowatt survey, 2012).
The Solution: What is your solution? Be specific!
Loowatt is a waterless toilet that uses a unique sealing unit to contain waste and odour in biodegradable film. Once sealed, the waste and biodegradable film are stored in a container that is emptied regularly into a nearby anaerobic digester.
The digester produces biogas, which can be used as a cooking fuel or turned into electricity, and digestate, a nutrient-rich liquid, which is further treated at a secondary location to become market-ready fertilizer.
The toilet and the small-scale digester, dubbed an ‘Energy Unit,’ are owned and operated by a local entrepreneur, and serve about 50 toilet users per day. This shared model fits the context of Antananarivo; a flood-prone urban centre where most families have shared pit latrines.
The Model: Walk us through a specific example of how your solution makes a difference; include your primary activities
The Loowatt System benefits include (1) a toilet that is not only clean but aspirational, (2) improved local health and productivity, (3) increased access to energy, (4) increased access to locally produced fertilizer, and (5) significant job creation.
The Energy Unit revenue sources are (1) toilet visits, (2) biogas energy products (such as cooking fuel, hot water for showers, mobile phone and battery charges), and (3) sale of digestate for further treatment.
We have built a detailed financial model with inputs based on real data. Based on this, the Energy Units will earn $6-8 per day in gross profit.
Employees of the Compost Factory, a facility that purchases digestate, and post-processes it to produce high quality fertilizer, service the Energy Unit regularly. In the current model, one Compost Factory will serve a local cluster of 50 Energy Units, but the system can be adapted to suit many scales.
Conversion of digestate to fertilizer adds further value. The price of commercial fertilizer in Madagascar is about $1 per kilo, and our surveys have shown we can earn an equivalent price for Loowatt compost. A Compost Factory serving 50 Energy Units earns $160 per day in gross profit (USD).
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?
Some commodity-driven waterless toilet systems are being tested in parts of Africa, charging toilet users and/or owners for waste collection with a view to generating value from waste at central facilities. But unlike our system, these projects lack a truly hygienic, aspirational, and odour-free toilet. They also require raw sewage to be carried around the city—a hazardous job—while our system pre-treats the waste on site.
Our distribution model enables toilet users and owners to benefit directly from the energy produced, which increases the return on investment. In others the production is remote, suggesting that toilet users may never see the benefits.
مزيد من المعلومات↓↑ إخفاء↑ إخفاءThis Entry is about (Issues)
What solution(s) does your initiative address to help emerging entrepreneurs and small businesses grow and thrive in underserved communities? (select all applicable)
Access to financing, Access to supply chains, Access to technology, Access to economic opportunity.
What has been the impact of your solution to date?
In 2011, after being awarded a Grand Challenges Explorations Phase 1 Grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Loowatt set out to implement a pilot system in Antananarivo, Madagascar. This process began with a thorough examination of the local landscape, market segmentation, and the development of a system model to maximize value in this context. We are now implementing a pilot system that will be operational in October 2012.
This work is being done in collaboration with Water and Sanitation for the Urban Poor in Madagascar, who have helped us reach a broad range of local stakeholders, from community councils to national ministries, to build awareness about waste-to-energy systems.
Our team includes a rapidly growing number of Malagasy employees.
What is your projected impact over the next 1-3 years?
With the pilot system running, we’ll require 8-12 months of information gathering and system refinement to start scaling effectively. Our focus will be (1) to gather feedback to make incremental improvements to the existing system, (2) to collect data on system commodity generation, (3) to further improve our model, and (4) to explore methods for scaling.
Each Energy Unit will create a small business, 50 toilet users, and over 100 energy customers. The Compost Factory process generates 25-50 kg of fertilizer per Energy Unit per day. In 3 years we aim to have 10,000 Energy Units on the ground, improving the lives and livelihoods of over 2 million people.
What barriers might hinder the success of your project? How do you plan to overcome them?
The Energy Unit needs to be proven as a profitable and sustainable enterprise to encourage rapid entrepenerial uptake. Validating our current assumptions is the first key performance indicator for this, with the pilot system operational we will assess the real return on investment for both the Energy Unit and the Compost Factory. This will enable us to understand the best financing models to implement and scale successfully.
Feedback about the system use and its associated commodities (toilet, energy and fertilizer products) will also be gathered in a commercial context. In-depth usage surveys and statistics will help us to improve the toilet system, while creating new approaches for refinement
Winning entries present a strong plan for how they will achieve and track growth. Identify your six-month milestone for growing your impact
Successful implementation of the pilot system, incremental improvements and data collection
المهمة الأولى
Gather user feedback on energy unit (toilet and digester)
المهمة الثانية
Make incremental improvements to system components (toilet, digester, compost site)
المهمة الثالثة
Develop marketing strategy for sale of energy and fertilizer
Now think bigger! Identify your 12-month impact milestone
Completion of the pilot stage, data analysis, system model improvements and initial scaling of units
المهمة الأولى
Analyze pilot system data and system model input
المهمة الثانية
Complete detailed plan to scale Loowatt system
المهمة الثالثة
Begin implementation of scaling plan with the aim of providing improved sanitation to more than 300 people
Founding 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.
Loowatt originated from Virginia Gardiner’s Industrial Design Engineering Masters project at the Royal College of Art in 2008. Her project questioned the unethical practice of flushing the toilet with drinking water and examined ways to turn human excrement into a commodity rather than a taboo substance to be flushed and forgotten.
By testing out a series of prototypes in her London apartment, from worm toilets to aerating sawdust toilets to packaging toilets, Gardiner realized that the best incentives to use waterless toilets were (1) no smell, and (2) commodity generation.
The formation of Loowatt Ltd. in 2010 created the opportunity for cross-disciplinary input from specialists in fields of design, sanitation, biology and engineering. Out of this came the optimized Loowatt toilet and system model.
مزيد من المعلومات↓↑ إخفاء↑ إخفاءأخبرنا عن شراكاتك:
In Madagascar, Water and Sanitation for the Urban Poor’s support has enabled us to rapidly understand and access local people, systems and infrastructure providers. We intend to continue this relationship as we work toward scaling systems there.
Through the Gates Foundation’s Water and Sanitation grantee network, we are now in the process of forming further collaborations with groups that share common interests in sanitation, anaerobic digestion, and distributive system developments.
The InnovationRCA incubator offers us ongoing business support.
Please elaborate on any needs or offers you have mentioned above and/or suggest categories of support that aren't specified within the list
The development of an alternative form of sanitation is a cross-disciplinary challenge; we value collaboration and understand that research, both scientific and market-based is important to create a successful result.
Mentoring from experts in business with experience in refining strategies for scaling would be welcome.
BC communities strive to develop a sense of community and place through promoting active use of public spaces. People are the primary ingredient to making public places vibrant. On a recent backpacking trip through Germany we discovered that outdoor concrete ping pong tables were popular fixtures. Impressed with how these tables were able to draw people to use public space we began our research. Outdoor concrete table tennis or ping pong tables have just begun to take off in Europe.
This project also has a Project where you can read more about its latest progress.
Go to Project: Opportunity Centers.
Created on 08/23/2012 by dp1928
Opportunity Centers put economic fairness back into the system. Its where a piece of the action is both earned and owned by All, the People.
MSV’s Centers” prepare the unsuccessful to form market niche enterprises.
مزيد من المعلومات ↓↑ إخفاء↑ إخفاءبلد المؤسسة
United States, Bellevue 98006
البلد الذي تعمل به هذه المؤسسة على إنشاء تأثير اجتماعي
United States, WA, Bellevue, King County
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تعمل منذ أقل من سنة
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
The Need: What problem are you trying to solve?
The success formula: knowledge applied to opportunity delivers ownership is known and accepted by all of the well-schooled, technically prepared, well-connected and productively employed. But for the not yet successful, and a shrinking middle-class, there is a systemic failure in the way it is, and a near desperate need for the way it ought to be.
The question is how can all-the-people make enough money? Our answer is showing them how to self-organize cooperatively to create, earn and own their share of the American Dream.
The Solution: What is your solution? Be specific!
Build a Cooperative America… where local cooperatives replace absentee owned corporations; where the successful (53%), help the not-yet-successful (47%) turn their sweat equity and new ideas into quality goods and services; where economic fairness is put back into the system; where a piece of the action is both earned and owned by All, the People.
The Model: Walk us through a specific example of how your solution makes a difference; include your primary activities
MSV’s “Opportunity Centers” will operate a job-bank and skills registry, we will prepare the unsuccessful to form market niche enterprises, to locally in-source the creation, and production of consumer needed goods and quality services, delivering a long-term positive economic impact.
This job-incubator will have work-benches, shop equipment, a wide variety of hand and power tools, supported by office technology and a wide range of mostly volunteer administrative, management, technical and professional services which the unsuccessful are neither able to obtain nor afford.
This full function idea factory atmosphere will invite free thinking and bold actions; a big open space, where everyone can turn an old craft or a new idea into a wealth-building productive reality; a place to find ways to turn stuff into locally produced “better” stuff; a hands-on place where unused skills are sharpened and shared; a full craft-enhancing place with an openness to tinker and invent what is possible; where a whole new variety of not-yet-successful Gates’ could meet a variety of equally different Allen’s.
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?
In Seattle 99% of existing business incubators are high-tech specific organizations that lack any realistic understanding of the widely varying challenges faced by ever-growing numbers of the unsuccessful. Without any meaningful inclusion strategy, continuing this status quo will only serve to further the disparities among individuals who will in growing desperation continue to struggle in under-funded attempts to merely survive.
Neither minimum wages nor welfare will ever solve the problems of the economically vulnerable who must live from hand-to-mouth, never having an ownership stake in new wealth producing assets… where far too many are losing hope that they will ever share in the American Dream.
مزيد من المعلومات↓↑ إخفاء↑ إخفاءThis Entry is about (Issues)
What solution(s) does your initiative address to help emerging entrepreneurs and small businesses grow and thrive in underserved communities? (select all applicable)
Access to financing, Access to talent, Access to technology, Access to economic opportunity.
What has been the impact of your solution to date?
We are a fully developed idea just entering into our start-up mode. Current activties include legal issue and location searches... our impact at this point is minimal.
What is your projected impact over the next 1-3 years?
First year; Establish MSV.org’s Board of Directors, Assemble ($1,000,000) initial founder investment funds, deposited in secured Trust Accounts:
• Connect and collaborate with all commercial, educational, social and civic entities... seeking endorsement and support of our citizen-invested economy.
• Open and staff our first “Opportunity Center” base of operations.
• Raise an additional $500,000 from resident and/or worker member’s investment capital buy-in units, held in operational trust funds.
• Incubate clusters of job-creating worker-consumer owned cooperatives.
In the end it will be each citizen’s willingness to get involved in this totally innovative method to… Lend, Invest, Donate… to put a LID on past social and economic inequities, opening new roads that all can travel.
What barriers might hinder the success of your project? How do you plan to overcome them?
What's been the biggest obstacle in working on this idea?
Changing the way it is... is a world sized challenge, i.e., the 99%’s endless struggle against the 1%’s owners of yesterday’s wealth... controlling too much of our tomorrows.
Inspiration, asperation and persperation... consistently applied, repeated endlessly... until at last this truth will set all of us free.
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
Raise the first $100,000 in operational funds
المهمة الثانية
Locate and lease/occupy a suitable commercial facility
المهمة الثالثة
Activate clustering manufacturing, construction and distribution concepts... consumer goods and services.
Now think bigger! Identify your 12-month impact milestone
Facility is fully functioning...Founder investors 1000 are on board and we are overflowing with volunteers
المهمة الأولى
Yes, we are different... and getting the first “conscientious consumers” to invest in a yet unproven concept will be difficult..
المهمة الثانية
Connect and collaborate with all commercial, educational, social and civic entities... seeking endorsement and support.
المهمة الثالثة
Gaining recognition and support from existing corporate entities is important... but not critical.
Founding 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.
David Pauling... age 84, physically fit and technically challenged
1943-1945… age 15 Railroad: Gandy Dancer… age16 Steel Mill: forging 8” Artillery Shells
1945-1953... U. S. Marine Corps... “Gunnery Sergeant”... WWII and Korea
1954-2005... Contractor, Project/Mfg. Manager, Small Business Owner
2005-2010... AmeriCorps VISTA Leader… fighting poverty, searching for the antidote
2011-Current... Perfecting the Vaccine... seeking the best delivery method... found it:
http://www.MainStreetValues.org
مزيد من المعلومات↓↑ إخفاء↑ إخفاءأخبرنا عن شراكاتك:
While I have shared this innovative project with a number of associates... I have not created any formal or informal partnerships.
Please elaborate on any needs or offers you have mentioned above and/or suggest categories of support that aren't specified within the list
Opportunity Centers put economic fairness back into the system; operating a job-bank/skills registry; preparing the unsuccessful to form market niche enterprises; where a piece of the action is earned and owned by all the People.
Created on 08/22/2012 by dp1928
Opportunity Centers put economic fairness back into the system. Its where a piece of the action is both earned and owned by All, the People.
مزيد من المعلومات ↓↑ إخفاء↑ إخفاءبلد المؤسسة
United States, WA, Bellevue, King County
Country where this solution is creating social impact
United States, WA, Bellevue, King County
Region in BC where your solution creates social impact
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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؟
تعمل منذ أقل من سنة
Which of the following best describes the barrier(s) your solution addresses? Choose up to two
Access, Equity.
The Need: Describe the need for your solution and the size and characteristics of the community(ies) your solution is engaging
The success formula: knowledge applied to opportunity delivers ownership is known and accepted by all of the well-schooled, technically prepared, well-connected and productively employed. But for the not yet successful, and a shrinking middle-class, there is a systemic failure in the way it is, and a near desperate need for the way it ought to be.
The question is how can all-the-people make enough money? Our answer is showing them how to cooperatively earn and own their share of the American Dream.
The Solution: What is your solution? Be specific!
Build a Cooperative America… where local cooperatives replace absentee owned corporations; where the successful (53%), help the not-yet-successful (47%) turn their sweat equity and new ideas into quality goods and services; where economic fairness is put back into the system; where a piece of the action is both earned and owned by All, the People.
The Model: Walk us through a specific example of how your solution makes a difference; include the primary activities involved in your solution.
MSV’s “Opportunity Centers” will operate a job-bank and skills registry, we will prepare the unsuccessful to form market niche enterprises, to locally in-source the creation, and production of consumer needed goods and quality services, delivering a long-term positive economic impact.
This job-incubator will have work-benches, shop equipment, a wide variety of hand and power tools, and office technology… supported by a wide range of mostly volunteer administrative, management, technical and professional services which the unsuccessful are neither able to obtain nor afford.
This full function idea factory atmosphere will invite free thinking and bold actions; a big open space, where everyone can turn an old craft or a new idea into a wealth-building productive reality; a place to find ways to turn stuff into locally produced “better” stuff; a hands-on place where unused skills are sharpened and shared; a full craft-enhancing place with an openness to tinker and invent what is possible; where a whole new variety of not-yet-successful Gates’ could meet a variety of equally different Allen’s.
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.
In Seattle 99% of existing business incubators are high-tech specific organizations that lack any realistic understanding of the widely varying challenges faced by ever-growing numbers of the unsuccessful. Without any meaningful inclusion strategy, continuing this status quo will only serve to further the disparities among individuals who will in growing desperation continue to struggle in under-funded attempts to merely survive.
Neither minimum wages nor welfare will ever solve the problems of the economically vulnerable who must live from hand-to-mouth, never having an ownership stake in new wealth producing assets… where far too many are losing hope that they will ever share in the American Dream.
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.
David Pauling... age 84, physically fit and technically challenged
1943-1945… age 15 Railroad: Gandy Dancer… age16 Steel Mill: forging 8” Artillery Shells
1945-1953... U. S. Marine Corps... “Gunnery Sergeant”... WWII and Korea
1954-2005... Contractor, Project/Mfg. Manager, Small Business Owner
2005-2010... AmeriCorps VISTA Leader… fighting poverty, searching for the antidote
2011-Current... Perfecting the Vaccine... seeking the best delivery method... found it:
http://www.MainStreetValues.org
Please describe the goal of your initiative; outline what you are trying to achieve
Our mission is to provide the ways and means for every American to achieve a fully equitable human equality; fair and equal access to creation and retention of the new wealth and power they earn through consumer cooperatives… our citizen ownership programs.
Cooperatives deliver these goals as member-owned businesses, by advancing our social and economic equity.
Only when every American can productively earn and own a-piece-of-the-action… will the unmet needs of all-the-people stop being a problem and start being an unlimited and ever growing opportunity.
The success of this individual empowerment and economic development initiative will enable everyone to regionally, state-wide and beyond.
What has been the impact of your solution to date?
While we are getting wide approval on our chosen ways and means... we have yet to open our doors to the targeted "not-yet-successful"... with your help we will launch soon.
What is your projected impact over the next five years?
First year; Establish MSV.org’s Board of Directors, Assemble ($1,000,000) initial founder investment funds, deposited in secured Trust Accounts:
• Connect and collaborate with all commercial, educational, social and civic entities... seeking endorsement and support of our citizen-invested economy.
• Open and staff our first “Opportunity Center” base of operations.
• Raise an additional $500,000 from resident and/or worker member’s investment capital buy-in units, held in operational trust funds.
• Incubate clusters of job-creating worker-consumer owned cooperatives.
In the end it will be each citizen’s willingness to get involved in this totally innovative method to… Lend, Invest, Donate… to put a LID on past social and economic inequities, opening new roads that all can travel.
What barriers might hinder the success of your project? How do you plan to overcome them?
What's been the biggest obstacle in working on this idea?
Changing the way it is... is a world sized challenge, i.e., the 99%’s endless struggle against the 1%’s owners of yesterday’s wealth... controlling too much of our tomorrows.
I am 84 and counting... and I'm 24/7 into turning this concept into reality... I will either make this work or die trying...
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
Raise the first $100,000 in operational funds
المهمة الثانية
Locate and lease/occupy a suitable commercial facility
المهمة الثالثة
Activate clustering manufacturing, construction and distribution concepts... consumer goods and services.
Now think bigger! Identify your 12-month impact milestone
Facility is fully functioning...Founder investors 1000 are on on board and we are overflowing with volunteers
المهمة الأولى
Yes, we are different... and getting the first “conscientious consumers” to invest in a yet unproven concept will be difficult..
المهمة الثانية
Connect and collaborate with all commercial, educational, social and civic entities... seeking endorsement and support.
المهمة الثالثة
Gaining recognition and support from existing corporate entities is important... but not critical.
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orWhile I have shared this innovative project with a number of associates... I have not created any formal or informal partnerships.
Are you currently targeting other specific populations, locations, or markets for your solution? If so, where and why?
Once tested and proven this innovative solution has potential nation-wide franchise and/or licensing possibilities. To this end we will fully document each advancing step… capitalizing on all social media variations… going viral when every milestone is reached.
What type of operating environment and internal organizational factors make your innovation successful?
Opportunity Centers, a non-profit 501(c)-3 corporation, will aggressively promote the social/economic advantages of locally cooperative ownership methodologies. We will inform, connect and collaborate with all commercial, social, civic and educational entities, seeking endorsement and support of our life-changing end results, a citizen-owned and self-sustainable economy.
Simultaneously, our for-profit consumer cooperative will implement our self-empowering citizen-invested methodologies… holding conglomerate-like equity interests in our clusters of construction, manufacturing, distribution etc. worker-owner cooperatives, … influencing management decisions; and administrating the strategic and organizational planning and decision making process.
Please elaborate on any needs or offers you have mentioned above and/or suggest categories of support that aren't specified within the list
At 84... this old dog still operates on a 24/7 time clock... committed to leaving behind far more than I've consumed.
Escape The Box is a poverty alleviation tool for the inner city males that live and die in impoverished areas throughout the United States mainly due to social-economic factors. It gives them the opportunity to venture outside of the their communities and travel to other geographical area to explore entrepreneurial opportunities. These young men will team up with young men in their host location and examine the possibility to indulge in some form of import and export business.
Created on 08/15/2012 by colsquirrell
We are promoting social interconnectedness, enhancing public space and improving community health and fitness through public outdoor ping pong tables.
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..
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Which of the following best describes the barrier(s) your solution addresses? Choose up to two
Access, Cost.
The Need: Describe the need for your solution and the size and characteristics of the community(ies) your solution is engaging
BC communities strive to develop a sense of community and place through promoting active use of public spaces. People are the primary ingredient to making public places vibrant. The Columbia Basin is located in South Eastern BC with a population of 145,000 (2006 census) including 12 communities with over 2500 people. Communities in the Columbia Basin have identified the need to revitalize downtown cores and public spaces by finding innovative ways to attract citizens to visit more often and for longer durations. In our home community a recent survey of citizens on the City’s downtown area found that 92% of respondents identified the need for more events and activities as a means to improve the vibrancy of public space. We’d like to help BC communities and we have an idea!
The Solution: What is your solution? Be specific!
On a recent backpacking trip through Germany we discovered that outdoor concrete ping pong tables were popular fixtures. Impressed with how these tables were able to draw people to use public space we began our research. Outdoor concrete table tennis or ping pong tables have just begun to take off in Europe. In North America, New York City has recently jumped on board discovering the community benefits of publicly accessible table tennis. What an innovative way to encourage citizens to become active and enjoy public space. Searching Canada far and wide we’ve found very few outdoor tables (latest count is 3) and no Canadian manufacturers. We’re ready to change this. We commissioned a local team of designers, civil engineers and innovators to design a functional, durable, beautiful and uniquely Canadian ping pong table. In the spring 2013 we’re poised to pilot our tables in public areas needing a boost.
The Model: Walk us through a specific example of how your solution makes a difference; include the primary activities involved in your solution.
“To generate exuberant diversity in a city's streets and districts… there must be a sufficiently dense concentration of people, for whatever purposes they may be there...” Jane Jacobs, The Death and Life of Great American Cities (1961)
People make good places great. We believe outdoor ping pong tables will improve sense of community by drawing citizens from a range of ages and backgrounds to enjoy public space. Players will enjoy the benefits of improved fitness, hand-eye coordination, increased muscle reflexes, balance and a big smile through a low injury/ impact sport. This grant will be used to help us bring ping pong tables to our home town and to communities across BC. We’ll be looking to the public, community groups and city councils to help identify ideal locations for their ping pong table. Once installed, we’d like to work with our communities to study the impact these tables make and to better understand what locations make a good fit. In our home city we’d like to host a ping-pong championship open to everyone, a model we'll support other communities to replicate. In year two we'll be expanding on our previous year's success to support citizen groups and local government across Western Canada in acquiring a table for their community.
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.
Popular for some time in Europe, outdoor ping-pong is just catching on in North America. We’ve only found two small manufactures in North America, both located in the USA. With no Canadian suppliers our location is centrally located to serve small and large communities in BC and across western Canada. Through some hard work with our designers we’ve developed a uniquely Canadian outdoor table tennis table design that incorporates locally sourced timber and is engineered to withstand substantial winter snow-loading. We think neighborhoods will fall in love with our tables.
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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.
Backpacking through Germany I enjoyed running as a great way to discover the city and offset the previous night’s schnitzel. It was through these runs that I discovered the popularity of outdoor table tennis tables in the city’s parks and public squares. These catalysts for community play and vibrancy struck me as a great idea, and I was sold. We have discussed developing outdoor table tennis tables here in BC with our friends, community leaders, downtown businesses, city council and anyone who will listen. Excitement and support has been greater than ever hoped, and we’re excited to help develop space, place and community one table at a time.
Please describe the goal of your initiative; outline what you are trying to achieve
Our goal is to promote physical fitness and social connectedness by enhancing community space through table tennis. It's simple and we think it might just do the trick. We're looking forward to working with neighbourhoods, community groups, city councils and YOU to help create vibrant public space that encourages citizens to be active and have some fun. We’re excited to produce beautiful, durable, long lasting and unique table tennis tables for our region.
What has been the impact of your solution to date?
Our most significant achievement has been the resounding support for our project from citizens, community business, community leaders and our city council. On August 27th Kimberley City Council adopted a motion to support in principle acquiring an outdoor table tennis table for the community. Contingent on funding we're poised to present Kimberley and surrounding communities with their new place-making magnet.
What is your projected impact over the next five years?
Over the next five years we’d like to see outdoor ping pong tables spread to public areas across western Canada and communities benefiting from:
> Enhanced public space
> Improved social interconnectedness
> Increased physical fitness and coordination
> Community participation in a low cost sport ($15 for 2 racquets and a ball)
> Canada winning its first Olympic table tennis gold in Rio 2016 (preferably credited to the majestic beauty of our ping pong tables)
What barriers might hinder the success of your project? How do you plan to overcome them?
Cost to purchase an outdoor table tennis table could be a barrier for neighbourhoods and community groups. We will use the success demonstrated from the pilot tables to garner interest from corporate donors and volunteer fundraisers to offset costs.
Winning entries present a strong plan for how they will achieve and track growth. Identify your six-month milestone for growing your impact
Outdoor concrete table tennis tables are installed in three pilot communities
المهمة الأولى
Employ local workers to construct three pilot table tennis tables
المهمة الثانية
Build and implement a community engagement plan
المهمة الثالثة
Connect with local government, citizens, community and business groups to identify locations of greatest benefit
Now think bigger! Identify your 12-month impact milestone
Impact of space and place renewal from outdoor table tennis tables is understood and additional tables are installed across BC
المهمة الأولى
Diversify and grow alternate revenue sources for additional tables through community fundraisers, corporate sponsors
المهمة الثانية
Establish partnerships with local volunteer groups to develop programming (e.g. scheduled social event, community tournaments)
المهمة الثالثة
Monitor and research community impact of table. Share results with communities considering installing our tables.
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The strength of our project is in the partnerships we form with regional government, sports clubs, community groups and neighbourhoods. On August 27th 2012 we approached our city’s city council and were granted support in principle for placing outdoor table tennis table(s) in Kimberley’s public space. Once constructed, we’ll be returning to council to determine optimal location(s) for the tables. Over the coming weeks and months we’ll be putting forward similar proposals to surrounding communities in the Columbia Basin region.
Are you currently targeting other specific populations, locations, or markets for your solution? If so, where and why?
Location of tables is the most important factor to consider and target. We’ll be working with citizens, city council and business groups to identify prime locations which could benefit from greater public use and vibrancy. Our initial focus will initially be on Columbia Basin communities but we expect our model will prove transferable to public space in larger urban centres. We’ll be looking to target the greater population in becoming involved and active – table tennis is easy, accessible and fun for all ages, abilities and backgrounds.
What type of operating environment and internal organizational factors make your innovation successful?
We’re a small, nimble and innovative lot with backgrounds in engineering, timber framing, design and urban geography. We love playing ping pong and we’re passionate about providing communities with publicly available outdoor ping pong tables.
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 08/15/2012 by moWoza
Improves access to goods, livelihoods and economic opportunities in grassroot communities through a mobile commerce platform.
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Gender of Innovator
Female
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Has the organization received awards or honors? Please tell us about them
moWoza has been selected as a SE Forum enterprise (2012) and the founder is an Unreasonable Institute fellow (2012)
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
Simplifying access to goods
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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?
- 70% (560 000 million)o f Sub Saharan Africans (SSA) live outside of urban areas, making it difficult to find work and goods.
- 10% (300 million) migrate outside of their homelands to find work so that they can support their families.
- They hope that the remittances and goods they send make it home to feed their families. But theft, accidents and border-post corruption means that sometimes the families in the village do not get these cash/goods remittances.
- Crossborder trade and shopping is a trillion dollar industry that is being catered by women acting as informal crossborder traders/microtraders.
The Solution: What is your solution? Be specific!
moWoza allows people to remit, order and pay for goods easily via mobile phone.
- migrants can remit and pay for goods easily, while villagers can securely order and pay for goods.
- 1 text message notifies them that their goods are ready for pick from a local merchant.
- informal crossborder traders (micro-traders) don’t need to travel long distances to place orders.
- moWoza fills the gap for approximately 16 million migrants who are based in Southern, East and West Africa
- This improves livelihoods through the trusted supply chain of access to goods. For micro-traders their economic opportunities are increased.
http://vimeo.com/37275089
The Model: Walk us through a specific example of how your solution makes a difference; include your primary activities
David, is a Mozambican migrant worker in South Africa and his family live in a village outside the capital of Mozambique.
1. A moWoza agent helps David registers on moWoza,
2. David places an order and pays via mobile. The order he places consists of food products which the family normally struggle to access.
3. This order is routed to a moWoza partner in Mozambique who fulfils the order and distributes it to a village merchant.
4. Simultaneously, David’s family is notified of the order via SMS. The SMS let’s David’s family know when they can pick up the order from the merchant.
5. The merchant verifies the order against the data that David’s family shows him and hands over the goods.
With this new mobile shopping solution, a new lifeline is created in the form of food security for families across Africa.
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?
Formal competitors: To date our target market has only used Western Union in times of emergencies, but if they dropped their fees we would look to incorporate there services into our business.
Similar new innovative business models like mypaga and willstream. However these two competitors are based in West Africa and are the providers of the technology. We are ensuring that the goods are where the family members need them most.
Informal competitors: family and friends who are travelling back to the home country. Although they do not offer the regularity that our service provides.
مزيد من المعلومات↓↑ إخفاء↑ إخفاءThis Entry is about (Issues)
What solution(s) does your initiative address to better the lives of girls and women by leveraging technology? (select all applicable)
Access to technology, Access to economic opportunity.
What has been the impact of your solution to date?
We ran a proof of concept with 75 migrants who were supporting between 350 and 500 family members. (We worked with two agents in South Africa and two merchants in Mozambique). For each order a migrant placed they were saving 33% compared to sending a Western Union remittance and 12% compared to asking family/friends/informal couriers to send the goods to their families.
moWoza customers / beneficiaries are new customers for the agent and merchant and therefore we were increasing there trading activity and revenues.
Further research indicates that we can have a similar impact on micro cross-border traders and on the livelihood of rural and urban migrants within the local country.
What is your projected impact over the next 1-3 years?
By year three:
- Our impact is to impact the lives of 14,000 migrant workers and their family members (average of 70,000) in Southern Africa. To achieve this we will work with a crossborder labour broker and informal cross-border traders.
- increase revenue streams for 100 village merchants and 75 agents.
- increase the economic opportunity of 1,000 informal Mozambican crossborder traders by reducing the amount the costs incurred from the travel that they are currently doing to purchase products (inventory).
http://vimeo.com/46988292
What barriers might hinder the success of your project? How do you plan to overcome them?
The success of our project will be hampered by operational costs of running a business in two areas. For this reason, each of the crossborder operations needs to become self-sustainable and for that we are looking at selling directly to the local community too (opposed to just being a crossborder service targeting migrant workers).
Winning entries present a strong plan for how they will achieve and track growth. Identify your six-month milestone for growing your impact
Sign agreement with grassroot transport provider to access migrant workers. Demo a mobile phone solution w/ crossborder traders
المهمة الأولى
Expand the pilot and expand to several new areas to impact 1100 migrants
المهمة الثانية
Fundraise to support the development of the technology and to employ sales force
المهمة الثالثة
Develop a mobile phone supply chain module incorporate this into the pilot
Now think bigger! Identify your 12-month impact milestone
2500 registered customers and 250 crossborder traders actively using the mobile supply chain module.
المهمة الأولى
Be present in 3 major migrant areas in South Africa
المهمة الثانية
Be present in 20 villages in 2 districts in Mozambique
المهمة الثالثة
Identified one major corporate sponsor (e.g. Nestle)
Founding 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 was travelling across the border to Mozambique and witnessed how migrants are carrying goods from South Africa into Mozambique. For decades migrant workers and their families in Mozambique have relied on products from South Africa yet they all have a mobile phone. So it became clear that if they could easily buy the goods in South Africa and then partner in Mozambique with established retailers we could solve some of the burden that migrants and their families have in accessing goods.
From this moment I started to research and understand the social fabric of migrant workers in South Africa and across the African continent and it became apparent that I could contribute through a service like moWoza.
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We have started initial conversations with a FMCG provider, a crossborder labour broker and a informal crossborder association. This ensures that we have access to products, customers and crossborder traders.
We are also partnering with a technology developer in order to have the relevant software skills at hand.
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 08/12/2012 by Juana Camacho Otero
EstiloE.co is a place where people will find new stories for their old objects and new objects for their old stories and trade them with other people, bringing all of us closer to a zero waste world.
مزيد من المعلومات ↓↑ إخفاء↑ إخفاءاسم المؤسسة
Ecochic Estilo Consentido
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Gender of Innovator
Female
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Has the organization received awards or honors? Please tell us about them
No hemos recibido ningún premio
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..
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EstiloE.co: transforming consumption in emerging economies
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Which of the following best describes the barrier(s) your innovation addresses? Choose up to two
Access, Cost.
The Need: What problem are you trying to solve?
EstiloE.co aims to lengthent the life cycle of consumption products. In recent years, specially in developing economies, consumption of fashion goods has grown at a rapid pace (11% in Colombia) as well as fashion waste (from 7% in 2003 to 30% in 2008 in the UK). However, cities and societies in general have failed to create systems that promote responsible consumption patterns from an environmental perspectives, instead they have encourage wasteful lifestyles disregarding the Earth's carrying capacity. Given this it is imperative that we foster new consumption patterns among our broad communities and the internet is now giving us the opportunity to do so. Women are the ones called to make this change, we are the ones making the decisions on spending and we take care of the rest of us.
The Solution: What is your solution? Be specific!
Clothing is being discarded over simple nonsense reasons. However what one person no longer wants could be the longed treasure of another person. For the past 5 years we have been bringing together these people to exchange clothes, books and music in events we call Trueque Ecochic. We want to give the opportunity to more people in Colombia and Latin America using the internet. We created EstiloE.co as an online market place where people will find objects they want and they will be able to acquire them for less than they expect and people will get rid of the things they don't want any more and get paid for it. We are creating a new way to get wardrobes a second life and at the same time we aim reducing a waste management problem that is growing in our developing economies. This is new to cities like Bogotá, Guadalajara or Lima. It has been going on in developed countries for a while but it is the first initiative in our countries. EstiloE.co is just an idea being piloted at the moment.
The Model: Walk us through a specific example of how your solution makes a difference; include your primary activities
EstiloE.co is a web platform where registered individuals can upload pictures of the things they don't use anymore and give them a price that only administrators will see. Other registered individuals will find objects they need and like and they will make an offer to the system in terms of price. The app will match the wants and the haves and make the price offer to both sides and they will realize the transaction using a payment system online. This way objects that otherwise would be thrown into the trash can will have a second chance. We have been trying a bartering system for 5 years in Bogota, with a great deal of success. We have carried out more than 40 events with more than 500 attendees and lots of free press. We have been invited to different cities in Colombia and in Latin America to bring the Trueque but we haven't been able to do so for economic reasons. Internet based object exchange is a low transaction cost alternative that gives the opportunity to individuals to have what they want for less than what they expected and resolves the growing dilemma of what to do with the things that people don't want anymore but that are still useful. EstiloE.co will charge a comission to the transaction in order to cover operating and financial costs. In Colombia this costs are approximately 15 - 20% of each transaction.
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?
At the global level bartering and swapping platforms are very popular. The biggest player is www.swap.com that has been online for the past 7 years approximately. They offer a similar service but they don't work in Colombia and they are not very popular in Latin America. Since we have been working on this field since 2007, we have positioned ourselves on the clothing swapping arena and going digital is the natural step. Main challenges are associated with technical issues and community management given that Colombia and most of Latinamerica are not used to second hand consumption as a trendy thing to do.
During the last year a group of offline vintage stores have been appearing specially in Bogotá but they are not focusing on changing consumption patters but saving old fashion treasures.
مزيد من المعلومات↓↑ إخفاء↑ إخفاءThis Entry is about (Issues)
What solution(s) does your initiative address to better the lives of girls and women by leveraging technology? (select all applicable)
Access to economic opportunity.
What has been the impact of your solution to date?
Our project has been working for 5 years, we have build a community of more than 3.000 people interested in responsible consumption that follow us on social networks. More than 600 people have participated in the more than 40 Trueque Ecochic in Colombia. More than 10 local and international traditional and non traditional media have presented our initiative to the public promoting us to a great number of audiences. Ecochic Estilo Consentido has built itself as a national referent for conscious consumption of clothes.
What is your projected impact over the next 1-3 years?
With EstiloE.co we want to reach 25.000 people that will engage in successful transactions every year by our third year working. This means 25.000 objects that instead of going to the dumpster, are being used by other people. Each successful transaction will trigger new visits and new responsible consumers. This platform wants to bring to Colombia and Latin America what is now known as collaborative consumption and mainstream it.
What barriers might hinder the success of your project? How do you plan to overcome them?
We as a team are in need a technological partner and financial investment to be able to work 100% at EstiloE.co. We have also found that people are not well educated about the advantages of second hand commodities consumption. Our societies are very much driven by the 'brand-new-to-have-not-enjoy' paradigm of consumption. We have to demonstrate that consuming second hand is fine and really helps the environment. Since we have been promoting this for the past 5 years we now know that people need to know why it is imperative to change consumption patterns and that there are confortable ways of doing it.
Winning entries present a strong plan for how they will achieve and track growth. Identify your six-month milestone for growing your impact
We will have a functioning minimum viable product that has attracted 25.000 visitors and 1.500 registered users.
المهمة الأولى
Develop the final minimum viable product of estiloe.co with all the main features
المهمة الثانية
Carry out a massive communications, PR and marketing campaign to promote the platform
المهمة الثالثة
Build alliances with specific trend setters in Colombia to use the platform
Now think bigger! Identify your 12-month impact milestone
By year 1 we will have 55.000 visitors, 3.000 registered users that have exchanged 1.500 objects.
المهمة الأولى
Launch estiloe.co at the national level with a special event.
المهمة الثانية
Showcase estiloe.co at different fashion and environmental events.
المهمة الثالثة
Continue to promote the platform on the internet.
Founding 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.
Back in 2007 I was working at an international non gevernmental organization on climate change issues. We had identyfied consumerism as one of the main root causes of the environmental crisis. I started to research about fashion industry because I had noticed that in Colombia nice clothes were more available and at cheaper prices meaning that people would start discard their old clothes sooner. I discovered that my intuition was right for the rest of the world and I decided to host an awareness event about this issue on the 7.7.7 worldwide Live Earth Day. A friend and I organized the first Trueque Ecochic that kept going on until this day. On 2011 after having hosted over 40 events I realized it was too much work with so little impact. We were not being able to create the critic mass of conscious fashion consumers we were dreaming of, so I decided to go online and looked for the funding and the developers to do it.
مزيد من المعلومات↓↑ إخفاء↑ إخفاءأخبرنا عن شراكاتك:
We have alliances with businesses that like our proposal and have access to the things we need to carry out the Trueque Ecochic: Minimal Restaurante, CO2 Cero, Hotel B3 Virrey. For EstiloE.co we don't have alliances yet but we have been interacting with experts on internet based businesses here in Colombia. We were at the first Founders Friday organized by Ellas 2.0 and Wayra Academy and we have excelent contacts for our project.
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 need a developer to complete our team and we would love to find a girl developer. We need investment to cover the team's salary and for marketing campaigns and events. We are in the process of validating our business model so we need ideas on how to make it more attractive and effective. I have knowledge on sustainable development and project management.
Affordable Housing Resources is a non-profit in Columbia, SC that rents houses at affordable rates to families who are low-income, homeless, at risk of homelessness, or hold Section 8 vouchers.
By offering affordable housing with access to good schools and services, we hope to improve our tenants’ quality of life and help them rise above poverty.
Created on 08/8/2012 by Columbia Ahr
Affordable Housing Resources is a non-profit in Columbia, SC that rents houses at affordable rates to families who are low-income, homeless, at risk of homelessness, or hold Section 8 vouchers.
By offering affordable housing with access to good schools and services, we hope to improve our tenants’ quality of life and help them rise above poverty.
مزيد من المعلومات ↓↑ إخفاء↑ إخفاءاسم المؤسسة
Affordable Housing Resources
بلد المؤسسة
United States, SC, Columbia, Richland County
البلد الذي تعمل به هذه المؤسسة على إنشاء تأثير اجتماعي
United States, SC, Columbia, Richland 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..
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Affordable Housing Resources
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The Need: What problem are you trying to solve?
AHR needs to grow within the community. To date we own and operate four homes, but the need for affordable housing within our city vastly outnumbers the homes available. We want to secure more land or homes to accommodate those families at risk of becoming homeless.
The Solution: What is your solution? Be specific!
Our solution is not to simply warehouse the poor in low-income neighborhoods, but to diversify them by renting them clean, affordable houses in safe neighborhoods, with access to better education, health resources, and improve their overall quality of life.
The Model: Walk us through a specific example of how your solution makes a difference; include your primary activities
Our solution makes a huge difference because of the unintended segregation poverty causes in our city. By creating affordable housing in various middle-class neighborhoods, we seek to ethnically diversify our neighborhoods. This diversity will not only positively impact the tenants we serve, but we feel it will also positively impact the community by creating a grassroots movement to decrease the number of homeless, those that are at risk of becoming homeless, and also those who struggle to survive on limited wages and limited access to affordable housing.
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?
AHR believes that while many other Non Profits exist within our city, none of them seeks to address the public policy issue that attempts to warehouse the poor. AHR's mission is quite unique, and believes that instead of seeking to provide immediate housing of low quality, we should focus on providing a high quality home in a safe neighborhood. This home in turn effects not just the tenants need for shelter, but also increases their emotional stability by providing a sense of community relationship.
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What solution(s) does your initiative address to help emerging entrepreneurs and small businesses grow and thrive in underserved communities? (select all applicable)
Access to economic opportunity, Policy change/advocacy.
What has been the impact of your solution to date?
As of today, AHR owns and operates four homes in four distinct neighborhoods of Columbia, SC. We provide affordable housing to four families that were previously stuck in poverty-ridden neighborhoods. These families now have access to better schools for their children, better grocery stores, and better community resources.
What is your projected impact over the next 1-3 years?
As an AmeriCorp VISTA my goal is to acquire at least one property during my year of service. In an expanded view of our goals would be the acquisition of five properties over the next five years, or one property per year. This would be the accumulation of a minimum of three properties during the 1-3 year period.
What barriers might hinder the success of your project? How do you plan to overcome them?
The difficulties associated with growing our organization are vast. The public policy that deals with this sector is outdated, and furthermore is a roadblock to our mission. With this said, AHR attempts to work with the city in addressing its goals of neighborhood revitalization, by seeking to compromise so that the city's targeted neighborhoods are within the radius of our targeted neighborhoods. While urban revitalization is not the goal of AHR, city funds are always useful in attempting to move toward a common purpose. We feel that by making contacts, and expressing our concerns through letters to our officials, we can work together in an attempt to follow our mission.
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
Seek out properties in our targeted neighborhoods, and research their availability, price, and statistics.
المهمة الثانية
Seek out funding for a minimum of three homes in the community.
المهمة الثالثة
Write funding proposals to all of the researched donors who may want to provide support to our project.
Now think bigger! Identify your 12-month impact milestone
المهمة الأولى
Have funding secured to purchase at least one home in one of our targeted neighborhoods.
المهمة الثانية
Purchase, close, and evaluate the property in order to get it ready for move in.
المهمة الثالثة
Have one of the families on our wait list move into the home.
Founding 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 2004, Shandon Presbyterian Church Outreach Ministry turned its attention toward the availability of affordable housing as a factor contributing to homelessness in Columbia. They found that a lack of affordable housing prevented homeless families and individuals from moving out of shelters and transitional housing into permanent residences. In response, the Housing Team decided to form Shandon Presbyterian Housing Resources (SPHR), a non-profit that would rent houses exclusively to low-income families according to their incomes. SPHR incorporated as a 501(c)3 in 2005 with a Board of Directors to facilitate this mission.
In 2006, SPHR was designated as a Community Housing Development Organization by the City of Columbia. Through the United Way of the Midlands, SPHR was able to hire an AmeriCorps VISTA in 2009 to help grow the organization’s capacity. In 2011 we acquired two more houses and changed the name of the organization to Affordable Housing Resources of Columbia or simply AHR.
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AHR is partnered with the Shandon Presbyterian Church of Columbia, which we grew out of. We are also partners of the United Way of the Midlands, which is the governing body of our AmeriCorp VISTA volunteers. Other partners include the Unitarian Universalist Church of Columbia, The City of Columbia Community Development Organization, and the Richland County Community Development Organization.
Please elaborate on any needs or offers you have mentioned above and/or suggest categories of support that aren't specified within the list
As a newly established NPO, we have a framework for our initiative, but we need funding to grow. Investment in our mission is at the forefront of our goals, yet we don't want our investors to be simply a bank. We want them to get involved and share in how we change the community. We encourage anyone who wants to be a part of something special to volunteer or donate any resources or services.
Created on 08/7/2012 by Bital Trotter
I provide them with the fee they need to continue there studies for now but i wish to do more.
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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..
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Helps in finding answers to problems they feel shy talking about with others
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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?
Increase in literacy rate in third world county such as my own, there is a phrase i heard some where " The more you know the more you Grow" i will be using this as a slogan in Creating awareness about self help techniques(decreasing dependency) if you are a women or a girl it does not mean you have to do what the male role model or any one for that matter tell you what to do just do as you pleas after all this is you lifr you will have live the consequences, why not make you own decigen so you wont have to look back and wonder "WHAT COULD HAVE BEEN IF I DID WHAT I WANTED TO DO?".
Making sure that the society does not limit them to a stage where they can not thing out side the box at all.
Taking things i there own hands and learning to be you own BOSS and not just another slave.
The Solution: What is your solution? Be specific!
Allow, Teach Kids how to use a Computer and how much can it contribute in there lives and how helpful it can be for shy kids who are scared of asking difficult question such as body development etc.
Showing them how fruitful it can be for them to know the usefulness of it and how it can teach them more the they ever taught possible such as self defiance videos what to do if there is a fire, how to take care of small things before they get out of hand, tips about small problems.
in order for me to do this i would have to go to most of the schools and talk to there principals about this and convince them you give me a chance to change someone's life for better.
I will Do a public service and creating awareness that change is not always bad and that we need to adapt in order to survive other wise we will be left behind, i know change is not always welcome some people will try to sabotage my work by using pornography as an issues, i will do what i can to succeed no matter what.
The Model: Walk us through a specific example of how your solution makes a difference; include your primary activities
suppose you are a 13 year old girl you notice a strange fuzz on you vagina you start to freak out, couple of days pass and you one day you wake up and feel a little wet between your legs you suddenly get emotional and you have no idea what the hell is going on with your body due to lack of knowledge and you start to isolate you self from everyone else and end up depress all the time which leads to increase in stress level shorting the life of a person and as they say troubled mind is a house of problems and so they might start to act out, If you were using a computer freely you would easily finger out that the changes which are taking place in you body are normal and there is nothing to worry about, this would decrees the number of emotional scared people and increasing the life span and the quality of many people lives, now this is a long term plan and this is just one of the examples but i mush say some times smallest change can become the a cause of something good.
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 many people working on this issue all over the world but unforchantly there aren't any in my country only and full of people are working on this project i am talking about 24-35 people working to broaden the mind of a population of 16 million so it is almost impossible of use you put a little dent in this illiterate country chances of success are quite slim and since this is a narrow minded economy chances of growth are even slimmer but i will not give up because will of a single man can change the world.
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What solution(s) does your initiative address to better the lives of girls and women by leveraging technology? (select all applicable)
Access to technology, Access to education/training, Access to health care, Access to economic opportunity.
What has been the impact of your solution to date?
In past 2 month i have been beaten more then i have in my entire life but i did mange to convince multiple families to let there daughter opt for education then underage marriage, now those girls are studding and fallow her dream to become the first girl in her village to ever have degree and have a good job and make it on her own and support her parents when they retire, i must say it felt great to make a change in someone's life in a good way.
What is your projected impact over the next 1-3 years?
If i dedicate the time i am dedicating now i would be able to make many women and girls lives better. my current rate of success in last 2 months is about 0.0000625% that's about 1000 girls if i had some money i would be able to do much more then what i am able to do now.
In next 3 years i would be able to change this number to about 22.56% i know the number is low but i still think but in about a decade the number will increase to over 70% because as they say in business for every one happy costumer 4 more arrive by applying this on my work i was able to calculate these projections they are quite accurate
What barriers might hinder the success of your project? How do you plan to overcome them?
Lack of broad minded people, people who out of there way to prove youngsters (such as me) wrong, Hippocratic molvi (he is like a Muslim preacher) who say that girls should not study but they make sure there daughters are well educated and are earning a living, egoistic Teachers cause problems for free minded students by failing them, in sincere teachers who sell exam answers before exam, bad students who act as if they do not study and stop others from studding but in reality they spent most of there free time studding.
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
Invite more hard working members to work with us (expand this project)
المهمة الثانية
Raise money to pay the fee of thous who can not
المهمة الثالثة
Create opportunities for those who are willing
Now think bigger! Identify your 12-month impact milestone
المهمة الأولى
Create a Nationally known organization
المهمة الثانية
Create jobs for those in need of it
المهمة الثالثة
Get attention of the whole country on this subject
Founding 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 first time i saw that this plan is going to work is when the first time i was convincing my Girlfriends parents to let her continue her studies we sat down with one of the best teachers i know (RIP) and her parents that discussion took place in her house and lasted about 3 hours in the middle of that discussion i realized that is was a big problem and some one had to do something about it we did manage to convince her parents to let her study and wrote a letter to almost every politician i could and waited for a response almost 1 year passed no response so i decided that i should take this in to my own hands and well since then i have helped 1000 girls and i wish to continue it.
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This is not a partnership i do every this my self if you remove me then this whole project will die.
Please elaborate on any needs or offers you have mentioned above and/or suggest categories of support that aren't specified within the list
I am a motivated hard worker who is doing the best to help girls i had the idea of doing this and am able to help them as much as possible i am a bussiness student so i know how to market and research.
i have the knowledge how a business works and i am very good at it.
Created on 07/25/2012 by Sunish Jauhari
CoRPS - a citizen's initiative will address three key elements:
- Education - empathy on the road
- Pedestrian infrastructure
- Life-saving first aid
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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..
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Which of the following best describes the barrier(s) your solution addresses? Choose up to two
Access, Cost.
The Need: Describe the need for your solution and the size and characteristics of the community(ies) your solution is engaging
15 people die on Indian roads every hour! About half of them are women and children, and about 6 of them die because of lack of access to timely first-aid.
CoRPS has potential to impact millions of road-users in India, about 14m people on the roads of the 5 metros at any given point in a day.
There are three key areas to address - education, infrastructure and life-saving first-aid.
CoRPS interventions will address roots of driving behavior, and will also impact the next generation of drivers by making them practice empathy on the road. The social enterprise end of CoRPS will be a market based model to fund, build, repair and maintain pavements using a PPP model. And finally, CoRPS will set up a life-saving first-aid capacity using the SE network.
The Solution: What is your solution? Be specific!
Each strand of CoRPS pushes the beneficiaries - the public - to trigger change.
CoRPS will identify potential influencers within the target segment (auto/cab/bus drivers) and sensitize a group of leaders to influence their community. The interventions will include public recognition, community leadership and social meetings.
The pedestrian infrastructure initiative will focus on strengthening the local corporators by bringing in competition within themselves to begin to ask for efficient and safe walking spaces. The model will deliver funding, repair and building of pavements by leasing commercial spaces.
And finally, the first-aid initiative will push the control in the hands of those handling the incident by taking the injured to the nearest clinic without any doubt. It aims to map clinics along the busy streets and turn them into registered first-aid providers. It will also create secondary first-aid layer by providing first-aid training to auto-rickshaw drivers.
The Model: Walk us through a specific example of how your solution makes a difference; include the primary activities involved in your solution.
Education - Take rickshaw drivers for eg. Research says that there is aversion towards general public as a result of the swollen middle-class pushing the cost of living higher, ousting them to the periphery. This surfaces as apathetic and risky behavior on the road. CoRPS uses social meetings as ice-breaker, with the help of JAAGA, a local community place. Intervention is subtle, creating an artificial vent for this community and identifying those who could lead this change within the community. The program will be supported by public recognition for good behavior, and also introducing knowledge of place with interesting stories so that interested rickshaw drivers double up as tourist guides and are able to charge some extra money.
On the other hand, CoRPS facilitates a market-based approach to funding pedestrian infrastructure. It allows the local government to raise cash by leasing commercial spaces, and manage pavement infrastructure using their existing vendors. The commercial spaces will be leased out initially for a period of time, and then will be available for open bidding as and when they are available. Eventually, CoRPS will introduce this to local corporators as an idea to change their respective locality, and resist anyone who spoils the roads, creating an internal competition among themselves.
The last pillar of first-aid care maps healthcare clinics along the busy roads and standardize first-aid capacity. This will reduce chances of ambulances stuck in traffic, and instead take the victim to the nearest clinic, saving lives.
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.
Market place comprises of 5-6 large metros in the first stage, with a population of about 100m. There are limited number of roads, while India registers over 60000 new vehicles every year! So pressure and anxiety on roads will only increase if right behavior, infrastructure and care do not exist.
CoRPS is a simple model with no competition. It is a partnership model. CoRPS is exploring partnership with community organizations, social entrepreneurs, businesses and the government. Government, the most difficult one, is already on board. CoRPS will provide an architecture to these organizations with potential to integrate technology outfits too in future.
The risk/barrier is that some state govts may be tougher to access, and may lack political will.
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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.
More than an Aha! moment, CoRPS was born out of sheer disgust and disappointment - seeing so many deaths due to irresponsible behavior on roads while media, citizens and government playing mere spectators. So I decided to do something about it. Ray of hope is that there is willingness to change in everyone. My Aha! moment was when I asked a cab-driver if he would like to come and help us with this problem where lots of people are dying. He said with wet-eyes - sir, I never thought I could be of any help to anyone. I will surely come!
CoRPS uses a different approach. It promotes 'rewarding good behavior' instead of 'penalties', and 'asking' solutions rather than 'giving' making it the problem of those who matter.
Please describe the goal of your initiative; outline what you are trying to achieve
To reduce the number of road deaths by changing behaviors, bringing sensitivity towards a social space, and empathy for fellow road-users.
What has been the impact of your solution to date?
To date, my discussions with the government, citizens, CSOs have been positive. Impact is far off on the horizon, but many of those we shared this with have realized how could they become a part of changemaking instead of only asking for change. I consider this as an achievement.
What is your projected impact over the next five years?
- Safe walking spaces (pavements and footover/subways) for pedestrians in at least 80% of metropolitan areas in India (5 metro cities)
- Reduction in number of road deaths by 50%
- An education module on sensitive road usage and empathetic driving for secondary schools to be introduced as a policy.
What barriers might hinder the success of your project? How do you plan to overcome them?
Government acceptance - road is a public space and governed by the local authorities. So any intervention must have government acceptance. The plan of creating a fund within the government, for a fresh cash flow, has had good acceptance and hence less likely to be an issue.
Local corporators - Corporators are the last elected individual in hierarchy and is responsible for their small part of locality. There have been instances when initiatives for the good have not taken off because of lack of acceptance by them. CoRPS positions the pedestrian infrastructure initiative as a tool for their recognition - making them allow this to happen for their own good.
Finally, CoRPS' partnership model allows scale and prevents reinventing the wheel.
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Pilot project in one locality in Bangalore
المهمة الأولى
Conduct community survey and research on most suited design
المهمة الثانية
Conduct competitions in design and architecture colleges in Bangalore to come up with top ideas on commercial and advert spaces
المهمة الثالثة
Set up fund with the local municipal corporation
Now think bigger! Identify your 12-month impact milestone
10 major streets in Bangalore to have safe pedestrian infrastructure
المهمة الأولى
Prepare research and community survey tool / template for the partner CSOs
المهمة الثانية
Set up commercial spaces through the local municipal corporation, and market them to potential lessees
المهمة الثالثة
BBMP fund to generate enough revenue to service 10 major streets
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CoRPS will partner with local CSO organizations like JAAGA and Janaagraha for community participation, volunteers and research.
CoRPS is also exploring partnership with Dr Subroto Das of Lifeline Foundation, who is an Ashoka Fellow, to help us implement what he has done for highway emergency medical care.
Finally, CoRPS is tying up with two technology outfits - both working on emergency care (messaging trigger system and traffic light syncing system) to strengthen the offer.
CoRPS is being incubated within Ashoka in India, so has access to more knowledge and networks.
Are you currently targeting other specific populations, locations, or markets for your solution? If so, where and why?
CoRPS has potential to impact every Indian city (and that is the plan), and other emerging countries too. But current focus is to prove the model as locally successful, and nationally replicable and sustainable.
What type of operating environment and internal organizational factors make your innovation successful?
Operating environment at CoRPS will be business-like. The organization will work on the principles of a social enterprise, where staff will have an entrepreneurial approach. This is key to CoRPS' development and growth in the next 12-24months.
Please elaborate on any needs or offers you have mentioned above and/or suggest categories of support that aren't specified within the list
CoRPS addresses an area of dire need in India - number of road deaths. About 17 people die on Indian roads every hour. 8 of them are women and children and 6 of them are earning members of the family!
CoRPS also strives to attack the root cause of road-rage and road-abuse in India, and aims to bring empathetic and sensitive behavior in driving.
Need of the hour is to sensitize young road users and equip the children with the right skills and empathy. CoRPS is committed to do that in the first phase.
The CDF teaches economically disadvantaged individuals about the proper utilization of the tool called credit. We provide clients with quarterly 1:1 professional assistance in developing and maintaining a spending and debt reduction plans to bring them out debt in order to start business and purchase homes. The C D F's main goal is to eliminate poverty in urban cities.
Created on 07/21/2012 by kkung
Takachar works with existing/new local entrepreneurial groups in urban slums to bring waste management to the poor households who otherwise cannot afford waste pick-up services. The local groups sort the waste into different value streams, and we convert the organic waste into charcoal. By doing so, we address wide-ranging problems from income generation, greenhouse emissions, to deforestation.
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United States, MA, Cambridge, Middlesex County
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Kenya, NA, Kibera Slum, Nairobi
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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..
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بدء (إصدار تجريبي قد بدأ تشغيله للتو)
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The Need: What problem are you trying to solve?
There are two separate problems facing many slums: unmanaged waste and fuel (charcoal) shortage. While many local entrepreneurial groups already attempt to address these problems, they are often not efficient. For example, entrepreneurial groups in the Kibera slum in Nairobi already collect waste from households (for a fee), but only few slum households can afford to pay, so the subscription for this service is low. Moreover, these entrepreneurial groups also turn organic waste (e.g. sawdust/paper) into alternative fuel briquettes to sell. Most of these briquettes emit copious smoke, which makes indoor cooking unsafe (health hazard). Thus, most of Kibera’s 200 ton/day of waste remains unmanaged, and at the same time, slum households are spending 45% of their income on scarce cooking fuel.
The Solution: What is your solution? Be specific!
We recognize that the local entrepreneurial groups have an excellent framing of a vast opportunity: turning unmanaged waste into valuable fuel. We are working, in a participatory manner, with these groups to improve both the service (waste management) and the product (fuel). In particular, we are innovating a process to turn a more robust range of organic waste into carbonized briquettes. This stands in contrast to the uncarbonized briquettes that all local groups currently produce because carbonized briquettes emit almost no smoke and behave indiscernibly from to charcoal, a common cooking fuel. Recognizing that centralized quality control of the briquettes is key, we purchase the organic waste from the local entrepreneurial groups such that they would earn even more income than if they turned the equal amount of waste into uncarbonized briquettes themselves. Through a process of grinding, drying, pyrolyzing, and briquetting, we convert the waste into high-quality and safe briquettes.
The Model: Walk us through a specific example of how your solution makes a difference; include your primary activities
A local group that chooses to work with us will first become more efficient in waste management. In our studies, we found that while there is tacit knowledge in waste collection within the local groups such as the optimal routes and service fee structure, such knowledge is often lost due to rapid turnover in the group membership, so that the approaches by different members are often haphazard. We use GPS tracking tags to spatially map the collection routes to identify underserved customers, and knowing the spatially uneven income distribution within the slum, work out a waste collection pricing structure that will increase the customer size. For example, since the group can earn income simply by selling the waste they collect, it may make sense to provide the waste collection for free for the poorest neighborhoods. The increased customer base (from 100 to about 250 households per group) will allow the groups to operate at full capacity (currently most groups work part-time and need to find other odd jobs). Many groups already sort their garbage, but if not, then we train the groups to separate waste into different streams (plastic/metal to sell to recycling plants, and organic waste to sell to us). We arrange for daily collection of organic waste at fixed time from the local groups, and inspect the sorted organic waste for quality control. Groups that consistently turn in quality organic waste will receive higher compensation (up to 2000 Ksh/ton of organic waste) from us. We estimate that a group operating at full capacity can triple each member’s income compared to before.
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?
Various alternative fuels are produced by existing local entrepreneurial groups in the market, but many of them (such as paper-and-sawdust briquettes) are very unpopular because they are uncarbonized and emit noxious smoke (most of Kibera cooks indoors). Other options, such as "mawe" (charcoal/clay), burn so slowly that they still depend on charcoal to sustain the heat. We learned from these prior pitfalls and carefully optimize our briquettes via lab tests and focus groups.
Beside us, TakaTaka and Sanergy are the only other organization we know that engages local waste-managing groups. Unlike us, they do not increase the groups' current capacity, nor do they purchase waste from them, and their final products are fertilizer (TakaTaka) and electricity (Sanergy), not cooking fuel.
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What solution(s) does your initiative address to help emerging entrepreneurs and small businesses grow and thrive in underserved communities? (select all applicable)
Access to supply chains, Access to technology, Access to economic opportunity.
What has been the impact of your solution to date?
Takachar is the second generation of the charcoal project developed at MIT's D-Lab, which has been implemented in about 20 developing countries, such as Haiti (66 workshops, 1000 producers), Rwanda, China, and Niger. In Jan 2012, Takachar's "dry run" charcoal-making pilot in Rumuruti was highly successful: since then, the project has taken off in two villages (about 2000 people each), creating 20 new jobs (to replace illegal logging). Recently, Takachar and the Rumuruti Forest Association received a US$37500 UNDP grant, a major component of which is to expand the charcoal project to 7 other villages around Rumuruti, consisting of 19000 houses. In Kibera, since June 2012, Takachar has been working with the Zulu Youth Group to sort organic waste and make charcoal, with exciting initial results. The production of charcoal briquettes has already started, currently at 10 kg/day. After we optimize the charcoal binder, the product will go to market at the end of 2012.
What is your projected impact over the next 1-3 years?
Our project will fully engage existing/new local entrepreneurial groups in Kibera's waste management. Currently, many local groups are under-capacity which means that the members need to find other odd jobs to supplement their income. By 2013, our partner group's work will require 25 full-time members, as opposed to the current 15 part-time members (covering the waste management of 250 houses). By 2014, there will be 250 more job opportunities via local groups or Takachar, managing the waste of 5000 households.
At this scale, we can properly manage 10 tons/day of urban waste in Kibera, triple the income of the members of the partnering entrepreneurial groups, mitigate 8 tons/day of greenhouse CO2 equivalent, and save 3500 trees/year.
What barriers might hinder the success of your project? How do you plan to overcome them?
- Households may prefer wood charcoal over our briquettes. We are optimizing our briquettes' properties via lab tests and focus groups where the households cook meals using our briquettes, for us to get feedback. In the worst case where briquetting fails, Kibera also has a market for charcoal dust.
- In parts of rural Kenya, cleaner wood-burning stoves are making charcoal redundant. We do not see this happening soon in Kibera, where firewood is even more scarce than charcoal.
- If Kibera becomes richer, then charcoal will be replaced by other fuels. In that case, we can easily retrofit our facility to produce biogas/electricity instead.
- Displacing jobs in the current charcoal supply chain is insignificant, as Kibera's charcoal trade is so large that we will only occupy a small share.
Winning entries present a strong plan for how they will achieve and track growth. Identify your six-month milestone for growing your impact
Fully implement the waste-sourcing model with one pilot local entrepreneurial group (Zulu Youth Group).
المهمة الأولى
Complete mapping the collection routes and engage in conversation with the group regarding potential expansion.
المهمة الثانية
Discuss and potentially improve on the waste collection pricing structure based on the spatial distribution of income.
المهمة الثالثة
Complete the piloting of small-scale charcoal production, focusing on optimizing the briquette properties for marketability.
Now think bigger! Identify your 12-month impact milestone
Extend our waste management service to 2000 households in two villages in Kibera.
المهمة الأولى
Identify (or form) 3 more local waste-managing groups in the targeted catchment area and work with their specific needs.
المهمة الثانية
In partnership with CFK, undertake a massive community marketing campaign (door-to-door, community forums, SMS, etc.)
المهمة الثالثة
Raise sufficient funds (US$50000) to construct a centralized charcoal production facility with a 1 ton/day capacity.
Founding 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 idea was seeded when I visited Kibera in March 2011 during a global health consulting project, and noticed endless charcoal being traded by the roadside. A casual conversation with our community partner Carolina for Kibera revealed that charcoal is causing huge environmental and economic problems, and CFK would like to start an urban waste-to-briquette project with the local groups but lacked the technical expertise. Back in MIT, I worked with D-Lab's charcoal-making method and started experimenting it in the context of urban waste. I also talked to numerous people at MIT's international development circle, who became really excited by the project's potential. The breakthrough moment came during a networking night in November 2011, when I met Libby McDonald, our project's current mentor. Libby has been working with urban waste for many years, and together we realized that the real potential for this project is its applicability to almost all types of organic waste, worldwide.
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We are partnering with Carolina for Kibera (CFK), a well-respected Kibera-based NGO that has access to a network of local groups in its "Trash Is Cash" program, which has waste management as their top priority. CFK also regularly holds community forums/door-to-door campaigns, which we can use for publicity/marketing. We partner with the Nairobi Fab Lab to develop technical/engineering designs together in the local context. We have also collaborated on a research protocol with Dr. Gichuhi's group at the University of Nairobi, which is interested in monitoring and evaluating our impact.
Please elaborate on any needs or offers you have mentioned above and/or suggest categories of support that aren't specified within the list
From our experience with different charcoal projects, we can also offer consulting (a) for groups wanting to start their charcoal projects from organic waste, or (b) for existing projects to use our lab set-up to characterize their briquettes for emission safety. We have already collaborated on a consulting project with the Inter-American Development Bank in Haiti, with revealing results.
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