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Much has been made of the Internet revolution, but the genius of communicating ideas across borders does not necessarily require cutting edge technology. In fact, for many people, there's one good old-fashioned technology that has a greater power for change: radio.
For people who live in remote rural areas around the globe, without easy access computers and who don’t read or speak the most common languages of the Web—English, Spanish, French—the Internet is not much use. But a global exchange of ideas and information happens anyway, in part thanks to Farm Radio International.
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ACTED’s vocation is to support vulnerable populations affected by wars, natural disasters and/or economic and social crises, and to accompany them in building a better future; thus contributing to the Millennium Development Goals
WFP leads the fight against hunger and food insecurity on many different fronts. Sometimes the front line is an emergency such as a war or a natural disaster. However, it is often less dramatic but equally urgent: grinding poverty or recurring drought.
Despite being the among the largest source of food carbohydrates in the tropics and the most drought-tolerant crops, Cassava tuber is considered inferior to rice. The government's agricultural policy and the subsequent people's view of cassava as "food of the poor" has made rice and flour dominant food staple.
Created on 04/29/2013 by geralisu
In a context strongly affected by poverty and high levels of malnutrition, by boosting agricultural production and encouraging food diversification, we will simultaneously invest on training for people to manufacture a nutritional supplement based on local resources to prevene nutrition problems.
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Instituto de Solidariedade e Cooperação Universitária (ONGD)
البلد الذي تعمل به هذه المؤسسة على إنشاء تأثير اجتماعي
Mozambique, NA, Mogovolas
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مزيد من المعلومات↓↑ إخفاء↑ إخفاءName your entry
Olha Orathene - malnutrition prevention in Mozambique
Stage
Idea (poised to launch)
This Entry is about (Issues)
Elevator Pitch
In a context strongly affected by poverty and high levels of malnutrition, by boosting agricultural production and encouraging food diversification, we will simultaneously invest on training for people to manufacture a nutritional supplement based on local resources to prevene nutrition problems.
Problem
Nampula province in Mozambique has one of the highest rates of chronic malnutrition in the country (> 50%), which is due to the existence of a framework of food insecurity and the fact that the diets of the population are monotonous and have strong micronutrient deficiencies. While providing the necessary energy, it lacks fat and protein, as well as micronutrients such as iron.
Solution
Our proposal aims to reduce poverty in the communities of Mogovolas, Nampula province, through an intervention to boost local agricultural production, to diversify diets thus preventing malnutrition and allow greater access to factors of production, in particularly for women. The project aims to increase knowledge of women about nutrition and maternal and child health, by conducting awareness and training sessions and reducing the rate of malnutrition among pregnant women and children, by encouraging the consumption of a food supplement consisting of local agricultural products. Additionally by conducting nutritional follow-up analyses with the population we will monitor results and take the appropriate measures to improve it continuosly.
Example
Considering the widespread lack of knowledge of the population in relation to nutritional issues, conducting awareness-raising and training sessions for women and young people about nutrition and maternal and child health may result in a change in eating habits and increase attention on community health care. The production and distribution of a nutritional food supplement composed of local ingredients has the objective of creating more autonomy towards local solutions to local problems and mobilize local resources from community's gardens. With the completion of nutricional follow-up meetings with target groups (pregnant women and children) we will seek to control and monitor the impact of the project and introduce contigency measures.
Impact
It is anticipated a 15% reduction in cases of anemia and malnutrition among pregnant women and children from 0 to 5 and 30% increase in women's access to food and diversification of their diet. The project will raise awareness to change attitudes about the situation of women and especially pregnant women. We believe the project will also have an impact on increasing women's access to resources, including agricultural, and raise their level of education and training, while seeking to improve their general health and their perspectives in relation to motherhood and maternal health care. The project will at the same time encourage improvements in the diet of children (variety and quality of food consumed), to avoid situations of severe or chronic malnutrition, which often exist in Mozambique.
Marketplace
The government of Mozambique is strongly working towards the prevention of malnutrition in the country and the project will involve governmental structures and their human resources. At the same time the project will have the possibility of gaining innovations through contact with other similar experiences being carried out in other countries such as Guinea-Bissau and Brazil (also portuguese speaking) and exchanging practices and solutions to problems encountared during the implementation phase.
Sustainability Plan
The methodology used to implement the activities of the project will include a period of time to raise awareness towards malnutrition and incorrect eating habits and at the same time will promote the consumption of a nutritional suplement that the project will start by giving people and as time goes by people will buy. At the same time the production of agricultural goods within the community will allows for extra income for the people.
Founding Story
This project idea derives from an experience that ISU carried out in Guinea-Bissau with a religious mission with wich for 4 years we developed a similar idea and started a small social business that creates local products that prevene malnutrition and continue to contribute to people's diet improvement in terms of the diversification of products consumed and the creation of small community gardens, from which the products are sold allowing for extra income for the people.
مزيد من المعلومات↓↑ إخفاء↑ إخفاءWhere do you ensure the availability of nutrients?
Nutrient-rich farming, Full nourishment foods.
If you had greater capacity, which additional sectors would you like your solution to target - either through expansion, partnership, or thought exchange?
Healthy environments, Human wellness and vitality.
How specifically would this added capacity help you improve the quality, efficiency, or sustainability of your existing product or service?
The project will accomplish further impacts if there is an intervention that simultaneously garantees healthy environments in terms of water supply and sanitation and the continous local availability of human resources to help people implement changes in their environment and to have access to health care. These two elements are specially important in what relates to improve human wellness and well-being.
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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Started from social media, Indonesia Berkebun grows into nation-wide massive urban farming movement, converting abandoned land in urban areas into gardening with sustainable farming approach. The movement has also expand its activity from voluntary planting action into "Gardening Academy" - reintroducing planting know-how to urban citizens, and online marketplace to sell the produce.
Created on 04/24/2013 by tdazad
Reinventing the way food is accessed in low-income areas of St. Louis. The St. Louis MetroMarket will create a presence in all 15 St. Louis food deserts within 5 years of launching.
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United States, MO, St. Louis, Saint Louis City
Do you work with any social organizations?
How did you hear about the competition?
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↑ إخفاءSelect the stage that best applies to your venture
Idea (you're ready to start)
This Entry is about (Issues)
Summary: What specific issue or problem does your Venture address?
13.5 million Americans reside in areas with low access to fresh, affordable food, known as food deserts. The USDA defines these areas as census tracts where more than 33% of the population lives one mile or more from a major grocery store. In St. Louis, 14,000 children and 52,000 adults live in food deserts. The percentage of our city’s population living in a food desert if 233% higher than the national average. We have identified four central barriers to equitable food access: physical access, education about healthy eating, economic constraints, and inhibited community awareness about this issue.
Misson Statement: What will your venture do?
St. Louis MetroMarket seeks to deploy a city bus modified into a one-aisle grocery store. Primary offerings include fresh, naturally grown fruits and vegetables, meat, dairy, and other staple foods. We are not simply aiming to alleviate symptoms of food deserts but rather affect meaningful behavioral change by breaking down the four barriers that perpetuate food insecurity.
The Model: Walk us through a specific example of how your solution makes a difference; include your primary activities
With our mobile farmers' market, we seek to couple significant social impact with innovative financial sustainability. Using city bus modified as a walk-through store, we will sell and distribute locally sourced produce and staple goods to predetermined stops in St. Louis. The majority of our revenue will come not only from product sales, but also from membership sales. We will then reinvest in both subsidies for low-income members and in purchasing an additional 5 vehicles to expand to all 18 food deserts in St. Louis city within 5 years. We will couple increased access with practical lessons about meal planning, food preparation and nutrition.
The Community: Define the community that you work on behalf of. What population is affected? Are there other organizations working in this space?
Our central focus involves serving individuals who live in areas with low access to healthy, affordable food. In St. Louis, individuals living in these areas tend to have lower income and reduced mobility. Often, the nutritional value of their food is of less concern than simply securing food. In St. Louis, the population that we wish to serve is predominantly African American. A number of St. Louis organizations work to support these populations; however, the groups addressing food-related issues are working on hunger relief. We hope to supplement these existing efforts by focusing on access to healthy and affordable food.
Founding Story: What inspired your venture? Why?
Co-founder Tej Azad was discussing the high rates of obesity and diabetes with his father. Unlike his father, Tej believed that macroscopic, structural issues contributed to these rates, in addition to any potential cultural or behavioral influences. That same night, Tej watched a special on “food deserts” on 60 minutes. A unique program, a Chicago-based mobile farmer’s market called Fresh Moves was profiled. From that point on, Tej has explored ways in which to bring a similar model to St. Louis.
Define your Venture in 1-2 short sentences
Reinventing the way food is accessed in low-income areas of St. Louis. The St. Louis MetroMarket will create a presence in all 15 St. Louis food deserts within 5 years of launching.
مزيد من المعلومات↓↑ إخفاء↑ إخفاءWhat do you want to accomplish in your first year?
In the first year, we wish to organize a few pilot programs to test specific assumptions in the model. Specifically, we hope to identify a potential food desert market stop. Even without the bus, we will test whether 1) The community is interested in purchasing our food 2)How effective this specific stop as a distribution point. A second pilot program is to test the corporate memberships aspect of our model.
Set your first goal or milestone for your Venture Team in the next 6 months that will bring you to your vision
Run the first pilot - food desert sales
المهمة الأولى
Identify a strong community partner
المهمة الثانية
Determine how to most effectively structure the pilot
المهمة الثالثة
Secure funding necessary to run the pilot
Set a second goal or milestone for your Venture Team in the next 6 months that will bring you to your vision
Run the second pilot - corporate sales
المهمة الأولى
Find contacts with local corporations
المهمة الثانية
Determine what they require for us to sell to their employees
Set a third goal or milestone for your Venture Team in the next 6 months that will bring you to your vision
Obtain city bus and organize necessary modifications
المهمة الأولى
Foster St. Louis government contacts
المهمة الثانية
Identify architect/engineers to design the vehicle
المهمة الثالثة
Obtain bus and have modifications applied
مزيد من المعلومات↓↑ إخفاء↑ إخفاءHow will your Venture define success in the short term (1-12 months)?
In the next 12 months, we will define success relative to the efficacy of our pilot programs. Specifically, our ability to design, plan, and carry out the programs.
In the long-term (1-3 years)?
After obtaining the vehicle, we have set out specific goals. At the end of year 1 of operations (2 years from now), we should have completed 52,000 total food desert transactions, served 4,000 food desert residents, implemented a 10% subsidy for EBT users. At the end of year 2 (3 years from now), we should have added a second bus, completed 120,000 total food desert transactions, served 8,000 food desert residents, implemented a 15% subsidy for EBT users.
How will you measure success?
We will measure success in terms of the number of food desert transactions, food desert residents served, and the amount of EBT sales we are able to subsidize. Though corporate sales are part of our model, the true focus of our venture is to improve access to food in these chronic low access areas.
مزيد من المعلومات↓↑ إخفاء↑ إخفاءHow will you recruit new members for your venture?
We have strong relationship with the undergraduate community at Washington University in St. Louis and the medical student community at St. Louis University. We will recruit members from these populations. Furthermore, we hope to excite community members as well and plan to draw volunteers and members from here as well
How will you appoint new leaders and transfer leadership when the founding members want to leave the team?
While the venture is young, we will draw new leaders from existing volunteers and supporters. This will allow continuity of mission and vision. Due to our affiliation with both St. Louis University and Washington University in St. Louis, we will have a renewing pool of students to recruit to the venture.
As the venture matures, it is likely that the scale will require full time employees with significant management experience. As we approach this stage, we will work closely with our board to determine potential leaders.
How will you continue your project in 6-months time or once you have spent all of its initial capital?
Our blend of corporate memberships, high-income memberships, and low-income memberships will enable the venture to remain financially sustainable following the front end capital. This is demonstrated in our financial projections.
Created on 04/24/2013 by SolomonRajput1
Solving Dinner is a social enterprise that aims to shift America towards a healthier and more sustainable diet by simplifying the home cooking process.
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United States, NH, Hanover, Grafton County
Do you work with any social organizations?
How did you hear about the competition?
I am part of the Making More Health Youth Venture Webinar Series
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↑ إخفاءSelect the stage that best applies to your venture
Idea (you're ready to start)
This Entry is about (Issues)
Summary: What specific issue or problem does your Venture address?
One of the best ways to eat well is to cook your own food. However, at the end of a long work day, the last thing many working Americans want to think about is how to put a meal on the table. Although they would love to eat a home-cooked meal, they often don't want to put up with the hassle that comes with cooking. Instead of trying to put up with the stress of planning, shopping, and prepping that comes with cooking, many opt for convenient, but unhealthy, alternatives: fast food, microwavable meals, take out, etc.
Misson Statement: What will your venture do?
Solving Dinner is a social enterprise that aims to shift America towards a healthier and more sustainable diet by simplifying the home cooking process. We produce meal kits that make cooking healthy food a breeze and we partner with companies to market and distribute the kits to their employees. Solving Dinner is looking to completely overtake our customers’ weeknight meal routine so that people can eat well regularly.
The Model: Walk us through a specific example of how your solution makes a difference; include your primary activities
Every meal kit contains everything you need to make dinner: all the ingredients, in the exact quantities, with everything already prepped so all you have to do cook! We also save our customers a shopping trip because we will actually deliver to their workplace so that they can pick it up right before they go home and then cook it when they're home. All of our meals will meet recommendations set by dietitians and the government as to what constitutes a healthy meal: less sodium and sugar, and more fruits, vegetables, and whole grains.
We will receive all the ingredients from food distributors, and then we will prep all of the ingredients, package them into meal kits, and store them overnight in a cooling unit. The next day, we will load the meals onto a refrigerated truck and make a series of deliveries to various workplaces; we will collaborate with the employers to make sure refrigeration at the workplace is taken care of. Then, customers will take their meal home and cook a tasty meal in less than 30 minutes. We aim for around fast-food prices: $5-7 per person.
It's quick, convenient, affordable, tasty, and above all, healthy.
The Community: Define the community that you work on behalf of. What population is affected? Are there other organizations working in this space?
All of America struggles with obesity; it's not just impoverished individuals in food deserts. Many other organizations are working to increase access to healthy food, but the majority of people who have access choose not to eat well; often they don’t cook healthy meals because they feel too busy and stressed. Working parents and busy, young single people are our two initial target demographics-- they often don’t cook because they’re either too tried or don’t want to put up with the hassle. Some organizations try to raise awareness about what to eat; we actually make the process easier.
Founding Story: What inspired your venture? Why?
Watching a documentary called “Forks over Knives” sparked my interest in our nation’s diet, and after consuming volumes of information, I gradually accepted a shocking truth: if we change what we eat, we can solve many pressing environmental and health problems. Most of our healthcare costs come from preventable illness, which is largely caused by poor diet, and the food sector actually contributes more greenhouse gasses than the entire transportation sector. I resolved that I wanted to tackle this problem, to shift America to a healthier and more sustainable diet, and after doing in-depth market research I realized that the home-cooking process was a real paint point many people had. By simplifying home cooking, I could create a healthier and more sustainable world.
Define your Venture in 1-2 short sentences
Solving Dinner is a social enterprise that aims to shift America towards a healthier and more sustainable diet by simplifying the home cooking process.
مزيد من المعلومات↓↑ إخفاء↑ إخفاءWhat do you want to accomplish in your first year?
We first want to prove that this model works and that there is demand for this product. I've taken this term off to pursue this business idea, and in a week we will start delivering meals to our first company partner. We are renting out a kitchen for the next month in order to pilot this idea for the next month. We will spend the pilot tweaking our model and seeing what demand we get, and at the end we will evaluate if this is worthwhile to pursue in its current incarnation or if we need to pivot. If our model seems promising, we will seek initial funding to lease a facility and to hire labor to produce the meals. We will create partnerships with multiple workplaces in the area that we launch in order to expand our market and our impact. After showing that we can operate with multiple businesses and that sufficient demand exists, we will seek further investment to create other production centers in areas all around America. If our trial goes well and much demand exists with our current model, we believe that we can rapidly expand within our first year of operating.
Set your first goal or milestone for your Venture Team in the next 6 months that will bring you to your vision
Get at least 1/3 of the employees in our pilot to have ordered at least twice by the end of this month
المهمة الأولى
Hold a catered luncheon at the company where employees can taste test the food they will ultimately cook for themselves
المهمة الثانية
User customer feedback to modify our products and our prices in order to yield the highest engagement
المهمة الثالثة
Make sure to create our product in a safe way that abides by government regulations to prevent cross contamination
Set a second goal or milestone for your Venture Team in the next 6 months that will bring you to your vision
Gain funding to establish a permanent facility
المهمة الأولى
Ask friends and family for money
المهمة الثانية
Refine our formal business plan to present to angel investors
المهمة الثالثة
Determine where we want to have our initial launch site and scope out a kitchen facility we can lease
Set a third goal or milestone for your Venture Team in the next 6 months that will bring you to your vision
Start operating from our facility and be present at 5 large workplaces
المهمة الأولى
Find someone with much operational expertise in food service to help run our operation
المهمة الثانية
Find an experiences sales person to make formal partnerships with new businesses
المهمة الثالثة
Hire labor and find a manager or learn how to manage
مزيد من المعلومات↓↑ إخفاء↑ إخفاءHow will your Venture define success in the short term (1-12 months)?
In the short term, we will define success by having at least 1/3 of the employees at a given workplace using our service regularly (order at least one week's worth of meals per month). We will also define success if we're profitable by the end of a year (because then we can reinvest in ourselves and spread to more regions and create more impact). Ultimately, our true measure of success will be whether we are actually changing a large component of our customers' diets using behavioral assessments. If 1/3 of our customers think they cook at home more often because of our product, or if they're eating healthier more often because of our product, we are succeeding. Of course, creating a product that people love, developing customer loyalty, leaving our employer partners satisfied, and proving that our model both has high social impact and a large return are all important parts of success.
In the long-term (1-3 years)?
In the long term, we want to rapidly expand to many different regions; we will be successful in terms of scale if we are growing and have many production facilities to service many customers. In regards to proving our health impact, ultimately we want to create a large-scale study that assesses whether the companies who use our service actually have healthier employees. That will help us validate that we're fulfilling our mission, and that will also be a very powerful competitive advantage we have over potential competitors that emerge in this space.
How will you measure success?
Immediately for our month-long pilot, we are using before-and-after questionnaires to assess behavior. We will be asking them how often they cook at home, how often they eat meals at dinner time that aren't home cooked meals, and how much of a hassle they find cooking. We will also ask them how important it is for them to eat healthy meals (meals with lots of fruits, vegetables, whole grains and not much sodium and sugar). After the pilot, we will see if these people cooked more because of our product and if the types of people who were using it were those who weren't all that concerned with healthy eating already. As indicated in the previous question, we will ultimately measure success if we can clearly show that we made the employees healthier at the companies we partner with. We are aiming for 1/3 of the company to sign up with us, and 1/3 of our customers to gain healthier habits because of our offering.
Since we are a double-bottom line company, we are aiming for both high impact and a high financial return so that we can grow quickly. Business metrics, like profit margin, customer retention, customer satisfaction, and number of locations opened will also be important. We are aiming for a profit margin of 20% (higher than the average for the food service industry) and we want to have 20 production facilities by the end of our 5th year. We aim to pay our employees a living wage as well, so the quality of life of our employees will be important to us; we want to pay them at least $10/ hour with benefits. We don't think we can be successful unless we treat our customers well.
مزيد من المعلومات↓↑ إخفاء↑ إخفاءHow will you recruit new members for your venture?
We will recruit new members for our venture by first assessing the skills we need. Immediately we will need people in sales and operations, and we would like a dietitian or a MD on board. Already I've been in talks with some of these people from attending conferences with them and being connected to them. After having a successful pilot in hand, it will be much more compelling for top-quality talent to join me.
How will you appoint new leaders and transfer leadership when the founding members want to leave the team?
New leaders will be appointed through a merit-based promotion system; employees will be offered much autonomy and those who will perform best will be in line to be new leaders. We will consult with our board to help transfer leadership when the founding members want to leave the team.
In all honesty, we would like more assistance with this part of our business; we have very little experience with this and are seeking advice in this area.
How will you continue your project in 6-months time or once you have spent all of its initial capital?
After seeking initial investment, this shouldn't be a challenge for us because we will be creating revenue from day one, and we hope to have positive cash flow within a year.
SICHaD is promoting community-managed health, democratic barangay and municipal governance livelihood enhancement. Within this program, IPHC (Institute of Primary Health Care, Davao Medical School Foundation) creates a comprehensive health-oriented intervention from backyard organic vegetables growing and sustainable agriculture training for farmers, to establishment of village pharmacies, health center, and health program.
An integrated approach to fight malnutrition, which includes: Therapeutic Feeding Center where care and treatment are provided for children with severe malnutrition; health and nutrition education sessions
Created on 04/23/2013 by kaitlynchen
Providing healthy meals with easy to understand nutrition information and right portion size.
مزيد من المعلومات ↓↑ إخفاء↑ إخفاءالبلد الذي تعمل به هذه المؤسسة على إنشاء تأثير اجتماعي
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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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This Entry is about (Issues)
Summary: What specific issue or problem does your Venture address?
Why we have growing childhood obesity rate? Why we have flooded information available and we still unable to tackle the issue? How we can develop a healthy life style at early age? I have a solution!
As of now, the food served in public school cafeterias have limited selection, few freshly made options, no choice of portion size, and no nutrition information disclosed. We have the desire to be fit and healthy, but do we have the platform?
Misson Statement: What will your venture do?
To help, assist, and provide support to children in understanding how the food choices they make every day affect their life goals.
The Model: Walk us through a specific example of how your solution makes a difference; include your primary activities
Having a group of kids to try different food catering providers that offer healthy meal every day. By actually going through, and looking at what these companies are putting into their food; how they are serving it; and where they get it from can make students more conscious about food they are eating. Having students be part of the decision making process in selecting and providing feedback to cafeteria service, they will be the advocate of “new” cafeteria food and therefore influence a greater population of students!
To change the food serving model to give students options of selecting individualized dishes, portion, and pay for the portion. Having more freshly made food, and more variety so students can pick their own food combination, and amount they’d like to eat. Providing clear portion/nutrient/calorie information so students can make informed decision about what they eat. In the long run, this will help them develop a good habit of eating healthy and right portion.
The Community: Define your community, local or international, that you will work on behalf of. What population is affected? Are there other organizations working in this space?
I want to start in the Middle School and High School cafeterias of my town. My town is a small affluent town with approximate 20,000 residents. Middle School and High School students are more conscious about healthy eating and they have knowledge to make the right choice. With more and more both-parents-working families, majority of students eat at school nowadays. Teachers too. This will cover more than 90% of students and teachers from the schools.
Founding Story: What inspired your venture? Why?
End of the day, tired and hungry. My friend and I got to the lunch stand that was serving up sandwiches. YUM, right? So, my friend asked the lady for some roast beef. The lunch lady whispered to my friend to not get the roast beef because it's old. YOU ARE KIDDING ME! I can bet that my friend wasn't the first one who tried to order roast beef, but was lucky enough to actually get warned.
It really inspired me because when I realize that the food being served is like this, I really need to make a change. Furthermore, at this age we have strong desire to be good and fit, but feel so powerless with what's available.
What is your long-term vision for your Venture?
Going state, and nationwide. Creating sustainable food serving model in schools that help students to develop a lifelong habit of healthy eating.
Define your company, program, service, or product in 1-2 short sentences
Providing healthy meals with easy to understand nutrition information and right portion size.
مزيد من المعلومات↓↑ إخفاء↑ إخفاءWhat do you want to accomplish in your first year?
Get a group of kids to help me and encourage my venture. Solidify my business plan. Get school support. Formalize the organization. Collecting and analyze survey results. See what companies are out there that serve healthy food. And to make a change in my school's cafeteria.
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
Get a group of helpers (student council, clubs) to document issues.
المهمة الثانية
Build alliances from school administration, existing providers. Solidify the business Plan.
المهمة الثالثة
Create survey. Collecting and anaylyze results.
Now think bigger! Identify your 12-month impact milestone
المهمة الأولى
Developing education materials and working with schools to change menus.
المهمة الثانية
Partner with school and other suppliers to create awareness (education workshop during lunch) and change.
المهمة الثالثة
Formalize the venture into an organization; create board of directors who can guide us growing the venture.
مزيد من المعلومات↓↑ إخفاء↑ إخفاءHow will your Venture define success in the short term (1-12 months)?
Growing organization (more helpers!). Obtained school support. Raised Funds. Supplier participation.
In the long-term (1 year?)
Positive survey results. More people eating at school. More suppliers participating in the program. Growing organization (more helpers!)
How will you measure success?
In addition to above, my organization foot print is growing to other district, states, and beyond.
Why?
The amount of people interested and involved in my venture shows me that people are aware of my cause and my reasons. And they t
This project also has a Changeshop where you can read more about its latest progress.
Go to Changeshop: MYRO NUTRITION VENTURE.
Created on 04/23/2013 by mike85hot
MYRO NUTRITIONAL VENTURE PROVIDES SOLUTIONS TO MICRO-NUTRIENT MALNUTRITION. FORTIFYING STAPLE FLOURS & MAKING SPECIALLY FORMULATED READY TO USE FORTIFIED PEANUT BUTTER FOR OVER 500 MILLION CHILDREN & YOUNG WOMEN WHO ARE LIMITED BY EXPENSE & IMPRECISION TO ACCESS IRON, VITAMIN A & ZINC.
مزيد من المعلومات↓↑ إخفاء↑ إخفاءStage
Start-Up (a pilot that has just started operating)
This Entry is about (Issues)
Elevator Pitch
MYRO NUTRITIONAL VENTURE PROVIDES SOLUTIONS TO MICRO-NUTRIENT MALNUTRITION. FORTIFYING STAPLE FLOURS & MAKING SPECIALLY FORMULATED READY TO USE FORTIFIED PEANUT BUTTER FOR OVER 500 MILLION CHILDREN & YOUNG WOMEN WHO ARE LIMITED BY EXPENSE & IMPRECISION TO ACCESS IRON, VITAMIN A & ZINC.
Problem
According to a World Bank global health status report, malnutrition is the most pressing health problem implicated in the deaths of 16,000 children worldwide everyday & adversely affects the physical/cognitive development of generations of children. The consequential failure to tackle Malnutrition places it as a common underlying factor that continues to derail the achievement of all the 8 MDGs.
Solution
Staple Food fortification has been endorsed by the 2008 Copenhagen consensus as the least expensive/most reliable approach to address micro-nutrient deficiencies on a larger scale. The strategy uses staple flours & peanut butter concoction called RUTF (Ready to use Therapeutic Food) that is specially formulated to treat severely malnourished kids as delivery vehicles for the critical micronutrients, avail them through affordable retail distribution in rural, low market urban areas in smaller packs of $0.4 that the majority millions in the survival markets can access. The economy packs to the majority who live on $1-2 a day generate low unit margins but profitable volumes to ensure financial growth and scalable.
Example
For many years malnutrition seemed like a hopeless problem. With the invention of (Ready to use Food) the treatment changed from an inpatient, very ineffective process to a very hopeful process. For the first time mothers could come to a community program and get little fortified packets of flour meal/peanut butter and take them home with them to treat their kids at home. MNV started just 9 months ago, with a dream of making RUTF and developing other products like it. We now supply NGOs and others, but we want to grow into new markets...especially developing consumer markets so we can supply more life saving food to our delivery partners. The entire global budget for RUTF is $150 million.
Impact
Since inception 9 months ago, We have saved 10,000 kids from severe acute malnutrition & we've Each day gotten closer to reaching our goal of reducing widespread Iron deficiency anemia, vitamin A, zinc,& folic acid deficiencies among millions of children & young women.
*We’ve contracted 234 farmers through their cooperatives to produce grain amaranth, moringa oleifera & mushroom.
*Introduced a new micro-nutrient packed seasoning premix with numerous health benefits packaged in 50g reusable dispensation bottles/100g sachets used to season any food just like with iodized salt.
* Installed an-all-important micro-nutrient fortification facility that proportionally dispenses micronutrients into flour during processing.
Marketplace
Social enterprises dedicated to bring health through nutrition to the poorest communities in developing countries already exist and the Honey Well Foods Company is a good example, but these initiatives remain limited. From our knowledge, there is no “social nutrition companies” developing tailor-made RUTF products for poor communities. The key specification that will distinguish our RUTF product from the individual compounds already available on the market will be the strong social, scientific and clinical background supporting the value of its formulation.
Sustainability Plan
As a social venture addressing a social objective, the financial tactics will consist in generating a symbolic dividend of 1 to 6% annually that will be re-invested to expand the company building of new facilities and improve the product. Various funders such as governments, private and public non-profit foundations, corporations and impact investors will be approached and asked to participate in the capital increase over time.
Founding Story
Michael Iyanro was born in a humble rural set up in kano town of Nigeria. His parents struggled to raise the 7 of them solely through subsistence farming for the entire part of his childhood years. This childhood experience facing manifestations of malnutrition shaped his thinking and planted in him the determination to steer his communities out of malnutrition, its devastating socio-economic effects and poverty into nutritional autonomy. When he earned his degree in Biology, he got a job where he tried in vain to convince the management to adopt some social aspects in the business to reach out to the poor. He eventually opted out to initiate & drive the concept he believed could reach out to the emerging markets, thus MNV was formed.
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?
For sustainable preventive healthcare strategies, micronutrient health remains the basic building block on which rests every socio-economic aspect, yet the most vulnerable people hardly access micronutrients. By focusing our attention on all of the above areas we will be able to steer our communities out of malnutrition ,it’s devastating socio-economic effects and poverty into nutritional autonomy.
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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This project also has a Changeshop where you can read more about its latest progress.
Go to Changeshop: 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?
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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?
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).
MYRO NUTRITIONAL VENTURE PROVIDES SOLUTIONS TO MICRO-NUTRIENT MALNUTRITION. FORTIFYING STAPLE FLOURS & MAKING SPECIALLY FORMULATED READY TO USE FORTIFIED PEANUT BUTTER FOR OVER 500 MILLION CHILDREN & YOUNG WOMEN WHO ARE LIMITED BY EXPENSE & IMPRECISION TO ACCESS IRON, VITAMIN A & ZINC.
Created on 04/21/2013 by Aline Chaves
Saúde é vitalidade, um conceito que vai além das acepções biomédicas. Compreende também a possibilidade de cada pessoa escolher como viver: alimentação, habitação, saneamento, condições de trabalho, oportunidades de educação, ambiente físico limpo, estilo de vida responsável e cuidados adequados.
مزيد من المعلومات ↓↑ إخفاء↑ إخفاءاسم المؤسسة
TERRAPIA- Alimentação Viva na Promoção da Saúde e Ambiente
بلد المؤسسة
Brazil, RJ, Rio de Janeiro
البلد الذي تعمل به هذه المؤسسة على إنشاء تأثير اجتماعي
Brazil, RJ, Rio de Janeiro
Has the organization received awards or honors? Please tell us about them
مزيد من المعلومات↓↑ إخفاء↑ إخفاءName your entry
TERRAPIA- Alimentação Viva na promoção da saúde e Ambiente
Stage
Scaling (the solution has passed the previous stages, and the next step will be growing its impact on a regional or global scale)
This Entry is about (Issues)
Elevator Pitch
Saúde é vitalidade, um conceito que vai além das acepções biomédicas. Compreende também a possibilidade de cada pessoa escolher como viver: alimentação, habitação, saneamento, condições de trabalho, oportunidades de educação, ambiente físico limpo, estilo de vida responsável e cuidados adequados.
Problem
A “crise da saúde pública” no Brasil, final dos anos 80 e inicio dos anos 90, gerou uma reflexão e reorientação fundamental da saúde pública, apontando para a possibilidade de desenvolver conhecimentos e práticas voltados completamente para a saúde, ressaltando a importância da participação coletiva para construção de uma vida saudável.
Solution
TERRAPIA surge como uma prática de promoção da saúde que valoriza a força e o equilíbrio da vida! Compreende saúde, ambiente natural e humano como interdependentes e inseparáveis na dinâmica da teia da vida. Utiliza a alimentação, ação humana básica e cotidiana, como eixo para criar espaços de aprendizagem reflexivos sobre o estilo de vida a favor da saúde: plantar, cultivar, colher, escolher juntos o que comer, fazer juntos uma culinária, ao ar livre, sem cozinhar os alimentos e preparar a compostagem dos resíduos orgânicos.
Desse modo, apoia mudanças de hábitos de vida através da democratização da informação e do estímulo à participação, sempre em grupo, de atividades educacionais gratuitas, oferecidas ao público em geral.
Example
TERRAPIA propõe a visão do ser humano como parte da teia interligada de vida, onde o corpo – ecossistema corporal – é observado na sua expressão mais antiga, a romper paradigmas de separação da natureza. Orienta para hábitos de vida consonantes com a Higiene Natural e estimula o contato com ambientes saudáveis; atividades ao ar livre; cultivo ecológico de frutas, hortaliças e plantas medicinais; e o consumo de sementes germinadas, brotos e vegetais crus in natura. Desse modo, produz a cultura do cuidado através de atividades educacionais que promovem a alimentação baseada na vitalidade dos alimentos e o estilo de vida ecológico; interferindo, de modo prático e reflexivo, na vida doméstica dos seus participantes.
Impact
TERRAPIA oferece a apropriação dos conhecimentos da alimentação viva (Raw & Living Food), em grupo e na cooperação, como meio de desenvolvimento humano. A partir da metodologia baseada na comunidade, foram construídas relações amorosas e de apoio à mudança de hábitos de vida, estimuladas pela troca voluntária de experiências em torno da mesa de refeições.
As atividades são gratuitas e recebem visitantes de diversas regiões do mundo. Na avaliação TERRAPIA de 2012, foram registrados 15.000 participantes nas Oficinas de Culinária Viva, Seminários de Alimentação viva, Cursos de Formação de Educadores, Cursos de Horta, Feiras livres e eventos realizados ao longo do ano.
Acredita-se na ampliação desta prática como forma de popularizar o conhecimento sobre a alimentação viva e práticas agroecológicas, com o fim de torná-las parte da cultura alimentar.
Marketplace
Desde o início, o TERRAPIA vem sendo desenvolvido dentro da metodologia da “pesquisa baseada na comunidade”, por meio de uma administração participativa, onde os próprios usuários, ao adquirirem habilidades e conhecimentos mínimos da Metodologia TERRAPIA, se apropriam das ações de saúde e tornam-se usuários-colaboradores. Esta trajetória reúne a convivência com a diversidade de culturas, a equidade, a participação social, o empoderamento dos participantes, a sustentabilidade institucional e a construção de parcerias para o desenvolvimento da intersetorialidade.
Sustainability Plan
Desde 1997, o TERRAPIA é gestionado pelo sistema de voluntariado com a renda do Bazar Solidário, um sistema de compra e venda de material didático que dá suporte à manutenção das atividades educativas.
Em 2009, a Associação TERRAPIA foi fundada pelos próprios usuários dos serviços de saúde, voluntários com interesse em continuar as atividades de forma regulamentada e torná-las sustentáveis por meio da gestão de projetos socioambientais.
Founding Story
O TERRAPIA é um projeto de intervenção em Promoção da Saúde, com foco em uma nova abordagem da atenção primária, idealizado pela médica ambientalista Maria Luiza Branco Nogueira da Silva.
Em 1997, surge com o propósito inovador de promover a Saúde e a consciência ecológica no Centro de Saúde da Escola Nacional de Saúde Pública, em um espaço anteriormente destinado ao despejo de entulho nas dependências da Fundação Oswaldo Cruz- Fiocruz, Manguinhos, Rio de Janeiro, RJ.
Desde então, vem se tornando referência na divulgação da alimentação viva, estilo de vida ecológico e práticas naturais em saúde.
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?
Nutrient-rich farming.
How specifically would this added capacity help you improve the quality, efficiency, or sustainability of your existing product or service?
O TERRAPIA está localizado na horta urbana do Centro de Saúde da ENSP/Fiocruz, um espaço urbano totalmente arborizado na Cidade do Rio de Janeiro. Oferece salas de aula ao ar livre que facilitam o acesso ao conhecimento humano ancestral sobre práticas de auto-cuidado e cuidado com o ambiente natural, associadas a um tipo peculiar de culinária brasileira que dispensa o uso do fogão e da geladeira, com alta vitalidade e diversidade de vegetais na mesa.
A possibilidade de criar unidades de extensão contribuirá para ampliar estas práticas para o ambiente rural com a agricultura agroecológica.
مزيد من المعلومات↓↑ إخفاء↑ إخفاءHow is your product or service connected to vitality for the people and planet?
Você ainda tem aproximadamente 125 palavras (1000 caracteres).
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?
Você ainda tem aproximadamente 125 palavras (1000 caracteres).
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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Created on 04/19/2013 by ronaldeporu
I invented a new method for practicing aerotherapy in 2002. I published a book on applications of aerotherapy to prevent various diseases in 2012. It includes food pyramids requiring adherence to defend the body against illness. Our clinic will offer my book and workshops to that effect.
مزيد من المعلومات ↓↑ إخفاء↑ إخفاءالبلد الذي تعمل به هذه المؤسسة على إنشاء تأثير اجتماعي
Has the organization received awards or honors? Please tell us about them
Our organization has not yet won any award.
مزيد من المعلومات↓↑ إخفاء↑ إخفاءName your entry
EXPLOITING NATURAL THERAPIES IN FRESH AIR & FOODSTUFF
Stage
Idea (poised to launch)
This Entry is about (Issues)
Elevator Pitch
I invented a new method for practicing aerotherapy in 2002. I published a book on applications of aerotherapy to prevent various diseases in 2012. It includes food pyramids requiring adherence to defend the body against illness. Our clinic will offer my book and workshops to that effect.
Problem
Shortage and lack of vaccines cause 3-5 million cases of severe flu with about 500,000 deaths, and over 200 million cases of malaria with 655,000 deaths respectively, globally per year. There is also a growing trend of obesity with over dependence on highly processed calorie-laden food stuff in our society. Most people are completely ignorant of oxidative stress yet it is associated with the cause of over 70 chronic degenerative diseases.
Solution
I invented an indoor method of maximizing intake of cool-fresh air as a therapy in 2002. I have published a book that presents my new method alongside outdoor method of aerotherapy that has been employed in Europe. Adequate oxygen in cool-fresh air enables our bodies to maximally metabolize nutrients to prevent illness or obesity. Cool air inhibits fever, as a major symptom in flu, malaria and typhoid; thus, enabling the body to easily heal itself. A scientific study, linking warm-humid air known to bear less oxygen with regular outbreaks of malaria, has corroborated my applications of aerotherapy to effectively fend off malaria. My book offers food pyramids for educating people to largely consume natural and anti oxidant food sources.
Example
Our clinic offers workshops to clients in productive and reproductive age groups of 16 – 54 years, on whom most households depend for nutrition and healthcare. We guide them through my book, and showcase methods and model materials for effectively practicing aerotherapy like; foot wear, attire, beddings and building designs. We demonstrate to them the use of clinical thermometers in monitoring body temperature and other indicators for safe and effective practice of aerotherapy. Our Nutritionist guides clients through assembly and adherence to a food pyramid from locally available foodstuff, and cooking methods that preserve nutrients. She sensitizes them on oxidative stress and a wide range of anti oxidant food sources that alleviate it.
Impact
I have applied aerotherapy several times in the past decade to abort flu/colds. I have aborted 6 out of 8 flu/colds infections since 2011 alone. Aerotherapy cuts durations of flu/colds from 9 days to 4 days, by inhibiting sneezing and fever to prevent other symptoms like; stuffy nose, nasal discharge, headache and cough, thus, cutting transmissions of flu/colds. I prevented malaria for 7 consecutive years since adopting aerotherapy in 2002, compared to my original records of one illness per annum before 2002. I got cured from typhoid and ulcers by adhering to aerotherapy. Our solution will cut incidents of severe flu/colds and malaria in trainee households by over 70% in 1 year. It will reduce diseases attributed to obesity and oxidative stress among trainees like; cardiovascular diseases, diabetes, ulcers, Alzheimers and atherosclerosis by up to 60 % in 10 years.
Marketplace
Our peers supply mosquito nets, drugs, fortified foods and physical exercise services to solve those problems. Our solution requires only one time purchase for one to regularly exploit free medicine in fresh air and informed choices of healthy diet, while products of our peers have to be bought regularly. This makes our solution incredibly affordable and competitive unlike solutions of our peers. Our aerotherapy supplements flu vaccines and mosquito nets/drugs in aborting flu and fighting malaria respectively. Aerotherapy and food pyramids complement physical exercise in curbing obesity.
Sustainability Plan
Family members have helped me finance this work to date. Our clinic will be registered and launch a book by October, be equipped and have a website by November, and start operating in December 2013. Individuals and corporate bodies will be charged training fees for workshops and study literature sold to them and their employees/CSR respectively. Governments are likely to subsidize our solution for schools and public health education uses.
Founding Story
I had been suffering from a recurrent typhoid fever for over two years, till one night in June 2002 that I decided to sleep over night, leaving my feet exposed to increase intake of cool air. My choice of bedding facilitated relaxation and cooling of the body, which increased my intake of fresh air over the night. I had the best quality of sleep that night and woke up with such vitality that I had not had for 2 years. That experience birthed my new method of practicing aerotherapy and I adhered to it till I was completely cured of typhoid fever. I went on to discover that my invention could regularly enable me to abort flu/cold infections and prevent/treat malaria, and aided healing of ulcers over the following decade.
مزيد من المعلومات↓↑ إخفاء↑ إخفاءWhere do you ensure the availability of nutrients?
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.
How specifically would this added capacity help you improve the quality, efficiency, or sustainability of your existing product or service?
Healthy environment facilitates effective practice of aerotherapy, as green vegetation cover emits oxygen that we need for respiration, and absorbs a waste gas from our respiration called carbon dioxide. Clean sources of fuel and energy instead of wood and kerosene respectively curbs pollution and boosts intake of fresh air. Creation of green parks with ample shades for urban settlers would be ideal for undertaking outdoor aerotherapy since most urban dwellers lack spacious compounds. Diversifying crop production to sustain supplies of nutrient rich food choices meets increased future demand.
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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).
Trauma robs the body of nutrients & vitality. PeaceMeals gathers individuals in the aftermath of trauma in the kitchen & around the table for authentic support & nutritional healing. It empowers survivors through creative, cathartic cooking lessons, community building, & nutritionally tailored meals
Created on 04/18/2013 by juan almeida
Our company develops and sells functional snacks (products that provide health benefits to our customers)
We have developed snacks using a grain called quinoa.
We want to create impact not just selling beneficial products but also creating impact with quinoa producers and our stakeholders.
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dosmargaritas functional foods
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مزيد من المعلومات↓↑ إخفاء↑ إخفاءName your entry
dmff (functional and nutritional cereal bar)
Stage
Start-Up (a pilot that has just started operating)
This Entry is about (Issues)
Elevator Pitch
Our company develops and sells functional snacks (products that provide health benefits to our customers)
We have developed snacks using a grain called quinoa.
We want to create impact not just selling beneficial products but also creating impact with quinoa producers and our stakeholders.
Problem
Children from families with low income, especially in the developing countries, lack complete nutritional food intakes.
This problem produces effects that do not let our children develop their whole potential resulting in poor academic and physical development and, in some cases, general unhappiness.
Solution
We develop and sell a product (quinoa cereal bar) that has 90% of the required micronutrients (without additional micronutrients) for children from 5 to 12 years old.
Example
Our company, initially sold our products to the World Food Programme in Ecuador, until Ecuador government started doing the operation of this programme activities (buying, logistics, etc...) by itself.
Later on, Ecuadorian authorities approached our company with corruptive practices. Therefore, we stoped our product production, until we find another institution interested in our product.
Our company and our products make a difference because we have high ethical standards and corporate values. We are interested in all stakeholders - not just clients or governments - from the quinoa producer to the child who enjoys our bar.
We want to make a real impact by actioning our ideas, values and by not taking short cuts.
Impact
When children eat products full of micronutrients (powder) is good for them but the bioavailibility of our product is much better because it has 90% of the required micronutrients into it,
Quinoa helps their body to intake all the macronutrients and micronutrients thanks to its "high quality protein".
Marketplace
Some companies have products to feed vulnerable children and work with different institutions, what our product brings to these children is the bioavailability that give them better chances to intake all macro and micronutrients into their body system.
Sustainability Plan
We plan to work with quinoa producers given them chance to access better harvest efficiency practices, better commercial practices (fair prices) and also offer them be part of the company ownership (through selected process).
We consider that our product will bring more health and happiness to the vulnerable children of our world.
Founding Story
Our company started with a very strong feeling that we have a role to play in changing the future of our region (Andes region, Bolivia, Peru and Ecuador).
We started developing a functional soft candy, later on, we developed this amazing product - the quinoa cereal bar (focused on helping children from low income families).
Every time we found that we had a product that will bring very effective benefits to our customer, we knew and know that our company has a very bright future not only because of our products qualities but also because we want to be part of the "changemakers movement". To leave a better world for our children.
مزيد من المعلومات↓↑ إخفاء↑ إخفاءWhere do you ensure the availability of nutrients?
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.
How specifically would this added capacity help you improve the quality, efficiency, or sustainability of your existing product or service?
If we have the chance to develop practices to have better quinoa production activities, we would get better and more quantities of our raw material, which will give us the chance to offer our product to more children in need.
Also could be interested to have access to develop healthy environments because around them people get better information about what to eat and what food is better for their body, therefore people will reconized our products in a better way and we will have the chance to benefit more people with our work.
مزيد من المعلومات↓↑ إخفاء↑ إخفاءHow is your product or service connected to vitality for the people and planet?
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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
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Created on 04/17/2013 by Duron Chavis
RVAFARMS is an urban farm that will be located in a USDA designated food desert. We will provide a wide selection of organic greens and other nutrient dense produce that will be grown year round on our urban farm. The urban farm will use hoop houses for year round intensive biodynamic agriculture.
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McDonough Community Garden
بلد المؤسسة
United States, VA, Richmond, Richmond City
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United States, VA, Richmond, Richmond City
Has the organization received awards or honors? Please tell us about them
2012 Golden Trowel Award - Tricycle Gardens
"Community Outreach & Education"
Award was given by local Richmond non profit Tricycle Gardens commending McDonough Community Gardens for its work around outreach and education.
Finalist - IE Start Up Competition 2013
Greater Richmond Chamber of Commerce
Start up Entry - RVAFARMS
One of 13 finalists that earned the opportunity to pitch their business to the Greater Richmond Chamber of Commerce. Our pitch was/is RVAFarms as a solution to food insecurity for the city of Richmond.
مزيد من المعلومات↓↑ إخفاء↑ إخفاءName your entry
Alleviating Poverty and Food Insecurity through Urban Agriculture
Stage
Growth (the pilot has already launched and is starting to expand)
This Entry is about (Issues)
Elevator Pitch
RVAFARMS is an urban farm that will be located in a USDA designated food desert. We will provide a wide selection of organic greens and other nutrient dense produce that will be grown year round on our urban farm. The urban farm will use hoop houses for year round intensive biodynamic agriculture.
Problem
The 2010 census places the percentage of people in poverty in the city of Richmond VA at 25%. The USDA designates 12 census tracts within the city of Richmond Virginia as food deserts. These are areas that have limited access to fresh fruits and vegetables. As a result of limited access, residents of food deserts are more prone to diet related illnesses and behavioral disorders associated to malnutrition.
Solution
Everybody has to eat. Unfortunately everyone does not have access to healthy foods. The RVAFARMS business model is to simply grow high quality food on urban land in Richmond for communities that lack access to healthy fresh produce.
RVAFARMS food desert urban farm will feature an on site farmer's market, host pop up farmers markets for other food deserts located throughout RVA and sell CSA shares and per pound produce online. We will also provide nutrition education, urban agriculture and culinary arts programming to inspire healthy lifestyles.
The urban farm viability will be achieved by direct to grocery store, restaurant and other business while also utilizing an on farm stand and pop up markers for direct to consumer sales.
Example
There are over 30,000 active SNAP cases in the city of Richmond alone. Over $6,000,000 circulates through the city monthly via SNAP benefits. Through usage of entrepreneurial urban agriculture, low income communities in Richmond even if able to tap into only .5% of that monthly 6 million consistently on a month to month basis has reinvested 30,000 dollars back into itself or 360,000 dollars in a year.
We will build urban farms that target food deserts for clientele while also marketing to restaurants and grocery stores. The farms will employ people from the community and accept SNAP benefits to maintain a sustainable business model. Our measurement of success will be reduction in diet related illnesses in food desert communities.
Impact
Growing up in Richmond I wondered why everyone I knew Had someone in their family with diabetes or a heart condition. Working for Richmond Dept of Social Services I realized a big reason is because poor people lack healthy food access.
For example, in Richmond the corner of N. 25th St and P St used to be a corner store. That same corner is now a dialysis center. There are no grocery stores in this part of Richmond. This part of Richmond is a food desert.
According to the USDA a food desert is a place where the grocery stores are more than a mile away. They do have plenty of corner stores with unhealthy food that cause chronic diet related illnesses.
RVAFarms is an urban farm that will grow and sell fresh produce all year round through the use of hoop houses in the food deserts of Richmond that will also market direct to consumer and direct to grocery stores and restaurants.
Marketplace
RVAFARMS competitive advantage is clear. The prevalence of food deserts in RVA is a result of the lack of interest/value of grocers for economically disadvantaged communities within the city. Our model appeals to an untapped market that lacks access to current local farmers markets and grocers. RVAFARMS will control local production and local distribution while also providing nutrition education classes as community outreach. By targeting this traditionally marginalized market, RVAFARMS stands to tap into the $7M per that is spent in SNAP benefits monthly throughout the city of Richmond.
Sustainability Plan
RVAFARMS potential clients fall into two categories: RVAFARMS to consumers and RVAFARMS to firms. Consumers will be reached at our farm, at our pop up farmers markets, social service agencies, online and at farmers markets located throughout the city. A variety of firms will be contracted such as independent restaurants, personal chefs and caterers, independent grocery and corner stores, food cooperatives, daycare centers and group homes.
Founding Story
The idea to start RVAFARMS came from working with black farmers in Virginia connecting them to food deserts through a project I started called Richmond Noir Market. Working with those farmers revealed that we could grow food in an urban environment as well to further localize the food system while creating jobs and increasing healthy food access. The conversations and wisdom we received from our farmers taught us and still teaches us how to grow food efficiently and intensively. The goal of starting an urban farm became clear when I realized how much money was circulating in SNAP benefits through food deserts and that people were only buying what was conveniently available. So we decided to grow in and sell to the community with RVAFARMS.
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?
Start up funding will allow us to develop an urban farm in a food desert of the city of Richmond. We will use hoop houses, an outdoor demonstration garden and a learning pavillion. With funding we will install 6 - 20 x 96 hoop houses on one 1/2 acre of land, install refrigerated storage for harvested produce and install solar powered drip irrigation systems. After initial start up funding is invested we will be self-sufficient and profitable within the first year of operation.
Once established we will partner with social service agencies to further synergize our program with the community.
مزيد من المعلومات↓↑ إخفاء↑ إخفاءHow is your product or service connected to vitality for the people and planet?
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Other barriers you have identified
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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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Created on 04/9/2013 by Jousseta
Our current organization MSH is supporting 164 health facilities throughout the country to offer high quality health services to 40% of the Haitian population via the project SDSH (Santé pour le Développement et la Stabilité d’Haïti).
مزيد من المعلومات ↓↑ إخفاء↑ إخفاءاسم المؤسسة
Management Sciences for Health (MSH)
بلد المؤسسة
United States, VA, Arlington, Arlington County
Organization's Country of Operation
Type of Organization
Non‐profit/NGO
Year of launch of the organization
Years in Operation
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Has the organization received awards or honors? Please tell us about them
Yes (but data incomplete).
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.
While driving back home from the Port-au-Prince airport after a week of holidays in Mexico, Aurélie felt sad for the umpteenth time watching the tough reality of Haiti that strikes anyone just by looking in the streets. Since she arrived in Haiti, she is convinced that developing agriculture is the key to boost the Haitian economy and reduce some health issues.
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
“Terenfom”: agriculture microcredit for nutrition programs intended to pregnant/breastfeeding women and OVC in Haiti.
Explain what the "innovation" is about, e.g., is it the idea and/or the model you use to accomplish the idea, or your understanding of the target population, etc.?
The idea is to invest in agriculture to address malnutrition issues and boost agriculture sector at the same time via public-private partnerships (PPP) between small size farms, the Ministry of Health (MOH), NGOs and the Ministry of Agriculture (MOA).
Microcredit will be offered to farmers who could invest to produce specific local food products and in return they will be obliged to supply a proportion of their production to associated health facilities for the nutrition programs already implemented and intended to pregnant/breastfeeding women and OVC (Orphans and Vulnerable Children). The farmers will also need to reimburse the funds as per microcredits programs.
Describe how your innovation model is distinct from any other organization in your field?
There are several nutrition programs in Haiti mainly funded by World Food Program (WFP) . Due to the current malnutrition and poverty situation, it is very likely that those programs will run for many years ahead. Nevertheless, currently there is no integrated agro-health and microcredit programs combining efforts from the Ministry of Health (MOH) and Ministry of Agriculture (MOA) in Haiti to impact the agriculture industry and the health systems together. Suggesting a program involving the MOH and MOA via microcredit is a sustainable approach that could benefit two different sectors and reduce the dependence to international funds.
What type of operating environment and internal organizational factors make your innovation successful?
MSH is a renowned organization in Haiti which was able to develop strong relationships with the different stakeholders and the community. Since MSH is directly supporting health facilities handled by NGOs or MOH, MSH’role is also to advocate for public health change policy with strong data evidence to the MOH and other major stakeholders via SDSH and another project of MSH called LMG (Leadership, Management and Governance). Owing to this expertise, MSH teams will be able to implement a new program including a new Minister, the MOA, to ensure the success of Terenfom. Due to the serious economic and sanitary situation, the country will get important funds from international organizations for many years ahead. Funding will not represent the major challenge for the success of this project.
How do you make sure you constantly innovate in light of (potential) external challenges, or your growth plan?
This project is innovative in itself by its new PPP strategy combining microcredit and two different ministries. Though it is very hard to implement new projects in Haiti due to the very complex situation, the abundance of stakeholders and high influence of politics, it is also very important to remain flexible and be able to adjust to the field situation and any possible changes, such as potential natural disasters or politic instability. MSH is present in Haiti for 26 years and has a strong expertise in public health project management in Haiti. The MSH team has developed a high flexibility ensuring the success of the innovative project Terenfom.
This Entry is about (Issues)
مزيد من المعلومات↓↑ إخفاء↑ إخفاءThe systemic challenge you are trying to overcome (select one)
Bring accessible healthcare to communities in emerging markets
Health area (target market) where the need is [select only one]
Nutrition
Categories along the health continuum you are covering [select all that apply]
Intervention, Social integration.
Please describe in more detail: what problem are you trying to solve in the organization's specific context?
Haiti suffers from an extreme poverty that highly impacts the population health. According to UNICEF, the percentage of population below international poverty line of USD 1.25 per day is 55%, the half is illiterate, less than 7% of GDP is invested in health and the Global Hunger index for 2012 was 30.8 (“extremely alarming”). According to the WFP, 6.7 million people are food insecure with the half of the food coming from imports. WFP data reports that 23.4% of children suffer from chronic malnutrition. This project aims to use differently funds currently allocated to agriculture and nutrition programs. By investing in agriculture via microcredits to produce food products for malnourished people, this project could bring a sustainable solution to agriculture and health.
Stage that best applies to your solution [select only one]
Idea (poised to launch)
Core strategies of your business model [select all that apply]
Redesign of the public healthcare system for more efficiency (in terms of processes, structure etc.), New/redefined roles for healthcare service provision, New approaches to distribution of health products and services, Unconventional partnerships (between traditional healthcare players and players outside healthcare), New financing strategies for health, غير ذلك .
If other, specify here:
Agriculture and microcredit.
Most relevant tools you are using to implement the strategies outlined above [select only two]
Consultation, Others.
If other, specify here:
Public private partnerships (including Ministry of Health)
Please describe your solution in more detail
The project is based on 2 pillows:
-Microcredit offered to farmers: microcredit will be offered to farmers to help them start their production.The farmer will need to reimburse this credit like any other microcredit programs in order to enable the sustainability of the project.
- Agreement between the farmers and associated health facilities: the farmer will be obliged to dedicate a percentage of his production to the associated health facilities for its nutrition program.
A pilot study needs to be done during a period of one year for products such as rice, beans, corn, oil, sugar and banana. The second year, the farmers will increase its production. The third year, the farmer will diversify its production and/or produce transformed products such as corn cans, beans cans or banana chips
What are your vision and overall objectives?
Our vision is to address malnutrition affecting vulnerable population in Haiti by boosting the agriculture sector which will be eventually also profitable to the national economy. The overall objectives are to bring sustainable solutions to Haiti for agriculture and malnutrition.
What is your value proposition?
Our value proposition is to use already available funds in an innovative way to promote local economy and address health issues.
Who is your customer(s)?
There are two categories of customers (beneficiaries): the farmers and the targeted population for nutrition programs which include pregnant/breastfeeding women and OVC.
What approaches to you use to reach your customers?
The project will reach the customers via already existing stakeholders: the ones working with the farmers for the agriculture part and the ones in health facilities for the nutrition part.
What are your primary activities?
Our current organization MSH is supporting 164 health facilities throughout the country to offer high quality health services to 40% of the Haitian population via the project SDSH (Santé pour le Développement et la Stabilité d’Haïti). Our technical support includes data management strengthening, capacity building, expansion of health services, quality services strengthening, etc.
Who are your peers and competitors? What problems could these players pose to your success or growth?
There are other organizations playing similar roles in Haiti but their network is less widespread geographically than the SDSH project of MSH. SDSH supported facilities are mainly located in very remote areas unlike many of the sites supported by other competitors. The LMG project of MSH is directly supporting MOH which brings a specific privileged position to MSH compared to other organizations. Indeed, MSH is the only organization handling 2 big projects combining direct health facilities support (SDSH project) and MOH strengthening (LMG).
What other challenges - individual, organizational, or environmental – are you currently facing or might hinder future success of your business, and how do you plan to overcome those?
The Haiti context is very influenced by politics. The MSH expertise should be able to overcome the possible conflicts.
Briefly describe your growth strategy going forward
It is first necessary to implement a pilot study over a period of one year. Based on the results, a specific work plan will be defined for the years hereafter.
What dimensions for growth are you currently targeting for your innovation [select all that apply]
New customer group(s).
What makes your business "ready" for growth?
The pilot study has not been planned yet due to other commitments for the current ongoing program till July 2013.
What are your key growth objectives?
The key growth objectives are to expand the project to more farmers and supply a bigger quantity of food products in order to support a higher number of beneficiaries for nutrition programs.
Eventually, the project should allow the farmers to export their raw or transformed food products to neighboring countries.
What is your timeframe for growth, in the short and mid-term? What are the growth milestones and key activities going forward?
From July to September 2013: meetings with the different stakeholders, terms of reference defined and signed by the stakeholders, selection of farmers and health facilities.
From October 2013 to September 2014: pilot study implementation (milestones to be defined with the stakeholders).
From October 2014 to September 2015: scale-up implementation (milestones to be defined with the stakeholders).
From October 2015 to September 2016: scale-up implementation (milestones to be defined with the stakeholders).
مزيد من المعلومات↓↑ إخفاء↑ إخفاءWhat has been the impact of your solution to date?
The study pilot has not been planned yet due to other commitments for the current ongoing program till July 2013.
What methods for quantification of social impact are you applying (if at all)?
In order to assess the social impact of the project to farmers, several indicators usually used in microcredit and agriculture programs will be defined with the different stakeholders such as income, income increase, etc. Similarly, for the impact on nutrition, several indicators will be defined such as number of beneficiaries per category, increase of number of beneficiaries per category, etc.
Could your solution work in other geographies or regions? If so, where?
It is likely that this program could be implemented in regions where similar issues occur : low employment rate, high illiteracy rate, weak industrial task, high agriculture potentials, malnutrition, high rural areas, presence of international aids.
Example: African countries (Ivory Coast, Togo, Malawi,etc) , Latin America countries ( Peru, Bolivia, Honduras, El Salvador, etc), Asian countries (Cambodia, Lao, India, etc)
What is your projected impact over the next 1-3 years?
The projected impact will be precisely defined with the stakeholders and will depend upon the indicators defined for the pilot study.
مزيد من المعلومات↓↑ إخفاء↑ إخفاءElaborate on your current financing strategy
There are several funders involved in agriculture and nutrition programs in Haiti. It would be necessary to submit a proposal to get initial funds. However one of the objective of the program is to help the farmer to become financially independent, sell its production to MOH or NGOs with official contracts and eventually to export to neighboring countries.
Share of revenue generation in total income of organization (in percent)
100% of our total income comes from USAID.
Direct sales to patients or other beneficiaries (in percent)
0%, food products are free to malnourished beneficiaries.
Of the possible sources of these sales listed below, check all that apply to your current strategy
Other beneficiaries.
Licensing fees, e.g., for technology/franchise model (in percent)
Health facilities (NGOs, MOH)
Of the possible sources of these licensing opportunities listed below, check all that apply to your current strategy
Service contract with organizations, e.g., government, NGOs (in percent)
Of the possible sources of the service contracts listed below, check all that apply to your current strategy
Explain your revenue generation strategy in more detail
Due to the very serious economic and sanitary situation in Haiti, the country will get important funds from many international organizations for many years ahead. Therefore funding will not represent the major challenge for the success of this project. However, the sustainability of the project via the microcredit system will allow the reduction of funds over the years.
Share of philanthropy in total income of organization (in percent)
100% by international organizations.
Philanthrophy strategies you are using
Diversified strategy.
Explain your philanthropic approach in more detail
Agriculture and nutrition programs are already implemented and covered by international organizations.
Expand on your selections; explain how you will sustain funding over the next 1-3 years.
The nutrition and agriculture programs in Haiti will be covered for many years by international organizations. However the sustainability of the project via the microcredit system will allow the reduction of funds over the years.
Created on 04/9/2013 by Mildred E. Maranan
The Noordhoff Craniofacial Foundation Philippines, Inc. or NCFPI is a non-profit organization dedicated to make excellent and comprehensive cleft and craniofacial treatment and care accessible to Filipinos especially the indigents by establishing sustainable world-class craniofacial centers in the Philippines operated by a team of empowered Filipino professionals.
مزيد من المعلومات ↓↑ إخفاء↑ إخفاءاسم المؤسسة
Noordhoff Craniofacial Foundation Philippines, Inc.
Organization's Country of Operation
Type of Organization
Non‐profit/NGO
Year of launch of the organization
Years in Operation
تعمل منذ ما يزيد عن 5 سنوات
Has the organization received awards or honors? Please tell us about them
Certificate of Appreciation as Partner of Tahanang Walang Hagdanan, Inc. (Another non-profit organization)
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 Noordhoff Craniofacial Foundation Philippines, Inc. (NCFPI) was inspired by Dr. Samuel Noordhoff, mentor of Dr. Glenda de Villa who had a scholarship at the Chang Gung Memorial Hospital in Taiwan from 2001 to 2002. In 2003, she formed a craniofacial team in Our Lady of Peace Hospital in the Philippines and since then, NCFPI has treated more than 2,000 indigent cleft and craniofacial patients.
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
NCF Philippines: Collaborative Journey Towards Comprehensive Cleft Care
Explain what the "innovation" is about, e.g., is it the idea and/or the model you use to accomplish the idea, or your understanding of the target population, etc.?
(A) NCF Philippines’ journeys towards comprehensive cleft care follows a collaboration framework that links 1)the Outcomes with its 2) Core Values/Foundation. In between the two are 3) the Contextual Factors unique to realize NCFPI's vision. The framework is grounded in 4) Multi-disciplinary Cooperation. (B) Most of the 3,500 to 4,000 cleft children born every year in the Philippines remain untreated due to lack of financial means and access to hospitals. The government could only attend to primary health care, hence cleft and craniofacial treatment are not easily available. NCFPI shares the vision of Dr. M. Samuel Noordhoff who believes that any child with cleft lip and palate deserves the best possible treatment regardless of the family’s financial condition. (C) From the outset, different professionals brought in their competences and became volunteers for Our Lady of Peace Craniofacial Center, NCFPI’s first craniofacial center which was started due to the help of founding partners—NCF in Taiwan and in U.S.A. ChangGung Memorial Hospital provides the needed training and continuing education for its volunteer doctors. (D) Grounded in diversity, the collaboration work among founding partners was sustained due to the steadfast commitment of all volunteers to the vision of quality and comprehensive cleft treatment be made accessible to all especially indigent patients. Volunteers of NCFPI believe that success in the team lies in 1) technical competence—commitment to competent work, ongoing education, and continuing care, and 2) respect and heartfelt concern for the patients.
Describe how your innovation model is distinct from any other organization in your field?
While there exist groups doing mission-type of cleft and craniofacial care, we opt to have one-stop-action centers where patients can be treated regularly. Continuing efforts then to look for funding for treatment and scholarship of volunteer professionals enable the vision for complete and quality cleft care for patients to be sustainable. These extend to find collaborators who will also address other ancillary needs of cleft and craniofacial patients beyond surgery: dental, orthodontic & prosthodontic, speech therapy, pediatric-genetic consult, and other social services for the patients including family support groups. We also endeavor through our networking to advocate the social acceptance of our patients. All activities including research and development are motivated by patient care.
What type of operating environment and internal organizational factors make your innovation successful?
We identify six Process Factors that contribute to a successful collaborative work:
(1) Understanding the Beneficiaries. We constantly think on how to provide viable solutions to problems of patients in their treatment. We have the Smile Jeep Project so patients who are so poor can come to the center..
(2) Community Development. We engage other groups in the community to helpand keep good relations with them.
(3) Effective Leadership. NCF Philippines benefit from the inspiration and example of Dr. M. Samuel Noordhoff and has a working board which closely coordinates with its Executive Director.
(4) Communication. There is openness and clear communication within the team and the collaborators.
(5) Research and Evaluation. Research work is on-going among our service-programs.
How do you make sure you constantly innovate in light of (potential) external challenges, or your growth plan?
We recognize four Contextual Factors that would help us grow amidst challenges:
(1) Connectedness. To keep linkages with key collaborators who advocate the same vision as NCFPI so as to share best practices.
(2) History of Working Together & Teamwork among its partners and collaborators.
(3) Resources.To keep enhancing these four types of capital: environmental, in-kind, financial, and human. Environmental resource refers to the current environmental setting (in the hospital, community, or political climate) affecting the collaboration. We emphasize that human capital is the most important asset in the collaboration
(4) Keep Catalysts in View. Main catalysts for the collaboration are the craniofacial patients in the Philippines who lack quality care: they motivate us to innovate.
This Entry is about (Issues)
مزيد من المعلومات↓↑ إخفاء↑ إخفاءThe systemic challenge you are trying to overcome (select one)
Bring accessible healthcare to communities in emerging markets
Health area (target market) where the need is [select only one]
Other specialty care
Categories along the health continuum you are covering [select all that apply]
Prevention, Detection, Intervention, Follow-up, Long-term care, Social integration.
Please describe in more detail: what problem are you trying to solve in the organization's specific context?
In our country, we are trying to change perception and attitudes towards cleft and craniofacial patients. Considering that they are not "urgent", care for them may be only scheduled periodically or during missions. Yet cleft and craniofacial patients need continuing comprehensive quality care. We also want that parents be pro-active and partners in the treatment of their children. As cleft and craniofacial cases are not mere mission cases: follow through at home and by the cleft team is very much needed. We envision that people could access care without restrictions of time or mere reliance on missions and educate people to work for this and not to depend on dole-outs. Patients and professionals will endeavor to help each other in a multidisciplinary care approach and not surgery only.
Stage that best applies to your solution [select only one]
Start-up and growth (pilot is successful and starting to expand)
Core strategies of your business model [select all that apply]
Approaches to behavioral change at the individual level, Patient-centered design, Redesign of the public healthcare system for more efficiency (in terms of processes, structure etc.), New/redefined roles for healthcare service provision, New approaches to distribution of health products and services, Unconventional partnerships (between traditional healthcare players and players outside healthcare), New financing strategies for health.
Most relevant tools you are using to implement the strategies outlined above [select only two]
Technology, Education/training.
Please describe your solution in more detail
Technology: We see this as having the right means and methods in patient care. Hence equipment and instrument have to be available. The Patient Medical Record System has to be computerized completely to make services efficient and research including appraisal of treatment protocols accurate. This will enable us to sustain and share best practices.
Education and Training of Volunteers and Staff will redound to better care and services for the patients. At the same time, it would be ideal to impart empowering ideas for our patients to make all cure and healing synchronized in the person. Investing to enhance the volunteers expertise, and keep their interest to give their time and energy will realize the shared vision and is essential for sustainable collaboration of partners.
What are your vision and overall objectives?
NCFPI envisions to make comprehensive and craniofacial care accessible to Filipinos by empowering Filipino professionals in the delivery of competent treatment that meets international standards for cleft lip, cleft palate, and craniofacial patients. With this, NCFPI aims to establish sustainable craniofacial centers in the Philippines led by teams of medical and allied medical specialists and professionals who are trained and equipped to provide world-class craniofacial services to Filipinos especially the indigents. This is done by strengthening all cleft programs of services and communicating the extension of their services to our target customers. This work has to be properly supported by effective administrative processes and internal organizational coherence.
What is your value proposition?
The motto of the foundation is "Love makes whole". NCFPI commits itself to the following core values:
Heartfelt Concern: compassionate, holistic care given to its beneficiaries including advocacy for their social acceptance in society
Committed Teamwork: specialists are consistently available and dependable to resolve medical problems faced by patients
Comprehensive & Continuing Care: patients receive cleft care and treatment in a multi-disciplinary setting from birth till adulthood
Competent Practice: professional treatment that meets international standards including critical assessment of results through research.
Family-oriented Approach: involves the family especially the parents in the treatment process of their children
Camaraderie: promotes cheerful, positive, collaboratio
Who is your customer(s)?
Our customers are the cleft and craniofacial patients in the National Capital Region of the Philippines and all those who can come to us for treatement either for primary or secondary surgery and other ancillary care for cleft patients.
What approaches to you use to reach your customers?
Noordhoff Craniofacial Foundation Philippines, Inc. (NCFPI) calls for an Integrated Marketing Strategy (IMS) that weaves together plans and activities at the national, regional and community levels. The objective is to increase market base and penetrate through effective (i.e., in cost and method) means of communication.
1. Associations/Outreach: Includes conferences, sponsorships, various networks and groups, businesses. 2. Web Presence: Information and resources. 3. Earned (Free) Media Coverage generation & publicity through promotional efforts & good public relation. 4. Paid Media-Direct Advertising or thru an Ad Agency - if there is a sponsor. 5.Direct Mail - Print/Electronic include newsletter & other marketing collaterals. 6. Face-to-face meeting- Relationship Cultivation
What are your primary activities?
We provide Primary and Secondary Cleft Surgeries, Cleft Orthognathic Surgery , Craniofacial Surgery and other Ancillary Services like Orthodontic treatment (Pre-operative naso-alveolar molding or NAM, Quadhelix, Braces), Alveolar bone grafting, Pediatric and Genetic medical consult, Pediatric and General Dentistry, Speech Therapy, Prosthodontic works, Mothers' Class and other Social Services for the patients and their family. We also have transportation and food subsidy for indigent patients including board and lodging linkages during treatment. All these are done by linkages with individuals or charitable groups willing to help cleft patients.
Who are your peers and competitors? What problems could these players pose to your success or growth?
Peers and competitors are those do the same surgical treatment. If their work is not done well, we can repair the work they did but the expense will be greater and this is more costly in all aspects for the patients. The solution to comprehensive and complete care is not fostered as people think that treatment is only for primary sugery.
What other challenges - individual, organizational, or environmental – are you currently facing or might hinder future success of your business, and how do you plan to overcome those?
On Resources. In a short span of time, NCFPI became more known and has more patients. It found itself in need of these four types of capital: environmental, in-kind, financial, and human. Environmental resource refers to the current environmental setting (in the hospital, community, or political climate) affecting the patients and the foundation.We emphasize that human capital is the most important asset in the collaboration. Personnel need more management training and systems in the organization have to be institutionalize. Need for more space and facilities was seen.
Briefly describe your growth strategy going forward
(1) Real People Impacts: the actual number of more lives changed by the treatment.(2) Policy Development. Pursue cooperation with government in terms of instituting policies supportive of the collaborative efforts for cleft care(3) Systems Development. Services have expanded beyond primary surgery and the organization’s systems are developing.(4) Resource Development. Get more volunteers /donors
What dimensions for growth are you currently targeting for your innovation [select all that apply]
New customer group(s), New regions(s).
What makes your business "ready" for growth?
We can say this is the case if the volunteer professionals could treat patients anytime. This means having dedicated venues of services that our solely ours and not shared with the hospital's other departments. Then, the presence of adequate volunteers to help patients and the readiness of the administrative staff to support the growth of patients cared/treated.
What are your key growth objectives?
1. We endeavor to treat 600 patients by 2013 where each surgeon can operate 150 per surgeon.
2. Increase in the Ancillary Services by:
a. Having a volunteer dentist and orthodontist daily
b. Having Speech Pathologists daily
3. To establish Well baby programs for malnourished/sick children
4. To have more personne & bigger facilities for the Administrative unit the foundation
What is your timeframe for growth, in the short and mid-term? What are the growth milestones and key activities going forward?
Growth for one to two years: NCFPI Operating 2 craniofacial centers
Growth for three to five years: Expanding advocacy in the Philippines through linkages with new volunteers and expansion for additional 2 centers in Luzon.
مزيد من المعلومات↓↑ إخفاء↑ إخفاءWhat has been the impact of your solution to date?
(1) Real People Impacts: more than 2000 patients treated in NCR for complete cleft care
(2) Systems Development. Patients’ medical records and photos integrating all aspects of treatment are now being computerized and stored electronically.
(3) Resource Development. New collaborations initiated increase in grants from other donors like Smile Train led to the establishment of the Smile Train Craniofacial Center, the first to offer comprehensive care to craniofacial patients in Manila
What methods for quantification of social impact are you applying (if at all)?
We monitor the number of operated patients and their improvement after each procedure of care has been provided. We are currently assessing results of treatment in surgery, orthodontics, dental, and speech therapy. Yet we still need to see and study how to quantify impact of our social work in society.
Could your solution work in other geographies or regions? If so, where?
We think that it could work in developing countries where the citizens are willing to study abroad yet go back to their country to start a craniofacial center. This happened with Taiwan when they got trained abroad, they developed their services in Taiwan. This happened as well to the NCFP scholars when they studied in Taiwan and used their knowledge to serve cleft patients in Manila.
What is your projected impact over the next 1-3 years?
We endeavor to better serve more cleft patients and spear head a national drive for cleft care awareness. We would like that people associate the Noordhoff craniofacial team to such like a seal of good health care where what the best is for the patient is the reference for key decisions.
مزيد من المعلومات↓↑ إخفاء↑ إخفاءElaborate on your current financing strategy
Financial strategy has to be an on-going efforts to optimize available funding solicited for treatment and matched it with the procedures done. We are looking to funding-syndication to cover increasing costs of surgery. We intend to get more funders yet be able to be more developing the financial capacity of the Foundation. This requires getting more personnel too for NCFP.
Share of revenue generation in total income of organization (in percent)
Direct sales to patients or other beneficiaries (in percent)
Of the possible sources of these sales listed below, check all that apply to your current strategy
Friends and family, Patients, Caregivers, Private businesses, Other beneficiaries.
Licensing fees, e.g., for technology/franchise model (in percent)
Of the possible sources of these licensing opportunities listed below, check all that apply to your current strategy
Service contract with organizations, e.g., government, NGOs (in percent)
Of the possible sources of the service contracts listed below, check all that apply to your current strategy
Explain your revenue generation strategy in more detail
Share of philanthropy in total income of organization (in percent)
Philanthrophy strategies you are using
Diversified strategy.
Explain your philanthropic approach in more detail
1. Accessibility of Holistic Care 2. Public Awareness and Social Acceptance 3. . Improve Quality of Medical Treatment: Achieving all this three move donors to give more to the cause.
Expand on your selections; explain how you will sustain funding over the next 1-3 years.
We will still depend on the main funder for cleft surgery. The marketing and relationship cultivation has to be sustained while doctors need to treat more patients. These two will greatly lead for a continuous donation flow for NCFPI. The private patient sector group will grow slowly but constantly as more people will get to know successful treament of many patients.
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Created on 04/1/2013 by Ahtziri González
Centro de atención para niños con sobrepeso y obesidad tipo 1.
مزيد من المعلومات ↓↑ إخفاء↑ إخفاءبلد المؤسسة
Mexico, DIF, Distrito Federal
Organization's Country of Operation
Mexico, MEX, Distrito Federal
Type of Organization
Non‐profit/NGO
Year of launch of the organization
Years in Operation
Operating 1-5 years
Has the organization received awards or honors? Please tell us about them
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.
Fundación Mídete surge en respuesta al gran aumento de los índices de sobrepeso y obesidad que se han registrado en México en los últimos años. Su fundador, Xiuh Tenorio, quien padeció obesidad mórbida, comprometido con la causa crea la Fundación en 2007 ante la necesidad de tener una institución para impulsar cambios a nivel sistema para la promoción de hábitos saludables.
مزيد من المعلومات↓↑ إخفاء↑ إخفاءName Your Entry
Campamento Urbano: modelo franquiciable de atención a niños con sobrepeso y obesidad
Explain what the "innovation" is about, e.g., is it the idea and/or the model you use to accomplish the idea, or your understanding of the target population, etc.?
"Campamento Urbano" es un centro integral de tratamiento de sobrepeso y obesidad tipo 1 dirigido a niños de 6 a 12 años. En este espacio se les da atención nutricional, médica y psicológica para que logren bajar de peso, así como educación para que puedan adoptar estilos de vida más saludables y evitar que vuelvan a tener el problema. El tratamiento se lleva a cabo de manera lúdica, haciéndolo más fácil para los niños.
Los programas duran de 6 a 24 meses y requieren que los niños asistan por medio día, tres veces por semana. Se proveen dos comidas diarias y los niños también cuentan con un espacio para hacer sus tareas. Cada centro tiene la capacidad de atender a 50 niños de manera simultánea, con dos turnos.
El modelo es franquiciable, por lo que se garantiza su replicabilidad. Asimismo, combina una fórmula que involucra a sociedad civil, industria privada y gobierno, innovando en el área de alianzas multisectoriales.
Describe how your innovation model is distinct from any other organization in your field?
A nivel de atención, el tratamiento es lúdico y no se percibe como una "clínica", haciéndolo más efectivo para los niños.
En cuanto a modelo de negocios, es franquiciable y se puede contar con la flexibilidad de situarse en zonas de diverso nivel socioeconómico, adaptando las tarifas que tienen que pagar la familias.
What type of operating environment and internal organizational factors make your innovation successful?
Los centros son operados por especialistas en obesidad infantil. Para la estandarización de procesos, se cuenta con estrictos manuales operativos y clínicos que guían el correcto funcionamiento de los centros, los cuales han sido desarrollados por expertos en sistemas de franquicias sociales, así como médicos especializados en el tratamiento de estos padecimientos. Entre los manuales se encuentran el de recursos humanos, códigos de ética, publicidad y tratamiento clínico.
How do you make sure you constantly innovate in light of (potential) external challenges, or your growth plan?
Invertimos en investigación y damos puntual seguimiento a los cambios en el panorama del sobrepeso y la obesidad, logrando comprender los nuevos desafíos y así haciendo las adaptaciones correspondientes. Buscamos poder tener presencia en las zonas donde los índices son más elevados.
This Entry is about (Issues)
مزيد من المعلومات↓↑ إخفاء↑ إخفاءThe systemic challenge you are trying to overcome (select one)
Bring accessible healthcare to communities in emerging markets
Health area (target market) where the need is [select only one]
Nutrition
Categories along the health continuum you are covering [select all that apply]
Prevention, Intervention, Follow-up.
Please describe in more detail: what problem are you trying to solve in the organization's specific context?
Atención integral a niños de 6 a 12 años que padecen sobrepeso y obesidad tipo 1 en México.
Stage that best applies to your solution [select only one]
Idea (poised to launch)
Core strategies of your business model [select all that apply]
Approaches to behavioral change at the individual level, Patient-centered design.
Most relevant tools you are using to implement the strategies outlined above [select only two]
New skills, Consultation, Education/training.
Please describe your solution in more detail
Se da atención a los niños en un centro lúdico donde reciben apoyo médico, psicológico, de educación y nutricional. Asimismo, en este espacio realizan actividad física y reciben dos comidas al día.
What are your vision and overall objectives?
Basándonos en altos códigos éticos y proveyendo tratamiento clínico de la mejor calidad, buscamos ser la institución líder en el tratamiento de la obesidad infantil.
Nuestros objetivos son:
- Reducir el peso de los niños que atiendan a nuestros centros, teniendo un efecto positivo en su salud.
- Contribuir con la reducción de los índices de sobrepeso y obesidad infantil en México.
What is your value proposition?
Centro accesible, práctico y efectivo para reducir el peso de niños con sobrepeso y obesidad tipo 1.
Who is your customer(s)?
Niños de 6 a 12 años que padecen sobrepeso y obesidad tipo 1.
What approaches to you use to reach your customers?
Usamos un enfoque multisectorial que incluye vinculación con instituciones públicas como Secretaria de Educación Pública y DIF (Desarrollo Integral de la Familia), así como promoción en medios de comunicación, asociaciones de padres de familia y escuelas.
What are your primary activities?
Tratamiento integral contra el sobrepeso y la obesidad tipo 1 que incluye atención nutricional, psicológica y clases de actividad física. Servicio de comedor y cuidado de niños.
Who are your peers and competitors? What problems could these players pose to your success or growth?
No existe ningún otro modelo de negocio o programa similar que atienda de manera integral a este grupo de edad.
What other challenges - individual, organizational, or environmental – are you currently facing or might hinder future success of your business, and how do you plan to overcome those?
El costo de la inversión inicial es alto, por lo que aún tenemos que conseguir al primer inversionista. Sin embargo, estamos diversificando nuestras opciones, buscando alternativas como programas de gobierno.
Asimismo, la estandarización del proceso clínico ha sido un gran reto que estamos resolviendo con consultoría de médicos bariatras especializados en pediatría.
Finalmente, en México existe un ambiente obesigénico que dificulta la promoción de hábitos saludables, por lo que como Fundación también estamos impulsando políticas públicas encaminadas a un cambio cultural más favorable para la salud.
Briefly describe your growth strategy going forward
El primer centro será monitoreado estrictamente como prueba piloto. Después de esto, se podrá comercializar la franquicia.
What dimensions for growth are you currently targeting for your innovation [select all that apply]
New customer group(s).
What makes your business "ready" for growth?
Actualmente existe una alta demanda de servicios de tratamiento de sobrepeso y obesidad infantil. El modelo está listo para empezar la prueba piloto, solamente tenemos que finalizar la parte legal y conseguir el apoyo de inversionistas.
What are your key growth objectives?
Incrementar el número de centros de atención, llegando a atender a 300 niños anualmente.
What is your timeframe for growth, in the short and mid-term? What are the growth milestones and key activities going forward?
A corto plazo, esperamos abrir el primer centro en 2013. Todo 2014 sería tiempo de monitoreo de la prueba piloto. A partir de 2015, buscamos la apertura de 3 centros anualmente, con presencia en diferentes estados de la República.
مزيد من المعلومات↓↑ إخفاء↑ إخفاءWhat has been the impact of your solution to date?
Aunque los centros todavía no están en operación, hemos logrado un impacto en la promoción de cambios a nivel sistema que promueven estilos de vida más saludables, lo cual hará que nuestro modelo tenga mayor éxito.
What methods for quantification of social impact are you applying (if at all)?
A nivel individual, se medirá la reducción de IMC de los niños que sean atendidos. A nivel sistema, se hará un monitoreo general del progreso de todos los niños.
Could your solution work in other geographies or regions? If so, where?
Sí, el modelo puede ser replicado en toda la República.
What is your projected impact over the next 1-3 years?
Finalizar el tratamiento de al menos 400 niños.
مزيد من المعلومات↓↑ إخفاء↑ إخفاءElaborate on your current financing strategy
Con el fin de atraer inversionistas, se posicionará el modelo a través de una campaña de difusión masiva en medios como: revistas, televisión, radios, prensa escrita, ferias de franquicias, eventos de recaudación, entre otros.
Share of revenue generation in total income of organization (in percent)
Nómina 15%, gastos operativos-admistrativos: 10%, gestión de proyectos: 75%.
Direct sales to patients or other beneficiaries (in percent)
20% pacientes, 80% socios, donaciones y otros similares (varía en cada centro).
Of the possible sources of these sales listed below, check all that apply to your current strategy
الأفراد, Patients, Caregivers, Private businesses, Other beneficiaries.
Licensing fees, e.g., for technology/franchise model (in percent)
No hay tarifas de licencia, sin embargo se contempla una tasa anual de 3.5% por regalías y .5% por publicidad.
Of the possible sources of these licensing opportunities listed below, check all that apply to your current strategy
المؤسسات, المنظمات غير الحكومية, Private businesses, Regional government, الحكومة الوطنية, Others.
Service contract with organizations, e.g., government, NGOs (in percent)
Of the possible sources of the service contracts listed below, check all that apply to your current strategy
المؤسسات, المنظمات غير الحكومية, Private businesses, Regional government, الحكومة الوطنية, Others.
Explain your revenue generation strategy in more detail
Las organizaciones franquicitarias deberán pagar una cuota de inscripción y membresía para poder obtener una franquicia de Campamento Urbano, junto con el cobro de una tasa anual del 3.5% y del .5% por difusión. Por otra parte los niños que estarán inscritos en el Campamento urbano deberán pagar la inscripción y mensualidad establecida, además de la continua difusión para el incremento de socios y donadores.
Share of philanthropy in total income of organization (in percent)
Nómina administrativa: 10%. Servicios de consultoría: 20%. Gastos operativos: 10%. Gestión de proyectos: 60%.
Philanthrophy strategies you are using
Diversified strategy.
Explain your philanthropic approach in more detail
El modelo de Campamento Urbano puede permitir las donaciones de dinero o en especie para su operación, por lo tanto, se pueden reducir las cuotas para los pacientes.
Expand on your selections; explain how you will sustain funding over the next 1-3 years.
Manteniendo y fortaleciendo el plan de difusión e incrementando el número de niños que se inscriban en cada Campamento Urbano. Esperamos establecer al menos 5 centros.
Created on 03/31/2013 by SIKAT
Health is a growing concern in Canada. Obesity, diabetes, and cardiovascular diseases are approaching epidemic proportions. Food choices play a big role in our health. Like the economic costs of diabetes, which is a $17B annual drag on our economy.
مزيد من المعلومات ↓↑ إخفاء↑ إخفاءاسم المؤسسة
SIKAT Trading Cooperative
البلد الذي تعمل به هذه المؤسسة على إنشاء تأثير اجتماعي
المعلومات التي تقدمها هنا ستُستخدم لملء أي جزء من أجزاء ملفك الشخصي التي تم تركها فارغة، مثل الاهتمامات ومعلومات المؤسسة وموقع الويب. لن تتاح أية معلومات اتصال بشكل عام. الرجاء إلغاء تحديد المربع هنا إذا كنت لا تريد حدوث هذا..
مزيد من المعلومات↓↑ إخفاء↑ إخفاءحدد الهدف الذي ينطبق بشكل مثالي على الحل الذي تقدمه:
بدء (إصدار تجريبي قد بدأ تشغيله للتو)
What problem is your organization committed to solving? In particular, share what is innovative about your approach.
Health is a growing concern in Canada. Obesity, diabetes, and cardiovascular diseases are approaching epidemic proportions. Food choices play a big role in our health. Like the economic costs of diabetes, which is a $17B annual drag on our economy. Beyond the human toll of this disease, as a result of lost earnings due to lost work days, lower productivity, permanent disability, there is a strong economic argument for concrete action, especially from the food industry to help stem the growth of the disease such as the promotion of healthier food alternatives and their ultimate benefit to one’s over-all well-being. SIKAT’s business of innovatively promoting Philippine healthier food products can lead to the containment of this growing health concern and contribute to the Canadian economy.
What are your organization's top three priorities in the next year?
1. We need to focus on our serious staffing need for highly qualified, committed, and passionate candidates on two fronts:
a.) an articulate, aggressive sales person; and,
b.) carefully recruit members who deeply share our purpose to succeed.
2. Use innovation as our competitive weapon to progress more rapidly. We see this through 3 possible strategic imperatives: product quality, service, and price.
3. The need to articulate clearly the economic value (or cultural or any other value) that the business will bring to the Canadian society in general and to the Filipino community in particular . . . so as to provide “a common ground on how to bridge it.”
Need #1
Staffing Capabilities
Need #2
Peer Benchmarking Analysis
Based on your first choice of the eight technical categories you selected above, what is your specific project need? Please be specific!
SIKAT Trading is a new business cooperative, composed of Filipino professionals/entrepreneurs, without ready access to outside capital, except for small infusions of cash from the founders and members.
All our people work on part-time basis due to their day jobs. To move forward, two key factors confound our present situation:
1) we are ambitious about growth and liquidity, and
2) the rapid pace of business realities endangers our modest growth unsustainable vs. competitors using capital us.
There is need for innovative ideas and the imperative to hire a full-time sales person. We rely only on available time given by members to assist in all aspects of the operations. Thus, we need funds to afford a full-time sales person to bring these ideas to the market; help in assessing our staffing requirement, like in attracting members who can contribute breakthrough ideas to our cooperative; and employer funding from government on hiring employees.
1.
Shares Our Values, Entrepreneurial Spirit, and Vision
3.
Experience and Authority in the Food Wholesale Industry
Will support from American Express be focused on your organization overall or a specific product/service? Please describe.
The support from American Express will be focused on helping the organization to become more effective and efficient to succeed.
Have you focused on the above area previously? If so, please explain, including whether you have worked with outside consultants before.
Yes, this was our focus when we started the business and haven't worked with outside consultants before until only recently, when Vancity strongly suggested to have a consultant on-board to address our immediately establish market/consumer demand. The need for staff has always been discussed in our management and board meetings but haven’t arrived on any concrete ways of doing it as yet.
Are you able to commit 3-5 hours/wk over 10-12 weeks?
Yes
Are you able to meet virtually or at a convenient in-person location?
Yes
Are you able to meet in the city where your organization is based?
Yes
1.
Access potential government funding on job creation.
2.
Identify staffing requirement(s) of the organization.
3.
Hire a full-time sales person.
What has been the impact of your solution to date?
SIKAT was incorporated in Feb-22-12 and has now over 20 members. The Cooperators have given us a $10,000 grant to help us in our marketing activities; VanCity Credit Union is helping fund an outside consultant to help us in the demand side. We are now engaged in current talks with suppliers for coconut and organic green banana flour, cocoa, coconut virgin oil, etc. through our SIKAT-appointed Philippine coordinators, in their respective regional areas of coverage. SIKAT is also now officially a member of the Baking Association of Canada and will be participating in the Bakery Congress this coming May 5-6 2013 to meet potential buyers. By the end of the year, to increase our membership participation by 50% and have a consistent and stable purchase orders from prospective buyers/clients.
What is your project future impact after receiving professional support from American Express?
In the early stages of the organization, we need every knowledgeable and professional help we can avail of. The professional support from American Express will be a welcome boost. Learning the ropes from American Express, allows the organization to apply the knowledge in helping achieving our goals, as well as future job creation and recruitment management.
This Entry is about (Issues)
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Created on 03/28/2013 by kaitlynchen
Providing healthy meals to students with easy to understand nutrition information and right portion size.
مزيد من المعلومات ↓↑ إخفاء↑ إخفاءبلد المؤسسة
United States, CT, New Fairfield
البلد الذي تعمل به هذه المؤسسة على إنشاء تأثير اجتماعي
كم مضى على عمل مؤسستك؟
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)
This Entry is about (Issues)
Summary: What specific issue or problem does your Venture address?
Why we have growing childhood obesity rate? Why we have flooded information available and we still unable to tackle the issue? How we can develop a healthy life style at early age? I have a solution!
Eating right in school. Meaning, not only should our school's food not have, for example, Trans fat, but also be of quality; furthermore, students can pick their own portion size that's right to them. As of now, the food served in public school cafeterias have limited selection, few freshly made options, no choice of portion size, and no nutrition information disclosed. We have the desire to be fit and healthy, but do we have the platform?
Misson Statement: What will your venture do?
To let kids understand the right food they should be eating, and the quality and effort that goes into making real, quality, and worth food. To be able to pick portions that support their life style.
The Model: Walk us through a specific example of how your solution makes a difference; include your primary activities
Having a group of kids (early adaptors) to help, and try different catering/food providers that can give my students a healthy and beneficial meal every day. By actually going through, and looking at what these companies are putting into their food; why they are serving it; and where they get it from can make students more conscious about food they are eating. Having students be part of the decision making process in selecting and providing feedback to cafeteria service, they will be advocate of “new” cafeteria food and influence a greater population of students more so than teachers can!
To change the food serving model to give students/teachers choices of foods, portion, and pay for the portion. Having more freshly (less processed) made food, more variety so students can pick their own food combination, and amount they’d like to eat; along with clear nutrient/calorie information so students can make informed decision about what they eat. In the long run, this will help them develop a good habit of eating healthy and right portion.
The Community: Define your community, local or international, that you will work on behalf of. What population is affected? Are there other organizations working in this space?
Definitley a very small town that I live in as a pilot. But, I want to see how far this project goes, and see how and what other schools are eating. Is it better or worse? Expanding it into other districts, regional and national. And maybe launch my own food producing company to provide for kids, all around the world, with healthy food.
Founding Story: What inspired your venture? Why?
End of the day, tired, and hungry, very hungry. My friend and I got to the lunch stand that was seriving up sandwiches, that you could make yourself. YUM, right? So, my friend first, and she asked the lady for some roast beef. Story cut short, she whispers to my friend to not get the roast beef because it's old. YOU ARE KIDDING ME! Old roast beef, and I can bet that my friend wasn't the first one who tried to order roast beef, but was lucky enough to actually get warned.
It really inspired me because when I realize that the food being served in my cafeteria is like this, then I really need to make a change. Just for the students in my school to realize and understand that we can't let hunger change our instincts of what real, hardy food is. In addtion, at this age: we have strong desire to be good and fit, but feel so powerless with what's available. Lastly, more and more kids are from both parents working families, we rely more on school cafeteria.
What is your long-term vision for your Venture?
Going world wide! I think it will take long, but I am excited to maybe have my own food producers in foreign countries to help kids and shelters provide healthy food.
Define your company, program, service, or product in 1-2 short sentences
Providing healthy meals to students with easy to understand nutrition information and right portion size.
مزيد من المعلومات↓↑ إخفاء↑ إخفاءWhat do you want to accomplish in your first year?
Get a group of kids to help me and encourage my venture. Get school support. Help out at local shelters, and see what companies are out there that serve healthy food. And to make a change in my school's cafeteria food, quality, variety, and self-picked portion size.
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
Get a group of helpers (student council, clubs) to encourage my venture.
المهمة الثانية
Build alliances from school administration, existing providers. Create Pro-forma financial projection.
المهمة الثالثة
Request For Proposal to vet out winners that can provide healthy food at lower cost.
Now think bigger! Identify your 12-month impact milestone
المهمة الأولى
Formalize the venture into an organization; create board of directors who can guide us growing the venture.
المهمة الثانية
Expand the model to other schools.
المهمة الثالثة
Present the model to State Senate to drive a sustained change.
مزيد من المعلومات↓↑ إخفاء↑ إخفاءHow will your Venture define success in the short term (1-12 months)?
Positive feedback within school. Drive for a change in food serving model. Revenue increase, volume increase, and attract more attention on my topic. Attract more people to understand and be involved in my venture.
In the long-term (1 year?)
Promote this venture into other schools(market growth) and being adapted by other places, not only schools.
How will you measure success?
The amount of people interested and involved in my venture shows me that people are aware of my cause and my reasons. And they too, can help me make a change.
Why?
It shows me that people understand and can relate to my feeling and my venture.
Using a local wellness center I will create a workshop format to instruct diagnosed MS patients on successful living adaptions to accommodating MS symptoms. Incorporating local Yoga meditation Physiotherapists nutritionists and spiritual advisers with the intent to assist in adapting to MS symptoms.
Created on 03/27/2013 by Tkovacs
Girls with Heart teaches girls to care for themselves. Also it teaches how to keep your heart healthy, whether this may be physically, emotionally, or mentally.
مزيد من المعلومات ↓↑ إخفاء↑ إخفاءبلد المؤسسة
United States, CT, Washington, Litchfield County
البلد الذي تعمل به هذه المؤسسة على إنشاء تأثير اجتماعي
United States, CT, Washington, Litchfield County
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المعلومات التي تقدمها هنا ستُستخدم لملء أي جزء من أجزاء ملفك الشخصي التي تم تركها فارغة، مثل الاهتمامات ومعلومات المؤسسة وموقع الويب. لن تتاح أية معلومات اتصال بشكل عام. الرجاء إلغاء تحديد المربع هنا إذا كنت لا تريد حدوث هذا..
مزيد من المعلومات↓↑ إخفاء↑ إخفاءحدد الهدف الذي ينطبق بشكل مثالي على الحل الذي تقدمه:
فكرة (أنت متأهب للإطلاق)
This Entry is about (Issues)
Summary: What specific issue or problem does your Venture address?
My venture will will address health. We will be covering food health- healthy eating choices, exercising-sports and other ways to exercisse and be fit, and mental and emotional health- this could include bullying. If you are being picked on and are feeling bad about yourself.
Misson Statement: What will your venture do?
My venture will be teaching girls about health. It will also be helping girls become more active and fit, and learning to make better eating choices, As well as fitness and food, we will be teaching girls about bullying. Bullying has become a dangerous situation. In some people's cases it can lead to unhealthy decisions.
The Model: Walk us through a specific example of how your solution makes a difference; include your primary activities
One way my solution makes a difference is it will help girls feel good about themselves. For example one of our goals is to get a group of girls together to meet one a month or so to do activities and make food dishes. If we were to meet for 1-2 hours a month, in that time frame we can do a long exercise, or make a recipe that will be healthy. They will walk away from the class feeling great. They will also take the skills they learn form the class and use them in their everyday life. This is one example of how this venture will affect others.
The Community: Define your community, local or international, that you will work on behalf of. What population is affected? Are there other organizations working in this space?
I will work locally in my comunity of Washington. As Girls with Heart becomes more well known, it will hopefully spread to other places around the state. As this venture continues to grow and grow, it will spread around the country. If things continue to go smoothly, hopefully Girls with Heart can become world wide. I am not sure of any organizations that are working in the Washington, CT area. I do know that all over the world there are gyms and health classes to take.
Founding Story: What inspired your venture? Why?
Girls with Heart was inspired when my friend Emma came over one day. She was telling me about how her mother had signed her up for an online class to start a business that will help others. She said that if she was doing it, then I could do it with her. We called her mothe to get the whole story. After she explained it, we both thought it would be a lot of fun to do! That whole day we spent brainstorming ideas about what we could make our venture about. Her mother gave us the idea of doing something with sports and being active and healthy. We thought that would be a great idea. We came up with ideas for a magazine, and a grooup to get together. After that we have been so excited about doing this venture!
What is your long-term vision for your Venture?
My long term vision for Girls with Heart would be to have a group of girls meet once a month, or every other month. It can get busy with schedules, so things might change as it goes along, but this would be one long term vision. Another idea we had was to make a bunch of products that could help girls become healthier or more active. One idea we had was make a cook book with healthyrecipes in it. Our main goal is to have Girls with Heart spread all over and to get a group of people together to do activities or lessons about health.
Define your company, program, service, or product in 1-2 short sentences
Girls with Heart teaches girls to care for themselves. Also it teaches how to keep your heart healthy, whether this may be physically, emotionally, or mentally.
مزيد من المعلومات↓↑ إخفاء↑ إخفاءWhat do you want to accomplish in your first year?
In the first year I would like to have people know about Girls with Heart. I would also like to have a group of girls that meet every so often to talk about Girls with Heart and do our classes.
Winning entries present a strong plan for how they will achieve and track growth. Identify your six-month milestone for growing your impact
The 6-month milestone would be to have a small group of girls together. The group would not be final, more people can come.
المهمة الأولى
A place to meet. We would need to look into places to rent, or places to buy
المهمة الثانية
Advertising. People would need to know about Girls with Heart, so we would need to let others know.
المهمة الثالثة
Ideas. In order for us to get a group together, we need ideas about what we could do during the time. It could be anything.
Now think bigger! Identify your 12-month impact milestone
To have some of our products together, and either made or ready to be made. Things such as the cookbook, magazine/newsletters.
المهمة الأولى
Editors. We would need someone to edit our things. I know an author who told me if I had any writing problems to let her know.
المهمة الثانية
Publishor/ builder. We would need someone to publish the book, or if we did something that involves building, we would need help
المهمة الثالثة
Organization. We would have to have all of our ideas together to do in order to complete this task.
مزيد من المعلومات↓↑ إخفاء↑ إخفاءHow will your Venture define success in the short term (1-12 months)?
My venture will define success in 1-12 months by setting goals. We will make short-term and long-term goals. Once these are established, we will work on completing them. We want to complete as many of our goals as possible. When each goal is completed, it will be marked as a success. The more goals we complete the more we can make. This will help our venture become better and better. One of the goals we have is to get a group of girls together by 6 months. This group will not be definite, meaning more people can join as it goes on.
In the long-term (1 year?)
In the long term we hope to have a cookbook published, or on the verge of being publshed. This cookbook will be filled with healthy recipes that are delicious. We also hope that by one year, we can have a newletter that goes out once a month or every two months. It will let girls know what is happening with Girls with Heart. I hope it can turn into a magazine.
How will you measure success?
We will measure the success by how many goals we complete. Like I mentioned in the top question, we will make goals for Girls with Heart. As each goal is completed, it will be a success. This is how we will measure our success: By goals.
Why?
We will measure it by goals because as our venture continues to grow, it will be easy to think of something we need to complete.
Created on 03/27/2013 by Fundación Educacional
We work to make nutrition information accessible to every school age child. Children from low-income families often do not receive health messages at home. Schools provide us with the perfect place to provide this education and promote healthy eating habits at an early age.
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↑ إخفاءName Your Entry
Creating Healthy Habits for Life in Argentine Schools
حدد الهدف الذي ينطبق بشكل مثالي على الحل الذي تقدمه:
Established (past the previous stages and has demonstrated success)
What problem is your organization committed to solving? In particular, share what is innovative about your approach.
We work to make nutrition information accessible to every school age child. Children from low-income families often do not receive health messages at home. Schools provide us with the perfect place to provide this education and promote healthy eating habits at an early age.
We work with teachers, students and families in order to promote health and prevent chronic diseases such as obesity, diabetes, high cholesterol and high blood pressure. To facilitate the learning process, we use a variety of didactic games and interactive activities (booklets, stories, posters and computer games). We believe that access to health education is essential for behavioral and environmental change.
What are your organization's top three priorities in the next year?
1- To conduct pilot testing for our new e-learning program "Nutrición en Interacción" in at least 4 elementary schools.
2- To develop new partnerships with private companies willing to finance the implementation of this new program.
3- To contact educational authorities from new locations in other provinces of Argentina in order to implement "Nutrición en Interacción" and work with thousands of students and their teachers.
Need #1
Consumer/Audience Acquisition
Need #2
Digital Marketing Strategy
Based on your first choice of the eight technical categories you selected above, what is your specific project need? Please be specific!
Fundación Educacional is funded through private corporations who believe that health and education are the foundations for children to build their future.
We are seeking to develop strategies to diversify our financial resources while identifying and involving new companies in order to become more sustainable. Having just developed a new product, we think this is the right time to engage new partners, increase our impact, reach new locations, and provide more schools and many more children with important health messages.
Will support from American Express be focused on your organization overall or a specific product/service? Please describe.
We will focus on a specific project, Nutrición en Interacción, which we have recently developed to scale up our impact in a more sustainable way. At the same time, the support from American Express will help us to improve other areas of the organization.
Have you focused on the above area previously? If so, please explain, including whether you have worked with outside consultants before.
We worked with an external consultant from Boehringher Ingelheim (BI) from Germany for 5 months. He came to Argentina to work in our organization as part of a global partnership between BI and Ashoka called Making More Health. Ashoka Fellow María Ana Angeleri, founder and Executive Director of Fundación Educacional, was selected for this project. The result of this experience was the previously mentioned e-learning program, Nutrición en Interacción.
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?
اختار
Are you able to meet in the city where your organization is based?
Yes
1.
Learn about new strategies to engage new partners.
2.
Develop 3 partners to finance our new e-learning program in order to reach new locations and more schools.
3.
A digital marketing campaign to disseminate our new program.
What has been the impact of your solution to date?
With our existing programs we have reached 300,000 children and more than 730 schools in 8 provinces of Argentina.
• 89% of students said the way of working was entertaining and attractive
• 92% of students have increased their knowledge regarding health, nutrition, physical activity and healthy habits
• 30% of participants have changed their attitudes towards healthy breakfast options
• 98% have shared these health messages with members of their community
What is your project future impact after receiving professional support from American Express?
With the new interactive program and partners, we expect to increase our impact and reach 20 schools in at least 3 new locations around the country achieving similar results as the ones mentioned above.
This Entry is about (Issues)
Created on 03/26/2013 by Rafah Alkhatib
The leading online social network focused on healthy lifestyle www.3eesho.com at the growth-stage
Launched 3eesho.com on Jan 2010,
Launched 3eesho iPad on Feb 2012,
Launching 3eesho first ebook on Apr 2013.
Our monthly traffic is 400K visitors.
7,000,000 Followers in 30+ Countries
مزيد من المعلومات ↓↑ إخفاء↑ إخفاءبلد المؤسسة
United Arab Emirates, DU, Dubai
Organization's Country of Operation
Type of Organization
منشأة تجارية
Year of launch of the organization
Years in Operation
Operating 1-5 years
Has the organization received awards or honors? Please tell us about them
3eesho.com was semi finalist in 2009 in MIT Arab business plan competition
3eesho.com was on the Arabnet Startup Demo on 2010
Reach is a winner of Arabia500 for 2011 and 2012 as start up to watch
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 my eldest daughter start going to the elementary school, I start realizing year after year that the kids are going in width instead of going up. I found out that most of the Arabic content on the net is very poor. I thought about the majority of Arab women and decided to invest my life in solving this problem by creating a platform in Arabic to help nurturing healthy habits for their families
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↑ إخفاءExplain what the "innovation" is about, e.g., is it the idea and/or the model you use to accomplish the idea, or your understanding of the target population, etc.?
3eesho.com is the leading online social network focused on healthy lifestyle and wellness. We provide the following for the Arab users
2,000 articles on healthy lifestyle .
Videos and clips for exercises and healthy information
Specialized writers (MDs, nutritionists) publishing only in 3eesho.com
Food nutritional values database consisting of 10,000 food items
Support via Social networking functionality: Friends, Groups, etc.
Weight management tools
A platform for experts (Nutritionist and Dietitians) to offer online services
Mobile application for food intake and daily movements for Arabic users
Describe how your innovation model is distinct from any other organization in your field?
It is a one stop destination for wellness and healthy lifestyle where the users can get information, share experiences and support other members in achieving their health goals.
Online consultancy and coaching with dietitians and nutritionists is providing a quick and cost effective access to help
Apps for mobile and tablets extend the delivery to new channels and enable the uses of tools easily.
Also we offer a personal behavior change information and content.
What type of operating environment and internal organizational factors make your innovation successful?
Highest adoption rate of mobile and internet usage
Obesity and weight related problems are highest globally
Our team is highly motivated and technology experts. we are keep looking to provide and utilize the technology in the best way to serve the users and help in adhering wellness issues
In addition to the above, we have a high attention to users confidentiality and low cost service.
How do you make sure you constantly innovate in light of (potential) external challenges, or your growth plan?
Our technical experts keep enhancing the system based on the latest technology to make sure we are constantly updating our platform to meet the new innovation
Our growth plan is
Reach 1 million visitors by end 2013
Enable platform for experts to offer online services by Jun 2013
Launch 2 books by 2013
Launch the Mobile app by June 2013
This Entry is about (Issues)
مزيد من المعلومات↓↑ إخفاء↑ إخفاءThe systemic challenge you are trying to overcome (select one)
Bring accessible healthcare to communities in emerging markets
Health area (target market) where the need is [select only one]
Nutrition
Categories along the health continuum you are covering [select all that apply]
Prevention, Follow-up, Social integration.
Please describe in more detail: what problem are you trying to solve in the organization's specific context?
We are aiming to help in solving the obesity problem in the Arabic region where Kuwait, UAE, Saudi, Egypt, Bahrain, and Jordan ranked in top 10 courtiers in obesity ratio.
Stage that best applies to your solution [select only one]
Start-up and growth (pilot is successful and starting to expand)
Core strategies of your business model [select all that apply]
Approaches to behavioral change at the individual level, New approaches to distribution of health products and services.
Most relevant tools you are using to implement the strategies outlined above [select only two]
Technology.
Please describe your solution in more detail
The solution is build around the users interest and benefits. by leveraging the health content in an easy way to read, understand and engage in a form of social network. Enabling the platform for experts to offer a cost effective consultancy service where they can reach to wider range of users with an affordable cost.
It is the leading online social network for Arab users to get information and advises about health and wellness
What are your vision and overall objectives?
Our vision is to become the first online destination for healthy lifestyle and wellness. Provide prevention services and remote care for obesity and lack of activities issues.
Our business model is simple, it is based on
Ads and sponsorship
Selling Ebook
iPad magazine subscription
Paid mobile app
Online nutrition and dietitian services for users to get online consultancy and coaching
What is your value proposition?
We are offering a unique combination of content and online services for the users. our content is prepared to meet the users need and to enhance their level of knowledge about food and exercises. Our online experts will provide one to one help and advises to the users.
And we are leveraging our content to any new technology/devices
Who is your customer(s)?
Arab online general users with age of 20-60
What approaches to you use to reach your customers?
We reach to our customers through social media channels and online, We have a huge presence on facebook with more than 7 millions fan and we are focusing all our marketing effort on social media
What are your primary activities?
We are focusing on the following major activities:
Develop the Health content, Digital publications and Mobile app.
Develop the platform and leverage the service of one to one consultancy
Fundraising
Who are your peers and competitors? What problems could these players pose to your success or growth?
What other challenges - individual, organizational, or environmental – are you currently facing or might hinder future success of your business, and how do you plan to overcome those?
The main challenge is to cope with the technology changes and be ready for any new technology to use and adopt to our online services
Produce enough content for the users and keep tracking with the new health information from international resources.
Also the main players have a traditional oriented approaches in tackling health problems, and it is not easy to shit their approached to be online and virtually.
Briefly describe your growth strategy going forward
We are focusing our efforts to reach to one million visitors monthly by offering a unique content related to the daily issues of wellness. providing support to the people who are struggling to the maintain an healthy lifestyle.
What dimensions for growth are you currently targeting for your innovation [select all that apply]
New customer group(s).
What makes your business "ready" for growth?
We are the first established website for wellness with a huge base of users and fans, we have tested several business model and have developed several products, some are total failure and some are excellent. we know the market, and we know how to cater for the market need
What are your key growth objectives?
We are looking to reach to one million visit monthly the site with a content consumption rate of 10 minutes /visit
What is your timeframe for growth, in the short and mid-term? What are the growth milestones and key activities going forward?
The short milestone is to reach one million visit by end of 2013
the mid term milestone is to reach 3 million by 2015
The key activities is to build a network of experts and leverage their services through the site.
Publish couple of health and wellness ebook in addition to different mobile app for the users to track and maintain a healthy lifestyle. i
مزيد من المعلومات↓↑ إخفاء↑ إخفاءWhat has been the impact of your solution to date?
It reach more than 76 million page views in 2 years. we impacted people lives in the ground. we organized several walk events in different Arabic capitals.
We build a great library of articles for different health and weight management related topics
What methods for quantification of social impact are you applying (if at all)?
Could your solution work in other geographies or regions? If so, where?
Yes. It can applies in any region. we just need to build another version localized for any specific region.
What is your projected impact over the next 1-3 years?
Providing a cost effective access to nutritionist and dietitians for a total of 75million Arabic users online.
Provide a library of 10k articles and 500 videos about wellness and healthy lifestyle information
مزيد من المعلومات↓↑ إخفاء↑ إخفاءElaborate on your current financing strategy
Ads revenue around $100k yearly.
Share of revenue generation in total income of organization (in percent)
Direct sales to patients or other beneficiaries (in percent)
Of the possible sources of these sales listed below, check all that apply to your current strategy
Friends and family, الأفراد, Patients.
Licensing fees, e.g., for technology/franchise model (in percent)
Of the possible sources of these licensing opportunities listed below, check all that apply to your current strategy
المؤسسات, Private businesses, Regional government.
Service contract with organizations, e.g., government, NGOs (in percent)
Of the possible sources of the service contracts listed below, check all that apply to your current strategy
Private businesses, Regional government.
Explain your revenue generation strategy in more detail
Selling an Ad space on the site
Offering an online consultancy service where the expert get 50% of the fees and the company get another 50%
Selling ebook
Share of philanthropy in total income of organization (in percent)
Philanthrophy strategies you are using
Single strategy.
Explain your philanthropic approach in more detail
No philanthropic approach
Expand on your selections; explain how you will sustain funding over the next 1-3 years.
We have two revenue income to sustain the project, current Ads revenue and
cross selling the team experience and knowledge to the customers. By offering a social media marketing services in the local market. this service generate a good revenue for the company and from this revenue we are able to sustain the projects
This project also has a Changeshop where you can read more about its latest progress.
Go to Changeshop: LINKCARE.
Created on 03/24/2013 by jimroldan
Linkcare is an Integrated Care open platform allowing Health Care Professionals (Specialists, General Practitioners, Case Managers, Nurses,…) to share clinical knowledge around a patient centric health care model.
The Linkcare mobility module allows to post activities to be performed by the patients using their mobile terminal.
مزيد من المعلومات ↓↑ إخفاء↑ إخفاءبلد المؤسسة
Spain, BA, Sant Cugat del Valles
Organization's Country of Operation
Type of Organization
منشأة تجارية
Year of launch of the organization
Years in Operation
Operating 1-5 years
Has the organization received awards or honors? Please tell us about them
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.
Linkcare is an spin off of the Clinic Hospital after 8 years of research on telemedicine and integrated care.
At a certain stage of development of the Linkcare platform, founders realized that rather than distributing software (is an open software platform) the main value would be to create a knowledge sharing platform: Linkcare's CAREPEDIA was born!
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↑ إخفاءExplain what the "innovation" is about, e.g., is it the idea and/or the model you use to accomplish the idea, or your understanding of the target population, etc.?
Problem
As health care knowledge double folds every 10 years and population aging increases health care professional demand, a shared knowledge platform can be a better source of information than traditional knowledge exchange such as health care manuals or health publications.
Solution
Linkcare is an Integrated Care open platform allowing Health Care Professionals (Specialists, General Practitioners, Case Managers, Nurses,…) to share clinical knowledge around a patient centric health care model. The Linkcare mobility module allows to post activities to be performed by the patients using their mobile terminal, tablet or web portal. Such activities include follow up questionnaires and medical devices such as pulsioximeters, glucometers, scales, blood pressure and spirometers. Using Linkcare, Health Care professionals may exchange care protocols and clinical data around Integrated Practice Units or specific Clinical Research teams.
Describe how your innovation model is distinct from any other organization in your field?
Unlike most health care knowledge services and platforms, Linkcare relies on health care professionals willing to exchange their protocols to improve their knowledge about disease.
Patients can also cooperate in creating clinical knowledge by "donating" their anonymous clinical data.
Linkcare's CAREPEDIA is to be the knowledge base that will be created and exchanged by health care professionals. Linkcare's knowledge is created by health care professionals tih the collaboration of their patients.
What type of operating environment and internal organizational factors make your innovation successful?
The adoption cycle of Linkcare starts by early adopters health care professionals willing to create a research team. A research team can be created around any health condition.
Once the team is created the can invite other professionals to be part of the team, no matter which organization or country they come from. Linkcare users can also apply to be part of existing teams.
Linkcare teams create and use integrated care protocols and share the results of protocol adoption for their patients.
Linkcare's patient centric approach can also be used by health care organizations to establish integrated practice units around chronic conditions.
Hospitals use Linkcare for early-discharge, fragility and rehabilitation integrated care.
Primary care systems use it to manage chronicity and wellness
How do you make sure you constantly innovate in light of (potential) external challenges, or your growth plan?
As a crowd sourcing platform for shared-knowledge, Linkcare innovation relies on the professional users improving the system's knowledge base: The CAREPEDIA
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مزيد من المعلومات↓↑ إخفاء↑ إخفاءThe systemic challenge you are trying to overcome (select one)
Realign the incentives in the public healthcare system in mature markets, or
Health area (target market) where the need is [select only one]
Chronic care
Categories along the health continuum you are covering [select all that apply]
Prevention, Detection, Intervention, Follow-up, Long-term care.
Please describe in more detail: what problem are you trying to solve in the organization's specific context?
As health care knowledge double folds every 10 years and population aging increases health care professional demand, a shared knowledge platform can be a better source of information than traditional knowledge exchange such as health care manuals or health publications.
Stage that best applies to your solution [select only one]
Piloting (a pilot that has just begun operating)
Core strategies of your business model [select all that apply]
Approaches to behavioral change at the individual level, Patient-centered design, Redesign of the public healthcare system for more efficiency (in terms of processes, structure etc.), New/redefined roles for healthcare service provision, New approaches to distribution of health products and services, Unconventional partnerships (between traditional healthcare players and players outside healthcare), New financing strategies for health.
Most relevant tools you are using to implement the strategies outlined above [select only two]
Others.
If other, specify here:
Shared knowledge and crowd sourcing
Please describe your solution in more detail
Linkcare is an Integrated Care open platform allowing Health Care Professionals (Specialists, General Practitioners, Case Managers, Nurses,…) to share clinical knowledge around a patient centric health care model. The Linkcare mobility module allows to post activities to be performed by the patients using their mobile terminal, tablet or web portal. Such activities include follow up questionnaires and medical devices such as pulsioximeters, glucometers, scales, blood pressure and spirometers. Using Linkcare, Health Care professionals may exchange care protocols and clinical data around Integrated Practice Units or specific Clinical Research teams.
What are your vision and overall objectives?
The dissemination plan is based in three steps:
1. Sponsored clinical research teams can me established around certain health conditions under the leadership of the team leaders. This provides fast dissemination for specialized teams
2. Hospital integrated practice units can also use Linkcare for patient centric case management
3. In a latter stage, Linkcare can also be adopted to provide district level care integrating primary cares, community hospitals and tertiary centers.
What is your value proposition?
To provide an open platform for health care knowledge exchange based on case management oriented care
Who is your customer(s)?
a. Health care professionals willing to exchange their clinical knowledge around a health condition and industry partners interested on sponsoring those teams to obtain better knowledge on their customers or products
b. Health care suppliers willing to deliver integrated care by collaborating at all care levels (primary care, community hospitals, tertiary centers,...
c. Health organizations interested on value measurement health care models that allow protocol benchmarking and health care outcome measurement
What approaches to you use to reach your customers?
Linkcare relies exclusively on the reputation of its health professional users
What are your primary activities?
To disseminate the Linkcare platform by enrolling clinical research teams
To introduce the Linckare platform to health service providers, payers and government offices
Who are your peers and competitors? What problems could these players pose to your success or growth?
Linkcare is a complement or extension of existing health information systems.
It is also a complement of traditional knowledge exchange based models, such as health care publications
What other challenges - individual, organizational, or environmental – are you currently facing or might hinder future success of your business, and how do you plan to overcome those?
The health care information industry is highly segmented and diversifies. Linkcare tries to ensure easy connectivity by being an open platform that can be integrated with the existing information systems by the current integrators. Linkcare has already partnership agreements with some of those integrators, such as IBM and Accenture.
On the other hand, collaboration between health car professionals is not yet part of their daily culture. The fact that research teams are sponsored by industry companies provides and additional incentive to promote collaboration. On exchange, sponsors obtain very valuable information on the disease, the patient profile and the product effectiveness under certain protocols.
Briefly describe your growth strategy going forward
The company is now incorporated in Barcelona and London.
During the next years Linkcare is planning to open an office in Shanghai and Boston.
Most knowledge creation is expected to come from professional users adopting the Linkcare platform for knowledge sharing.
Linkcare plans to create a network of representatives, each one covering around 10 new health care service providers each year
What dimensions for growth are you currently targeting for your innovation [select all that apply]
New customer group(s), New regions(s), New market(s)/country(ies).
What makes your business "ready" for growth?
The increase of interest of the health care professionals community to improve their knowledge around certain conditions. This need has grown as predictive medicine and personalized medicine has made clinical knowledge a "peer to peer" and community based process rather than a traditional "information exchange" (scientific publications, health care conferences) approach
What are your key growth objectives?
As a knowledge sharing platform, Linkcare's corporate business developement indicators are based on:
a) Population served,
b) Health care service providers involved,
c) Active professional users, and
c) Patient profiles managed.
Linkcare goal is to reach 110 Health Care Service Providers, covering a population of 36 M (million) citizens and an estimated 1M (million) patients in 3 years
What is your timeframe for growth, in the short and mid-term? What are the growth milestones and key activities going forward?
Within the next ten years, Linkcare is aiming to reach a population of 400M (million). Out of this population, a case prevalence of 7% has been targeted (standard prevalence estimated 25%). A market share goal of 5,2% represents a target case estimate of 28 M (million) and a total of 1.340 health care providers performing a year total of 366 research teams.
مزيد من المعلومات↓↑ إخفاء↑ إخفاءWhat has been the impact of your solution to date?
Uo to date, Linkcare has been used as a test platform in severer research teams, and as a integrated care protocol in several pilot programs.
The most important of those programs being the integrated COPD early diagnose program in the Basc Country: A project coordinated from Hospital de Cruces in collaboration with 100+ primary care centers. The project has proven to allow primary care centers to effectively perform spirometry tests that were traditionally performed only in specialized centers.
As a result of a initial evaluation, CPOD diagnose has improved around a 20% based in the initial reports.
More important: The test has proved that collaboration between primary care centers and tertiary specialized teams can be a more effective and lest costly approach for early diagnose.
What methods for quantification of social impact are you applying (if at all)?
A model on health care value measurement is being put in place to measure the comparative health outcome and cost involved on each different protocols.
In the future this may allow to ensure a better user of health care resources and to improve the quality of life of citizens over the time.
Could your solution work in other geographies or regions? If so, where?
Linkcare is available in English, French, German, Italian, Norweigan, Greek and Chinese, and is expected to be used natively in collaboration teams from all over the world.
What is your projected impact over the next 1-3 years?
Within the next three years Linkcare is expected to reach a total of 59 sponsored research teams and 166 health care service providers, reaching a population of about 59 M (million) citizen
مزيد من المعلومات↓↑ إخفاء↑ إخفاءElaborate on your current financing strategy
The current financing comes from a initial investment of 100K EUR plus a long term loan of 1M EUR, complemented by several public research grants for an amount of 300K EUR
Share of revenue generation in total income of organization (in percent)
Direct sales to patients or other beneficiaries (in percent)
Of the possible sources of these sales listed below, check all that apply to your current strategy
Licensing fees, e.g., for technology/franchise model (in percent)
Of the possible sources of these licensing opportunities listed below, check all that apply to your current strategy
Service contract with organizations, e.g., government, NGOs (in percent)
Of the possible sources of the service contracts listed below, check all that apply to your current strategy
Explain your revenue generation strategy in more detail
Linkcare business plan is based in receiving on three revenue streams:
1. Sponsored research teams: Linkcare retains a management fee from sponsors paying for research teams on a particular health condition on exchange of a clinical database that Linkcare platform builds around the treatment protocols used. T
2. Shared knowledge partnership subscriptions: Linkcare earns a year subscription fee for each health care service provider willing to exanche care protocols with other Linkcare partners
3. Clinical decision support brokerage: Linkcare provides a connection with third party CDS services. Novadiscovery can use Linkcare to distribute their CDS support services.
Share of philanthropy in total income of organization (in percent)
Philanthrophy strategies you are using
Explain your philanthropic approach in more detail
Expand on your selections; explain how you will sustain funding over the next 1-3 years.
Linkcare's business plan is aimed to be financed by raising capital up to 2 M (million) euros in one round. The money to be released in different placements under milestone achievement.
This funding will be complemented by a capital loan of 500K, a long term loan of 1 M (million) and public grants for about 500K.
1. Personalized medicine tool revenues are estimated in about 1/4 of the total estimated 770 health service provider shared knowledge subscriptions (the other 3/5 being related with other diseases and integrated care health conditions non-related with cancer). This gives a total of 192 shared knowledge subscriptions worldwide with a year estimate of 10,000 EUR each. Totaling a revenue of 1.92 M (million) EUR.
2. Sponsored research teams projections are based in a total of 172 sponsored teams. 1/3 of them being cancer-related research (the other 2/3 being mainly for degenerative disease and chronic disease). This gives a total of 57 sponsored projects with an estimate total fund of 3.42 M (million) EUR. Of them 30% correspond to management fees for a total amount of 1.025 M (million) EUR
Linkcare is a health information shared-knowledge platform around integrated care and special health conditions.
Linkcare allows professionals and research centers to share their experience around their patients. It also allows exchange of care issues between patients, tertiary and primary care
Created on 03/19/2013 by Project_CHEF
Project CHEF is a travelling, experiential, curriculum-based elementary school program that teaches children and families about healthy food: where it comes from, what it tastes like, how to prepare it and how to share it around a table.
مزيد من المعلومات ↓↑ إخفاء↑ إخفاءTitle
Director and Founder, Project CHEF Education Society
اسم المؤسسة
Project CHEF: Cook Healthy Edible Food
البلد الذي تعمل به هذه المؤسسة على إنشاء تأثير اجتماعي
المعلومات التي تقدمها هنا ستُستخدم لملء أي جزء من أجزاء ملفك الشخصي التي تم تركها فارغة، مثل الاهتمامات ومعلومات المؤسسة وموقع الويب. لن تتاح أية معلومات اتصال بشكل عام. الرجاء إلغاء تحديد المربع هنا إذا كنت لا تريد حدوث هذا..
مزيد من المعلومات↓↑ إخفاء↑ إخفاءحدد الهدف الذي ينطبق بشكل مثالي على الحل الذي تقدمه:
Established (past the previous stages and has demonstrated success)
What problem is your organization committed to solving? In particular, share what is innovative about your approach.
Project CHEF is a travelling, experiential, curriculum-based elementary school program that teaches children and families about healthy food: where it comes from, what it tastes like, how to prepare it and how to share it around a table. Designed to immerse the participants in the process of cooking from preparation to clean up, this 5-day outcome-based learning program addresses the obesity epidemic by teaching children, parents and teachers the knowledge and skills necessary to make healthy food choices and encourages the development of healthy attitudes toward food while empowering participants to make nutritious balanced meals for themselves.
What are your organization's top three priorities in the next year?
Priority 1: Hire an administrator to tend to the day-to-day running of the program and increase the number of program volunteers to assist with the program operations (correspondence, sourcing ingredients, shopping). Priority 2: Hire/train a second Project CHEF team (chef instructor, two chef assistants) to allow for program expansion. Priority 3: Develop a curriculum package and a training program to be able to expand beyond the Vancouver School District and enable other school districts to implement Project CHEF.
Need #1
Performance Management
Need #2
Consumer/Audience Acquisition
Based on your first choice of the eight technical categories you selected above, what is your specific project need? Please be specific!
To date, administration of the Project CHEF program has been done voluntarily by the program developer/teacher. The program is in high demand with over a 2-year waiting list in Vancouver and requests for the program in over 40 other school districts/independent schools/community organizations. We need to extend our reach and in order to do so, we must hire and train staff and develop a platform to enable program expansion. American Express can assist with developing strategies for appropriate staffing and management. In order to extend our reach to other districts we will need to develop a comprehensive training program and fund raising strategy. Due to budget constraints in the public school system it will be necessary to assist school districts in finding program partners to help fund the delivery of the program. Additionally, we will need to develop the capacity to train staff to implement the program and to monitor program delivery on an ongoing basis. This will necessarily require expanded administrative support and enhanced management capability.
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Philosophical alignment with Project CHEF goals.
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Commitment to making a societal difference by empowering children to make healthy eating choices.
3.
Action oriented to help educate our children today in order to impact our society tomorrow.
Will support from American Express be focused on your organization overall or a specific product/service? Please describe.
The support of American Express will be focused on the organization overall. Project CHEF provides an educational program whose effectiveness is proven and can make a dramatic difference. What our organization needs is assistance in developing staffing and management strategies to enable the program to expand and become sustainable. American Express can assist with making the existing program scalable and help extend its reach beyond its current focus in the Vancouver district.
Have you focused on the above area previously? If so, please explain, including whether you have worked with outside consultants before.
No, we have not worked with outside consultants before.
Are you able to commit 3-5 hours/wk over 10-12 weeks?
Yes
Are you able to meet virtually or at a convenient in-person location?
Yes
Are you able to meet in the city where your organization is based?
Yes
1.
Children will develop the knowledge about healthy, sustainable food that is necessary to lead healthy lives.
2.
Children will develop skill and confidence in making nutritious meals for themselves.
3.
Children will apply principles of safety in the kitchen: food safety and personal & kitchen cleanliness and safety.
What has been the impact of your solution to date?
Since 2008, we have taught 6300 children. Evaluative data has been collected from all program participants (children, teachers, administrators and parents). Data has been overwhelmingly positive with 100% of teachers/principals rating the program as excellent. The average rating from parent volunteers is 4.94 out of 5 and the average rating from children is 4.74 out of 5. Anecdotal data and post program feedback shows that the Project CHEF program has made a very strong impact on children, noting positive changes in children’s knowledge about food, their skills in creating food for themselves and their families, and attitudes toward food. A school principal succinctly summarized the program, “Project CHEF is the best kind of educational experience: it changes lives.”
What is your project future impact after receiving professional support from American Express?
With the support of American Express, we can build the infrastructure needed to expand the program, thus enabling us to reach more children in BC. If every school-aged child in BC could learn the knowledge and skills needed to feed themselves healthy food choices, we can be assured that our children will lead healthier lives today and they will lead longer, healthier lives as adults.
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Created on 03/15/2013 by tdazad
Reinventing the way food is accessed in low-income areas of St. Louis. The St. Louis MetroMarket will create a presence in all 15 St. Louis food deserts within 5 years of launching.
Created on 03/15/2013 by Local Lenders
Local lenders is a non-profit organization founded in 2009 with a vision to provide small and affordable loans for sustainable agricultural entrepreneurship in Knox County, Ohio. The organization is completely staffed by students from Kenyon College and Mount Vernon Nazarene University. Our loans range from $500 to $5000 and are set to be paid back in 12 months with 4% fixed interest rate.
Created on 03/10/2013 by Hoe Zong Huan
Hi I have started a company called Love Cruise in april last year 2012. we provide charter of yachts to people and company for dinner and dance, wedding, birthday, fishing and travel. But we want to make it better by introducing a fund raising component into it, so for every
مزيد من المعلومات ↓↑ إخفاء↑ إخفاءالبلد الذي تعمل به هذه المؤسسة على إنشاء تأثير اجتماعي
المعلومات التي تقدمها هنا ستُستخدم لملء أي جزء من أجزاء ملفك الشخصي التي تم تركها فارغة، مثل الاهتمامات ومعلومات المؤسسة وموقع الويب. لن تتاح أية معلومات اتصال بشكل عام. الرجاء إلغاء تحديد المربع هنا إذا كنت لا تريد حدوث هذا..
مزيد من المعلومات↓↑ إخفاء↑ إخفاءحدد الهدف الذي ينطبق بشكل مثالي على الحل الذي تقدمه:
Established (past the previous stages and has demonstrated success)
What problem is your organization committed to solving? In particular, share what is innovative about your approach.
Hi I have started a company called Love Cruise in april last year 2012. we provide charter of yachts to people and company for dinner and dance, wedding, birthday, fishing and travel. But we want to make it better by introducing a fund raising component into it, so for every
What are your organization's top three priorities in the next year?
My organisation's first priority is to form a core team which could manage the cold calling and emailing to companies to introduce our services with the intention that they will use our yachts for gala dinner and dance and team bonding to generate more sales from yacht chartering.
My organisation's second priority is to generate greater revenue this time round. With greater revenue we would like to donate 10 to 20% of our annual revenue to any charity organisation in the world.
My organisation's third priority is to able to send at least one charity organisation on a yacht trip one a year to let them have a good enjoyable time in the sea for free.
Need #1
Message & Brand Strategy
Need #2
Performance Management
Based on your first choice of the eight technical categories you selected above, what is your specific project need? Please be specific!
Message & Brand Strategy:
To clearly articulate your mission, describe programs/services, and develop a differentiated positioning from the market
With the funding, I will be able to articulte my mission to the public and public will know that my company mission is not to generare sales but also know that we will be donating 10 to 20% of our annual profit to charity orgnisation and also we will send at least a charity group to free yacht trip once a year.
Will support from American Express be focused on your organization overall or a specific product/service? Please describe.
Focusing on my orgnisation overall
Have you focused on the above area previously? If so, please explain, including whether you have worked with outside consultants before.
I have not worked with any consultants due to financial constraint.
Are you able to commit 3-5 hours/wk over 10-12 weeks?
Yes
Are you able to meet virtually or at a convenient in-person location?
Yes
Are you able to meet in the city where your organization is based?
Yes
1.
More sales and more awarenss of our company
2.
More people will know our company has a mission to help the charity
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To help more people who are in need of our help
What has been the impact of your solution to date?
I have not implemented our solution/
What is your project future impact after receiving professional support from American Express?
A better website with datebase and more information and services will be shown in the website which will generate a higher volume of traffic which will generate more interest and awareness from the public and as such more people can aldo donate some funding to the charity benfificary in our website.
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Created on 03/8/2013 by esztere
It is very hard for a parent to feed children healthier, even though every parent is highly motivated to do so, and a lot of advice is available. Who hasn't been told to feed kids more broccoli? For a child to eat better tonight and become a healthy eater as an adult a sequence of events has to go right beginning with planning what to serve to choosing, buying, preparing the food, involving the child, learning how to try new food and eating together.
مزيد من المعلومات ↓↑ إخفاء↑ إخفاءاسم المؤسسة
Feeding Your Kids Foundation
بلد المؤسسة
United States, CA, San Francisco, San Francisco County
البلد الذي تعمل به هذه المؤسسة على إنشاء تأثير اجتماعي
United States, CA, San Francisco, San Francisco County
المعلومات التي تقدمها هنا ستُستخدم لملء أي جزء من أجزاء ملفك الشخصي التي تم تركها فارغة، مثل الاهتمامات ومعلومات المؤسسة وموقع الويب. لن تتاح أية معلومات اتصال بشكل عام. الرجاء إلغاء تحديد المربع هنا إذا كنت لا تريد حدوث هذا..
مزيد من المعلومات↓↑ إخفاء↑ إخفاءName Your Entry
Make feeding kids healthier easier for parents
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.
It is very hard for a parent to feed children healthier, even though every parent is highly motivated to do so, and a lot of advice is available. Who hasn't been told to feed kids more broccoli? For a child to eat better tonight and become a healthy eater as an adult a sequence of events has to go right beginning with planning what to serve to choosing, buying, preparing the food, involving the child, learning how to try new food and eating together. Parents also need to apply the principles of feeding dynamics, as they are responsible for providing, but the connection is between the child's body and food. The Feeding Your Kids program is a unique internet based behavior change program for parents so they can make small changes to how they feed for lasting results in healthier eating.
What are your organization's top three priorities in the next year?
Increase user engagement by introducing interactive and self assessment features
Increase user base
Create an Advisory Board to guide the Foundation
Need #1
Consumer/Audience Acquisition
Need #2
Digital Marketing Strategy
Based on your first choice of the eight technical categories you selected above, what is your specific project need? Please be specific!
At present we acquire users through AdWords and word of mouth. We would like to develop a strategy about acquiring users in a more systemic way, integrate the social media platforms (Facebook and Twitter) into the user experience and use the above strategy in targeting our fundraising efforts.
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Providing an opportunity for each other to excel at what we are good at
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Giving credit for contribution
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Delivering true value to users
Will support from American Express be focused on your organization overall or a specific product/service? Please describe.
Since the Foundation's objective is to create and operate the Feeding Your Kids program it is both the organization overall and the specific product. The only minor exception is that the custom program the Foundation runs for two clinical trials with two hospitals will remain controlled by the clinics.
Have you focused on the above area previously? If so, please explain, including whether you have worked with outside consultants before.
We have previously worked together with the Rose Company in Los Angeles to establish our first media presence and with Diana Kimbrell of the Kimbrell Company who helped us establish the cooperation with two children's hospitals and a nationwide childhood obesity initiative as well as created our first opportunities with Parent Teacher Associstions.
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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Higher user reach (at present it is 10-15 new users per day)
2.
Higher user engagement (emails opened, user feedback)
What has been the impact of your solution to date?
The Feeding Your Kids Program reached and impacted approximately 40,000 people in 85 countries since its inception. We have two clinical trials under way and a regular user feedback channel with lots of anecdotal evidence such as this "ALL THE INFO IS REALLY EASY TO UNDERSTAND. I share all the info with my 9 and 6 daughters. Every day there was a comment like: we need more fruit mom!!! or "is this according to the plan?" they LOVE the morning milkshakes too. My husband had 247 in cholesterol, after 3 weeks in the program he got 219!!!! Our bodies reacted to the program after day 3 and it's been a blessing.")
What is your project future impact after receiving professional support from American Express?
Our infrastructure and technical platform would enable us to serve 100 times the users, the marginal cost of serving a new user is very low, the "market" for parents whose children are "picky eaters", undernourished and overweight is in the millions in the US and several times that world wide.
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Created on 03/8/2013 by Brandon Zerbe
Uniting Fitness uses a combination of technology and personal interaction to teach clients about nutrition and exercise to achieve a healthy lifestyle.
Choco Drug Store is a mind-blowing Belgian chocolate dealer.
We view cocoa as the only drug good for:
- the health (with moderation)
- the planet (if organic)
- the community (if fairtrade)
We thus use chocolate as a tool to combat toxic drugs, like tobacco and narcotics.
Created on 03/7/2013 by ronaldeporu
Aeromedics offers expert guidance on utilizing freely available cool & fresh air to prevent or fend off various diseases. I had invented a new method for practicing aerotherapy in 2002, and then published a book on applications of aerotherapy to prevent various diseases, available at www.amazon.com/dp/1479175056. It includes food pyramids requiring adherence to defend the body against illness. Our clinic will sell my book and workshops to that effect.
مزيد من المعلومات ↓↑ إخفاء↑ إخفاءName Your Entry
EXPLOITING FREE NATURAL THERAPY IN FRESH AIR
البلد الذي تعمل به هذه المؤسسة على إنشاء تأثير اجتماعي
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مزيد من المعلومات↓↑ إخفاء↑ إخفاءThe Need: What problem are you trying to solve?
Lack of vaccines against malaria and flu in the developing world makes these diseases the leading causes of illness, loss of productivity, maternal complications and death. There are over 200 million cases and nearly 400 incidents of malaria illness with at least 600,000 deaths recorded per annum globally. 80% of malaria deaths were estimated to occur in 14 countries and 80 % of cases of malaria illness occur in 17 countries, most of which are found in Africa (WHO).There is also a growing trend of obesity with over dependence on highly processed calorie-laden food stuff in our society. Most people are completely ignorant about oxidative stress yet it is associated with the cause of over 70 chronic degenerative diseases.
The Solution: What is your solution? Be specific!
I invented a new method for maximizing intake of fresh air as a therapy in 2002; adequate oxygen available in fresh air enables our bodies to maximally metabolize all nutrients to effectively prevent illness or obesity. Oxygen is vital in catabolism of pathogens by phagocytes, and generation of energy for protein synthesis of immune molecules and immune cells, whose timely proliferation essentially aborts various infections. I have published a book that presents my new method alongside the old method of aerotherapy that had been employed in Europe, with my personal experiences on applying aerotherapy to abort flu and prevent malaria. Independent scientific studies, linking warm-humid air known to bear less oxygen with regular outbreaks of malaria, have corroborated my applications of aerotherapy to effectively prevent malaria. The book offers food pyramids for educating people to consume anti oxidant and natural food sources in place of highly processed energy rich food stuff.
The Model: Walk us through a specific example of how your solution makes a difference; include your primary activities
Our clinic is to offer workshops to clients in productive and reproductive age groups of 16 – 54 years, on whom most family members depend for nutrition and welfare. We guide them through my book, and showcase methods and model materials for effectively practicing aerotherapy such as; foot wear, attire, beddings and building designs. We demonstrate to them the use of a clinical thermometer to monitor body temperature and other indicators on safe and effective practice of aerotherapy. Our Nutritionist guides clients through assembly and adherence to a food pyramid from locally available foodstuff with cooking methods that preserve nutrients. She sensitizes them on oxidative stress and a wide range of anti oxidant food sources that alleviate it. I have been self financing my work. Our clinic will be registered and launch a book by October, be equipped and have a website by November, and start operating in December 2013. Individuals and corporate bodies will be charged training fees for workshops and study literature sold to them and their employees respectively. Governments are likely to enact expenditure policies on our innovation for public health education purposes in public private partnerships.
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?
Our competitors sell mosquito nets, vaccines, drugs and food supplements, in a bid to solve the stated problem. Our solution requires only one time purchase for one to start exploiting free medicine in fresh air and informed choices of healthy diet, whereas products of our competitors have to be purchased regularly. Our solutions are affordable with lifelong benefits. Our solution empowers people to prevent many diseases; whereas our competitors provide products targeting fewer diseases. Aerotherapy complements mosquito nets and flu vaccines to prevent malaria and abort flu respectively. Our competitors have more sources of funds and publicity than us but affordability of our solution with strong scientific basis for it will ensure our success.
Created on 03/7/2013 by queenie1513
YOLO Pies is a youth run pilot program that grows organic fruits, vegetables, and herbs and sells value added organic products to the local Washington DC community. Our pilot product, launched in fall 2012, was our award winning sweet potato pie.
Created on 03/6/2013 by susannerik
MultiTaske is a special non-profit social entreprise for people excluded from the labor market. We produce high quality fashion products made from upcycled products.
We are dedicated to make a change in inequality in health for vulnerable people.
We have created a binding community, based on happiness at work, healthy food, excersize and counselling.
مزيد من المعلومات ↓↑ إخفاء↑ إخفاءOrganization's Country of Operation
Type of Organization
Non‐profit/NGO
Year of launch of the organization
Years in Operation
Operating 1-5 years
Has the organization received awards or honors? Please tell us about them
Unfortunatly no awards yet
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 perceived in 2007 Austin, Texas. A bag was the inspiration to work with upcycling of innertubes, The bag and an old wish to integrate health care, fysical and mental health with work integration was the inspiration to create a working community for excluded people, living on social welfare.
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
MultiTaske - social entreprise for inclusion and health
Explain what the "innovation" is about, e.g., is it the idea and/or the model you use to accomplish the idea, or your understanding of the target population, etc.?
In Denmark social welfare is based on 3 pillars. Health Care, social services and employment messures. There is no connection between the 3 pillars. The result is that at least 100.000 people live on cashbenefits without any chance of being able to become selfsupported. The result is that this group has a larger suicide rate, attends hospitals and doctors more frequently than the rest of the population, has more problems with drugs and alcohol and live shorter than the rest of the population. This group will become a bomb under the danish welfare system, unless drastic measures are made to include this group in the danish society. If nothing is done the health costs of these people will grow imensely. The exclusion of people is an underrated problem in Denmark.
These people are unemployed and socially isolated, They have all sorts of health problems, social problems, economic problems. They don´t get sufficient food, they drink too much alcohol, they smoke to much, they have drug and drugrelated problems. In stead of excercising they watch tv and have fastfood. There children become undereducated.
As a negative sideeffect these people have no or little acces to the internet and have therefore difficulties in communicating with the public authorities. This is an increasing problem as all communication with the authorities will be internet based fra 2014.
Our model is integrating work, healthcare, prober food, fysical and mental excercise with counselling. Our theory is: Happiness at work is the keyfactor in recovery and improved health and the path to inclusion
Describe how your innovation model is distinct from any other organization in your field?
in Denmark a lot of companies are working in the field of work integration. The basic distinction from our organisation is the methodological approach. We create security, we create challenges, we are inclusive and we give people assignments they fancy. Every individuel in our organization has assignments designed especially for him or her.
Our enterprise is not a drop-in center. Our enterprise is not a course where you learn to write a CV. We offer an obligating community where people are recognized for their skills and not their social status.
We spend 70 % of our time an human relations and 30 % on production. We know that the people we engage have a very low work capacity and therefore need time and training before there is a room for them in companies all over Copenhagen.
What type of operating environment and internal organizational factors make your innovation successful?
As owners we have a background as a head of municipal jobcenter and as socialworker specialised in rehabilitation. This means that we know how to cooperate with the municipality and have an insight in procedures and legal stuff. We have specific good skills on creating projects and implementing our ideas in our entreprise.
We are skilled in hiring people. We have a principle on hiring people who combine beeing enthusiastic and unemployed. We combine this principle with hiring people who are skilled on the area we are hiring them.
Internally we are patient with those of our employees who are being sent from the local jobcenter. Nobody are being sent off because they are late or drunk or mentally ill. We work together with them and the work community is the biggest motivational factor
How do you make sure you constantly innovate in light of (potential) external challenges, or your growth plan?
We are working in a sector with a great need for innovation. We are constantly innovating in the light of the reforms coming up on early retirement, fleksjob and cash benefit. We constantly have to be focused on the needs made by law, the demands of the municipalities in the Copenhagen area and the needs from the people that attends us.
We have a saying: We build the road as we go. We are experts in incremental innovation. Right now our focus is on employment and educating strategies. We are devolping schemes for more local community involvement and onn a longer scale we are looking forward to become part of social housing projects.
We feel we have the strategic surplus to meet the challenges of the future, due to our great knowledge of the danish welfare society.
This Entry is about (Issues)
مزيد من المعلومات↓↑ إخفاء↑ إخفاءThe systemic challenge you are trying to overcome (select one)
Realign the incentives in the public healthcare system in mature markets, or
Health area (target market) where the need is [select only one]
Primary healthcare services
Categories along the health continuum you are covering [select all that apply]
Intervention, Social integration.
Please describe in more detail: what problem are you trying to solve in the organization's specific context?
In the near future a new model for cooperation between public sectors is implemented. The basic idea is to lower the number af early retirements and develop working capacity on an individual level.
At MultiTaske we have the ability to develop working capacity of individuals. We can do this in a partnership with the regional healthcare, the local jobcenter, municipal social services and health department.
By cooperating with us we are solving problems on a national level and give excluded people new opportunities so that they and their children can get a healthier and better life and even on the long run get a job.
We are making a change in public health strategy. We have created a model that can change the inequality in health care in Denmark.
Stage that best applies to your solution [select only one]
Start-up and growth (pilot is successful and starting to expand)
Core strategies of your business model [select all that apply]
Approaches to behavioral change at the individual level, New approaches to distribution of health products and services, Unconventional partnerships (between traditional healthcare players and players outside healthcare).
If other, specify here:
producing goods for a market
Most relevant tools you are using to implement the strategies outlined above [select only two]
New skills, Education/training.
Please describe your solution in more detail
You dont get the proper treatment when you are classified in the vulnerable group of people receiving social benefits. When you have addiction problems, mental problems, housing problems physical problems and living on social welfare, you have to go to 5 to 7 agencies, some on ammunicipal level and some on a regional level. That creates inequality in health provision and increases public expenses.
Our solution: When you participate in a public, private partnership you can improve health on an individual level level. Creating working communities with production to a market you increase selfesteem, improve physical condition, structure your day, improves your health and ability to cope with the challenges you meet. You get the opportunity and the skills to go from excluded to included.
What are your vision and overall objectives?
Instead of mainstreaming the employment strategy and excluding a growing group from society. We are implementing a practice-oriented method to include vulnerable groups of individual. We are the alternative to be left on your own in a society that makes it more difficult to be a participating member when you are excluded.
It is a giant waste of people we are witnessing and we want to change that attitude, by showing that we can create better health and a better quality of life for this group.
What is your value proposition?
One person on social welfare from the age of 30 until retirement is a negative income for society. Transfer payments and health expenses is a major threat to the danish welfare model if this group of people continues to grow.
We are showing that the benefits for society are enormous when you turn yourself from dependent on welfare benefits to being indepent and selfsupported.
We are not able to make a calculation on the social return on investment. But we have an assumption saying that we on a yearly basis make a contribution of more than 50.000 usd for every person we include on the labour market.
Who is your customer(s)?
Our Customers can be divided into 3 groups
The customers for our bags and other products are people above 40. They are interested in upcycling and have a great concern for the vulnerable groups in the danish society.
One part of our customers are vulnerable people. They hear about us and contact us. We help them so that they get in touch with the jobcenter.
Our main customers are the municipalities around Copenhagen and primarily the municipality og Copenhagen.
Within the Municipality we are working for the jobcenter. Due to the organization of the workflow in the municipality we dont work directly together with health services, the department for addiction treatment and the department of socialservices
What approaches to you use to reach your customers?
We get in contact with our targetgroup for products by traditional means. We use social media, we tell our story to the written medias, we use our website and we are spreading the word from mouth to mouth.
When it comes to the municipality we have implemented a long term strategy of getting known. We have spent much time on becoming known among central officials. This is about pitching the project and writing interesting applications. The next part of our strategy is to become reach the politcians. We have reached that point by making a hearing on social entreprises for local politicians and members of the local employment councils. Next step is to become known among the social workers in the jobcenter. This is a question of doing a great job to be chosen again.We are good networkers.
What are your primary activities?
We have 4 teams. One team is the sowing team. Here we teach people to sow professionally step by step. We have elaborated a system with descriptions. It is possible to register your progression.
The practical team is responsible for maintenance of the production site and delivers the raw material for the sowing production. They also collect innertubes and will be responsible for our new product called "Life in the windows" which is a multipurpose project.
The Kitchen Team is responsible for making 2 nourishing and healthy meals a day and also clean the kitchen. They learn to make healthy food and also learn the importance of hygienic behavior.
The Administrative team does the accounts, develops webshop, website, facebookaccount and is responsible for sales of our products.
Who are your peers and competitors? What problems could these players pose to your success or growth?
In Denmark we are approximately 300 social entreprises working with inclusion of 5000 vulnerable people in the labourmarket. We are the only ones making bags. We have a lot of peers and competitors on working with inclusion.
The employment business is a threat to us. In the Copenhagen area there is a lot of competition, but mostly on pricing. We know that we can be competitive on prices.
What differs us from the other busines´s is our methodology and approach to our participants, or employes as we prefer to call them. When people experiences happiness at work they really believe that they can achieve their goal. We go for that.
What other challenges - individual, organizational, or environmental – are you currently facing or might hinder future success of your business, and how do you plan to overcome those?
Right now our biggest challenge is to obtain contracts with the municipalities. We have made a number of measures to ensure that we willw succeed in continuing our busines.
Besides the financial challenges there are challenges concerning legislation. We are waiting for measures to be taken to improve the conditions of social enterprises. Therefore we spend a lot of time on networking to make sure that the politicians realize that they have to invest in solutions like the ones we are creating.
The procurement regulations is an organizational challenge. We have upgraded our legal knowledge on the subject and are waiting for the municipalities to losen up and play it by the new rules.
Briefly describe your growth strategy going forward
We have made a 5 year plan a year ago. We wants to expand our business according to the sale of our products. We have grown from a staff of 4 to a staff of 7. When our 5 year plan is realized we have a staff of 20 people and are working from 3 sites all placed in Nørrebro. We are working with 100 vulnerable people at a time. Next step is making a franchise model based on our methodology.
What dimensions for growth are you currently targeting for your innovation [select all that apply]
New customer group(s), New regions(s).
What makes your business "ready" for growth?
We have a very strong concept of how to organize our production site. We have come to the conclusion that instead of moving to bigger premises it would be better to create new sites. This is because it is obvious that 30 to 35 people, where the majority has combined problems with health and so on, is the ideal size of site to improve health and include people on the labor market.
What are your key growth objectives?
We want to grow on staff. We want to create jobs in Denmark for people living in Denmark
We want to create appropriate opportunities for vulnerable people excluded from society
We have developed a model for improving the health of the vast group of people with physical, mental and abuse problems.
We can grow by spreading our model as a franchise in social entrepreneurship.
What is your timeframe for growth, in the short and mid-term? What are the growth milestones and key activities going forward?
We have made a 5 year plan based on the fact that we can develop the sale of our products. The first milestone is to secure survival by getting contracts with the municipalities. This is by august this year 2013.
In 2014 we open our second site in Nørrebro.
In 2015 we open our third site in Nørrebro
By the end of 2016 we have developed our franchise model and have spread the idea to several major cities in Denmark
مزيد من المعلومات↓↑ إخفاء↑ إخفاءWhat has been the impact of your solution to date?
50 people have been participating in MultiTaske. 37 have been associated for a longer period of time. Approximately 1/3 have problems related to abuse. 1/3 have problems related to mental disease. 1/3 have physical problems.
We have no intention of stating that we can rescue the whole world. We give people the opportunity to choose a better way of living.
Every participant gets 2 daily meals. Breakfast and lunch. Breakfast gives some basic energy to start working and lunch is also an opportunity to start eating healthier. No fast food, nu prepared meals. The impact is that everybody gets something healthy to eat and the possibility to bring an extra meal back home.
We make sure that people take their medication correct. One person with epilepsy has had no attacks for one year.
Half of the people with problems related to alcohol have reduced their drinking habits to an acceptable level. One person is still struggling with her approach to alcohol.
We spent a lot of time structuring the day for those who suffer from depressions and ADHD. It helps them to have specific tasks to fulfill everyday. We protect people from loneliness and mess at home and in their head. 3 people tell us that they are more calm and they dont need support from the social department any longer. The rest are happy that they can organize their own lives in a better way.
The last third have become more physical fit due to food and excersize. This is a great impact for them as individuals. They say they are closer to the labor market. We organize their working life according to their capacaty
What methods for quantification of social impact are you applying (if at all)?
We do not have any statistic method of quantificating the social impact. It is important to us to talk to the people participating. We treat them the same way as every ordinary employee.
Could your solution work in other geographies or regions? If so, where?
Our solution is based on a danish context. We do believe that our solution can be transformed to a solution in other european countries. But the solution must be transformed to and be modified according to the local conditions.
Basically we believe that this solution works best in a welfare model that can be compared to the danish versing
What is your projected impact over the next 1-3 years?
Within the next 3 years more than 150 people have been participating in MultiTaske. We have recruited at least 10 for our own staff.
25 have quitted drinking alcohol and doing drugs
35 have reduced their medication
50 have lost/gain weight and are more fit.
120 can work longer and know how to solve their problems
25 % of those participating can not be helped by us.
مزيد من المعلومات↓↑ إخفاء↑ إخفاءElaborate on your current financing strategy
Our financing strategy is tripple one. First and foremost we are working on getting contracts with the municipality of Copenhagen and the municipalities around Copenhagen. We have developed a model which is adapted to the early retirement reform from january 2013. We have a product which is the missing link between the intentions of the reform and the local practice. Right now we are working on selling our products. Secondly we are funded by pools.Our first year was funded by the Municipality of Copenhagen (the method development pool). From june we are partly funded by the local employment council,
The third part of our strategy is selling products based on upcycling of bicycles innertubes and promotion banners. We would like to be 100 % financed by selling our products. But this is not possible due to difficulties of our labourforce. Selling our products follows two lines. We are developing a b2b solution and we are selling luxury products as bags.
Basically we are open to gifts from philantropic societies but this is not on our agenda.
Share of revenue generation in total income of organization (in percent)
Direct sales to patients or other beneficiaries (in percent)
Of the possible sources of these sales listed below, check all that apply to your current strategy
الأفراد, Private businesses.
Licensing fees, e.g., for technology/franchise model (in percent)
Of the possible sources of these licensing opportunities listed below, check all that apply to your current strategy
المؤسسات, Regional government, الحكومة الوطنية.
Service contract with organizations, e.g., government, NGOs (in percent)
Of the possible sources of the service contracts listed below, check all that apply to your current strategy
المؤسسات, Regional government, الحكومة الوطنية.
Explain your revenue generation strategy in more detail
As earlier stated we do sell our products. We have a small but increasing market. Our products are beeing sold on several danish webshops and a few but well placed shops in Copenhagen and Århus. On this level of our development our limit is 500 bags a year. This will mean that the financial limit of our sales are app. 20 % of our annual budget.
We are therefor dependant on contracts or pools with municipalities. Right now we are negotiating with municipalities and suppliers of employment Measures on contracts.
We are deeply engaged in the political work of improving the conditions for social enterprises in Denmark. It is important to do this as it will make it possible for us to get grants from the danish government.
Share of philanthropy in total income of organization (in percent)
Philanthrophy strategies you are using
Single strategy.
Explain your philanthropic approach in more detail
We do not have a specific approach towards philanthropics. We have made a great number of applications at private foundations. So far we have not been succesful.
We have the conviction that as long as we are in the shadow land between business, voluntary organization, and public service makes it difficult for us to be recognized by the private foundations.
We are open to receiving grants from private foundations. But we believe that our target group does not appeal to foundations.
Expand on your selections; explain how you will sustain funding over the next 1-3 years.
We are basically funded for the rest of 2013. We have to make contracts worth 500.000 dkr. This is possible as we already are negotiating with 3 municipalities around Copenhagen.
Our plan is that we will make long term contracts with the municipality of Copenhagen and two more municiplities. The contract will ensure that app. 25 people will be associated to MultiTaske. This model will ensure our funding for the next 3 years.
Within the next 3 years we will increase the sale of our products. It has taken us one year to become known in a greater audience. We get great feed back on our products. The biggest problem is that our production limit is 500 bags a year. We are therefore working on a plan how to develop the production and the production facilities. We are also working on how to make other products that are easy to make and can create a surplus. This is part of our Business to business strategy.
Within the next 2 years we have reached the production level. Year 3 from now we have to expand the workshop to part 2. We are planning to do this by expanding our staff, hiring among the best of the people sent from the minicipalitties.
Created on 03/4/2013 by foodwork
The Barrel Oven is an outdoor wood fired oven that is heats up quickly and can be used for cooking farm products, pizza and bread from our urban farm.
Created on 03/2/2013 by adam@moveforhunger.org
Fact: 1 in 6 Americans, including 17 million children, go to bed hungry each night. Many people tend to think of hunger as a third-world problem, but the reality is that more and more Americans struggle with hunger every day.
مزيد من المعلومات ↓↑ إخفاء↑ إخفاءTitle
Founder/ Executive Director
بلد المؤسسة
United States, NJ, Neptune, Monmouth County
البلد الذي تعمل به هذه المؤسسة على إنشاء تأثير اجتماعي
المعلومات التي تقدمها هنا ستُستخدم لملء أي جزء من أجزاء ملفك الشخصي التي تم تركها فارغة، مثل الاهتمامات ومعلومات المؤسسة وموقع الويب. لن تتاح أية معلومات اتصال بشكل عام. الرجاء إلغاء تحديد المربع هنا إذا كنت لا تريد حدوث هذا..
مزيد من المعلومات↓↑ إخفاء↑ إخفاءحدد الهدف الذي ينطبق بشكل مثالي على الحل الذي تقدمه:
تطوير (ستكون الخطوة التالية تأثيرًا متزايدًا على النطاق الإقليمي أو حتى العالمي)
What problem is your organization committed to solving? In particular, share what is innovative about your approach.
Fact: 1 in 6 Americans, including 17 million children, go to bed hungry each night. Many people tend to think of hunger as a third-world problem, but the reality is that more and more Americans struggle with hunger every day.
Fact: 1 in 7 Americans relocate each year. When people move, they throw away a whole bunch of “stuff.” Unfortunately, a lot of this “stuff” is food that could be given to a family in need rather than thrown away. Move For Hunger works with moving companies across the nation to pick up unwanted non-perishable food items during the moving process and deliver them to local food banks.
We are mobilizing the entire relocation industry to include hunger relief as part of their core business practices, creating a sustainable solution to hunger.
What are your organization's top three priorities in the next year?
1. Grow Staff & Create a Better Baseline for Performance Metrics
2. Create & Implement a Development Plan
3. Double the Amount of Food Collected in 2013 From 2012
Need #1
Staffing Capabilities
Need #2
Consumer/Audience Acquisition
Based on your first choice of the eight technical categories you selected above, what is your specific project need? Please be specific!
Our staff is currently in transition as we are beginning to bring on new employees and losing others to grad school. We are creating a new development role for the organization and will be looking to fill other roles in the near future. With limited funding, we are trying to maximize our efforts in recruiting new staff that will help our organization grow. In addition, creating new metrics to accurately measure performance will be important to the success of our entire team.
Our organization has experience incredible growth both internally and externally over the past 3.5 years. In 2012, we doubled our staff as well as our partners, programs, and impact. We hope to continue this trend in 2013 (at least on the impact metric). Through new partnerships we are poised for another year of growth. We are seeking the assistance of AMEX to help implement the proper staffing practices to achieve our organizational goals. In addition, AMEX's support would be utilized to better define the roles and functions currently in place while strategically planning for the addition of new team members down the road.
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The partnership must be mutually beneficial. Creating a win-win is the key to a successful relationship.
2.
Terms of the partnership should be laid out from the start. Both parties must be able to commit to the terms they agree to.
3.
Metrics must be put in place to measure the value and impact of the partnership.
Will support from American Express be focused on your organization overall or a specific product/service? Please describe.
AMEX's support will focus on our organization as a whole. While our team is small (just 5 full-time staff), we have worked hard to created a hard-working and fun culture at the organization. Without losing that culture, we are excited for the opportunity to implement practices from AMEX to advance the capabilities of Move For Hunger.
Staff is our organization's greatest asset. As we continue to grow our organization's reach and impact, it is also important to grow professionally as individuals. There is a lot to be learned from a company like AMEX
Have you focused on the above area previously? If so, please explain, including whether you have worked with outside consultants before.
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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Aquire the skills needed to recruit and train new staff more effectively
2.
Better define the roles and responsibilities of current staff and outline a roadmap for the future
3.
Identify new partnership strategies based upon the new perspectives of AMEX consultants
What has been the impact of your solution to date?
Move For Hunger was founded by my family's small moving company in NJ in 2009. Since then, we have grown to work with over 450 moving companies in 47 states and have expanded to Canada. Together, we have delivered over one million pounds of food to food banks and pantries across the nation. That's enough to provide over 770,000 meals to those in need. In 2012, we doubled our network of moving partners and launched a real estate program to increase hunger awareness locally throughout the country. In addition to our everyday collections, Move For Hunger organizes a ton of food drives to get young people involved in fighting hunger. It's easy to work with us since our moving partners do all the heavy lifting. From 2011 to 2012, we increased our food drives from 70 to 170.
What is your project future impact after receiving professional support from American Express?
We see great opportunity in working with AMEX to grow our internal capabilities. Our organization still has a lot of work to do within the US to increase the amount of companies working with us to fight hunger. However, we do not want to stop here. Hunger is a problem the affects people all across the globe. We strive to take our organization to new heights by expanding into new countries and incorporating our sustainable solution into new markets. A relationship with AMEX could go beyond just consulting support. We see value in creating employee engagement to get your company even more involved in the fight against hunger.
In terms of impact, Move For Hunger is just getting started. There are many more opportunities in scaling our organization, and AMEX can help us get there!
This Entry is about (Issues)
Created on 03/2/2013 by Nirmaan
Principle : "Unus pro omnibus, omnes pro uno"
Vision: Building Healthy Nations
Approach: Collaborative
Focus: quality, accessibility,affordability, efficiency,universality of preventive solutions
Services: Preventive healthcare solution, awareness, health consultation, food, health insurance
Organisation type: Not for Profit
مزيد من المعلومات ↓↑ إخفاء↑ إخفاءOrganization's Country of Operation
Type of Organization
Not registered
Year of launch of the organization
Years in Operation
Idea phase
Has the organization received awards or honors? Please tell us about them
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 once trying to figure out that why this inequality exist. Then I began to question myself & tried to find out the answers, each answer cajoled me ask myself another question which at the end pushed me into vicious cycle just as today people are struck into the vicious cycle of inequality and as an attempt to come out of my web of questions I happened to discover my aha moment
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↑ إخفاءExplain what the "innovation" is about, e.g., is it the idea and/or the model you use to accomplish the idea, or your understanding of the target population, etc.?
My innovation is regarding provision of preventive, accessible, affordable and universal health care. Considering that health care is not limited to medical facility I propose an idea of a comprehensive model that integrates various components having impact on health like food, education, environment, financial resources, health infrastructure which are available around us however, remain underutilized for the purpose of ensuring healthy life to all. The model tries to address the basic issues having grave impact on health and thereby attacks the root of the health problems by promoting awareness about health on one hand and awarding incentives for preventing health problems on the other hand. Thus the uniqueness is that this model tries to meet the health needs of all, for poor, middle & upper class. We will be spreading awareness, offering services like health profiling & consultation, healthy food and health insurance at affordable prices. People often tend to ignore the health issues until they are aggravated leading to catastrophic effect on the lives of people. Inculcating a few healthy habit in all may reduce the world health expenditure, which may in turn lead to increased resources available for health research and other activities leading to reduced prices of life saving drugs, therapy and tests which otherwise are not affordable by the people in general. Thus the model tries to impact the basic 20% factors having 80% impact on the healthcare system of society as a whole. Attacking health issues by preventing them and also curing them.
Describe how your innovation model is distinct from any other organization in your field?
The distinctiveness lies in the approach adopted for tackling health issues. There are several attributes like social status, economic power, education, health, future prospects etc. which are affected by inequality, where on one side riches are getting best of all above, poor are suffering for all above. Now the deciding factor is who is rich & who is poor which in itself is a tough task as line between rich & poor is not fine rather it is a gulf, saying that anybody having monthly income upto INR 7500 is poor & must be getting free medical facility and anybody having income above INR 7500 should pay it himself would not suffice as it ignores a majority of population, which is mathematically not poor but still can't afford to have basic enmities having implications on their overall status
What type of operating environment and internal organizational factors make your innovation successful?
Some success factors at strategic and operational level are:
Not for profit organisation based on the principle of "Unus pro omnibus, omnes pro uno" with the vision of Building Healthy Nations
Collaborative approach that blends the traditional and modern healthcare system to get the best of both systems
Focus on quality, accessibility, efficiency,universality of preventive solutions with due care to avoid leakages at various instances leading to exponential impact on cost factor thereby assisting us in providing services at affordable prices
Enterprise wide transparency with due respect to privacy of individuals
Indiscriminate aid policy for complete health solution
Induction program for volunteers & employee, focusing on ethical & moral component along with technical knowledge
How do you make sure you constantly innovate in light of (potential) external challenges, or your growth plan?
One of the greatest challenge in working for healthcare industry is unpredictability. Constant innovation will primarily require intensive research. The solution is based upon prevention of health issues, there is need for constant proactive approach & customization in solutions. In the light of offerings Somya need the following:
# A good network of Health Consultants who are able to approach issues proactively
# In house research to keep ourselves updated in terms of health issues
# In-depth analysis of health profile of registered people
# Cost will keep on increasing so to ensure affordability, streamline processes to avoid leakages & inefficiencies, innovate to reduce cost without compromising with quality
# Consumers may fall in multiple segments so tailor solution as per need
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مزيد من المعلومات↓↑ إخفاء↑ إخفاءThe systemic challenge you are trying to overcome (select one)
Bring accessible healthcare to communities in emerging markets
Health area (target market) where the need is [select only one]
Nutrition
Categories along the health continuum you are covering [select all that apply]
Prevention, Detection, Social integration.
Please describe in more detail: what problem are you trying to solve in the organization's specific context?
The primary issues that the model is being designed to tackle are:
# Lack of awareness about impact of food on health
# Lack of healthy food at affordable prices
# Lack of preventive health care & consultation
# Lack of universal health care policies guaranteeing healthy life to all irrespective of any social or economic attributes
#Lack of awareness about the usefulness of risk pooling mechanism to counter catastrophic effects arising from "pay when you get" payment system in health industry
Stage that best applies to your solution [select only one]
Idea (poised to launch)
Core strategies of your business model [select all that apply]
Approaches to behavioral change at the individual level, New approaches to distribution of health products and services, Unconventional partnerships (between traditional healthcare players and players outside healthcare), New financing strategies for health.
Most relevant tools you are using to implement the strategies outlined above [select only two]
Consultation, Education/training, Community financing.
Please describe your solution in more detail
The solution is a collaborative model that integrates factors like food, awareness, preventive healthcare, insurance schemes to ensure health to all. The basic issue wit the current health system is that people often ignore the impact of various basic habits, regular check ups on their health. This may be due to lack of financial resources, low priority to health, other social & economic engagements, lack of availability of facilities. Afterwards, when they realize the importance of health it might be too late due to catastrophic effect leading to loss of lives and/or ruined economic conditions. Thus motivating people to be aware about their own health and food and also proving them the same keeping in mind why are they unable to get them could help in ensuring universal access to health
What are your vision and overall objectives?
Vision of Somya is Building Healthy Nations, we are working on the granular factors having significant impact on the well being of individuals thereby helping in building healthy societies, regions and nations. Health is primary right of human being and ensuring the availability and accessibility is essential to ensure that people are having this fundamental right not only on paper but in reality too. Our objective is to promote healthy eating habits which may not be there due to certain factors which could be controlled. However there are certain uncontrollable factors too for which provision must be made so that in future people may not suffer due to lack of resources when required.
What is your value proposition?
Ensuring healthy lives to our beneficiaries is primary motive. People associating with us will feel a sense of satisfaction and security as they would be able to get better and healthy life at no extra cost apart from their regular expenditure on food. The overall experience of being secured and cared will be a source of sustainable value creation.
Who is your customer(s)?
As the vision of our organisation is building healthy nation, we consider each individual as our customer. There is however, different approaches to cater the individual need. As health solutions are to be customized based on individual needs that may arise due to difference in age, lifestyle and other factors. We have segmented our target audience on the basis of age group, income group & work /profession, health profile etc as:
Age:Infants, Youth, Middle age, Old age
Gender: Male, Female
Health Profile: Good health- need to maintain, OK- Need to improve , Not OK- Need Care, Critical- Need intensive Care
Income Group: Below Poverty line, slightly above poverty line, middle class, slightly above middle class, affluent
What approaches to you use to reach your customers?
At the initial stage we will have different strategies for different target audiences, these may be classified as:
Tech Savy, Students, Working people: We will be using Social Media to promote awareness about our organisation along with campaigns at colleges & offices
House wives, areas without penetration of technology & old age people: We will arrange for society camps & door to door campaigning
Others: Similar kind of focused strategies will be used to approach target audiences based upon the segment in which they fall and several other attributes.
What are your primary activities?
The primary activities of our organization include:
# Providing health consultation & preventive healthcare solutions
# Providing quality food at low cost
# Making available health insurance
# Spreading awareness about health and various factors affecting it
Who are your peers and competitors? What problems could these players pose to your success or growth?
Our foremost competitors would be food outlets/vendors/chains etc. who are offering food. In some cases their food may not be hygienic, in some they may lack nutritional value and in some they may not be affordable. Developed food chains/organisations may carve niche in health segment in affordable prepared food leading to threat to our organization. However, focusing on our vision of Building Healthy Nation, we consider it as a good sign since the objective of Somya is to make available healthy food at low cost. If there will be more competition in this segment then price will automatically go down and if not Somya will be there to do so. Thus, we see competition as a sign of development.
What other challenges - individual, organizational, or environmental – are you currently facing or might hinder future success of your business, and how do you plan to overcome those?
Currently Somya is in Idea phase, the foremost challenge is to attract committed pool of talent, ready to volunteer & work selflessly for common good. Secondly, at the initial stage we can't control cost due to investment required in starting operation so attracting investment is another challenge. Thirdly, the growing prices of food may pose threat to our very purpose of organization. Accommodating all the above & other challenges,we are first focusing on attracting & getting in touch of those who are willing to work with commitment and selflessly to build a network of talent. Then just like clouds we are trying to develop collaborations with successful players on pay on need basis. Designing efficient process to reduce cost of processes to impact overall cost of offering & operations.
Briefly describe your growth strategy going forward
Primary considerations of strategy would b enhancement of collaboration, research & awareness. Aims & plan be to:
Attract:schemes-pricing & marketing strategy
Retain:quality & affordability-committed workforce, streamlined processes, adherence to standards, research initiatives
Coverage:accessibility & availability-distribution & sourcing strategy
Monitor: transparency & Control -Governance
What dimensions for growth are you currently targeting for your innovation [select all that apply]
New customer group(s), New regions(s), New market(s)/country(ies).
What makes your business "ready" for growth?
Somya is still at the idea stage still we consider it ready for growth because of the time. As the food industry is growing at a great pace along with insurance & health industry. The need is to align all 3 to get best of these at time when it is needed the most.If we are able to optimize the existing resources we could ensure better health to all at the time when it is needed the most.
What are your key growth objectives?
Key objectives would be to ensure healhy lives by
• Increasing no. of beneficiaries with Somya
• Betterment of health profile of beneficiaries
• Promoting healthy eating habits and reducing health problems occurring primarily due to poor eating habits
• Promoting awareness about preventive health care as opposed to prevalent curative health care
• Reduce catastrophic effect of health expenses
What is your timeframe for growth, in the short and mid-term? What are the growth milestones and key activities going forward?
Short term- Time frame is 1-3 years
In short term growth objective is increasing no. of Somya beneficiaries and improving their health profiles to ensure better and health families in selected regions. The growth milestone is registering at least 5,00,000 beneficiaries with atleast INR 1500 monthly expenditure on food and health.thus this little amount of money spent by beneficieries will create a pool of money helping in providing wider insurance coverage and reduced prices of food and medical facility
Mid term- 3-5 years
In mid term we wish to expand our presence in different region and expect to make positive impacts on the lives of people at far flung areas and provide them quality food and health care at affordable prices
مزيد من المعلومات↓↑ إخفاء↑ إخفاءWhat has been the impact of your solution to date?
The solution is still in idea phase but assuming that we will start it with a family moving towards society, region and then nation we are committed to impact at least 80% of families in a society thereby building Happy & Healthy families & societies.
What methods for quantification of social impact are you applying (if at all)?
The key indicators of social impacts are following:
No. of People Registered with the organisation
Health Profile of registered consumers
BMI of registered consumers
Health insurance claim ratio of registered beneficieries
No. of health consultants associated with Somya
Trend in individual health profiles
No. of Happy Healthy families
Could your solution work in other geographies or regions? If so, where?
The model is based upon general but most ignored factors affecting health. These factors are found to be prevalent across geographies. If these factors are worked upon then this may lead to exponential decrease in health issues & expenditure. Further, the ubiquitous need of accessible, affordable, universal and preventive health care will definitely make this model work around the world. Major regions where this could be implemented are developing nations with urgent need to address health issues where people often tend to procrastinate it. This solution can work in nations with very well developed health care polices & solutions like Thailand and also in nations with health care solutions at nascent stage like India.
What is your projected impact over the next 1-3 years?
Over the first year of operations, we expect Somya to have significant no. of registered beneficiaries in a particular region. Then over the next year we expect it to expand across regions. From the very beginning we want Somya to have impact on the health profile of individuals thereby reducing the number of critical health issues that may arise due to weak immune system or poor quality food lacking in nutrition value.
مزيد من المعلومات↓↑ إخفاء↑ إخفاءElaborate on your current financing strategy
For initial phase we are dependent upon seed money, grants, loan. We are exploring the opportinuties for the same at various platforms. Going forward, being revenue generation model for regular financial needs to meet cost of operations, the revenue would be sufficient. However, for our service of health insurance provision we would be collaborating with those already working in insurance sector, but seeing the limited coverage provided by them we are also exploring ideas to enhance the coverage, this may however take time as any of the risk pooling strategy is heavily dependent upon our benificieries base. Once we are able to increase the number of contributors we may be in a better position to expand the coverage. Further Government and foreign grants are other sources of finance which we are looking up to to meet additional financial needs that may arise due to certain disease occurring due to uncontrollable factors and could not be prevented but could only be cured. Research would be another auxiliary activity demanding investment, we are looking forward for talent which could serve as in house R&D talent hub leveraging upon the research grants provided for health & food. Thus the overall financing strategy is a mix of pvt and public funding. The aim is to reduce per capita health expenditure to ensure affordability & universality of health system.Revenue based philanthropy model may seem as a bit confusing but it is interesting as it avoids unnecessary expenditure and claiming of benefit by those who don't need it otherwise.
Share of revenue generation in total income of organization (in percent)
Direct sales to patients or other beneficiaries (in percent)
Of the possible sources of these sales listed below, check all that apply to your current strategy
الأفراد, Patients, Other beneficiaries.
Licensing fees, e.g., for technology/franchise model (in percent)
Of the possible sources of these licensing opportunities listed below, check all that apply to your current strategy
المنظمات غير الحكومية.
Service contract with organizations, e.g., government, NGOs (in percent)
Of the possible sources of the service contracts listed below, check all that apply to your current strategy
المؤسسات, المنظمات غير الحكومية, Regional government, الحكومة الوطنية.
Explain your revenue generation strategy in more detail
Revenue based philanthropy model may seem as a bit confusing but it is interesting as it avoids unnecessary expenditure & claiming of benefit by those who don't need it otherwise. Beneficiaries will be paying for the food they are buying and they will additional get certain benefits. Currently profit in food industry ranges from 20% to 80% depending upon certain factors. We will mark up food at a certain%, cost of food will be covered apart from that we will have certain amount a part of which will be contributed for research, a part for primary health facility & a part for future health need. Thus, on the one hand reducing the risk of health issues & on the other hand maintaining provision for future unseen events. Thus, a double sided sword to attack health issues is advocated.
Share of philanthropy in total income of organization (in percent)
Philanthrophy strategies you are using
Diversified strategy.
Explain your philanthropic approach in more detail
The model is philanthropic in nature as it tries to ensure universal & preventive health at affordable price. Affordable not only to a particular class of people but affordable by all ranging from those who are below poverty line to those who are above it. Food, health & education are major components leading human well being, this is an initiative to promote this social well being without which all economic well being and development would go in vain. The nation becomes developed when its citizen are developing and building healthy nation is imperative for overall development of any nation. Thus to elevate the well being of people Somya tries to ensure preventive health care solutions, quality food at affordable prices.
Expand on your selections; explain how you will sustain funding over the next 1-3 years.
The model is revenue generating, however not profit making. Beneficiaries will be ensured true return of what they are paying. In future as the prices rise without corresponding change in the income of individual then it may become tough to control the prices. However, we will be investing a certain portion of revenue in continuous research to control the prices. As per WHO report average efficiency of Health system across world ranges from 70 to 75%, this shows that 25% of total spending is getting wasted due to inefficiency. If we are able to control this we may have significant impact on the funds for future investment. Moreover, the interventions in health care may cost from $10 to $1,000,000, with better human resource we may be able to use more of low cost interventions having similar similar effectiveness & efficiency as of costly interventions. Apart from the revenue we generate our model will also be dependent upon the Government funds that are being allocated during budgets, that often remain underutilized due to lack of awareness among people we will ensure that those who need are getting their share and are not devoid of basic amenities just due to lack of awareness about such schemes. Moreover, their are certain funds & grants by international organisation, that may be made available on case to case basis. However, due to lack of awareness and power people often are not able to avail the benefit of such schemes, grants and funds.
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