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Medical centers are always looking for new ways to deliver better, more affordable care. The latest studies are showing that what goes on just outside the medical exam room can make the biggest difference. If patients can learn to take on some of the management of their own health, their outcomes are better and costs are lower.
Many leading edge healthcare providers are beginning to hire “health coaches” to educate patients about their own health needs and to encourage them to take a more active role in their own care.
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Federation of Free Farmers (FFF) is currently one of the largest and most effective non-governmental organizations of rural workers in the Philippines.FFF was organized as a peasant union in 1953. Its major objective was to liberate the farmers and their families from social, political and economic, moral & cultural oppression & backwardness.FFF has unceasingly pushed for an agrarian reform and rural development program that would give land ownership to actual tillers and provide them decent living from the fruits of their labor.
The Central Federation is focused on the provision of non-financial services to their members,the services are provided through programs,focussing on capacity building,policy advocacy & co-operative network expansion.Its mission is To provide appropriate non-financial services to the member organization for their institutional development & for the socio-economic development of the small farmer and deprived class people.
Established in August 1996, WAFF is a federation of 70,000 women farmers in South Korea. It envisions unity, harmony, and development of women farmers. It provides education services; organizes exchanges between city and farm villages;upholds the protection of farmers’ rights; cooperates with other farmer organizations;advocates for good agricultural policies and administers the needs of its members.WAFF received the top prize for its business academy educational program from the Ministry of Food, Agriculture, Forestry & Fisheries.
VNFU was established in October 1930 in order to represent the country’s farmers politically and socially before the government & now has more than 10 million members organized down to the commune level.Its mission is to protect the farmers’ rights and interests,provide necessary support & services for farmers & help improve their living standards.Its programmes & activities include building a new type of country side,socio-economic development & job creations for farmers.
Anhui Agricultural University is noted as a base of scientific research & higher education of China. Anhui Agricultural University is the only Agricultural University of the province, Anhui is a historic & comprehensive University with a broad social impact.
AEMS was established in 1984 as an institute under the jurisdiction of the Yunnan Agricultural Department & responsible to provide guidance to the development of rural cooperative economy.AEMS system consists of AEMS branches at four different levels: provincial,prefecture,county & township.AEMS was appointed by the Agricultural Department to become responsible to provide guidance,support & services towards the development of farmer's professional cooperative organizations.
Created on 05/23/2013 by Samjhana
Rice is a major staple crop in Nepal. Integrated Dhaincha Duck Rice is an environment friendly farming system that creates multiple benefits to mankind through enhanced health, higher nutrition uptake, and increased income while to environment through decreased concentration of harmful pollutants.
Organization: Practical Action
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1) HELP Food Security (Funded by the European Union)
(2) Award for scaling up Gravity Goods Ropeway Technologies for enhancing Agriculture Productivity in Rural Nepal by FUNDACIÓN JOSÉ ENTRECANALES IBARRA, Spain.
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Integrated Duck-Rice Farming: for Nutrition and Environment
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Rice is a major staple crop in Nepal. Integrated Dhaincha Duck Rice is an environment friendly farming system that creates multiple benefits to mankind through enhanced health, higher nutrition uptake, and increased income while to environment through decreased concentration of harmful pollutants.
Problem
The Integrated Dhaincha Duck Rice farming system will address human health problems associated with the transfer of chemical fertilizers in various trophic levels (allergy, cancer, etc), decreasing land fertility, pollution of water sources, disruption of soil fertility life, etc. This project will also increase the consumption of duck meat rich in B-vitamins and minerals that are crucial to addressing nutrition deficiency in project districts.
Solution
The integrated Dhaincha Duck Rice farming system can minimize over use of fertilizers/pesticides in the rice field. Dhaincha (Sesbania sps), a green manure crop is transplanted in rice field a week before rice transplanting which provides nitrogen to the rice crop. In the long run, Dhanincha will play an important role in maintaining soil fertility and crop productivity. The easy availability of ducks in terai areas and market potential of duck meat will encourage farmers to raise ducks that provides several benefits to the rice field. Its movement can generate natural stimulation to soil thereby loosening the soil and increasing microbial activities, and eating weeds and pests in the rice field. Its droppings act as a natural fertilizer.
Example
The proposed solution provides alternative option to high input intensive farming. It promotes the concept of balanced ecosystem in rice farm and helps to harness social, economic and environmental benefits at lower cost by the farmers. The primary activities include development of local resource person on duck-rice farming, piloting concept at limited number farmers and farmers to farmers' extension and campaigning the success case.
Impact
This integrated farming system has directly promoted cost effective and ecological rice production, duck farming, increased income and enhanced nutrition in countries like Japan, Cambodia, Vietnam and Thailand. Farmers are also able to fetch higher price due to various brand names like “default organic”, “organic” and “duck rice”. The integrated duck rice farming system will be practiced in Nepal with the inclusion of Dhaincha as a green manure crop in order to provide nitrogen to the rice crop. In the context of overuse of chemicals in rice fields and its negative consequences, the piloting of Dhaincha duck rice system in Nepal is expected to benefit rice farmers to promote ecological rice farming system. Moreover, urban consumers have been much aware about the health and environment cost of conventional rice production system. Thus, there also exists ensured market for eco-rice.
Marketplace
Some government organisations in Nepal like NARC, NARDF, ADO and other non governmental organisations like SADP and cooperatives are promoting organic rice farming in Nepal along with SRI (System of Rice Intensification) technology with major objective of reducing the use of pesticides. However, there have been constraints like high labor demand for weed control, lack of enough organic fertilizer in the market, high cost of organic fertilizer, etc. Therefore, the proposed farming system will provide farmers easy solution of inorganic fertilizer and income from high value duck meat.
Sustainability Plan
Initially, financial investment will be needed for piloting the concept and developing local capacity by capacitating local leader farmers and local development organization on this approach. Once the local stakeholders are convinced and motivated through result and method demonstration, more business entrepreneurs (duck and rice trader) will crowd-in and many farmers will replicate it to wider areas.
Founding Story
Our organization embraces agro-ecological principles and practices to increase productivity and income of farmers to contribute to food security and uplift their livelihood. Coming across the haphazard use of pesticides in our project intervention areas, we came to the idea of promoting integrated rice farming to create socio-economically and ecologically friendly farming atmosphere for rice farmers. Learning from the success of duck rice farming system in other countries, we would like to replicate the same concept with the inclusion of Dhaincha that we see feasible and optimal in the local context.
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Healthy environments, Nutrient-rich farming, Human wellness and vitality.
How specifically would this added capacity help you improve the quality, efficiency, or sustainability of your existing product or service?
Practical Action specializes in environment friendly intermediate technologies; climate change adaptation; and nature/manmade disaster preparedness. This capacity and recognition of Practical Action in the society will directly contribute in promoting ecological rice, encourage weather based plantation and harvesting, commercializing the product, and adopting sustainable exit strategies.
Through its knowledge node - "Practical Answers" - value addition will be made to enhance farmers' efficiency in sustainable farming .
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The Jordan Farmers Union aims to serve farmers and especially the margins attained by lack of water availability and climate change seem to hit small farmers at its worst. The project aims at enabling JFU to adopt the General Commission's priorities in meeting members’ needs and defend their benefits.
The Faculty of Agriculture at Chiang Mai University was established in 1964, expanding from the Department of Agricultural Science. It was fully officiated on February 25, 1967 to serve three major functions; teaching; research and community service. It is one of the largest faculties at Chiang Mai University. At present the Faculty is committed to three major functions, namely: instruction, research and community service and extension.
TWADA aims to promote cultivation and management techniques for wax apple, develop marketing channel for domestic and export market, promote an integrated development and culture for the wax apple industry and help raise the wax apple farmers’ incomes. Its activities include promotion of organic planting methods for wax apple, increasing international markets and communications and participation in international organizations. Some of its members have received various agricultural awards from the government.
TDFA has a membership of around 570 dairy farms all over the country. It aims to strengthen the association of and promote the cooperation among dairy farmers, guarantee the legal benefits and dignity for dairy farmers as well as maintain the needs of the society, facilitate the information channel and feeding technology for dairy farmers, and build up a sustainable development environment for the dairy industry.
SorKorPor envisions an organization that supports knowledge and local wisdom, helps improve the standard of living through sufficiency economy, and protects farmers’ benefits and rights through alliance building. It aims to influence the government’s policy-making processes in agriculture, and to strengthen its members’ capacities to link with government bodies, monitor national agricultural policies, and protect farmers’ rights and benefits.
PAKISAMA is a national peasant confederation and movement towards the empowerment of small farmers, fishers, rural women, youth, and indigenous peoples. It envisions humane, gender-sensitive and environmentally sound rural societies where peoples control and own the basic means of production and exchange, critically and actively participate in governance, protect and care for the environment, and live the values of authentic humanism in a Philippine society characterized by justice, freedom, democracy and national sovereignty.
NLRF is a national people’s organization uniting those who are deprived of their land rights – bonded laborers, tenants, the landless, farmers, haruwa, charuwa and trust land farmers and inciting them to action.Since its establishment in 2004, NLRF has been working towards its vision of a society where all tenants and landless farmers live dignified lives.NLRF operates in 50 of Nepal’s 75 districts,comprising 42 district level & 2,072 village level people’s organizations.
KKM is a platform of more than 21,000 farming families,60% of which are represented by women.Its goal is to take forward the mandate of smallholder farming families and advocate for their rights, ensure food security,get recognition & dignity of women farmers, ensure sustainable livelihood and formulate pro-poor agriculture policy and thereby move towards a solvent and dignified life.The alliance has three tires-at the grassroots 813 villages based farmer’s organizations, at the Union level 30 Union based farmer’s alliance the central alliance.
KAFF is dedicated to farmer care & upbringing & supports farmers through education and lobbying for favourable government policies.It works towards improving the situation of rural communities in the country.It carries out activities such as nationwide protests against free trade agreements & for higher price of rice, campaign to reform the national agricultural cooperative federation,annual Lee Kyung Hae commemoration and marathon,operation of a center to provide legal & financial services to farmers.
FNN was established after a process of consultation among village-based farmer associations supported by its partner NGO, CEDAC.It acts as an umbrella organization representing & providing technical,management & capacity building services to its members in village-based farmer associations from 50 districts in 13 provinces.It is led & managed by a national committee elected by farmer representatives during the general assembly.
API is a national farmers’ organization established by farmers’ groups in 2001 after a series of farmer exchange visits organized by its partners AsiaDHRRA and InDHRRA (now Bina Desa). It was formed because of the need for a national farmers’ movement to advocate against unjust policies that marginalize millions of small farmers, pushed from their lands by large Industries. Its activities are focussed on advocacy of agrarian reform; management of production activities; improving market access and building solidarity among its members.
Ainoukai was formed in 1945 to help construct ideal rural villages where love and peace prevail.It conducts a course on organic farming, acts as a certification body for the Japanese JAS organic agriculture food standard, conducts training program in forestry and agriculture technology based on the Ainou spirit, publishes a monthly news-letter, organizes an international exchange program, and matches youth who want to go into farming with villages who want to have new farmers.
AFA is a regional alliance of national federations & organizations of small-scale women and men farmers and producers.AFA invites national farmers’ organizations as members and works with NGOs in facilitating the formation of national farmers’ organizations and in continuously building their capacities.AFA aims to be a strong and influential voice of small-scale women and men farmers in Asia.AFA acts as a facilitator in the trading and marketing of their members’ products.
CECAD is a non-governmental organisation established by an interdisciplinary group of researchers and practitioners with a social and natural background which include biology, ecology, environment, conservation, community development, resource management, economics and society.CECAD undertakes research in order to develop and implement projects that will aid environmental protection and community development with the target of reducing poverty.
Marlon researches on the Impact of Biosand Filter on Access to Safe Drinking Water in the Rural Communities of the Philippines.
Ali Akbar Group aims at extension work at farmer levels,sales and marketing of pesticides,seeds and micronutrients.It is a good platform to engage all agricultural professionals to share their knowledge and experience.
Organization for the welfare of the farmers of Pakistan.
From its creation in 1998, the then-College of Public Affairs (CPAF) has made its mark in the field of development and governance studies. Through the years,CPAF has produced a significant number of graduates and a body of knowledge along institutional,policy and governance issues in the rural sector and in the agriculture and natural resources sectors, in particular.
ARC is celebrating twenty years as an international leader in the study of East and Southeast Asia,undertaking fundamental interdisciplinary & disciplinary research into a wide range of social, political and economic dynamics within the region.The Centre’s objectives are to produce high quality academic research publications for international and domestic audiences; foster the development of high quality research graduates; and to constructively contribute to public policy debate and public understanding on issues concerning contemporary Asia.
CRES's aim is to become the country’s centre of excellence for natural resources and environmental studies.CRES is a focal point in providing leadership in the implementation of critical and strategic activities on biodiversity conservation, sustainable utilization of natural resources and environmental protection. CRES also promotes national and international collaboration in research, training, information dissemination and other activities in related areas.
Zulfiqar Farms grows seasonal vegetables and off-season vegetables in tunnel farming,animal fodder & helps in wheat production.
Kisan Board Pakistan works for the welfare of farming community, introducing new production technologies to increase crop yields, organising farmer forums at village levels and representing farmers demands to the Government.
With community health programmes in large geographical areas in Central and South Asia, as well as East Africa, and more than 200 health facilities including nine hospitals, the Aga Khan Health Services (AKHS) is one of the most comprehensive private not-for-profit health care systems in the developing world.
Awami Development Organization (ADO) works for the ignored, down-trodden and deprived community of district Layyah.Its management comprises of devoted, self-less and experienced persons, who have tried their level best to bring together various strata of the society to promote socio-economic situation, mutual welfare, awareness and enlightenment in the area.
Altaf's VISION-To be a responsible company that provides innovative solution in dairy farming CREATING COLLECTIVE VALUE.Its MISSION-To constantly strive to introduce new products and services that are the needs of progressive farming.Its VALUES-They operate with full transparency in all their internal and external transactions.
Agro Green Services staff has extensive experience in all agricultural disciplines and has been managing products through the regulatory process. Agro Green Services has been proudly serving the agricultural community since 2010.We also offer a wide range of services designed to meet the varying product study management needs of our clients.Agro Green provides the agricultural industry with healthy fruits & vegetables.It makes aware the farmers about the contamination of products plus reduce its contamination.
Tradic Junction involves in Imports,Exports & Distributions.It also specializes in the development, production & wholesale business of vegetable seeds,cereal seeds & oil seeds respectively.They have testing,marketing & distribution capabilities in vegetable & cereal seeds production under the supervision of highly experienced staff in different areas of Pakistan.
Syngenta's actions and products can help address one of the planet’s most challenging dilemmas: how to grow more crops from less resources. That is why their ambition is to bring greater food security in an environmentally sustainable way to an increasingly populous world by creating a worldwide step-change in farm productivity.Through deploying the world-class science,they aim to transform the way crops are grown and look beyond yield.
Takhleeq Foundation’s Mission:Working for the uplift of communities by reducing gender disparity,promoting peace and prosperity with basic facilities and social justice through interactive discourse for civil society”.TF's goal is To develop self reliance among the under privileged group and communities by raising the level of confidence and enhancing their capabilities through skill development and training”.
Conventional healthcare model is unsustainable in addressing the burden of chronic diseases, and this is a major reason for it. Our proposal is the creation of initial free Basic Preventative Health Package (BPHP) that has positive effects beyond the immediate users and is very cost-effective.
Created on 05/14/2013 by Lovin' Spoonfuls
Headquartered in Boston, MA, Lovin' Spoonfuls is a 501c3 non-profit food rescue organization that facilitates the recovery and distribution of perishable and unserved food that would otherwise be thrown away and wasted. We deliver this food to local crisis centers, soup kitchens, and pantries.
Organization: Lovin' Spoonfuls
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United States, MA, Boston, Suffolk County
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2012 MassChallenge Gold Prize Winner
2012 John W. Henry Family Foundation Social Impact Prize Winner
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Lovin' Spoonfuls Food Rescue
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Headquartered in Boston, MA, Lovin' Spoonfuls is a 501c3 non-profit food rescue organization that facilitates the recovery and distribution of perishable and unserved food that would otherwise be thrown away and wasted. We deliver this food to local crisis centers, soup kitchens, and pantries.
Problem
While 49 million Americans struggle daily with food insecurity, 40% of all food produced in the U.S. goes to waste each year. Not only does the food itself go to waste, precious natural resources including fresh water and oil are also squandered in the production of this food. Hunger has traditionally been addressed with processed, non-perishable foods, but why should we stop at non-perishables when there is so much fresh food already available?
Solution
Food rescue provides a timely and innovative solution to the ongoing problems of food insecurity and food waste. Through Lovin’ Spoonfuls’ streamlined model, food donors are able to reduce their waste disposal costs and emissions footprint while contributing a tax-deductible food donation to their community. Our focus on fresh produce, lean proteins, and whole grains allows our partner organizations to consistently serve their clients healthy and wholesome meals without increasing their own operating costs. Our work aims to connect people in need to the bounty of unused food that prevails in our community. Access to nutritious food should be a right, not a privilege reserved for the wealthy.
Example
Every weekday, our team picks up second-line product from grocery stores including as Whole Foods Markets, Trader Joe’s, and several restaurants, bakeries, and farms. We deliver this food to local soup kitchens, homeless shelters and crisis centers including Pine Street Inn, Boston Rescue Mission, and Bridge Over Troubled Waters, among others. The mainstays of food assistance are often overly processed, non-perishable foods, typically loaded with salt, sugar and chemical preservatives. In hunger relief, why should we stop at non-perishables when there is so much fresh food already available? Our food rescue model helps social service organizations to balance their budgets while also providing healthier food items to their clients.
Impact
To date, the Lovin' Spoonfuls team has rescued and distributed over 600,000 pounds of fresh and healthy food across Greater Boston. We currently have two refrigerated delivery vehicles and two full time drivers on the road. More trucks and more drivers mean that we can pick up more food and serve more people. In 2013 we intend to add another truck to our fleet, which will further extend our capacity and reach.
Marketplace
Food rescue is an unaddressed area of hunger relief in Greater Boston. While food banks rely on warehouses and other overnight storage facilities to maintain a stockpile of non-perishable goods, Lovin’ Spoonfuls utilizes a direct distribution system to pick up perishable food from donors and deliver those items to local soup shelters, soup kitchens and crisis centers within the same day. Lovin' Spoonfuls is based off successful food rescue organizations in other cities such as City Harvest in New York City, DC Central Kitchen in Washington DC, and FoodRunners in San Francisco.
Sustainability Plan
We are actively fundraising from foundations and individuals to aid program growth and ensure the continued financial stability of our operations. A lean business plan and low operating costs provide a solid foundation for our scalable model, and we hope to expand operations to eventually reach the four corners of Massachusetts. Our work aims to ensure everyone in our community has access to the types of food necessary to sustain a healthy life.
Founding Story
Lovin’ Spoonfuls was founded in 2010 by native Bostonian Ashley Stanley. Stanley witnessed the amount of food that was being thrown away by food service establishments and questioned why so much food was going to waste when the number of hungry and homeless individuals in Massachusetts continued to increase. Inspired to take action, Stanley initially utilized her own car to rescue food that would otherwise have gone to waste from local food retailers and restaurants. She has since acquired two refrigerated food delivery vehicles and has developed Lovin’ Spoonfuls into an effective and acclaimed organization.
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Human wellness and vitality.
How specifically would this added capacity help you improve the quality, efficiency, or sustainability of your existing product or service?
We intend to expand program capacity by adding more refrigerated delivery vehicles to our fleet. More trucks and drivers on the road mean we can recover more food and serve more people. In addition to our direct distribution services, we hope to foster increased awareness about the ongoing issues of food waste and food insecurity in our local community by educating the public and serving as a local platform for Boston to join the national conversation on food waste.
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Headquartered in Boston, MA, Lovin' Spoonfuls is a 501c3 non-profit food rescue organization that facilitates the recovery and distribution of perishable and unserved food that would otherwise be thrown away and wasted. We deliver this food to local crisis centers, soup kitchens, and pantries.
Created on 05/14/2013 by Raj Jani
Happy Healthy Home is a holistic solution to provide vital nutrients to a family or household in a manner that controls daily health damages and prevents from falling ill. This comes in a bouquet of products & services that are based upon nature-care and are free from any artificial substances.
Organization: Happiness Stores Private Limited
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Co-founder Mr. Tulsi Bhatia has received Best MSME National Award in the year 2010.
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Happy Healthy Home is a holistic solution to provide vital nutrients to a family or household in a manner that controls daily health damages and prevents from falling ill. This comes in a bouquet of products & services that are based upon nature-care and are free from any artificial substances.
Problem
Damages occur in our lives on a daily basis due to unsafe food, wrong eating habits coupled with stress, lack of exercise, radiation & polluted external environment. There is a sole reliance on cure rather than on prevention, which leads to a flourishing Pharmaceuticals industry, often mistaken as Healthcare industry. Mushrooming of spurious healthcare products & overuse of chemicals further aggravate the plethora of problems faced by mankind!
Solution
Our products offer resistance to environmental factors and maintain natural health coupled with a definite boost to body's immunizing capabilities to fight diseases. We offer affordable healthcare solutions for all population segments as they are made from nature's bounty in terms of herbs, medicinal plants and concoctions. Small ailments like joint & muscular pains, liver and kidney damages, digestion/metabolism disorders etc. get corrected with the use of our products & by undergoing alternative therapy treatment. With our mission as 'Health for All', we provide complete healthcare solution coupled with product promotion, health awareness/education, training and support services based upon 'Everything Natural' theme.
Example
While on one hand our products for consumption like aloe-vera juice and seven-herb juice provide vitality and all round nutrition to human body, the external applications of products like aloe-gel and soap for instance are carving niche in the marketplace, as can be verified by numerous testimonials available with us. On the other hand our alternative therapy services like electric accupressure bed & techniques are proving path-breaking in terms of their impact on individual's health and fitness.
Impact
Our work has started generating tremendous response as more & more users of our products and services have reported significant improvement on their wellness & fitness. However our goal is to achieve a significant impact on the health of the poor and vulnerables, a large number of who fall back into Poverty trap because of their ill-affordability of medical care especially on account of expenses on critical healthcare in their households. We plan to reduce monthly medical expenses in a typical Indian household by 50% and food savings on account of less expenditure on food purchases by another 15% of their monthly expenditure as we guarantee a significant reduction in both food and medicine expenditure against the use of our products and services, We will reach out to about 150000 households through 60 outlets in next 2 years, which means a saving of Rs. 2.3 million (@1500 per HH) alone.
Marketplace
The Indian healthcare industry valued at US$ 65 billion worth of healthcare spend (2012) is estimated to reach US$ 100 billion by 2015, growing 20 per cent year-on-year, as per rating agency Fitch. India currently faces a chronic shortage of healthcare infrastructure especially in rural/peri-urban areas and as per PWC, India needs 1.75 million new beds by the year 2025. The annual pharma market in India is valued at USD 20 billion and is growing at over 15.3% per annum. Even if we assume 1% of these two supplied by unconventional options, our target market is over 1000 crore rupees annually.
Sustainability Plan
Wellness or to remain healthy is the single most important need of the mankind. Added to it is the factor of affordability which makes or breaks the appeal of certain products. With the virtue of operating in affordable healthcare and wellness segment, our sustainability is automatically ensured. Further since one third of our products are made in-house and there is an equal emphasis on nature therapy, we are in strong position to sustain self.
Founding Story
Being ambitious is directly proportional to being healthy as both of us co-founders have felt it strongly as we embarked on our journey to do something together. As we wanted to do number of things together, often our health used to take a toll and therefore we decided to first tackle itself before moving further with our plans, without realising that 'Healthcare and Wellness' itself was an overpowering idea that needed a push. Hence the concept came into being.
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Full nourishment foods, Human wellness and vitality.
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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?
Since we have to create mass awareness around wellness and disease-free life, we would like to take-up yoga camps, sensitization-health camps etc. eventually, which would work go a long way to build our brand. Also 'health foods' will be a separate vertical in our store hence investing in nutrient rich farming is an obvious vertical backward integration to ensure availability of healthy inputs e.g. organic and safe foods.
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Created on 05/13/2013 by rdoiron
Do you dig good food? We do too, literally. We're Kitchen Gardeners International (KGI), a nonprofit of 30,000 people growing our own healthy food and helping others to do the same. We're best known for having led the successful campaign for a kitchen garden at the White House. We're ready to grow!
Organization: Kitchen Gardeners International
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United States, ME, Scarborough, Cumberland County
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United States, ME, Scarborough, Cumberland County
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-On Day One contest grand prize winner (United Nations Foundation)
-Edible Nation grand prize winner (eHow.com and Rachael Ray)
-Heart of Green award winner (Hearst Corporation)
-Do Good Outdoors contest winner (Good Magazine)
-Climate Matters Video Contest - 3rd prize (Vimeo)
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Kitchen Gardeners International
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Growth (the pilot has already launched and is starting to expand)
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Elevator Pitch
Do you dig good food? We do too, literally. We're Kitchen Gardeners International (KGI), a nonprofit of 30,000 people growing our own healthy food and helping others to do the same. We're best known for having led the successful campaign for a kitchen garden at the White House. We're ready to grow!
Problem
How can we manage to feed 10 billion people both nutritiously and sustainably in 2100 when we're not managing to do either in 2013 with a population of 7.1 billion? (Hint: the answer is in our own backyard.)
Solution
KGI thinks that the best way to accomplish something big is to inspire and empower a lot of people to do something small. We seek to improve food security and maximize human and environmental health through the promotion of food gardens, the smallest and most accessible form of agriculture. Our approach is to harness the resources-human, technical, financial-of people who grow their own nutritious, delicious, and sustainable food to help others do the same. We do this through three programs: 1) educational programming to teach more people how to grow their own food 2) awareness-raising campaigns that make the case for more food gardens to policy-makers and thought-leaders and 3) mini-grants to small,like-minded groups in the US and abroad.
Example
KGI has excelled at applying modest financial resources to targeted societal pressure points to achieve big results. To date, we've achieved our biggest victories by mobilizing people online to create momentum towards a goal, using that momentum to attract media attention (we've been covered 10 times in the New York Times in the past 5 years), and then using the media attention to mobilize even more people. This is the approach we used with our White House Kitchen Garden campaign which ended up winning the United Nations Foundation's On Day One competition and coverage in Washington Post, BBC and Wall Street Journal. That high-profile garden is now thriving and serving as the best advertisement for food gardens that money can buy.
Impact
While our past results are impressive for such a small organization (reaching, teaching and inspiring millions of people with an annual budget of under $100,000), we're most excited about our future impacts, especially in connection with our new mini-grants program called Sow It Forward. Launched last year, Sow It Forward leverages the volunteer resources of our community along with the financial and material resources of gardening companies and funders to plant and sustain food gardens that serve vulnerable and underserved populations. In our first year, we offered 80 grants (73 in the US, 7 abroad) that reached 24,000 people and helped them to grow 80,000 pounds of healthy food. Yet, we're just scratching the surface of this program's potential: our online application received over 920 applications in just 5 weeks. Our goal in 2014 is to double our grants and impacts.
Marketplace
There are many gardening & small-scale agriculture initiatives underway globally. One thing that sets us apart from many traditional garden organizations (eg the National Gardening Association) is our focus on food gardens. We share some of the same goals of groups working in the re-localization/resilience space (like the Transition Network) but there too, our focus on food gardens sets us apart. We're similar to an Ashoka-sponsored group in Ireland called GIY, but rather than create local chapters like they're doing, we're partnering with existing local groups like schools, churches, etc.
Sustainability Plan
We're finding that there are many people, foundations & companies willing to donate their time, seeds, cash, supplies and know-how for redistribution to garden projects in need. Our sustainability plan is create value by serving as a clearinghouse for these donations and to fund the mini-grants part of our work (our main activity moving forward) via foundations and companies that share our garden goals. It's working, but we'd like to do more.
Founding Story
My epiphany came when I returned to my childhood neighborhood in the suburbs of Portland, ME (where I now reside again) after living and traveling abroad for 10 years. I came home to see that the gardens of my youth had disappeared or been downsized and that the neighborhood farm where I had picked peas and beans as a 12 year old had been plowed under and sown with a different type of crop: a subdivision of 100 houses growing immaculate, chemically-enhanced lawns and absolutely nothing to eat, unless you happen to be a sheep. Prior to my return to Maine, I had been working in Brussels as head of Friends of the Earth Europe, an environmental NGO. I realized that one good way to make the world a better, healthier place was to plant a seed.
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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?
Support via Nutrients for All would help us do three things:
1. Increase the number of local partner groups we could support and engage via our Sow It Forward program, especially those in the Global South. This past year, we supported 80 groups total, 7 of which abroad. Our goal this year is to double that.
2. Improve KGI.org as an online community for our partner groups by migrating our Drupal 7 site to Drupal Commons 3.0.
3. Create more global solidarity and networking via improved coordination of World Kitchen Garden Day.
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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?
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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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Stroke Association Nigeria was formed in 2012 to fill a void as a national non-profit health care organisation focusing 100 percent of its resources and attention on stroke.
In its brief history, we hope Stroke Association Nigeria will become a leading national resource on stroke and the driving force behind efforts to improve stroke prevention, treatment and rehabilitation.
Organization: STROKE ASSOCIATION NIGERIA
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Raising Stroke Awareness in Nigeria
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STROKE ASSOCIATION NIGERIA
Country where this project is creating social impact
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Non‐profit/NGO/citizen sector organization
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Stroke is a serious health issue worldwide. Stroke has a greater disability impact than any other medical condition. It is a medical emergency and sadly the knowledge and awareness of stroke is poor in Nigeria.
Every year an estimated 200,000 of Nigerians would have a stroke and the outcome varies.
The Solution: What is your solution? Be specific!
We aim to help people living with stroke through support and advice, to ensure all touched by stroke gets the help they need.
Part of our mission is to prevent strokes, reduce their effects through providing services, campaigning, education and research
We aim to be able to provide millions of Nigerians with live saving tools to prevent stroke, recognise stroke symptoms, educate people on where to get best stroke care and provide information to stroke survivors so they can get the more enjoyment from their lives.
The Model: Walk us through a specific example of how your solution makes a difference; include your primary activities
Part of our mission is to organise awareness of stroke among different ethnic groups of people in Nigeria by raising the awareness of the public, the media, politicians, policy makers and health professionals. We have been able to have events in Bodija Market Ibadan to educate the market sellers/vendor about the effect of high blood pressure and stroke. we also did a Know your Blood Pressure campaign and checked the blood pressure levels of a lot of people during the event. some were further referred to their doctors for follow up.
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 Peer and Competition is Stroke Action Nigeria. we have a good working relationship with them. Their arm of stroke has her headquarters in the eastern part of Nigeria and they deal with the support, after care part of stroke for stroke survivors. . we carry each other along for stroke events in Nigeria. We are both working towards the same cause of fighting stroke in Nigeria and reducing disability. A good relationship is beneficial to both associations.
Do you dig good food? We do too, literally. We're Kitchen Gardeners International (KGI), a nonprofit of 30,000 people growing our own healthy food and helping others to do the same. We're best known for having led the successful campaign for a kitchen garden at the White House. We're ready to grow!
It helps in agriculture,training & guiding farming community through print & electronic media.
PSWS is basically established as a welfare & development organization to take efforts for providing basic facilities to the most underprivileged and marginalized communities of Sindh. PSWS has been actively involved in the social and community welfare activities within the targeted area. PSWS has conducted numerous community development projects which involve supply of electricity,water and gas;sanitation drainage;education;vocational training;family planning and basic health services;vaccination and income generation.
Pothwar Social Welfare Association (PSWA) equip the deprived segments of the society with time-tested life skills and approaches to achieve self reliance and ultimately self sufficiency in bread winning activities and provoke them to be conscientious and wise users at the planet the mother earth.
HANDS is one of the Not for Profit organizations working in social sector to meet the challenges of 21st century. HANDS's Vision is Healthy Education Prosperous Pakistan.Its Mission is To provide basic health services, primary education, income generation opportunities and development of institutions to empower the underprivileged communities.
SRSP in its development programs gives importance to disadvantaged social groups such as women,marginalized haris (sharecroppers),small landowners & wage earners.SRSP has also undertaken a mission to develop local leadership for empowerment of the rural people.
NRSP is the largest Rural Support Programme in the country in terms of outreach, staff and development activities. It is a not for profit organization registered under Section 42 of Companies Ordinance 1984.NRSP's mandate is to alleviate poverty by harnessing people's potential and undertake development activities in Pakistan. It has a presence in 54 Districts in all the four Provinces including Azad Jammu and Kashmir through Regional Offices and Field Offices.
