Women remain perhaps the world’s greatest untapped resource. Among the many brilliant ideas on Changemakers for empowering them and helping them reach their potential, here are some proven success stories that use vastly different approaches. These initiatives were endorsed by expert competition judges and voted on by our global community of social change. We’ve got two more women-focused competitions coming up soon. Please be a part of supporting the innovators who enter them.
Carpets for Communities
Carpet for Communities, based in Cambodia, operates on the understanding that strengthening women is a solution to myriad problems, 
including human trafficking. By identifying families at risk of being forced to send their children to work or sell their children into slavery, and by intervening quickly, they solve many problems at once.
Founded by David Bacon, the organization trains the mothers to earn income by making rugs in their own homes, taking the economic pressure off the children and allowing them to attend school instead of working. Participation in the families’ economic life raises women’s self-esteem and raises the families’ standard of living.
This organization was a winner in the Ending Global Slavery: Everyday Heroes Leading the Way competition.
Men Can Stop Rape
A winner in the No Private Matter! Ending Abuse in Intimate & Family Relations competition, Men Can Stop Rape pioneered a new way of 
addressing sexual violence against women: engage those most likely to be the perpetrators by making them allies in the effort to reduce the incidence of rape in the United States.
Through school-based programs, public outreach, and social marketing, the organization emphasizes the role young men can play in reducing violence against women by inspiring them to create positive definitions of masculinity, strength, and manhood.
Let us play!
A lack of affordable sanitary pads in Kenya has kept many girls off the playing fields and out of sports entirely. Let Us Play! Worked with a start-up local business to provide cheap pads, made of locally-grown papyrus grass, to school girls.
This simple initiative, a winner in the Gamechangers competition sponsored by Nike, takes the fear of embarrassment out of playing sports. It also improves adolescent girls’ hygiene generally, boost school attendance, and raises self-confidence and awareness about their own bodies and reproductive health.
Many other competitions have honored winners that address women’s empowerment. Check out some of these too:
Building the Movement for Women’s Land Rights, winner in the Cultivating Innovation: Solutions For Rural Communities competition.
Small Steps, Big Leaps: Community led approach to water and sanitation, winner in the Tapping Local Innovation: Unclogging The Water And Sanitation Crisis competition.
Instant Birth Control, winner in the Disruptive Innovations In Health And Health Care: Solutions People Want competition.
STOP (Stop Trafficking and Oppression of Children & Women), winner in the How To End Human Trafficking competition.
Three Sisters Trekking, winner in The Geotourism Challenge: Celebrating Places - Changing Lives competition.
Created: 03/30/11 by Anonymous
Elena Durón Miranda fue reconocida como una agente de cambio en la campaña Ashoka ChangemakeHERS, una celebración de las mujeres más influyentes e inspiradoras de todo el mundo. Te invitamos a conocer a las demás mujeres emprendedoras sociales destacadas en la campaña aquí (aqui links to
http://www.changemakers.com/es/node/101967).
Escrito por Lorena López
Trabaja para erradicar el trabajo infantil y lucha en cuerpo y alma contra el abuso, el maltrato y la explotación. Una entrevista con Elena Durón Miranda de Fundación PETISOS de Bariloche, Argentina.
Ella sabe bien lo que significa “poner el cuerpo” para comprender lo que siente el otro. Comprometerse desde las entrañas es su premisa; por eso, cuando empezó a trabajar con la infancia en situaciones de riesgo, ella empezó a trabajar revolviendo basura a la par de los niños cartoneros.
Created: 03/24/11 by Anonymous
Albina Ruiz fue reconocida como una agente de cambio en la campaña Ashoka ChangemakeHERS, una celebración de las mujeres más influyentes e inspiradoras de todo el mundo. Te invitamos a conocer a las demás mujeres emprendedoras sociales destacadas en la campaña aquí (aqui links to
http://www.changemakers.com/es/node/101967). 
Escrito por Lorena López
Comenzó creando un sistema de microempresas encargadas de recolectar y procesar residuos urbanos para lograr ciudades más limpias y sanas en Perú. El mayor éxito inmediato ha sido dignificar el trabajo de los recolectores de residuos, quienes pasaron a pertenecer a un sistema de empleo formal, digno y con aportes sociales y jubilatorios. En esta ocasión, Albina Ruiz, fundadora de Ciudadsaludable.org, cuenta su experiencia como emprendedora y los logros obtenidos que se reflejan en una mejora en la vida de la gente.
¿Cuáles son las tres cualidades que hacen que un agente de cambio tenga éxito?
Perseverancia, ética y una cierta dosis de locura (risas). Y, sobre todo, hacer las cosas con amor, porque para lograr cambios en el sistema hay que tener un poco de locura y mucho amor por lo que se hace.
¿Qué fue lo que te hizo tener éxito en tu trabajo? ¿Qué tácticas o estrategias específicas has utilizado?
Creer en la gente. Uno puede tener problemas y a veces la gente puede no responder, pero hay que insistir y creer. Hemos logrado trabajar con diversos actores y creemos que el Estado debe cumplir un rol importante; también trabajamos con empresas y la sociedad civil: organizaciones de base, recicladores y otras entidades.
La estrategia específica fue y es trabajar en políticas públicas. Eso nos permitió expandir el modelo; incluso sacamos una ley que regula la actividad del reciclador y que brinda inclusión económica, social y dignifica el trabajo. Se aprobó en 2009 y fue la primera ley de ese tipo en el mundo.
¿Cuál es tu superpoder?
Creo en lo que hago. Amo mi trabajo. Me han ofrecido otros puestos con más dinero y siempre dije que no porque soy feliz haciendo esto.
Created: 03/01/11 by Anonymous
Emily May fue reconocida como una agente de cambio en la campaña Ashoka ChangemakeHERS, una celebración de las mujeres más influyentes e inspiradoras de todo el mundo. Te invitamos a conocer a las demás mujeres emprendedoras sociales destacadas en la campaña aquí (aqui links to
http://www.changemakers.com/es/node/101967). 
escrito por Emily May, Cofundadora y Directora Ejecutiva, Hollaback
Convertir tu idea en realidad requiere agallas: tienes que estar preparada para enfrentar grandes obstáculos. Pero, si estás lista – y quiero decir realmente lista – esos obstáculos parecen nada comparado con la sensación de que, si no actúas, te interpones en el camino del progreso.
Equal Community Foundation works with men to end violence and discrimination against women.
Our mission is to ensure every man in India has the opportunity to study and practise gender equitable behaviour to end violence and discrimination against women.
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Affordable Nutrients/Technologies for Agricultural Breakthroughs program provides affordable natural nutrients or integrated solutions through the application of and access to small scale agricultural and production technologies which give health and economical advantage especially to women.
Organización: CHRISTIAN VOLUNTEER SERVICE INTERNATIONAL
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CHRISTIAN VOLUNTEER SERVICE INTERNATIONAL
Sitio web de la organización
Países en donde este proyecto está creando impacto social
Tu organización es
Híbrido
¿Tu organización ha recibido premios y/u honores? Cuéntanos sobre ellos.
2007- Finalist - Google/Technoserve Ghana National Business Plan Competition; 2009 - Finalist - Improved Nutrition Solutions through Innovation Competition (The Green Journey); 2010 - Finalist - Women|Tools|Technology|: Building Opportunities & Economic Power Competition (Productive Agricultural Linkages and Marketing Systems- PALMS)); 2010 -Finalist- Leveraging Business for Social Change: Building the Field of Social Business Competition (Moringa Oleifera Farms and Industries Limited - MOFIL); 2010 - Finalist - Global Social Benefit Incubator (GSBI) program - Santa Clara University.
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Affordable Nutrients/Technologies for Agricultural Breakthroughs
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Affordable Nutrients/Technologies for Agricultural Breakthroughs program provides affordable natural nutrients or integrated solutions through the application of and access to small scale agricultural and production technologies which give health and economical advantage especially to women.
Problema
Unsustainable agricultural practices, excessive use of chemical agricultural inputs and obsolete/labour intensive methods yield poor dividends and are also very unfriendly to the environment. Coupled with alarming soil fertility loss, lack of appropriate technological know-how and suitable natural agrochemicals, amongst others, militate against efforts to improve food security and availability of nutritious food necessary for optimal health.
Solución
Provision of nutrients and simple/appropriate technologies required in four stages of agriculture, with the aim of strengthening cereals, vegetable, fruit and moringa value chains is focused on. Aerobic disease suppressing compost and budded/grafted disease resistant seedlings are made available at the nursery stage whilst simple mechanized ploughing and weeding implements, drip irrigation equipment and technology, organic agrochemicals, nutrient, farm and integrated pest management, post-harvest storage/drying and value added production including fortification of staple foods with natural inputs like moringa and a modern marketing system are undertaken at the plantation, production and marketing stages backed by appropriate training.
Ejemplo
Kofi Koi Agricultural Co-operative Society, a predominately women group, engages in vegetable farming along the banks of the Densu River. After suffering great losses in 2009 and 2010 on account of erratic rainfall patterns and flooding, Maame Adwoa Mansa, the President, enrolled them under the ANTAB program as they could not produce the needed affordable nutrients themselves. Aerobic disease suppressing compost, compost tea, improved seedlings and oxygenated moringa leaf foliar sprays were given to them. Use was made of brushcutters to keep weeds down and cheap improvised drip irrigation system using plastic waste water bottles was established. Yields as high as four times the normal were recorded giving them greater income.
Impacto
Over 100,000 vegetable farmers have been using moringa plant growth hormones on their vegetables since 2010 with a resultant increase in their produce three to four times giving them more income. 25,000 farmers have been introduced to the use of aerobic disease suppressing compost. The enthusiasm generated by this program is quite high and we are encouraged to institute farmer field schools. Soil fertility and human health is improving quickly as moringa is incorporated in various forms: disease suppressing compost, plant growth hormones, organic fertilizers, food supplements to fight malnutrition, food fortification, water purification agents and a number of notable products. For now, 25,000 farmers are being served directly and 300,000 indirectly. 150,000 farmers are to be reached directly and 1,000,000 indirectly in the next three to five years.
Mercado
The Ministry of Food and Agriculture is interested in food security and has invested heavily in the provision of subsidized chemical fertilizers, tractors and irrigation equipment mostly sprinkler systems. Much water is wasted in the traditional sprinkler systems. We utilize drip irrigation which uses less water but gives excellent results. Our adapted drip irrigation system allow for proper fertigation although on a small scale. Declining soil fertility has occasioned the use of more inorganic fertilizers which is detrimental. We rely on enhanced compost from organic waste and moringa.
Plan de Sustentabilidad
300,000 to 600,000 farmers are to be supported in the next five years. A market penetration of 15% for our products in 2014 is estimated which will increase to 25% by 2015 with an annual sales growth of 15% to 65%. Expected cash from grants/investment is $1,500,000 with grants at 70% in 2014 which will decrease to 5% by 2016. Earned income is expected to reach $5,500,000.00 by 2017. The program is expected to be self-sustaining by 2015.
Historia fundacional
Mary Ansa, a vegetable farmer in Aveyime in the Volta region, belongs to Dekaworwor Women Group, a hundred and fifty member farmer group. They form part of the over 300 women farmer based organizations that have benefited from various workshops and training by the Productive Agricultural Linkages and Marketing Systems (PALMS) of Christian Volunteer Service International. Her main problem has been the availability of affordable natural agricultural inputs and mechanized implements. To meet this need, the Affordable Nutrients/Technologies for Agricultural Breakthroughs (ANTAB) program was mooted and put in place in association with various women groups and farmer based associations which will be of great benefit to them and the environment.
leer más↓↑ ocultar↑ ocultar¿Dónde aseguras la disponibilidad de los nutrientes?
Medioambientes saludables. , Cultivos ricos en nutrientes, Alimentos de completa nutrición .
Si tuvieras una mayor capacidad, ¿a qué otros sectores te gustaría que apunte tu solución - ya sea a través de una expansión, una asociación, o un fuerte intercambio?
Medioambientes saludables, Cultivos ricos en nutrientes, Alimentos de completa nutrición .
¿Cómo mejoraría específicamente esta capacidad adicional la calidad, eficiencia, o sustentabilidad de tu actual producto o servicio?
Production of affordable and quality nutrients, nourishment foods and small scale mechanized implements require standard machinery and processes for economies of scale which will be assisted by added capacity in terms of capital, machinery and expertise. This will be of appeal to the small holder farmers who will use such for their profit and the sustainability of the program. The environment will be equally protected and soil fertility ensured. Our microfinance unit – Co-operative Finance Institute – will be strengthened to assist in acquisition of needed machinery by farmers especially women
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Considerando la circulación de nutrientes desde los ecosistemas a las tierras, a los cultivos, a los alimentos, a las comunidades, ¿cuáles son los obstáculos para alcanzar la vitalidad para las personas y el planeta?
Otros obstáculos que hayas identificado
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¿Cuáles consideras las tendencias o evidencias más prometedoras que indican que los desarrollos que describiste están emergiendo? Por favor explica
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Sustainable conservation agriculture (SCA) is a different kind of greener revolution. It is an empowering movement for small stakeholder farmers to revolt, and reclaims their soil and environment so that they could get the nutrients to grow their health, longevity and prosperity.
Organización: Organization for Research and Community Development Global
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OSC/ONG
¿Tu organización ha recibido premios y/u honores? Cuéntanos sobre ellos.
ORCD has been recognized and honored with numerous provincial and international awards since its inception in 2011.
International:
• Aga Khan Development Network for sustainable management
• GIZ-DETA on behalf of Germany Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development in agriculture
• International WorkLife Balance Award for contributing to welfare of women in society
Provincial:
• Department of Women Affairs (women empowerment) in Daikundi
• Women literacy training in Baghlan
• Baseline Nutrition Survey using SMART methodology in Kandahar
• Provincial Coordination and Management Committee for agricultural projects in Baghlan
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A Food Revolution to Reconnect Our Nutrient Chain
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Sustainable conservation agriculture (SCA) is a different kind of greener revolution. It is an empowering movement for small stakeholder farmers to revolt, and reclaims their soil and environment so that they could get the nutrients to grow their health, longevity and prosperity.
Problema
Our productive and sustainable solution is unique because it can address a multitude of issues face by today’s expanding global population such as shrinking suitable arable land, declining soil potency, water shortage, and expensive fuel and agro-chemicals. Most of our food production is grown at the expenses of our environment, economy and farmers, and they are operated by mostly women stakeholders which are the most vulnerable group.
Solución
SCA is smarter farming with a one-stop solution. As an empowering movement, it uses updated scientific agricultural knowledge to increase and improve food production and builds sustainable income using local inputs. Studies showed that SCA using a 4000 square feet bed can provide a complete nutritious diet for a person annually with some leftover for income production. SCA maintains social, environment and economy sustainability. It allows for an extensive usage of available labor from family and community leading to social cohesion and justice. Moreover, it encourages a harmonious relationship with human and nature using concept of recycling, management and protection to increase soil biodiversity. It requires only minimal inputs.
Ejemplo
Chipo lives in the African urban slum with her three kids but one died young due to malnutrition and her husband left her for the city to work and never came back. Chipo was introduced to CSA but her main problem was lack of suitable cultivated land, and so we taught her to grow crop vegetables in bags of soil tied together to make a 100 square feet outside her home. She was successful and able to feed her family. She also formed a group with other women to do the same but each having to grow different crops and then sharing the outputs. Soon they are able to afford a goat and some chickens from selling the excess vegetables. The women started a micro-finance system to help their fellow friends and to propagate the CSA.
Impacto
Many parts of the world are using CSA in ‘bits and pieces’ but never in a complete system like us. Therefore, the data about it is not absolute but almost all have been positive. The world contains about 470 million smallholder farms with almost all operated by women. CSA has the ability to provide a complete and balanced diet with all the macro and micronutrients for 8 persons per acre annually with enough remaining for income production. Imagine Africa where 33 million small farms produce the bulk of the nation’s food supply. If we take the math of 2 hectares per smallholder farm then we have about 82 million acres in total in Africa that can feed a population of 652 million Africans or 60% of the continent annually and forever. CSA can be a revolutionary idea to transform people’s live and elevate them out of poverty and food insecurity.
Mercado
Global food production is generally approaches on a large scale using unsustainable mechanized chemical or organic farming. The food value is often supplemented with fortification and hybrid breeding. CSA differs by engaging women farmers who hold the largest share to apply cost-effective principles such as small bed preparation, composting, crop rotation, and et cetera. It unites and uses all family labor and local resources without expending on fertilizers, soil amendments, and heavy farm machinery. All the works can be done with little land and resources. This is our advantage.
Plan de Sustentabilidad
CSA is employable at any settings and sizes. It works best for small farms. The model is financially sustains from participants’ tuition fees, sponsored community trust fund, profits from selling crops, and setting up sponsored training facilities throughout. Another financial model can involved charging certification fee for approved CSA farm. Of course, by winning this competition we are able to get a head-start in executing our plan.
Historia fundacional
As a physician by trade, I am most concern about the nutritional effects of food on our human growth and potential. My ‘aha’ moment came when I was listening to President Clinton giving a speech about challenging us to find solution for food security. This was later deepened when I heard the world’s leaders at the UN discussing about insecurity of women and children. Therefore, I wanted an innovative solution to solve this ineffective nutrient chain. Our idea must be adaptable, cheap, uses local resources only, unifies communities and families, and most importantly, empowers women and children. We wanted an idea that uses women as Changemakers.
leer más↓↑ ocultar↑ ocultar¿Dónde aseguras la disponibilidad de los nutrientes?
Medioambientes saludables. , Cultivos ricos en nutrientes.
Si tuvieras una mayor capacidad, ¿a qué otros sectores te gustaría que apunte tu solución - ya sea a través de una expansión, una asociación, o un fuerte intercambio?
Alimentos de completa nutrición , Bienestar humano y vitalidad.
¿Cómo mejoraría específicamente esta capacidad adicional la calidad, eficiencia, o sustentabilidad de tu actual producto o servicio?
The benefits of CSA can be extended by collective gathering of the outputs in a community food store and kitchen. The centralized location provides community members a space for sharing ideas about developments and support in health, business and skills trainings, and the processing of food procurement, preparation and distribution. A community kitchen is a great place to also learn how to cook and eat healthy, and to store excess food away from bugs and rodents. This capacity building is beneficial to create nutritious food for the people and promotes wellness.
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Considerando la circulación de nutrientes desde los ecosistemas a las tierras, a los cultivos, a los alimentos, a las comunidades, ¿cuáles son los obstáculos para alcanzar la vitalidad para las personas y el planeta?
Otros obstáculos que hayas identificado
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Women at Lotus House are extremely low-income and largely minority. 78% have a mental illness with 81% having been victims of some form of trauma. Via evidence-based, trauma-informed counseling, women and children can heal and build resiliency, breaking a cycle of violence and homelessness.
Affordable Nutrients/Technologies for Agricultural Breakthroughs program provides affordable natural nutrients or integrated solutions through the application of and access to small scale agricultural and production technologies which give health and economical advantage especially to women.
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Film For Health will empower the children of Varanasi's Shivdaspur area to learn from each other through the medium of film.
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Países en donde este proyecto está creando impacto social
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OSC/ONG
¿Trabajas con alguna organización social?
Guria Swayam Sevi Sansthan
¿Cómo te enteraste de la competencia?
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Resúmen: ¿De qué tema o problema específico trata tu emprendimiento?
The children of Varanasi's brothels don't have access-- not to good schools, not to vocational training, not to a chance at a better life. Through the venture "Filming More Health", the documentary production crew of the forthcoming film "Specks of Dust" that will focus on the efforts of the NGO Guria Sansthan will teach the children how to use basic flip cameras to film basic first aid procedures in order to learn from them.
Enunciado de tu misión: ¿Qué hace tu emprendimiento?
We venture to help empower the children of Varanasi's brothels to take charge of their health and the health of those around them. We believe children can be responsible with this task.
El Modelo: Muéstranos a través de un ejemplo específico cómo tu solución hace una diferencia, incluye tus actividades primarias
This summer, a film crew (comprised of two Princeton University students, a professional director, a professional cinematographer, and a professional sound editor) will be traveling to Varanasi to film a documentary about the work of a man called Ajeet Singh. His NGO, Guria Sansthan, combats sex trafficking through multi-faceted grassroots approaches. We will teach the kids how to use cameras and in doing so, empower them to make videos about the challenges they face (health and otherwise) and the solutions they find (health and otherwise). Logistically, we will provide the cameras and editing software for computers that exist at a school previously set up by Guria Sansthan.
La comunidad: Define tu comunidad, local, nacional o internacional, con la cual vas a trabajar. ¿Cuál es tu público objetivo, a qué población vas a dirigir tus acciones? ¿Existen otras organizaciones que ya trabajan en este tema en tu comunidad?
We will be partnering with Guria Sansthan and working for and through their community. The community is comprised of the children of the brothels, their mothers, and the volunteers and teachers who help them. There are no other organizations working directly on this issue in this city.
El fundamento de tu Historia: ¿Qué fue lo que te inspiró para hacer tu emprendimiento y por qué?
Ajeet Singh refuses to rest until every child is free to live a vibrant and creative life. On the importance of finding one’s purpose and helping others, he believes, “the day you realize you are just a speck of dust is when you will begin living your life the way it should be.” He founded Guria Sansthan, the organization through which we will work. He inspires us every day.
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Film For Health will empower the children of Varanasi's Shivdaspur area to learn from each other through the medium of film.
leer más↓↑ ocultar↑ ocultar¿Qué quieres lograr en tu primer año?
We will be travelling in the summer and hope to enable the kids with basic film editing skills. The sustained presence of Princeton University "Bridge Year" volunteers will ensure the sustainability of this project.
Establece tu primera metas para de tu emprendimiento para los próximos 6 meses, que te permitan acercarte a tu visión y objetivos
Tarea 1
identify the best flip cameras to donate to the kids
Tarea 2
write a film manual in Hindi/Urdu languages for the kids to use
Tarea 3
teach the kids effectively how to use the film software
Establece tu segunda metas para de tu emprendimiento para los próximos 6 meses, que te permitan acercarte a tu visión
Establece tu tercera metas para de tu emprendimiento para los próximos 6 meses, que te permitan acercarte a tu visión
leer más↓↑ ocultar↑ ocultar¿Cómo definirás el éxito de tu emprendimiento durante el primer año de operaciones (1-6 meses)?
Success means we boost the kids' self-esteem and teach them how they can use film to empower their own lives. It means they make videos that they are proud of.
¿Cómo definirás el éxito tu emprendimiento a largo plazo (1-3 años)?
The kids are able to teach each other how to use the film software.
¿Qué indicadores(s) usarás para medir el éxito de tu emprendimiento durante el primer año?
The quality and quantity of the videos.
leer más↓↑ ocultar↑ ocultar¿Cómo vas a reclutar nuevos miembros?
Guria Sansthan (the NGO through which we are working) has a connection the Princeton University's Bridge Year Program, so there will be volunteers annually sent to Varanasi to work on this project. We need not recruit when we already have such an interest!
¿Cómo vas a nombrar nuevos líderes cuando los fundadores del emprendimiento tengan que irse?
We will encourage leadership on behalf of the kids rather than the founding members; when the kids have learned how to edit well, then we can transfer leadership directly to them instead of a "leadership team."
¿Cómo vas a continuar tu proyecto después de 6 meses? ¿Con qué recursos piensas seguir?
All we need are cameras; the rest is on us to continue the project emotionally and not financially!
Buyu is an African designer brand that makes timeless Travel accessories from the age old Baobab tree. The Buyu travel collection is the first combination of Baobab and leather in the travel accessory world. It is named after the fruit produced by the Baobab tree and it is 100% handcrafted in Kenya
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¿Tu organización ha recibido premios y/u honores? Cuéntanos sobre ellos.
Queremos saber acerca del momento en que dijiste “!Aja!”. Comparte la historia de dónde y cuándo el/los fundadores vieron el potencial de esta solución para cambiar el mundo.
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Busanti- Women Empowerment on Wheels!
Explica de qué se trata la “innovación”, por ej.: ¿es la idea y/o el modelo que utilizas para lograr tu misión, o tu comprensión sobre la población objetivo, etc.?
The idea is innovative because it represents the first ‘public health’ bus service for underserved
women in Pakistan and is committed to delivering:
• Safe and reliable transport (for women)
• Financial inclusion (the bus pass is equipped with mobile micropayments and
microsavings technology)
• The first health insurance plan in Pakistan for women working in the informal economy
By institutionalizing a safe, sustainable, alternate mode of transport to access both work and
quality primary, secondary and tertiary healthcare, Busanti will help relieve both the mental and
physical stress that is imposed on women who work in the informal economy.
Describe cómo se diferencia tu modelo de innovación en el campo, respecto al de cualquier otra organización.
There have been other programs that were launched but had major issues of sustainability. Busanti is a sustainable model because it will charge the same fare that other buses on the road are charging yet offering women a safer and more dignified solution method to travel. The main distinction between Busanti and other buses on the road is:is
1. This Busanti is a safe/secure/reliable way to travel (innovation)
2. Busanti provides healthThis is education/awareness on wheels (innovation)
3. BusantiIt is a billboard on wheels which can promote progressive messaging around women’s empowerment (social innovation)
¿Qué tipo de sistema operativo y factores internos de la organización hacen que tu innovación sea un éxito?
NAYA JEEVAN has a women-friendly work environment which is committed to positive social transformation for women in Pakistani society. A significant portion of our managers/leaders are women and we want to infect others with this positive spirit
¿Cómo te aseguras que innovas constantemente a la luz de (potenciales) desafíos externos, o cuál es tu plan de crecimiento?
Esta presentación se trata de
leer más↓↑ ocultar↑ ocultarDesafío sistémico que tratas de superar (selecciona sólo uno)
Brindar asistencia médica accesible a comunidades en los mercados emergentes.
Área de salud (mercado objetivo) donde se encuentra la necesidad (selecciona solo uno)
Servicios primarios de asistencia médica
Categorías de la atención medica que estés cubriendo [selecciona todas las que correspondan]
Prevención, Detección, Cuidado a largo plazo, Integración social.
Por favor describe con mayor detalle: ¿qué problema estás tratando de solucionar en el contexto específico?
Naya Jeevan is still a relatively new organization albeit part of a growing health insurance ecosystem in Pakistan. No other insurance entity caters to the lower income socioeconomic groups using a convergence, integrated innovation model. Naya Jeevan is targeting employees whose monthly incomes are under PKR 25,000/month (~less than $8/day) which includes a large population of informal workers – maids, babysitters, cooks, etc. On the path to sustainability, Naya Jeevan is also partnering with corporations to provide health insurance to their low income workers and supply chains. Busanti targets these segments as well as there are a significant number of female workers working in factories as well as in agriculture and retail.
Etapa que mejor aplica para tu solución [selecciona sólo una]
Idea (lista para su lanzamiento)
Estrategias centrales de tu modelo de negocios (selecciona todas las que correspondan]
Enfoques de cambio conductual a nivel individual, Diseño centrado en el paciente, Nuevos/redefinición de roles de prestaciones de servicio de atención de la salud, Nuevos enfoques de distribución de productos y servicios de salud, Alianzas alternativas (entre jugadores tradicionales y jugadores externos de la asistencia de la salud), Nuevas estrategias financieras para la salud.
Herramientas más relevantes que estés utilizando para implementar las estrategias destacadas arriba [selecciona sólo dos]
Tecnología, Formación/capacitación.
Por favor describe tu solución con más detalle
The solution is straight forward. We create awareness of women’s health issues among our targeted population and they become initiators of change within their communities. They become accelerators of the same idea. We provide for them with a safe environment where they can commute daily and earn a dignified living. We provide a solution around these womenagainst the social and cultural barriers that impede access to socioeconomic opportunities for women. By educatingWomen can be educated them about their legalon women rights, legislation such as women protection bills and tools of personal safety (e.g. pepper sprays) through via film/video montages and interactive workshops
¿Cuál es tu visión y objetivos generales?
The goal of the program is to provide low-income women workers with safe, reliable public transport and increased capacity to create financial and social value for themselves and their families. In addition, this program seeks to facilitate women’s active participation society and the workforce, empowering women with information, resources and institutions acquire control over their lives and improve attitudes and behavior towards women.
Objective 1: Increase women’s empowerment by expanding their awareness of labor laws and opportunities to exercise their rights in the workplace, community, and home.
Objective 2: Combat Gender Based Violence (GBV) and/or intimidation/harassment that informal, low-income female workers are routinely subjected to on public transport and in the workplace
¿Cuál es tu propuesta de valor?
Given the problems that women face in public transport, such as verbal abuse, groping, physical attacks... stalking- many women themselves feel uneasy and avoid travelling alone. We have taken 2 negatives, lack of access to healthcare & lack of access to safe transport, & created a positive in the form of Busanti. Busanti will be PK's first public health service for women. It will provide women a secure vehicle to get them to their destinations safely, all while providing them with access to education/awareness and resources on matters of health.
¿Quiénes son los beneficiarios se los que se dirige tu trabajo?
Our primary customer are informal working women who are typically underpaid compared to their male counterparts, for the same job classification, in Pakistan ($1/day to $3.3/day). They are also often subjected to verbal/psychological harassment by their employers who exploit their vulnerable situation in economically challenging times. A majority of Pakistani women workers are unaware of their rights & hence, have not demanded that these rights be enforced. Awareness must by necessity precede change. Forming groups or UNIONS of working women who are made aware of their rights and labor laws will enable these women to collectively demand their rights.
¿Qué enfoques utilizas para llegar a ellos?
We will partner with corporations to raise awareness of this bus service through their marketing and distribution networks. We also expect media (TV/radio/print) to spotlight this initiative.
¿Cuáles son tus actividades principales?
All participating women will be trained in life skills including:
• Stress/time management
• Work-life balance
• Personal hygiene/sanitation
• Environmental hygiene
• Negotiation skills
In addition, women workers will be exposed to the following legal training modules including:
• Personal Safety in the workplace
• Protection Against Workplace Harassment (2010 act)
• Protection of Women Act (2006)
• Constitutional Labor Rights
¿Quiénes son tus pares y competidores? ¿Qué problemas podrían plantear esos jugadores para tu éxito o crecimiento?
Busanti is an initiator in this field, hence, competition is out of the question. There are other private buses currently on the road, but they do not pose a threat at all, since women would be more than willing to switch buses because of the obvious advantages of Busanti over the rest.
Daewoo is another good quality bus service, although it does not run within the cities, they are competitors to trains and flights that run nationwide.
¿Qué otros desafíos – individuales, organizacionales o ambientales – estás actualmente enfrentando o que podrían impedir el éxito futuro de tu emprendimiento y cómo planeas superarlos?
One of the major challenges is to handle the cashflow, the price that the average buses are charging is enough to cover the fuel of the buses but not enough to cover the cost of the trainings being held. Hence, the business innovation will come in handy, where corporates will BRAND a BUS for a limited time period, which will turn the bus into a moving billboard; a type of outdoor media that doesn’t exist in Pakistan right now. This innovation gives some breathing space to cover other costs.
Another challenge might be gangs/criminals that might want be tempted by a bus full of women. For such people we will employ guards in the buses. Safety is a priority.
Describe brevemente tu estrategia de crecimiento futura
Creating awareness for the cause
Creating a curriculum to be followed (workshop/education on wheels)
Living up to the promise
¿Qué dimensiones de crecimiento estás actualmente focalizando para tu innovación? [selecciona todas las que correspondan]
¿Qué hace que tu negocio esté “listo” para crecer?
A similar project was launched which was wrapped up within months. Women enrolled promptly although they were let down because the bus started taking everyone on board to cover their costs. Busanti is a sustainable model; BRAND your BUS, is an alternate revenue source that will keep it afloat
¿Cuáles son tus objetivos centrales de crecimiento?
Indicators:
• 50% reduction in incidence of gender-associated harassment/violence
• 100 course enrollments/month
• 100% awareness among those women who travel in Busanti
¿Cuál es tu plazo de tiempo para el crecimiento, a corto y largo plazo? ¿Cuáles son tus objetivos y actividades centrales futuros?
The next 3 steps to develop this idea include:
(i) Develop a mobile software application that will enable customers the ability to purchase a monthly Busanti Pass/open a mobile money account
(ii) Test the utilization of the bus pass technology in a prototype ‘Busanti’ bus.
(iii) Design and develop the ‘women’s health' modules that will be displayed via video in the
bus
June 2013 – September 2013: Mapping Study with Data Analysis
July 2013 – August 2013: Focus Groups along with gender sensitization training and capacity-building of project staff
September 2013 –April 2014: Pilot project: Four 1-week training modules x 8 months
May 2014-June 2014: Collection and Analysis of Employee Feedback
leer más↓↑ ocultar↑ ocultar¿Cuál ha sido el impacto de la solución hasta la fecha?
NAYA JEEVAN has achieved the following results thus far:
23,000+ low income members enrolled in corporate, NGO and community Health plans across 100+ organizations in Pakistan
5000+ medical consultations conducted by phone
3000+ Health risk assessments and 500+ hospital admissions averted In addition to this, we have measured the following:
Evidence of User Satisfaction
*In 2010, the client organization renewal rate was 82%. The beneficiary renewal rate was 79%.
*In 2011, the customer renewal ratio was 95 %, indicating high user satisfaction with the product.
*Naya Jeevan achieved a growth ratio of 582% in 2010 and 630% in 2011.
Improvements in Efficiency
* Naya Jeevan's operating cost/life impacted has decreased from US$8/life impacted in 2010 to US$6/life impacted in 2011; and should continue to do so due to increased resource optimization
And increased number of beneficiaries/economies of scale.
¿Qué métodos cuantitativos de impacto social estás aplicando (si estuvieras aplicando alguno)?
Employee Feedback surveys will be conducted within 4 weeks of training completion to assess satisfaction with training
Outputs:
• Number of Women Workers completing legal training program
• Number of Harassment/Violence incidents self-reported by women workers completing legal awareness training program compared to other factory-based women workers
Indicators:
• 50% reduction in incidence of gender-associated harassment/violence
• 100 course enrollments/month
¿Tu solución podría operar en otros conextos o regiones? Si así fuera, ¿en dónde?
More than half of Pakistanis are women, and a high percentage of SEC C and below have working women, this would mean that Busanti will be successful all over Pakistan, wherever slums, urban slums are found. This would include (put percentage of population) of the total population to be our target market.
Apart from Pakistan, in India the recent and fatal rape case is evident of the fact that Busantis are needed there more than ever. Also the population of India and Pakistan are similar. Other South Asian countries might also be in favour of the launch of Busanti in their countries.
¿Cuál es tu impacto proyectado para los próximos 1-3 años?
We anticipate that working women’s awareness of rights and labor laws will increase by 50% in the target population over 12 months. We expect that industrial working women will become more facile with mobile banking and financial services that they will be provided. Equipped with improved life skills and knowledge, we expect that these factory/industry-based workers will be treated with far more dignity and respect by their employers and will actually enjoy going to work, demonstrated by a 20% increase in their attendance rate.
leer más↓↑ ocultar↑ ocultarExplica detalladamente tu estrategia financiera actual
Reparto de la generación de ingresos del total de ingresos de la organización (en porcentaje)
Ventas directas a pacientes u otros beneficiarios (en porcentaje)
De las posibles fuentes de estas ventas, en la siguiente lista, marca todas las que correspondan a tu estrategia actual
Tarifas de licencia, por ej., por tecnología/ modelo de franquicia (en porcentaje)
Abajo, marca todas las que correspondan a tu estrategia actual
Contrato de servicio con organizaciones, por ej. gobierno, ONGs (en porcentaje)
De las posibles fuentes de contratos de servicios, en la siguiente lista, marca todas las que correspondan a tu estrategia actual
Explica tu estrategia de generación de ingresos más detalladamente
Reparto de la generación de ingresos del total de ingresos de la organización (en porcentaje)
Estrategias filantrópicas que estás utilizando
Estrategia diversificada.
Explica tu enfoque filantrópico con más detalle
Income: List existing income sources for this project
• Existing sources of funding (incl. other grants received and income generated by project): $150,000 (USAID,
Nestlé Prize in Creating Shared Value - Nomination Form Page 12 of 13
Grand Challenges Canada)
• Organisation’s own contribution (cash or in-kind):
Total income: $150,000
Amplia tu selección; explica cómo mantendrás el financiamiento dentro de los próximos 1 a 3 años.
Created on 04/9/2013 by Maternova2011
Maternova has created the first e-commerce platform connecting medical device innovations and end users. Our goal is to rapidly disseminate information and life-saving products at an equitable pace in order to speed the reduction of maternal mortality and morbidity. Our platform combines content, commerce and collaboration for a highly practical, efficient new business model in global health.
Organización: Maternova, Inc.
más ↓↑ ocultar↑ ocultarNombre de la organización
Sitio web de la organización
País de la organización
Estados Unidos, RI, Providence, Providence County
País/es en los que opera la organización
Estados Unidos, RI, Providence County
Tipo de organización
Empresa
Año de lanzamiento de la organización
Años de operación
Operando entre 1-5 años
¿Tu organización ha recibido premios y/u honores? Cuéntanos sobre ellos.
World Summit on Entrepreneurship Global Hot 100 Enterprise (2012), Live Plan Boost Business Plan challenge Grand Prize Winner (2012), Pitch NYC Global Finalist (2012), Pipeline Fellowship finalist (2013), Bloomberg Businessweek 'Top 25 Social Entrepreneurs' (2012), Cartier's Women's Initiative Finalist (2011). Mass Challenge finalist (2011).
Queremos saber acerca del momento en que dijiste “!Aja!”. Comparte la historia de dónde y cuándo el/los fundadores vieron el potencial de esta solución para cambiar el mundo.
Maternova's aha moment occurred in while working in Indonesia alongside a team funded by USAID, Meg Wirth's colleague - an Ob/Gyn by training - died in childbirth, trying to solve the problem to which she succumbed. We have made it our life's work to ensure innovations and lifesaving devices disrupt the distribution model and make it to end users, so that no more women die.
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leer más↓↑ ocultar↑ ocultarNombre de tu iniciativa
Maternova's disruptive business model
Explica de qué se trata la “innovación”, por ej.: ¿es la idea y/o el modelo que utilizas para lograr tu misión, o tu comprensión sobre la población objetivo, etc.?
Globally, an incredible 99% of maternal deaths occur in developing countries (WHO). Almost 300,000 women and 2 million infants die around the time of childbirth due to largely preventable causes. “An estimated 74 per cent of maternal deaths could be averted if all women had access to the interventions for preventing or treating pregnancy and birth complications, in particular emergency obstetric care” (UNFPA). Simple technologies and protocols save lives, and more are being developed -- specifically designed for and with low-resource settings as a target market—each year. Individual scientists and innovators often spend two or more years after clinical trials just searching for a commercialization partner, due to high barriers to innovation uptake in low-resource settings. Brilliant clinicians and procurement agents in LMIC are unaware of the existence of life-saving new technologies. What has been missing is an accessible, trusted online marketplace where these two parties can meet, purchase and test innovations and collaborate. Maternova was created to be this space. The group Women Deliver named Maternova ‘1 of the 50 best ideas for women’ globally in 2012.
Information about the existence of disruptive technologies and ready access to them are two barriers to delivery of innovations to those who need them most. An online e-commerce platform allows the inventors of technologies to skip over multiple hurdles and years of searching for a commercialization partner. We find the innovators, follow them and then become a commercialization partner to assist them.
Describe cómo se diferencia tu modelo de innovación en el campo, respecto al de cualquier otra organización.
Maternova is the only trusted source and aggregator for low-tech medical innovations dedicated to maternal, neonatal and child health. Our Innovation Index is the result of three full years of in depth research and planning. We go a step further and offer direct access to cutting edge technologies on the first e-commerce platform for maternal and newborn health technologies. And to complement the content and commerce, we promote collaboration online.
The selection process for our innovation index is a proprietary formula that considers sustainability, efficacy, cost effectiveness, global relevance and ability to scale quickly. Maternova combines the three critical 'C's' of: Content, Commerce, and Collaboration for our members to research, procure, test and review products in the field.
¿Qué tipo de sistema operativo y factores internos de la organización hacen que tu innovación sea un éxito?
We are a very nimble organization and able to adapt and adjust to meet market demands while focusing on the scientific and social impact and ROI our products deployed in the field have, We spend a great deal of time cultivating on-going long term relationships with clients. Our collaboration platform offer the opportunity to provide a social networking/clinical trial forum for people to work together in any number of ways. Whether it's focused on a specific technology, or sharing best practices, Maternova rapidly accelerates the dissemination of lifesaving information into the field - to save more lives.
¿Cómo te aseguras que innovas constantemente a la luz de (potenciales) desafíos externos, o cuál es tu plan de crecimiento?
We have many great plans for the future. Because we are a platform for multiple innovations we always have the option to drop one product that isn't selling well or to replace it with something better/faster/cheaper that comes along. In addition our domain expertise in the field of maternal and newborn health puts us at the cutting edge of researching new technologies--in fact we have been published in major journals on the subject.
We learn as we go and we constantly reiterate. Our prototype for our first proprietary product, along with mobile capabilities will allow us to further engage end users in both commerce along with conversations. Maternova also has a keen interest in child health, and pharma ( select products) may be an option for our marketplace in the future.
Esta presentación se trata de
leer más↓↑ ocultar↑ ocultarDesafío sistémico que tratas de superar (selecciona sólo uno)
Brindar asistencia médica accesible a comunidades en los mercados emergentes.
Área de salud (mercado objetivo) donde se encuentra la necesidad (selecciona solo uno)
Cuidado maternal
Categorías de la atención medica que estés cubriendo [selecciona todas las que correspondan]
Prevención, Intervención, Seguimiento, Integración social.
Por favor describe con mayor detalle: ¿qué problema estás tratando de solucionar en el contexto específico?
Globally, 99% of maternal deaths occur in developing countries. Simple, life-saving technologies designed for low-resource settings are developed at an increasing pace, more affordably than ever before. Unfortunately, most of these technologies are slow to reach clinicians in the countries that need them most. A large proportion of infant and maternal mortality could be avoided if clinicians in developing countries knew about technologies that already exist and were able to access them. Maternova has built an online global marketplace to speed access to innovations once they have undergone pilots and regulatory clearance and to introduce them to clinicians, Ministries of Health, private hospitals and distributors. A single, constantly updated marketplace for innovations.
Etapa que mejor aplica para tu solución [selecciona sólo una]
Establecida (pasó las etapas anteriores y ha demostrado éxito)
Estrategias centrales de tu modelo de negocios (selecciona todas las que correspondan]
Enfoques de cambio conductual a nivel individual, Diseño centrado en el paciente, Re-diseño del sistema público de atención de la salud, para una mejor eficiencia (en términos de procesos, estructura, etc.), Nuevos enfoques de distribución de productos y servicios de salud, Alianzas alternativas (entre jugadores tradicionales y jugadores externos de la asistencia de la salud).
Herramientas más relevantes que estés utilizando para implementar las estrategias destacadas arriba [selecciona sólo dos]
Tecnología, Consulta, Formación/capacitación.
Por favor describe tu solución con más detalle
Our solution cuts layers of red tape and speeds the distribution of life-saving innovations. With our e-commerce platform we make it easy for those supporting, planning and supplying health systems around the world to track cutting edge 'frugal innovation' and buy what they need online in customizable quantities. We have some inventory but drop ship from multiple locations around the globe.
Using online tutorials, sms-text based messaging systems and our online collaboration platform will bridge the gap from the point of information origin and the end-user. Our solution also harnesses the power of trusted social networks and encourages feedback on technologies from the end user, a core stage in commercialization that is missing in much of global health.
¿Cuál es tu visión y objetivos generales?
We know that one robust, intuitive portal where stringently screened medical innovations can be discovered, procured, and incorporated into a health system's device eco-system can save lives and money. Medical solutions exist to solve maternal health issues, and more are developed every month. It is our mission to help commercialize these breakthroughs and expedite their use in the field, providing user groups, user feedback loops and thereby generating even more great ideas for saving lives. We can accomplish this using product + technology+ storytelling + social networks + education. Our platform creates a complete ecosystem for accomplishing this vision: empower health workers, deploy innovations and save more lives more quickly. We aim to impact 6 million lives by the end of 2015.
¿Cuál es tu propuesta de valor?
Maternova's value proposition is to make saving the lives of our global mothers affordable, accessible, and effective by providing the first trusted source and e-commerce platform in the global health space. We accelerate the dissemination of innovation and demonstrate a substantial return on investment over traditional interventions. On average Maternova products yield $13 saved for every $1 spent.
¿Quiénes son los beneficiarios se los que se dirige tu trabajo?
Our early adopters have been traveling clinicians and health care professionals and non-profit health care organizations providing direct care in the most remote areas of the world. Now we are seeing a surge in interest from Governments, Ministries of Health, larger hospitals and clinics. We are also now on the UN procurement supplier lists. The end user of most of our technologies are the health providers on the frontlines of global health care.
¿Qué enfoques utilizas para llegar a ellos?
Traditionally Maternova has used grassroots guerilla marketing anchored by a strong social media presence. Word of mouth is a strong marketing tool for us as well--one clinician to another is the most powerful recommendation. We also do some inbound marketing along with modest Google Adwords. Our own blog is kept very fresh and current, which attracts viewers from 170 countries. We work with brokers who work with governments and also do a lot of dedicated research time seeking out opportunities for bidding.
As we grow, we will be able to send free product samples, present at trade shows and increase our search engine optimization online (in multiple languages). A major area of experimentation over the next year will be mobile marketing, especially in Rwanda and Tanzania.
¿Cuáles son tus actividades principales?
Our primary activities focus on a) marketing and selling 'best in class' technologies to aid in childbirth; b) storytelling about entrepreneurs and end users of the technology c) researching and uncovering the most innovative medical innovations that are uncommercialized or in the early stages of research and development. We are now acting as a 'pull' mechanism with entrepreneurs coming directly to us because commercializing complementary products in one place makes so much sense.
¿Quiénes son tus pares y competidores? ¿Qué problemas podrían plantear esos jugadores para tu éxito o crecimiento?
Maternova currently doesn't have any direct competitors. Of course this could change, but our head start is considerable. We would most likely look to partner with any competition, or absorb them. There are some companies like Laerdal and WomanCare Global that could be seen as competitors but they sell complementary technologies. In general, most global health technology companies we see as potential suppliers for the marketplace.
¿Qué otros desafíos – individuales, organizacionales o ambientales – estás actualmente enfrentando o que podrían impedir el éxito futuro de tu emprendimiento y cómo planeas superarlos?
That's an easy question to answer. Our company is globally recognized, yet we are incredibly resource constrained. Our funding has been limited largely due to funders incorrectly believing we are not bootstrapped. We are in true dire need of working capital if we are going to continue what we have sacrificed years to build. We are actively working to obtain a line of credit against receivables.
Describe brevemente tu estrategia de crecimiento futura
We have been able to establish several distribution contracts that are exclusive altogether or geographically exclusive. Moving forward, we plan to make that the prerequisite for our endorsement and showcase in our marketplace.
Additionally, we have developed a prototype for our first proprietary product.
Also, we have begun securing distribution partners and customs agents overseas.
¿Qué dimensiones de crecimiento estás actualmente focalizando para tu innovación? [selecciona todas las que correspondan]
Nuevos clientes grupo/s, Nueva(s) región(es), Nuevo(s) mercado(s)/país(es).
¿Qué hace que tu negocio esté “listo” para crecer?
We already have the global traction, and one solid year of sales and revenue generation with our number of customers and average size of orders growing. Our 'test' period for market viability has proven successful. We are registered with the FDA, and also registered as a vendor for procurement on the UN Global Marketplace. Our business model has been vetted and our assumptions have been proven.
¿Cuáles son tus objetivos centrales de crecimiento?
Maternova wants to be the first and best e-commerce platform, mobile purchasing hub and collaboration ecosystem for maternal health. We aim to move to 100 products sold into 100 countries through key partnerships. Using these strategies we will move to cash flow positive in 2014. Once we generate a profit, we can then invest in more technologies and invest in midwifery schools.
¿Cuál es tu plazo de tiempo para el crecimiento, a corto y largo plazo? ¿Cuáles son tus objetivos y actividades centrales futuros?
We are experiencing rapid growth right now in Q2 of 2013. In the short term we need to secure a line of credit to allow us to respond to 2-3 major government tenders (very large volume orders). By 2014, we plan to have better translation services for all content on our website, along with our mobile presence being partially ramped up to generate revenue. Another major investment in our platform in early 2014 will build out more collaboration capability, engage more users and allow more creative marketing of new products. By 2015 we aim to have 500,000 registered users and be doing $5.2M in sales.
leer más↓↑ ocultar↑ ocultar¿Cuál ha sido el impacto de la solución hasta la fecha?
The social impact of Maternova has been huge. We have impacted over 73,500 lives with our products to date. We have visitors from over 170 countries, have engaged over 85,000 users and helped commercialize over 25 products and get them to the most remote corners of the world including East Timor, Guatemala, Uganda, DRC, Tanzania, Palestine, Gaza, Honduras, Mali and Thailand.
¿Qué métodos cuantitativos de impacto social estás aplicando (si estuvieras aplicando alguno)?
In some ways we use an easy formula: product * number of uses = people impacted. Our social impact model takes each product sold and deployed and estimates the number of end users impacted. We discount our calculations based upon a) whether the end user provided some evidence that the product was actually used and b) some discounted rates of misuse or non-use. We also use customer feedback and reports from the field.
¿Tu solución podría operar en otros conextos o regiones? Si así fuera, ¿en dónde?
Our solution can work globally and does. We are not constrained by geography. We would need to build out our translation capabilities. Our strongest presence has been in Uganda, Tanzania, and Haiti. However, we've sold successfully into 26 other countries.
¿Cuál es tu impacto proyectado para los próximos 1-3 años?
Our goal is to touch 6 million lives by 2015 and we are currently on track to do that. We will have 100 products in our marketplace. Our proprietary product will be fully commercialized.
leer más↓↑ ocultar↑ ocultarExplica detalladamente tu estrategia financiera actual
Maternova started with a very small grant from the S.E.VEN fund and then a grant from the Macarthur Foundation. We then spent about a year in extreme bootstrapping mode, refining our business model and participating in two startup accelerators, the CHANGE Accelerator and the MassChallenge Accelerator out of Boston. Based upon our market research we expanded our projections and our scope--most importantly we expanded the range of products we sell.
We refined our financing strategy and fundraised for a seed round of equity financing which closed in 2012 and which included 3 small social investors. Our goal is to secure another 500k in funding either via investment or lines of credit against receivables. That working capital will allow us to get to scale much more quickly. Our current financial projections show us reaching cash flow positive in 2014.
Reparto de la generación de ingresos del total de ingresos de la organización (en porcentaje)
Ventas directas a pacientes u otros beneficiarios (en porcentaje)
De las posibles fuentes de estas ventas, en la siguiente lista, marca todas las que correspondan a tu estrategia actual
Individuos, Profesionales de la salud, Empresas privadas, Otros beneficiarios.
Tarifas de licencia, por ej., por tecnología/ modelo de franquicia (en porcentaje)
Abajo, marca todas las que correspondan a tu estrategia actual
Contrato de servicio con organizaciones, por ej. gobierno, ONGs (en porcentaje)
De las posibles fuentes de contratos de servicios, en la siguiente lista, marca todas las que correspondan a tu estrategia actual
Fundaciones, Organizaciones no gubernamentales, Empresas privadas, Gobierno regional, Gobierno nacional, Otras.
Explica tu estrategia de generación de ingresos más detalladamente
Maternova is first and foremost an online distributor of medical technologies, devices and supplies. We carefully select a subset of products and develop relationships with entrepreneurs and suppliers. Maternova established favorable pricing terms with exclusive distribution rights in certain geographic territiories. Then we add in our own profit margin. Our collaboration platform can be sold on a subscription basis as a second revenue stream on top of the product revenue. We started by working with smaller NGO's, hospitals and clinics but we are now targeting much larger groups as well. Maternova is also gaining traction with government tenders. Currently we are the finalist (trial currently underway) for a statewide program in India.
Reparto de la generación de ingresos del total de ingresos de la organización (en porcentaje)
Estrategias filantrópicas que estás utilizando
Única estrategia.
Explica tu enfoque filantrópico con más detalle
Unfortunately, we have not been able to be as giving as we would like to be. We do, however, donate products to select groups when asked. In the future, I'd love to create overseas opportunities for women who would like to run microfranchises. There are many protocols and products that can be created using locally sourced materials (infant warming is one). We'd love to help lift women out of poverty and impact communities.
Amplia tu selección; explica cómo mantendrás el financiamiento dentro de los próximos 1 a 3 años.
Maternova plans to have 100 products available in our marketplace. We'll provide an easier alternative for procurement officers seeking to build out their maternal and newborn health programs. Our current projections show us as reaching cash flow positive in 2014. We already have several hundred customers and our orders are growing in both number and average size of order.
Our proprietary product(s) will also be generating revenue.
Created on 04/8/2013 by rominaschnaider
la Plataforma de Monitoreo de la Salud Materna es una herramienta para mejorar la información sobre salud materna. Con un enfoque innovador, el proyecto involucra a los principales actores involucrados. A la información existente suma otras fuentes y voces en una única plataforma. La implementación de crowdsourcing es un uso pionero de herramientas tecnológicas en el trabajo en salud territorial.
Organización: Garagelab
más ↓↑ ocultar↑ ocultarNombre de la organización
Sitio web de la organización
País de la organización
Argentina, C, Buenos Aires
País/es en los que opera la organización
Argentina, C, Buenos Aires
Tipo de organización
Sin fines de lucro/ONG
Año de lanzamiento de la organización
Años de operación
Operando entre 1-5 años
¿Tu organización ha recibido premios y/u honores? Cuéntanos sobre ellos.
GarageLab ha recibido varios reconocimientos y apoyos a los proyectos que lleva en marcha. Su fundador Darío Wainer es miembro de la red de fellows de Ashoka por su aporte a la dinamización de los ecosistemas de innovación en Argentina. Los proyectos en marcha con los apoyos obtenidos son: http://quepasariachuelo.org.ar: FARN, Cels, ACDH, Greenpeace, Poder Ciudadano, http://dineroypolitica.org: Poder Ciudadano, http://gastopublicobahiense.org: Poder Ciudadano, entre otros. EL proyecto por el cual nos presentamos tiene el apoyo de las siguientes instituciones u organismos: http://muertematerna.herokuapp.com o http://muertematernaenargentina.org: Cedes, OssyR, Unicef Argentina y UNFPA Argentina. http://saludmaternaenavellaneda.herokuapp.com o http://saludmaternaenavellaneda.org: Cedes, OSSyR y Fondo Canadá para Iniciativas Locales.
Queremos saber acerca del momento en que dijiste “!Aja!”. Comparte la historia de dónde y cuándo el/los fundadores vieron el potencial de esta solución para cambiar el mundo.
Abordar la problemática de la muerte materna desde nuestra perspectiva concuerda con la visión institucional de GarageLab que se autodefine como un laboratorio orientado a impactar en el ecosistema de innovación local, para instalar una nueva manera de relacionar problemas emergentes y soluciones, poniendo en diálogo a instituciones e individuos, y creando circuitos de información y conocimiento.
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leer más↓↑ ocultar↑ ocultarNombre de tu iniciativa
Plataforma de monitoreo de la salud materna
Explica de qué se trata la “innovación”, por ej.: ¿es la idea y/o el modelo que utilizas para lograr tu misión, o tu comprensión sobre la población objetivo, etc.?
El carácter innovador de este proyecto reside en un abordaje de la mortalidad materna en Argentina que abarca a todos los factores y actores involucrados con foco en el ecosistema de datos. El acercamiento a la problemática busca representar los flujos informacionales producidos por los distintos actores, a través de un trabajo colaborativo, de participación y relevamiento de fuentes, con los tomadores de decisiones políticas, representates del sector salud, la sociedad civil, expertos y ciudadanos.
De la mano de tecnologías innovadoras y una filosofía de datos públicos, el resultado es la disposición abierta, visualización, modelización y circulación de la información existente para distintos públicos, enriquecida por datos -las huellas de los ciudadanos en sus contactos con el sistema de salud,- que aún no forman parte del ecosistema. El mapeo resultante de los flujos de información -top-down y bottom-up- y sus dinámicas genera una visión de conjunto que logra representar el problema de salud en toda su complejidad, asi como favorece un seguimiento focalizado de sus factores.
El proyecto es particularmente innovador en su mirada sobre la problemática y en el uso que hace de las tecnología: la innovación se centra en agregar valor a la información sobre salud materna en general y sobre las huellas ciudadanas en particular, posibilitando futuros mecanismos de evaluación y monitoreo de las políticas públicas con la participación de los actores involucrados y promoviendo la apropiación de derechos por parte de la ciudadanía y su empoderamiento.
Describe cómo se diferencia tu modelo de innovación en el campo, respecto al de cualquier otra organización.
A raíz de las deficiencias en la información disponible sobre este tema, su falta de actualidad y cobertura, sumamos fuentes de información que no son registradas por otras organizaciones y las ponemos en relación con las demás fuentes. Incorporamos la voz de la ciudadanía a través de testimonios para aportar información de carácter cualitativo. Sobre una única plataforma reuniremos información referente a monto de inversiones y presupuestos en distintos niveles, censo de maternidades junto a la estadística oficial de datos vitales. Implementamos tecnologías innovadoras para relevar, visualizar y modelar esta información que si no, no se encuentra visible; adoptamos una política de datos públicos para promover el acceso a datos, su circulación y reutilización por los distintos actores.
¿Qué tipo de sistema operativo y factores internos de la organización hacen que tu innovación sea un éxito?
Nuestra organización tiene una pequeña escala y es flexible para trabajar en distintos niveles, desde el contacto con organismos públicos hasta el trabajo territorial. El equipo tiene experiencia en la implementación de proyectos innovadores de tecnologías y con datos públicos. De carácter interdisciplinario, el equipo cuenta con distintos profesionales - de la salud, de tecnología, comunicación- que trabajan colaborativamente. La innovación se lleva a cabo en estrecha colaboración entre comunicadores, gente de tecnología y expertos que tienen trayectoria en investigación en salud materna, con experiencia de relevamiento sobre esta problemática, y con contactos con tomadores de decisiones y autoridades en los distintos niveles del sistema de salud pública.
¿Cómo te aseguras que innovas constantemente a la luz de (potenciales) desafíos externos, o cuál es tu plan de crecimiento?
La flexibilidad que nos brinda la tecnología hace que de cada trabajo territorial se obtenga información vital de los actores involucrados y se evalúen las mejoras necesarias para optimizar el modo de visualizar la información, de enriquecer el ecosistema de datos y de mejorar las estrategias de recolección de datos sobre la calidad de servicios del sistema de salud.
Esta presentación se trata de
leer más↓↑ ocultar↑ ocultarDesafío sistémico que tratas de superar (selecciona sólo uno)
Desarrollar nuevos incentivos en los del sistema de salud para crear mayor valor hacia la sociedad o
Área de salud (mercado objetivo) donde se encuentra la necesidad (selecciona solo uno)
Cuidado maternal
Categorías de la atención medica que estés cubriendo [selecciona todas las que correspondan]
Prevención, Detección, Seguimiento.
Por favor describe con mayor detalle: ¿qué problema estás tratando de solucionar en el contexto específico?
El problema marco son las muertes maternas que ocurren anualmente en Argentina, y que acusan la condición de pobreza de amplios sectores de la población. Aunque el país se comprometió a reducir su tasa de muerte materna en cumplimiento con el ODM5, en los últimos 20 años no ha habido respuesta por parte del sistema de salud.
La solución a este problema es una plataforma de monitoreo para enriquecer la información existente sobre estas muertes, pues la deficiencia informacional es un síntoma emergente de las múltiples trabas en el acceso al sistema de salud y de sus fallas que dificultan rastrear el origen y elaborar soluciones, a la vez que impide tener una visión de conjunto a los decisores e investigadores del tema, y refuerza la relación existente entre pobreza y acceso a la salud.
Etapa que mejor aplica para tu solución [selecciona sólo una]
Inicio (un piloto que recién ha comenzado a operar)
Estrategias centrales de tu modelo de negocios (selecciona todas las que correspondan]
Nuevos enfoques de distribución de productos y servicios de salud, Alianzas alternativas (entre jugadores tradicionales y jugadores externos de la asistencia de la salud), Otro.
Por favor especificar
Enriquecimiento de la información centrado en los ciudadanos para identificar potenciales mejoras.
Herramientas más relevantes que estés utilizando para implementar las estrategias destacadas arriba [selecciona sólo dos]
Tecnología, Formación/capacitación.
Por favor describe tu solución con más detalle
Elaboramos una plataforma de monitoreo en línea de la muerte materna y un relevamiento de la calidad del sistema de salud que enriquezca la información existente sobre la temática para: brindar herramientas de análisis a tomadores de decisión y profesionales de la salud; informar, brindar servicios, involucrar y empoderar a la ciudadanía; poner en práctica un modelo demostrativo de construcción participativa de los problemas de salud a investigadores en temas de salud; y explorar estrategias de visualización, apertura de datos de políticas públicas y desarrollo de teconologías de mobile health (m-health) para especialistas en tecnología.
¿Cuál es tu visión y objetivos generales?
Hacer pública la información existente sobre la salud materna y mortalidad materna visualizando datos reportados por las estadísticas oficiales, enriquecerla con otras fuentes de datos, e integrarla con una perspectiva colaborativa de la ciudadanía. Objetivos generales: integrar los datos existentes, contextualizar con información socioeconómica, hacer seguimiento de políticas públicas y presupuestos en ejecución, incorporar la evaluación ciudadana del sistema de salud, empoderar a la ciudadanía con información, servicios novedosos y mecanismos de participación.
¿Cuál es tu propuesta de valor?
La novedosa articulación entre expertos/investigadores en el tema, especialistas en tecnología, representantes del sistema de salud, tomadores de decisiones políticas y la ciudadanía permite enriquecer el ecosistema de datos sobre salud materna, ensayar modos de empoderar a la ciudadanía para hace cumplir los derechos a la salud, mejorar el acceso del público en general a la información sobre salud, y monitorear las políticas públicas llevadas a cabo para reducir la mortalidad materna.
¿Quiénes son los beneficiarios se los que se dirige tu trabajo?
Nuestro proyecto se dirige a la población en general y las mujeres en particular, como público objetivo y al que se quiere empoderar. A los tomadores de decisión, como destinatario de la información que genera la ciudadanía sobre su experiencia con el sistema de salud. A los investigadores en salud, como observador de experiencias participativas en salud y articuladores entre los actores que intervienen en la experiencia. A los representantes del sistema de salud, como destinatario de las evaluciones de calidad del servicio que dirigen.
¿Qué enfoques utilizas para llegar a ellos?
Buscamos obtener el apoyo de expertos e investigadores prestigiosos (CONICET, CEDES, OSSyR, entre otros) sumado al respaldo de organismos internacionales (UNICEF, UNFPA, Fondo Canadá para iniciativas locales, etc.) para que la propuesta sea bien recibida por los representantes del sistema de salud y decisores políticos. El trabajo interdisciplinario de GarageLab orientado a la visualización de datos basado bajo los estándares de Gobierno Abierto, facilitan el acceso y la participación de la ciudadanía en una plataforma abierta.
¿Cuáles son tus actividades principales?
Investigación y recolección de datos
Análisis y diagnóstico de problemas locales
Relevamiento y actividades de participación que involucren a las organizaciones de la sociedad civil que operan de nexo con la ciudadanía.
Diseño y desarrollo de herramientas tecnológicas para modelar y visualizar datos, para promover la generación y circulación de la información.
Capacitación en el uso de las herramientas a los actores involucrados.
Análisis de la información relevada y devolución de conclusiones a los tomadores de decisiones con un enfoque basado en diálogos deliberativos.
¿Quiénes son tus pares y competidores? ¿Qué problemas podrían plantear esos jugadores para tu éxito o crecimiento?
Hasta la fecha, no hemos identificado pares o competidres.
¿Qué otros desafíos – individuales, organizacionales o ambientales – estás actualmente enfrentando o que podrían impedir el éxito futuro de tu emprendimiento y cómo planeas superarlos?
La muerte materna es un problema bastante silencioso para la sociedad porque no ocurren innumerables muertes (entre 300 y 500 anuales). De todas formas, el subregistro de datos aceptado por todos los actores involucrados, el caracter retrospectivo de las estadísticas oficiales, su estricta relación con la pobreza, más su alta evitabilidad, hacen que sea un problema inaceptable para la sociedad en general, los organismos internacionales de cooperación y las distintas áreas de gobierno.
Describe brevemente tu estrategia de crecimiento futura
Escalar las experiencias territoriales a otras zonas, ampliar el trabajo colaborativo sumando servicios de m-health para mejorar el empoderamiento ciudadano y enriquecer la información descriptiva del problema para dar una mejor solución al problema.
¿Qué dimensiones de crecimiento estás actualmente focalizando para tu innovación? [selecciona todas las que correspondan]
Nueva(s) región(es).
¿Qué hace que tu negocio esté “listo” para crecer?
Las experiencias realizadas fueron muy satisfactorias, la necesidad es visible, los organismos internacionales identifican el problema de la salud materna como una deuda pública importante. Asimismo, los representantes del sistema de salud manifiestan necesitar herramientas innovadoras para ensayar soluciones alternativas al problema.
¿Cuáles son tus objetivos centrales de crecimiento?
Conseguir nuevos apoyos financieros para seguir articulando, en otras zonas del país, entre los expertos, tomadores de decisiones y representantes de la sociedad civil que ya participan de la propuesta. Para sumar más información proveniente de la ciudadanía, integrar las dos plataformas que hoy existen y sumar servicios de m-health como campañas de empoderamiento y medir sus impactos.
¿Cuál es tu plazo de tiempo para el crecimiento, a corto y largo plazo? ¿Cuáles son tus objetivos y actividades centrales futuros?
A corto plazo, un año para escalar en dos provincias. A largo plazo, cuatro años para llevar la experiencia a otras provincias.
Replicar la experiencia en otras zonas, escalar a nivel nacional, integrar plataformas, sumar fuentes de información, desarrollar aplicaciones móviles para sumar servicios de información y movilización, establecer circuitos para la integración de los datos al sistema público, para hacer devolución de la información a los tomadores de decisiones e incidir en políticas públicas, y evaluar impactos en las poblaciones donde se va a trabajar.
leer más↓↑ ocultar↑ ocultar¿Cuál ha sido el impacto de la solución hasta la fecha?
Crear un cambio en la percepción del ciudadano como sujeto de derechos. A la mujer con derecho sobre su cuerpo. Empoderar a la ciudadanía en el monitoreo de políticas públicas. Visualizar las muertes maternas como un problema que requiere de mayor inteligencia para ser resuelto. Sumar a los actores involucrados para agregar valor y generar información vital que proponga respuestas inteligentes a problemas que no mejoran.
¿Qué métodos cuantitativos de impacto social estás aplicando (si estuvieras aplicando alguno)?
Estamos llevando a cabo la primera experiencia piloto que sumará reportes ciudadanos sobre la percepción sobre la calidad del servicio de salud, con infomación cantitativa y culitativa. Estos reportes se realizarán con la población de mujeres que se registraron en el Plan Nacer el último año en una localidad de la provincia de Buenos Aires. Por otro lado, en junio y con el apoyo de UNICEF, haremos el lanzamiento de la plataforma de monitoreo de la muerte materna con información oficial donde evaluaremos el impacto en los medios de comunicación.
¿Tu solución podría operar en otros conextos o regiones? Si así fuera, ¿en dónde?
Sí. Actualmente la experiencia de generación de testimonios ciudadanos se está realizando en el partido de Avellaneda. Su expansión está prevista en toda la provincia de Buenos Aires y otras provincias de la Argentina para escalar la experiencia, obtener una muestra más elocuente de sus fortalezas y debilidades, sistematizar y documentar el proceso, y contar con una masa crítica de reportes para validar los resultados. También aspiramos a realizar un trabajo comparativo con países de la región entre los indicadores de la OMS, las estadísticas vitales y los planes vigentes para dar respuesta al Objetivo5 del Próximo Milenio.
¿Cuál es tu impacto proyectado para los próximos 1-3 años?
La experiencia inicial tiene previsto juntar 100 testimonios y generar impacto directo sobre el diagnóstico de la situación local en el partido de Avellaneda, en la calidad y cantidad de datos disponibles sobre salud materna y en la política pública, a través de un encuentro directo entre expertos, decisores y ciudadanos. En esta primera instancia se llevará la experiencia a toda la provincia de Buenos Aires (donde ocurren la tercera parte de las muertes). En los próximos 3 años se replicará a otras provincias del país, esperando alcanzar la mayor cobertura nacional posible. Se estima, al menos, cubrir cuatro provincias.
leer más↓↑ ocultar↑ ocultarExplica detalladamente tu estrategia financiera actual
El trabajo hasta aqui ha sido financiado por organismos internacionales: UNICEF, UNFPA y Fondo de Canadá. La estrategia financiera apunta a generar un valor agregado que beneficie mediante el proceso y los resultados del trabajo a quienes financian el proyecto. A los organismos financieros les interesa mejorar la información disponible sobre salud materna asi como promover políticas para reducir la tasa de mortalidad. Beneficiados serán también otros actores -organismos de salud públicos, representantes de la sociedad civil-; a través de su participaciones la estrategia es empoderar para a futuro establecer socios que asuman la futura implementación del proyecto en otras áreas.
Reparto de la generación de ingresos del total de ingresos de la organización (en porcentaje)
El 20% de lo que se recibe como apoyo a los proyectos en marcha, se aporta a la sustentabilidad de GarageLab. El resto, se distr
Ventas directas a pacientes u otros beneficiarios (en porcentaje)
Hasta el momento recibimos apoyo de organismos de cooperación internacional y pensamos sumar apoyo de empresas ligadas con la sa
De las posibles fuentes de estas ventas, en la siguiente lista, marca todas las que correspondan a tu estrategia actual
Otros beneficiarios.
Tarifas de licencia, por ej., por tecnología/ modelo de franquicia (en porcentaje)
Abajo, marca todas las que correspondan a tu estrategia actual
Otras.
Contrato de servicio con organizaciones, por ej. gobierno, ONGs (en porcentaje)
De las posibles fuentes de contratos de servicios, en la siguiente lista, marca todas las que correspondan a tu estrategia actual
Fundaciones, Organizaciones no gubernamentales, Gobierno regional.
Explica tu estrategia de generación de ingresos más detalladamente
Como el tema del proyecto es la salud pública, se trata de una empresa social que no produce ingresos. Sus resultados se miden en términos de mejoras a la información pública, que en su circulación enriquecen al sistema de salud, agregan valor para los tomadores de decisiones que tratan el tema, para los ciudadanos que revalorizan y se apropian del sistema de salud, ejercen su derecho a la salud y se empoderan a través de su participación. Asi la plataforma de monitoreo es un recurso para promover políticas que a futuro podrá brindar servicios de información sobre salud y transformarse en un canal de información para la ciudadanía. Una vez desarrollada a través de su ampliación territorial se convertirá en referente y destinatario para el accionar de RSE de empresas vinculadas ala salud.
Reparto de la generación de ingresos del total de ingresos de la organización (en porcentaje)
20% a la institución y el resto en función de las funciones de cada uno de sus miembros en proyectos determinados.
Estrategias filantrópicas que estás utilizando
Estrategia diversificada.
Explica tu enfoque filantrópico con más detalle
Por el momento nos hemos enfocado en el acompañamiento de los organismos de cooperación internacional. En un futuro, sumaremos la participación el apoyo de aquellas empresas que entiendan como eje estratégico el apoyo a la salud en general y la salud materno-infantil en particular
Amplia tu selección; explica cómo mantendrás el financiamiento dentro de los próximos 1 a 3 años.
Continuaremos ampliando nuestras alianzas estratégicas y nuestra red de apoyos. Sumaremos también el aporte de empresas vinculadas con el sector salud y la maternidad y primera infancia que tengan en marcha programas de Responsabilidad Social Empresarial en marcha.
Created on 03/31/2013 by NeshasAgenda
Despite efforts to achieve equality, women still earn less money than men; they are over looked for promotions and are not likely to carry the title of CEO or President at major corporations. Among the Fortune 500 companies, women only hold 18 CEO positions, and before 1996 all CEOs were men.
The presence of women in these positions continues to shock and awe, further solidifying women as the “other” when it comes to positions of power. There’s a cycle of normalcy and complacency that exists around these sensitive topics.
Organización: Her Agenda
más ↓↑ ocultar↑ ocultarNombre de la organización
Sitio web de la organización
País de la organización
Estados Unidos, NY, New York
Países en donde este proyecto está creando impacto social
Tu organización es
Híbrido
leer más↓↑ ocultar↑ ocultarNombre de tu iniciativa
A hub of information and inspiration for millennial women
Selecciona la fase que describa mejor el momento en el que se encuentra tu emprendimiento
Inicio (iniciativa piloto que acaba de empezar a ponerse en práctica)
What problem is your organization committed to solving? In particular, share what is innovative about your approach.
Despite efforts to achieve equality, women still earn less money than men; they are over looked for promotions and are not likely to carry the title of CEO or President at major corporations. Among the Fortune 500 companies, women only hold 18 CEO positions, and before 1996 all CEOs were men.
The presence of women in these positions continues to shock and awe, further solidifying women as the “other” when it comes to positions of power. There’s a cycle of normalcy and complacency that exists around these sensitive topics.
Utilizing mentorship, personal empowerment, and an increase in information, women can mobilize through empowering themselves to ultimately break down the patriarchal structures of society and claim their power.
What are your organization's top three priorities in the next year?
*To build out our ambassador program increasing HerAgenda.com's reach in other cities.
*Build partnerships with corporations to identify ways to help young women lead and also to post their job opportunities for our network.
*Increase the frequency of stories posted and original in-depth features by bringing on a managing editor.
Need #1
Performance Management
Need #2
Message & Brand Strategy
Based on your first choice of the eight technical categories you selected above, what is your specific project need? Please be specific!
Since relaunching the website, HerAgenda.com has increased it's reach and also increased it's online and offline initiatives. With that, many have reached out to us regarding partnerships, and also to join our team. As of now, we have 20 contributing writers, a social media manager, an intern and two video production photogs. As the leader of this company, I am working on trying to find effective ways to keep the team motivated. I am looking to find ways keep them engaged and contributing new ideas, while also still having the energy to develop and produce our day to day projects. We recently started developing our offline initiatives in the form of quarterly panels. We also now host a monthly twitter chat series. Each project requires innovative thinking and top tier management. I also feel that the website could increase the resources and information we have available, but it has been difficult finding ways to motivate the team to invest in those objectives.
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 my organization overall. We are looking for dynamic ways to manage and engage our team while also looking for effective ways to brand and market our company. The support from the experienced executives at American Express would be beyond helpful. It would be the perfect investment we need to grow and move forward as a company.
Have you focused on the above area previously? If so, please explain, including whether you have worked with outside consultants before.
As the founder, I've done research in the area of managing and growing a team. I also have set up a few systems to help streamline our process and communications. However I have not been afforded the opportunity to work with outside consultants. Having the viewpoint of someone from the outside of the company would be beyond amazing because they offer a fresh perspective, and yet bring with them years of experience.
Are you able to commit 3-5 hours/wk over 10-12 weeks?
Sí
Are you able to meet virtually or at a convenient in-person location?
Sí
Are you able to meet in the city where your organization is based?
Sí
1.
Identify effective ways to manage the team we have and stabilizing company protocols and systems.
2.
Increase the productivity of our team to work on developing our new intatives and strengthen the ones we have in place.
3.
Grow our social media presence in addition to garnering increased media coverage for our panels and projects.
¿Cuál ha sido el impacto de la solución hasta la fecha?
We are telling the stories of women succeeding in their industries and using their story to motivate and inspire the next generation of women leaders. We have provided content to help millennial women in addition to exposing then to information about the latest job opportunities, internships, grants and conferences to help them get to their next level. We recently hosted a panel where 100 women gathered to hear the career stories of 4 dynamic women. (see that panel here: http://heragenda.com/event-recap-the-making-of-her-agenda/) We also hosted a laptop raffle contest sponsored by Microsoft. The laptop was given to a young lady who recently gave away her computer to her little sister for college. But she needed a laptop to work on starting her company. We also have 20,000 page views.
What is your project future impact after receiving professional support from American Express?
We will have a sustainable team and a strong brand strategy in place to allow us to grow our reach and inspire even more millennial women to never let anything slow heir agendas! We will strengthen our core initiatives and increase productivity in our team. We will also then have a strong foundation to launch new projects such as the Her Agenda ambassador program. We are also planning on raising a round of funding and need to strengthen our team and product before doing so.
Esta presentación se trata de
Created on 03/30/2013 by Beauty Night
Beauty Night is committed to reducing poverty for impoverished women. We do this by building self esteem and restoring dignity for impoverished women and youth. The women we serve:
1/3 seniors
1/3 moms & children
1/3 street youth & survival sex workers
We use beauty and wellness services to:
a) Build community to bring people together in celebration
b) Use Beauty Services to reintroduce healthy touch to women who have experienced violence
Organización: Beauty Night Society
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Founder & Executive Director
Nombre de la organización
Sitio web de la organización
Países en donde este proyecto está creando impacto social
Tu organización es
OSC/ONG
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What problem is your organization committed to solving? In particular, share what is innovative about your approach.
Beauty Night is committed to reducing poverty for impoverished women. We do this by building self esteem and restoring dignity for impoverished women and youth. The women we serve:
1/3 seniors
1/3 moms & children
1/3 street youth & survival sex workers
We use beauty and wellness services to:
a) Build community to bring people together in celebration
b) Use Beauty Services to reintroduce healthy touch to women who have experienced violence
c) Through building hope and trust through our relationships with our participants, we hear their needs and wants. As they start to believe change is possible, we are able to connect them to our community partners. This enables them to access shelter, food and health care.
In 12 years, we've given 26, 000 makeovers. 200 women each week.
What are your organization's top three priorities in the next year?
1) Increasing the number of participants served from 200 each week to 250 (50 weeks each year)
2) Doing a program and volunteer management audit to improve our programs
3) Hire a program coordinator to implement recommendations from program and volunteer management audit.
Need #1
Digital Marketing Strategy
Need #2
Customer Relationships
Based on your first choice of the eight technical categories you selected above, what is your specific project need? Please be specific!
To assess our competitive position and and better evaluate its performance. This would be useful for analyzing why we have a strong community that people want to become engaged in yet but have difficulty asking for funding. We would use the information to adjust the information on our website and our marketing strategy. Currently we have a strong social media presence for an organization our size (Twitter 6200 followers and Facebook 1600+).
We would also like to improve customer communications with the participants we serve directly, our volunteers, supporters and on social media. The assessment would be beneficial for us to share with all of our stake holders (participants, volunteers, supporters, social media, corporate and community partners).
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Enthusiasm and dedication to the timeline milestones we set
2.
Creativity and innovation to approach challenges
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 our Life Makeover Program. One of the challenges we face is fund raising. When people hear about our project, they want to become part of it. We have been incredibly successful providing value (serving 200 people each week on $44 845 last fiscal year). By being able to evaluate and shift our marketing to continue to engage and build our community we would like to be able to increase our financial resources as we build our human resources. This enables us to better serve our participants and increase our programming in different areas.
Have you focused on the above area previously? If so, please explain, including whether you have worked with outside consultants before.
Yes we have worked with IABCBC (Int Association of Business Communications BC) for a pro bono grant on social media in 2010 when we did our celebrated our 10 year anniversary.
Are you able to commit 3-5 hours/wk over 10-12 weeks?
Sí
Are you able to meet virtually or at a convenient in-person location?
Sí
Are you able to meet in the city where your organization is based?
Sí
1.
increasing the amount of participants we serve from 200 to 250 each week
2.
Increasing the amount of monies through sharing information with our supporters
3.
Increasing our monthly events in Surrey, Burnaby & New West to twice a month
¿Cuál ha sido el impacto de la solución hasta la fecha?
In 12 years, we have given over 26, 000 makeovers thanks to over 500 volunteers. Since January 2013, we have added monthly programming in Surrey, Burnaby and New Westminister. We have had an additional 100 volunteers join our community project donating their skills and monies. Many of our participants have reconnected with their friends and families, found housing, volunteer opportunities, left abusive situations, and in some cases found employment.
What is your project future impact after receiving professional support from American Express?
After receiving support from American Express, once the recommendations are implemented, it will enable us to grow increase the work we do in Surrey, Burnaby and New Westminister. This will be done through using strengthening our template and sharing the information with our volunteers and supporters.
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Created on 03/28/2013 by Mike Berkowitz
GPI is committed to solving two global challenges: the decline of quality international news and empowerment of women.
Organización: Global Press Institute
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Sitio web de la organización
País de la organización
Estados Unidos, CA, San Francisco, San Francisco County
Países en donde este proyecto está creando impacto social
Tu organización es
OSC/ONG
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What problem is your organization committed to solving? In particular, share what is innovative about your approach.
GPI is committed to solving two global challenges: the decline of quality international news and empowerment of women.
A number of factors separate GPI’s work from others in the field. Foremost among them is GPI’s unique training-to-employment program. While many international development and media organizations provide training, few offer opportunities for on-going practical application of learned skills. GPI not only teaches traditional reporting skills, digital literacy and advanced writing skills, but each woman who completes the training program receives an offer of employment at a living wage and goes on to work for GPI’s signature publication, the Global Press Journal.
GPI has trained and employed 133 women as professional journalists across 26 developing countries.
What are your organization's top three priorities in the next year?
GPI’s top three priorities in the next year are to (1) launch the Global Press Journal’s new syndication service to market our unique content to news outlets around the globe, enabling dramatic growth in readership and potential for social impact. Syndication will also allow GPI to move towards greater sustainability through earned revenue generation; (2) invest in the continued professional development of GPI trainees and Journal reporters by providing advanced training to every reporter in our network; and (3) equip every reporter with a laptop, camera, and elevated internet access, enabling increased multimedia training and news coverage.
Need #1
Message & Brand Strategy
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!
We are segmenting the GPI brand to include the newly created Global Press Journal in order to elevate our identity as a world class news agency. Together, the Global Press Institute, Global Press Journal, and Global Press News Service will demonstrate that the basic problems of the news industry – quality, ethics, source access, and economics – can be solved with a low-cost solution.
The Journal will give readers a unique news experience by offering a better reader experience. A new syndication platform, the News Service, will market unique content to news outlets around the world, increasing social impact (by drawing more readers to the Journal’s content) and long-term organizational sustainability (by monetizing our news product). Finally, the Institute will continue to focus on training and empowering women.
Visitors come to the current website for a variety of reasons, but the mixture of the nonprofit message and original news content is confusing and diminishes the value of our journalism. Brand segmentation will change that, but due to the complexity of our branding we need expertise to develop the right strategy for refining and executing it well.
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Creative, collaborative working style and perspective
2.
Accountability and reliability
3.
Honesty and professionalism
Will support from American Express be focused on your organization overall or a specific product/service? Please describe.
Brand strategy and digital marketing strategy will focus on the entire organization, which is critical to the success of GPI’s new brand segmentation and the launch of our syndication platform. These two types of support will affect all parts of the organization, from our news syndication sales to our staff development and internal identity.
Have you focused on the above area previously? If so, please explain, including whether you have worked with outside consultants before.
Yes, GPI has repositioned its brand before. A few years ago, we changed our name from the Press Institute for Women in the Developing World to the Global Press Institute to improve our branding and shift the perception of GPI as a primarily women’s empowerment organization to one focused first and foremost on journalism. We did not engage a consultant for that process, but we have worked with outside consultants on web development, organizational strategy and management, impact evaluation, and development strategy, and we have received pro bono support on a handful of occasions.
Are you able to commit 3-5 hours/wk over 10-12 weeks?
Sí
Are you able to meet virtually or at a convenient in-person location?
Sí
Are you able to meet in the city where your organization is based?
Sí
1.
Brand identity and cohesion
3.
Increased syndication sales
¿Cuál ha sido el impacto de la solución hasta la fecha?
More than 25% of GPI stories in the last two years have catalyzed direct action, sparking social protest, provoking international attention to issues first covered by GPI, and even changing laws in two countries. For example, in 2011, when the Parliament of Nepal passed an anti-discrimination law regarding inter-caste marriages, the Prime Minister’s legal team credited a GPI reporter with forcing the issue into the national dialogue.
GPI’s 2012 reporter survey demonstrated the impact on the lives of our reporters: 84% said that they are more respected in their communities; 90% said they have a sense of transformational personal accomplishment; 100% reported having a greater sense of basic journalism principles and ethics after GPI training; and 79% reported greater computer literacy.
What is your project future impact after receiving professional support from American Express?
GPI aims to increase demand for our news coverage, grow our readership, and deepen our reader engagement as a result of having a clearer brand segmentation and digital marketing strategy, all of which would ultimately contribute to catalyzing social change and creating greater local and international awareness about the developing world.
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Created on 03/27/2013 by vtorassa
In Argentina, many rural communities are faced with the problems of inequality, resignation, apathy and isolation. Azul Solidario fosters social innovation through public-private partnership methodology and since 2005 has coordinated a rural development project (ProMeCER) that focuses on improving education, health, women’s empowerment and youth involvement. This integrated approach strengthens rural identity, promotes more sustainable rural development and helps prevent rural exodus to major cities.
Organización: Asociación Civil Azul Solidario
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Asociación Civil Azul Solidario
Sitio web de la organización
Países en donde este proyecto está creando impacto social
Tu organización es
OSC/ONG
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Developing and Empowering Rural Communities in Argentina
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Expansión (el siguiente paso será crear un impacto a escala regional o incluso mundial)
What problem is your organization committed to solving? In particular, share what is innovative about your approach.
In Argentina, many rural communities are faced with the problems of inequality, resignation, apathy and isolation. Azul Solidario fosters social innovation through public-private partnership methodology and since 2005 has coordinated a rural development project (ProMeCER) that focuses on improving education, health, women’s empowerment and youth involvement. This integrated approach strengthens rural identity, promotes more sustainable rural development and helps prevent rural exodus to major cities.
What are your organization's top three priorities in the next year?
1. Strengthen current management structure with paid staff.
2. Reinforce current inter-institutional bonds and involve new peers from both private and public sectors.
3. Expand our donor network and improve our accountability and communication with them (fundraising strategy).
Need #1
Peer Benchmarking Analysis
Need #2
Consumer/Audience Acquisition
Based on your first choice of the eight technical categories you selected above, what is your specific project need? Please be specific!
In the last 8 years, Azul Solidario has worked to learn how to build a stronger organization and design sustainable fundraising campaigns. We are currently searching for advice on strategies to draw interest from a broader group of citizens, companies and government sector employees in order to improve our support network and sustainability.
2.
Outreach (community involvement)
Will support from American Express be focused on your organization overall or a specific product/service? Please describe.
We would like to utilize support from American Express in order to address the 3 previously stated priorities.
1. Strengthen current management structure with paid staff.
2. Reinforce current inter-institutional bonds and involve new peers from both private and public sectors.
3. Expand our donor network and improve our accountability and communication with them (fundraising strategy).
Have you focused on the above area previously? If so, please explain, including whether you have worked with outside consultants before.
No. We have already formed a strategic plan but we are still seeking strategies to overcome our organizational scaling and its financial sustainability.
Are you able to commit 3-5 hours/wk over 10-12 weeks?
Sí
Are you able to meet virtually or at a convenient in-person location?
Sí
Are you able to meet in the city where your organization is based?
Sí
1.
Local new partners (100 citizens and 10 companies)
2.
Regional & National partners (3 NGOs/ Foundations and 10 companies)
3.
Devise an efficient communication program
¿Cuál ha sido el impacto de la solución hasta la fecha?
22 rural primary schools and 9 rural kindergartens have developed the personal, familiar and community links to become Changemakers in the areas of education, health, female empowerment, and environmental care.
1. Education. Children are receiving a well-rounded education with an enriched curriculum including arts, music, sports, computing and English.
2. Health. Approximately 500 children are involved in annual vaccination schemes and annual pediatric and odontopediatric rounds. In addition, health and nutrition education is provided through two exemplary organic orchards.
3. Female Empowerment. 32 rural women from 8 regions are involved in our sheep wool spinning and knitting project
4. Environmental Care. 4 sanitary wells have been built in farms to prevent hydatidosis.
What is your project future impact after receiving professional support from American Express?
We would like to utilize support from American Express in order to address the 3 previously stated priorities.
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This project also has a Project where you can read more about its latest progress.
Go to Project: Women LEAD.
Created on 03/25/2013 by ccharamnac
Women hold only 10% of national decision-making positions in Nepal. An increase in allocated leadership positions, such as a 33% quota for women in state structures, represents new opportunities for women but schools & civil society are failing to equip them with the tools to access these positions.
Organización: Women LEAD
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Sitio web de la organización
País de la organización
Estados Unidos, DC, Washington, Washington
Países en donde este proyecto está creando impacto social
Tu organización es
OSC/ONG
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What problem is your organization committed to solving? In particular, share what is innovative about your approach.
Women hold only 10% of national decision-making positions in Nepal. An increase in allocated leadership positions, such as a 33% quota for women in state structures, represents new opportunities for women but schools & civil society are failing to equip them with the tools to access these positions.
As the only leadership development organization for young women, led by young women, in Nepal, Women LEAD believes that the solution is long-term leadership development for girls. Since 2011, we’ve empowered over 400 young women to become leaders in their schools & communities. We’re locally owned & youth-led: all of our team are young women under 25. We include boys when appropriate (40% of participants in our Leadership track), as boys need to learn to work with & support female leaders.
What are your organization's top three priorities in the next year?
1) Train 200 students through the LEAD Program.
2) Establish our Resource Center which will hold events for up to 1000 young women leaders across Kathmandu.
3) Raise our operating budget of $60,000 for 2013-2014.
Need #1
Consumer/Audience Acquisition
Need #2
Peer Benchmarking Analysis
Based on your first choice of the eight technical categories you selected above, what is your specific project need? Please be specific!
We are a young organization with a very small donor base (less than 100 donors), a small email list (around 200) and a growing audience on social media channels (more than 1,500 followers on Facebook and 800 on Twitter). We also have only one staff member dedicated to fundraising (though we are expanding our capacities with our Board and Fundraising Committee in the US). We have opportunities to expand our fundraising within and beyond the US but have not identified and developed the strategies to do so. It would be very helpful for American Express to help us identify the gaps in our current strategy and form new tactics to reach new audiences. We need help in:
1. Effectively managing our social media community to increase conversion rates from “follower” to “donor”;
2. Developing a strategy for international engagement targeting: family foundations, business partners in the Nepali tourism industry, and high-capacity donors;
3. Identifying and cultivating a portfolio of 50 mid-to-high capacity donors (1,000-5,000 annual cash gifts) with the goal of ten major gift solicitations by the end of FY ’13-14.
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Honesty - being open about expectations and disagreements.
2.
Clarity - being clear about expectations and deliverables from the beginning
3.
Appreciation - recognizing and being grateful for each other's contribution to the partnership
Will support from American Express be focused on your organization overall or a specific product/service? Please describe.
Support will be focused on our fundraising strategy. Ideally American Express would study our existing strategy, evaluate its effectiveness, and propose new tactics for the strategy to increase and diversify our donors.
Have you focused on the above area previously? If so, please explain, including whether you have worked with outside consultants before.
Half my time as the US Executive Director is focused on fundraising. I created a fundraising strategy for Fiscal Year 2013 (which for us ends in June). Our revenue stream was divided into institutional gifts, individual gifts and events. We worked with a consultant from Accenture for one session who reviewed our existing strategy and proposed new options. Although we did raise the amount needed until the end of the fiscal year, we did not hit some of our other targets, such as recruiting 10 major donors and growing our individual donor base.
Are you able to commit 3-5 hours/wk over 10-12 weeks?
Sí
Are you able to meet virtually or at a convenient in-person location?
Sí
Are you able to meet in the city where your organization is based?
No
1.
Create a fundraising strategy that reaches new audiences such as the tourism industry and high net worth individuals.
2.
Identify 50 mid to high capacity donors (1,000-5,000 USD)
3.
Grow our individual donor base by 100% to 200 donors
¿Cuál ha sido el impacto de la solución hasta la fecha?
400 leaders have graduated from our organization. While only 18% of women over 25 have a secondary education or higher in Nepal, 87% of our 2010 graduates are attending university, studying subjects such as dental surgery, biotechnology, architecture & civil engineering. Our participants gain confidence in their abilities & skills, self-identify as leaders, raise their voices to advocate for change, form & work towards their career goals & become more politically aware & active. They’re challenging their community’s treatment of women, writing op-eds on the misrepresentation of women & becoming role models/mentors to younger students. Participants join a peer support network & develop supportive relationships that will help them face the challenges of advocating for a gender equal society.
What is your project future impact after receiving professional support from American Express?
With American Express' support, we will be able to create a diverse fundraising strategy, which is a critical part of our sustainability as an organization. It will help us take our fundraising to the next level to ensure that we can invest in operational costs and retain and recruit full-time staff. Investing in our staff will enable us to expand our operations in Nepal (going from impacting 200 young women a year to more than 1,000) and look into replicating our model in other countries. With our current fundraising level, we cannot scale up our model.
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Created on 03/22/2013 by martinezhidalgo
LessITS, apoyando a lesbianas en la prevención de ITS
leer más ↓↑ ocultar↑ ocultarNombre de tu emprendimiento
Salud sexual para mujeres lesbianas
Página Web de tu emprendimiento
Países en donde este proyecto está creando impacto social
Tu organización es
OSC/ONG
¿Trabajas con alguna organización social?
¿Cómo te enteraste de la competencia?
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Resúmen: ¿De qué tema o problema específico trata tu emprendimiento?
El proyecto se centra en la falta de información que presentan las mujeres que tienen sexo con otras mujeres (lesbianas, bisexuales, pensexuales, etc) sobre prevención de VIH y otras infecciones de transmisión sexual, debido a que existe poca conciencia sobre este tema y las distintas organizaciones existentes se centran en infecciones que se transmiten entre hombres o de hombres a mujeres y viceversa.
Enunciado de tu misión: ¿Qué hace tu emprendimiento?
Entregar educación sexual (información y herramientas) en prevención de VIH y otras infecciones de transmisión sexual para mujeres que tienen sexo con otras mujeres (lesbianas, bisexuales, pansexual, etc).
El Modelo: Muéstranos a través de un ejemplo específico cómo tu solución hace una diferencia, incluye tus actividades primarias
En un contexto donde la mayoría de información sobre prevención del VIH y otras ITS está enfocado a heterosexuales, mujeres transexuales y hombres que tienen sexo con otros hombres, las mujeres lesbianas y otras mujeres que tienen sexo con mujeres pueden sentir que no corren riesgos de contraer alguna ITS. Al facilitar la información necesaria, estas mujeres pueden tomar decisiones más efectivas para evitar correr riesgos de contraer una ITS.
Las actividades primarias para llevar a cabo esta solución son:
- Recolección de información adecuada (buscando colaboración con especialistas).
- Creación de folletos con información concreta sobre ITS y con links para buscar más información al respecto.
- Entrega de folletos y algún otro material de ser necesario, en lugares que suelan acudir en gran medida mujeres lesbianas, como discoteques, pubs o foros, a través de "mesas de prevención".
La comunidad: Define tu comunidad, local, nacional o internacional, con la cual vas a trabajar. ¿Cuál es tu público objetivo, a qué población vas a dirigir tus acciones? ¿Existen otras organizaciones que ya trabajan en este tema en tu comunidad?
El proyecto será implementado en la ciudad de Santiago de Chile.
El público objetivo son las mujeres que tienen sexo con otras mujeres, tales como lesbianas, bisexuales, pansexuales o de cualquier orientación sexual, además de hombres transexuales y transgéneros (transmasculinos). Ambos, entre 15 y 40 años principalmente.
Actualmente no existen organizaciones que se dediquen a este tema en específico. Por un lado, están las organizaciones feministas y lesbofeministas que se centran en aspectos como la reivindicación y el aborto, y por otro lado, las organizaciones de la diversidad sexual, que si bien trabajan temáticas de VIH e ITS, se centran en hombres que tienen sexo con hombre (HSH) y transfemeninas.
El fundamento de tu Historia: ¿Qué fue lo que te inspiró para hacer tu emprendimiento y por qué?
Mi nombre es Héctor Martínez, soy un joven de la diversidad sexual y con mucha afinidad por la defensa de los derechos de las mujeres y la equidad y diversidad de género. He visto como en general, tanto en los medios como dentro del mismo movimiento homosexual se invisibiliza a las mujeres heterosexuales, mujeres lesbianas y a transexuales, y en materia de salud sexual no es la excepción. Siempre que he recibido información sobre VIH y otras ITS está ligado a relaciones sexuales penetrativas, en general con un lenguaje heteronormativo (cuando no proviene de organizaciones de la diversidad sexual) y sin información específica para mujeres que mantienen relaciones sexuales con mujeres.
Haciéndome activista de MUMS (Movimiento por la Diversidad Sexual) y colaborador de la ONG CES (Centro de Estudios de la Sexualidad) pude trabajar directamente con varias mujeres lesbianas, dándonos cuenta de esta necesidad, inspirándome para iniciar este proyecto.
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LessITS, apoyando a lesbianas en la prevención de ITS
leer más↓↑ ocultar↑ ocultar¿Qué quieres lograr en tu primer año?
Mantener informadas sobre los riesgos de contraer VIH y otras ITS a las MSM (Mujeres que tienen Sexo con Mujeres) de la ciudad de Santiago.
Establece tu primera metas para de tu emprendimiento para los próximos 6 meses, que te permitan acercarte a tu visión y objetivos
Mantener a MSM informadas a través de trabajo en terreno (mesas de prevención)
Tarea 1
Configurar material relevante sobre prevención para MSM (folletos, pendones, etc)
Tarea 2
Definir lugares estratégicos para realizar las mesas de prevención y coordinarlas
Tarea 3
Implementar 5 mesas de prevención en lugares definidos (una por mes)
Establece tu segunda metas para de tu emprendimiento para los próximos 6 meses, que te permitan acercarte a tu visión
Mantener a MSM informadas a través de redes sociales
Tarea 1
Definir el material que se publicará en las redes sociales (Facebook, Twitter)
Tarea 2
Generar una estrategia para aumentar número de seguidores que sean parte del público objetivo
Tarea 3
Calendarizar publicaciones y ejecutarlas
Establece tu tercera metas para de tu emprendimiento para los próximos 6 meses, que te permitan acercarte a tu visión
Mantener a MSM informadas a través de eventos que las convoquen
Tarea 1
Definir el tipo de evento que se realizará de acuerdo a la logística disponible (conversatorio, ciclo de cine lésbico, etc)
Tarea 2
Definir plan comunicacional del evento y ejecutarlo
Tarea 3
Realizar evento, aprovechar evento para entregar información sobre prevención y recoger feedback
leer más↓↑ ocultar↑ ocultar¿Cómo definirás el éxito de tu emprendimiento durante el primer año de operaciones (1-6 meses)?
De acuerdo a la cantidad de gente que entregamos información de forma directa a través de las distintas iniciativas (mesas de prevención, redes sociales y eventos).
¿Cómo definirás el éxito tu emprendimiento a largo plazo (1-3 años)?
A largo plazo, el éxito del emprendimiento se definirá en la reducción de contagios de VIH y otras ITS en la población MSM de Santiago, medido a través de estadísticas disponibles de organismos nacionales e internacionales.
Para ser más acotado, también será parte del éxito del proyecto la cantidad de gente impactada directamente al recibir nuestra información a través de las distintas instancias (inicialmente mesas de prevención, redes sociales y eventos). Además de la cantidad de gente impactada indirectamente, es decir, que pudo haber recibido nuestra información no directamente a través de nosotros, sino que de nuestros "impactados directamente".
¿Qué indicadores(s) usarás para medir el éxito de tu emprendimiento durante el primer año?
- Número de personas que reciben información a través de las mesas de prevención (a través de folletos, cartillas, kits de prevención, etc)
- Número de personas que nos siguen en las redes sociales
- Número de personas que asisten a nuestros eventos (ciclo de cine lésbico, conversatorio u otro)
leer más↓↑ ocultar↑ ocultar¿Cómo vas a reclutar nuevos miembros?
Inicialmente a través de mi propia red de contactos, pero a futuro, a través de las mismas instancias en que actuamos. Por ejemplo, a través de nuestros "amigos" y "seguidores" de Facebook y Twitter, mediante una campaña para hacerse activista de distintas formas.
También será necesario hacer reclutamientos específicos en facultades de medicina, para que se unan perfiles más capacitados en temáticas de VIH, como ginecólogas(os).
A largo plazo, puedes reclutarse activistas de otras regiones, para iniciar proyectos regionales.
¿Cómo vas a nombrar nuevos líderes cuando los fundadores del emprendimiento tengan que irse?
De manera voluntaria y democrática. No es un proceso corto, es necesario primero mantener capacitadas, involucradas y motivadas a las distintas activistas para que sea un proceso de elecciones y transición exitoso.
¿Cómo vas a continuar tu proyecto después de 6 meses? ¿Con qué recursos piensas seguir?
Para poder realizar el proyecto a un plazo mayor a 6 meses existen dos alternativas a evaluar:
1. Preferentemente, postular a fondos concursables del Estado (a través del Ministerio de Salud), Regionales (mediante el SEREMI de Salud) o de Fundaciones u ONGs.
2. Integrar el proyecto a una Fundación u ONG, para que reciba recursos directamente desde esta.
Created on 03/17/2013 by fountainofhopeAfrica
About 90% of Kiambu county populous lives below a dollar. The situation is even worse to families affected by HIV/Aids. Because of ardent poverty many families are not able to budget for sanitary towels since even food is not sufficient hence many girls miss school during their menses.
Organización: Fountain of Hope Youth Initiative Group
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Sanitary towels & reproduction health education to vulnerable girls.
Nombre de la organización
Fountain of Hope Youth Initiative Group
Sitio web de la organización
Países en donde este proyecto está creando impacto social
Tu organización es
OSC/ONG
Esta presentación se trata de
leer más↓↑ ocultar↑ ocultarLa necesidad: ¿Cuál es el problema que tratas de solucionar?
Many school going girls continue to miss school during their menses. According to UNICEF 2007 report, a girl in primary school between grades 6 and 8 (3 years) loses approximately 18 weeks out of 108 school weeks. A girl in high school (4 years) loses 156 learning days which is equivalent to almost 24 weeks out of 144 weeks of school. Because of poverty most use pieces of dirty rugs, cotton wool, leaves and paper some even wash and recycle. These practices expose them to diseases and discomfort.
La solución: ¿Cuál es tu solución? Sé específico.
This project provides sanitary towels and under pants to poor girls and widows. The project also offers reproduction health & career mentor-ship training to kids of both genders with emphasis on girls who are more vulnerable.
El Modelo: Muéstranos a través de un ejemplo específico cómo tu solución hace una diferencia, incluye tus actividades primarias
Providing Sanitary towels & undergarments to poor women -Conducting Hygiene education and awareness on personal diagnosis checks for breast cancer and genital disorders. -Conducting HIV/Aids awareness capitalizing on prevention and transmission to women.
El mercado: ¿Quiénes son tus pares y competidores? Identifica a otros que también estén trabajando para dar respuesta a las necesidades que tú abordas y en qué te diferencias de ellos. ¿Cuáles son los desafíos que estos jugadores podrían representar para tu éxito o crecimiento?
Kiambu County has 1.6m people. Kiambu County populous live below one dollar. Poverty levels are extremely high contributed by lack of land, extended families share small potions of land because of dense population; this leaves many without farming lands. The proximity of Kiambu to Nairobi city makes migration of commercial sex workers a norm which only promotes the HIV/Aids spread. HIV/Aids prevalence stands at 8% higher than national prevalence which is 6.3%. The socio-economic impact of HIV/AIDs in the district include the highs school drop out rates, female and children headed families, loss of manpower and high mortality and morbidity rates, orphans etc. Lack of economic empowerment, education and information has made number of women in leadership and elective positions very low.
Created on 03/12/2013 by duygudurak
b-fit offers 30 minutes exercise program for only women for affordable prices in order to make exercise a habit for women and create healthier nation.
Organización: b-fit Sports and Healthy Living Centers For Women
más ↓↑ ocultar↑ ocultarNombre de la organización
b-fit Sports and Healthy Living Centers For Women
Sitio web de la organización
País/es en los que opera la organización
Tipo de organización
Empresa
Año de lanzamiento de la organización
Años de operación
Operando más de 5 años
¿Tu organización ha recibido premios y/u honores? Cuéntanos sobre ellos.
Ashoka - Founder of b-fit; Bedriye Hulya was selected as Ashoka fellow
Endeavour - Founder of b-fit; Bedriye Hulya was selected as Endeavour entrepreneur
Many awards from various universities from Turkey
Queremos saber acerca del momento en que dijiste “!Aja!”. Comparte la historia de dónde y cuándo el/los fundadores vieron el potencial de esta solución para cambiar el mundo.
b-fit is established by one of its partner’s participation to a similar system since 2006 in America after she reduced two sizes by working out only for half an hour a day. She decided that the system which is based on scientific principles and used by 13 million Americans, should be adapted to Turkey and Turkish women's culture. The system should have been more than just a member and gym.
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Exercise for healthier life!
Explica de qué se trata la “innovación”, por ej.: ¿es la idea y/o el modelo que utilizas para lograr tu misión, o tu comprensión sobre la población objetivo, etc.?
Turkey, now, is considered as one of the most obesis countries among Europe. According to the researches made before founding; sports clubs in Turkey is mostly for men. There is not enough place for women to move.
Women, in Turkey, are the idea makers for their social environment. In many fitness clubs, women are not able to do exercise comfortably. And as many people, women has many excuses for exercising.
b-fit system was established by defining those exercises and creating solutions to remove them. After the steps were defined, first test office opened with 6 partners. In a very short time, b-fit became very popular for many women.
With its mission of 'contribution to women entrepreneurship', more than 200 women became entrepreneurs.
b-fit system, now, has reached 218 branches in 46 cities with more than 160.000 women members.
Describe cómo se diferencia tu modelo de innovación en el campo, respecto al de cualquier otra organización.
b-fit is the first women only sports and healthy living club in Turkey. After 2 years, competitiors entered to the market. However competitors entered in the market by just providing fitness clubs.
b-fit is not only a fitness club with its special exercise programme, but also a living center for women. In many cities of Turkey, women is mostly housewifes and she does not anywhere to socialize and any friends. b-fit has changed this status quo by providing women to start their own business and create places where they can exercise, socialize, learn, plan group activities, etc. b-fit has created a job opportunity for more than 1.000 women and more than 160.000 women has exercised and socialized in b-fit clubs.
¿Qué tipo de sistema operativo y factores internos de la organización hacen que tu innovación sea un éxito?
Turkey is now considered as one of the most obesis country in the world. Most of the women in Turkey, do not have the habit of exercising. Our brand became the first in the country to break this common habit. We had very hard times introducing the importance and joy of exercising to women. Our team and entrepreneurs worked very hard to make women to come and try our system. We also organize seminars/educations for women to tell the importance.
¿Cómo te aseguras que innovas constantemente a la luz de (potenciales) desafíos externos, o cuál es tu plan de crecimiento?
b-fit has first started silently in a small city to test the whole system. After 1 year, we believed that the system works and it is good for women. Just 2 years after the introduction business, competitors started to open the same business as ours. However, it was impossible to beat the success of bfit's. Bfit has now 218 branches, and the closest competitor in the Turkish market has just 40 branches.
In Turkey,laws and procedures may change very quickly. Bfit had many challenges but we always found the solution. As a social business, there many volunteers network around us to help and enlarge the business.
Our next step is to take the system to Middle East. We had many market research and redesign the system to adapt Middle Eastern culture. We need investors for the next project.
Esta presentación se trata de
leer más↓↑ ocultar↑ ocultarDesafío sistémico que tratas de superar (selecciona sólo uno)
Brindar asistencia médica accesible a comunidades en los mercados emergentes.
Área de salud (mercado objetivo) donde se encuentra la necesidad (selecciona solo uno)
Otra Especialidad de cuidado
Categorías de la atención medica que estés cubriendo [selecciona todas las que correspondan]
Prevención, Detección, Seguimiento, Cuidado a largo plazo, Integración social.
Por favor describe con mayor detalle: ¿qué problema estás tratando de solucionar en el contexto específico?
We are trying to increase awareness of women on health, exercise, and many kinds of women issues by providing them places where they can exercise and socialize and by providing them to start up their own business.
Etapa que mejor aplica para tu solución [selecciona sólo una]
Establecida (pasó las etapas anteriores y ha demostrado éxito)
Estrategias centrales de tu modelo de negocios (selecciona todas las que correspondan]
Enfoques de cambio conductual a nivel individual, Nuevos/redefinición de roles de prestaciones de servicio de atención de la salud, Nuevos enfoques de distribución de productos y servicios de salud.
Herramientas más relevantes que estés utilizando para implementar las estrategias destacadas arriba [selecciona sólo dos]
Nuevas habilidades, Consulta, Formación/capacitación, Financiamiento comunitario.
Por favor describe tu solución con más detalle
We offer women; accessible solution to avoid and heal their health problems for affordable prices.
¿Cuál es tu visión y objetivos generales?
- to take the business to Middle Eastern countries.
- to provide more free services to women in need.
- to start new women schools to educate more illeterate women
¿Cuál es tu propuesta de valor?
We would like experience more and more women of healthy life. So that, new generations will become more knowledgable and health. We will be able to decrease the level of illnesses.
¿Quiénes son los beneficiarios se los que se dirige tu trabajo?
Any women from 13 - 81 years old are our customers.
¿Qué enfoques utilizas para llegar a ellos?
We have 218 branches all over Turkey and we grow by selling franchisees to only women. As the chain enlarges, our member numbers increase.
¿Cuáles son tus actividades principales?
We sell sports membership to only women for affordable prices so that we can reach and more and more women everyday.
¿Quiénes son tus pares y competidores? ¿Qué problemas podrían plantear esos jugadores para tu éxito o crecimiento?
We make alliences with many institutions such as hospitals. So that we can continue their patient's healing process in our bfit centers.
We have 4 main competitors in the market. They follow all the strategies applied in bfit and open their clubs just next to our branches. However, competitor's strategy allows members to try both clubs and make the final selection on our clubs.
¿Qué otros desafíos – individuales, organizacionales o ambientales – estás actualmente enfrentando o que podrían impedir el éxito futuro de tu emprendimiento y cómo planeas superarlos?
Management is one the main issue for our organization. As we have 218 franchisees, they are all expected to serve the same service and quality. However, this is mostly impossible. We have our own auditing system to monitor and evaluate all the branches once in a year.
Describe brevemente tu estrategia de crecimiento futura
Our success has been proven by many awards. As mentioned before, we, now, aim to enlarge the business by entering international markets.
To achieve this aim, we are looking for new people or organizations that can invest on our business.
¿Qué dimensiones de crecimiento estás actualmente focalizando para tu innovación? [selecciona todas las que correspondan]
Nueva(s) región(es), Nuevo(s) mercado(s)/país(es).
¿Qué hace que tu negocio esté “listo” para crecer?
We consider ourselves ready for growth, as we monitor the success and positive change on the women that we could reach.
All we need for growing; is to find new sources for the business.
¿Cuáles son tus objetivos centrales de crecimiento?
The investor has to fully understand our company mission in order to provide the same service and quality in different markets.
¿Cuál es tu plazo de tiempo para el crecimiento, a corto y largo plazo? ¿Cuáles son tus objetivos y actividades centrales futuros?
We have been increasing the number of our branches at ther moment in the domestic market. The big plan - investing on Middle Eastern market - is a mid-term plan. We made and continue our market research for that market.
leer más↓↑ ocultar↑ ocultar¿Cuál ha sido el impacto de la solución hasta la fecha?
We increased the awareness of Turkish women on women issues and healthy living. As they realize the importance of daily exercise for their life, they become our followers to spread the word.
¿Qué métodos cuantitativos de impacto social estás aplicando (si estuvieras aplicando alguno)?
We have our own made CRM software program where we can keep all the member's various information such as; their health needs, weights, BMIs, target... So that we can easily quantify how the system effected the environment.
¿Tu solución podría operar en otros conextos o regiones? Si así fuera, ¿en dónde?
As the aim is to enter new markets; we made market research a lot. Our system will work with little changes on administration and application in Middle Eastern countries and Germany.
¿Cuál es tu impacto proyectado para los próximos 1-3 años?
We have already reached more tahn 175.000 women with 218 branches in 7 years. We project to reach 1 million women in the next 3 years.
leer más↓↑ ocultar↑ ocultarExplica detalladamente tu estrategia financiera actual
Reparto de la generación de ingresos del total de ingresos de la organización (en porcentaje)
Ventas directas a pacientes u otros beneficiarios (en porcentaje)
De las posibles fuentes de estas ventas, en la siguiente lista, marca todas las que correspondan a tu estrategia actual
Individuos, Empresas privadas, Otros beneficiarios.
Tarifas de licencia, por ej., por tecnología/ modelo de franquicia (en porcentaje)
Abajo, marca todas las que correspondan a tu estrategia actual
Empresas privadas, Otras.
Contrato de servicio con organizaciones, por ej. gobierno, ONGs (en porcentaje)
De las posibles fuentes de contratos de servicios, en la siguiente lista, marca todas las que correspondan a tu estrategia actual
Fundaciones, Organizaciones no gubernamentales, Empresas privadas.
Explica tu estrategia de generación de ingresos más detalladamente
Reparto de la generación de ingresos del total de ingresos de la organización (en porcentaje)
Estrategias filantrópicas que estás utilizando
Explica tu enfoque filantrópico con más detalle
Amplia tu selección; explica cómo mantendrás el financiamiento dentro de los próximos 1 a 3 años.
We have been earning capital at the moment with our franchising system. We also would like to find investor to raise capital for the future plans.
Created on 03/11/2013 by ahardin4
Water Ecuador is committed to providing communities with sustainable clean water sources through a broadly replicable and scalable business model. The organization's water centers are designed to be financially autonomous, paying for maintenance and repair costs through water sales. To ensure continued community uptake, Water Ecuador performs aggressive educational work in conjunction with its water center construction. Volunteer staff in the United States educate others about water health through social media and raise money for the construction of new water centers.
Organización: Water Ecuador
más ↓↑ ocultar↑ ocultarNombre de la organización
Sitio web de la organización
País de la organización
Estados Unidos, MA, Cambridge, Middlesex County
Países en donde este proyecto está creando impacto social
Tu organización es
OSC/ONG
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Water Ecuador Digital Media Outreach
Selecciona la fase que describa mejor el momento en el que se encuentra tu emprendimiento
Crecimiento (tu iniciativa piloto ya se está aplicando y se empieza a expandir)
What problem is your organization committed to solving? In particular, share what is innovative about your approach.
Water Ecuador is committed to providing communities with sustainable clean water sources through a broadly replicable and scalable business model. The organization's water centers are designed to be financially autonomous, paying for maintenance and repair costs through water sales. To ensure continued community uptake, Water Ecuador performs aggressive educational work in conjunction with its water center construction. Volunteer staff in the United States educate others about water health through social media and raise money for the construction of new water centers. Future efforts will be directed at developing a franchise model whereby aspiring local entrepreneurs borrow to obtain a water center, which they will operate as a franchise under the auspices of Water Ecuador.
What are your organization's top three priorities in the next year?
1) Broaden donor base in Untied States through improved use of grassroots marketing and social media
2) Build Water Ecuador's brand awareness in Ecuador as a step towards the development of a franchise model for scaling operations
3) Hone business model at existing water centers through experiments in outreach and marketing
Need #1
Digital Marketing Strategy
Need #2
Consumer/Audience Acquisition
Based on your first choice of the eight technical categories you selected above, what is your specific project need? Please be specific!
Water Ecuador has begun developing a strong online presence through its website (waterecuador.org), facebook, twitter, and linkedin. However, Water Ecuador has struggled in converting hits on the website and followers on social media into donor dollars. Water Ecuador needs help in designing and implementing digital marketing strategies and partnerships that result in increased donations for the organization, thereby allowing the organizations to improve the services it provides for families in Ecuador.
Specifically, Water Ecuador would like help in analyzing the relative utility of the following strategies:
1) Google AdWords spending
2) Facebook advertising
3) Partnerships with US companies for online matching of donations
4) Inbound marketing strategies through development of manuals or informational web books
5) Creative mass donor campaigns such as those on kickstarter, charitywater.org, etc.
5) Merchandise sales on website or elsewhere
In addition to identification of areas of focus, Water Ecuador seeks advice and technical assistance in implementation of these approaches, given the limited technical skills of Water Ecuador's volunteer staff.
1.
Outcomes-based approach to problem
2.
Equitable sharing of opportunities and resources between partners
Will support from American Express be focused on your organization overall or a specific product/service? Please describe.
The support from American Express will enable Water Ecuador to increase access to clean and affordable water and education related to water, sanitation, and hygiene issues by providing overall support for all aspects of the organization's holistic approach.
Have you focused on the above area previously? If so, please explain, including whether you have worked with outside consultants before.
While Water Ecuador has a digital media presence currently, it has not focused on any of the specific tasks listed above and has not developed a digital marketing strategy directed specifically towards increasing donations for the organization. Currently, all digital media efforts have been performed by volunteers who are unable to provide advanced media services that the growing organization needs.
Are you able to commit 3-5 hours/wk over 10-12 weeks?
Sí
Are you able to meet virtually or at a convenient in-person location?
Sí
Are you able to meet in the city where your organization is based?
Sí
1.
Increased donations driven by digital media presence
2.
Increased awareness of Water Ecuador and its work
3.
Improved branding of Water Ecuador in both US and Ecuador
¿Cuál ha sido el impacto de la solución hasta la fecha?
Water Ecuador focuses on two tasks to fulfill its mission: providing access to clean and affordable water and providing education related to water, sanitation, and hygiene issues.
Internal studies to date have shown a statistically significant 52% lower rate of diarrheal disease among households consuming Water Ecuador's water.
Water Ecuador operates six water centers providing approximately 2,000 people with water every day.
The organization educates hundreds of children in the US and Ecuador every year and has begun implementation of a peer-to-peer exchange of information between elementary school children in the US and Ecuador related to water issues.
Additionally, Water Ecuador's water centers provide sustainable employment for six locally-based water center managers.
What is your project future impact after receiving professional support from American Express?
Increased funding will allow Water Ecuador to expand from six water centers in one isolated sector of Ecuador to a nationwide network of about one hundred water centers by using a franchise model to reduce capital expenditure and overhead burden on the organization. This transition will require a strong brand presence and development of an efficient organizational structure in Ecuador. Furthermore, it will require the water centers to be refined with a scaled up production capacity that will allow them to be more rapidly deployed in new communities in cost-effective ways.
Esta presentación se trata de
This project also has a Project where you can read more about its latest progress.
Go to Project: Women LEAD.
Created on 03/11/2013 by ccharamnac
Women LEAD is the first and only leadership development organization for young women, led by young women, in Nepal. We've empowered more than 400 high school students with the skills, support and opportunities to become leaders in their schools and communities.
Created on 03/11/2013 by Goonj_2013
Goonj works using urban underutilized cloth as vital resource in the shape of a sanitary pad, My-PAD, by repositioning discarded material as valuable resource. My-PAD is affordable, easy to use & environment friendly clean cloth pad made for women in villages & slums by involving urban masses primarily women. Focused awareness also carried out on this taboo but critical health issue.
Organización: Goonj
más ↓↑ ocultar↑ ocultarNombre de la organización
Sitio web de la organización
País/es en los que opera la organización
Tipo de organización
Sin fines de lucro/ONG
Año de lanzamiento de la organización
Años de operación
Operando más de 5 años
¿Tu organización ha recibido premios y/u honores? Cuéntanos sobre ellos.
Some of the recognition are:
• Nov’ 12 : Social Entrepreneur of the Year award to Mr. Anshu Gupta by Schwab foundation
• July’ 12: GOONJ as ‘Game Changing Innovation’ by NASA & US State Dept.
• Jun’ 12: GDN- Japanese govts'. ‘Most Innovative Development Project’ Award
• Feb’ 12: Edelgive Social honour for the initiative ‘Not Just a piece of cloth”
• Nov’10: Listed in ‘Forbes’ as one of the India’s most powerful entrepreneurs
• May’10: ‘Innovation for India’ award
• Mar’10: Jamnalal Bajaj CFBP Award for ‘Fair Practices’
• Nov’ 09: ‘Cloth for Work’ wins international Lien i3 Challenge Award in Singapore.
• Jun’ 09: Napkin initiative wins Changemaker’s Innovation Award
• Mar ‘09: CNN IBN’s ‘Real Heros’ award to Mr. Anshu Gupta in women welfare segment.
• Mar ‘08: ‘India NGO of the year' award
• May ‘07: GOONJ’s sanitary napkin project ‘Not just a piece of cloth’ wins World Bank’s Global Development Market Place Award.
• July ‘07: GOONJ’s first initiative “VASTRA-SAMMAN” recognized as one of ‘The Good Practices’ in Dubai International Awards.
• 2006: Win the prestigious Changemaker’s Innovation Award, the second time, for our disaster relief initiative ‘RAHAT’.
• 2004: Prestigious Ashoka Fellowship to Anshu Gupta.
• 2004: GOONJ wins Changemaker’s Innovation Award for its “SCHOOL to SCHOOL” initiative.
Queremos saber acerca del momento en que dijiste “!Aja!”. Comparte la historia de dónde y cuándo el/los fundadores vieron el potencial de esta solución para cambiar el mundo.
Anshu found out about a woman who died of tetanus as blouse piece she used as sanitary pad had a hook. Poverty,culture of shame added to hardships besides health risks.His work on clothing gave a new perspective. Goonj started opening up the subject and initiated dialogues in urban-rural both, It involved masses to mobilize awareness & discuss this taboo issue and created a basic cloth product.
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leer más↓↑ ocultar↑ ocultarNombre de tu iniciativa
Not Just A Piece Of Cloth (NJPC)
Explica de qué se trata la “innovación”, por ej.: ¿es la idea y/o el modelo que utilizas para lograr tu misión, o tu comprensión sobre la población objetivo, etc.?
Menses and menstrual hygiene falls in the most neglected health subjects worldwide. Millions of women use sand, wood ash, old rags, newspapers & even plastic bags due to non-availability of sanitary pads in India. Shame & silence associated with the issue makes it the most taboo subject even among women. The irony is that even the biggest health/RCH projects don’t have a budget for sanitary pads. This is a nationwide intervention, which starts with providing a physical product but stresses more on changing practices, behavior change, education & replication in the long term. The clean cloth pad is developed out of old cloth collected from urban masses. Its made with highly indigenous processes while we also teach the user women to make it on their own.
We are using old cloth lying useless in the cities as a resource to address this important yet taboo basic need of the village & slum women and in doing so focusing on a critical gap in women’s health. The clean cloth napkins are an entry point to generate more awareness on the related health and hygiene issues. In the cities for the first time we are initiating discussion on this issue by directly involving the urban women, drawing on their instinctive empathy. The use of cloth; a material most village women are comfortable and familiar with, coupled with the reuse possibilities makes it a viable option.
Describe cómo se diferencia tu modelo de innovación en el campo, respecto al de cualquier otra organización.
Sanitary pads that are affordable & environment friendly are on experimental level. As commercial sector hasn’t provided cheap & good napkin to masses, village India still survives on old cloth. A few groups have taken this as add on activity limited to communities they are working with.Gaps: Apart from costing, bigger challenge is this essential phenomenon hasn’t got enough attention from health/development sector.No macro analysis of problem/efforts to adapt small initiatives to different groups. Evident connection with health hazards hasn’t translated into comprehensive remedial action. During disasters, when victims don’t have access to basics, few agencies pay attention to basic need that ironically becomes more acute due to non-availability of normal clothing & covered space.
¿Qué tipo de sistema operativo y factores internos de la organización hacen que tu innovación sea un éxito?
(Goonj works on identifying aspects of rural beneficiaries’ lives where cloth plays important role. 10%of total cloth we get,is wearable.Cotton cloth from this lot is converted into napkins.Pack of 5 pads reache beneficiary with information on how to use & reuse,washing & drying practices, importance of sunlight &hygiene issues.We are developing exhibitions for partners for dissemination of information along with pads. Goonj works in 21states of India through its network of more than 100 partners.Other aspect is initiating discussion & debate on taboo subject in cities. We are spreading awareness among people from different strata thereby evoking empathy about chasm in resources leading to civic participation.In villages aim for local level replication so women don’t rely soley on Goonj.
¿Cómo te aseguras que innovas constantemente a la luz de (potenciales) desafíos externos, o cuál es tu plan de crecimiento?
We developed models around napkin work depending on circumstances of beneficiaries or requirements & interest of partners.Given internal costs in making napkins we charge minimal amount for pack of napkins but in poor areas, we don’t charge, instead we motivate urban audiences to sponsor packs for rural women. In some places partners show interest in involving women,then we teach how to make napkins, apart from providing raw material. NGOs distributing pads buy from us directly, others want help to spread awareness, we meet with community women, distribute napkins & let NGO decide future course. We constantly seek inputs from end user to help make effective product. Big add on introduced is providing undergarments-adds to comfort & risk aversion for women defecating in open.
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leer más↓↑ ocultar↑ ocultarDesafío sistémico que tratas de superar (selecciona sólo uno)
Brindar asistencia médica accesible a comunidades en los mercados emergentes.
Área de salud (mercado objetivo) donde se encuentra la necesidad (selecciona solo uno)
Servicios primarios de asistencia médica
Categorías de la atención medica que estés cubriendo [selecciona todas las que correspondan]
Prevención, Intervención, Seguimiento.
Por favor describe con mayor detalle: ¿qué problema estás tratando de solucionar en el contexto específico?
Given poor economic status,sanitary pad is last thing on mind of rural women,use all kinds of rags leading to prevalence of RTI.What makes idea of clean cloth pads successful is familiarity to women. Mass scale replication of existing usage patterns possible.We remove risk elements, do value addition in terms of cleanliness& awareness.Given strength of network & expertise in management of old cloth,replication on wide scale makes it cheaper.Non-biodegradable market napkins unaffordable by rural women.We provide appropriate option, preventing problem of disposal.NJPC works with material lying idle in urban homes.Easy channelising for good cause with small financial aspect,makes people happy. Other Goonj initiatives address clothing issue & ensure regular supply.
Etapa que mejor aplica para tu solución [selecciona sólo una]
Establecida (pasó las etapas anteriores y ha demostrado éxito)
Estrategias centrales de tu modelo de negocios (selecciona todas las que correspondan]
Enfoques de cambio conductual a nivel individual, Nuevos enfoques de distribución de productos y servicios de salud.
Herramientas más relevantes que estés utilizando para implementar las estrategias destacadas arriba [selecciona sólo dos]
Nuevas habilidades, Formación/capacitación.
Por favor describe tu solución con más detalle
Women start menstruating from age 12years till around 50 years. They need napkins all though this period &need to be aware about hygiene issues connected with menses. By reaching My Pad, we get women who use all kinds of rags, to experience first hand what it feels like to use clean cloth as pad. When Cloth for work activity carried out, we ensure that her family gets cloth which can be used as pad later. Once women feel safety of clean cloth, correct way of using cloth as pad, she feels happy in continuing practice,with whatever cloth she has,even if she doesn’t get GOONJ pad for long.As they talk of taboo topic, feel emboldened & talk about their infections, feel empowered to shun taboo, use cloth sensibly & give attention to own health.
¿Cuál es tu visión y objetivos generales?
GOONJ sees clothing as an ignored basic need,similarly sanitary pads is a basic need for a women.Absence of adequate clean cloth turns menses into a monthly disaster for her. We envision last shreds of cities cloth as an empowering tool for motivating women to work on their own challenges,bringing about a long term behavioral change of giving priority to her own health.Given the availability of surplus cloth across globe in cities & universality of menses,our vision is for idea to spread beyond India’s geographical boundaries.Our objective is to alleviate village women out of hardships,indignity & huge health risk they face every month as also using this work as an employment generation activity for women, breaking the taboo in the process.
¿Cuál es tu propuesta de valor?
Rural women treat their needs as last priority thereby receiving less health care& education In scenario where they struggle for daily survival,NJPC brings awareness about fundamental issue,highlighting high-risk behavior that puts their health in jeopardy.Influencing health seeking behaviour by giving empowerment to influence their own health. Rural women socialized to tolerate suffering & this mindset is constraint to get adequate health for themselves.Exposure & interactions on taboo issue is key in highlighting possibilities available to them. Essence of NJPC is not just to provide clean napkin or making women aware, but to address clothing holistically. Addressal of clothing help free meager resources for pressing needs like food. This reinforces Goonj’s mission.
¿Quiénes son los beneficiarios se los que se dirige tu trabajo?
Adolescent Girls:Nutrition Foundation of India says that average age of menarche is around 13 yrs yet 50%of both urban &rural girls aged 12 yrs have no understanding of this process (India chapter Women of the World).Adolescent girls face problems like low literacy level,sexual vulnerability contributing to dismal health. Young married women in reproductive/child bearing age:In India 1 in 6 girls begin child bearing between 13-19yrs. India has 10 million pregnant adolescents & adolescent mothers. Maternal mortality accounts for 15% of all deaths of women. (India chapter Women of the World,South Asia).Older women:Most studies on reproductive health & menses say older women in family are primary source of information about menses practices.This segment plays key role as knowledge leader.
¿Qué enfoques utilizas para llegar a ellos?
1.Sensitizing urban masses to bring attitudinal changes towards menses as taboo subject & show power of old clothing for women by initiating discussion through forums2.making MY Pad at processing centers3.Partners give information about community needs4. meeting with partners highlighting need,solution& process.5.Village meeting organized with community women to talk about health risks & solution offered by My-Pad6. Provide exhibition material with relevant information to partners to put up locally7.Sends 1st dispatch to women &general clothing for cloth for work activity for village community 8.Distribution of pads tied with awareness meeting9.Training to local women on how to make pads, where cloth material provided.10.other organizations buy pads for giving in their areas
¿Cuáles son tus actividades principales?
1.sensiting urban masses -discussions through lectures, addressing kitty parties,etc. 2.collection of material- Generating material through awareness cum collection camps. Every camp leads to new contacts & volunteers. We organize monthly sponsorship campaigns,touch base with hospitals & hotels for large quantities of old cloth.3.Process- Collected material is sorted, packed at GOONJ’s processing center & sent to our partner groups according to requirements of their target communities. 4.Education- Partners provided them relevant information like illustrative posters 5.Replication on local level; Over a period of time share our learnings with them & help them replicate small scale.6.A part of it is available for sale, increases reach, sustains work.
¿Quiénes son tus pares y competidores? ¿Qué problemas podrían plantear esos jugadores para tu éxito o crecimiento?
We are not aware of any organization which is using old cloth as raw material for making sanitary pads. Most organizations working in this field are either using new cloth,cotton or some other man made or natural fibre. It mostly attracts an added cost which gets transferred to the receiver.Very few organizations give attention to awareness aspect. In any case we feel that given the vast scale of need in India & other countries,there is need for more organizations to work.Hence Goonj focuses on idea spread.Sanitary napkins that are practical are needed in rural India yet its not available at any village market. Uniqueness about Goonj’s work is that it succeeds only when it complements and supports whatever work is being done in different sectors by our grassroots partner groups.
¿Qué otros desafíos – individuales, organizacionales o ambientales – estás actualmente enfrentando o que podrían impedir el éxito futuro de tu emprendimiento y cómo planeas superarlos?
1.Communicating a new idea to urban & rural audiences is a slow process;unhealthy practices,huge taboo,mindsets of partner groups call for long term behavioral change communication.2.Planning Risk in generating material from masses;we are approaching different channels for committed supplies3.tackling & changing the attitude of urban masses of acting as if they are doing greatest deed in giving away their discard.Sustained communication & awareness building on giving with dignity has helped4.we have turned lack of sustained funding into our greatest strength;growth owed to people who are giving material, time and money.5.Risk is not using full potential of the idea; opening up idea and processes for wider audience for others to adopt and spread the work with our minimal expense.
Describe brevemente tu estrategia de crecimiento futura
Long term growth strategy– sustain organizational spread plus focusing on more partners & village women starting to make pads with Goonj’s cloth raw material. We would like to put energy in idea spread,through knowledge sharing with partners, sharing replication kit & documenting, sharing impact with international academia to get rest of world excited about potential of idea.
¿Qué dimensiones de crecimiento estás actualmente focalizando para tu innovación? [selecciona todas las que correspondan]
Nuevos clientes grupo/s, Nueva(s) región(es).
¿Qué hace que tu negocio esté “listo” para crecer?
Idea working for 5 years. Impact visible at many places,national & international agencies awarded work after rigorous due diligence, evaluation process. Demand much ahead of supply, ensuring long term sustenance. Overall volume growing, raw material ensured. Evolved multiple strategies for napkin distribution. Right juncture of knowing what we want with understanding of strengths & weaknesses.
¿Cuáles son tus objetivos centrales de crecimiento?
1. Work in backward areas directly, knowledge sharing in others
2. Cross subsidize costs by selling to organizations not directly working
3. Urban sponsorship for rural implementation
4. Speak at national and international forums
5. Open systems to enable replication
6. Work to motivate bulk suppliers for generating material, tie up with big brands for co-branded campaigns for idea spread.
¿Cuál es tu plazo de tiempo para el crecimiento, a corto y largo plazo? ¿Cuáles son tus objetivos y actividades centrales futuros?
Short-Term: next 1-3 years
1. Focus on some areas & key partners,who show interest & capacities to work.2. Strengthen systems 3. Document impact through case studies.4.Work on replication kit 5.Get involved at policy level to bring this as key women’s health issue 6. Communication plan to target more sponsorship 7.Increase production capacity to 2 lakh napkins monthly by end of 2 years
Mid Term
1.Strategy brainstorm for scaling up.2. Replication of idea-women produce napkins-income generation-Goonj provides cloth for napkin making 3. Involve village women to identify their challenges; work on issues & get napkins in return. 4. bring out first major documentation report.5. Connect NJPC with village level health interventions.6. Equipping partners to generate material.
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Quantitative Impact - Goonj’s Sanitary napkin work; highpoints
• Winner of several international awards (World Bank’s Development Marketplace award, Changemaker’s award, Lien i3 challenge award).
• Produced more than 20 lakh sanitary pads & reached to rural women. Presently 100,000 pads made benefiting 20,000 women monthly.
• Easily replicable world over.
• 60 exhibition held in villages to create awareness highlights taboos
• Worked with 30 partners.
• states covered –Orissa,Uttar Pradesh ,Rajasthan ,Gujarat ,Bihar,Madhya Pradesh,Maharashtra ,Jharkhand
• Village meetings bring out taboo subject & women discuss about this.
• Napkins produced without machines /technological inputs.
Qualitative Impact- Direct Impact-Improved quality of cloth used during menses,Better hygiene practices,More discussion, thereby initiating constructive organizing of women, dignity to women & better lifestyle,Increase in attendance of adolescent girls in schools, more productivity for women during menses period,Improved health seeking behavior of women ,Increased women oriented activities in village,Helps free up their meager resources for other pressing needs.
Indirect Impact-Credible network for channelizing urban discard, Stronger relationship of partners with communities,Highlight link between RCH, cervical cancer & other women issues. Community health workers benefit due to awareness,Second hand cloth industry product demand increases due to spread & replication, more people get employment,Due to better awareness, entry of market forces with low cost sanitary pad possible.
¿Qué métodos cuantitativos de impacto social estás aplicando (si estuvieras aplicando alguno)?
Indicators-No.of partners, women benefiting,usage patterns-monthly usage,washing,cleaning &drying patterns,usage practices of pads-with/without loops,preferred size of pads,storage of pads being reused,influence of pricing on usage,partner initiative taken to generate material & production of pads locally,role in addressing related problems of village women,level of interaction of women with local health mechanisms,women initiate discussion on their own,handling of shortfall in supply of pads,transfer of information between family members,incidence of reproductive infections,no.of collection camps organised,quantity of material sorted,no.of sponsorships coming from urban women, pads made,kind of cloth donated,no.of women spreading awareness & women centric meetings addressed.
¿Tu solución podría operar en otros conextos o regiones? Si así fuera, ¿en dónde?
Model replication possible in any part of world struggling with poverty; where women unable to fulfill even basic needs of food & shelter. We talk to organizations in different countries through various forums. Other opportunity is to focus on supporting smaller active initiatives.
Opportunities:Audiences like garment exporters, hotels, Hospitals, Boarding schools can help in scale up of material without a big investment; School & college youth population –volunteer base because of enthusiasm & aspirations for change;urban educated working women good support as individuals & idea ambassadors at organization level;state-city-village approach: As we spread to other cities & towns, material generated in big city channelised to villages of same state, cutting down on logistical costs.
¿Cuál es tu impacto proyectado para los próximos 1-3 años?
Year1 & 2:Reach women through partners.Work at four levels(1)Provide physical product(2)General clothing need of woman & her family addressed through other Goonj initiatives(3)Discuss of menstrual health issues with women(4)Equip partners to do small-scale replication.Year3:Focus shifted from providing pads to filling demand gaps.Women’s needs addressed1.Spare cloth available based on continuous cloth supply to them from other Goonj programs 2.Cloth napkins made by partners from self-generated material3.Goonj’s pads’ supply addresses gaps in supply left after above two sources.Making beneficiaries cloth-rich community:After awareness phase beneficiaries will have more clothes under other programs, dependence on Goonj for physical product of pads will diminish.
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Goonj works through large citizen base, growth owed to 1000s of volunteers who helped in idea spread & financially.e.g: collecting old newspapers from people & raising funds through its sale,getting one side used paper from corporates for making school notebooks & writing pads for sale,asking urban women to give us one meter cloth every month when they have menses for their rural counterparts,one rupee one cloth;motivating people to give us one rupee with each cloth they give to cover cost of reaching it to the beneficiary.Cost sharing & cost cutting at every step.Subsidized interstate transportation of material, corporate sponsorship of washing machines etc. Insistence on minimal resources for logistical & administrative work.We use one sided used paper for stationary & promotional material. What is considered as administrative expenses in most projects is main expense in this project i.e. manpower, transportation and rents.Personnel cost- As we work with & through people; to generate material we need manpower at every step in entire process.Direct relationship between no. of people, amount of material generated,sanitary napkins made translating into more beneficiaries, justifying personnel expenses.Infrastructure- Goonj doesn’t spend on office automation systems as recycled products generated from people used. Only cost is industrial washing machines to take care of volumes.Collection &awareness camps- per camp cost is kept low as camps organised on participatory basis & volunteers take care of expenses. Camps used to sensitize urban masses.
Reparto de la generación de ingresos del total de ingresos de la organización (en porcentaje)
Ventas directas a pacientes u otros beneficiarios (en porcentaje)
De las posibles fuentes de estas ventas, en la siguiente lista, marca todas las que correspondan a tu estrategia actual
Amigos y familiares, Individuos, Pacientes, Profesionales de la salud, Otros beneficiarios.
Tarifas de licencia, por ej., por tecnología/ modelo de franquicia (en porcentaje)
Abajo, marca todas las que correspondan a tu estrategia actual
Contrato de servicio con organizaciones, por ej. gobierno, ONGs (en porcentaje)
De las posibles fuentes de contratos de servicios, en la siguiente lista, marca todas las que correspondan a tu estrategia actual
Explica tu estrategia de generación de ingresos más detalladamente
Goonj raises resources through multiple sources to reduce its dependence on one source. We take up multiple strategies on covering costs of napkin work. We sell recycled products, collect newspapers from households, for scrap sale.Cross subsidizing rural products by sale of products in urban markets ensures sustenance. Since all work around masses; we involve masses in generating resources. We are requesting people who give their material, to also give atleast Rs 100 each time they give material.We have sponsorship campaign going on called 60 days of dignity asking urban masses to ensure year’s supply of napkins, undergarments and awareness work for rural women. We are getting together Team of 2000 people called Team 2000, who will commit fixed amount of Rs 12000 yearly endlessly.
Reparto de la generación de ingresos del total de ingresos de la organización (en porcentaje)
Estrategias filantrópicas que estás utilizando
Estrategia diversificada.
Explica tu enfoque filantrópico con más detalle
GOONJ believes that people living with all conveniences &facilities in cities have responsibility towards their village counterparts who lack resources & opportunities. Given growing consumptive nature of metros & shrinking spaces, there is need to find channelising things we don’t need. Thus GOONJ wants to move giving of one’s discard to move away from charity to contribution. We feel that village communities are very self respecting & resilient, thus by giving them anything as charity we hurt their dignity. We therefore believe that people in cities have to learn as to how to give with dignity, with sense of empathy rather than superiority .Development world needs to give value to rural wisdom & resources instead of treating them as helpless beneficiaries or recipients.
Amplia tu selección; explica cómo mantendrás el financiamiento dentro de los próximos 1 a 3 años.
1. As more and more people are getting accustomed to the idea of giving some money with each material contribution, that is a big step towards self sustenance.
2. Given our national level co branded campaigns with big brands means reduction of our expenses on collecting material as our brand partner uses his own channel network to do the same.
3. As we tap into big suppliers of cloth like exporters, hotels etc. it reduces our expenses & efforts as well.
4. In direct implementation our focus on a fixed geographical area, decision to only work with serious partner groups also maximizes the impact and makes our inputs most effective instead of wide experimentation.
5. as we grow the overall scale of our work, we will be motivating partner groups to take up the major expenses like transportation etc , which they will be more inclined to do having seen the impact locally.
6. Our emphasis in the coming years will be on moving the production of napkins to rural settings involving the beneficiary women in some of the steps like sorting , washing etc ; it will not only reduce our costs but will also generate income for them, train them further, make it more available and cheaper for village communities.
Section 6 – Changemaker’s Network
Created on 03/8/2013 by africaid
Tanzania has one of the lowest secondary school graduation rates for girls in the world with only 5% of Tanzanian girls graduating from high school. AfricAid is working to improve this statistic through the Kisa Project in order to develop future female leaders for Tanzania, thus advancing the status of women in this country. Pervasive causes of the problems include deeply-rooted cultural/societal beliefs that women are not as “valuable” or as “worthy” as men.
Organización: AfricAid
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Sitio web de la organización
País de la organización
Estados Unidos, CO, Denver, Denver County
Países en donde este proyecto está creando impacto social
Tu organización es
OSC/ONG
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AfricAid/The Kisa Project - Website Enhancement to Empower Tanzanian Girls
Selecciona la fase que describa mejor el momento en el que se encuentra tu emprendimiento
Crecimiento (tu iniciativa piloto ya se está aplicando y se empieza a expandir)
What problem is your organization committed to solving? In particular, share what is innovative about your approach.
Tanzania has one of the lowest secondary school graduation rates for girls in the world with only 5% of Tanzanian girls graduating from high school. AfricAid is working to improve this statistic through the Kisa Project in order to develop future female leaders for Tanzania, thus advancing the status of women in this country. Pervasive causes of the problems include deeply-rooted cultural/societal beliefs that women are not as “valuable” or as “worthy” as men. Through Kisa, we provide girls with more options for independent lives, including preparing for university, providing vocational training, or helping them start their own business. The most innovative aspect is that we ask our graduates to mentor 15 to 20 girls each from their own communities, creating a "pay-it-forward" effect.
What are your organization's top three priorities in the next year?
• To expand the Kisa Project, our girls' educational/empowerment program, to include 150 new girls in the 2013 school year, and to have 300 Tanzanian girls attend our Career Day in October 2013;
• To expand our Teaching in Action (TIA) teacher training program so it will be school-based in 2013.
* To grow awareness and loyalty among supporters and potential supporters by enhancing our website layout and design, and improving various functions.
Need #1
Digital Marketing Strategy
Need #2
Consumer/Audience Acquisition
Based on your first choice of the eight technical categories you selected above, what is your specific project need? Please be specific!
Our specific project need is to enhance the system, layout and graphic design of our website: www.africaid.com. AfricAid's original website was originally launched in 2003, and its current site was established in 2007. While the website has served AfricAid well, its layout and functions are in need of review and enhancement to facilitate visitors' abilities to navigate and take action on our site. Areas for improvement include: graphic design and overall look of the website; website and page layouts, including images, colors, fonts and content placement; software platform; security; navigation structure; navigation menu; online promotion; image rotation; multimedia components; newsletter registration; and ability to serve as the center of a robust social media program. We are interested in upgrading existing, and adding new, functions and tools, including SEP optimization; mobile accessibility options; search option; shopping cart; RSS feeds to capture contact information; E-commerce; Social Media plug-ins; fundraising pages, etc.
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Honesty - the ability to communicate openly and frankly within our working relationships.
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Competence - having the skills required to mutually benefit and/or help each other.
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Flexibility - the ability to work in a mutually-agreeable manner and timeframe.
Will support from American Express be focused on your organization overall or a specific product/service? Please describe.
Support from American Express will be focused on the organization overall, but more specifically, on our signature program--The Kisa Project. Our budget funding for this program is largely dependent on individual sponsors from the U.S.A. and Canada, and it is important that we branch out to reach new sponsors via socal medial, digital marketing, search engines and other avenues. This will go hand-in-hand with our second stated need, which is Consumer/Audience Acquisition. Due to the mission of AfricAid, the scope and geographic nature of its work, strategic communication tools are essential.
Have you focused on the above area previously? If so, please explain, including whether you have worked with outside consultants before.
AfricAid utilizes a variety of mediums, both online and in print, to communicate with existing and potential supporters. We've focused on our website and social media using our small staff and interns. But with new communication technology, systems and tools being introduced into the market, AfricAid needs to identify and implement those which best serve its mission. To ensure we're truly on the right track and equipped for the future, we could greatly benefit from professional advice and input.
Are you able to commit 3-5 hours/wk over 10-12 weeks?
Sí
Are you able to meet virtually or at a convenient in-person location?
Sí
Are you able to meet in the city where your organization is based?
Sí
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To greatly enhance AfricAid's ability to communicate more efficiently with existing and build future supporters.
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To secure increased financial contrubitions via its website and new fundraising functions.
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To have strategic messaging and electronic tools essential for providing communication to our clients.
¿Cuál ha sido el impacto de la solución hasta la fecha?
In terms of our Kisa Project, the impact of the solution to date has been:
• In February 2012, our first Kisa class of 22 girls graduated from secondary school.
• We are thrilled that 20 girls (out of 22 total) in this first Kisa class are going on to university or another form of post-secondary training. This 91% rate is extraordinary for girls in a country where less than 1% of women have any training/education post secondary school.
•Upon graduation these young women—as part of our Kisa program—returned to their home communities and mentored over 300 girls with lessons from our Kisa curriculum.
• In terms of our website impact, it has given a "face" and a means of communication to our organization, but has not developed new supporters/donors as well as it could.
What is your project future impact after receiving professional support from American Express?
After receiving professional support from American Express, AfricAid and the Kisa Project will have a greatly revitalized and improved website that is easy to navigate, more technologically savvy, and will help create more awareness about our organization and draw in new supporters. This, in turn, will allow AfricAid to continue developing and expanding our Kisa Program to empower young Tanzanian women, as well as continue conducting leadership development trainings, providing scholarships, coordinating teacher training workshops through the Teaching in Action (TIA) Program, building classrooms, installing computer labs, and supporting a school lunch program at Losinoni. It will also make it possible for AfricAid to help take on other projects in Tanzania.
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The goal of Girl, unKnown. is to give women the opportunity to change their realities through accountability, networking and healthy social interactions by offering a website and structural site that supports all these qualities. Girl, unKnown. is an online/onsite interactive, goal-oriented social network, eventually to open Girl, unKnown Centers around the United States and elsewhere.
This project also has a Project where you can read more about its latest progress.
Go to Project: Girl, unKnown..
Created on 03/7/2013 by AlexisMHW
The goal of Girl, unKnown. is to give women the opportunity to change their realities through accountability, networking and healthy social interactions by offering a website and structural site that supports all these qualities. Girl, unKnown. is an online/onsite interactive, goal-oriented social network, eventually to open Girl, unKnown Centers around the United States and elsewhere.
Organización: Girl, unKnown Inc.
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Sitio web de la organización
País de la organización
Estados Unidos, WI, Milwaukee, Milwaukee County
Países en donde este proyecto está creando impacto social
Tu organización es
Híbrido
La información que brindes aquí será usada para llenar las partes de tu perfil que hayan sido dejadas en blanco, como intereses, organización, y sitio web. Ninguna información de contacto será hecha pública. Por favor desmarca esta casilla si no deseas que esto suceda..
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Idea (estás listo para lanzarla)
What problem is your organization committed to solving? In particular, share what is innovative about your approach.
The goal of Girl, unKnown. is to give women the opportunity to change their realities through accountability, networking and healthy social interactions by offering a website and structural site that supports all these qualities. Girl, unKnown. is an online/onsite interactive, goal-oriented social network, eventually to open Girl, unKnown Centers around the United States and elsewhere. Through girlunknown.com, women of all ages have the opportunity to use goal accountability programming that, like Match.com, links an individual to people and resources that match their interests, hobbies and career goals. Through Girl, unKnown Center, we would like to offer our members to connect, in-person with other members, give access to solid resources such as, computer labs, advisors, etc.
What are your organization's top three priorities in the next year?
The top three goals for Girl, unKnown in the next year are as follows:
1. Get girlunknown.com up and running with accountability, goal planning and tracking services.
2. Have strong community awareness through a great marketing campaign to grow our member base.
3. Get dialogue between older and younger women flowing, we really want to see a connection of generations take place and more cooperation between women.
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!
The biggest problem that we are having in developing Girl, unKnown is getting people to understand exactly what we are trying to do. We are taking a few concepts from established companies, marrying the ideas and putting a new spin on it.
We also need help in establishing our brand and structuring it against competition. While we are not copying anyone else's business, it may seem similaar at first to the public, but we are giving a more hands on approach, really getting people to get involved with their community, but also in themselves by helping women to set goals and giving the opportunity to help them reach them.
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Good ethical practices, no stealing, cheating, etc.
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Standing behind one's word.
Will support from American Express be focused on your organization overall or a specific product/service? Please describe.
Support from American Express will be focused on the organization as a whole. We would like to learn some of the ropes from an established firm as we begin to delve deeper into our business to help people succeed.
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 an outside consultant before, it's been an idea that I have since college and I've been developing it for the last two years. I work with friends already to help them plan and establish goals, teach them how to use planners and make budgets. I decided to do it on a larger scale and Girl, unKnown was born. That is why I would absolutely love some guidance as to how to move forward.
Are you able to commit 3-5 hours/wk over 10-12 weeks?
Sí
Are you able to meet virtually or at a convenient in-person location?
Sí
Are you able to meet in the city where your organization is based?
Sí
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To send more confident, mature, resilient women into society to help themselves as well as others.
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Open dialogue between women of different generations, ethnicities, professional backgrounds etc.
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I want this business to continue and grow, I would like to see it blossom and give more opportunity to members around the world.
¿Cuál ha sido el impacto de la solución hasta la fecha?
It has been a small scale impact thus far, I've been helping friends and family members and directing them to resources in the community that can help them further succeed. We have become more aware of organizations that we didnt previously know existed and I'm glad to pass the information forward and make more people aware of their existence.
What is your project future impact after receiving professional support from American Express?
I would like for Girl, unKnown to reach a much wider audience and give more women the opportunity to follow the program to success. The website portion gives us the tools, but the in-person portion gives us the socialization piece thats being taken away by modern technology. The two entities coupled can really take Girl, unKnown. far and with the guidance of the employees at American Express, I see this being a very lucrative business. I want to see it go global one day, and open Girl, unKnown Centers around the world, connecting us all by the internet, with summits to bring us together every few years or so. There are so many possibilities and ideas for Girl, unKnown. but the first one is to get it off the ground.
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This project also has a Project where you can read more about its latest progress.
Go to Project: Yoga Outreach .
Created on 03/6/2013 by delaniedyck
Yoga Outreach is committed to developing and delivering life-affirming Service Yoga programs to people who do not have access to these resources for a variety of reasons. Barriers to access include mental health, age, gender, trauma history, violence, addiction, poverty, and incarceration. We approach Service Yoga in an innovative way by engaging yoga instructors who are all volunteers, and partnering them with social service organizations. We support volunteer teachers and partner facilities with training, mentorship, and ongoing program facilitation.
Organización: The Yoga Outreach Society
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The Yoga Outreach Society
Sitio web de la organización
Países en donde este proyecto está creando impacto social
Tu organización es
OSC/ONG
La información que brindes aquí será usada para llenar las partes de tu perfil que hayan sido dejadas en blanco, como intereses, organización, y sitio web. Ninguna información de contacto será hecha pública. Por favor desmarca esta casilla si no deseas que esto suceda..
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Establecida (pasó las etapas anteriores y ha demostrado éxito)
What problem is your organization committed to solving? In particular, share what is innovative about your approach.
Yoga Outreach is committed to developing and delivering life-affirming Service Yoga programs to people who do not have access to these resources for a variety of reasons. Barriers to access include mental health, age, gender, trauma history, violence, addiction, poverty, and incarceration. We approach Service Yoga in an innovative way by engaging yoga instructors who are all volunteers, and partnering them with social service organizations. We support volunteer teachers and partner facilities with training, mentorship, and ongoing program facilitation. Our students are in turn supported by knowledgeable instructors that have an understanding of their needs based on the setting, classes that are trauma-informed, safe, and hopefully fun!
What are your organization's top three priorities in the next year?
Our number one focus is to continue to build capacity for yoga based programming to be utilized as a complimentary therapy for people who are already accessing services. These service settings include mental health, addictions recovery, shelters, youth centres, and correctional facilities. In order to support this focus we have identified several priorities for the coming year. Our first priority is to enhance our marketing and communications to better advocate for Yoga Outreach programs and trainings in the Lower Mainland and more broadly throughout BC. Our second priority is to streamline our yoga program delivery to maximize existing resources and allow for expansion. We currently accept all requests for programming and the level of support we offer is quite high. Our third priority is to ensure that any growth is also building a foundation for the organization to move to the national level.
Need #1
Message & Brand Strategy
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!
Our branding and messaging still stems from our origins 17 years ago. Quite simply we need to update! We want to create a renewed excitement around Yoga Outreach and the work we do. We recognize the need to strengthen our brand to get people talking about Service Yoga, and to shift the perceptions around the people and settings we work with and in. There is a great deal of evidence that shows yoga can be a powerful tool for healing. Our project requires a knowledgeable guide to help us hone our core message and develop a strategy to build engagement with our brand. As we only have one full time staff member, developing a comprehensive strategy around our marketing and communications is key to maximize available staff time. Our project would include developing key messaging, an editorial calendar, and strategies for increasing digital engagement. In addition, the development of a system for tracking the impact of our messaging would be helpful.
Will support from American Express be focused on your organization overall or a specific product/service? Please describe.
The support we receive will be focused on our organization as a whole. In building stronger messaging and branding for our services we hope to increase the overall capacity and recognition for yoga as a valuable tool for healing in people's lives.
Have you focused on the above area previously? If so, please explain, including whether you have worked with outside consultants before.
In 2011 the new Executive Director began to prioritize messaging and branding and has made some increases in community awareness of YO and it's programs. We have not worked with any outside consultants as we have limited resources.
Are you able to commit 3-5 hours/wk over 10-12 weeks?
Sí
Are you able to meet virtually or at a convenient in-person location?
Sí
Are you able to meet in the city where your organization is based?
Sí
1.
Greater clarity and consistency of our message
2.
Greater brand recognition
3.
Increased community engagement as a resutl of 1 and 2
¿Cuál ha sido el impacto de la solución hasta la fecha?
Each year, we estimate that between 1500 and 2000 people have access to yoga as a result of our program support. We know that without our support the 25 weekly yoga programs we facilitate in partner facilities would not be able to continue. Research has shown that yoga provides numerous benefits for emotional self-regulation, physical relaxation, as well as an opportunity to experience safety and choice in one's own body. When asked about the yoga program, 95% of clients in an addictions recovery program said they would recommend the class to others. Additionally 90% of these clients reported feeling like they would be able to translate the skills they learned in class into their daily lives.
What is your project future impact after receiving professional support from American Express?
Our hope is that we will be able to increase our access to a larger pool of donors and sponsors so we can expand programming to other areas of BC and beyond. In addition, we anticipate increased numbers of volunteer teachers applying to work in YO settings. As part of our 3 year plan we would like to position the organization to become a national leader in the development and implementation of yoga programs for marginalized groups.
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Created on 03/4/2013 by Maternova2011
Maternal deaths are declining worldwide, yet over 350,000 women will die this year. Nearly all these deaths are preventable. A new non-invasive device is saving lives, for @$2.50 per use. The Non-Pneumatic Anti-Shock Garment (NASG) literally buys a mom one day so she can be transported to proper care. It's effective, sustainable, and proving invaluable in the field. Maternova has helped fund the CE marking, along with the commercialization of this device.
Organización: Maternova, Inc.
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Disruptive Content, Collaboration, and Commerce that Saves Lives
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What problem is your organization committed to solving? In particular, share what is innovative about your approach.
Maternal deaths are declining worldwide, yet over 350,000 women will die this year. Nearly all these deaths are preventable. A new non-invasive device is saving lives, for @$2.50 per use. The Non-Pneumatic Anti-Shock Garment (NASG) literally buys a mom one day so she can be transported to proper care. It's effective, sustainable, and proving invaluable in the field. Maternova has helped fund the CE marking, along with the commercialization of this device. We are the exclusive distributor in ten countries.We also have built an online platform/network where caregivers are receiving training, sharing best practices, and their feedback is being compiled into instruction manuals. The Philippines, Kenya, and Burundi are working together now on our platform!
What are your organization's top three priorities in the next year?
1. Scale up the usage of the NASG, and the total numbers in the field.
2. Establish warehouse space overseas for easy drop shipping.
3. Finalize the CE Marking.
Need #1
Digital Marketing Strategy
Need #2
Consumer/Audience Acquisition
Based on your first choice of the eight technical categories you selected above, what is your specific project need? Please be specific!
Maternova has considerable social media presence and reach already. What we don't have is a full time marketing person. We're a small team, and as a result we all wear multiple hats. This specific expertise will help us drive sales for the NASG. But it will also allow us to take those steps and incorporate that strategy into other product launches. We're working on a line of proprietary products (Super exciting!), so you can imagine how helpful this advice could be.
1.
Honesty, and a commitment to making a global impact beyond profit.
2.
Knowledge and subject matter expertise
3.
Sense of humor and a positive attitude! (this is actually #1!)
Will support from American Express be focused on your organization overall or a specific product/service? Please describe.
We really believe the NASG is a high potential product. Our goal right now is to focus any expertise and help we were to receive specifically on developing that product audience and customer base. It only seems logical that this will undoubtedly spill over to other specific offerings as we grow our lines of business. We're at a very exciting and pivotal point. We have to aggressively pursue our goals and be overjoyed with the help, like this, we receive.
Have you focused on the above area previously? If so, please explain, including whether you have worked with outside consultants before.
We have conducted pilots, and done limited marketing. Our collaboration platform is being used effectively to promote discussions and reviews of the NASG. We're just getting started!
Are you able to commit 3-5 hours/wk over 10-12 weeks?
Sí
Are you able to meet virtually or at a convenient in-person location?
Sí
Are you able to meet in the city where your organization is based?
Sí
1.
Increased visibility for the NASG product to potential customers.
2.
An effective digital marketing strategy we might be able to utilize for other products.
3.
Save more mom's, more quickly. Caregivers cannot be left helpless when a highly effective intervention is available.
¿Cuál ha sido el impacto de la solución hasta la fecha?
Putting it in the bluntest terms possible, the Maternova NASG stops a woman from bleeding to death after she gives birth. A healthy baby is a blessing, thanks to better ante-natal care options, but all of it doesn't solve the issues of maternal mortality if the woman doesn't survive. Families suffer, the community suffers, and it's all usually preventable. We have shipped the NASG into three countries to date, and seen it save lives. Our partners share photos, stories and proof the NASG offers hope where there otherwise might be none. The return on investment for the NASG is staggering at $13.18-$45.00 saved for every $1.00 invested.
What is your project future impact after receiving professional support from American Express?
Our goal is to get more of the NASGs into the field. Not only in our own countries, but a rising tide will lift all ships. We are happy to partner with our trusted distribution partners and help them as well. The faster the products get into the hands of the caregivers who use them, the sooner we will meet our Millennium Goal (MGD5) to reduce the number of women dying in childbirth worldwide.
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Created on 03/3/2013 by PACE_Society
PACE Society Outreach Project (POP) aims to reduce violence experienced by street-level sex workers and engage sex workers by providing housing, job, employment, health and crisis support. Survival sex workers are the most visible and vulnerable of all sex workers. They experience the highest number of assaults and sexual assaults of any population group perpetrated by partners, patrons, pimps, dealers, other sex workers, and members of the public. Violence against survival sex workers in Vancouver continues to be a problem.
Organización: Providing Alternatives Counselling and Education Society (PACE Society)
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Providing Alternatives Counselling and Education Society (PACE Society)
Sitio web de la organización
Países en donde este proyecto está creando impacto social
Tu organización es
OSC/ONG
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What problem is your organization committed to solving? In particular, share what is innovative about your approach.
PACE Society Outreach Project (POP) aims to reduce violence experienced by street-level sex workers and engage sex workers by providing housing, job, employment, health and crisis support. Survival sex workers are the most visible and vulnerable of all sex workers. They experience the highest number of assaults and sexual assaults of any population group perpetrated by partners, patrons, pimps, dealers, other sex workers, and members of the public. Violence against survival sex workers in Vancouver continues to be a problem. Stigma and criminalization prevent accurate reporting of the number of survival sex workers that encounter violence. PACE Society supports and engages over 100 members, all of whom self-identify as survival sex workers, by using peer-to-peer education and support
What are your organization's top three priorities in the next year?
A self-initiated PACE Strategic Planning session in July of 2012 identified the following as top priorities for PACE Society in the coming year:
1. Branding: scope and identity (see below)
2. Financial Management: sustainable and diverse fundraising options
3. Administrative cohesion: developing the relationship between board of directors and staff
With the Supreme court appeal of the Bedford decision this June 2013, strengthening and developing organizations like PACE Society is more timely than ever and will ensure that sex workers continue to receive the support services they require.
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!
Branding refers to the concept of a clear identity linked to what PACE does. For example, when people think of sex worker support agencies, is PACE and our logo foremost in people’s minds? Does the PACE tagline on the website accurately reflect who we are and what we do?
Two possible pathways of support services include:
1. Should PACE diversify to serve a larger community and should our definition of sex work not be limited to survival sex work (no mention of survival in our mission statement)? With the closing of PEERS Vancouver, many sex workers wishing to exit have fewer options than ever. Where will they go for resume/cover letters etc.?
2. Should PACE remain targeted to survival sex workers? In wanting to be able to help any sex worker that comes in the door/calls the organization do we run the risk of scope creep and staff burnout?Also, how does PACE maintain connections with survival sex workers who don’t currently access our services?
Lastly, It is important to understand valid versus questionable research as it relates to our population. Misinformation exists in our community; do we have a responsibility to dispel myths by offering relevant, factual research?
3.
Community based Collaboration
Will support from American Express be focused on your organization overall or a specific product/service? Please describe.
Support through American Express' Serve2Gether Consulting service will be used to develop a creative and sustainable solution to the issue of branding for the overall organization with a specific focus on support services. Support services is an umbrella portfolio that encompasses violence prevention workshops both for sex workers and for community groups including the Vancouver Police Department, safety coach training and mentoring, resume, skills training and job finding resources, and the PACE Outreach Project (POP) which engages sex workers in the environments where they are working.
Have you focused on the above area previously? If so, please explain, including whether you have worked with outside consultants before.
PACE contracted an external consultant to facilitate a Strategic Planning meeting in 2012. An Environmental Scanning process labeled PEST (Political, Economic, Social, Technological) and a management tool called SWOT (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats) were used to analyze and brainstorm areas of interest and concentration. In addition, PACE Society requires staff and support workers to submit monthly reports on support services, violence prevention and outreach as well as an annual report for each position. However, no solid plan has been laid out or acted upon.
Are you able to commit 3-5 hours/wk over 10-12 weeks?
Sí
Are you able to meet virtually or at a convenient in-person location?
Sí
Are you able to meet in the city where your organization is based?
Sí
1.
Brand PACE Society in a way that makes it more accessible to survival sex workers who need to access services
2.
Ensure PACE Society remains in a financially able to not only maintain but broaden its services in response to increased demand
3.
Enure that PACE Society has a presence in research and community efforts that inform policy regarding sex work
¿Cuál ha sido el impacto de la solución hasta la fecha?
- Provision of in-house safety workshops to over 360 participants with 75% of participants reporting a feeling of new confidence in their safety plans and self defense skills. (Report available upon request)
- Development and upkeep of website, facebook page and twitter account to establish a social media presence. Currently, board members and staff sit on and are connected to over 15 community based initiatives including UBC and CDI College, Vancouver Police Department recruits, BC Coalition of People with Disabilities, and LAPP (Local Area Planning Process).
- community engagement: through hosting speakers such as Dr. Gabor Mate which resulted in the engagement of over 100 community members on addictions and sex work.
- POP and support services that engage members and non-members
What is your project future impact after receiving professional support from American Express?
Professional support from American Express will allow PACE Society to balance growth with cost by defining a scope of engagement (ie a clear branding strategy). This will be measured by greater depth of understanding concerning the environment PACE is operating within, as well as a clear assessment of future service needs and delivery. Success will include diversification of funding sources based on need as well as the development of long term solutions to physical space ("No space, no PACE). It may also address the potential for satellite (franchise) centres outside of the downtown eastside (in Victoria, Abbotsford, Chilliwack, etc). Ultimately, PACE Society support services aims to provide uncompromising support to it's members and relevant, valid information to it's community partners.
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Created on 03/3/2013 by purkalstreeshakti
1. A very backward rural hilly area without access to regular Income; absence of a craft or organized industry. The American craft of quilting given an Indian flavor and a market developed for the products. Potential buyers developed. Now needs to be well established among discerning customers; the brand “PURKAL” has to reach those capable of appreciating and affording designer products. Strategies and resources for brand building and marketing these designer products at premium prices needs development.
Organización: Purkal Stree Shakti Samiti
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Purkal Stree Shakti Samiti
Sitio web de la organización
Países en donde este proyecto está creando impacto social
Tu organización es
OSC/ONG
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Brand Building to Change Rural India
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What problem is your organization committed to solving? In particular, share what is innovative about your approach.
1. A very backward rural hilly area without access to regular Income; absence of a craft or organized industry. The American craft of quilting given an Indian flavor and a market developed for the products. Potential buyers developed. Now needs to be well established among discerning customers; the brand “PURKAL” has to reach those capable of appreciating and affording designer products. Strategies and resources for brand building and marketing these designer products at premium prices needs development. Payment of fair wages and social security measures with pension and provident fund to the artisans will then become possible. This project which is now in its infancy has the potential for employing very large numbers and the face of this economy can be transformed and become a role model.
What are your organization's top three priorities in the next year?
I. Train enough trainers so that the skills can be transmitted. Document and standardize training processes apart from documenting and securing designs developed. Equip and open three more outreach programmes to induct a hundred more women. Employ additional designers capable of creating products.
II. Develop a brand building/marketing strategy capable of implementation of over a 3 /4 years period.
III. Invest in training of youth in digital and other retailing skills. Elementary ability to handle English is a prerequisite. A six months period of planned and intensive programme will create the needed support from among our community.
Need #1
Message & Brand Strategy
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!
We have established a viable economic proposition in a backward rural area.
II. We have proved that women can be skilled and helped to earn.
III. Our products are designer premium products and eminently marketable.
IV. We know that the market is widely spread among discerning customers with disposable incomes. We need to reach our products to these select customers.
V. We need to improve production to meet the demand that will be created through conscious branding and marketing strategies.
VI. With enough investment and knowhow we can accomplish this goal and change the face of a whole community.
1.
Honesty, Openness and complete transparency with regard to our dealings.
2.
Highest quality of our products with materials which are as good as we claim they are.
3.
Complete accountability to all our stakeholders with meticulous care to their interest.
Will support from American Express be focused on your organization overall or a specific product/service? Please describe.
We are hoping that American Express will focus on our entire organisation. We have only one product although there is a range and a variety. We deeply value the expertise and experience of your executives. Although we have focused on brand building we would appreciate counsel in all areas listed. Digital marketing and acquiring consumers have not been planned activities with us. We need a SWOT analysis and build effective management information.
Have you focused on the above area previously? If so, please explain, including whether you have worked with outside consultants before.
5. Never have been able to afford outside consultants. The excellence of our design, awareness of the need for quality among the workers, its verification at every stage and our desire to practice kaizon have helped us build dedicated customers. Our market share has grown steadily over the years through word of mouth of satisfied customers. Fair trade practices have provided dedicated workers. Self Help Groups which establish ownership ensure dedicated stakeholders. As for brand building, SWOT analysis and performance management we have been reading books and experimenting.
Are you able to commit 3-5 hours/wk over 10-12 weeks?
Sí
Are you able to meet virtually or at a convenient in-person location?
Sí
Are you able to meet in the city where your organization is based?
Sí
1.
Winning national and international recognisitions to our brand "Purkal" and building our sales on its strength.
2.
Build a viable and vibrant market for our products through digital marketing portals based on integrity.
3.
Training our women workers and the youth of community so that we become a viable self dependent business enterprise.
¿Cuál ha sido el impacto de la solución hasta la fecha?
6. The experiment with the idea of planting a skill among the rural women has worked. We now have over a hundred of them earning regularly. The designs that we have developed are very popular and we are unable to make enough. The product pricing has yielded surpluses and we believe it can be improved.
Outstanding infrastructure for our present level of activities has been developed through donations. The altruistic attitude of the promoters has had an appeal that helped us collect all our working capital as well.
The potential of this model has encouraged us to commence an outreach programme so that another cluster of villages can be helped to benefit from our experience.
What is your project future impact after receiving professional support from American Express?
7. A well-developed marketing strategy with a well-established brand would help us widen our client network geographically. However I do not expect that the seed grants that you may offer can help us with our training and production needs. It can help us build a brand and we hope to match the additional demand generated with support from other grant givers. Additional demand will need to go hand in hand with training trainers, additional workers and creation of new clusters. Our working capital needs will also grow.
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Created on 03/2/2013 by atwoodsa
Ittavi (an acronym for “it takes a village”) seeks to end conflict, improve transparency and simplify the process of paying child support while saving parents time and money.
Parents can now spend less time managing child support and more time focused on raising happy, healthy children.
Organización: Ittavi
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País de la organización
Estados Unidos, CA, Santa Clara, Santa Clara County
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Tu organización es
Híbrido
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Ending Child Support Conflict
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What problem is your organization committed to solving? In particular, share what is innovative about your approach.
Ittavi (an acronym for “it takes a village”) seeks to end conflict, improve transparency and simplify the process of paying child support while saving parents time and money.
Parents can now spend less time managing child support and more time focused on raising happy, healthy children.
What are your organization's top three priorities in the next year?
Public product launch
User Acquisition
Additional funding - Angel or VC
Need #1
Digital Marketing Strategy
Need #2
Consumer/Audience Acquisition
Based on your first choice of the eight technical categories you selected above, what is your specific project need? Please be specific!
We need assistance defining and executing a digital marketing strategy that will reach our unique markets (single, divorced, remarried parents) and startup / entrepreneur / funding targets. The strategy should be built to meet our goals for the year - customer acquisition & getting additional funding
3.
Collective Responsibility
Will support from American Express be focused on your organization overall or a specific product/service? Please describe.
Since Ittavi only has 1 product the focus will essentially cross both the company and our product, Ittavi Child Support Manager.
Have you focused on the above area previously? If so, please explain, including whether you have worked with outside consultants before.
We have begun to define our strategy but due to lack of resources have been unable to effectively define and execute the strategy.
Are you able to commit 3-5 hours/wk over 10-12 weeks?
Sí
Are you able to meet virtually or at a convenient in-person location?
Sí
Are you able to meet in the city where your organization is based?
Sí
1.
Successful launch with increase of press / media coverage by 50%
2.
Acquire 1000 customers by the end of 2013
3.
Meet funding goal of an additional $675,000 in angel funding
¿Cuál ha sido el impacto de la solución hasta la fecha?
Today we have over 50 beta users that all state that our product, Ittavi Child Support Manager, has help them save time and money while dramatically reducing the conflict that occurs between themselves and the other parent. This is allowing them to focus their energy on raising happy, healthy children.
What is your project future impact after receiving professional support from American Express?
The future impact is to acquire additional customers who can benefit from our product, untimely reducing conflict between single, divorced and remarried parents. By reducing the conflict associated with child support parents can focus their energy on raising happy, healthy children.
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Ittavi (an acronym for “it takes a village”) seeks to end conflict, improve transparency and simplify the process of paying child support while saving parents time and money.
Parents can now spend less time managing child support and more time focused on raising happy, healthy children.
Created on 02/15/2013 by Josh Ko
Life Unexpectancies is a short film in development that aims to show a real, raw look at rape, abortion, and abuse to create engaging discussion. The goal is to premiere the film at the first ever Voiceless Film Festival, an opportunity for this film and other filmmakers to share their work with the community and inform them honestly & openly about these issues.
Created on 02/10/2013 by BoldFutures
Our corporation sponsors the school fees of Kenyan girls who would otherwise not have access to education. These girls return to their communities as leaders and innovators.
Samsara is and organization working in sex health education and abortion counseling.
We have launched an education program called 'Literarcy for All'. We are determined to teach/literate 140 millions illiterate Pakistanis especially rural Pakistan with special focus on people of Northern Pakistan i.e. FATA and KP - bordering Afghanistan.
For this purpose, our partner who has developed mobile videos for educating people, we are educating people all over Pakistan.
For details explore:
www.rehanschool.com
Created on 01/22/2013 by Ferris Kassar
Finally Fit is a health & wellness organization that provides virtual, customized personal training programs for disadvantaged women. Our mission is to be a catalyst in the advancement and empowerment of women and fitness globally.
Created on 01/16/2013 by ahmerashraf
Our program is to educate rural women of Pakistan regarding the harmful effects of tobacco usage and smoking, through demonstrative and captivating theatre plays/ re-enactments, which would not only help them understand easily (due to high illiteracy levels), but also aid in cessation of this disease burden.
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The team comprises of a few individuals from the Public Affairs wing of Pfizer Pakistan Limited, as well as the core team of the All Pakistan Women’s Association (APWA), who want to make a difference by working towards eradication of tobacco and smoking from Pakistan.
¿Qué te hace un intraemprendedor? Cuáles son las habilidades, capacidades y rasgos personales que te hacen un intraemprendedor?
Diverse team, with passion to dedicate efforts towards alleviating tobacco burden from Pakistan.
Principal país en el cual este proyecto está creando impacto social
Países o regiones adicionales
Industria
Cuidado de la Salud
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Necesidad: ¿Qué problema social o medioambiental estás intentando solucionar?
Looking at our country, and the general trends prevailing in our society, smoking has seen an alarming rise. More and more people take up smoking every day, without realizing the harmful effects it poses to their health, or not paying enough ‘attention’ to those harmful effects. According to a survey, more pregnant women are using tobacco and 92% of women said that smoking was allowed in their home, and 50% said they and their young children were frequently or always exposed to tobacco smoke indoors. Among India’s immediate neighbors, only Pakistan figures in this infamous list of worst in the world when it comes to women smokers.
La solución: ¿Cuál es tu solución? Sé específico.
In a unique concept and following insights from the rural areas – we aim to develop demonstrative enactments/ theater street plays, as a way of providing counseling and education to rural women and highlighting effects of smoking on women health. In most rural areas, such plays and reenactments are successful in delivering the message to the audience, as opposed to literature (due to high levels of illiteracy).
La Solución: ¿Por qué es innovadora la solución para tu compañía e industria?
The solution is innovative as previous ways have been focused on professionals and not communities. The communities need to be aware of the hazards of smoking and since most of them are illiterate, demonstrative ways are only solution. A women’s social welfare organization, such as the All Pakistan Women’s Association (APWA), with the technical expertise of National Alliance for Tobacco Control (NATC), is a unique combination that will aid in developing sustainable solutions.
El Modelo: danos un ejemplo específico de cómo tu solución hace una diferencia; inluye tus actividades principales.
The model is a simple training, counseling and awareness program; I will share two major examples below;
APWA has a vast network of Lady Health Workers (LHWs), these LHWs work with the local communities by paying door to door visits and counseling women on health related problems. The first step was to train these workers on WHO’s M-POWER model for smoking cessation and certify them as smoking cessation counselors. Once the training had taken place, the LHWs were given adequate materials to discuss with the women in these communities. Our model has introduced smoking cessation counseling in their daily curriculum of health and now it is a part of the basic health topics that these LHWs discuss with the communities. This started a debate around a new health topic and kicked off the discussions in the homes. As many as 95% of the total women population visited were not specifically aware of the hazards smoking poses to health, they were just aware of the fact that ‘it is bad’.
The second innovative way to reach out to communities were through a series of street theatre workshops where a leading theatre group working for women activism partnered with APWA to put together a stage play. This play captured two different stories in low income households where individuals suffer from smoking and tobacco abuse. The play was moving and staged in the communities so women can easily attend the plays as well as learn from looking at the enactment as opposed to reading (since illiteracy levels are quite high).
El mercado: ¿Quiénes son tus pares y competidores? Identifica a otros que también estén trabajando para dar respuesta a las necesidades que tú abordas y en qué te diferencias de ellos. ¿Cuáles son los desafíos que estos jugadores podrían representar para tu éxito o crecimiento?
There are not many people working with women groups on smoking cessation primarily. A number of other groups work on smoking cessation including the National Tobacco Control Cell (NTCC, a public office) and National Alliance for Tobacco Control (NATC, a private NGO) but with different aims, once focusing on addressing overall smoking problem in the country from a Federal level and one working on training healthcare professionals in smoking cessation and counseling. The latter has been our training partner in this program. There are no obvious challenges any of the above could pose to the program as this is the first ever time such a program has been implemented.
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I will capture a heart moving moment from the Central Prison for Women and Juvenile Jail where APWA held a session with the women inmates. After the awareness session was held, women were shocked by the dangerous effects of smoking and explained how difficult it is for them to get their hands on cigarettes whilst in prison. Many women got up one by one and promised to quit, save money and send it to their families.
¿Cuál ha sido el impacto de la solución hasta la fecha?
Reached out to 40,000 women, create awareness about the consequences of tobacco consumption and motivate them to quit this addiction, through door-to-door visits, as well as through the theater plays.
¿Cuál es tu impacto proyectado en los próximos 3 años?
Significantly high awareness levels for smoking hazards among low income communities and households in various parts of Karachi city, and other cities in Pakistan. This awareness will be able to drive ‘quit smoking rates’ as well as having a positive impact on the overall health of the communities.
¿Qué barreras pueden dificultar el éxito de tu proyecto? ¿Cómo planean superarlas?
Social pressure, cultural norms, and peer pressure, are some elements that can hinder this project. The target audience indulges in various forms of smoking due to stress and pressure, mainly building on from low-standards of living, increasing costs due to economic recession, unemployment, and increasing number of family members and those women who are not smokers but are susceptible to smoking due to the environment and surroundings.
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Pfizer focuses on building partnerships to address health related issues. With Pfizer Foundation’s involvement in this project, which is carried out by an NGO working for women’s welfare, Pfizer is seen as a responsible corporate entity committed to addressing key public health issues in the country. It also builds the company’s image in a positive light.
¿Cómo estás impulsando recursos internos (fondos, tiempo, concimiento, etc.) para sostener esta iniciativa?
We are committed to the cause and have invested a great deal of time in the project and have encouraged our partners to utilize internal resources. With Pfizer’s core team, having the experience of handling such a project in the past, the knowledge and learning was transferred to APWA. The smoking cessation training certification developed with the help of NATC was used for the training of LHWs in APWA. APWA also utilized internal auditorium, and office spaces for meetings etc.
Amplía tu respuesta, explicando el plan de financiación y sostenimiento a largo plazo.
APWA will continue to monitor and reach out to women with the objective of training and counseling the communities. The play has been developed and can be replicated with minimum funding to more communities. Similarly, the training provided to APWA LHWs can be refreshed. All these factors provide sustainability to the program. There is no long-term funding plan, however, we may be able to allocate some funds for activities in future.
Cuéntanos sobre tus asociados, dentro de tu empresa y por fuera, que sean claves para el éxito de tu proceso.
This idea mainly involves three organizations – Pfizer Foundation, APWA, and the National Alliance for Tobacco Control (NATC). APWA is responsible for the execution of the plays, whereas NATC is responsible for providing training and expertise to the workers of APWA.
¿Qué apoyo interno has tenido para tu proyecto? Qué tipos de retrocesos has sufrido?
The current leg of the project has been funded by the global Pfizer Foundation, and Pfizer Inc, and so far the project has continued to meet its objectives.
Created on 01/9/2013 by jenniferjs
Cooking With Mama is a new culinary school with a twist - it aims to empower unemployed or underemployed women to reach their highest potential through teaching ethnic and authentic cooking classes in the community. It aims to provide women with confidence, work-readiness skills, compensation, and a personal network.
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Jennifer Fong is Director/ Founder at Cooking With Mama. She holds experiences across Canada, US, UK and China with organisations such as UNICEF, UNDP, World Economic Forum, UK Cabinet Office, and PwC. She currently works as a management consultant at Accenture. She attained a joint Master of International Affairs from Columbia University and Master of Public Administration from the LSE, with a focus in international development.
Amanda Briden is a Director at Cooking With Mama. She joined the team while completing her MBA at the Said Business School at the University of Oxford. She holds experiences as an aerospace engineer at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory and Participle, a London based public service design firm, working toward measuring human capabilities.
¿Qué te hace un intraemprendedor? Cuáles son las habilidades, capacidades y rasgos personales que te hacen un intraemprendedor?
I currently hold two jobs - a management consultant at Accenture, and a director/founder of Cooking With Mama. I am able to apply my analytical and problem-solving skills from Accenture towards the development and growth of Cooking With Mama. While these organisations have two separate missions, they both utilise the same business planning and problem solving tools.
What makes me an intrapreneur is my ability to apply both my private and public sector knowledge into a social enterprise which straddles both disciplines, my curiosity to pursue the road less travelled to see if I can turn this seed of an idea into a global initiative, and my drive to empower and build confidence for unemployed women through Cooking With Mama.
Principal país en el cual este proyecto está creando impacto social
Países o regiones adicionales
Industria
Alojamiento y Servicios Alimentarios
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Inicio (iniciativa piloto que acaba de empezar a ponerse en práctica)
Necesidad: ¿Qué problema social o medioambiental estás intentando solucionar?
Cooking with Mama aims to empower unemployed and underemployed women, who are incredible home cooks, to reach their highest potential through teaching cooking classes in the community. In today’s economic climate many women are struggling. U.K. statistics show that in 2011, 1.12 million women were unemployed, with the 50-65 age range disproportionately affected. While women’s circumstances vary widely, many have extensive culinary experience gained at home. Cooking with Mama hopes to demonstrate the value of these skills by providing training and opportunities for these women to lead cooking classes in the community.
La solución: ¿Cuál es tu solución? Sé específico.
The unemployed often struggle to gain the experience needed to re-enter the labour force. For example, women who have focused on raising families may lack professional experience, and those who have lost jobs can find it hard to enter another sector. We offer women who are in these circumstances, and who love to cook, an opportunity to lead a cookery class. We see this as a tool to gain leadership experience, develop communication skills, grow confidence, and begin to build a distinctive CV. By developing their confidence and work-readiness skills, we aim to empower participating women to reach their highest potential.
We also offer an experience boost for those seeking to begin their journey into employment in the food industry. We are developing partnerships with restaurants and caterers with the eventual goal of offering women exit opportunities into the cooking trade.
We also aim to reinvest our profits through microloans to invest in the culinary dreams of our mamas.
La Solución: ¿Por qué es innovadora la solución para tu compañía e industria?
Cooking with Mama is the only culinary school of its kind which works with unemployed or underemployed women to lead its cooking classes. Class participants are able to experience a culture through its food by learning our mamas' recipes, which have typically only been passed through family generations. We offers a creative and safe environment to bring the community together through food, develop cultural understanding, and support skills development for unemployed women.
El Modelo: danos un ejemplo específico de cómo tu solución hace una diferencia; inluye tus actividades principales.
We hosts "Mama Days" as training programs for our participating women every other month and prior to them teaching their own class. Skills development training is focused on confidence, public speaking, budgeting, and time management. We believe these key skills are critical to teaching a cooking class and can be applied in other facets of her life. We work with each Mama to design her menu according to a budget, source the ingredients, structure her class timing, and achieve her personal goals of each class.
Cooking With Mama hosts its 2.5 hour cooking classes in rental kitchens in London. We have held six pilots for both guest classes and corporate events of about 15-20 people each, so far featuring Indian and Brazilian dishes. Mamas demonstrate each dish before they are replicated by class participants. Mamas share not only their cooking, but also share their stories and traditions behind each recipe. Participants are charged for attending classes, and this money is used to partially fund class expenses (kitchen rental, ingredients, etc) and a payment for the mama.
The Mamas who have led our classes say the experience has been helpful in building confidence and allowing them to interact with people they would not have otherwise. They have been able to develop skills through the training and have built a community with other women and individuals in the culinary trade. We are working with other restaurant and catering organisations in London to provide further exit opportunities for these women in the culinary space.
El mercado: ¿Quiénes son tus pares y competidores? Identifica a otros que también estén trabajando para dar respuesta a las necesidades que tú abordas y en qué te diferencias de ellos. ¿Cuáles son los desafíos que estos jugadores podrían representar para tu éxito o crecimiento?
Cooking with Mama offers an experience like no other cookery school – an opportunity to learn about food preparation and tradition from a woman who has mastered her own culture’s home cooking. While other cookery schools offer classes with trained chefs, we give participants the same cooking skills while also re-creating that special feeling of home cooking, conjuring up nostalgic memories of family gatherings and holidays. It’s the experience that sets us apart. Our competitors are other cooking schools in London - from at-home lessons to professional culinary schools. There are currently no other cooking schools working with unemployed women or untrained chefs. However, if a similar idea arises, our first mover advantage has been set through established relationships in the industry.
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Jennifer is a self-proclaimed foodie – she enjoys experiencing new cuisines from around the globe, trying new recipes, and taking cooking classes whenever she’s on holidays in a new city. After she moved from Canada to the UK, she fell sick and wished her mum was around to cook her delicious soups. Except her mum was living on the other side of the world, Jennifer didn’t know the recipe, and she didn’t even know any other mums in London to call upon for cooking help. Then it dawned on her – What if she could learn cooking from someone else’s mum? What if she could learn different types of ethnic recipes and cooking skills from different mums throughout London? And What if she could use food to empower unemployed women and to gain new skills? That’s when Cooking With Mama was born!
¿Cuál ha sido el impacto de la solución hasta la fecha?
To date Cooking With Mama has held six cooking classes for a total of 120 participants. Therefore, we have been able to provide 120 individuals with the opportunity to learn a culture through its cooking classes and develop their home cooking skills.
More importantly, these classes were taught by three women. Through our pre- and post-class surveys and discussions, these women have noted an increase in their confidence, public speaking, budgeting, and time management, Over the past four months we have worked with six women through our "Mama Days" (i.e. training and focus groups) to explain our program and provide them with the necessary skills for leading their own cooking class. Our statistics show that we are achieving our impact of providing these women with confidence and work-readiness skills.
Our statistics also prove that this idea can be replicated in other countries. We are currently working on developing chapters in Berlin and New York through interested volunteers.
¿Cuál es tu impacto proyectado en los próximos 3 años?
We at Cooking with Mama are dreaming big. While cookery classes are our core activity, we want to expand our offering and impact, while remaining sustainable. We are keen to begin selling supplementary products at our classes – including spice kits, aprons and cookbooks. Another long-term goal is to set up a fund to provide microloans to our Mamas, so that they can pursue their own culinary dreams, such as to run a stall at a food market, to attend culinary certification classes at a local college, or to develop her own catering service. Another goal is expand globally - we have had interest in expanding the idea in NYC, Berlin, Shanghai and Toronto. We see these ideas ways to remain a sustainable venture, while providing maximum benefit to the women.
¿Qué barreras pueden dificultar el éxito de tu proyecto? ¿Cómo planean superarlas?
As a social enterprise one key barrier to success is understanding how to achieve our social mission while remaining profitable. We are currently addressing this barrier by reviewing our business strategy in understanding how to lower our largest cost (kitchen rentals), increase profits by looking into different customer groups, and applying for grant funding to cover specific costs related to our venture (i.e. fees paid to the women for teaching cooking classes).
Another barrier to success is understanding how to brand and market our venture to the public. Through our pilot phase we know that we have a strong service - now we need to determine a way to communicate our value proposition to our customer base. We are currently working with marketing experts to address this issue.
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Cooking With Mama has adopted a sustainable business model where class participants pay a fee for each cooking class attended. This money is then reinvested back into the venture - with the majority covering the rental costs of the kitchen space, providing compensation to the mama for leading the cooking class, and covering the raw ingredients. A small portion of this money is then reinvested into the growth of the entire organisation. In the future, we plan to expand our profits through cooking products (i.e. spice kits), recipe books, and catering.
¿Cómo estás impulsando recursos internos (fondos, tiempo, concimiento, etc.) para sostener esta iniciativa?
Cooking With Mama is an entirely volunteer-run organisation. It's lead by two directors, Jennifer and Amanda, who are also supported by a volunteer team assisting in areas such as mama recruitment, administration, and event planning.
In addition to its volunteers, the organisation reaches out to its four advisers (through the Emerge Venture Lab) who have experience in social entrepreneurship. It also reaches out to mentors and friends who work/volunteer in food-related industries, social entreprises, and community groups. This has been useful such as receiving tax or legal advice upon company setup, or attending a marketing and branding brainstorm held by marketing professionals in London.
To start, we invested our own funds and also received a £2000 grant to help in the pilot phase,
Amplía tu respuesta, explicando el plan de financiación y sostenimiento a largo plazo.
Our long term funding strategy is three-fold:
1. We plan to increase our profits through our cooking classes. Having piloted different classes and developed a strong model for our mama training program and cooking class delivery, we are now looking to better cater our classes towards different customer groups - for individual, group and corporate classes. We are currently undergoing strategic planning for our marketing and branding to better communicate our venture and its mission.
2. We plan to develop partnerships with groups such as supermarkets and kitchen spaces to reduce our costs of hosting classes.
3. We are applying for grants to drive our growth. This funding will be used to help test different cooking class ideas, expand class offerings,and develop our mama training programs.
Cuéntanos sobre tus asociados, dentro de tu empresa y por fuera, que sean claves para el éxito de tu proceso.
In addition to its volunteers, advisors and mentors in our internal resources, Cooking With Mama relies on its partnerships with culinary schools and community centres where its rents its kitchen space, relies on other community groups which support womens unemployment to reach out to potential mamas, and relies on its social entreprise community to help spread the word about our venture in their personal networks. This is important to us and word of mouth is our best advert.
¿Qué apoyo interno has tenido para tu proyecto? Qué tipos de retrocesos has sufrido?
Cooking With Mama has received support from two organisations:
1. The Emerge Venture Lab is a 12-month accelerator program which supports new or early stage social entreprises. Through this program we have received training on how to develop our venture from an idea into its current pilot phase. We have also received mentorship through various volunteer advisors from the startup community.
2. The Royal Society of Arts has granted us £2000 to assist with our pilot phase.
Created on 01/9/2013 by akatun
The PackH2O water backpack is the lowest cost, ergonomically correct way to manually transport and store household water in the developing world. It holds 20L and allows women and children to avoid the in-transit contamination and water loss that often occurs when they transport water in buckets and jerry cans.
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As the Chief Sustainability Officer for Greif, Scott Griffin is responsible for leading the sustainability strategy for the world’s leading industrial packaging company. Since joining Greif in 2006, Scott has helped Greif not only reduce its environmental impact, but also implemented a “sustainability-in-action” program that includes developing business innovations to alleviate humanitarian issues.
David Fischer joined Greif in 2004 as senior vice president and divisional president. He later assumed responsibility for operations in Asia, Australia and Africa. He was named CEO in 2011. Fischer identified the Achilles' Heel of the global clean water crisis and he knew that Greif had the expertise to devise a solution. It was under his direction that the water backpacks were created.
¿Qué te hace un intraemprendedor? Cuáles son las habilidades, capacidades y rasgos personales que te hacen un intraemprendedor?
As a team with years of experience in managing and growing organizations, we have a strong entrepreneurial core. We seek and identify opportunities and focus on developing business innovations that alleviate humanitarian issues. While the scale of the problem we have identified is big, our technical skills and capabilities in manufacturing and distribution have put us in a unique position to solve this problem. We are aware of our strengths and weaknesses and where we see a weakness we partner with leading groups such as The Clinton Global Initiative and Habitat for Humanity International who can help us achieve our goals. We are fully committed to our goal.
País de la Empresa
Estados Unidos, OH, Delaware
Principal país en el cual este proyecto está creando impacto social
Haití, SD, Port-au -Prince
Países o regiones adicionales
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Expansión (el siguiente paso será crear un impacto a escala regional o incluso mundial)
Necesidad: ¿Qué problema social o medioambiental estás intentando solucionar?
The poorest gather and transport water in discarded jerry cans and buckets originally used to ship fuel, pesticides and other chemicals. The plastic absorbs these toxins, which end up in the household water. On average, women and children travel 3.5 miles daily to collect water, carrying up to 20L per trip. Medical studies have shown that repetitive head carrying of heavy loads is harmful to the body. Furthermore, water is lost during transit and arrives home contaminated.
Numerous organizations invest in clean water-drilling wells, purifying water and filtering, yet human transport of water from access point to home remains the “Achilles Heel” of the global clean water challenge. The design targets the challenges of carrying water in diverse geographies, under difficult conditions.
La solución: ¿Cuál es tu solución? Sé específico.
The water backpack, PackH2O, is the lowest cost, ergonomically correct way to manually transport and store household water in the developing world. It holds 20L and allows women and children to avoid the in-transit contamination and water loss that often occurs when they transport water in buckets.
A wide mouth allows for fast filling, minimizing wait time at the source point that can expose women and children to danger in unstable regions. Lighter weight (7x lighter than the average jerry can) allows for fast, high-volume emergency relief shipments. A roll-down closure reduces water loss and contamination during transit while the protected spout keeps water clean for drinking. The backpack is leak proof, durable and easy to clean and sterilize and collapses when empty. It is designed to be sewn in developing markets with minimal capital and training to create needed jobs. Made from an industrial-grade woven polypropylene, it delivers strength while reducing weight and cost.
La Solución: ¿Por qué es innovadora la solución para tu compañía e industria?
We identified an important problem and knew that Greif, a global leader in industrial packaging, had the expertise to devise a better alternative. We took an industrial grade polyethylene material that is used to manufacture flexible, industrial containers and redesigned it to solve an essential need at the base of the pyramid. The result is a lighter, stronger, more sterile water transportation vessel that also produces 57.6% less CO2 emissions than traditional containers.
El Modelo: danos un ejemplo específico de cómo tu solución hace una diferencia; inluye tus actividades principales.
The average woman in the developing world is under 5’4” and weighs less than 125 lbs and walks on average 3.5 miles everyday to get water to bring home, making the challenge of carrying up to 40lb of water every day and over long distances a significant health issue. Water is lost during transit and more importantly arrives home contaminated. A test conducted by Battelle of jerry cans being used by Haitians to carry water found that more than 90% were contaminated with E.Coli; more than 70% previously held oil and other toxic chemicals.
By using the water backpack, a woman’s life changes in the following ways:
-Because the backpack is lighter, distributes the weight evenly and can be adjusted to the size and strength of the person wearing it, it is much easier and safer to transport water home
-It can stand on its own or be hung up for dispensing water making water storage easy
-Roll-down closure reduces water loss and contamination while the protected spout keeps water clean for drinking
-With no chemical coating, it is water safe, easy to clean and sterilize
-A wide mouth allows for fast filling, minimizing wait time at the source point that can expose women to danger in unstable regions
-It leaves hands free, which helps a user to navigate steep inclines and slippery terrain and defend herself against any danger
-It is available in kits that are optimally priced to be sewn and sold by women with minimal capital and training providing them jobs
-Sanitizing the backpack liner in the sun removes E.coli from the liner nearly as effectively as chlorination
El mercado: ¿Quiénes son tus pares y competidores? Identifica a otros que también estén trabajando para dar respuesta a las necesidades que tú abordas y en qué te diferencias de ellos. ¿Cuáles son los desafíos que estos jugadores podrían representar para tu éxito o crecimiento?
Current known alternative methods developed to carry water include: 14-liter Oxfam Bucket,
CDC Safe Water 20-liter modified jerry cans, 5-gallon (19-liter) buckets, clay pots and a barrel shaped container called the Hippo Water Roller, which carries 24 gallons of water. The Oxfam Bucket and Safe Water jerry can are moderate cost, hard-sided solutions with higher distribution and storage costs than PackH2O. The Hippo Water Roller is often filled by pouring water from dirty buckets into the drum and is not suitable for pushing over rugged terrains, such as slopes or mountains.
At scale, PackH2O costs lower than other options and is collapsible and lightweight, driving down transportation and storage costs.
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After the 2010 earthquake in Haiti, Greif was among the first companies to commit long-term resources to recovery efforts there. On a trip to Haiti to help install a rain catchment system in a rural village, Greif CEO David Fischer observed women carrying water in containers on their heads, and children lugging home dirty jerry cans and buckets full of water. Recognizing that the containers being used were likely chemically contaminated, he knew there was a better way and that Greif could apply its business innovation and technical skills to create a solution so he challenged a group of employees to find it. The result is the PackH2O backpack that alleviates the physical and safety challenges of getting water home.
¿Cuál ha sido el impacto de la solución hasta la fecha?
• In total more than 16,000 water backpacks have been in distributed in Haiti, Guatemala, Kenya and Uganda.
• More than 4,000 water backpacks were distributed in four communities in Haiti with support from the Clinton Foundation.
• In Guatemala, women are selling the backpack to other community members, generating or supplementing income for their families and building economic stability for local communities in two successful pilot projects, one of which has been expanded through support from the Knights of Columbus.
• In Marsabit, a remote area in northeast Kenya, we have partnered with Partners for Care and Habitat for Humanity to field test 600 water backpacks with women who spend 6 hours a day obtaining water for household use.
• A study conducted by Partners in Health in Haiti found that 100% of users said the backpack is comfortable, 72% could carry more water than with buckets, 60% said it took less time to carry water home with the backpack.
¿Cuál es tu impacto proyectado en los próximos 3 años?
We are pursuing three separate business models simultaneously: disaster relief model, livelihood model and entrepreneurship model. The first two models involve the distribution of the backpacks via NGOs and other partners. The third model involves creating micro-entrepreneurial opportunities in developing economies.
We estimate that by combining the three models, by 2016, we will distribute close to 500,000 backpacks and touch two and half million lives in 10 countries.
*Based on the assumption that each backpack touches five lives
¿Qué barreras pueden dificultar el éxito de tu proyecto? ¿Cómo planean superarlas?
1) Generating awareness about the problems surrounding the current methods of personal water transport and storage and effectively communicating the benefits of the new solution. We are working to overcome this by collaborating with partner organizations who have experience in training and educating community members.
2) Scaling something as aspirational as transforming the way water is carried. To address this we are working hard to build an investment model vs. and aid based model. We have a for profit approach as opposed to a foundation/ charity based approach.
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- The application of our expertise and core competencies to the creation of new products that help improve the lives of individuals in developing economies
- Gaining a better understanding of the needs of the base of the pyramid
- Entrance into new markets
- Increasing visibility on the issue with key stakeholders
- Increase visibility of the company via awards such as the Popular Science's Best of What's New and Global Green awards
- Strengthening of our relationship with our customers
¿Cómo estás impulsando recursos internos (fondos, tiempo, concimiento, etc.) para sostener esta iniciativa?
Greif has committed its internal manufacturing division to produce and improve upon the development of the backpack. We are also leveraging the capabilities of our partner Partners in Health (PIH) for testing and validation of impact of the backpacks. Greif has provided significant funding for the program to date.
Greif has also partnered with a Columbus based venture capital firm, NCT Ventures, to lead operations and marketing efforts for PackH2O. NCT Ventures along with Greif, has built an exceptional team with the necessary funding needed to accomplish our mission.
Amplía tu respuesta, explicando el plan de financiación y sostenimiento a largo plazo.
Our focus is on building a sustainable model based on commerce. Greif & NCT Ventures have made a commitment for the long term. Both companies understand that to tackle a global issue such as the crisis tied to water takes time, resources and requires funding. From a resource perspective, Greif has offered its core competencies in manufacturing and distribution and invested two million dollars in R&D and design; they are committed to continuing this investment to provide a product that is both environmentally and economically better than the alternative. NCT supports this vision and is ready to make the necessary investment towards this social venture. Our strong partnerships with PIH, the Clinton Foundation and others are helping us scale our efforts.
Cuéntanos sobre tus asociados, dentro de tu empresa y por fuera, que sean claves para el éxito de tu proceso.
Within our company we work in full cooperation with our manufacturing, product development, marketing and communications departments.
We partnered with NCT ventures to lead operations and marketing efforts.
Our partners are:
Globally: Operation Blessing, Partners in Health
Haiti: Clinton Foundation
Kenya: Partners for Care, Habitat for Humanity
Guatemala: CXCatalysts, CEMACO, Knights of Columbus and the Universidad del Valle de Guatemala
¿Qué apoyo interno has tenido para tu proyecto? Qué tipos de retrocesos has sufrido?
We have received full support from Micheal Gasser, former CEO, current chairman of board and from our current CEO David Fischer who has initiated this project. We also have full support of Greif's manufacturing, distribution and communication departments. We have not received any push-back.
Created on 12/31/2012 by Birgit Berglund
We partner with NGOs that work with vocational training for vulnerable women. In spite of empowerment programs stigma and high unemployment rate obstruct job opportunities. As a social enterprise we will hire members from these NGOs, and together we will manufacture ethical and fashionable high quality leather bags.
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We are three young women with background from voluntary work, social work, business and marketing. Our skills and qualities are quite different from one and another, and this is what makes us a adequat and good team.
We are currently taking a master within entrepreneurship and innovation, and our ability to work and communicate as a team has been tested several times.
Considering that we are a business in the nascent phase it is confiding that we have seen eachothers strengths and weaknesses. We know when to support and when to enchourage eachother, and this we consider as an advantage.
¿Qué te hace un intraemprendedor? Cuáles son las habilidades, capacidades y rasgos personales que te hacen un intraemprendedor?
A good intrapreneur is one that can create new ideas and make positive changes from within the business. We are in the start up phase, and it is part of our vision to see change in the women that will work within our business. In order to do so we will be working "on the ground" with the business staff as a whole. It is here will find the dynamo for good ideas. Motivation and encouragement of the women we work with is what will make us succeede as an intrapreneural business. Our utter most important personality trait is therefor the ability to show emapthy.
Communication amongst our colleagues is key to pick up the good ideas for viablity of our bottom line.
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Necesidad: ¿Qué problema social o medioambiental estás intentando solucionar?
Since 2010 we have been working alongside a volunteer organisation in Livingstone, Zambia, whose purpose is to eliminate prostitution. Kwenuha offer a variety of programs with the goal of empowering former sex workers, as well as vocational training, where prospective work or self-employment is the desired outcome.
However, over the years it has proven to be difficult to reach this objective. Stigma and high unemployment rates are the leading factors that prevent Kwenuhas members in obtaining future employment.
This also creates a great challange for the organisation. If the women can't move forward the organisation will not have staff to help others "off the streets", and the organisation will not be able to create positive ripple effect.
La solución: ¿Cuál es tu solución? Sé específico.
We are starting up a social enterprise in Livingstone, where we will create and sell high quality leather bags for the concious consumer under the brand WayaWaya.
As a social entrepreneurial organization our vision is to “fulfill dreams and strengthen the individual through sustainable work”. We are establishing a sewing factory in Livingstone, Zambia. This will operate as an extended job prospect for vulnerable women, and will be a possibility for them to engage in an ordinary work environment. The fashionable leather bags that we manufacture will be exported internationally under the brand WayaWaya.
La Solución: ¿Por qué es innovadora la solución para tu compañía e industria?
Over the past years the fashion industry has been critizised for the lack of collaboration along the value chain. The demand has created poor working conditions, and there is need for change. It is not only the manufacturers wrong-doing, but a value chain as a whole. High demand for quick delivery gives little room for flexibility and change. By being in charge of designing, manufacturing and sales we are shortening the value chain and improving transparency.
El Modelo: danos un ejemplo específico de cómo tu solución hace una diferencia; inluye tus actividades principales.
We are collaborating with several NGOs in Zambia who work on a basic level solving emergent social problems. Our organization will be the next step for the people involved. We are offering proper work with good salaries and uplifting work conditions.
We believe in transparency and as we, unlike most other fashion brands, are in control of our own production, we have a unique position. We strive to maintain our social and ethical value throughout the whole value chain, and partner only with suppliers who can meet our requirements. Local suppliers are preferred.
We will strive to uplift our employees through skills training, respect, empowerment, motivation and close and personal follow-up of each individual. Workdays will be no longer than 8 hours, 5 days a week, and wages will be on a good Zambian level with possibilities for a bonus.
We will continuously scale our production based on the market demand. More products sold, means more people employed. We will continuously search for more NGO partners to recruit from. When we have a good working production model, we want to scale to other African countries to scale our social impact.
Our brand story will be concentrated around the unique stories of our women. How they find strength and motivation despite their background. Through our brand the consumer will get a feeling of knowing the person who made their purse. Story will be communicated through elements such as tags, leaflets, webpage, PR stories and social media/viral videos.
El mercado: ¿Quiénes son tus pares y competidores? Identifica a otros que también estén trabajando para dar respuesta a las necesidades que tú abordas y en qué te diferencias de ellos. ¿Cuáles son los desafíos que estos jugadores podrían representar para tu éxito o crecimiento?
Our main target segment is trendy, wealthy and conscious female consumers from 25-40yrs. We are entering the luxury market, which is growing. Products will be sold on the Internet and in fashion stores first in the Nordics, then US and other European countries.
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We didn´t have the "aha" moment for our idea while working for the peace corps, but on our time off. It didn’t take long for a couple of shopaholics to discover that Livingstone lacked proper clothing stores. And with a big passion for fashion we quickly trailed the solution to our problem.
In Livingstone there are hundreds of informal second-hand clothing stores. Vintage, second hand, beta products, high end. You name it they’ve got it. And so the treasure hunt had begun. Any garment with an outdated design, nice colour or good quality we took to Emmah´s Wear, the local seamstress.
Over the year of 2010 Emma and her employees made many nice things for us, but that is merely all they have done. They taught us about Zambian courtesy, work ethics and everyday struggle. We have to date a much appreciated relationship. Emma is an important piece in our puzzle, and we are very grateful to have her as part of our network.
¿Cuál ha sido el impacto de la solución hasta la fecha?
When Merete and Iris enrolled a master in innovation and entrepreneurship in Norway Birgit becacme engaged. From here we have worked with the project as part of school and on our time off, which has helped us strucutreize our nascent business idea.
We are still in the nascent phase, and we have not yet made any impact to any individual. The creation and composition of our team and help from teachers and professional guides through our school have helped consolidate our business model. We have reviewed several ways on how to implement further training for our future staff. The design of our product has been evaluated carefully both to satisfy the consumers need and in order for our business to survive and grow organically. As an example we wanted to use off-cuts and second hand material, but after evaluating access to the supply and quality of material we saw this as a less sustainable model. Using leather from a local tannery is more viable and will support the local economy.
¿Cuál es tu impacto proyectado en los próximos 3 años?
Job creation will have a tremendous impact on the individuals, their families and the community. They will have the possibility to earn their own money, which will buy food, shelter, clothes and medicines. Our partner organizations will also be able to help more people when spaces are opened.
¿Qué barreras pueden dificultar el éxito de tu proyecto? ¿Cómo planean superarlas?
The biggest barriers for success within the handbag-market is distribution and customer loyalty. This can be contract with distributors, placement in store, realtionship to the fashion-press, scale advantages within marketing and production and branding familiarity. We are actively working on lowering these challenges.
An example of lowering the challanges is to use under the line marketing to get our brand recognized.
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The possibility for the women to earn their own money, which will buy food, shelter, clothes and medicines. Our partner organizations will also be able to help more people when spaces are opened.
in accordance to our growth we will also be supporting the local economy.
¿Cómo estás impulsando recursos internos (fondos, tiempo, concimiento, etc.) para sostener esta iniciativa?
In order to run the start-up process as smoothly as possible with the necessary resources available, we account with a capital requirement of $350 000 distributed over 2yrs. This will result in a surplus after 2 years. At this point we have employed 100 women in Zambia and are selling 10 000 purses a year.
We are currently working on applications for support through philantropic funders and supporters. We are also working on carrying out fund raising in Norway and Zambia.
For the first period our biggest expenditures will be location, equimpent and expert staff (designers and seamstresses).
Amplía tu respuesta, explicando el plan de financiación y sostenimiento a largo plazo.
As mentoined above it will take us about 2 years to break even. It will be important with funding and support in the very beginning. Our advantage is that we can sell our product from the very first manufacturing day locally in Zambia. It is part of our strategic plan to make use of the tourist market in Livingstone to cover expenditures while expanding and streamlining the business.
Cuéntanos sobre tus asociados, dentro de tu empresa y por fuera, que sean claves para el éxito de tu proceso.
We are in contact with suppliers in both South Africa and loccaly in Zambia. The supplier in South Africa has already helped us with leather for our prototypes, free of charge.
We have a good network in Zambia, and have involved both a local accountant and advisors. We are collaborating with individuals that with can create pull-effects locally.
We are also in contact with three large NGOs that are working with vocational training for vulnerable women.
¿Qué apoyo interno has tenido para tu proyecto? Qué tipos de retrocesos has sufrido?
Our board is to date our most important internal support. Livingstone is the tourist capital of Zambia, and one of our board members are heavily involved in LTA (Livingstone Tourist Association). As part of the strategy to obtain cash flow on an early stage we will attract tourists locally to buy our products. Our board has already been in contact with different lodges, and they will set up tourist shuttels to come to our manufacturing site.
Our vision is to “Fulfill dreams and strengthen the individual through including and sustainable work life”. We are establishing a sewing factory in Livingstone, Zambia. This will operate as an extended job prospect for vulnerable women recruited through our partnering NGO organizations, and will be a possibility for them to engage in an ordinary work environment. Fashionable leather bags for the conscious consumer will be produced here, and exported internationally under the brand WayaWaya.
Created on 12/15/2012 by Gretchen Dimeling
The project is the formation of a global HIV/AIDS Anti-Human Trafficking Coalition. My private consulting firm will align and manage corporate participation with initiatives while establishing a network of international agencies and fostering collaboration.
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I am a global health care consultant and humanitarian focused on uniting HIV/AIDS organizations with anti-human trafficking groups. After years of working for international health care organizations, I have formed my own organization to consult internationally. My team includes clients and partners from pharmaceutical/biotechnology/medical device companies, members of Law Enforcement, NGOs, Social Service Agencies, Education, Religious Organizations, and concerned citizens.
¿Qué te hace un intraemprendedor? Cuáles son las habilidades, capacidades y rasgos personales que te hacen un intraemprendedor?
I am an intrapreneur because over the past 8 years, I have utilized my position within private sector firms to enhance social welfare projects and encourage corporate collaboration and innovation. Now I will create my own for-profit consulting firm that specializes in guiding large international organizations to develop sustainable philanthropic projects related to HIV/AIDS and trafficking.
My background in the biotechnology/pharmaceutical industry have allowed me to understand the business models and challenges associated with private sector foundations and philanthropic programs. I leverage my professional experience and industry knowledge to create opportunities and partnerships with social inovations platforms that are in alignment with the corporate structures and regulations.
País de la Empresa
Estados Unidos, PA, Pittsburgh, Allegheny County
Principal país en el cual este proyecto está creando impacto social
Estados Unidos, PA, Pittsburgh, Allegheny County
Países o regiones adicionales
GLOBAL! Headquarters is located in Pittsbrugh, PA, but company reach is GLOBAL.
Industria
Cuidado de la Salud
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Idea (estás listo para lanzarla)
Necesidad: ¿Qué problema social o medioambiental estás intentando solucionar?
The HIV/AIDS - Human Trafficking Coalition will address two social problems:
1. HIV/AIDS
2. Human trafficking
2013 is a pivotal year in achieving the Millenium Development Goals that must be pioneered on both a global and local level. According to Ban Ki-moon, UN Secretary-General, "Halting and reversing the spread of AIDS is not only a goal within itself; It is a prerequisite for reaching almost all the others."
Human trafficking is a growing industry that targets women with roughly 80% of its victims sold into the sex slave trade.
As the human trafficking sex slave trade industry grows, so does the spread of HIV/AIDS and human rights violations amongst women.
Uniting forces will support organizational objectives and empower victims.
La solución: ¿Cuál es tu solución? Sé específico.
My private consulting firm will align and manage corporate participation in The HIV/AIDS Anti-Human Trafficking Coalition, which will align and unite HIV/AIDS groups with anti-trafficking organizations to enhance awareness, medical advancement, funding, and patient/victim support.
The HIV/AIDS Anti-Human Trafficking Coalition will achieve the following:
- Raise awareness of HIV/AIDS and human trafficking
- Support the Millenium Development Goal achievement
- Decrease violence towards women
- Enroll Trafficking victims in HIV/AIDS clinical trials
- Enhance education and prevention
- Increase funding
- Enhance and extend wrap-around support services for victims
- Establish a Survivor Network to spread awareness and foster support efforts
La Solución: ¿Por qué es innovadora la solución para tu compañía e industria?
The The HIV/AIDS - Human Trafficking Coalition is an innovative solution because it achieves the following:
- Advances science and technology towards a cure for HIV/AIDS
- Strengthens anti-human trafficking initiatives
- Promotes victims of human trafficking as highly valued Ambassadors, leading the way in scientific advancement
- Creates a platform for victims to share their knowledge/experience
- Creates an extensive global network that supports local partnerships
El Modelo: danos un ejemplo específico de cómo tu solución hace una diferencia; inluye tus actividades principales.
Below is a real life example of a situation in which the Coalition activities could unite human trafficking groups with HIV/AIDS organizations for mutual benefit.
Step 1: Identify a NEED/OPPORTUNITY
- HIV study participants are NEEDED: Recently, HIV researchers at the University of Pittsburgh Schools of the Health Sciences and Magee-Womens Research Institute (MWRI) were awarded four grants totaling nearly $11.5 million (from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation)
Step 2: Link the need to a SOLUTION
The Coalitions notifies The Project to End Human Trafficking, which assists male and female victims locally. Victims often require HIV/AIDS testing and or services. The agency then notifies victims of the opportunity and those interested in applying for study enrollment will be referred to the appropriate contact.
Step 3: Share success stories and build on partnerships
The Coalition will circulate a newsletter, hold meetings/webinars, and maintain a website announcing partnerships and opportunities. Victims who participated in the study will be offerend opportunities related to the Ambassador role.
Step 4: Expand the Network and create synergies
The Pittsburgh AIDS Task Force (PATF) provides free HIV Testing as well as wrap-around services to diagnosed clients. Victims received by the Project to End Human Trafficking could be referred to the PATF for support services such as legal council.
A cycle of social innovation is spurred as information and resources are shared, patients receive better care and organizational missions advance.
El mercado: ¿Quiénes son tus pares y competidores? Identifica a otros que también estén trabajando para dar respuesta a las necesidades que tú abordas y en qué te diferencias de ellos. ¿Cuáles son los desafíos que estos jugadores podrían representar para tu éxito o crecimiento?
My consulting firms works in collaboration with The HIV/AIDS - Human Trafficking Coalition, which does not have competitors. The Coalitions is based on a collaborative model that returns maximized benefit when all organizations and individuals participate. The Coalition promotes and identifies needs/opportunities, foster collaboration, share resources, and support Ambassador development. The Coalition operates as a supportive network to organizations and individuals by connecting needs with prospective solutions.
Member organizations include the following:
Biotechnology/Pharmaceutical companies
Clinical Research Organizations
Governments
Universities
Crime Enforcement Agencies
Social service support agencies
Human Rights Coalitions
Medical Research Organizations
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My "Aha!' moment took place at the Carnegie Mellon University Film Festival in 2005. I watched a film about about a young woman who was abducted into a sex-slave trade ring. Her final destiny was a cold, lonely and horrid death. When I saw the film, I was working with HIV patients. I knew the pain associate with a positive diagnosis, but I had never imagined the combination of being abducted, infected, and continuously abused until death. Prior to viewing this film, I did not imagine anything more painful than and receiving an AIDS diagnosis. That day in 2005, I realized that there was a reality far worse and not only was I unaware of the underground human trafficking world, but so was the majority of the population. The victims did not have a lifeline. The magnitude of this film impacted my life forever. In 2012,while at the Vienna United Nations, I toured the Trafficking exhibit and was impressed by the progress and determined to unite efforts with HIV/AIDS initiatives.
¿Cuál ha sido el impacto de la solución hasta la fecha?
To date, my impact is the following:
- Generated interest and commitment among corporate leaders and private sector consultants to enhance the strategic partnership between HIV/AIDS and human trafficking groups
- Communicated the alignment of HIV/AIDS medical advancements with global political and humanitarian dedication to anti-human trafficking efforts
- Initiated plans to include sex slave trade victims in HIV/AIDS clinical trials
- Spread awareness and created a sense of urgency in the biotechnology/pharmaceutical industry via marketing of news reports and intelligence information regarding the increase in the human trafficking industry
- Proposed projects with a sustainable level of commitment to international and local companies
- Increased use of the Trafficking Hotline
- Motivated individual, departmental, and company wide participation via speaking engagements at private sector meetings
¿Cuál es tu impacto proyectado en los próximos 3 años?
The impacts of my project, The HIV/AIDS Anti-Human Trafficking Coalition, are just beginning.
Over the next year, I will partner with the United Nations, World Health Organization, GBCHealth, MDG Health Alliance, multi-national pharmaceutical companies, generic drug manufacturers, clinical research organizations, law enforcement agencies, and local organizations/companies to achieve the following:
- Raise awareness of HIV/AIDS and human trafficking
- Support the Millenium goal achievement
- Decrease violence towards women
- Enroll Trafficking victims in HIV/AIDS clinical trials
- Enhance education and prevention
- Increase funding
- Enhance and extend wrap-around support services for victims
- Establish a Survivor Network to spread awareness and foster support efforts
¿Qué barreras pueden dificultar el éxito de tu proyecto? ¿Cómo planean superarlas?
Barriers to success and corresponding solutions include the following:
Barrier: Time necessary for large international companies to take action
Solution: Propose minor changes to existing projects, widen scope. Proactively create formal plan for next budget cycle/review period.
Barrier: Lack of interest, unclear benefit
Solution: Demonstrate financial benefit via grants, donations, tax deferrals, cost reductions, enhanced market access and visibility, increased resources via collaboration with member groups, strengthening of current company initiatives.
Demonstrate social benefit via promotion of image enhancement, awards and recognition, success stories, affiliations/relationships with various industry leaders including governments and regulatory bodies
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For my consulting business, I create value as follows:
-Financial benefit via consulting contracts and government funding
-Social value via an extensive network of organizations which have a shared interest in advancing anti-trafficking efforts, HIV/AIDS treatment
-Referral network via large scale collaboration with organization that value my consultancy
- Human capital value via collaboration with subject matter experts across industries
- Leadership in advancing international efforts to improve health care and sustain humanitarian development
¿Cómo estás impulsando recursos internos (fondos, tiempo, concimiento, etc.) para sostener esta iniciativa?
I am leveraging my personal and professional international experiences, connections, and industry knowledge to penetrate pharmaceutical companies, social work agencies, governmental bodies, and to advance progress.
For example, I will participate in the Anti-Human Trafficking Open House held on January 15, 2013 held at Heinz Field’s in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Here I will discuss y experience in pharma, non-profit HIV/AIDS work, and context for alignment between local and global initiatives such as the Millenium Development Goals # 3: Gender Equality, Goal # 6: Combat HIV/AIDS, Goal # 8: Global Partnerships (Specifically, Goal 8.E: In cooperation with pharmaceutical companies, provide access to affordable essential drugs in developing countries)
Amplía tu respuesta, explicando el plan de financiación y sostenimiento a largo plazo.
My business model operates on profit derived from consulting contracts with private sector health related companies such as pharmaceutical, biotechnology, medical device, clinical research organizations, and universities. As a consultant, I will have access to the client resources as well as support from coalition members.
At this time, I need to grow the concept of an HIV/AIDS anti-human trafficking coalition. Once established, I will have 2 primary objectives:
1. Grow my consultancy
2. Support progress of coalition member projects
While my consulting firm will focus on specific projects, the large scale objective of the Coalition is to unite organizations which will collaborate and manage additional projects.
Cuéntanos sobre tus asociados, dentro de tu empresa y por fuera, que sean claves para el éxito de tu proceso.
An example of key partnership, include the following:
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania based Mylan Pharmaceuticals has recently been awarded a large contract with the South African National Department of Health to distribute AVR (HIV/AIDS) medications for the tender period of from January 1, 2013-to-December 31, 2014.
I previously worked at the Pittsburgh AIDS Task Force and am involved with the The Southwestern Pennsylvania Anti-Human Trafficking Coalition.
¿Qué apoyo interno has tenido para tu proyecto? Qué tipos de retrocesos has sufrido?
Support has been exceedingly high. The international attention on anti-human trafficking initiatives driven by the United Nations and the elevated emphasis on HIV/AIDS treatment supported by the Millenium Development Goals and pharmaceutical companies, have created an ideal marketplace supporting the demand of consultancy related to support HIV/AIDS and Anti-Human Trafficking efforts. Whether employing my services or not, nearly are groups are willing to join the coalition.
Created on 11/15/2012 by aaronwhite81
The Women's Leadership Audio Toolkit transforms the way we access and develop the leadership potential of rural women. The contextualized radio drama provides an innovative platform for development, with a focus on 1) understanding of self, 2) how to better work with others, and 3) how to transform communities.
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I work for the Center for Creative Leadership in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia where we have created a social sector innovation hub. Our work centers around developing leaders at the grassroots level through innovative approaches in mentoring, training, coaching, and low tech solutions. I've lived in Ethiopia for the last 7 years, working in humanitarian relief efforts and most recently taking those skills into developing better leadership at the community level to improve projects and organizational impact. I'm married to a beautiful and wonderful woman named Zayid, have a big dog, and love to ride my motorcycle into remote parts of the country.
¿Qué te hace un intraemprendedor? Cuáles son las habilidades, capacidades y rasgos personales que te hacen un intraemprendedor?
I like to challenge assumptions, challenge our organization to stretch themselves into new and potentially risky endeavors, and challenge others around me to break their mental models. The ability to challenge the status quo, coupled with keen business acumen and a deep understanding of cultural context has enabled me to thrive as an intrapreneur at CCL.
País de la Empresa
Estados Unidos, NC, Greensboro
Principal país en el cual este proyecto está creando impacto social
Países o regiones adicionales
Oromiya Region, Gambella Region
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Inicio (iniciativa piloto que acaba de empezar a ponerse en práctica)
Necesidad: ¿Qué problema social o medioambiental estás intentando solucionar?
Rural women form the backbone of the Ethiopian economy, yet they have largely been excluded from agricultural development and are not recognized as leaders in their homes and communities. Traditionally, development organizations have carried out tiered training of trainers programs, which tend to dilute content to the point of ineffectiveness. We wanted to figure out how we could develop better leaders at the household level to improve agricultural development.
La solución: ¿Cuál es tu solución? Sé específico.
To move away from the TOT approach, and to provide a culturally relevant leadership development process for groups of illiterate women across the country, we developed an innovative audio toolkit with a 10-part ‘radio’ drama loaded up onto an easy to use, solar-powered audio device. This is combined with a low-literacy pictorial guidebook. Peer learning is enhanced with a narrator to provide structured dialogue and fun action learning that can be done in the home.
La Solución: ¿Por qué es innovadora la solución para tu compañía e industria?
Traditionally, leadership development only occurs at the highest points of organizational and economic pyramids. This flips the model upside down making leadership development affordable, scalable, and accessible. It's about unlocking human potential, but doing it through a low-cost model.
El Modelo: danos un ejemplo específico de cómo tu solución hace una diferencia; inluye tus actividades principales.
The women's leadership audio toolkit is targeted for women's self-help and savings groups in rural areas of Ethiopia. Women meet on a regular basis and work through the audio toolkit, learning from the experiences of the characters and also from their own lives. The women are able to internalize the leadership content and how it relates to their roles in their homes and communities, setting goals and maintaining accountability for these goals through the group.
El mercado: ¿Quiénes son tus pares y competidores? Identifica a otros que también estén trabajando para dar respuesta a las necesidades que tú abordas y en qué te diferencias de ellos. ¿Cuáles son los desafíos que estos jugadores podrían representar para tu éxito o crecimiento?
There are hundreds of non-profit organizations trying to reach and empower rural women through skills training, access to capital, and improved knowledge. We're enabling these organizations to better reach these women with something that is more engaging, more relevant, and focuses on the personal leader development (which is often overlooked). So far, we're the only organization that has created a dramatized, women's leadership audio toolkit. It can be coupled with programs around health, economic development, and many other development sectors.
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The idea came while researching a women’s self help group model in Ethiopia – a model where 15 women get together and begin saving money (or sometimes they start by saving coffee beans) providing other group members accountability and support. Once the group has amassed enough capital they keep saving, but begin doling out small loans within the group, charging interest, and maintaining almost 0% default rate on loans. The group started 3 years ago with each woman saving 50 coffee beans a month and now has a working capital of over $3500. The groups received no capital or support from non-profits but had organized themselves to seek out additional training for leadership. That's when i had the idea that we could reach several thousand of these groups with high level content, geared towards illiterate women, using low cost solar powered audio devices.
¿Cuál ha sido el impacto de la solución hasta la fecha?
We've just started marketing these audio toolkits to women's self-help and savings groups and organizations engaged in women's empowerment programs, so we only have about 30 women's self-help groups (about 500 women) currently using the solution. Most of them will go through the toolkit in 10 weeks, with measurable goals being set at the end. Initial prototyping research has shown that an increased understanding of self, better team work as a group, and an improved understanding/accountability of goal setting. We anticipate that this improved individual leader development will act as a lever for better agricultural and economic development.
¿Cuál es tu impacto proyectado en los próximos 3 años?
We have been asked to take this concept and meld it with a maternal and child health program in Uganda (leadership for maternal/child health) that would potentially reach 20,000 mothers in Karamoja of Uganda. In western Ethiopia we are using the same concept to improve mentoring and HIV awareness/prevention for 3,000 young women. As more and more organizations hear and understand the concept we could see it spreading considerably in the next 3 years.
¿Qué barreras pueden dificultar el éxito de tu proyecto? ¿Cómo planean superarlas?
Language and cultural contextualization are potential barriers. The original women's leadership audio toolkit was developed in the Amharic language, so it's not directly transferable to other parts of the country. When rolled out, the toolkit needs to be culturally specific and language specific to overcome idiosyncrasies that would detract from the program. We plan to overcome this by using grant funding to develop new language/culture toolkits that can be used.
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We're taking a 42 year old educational institution and expanding the possibilities. The Center for Creative Leadership has the mission to advance the understanding, practice and development of leadership for the benefit of society worldwide, and we're making sure that gets put into practice. Specifically, low cost innovations like this help us take high quality leadership development to the grassroots, to act as a lever for development programs.
¿Cómo estás impulsando recursos internos (fondos, tiempo, concimiento, etc.) para sostener esta iniciativa?
CCL funded the initial development and prototyping stage. They've allowed me and others to spend time on this, and have leveraged knowledge to make this product relevant and effective.
Amplía tu respuesta, explicando el plan de financiación y sostenimiento a largo plazo.
We're working with other organizations to co-create solutions to bring this type of leadership development down to the grass roots level. The audio toolkit has already paid for the initial investment through grant funding. We are working to include the toolkit into other grant funded projects that will ensure long term funding. As we use this product in different initiatives (health, agricultural development, water and sanitation) we will contextualize and adapt the content to better serve the intended audience.
Cuéntanos sobre tus asociados, dentro de tu empresa y por fuera, que sean claves para el éxito de tu proceso.
We are able to effectively partner within our organization and externally to create innovative products and process designs. Within CCL we work with the Research, Innovation, Product Design group (RIPD), our Africa regional Social Sector Innovation Hub, and our Europe, Middle East and Africa office in Brussels. In Ethiopia, we partner with Desert Rose Consulting for design, innovation, and anthropology support.
¿Qué apoyo interno has tenido para tu proyecto? Qué tipos de retrocesos has sufrido?
Lot's of internal support from RIPD and our Africa office. We also received financial support from a group of CEO/CFOs that were part of a Leadership at the Peak program at our Colorado office. They were moved by our both-and strategy and wanted to support it.
So far we have not received any push-back because of the low cost, low risk approach.
Fomentar a extraordinária capacidade empreendedora das mulheres do Bolsa Família através de um conjunto de ações que buscam sua inclusão socioprodutiva.
The mission of Benevolence Farm is to provide an opportunity for women leaving prison to live and work on a farm where they grow food, nourish self, and foster community.
According to a study by Marketdata Enterprises in 2010, the motivational self-improvement market is worth $10.5 billion. This includes programs and services developed into books, CDs/DVDs, audiobooks, infomercials, motivational speakers, seminars/workshops, retreats, webinars, personal coaching, online education, websites, training organisations and more.
