Cupcakes and Cleavage - Empowering Women for Social Change
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Ms. Brafit Limited is a Female Owned Social Enterprise which was established 2002 to focus on breast health and breast care. We seek innovative and meaningful ways of partnering and collaboration to grow businesses and to increase market visibility amongst peers. We innovated Cupcakes and Cleavage to have a focused day to feature collaboration as a change agent for women in business
A propos de vous
A propos de vous
Prénom
Nicole
Nom
Joseph-Chin
URL Twitter
URL Facebook
http:www.facebook.com/msbrafit
A propos de votre organisation
Nom
Ms. Brafit Limited
Site Web
Pays
Trinidad and Tobago, PS, Port of Spain
Pays dans lesquels ce projet crée un impact social
Trinidad and Tobago, PS
Age de l'innovateur :
Plus de 34 ans
Sexe de l'innovateur :
Féminin
Votre organisation est-elle une
Hybride
Depuis combien de temps votre organisation opère-t-elle ?
Plus 5 années
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Innovation
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Cupcakes and Cleavage - Empowering Women for Social Change
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Croissance (votre pilote fonctionne et commence à prendre de l'ampleur)
Depuis combien de temps le projet existe-t-il ?
En place depuis 1 à 5 ans
Le besoin : quel problème tentez-vous de résoudre ?
Female entrepreneurs seldom have the opportunity to showcase their brands in a nurturing environment where they can share their products, services and experiences with an audience that is fixed on their specific offerings of their viable businesses and innovations.
La solution: quelle solution proposez-vous ? Soyez précis !
Cupcakes and Cleavage seeks to address and sculpt a safe environment wherein women entrepreneurs, craft makers and innovators can present their brands and attract attention to grow their businesses and create employment and economic anc social sustainability.
Le système : décrivez un exemple spécifique montrant de quelle façon votre initiative fonctionne ; indiquez vos principales activités.
Cupcakes and Cleavage is an organized event that happens on June 30 annually but which sees year long growth for the participants and their brands. Within a year from the event, many entrepreneurs report sales increases, new business opportunities and business growth.
The event is a partnering event which takes the form of a seminar and cocktail event with a keynote speaker and a strong message from an accomplished leader in society.
Le marché : qui sont vos collègues et vos concurrents ? Identifiez les autres personnes qui travaillent à répondre au même besoin et indiquez ce qui vous différencie d'elles. Comment ces concurrents pourraient-ils influencer votre réussite ou votre croissance ?
At present, Ms. Brafit's event is the only female focused event in the island that takes the lead in attending to supporting women in business. The peers are small female owned businesses. Our event attracts partners from the corporate sector who donate their space, time, door prizes and human capital to bring about strong social change for small businesses owned by women.
Impact social
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Votre initiative s’occupe de quelle(s) solution(s) pour aider des entrepreneurs émergents et pour aider des petites entreprises à croître et à s’augmenter dans des communautés mal desservies ? (sélectionnez tout ce qui est applicable)
Accès au financement, Accès au talent, Accès aux chaînes d’approvisionnement, Accès à la technologie, Accès aux opportunités économiques, Changements de politique.
Jusqu'à ce jour, quels résultats a obtenu votre projet ?
Our main impacts have been in the areas of (b) Access to Talent, (c) Access to Supply Chains and (e) Access to economic opportunity. The feedback from each participant and the guests, is always positive and many of the participants communicate on the ways in which they have benefitted from the event. Participants have been awarded contracts to supply their products and to promote their brands at other events. Feedback coming in from our just concluded 2012 event, has been positive with three (3) participants sending notes that they were targeted by both public and private sector organizations to provide supplies or services and the transactions have already been closed or advanced since June 30, 2012 event. The press also sees the event as a very viable event to promote and so the newspaper headlines for the entire week following this event are usually very positive and the features always serve to further empower the participants and to attract additional attention to the venture.
Quelles sont vos prévisions en termes d'impact au cours des trois prochaines années?
Cupcakes and Cleavage future editions will be bigger events and we hope to secure the presence of an regional and international keynote speakers and to have participants from other islands. The intent is to have local government support from key ministries. The acclaim of Cupcakes and Cleavage has spread to other islands already and expressions of interest has come in from Grenada to host the event in their country. Therefore the intent is to expand this event to be a regional event being hosted on each island simultaneously on June 30. Further the current intent is to have a wider participation in the next 1-3 years as the current capacity is 75 - 100 and we would like to extend this. Especially since, after every event, we get calls from interested participants and partners.
Les meilleures propositions possèdent un programme solide détaillant leurs prévisions pour atteindre et suivre leurs objectifs de croissance. Identifiez vos objectifs à 6 mois pour accroître vos résultats
Using all the footage from previous events and targeting new interests with these and measuring them by the interest that is att
Définissez les trois tâches principales à accomplir pour atteindre ces objectifs à six mois
Tâche 1
Edit, package & publish video recordings from recently concluded event
Tâche 2
Send out invitation packages to potential partners/sponsors for next 1 - 3 years of events
Tâche 3
Create a larger social media identity specifically for Cupcakes and Cleavage
Et maintenant, voyez les choses en plus grand ! Identifiez vos objectifs à 12 mois
International Partner for Cupcakes and Cleavage. Selection of a Patron for this annual event and having the keynote speaker for
Définissez les trois tâches principales à accomplir pour atteindre vos objectifs à 12 mois
Tâche 1
Chair a committee to nominate a patron
Tâche 2
Invite local/international partners to become involved
Tâche 3
Locate & engage Keynote Speaker and share intent
Création de l'organisation : nous voulons tout savoir sur votre déclic. Expliquez-nous oú et quand les fondateurs se sont rendu compte que cette solution possédait un véritable potentiel pour changer le monde.
Cupcakes and Cleavage began as an experiment in 2010 with Ms. Brafit and three female entrepreneurs who had strong brands but did not have a way to be sufficiently visible.
While the space at Ms. Brafit was available to vend these products and services, the capacity to host such an event for a wider audience was elusive. Being a very innovative person, I thougth of a way to sell our brands to a wider population and especially to a female audience. Because I specialise in breast care and foundation garments, I had an "Aha" moment by using two resources that I did not have to go very far to locate. I served cupcakes to clients on Saturdays and they were always happy to have one when they came shopping. So, using my own cleavage, I created the invitation and the event name. I then went to Carlton Savannah Hotel and asked them to partner with me on this event and asked them for the space, a welcome drink and cupcakes for 100 guests. I further invited clients and media and voila!
Viabilité
Quels sont vos différents partenariats ?
The partnerships are on varied levels:
(1) Sponsor Partner - Carlton Savannah donates: venue, cupcakes, service and welcome beverage for each guest
(2) Peer Partner - Fellow entrepreneurs who showcase their brands, provide samples and deliver a presentation to the audience. 2012 Peer Partners included KiaraKay Candles, Gina's Chocolates, Anthea's Treasure Trove, GYP
(3) Corporate Partner - Offers donations of door prizes and corporate brand sampling or their pro bono services to enhance the event's capacity: Caribbean Airlines, First Citizens, Carlton Savannah, Media 21, HGIL Services Ltd
Expliquez plus en détails les besoins et les offres indiqués ci-dessus ou proposez un type d'aide non mentionné dans la liste
The intent of networking is to engage a wider audience that can facilitate change globally on the social landscape. In expanding the networks and collaborative efforts, the capacity building process would become an easy one, which will in itself allow for innovation and ideas, mentorship and focused growth in human and economic capital.
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