Here's a story about how members of the Changemakers community are promoting youth development in the United States:
Our nation’s brightest high school students shouldn’t be denied a shot at a college education simply because they lack the necessary resources and support. With the proper guidance, a dose of high expectations, and a boost of confidence, one organization is proving that a little push goes a long way.
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ADD-on-GYAN Educational Services Pvt. Ltd is a venture established in order to reduce the many problems present in the Indian Education Sector and bridge the widening gap between theoretical and practical education in India. We began operations as a Start-up Company at Manipal University - Technology Business Incubator on 20th January and registered as a Private Limited company in July, 2011.
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Created on 06/19/2013 by southbronxunited
South Bronx United (SBU) leverages the power of soccer to help youth, and particularly young men from immigrant families, become leaders and scholars. SBU engages youth through their passion for the sport and then provides educational, mentoring, and support services to help them achieve success.
baca seterusnya ↓↑ menyembunyikan↑ menyembunyikanBorough(s) where you are creating or plan on creating impact
Bronx.
Negara Organisasi
United States, NY, Bronx, Bronx County
Country where your solution is creating social impact
United States, NY, Bronx, Bronx County
Apakah organisasi Anda adalah:
a. Nirlaba
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baca seterusnya↓↑ menyembunyikan↑ menyembunyikanName Your Entry
Building Leaders and Scholars Through Soccer
Pilih tahap yang paling sesuai untuk solusi Anda:
Pertumbuhan (eksperimen Anda sudah dijalankan, dan mulai dikembangkan)
Berapa lama Anda terlibat dalam operasi?
Beroperasi selama 1-5 tahun
The Need for your solution: What problem or challenge are you trying to solve?
NYC's black and Latino young men are in need of support networks, role models, and activities that provide positive influences. Youth often turn away from school and to the streets because they don't feel valued or successful. The challenge is to find ways (1) to engage black and Latino young men and particularly those most at-risk, (2) to provide positives influences that make them feel valued, and (3) to teach concrete academic, social, and emotional so that youth have the tools to achieve success.
The Solution: What is your solution? Be specific!
South Bronx United (SBU) attracts community youth by appealing to their interests: soccer. With a growing immigrant community from African, Latino, and Caribbean backgrounds, thousands of black and Latino youth bring a passion for soccer. They have the opportunity to participate on recreational or competitive travel soccer teams. In addition to leveraging the natural bonding that occurs on athletic teams, SBU staff and volunteers provide personalized attention and a caring support network to make youth feel valued and keep coming back. Then, most importantly, SBU programs teach the academic, social, and emotional skills to help youth succeed. Together, these components will help transform the lives of hundreds of young men.
The Model: Walk us through a specific example of how your solution makes a difference; include the primary activities that are involved in your solution. Consider telling us a story about the solution in action and how it creates impact. For idea-stage pitches, consider providing a hypothetical example
Typically, Bryan skipped one day of school each week. He often felt lost in school. No one in his family had attended college. Bryan's family had immigrated to the U.S. when he was young. He was told that he might not be eligible for college and that it would be too expensive anyways. The soccer field was one place where he felt at home. He found SBU playing after school one day and soon he had joined a team. Suddenly, he was around peers and coaches who share his interests but talked about school and college frequently. He began attending the SBU After School Tutoring Program, sitting with a volunteer tutor twice a week to learn material he hadn't understood in class. Furthermore, SBU staff began helping him and his parents to gain new immigration status through a program called the Dream Act. With SBU, Bryan had the chance to visit colleges around the city and began to discover that college might really be an option for him. His school had gone on college trips before, but he was never previously eligible to attend because of his low attendance. Since joining SBU, Bryan is now on track to not only graduate high school but to be the first in his family to attend college.
The Marketplace: Who else is addressing the problem that you are addressing with your solution. And how does your proposed solution differ from or build on these approaches?
Soccer has been used for social change across the globe. Within NYC, a few of organizations use the sport with the stated goal of serving vulnerable populations, although no others work exclusively within the South Bronx, statistically the nation's poorest congressional district, with 49% of children living under the poverty line. Also, none of these agencies have developed educational and social support services to the extent that SBU has already done. Other organizations engage youth through other sports, but nothing has the potential to reach the immigrant community like soccer.
This Entry is about (Issues)
baca seterusnya↓↑ menyembunyikan↑ menyembunyikanFounding Story: Share a story about the “Aha!” moment that led you or the person who came up with your proposed solution to get started and/or to see the potential for it to succeed.
As a teacher leading after school soccer groups at a local middle school, it became clear that a team atmosphere provided tremendous opportunities for youth to learn and develop. On the last day of the after school season, two students came up and asked me, "What are we going to do after school now? We would come here every day if I could!" It was evident that soccer provided the perfect platform for these young men part of a growing immigrant population that led to many youth who were passionate about soccer but disconnected from typical out of school activities. The next year South Bronx United was born out of the idea that community youth like these needed a engaging program to connect to and keep them off the streets.
Impact: What is the impact of your solution to date? Also describe the projected future impact. (If your solution is an idea you can just describe projected future impact.)
In 2012, SBU served 595 boys and girls, 74 percent of whom are black or Latino males. Every high school senior in the SBU youth development and travel soccer program graduated high school. 93 percent matriculated in college. 98 percent of students were promoted to the next grade. 90 percent of participants stayed in the program, that requires a typical commitment of 6-12 hours per week. Through stronger programming and increased services provided, SBU anticipates having an even deeper impact on every youth it serves--such that youth are better prepared for college so that they can all earn a 4 year degree. Increased resources and capacity will allow SBU to broaden the impact to a greater number of youth.
Full Impact Potential: How do you plan on spreading your solution moving forward? (Please consider spread within New York City or beyond, policy reform, how you might get others to replicate/adopt your solution or other mechanisms)
SBU's model, or components of its programs, can be adopted across the city, nation, and even the world. SBU is already in the final stages of joining StreetFootballWorld, an international network of organizations that "use soccer as a tool to empower disadvantaged young people by engaging private and public partners to create social change." This platform would give us the opportunity to share our practices with, as well as learn from, organizations across the globe. A few individuals and organizations, from NYC and beyond, have already reached out to us in hopes of learning about starting their own ventures. With increased resources, we may be able to formalize a process for mentoring others or facilitating potential replication.
baca seterusnya↓↑ menyembunyikan↑ menyembunyikanCurrent annual budget, in US dollars (if your solution is an idea please estimate what your budget will need to be in order to carry out your solution)
$250.001 sampai $500.000
Tell us about your partnerships. If your solution is an idea tell us about who you would partner or plan on partnering with in order to make your solution a success.
SBU believes in the value of partnering to strengthen programs and services. Organizations such as the Inwood House provide supplementary programs. BronxWorks and Hostos Community College are examples of those who provide space and support. SBU works with New York Cares and others to build capacity in administration, volunteer management and recruitment, and program evaluation. SBU is also part of several community coalitions.
Created on 06/18/2013 by kitechild
Kitechild develops micro-farms in orphanages around the world. Produce from the micro-farm transforms the children’s diet and reduces the home’s dependence on foreign donations. The farm also creates opportunities for the home to earn income and educate orphan children on sustainable farming.
baca seterusnya ↓↑ menyembunyikan↑ menyembunyikanNegara tempat organisasi ini menciptakan dampak sosial
Apakah organisasi Anda adalah:
a. Nirlaba
Has the organization received awards or honors? Please tell us about them
Google Grant Recipient
Guidestar 2012 Top Rated List
baca seterusnya↓↑ menyembunyikan↑ menyembunyikanName your entry
Micro-Farms to Improve Orphan Nutrition and Food Security
Stage
Start-Up (a pilot that has just started operating)
This Entry is about (Issues)
Elevator Pitch
Kitechild develops micro-farms in orphanages around the world. Produce from the micro-farm transforms the children’s diet and reduces the home’s dependence on foreign donations. The farm also creates opportunities for the home to earn income and educate orphan children on sustainable farming.
Problem
Orphanages around the world are dependent on inconsistent foreign donations and struggle to provide their children with proper nutrition, education, and care. Homes are often forced to choose between feeding their children a well-balanced diet, supporting their education, or employing a sufficient number of caretakers. As a result, children in orphanages subsist on starch-based diets with very little access to proteins and other micronutrients.
Solution
The Kitechild solution is to establish micro-farms at orphanage homes. When homes grow their own food, they are not dependent on foreign donations to purchase food, and are not vulnerable to skyrocketing food prices. Kitechild works with orphanage directors to establish their own source of protein, fruits, and vegetables, so they are able to provide their children with nutrient-dense diets without sacrificing education or quality of care. Capacity building and training ensure the success of the micro-project, and with a farm on property, children have the opportunity to learn about sustainable farming. With time, homes have the chance to sell their produce and earn income they can use to provide an even more varied diet for the children.
Example
Grace, a Kenyan orphanage director, was only able to feed her children starchy meals, and only twice per day, due to high and unstable food costs. Her ability to provide vegetables or protein depended on whether or not she happened to receive any extra foreign donations that month. Kitechild developed a chicken coop on orphanage property that revolutionized the children’s diets and the home’s finances. We funded the coop construction, necessary training, the hiring of an experienced farm worker, and the chickens. The children now eat eggs at least twice per week! The home hatches some eggs to grow its supply, and sells additional eggs at the market. Grace now uses her newfound earning power to add variety to the children’s diet.
Impact
The previously described Kitechild chicken coop added 12 g of weekly protein per child to the diets of 45 Kenyan orphans. Our latest project (cost: $4,000) is an Aquaponics Farm at a Honduran orphanage. The sustainable system will yield between 1,100 and 1,500 lbs. of vegetables and 400 to 500 lbs. of tilapia each year, and will save the home $12,000 in annual food costs. The farm will provide 27 orphans with vegetables three times a day as (up from once a day) and tilapia (an excellent source of protein and micronutrients like Vitamin B and potassium) three times per week. The home will reallocate money formerly used for food to pay for educational expenses and hire more caretakers. When the aquaponics system is complete, we hope to bring the concept to other orphanage homes in the region, transforming child nutrition and giving homes the power to provide quality orphan care.
Marketplace
Many organizations, such as DIG, also promote sustainable farming in developing countries, but the most marginalized children - orphans - are seldom included in the solution. Other nonprofits aim to improve orphan care by funding basic needs. Yet most of these groups do not address the long-term issues of financial independence and food security. A home that uses donated funds to purchase food is vulnerable when the inflow of donations ceases or food prices increase. Our model reduces that vulnerability and improves orphanage food security and orphan nutrition in a sustainable manner.
Sustainability Plan
The micro-farm is inherently sustainable in that it saves and earns money for orphanages. The timeline of a project spans two years, during which Kitechild covers startup costs, monitors results, and ensures that saved funds are reinvested in the project and allocated towards specific needs (like improving nutrition). After Kitechild exits the project, the home independently operates the farm, which continues to grow in its impact.
Founding Story
Polly Salas-Urueña, one of the founders of Kitechild, visited international orphanages as a child with her missionary parents and witnessed children’s poor living conditions first-hand. Forever impacted by the experience, she returned to the homes as an adult and noticed the same desperation for foreign assistance. She realized that the best way to make a difference in orphans’ lives was to help those promising homes- with loving directors and high levels of transparency- help themselves. She teamed up with Jacqueline Herrera, a fellow UCLA International Development student, to bring the idea to life. By collaborating with orphanage directors, the concept of income-generating/money-saving projects was born, and they began to guide homes down the path to financial independence, with the ultimate goal of improving children's quality of nutrition, education, and care.
baca seterusnya↓↑ menyembunyikan↑ menyembunyikanWhere do you ensure the availability of nutrients?
Nutrient-rich farming, Full nourishment foods, Human wellness and vitality.
If you had greater capacity, which additional sectors would you like your solution to target - either through expansion, partnership, or thought exchange?
Healthy environments, Nutrient-rich farming.
How specifically would this added capacity help you improve the quality, efficiency, or sustainability of your existing product or service?
The added capacity will help sustain our service of bringing the micro-farm concept to other orphanage homes. The grant will help us control the quality of our current projects by funding proper vaccinations, veterinary visits, and on-site consulting. This will improve our efficiency and effectiveness in implementing and operating our micro-farms, allow us to expand to other partner orphanages, and provide more nutrient-rich diets to more children. Successful projects serve as models for other homes, and can even help provide startup materials, i.e. donating eggs for another home’s coop.
baca seterusnya↓↑ menyembunyikan↑ menyembunyikanHow is your product or service connected to vitality for the people and planet?
Approximately 125 words left (1000 characters).
People need appropriate nutrients to grow, learn, and fight off disease. How do you measure, track, or make use of information about nutrient levels in your own work?
Approximately 100 words left (800 characters).
Considering the flow of nutrients from ecosystems to soil to farms to food to communities, what are the barriers to achieving vitality for people and the planet?
Other barriers you have identified
In your view, what developments need to happen in order to help overcome those barriers and produce a more nutrient rich and vital public and planet?
Approximately 125 words left (1000 characters).
What do you consider the most promising trends or evidence that indicates that the developments you described are emerging? Please elaborate.
Approximately 100 words left (800 characters).
Kitechild develops micro-farms in orphanages around the world. Produce from the micro-farm transforms the children’s diet and reduces the home’s dependence on foreign donations. The farm also creates opportunities for the home to earn income and educate orphan children on sustainable farming.
Created on 06/18/2013 by Organics
By using zeatin like substances in coconut water, taro corms are induced into stolons whose single node cuttings are induced into mass plantlets grown in drip irrigated coir walls. Taro flour is then produced by first chipping corms and solar drying by women and youths to increase their income.
baca seterusnya ↓↑ menyembunyikan↑ menyembunyikanNama Organisasi
Project survival media Kenya
Negara tempat organisasi ini menciptakan dampak sosial
Apakah organisasi Anda adalah:
a. Nirlaba
Has the organization received awards or honors? Please tell us about them
baca seterusnya↓↑ menyembunyikan↑ menyembunyikanName your entry
Coconut in taro (Colocasia esculenta) multiplication
Stage
Start-Up (a pilot that has just started operating)
This Entry is about (Issues)
Elevator Pitch
By using zeatin like substances in coconut water, taro corms are induced into stolons whose single node cuttings are induced into mass plantlets grown in drip irrigated coir walls. Taro flour is then produced by first chipping corms and solar drying by women and youths to increase their income.
Problem
Over dependence of maize meal has made Kenya a food insufficient nation and therefore need for alternative starch. Taro (Colocasia esculenta) is a nutritious and underutilised crop whose production is low due to lack of clean planting material. Some taro production is done using sewage and waste water in city slums, a health hazard. After harvesting taro, corms have a short keeping period. Women and youths are disadvantaged in income generation
Solution
Rapid mass multiplication of taro will enable farmers to produce taro in large quantities. This will relive over dependence of maize as food thus increasing food security in the Taita-Taveta County and Kenya. By processing taro flour using solar dehydrators and small mills, post harvest handling and storage will be enhanced. This will not only increase household members involved in economic activities but will improve on food security. The taro flour will be converted to other products like confectionery among others thus adding value to farm produce. feeding on taro has the effect of reducing chances of non communicable diseases like cancers and diabetes which are on the increase due to a shift of diet from a traditional to Western diet.
Example
By inducing taro using locally available coconut water at USD 0.1 a single farmer can rapidly produce mass planting materials in a ratio of 1: 130 compared to a old farmer’s method that yields 1:1 when they plant from the crown after harvesting or when they use suckers. The induction technique uses inexpensive locally available materials and can be taught to farmers. Scaling up the process will ensure food security. Farmers will produce, women and youths will be involved in collection and processing by cleaning and peeling before chipping then drying in solar dehydrators. The dried chips will then be milled and packed. This process adds job creation and empowers youths and women in financial capacity, besides the process preserves taro.
Impact
A farmer uses 5 coconut fruits at USD 0.5 to induce 200 corms, the farmer my use coir and establish a tunnel for an additional USD100. The corms produce 26000 plantlets which the farmer may sale for approximately USD 1000 or plant them in 6.5 acres with a potential yield of 52tons in 24months. This can feed 24 households for a year and may value at USD11, 760. Processing taro flour may involve 6 women/youths for 130 days in processing and packing 200kgs daily! This can create employment and ensure food security reliving dependence on maize crop as staple food.
By improving healthy feeding which has been characterized by a shift from traditional foods to western diets, taro which is a delicacy has great acceptability. Taro has rich digestible starch good for diabetics. Cancers and diabetes, proper child nutrition and healthy nation is anticipated from taro production and consumption.
Marketplace
Research institutions and private companies using tissue culture to scale up taro production are slow and use expensive processes. Tissue culture can achieve 1:3 plants from parent while the coconut induced technique yields 1:130 plantlets and the farmer's method attaining 1:1. This approach is cost effective, a tunnel with UV treated film will increase heating up, and coconut water will trigger stolons growth from corms and there after stimulate rooting of the stolon node cuttings. Coconut coir has the capacity to induce rooting and has good aeration hence fast establishment of plantlets
Sustainability Plan
The taro induction and propagation technique will be taught to select 200 contact farmers in the county to produce plantlets at a cost for 2000 farmers. The contact farmers will then transfer the technology to other farmers who will then adopt the technology. Youth groups and women groups will be trained and encouraged to farm taro based enterprises in processing taro flour and products. A precise marketing and linkages will be undertaken.
Founding Story
My neighbour, a single mother has been using black-water to irrigate taro and butternut plants. In some cases, taro is grown in black water and sold to unsuspecting buyers especially in the cities. These crops are loaded with heavy metals and are a health hazard. Though taro is a delicacy, production in our country is impaired by diseases and pests. Additionally there is scarcity of clean planting material and supplies come from Tanzania. This triggered me to think of ways to produce taro in large quantities. Faced by lack of planting materials, I solved the plantlet inadequacy using low cost. By reading wide I came across zeatin in coconut water used in vitro propagation! I use coconut water in vivo and include coir to root.
baca seterusnya↓↑ menyembunyikan↑ menyembunyikanWhere do you ensure the availability of nutrients?
Full nourishment foods, Human wellness and vitality.
If you had greater capacity, which additional sectors would you like your solution to target - either through expansion, partnership, or thought exchange?
Healthy environments, Nutrient-rich farming, Full nourishment foods, Human wellness and vitality.
How specifically would this added capacity help you improve the quality, efficiency, or sustainability of your existing product or service?
Clean taro will ensure provision of heathy food devoid of heavy metals and contaminats will ensure healthy community.
Taro is a full nourishing food rich in digestible starch.
Farmer extension to train them on environmental conservation and opportunities in taro production as an agro entreprise.
Youths and women involvement in solar dehydrating taro is an economic activity. The added capacity will increase solar utilization, increase women and youth involvement in nation building.
baca seterusnya↓↑ menyembunyikan↑ menyembunyikanHow is your product or service connected to vitality for the people and planet?
Approximately 125 words left (1000 characters).
People need appropriate nutrients to grow, learn, and fight off disease. How do you measure, track, or make use of information about nutrient levels in your own work?
Approximately 100 words left (800 characters).
Considering the flow of nutrients from ecosystems to soil to farms to food to communities, what are the barriers to achieving vitality for people and the planet?
Other barriers you have identified
In your view, what developments need to happen in order to help overcome those barriers and produce a more nutrient rich and vital public and planet?
Approximately 125 words left (1000 characters).
What do you consider the most promising trends or evidence that indicates that the developments you described are emerging? Please elaborate.
Approximately 100 words left (800 characters).
Created on 06/17/2013 by MCouvares
The technology industry is not accessible to all students through traditional curricula. ScriptEd empowers students from low income communities by bringing computer programming courses directly to their schools, and by helping them secure summer internship opportunities with software developers.
baca seterusnya ↓↑ menyembunyikan↑ menyembunyikanBorough(s) where you are creating or plan on creating impact
Brooklyn, Manhattan, Queens.
Negara Organisasi
United States, NY, New York, New York County
Country where your solution is creating social impact
United States, NY, New York, New York County
Apakah organisasi Anda adalah:
a. Nirlaba
References - Please provide two references with a two-sentence biography, email address, and phone number for each. These can be personal references (teachers, coaches, mentors, etc.). If you are entering a solution on behalf of an established organization please list references that can speak to your organization's work.
Andrew Ingraham, (631) 252-5541, acingraham@gmail.com. Andrew is a developer at About.com, and volunteers for ScriptEd by teaching computer programming classes at Harlem Village Academies High School.
Kevin Mitchell, (443) 851-0694, loudwinston@gmail.com. Kevin is a developer at Objectloft LLC. Kevin volunteers for ScriptEd by teaching computer programming classes at Cristo Rey New York High School.
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baca seterusnya↓↑ menyembunyikan↑ menyembunyikanName Your Entry
ScriptEd - Teaching Kids from Low Income Communities to Code
Pilih tahap yang paling sesuai untuk solusi Anda:
Pertumbuhan (eksperimen Anda sudah dijalankan, dan mulai dikembangkan)
Berapa lama Anda terlibat dalam operasi?
Beroperasi kurang dari satu tahun
The Need for your solution: What problem or challenge are you trying to solve?
The technology industry is not accessible to all students through traditional high school curricula. Only one in ten schools in the United States offer computer science classes. At the same, The Bureau of Labor Statistics predicts that the technology sector will grow another 22 percent by 2020, making it one of the fastest growing career fields.
Young black and latino men are underrepresented in the software engineering industry. To remain innovative, the industry must employ a diverse workforce, and young black and latino males should be included in that workforce.
The Solution: What is your solution? Be specific!
To solve this problem, ScriptEd recruits and trains professionals from the technology industry to teach computer programming courses at high schools in low income communities. Students participate in courses twice weekly throughout the school year, and are placed in internships in technology firms over the summer. By learning to program, students from low income communities are empowered to be the creators of technology.
The Model: Walk us through a specific example of how your solution makes a difference; include the primary activities that are involved in your solution. Consider telling us a story about the solution in action and how it creates impact. For idea-stage pitches, consider providing a hypothetical example
Raul is a junior at Harlem Village Academies High School. Raul loves video games and using technology, but had never thought of himself as someone who could make the games and software he was using every day. He learned about ScriptEd, an after-school club at his school, through one of his friends. Raul began attending ScriptEd's after school sessions and quickly learned the fundamentals of HTML, CSS and Javascript, and began to create his own games.
At ScriptEd's hackathon in April, Raul won a top prize for creating a memory game program (see here: http://scriptednyc.github.io/Hackathon/memory/memory.html). His success at the hackathon motivated him to continue developing his programming acumen, even outside of ScriptEd.
This summer, Raul will participate in a 4-week internship at Thrillist, a tech firm based in Soho. Raul will work with the developers at the company on small projects, like creating a currency converter for its online marketplace.
Raul plans to continue with ScriptEd next fall. At that time, he will begin learning a new computer programming language (either Python or Ruby).
The Marketplace: Who else is addressing the problem that you are addressing with your solution. And how does your proposed solution differ from or build on these approaches?
Several other organizations in New York City, like Girls Who Code, Coder Dojo, and Code Now teach students to code. ScriptEd is different from these organizations in that the program is hosted in students’ schools. This model removes some of the traditional barriers that prevent low-income students from participating in similar programs. ScriptEd also places its students in summer internships, and teaches its curriculum in industry standard languages to ensure students can easily transfer their skills to their internships.
This Entry is about (Issues)
baca seterusnya↓↑ menyembunyikan↑ menyembunyikanFounding Story: Share a story about the “Aha!” moment that led you or the person who came up with your proposed solution to get started and/or to see the potential for it to succeed.
Liz Davidson and I have had the privilege of working with 100's of inspiring students from low-income communities. We saw our students accomplish amazing things. Some were the first in their families to go to college. Some overcame language barriers to become valedictorians of their classes. Others earned high grades despite job and family commitments. Our students told us they were going to be journalists, doctors, forensic scientists, lawyers, and teachers. None of them ever told us they were going to be computer scientists, web developers, or software engineers. In fact, most of our students never knew these tech-related careers even existed. ScriptEd was founded with the idea that we could change students lives by teaching them to code.
Impact: What is the impact of your solution to date? Also describe the projected future impact. (If your solution is an idea you can just describe projected future impact.)
Over the past school year, ScriptEd served 25 students in two schools in New York City. Our short-term goal is to serve 75 students by the fall of 2013. ScriptEd aims to expand to six cities and serve 6,300 students across a spectrum of courses by 2017. To do this, we plan to engage approximately 1,000 volunteers from the tech industry.
Full Impact Potential: How do you plan on spreading your solution moving forward? (Please consider spread within New York City or beyond, policy reform, how you might get others to replicate/adopt your solution or other mechanisms)
Both our low-overhead costs and our school-based model allow us to easily replicate our program to additional schools and cities. We chose our model intentionally so as to reach as many students as possible. We plan to expand our mission through grassroots organizing, media campaigns, and through ScriptEd's network of stakeholders.
baca seterusnya↓↑ menyembunyikan↑ menyembunyikanCurrent annual budget, in US dollars (if your solution is an idea please estimate what your budget will need to be in order to carry out your solution)
$100.001 sampai $250.000
Tell us about your partnerships. If your solution is an idea tell us about who you would partner or plan on partnering with in order to make your solution a success.
ScriptEd has built partnerships with schools, businesses and nonprofits who are committed to improving computer science education. Our business partners include The Huffington Post, American Express, General Assembly and others. They provide volunteers, field trip opportunities, job shadows and internships. Our nonprofit partners are Teach for America, Ashoka and IgniteGood. These organizations provide financial and professional support.
Created on 06/17/2013 by IHaveADreamNY
By offering college courses for credit that require students to volunteer in a continual, structured manner in after school programs or schools, future first generation college students will be introduced to the idea of college and college students in a real and tangible way.
baca seterusnya ↓↑ menyembunyikan↑ menyembunyikanBorough(s) where you are creating or plan on creating impact
Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan, Queens, Staten Island.
Negara Organisasi
United States, NY, New York, New York County
Country where your solution is creating social impact
United States, NY, New York, New York County
Apakah organisasi Anda adalah:
a. Nirlaba
References - Please provide two references with a two-sentence biography, email address, and phone number for each. These can be personal references (teachers, coaches, mentors, etc.). If you are entering a solution on behalf of an established organization please list references that can speak to your organization's work.
Free Arts provides under-served children and families with a unique combination of educational arts and mentoring programs that help them to foster the self-confidence and resiliency needed to realize their fullest potential. info@freeartsnyc.org 212.974.9092
Lang College at the New School - The New School provides an education that requires critical analysis, active participation, and experimentation with ideas. New School students and faculty take creative, interdisciplinary approaches to complex conceptual and real-world issues. 212-229-5100 x2227 mejiaj@newschool.edu
Informasi yang Anda berikan di sini akan digunakan untuk mengisi bagian mana pun dari profil Anda yang masih kosong, seperti minat, informasi organisasi, dan situs web. Tidak ada informasi kontak yang akan ditampilkan untuk publik. Hapus centang di sini jika Anda tidak menghendakinya..
baca seterusnya↓↑ menyembunyikan↑ menyembunyikanPilih tahap yang paling sesuai untuk solusi Anda:
Established (past the previous stages and has demonstrated success)
Berapa lama Anda terlibat dalam operasi?
Beroperasi selama 1-5 tahun
The Need for your solution: What problem or challenge are you trying to solve?
Students who will be the first generation to attend college do not have the opportunities to experience interacting with college students that second or third generation college students often have. Many first generation students do not view college as a tangible goal. The concept of college attendance is completely foreign and they have few ways of making this mystical place a realistic vision. Seeing themselves on a college campus or interacting with other college students seems impossible. Thus, working towards an unimaginable goal may seem futile and the process may seem discouraging.
The Solution: What is your solution? Be specific!
College students are often trying to find ways to "give back" but do not have the space in their busy schedules to take advantage of volunteer opportunities. If courses had civic engagement opportunities built into their schedules and syllabi, college students could interact with younger students who may be future first generation college students thereby bringing a "face" to the idea of college. College students could bring the lessons they learn in their courses to the younger students. This would benefit the college students by helping them to learn through a teach back method and would help the younger students by introducing college to them on a very real and tangible level.
The Model: Walk us through a specific example of how your solution makes a difference; include the primary activities that are involved in your solution. Consider telling us a story about the solution in action and how it creates impact. For idea-stage pitches, consider providing a hypothetical example
Drama students at Lang College at the New School meet once a week to learn about child development and drama instruction and then meet on-site at "I Have A Dream" - NY programs where they teach the younger Dreamers literacy through drama activities. The college students receive a full 3-credits for their course. Dreamers learn about drama, eventually performing a full-length piece for an audience and New School students are able to "give back" while meeting credit requirements. Dreamers develop real relationships with actual college students which helps them to understand that college is a real place with real people. These friendships allow Dreamers to imagine themselves at a college and understand that college is a tangible place. College students further their understanding of the world around them and the many ways that drama (their major) can be used in the real world helping to solve real world problems such as the education gap. This course structure can be used in a variety of subjects such as political science majors and a blog-making activity, English majors and a book club or business majors and planning a small fundraiser (i.e. bake sale).
The Marketplace: Who else is addressing the problem that you are addressing with your solution. And how does your proposed solution differ from or build on these approaches?
Many organizations are addressing this problem, but this solution meets the needs of all parties. College students need credits, students need mentors, after-school programs and general classrooms need more adult role models and helping hands. By partnering colleges with schools and/or after school programs, everyone benefits with very few draw-backs. The impact that each party has on each other is immeasurable.
This Entry is about (Issues)
baca seterusnya↓↑ menyembunyikan↑ menyembunyikanFounding Story: Share a story about the “Aha!” moment that led you or the person who came up with your proposed solution to get started and/or to see the potential for it to succeed.
After the very first meeting of the New School students and Dreamers, we knew this was a winning partnership. After the first semester was over, college students asked to take the course again so that they could stay involved with the Dreamers. When a cap was put on how many times a student could register for the course, we knew this was a success. Five years after it began, the course structure is now used in the dance department and both drama and dance are being implemented at our newest site in East Harlem. Many college students return to the program site as a volunteer after taking the course and realizing the impact they can have on the Dreamers.
Impact: What is the impact of your solution to date? Also describe the projected future impact. (If your solution is an idea you can just describe projected future impact.)
The New School has worked with over 60 Dreamers and will begin working with 100 more Dreamers this fall (2013). The course structure is also being used to develop future classes at Hunter College to introduce Hunter Students to the "I Have A Dream" Foundation - NY. Over 100 New School students have experienced the course and approximately 25% of those students have returned as a volunteer in some capacity.
Full Impact Potential: How do you plan on spreading your solution moving forward? (Please consider spread within New York City or beyond, policy reform, how you might get others to replicate/adopt your solution or other mechanisms)
"I Have A Dream" NY is working with other colleges to implement this same type of course collaboration to increase the topic areas that are addressed and increase the amount of college students that can experience learning with "I Have A Dream" - NY. We also share this concept with the 24 other "I Have A Dream" affiliates across the country. Ideally, all CUNY schools will offer courses at "I Have A Dream" - NY sites since the largest proportion of Dreamers eventually attend a CUNY school. We also hope that other affiliates take advantage of our experience and form partnerships with their local colleges.
baca seterusnya↓↑ menyembunyikan↑ menyembunyikanCurrent annual budget, in US dollars (if your solution is an idea please estimate what your budget will need to be in order to carry out your solution)
Kurang dari $1.000
Tell us about your partnerships. If your solution is an idea tell us about who you would partner or plan on partnering with in order to make your solution a success.
We hope to officially partner will all CUNY colleges to offer this opportunity to their students in our "I Have A Dream" - NY sites. Private colleges are also valuable partners in this endeavor. We hope that the colleges will also take the initiative to partner with other CBOs who could benefit from the college influence as well.
Created on 06/17/2013 by ywcaqueens
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baca seterusnya ↓↑ menyembunyikan↑ menyembunyikanBorough(s) where you are creating or plan on creating impact
Queens.
Negara Organisasi
United States, NY, Queens County
Country where your solution is creating social impact
United States, NY, Queens County
Apakah organisasi Anda adalah:
a. Nirlaba
References - Please provide two references with a two-sentence biography, email address, and phone number for each. These can be personal references (teachers, coaches, mentors, etc.). If you are entering a solution on behalf of an established organization please list references that can speak to your organization's work.
Jacqueline Ebanks
VP or Programs at New York Women's Foundation
jebanks@nywf.org
646 564 5970
Rong Zhang
Director of Literacy Programs
NYC Department of Youth and Community Development
rzhang@dycd.nyc.gov
212 676 8255
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baca seterusnya↓↑ menyembunyikan↑ menyembunyikanName Your Entry
Youth Leadership, Education, and Development (Y-LEAD)
Pilih tahap yang paling sesuai untuk solusi Anda:
Ide (yang Anda yakini layak diluncurkan)
Berapa lama Anda terlibat dalam operasi?
Masih dalam tahap ide, namun segera akan meluncurkannya
The Need for your solution: What problem or challenge are you trying to solve?
The American Council on Education, the organization that facilitates the GED, produced a study in 2010 indicating that of the 43% that enrolled in postsecondary education, only 12% completed the program within 6 years; about half left after just one semester.
The Solution: What is your solution? Be specific!
The Youth Leadership, Education, and Development (Y-LEAD) program borrows from other academic mentorship program models, including the POSSE Foundation, but targets out of school youth and GED participants and helps them enter local colleges and attain higher graduation rates in NYC.
There are many capable GED students who are not given the proper direction and support. GED students who are likely to do well in a community college setting will be identified and invited to participate in the Y-LEAD program. These cohorts will be given rigorous academic course work to supplement their GED curriculum, critical thinking seminars, college guidance, and leadership training.
The Model: Walk us through a specific example of how your solution makes a difference; include the primary activities that are involved in your solution. Consider telling us a story about the solution in action and how it creates impact. For idea-stage pitches, consider providing a hypothetical example
Self-exploration: Students will begin self-exploration by thinking through values, beliefs, and identity. This process will begin with students discussing how we choose values/beliefs and what identity is.
Understanding College: During this unit students will become acquainted with the college world. Students will begin by learning the different degree types and understanding how to determine requirements for each degree.
Career Plan: Students will create a career plan and identify benchmarks. Students will also identify the supports they will need and use during the process as well as potential barriers to success. Each student will work with staff to create this long-term plan and assist students in discussing this plan those individuals who will act as their support system.
Leadership Seminars: Students will engage in a variety of leadership activities throughout the term including cultural competence, leadership styles, resolving conflict, creative problem-solving, teamwork, communication, ethics.
The Marketplace: Who else is addressing the problem that you are addressing with your solution. And how does your proposed solution differ from or build on these approaches?
We are unaware of any other organizations developing college cohorts at this early stage from the initial GED process through the 2nd year of postsecondary education.
This Entry is about (Issues)
baca seterusnya↓↑ menyembunyikan↑ menyembunyikanFounding Story: Share a story about the “Aha!” moment that led you or the person who came up with your proposed solution to get started and/or to see the potential for it to succeed.
I was considering other academic mentorship models and saw unfulfilled gaps. It is not enough to focus on leaders in high school and send them away to out-of-state 4-year universities without additional funding outside of tuition and textbooks.
What those models did not address was the need for support of more at-risk youth and GED students, including local community based partnerships and local solutions that will allow youth to receive academic guidance, mentorship, and a peer support team.
The Y-LEAD models address the issue in NYC with a local solution and partnership with those who care and know the most about the GED students they are already serving.
Impact: What is the impact of your solution to date? Also describe the projected future impact. (If your solution is an idea you can just describe projected future impact.)
The program has not launched
Full Impact Potential: How do you plan on spreading your solution moving forward? (Please consider spread within New York City or beyond, policy reform, how you might get others to replicate/adopt your solution or other mechanisms)
The potential is for this to eventually become a citywide partnership between CUNY and other participating postsecondary schools, including 4-year colleges, linked with community based organizations to increase the graduation rates of at-risk youth.
baca seterusnya↓↑ menyembunyikan↑ menyembunyikanCurrent annual budget, in US dollars (if your solution is an idea please estimate what your budget will need to be in order to carry out your solution)
$50.001 sampai $100.000
Tell us about your partnerships. If your solution is an idea tell us about who you would partner or plan on partnering with in order to make your solution a success.
We would like to partner with the Robin Hood Foundation and Pinkerton Foundation to implement the idea.
Funding Opportunity Link:
Created on 06/17/2013 by ajay.kapoor
Halabol is an online platform for social activism. The web portal digitally reaches out to its audience & help them in realizing the importance of health and nutrition. The website, through its engaging pledges and articles persuade the users to stay fit and develop good food habits in them.
baca seterusnya ↓↑ menyembunyikan↑ menyembunyikanNama Organisasi
Halabol Technologies Pvt. Ltd.
Negara tempat organisasi ini menciptakan dampak sosial
Apakah organisasi Anda adalah:
Bisnis
Has the organization received awards or honors? Please tell us about them
Top 20 Social Enterprise of India at TATA Social Enterprise Challenge.
Scholarship winner at Sankalp Unconvention Summit.
baca seterusnya↓↑ menyembunyikan↑ menyembunyikanName your entry
Halabol - Initiate the Change
Stage
Start-Up (a pilot that has just started operating)
This Entry is about (Issues)
Elevator Pitch
Halabol is an online platform for social activism. The web portal digitally reaches out to its audience & help them in realizing the importance of health and nutrition. The website, through its engaging pledges and articles persuade the users to stay fit and develop good food habits in them.
Problem
Youngsters and working professionals miss their meals, binge on food and are highly addicted to late night eating. They also miss on the nutrition part of their food amidst their poor work life balance.
Solution
Halabol, through its pledges and content orient the youth and Indian workforce towards good food habits, importance of nutrients in their diet and good health.
Example
Halabol endorse pledges on the web platform that motivates users to stick to a healthy diet regime and stay fit. The pledges, though very basic, helps people to care about their health.
The pledges are:
1. Grow Something & Eat it
2. Eat Green Vegetables & Fruits
3. Find Out About the Food We Eat
4. Eat Breakfast at Home
Impact
More than 250 users have taken these pledges, including the following:
1. Grow Something & Eat it -
2. Eat Green Vegetables & Fruits
3. Find Out About the Food We Eat
4. Eat Breakfast at Home
Marketplace
Currently there is no such platform in India that is addressing the importance of nutrients in people's life through innovative pledges.
Sustainability Plan
The sustainability is based in sponsorship, online ads and Halabol's other revenue streams.
Founding Story
The idea for Halabol was born out of a need to plug oneself in the social process and give back to the society. This need had no immediate answer in the online world. There was no aggregated platform that one could attach themselves to and be informed about social issues, people associated with them and NGOs endorsing them.There was a big void in the social activism networking space. People were using social media channels to connect for social causes that diluted the essence of the problems. This resulted in creation of Halabol, an online platform for social activism.
Besides its various activities, the platform emphasizes on better life quality through its content and pledges.
baca seterusnya↓↑ menyembunyikan↑ menyembunyikanWhere do you ensure the availability of nutrients?
Human wellness and vitality.
If you had greater capacity, which additional sectors would you like your solution to target - either through expansion, partnership, or thought exchange?
Healthy environments, Human wellness and vitality.
How specifically would this added capacity help you improve the quality, efficiency, or sustainability of your existing product or service?
More the outreach, better will be message conveyed and higher will be the rate of motivation for having a good health. Further this will develop inquisitiveness in people about their food, which definitely will impact nutrients in their plates.
baca seterusnya↓↑ menyembunyikan↑ menyembunyikanHow is your product or service connected to vitality for the people and planet?
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People need appropriate nutrients to grow, learn, and fight off disease. How do you measure, track, or make use of information about nutrient levels in your own work?
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Considering the flow of nutrients from ecosystems to soil to farms to food to communities, what are the barriers to achieving vitality for people and the planet?
Other barriers you have identified
In your view, what developments need to happen in order to help overcome those barriers and produce a more nutrient rich and vital public and planet?
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What do you consider the most promising trends or evidence that indicates that the developments you described are emerging? Please elaborate.
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Created on 06/17/2013 by rvelasco
Approximately 50 words left (400 characters).Promotion of young entrepreneurship and business owners along with money and banking principles that aid in maintaining homes and more familiarity with the importance of having a bank account and a relationship with banks.
baca seterusnya ↓↑ menyembunyikan↑ menyembunyikanNama Organisasi
Financial Literacy Consulting
Borough(s) where you are creating or plan on creating impact
Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan, Queens, Staten Island.
Negara Organisasi
United States, NY, Brooklyn, Kings County
Country where your solution is creating social impact
United States, NY, Brooklyn, Kings County
Apakah organisasi Anda adalah:
Bisnis
References - Please provide two references with a two-sentence biography, email address, and phone number for each. These can be personal references (teachers, coaches, mentors, etc.). If you are entering a solution on behalf of an established organization please list references that can speak to your organization's work.
Mr. Rod Wilson Liberty Partnership Program Kingsborough Community College(718) 368-5767 Executive Director Mr. Wilson is a mentor that has been an advocate of increasing financial literacy amongst young men and women
Mrs. Alison Trewick Citigroup (347) 564-2037 AML/KYC Compliance Professional Mrs. Trewick has been a mentor that advocates the need for financial literacy amongst young men and women
Informasi yang Anda berikan di sini akan digunakan untuk mengisi bagian mana pun dari profil Anda yang masih kosong, seperti minat, informasi organisasi, dan situs web. Tidak ada informasi kontak yang akan ditampilkan untuk publik. Hapus centang di sini jika Anda tidak menghendakinya..
baca seterusnya↓↑ menyembunyikan↑ menyembunyikanPilih tahap yang paling sesuai untuk solusi Anda:
Established (past the previous stages and has demonstrated success)
Berapa lama Anda terlibat dalam operasi?
Beroperasi selama 1-5 tahun
The Need for your solution: What problem or challenge are you trying to solve?
Approximately 100 words left (800 characters).The problem I am trying to solve is the lack of financial literacy in todays world. I am looking to increase financial literacy education amongst teens/tweens, high school students, college students, military/reserves and adults. The primary target age will be 16-24 years of age. Financial literacy will include providing knowledge/information in money & banking, budgeting, entrepreneurship, small business management, credit, real estate,mentorship and an overview of financial aid (grants, loans etc...) for potential college students.
The Solution: What is your solution? Be specific!
Approximately 125 words left (1000 characters). The solution is to provide services in financial literacy in addition to formal education because they go hand and hand. Start with the teens/tweens and familarize them with the banks and the processes. Show them the steps on starting their own bank accounts and start accounts for them. Services can be provided in a series of workshops/ seminars at junior high schools, high schools, colleges, and at home if need be. This must become a priority right now. Becoming more financially literate will reduce the amount of individuals and families losing their homes (homelessness), increase the awareness of young business startups/entrepreneurs becoming self-employed.
The Model: Walk us through a specific example of how your solution makes a difference; include the primary activities that are involved in your solution. Consider telling us a story about the solution in action and how it creates impact. For idea-stage pitches, consider providing a hypothetical example
Approximately 200 words left (1600 characters). My solution on providing services conducting workshops/ seminars in financial literacy information/knowledge on the initial startup of a business and the documentation needed for an official business. There will be an overview of a business plan to start a business provided at the end of the seminars/workshops as well as related handout material so it can be used as a guide later on by each individual. There will be copies of a joint venture agreement provided at the end of the seminars/workshops to provide a better idea of a joint venture(JV), which is prevalent in the music business today and many other businesses. This example will give potential young professionals the ability to become better prepared for the all industries on a business level before entering. Another solution is more students will graduate high school and at least have bank accounts. There is an alarming number of adults that don't even have bank accounts. My solution is show them the steps early on by opening up their own bank accounts.
The Marketplace: Who else is addressing the problem that you are addressing with your solution. And how does your proposed solution differ from or build on these approaches?
Approximately 100 words left (800 characters).Ryan Mack of Optimum Capital Management
My solution is very similar to his nevertheless, I would like to have more of a school related presence that is independently providing needed services to junior high schools, high schools, prep schools along with colleges and universities. I will relate a lot of my individual information provided based on the grade and stage of life that the group or individuals are currently in so it is more relatable to them. Not just general information.
This Entry is about (Issues)
baca seterusnya↓↑ menyembunyikan↑ menyembunyikanFounding Story: Share a story about the “Aha!” moment that led you or the person who came up with your proposed solution to get started and/or to see the potential for it to succeed.
Approximately 125 words left (1000 characters). My first seminar/workshop that I conducted was in a small auditorium and it was a hugh success. Information was being received in a great way and relevant questions led to dialogue. At the end of seminar, over 15 individuals had personal questions that related to businesses and entrepreneurship along with college related advice they can use for themselves. I knew there was a great need that required attention.
Impact: What is the impact of your solution to date? Also describe the projected future impact. (If your solution is an idea you can just describe projected future impact.)
Approximately 200 words left (1600 characters). My solution will impact teens/tweens, junior high school, high school, college students , military/reserves and adults. Currently, I have mainly impacted the 16-24 year old demographic (high school, college) with the future impact become greater and greater each day.
Full Impact Potential: How do you plan on spreading your solution moving forward? (Please consider spread within New York City or beyond, policy reform, how you might get others to replicate/adopt your solution or other mechanisms)
I would like to have my financial literacy program all over the 5 boros in as many schools as possible. CUNY colleges and universities all across the world. HBCUs, SUNY, private, and public colleges and universities. It has been successful in one, and I will kept using the similiar blueprint for others. Also, I would like to add some of my financial literacy concepts/principles to college and universities to their academic affairs area and be a Consultant to colleges and universities in the area of financial literacy.
baca seterusnya↓↑ menyembunyikan↑ menyembunyikanCurrent annual budget, in US dollars (if your solution is an idea please estimate what your budget will need to be in order to carry out your solution)
$100.001 sampai $250.000
Tell us about your partnerships. If your solution is an idea tell us about who you would partner or plan on partnering with in order to make your solution a success.
Approximately 75 words left (600 characters). US Dept of Education, Board of Education, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Trio Programs, Charter schools, Harlems Childrens Zone, Harlem RBI, educational magazines, Jackie Robinson Program, well known programs that provide services to schools
Created on 06/10/2013 by michele@foodfamilyfarming.org
Every child should have access to fresh, nutritious, and delicious food at school to support healthy eating habits AND healthy, nutrient-rich food systems. The Food Family Farming Foundation (F3) wants to provide tools and resources to help schools nourish children with local, fresh food.
baca seterusnya ↓↑ menyembunyikan↑ menyembunyikanNama Organisasi
Food Family Farming Foundation
Negara Organisasi
United States, CO, Boulder, Boulder County
Negara tempat organisasi ini menciptakan dampak sosial
United States, XX, National
Apakah organisasi Anda adalah:
a. Nirlaba
Has the organization received awards or honors? Please tell us about them
Chef Ann Cooper, president and founder of Food Family Farming Foundation (F3), has received the following awards and honors for the work she has done through F3:
• 2012 IACP Humanitarian of the Year Award presented to Chef Ann.
• Named one of FoodService Director's inaugural "Influential 20" (2012).
• Selected as one of Greatist.com's top 15 Crusaders for Health in the Food Industry (2012).
• School Food Politics: The Complex Ecology of Hunger and Feeding Around the World, for which Chef Ann wrote the foreword, won the 2012 Critics Choice Book Award from the American Educational Studies Association.
• 2011 Women Chefs and Restaurateurs “Women Who Inspire” Award.
• The Susan B. Komen Foundation Special Inspirational Award from 2011 The Inspiration Awards for Women.
• 2009 National Resources Defense Council “Thought Leader” Growing Green Award.
baca seterusnya↓↑ menyembunyikan↑ menyembunyikanName your entry
Tools to Connect Schools to Local Food
Stage
Established (the solution has passed the previous stages, and has demonstrated success)
This Entry is about (Issues)
Elevator Pitch
Every child should have access to fresh, nutritious, and delicious food at school to support healthy eating habits AND healthy, nutrient-rich food systems. The Food Family Farming Foundation (F3) wants to provide tools and resources to help schools nourish children with local, fresh food.
Problem
For the first time in two centuries, children have shorter life expectancies than their parents, due primarily to diet-related diseases like obesity and diabetes. Research shows that current school food programs are CONTRIBUTING to our childhood obesity epidemic. Currently, schools depend on nutrient-poor, pre-packaged, ready-to-heat food to feed students. School districts are working to change their school nutrition programs, but they need help.
Solution
School districts are major institutional buyers of food in their communities. If we can shift their procurement practices to focus on local and regional food, we can support and expand local, nutrient-rich food production AND provide healthier, fresh, whole foods to children.
Our "Let's Move Salad Bars to Schools" ensures that all schoolchildren have access to fresh fruits and vegetables every day at school. The Lunch Box, F3's online toolkit, provides schools with free tools and resources to transition to scratch-cooking and whole, fresh, nutrient-rich foods. We are working to expand our procurement tools to focus on supporting local food systems and supplying salad bars with local, fresh food.
Example
The Houston Independent School District received salad bars from Let's Move Salad Bars to Schools. They said:
"We targeted schools in areas considered low-income or 'food deserts.' We were initially concerned that we would have to persuade kids to take fresh fruits and vegetables from the bar, but we’ve actually had to do the opposite. When we saw a girl walking away with 1 ½ pints of cherry tomatoes, we had to assure her that the salad bar was here to stay."
Tim Cipriano, Director of Food Services for Guilford Public Schools, said:
"The Lunch Box has been a strong partner in our campaign to serve children real food. We utilize the Lunch Box for training materials and resources instead of trying to reinvent the wheel."
Impact
The Numbers
49: Number of states with Let's Move salad bars
2,500: Number of schools with Let's Move salad bars
1,250,000: Number of children with daily access to fresh fruits and vegetables in schools
179,318: Number of visitors to The Lunch Box in the past year
Current Lunch Box resources help schools with:
o building connections between salad bars and farmer’s markets;
o using more local produce in their salad bar and overall school meal programs;
o how to incorporate school garden harvests into salad bars;
o examples of successful farm-to-school programs;
o freezing local harvests for year-round produce; and
o guides for regional food hubs.
Marketplace
The many players in school food are all working toward the same goal - ensuring that ALL children have access to safe, nutrient-rich food in school. We work together to make sure we aren't duplicating efforts.
For example, the Jamie Oliver Food Foundation focuses on nutrition education and cooking classes. School Food FOCUS identifies best procurement practices in districts. The National Farm-to-School Network provides networking and advocacy, and FoodCorps recruits garden volunteers. F3 works WITH other organizations to pair our tools, resources, outreach and knowledge with theirs.
Sustainability Plan
F3 is sustained through grants from private foundations, corporate sponsorships, and donations from individuals. Most of our project funding comes from grants, and corporations and individual donations often cover our operating expenses. We've established diverse funding streams to ensure a stable financial foundation, and we're currently exploring an income generating project that will lessen our dependency on external funders.
Founding Story
Before Chef Ann Cooper became a lunch lady, she spent years as a high-end chef for businesses like the renowned Putney Inn in Vermont. Children weren’t her concern, nor were healthy food systems. In the late 90s, she began to learn about food sources and wrote Bitter Harvest, a book about the dangers of industrially-produced food and the need for sustainability. In 1999, Ann was asked to be the Executive Chef and Dir. of Wellness & Nutrition at The Ross School on Long Island. There, she discovered a solution to the poor childhood nutrition she had been witnessing: a sustainable model for schools to transition to scratch-cook kitchens with a focus on fresh, nutrient-rich food. She founded F3 to share what she learned with schools everywhere.
baca seterusnya↓↑ menyembunyikan↑ menyembunyikanWhere do you ensure the availability of nutrients?
Human wellness and vitality.
If you had greater capacity, which additional sectors would you like your solution to target - either through expansion, partnership, or thought exchange?
Nutrient-rich farming.
How specifically would this added capacity help you improve the quality, efficiency, or sustainability of your existing product or service?
F3 currently provides schools with tools to incorporate local, nutrient-rich food into their nutrition programs, but the percent of local food in schools remains low. We need to help schools create major systemic change to make local food an integral part of their school food landscape.
Transitioning to a scratch-cook school kitchen that supports local food means big changes to a school's operations. Everything from their storage capacity and transportation resources to their kitchen equipment and procurement practices needs to change. THEN schools can help grow local food systems.
baca seterusnya↓↑ menyembunyikan↑ menyembunyikanHow is your product or service connected to vitality for the people and planet?
Approximately 125 words left (1000 characters).
People need appropriate nutrients to grow, learn, and fight off disease. How do you measure, track, or make use of information about nutrient levels in your own work?
Approximately 100 words left (800 characters).
Considering the flow of nutrients from ecosystems to soil to farms to food to communities, what are the barriers to achieving vitality for people and the planet?
Other barriers you have identified
In your view, what developments need to happen in order to help overcome those barriers and produce a more nutrient rich and vital public and planet?
Approximately 125 words left (1000 characters).
What do you consider the most promising trends or evidence that indicates that the developments you described are emerging? Please elaborate.
Approximately 100 words left (800 characters).
Created on 06/8/2013 by Anjo Illenberger Ayco
The supply of organic vegetables and food is limited. It's prices are high and expensive compared to those grown with chemicals ( Fertilizers, pesticides, fungicides ). We need to train more farmers who will go into organic farming in order to bring up the supply of organic vegetables and food.
baca seterusnya ↓↑ menyembunyikan↑ menyembunyikanNama Organisasi
Small Farmers and Land Tillers Association of the Philippines, Inc.
Negara Organisasi
Philippines, NOC, Bacolod City
Negara tempat organisasi ini menciptakan dampak sosial
Philippines, NOC, Bacolod City
Apakah organisasi Anda adalah:
a. Nirlaba
Has the organization received awards or honors? Please tell us about them
Small Farmers and Land Tillers Association, inc. is an NGO composed of small farmers and mostly agrarian reform beneficiaries. The membership is classified according to the different line of specialization. Those who plants sugar, corn, high value crops, organic farming, livestock, etc. It is a nationwide organization but it is based in Bacolod City, Philippines.
baca seterusnya↓↑ menyembunyikan↑ menyembunyikanName your entry
Start Young, Start Small, Start Right, Start Organic!
Stage
Idea (poised to launch)
This Entry is about (Issues)
Elevator Pitch
The supply of organic vegetables and food is limited. It's prices are high and expensive compared to those grown with chemicals ( Fertilizers, pesticides, fungicides ). We need to train more farmers who will go into organic farming in order to bring up the supply of organic vegetables and food.
Problem
The limited supply and the high prices of organic vegetables in the market is the problem for those who wants to eat organic vegetables that are free from exposure to pesticides and other chemicals. Firstly, because there are limited number of farmers who are knowledgeable in producing organic vegetables. Secondly, it is difficult to manage a large scale organic farm than the conventional farms relying to fertilizers and chemicals.
Solution
Train young farmers in organic farming who are not yet exposed and are not yet reliant to farm inputs such chemical fertilizers and other chemicals in producing crops. And the best venue for this is to organize a non academic club in public high schools dedicated to farming methods and agricultural trainings. School gardens is the most ideal place for a hands on training. It is small and manageable training area for organic farming. School campus and grounds are conducive learning venues. High School Students being trained in organic farming offers them several advantages. It will develop the enthusiast of the students in farming and make their time in school more productive . It will prepare them in the future to earn a living.
Example
We train high school students in their respective schools on how to produce organic vegetables and foods. Educational institutions provides for many potential talents who will further go into the field they have been exposed to in their early and formative years. Enthusiasm and interest formation is in the formative years.
Those students who are trained and has experienced in organic farming during their formative years will most likely go into organic farming when they grow up.
With as many young students trained on how to produce organic vegetables and foods, when they later engaged in organic farming, supplies and access to these products will rise. In turn, prices will become affordable for the consumers.
Impact
There are at least 23 public schools ( high school ) in Bacolod City, Philippines. If each school has an organized club for young farmers with at least 25 members each, you are training at least 575 young citizens in organic farming EVERY SCHOOL YEAR . In the next few years, these students who under went training in organic farming in their school, will go into organic farming by themselves as their means of their livelihood and their families . The supply of organic vegetables and foods in the market will rise which in turn will bring down the prices. This will eventually make organic vegetables and foods accessible to the people especially in local markets with in the neighboring communities.
Marketplace
The Small Farmers and Land Tillers Association of the Philippines, an NGO, will provide for the technical support and know how about organic farming. The Non Academic Club for students who have interest in farming will make the students more productive in school. It's an alternative to sports involvement and other extra curricular activities. It will prepare them with the necessary skills in farming when they grow up. It will develop their interest in agriculture. They can make organic farming a livelihood. This will increase the number of farmers who will venture in organic farming.
Sustainability Plan
Small Farmers and Land Tillers Association,an NGO will organize the non academic club for young farmers (high school students) in every school. A budgetary requirement for start up capital of the project amounting to $ 1,500.00 for every school is needed for the organizing, establishment of school gardens and training of club moderators. The NGO will provide for the technical support. The proceeds of their produced will sustain their operation
Founding Story
The Advisor is the President of the Small Farmers and Land Tillers Association of the Philippines based in Bacolod City, Philippines. The concept of Start Young, Start Small, Start Right, Start Organic was conceived after there is a conscious realization of people and the demand for access to organically produced foods.
The Small Farmers and Land Tillers Association believes that IF THERE ARE MANY FARMERS WHO ARE INTO ORGANIC FARMING, the supply of organic vegetables and foods will also be sufficient. Stable supply of organic vegetables and foods will bring down its prices and it will be more accessible to the consumers.
baca seterusnya↓↑ menyembunyikan↑ menyembunyikanWhere do you ensure the availability of nutrients?
Nutrient-rich farming.
If you had greater capacity, which additional sectors would you like your solution to target - either through expansion, partnership, or thought exchange?
Nutrient-rich farming.
How specifically would this added capacity help you improve the quality, efficiency, or sustainability of your existing product or service?
If given the added capacity, this project can be replicated in other provinces of the country where we have organized local chapters. This project can easily be replicated because it would be easier to train club moderators for every school if given the sufficient funding for the project. Once the project has been organized in school and institutionalized as a non academic club, it would be easier to sustain it since the recruitment of club members who will serve as potential trainees and beneficiaries for the training will be on a yearly basis.
baca seterusnya↓↑ menyembunyikan↑ menyembunyikanHow is your product or service connected to vitality for the people and planet?
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People need appropriate nutrients to grow, learn, and fight off disease. How do you measure, track, or make use of information about nutrient levels in your own work?
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Considering the flow of nutrients from ecosystems to soil to farms to food to communities, what are the barriers to achieving vitality for people and the planet?
Other barriers you have identified
In your view, what developments need to happen in order to help overcome those barriers and produce a more nutrient rich and vital public and planet?
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What do you consider the most promising trends or evidence that indicates that the developments you described are emerging? Please elaborate.
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The supply of organic vegetables and food is limited. It's prices are high and expensive compared to those grown with chemicals ( Fertilizers, pesticides, fungicides ). We need to train more farmers who will go into organic farming in order to bring up the supply of organic vegetables and food.
Renaissance Rising is a nonprofit school for grades 6 through 12 that utilizes project based experiential learning. The educational model provides the structure to enable the student to learn through their own educational style and support the development of their unique learning approaches.
Created on 06/4/2013 by dayamoyeeMondal
We have made an excellent nutritious food/drink to make successful the program– ‘Nutrients for All’. It is cheap and easily digestible. It is eatable and drinkable like ‘Horlicks’.
baca seterusnya ↓↑ menyembunyikan↑ menyembunyikanName Your Entry
NRG: The excellent nutritious food/drink for all
Nama Organisasi
MahaAnand Holy Association
Negara tempat organisasi ini menciptakan dampak sosial
Apakah organisasi Anda adalah:
Bisnis
This Entry is about (Issues)
baca seterusnya↓↑ menyembunyikan↑ menyembunyikanThe Need: What problem are you trying to solve?
Nutrition is the main problem in India. There the big problem is malnutrition. A recent survey exposed that anaemia rates of 51-74% in women and small children. Children under three, 47% were underweight and 45% underdeveloped by global standards. Protein deficiency is one of main causes.
The Solution: What is your solution? Be specific!
We need to provide such a food/drink which is cheap and easily digestible. To solve the problem to make successful the program– ‘Nutrients for all, we have made an excellent nutritious food/drink. The name of this nutritious food/drink is NRG.
The Model: Walk us through a specific example of how your solution makes a difference; include your primary activities
Ingredients of this food/drink: Flour made of roasted wheat, maize, gram, soya bin, and milk powder, sugar etc. besides this foods, there is an essential thing in it that is ‘Five-Phos. 3x’ –subtle quantity of five phosphates (Ferrum Phos., Kali. Phos., Mag. Phos., Natrum Phos., Calc. Phos.), which make it very effective. Also there are a few nutritious Herbs which make it excellent!
No doubt, if one takes it regularly for three months, amazing result will be seen.
The Marketplace: Who are your peers and competitors? Identify others also working to address the needs you are and what differentiates you from them. What challenges could these players pose to your success or growth?
It has a big market all over India.
Created on 06/3/2013 by dayamoyeeMondal
We have made an excellent nutritious food/drink to make successful the program– ‘Nutrients for All’. It is cheap and easily digestible. It is eatable and drinkable like ‘Horlicks’.
baca seterusnya ↓↑ menyembunyikan↑ menyembunyikanNama Organisasi
MahaAnand Holy Association
Situs Web
http;//www.truehumandevelopment.webs.com
Negara tempat organisasi ini menciptakan dampak sosial
Apakah organisasi Anda adalah:
Bisnis
Has the organization received awards or honors? Please tell us about them
baca seterusnya↓↑ menyembunyikan↑ menyembunyikanName your entry
NRG: The excellent nutritious food/drink for all
Stage
Start-Up (a pilot that has just started operating)
This Entry is about (Issues)
Elevator Pitch
We have made an excellent nutritious food/drink to make successful the program– ‘Nutrients for All’. It is cheap and easily digestible. It is eatable and drinkable like ‘Horlicks’.
Problem
Nutrition is the main problem in India. There the big problem is malnutrition. A recent survey exposed that anaemia rates of 51-74% in women and small children. Children under three, 47% were underweight and 45% underdeveloped by global standards. Protein deficiency is one of main cause.
Solution
We need to provide such a food/drink which is cheap and easily digestible. To solve the problem to make successful the program– ‘Nutrients for all, we have made an excellent nutritious food/drink. The name of this nutritious food/drink is NRG.
Example
Ingredients of this food/drink: Flour made of roasted wheat, maize, gram, soya bin, milk powder, sugar etc. besides this foods, there is an essential thing in it that is ‘Five-Phos. 3x’ –subtle quantity of five phosphates (Ferrum Phos., Kali. Phos., Mag. Phos., Natrum Phos., Calc. Phos.), which make it very effective. Also there are a few nutritious Herbs which make it excellent!
No doubt, if one takes it regularly for three months, amazing result will be seen.
Impact
We have provided our product to many persons and children for free of cost and get very nice result. Still we haven’t put up for trade it as commercially.
Marketplace
It has a big market all over India.
Sustainability Plan
We need good investor, industrialist or entrepreneur to make it possible.
Founding Story
We have a great endeavor for Human Development (visit my Change shop– Worldwide Human Development Program). To make it successful also we need it.
baca seterusnya↓↑ menyembunyikan↑ menyembunyikanWhere do you ensure the availability of nutrients?
Full nourishment foods.
If you had greater capacity, which additional sectors would you like your solution to target - either through expansion, partnership, or thought exchange?
Human wellness and vitality.
How specifically would this added capacity help you improve the quality, efficiency, or sustainability of your existing product or service?
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baca seterusnya↓↑ menyembunyikan↑ menyembunyikanHow is your product or service connected to vitality for the people and planet?
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People need appropriate nutrients to grow, learn, and fight off disease. How do you measure, track, or make use of information about nutrient levels in your own work?
Approximately 100 words left (800 characters).
Considering the flow of nutrients from ecosystems to soil to farms to food to communities, what are the barriers to achieving vitality for people and the planet?
Other barriers you have identified
In your view, what developments need to happen in order to help overcome those barriers and produce a more nutrient rich and vital public and planet?
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What do you consider the most promising trends or evidence that indicates that the developments you described are emerging? Please elaborate.
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Funding Opportunity Link:
We have made an excellent nutritious food/drink to make successful the program– ‘Nutrients for All’. It is cheap and easily digestible. It is eatable and drinkable like ‘Horlicks’.
New early childhood language development business in Pre-Kindergarten market.
• Very innovative language learning systems through e-learning.
• Babies learn best from mothers. We enable mothers to become child’s first English teacher.
• Sales are international with initial market in China.
Inspired is a free monthly magazine that is 100% written by Kids. We are showcasing Kids writing, art, music, video photography, science, technology and other amazing things that Kids are doing.
It is an opportunity to get a Kid published and at the very least boost their confidence.
Introduction of mushroom farming aims at decreasing the rate of malnutrition and poverty among 200 small scale farmers who are mainly widow survivors of 1994-Genecide and perpetrators’ wives by enabling them to grow a new adaptive horticultural crop (Mushroom)
A Peace of Cake primarily aims to achieve two goals which are the core belief for every activity to build upon: first is to unlock every children's hidden potential in order to allow them to use their capacity to their full potential, and second is to create a peaceful society based on understanding
Created on 05/14/2013 by iumahmood
To scale up our nutritional research by providing our village nurses with tablet computers so that they can gather crucial data in identifying risk factors and causes of malnutrition, correlate which diseases run in parallel circles of malnutrition as well as provide nutrition counseling to mothers.
baca seterusnya ↓↑ menyembunyikan↑ menyembunyikanNama Organisasi
HOPE Foundation for Women and Children of Bangladesh
Negara tempat organisasi ini menciptakan dampak sosial
Apakah organisasi Anda adalah:
a. Nirlaba
Has the organization received awards or honors? Please tell us about them
baca seterusnya↓↑ menyembunyikan↑ menyembunyikanName your entry
Technology for Nutritional Research Project
Stage
Scaling (the solution has passed the previous stages, and the next step will be growing its impact on a regional or global scale)
This Entry is about (Issues)
Elevator Pitch
To scale up our nutritional research by providing our village nurses with tablet computers so that they can gather crucial data in identifying risk factors and causes of malnutrition, correlate which diseases run in parallel circles of malnutrition as well as provide nutrition counseling to mothers.
Problem
Malnutrition is a huge problem in Bangladesh. The UN World Food Program estimates that 48.6% of Bangladesh's children under the age of 5 are chronically malnourished. These children suffer from such debilitating diseases as rickets, cleft lip/palate, preventable blindness, and brain and body growth retardation. Many are unable to remain in school due to their conditions and failure in school and are forced to drop out.
Solution
To qualitatively identify the main causes and risks of malnutrition in children under the age of 5 by providing our 9 rural village nurses with tablet computers to easily collect and enter valuable data which will be analyzed to develop solid answers. The village nurses will serve 50 families each to begin. Each nurse will provide nutrition counseling as well as teach mothers which nutritious vegetables to grow and how to do so successfully. This will prevent further children in those families from suffering, treat those children who have already succumbed to undernourishment and provide a community with the knowledge on how best to care for their children. HOPE will continue to train 20 more nurses to reach more regions and families.
Example
The Village Nurse enters a home in which one mother has 3 children, all of whom appear underweight and sickly. After examining each child, the nurse determines they are underweight and malnourished. The nurse asks the mothers what the children have eaten in the past 48 hours and enters it into the tablet. The nurse further inquires why the children are not receiving some of the basic food staples. The nurse enters this information and proceeds to provide vitamins and counsel the mother on how to feed her children. She leaves behind information on how to best grow nutritional vegetables and fruits for the kids. The information gathered is sent to HOPE. The nurse returns to follow-up with the family and ensure proper healing and growth.
Impact
Thus far HOPE has worked with 2 international physicians to conduct research at HOPE Hospital to assess the prevalence of undernourishment among children in Ramu. A study was conducted on 160 children aged 12 to 24 months. The child participants were given Vitamin A and Multivitamin syrup, and their parents were educated on nutrition and proper feeding techniques. There is a strong correlation between parents' educational levels and feeding habits. This has provided HOPE with the information to better develop our nutritional program and ensure that parents with lesser education are thoroughly educated. The study prevented 160 children from developing malnutrition-related diseases such as diarrhea, pneumonia, and the ultimate risk of malnutrition, mortality. Scaling up this project will help us reach 900 children given average family size of 4.4 to collect more data, educate, and prevent.
Marketplace
BRAC is addressing nutrition in Bangladesh through its "Sprinkles" Program by selling micronutrient powder (Pushtikona) through its community health workers as well as providing it for free to ultra-poor families. Their approach is mainly targeted at reducing anemia. HOPE's project is different in that we are teaching mothers proper feeding through crops that grow locally, and that any family can plant. We're also targeting very rural populations where only HOPE has access to. The main difference in our projects is that we are conducting research in parallel to treatment.
Sustainability Plan
Our village health nurses will charge .25 cents to the families they visit. This is a nominal price for the detailed examination, treatment and education they receive. The nurses become self-sufficient through their compensation, therefore HOPE does not need to to support them financially. When HOPE trains more nurses we will ensure funding from our donors. This project is completely self-sustaining.
Founding Story
Dr. Mahmood always recognized the lack of health care accessibility for the poor in Bangladesh and very soon after he began practicing, he set up HOPE Foundation. HOPE tirelessly raised money in order to build the 40-bed hospital that stands today. The hospital began as a rented 9-bed facility. Since the beginning, Dr. Mahmood has added specialized care services to the established maternal, child, and general health care. Whenever Dr. Mahmood identifies a treatable condition, he promptly develops a plan for addressing it and does not stop until he sees the project implemented and thriving. Recognizing the role this project could play in reducing child mortality and providing economic stability to nurses, he knew it would be successful.
baca seterusnya↓↑ menyembunyikan↑ menyembunyikanWhere do you ensure the availability of nutrients?
Full nourishment foods, Human wellness and vitality.
If you had greater capacity, which additional sectors would you like your solution to target - either through expansion, partnership, or thought exchange?
Nutrient-rich farming.
How specifically would this added capacity help you improve the quality, efficiency, or sustainability of your existing product or service?
If HOPE had the added capacity to include nutrient-rich farming, we would implement community gardens in the villages we serve in order to ensure a surplus of healthy foods for our families. The goal of this program would be to include the children in maintaining the gardens, so that they become wholly aware of the foods that they should be eating. In the long-run, these children will have these concrete notions towards healthy foods embedded in them, and will serve their children the correct, nutritious foods. We want to interrupt the trend of malnutrition on a higher level.
baca seterusnya↓↑ menyembunyikan↑ menyembunyikanHow is your product or service connected to vitality for the people and planet?
Approximately 125 words left (1000 characters).
People need appropriate nutrients to grow, learn, and fight off disease. How do you measure, track, or make use of information about nutrient levels in your own work?
Approximately 100 words left (800 characters).
Considering the flow of nutrients from ecosystems to soil to farms to food to communities, what are the barriers to achieving vitality for people and the planet?
Other barriers you have identified
In your view, what developments need to happen in order to help overcome those barriers and produce a more nutrient rich and vital public and planet?
Approximately 125 words left (1000 characters).
What do you consider the most promising trends or evidence that indicates that the developments you described are emerging? Please elaborate.
Approximately 100 words left (800 characters).
To scale up our nutritional research by providing our village nurses with tablet computers so that they can gather crucial data in identifying risk factors and causes of malnutrition, correlate which diseases run in parallel circles of malnutrition as well as provide nutrition counseling to mothers.
Created on 05/13/2013 by abilfield
The Cookbook Project is an international non-profit organization dedicated to reversing the global rise in chronic disease by using food culture and cooking to teach youth about the impact their food choices have on health, community, and the environment.
baca seterusnya ↓↑ menyembunyikan↑ menyembunyikanNegara tempat organisasi ini menciptakan dampak sosial
United States, MA, Sudbury
Apakah organisasi Anda adalah:
a. Nirlaba
Has the organization received awards or honors? Please tell us about them
2012 Health Leadership Award from the Institute for Integrative Nutrition
baca seterusnya↓↑ menyembunyikan↑ menyembunyikanStage
Growth (the pilot has already launched and is starting to expand)
This Entry is about (Issues)
Elevator Pitch
The Cookbook Project is an international non-profit organization dedicated to reversing the global rise in chronic disease by using food culture and cooking to teach youth about the impact their food choices have on health, community, and the environment.
Problem
Currently, 60% of mortalities worldwide are due to chronic diseases such as diabetes, obesity, and heart disease. The World Health Organization has categorized this trend as a 'global epidemic of chronic disease'. Young people worldwide are especially at risk for these chronic lifestyle-related diseases as they are inheriting the negative lifestyle habits of their parents.
Solution
In order to reduce this global epidemic of chronic lifestyle-related diseases The Cookbook Project has developed an effective experiential education curriculum that uses food culture and cooking to teach young people about the connection between nutrition, health, and sustainability. In order to reach the most at-risk youth in both the developed and developing world, The Cookbook Project has created the Local Leaders Training Program which trains community leaders through online and on-site programs to implement The Cookbook Project's unique curriculum.
Example
The Cookbook Project curriculum teaches young people about the connection between their food choices, and the health of themselves, their communities, and the environment. This unique education model not only teaches young participants to make healthy food choices, read labels, and write recipes, but to also plan menus, budget meals, and prepare delicious, healthy, locally sourced and culturally relevant dishes. By empowering young people to make healthy choices at an early age and becoming ambassadors for health in the kitchen, The Cookbook Project's curriculum makes a difference at the local level that will impact the trend of chronic disease at the global level.
Impact
To date, The Cookbook Project has trained over 300 Local Leaders to work in their communities through online and on-site training programs, reaching an estimated 4,000 at-risk youth. We have partnered with 22 organizations worldwide, in 18 different countries. These Local Leaders are currently working with The Cookbook Project to collect behavior change data for a Curriculum Impact Study, which will span over a two year period. Moving forward, The Cookbook Project plans to train 150 Local Leaders each year through online and on-site programs.
Qualitative reviews of the training program have been overwhelmingly positive:
Tschepo Ramutumbu, from a training in Soweto, South Africa, noted that “This program has taught us a lot about the health challenges facing our own community, and how we can start to change our habits and to use our own food cultures to become healthier."
Marketplace
There are many organizations today that are trying to educate young people about making healthy lifestyle decisions. Cooking Matters, H.E.N.R.Y. and USAID Healthy Strides are just a few of the key players. However, none of these organizations use an experiential education model that puts the youth participant at the center of the learning experience in the same way that The Cookbook Project's curriculum does, nor do they use food culture as the starting point for learning. The Cookbook Project also works at the grassroots level internationally to train Local Leaders in their own communities.
Sustainability Plan
The Cookbook Project plans to become financially sustainable through consistent private fundraising, grant writing, and program related fees. More specifically, the organization is working towards sustaining its foundational Local Leaders Training Program through program-related fees for non-scholarship participants. Over the next two years, the goal is raise funds through the program fees to cover the costs of running this central program.
Founding Story
Alissa and Adam are the co-founders of The Cookbook Project. As a public schoolteacher in the USA, Adam saw the negative impact that cheap processed foods were having on his students in the Boston Public Schools. Meanwhile, Alissa was working in environmental policy and saw that the solution to both environmental and health issues globally was the same -- better decision making on behalf of consumers to support sustainable and health-enhancing foods. Together, they observed the negative consumption trends happening globally. As a solution, they have developed an experiential curriculum for The Cookbook Project, to effectively engage youth by teaching them how to and makesustainable food choices, through the vehicle of food culture.
baca seterusnya↓↑ menyembunyikan↑ menyembunyikanWhere do you ensure the availability of nutrients?
Healthy environments., Nutrient-rich farming, Full nourishment foods, Human wellness and vitality.
If you had greater capacity, which additional sectors would you like your solution to target - either through expansion, partnership, or thought exchange?
Healthy environments, Nutrient-rich farming, Full nourishment foods, Human wellness and vitality.
How specifically would this added capacity help you improve the quality, efficiency, or sustainability of your existing product or service?
Although we currently ensure the availability of nutrients in all of these areas through our curriculum, which spans topics that touch on each of these areas, additional capacity would help us to provide more resources to the leaders that we train who are working in the field to implement The Cookbook Project Programs. With added capacity, we can offer more extensive scholarships and grants to these Local Leaders, who are serving their communities through The Cookbook Project's Curriculum in the areas of environment, farming, nourishing foods, and human wellness.
baca seterusnya↓↑ menyembunyikan↑ menyembunyikanHow is your product or service connected to vitality for the people and planet?
Approximately 125 words left (1000 characters).
People need appropriate nutrients to grow, learn, and fight off disease. How do you measure, track, or make use of information about nutrient levels in your own work?
Approximately 100 words left (800 characters).
Considering the flow of nutrients from ecosystems to soil to farms to food to communities, what are the barriers to achieving vitality for people and the planet?
Other barriers you have identified
In your view, what developments need to happen in order to help overcome those barriers and produce a more nutrient rich and vital public and planet?
Approximately 125 words left (1000 characters).
What do you consider the most promising trends or evidence that indicates that the developments you described are emerging? Please elaborate.
Approximately 100 words left (800 characters).
With a dilapidated educational system in a world that will soon move toward human capital as the basis of the global economy, Liberia faces an uncertain future unless tougher reforms are created and funding is increased in the education sector to empower young people fill its human resource needs.
Every child should have access to fresh, nutritious, and delicious food at school to support healthy eating habits AND healthy food systems. The Food Family Farming Foundation provides the tools and resources to help schools nourish children's bodies, minds and futures.
YTH youth + tech + health (formerly ISIS) proposes Game+, a disruptive innovation to link at-risk youth to school based health centers and services. Partnerships with Oakland Unified, Health 2.0 and a gaming company will create a discreet, persuasive product to encourage youth to access services.
This project also has a Project where you can read more about its latest progress.
Go to Project: PLANT A FRUIT.
Created on 05/7/2013 by PLANT A FRUIT
Plant-a-fruit is a self-help non-profit org equipped with members who have taken initiative to protect our environment. We encourage practical, bottom-up, and participatory solutions to environmental issues. Our model is aimed at mitigating global warming and directly increasing food security.
baca seterusnya↓↑ menyembunyikan↑ menyembunyikanStage
Start-Up (a pilot that has just started operating)
This Entry is about (Issues)
Elevator Pitch
Plant-a-fruit is a self-help non-profit org equipped with members who have taken initiative to protect our environment. We encourage practical, bottom-up, and participatory solutions to environmental issues. Our model is aimed at mitigating global warming and directly increasing food security.
Problem
Climate change is one of the greatest global challenge, the impacts of climate change are increasingly evident. One disturbing factor is that climate change leads to increased risks for food production potentially leading to higher malnutrition rates. Kenya is one of the most vulnerable countries to climate change, most of the population’s livelihoods and economic activities are reliant on climate-sensitive natural resources.
Solution
This project aims to address climate change and enhance food security. There is no better way that this can be realised than partnering with schools. Young pupils are the real change agents for they have the potential of converting small ideas into mass movements. Most schools in Kenya have idle land. Our aim is to help them create fruit orchards and grow food, this will improve the school feeding program .We have been piloting this project in 3 schools . We have seen how pupils love outdoor learning activities and how the pupils can be a great resource when it comes to planting and looking after the fruit trees as they develop other skills. We have seen measurable success and we now seek to expand this project to other schools.
Example
We encourage schools to engage in climate-smart agroforestry by implementing a school gardening program where students will be encouraged to plant fruit trees and grow locally available nutritious food crops .We have teamed up with Kariobangi pri. school to create a fruit and food garden . We have planted 103 fruit trees of different varieties that include mangoes,guava,avacado,sapote,tree tomato,banana and indigeneous vegetables . This is the pilot project that served as an example to be replicated elsewhere.Students were very excited to be part of this activity and many enrolled to the environment club established. Students take care of the garden and very soon they will be able to eat fresh farm produce planted by themselves.
Impact
To date, more than 300 pupils,teachers & non-teaching staff have directly participated in our fruit planting and food growing events where they get to learn more about environment conservation and horticulture. Necessary training will be given to them to develop the skills and approaches they need to grow food and plant trees in their school, and embed growing across their whole school and neighbourhoods.Idle land has been reclaimed and put into proper use. Many schools have pieces of idle land , we have turned such land into fruit orchards/gardens. This takes the home grown school feeding program a step further by making schools eat what they grow. Schools will be in a better position to interact with the local farmers exchanging products and ideas in the process. Within a short period of time schools we have partnered with will start harvesting high quality fruits and food crops.
Marketplace
Our strategy is unique for we have specialized in grafted fruit trees and we work with students who we recruit as our ambassadors. Lack of environmental literacy is a major factor that leads to environmental degradation. We intend to inculcate environmental literacy and food growing skills,we will practically engage the students in fruit planting & food growing and offer them training on grafting and fruit tree nursery development. We intend to set up an incubator that will help the youth transform their ventures into business models that are sustainable and will help in wealth creation.
Sustainability Plan
We act as a social enterprise, operating under strong business principles, generating our own revenues through the sale of grafted fruit seedling and providing specialized extension services but with the sole purpose of effecting social change. We have great potential to team up with various organizations’ that are willing to give us in-kind support and resources to support fruit tree planting and food growing in schools.
Founding Story
Plant-a-fruit is a self-help not-for-profit organization equipped with members who have taken initiative to protect our environment. We started as a self-help group in 2009 called TAF initiative with a mission to protect and clean our environment.
The fact that climate change affects food production and news of people going without food made us rethink our strategy. No one should go hungry because of lack of food, all of us cannot drive cars, that's acceptable but one to go without food is unacceptable. This gave birth to plantafruit.org that will enable us expand our activities and realise our vision of a fruit tree/garden in every kenyan home and institution.
baca seterusnya↓↑ menyembunyikan↑ menyembunyikanWhere do you ensure the availability of nutrients?
Nutrient-rich farming.
If you had greater capacity, which additional sectors would you like your solution to target - either through expansion, partnership, or thought exchange?
Healthy environments.
How specifically would this added capacity help you improve the quality, efficiency, or sustainability of your existing product or service?
This added capacity will enable us build local human capacity required to support the youth to engage in climate smart agro forestry initiatives and ensure the environment is well protected and cleaned.
baca seterusnya↓↑ menyembunyikan↑ menyembunyikanHow is your product or service connected to vitality for the people and planet?
Approximately 125 words left (1000 characters).
People need appropriate nutrients to grow, learn, and fight off disease. How do you measure, track, or make use of information about nutrient levels in your own work?
Approximately 100 words left (800 characters).
Considering the flow of nutrients from ecosystems to soil to farms to food to communities, what are the barriers to achieving vitality for people and the planet?
Other barriers you have identified
In your view, what developments need to happen in order to help overcome those barriers and produce a more nutrient rich and vital public and planet?
Approximately 125 words left (1000 characters).
What do you consider the most promising trends or evidence that indicates that the developments you described are emerging? Please elaborate.
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Plant-a-fruit is a self-help non-profit org equipped with members who have taken initiative to protect our environment. We encourage practical, bottom-up, and participatory solutions to environmental issues. Our model is aimed at mitigating global warming and directly increasing food security.
Created on 05/2/2013 by mona tanjuang
1. Create creative person who can invented their own "path" based on their knowledge and life value.
2. Change the young people perspective about their own culture and tradition.As something valuable in life.
baca seterusnya↓↑ menyembunyikan↑ menyembunyikanName your entry
Empower Youth Life by Empowering Culture
Stage
Start-Up (a pilot that has just started operating)
This Entry is about (Issues)
Elevator Pitch
1. Create creative person who can invented their own "path" based on their knowledge and life value.
2. Change the young people perspective about their own culture and tradition.As something valuable in life.
Problem
-Many young people cant continue their study not only because bad economic situation, but also because lack of motivation too pursue education.
-Low quality education in West Sumatera which create unmotivated and creative student
-The cultural value and tradition started to vanish among young people
- Lack of skill & entrepreneur spirit among young people, increase number of unskilled job seeker.
Solution
The solution that we offer here are, we will create activity that combine all those need, education, life value and skill based on our culture. All this skill will be develop based on the youngsters interest.
Like we will teach youngster to cook, for who likes to cook. But all the food will be cooked will be traditional food, with traditional way. And during the those cooking time we will give them introduction about the history of the food and how the used this food in the old time.
We also will teach them traditional performance such as singing and dancing, if they have interest in art.
All those skilled we will completed by giving them, simple and basic management lesson to empower their skilled to increase their economic situation
Example
The form of this festival mostly will held in a competition format. First we will show them how to do it, next they have to do it by them self in certain among of time.
Like our reading event, we targeted to do it in 4 orphanage and after finish with all orphanage, we finalized those event with reading competition for all participants. And after we show them how to develop this folklore knowledge into more wider area, to our traditional theater activity. And then they can build a small theater group.
Its work the same to traditional cooking class, and other class that we planned to open soon.
Impact
Like our reading event : impacted 200 teenager in 4 orphanage. As a final result we hope, from that orphanage we can created 1 theater group (contain of 20 kids) that can be hired for festival or art event.
We hope this number keep growing as we wider our activity, to cooking and other traditional skill.
In the future, the number of beneficiaries will be unlimited. Depend how much we can provide the resources and how hard we working on it. We will openly working with other culture also, and allow our work and pattern to be replicated by others in their own area.
Marketplace
Our targeted is low income young people from West Sumatera.
But so far, in West Sumatera area we have not yet found the same program has been done by others.
Sustainability Plan
So far we still using our own resources to financing or activity. but in the future we planned for sustainability by commercialized some of our activity. Beside give free lesson for low income young people, ( like what we did now) we will open commercial course for regular young people. All income that we get from this activity is using to support all activity for our regular activity. We hope we will open this course in the next 6 month.
Founding Story
We decided to established the foundation was all because our concern to our cultural lost, that effected by our own people. Its happen when we have small accident, where my mom have an accident. She bumped to young girl, and then when she say sorry, the girl really upset and react inappropriately to my mother. No more respect to elderly among young people, like we used to have and teach in our culture.
Many tradition has been vanished from young people life, in the name of modernization. And one of the most important thing that start to vanished from young people in West Sumatera are, traditional value. And its give us an idea to build institution to preserve this cultural value and also bring along real answer to problem in our area.
baca seterusnya↓↑ menyembunyikan↑ menyembunyikanWhere do you ensure the availability of nutrients?
Human wellness and vitality.
If you had greater capacity, which additional sectors would you like your solution to target - either through expansion, partnership, or thought exchange?
Healthy environments, Nutrient-rich farming, Full nourishment foods.
How specifically would this added capacity help you improve the quality, efficiency, or sustainability of your existing product or service?
All this activity are the element of our culture. So, when we build all those element, means we build full construction house, as we now only working in one basic element. Build these element will create a healthy human being that can establish a healthy life.
Healthy environment, can create nutrient rich farming, which can produce full nourishment foods, which will build strong healthy body. Strong healthy body always belong to active and full motivated person, who will willing to improve their life for the better.
baca seterusnya↓↑ menyembunyikan↑ menyembunyikanHow is your product or service connected to vitality for the people and planet?
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People need appropriate nutrients to grow, learn, and fight off disease. How do you measure, track, or make use of information about nutrient levels in your own work?
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Considering the flow of nutrients from ecosystems to soil to farms to food to communities, what are the barriers to achieving vitality for people and the planet?
Other barriers you have identified
In your view, what developments need to happen in order to help overcome those barriers and produce a more nutrient rich and vital public and planet?
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What do you consider the most promising trends or evidence that indicates that the developments you described are emerging? Please elaborate.
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This project also has a Project where you can read more about its latest progress.
Go to Project: Benevolence Inn.
Created on 04/28/2013 by rv4life
A key component attracting guests to Benevolence Inn will be our giving to youth development programs. Imagine being able to benefit charity by staying at a hotel that is very comparable to already existing national brands.
Organization: Livingston County Youth Bureau
more ↓↑ menyembunyikan↑ menyembunyikanNegara tempat organisasi ini menciptakan dampak sosial
United States, NY, Geneseo, Livingston County
Apakah organisasi Anda adalah:
Bisnis
Do you work with any social organizations?
How did you hear about the competition?
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baca seterusnya↓↑ menyembunyikan↑ menyembunyikanSelect the stage that best applies to your venture
Existing project (scaling)
This Entry is about (Issues)
Summary: What specific issue or problem does your Venture address?
Over the past several years, we have witnessed drastic budget reductions at the local and state level. Everything from environmental agencies to transportation departments have been dramatically cut. Youth Bureaus in New York State are county agencies that fund youth summer employment, youth development programs and services in their respective counties. The bureaus fund programs that many youth depend on to survive and thrive. In addition to a funding role, Youth Bureaus provide a one stop referral resource for youth and adults seeking services for teens and young adults.
Although Youth Bureaus are county operated, a high percentage of funding is provided by New York State. This reliance has created serious budget shortages over the past five years. From 2008 to 2009, Youth Development and Delinquency Prevention Program (YDDP) funding, which is distributed to Youth Bureaus statewide, fell from $29.5 million to $20.0 million.1 By 2011, that funding stream fell to $15.9 million. It is currently projected that Youth Bureau funding will decrease again by 33% for the upcoming budget year. This funding drop has and will continue to have dramatic consequences.
In my rural county of 65,000 people, the services provided by the youth bureau are the only support available. We must fight to support these programs and I plan on doing just that.
Misson Statement: What will your venture do?
Welcome to Benevolence Inn. This social enterprise, family oriented lodging chain will be so that after expenses are paid, 50% of the profit from the hotel will benefit non-profit youth development programs. When a person travels to and stays in a community, they are benefiting that communities’ youth. When a Benevolence Inn is located in that same individual's community, those communities’ youth programs will benefit from travelers and tourism. The hotels will be a win-win for travelers and communities alike. Several college and industry experts are currently researching the concept. Some have told me the concept will not work but that is just like what people originally said about my youth center idea. Sometimes miracles happen. Some experts have been very supportive of the idea and have said it can work with the right team and startup funding. My current plan calls for an initial 60 room hotel in the Western New York area. Over 75% of entry level jobs at the hotels will be fulfilled by youth. I plan for the organization to grow into a national brand in the future.
The Model: Walk us through a specific example of how your solution makes a difference; include your primary activities
Suppose an individual donates one million dollars to a youth program. The program has a $100,000 budget annually. In ten years, this donated money will be gone. When programs are provided funding from Benevolence Inn, they be feel confident that funds will be available for decades to come. Instead of funds being exhausted, youth development programs can receive Benevolence Inn funding for the programs life period with the understanding that funding will fluctuate over time and is dependent on the hotels’ profitability. We will always recommend that youth programs continue to seek out traditional methods of funding and use Benevolence Inn funds as a reserve so that when other sources cease, programs will not be affected.
The Community: Define the community that you work on behalf of. What population is affected? Are there other organizations working in this space?
For the opportunity to help local youth, guests will feel special knowing they are making a difference while they sleep. According to a recent survey, respondents stated that when similar rates, services, and qualities are offered, respondents would prefer to stay at a hotel that benefits youth programs over a national brand.
The services for children, teens, and families that will be offered for free at our brand are not offered complimentary at other national brand. Although these are major advantages, challenges will persist when in comparison to our competitors. These corporations are nationally recognized and have national support teams. Our brand will be independently run and not yet hold the recognition of a large chain. We will also lack the financial credibility often held by large hotel chains. Although these are significant challenges, we are currently receiving feedback from national experts who say that these issues can be overcome and that Benevolence Inn will work!
Founding Story: What inspired your venture? Why?
Throughout my young life I have been very different. I have been diagnosed with Tourette's Syndrome, a condition that causes me to have unmanageable motor and physical “tics” since third grade. I also was diagnosed with Dysgraphia, a condition that causes very poor handwriting. There have been benefits to being “different.” I have never followed the crowd and have always done my own thing. Over the past several years, I just thought and thought about things. I developed ideas that were unique and innovative. One day I decided to share one of those dreams and I hope I can share it with you.
Being a youth who does not participate in sports and has unique interests, I found it extremely difficult to find interesting activities in my small school. In early 2009, I approached my school with the idea of expanding clubs and activities. Due to the economic meltdown, the school did not see it feasible to create new activities. I then looked at what could be done in the community. I thought of the idea of a youth center. There had been attempts to open such centers in the past but all efforts failed. I began to research what our community could use and benefit from. It became aware to me that the small size of our village could pose problems for the youth center and the number of youth who would attend. I thought of a countywide model. If an activity attracted ten youths from one community, think of how better it would be if ten kids came from seventeen different towns and communities throughout a county. You could have a very sustainable program. You see, this project really awakened me and gave me a purpose in life. I then decided I needed a plan and help with the project. When applying for a summer job, I learned about a group run through the county youth bureau called EDIFY, which stands for Educating and Directing Influential Forces with Youth. This is a group of teens from around the county who meet monthly to discuss issues revolving around youth. I approached this group with my youth center idea and we have worked together ever since. I then determined that I needed further education on how to run a nonprofit and manage a project. I joined a year long program called The Young Entrepreneurs Academy at SUNY Geneseo. This ten month program teaches students how to start and effectively operate a business or non-profit organization. This program was instrumental in helping to plan for the youth center’s success. After the ten month program ended in June 2010, the youth center project began to even further develop, having formed a committee, been awarded eight hundred dollars in investor funding, and most remarkably, having partnered with the not-for-profit ABVI-Goodwill. ABVI-Goodwill was opening a store and community center in Geneseo, the community I reside in. ABVI approached our group when they heard about the youth center and how it needed a home. Both groups then joined projects together. The youth center opened in November of 2010 at the ABVI-Goodwill Community Center and will serve the youth of Livingston County, hopefully for many years to come.
Define your Venture in 1-2 short sentences
A key component attracting guests to Benevolence Inn will be our giving to youth development programs. Imagine being able to benefit charity by staying at a hotel that is very comparable to already existing national brands.
In eight to ten years, three hotels will be operational. The two new hotels will be very similar to the first model and will be located in tourist and necessity travel concentrated areas that face a lack of youth development programs or services. Feasibility studies will be completed to determine whether a location and model would be practical for a new build. These hotels will be built from earned capital at the initial Benevolence Inn and from social investors. Investment can be difficult for a social enterprise but can be achieved by proving to investors that our brand is established and sustainable.
Youth Programs across the United States have such an impact on today’s youth. From recreation programs, mentoring, and business programs, youth have been positively impacted by these programs for generations. In many communities, these programs have suffered from a lack of funding. Funding becomes less available as each year passes. In many smaller communities, these programs do not even exist. Benevolence In will fill these gaps and ensure our youth have a bright future.
baca seterusnya↓↑ menyembunyikan↑ menyembunyikanWhat do you want to accomplish in your first year?
In our first year, we will actively seek a partner to launch the Benevolence Inn brand. While this is ongoing, we will continue to refine our business plan while also enhancing the hotel concept model.
Set your first goal or milestone for your Venture Team in the next 6 months that will bring you to your vision
Find a partner to launch the Benevolence Inn brand
Tugas 1
Reach hotel management companies with concept
Tugas 2
Attend conferences related to hotel management
Tugas 3
Create a more presentable business plan
Set a second goal or milestone for your Venture Team in the next 6 months that will bring you to your vision
Improve our business plan
Tugas 1
Consult with business plan experts
Tugas 2
Adapt the plan to better suited markets to launch the brand
Tugas 3
Obtain better budget projections
Set a third goal or milestone for your Venture Team in the next 6 months that will bring you to your vision
Enhance the hotel concept model
Tugas 1
Provide more marketable, unique features
Tugas 2
Create a hotel model that serves as a destination
Tugas 3
Create a character or motto that attracts children
baca seterusnya↓↑ menyembunyikan↑ menyembunyikanHow will your Venture define success in the short term (1-12 months)?
We will define our success in the short term as having obtained a financial and developmental partner to launch the Benevolence Inn brand.
In the long-term (1-3 years)?
In the long-term, Benevolence Inn will be considered successful with the planning and creation of our first family oriented hotel that actively funds youth development programs.
How will you measure success?
Our success with be measured through the quality of the youth programs we fund and the satisfaction of our guests.
baca seterusnya↓↑ menyembunyikan↑ menyembunyikanHow will you recruit new members for your venture?
New members for our team will be actively sought. We are currently contacting hotel management and ownership companies to find a partner. Currently, several companies are interested in the brand.
How will you appoint new leaders and transfer leadership when the founding members want to leave the team?
Promotion from within will always be a consideration and we desire to lift our team members to new heights.
How will you continue your project in 6-months time or once you have spent all of its initial capital?
Once a financial partner has been obtained, we will have the seed capital necessary to launch the brand.
Created on 04/27/2013 by jmgladstar
Gladstar gifted and talented educational centre is an online and offline resource centre that will provide learning materials/access which will empower young people to develop their creative skills and help them live responsibly by taking charge of their health, family and well-being .
baca seterusnya ↓↑ menyembunyikan↑ menyembunyikanName Your Entry
Gladstar Gifted and Talented Educational Centre
Nama Organisasi
Gladstar gifted and talented educational centre, a member of Nigeria Network of Non-Governmental organisations
Negara tempat organisasi ini menciptakan dampak sosial
n/a
Apakah organisasi Anda adalah:
a. Nirlaba
This Entry is about (Issues)
baca seterusnya↓↑ menyembunyikan↑ menyembunyikanThe Need: What problem are you trying to solve?
There is need for education that will enhance sustainable development of the individuals and their immediate community, make them creators of jobs from their college level instead of being job seekers and help them to demonstrate skills that are compatible with the 21st century drive for creativity and innovation. There is need for education which will help young people mindful of how they take care of their body so that they will longer.
The Solution: What is your solution? Be specific!
1.. Provision of interactive educational system facilities and materials that will enhance development of creative and critical skills of each child and person under our care so that they will be objective learners of their environment..
2. Provision of tested trusted and efficient facilitators /mentors /teachers who will ensure all round development of each person under our care physically, emotionally and cognitively.
The Model: Walk us through a specific example of how your solution makes a difference; include your primary activities
Our online resource centre @ http://www.gladstar.org is interactive educational facillity which has been useful to parents and even young people in educating people around them on dieting, development of creative and critical skills, technology and money making.
The Marketplace: Who are your peers and competitors? Identify others also working to address the needs you are and what differentiates you from them. What challenges could these players pose to your success or growth?
Instructional Design and Research
John Griffin
Development & Prosperity >> Stillwater, OK
Partnership in development using education and research tools.
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HIV Education & Medication Adherence Application
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Created on 04/25/2013 by joantownsend
Each year, Tudabujja Halfway Farm in Uganda provides 90 street children with valuable nutrition education and teaches them modern farming techniques. When they return to their villages, the children and their entire families have improved nutrition and greater household income.
baca seterusnya ↓↑ menyembunyikan↑ menyembunyikanNegara Organisasi
United States, DC, Washington, Washington
Negara tempat organisasi ini menciptakan dampak sosial
Apakah organisasi Anda adalah:
a. Nirlaba
Has the organization received awards or honors? Please tell us about them
In addition to frontline service delivery, Retrak is committed to playing its part in learning and development and raising standards across the sector. Recently Retrak was:
Granted observer status in the African Union's Committee of Experts on the Rights and Welfare of the Child;
Part of the interagency group that produced the "Protect for the Future" research paper published by EveryChild (July 2010);
A key player in "The Way Forward Project" which reported to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on family preservation and child reintegration;
Directly involved in the EU-funded "Safe Families-Safe Children" initiative which looked at the role of attachment theory in child protection;
A participant in the UN executive committee for the global MDG focused "Beyond 2015" program.
Other recent achievements, which reflect the organization's competency in relation to risk management, include: a near perfect average final score of 3.6 out of 4 (up from 2.1 three years ago) in November 2011 as part of the comprehensive USAID closeout organizational assessment of the PEPFAR grant; Investors in People status; and People in Aid certification.
baca seterusnya↓↑ menyembunyikan↑ menyembunyikanName your entry
Tudabujja: Teaching Farming Skills to Street Children in Uganda
Stage
Established (the solution has passed the previous stages, and has demonstrated success)
This Entry is about (Issues)
Elevator Pitch
Each year, Tudabujja Halfway Farm in Uganda provides 90 street children with valuable nutrition education and teaches them modern farming techniques. When they return to their villages, the children and their entire families have improved nutrition and greater household income.
Problem
There are thought to be 8,000 street children in Uganda. For these children, life is characterized by a lack of basic needs, vulnerability to abuse, ill health and stigmatization as criminals. Finding food is a major daily challenge, and many resort to rummaging through garbage dumps for anything to eat. Such an existence leads to malnutrition, disease and susceptibility to other illnesses.
Solution
Tudabujja provides street children the chance to regain their physical and psychological health and to learn agricultural skills, enabling them to return to their home villages and contribute to the wellbeing of their families. It provides children with space to adjust from street life to family life and teaches them the basic skills required for farming in their home environment. The children receive theory lessons and actively participate in working the farm, which includes a wide range of livestock and crops. When they return to their homes, the entire family has access to more nutritious food, and family income is generated through the sale of farm products.
Example
Ali is 13 and had been on the streets for 3 years. Ali's family was poor and he was often hungry and malnourished. He decided to go to Kampala, where he scrounged for food in rubbish pits and slept on discarded boxes on the ground at night.
A friend told Ali that there was a place called Retrak where he could go for help. Today, Ali is staying at Tudabujja, Retrak's Halfway Farm whose name means "we are being made new", where he's being prepared to return home by living in a family setting and learning how to raise livestock and cultivate crops, skills that he'll use to help support himself and his family. Ali and his entire family will be healthier and more stable as a result of the agricultural training he's receiving at Tudabujja.
Impact
Tudabujja can house 32 boys for an average stay of 3-4 months, meaning a total of around 90 children can stay at Tudabujja each year and leave with the skills to secure income, food and employment. Through better nutrition and access to the medical clinic, children regain their health while at Tudabujja, and the knowledge they gain about nutrition, hygiene and disease prevention helps them maintain their good health after they leave.
Retrak is expanding Tudabujja to include cottages for girls. Providing girls with agricultural education and training will impact not only the lives of the girls at Tudabujja and their current families when they return home, but as they grow older and become mothers themselves, their future children and families will benefit from their knowledge of agriculture and nutrition.
Marketplace
Retrak differentiates itself by supporting fulltime street children who live and work on the streets and are most at risk. They tend to be highly mobile and live in the shadows so as not to attract attention. This means that standard programs, such as feeding or learning programs, are unable to reach these highly marginalized children. We tailor our programs to meet the needs of those who may fall through the cracks of these larger mainstream programs. Our integrated approach and the emphasis we place on follow-up are also key differences between us and other organizations.
Sustainability Plan
Retrak’s approach to ensuring financial sustainability is two-fold. First, we ensure that children move to sustainable independent family and community life with no ongoing reliance on Retrak, and second, we're building our capacity to raise support through sustainable long-term local and international partnerships. Since our founding in 1994 Retrak has built a solid base of financial support in the US, Europe and Africa.
Founding Story
Retrak began in response to the large numbers of street children that were playing in an informal weekly game of soccer in Kampala, Uganda. Sport provided the ideal, non-threatening, vehicle by which the children could rebuild their trust in adults and, with professional help, be given a chance to move away from the streets.Today Retrak works with street children in Uganda, Ethiopia, Kenya and Tanzania. We also provide support to the families of the children in order to tackle the root causes of the problems that led them onto the streets in the first place. Tudabujja was the result of the "Aha!"moment when we saw that education in agriculture and nutrition was a key factor in the long-term health and wellbeing of the children and families.
baca seterusnya↓↑ menyembunyikan↑ menyembunyikanWhere do you ensure the availability of nutrients?
Nutrient-rich farming, Full nourishment foods, Human wellness and vitality.
If you had greater capacity, which additional sectors would you like your solution to target - either through expansion, partnership, or thought exchange?
Healthy environments.
How specifically would this added capacity help you improve the quality, efficiency, or sustainability of your existing product or service?
Added capacity through support from Changemakers would allow us to expand our program to include more girls. We aim to open a cottage for girls at Tudabujja so that they too can benefit from living in a family setting and gaining agricultural skills that they can take home with them when they’re reintegrated. Supporting and educating girls is key to the wellbeing of communities as girls will eventually become women and then mothers, caring for and teaching the next generation. Our overall goal is to work with more children, families and communities, as well as to do more preventative work.
baca seterusnya↓↑ menyembunyikan↑ menyembunyikanHow is your product or service connected to vitality for the people and planet?
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People need appropriate nutrients to grow, learn, and fight off disease. How do you measure, track, or make use of information about nutrient levels in your own work?
Approximately 100 words left (800 characters).
Considering the flow of nutrients from ecosystems to soil to farms to food to communities, what are the barriers to achieving vitality for people and the planet?
Other barriers you have identified
In your view, what developments need to happen in order to help overcome those barriers and produce a more nutrient rich and vital public and planet?
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What do you consider the most promising trends or evidence that indicates that the developments you described are emerging? Please elaborate.
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Created on 04/17/2013 by caioleao
Dentists for Good: a network of volunteer dentists that provide free services to young people who cannot afford to pay for appointments. Once in the program, the beneficiary is provided with the necessary care until age 18.
Operating in 12 countries, with more than 16 thousand dentists and 31 thousand youths already served, we are the largest specialized volunteer network in the world.
baca seterusnya ↓↑ menyembunyikan↑ menyembunyikanOrganization's Country of Operation
Type of Organization
Non‐profit/NGO
Year of launch of the organization
Years in Operation
Beroperasi lebih dari 5 tahun
Has the organization received awards or honors? Please tell us about them
In 2006, the president of TdB, Dr. Fábio Bibancos, was recognized by the Schwab Foundation as the Social Entrepreneur of the Year because he created the project Dentists for Good. This award is conferred in Brazil, in partnership with the newspaper Folha de S. Paulo. In 2007, Ashoka named Dr. Fábio Bibancos as a fellow for his work completed, highlighting the project along with social entrepreneurs from all around the world.
We want to hear about your “Aha!” moment. Share the story of where and when the founder(s) saw this solution’s potential to change the world.
While giving lectures about prevention in public schools, Dr. Fábio Bibancos noticed that, for many young people, prevention just wasn't working anymore—so he teamed up with some colleagues and together, they began to take on pro bono cases in their practices. Thus, the idea for what would become the largest network of specialized volunteers was born: Dentists for Good.
baca seterusnya↓↑ menyembunyikan↑ menyembunyikanExplain what the "innovation" is about, e.g., is it the idea and/or the model you use to accomplish the idea, or your understanding of the target population, etc.?
The innovation in the project Dentists for Good lies in its management model: we manage a network of volunteer dentists who see the project's beneficiaries in their own offices. Which is to say, the beneficiary is treated by his Dentist for Good as if he were a normal, private patient. Besides that, the volunteer dentist can choose how many patients he wants to take on depending on his schedule and availability.
Because of this, the project does not have limits to its growth, and it is highly replicable: the project can take place in any city or region that has dentists—or any practicing clinical dentist can become a Dentist for Good.
Describe how your innovation model is distinct from any other organization in your field?
Normally, social organizations that offer treatments and health solutions do so at their headquarters or at a specific address, and they quickly reach monthly limits determined by their ability and availability—not to mention the enormous waiting list for those in need.
The project Dentists for Good is characterized by offering a network of volunteer dentists that has not stopped growing precisely because it has not limited its service in its offices.
What type of operating environment and internal organizational factors make your innovation successful?
1 - The project is internally seen as a map of growth facilitated by its chief actors and factors: coordinators, dentists, beneficiaries, open positions, and waiting list. In addition, the team has an active call center, which is where we conduct daily follow-ups with beneficiaries, treatment status, dentists, and newly-referred individuals. This creates a dynamic system: the opening of new spots (after the conclusion of treatment, for example) and the referral of new beneficiaries.
2 – The horizontal hierarchy of the organization also sustains the project, in light of all the team managers who are directly responsible for the systematic increase in numbers of volunteers and beneficiaries.
How do you make sure you constantly innovate in light of (potential) external challenges, or your growth plan?
Through monthly strategy revisions based on an analysis of the project map (dentists vs. beneficiaries). Besides that, we hold training events for coordinators: the project's principal volunteer is the regional volunteer coordinator. He is the person responsible for implementing the project in his city—screening and registering new volunteers. The project offers a 4-day training session for its coordinators, implementing goals and teaching the organization's new strategies. With knowledgeable and motivated coordinators, the training session guarantees the success of next year's goals due to the coordinator's personal oversight for the rest of the year. Right now we are studying the viability of holding mini-trainings for new coordinators throughout the year.
This Entry is about (Issues)
baca seterusnya↓↑ menyembunyikan↑ menyembunyikanThe systemic challenge you are trying to overcome (select one)
Bring accessible healthcare to communities in emerging markets
Health area (target market) where the need is [select only one]
Other specialty care
Categories along the health continuum you are covering [select all that apply]
Prevention, Detection, Intervention, Follow-up, Long-term care, Social integration.
Please describe in more detail: what problem are you trying to solve in the organization's specific context?
Brazil is a country of toothless individuals. Research indicates that half of the Brazilian population does not have a mouth full of teeth, and a third of adolescents in public schools have never been to the dentist. In the rest of the world, the problem is not much different. To make things worse, the general population's access to dental kits (toothbrush, toothpaste, and dental floss), which is the only tool that prevents oral damage, is very limited (the absence of these items in public health clinics and in the “basic food basket” is proof of this). Beyond that, society still does not view access to oral health as a medical right, but rather as a luxury. On the other hand, the government does not offer any sort of viable program, and the dentists in general do not see themselves as agents of health and social transformation.
Stage that best applies to your solution [select only one]
Scaling (growing impact on a regional or global scale)
Core strategies of your business model [select all that apply]
Approaches to behavioral change at the individual level, New/redefined roles for healthcare service provision, New approaches to distribution of health products and services.
Most relevant tools you are using to implement the strategies outlined above [select only two]
Technology, New skills.
Please describe your solution in more detail
The project Dentists for Good manages a network of volunteer dentists who provide services to youth in need from ages 11 to 17 who have serious dental conditions. All of the treatment support and followup—selection, referral, monitoring of monthly treatments, and conclusion—is done at the project's office. The project has three main base groups: volunteer dentists (who see one or more youths in their own offices, at their own discretion); beneficiaries (who are treated by the dentists and selected through screenings in public schools and institutions); and lastly, regional coordinators. These are also volunteers and dentists, but their mission is to stimulate the project in their cities by hosting screenings and recruiting new volunteer dentists.
What are your vision and overall objectives?
Our vision is to help create a world where everyone can smile, and our mission is to change society's perception of both oral health and the dental profession in relation to its socio-environmental impact. Our goal is to offer solutions for accessing dental care while stressing healing, prevention, and education. Our proposals:
For society: to promote solutions for access to dental care
For the dental profession: To empower and mobilize dental professionals to adopt new socio-environmental conduct.
For the business sector: To discuss ethical practices in dentistry. To incentivize low-cost products and services in order to promote access. To inspire responsible conduct in other sectors.
For government: To influence and change policies.
What is your value proposition?
Through the recovery of oral health, we seek the following for our patients:
-Increase in quality of life
-Ease of entry into the job market, given that companies either discriminate against or do not hire those without teeth. And, consequently, an increase in monthly household income.
-Rescue of social and family life, due to the fact that almost all new beneficiaries have suffered bullying and social discrimination at school and in their social circles.
Who is your customer(s)?
Young people from 11 to 17 years old who attend public school or use public institutions, who are in need, and who present with serious oral conditions. The choice of this public is because the social impact of serious dental damage is much larger in adolescents than in adults (social environment, employability, bullying, etc.), and also because dentition is already formed (in comparison to children).
What approaches to you use to reach your customers?
Screenings in public schools and social institutions. The volunteer coordinator, along with a director or social worker, reserves a time for screening registered students. The volunteer coordinator conducts a visual, non-invasive exam of all the youths and fills out a record form called IHC. This record also shows the social condition of the screened individual. Next, the coordinator sends all of the IHC records to the organization headquarters, where candidates are selected based on 3 criteria: the oldest (who are the closest to employment), the poorest, and those who have the worst oral damage.
What are your primary activities?
Through its network of volunteers, Dentists for Good offers free dental treatment to youths from 11 years old on until they reach 18. Or rather, once in the project, youths only exit once they have reached the age of legal majority and received all of the necessary treatment, including orthodontic.
Smiles for Good – a training seminar for volunteer coordinators, an 4-day event that, in addition to training new coordinators, is geared towards motivating, aligning, and training existing network coordinators. In 2012, the event hosted 400 coordinators from 12 countries.
Smiles for Good Awards: an awards event, open to the public, which has the goal of recognizing the work of the best volunteers in our network. In 2012, the awards event hosted 1800 guests in the Abril Theater.
Who are your peers and competitors? What problems could these players pose to your success or growth?
The Abrinq Foundation runs the Adotei um Sorriso (Adopt a Smile) project, but in contrast to Dentists for Good, this project has no criteria for selecting beneficiaries. In general, dentists and clinics end up providing some kind of free or voluntary service on some level to those in need. The problem is that the people, including dental professionals, who participate in these one-off events believe that the dental and social problems have been solved, which is far from true. Another problem is that oftentimes, because of these services, public schools close their doors to our volunteer coordinators; the school's directors, who have the final say, do not let our project come to the school because they believe that there is no longer a problem in their area.
What other challenges - individual, organizational, or environmental – are you currently facing or might hinder future success of your business, and how do you plan to overcome those?
Right now the project is 90% funded by supporters (companies). In the medium term, the project relies on a strategy that reverses this percentage and comes to depend less on private social investment. One of the strategies is the creation of a reserve fund by selling dental products, whose returns will be reverted back to the project. Another challenge will be bringing the project to rural regions that do not have dentists. Right now, the Dentists for Good model is essentially urban. Therefore, we have been studying implementation and have designed a few projects in areas that are far from urban centers, in Brazil as well as on the African continent.
Briefly describe your growth strategy going forward
To increase the number of volunteers, beneficiaries, and regions and countries where the project operates. Diversification of donations and of the organization's resources. Project implementation in rural, distant areas where there are no dentists, such as the African continent.
What dimensions for growth are you currently targeting for your innovation [select all that apply]
New regions(s), New market(s)/country(ies).
What makes your business "ready" for growth?
The project's strategic design and solid organization. A team of highly capable employees. The implementation of new strategies this year: screening megaevents open to the entire Brazilian public, the sale of products whose financial yields are used for the project, and mini training sessions for new coordinators.
What are your key growth objectives?
An increase in volunteers and beneficiaries and expansion into new regions and countries. Moreover, the diversification of donations and partnerships.
What is your timeframe for growth, in the short and mid-term? What are the growth milestones and key activities going forward?
The project has an annual beneficiaries goal. By 2015 we want to have sixty-five thousand patients and thirty thousand dentists.
In order to reach this goal, we need to implement the weekend training events throughout the year, bringing on new coordinators.
baca seterusnya↓↑ menyembunyikan↑ menyembunyikanWhat has been the impact of your solution to date?
Around 31 thousand youths in 12 countries have benefited from the project—creating a network of specialized volunteers that is the largest in the world today. The model of the volunteer in his own office revolutionizes healthcare access wherever the project goes, forming a network of health and support where there was none before. The social perception of the volunteers also changes: dentists change their visions as healthcare professionals and turn into a transformative element in their cities, proposing changes in public policy, in local emergency clinics, and in schools. By recovering oral health, we enable the beneficiaries to return to their social lives and save their self esteem, and they are given a real chance to integrate into the economically active population. Furthermore, the project has a social return: when added up, each beneficiary costs just R$50 on average—whereas if each beneficiary had to pay for his treatment, it would cost an average of R$12,000.
What methods for quantification of social impact are you applying (if at all)?
Our project uses a CRM software and with it, we manage every stage of treatment in each of the project's cities, and every minute we update patient numbers, dentists, availabilities, and waiting list, all organized by region, city, state, and country. In addition, we conduct research among patients and the best dentists in the network.
Could your solution work in other geographies or regions? If so, where?
Yes, in practically any place in the world where there is a dentist, due to the model in which the dentist sees the beneficiary in the comfort of his own practice. In regions where there are no dentists, which are quite remote, it may be viable to install a network and a mobile structure that have been previously evaluated in certain regions of the world.
What is your projected impact over the next 1-3 years?
In 2013, 45 thousand total beneficiaries.
In 2014, 55 thousand;
and in 2015, 65 thousand beneficiaries.
As for volunteer dentists, in 2013, there will be 16 thousand, followed by around 20 thousand in 2014 and, in 2015, about 30 thousand volunteer dentists in total.
baca seterusnya↓↑ menyembunyikan↑ menyembunyikanElaborate on your current financing strategy
Right now, TbD (the NGO in charge of Dentists for Good) works with eight collaborators, six in Brazil and two in Portugal. These are companies or foundations that collaborate with OSCIP. Apart from that, we are putting into effect a strategy to diversify project's sources of funding. One of those is the Friends for Good campaign, which works with the network of Dentists for Good coordinators. In this campaign, the coordinator asks his friends for help in increasing not just funding, but also the network of collaborators and friends of the project. Our goal for this first year is to raise R$100,000 by the end of the year. Another strategy is the sale of products whose profits revert back into the project. With the help of collaborators in the dental product industry, a part of the returns will be donated to the project. The amount will be proportional to the number of products sold to the Dentists for Good, who will receive progressive discounts according to the number of patients served. We have also contracted a consultant who specializes in events, partnerships, and product releases to help us to develop new revenue sources together with other companies and initiatives.
Share of revenue generation in total income of organization (in percent)
Insignificant (less than 1%)
Direct sales to patients or other beneficiaries (in percent)
Of the possible sources of these sales listed below, check all that apply to your current strategy
Friends and family, Individu.
Licensing fees, e.g., for technology/franchise model (in percent)
Of the possible sources of these licensing opportunities listed below, check all that apply to your current strategy
Service contract with organizations, e.g., government, NGOs (in percent)
Of the possible sources of the service contracts listed below, check all that apply to your current strategy
Explain your revenue generation strategy in more detail
Currently, in order to generate its own revenue, the project only relies on bazaars and shops selling the project's products. The proposal to revert revenue generated from the sale of dental products by project collaborators started this year. This will increase investment in the project (beyond the minimum amount necessary to qualify as a collaborator) in proportion to sales of products to the Dentists for Good.
Share of philanthropy in total income of organization (in percent)
Philanthrophy strategies you are using
Diversified strategy.
Explain your philanthropic approach in more detail
Partnerships with businesses and foundations, in return normally guaranteeing the activation of the project in their areas of interest. An awareness campaign carried out by the volunteer network; events; launching products whose revenue reverts back to the project.
Expand on your selections; explain how you will sustain funding over the next 1-3 years.
With our collaborators: ensuring satisfaction and respective contributions, the project hopes to renew its 3-year contracts.
Diversifying sources: the generation of a reserve fund through special projects and reverted funds (its own, new products).
Created on 04/17/2013 by jmgladstar
Gladstar gifted and talented educational centre run resource centre that will provide access to information on health, environment, food, entrepreneurship + farming through online or offline platforms through collection of related magazines,online,newspaper,pictorial and hand-on resources.
baca seterusnya ↓↑ menyembunyikan↑ menyembunyikanNama Organisasi
Gladstar gifted and talented educational centre, a member of Nigeria Network of Non-Governmental organisations
Negara tempat organisasi ini menciptakan dampak sosial
Apakah organisasi Anda adalah:
a. Nirlaba
Has the organization received awards or honors? Please tell us about them
baca seterusnya↓↑ menyembunyikan↑ menyembunyikanName your entry
Gladstar Gifted and Talented Educational Centre
Stage
Start-Up (a pilot that has just started operating)
This Entry is about (Issues)
Elevator Pitch
Gladstar gifted and talented educational centre run resource centre that will provide access to information on health, environment, food, entrepreneurship + farming through online or offline platforms through collection of related magazines,online,newspaper,pictorial and hand-on resources.
Problem
Unemployment among young people due to ignorance about employment potential in farming. National Bureau of Statistics started that 60 millions Nigerian youth are unemployed. 6 out of 10 employed youths settled for jobs that can hardly provide adequately for them now and in the future. These under-employed and unemployed young people can hardly feed themselves or their family properly. These can also lead to Unhealthy lifestyles .
Solution
1. Provision of interactive learning materials on health, environment, food, entrepreneurship and farming.
2. Mobilization of volunteers who will share needed knowledge about natural foods, micro-nutrients needed for wellness and research findings about dieting and food. 3. Provide mentors who will guide youths in our post-primary and tertiary institutions to cultivate mushroom at their backyard.
4. Marketing and storage of the products with the aid of our consultants who are highly experienced in these area of the food chain. 5. Overcoming unhealthy lifestyles : Edible mushrooms are associated with a healthy lifestyle such as reducing cholesterol levels, regulating blood pressure, and increasing resistance to viral infections.
Example
Education remains a vital tool for transformation of any sectors, region or nation. In the words of Henry Steele Commanger, "...education is essential to change, for education creates both new wants and the ability to satisfy them." Whitney M. Jnr. Information Resource Centre has been empowering Nigerians through information on but scope is limited. In China, the production of mushrooms increased steadily over time. According to the Chinese Association of Edible fungi, mushroom output has reached over 8 million tons valued at over$20 million. Experts in china say that about 35 millions people are engaged in the labour intensive mushroom industry. This was a dramatic upsurge from the 60,000 metric tonnes before 1978 reform in that country
Impact
1. Positive feedbacks from users of our websites. More than 70% and above are satisfied with the articles and resources. Check the stat on our site.
2. Growing numbers of users on our website and social media sites including facebook.com/GGTEC from 3 in 2009 to 16 now , facebook.com/moshood.joseph from 500 in 2008 to 3490, twitter.com/GGiftedEducate from 20 in 2010 to 300 now, twitter.com/jmgladstar from 20 in 2009 to 500 now and others.
3. At the end of the next 3 years, 80% of forecasted 375 paying members will be consuming/producing/promoting farm products associated with healthy lifestyle by reducing cholesterol levels, regulating blood pressure and increasing resistance to viral infections; contributing total turnover worth $23000. Our target is that twenty resource centres will be built by the end of ten years to cater for the twenty local government areas in Lagos, Nigeria.
Marketplace
Drive to acquire information relevant to personal health and development is an instinct in every man sort for when it is affordable. Mushroom collection from the wild had been in the past and still is a source of income for rural dwellers in many Nigerian community. Many Nigerians living in the urban centres had been deprived of the medicinal effects of mushroom.
Success Atittude Development Centre is also an NGO situated in Lagos involve in organising seminar on mushroom farming & FIIRO,Oshodi, Lagos a research organisation involved in training and selling of farm inputs.
Sustainability Plan
The online resource centre is supported through donation from members of our Non profit organization but the offline version of the project will be started through donations raised from our friends online and will be supported through payment of at least $2 weekly by each user.
Young farmers will be supported with farm-input worth $300 and mentorship service @ no charge in exchange for 30% equity stake in their venture.
Founding Story
Gladstar gifted and talented educational centre was founded in the year 2006 and commence operation in December 2008 to stir up the creative and critical skills of parents and teachers so that they will become effective mentors and guide to children around them thereby transforming our educational system. The target is that twenty resource centres will be built by the end of ten years to cater for the twenty local government areas in Lagos, Nigeria. Through the assistance of Whitney M. Young Jr. Information Resource Center, our members will be able to have access to 32 online databases which cover health, entrepreneurship, farming, education e.t.c.
baca seterusnya↓↑ menyembunyikan↑ menyembunyikanWhere do you ensure the availability of nutrients?
Healthy environments., Human wellness and vitality.
If you had greater capacity, which additional sectors would you like your solution to target - either through expansion, partnership, or thought exchange?
Healthy environments, Nutrient-rich farming, Full nourishment foods, Human wellness and vitality.
How specifically would this added capacity help you improve the quality, efficiency, or sustainability of your existing product or service?
Through this added capacity, we will be able
1. to create more access to information on health, environment, food, entrepreneurship and farming through public awareness about our online platform and commencement of offline resource centres in each local government area of Lagos state using online databases and others.
2. Invest $3000 - $5000 in youth involved cooperative society or small business organizations that are engaged in growing/marketing farm products associated with healthy lifestyles around the world with 20%-30% equity stake.
baca seterusnya↓↑ menyembunyikan↑ menyembunyikanHow is your product or service connected to vitality for the people and planet?
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People need appropriate nutrients to grow, learn, and fight off disease. How do you measure, track, or make use of information about nutrient levels in your own work?
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Considering the flow of nutrients from ecosystems to soil to farms to food to communities, what are the barriers to achieving vitality for people and the planet?
Other barriers you have identified
In your view, what developments need to happen in order to help overcome those barriers and produce a more nutrient rich and vital public and planet?
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What do you consider the most promising trends or evidence that indicates that the developments you described are emerging? Please elaborate.
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Created on 04/8/2013 by duyguguner
Our program "Online Health" aims at providing an online platform between young people and health sector actors. We want to provide young people a space where they can ask questions related to health and get answers from specialists. Also we want to create an area for youngsters where they can bring to life their projects about health and search for financing.
baca seterusnya ↓↑ menyembunyikan↑ menyembunyikanNama Organisasi
Toplum Gönüllüleri Vakfı (TOG) / Community Volunteers Foundation (CVF)
Organization's Country of Operation
Type of Organization
Non‐profit/NGO
Year of launch of the organization
Years in Operation
Beroperasi lebih dari 5 tahun
Has the organization received awards or honors? Please tell us about them
19th Istanbul Technic University, Endustrial Engeneering Students' Sempozium: "Civil Society Organization of the Year Prize", 2012.
Turkish Corporate Social Responbility Association: Civil Society Transparency Prize, 2011.
TOG ATAK Youth in Social Sensitivity, Youth Studies Best Practices Prize, UNDP/BRITISH COUNCIL
Health Lİteracy, Social Responsibility Project Prize- Platin Magazines 2012
We want to hear about your “Aha!” moment. Share the story of where and when the founder(s) saw this solution’s potential to change the world.
In 2005,young volunteers in CVF/TOG came to us with a bunch of questions and issues concerning their health.They couldn't find the place to find true answers.Peer trainings were one of the suggestions they brought to talk.This was our "Aha!" moment when we realized youngsters can provide the trainings and informations in the field of health in the most effective way.
Informasi yang Anda berikan di sini akan digunakan untuk mengisi bagian mana pun dari profil Anda yang masih kosong, seperti minat, informasi organisasi, dan situs web. Tidak ada informasi kontak yang akan ditampilkan untuk publik. Hapus centang di sini jika Anda tidak menghendakinya..
baca seterusnya↓↑ menyembunyikan↑ menyembunyikanExplain what the "innovation" is about, e.g., is it the idea and/or the model you use to accomplish the idea, or your understanding of the target population, etc.?
The innovation is the creation of an interactive website where health professionals, relative NGOs, young people who had a formation about general health issues provide consultancy service to youth. In Turkey, young people constitutes 25% of whole population. This group is not provided with health education at schools and the health literacy among young people is low. At the same time, social media are very popular among young people and can be used in an effective way to raise awerness and provide information related to general health issues. Avalaible health services are not youth friendly, and young people have difficulties to reach health information. That's why, it is important to create a tool which encourage them to take care of their health, especially in reproductive health.
Created website will also provide a network of different stakeholders such as NGOs, health sector companies, internet press about health, health professionals and Ministery of Health and young people. Also, there will be a space dedicated to young people's ideas: they will be able to present their ideas and look for mentors and sponsors.
Describe how your innovation model is distinct from any other organization in your field?
Community Volunteer Foundation is a foundation that contributes to the personal development of young people through encouraging them to participate to the social responsibility projects as volunteers. Every year the Foundation supports the realization of over 980 projects and activities implemented by about 40,000 young people in over 120 university clubs. İn Turkey other NGOs working on health issues have limited access to young people, so when they want to reach youngsters we serve as contact point. With the help of youth friendly website, all these stakeholders will reach young people directly. There is no online platform that allows young people to match their projects ideas with mentors and sponsors.
What type of operating environment and internal organizational factors make your innovation successful?
Community Volunteers Foundation has been working last ten years engaging young people and helping them to develop social responsibility projects. Numerous volunteers working in the field, experience gained while implementing health literacy project and delivering trainings taught us what the young people' s needs are in the field of health. We are also knowledgeable and committed to working with young people. On the other hand, all health sector will have a chance to be an actor of this platform.
How do you make sure you constantly innovate in light of (potential) external challenges, or your growth plan?
CVF/TOG was founded by young people for young people. All activities, programs are developed in the answer to the young people needs.We are open to innovation and ready to adapt to changing demands, needs and other external factors. As young people will have a significant role in creating the content and activities, we think they will provide innovative solution and make the model attractive for this target group.
This Entry is about (Issues)
baca seterusnya↓↑ menyembunyikan↑ menyembunyikanThe systemic challenge you are trying to overcome (select one)
Realign the incentives in the public healthcare system in mature markets, or
Health area (target market) where the need is [select only one]
Primary healthcare services
Categories along the health continuum you are covering [select all that apply]
Prevention, Social integration.
Please describe in more detail: what problem are you trying to solve in the organization's specific context?
In our organization, we are organizing peer to peer health literacy trainings to young people (university and high school students) all over Turkey. We observed that young people have no chance to reach information related to health issues. On the other hand information and services available are not youth friendly and do not cover topics requested by young people. The website and the network will aim at providing these informations.
Stage that best applies to your solution [select only one]
Idea (poised to launch)
Core strategies of your business model [select all that apply]
Approaches to behavioral change at the individual level, Patient-centered design, New/redefined roles for healthcare service provision, Unconventional partnerships (between traditional healthcare players and players outside healthcare), Lainnya .
If other, specify here:
alternative model for health education
Most relevant tools you are using to implement the strategies outlined above [select only two]
Technology, Education/training.
Please describe your solution in more detail
The website will be designed for young people.There will be a part where visitors can ask any question about health. Doctors and peer to peer health literacy trainers will answer their question via website.Their answers will be youth friendly and will seek to inform and orient them to the relevant health area. Also news,informations about different health compaigns and experts' presentations like short video,presentation,will be posted.Especially topics which are the most interesting and useful for young people will be explained by using various media tools.Training will be another services provided by the program.Existing peer trainers pool will be sustained and empowered to deliver health literacy trainings.Experts trainings will be developed and offered to adults for a remuneration.
What are your vision and overall objectives?
Vision: Young people getting suitable and right knowledge in a field of health which results in healthier life and wellness of whole society.
What is your value proposition?
Creation of youth friendly website abouth health will be attractive for health sector. Companies working in this sector will support the website. Income from advertisements and received donation will be collected in a money-box and the amount will be visible on website. Coordination and control of the website will be covered by received this money. Peer' trainings or seminars for adults will base on self-support system.
Who is your customer(s)?
There 2 main groups of customers. The first one is young people, who will be able to have trustable and easy to understand informations, and propose their ideas to interested partners. The second is health sectors companıes, that can reach a young public.
What approaches to you use to reach your customers?
The online strategy is: an easy to use and contiously updated website, integrated with a successfull Facebook page and Twitter account, all linked with CVF's website. Offline, we can use our network of volunteers.
What are your primary activities?
Our primary activities are to build a website, contact with stakeholders, provide truthfull informations to people who don't have access to them and help young people to bring their ideas to life.
Who are your peers and competitors? What problems could these players pose to your success or growth?
There is an UNFPA platform dedicated to young people, but it covers only reproductive health issues. There is Uzman Tv website about general health, but it's not dedicated to youngsters.
What other challenges - individual, organizational, or environmental – are you currently facing or might hinder future success of your business, and how do you plan to overcome those?
To convince health sector companies to support us. The solution is to search other funders, like Ministry of Health, and national and international NGOs.
Briefly describe your growth strategy going forward
To reach the highest possible number of young people. To get more support to enrich the website.
What dimensions for growth are you currently targeting for your innovation [select all that apply]
New customer group(s).
What makes your business "ready" for growth?
A solid organization behind it. A big network of young volunteers all over Turkey. A long experience in conveying informations to a young public using social media.
What are your key growth objectives?
To reach the as many youngsters as possible.
To create a comprehensive data mine about health issues.
What is your timeframe for growth, in the short and mid-term? What are the growth milestones and key activities going forward?
2 months to create the website, Facebook page and Twitter, basing them on the book created for trainers of our health literacy program.
6 months to expand the website, grow a public of followers, fundraise among health sector companies and NGOs, create a stable partnership with health experts.
1 year to see if the website is viable and can financially sustain itself and provide financial resources for health initiatives and projects submitted by young people as well as for training activities.
baca seterusnya↓↑ menyembunyikan↑ menyembunyikanWhat has been the impact of your solution to date?
Under Health Literacy Project we have delivered 141 trainings reaching 2600 youngsters all around Turkey. As a result of peer trainings, participants raised their awarness on health issues ang gained a knowledge that allows them to live their life in a healthier way.
What methods for quantification of social impact are you applying (if at all)?
We would like to develop evaluation and methods for quantification of social impact. The social impact of the website and trainings will be evaluated by the expert. The results will be published on the website showing the impact of all activities to the stakeholders and sponsors.
Could your solution work in other geographies or regions? If so, where?
Yes, our solution can be applied in other geographies and regions because it is universal model and serves as meeting point for young people and health sector.
What is your projected impact over the next 1-3 years?
In the fist 3 years, we are aiming at reaching 1000 young people with trainings. Moreover we are aiming at reaching 10.000 people via our website.
baca seterusnya↓↑ menyembunyikan↑ menyembunyikanElaborate on your current financing strategy
Donation income of TOG mainly comprises of monetary and in-kind donations made by individuals and institutions, conditional donations subject to TOG’s purposes, sponsorship incomes and income gained by the collaborations with the commercial firms. Until now health literacy program was financed from the grant received. Currently, we are working on developing sustainable financing strategy.
Share of revenue generation in total income of organization (in percent)
As CVF/TOG has not any revenue generating activities currently, we depend on private donation.
Direct sales to patients or other beneficiaries (in percent)
%70 of the revenue from trainings and advertisements
Of the possible sources of these sales listed below, check all that apply to your current strategy
Individu, Patients, Private businesses, Other beneficiaries.
Licensing fees, e.g., for technology/franchise model (in percent)
Of the possible sources of these licensing opportunities listed below, check all that apply to your current strategy
Private businesses.
Service contract with organizations, e.g., government, NGOs (in percent)
Of the possible sources of the service contracts listed below, check all that apply to your current strategy
Yayasan, LSM, Private businesses, Regional government, Pemerintah negara.
Explain your revenue generation strategy in more detail
Our financial plan has different components:
-Revenue generated from website like advertisements and sales of training activities
-Donation from different stakeholders and organisations.
Share of philanthropy in total income of organization (in percent)
Philanthrophy strategies you are using
Diversified strategy.
Explain your philanthropic approach in more detail
In accordance with the amendment made in the Community Volunteers Indenture by the decision of Board of Trustees dated May 4, 2005, it was decided that, maximum 1/3 (33%) of the annual income of the Foundation can be allocated and expended for the management and management support costs and investments for raising the capital reserves and foundation assets and remaining 2/3 (67%) of them for the realization of Foundation’s purposes and services. Within 2012, total income is amounting to TRY 8.588.745 (2011- TRY 6.486.622) (including interest income after deduction of transfers and funds were) corresponds to expenditures amounting to TRY 7.528.379 (2011- TRY 5.571.059 ).
Expand on your selections; explain how you will sustain funding over the next 1-3 years.
The first year of the project will be used to develop the website and revenue generating activities, advertisements, sales and trainings, later on incomes from these activities will sustain the financing of the website. At the same time fund raising activities will be carry on to provide further development of "Online Health" and to reach more young people with trainings.
Youth Advocates for Mental Health wants to provide an opportunity for youth to connect with other around common issues and concerns through stories of resiliency, blog discussions for youth, polls on important topics, youth discussion live chats, youth stories, and youth art.
Created on 04/3/2013 by associazionedynamocamp
We are the first and only Recreational Therapy Camp in Italy, specifically designed for children suffering from serious or chronic illnesses
It is completely free of charge for 6-17 years old children and families
First class medical assistance guaranteed 24hrs/day.All activities are centered on fun and regaining self confidence.Camp location is in a wonderful WWF affiliated reserve in Tuscany
baca seterusnya ↓↑ menyembunyikan↑ menyembunyikanNama Organisasi
Associazione Dynamo Camp onlus- below Dynamo Camp
Organization's Country of Operation
Italy, PT, San Marcello Pistoiese
Type of Organization
Non‐profit/NGO
Year of launch of the organization
Years in Operation
Beroperasi lebih dari 5 tahun
Has the organization received awards or honors? Please tell us about them
Associazione Dynamo Camp Onlus began the process for obtaining two prestigious certifications from SeriousFun: HITW Criteria, these are the quality criteria applied for all the 13 Camps which include high standards on a wide range of elements such as organisation, management, medical treatment, project management, hospitality, quality of the food, quality of the facilities and quality of the service. - ACA American Camping Association, these are the standards established by the prestigious American association which is a point of reference for all children's camps. The audits were carried out during the summer of 2009 and confirmed in 2012 and both were successful. Dynamo Camp is the only Recreational Therapeutic Camp estabilished in Italy which has a focus on the total well being of children (physiological, psychological). For this reason the Camp has several conventions with 40 main Italian pediatric Hospitals and 65 associations, They send the children to the camps and collaborate to the recruiting process of Dynamo Staff. With Tuscany Region, University of Florece and Meyer Hospital Dynamo Camp has signed a Memorandum of Understanding to collaborate on medical assistance and train doctors as volunteers at the camp. Dynamo has won in 2009 the Kresge Capital Challenge grant which has a social and economic relevance and show the strategic capacity of the project in terms of efficacy and effectiveness. Dynamo is part of AIEOP network in Italy- Italian Association of Pediatric Hematology Oncology and this membership represents a validation of the Benfits produced by the Recreational Therapy. In 2010 It has won a special mention from the Department for family policies of the Italian government. In 2011 it was awarded the Presidential Medal of accession for the activities.
We want to hear about your “Aha!” moment. Share the story of where and when the founder(s) saw this solution’s potential to change the world.
Dynamo Camp hosts 1000 children from 6-17 years and 200 families each year free of charge. Children suffer from onco-emathological diseases . Dynamo is part of SeriousFun net founded by Paul Newman in 1988. Enzo Manes a social entrepreneur of venture capital wanted to improve venture philanthropy in Italy and realized Dynamo Foundation after he met a mother of a child hosted in Newman's camp .
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At Dynamo Camp laughter is the best medicine
Explain what the "innovation" is about, e.g., is it the idea and/or the model you use to accomplish the idea, or your understanding of the target population, etc.?
Therapeutic Recreation is the scientific basis that inspires Dynamo Camp's activities carried out in a safe environment together with a high qualitative medical assistance to the children hosted at the Camp. The Therapeutic Recreation programme encourages these children to challenge themselves and to build their self esteem . The experience focuses on the discovery of unknown potentialities and of new ability to learn. Each activity at Dynamo Camp can be seen as a constructive and non-competitive personal challenge supported by the group, at Dynamo Camp play involves a balance between more demanding activities and individual or group work, allowing the children to have fun but also to relax and enjoy the experience.
Children' safety is of paramount importance at Dynamo Camp. Staff is carefully selected and trained and the team share all aspects of the camp experience with the youngsters providing constant supervision and support. The Camp has a fully equipped infirmary where routine procedures are directly provided by doctors and nurses specialised in paediatric oncohematology who guarantee continual medical care 24 hours a day. Dynamo Camp’s philosophy is to make sure the necessary medical assistance ready to react quickly, but also discreetly. This philosophy is a total innovation in the health care service because it focuses on the total well being of children not only on the medical aspect, neither on the care needs, but children as total person, who need primary to play, lo laugh, to hope, to gain their joy to be a child, this is a unique consideration of child
Describe how your innovation model is distinct from any other organization in your field?
Dynamo Camp is the only camp in Italy which combines the Therapeutic Recreation in a safe environment together with a high qualitative and full time medical assistance, carried out in a cheerful and brightly coloured environment which ensures the children to have a special experience in complete safety without feeling like they are in hospital. For our campers, Therapeutic Recreation means participating in an exciting adventure, sharing unforgettable experiences with peers and gaining confidence, with the serenity to move and act in a safe environment.The families of sicked children are not used to let children play. This is the new message of Dynamo Camp. It's an holistic approach that families share each other and become a new culture a new way to consider illness and disability.
What type of operating environment and internal organizational factors make your innovation successful?
Dynamo Camp operates to the highest possible standards of excellence; design and construction of the camp, selection and training of staff and volunteers, medical assistance and partnerships with hospitals, organisation and management of every aspect of the camp's programme and work, safety and supervision of the youngsters, maintenance and operation of the structure.
In particular, the staff is selected and trained and the team share all aspects of the camp experience with the youngsters providing constant supervision and support. The Medical Centre guarantees first class care both in terms of routine treatment and emergency intervention. This gives children the freedom to let go and enjoy themselves in a physically and emotionally secure environment and to show their deep mood.
How do you make sure you constantly innovate in light of (potential) external challenges, or your growth plan?
Each year Dynamo answers to new needs, new pathologies, and new families who ask to come and take part to this wonderful adventure. Dynamo has incresed during the years the number of children hosted, the pathologies, and the number of sessions. During the start up Dynamo was opened only during summer and Eastern and Christmas, now the calendar of sessions covers the whole year. Dynamo in these years has also implemented new services and new projects to better answer to children, families and stakeholder's needs. It has develloped two outreach projects from the camp to reach hospitals and association, to animate children who cant't reach the camp. because they are too ill. Radio Dynamo, Dynamo Art Factory are the two projects that are successfull in the field of music and arts.
This Entry is about (Issues)
baca seterusnya↓↑ menyembunyikan↑ menyembunyikanThe systemic challenge you are trying to overcome (select one)
Realign the incentives in the public healthcare system in mature markets, or
Health area (target market) where the need is [select only one]
Care for rare diseases
Categories along the health continuum you are covering [select all that apply]
Social integration.
Please describe in more detail: what problem are you trying to solve in the organization's specific context?
The two main goals which Dynamo Camp is aimed to achieve is to gain children's self-esteem and socializations. Often children with disabling illnesses lack confidence in their abilities and have no opportunities to socialize with other children. Dynamo Camp gives them both the opportunity to build their self esteem by helping the children to succeed with fun in whatever activity they choose and to socialize with other children by finding themselves, outside of the hospital environment, in close contact with others who share their difficulties, by sharing their courage and outlook with those who can fully understand how they feel. It gives them a valuable opportunity to get to know many children and young people from other towns and backgrounds. For families is the opportunity for hope.
Stage that best applies to your solution [select only one]
Established (past the previous stages and has demonstrated success)
Core strategies of your business model [select all that apply]
Approaches to behavioral change at the individual level, Patient-centered design, Unconventional partnerships (between traditional healthcare players and players outside healthcare), Lainnya .
If other, specify here:
promote a model of social service in healthcare innovative because it's focused on the entire well being of the hosted children
Most relevant tools you are using to implement the strategies outlined above [select only two]
Education/training, Others.
If other, specify here:
a new social culture in dealing with sick children as children first of all and after as patients
Please describe your solution in more detail
Recreational Therapeutic Camp can improve through their methodology the global well being of children. The 80% of children have hope to survive to their sickness. Thanks to these Camps they can grow as children and not only as survivors. If they cant't play, do sports, stay with peers, they will grow as depressed adults and with important behavioural deseases. In Italy there is only Dynamo Camp as a Recreational Therapeutic Camp, with this special approach which works with 40 hospitals, 65 associations to support children and families in their difficult path. The solution is to improve Dynamo sustainability so that the Camp could host more children in the next years and the Camp could answer to the need in a more significant way. Dynamo Camp is as good sucessfull solution for children
What are your vision and overall objectives?
Scope of Dynamo is to offer hundreds of youngsters each year, free of charge, the chance to “be children” and their parents and families a psychological and practical support to cope with the problems of caring for a sick child and help them to feel "alive". In order to meet these objectives, Dynamo offers (i) the fullest possible experience of childhood regardless of the effects of the disease; (ii) tries and normalises the experience of coping with serious or chronic sickness in childhood; (iii) provides for a safe physical environment; (iv) offers an emotional experience of fun and play, support and challenges; (v) encourages open, supportive, non-judgmental relationships between the children themselves and with staff and to foster friendship; (vi) strengthens, renews and raises hope.
What is your value proposition?
Dynamo Camp's values are: EXCELLENCE (it operates to the highest possible standards of excellence in terms of structure, staff, organization), SUCCESS (it helps the children to succeed in whatever activity they choose), SOCIALIZATION (it helps children who are subjected to intensive hospitalization lifes to socialize with other children who are able to understand each other), STAFF AND ASSISTANCE SUPPORT (staff are carefully selected and trained in order to guarantee full children's safety at the Camp and the medical centre guarantees first class care both in terms of routine treatement and emergency intervention), PLAY (children have the chance to learn new things and to overcome what they see as their limits by simply having fun, relaxing and enjoying the experience to the full).
Who is your customer(s)?
The project directly reaches 1.067 children aged 6 to 17 suffering from serious or chronic illnesses under treatment or in remission for not more than four years and 200 families, coming from Italy (83,5%); Germany (6,5%); Middle east (8,8%); and other foreign countries (1,2%). 200 families of the children hosted have been positively affected from the opportunity offered to their children. After the session of Dynamo Camp some families meet and create informal networks that involve information, comparing experiences, and support in practical situations. The siblings also learn to cope with their brother or sister's sickness. In addition when the brother or sister is at the Camp, they can spend bonding time with parents that is not often available.
Families feels huge psicological support
What approaches to you use to reach your customers?
The camp receives medical and scientific support through the partnership with the Meyer Hospital in Florence, which is the specialistic children's hospital closest to the Camp. Dynamo Camp cooperates with 40 Italian and 14 foreign hospitals and health centres which send children to Dynamo Camp in through 2007 to 2012 to Dynamo Camp and with 65 associations which help Dynamo recruiting staff to select children. Families tell their positive experience when they come back home, and other families want to come and live the same experience. During the sms campaign Dynamo has the possibility to let several people know its experience and this communication reach new customers and potential stakeholders that could be new Dynamo's friends and supporters or volunteers.
What are your primary activities?
The range of activities includes: Horseback Riding/Minifarm and Nature (allows contact with nature), Photography and Video and Arts and Crafts (express creativity and imagination), Music (explore of sounds and rhythm), Archery (allow personal accomplishments), Adventure/Climbing Courses and Low Exercises (confidence building exercises), Theatre (express children personality), Recreational Therapy in Water (specifically suited for children with motor difficulties and duly heated for children with particular diseases, such as sickle-cell anaemia), walks and overnight at Dynamo's Oasis, Radio Dynamo (which reaches all the national children hospitals) and Dynamo Arts Factory (express kid's potentialility by working with artists asked to launch creative challenges or realize a work of art).
Who are your peers and competitors? What problems could these players pose to your success or growth?
Sometimes hospitals due to burocracy or lack of communication don't communicate the opportunity for the children hosted in their structures, to go to Dynamo Camp, even if it's free of charge. It's a big opportunity but some hospitals have internal associations which are competitors, even if they don't have a camp like Dynamo Camp. In these case the process of recruiting is very hard for Dynamo as there isn't sometimes a real attitude to cooperate and to realize an effective network of services in the Third Sector. The non profit sector could be more effective and efficient, by supporting a global strategy of raising funds for special needs and choosing serious partner and reliable instead of acting in a self attitude and style.
What other challenges - individual, organizational, or environmental – are you currently facing or might hinder future success of your business, and how do you plan to overcome those?
Since Dynamo tries to achieve each year the budget in order to support the projects and to host all the children free of charge, a challenge could be raising money during the global economic and productive crisis of these years. Dynamo, however, is confident to being able to find ways, ideas and opportunities to raise money for the well being of their children. In particular, Dynamo works to raise money in the different sectors: Corporation, Individuals, big events, sms campaigns, Foundation and Public funds. In the last 6 years of activities this fund raising strategy producted always its effect and reached the expected results, which are reflected in Dynamo's financial statements. A new challenge is to find new countries interested in sending their sicked children to Dynamo Camp.
Briefly describe your growth strategy going forward
The main goal for Dynamo Camp is to make the Camp sustainable through a diversified fund raising campaign. For this reason Dynamo intends to support the Academy (the social enterprise) to reach new stakeholder (corporations, agencies) offer different service, that produce business and the income will be distributed to the association.
What dimensions for growth are you currently targeting for your innovation [select all that apply]
New market(s)/country(ies).
What makes your business "ready" for growth?
Dynamo has already dimostrated its strong and effective business plan and economic model. From the beginning it has developed its offer in activities, number of children hosted and diseases treated at the Camp. At the end of 2012 the Camp hosted 1.067 children (on 2007 they were just 60) with specific onco-emathological diseases and 200 families (in 2007 there were none), througout 16 sessions.
What are your key growth objectives?
To host new children, new pathologies, realizing new buildings to have more space. Dynamo has several ideas to implement its services: realize a new gym to let children try sports with bad weather in an interior space equipped. To offer activities related to cinema and movies to complete the range of activities: sports, arts, nature, animals, theatre. To host more families of disabled children.
What is your timeframe for growth, in the short and mid-term? What are the growth milestones and key activities going forward?
On a strategic point of view, Dynamo wants to host more children, more pathologies and families in the next years, to improve its impact on new people so that the Recreational Therapy will be diffused. New services and actvities offered in the Camp will let it more interesting and suitable for all. The association will also reach children hospitalized that can't reach the Camp or association of parents of disables children. In this case the Recreational Therapy, through the outreach program, can supports more families and needs. On a financial point of view Dynamo has to let the camp sustainable in different economic ways: by the fundraising activity of the Association, with the emerging activity of the Social Enterprise and through the new developmental projects of Merchaindising and Food
baca seterusnya↓↑ menyembunyikan↑ menyembunyikanWhat has been the impact of your solution to date?
Each year in Italy more than 10,000 children are affected by serious or chronic illnesses. They must undergo invasive therapies that oblige them to spend long periods of time in hospital. The disease not only forces them to deal with fear, fatigue and often side effects, but also restricts their social life with children their own age and threatens to compromise the peace of mind, confidence and sense of fun so typical during childhood. The program is needed in the community because as of 2012, it is the only camp in Italy that offers its free program directly to 1.067 children (and indirectly to their families at home) and to about 200 families (Numberr of hosted children and families have stedily grown over the years from 2007, the first year of Dynamo's activity). The camp gives the children and families the opportunity to enjoy a period of recreation in a safe, protected environment. This environment guarantees first class medical attention and the constant supervision of qualified staff who encourage the growth of a child's self-esteem. The program is beneficial to the community since there are no other structures in Italy granting the same opportunities to sick children and their families. Other solutions for sick children are mainly focused on the medical aspects of treatment. At Dynamo Camp children are provided with recreational opportunities. Dynamo Camp is also beneficial to its local community and area: 80% of its suppliers are local ones.
What methods for quantification of social impact are you applying (if at all)?
Children, Families,volunteers are asked to fill in different questionnaires at the end of each session to tell about their experience. Feedbacks are then evaluated by DC's staff. Th evidence is that every camper/family wants to come back to the Camp, because the Camp's experience is life changing as for social effects, approach to sickness,medical care, self esteem. A recent Yale University-SeriousFun research (all camps have worked together) confirms the positive impact on children of the Recreational Therapy.
An other side effect is that some families begin to help and to support each other, once back home. The children hosted at Dynamo Camp come from all over Italy (north, centre and south) Germany, Iraq, Syria, Jordan, Latvia, Bielorussia and Serbia.
Could your solution work in other geographies or regions? If so, where?
Dynamo Camp is part of SeriousFun Children's Network (former "a Hole in the Wall Camp Association") founded by Paul Newman, the Hole in the Wall Camps were created in 1988 with the opening of the Hole in the Wall Gang Camp in Connecticut. Currently there are 16 camps fully operational worldwide (California, Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Ireland, Hungary, France, United Kingdom, Israel, Japan, Michigan, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Sout Africa, Washington) and others in the process of realisation. Many provisional camps, locally designed, with culturally applicable program are temporarily opened in many parts of the world Cambodia, Chennai, Ethiopia, Haiti, Hanoi, Ho Chi Min city , Lesotho, Malawi, Mysore, Paraguay, Swaziland, Uganda.
What is your projected impact over the next 1-3 years?
Our aim for the close future is not only to maintain the number of hosted children, but also to increase it; to increase the number of children from different countries that have no access to SeriousFun Children's Network camps; to increse the number of pathologies hosted at the Camp;to increase the variety of activities and services offered at the Camp to render it more accessible and suitable for all. To make the Camp more and more self sustainable and more balanced as for funding sources. The other project is to reach through outreach programs more associations, for example for disable children, in order to bring them hope and support, even if they can'T reach the camp and live this wonderful experience. To make a better communciation, to let more people know the Camp and get involved
baca seterusnya↓↑ menyembunyikan↑ menyembunyikanElaborate on your current financing strategy
We are committed to implement and keep on developing a balance among funding sources: Philantropic and revenue generation approach are exploited together.
-As for philanthropy: our activity has been historically financed via donations from: (2012 figures)
Individuals 46%
Corporates 27%
Private Associations/organizations/foundations 25%
Government 2%
Over the years we have successfully worked to change the weight of sources: at the beginning of our activity funding from corporations was preponderant and funding from individuals was residual (84% vs 7%), now individuals have a central role in our fundraising strategy and we intend to further move towards crowd funding.
-As for revenue generation:
We’ve decided to make our business model more sustainable and less dependent on donations:
1) Starting from the beginning of its activity Dynamo Camp has developed a merchandising department, to trade branded outdoor gear.
2) in 2010 we’ve set up Dynamo Academy srl Impresa Sociale, a social business whose mission is to cover some of Dynamo Camp’s facility, maintenance and structure-related costs;
3) in 2013 we have set up Alimentare Dynamo, whose mission is to trade specialty food products in Italian supermarkets and to convey 100% of profits from its activity to Dynamo Camp’s project. We have signed a multi-year trading agreement with IperCoop Firenze, top Italian player in the large scale retail arena, that guarantees to AD discounted trading conditions, top visibility in its point of sale, organizational/logistic support.
Share of revenue generation in total income of organization (in percent)
Direct sales to patients or other beneficiaries (in percent)
the institutional activity is free of charge, the address of our social businesses is the stakeholders' market. 100%
Of the possible sources of these sales listed below, check all that apply to your current strategy
Friends and family, Individu, Caregivers, Private businesses.
Licensing fees, e.g., for technology/franchise model (in percent)
Of the possible sources of these licensing opportunities listed below, check all that apply to your current strategy
Service contract with organizations, e.g., government, NGOs (in percent)
Of the possible sources of the service contracts listed below, check all that apply to your current strategy
Explain your revenue generation strategy in more detail
Merchandising: product sold in shop or on site to stakeholder
Dynamo Academy(DA): social business that manages the Camp’s facilities when it doesn’t host sick children to cover part of Dynamo fixed costs. Organizations, corporates, individuals can hold meetings in an exclusive setting, while exploiting the Camp’s outdoor and indoor structures for training/teambuilding purposes, community service, employee volunteering programs.
DA intends to become a role model for training on Social Business-Corporate Philanthropy dedicated to high-school and master students, at the Camp
Alimentare Dynamo (AD): following Newman’s Own business model, we have set up a juridical entity to trade specialty food products to the big public and allocate 100% of the profit from this activity to DC
Share of philanthropy in total income of organization (in percent)
Philanthrophy strategies you are using
Diversified strategy.
Explain your philanthropic approach in more detail
Individuals: different approaches are used: SMS campaign, 5X1000 (Italian Government gives the option to citizens to choose a charity to which designate the 5X1000 of their tax debt), Ambassadors (individuals commit to raise among friends the minimum cost of hosting a sick child for 1 session by organizing different events. Christmas gifts and letters, Events: Dynamo Bike Challenge (individual fund raising approach)
Corporate: multi-year agreements including different kinds of support: money, in-kind and skill donation, employee volunteering programs, Private grant-making foundations in major gift area: big grants focused on special projects . Government: our strategy is not to rely on Government support on a long standing basis, but we sign specific agreements on defined projects.
Expand on your selections; explain how you will sustain funding over the next 1-3 years.
As for the philanthropic approach:
In the future we intend to keep on balancing our funding sources, moving towards a crowd funding model, still maintaining a strong grip on multi-year agreements with financially sound corporations and private foundations. We are also organizing for the year 2014 the Dynamo Adventure Challenge: a unique experience and event in nature (in the wondeful oasis affiliated with wwf) that engages participants in a challenging outdoor treasure hunt, raising funds for Dynamo Camp in a powerful and life-challenging adventure.
We also intend to work on our cost structure, having our partners bear part of our operating costs via in-kind donations (both physical goods and professional skills)
GENERATING INCOME
As for the income generating part of our funding strategy:
We intend to further tap the huge potential of Alimentare Dynamo, the food social business, by expanding into new, diverse products and into more points of sale across all of Italy, following Newman’s Own approach: Newman’s Own every year distributes about 30mn dollars of net profits to different non profit organizations across the world.
We intend to set up a separate business for our merchandising department, with a dedicated apparel/outdoor gear branded line and new sale channels.
Dynamo Academy: we want to further develop the corporate business (foreign companies) and further expand into education with agreements with primary Italian and international partners like we are already doing with Bocconi University. Dynamo wants to improve the culture of social entrepreneur.
Created on 04/2/2013 by danielchristopheryoung
The main goal of this is to allow people in the community to contribute in helping children with Autism, a disorder that affects children all around the world.
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United States, FL, Delray Beach, Palm Beach County
Negara tempat organisasi ini menciptakan dampak sosial
United States, FL, United States, Palm Beach County
Apakah organisasi Anda adalah:
a. Nirlaba
Berapa lama organisasi Anda telah beroperasi?
Beroperasi selama 1-5 tahun
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baca seterusnya↓↑ menyembunyikan↑ menyembunyikanPilih tahap yang paling sesuai untuk solusi Anda:
Established (past the previous stages and has demonstrated success)
This Entry is about (Issues)
Summary: What specific issue or problem does your Venture address?
My Venture addresses the issue of Autism Spectrum Disorder, which disables children all around the world. The way this problem will be addressed is through many different methods, such as fundraisers and volunteering at schools for children with Autism. Raising money towards Autism research helps, and so does helping individual children with autism. A way to help children with Autism, as I have found, is to use music as therapy for these children. I have played my instrument for children at a school, and it allows them to calm down or even to focus. My efforts have gone further than this, and I have donated iPods which are used for music and for audio clips used for learning. In the future, I look forward to gaining more technological devices to donate such as iPads and other devices.
Misson Statement: What will your venture do?
My venture is geared to help children with Autism in any way possible. It will raise money towards Autism Research, the building of schools, and the supplying of school materials. As well as this, my venture stresses an importance on volunteer work, and it is crucial that I gain volunteers that are willing to help a child with Autism. The musical aspect of my venture will also be important, as I will continue to search for others who are musically inclined to volunteer at schools. As well as volunteering at schools, I will make it a goal to host benefit concerts, and to play at charity events for Autism. Although music is an important part of my venture, it is not the only part, and I also see an importance in allowing children with Autism to receive the best education that they can possibly achieve. I will do this through using raised money to buy supplies, help renovate and build schools, and create the opportunity for new technological advances at this school.
The Model: Walk us through a specific example of how your solution makes a difference; include your primary activities
Ways that my venture will make a difference have a larger scale of impact, and a smaller, more concise scale of impact. What I believe to be the larger scale is the raising of money towards Autism research and the raising of money to benefit schools for children with Autism. These two ideas will be important, for once I raise enough money, I will be able to donate this money to more and more locations, therefore spreading my venture. On a smaller scale, volunteer work will also be one of the activities in my venture. Although volunteering at a school for children with Autism will not raise money to find a cure, it will positively affect the life of the child, who needs as much help as he or she can get when it comes to an education. As I have previously addressed, music will also be an important part of my venture. Whether it is through volunteering musicians visiting nearby schools, or benefit concerts, music is a crucial part of my venture. It allows for the raising of money, but also allows children with Autism to experience music while they are being educated. It is said that music is therapeutic to these children, and it allows them to focus, therefore helping them learn.
The Community: Define your community, local or international, that you will work on behalf of. What population is affected? Are there other organizations working in this space?
Initially, my goal will be to work on behalf of the area around me, and let my venture grow from there. The entire population should be aware of Autism, and by raising money for the cause, I will also be able to spread the world to communities around mine. As these communities become more aware, I am hoping that they will spread their knowledge to others. As this knowledge is spread, my venture will also be spread further, until it has reached a nationwide level. This may be wishful thinking, but I believe that with the help of difference makers around the country, I will be able to accomplish this, especially considering that Autism is an important topic that should be known about by anyone.
Founding Story: What inspired your venture? Why?
The way I first heard about Autism was through a video that was sent to my email. This video affected me, and I thought that with my musical ability and willingness to help, I could make an impact somehow in the community. As I began raising money by playing violin at events, I discovered that there were other ways that I could still help the cause. I began donating the money I had raised to a nearby school, and after speaking with the school, they believed that I should go to the school to play for the children there. Going class to class, I would play music for the children, and I could see how it positively affected them. From that point on I have continued to find other methods of benefitting Autism research, and the education of children with Autism
What is your long-term vision for your Venture?
The long term vision of my Venture is to eventually see my venture spread outside of my community to around the nation. This way, people around the nation will raise awareness for Autism, donate money, and volunteer at schools in their areas. As my Venture spreads, I would also like any others to pitch in with their own ideas for ways to help children with Autism. This way, we will be able to find more and more ways to raise money, volunteer, or do any other activities that may benefit the cause.
Define your company, program, service, or product in 1-2 short sentences
The main goal of this is to allow people in the community to contribute in helping children with Autism, a disorder that affects children all around the world.
baca seterusnya↓↑ menyembunyikan↑ menyembunyikanWhat do you want to accomplish in your first year?
The goal I wish to accomplish in my first year is to raise awareness in my community and hold many fundraisers to gain money for local schools. Another thing I wish to do is to host benefit concerts for Autism. While spreading the word, I also would like to search the community for others who are willing to volunteer at local schools. I don't wish to spread my venture too wide the first year, and I would rather establish a large amount of success locally before venturing out further.
Winning entries present a strong plan for how they will achieve and track growth. Identify your six-month milestone for growing your impact
My milestone will be to raise over 10,000 dollars in fundraising
Tugas 1
Improve the supplies, classrooms, and technology of local schools for children with Autism
Tugas 2
Gain a wide population of volunteers
Tugas 3
Find other difference makers in the community who are willing to advertise my venture.
Now think bigger! Identify your 12-month impact milestone
Spread my venture outside of my area into other regions of Florida
Tugas 1
Find major music personalities that are willing to help in a benefit concert
Tugas 2
Assist in the building of a new school for children with Autism
Tugas 3
Prepare to spread my venture nationally
baca seterusnya↓↑ menyembunyikan↑ menyembunyikanHow will your Venture define success in the short term (1-12 months)?
By spreading the word of my venture throughout the State in order to prepare for a longer more difficult phase in which I will expand my venture nationally
In the long-term (1 year?)
By gaining recognition on a national level as an organization that positively effects communities around the nation
How will you measure success?
I will measure success not by the amount of money I raise towards my cause, but by the amount of people which my venture affects. Although it is only aimed towards helping children with Autism, I believe that my venture will allow communities around the nation to come together in order to fight for a common cause.
Why?
I believe that money is important, but should not be the critical point of whether something is successful or not.
Girls with Heart will be group of dedicated girls who are struggling emotionally, phscially, and mentally. We will work together to maintain healthy hearts!
This project also has a Project where you can read more about its latest progress.
Go to Project: Move This World.
Created on 03/31/2013 by Ouida Maedel
Move This World (MTW) is a global nonprofit using creative movement as a vehicle to transform conflict, violence and bullying in communities. MTW focuses on empowering individuals with skills to identify emotions within themselves, to be empathetic in their interactions with others, and to act as change agents in their communities. Our hallmark program is an evidence-based curriculum engaging students Pre-K-12 in movement-based activities promoting empathy, diversity appreciation, anger management, and conflict transformation.
baca seterusnya ↓↑ menyembunyikan↑ menyembunyikanNegara Organisasi
United States, VA, Alexandria, Fairfax County
Negara tempat organisasi ini menciptakan dampak sosial
n/a
Apakah organisasi Anda adalah:
a. Nirlaba
Informasi yang Anda berikan di sini akan digunakan untuk mengisi bagian mana pun dari profil Anda yang masih kosong, seperti minat, informasi organisasi, dan situs web. Tidak ada informasi kontak yang akan ditampilkan untuk publik. Hapus centang di sini jika Anda tidak menghendakinya..
baca seterusnya↓↑ menyembunyikan↑ menyembunyikanPilih tahap yang paling sesuai untuk solusi Anda:
Pertumbuhan (eksperimen Anda sudah dijalankan, dan mulai dikembangkan)
What problem is your organization committed to solving? In particular, share what is innovative about your approach.
Move This World (MTW) is a global nonprofit using creative movement as a vehicle to transform conflict, violence and bullying in communities. MTW focuses on empowering individuals with skills to identify emotions within themselves, to be empathetic in their interactions with others, and to act as change agents in their communities. Our hallmark program is an evidence-based curriculum engaging students Pre-K-12 in movement-based activities promoting empathy, diversity appreciation, anger management, and conflict transformation. Using MTW's holistic approach, we engage students, families, educators, administrators, and communities with targeted programs that promote social change through the art of movement. MTW has worked with over 9,000 individuals across 22 cities on four continents.
What are your organization's top three priorities in the next year?
In the next year, Move This World's top priority is to hire two full-time leadership positions to help to lead programmatic growth and operational strategy. These full-time positions will provide current staff with the support, resources, and expertise for Move This World to scale and enter new markets. Our second priority is to grow the number of classrooms we have in current program hubs. Thirdly, Move This World would like to pilot its special needs curriculum and identify potential new product lines in the next year.
Need #1
Message & Brand Strategy
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!
In February of 2013 Move This World underwent a re-brand to become the organization it is today. Formerly known as Dance 4 Peace, Move This World leadership decided to pursue a re-branding process to find a name that truly articulated our use of innovative practice using creative movement for empathy education. We also wanted to find a name that embodied our growth potential, vision, and mission more fully. While we feel confident that we have found that name in Move This World, we are working to embody the new brand across the organization and realize our growth potential not only through our current curriculum and training programs, but also through new product lines to distinguish ourselves from peers and become the standard among organizations offering innovative empathy education programs.
1.
Move This World prioritizes flexibility and responsiveness to the needs of partners, customizing programs and arrangements.
2.
Move This World prioritizes open communication between partners and MTW staff, ensuring we are available to partners.
3.
Move This World prioritizes cultural awareness, ensuring our programs are appropriate for diverse contexts.
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 Move This World as an organization overall in order to maximize the impact of the support. In order to work on our strategic positioning as an organization, we must pursue processes that foster cohesive branding and messaging strategies, and help us situate ourselves in the civil society space in relationship to peer organizations.
Have you focused on the above area previously? If so, please explain, including whether you have worked with outside consultants before.
Move This World has worked with outside consultants before, including with consultants who advised us throughout the re-brand process. We have also worked with consultants to evaluate the efficacy and growth potential of Move This World's programs in certain markets. While individual staff members have dedicate some time to considering branding and messaging and a part-time Communications and Strategy Specialist is a crucial member of our team, outside facilitation will prioritize branding and messaging for all staff to ensure consistency and confidence.
Are you able to commit 3-5 hours/wk over 10-12 weeks?
Yes
Are you able to meet virtually or at a convenient in-person location?
Yes
Are you able to meet in the city where your organization is based?
Yes
1.
To empower all Move This World staff to speak and write confidently and consistently about the new Move This World brand.
2.
To be internationally recognized as the standard provider of empathy education programs.
3.
To identify and strategize about potential distinct product lines for development under the Move This World umbrella.
What has been the impact of your solution to date?
The MTW curriculum transcends countries, socioeconomic differences, languages and cultures; it is being adapted and implemented in diverse communities worldwide. In the fall of 2011, aggregate data MTW collected indicated an 80% increase in student positive empathetic reactions to seeing an isolated peer after exposure to a semester of our programming. When given a situation involving bullying, there was a 48% decrease in violent responses. Survey questions to MTW students testing for appreciation of diversity showed a 15% increase in listening to others, 30% increase in liking group work, and 25% increase in likelihood to try new things. Suspension data in one school declined from 53 incidents to 16, after one semester of Move This World programming in several classrooms.
What is your project future impact after receiving professional support from American Express?
Based upon our strategic scaling model and business plan, Move This World will have an annual budget of $1.7 million in five years and will have worked with 55,000 youth and educators. Move This World has already shown success at scaling from one classroom in Bogota, Colombia to serving over 9,000 individuals in 22 cities on four continents. Support from American Express will enable Move This World to take the next step in becoming the standard bearer in innovative empathy education practice. Our programs are already sought after by a diversity of partners, and undergoing a peer benchmarking analysis will empower us to identify growth areas and customize product lines based upon the market need and feedback from partners.
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Created on 03/31/2013 by Magical Voice
Most people’s lives are limited by their thinking.
The Magic of Think™ helps children overcome self-limiting thoughts by teaching and reinforcing the core values of inner strength before bad habits become entrenched. Strong children create strong adults.
The world of “Think” incorporates award-winning songs, fun stories, animated characters, games, lessons and activities dealing with some of life’s most difficult problems.
Activity & Audio Books with Music CDs in a 7 book series based on social and emotional learning. Progressing to multiple platforms.
baca seterusnya ↓↑ menyembunyikan↑ menyembunyikanNegara tempat organisasi ini menciptakan dampak sosial
Apakah organisasi Anda adalah:
Hybrid
Informasi yang Anda berikan di sini akan digunakan untuk mengisi bagian mana pun dari profil Anda yang masih kosong, seperti minat, informasi organisasi, dan situs web. Tidak ada informasi kontak yang akan ditampilkan untuk publik. Hapus centang di sini jika Anda tidak menghendakinya..
baca seterusnya↓↑ menyembunyikan↑ menyembunyikanName Your Entry
The Magic of Think: Everything begins with a thought. We help children improve their thinking.
Pilih tahap yang paling sesuai untuk solusi Anda:
Pertumbuhan (eksperimen Anda sudah dijalankan, dan mulai dikembangkan)
What problem is your organization committed to solving? In particular, share what is innovative about your approach.
Most people’s lives are limited by their thinking.
The Magic of Think™ helps children overcome self-limiting thoughts by teaching and reinforcing the core values of inner strength before bad habits become entrenched. Strong children create strong adults.
The world of “Think” incorporates award-winning songs, fun stories, animated characters, games, lessons and activities dealing with some of life’s most difficult problems.
Activity & Audio Books with Music CDs in a 7 book series based on social and emotional learning. Progressing to multiple platforms.
Creates meaningful discussions between a mentor (teacher, parent, grandparent, guardian, friend) and child benefiting both.
Like a nursery rhyme, our messages are remembered for a lifetime becoming a positive anchor in times of need.
What are your organization's top three priorities in the next year?
1. Help children worldwide
2. Find a partner or sponsor to help expand the program to reach more children
3. Generate sales to continue our work
Need #1
Message & Brand 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 your help in increasing brand awareness and generating sales.
1.
A passionate and sincere long-term desire to help children worldwide
2.
A partner that is comfortable being instrumental in bringing change to the way children learn
3.
A partner that sees the power of brands like Harry Potter, Club Penguin, Hello Kitty, etc. and uses that platform to educate
Will support from American Express be focused on your organization overall or a specific product/service? Please describe.
Support from American Express will be focused on our organization overall. We need help progressing to the next stage.
Have you focused on the above area previously? If so, please explain, including whether you have worked with outside consultants before.
The University of BC liked the project and helped with the curriculum. We also received help from an outside contractor with our Facebook page.
Are you able to commit 3-5 hours/wk over 10-12 weeks?
Yes
Are you able to meet virtually or at a convenient in-person location?
Yes
Are you able to meet in the city where your organization is based?
Yes
1.
Identify the strongest segment of my market and brand
2.
Establish a long-term partnership
3.
Increase sales and distribution
What has been the impact of your solution to date?
We won Best Song at the Hollywood Music in Media Awards, received a fantastic review from Billboard Discoveries, and were chosen to be in the Grammy and Oscar gifts to the nominees. The University of BC Education Department helped us develop lessons and activities for our series of books (K to Grade 3.) We test marketed The Magic of Think™ with teachers, homeschooling mothers, and grandparents. The testimonials have been phenomenal. The children in both public and private schools have been captivated by the stories performed “in character.” The children love the music and listen to it day and night. We have also been receiving enthusiastic reviews from parents with Special Needs and Gifted children. Children open up on issues that have not been discussed before. Eg. being bullied.
What is your project future impact after receiving professional support from American Express?
Receiving support from American Express would greatly assist us in achieving our goal of reaching and helping every child in the world. Rich or poor, regardless of color or nationality. Long term, stronger children become stronger adults, who will be more equipped to make the world a better place.
This Entry is about (Issues)
Created on 03/29/2013 by qlovi
Qlovi is committed to boosting the low levels of student reading proficiency in the US. 75% of US students lack full literacy proficiency—low income and student of color communities are disproportionately affected. Literacy instruction presents challenges and opportunities unmet by existing instruction and education technology. As literacy lags, achievement and competitiveness suffer.Qlovi is a literacy-instruction platform that fosters literacy achievement using interactive features, eReading, and fun assessments.
baca seterusnya ↓↑ menyembunyikan↑ menyembunyikanNegara Organisasi
United States, MI, Ann Arbor, Washtenaw County
Negara tempat organisasi ini menciptakan dampak sosial
United States, MI, Detroit, Wayne County
Apakah organisasi Anda adalah:
Hybrid
Informasi yang Anda berikan di sini akan digunakan untuk mengisi bagian mana pun dari profil Anda yang masih kosong, seperti minat, informasi organisasi, dan situs web. Tidak ada informasi kontak yang akan ditampilkan untuk publik. Hapus centang di sini jika Anda tidak menghendakinya..
baca seterusnya↓↑ menyembunyikan↑ menyembunyikanPilih tahap yang paling sesuai untuk solusi Anda:
Pertumbuhan (eksperimen Anda sudah dijalankan, dan mulai dikembangkan)
What problem is your organization committed to solving? In particular, share what is innovative about your approach.
Qlovi is committed to boosting the low levels of student reading proficiency in the US. 75% of US students lack full literacy proficiency—low income and student of color communities are disproportionately affected. Literacy instruction presents challenges and opportunities unmet by existing instruction and education technology. As literacy lags, achievement and competitiveness suffer.Qlovi is a literacy-instruction platform that fosters literacy achievement using interactive features, eReading, and fun assessments.
What are your organization's top three priorities in the next year?
1) To create a digital marketing campaign to reach parents and educators concerned with literacy achievement. We wish to develop a targeted campaign that convert impressions into subscriptions for our platform.
2) To expand to school districts nationally
3) To expand our content offering and become a known digital distribution channel for self published or traditionally published titles for kids, YA, and educational communities.
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 want to start a digital marketing campaign in order to solicit online reading materials from authors. We think that this would be a great way to obtain more engaging content for students but at the same time allow us to reach more authors instead of going through publishing companies.
Will support from American Express be focused on your organization overall or a specific product/service? Please describe.
We anticipate that support from American Express will be for two focused objectives. Our first objective is parent/teacher customer acquisition. Our second objective is hinged on developing a web/brand identity related to trust and digital distribution. We are looking to expand our operations nationally so that school districts and parents can more easily foster literacy in classrooms or homes.
Have you focused on the above area previously? If so, please explain, including whether you have worked with outside consultants before.
We have not since we are wrapping up product development and a study of our initial pilot. We have not worked with outside consultants before.
Are you able to commit 3-5 hours/wk over 10-12 weeks?
Yes
Are you able to meet virtually or at a convenient in-person location?
Yes
Are you able to meet in the city where your organization is based?
Yes
1.
Develop and craft sustainable digital marketing strategy (channels, acquisition cost, pricing by source, etc)
2.
Hone and sharpen targeted messaging related to marketing campaign objectives
3.
Imbue American Express skills into our team DNA. Successfully carry out a dedicated partnership.
What has been the impact of your solution to date?
Our first wave of impact is already underway. 8000 students across the 15 lowest performing schools in Detroit use Qlovi to foster literacy and meet daily reading goals. Students login to Qlovi for an average of 20 minutes per session. And weekly average users are totally at least 2000. The schools we are working with have experienced academic growth larger than existed before Qlovi was in place. A closer dissection of usage and academic achievement is under way.
What is your project future impact after receiving professional support from American Express?
With the help of American Express, our team will seamlessly incorporate digital marketing skills across our organization. We admire the dedicated example and digital track record of American Express and think of no better partner for this very focused exercise. Reaching more parents/students with good marketing will directly translate into higher literacy outcomes across high-need and targeted communities. We are ready for the challenge and partnership to begin.
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Created on 03/29/2013 by davidalevine
We are at a crisis point in education today. Many teachers and children are feeling disconnected, stressed out and unmotivated. The pressures brought on by the new mandated instructional practices from both Federal and State Departments of Education are felt by all members of the school community. There is a decrease in pro-social skills and an increase in anti-social behaviors. Most answers to this problem focus on programming. My approach focuses on building a new consciousness within the school community.
baca seterusnya ↓↑ menyembunyikan↑ menyembunyikanNegara Organisasi
United States, NY, Accord, Ulster County
Negara tempat organisasi ini menciptakan dampak sosial
United States, NY, New York, New York County
Apakah organisasi Anda adalah:
Hybrid
Informasi yang Anda berikan di sini akan digunakan untuk mengisi bagian mana pun dari profil Anda yang masih kosong, seperti minat, informasi organisasi, dan situs web. Tidak ada informasi kontak yang akan ditampilkan untuk publik. Hapus centang di sini jika Anda tidak menghendakinya..
baca seterusnya↓↑ menyembunyikan↑ menyembunyikanName Your Entry
The School of Belonging Learning Institute
Pilih tahap yang paling sesuai untuk solusi Anda:
Penyekalaan (langkah selanjutnya adalah menumbuhkan dampak pada skala regional atau bahkan global)
What problem is your organization committed to solving? In particular, share what is innovative about your approach.
We are at a crisis point in education today. Many teachers and children are feeling disconnected, stressed out and unmotivated. The pressures brought on by the new mandated instructional practices from both Federal and State Departments of Education are felt by all members of the school community. There is a decrease in pro-social skills and an increase in anti-social behaviors. Most answers to this problem focus on programming. My approach focuses on building a new consciousness within the school community. This consciousness is based on creating an authentic learning environment through open and often vulnerable communication that emphasizes compassion, empathy, collaboration and problem solving. My work focuses on facilitating emotional safety for all members of the school community.
What are your organization's top three priorities in the next year?
1. Complete, publish and market The School of Belonging Learning Institute's newest resource: The School of Belonging: Empathy in Practice (in process).
2. Implement The School of Belonging Learning Institute with three unique learning communities: New Directions Alternative Secondary School in the Bronx, NY, Hunter College Magnet School (grades k-12), in Manhattan, NY, and with Beacon Secondary School (grades 6-12), in Beacon, NY.
3. Run four School of Belonging Learning Institute training sessions at the Fellowship for Reconciliation training site in Nyack, NY. Schools from New York City and the New York metropolitan area will be invited to take part. This will be followed up with a 5 day School of Belonging Certification Program in the summer, 2014 at the Omega Institute in Rhinebeck, NY.
Need #1
Message & Brand Strategy
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!
The School of Belonging Learning Institute (SBLI), has evolved over the past 30 years into a unique and innovative culture building process. Institute creator David A. Levine has created authentic learning experiences which facilitate self-reflection and behavior change through his music, cutting edge books, meaningful dialogue, applied skills, and classroom demonstrations. The SBLI process has consistently created systemic transformational learning which has proven to be life changing for many teachers, leaders, children and parents. David wants SBLI to be a robust process that will make significant social change in our schools and communities. In the past year, he has established relationships with several foundations who are devoted to social and emotional learning and he is currently negotiating with school districts from a variety of socio-economic realms. As creator of SBLI, David needs help in branding his vision and marketing his work in such a way that schools from all over the world, who are in need of creating caring and empathic learning communities, will want to implement The School of Belonging Learning Institute for their teachers and students .
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Open commuication through dialogue and non-judgment.
2.
A belief in the creative potential of synergizing ideas.
3.
Regular check-ins, celebration and authentic feedback.
Will support from American Express be focused on your organization overall or a specific product/service? Please describe.
I would like support in my organization overall. I have been working on my own since 1992. After meeting several colleagues through Ashoka, I realized that I needed to scale up my work to make a greater difference in the world. Creativity, passion and belief do not always equal a sound business plan and that is what I need assistance with. In the past few weeks, I have been approached by three different school districts looking to establish a long-range working relationship with The SBLI process, and I now see the need to refine my focus on marketing, capacity building. and service delivery.
Have you focused on the above area previously? If so, please explain, including whether you have worked with outside consultants before.
I have always worked on my own, often thriving with minimal marketing or a strategic plan. Whenever I thought of scaling up, I wasn't sure how to do it as my work was so uniquely connected to my personality and expression. Last October while speaking with the Novo Foundation about social and emotional learning, I was told me how much in alignment they were with me but that I needed to move my work from being "boutiquey" to being "robust". This wasn't exactly a business consultation but it did help change my thinking in terms of what was needed to scale up The School of Belonging process.
Are you able to commit 3-5 hours/wk over 10-12 weeks?
Yes
Are you able to meet virtually or at a convenient in-person location?
Yes
Are you able to meet in the city where your organization is based?
Yes
1.
To create an educational framework devoted to enhancing the uniqueness of student expression to the world.
2.
To equip young people to be socially conscious as they make their professional mark on the world.
3.
To establish on-going community of practice teams for educators around the globe focused on authentic SEL initiatives.
What has been the impact of your solution to date?
Since 1992, David A. Levine has developed and implemented School of Belonging concepts in app. 400 schools, impacting 10,000 teachers and 52,000 youth. He has worked with students, teachers, principals, parents and central administrators, running workshops and teaching classes on building classroom communities, creating emotionally safe schools, ,and working effectively in teams. The greatest successes have been demonstrated by teachers taking David's ideas, modifying them to match their own teaching styles and the unique needs of their students, and integrating School of Belonging practices into their classrooms. David's work has influenced teachers, leaders and policy makers across the United States, in Guam, New Zealand, India, and Canada. Many pre-service programs use David's books.
What is your project future impact after receiving professional support from American Express?
The School of Belonging Learning Institute will become a known entity in the United States and beyond, establishing a further reaching voice, influence and impact in creating schools that truly meet the social and emotional learning needs of their students. The changes that will come about from infusing School of Belonging principles into a school's cultural practices, will have a profound effect on the future well-being and life success of our most critical sustainable resource: our children. Over the next three years, in addition to the US, SBLI will have a presence in New Zealand, England, Canada and Australia, helping to make schools places where children learn the life skills of empathy, compassion, problem solving, collaboration, self-reflection, and leadership.
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Created on 03/29/2013 by Linda Katz
Unlike children from more affluent communities, children who live in low-income neighborhoods don't have much access or exposure to a wide variety of professionals. Therefore, they have a limited vision of the careers towards which they can strive. This career day program seeks to change that by helping such children, at an early age, identify what they love to do and explore careers that reflect their passions. Students have an individual interview yearly, during which they tap into their interests, learn about 40-50 careers, and then choose two careers to learn about for Career Day.
baca seterusnya ↓↑ menyembunyikan↑ menyembunyikanNama Organisasi
Light My Way ~ Career Day
Negara Organisasi
United States, NY, New York City, New York County
Negara tempat organisasi ini menciptakan dampak sosial
United States, NY, Bronx, New York, Bronx County
Apakah organisasi Anda adalah:
a. Nirlaba
Informasi yang Anda berikan di sini akan digunakan untuk mengisi bagian mana pun dari profil Anda yang masih kosong, seperti minat, informasi organisasi, dan situs web. Tidak ada informasi kontak yang akan ditampilkan untuk publik. Hapus centang di sini jika Anda tidak menghendakinya..
baca seterusnya↓↑ menyembunyikan↑ menyembunyikanName Your Entry
Light My Way ~ Career Day
Pilih tahap yang paling sesuai untuk solusi Anda:
Pertumbuhan (eksperimen Anda sudah dijalankan, dan mulai dikembangkan)
What problem is your organization committed to solving? In particular, share what is innovative about your approach.
Unlike children from more affluent communities, children who live in low-income neighborhoods don't have much access or exposure to a wide variety of professionals. Therefore, they have a limited vision of the careers towards which they can strive. This career day program seeks to change that by helping such children, at an early age, identify what they love to do and explore careers that reflect their passions. Students have an individual interview yearly, during which they tap into their interests, learn about 40-50 careers, and then choose two careers to learn about for Career Day. By 5th grade, each student has had 7 interviews and met 14 of these role models, experiences which will be invaluable to them as they make choices in their adult lives.
What are your organization's top three priorities in the next year?
Business Plan
Creation of Accountability and Evaluation tools
Replication of the program in other schools.
Need #1
Peer Benchmarking Analysis
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!
Need #1. I need to develop tools to evaluate the effectiveness of the program short-term and longitudinally. My research on the web cannot find a single child-centered program geared to the individual elementary school student. Consequently, I have no standard, accepted tools of measurement for comparison. I need to build measurement standards, not just for accountability to funders, but because the feedback will help me to build in a continuous process of improved effectiveness. #2. I have chosen to serve a NYC public school in the poorest Congressional district in the country. The children's education is compromised, as school staff, students and their families feel pressure to test well in order to give the school a good performance grade to avoid being shut down. The pressure to meet immediate testing needs deters administrators from investing their limited time on extra non-academic programs such as mine, that focus on long-term career goals.We need a strategy to become more effective in working within this stressed educational system and in getting administrators and teachers to “buy in” to the notion that our program can be complementary to their mission.
3.
Empowering individuals through the finding and recognition of their strengths.
Will support from American Express be focused on your organization overall or a specific product/service? Please describe.
I will need overall help in the following areas but can choose just one to focus on during the internship. I would like help with any one of the following areas: the creation of a business plan, create accountability measures, the replication of our program to another school and with fund raising.
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 on any of the above areas (except for creating accountability measures) with an objective outside consultant. I met with a researcher for a year the first year we were up and running in 2009, but was not convinced that he had a clear understanding of the programs objectives.
Are you able to commit 3-5 hours/wk over 10-12 weeks?
Yes
Are you able to meet virtually or at a convenient in-person location?
Yes
Are you able to meet in the city where your organization is based?
Yes
1.
Students will have access to community role models who discuss the discovery of and educational path towards their career.
2.
Students will use the skills they learned from the program to make informed and meaningful career choices as adults.
3.
Replication of the program in other schools to create a national program.
What has been the impact of your solution to date?
1.) A large number of students report in post career day interviews that they can see themselves having the career they learned about on Career Day. Students are overwhelmingly enthusiastic about attending career day and love being interviewed. The Principal said it is their favorite day of the school year. 2.) Children often come to the interview with preconceived notions about the careers they would like to learn about but once they have tapped into their talents and passions and learn about a wide variety of careers, their choices often change. We have not seen the long term effects of the interview process but would like to create a longitudinal measure of the effectiveness of our intervention/interview. 3.) I have not begun working on a solution as of yet.
What is your project future impact after receiving professional support from American Express?
I am hoping that the consultations will help me to see if the post career day interview is a good measure of the effectiveness of the program. I am hoping that I can secure an effective strategy to work with very stressed clients, (the NYC public schools) to facilitate a greater collaboration in my present school and in future schools.
This Entry is about (Issues)
Created on 03/28/2013 by kaitlynchen
Providing healthy meals to students with easy to understand nutrition information and right portion size.
baca seterusnya ↓↑ menyembunyikan↑ menyembunyikanNegara Organisasi
United States, CT, New Fairfield
Negara tempat organisasi ini menciptakan dampak sosial
Apakah organisasi Anda adalah:
tidak ditentukan
Berapa lama organisasi Anda telah beroperasi?
Beroperasi kurang dari satu tahun
Informasi yang Anda berikan di sini akan digunakan untuk mengisi bagian mana pun dari profil Anda yang masih kosong, seperti minat, informasi organisasi, dan situs web. Tidak ada informasi kontak yang akan ditampilkan untuk publik. Hapus centang di sini jika Anda tidak menghendakinya..
baca seterusnya↓↑ menyembunyikan↑ menyembunyikanPilih tahap yang paling sesuai untuk solusi Anda:
Ide (yang Anda yakini layak diluncurkan)
This Entry is about (Issues)
Summary: What specific issue or problem does your Venture address?
Why we have growing childhood obesity rate? Why we have flooded information available and we still unable to tackle the issue? How we can develop a healthy life style at early age? I have a solution!
Eating right in school. Meaning, not only should our school's food not have, for example, Trans fat, but also be of quality; furthermore, students can pick their own portion size that's right to them. As of now, the food served in public school cafeterias have limited selection, few freshly made options, no choice of portion size, and no nutrition information disclosed. We have the desire to be fit and healthy, but do we have the platform?
Misson Statement: What will your venture do?
To let kids understand the right food they should be eating, and the quality and effort that goes into making real, quality, and worth food. To be able to pick portions that support their life style.
The Model: Walk us through a specific example of how your solution makes a difference; include your primary activities
Having a group of kids (early adaptors) to help, and try different catering/food providers that can give my students a healthy and beneficial meal every day. By actually going through, and looking at what these companies are putting into their food; why they are serving it; and where they get it from can make students more conscious about food they are eating. Having students be part of the decision making process in selecting and providing feedback to cafeteria service, they will be advocate of “new” cafeteria food and influence a greater population of students more so than teachers can!
To change the food serving model to give students/teachers choices of foods, portion, and pay for the portion. Having more freshly (less processed) made food, more variety so students can pick their own food combination, and amount they’d like to eat; along with clear nutrient/calorie information so students can make informed decision about what they eat. In the long run, this will help them develop a good habit of eating healthy and right portion.
The Community: Define your community, local or international, that you will work on behalf of. What population is affected? Are there other organizations working in this space?
Definitley a very small town that I live in as a pilot. But, I want to see how far this project goes, and see how and what other schools are eating. Is it better or worse? Expanding it into other districts, regional and national. And maybe launch my own food producing company to provide for kids, all around the world, with healthy food.
Founding Story: What inspired your venture? Why?
End of the day, tired, and hungry, very hungry. My friend and I got to the lunch stand that was seriving up sandwiches, that you could make yourself. YUM, right? So, my friend first, and she asked the lady for some roast beef. Story cut short, she whispers to my friend to not get the roast beef because it's old. YOU ARE KIDDING ME! Old roast beef, and I can bet that my friend wasn't the first one who tried to order roast beef, but was lucky enough to actually get warned.
It really inspired me because when I realize that the food being served in my cafeteria is like this, then I really need to make a change. Just for the students in my school to realize and understand that we can't let hunger change our instincts of what real, hardy food is. In addtion, at this age: we have strong desire to be good and fit, but feel so powerless with what's available. Lastly, more and more kids are from both parents working families, we rely more on school cafeteria.
What is your long-term vision for your Venture?
Going world wide! I think it will take long, but I am excited to maybe have my own food producers in foreign countries to help kids and shelters provide healthy food.
Define your company, program, service, or product in 1-2 short sentences
Providing healthy meals to students with easy to understand nutrition information and right portion size.
baca seterusnya↓↑ menyembunyikan↑ menyembunyikanWhat do you want to accomplish in your first year?
Get a group of kids to help me and encourage my venture. Get school support. Help out at local shelters, and see what companies are out there that serve healthy food. And to make a change in my school's cafeteria food, quality, variety, and self-picked portion size.
Winning entries present a strong plan for how they will achieve and track growth. Identify your six-month milestone for growing your impact
Tugas 1
Get a group of helpers (student council, clubs) to encourage my venture.
Tugas 2
Build alliances from school administration, existing providers. Create Pro-forma financial projection.
Tugas 3
Request For Proposal to vet out winners that can provide healthy food at lower cost.
Now think bigger! Identify your 12-month impact milestone
Tugas 1
Formalize the venture into an organization; create board of directors who can guide us growing the venture.
Tugas 2
Expand the model to other schools.
Tugas 3
Present the model to State Senate to drive a sustained change.
baca seterusnya↓↑ menyembunyikan↑ menyembunyikanHow will your Venture define success in the short term (1-12 months)?
Positive feedback within school. Drive for a change in food serving model. Revenue increase, volume increase, and attract more attention on my topic. Attract more people to understand and be involved in my venture.
In the long-term (1 year?)
Promote this venture into other schools(market growth) and being adapted by other places, not only schools.
How will you measure success?
The amount of people interested and involved in my venture shows me that people are aware of my cause and my reasons. And they too, can help me make a change.
Why?
It shows me that people understand and can relate to my feeling and my venture.
