Addressing mental health can be a difficult challenge. Luckily, our Changemakers community has responded by presenting groundbreaking innovations to keep every individual healthy and strong. These winners were selected by the online community as two of the best solutions in improving mental wellbeing.
A Simple Approach to Family Health
Preventative mental health care is now more accessible thanks to the Family Coaching Clinics. Winner of the Disruptive Innovations in Health and Health Care: Solutions People Want competition, Family Coaching Clinics offers a series of targeted coaching sessions to help families craft a more individualized approach to mental support, allowing children to make healthy transitions from infancy to adolescence.
By positioning clinics in shopping malls, mental health care needs are placed at the forefront, de-stigmatizing mental health and putting early intervention, treatment and education within reach.
Gaming for Life
It’s tough being a teen, but there’s a new online game that helps young adults cope with life’s challenges. Very few young people receive proper guidance and support, leaving them to turn to the internet for answers.
Reach Out! Central, winner of the Why Games Matter: A Prescription for Improving Health and Health Care competition, was developed as an interactive and therapeutic learning tool to encourage young people ages 16 to 25 to deal with issues such as depression and anxiety by working through real-life scenarios.
Reach Out! Central’s simulated reality gaming follows a flexible storyline that allows users to interact with friends and family, track their mood, and stay on top of their progress.
Looking for more solutions? Check out new innovations as they’re entered in the Rethinking Mental Health: Improving Community Wellbeing competition.
Tiyatien Health, a winner in the Rethinking Mental Health competition, is treating the effects of decades of brutal war in Liberia by training non-doctor health workers and clinicians to work directly with citizens of one of the poorest countries on Earth. The founders are survivors of Liberia's civil war and people living with HIV/AIDS.
Tiyatien Health trained the first non-physicians to administer anti-retroviral therapy in Liberia,and provided the first-ever HIV/AIDS treatments in southeastern Liberia, the poorest corner of the country. Now it is expanding beyond providing public HIV/AIDS treatment to rural communities by working to reverse decades of untreated depression and epilepsy.
Women at Lotus House are extremely low-income and largely minority. 78% have a mental illness with 81% having been victims of some form of trauma. Via evidence-based, trauma-informed counseling, women and children can heal and build resiliency, breaking a cycle of violence and homelessness.
This project also has a Changeshop where you can read more about its latest progress.
Go to Changeshop: PeaceMeals.
Created on 05/2/2013 by PeaceMeals
Trauma robs the body of nutrients & vitality. PeaceMeals gathers individuals in the aftermath of trauma in the kitchen & around the table for authentic support & nutritional healing. It empowers survivors through creative, cathartic cooking lessons, community building, & nutritionally tailored meals
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Apakah organisasi Anda adalah:
Hybrid
Has the organization received awards or honors? Please tell us about them
The success and impact of PeaceMeals was formally recognized by the Andi Foundation when PeaceMeals Founder and Director Cath Skroch was awarded the 2012 prize for “Ordinary Women Doing Extraordinary Things.” Cath had been nominated by Sarah Holewinski, the Executive Director for the Center for Civilians in Conflict in Washington DC. Cath was honored alongside four other extraordinary women from around the globe for her contribution to the field of peace building and rehabilitation through PeaceMeals.
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Growth (the pilot has already launched and is starting to expand)
This Entry is about (Issues)
Elevator Pitch
Trauma robs the body of nutrients & vitality. PeaceMeals gathers individuals in the aftermath of trauma in the kitchen & around the table for authentic support & nutritional healing. It empowers survivors through creative, cathartic cooking lessons, community building, & nutritionally tailored meals
Problem
Loss, conflict, disaster, rape, abuse, and daily stress: no one can fully insulate themselves from trauma. It depletes the brain and body of nutrients and robs us of vitality. Only when survivors regain optimum nutrient levels can they restore mental and physical well being. It is a social problem to be addressed on an individual and community basis, so we need innovative, holistic methods of healing in order to live up to our full potential.
Solution
PeaceMeals is a new paradigm for healing. It works through creative and cathartic cuisine and community. Survivors take recovery into their own hands by reconnecting with the foods, places, and people that nourish both bodies and minds. PeaceMeals gathers groups of individuals who have been through similar situations for cooking classes and dinner parties. But there's a twist: each dish is nutritionally tailored to address certain post-trauma symptoms including depression, anxiety, and fatigue. With some guidance, groups lead conversation at dinner according to their needs, and grow organic and authentic support networks around the table. The program now includes diverse groups who rely on each other beyond the Meal - and reuse the recipes!
Example
Fatim’s mother died just one year ago. Living in a traditional Arab society, she learned to put on a brave face and became the mother in her family at age 22. At first Fatim was wary that the PeaceMeal would be another group therapy session where everyone was expected to spill their guts to strangers. To Fatim’s surprise, the focus was not on her trauma but on learning to cook healthy recipes using locally-sourced ingredients. Gathered in a home, the group of women learned which foods are useful when feeling tired, anxious, or sad. Slowly the conversation shifted to coping strategies when missing those who no longer share our tables. Each person who had formerly been a stranger became Fatim’s mentor, counselor, co-chef, and friend.
Impact
To date, 90 people have participated in at least one of 11 PeaceMeals groups. 69.8% of participants report reusing the curriculum afterwards. On a scale of 1 (Did not create/deepen any relationships) to 5 (Created many new/deep relationships) the average rating is a 3.5. PM projects to have at least 10 more self-sustaining groups throughout the world within the next year. PM's impact was recognized by the Andi Foundation’s 2012 prize for 'Ordinary Women Doing Extraordinary Things'. PM is successful when people experience meaningful and sustained physical, mental, and social improvement. PM has wide impact: once someone joins, they can replicate skills at home and refer back to the curriculum for guidance on nourishing themselves, their families, and communities. They also make lasting friends who understand them on a deeper level than those you would meet at an average dinner party.
Marketplace
There are group therapies, nutritional supplements, diets, cooking classes & dinner parties. But never do these elements meet to support targeted populations. PeaceMeals pulls these into functional synergy in order to facilitate true healing. It fills in the nutrient gap in a creative, innovative, affordable way. PM's holistic program & curriculum are built on collaboration with professional counselors, nutritionists and chefs. It is not a diet program, a step-by-step recovery program, nor a culinary school. It is meant to complement, not compete with, individuals’ existing therapies.
Sustainability Plan
Currently admin, legal, & website fees are funded by personal savings & a small grant. Meals themselves are primarily covered by participants paying on a sliding scale depending on menu, number of participants, and ability to pay. Some groups even agree to sponsor a meal for others who can’t afford it. However, in order to innovate, scale, and export it to others, and to maintain ongoing admin fees, we must continually seek outside funding.
Founding Story
Growing up through coup d'etats in the Philippines, I learned how trauma could live inside the body. Later, working with survivors of conflict & torture, I saw the need for a holistic approach to healing. In America, I met others working through personal traumas without authentic support networks. Traumatized individuals often live in “crisis mode” without the ability to savor. My life is testimony to the healing power of food, for both physical and mental health. I love the creative process of cooking and feeding others like family. On one long bus ride, a friend made me write down all the reasons why I didn’t think PeaceMeals would work, then write what I would need to address each reason. That day, PeaceMeals became reality.
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, 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?
PeaceMeals facilitates human wellness & vitality through nourishing foods and creative, cathartic dinner parties. The curriculum combines the science of nutritional healing & the philosophy of group therapy. With greater capacity, the program could also incorporate healthy environments. We could set up PM spaces– gardens, kitchens, and eventually homes– where participants could find solace & healing with others who have been through similar traumas. This would increase PM's quality & sustainability, as these environments could be training spaces for participants to facilitate their own PMs.
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People need appropriate nutrients to grow, learn, and fight off disease. How do you measure, track, or make use of information about nutrient levels in your own work?
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Considering the flow of nutrients from ecosystems to soil to farms to food to communities, what are the barriers to achieving vitality for people and the planet?
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In your view, what developments need to happen in order to help overcome those barriers and produce a more nutrient rich and vital public and planet?
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baca seterusnya ↓↑ menyembunyikan↑ menyembunyikanOrganization's Country of Operation
Type of Organization
Pilih
Year of launch of the organization
Has the organization received awards or honors? Please tell us about them
We want to hear about your “Aha!” moment. Share the story of where and when the founder(s) saw this solution’s potential to change the world.
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Busanti- Women Empowerment on Wheels!
Explain what the "innovation" is about, e.g., is it the idea and/or the model you use to accomplish the idea, or your understanding of the target population, etc.?
The idea is innovative because it represents the first ‘public health’ bus service for underserved
women in Pakistan and is committed to delivering:
• Safe and reliable transport (for women)
• Financial inclusion (the bus pass is equipped with mobile micropayments and
microsavings technology)
• The first health insurance plan in Pakistan for women working in the informal economy
By institutionalizing a safe, sustainable, alternate mode of transport to access both work and
quality primary, secondary and tertiary healthcare, Busanti will help relieve both the mental and
physical stress that is imposed on women who work in the informal economy.
Describe how your innovation model is distinct from any other organization in your field?
There have been other programs that were launched but had major issues of sustainability. Busanti is a sustainable model because it will charge the same fare that other buses on the road are charging yet offering women a safer and more dignified solution method to travel. The main distinction between Busanti and other buses on the road is:is
1. This Busanti is a safe/secure/reliable way to travel (innovation)
2. Busanti provides healthThis is education/awareness on wheels (innovation)
3. BusantiIt is a billboard on wheels which can promote progressive messaging around women’s empowerment (social innovation)
What type of operating environment and internal organizational factors make your innovation successful?
NAYA JEEVAN has a women-friendly work environment which is committed to positive social transformation for women in Pakistani society. A significant portion of our managers/leaders are women and we want to infect others with this positive spirit
How do you make sure you constantly innovate in light of (potential) external challenges, or your growth plan?
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]
Primary healthcare services
Categories along the health continuum you are covering [select all that apply]
Prevention, Detection, Long-term care, Social integration.
Please describe in more detail: what problem are you trying to solve in the organization's specific context?
Naya Jeevan is still a relatively new organization albeit part of a growing health insurance ecosystem in Pakistan. No other insurance entity caters to the lower income socioeconomic groups using a convergence, integrated innovation model. Naya Jeevan is targeting employees whose monthly incomes are under PKR 25,000/month (~less than $8/day) which includes a large population of informal workers – maids, babysitters, cooks, etc. On the path to sustainability, Naya Jeevan is also partnering with corporations to provide health insurance to their low income workers and supply chains. Busanti targets these segments as well as there are a significant number of female workers working in factories as well as in agriculture and retail.
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, New approaches to distribution of health products and services, Unconventional partnerships (between traditional healthcare players and players outside healthcare), New financing strategies for health.
Most relevant tools you are using to implement the strategies outlined above [select only two]
Technology, Education/training.
Please describe your solution in more detail
The solution is straight forward. We create awareness of women’s health issues among our targeted population and they become initiators of change within their communities. They become accelerators of the same idea. We provide for them with a safe environment where they can commute daily and earn a dignified living. We provide a solution around these womenagainst the social and cultural barriers that impede access to socioeconomic opportunities for women. By educatingWomen can be educated them about their legalon women rights, legislation such as women protection bills and tools of personal safety (e.g. pepper sprays) through via film/video montages and interactive workshops
What are your vision and overall objectives?
The goal of the program is to provide low-income women workers with safe, reliable public transport and increased capacity to create financial and social value for themselves and their families. In addition, this program seeks to facilitate women’s active participation society and the workforce, empowering women with information, resources and institutions acquire control over their lives and improve attitudes and behavior towards women.
Objective 1: Increase women’s empowerment by expanding their awareness of labor laws and opportunities to exercise their rights in the workplace, community, and home.
Objective 2: Combat Gender Based Violence (GBV) and/or intimidation/harassment that informal, low-income female workers are routinely subjected to on public transport and in the workplace
What is your value proposition?
Given the problems that women face in public transport, such as verbal abuse, groping, physical attacks... stalking- many women themselves feel uneasy and avoid travelling alone. We have taken 2 negatives, lack of access to healthcare & lack of access to safe transport, & created a positive in the form of Busanti. Busanti will be PK's first public health service for women. It will provide women a secure vehicle to get them to their destinations safely, all while providing them with access to education/awareness and resources on matters of health.
Who is your customer(s)?
Our primary customer are informal working women who are typically underpaid compared to their male counterparts, for the same job classification, in Pakistan ($1/day to $3.3/day). They are also often subjected to verbal/psychological harassment by their employers who exploit their vulnerable situation in economically challenging times. A majority of Pakistani women workers are unaware of their rights & hence, have not demanded that these rights be enforced. Awareness must by necessity precede change. Forming groups or UNIONS of working women who are made aware of their rights and labor laws will enable these women to collectively demand their rights.
What approaches to you use to reach your customers?
We will partner with corporations to raise awareness of this bus service through their marketing and distribution networks. We also expect media (TV/radio/print) to spotlight this initiative.
What are your primary activities?
All participating women will be trained in life skills including:
• Stress/time management
• Work-life balance
• Personal hygiene/sanitation
• Environmental hygiene
• Negotiation skills
In addition, women workers will be exposed to the following legal training modules including:
• Personal Safety in the workplace
• Protection Against Workplace Harassment (2010 act)
• Protection of Women Act (2006)
• Constitutional Labor Rights
Who are your peers and competitors? What problems could these players pose to your success or growth?
Busanti is an initiator in this field, hence, competition is out of the question. There are other private buses currently on the road, but they do not pose a threat at all, since women would be more than willing to switch buses because of the obvious advantages of Busanti over the rest.
Daewoo is another good quality bus service, although it does not run within the cities, they are competitors to trains and flights that run nationwide.
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?
One of the major challenges is to handle the cashflow, the price that the average buses are charging is enough to cover the fuel of the buses but not enough to cover the cost of the trainings being held. Hence, the business innovation will come in handy, where corporates will BRAND a BUS for a limited time period, which will turn the bus into a moving billboard; a type of outdoor media that doesn’t exist in Pakistan right now. This innovation gives some breathing space to cover other costs.
Another challenge might be gangs/criminals that might want be tempted by a bus full of women. For such people we will employ guards in the buses. Safety is a priority.
Briefly describe your growth strategy going forward
Creating awareness for the cause
Creating a curriculum to be followed (workshop/education on wheels)
Living up to the promise
What dimensions for growth are you currently targeting for your innovation [select all that apply]
What makes your business "ready" for growth?
A similar project was launched which was wrapped up within months. Women enrolled promptly although they were let down because the bus started taking everyone on board to cover their costs. Busanti is a sustainable model; BRAND your BUS, is an alternate revenue source that will keep it afloat
What are your key growth objectives?
Indicators:
• 50% reduction in incidence of gender-associated harassment/violence
• 100 course enrollments/month
• 100% awareness among those women who travel in Busanti
What is your timeframe for growth, in the short and mid-term? What are the growth milestones and key activities going forward?
The next 3 steps to develop this idea include:
(i) Develop a mobile software application that will enable customers the ability to purchase a monthly Busanti Pass/open a mobile money account
(ii) Test the utilization of the bus pass technology in a prototype ‘Busanti’ bus.
(iii) Design and develop the ‘women’s health' modules that will be displayed via video in the
bus
June 2013 – September 2013: Mapping Study with Data Analysis
July 2013 – August 2013: Focus Groups along with gender sensitization training and capacity-building of project staff
September 2013 –April 2014: Pilot project: Four 1-week training modules x 8 months
May 2014-June 2014: Collection and Analysis of Employee Feedback
baca seterusnya↓↑ menyembunyikan↑ menyembunyikanWhat has been the impact of your solution to date?
NAYA JEEVAN has achieved the following results thus far:
23,000+ low income members enrolled in corporate, NGO and community Health plans across 100+ organizations in Pakistan
5000+ medical consultations conducted by phone
3000+ Health risk assessments and 500+ hospital admissions averted In addition to this, we have measured the following:
Evidence of User Satisfaction
*In 2010, the client organization renewal rate was 82%. The beneficiary renewal rate was 79%.
*In 2011, the customer renewal ratio was 95 %, indicating high user satisfaction with the product.
*Naya Jeevan achieved a growth ratio of 582% in 2010 and 630% in 2011.
Improvements in Efficiency
* Naya Jeevan's operating cost/life impacted has decreased from US$8/life impacted in 2010 to US$6/life impacted in 2011; and should continue to do so due to increased resource optimization
And increased number of beneficiaries/economies of scale.
What methods for quantification of social impact are you applying (if at all)?
Employee Feedback surveys will be conducted within 4 weeks of training completion to assess satisfaction with training
Outputs:
• Number of Women Workers completing legal training program
• Number of Harassment/Violence incidents self-reported by women workers completing legal awareness training program compared to other factory-based women workers
Indicators:
• 50% reduction in incidence of gender-associated harassment/violence
• 100 course enrollments/month
Could your solution work in other geographies or regions? If so, where?
More than half of Pakistanis are women, and a high percentage of SEC C and below have working women, this would mean that Busanti will be successful all over Pakistan, wherever slums, urban slums are found. This would include (put percentage of population) of the total population to be our target market.
Apart from Pakistan, in India the recent and fatal rape case is evident of the fact that Busantis are needed there more than ever. Also the population of India and Pakistan are similar. Other South Asian countries might also be in favour of the launch of Busanti in their countries.
What is your projected impact over the next 1-3 years?
We anticipate that working women’s awareness of rights and labor laws will increase by 50% in the target population over 12 months. We expect that industrial working women will become more facile with mobile banking and financial services that they will be provided. Equipped with improved life skills and knowledge, we expect that these factory/industry-based workers will be treated with far more dignity and respect by their employers and will actually enjoy going to work, demonstrated by a 20% increase in their attendance rate.
baca seterusnya↓↑ menyembunyikan↑ menyembunyikanElaborate on your current financing strategy
Share of revenue generation in total income of organization (in percent)
Direct sales to patients or other beneficiaries (in percent)
Of the possible sources of these sales listed below, check all that apply to your current strategy
Licensing fees, e.g., for technology/franchise model (in percent)
Of the possible sources of these licensing opportunities listed below, check all that apply to your current strategy
Service contract with organizations, e.g., government, NGOs (in percent)
Of the possible sources of the service contracts listed below, check all that apply to your current strategy
Explain your revenue generation strategy in more detail
Share of philanthropy in total income of organization (in percent)
Philanthrophy strategies you are using
Diversified strategy.
Explain your philanthropic approach in more detail
Income: List existing income sources for this project
• Existing sources of funding (incl. other grants received and income generated by project): $150,000 (USAID,
Nestlé Prize in Creating Shared Value - Nomination Form Page 12 of 13
Grand Challenges Canada)
• Organisation’s own contribution (cash or in-kind):
Total income: $150,000
Expand on your selections; explain how you will sustain funding over the next 1-3 years.
Created on 04/9/2013 by Handle My Health
Handle My Health is a patient centred intelligence platform. Accessible through all modern forms of communication, Handle My Health aims to help services users manage their health and wellbeing through innovative, realtime data reporting, for self empowerment and greater levels of personalised care.
baca seterusnya ↓↑ menyembunyikan↑ menyembunyikanNegara Organisasi
United Kingdom, CAM, Cambridge
Organization's Country of Operation
Type of Organization
Bisnis
Year of launch of the organization
Years in Operation
Beroperasi kurang dari satu tahun
Has the organization received awards or honors? Please tell us about them
Yes, we have secured NHS Medicines Management Phase I funding and beaten over 500 in the application process.
In August 2012, we reached the final 4 stage of Seedcamp London 2012.
In November 2012, we beat over 1000 European companies with turnovers in excess of $2million to win the Medicines Adherence Category.
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.
After exiting his previous business intel company in 2011, Jack realised that big data has the power to change people's lives for the better. In combination with their historic patient record, Jack realised that realtime health reporting could combine this dataset and provide a means of early intervention for patients, greater self empowerment and therefore improved health outcomes,
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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 MIAMI platform combines historic patient records with realtime data reporting, based on patient adherence and quality of life reporting, to improve health outcomes. This is done through realtime data feeds for the patient and the HCP network, to review risk of relapse, complications, adherence rates, treatment efficacy and adverse drug reactions. The data is analysed automatically by MIAMI and HCPs can intervene earlier based on MIAMI data and patient engagement, as the patient will be able to use the data sets (displayed in graphical, easy to digest and navigate formats) to understand and manage their condition more effectively and be placed on the most effective treatment regime.
Handle My Health MIAMI is available on any comms device. It is accessible via the web, smartphones, tablets and basic mobiles. SMS and email reminders are sent, whilst also acting as a means for patients to push data into MIAMI.
Patients have been engaged in every step of the development and implementation, via focus groups including HCPs. They have informed a number of key features, ie - the automated population of patient clinical information, including their medication, dose, frequency and volume, This also helps overcome the health literacy issues surrounding adherence and wellbeing of patients.
Early oncology trials of HMH MIAMI show a 70% increased compliance rate amongst 1,250 patients over 3 months, 34% of ADR reports and 12% changing treatment regimes (improved outcomes) and up 30% spend reduction on medicines wastage and operational efficiencies within the NHS partners.
Describe how your innovation model is distinct from any other organization in your field?
There are a number of other organisations that focus on pure adherence, or pure quality of life, or even pure data. No other company combines adherence, quality of life, realtime data reporting and analytics like we do.
Our innovation model is based upon delivering a holistic level of care for the patient, from the discovery phase, through until they have come to terms with their condition and are able to manage it effectively themselves and they can then become mentors for those who are newly diagnosed.
Furthermore, the Handle My Health MIAMI platform has been built to act as a platform, ie, developers can plugin front end modules into our infrastructure and leverage our security protocols and our experience in integrating with third party electronic health record providers.
What type of operating environment and internal organizational factors make your innovation successful?
Our innovation is a success because it bridges the gap between mental and physical health, whilst also acting as a wellbeing management platform. We act as an interface for the patient between themselves and their very dull and complicated medical record. All the while providing additional services to enhance their clinical outcomes and wellbeing and making their illness and medications management easier and hassle free. Such services ensure that they feel empowered as patients, take control of their treatment and speak to their HCPs in open, honest and frank discussions.
How do you make sure you constantly innovate in light of (potential) external challenges, or your growth plan?
We constantly work with patients, HCPs and patient groups to hear their thoughts, in general or relating to our platform. In doing so, we take this feedback and brainstorming on board and try to meet the needs of the end user, whilst involving and engaging them in the process. This grassroots engagement is the most important factor in the success of any innovative platform or company.
The internal team at Handle My Health also have a set number of hours per week allocated to 'innovative' projects of their own, relating to the core of our business. So much so, that we are piloting wellbeing journal concepts, side effect platforms for patients, new artificial intelligence algorithms and intelligent data mining techniques, to ensure we deliver true innovation.
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]
Chronic care
Categories along the health continuum you are covering [select all that apply]
Prevention, Detection, Intervention, Follow-up, Long-term care.
Please describe in more detail: what problem are you trying to solve in the organization's specific context?
There are a number of problems the Handle My Health MIAMI platform solves. Below is a list of key problems MIAMI addresses:
Medicines wastage
Poor adherence to medication
Poor health literacy amongst patients
Revised purchasing models within healthcare systems globally
Late stage interventions and hospitalisation of chronically ill patients
Increasing hospital readmission rates
Dis-jointed care system, from the point of view that the majority of secondary care clinicians rarely consult the primary care clinician, etc
HCPs' reduction in time being spent with the patient
Increased cost in caring for patients with long term conditions
Increasing cost of care and increasing longevity of patients
Stage that best applies to your solution [select only one]
Start-up and growth (pilot is successful and starting to expand)
Core strategies of your business model [select all that apply]
Approaches to behavioral change at the individual level, Patient-centered design, Redesign of the public healthcare system for more efficiency (in terms of processes, structure etc.), New/redefined roles for healthcare service provision, New approaches to distribution of health products and services, New financing strategies for health.
Most relevant tools you are using to implement the strategies outlined above [select only two]
Technology, Consultation, Education/training.
Please describe your solution in more detail
MIAMI allows users to set themselves up online, pulling in as much information from previous datasets as possible, to minimise the amount of manual entry the user needs to do. The platform enables the user to scan their medication (if they are on any), or nutritional supplement via their webcam or smartphone (or enter it manually) and set reminders. The user can then answer internationally validated quality of life (QoL) questionnaires, focusing on how their mental, physical and relationship health and wellbeing are progressing and being managed, or being affected by their illness (if they have one). This information is combined with historic patient health records, to allow our machine learning algorithms to identify risk of complications or ill health occurring.
What are your vision and overall objectives?
Our vision is to help individuals discover they could have a illness, support them through diagnosis and help support the individual come to terms and manage their condition effectively, to reduce the impact of their condition on their health and wellbeing. This is done through the use of Handle My Health and it's peripheral services, to help with diagnosis, using validated clinical questionnaires and scales, whilst evaluating the information, providing the patient with the knowledge and information they need to understand this illness and methods of treatment and then allow them to have an open and consultative conversation with their healthcare professional (HCP).
With the team expanding in 2013, into Australia and Asia, the goal is provide a patient centred data intelligence service
What is your value proposition?
Handle My Health MIAMI is able to deliver increase patient engagement, reduced medicines wastage, increase operational efficiency and the end result is ultimately improved clinical outcomes.
The platform brings healthcare into the 21st century, embracing familiar technologies and hardware solutions, whilst joining up data silos, running intelligent analytics over this and providing the patient with relevant information, clinical resources and data reports for them to assess and manage their health and wellbeing more comprehensively and have productive consultations with their HCP network.
All the while, MIAMI provides the HCP network with the ability to intervene earlier, gain credits for using the validated QoL questionnaires, improve health outcomes and operational efficiency.
Who is your customer(s)?
Our customers are those who value intelligently mined data and business/market intelligence reports. These customers can be pharmaceutical companies, research groups, central government, hospitals and healthcare providers, pharmacists, contract research organisations and health insurers.
The platform is also licensed to large pharma, healthcare providers (payers) and pharmacists on a risk share basis. That being, the platform is customised to their needs and then Handle My Health only receive payment on increasing outcomes or pre-agreed criteria.
What approaches to you use to reach your customers?
We partner with commercial organisations to help increase their value proposition. These are pharma, hospitals, insurers, system providers or research groups. These partnerships ensure that we are able to leverage the partner contacts, networks and credibility to build our own, whilst providing them with an additional service and bolstering our own service offering. This method ensures that we are able to reach their entire user base, whilst also partnering with patient groups and not for profits to help them overcome the resource and service provision issues they face with budgetary restrictions. These partnerships allow us to reach their membership base as well as allowing them to deliver greater value to their users.
What are your primary activities?
Our primary activities are focused on patient empowerment, health education and risk management, all delivered through intelligently mined realtime and historic, patient centred data.
The internal team focuses on working with our clients to create new iterations of Handle My Health MIAMI and integrate it into their internal systems. Once this is done, we work with patient associations to market and improve outcomes, whilst working with institutional partners to design, conduct and write up randomised trials, proving the increased efficacy of treatment through using a service platform, such as Handle My Health. This provides us with a strong business case for creating further iterations and demonstrating RoI.
Who are your peers and competitors? What problems could these players pose to your success or growth?
Mango Health
Ginger.io
These companies are all North American and small companies, who have no large scale trials underway. They are currently focused purely on the user and not on the corporate commercialisation of their technology. They are currently taking different approaches to what we are working on and therefore, they are most likely heading in different directions. To that end, I would not see them as a direct threat in terms of technological innovation.
However, some older, more established system providers could become a threat should they want to diversify from their current expertise and branch out into patient centred data intelligence - something which is doubtful.
What other challenges - individual, organizational, or environmental – are you currently facing or might hinder future success of your business, and how do you plan to overcome those?
The main area of hinderance for us is the requirement for 3rd party system provider integration. We are reaching tipping point with this, whereby once they are secured, the hard work is done. This will then allow us to create the platform, whereby we allow 3rd party developers to leverage our platform for creating socially innovative apps and web services for enhancing the wellbeing of patients, globally.
Briefly describe your growth strategy going forward
Our growth plan is focused around proving our expertise and demonstrated improved clinical outcomes in key therapeutic areas. These are cardiovascular, cardiometabolic, mental health, oncology and immunology. We are nearing completion in proving improved clinical outcomes through using MIAMI in two of these. This strengthens our business case and a step by step expansion, having solid evidence.
What dimensions for growth are you currently targeting for your innovation [select all that apply]
New customer group(s), New regions(s), New market(s)/country(ies).
What makes your business "ready" for growth?
Handle My Health is ready for growth because we have a stable, proven intelligence platform. Our team have experience in developing overseas business and we are opening a regional office in Australia later this year to service the Asian business opportunities.
Using our development network, we are able to scale up quickly and accordingly.
What are your key growth objectives?
In order to achieve growth, we aim to secure partnerships with a number of healthcare providers, insurers and pharmaceutical companies in key areas of operation. This will enable us to start servicing the North American healthcare industry in parallel to that of Europe and Asia.
These partnerships will be collaborative and for low financial value, as it will be codevelopment for the large part
What is your timeframe for growth, in the short and mid-term? What are the growth milestones and key activities going forward?
Handle My Health aim to secure partnerships with North American institutions and those in Europe by the end of 2013. This will enable us to design and create pilot implementations and start to demonstrate genuine value in improving health outcomes in those regions. This in turn will create jobs in those regions and reduce the impact, economically and socially for the healthcare system and local communities effected by the illnesses.
The key milestones and activities focus mainly on service development and conducting the pilots to ensure we have credible, regional backing, for instance, we have UK credibility based on our oncology and mental health studies. We would aim to secure similar studies and therefore credibility in each region that we operate in.
baca seterusnya↓↑ menyembunyikan↑ menyembunyikanWhat has been the impact of your solution to date?
An early trial of the MIAMI platform with 1,250 cancer patients over 3 months, based on the web, has shown that 85% used the platform every day to report their adherence levels, whilst also documenting their quality of life. Furthermore, 70% reported an increase in their adherence rate, as this was benchmarked against their entry criteria into the trial, that they had to have been diagnosed for over 1 year and missed at least 2 doses of medication for the passed 2 months. Use of the platform increased this.
34% of the patients taking part in the study reported adverse drug reactions and 12% had their treatment regime changed to a more suitable one for them. Therefore, use of the platform has helped patients receive a personalised treatment and greater level of care, with over 92% saying they feel more empowered through using MIAMI and cost savings of 30% in medication spend per year for the provider, meaning they are able to focus funds on other patients in acute need.
The social impact is taken a step further too, by allowing the carers to report their wellbeing and the perceived wellbeing of their patient, meaning that through using Handle My Health MIAMI, the HCPs are able to detect how a carer is being affected by their patient's illness and condition and then act accordingly, as carers' often experience depressive episodes due to the strain of caring for a loved one. MIAMI is able to raise this strain with the HCPs, so they can be treated and a support plan put in place.
What methods for quantification of social impact are you applying (if at all)?
Our main quantification method is based on benchmarking the wellbeing of the patient and carer prior to using the platform. We then monitor their reporting on a regular basis and make direct comparisons between pre-usage and during usage metrics. From the financial perspective, we measure the financial expense in the clinical practise and estimated spend prior to MIAMI implementation and on an annual basis of the impact on the same metrics there after. This allows us to conduct a direct cost comparison and therefore, allowing us to demonstrate true RoI.
Could your solution work in other geographies or regions? If so, where?
Yes.
Handle My Health MIAMI is not constrained to geographical boundaries. There is also the potential for the solution working to increase adherence and quality of life rates in third world countries, Africa, South America and India.
The patient would simply need to be set up by their healthcare professional on their computer and reminders and quality of life input measures can be pushed back into the MIAMI platform by SMS only, allowing the HCP to measure their wellbeing and receive risk notifications through Handle My Health MIAMI directly.
We are opening up an office in Australia to service the Asia markets at the end of 2013.
What is your projected impact over the next 1-3 years?
The projected impact for Handle My Health MIAMI is to reach over 6 million people with chronic illnesses in the Europe over the next 1-3 years and the same amount per country we launch into throughout that timeframe.
In doing so, we estimate to reduce medication wastage by 15% on average across major chronic illness areas. These include cardiovascular illnesses, cardiometabolic (including TI & TII diabetes), depression, dementia and HIV/AIDs.
Our partners will include health insurers, pharmaceutical companies, healthcare providers (including the NHS) and patient associations.
baca seterusnya↓↑ menyembunyikan↑ menyembunyikanElaborate on your current financing strategy
The company is financially stable at present, due to early commercialisation of the product. However, there are discussions of fund raising in the next 12 months to help bolster the financial capabilities, allowing us to quickly expand into North America.
Current finance comes from the one off customisation fees with pharmaceutical companies and partnerships, whilst a sustainable recurring revenue stream comes from the monthly license fee, which sees recurring revenue for the next 36 months.
Share of revenue generation in total income of organization (in percent)
Direct sales to patients or other beneficiaries (in percent)
40% to corporate groups & 30% to payers
Of the possible sources of these sales listed below, check all that apply to your current strategy
Friends and family, Individu, Patients, Caregivers, Private businesses, Other beneficiaries.
Licensing fees, e.g., for technology/franchise model (in percent)
Licensing fees for the technology and one off customisation fee. Revenue also comes from data and report sales
Of the possible sources of these licensing opportunities listed below, check all that apply to your current strategy
Yayasan, LSM, Private businesses, Regional government, Pemerintah negara, Others.
Service contract with organizations, e.g., government, NGOs (in percent)
Of the possible sources of the service contracts listed below, check all that apply to your current strategy
Yayasan, LSM, Private businesses, Regional government, Pemerintah negara, Others.
Explain your revenue generation strategy in more detail
Revenue comes from a number of sources:
Customisation/Whitelabelling:
Clients pay for the customisation of the front of the Handle My Health MIAMI platform. This allows us to conduct design work internally and deploy illness and brand specific iterations of the platform and monetise this aspect of the business.
Licensing:
The platform is licensed on a per user per month basis, from decimal pences (0.01p) to single figure GBP per user per month, depending on the volume of users and therapy area.
Research and data intelligence:
Intel report generation - for pharma, CROs and health insurers - allowing us to pull historic patient records and combine with realtime data
Interventions:
Payment upon interventions in complication reduction and referrals to specialist care of patients
Share of philanthropy in total income of organization (in percent)
Philanthrophy strategies you are using
Explain your philanthropic approach in more detail
Handle My Health does not currently receive any philanthropic support. Our internal philanthropic objectives are to put aside a percentage of profit each financial year for supporting internally nominated community interest companies and charities in the UK, Europe and Globally.
Expand on your selections; explain how you will sustain funding over the next 1-3 years.
Our business model is currently and will continue to be sustainable, however, in order to achieve our objectives of expanding into Asia and North America with full force and rigor, we are looking to fundraise with angel networks and VCs over the next 12 months.
The current revenue model will be expanded over time, as we reposition ourselves to become a platform. This means that we will open up our backend infrastructure and partnerships with electronic health record providers, to ensure that third party developers can build web modules and smartphone apps on top of our platform, to help meet some niche needs of patients and enable widespread social innovation and patient support based on the Handle My Health MIAMI platform.
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 03/30/2013 by Beauty Night
Beauty Night is committed to reducing poverty for impoverished women. We do this by building self esteem and restoring dignity for impoverished women and youth. The women we serve:
1/3 seniors
1/3 moms & children
1/3 street youth & survival sex workers
We use beauty and wellness services to:
a) Build community to bring people together in celebration
b) Use Beauty Services to reintroduce healthy touch to women who have experienced violence
baca seterusnya ↓↑ menyembunyikan↑ menyembunyikanTitle
Founder & Executive Director
Negara tempat organisasi ini menciptakan dampak sosial
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:
Established (past the previous stages and has demonstrated success)
What problem is your organization committed to solving? In particular, share what is innovative about your approach.
Beauty Night is committed to reducing poverty for impoverished women. We do this by building self esteem and restoring dignity for impoverished women and youth. The women we serve:
1/3 seniors
1/3 moms & children
1/3 street youth & survival sex workers
We use beauty and wellness services to:
a) Build community to bring people together in celebration
b) Use Beauty Services to reintroduce healthy touch to women who have experienced violence
c) Through building hope and trust through our relationships with our participants, we hear their needs and wants. As they start to believe change is possible, we are able to connect them to our community partners. This enables them to access shelter, food and health care.
In 12 years, we've given 26, 000 makeovers. 200 women each week.
What are your organization's top three priorities in the next year?
1) Increasing the number of participants served from 200 each week to 250 (50 weeks each year)
2) Doing a program and volunteer management audit to improve our programs
3) Hire a program coordinator to implement recommendations from program and volunteer management audit.
Need #1
Digital Marketing Strategy
Need #2
Customer Relationships
Based on your first choice of the eight technical categories you selected above, what is your specific project need? Please be specific!
To assess our competitive position and and better evaluate its performance. This would be useful for analyzing why we have a strong community that people want to become engaged in yet but have difficulty asking for funding. We would use the information to adjust the information on our website and our marketing strategy. Currently we have a strong social media presence for an organization our size (Twitter 6200 followers and Facebook 1600+).
We would also like to improve customer communications with the participants we serve directly, our volunteers, supporters and on social media. The assessment would be beneficial for us to share with all of our stake holders (participants, volunteers, supporters, social media, corporate and community partners).
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Enthusiasm and dedication to the timeline milestones we set
2.
Creativity and innovation to approach challenges
Will support from American Express be focused on your organization overall or a specific product/service? Please describe.
The support from American Express will be focused on our Life Makeover Program. One of the challenges we face is fund raising. When people hear about our project, they want to become part of it. We have been incredibly successful providing value (serving 200 people each week on $44 845 last fiscal year). By being able to evaluate and shift our marketing to continue to engage and build our community we would like to be able to increase our financial resources as we build our human resources. This enables us to better serve our participants and increase our programming in different areas.
Have you focused on the above area previously? If so, please explain, including whether you have worked with outside consultants before.
Yes we have worked with IABCBC (Int Association of Business Communications BC) for a pro bono grant on social media in 2010 when we did our celebrated our 10 year anniversary.
Are you able to commit 3-5 hours/wk over 10-12 weeks?
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.
increasing the amount of participants we serve from 200 to 250 each week
2.
Increasing the amount of monies through sharing information with our supporters
3.
Increasing our monthly events in Surrey, Burnaby & New West to twice a month
What has been the impact of your solution to date?
In 12 years, we have given over 26, 000 makeovers thanks to over 500 volunteers. Since January 2013, we have added monthly programming in Surrey, Burnaby and New Westminister. We have had an additional 100 volunteers join our community project donating their skills and monies. Many of our participants have reconnected with their friends and families, found housing, volunteer opportunities, left abusive situations, and in some cases found employment.
What is your project future impact after receiving professional support from American Express?
After receiving support from American Express, once the recommendations are implemented, it will enable us to grow increase the work we do in Surrey, Burnaby and New Westminister. This will be done through using strengthening our template and sharing the information with our volunteers and supporters.
This Entry is about (Issues)
Created on 03/30/2013 by anshula
The problem is depression in teenagers in the DC area. The conventional approach is medication or psychotherapy, but these often aren't options for teenagers who either don't possess enough money or are too embarrassed to admit they need help. Our approach is to create an online & mobile platform: the 21-day challenge. This challenge consists of concrete, simple activities for teenagers to complete in order to boost their mental health.
baca seterusnya ↓↑ menyembunyikan↑ menyembunyikanNegara Organisasi
United States, VA, Ashburn, Loudoun County
Negara tempat organisasi ini menciptakan dampak sosial
United States, DC, Washington
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:
Ide (yang Anda yakini layak diluncurkan)
What problem is your organization committed to solving? In particular, share what is innovative about your approach.
The problem is depression in teenagers in the DC area. The conventional approach is medication or psychotherapy, but these often aren't options for teenagers who either don't possess enough money or are too embarrassed to admit they need help. Our approach is to create an online & mobile platform: the 21-day challenge. This challenge consists of concrete, simple activities for teenagers to complete in order to boost their mental health. Some activities: "meditate for 10 minutes", "go outside", "eat something and focus on it", and "hug someone." Each task is is based on research (especially in the field of positive psychology), can be done by anybody, can be done at anytime, provides an immediate mental health boost, can be completed within minutes, and is concrete, easy, and simple.
What are your organization's top three priorities in the next year?
1) Develop a professional version of the 21-day challenge on a website and on iPhone & Android
2) Spread the word about the 21-day challenge across the D.C. area
3) Have at least 100 teens complete the challenge and receive feedback from them about how it impacted their mental health.
Need #1
Consumer/Audience Acquisition
Need #2
Digital Marketing Strategy
Based on your first choice of the eight technical categories you selected above, what is your specific project need? Please be specific!
Our project has 2 main needs:
1) To develop an elegant app that people want to use each day. We need help understanding exactly what will make this app addicting enough to be used on a regular basis (which will ultimately improve the user's mental health), but not so addicting that it worsens the user's mental state.
2) To market that app to teenagers so they realize that they have an easily-accessible resource to better their mental state. We want to be able to engage teenagers enough to firstly download the app, and secondly use it on a regular basis. We want to spark in them the realization that their depression can be alleviated, and that they can accomplish this if they work at it steadily each day, using the app as a guide.
2.
extensive knowledge of the field
3.
availability (ex: quick responses to emails)
Will support from American Express be focused on your organization overall or a specific product/service? Please describe.
Support will be focused on a specific service: the 21-day challenge. Though the organization runs several other activities, those are mainly to garner attention towards the 21-day challenge. Getting teens to participate in the 21-day challenge, we believe, will have more impact on the mental health of the teen community than anything else we could do.
Have you focused on the above area previously? If so, please explain, including whether you have worked with outside consultants before.
No, I have not focused previously on the area above, or worked with outside consultants.
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 provide immediate (if minor) relief to teens suffering from depression
2.
to reach out to teens suffering from depression
3.
to create a happier teen community overall (improving the mental health of everyone, not only those who are depressed)
What has been the impact of your solution to date?
Currently, we haven't launched yet. But, within the next month or so, the beta version of the challenge should be up.
What is your project future impact after receiving professional support from American Express?
Only about 20% of young people who are suffering from depression seek help. After receiving support, future impact includes increasing the number of young people who have resources, and helping them utilize these resources to improve their mental health.
This Entry is about (Issues)
Created on 03/28/2013 by BeverlyDavies
Well-being First Aid Kit to improve an organisation's overall performance and an employee's motivation, productivity and attendance.
Working with the person as a 'whole' - addressing emotional and mental health issues to improve well-being and employability.
baca seterusnya ↓↑ menyembunyikan↑ menyembunyikanNegara Organisasi
United Kingdom, ESS, Colchester
Organization's Country of Operation
Type of Organization
Bisnis
Year of launch of the organization
Years in Operation
Idea phase
Has the organization received awards or honors? Please tell us about them
We want to hear about your “Aha!” moment. Share the story of where and when the founder(s) saw this solution’s potential to change the world.
Three friends with different working backgrounds and experiences appeared to be at their own personal crossroads at the same time. One was a psychotherapist, one a business leader, one a community leader. Each needed to add a new dimension to their daily life. The idea was born to amalgamate each person’s strengths and knowledge to benefit other people. Sounds simple – in practice, it is!
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
Wellbeing First Aid - treating the whole person.
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.?
How many of your employees should not be at work today?
The Centre for Mental Health has calculated that people who turn up for work when they should be off sick (presenteeism) is costing the UK economy around £15 billion per year. Straightforward absenteeism, however, costs the UK economy around £8.4 billion.
So this is a huge, costly issue that impacts on an organisation’s productivity and effectiveness and also the individual employee’s wellbeing. Out of every four people, one of those will experience mental health problems in the course of a year, with anxiety and depression being the most common disorders.
Every organisation has a first aid kit - but how about a Wellbeing First Aid Kit? Something that treats the whole person?
Our innovative model considers the organisation as a whole but places the employee as central to the process and will provide benefits to the organisation, the employee, their family and the wider community and economy.
We can predict (with accuracy) the cost of presenteeism and absenteeism in an organisation. We can then offer solutions which we can tailor to fit the needs and structure of any organisation – it is completely flexible.
A Wellbeing First Aid Kit will enable a business to choose to stop losing money and to keep valuable employees who will be an asset to them and their community.
Describe how your innovation model is distinct from any other organization in your field?
We are considering the person as a whole - physical, emotional and mental health.
Some people are afraid not to come into work – there may be many reasons.
The solution is to treat the person as a whole – look at the physical aspects of their job, but also look at their emotional and mental health. Have they had a death in the family? Divorce? Caring for elderly parents? Caring for adopted children? All these aspects will stop a person from performing their best at work, and at home.
We believe people don’t just need to learn how to be resilient – they need to understand their own behaviours which includes emotional and mental health issues. By doing this, they will be able to perform better at work and in life in general.
What type of operating environment and internal organizational factors make your innovation successful?
Our innovation can be tailored to any company structure, size and location. For the model to work, it has to fit the needs of an organisation and this innovation does just that. It is fluid and organic and as long as the organisation has an understanding of the issues, we can work with them.
Regarding our own internal factors, the three directors have in-depth knowledge and experience of large businesses, the NHS, education, the charity sector (‘third sector’) and emotional and mental health issues. We are a psychotherapist, a business leader and a community leader, all with very strong local, regional and national networks.
We believe passionately in treating the person as a whole and helping them to achieve.
How do you make sure you constantly innovate in light of (potential) external challenges, or your growth plan?
Our business model is scalable and sustainable and is robust.
We are involved in very strong networks and consistently watch for trends. We set trends.
No one else is considering the issue we are addressing and we want to expand it to every organisation.
We talk to our users, listen to their needs and work with them.
We are looking to create new interventions with companies such as volunteering ideas – it has to be something that really matters to the company and the employees.
We create trends and share best practice with other practitioners.
Our own resilience as a company is based on a small, passionate leadership team with specific strengths but also versatility.
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]
Primary healthcare services
Categories along the health continuum you are covering [select all that apply]
Prevention, Detection, Intervention, Follow-up.
Please describe in more detail: what problem are you trying to solve in the organization's specific context?
The Centre for Mental Health has calculated that people who turn up for work when they should be off sick (presenteeism) is costing the UK economy around £15 billion per year. Straightforward absenteeism, however, costs the UK economy around £8.4 billion.
So this is a huge, costly issue that impacts on an organisation’s productivity and effectiveness and also the individual employee’s well-being. Out of every four people, one of those will experience mental health problems in the course of a year, with anxiety and depression being the most common disorders.
This is the problem we are trying to address and solve through the Well-being First Aid Kit.
Stage that best applies to your solution [select only one]
Idea (poised to launch)
Core strategies of your business model [select all that apply]
Approaches to behavioral change at the individual level, Patient-centered design.
Most relevant tools you are using to implement the strategies outlined above [select only two]
Consultation, Education/training.
Please describe your solution in more detail
We will undertake an employee well-being audit which will assess and analyse organisational, departmental and individual well-being.
It will predict the potential cost of people who turn up for work when they should be off sick (presenteeism) and employee absenteeism.
We will then work with leader and managers suggest recommendations to enable organisations to take direct action to improve employee well-being.
We will also, where necessary, work directly with individual employees to address emotional and/or mental health issues.
What are your vision and overall objectives?
Our vision is that an organisation should be a healthy place to work.
It should be a place where employees feel valued, have a sense of purpose and be fully engaged. They will have a healthy work/life balance and will have good emotional and mental health. Their self-esteem will be high and they will be fulfilled.
The organisation, through being healthy, will be sustainable and will enable growth. They will be fully engaged with the employees and be a market leader in their field. They will promote positive growth by their employees and will have trust, and be trusted.
By achieving these objectives, employment will increase, absenteeism will decrease, costs to agencies such as the NHS will decrease and employees will be happier. This in turn will impact on their home life.
What is your value proposition?
Our innovation will increase the profitability of an organisation and the wellbeing of its employees. Our model will boost both stakeholder and shareholder value.
Who is your customer(s)?
- Individuals living with emotional and mental health issues - one in four of the UK population.
- Organisations (public, private and third sector) who wish to increase their performance and profitability.
What approaches to you use to reach your customers?
We will reach customers through engaging with employers. We will work with leaders and managers of public, private and third sector organisations to enable increased profitability and employee well-being.
What are your primary activities?
We will work with organisations and conduct a unique well-being audit that assesses and analyses organisational, departmental and individual well-being in order to predict future well-being, attendance and performance levels.
We will then agree appropriate interventions to address training and support needed on an organisational, departmental or individual basis to improve attendance and performance levels.
Who are your peers and competitors? What problems could these players pose to your success or growth?
We are not aware of any organisation offering a similar package. Some offer 'resilience' training which does not address underlying mental health or emotional issues. We do not envisage problems with other competitors, but we would welcome the opportunity to work alongside them.
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?
Organisations (leaders and managers) will have to acknowledge that there is an issue to be addressed before they will seek intervention. However, it will be part of our job to raise general awareness of this particular issue.
Briefly describe your growth strategy going forward
We have very strong networks locally, regionally and nationally which we will use to market our innovation.
We will initially target local businesses and will track our progress through the number of individuals we help and support.
What dimensions for growth are you currently targeting for your innovation [select all that apply]
New customer group(s).
What makes your business "ready" for growth?
We have a tried and tested and independently (Newcastle University) validated model of measuring individual and workforce well-being including performance and attendance.
We have the professional knowledge and experience to develop a management strategy to address the emerging issues.
What are your key growth objectives?
Year 1 - 500 employees assessed and those categorised at risk given relevant interventions and support.
Year 2 - 1000 employees assessed (as above)
Year 3 - 3000 employees assessed (as above)
What is your timeframe for growth, in the short and mid-term? What are the growth milestones and key activities going forward?
Summer 2013: Launch of Well-being First Aid Kit
Autumn/Winter 2013: First 200 employees assessed
Summer 2014: Commence key public, private and third sector partnerships.
Key activities during 2013/14 will include:
- Presenting and having a presence at conferences, seminars, exhibitions and appropriate events.
- Using and increasing our networks.
- Strengthen our online presence and services.
baca seterusnya↓↑ menyembunyikan↑ menyembunyikanWhat has been the impact of your solution to date?
The software package that provides the foundation for our Well-being First Aid Kit has been validated by Newcastle University's Industrial Statistics Research Unit. After rigorous testing, they have been able to predict the levels and cost of absenteeism and presenteeism.
Where the software has been used, typically an increase of 10-20% for attendance and 10-15% for discretionary effort is reported in the first year in participating organisations.
Our model, the Well-being First Aid Kit, will further increase this by addressing the underlying symptoms and causes of emotional and mental health issues and will establish benchmarks for future interventions.
What methods for quantification of social impact are you applying (if at all)?
We will use a range of questionnaires and surveys with individuals and organisations that have used our service.
Could your solution work in other geographies or regions? If so, where?
Yes - the Well-being First Aid Kit can be tailored to fit any company structure or need wherever they are located.
What is your projected impact over the next 1-3 years?
- Keeping people in work
- Improving the number of thriving businesses
- Reducing the drain on public service budgets (NHS, benefits payments, etc)
- Increasing the tax revenue
- Greater public awareness of mental and emotional health issues
- Happier, more productive workforce. More resilient to changing times.
- Social Enterprise - benefiting a number of community and voluntary groups by providing the service free of charge to a specific number of groups.
baca seterusnya↓↑ menyembunyikan↑ menyembunyikanElaborate on your current financing strategy
We are reliant upon sales to underpin our financing strategy. We will be applying for grant funding wherever possible.
Share of revenue generation in total income of organization (in percent)
Direct sales to patients or other beneficiaries (in percent)
Of the possible sources of these sales listed below, check all that apply to your current strategy
Private businesses, Other beneficiaries.
Licensing fees, e.g., for technology/franchise model (in percent)
Of the possible sources of these licensing opportunities listed below, check all that apply to your current strategy
Service contract with organizations, e.g., government, NGOs (in percent)
Of the possible sources of the service contracts listed below, check all that apply to your current strategy
LSM, Private businesses, Regional government.
Explain your revenue generation strategy in more detail
Year 1: 10 Small/Medium sized Enterprises (SMEs), 1 Local Authority, 2 Community/Voluntary Groups in the expectation that we will achieve or exceed our target of 500 employees assessed. This will be our main income stream.
Year 2: 20 SMEs, 2 Local Authorities, 4 Community/Voluntary Groups in the expectation that we will achieve or exceed our target of 1000 employees assessed.
Share of philanthropy in total income of organization (in percent)
Philanthrophy strategies you are using
Diversified strategy.
Explain your philanthropic approach in more detail
We will be providing our Well-being First Aid Kit, free of charge, to up to five community or voluntary groups, with a maximum of 50 employees per group, each year.
We are aware of the issues faced by these groups, as they can no longer be reliant upon grant funding and are facing some very difficult transitions. We will be able to help them through these changes and help them to become more sustainable.
Expand on your selections; explain how you will sustain funding over the next 1-3 years.
Our model will become sustainable by increasing the awareness of issues faced by organisations and individuals by way of our online presence, attendance at exhibitions, seminars and events, and using our own substantial networks.
Once the issues are recognised and acknowledged, we will have established ourselves as innovators and market leaders in this field.
Created on 03/27/2013 by Tkovacs
Girls with Heart teaches girls to care for themselves. Also it teaches how to keep your heart healthy, whether this may be physically, emotionally, or mentally.
baca seterusnya ↓↑ menyembunyikan↑ menyembunyikanNegara Organisasi
United States, CT, Washington, Litchfield County
Negara tempat organisasi ini menciptakan dampak sosial
United States, CT, Washington, Litchfield County
Apakah organisasi Anda adalah:
Bisnis
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?
My venture will will address health. We will be covering food health- healthy eating choices, exercising-sports and other ways to exercisse and be fit, and mental and emotional health- this could include bullying. If you are being picked on and are feeling bad about yourself.
Misson Statement: What will your venture do?
My venture will be teaching girls about health. It will also be helping girls become more active and fit, and learning to make better eating choices, As well as fitness and food, we will be teaching girls about bullying. Bullying has become a dangerous situation. In some people's cases it can lead to unhealthy decisions.
The Model: Walk us through a specific example of how your solution makes a difference; include your primary activities
One way my solution makes a difference is it will help girls feel good about themselves. For example one of our goals is to get a group of girls together to meet one a month or so to do activities and make food dishes. If we were to meet for 1-2 hours a month, in that time frame we can do a long exercise, or make a recipe that will be healthy. They will walk away from the class feeling great. They will also take the skills they learn form the class and use them in their everyday life. This is one example of how this venture will affect others.
The Community: Define your community, local or international, that you will work on behalf of. What population is affected? Are there other organizations working in this space?
I will work locally in my comunity of Washington. As Girls with Heart becomes more well known, it will hopefully spread to other places around the state. As this venture continues to grow and grow, it will spread around the country. If things continue to go smoothly, hopefully Girls with Heart can become world wide. I am not sure of any organizations that are working in the Washington, CT area. I do know that all over the world there are gyms and health classes to take.
Founding Story: What inspired your venture? Why?
Girls with Heart was inspired when my friend Emma came over one day. She was telling me about how her mother had signed her up for an online class to start a business that will help others. She said that if she was doing it, then I could do it with her. We called her mothe to get the whole story. After she explained it, we both thought it would be a lot of fun to do! That whole day we spent brainstorming ideas about what we could make our venture about. Her mother gave us the idea of doing something with sports and being active and healthy. We thought that would be a great idea. We came up with ideas for a magazine, and a grooup to get together. After that we have been so excited about doing this venture!
What is your long-term vision for your Venture?
My long term vision for Girls with Heart would be to have a group of girls meet once a month, or every other month. It can get busy with schedules, so things might change as it goes along, but this would be one long term vision. Another idea we had was to make a bunch of products that could help girls become healthier or more active. One idea we had was make a cook book with healthyrecipes in it. Our main goal is to have Girls with Heart spread all over and to get a group of people together to do activities or lessons about health.
Define your company, program, service, or product in 1-2 short sentences
Girls with Heart teaches girls to care for themselves. Also it teaches how to keep your heart healthy, whether this may be physically, emotionally, or mentally.
baca seterusnya↓↑ menyembunyikan↑ menyembunyikanWhat do you want to accomplish in your first year?
In the first year I would like to have people know about Girls with Heart. I would also like to have a group of girls that meet every so often to talk about Girls with Heart and do our classes.
Winning entries present a strong plan for how they will achieve and track growth. Identify your six-month milestone for growing your impact
The 6-month milestone would be to have a small group of girls together. The group would not be final, more people can come.
Tugas 1
A place to meet. We would need to look into places to rent, or places to buy
Tugas 2
Advertising. People would need to know about Girls with Heart, so we would need to let others know.
Tugas 3
Ideas. In order for us to get a group together, we need ideas about what we could do during the time. It could be anything.
Now think bigger! Identify your 12-month impact milestone
To have some of our products together, and either made or ready to be made. Things such as the cookbook, magazine/newsletters.
Tugas 1
Editors. We would need someone to edit our things. I know an author who told me if I had any writing problems to let her know.
Tugas 2
Publishor/ builder. We would need someone to publish the book, or if we did something that involves building, we would need help
Tugas 3
Organization. We would have to have all of our ideas together to do in order to complete this task.
baca seterusnya↓↑ menyembunyikan↑ menyembunyikanHow will your Venture define success in the short term (1-12 months)?
My venture will define success in 1-12 months by setting goals. We will make short-term and long-term goals. Once these are established, we will work on completing them. We want to complete as many of our goals as possible. When each goal is completed, it will be marked as a success. The more goals we complete the more we can make. This will help our venture become better and better. One of the goals we have is to get a group of girls together by 6 months. This group will not be definite, meaning more people can join as it goes on.
In the long-term (1 year?)
In the long term we hope to have a cookbook published, or on the verge of being publshed. This cookbook will be filled with healthy recipes that are delicious. We also hope that by one year, we can have a newletter that goes out once a month or every two months. It will let girls know what is happening with Girls with Heart. I hope it can turn into a magazine.
How will you measure success?
We will measure the success by how many goals we complete. Like I mentioned in the top question, we will make goals for Girls with Heart. As each goal is completed, it will be a success. This is how we will measure our success: By goals.
Why?
We will measure it by goals because as our venture continues to grow, it will be easy to think of something we need to complete.
Created on 03/26/2013 by jenwrainn
RAINN will create a self-care app that will give sexual assault survivors access to resources and symptom management tools. The app will allow survivors to manage the short and long-term effects of sexual trauma when and where they need it in a secure, discreet and confidential way.
baca seterusnya ↓↑ menyembunyikan↑ menyembunyikanNama Organisasi
Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network (RAINN)
Negara Organisasi
United States, DC, Washington
Organization's Country of Operation
United States, DC, Washington
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 2007 RAINN won NPower's Greater DC Region Technology Innovation Award for the creation of its 'National Sexual Assault Online Hotline' - the first secure, online crisis service in the United States.
In April 2012 RAINN launched the DoD Safe Helpline Mobile App, through a contract with the Department of Defense Sexual Assault Preventiaon and Response Office. In APril 2013 the Safe Helpline App won the American Telemedicine Association's President's Award for Innovation.
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.
After having a close friend assaulted Scott Berkowitz was moved to action. He saw the need for a national resource and in 1994 the National Sexual Assault Hotline was launched and RAINN was founded. Since launch, the telephone hotline, in partnership with over 1100 local sexual assault providers, has assisted almost 1.7 million people.
baca seterusnya↓↑ menyembunyikan↑ menyembunyikanName Your Entry
Sexual Assault Survivor Self-Care App
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.?
RAINN has been serving survivors of sexual violence through the National Sexual Assault Online Hotline at rainn.org for almost 7 years. During this time we have assisted over 150,000 survivors, averaging over 3500 hotline visitors a month. Something we here repeatedly is that survivors would like a way to manage the short and long term effects of their trauma through an app. Currently, there are meditation, prevention apps, etc. but no apps that are specifically created for sexual assault survivors.
In 2012, through a contract with the Department of Defense, RAINN created the DoD Safe Helpline app which provides sexual assault survivors in the military with free worldwide access to tools and resources to help self-manage the symptoms of sexual trauma. This app addresses these unique needs confidentially (all data is stored within the app) and can be used without internet access. The app features an interactive self-assessment tool (“PLAN”), which allows users to evaluate trauma symptoms through six basic questions. At the end of the assessment the app provides a list of recommended exercises to help manage these symptoms. Some of the exercises include grounding, guided visualization and breathing techniques. Catering to both male and female survivors, users can select audio in either gender’s voice. The app can also connect a survivor to the Safe Helpline and local military sexual assault resources worldwide.
RAINN would like to repurpose the Safe Helpline app for the general population, making this valuable tool available to those outside of the military.
Describe how your innovation model is distinct from any other organization in your field?
There are currently a number of apps that focus on sexual assault prevention but none that allow survivors to self-manage the effects of their assault. The ability to carry in their pocket a number of exercises and tools that can help them when they begin to feel anxious, experience flashbacks, etc. is invaluable to a survivor's recovery. The only other app that currently has these features and qualities is the Safe Helpline App. Unfortunately, this app is geared to a military audience and civlian survivors would likely never be able to find it or assume that it is not for them. Creating customized content, exercises and connecting them to long-term local support can help strengthen their recovery efforts, no matter where they are in their recovery process.
What type of operating environment and internal organizational factors make your innovation successful?
A civilian self-care app is a natural progression for RAINN. RAINN has always been at the forefront of the victim services field when it comes to serving victims through technology. Over 7 years ago RAINN saw that more and more survivors were unwilling to pick up a phone for help - they wanted to reach out online ( the age demographic most at risk for being sexually assaulted is 13-24 year olds). As a result, RAINN created the Online Hotline - the first secure online crisis intervention service in the US. RAINN has been recognized by the U.S. Department of Justice as well as SAMHSA as the national leader in online and technology victim services. With a constant eye to meeting young survivors through technology RAINN continues to lead the field in technology and service delivery innovation.
How do you make sure you constantly innovate in light of (potential) external challenges, or your growth plan?
RAINN has invested in a robust internal technology team - something you don't often see among traditional victim service providers. We maintain developers on staff that allow us to continuously tweak, update and expand our online and mobile-based tools and services. Through our DOD contract we created a dynamic, innovative and useful mobile application. Now we want to leverage the time and effort spent on its creation and development and broaden the audience to the millions of survivors who are struggling with the long-term effects of their trauma in their daily lives.
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]
Intervention, Long-term care.
Please describe in more detail: what problem are you trying to solve in the organization's specific context?
Experiencing a sexual assault can leave a survivor with a long list of acute and chronic physical and mental health effects that can impact a lifetime. Some of the more common effects include anxiety, depression, eating disorders, sleep disorders, and substance use. By providing a survivor with the tools to care for themselves in a discreet and accessible way some of these long-term effects can be mitigated. We also know that as budgets continue to be cut for local sexual assault service providers wait times and durations between appointments are extended. For some survivors the app can be a first step while for others this app can help reinforce the tools taught in behavioral therapy, allowing the survivor to take more control and ownership over their recovery process.
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, 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, Education/training.
Please describe your solution in more detail
We are hoping to create a version of the DoD Safe Helpline app that is repurposed for the general population. The basic features of the app have been developed and deployed, we are looking to enhance the language, design and resources to better meet the needs of those not in the military. The four sections of the app (LEARN, PLAN, EXERCISES, and SEARCH) will all be altered to meet civilian needs. For example, in the LEARN section - there is language about what to do if you have been sexually assaulted. This language differs greatly from military to civilian circumstances. We would also like to adapt the search functionality and allow users to search for their nearest sexual assault service provider. Ideally, we would also like to enhance the app by adding content and exercises in spanish.
What are your vision and overall objectives?
We hope to make basic behavioral therapy tools and resources available to survivors who have limited access to support and counseling options whether it is due to geography, local resources, personal finances, etc. Providing mobile tools allows us to meet the survivor where they are and connect them to both long-term and short-term resources and services.
What is your value proposition?
By adapting the current Safe Helpline app for the general, non-military, population we will be expanding the benefits of a tool that has already proven to be successful. The app has the ability to support survivors of sexual assault no matter their geographic location, age, financial background, etc. There are no qualifications to download and use the app (we also intend on making the civilian app free) and a survivor can access it discreetly and privately at anytime - whether it be before a business meeting, on the bus or at 3am.
Who is your customer(s)?
Our target demographic is sexual assault survivors. We believe the app is beneficial to all survivors, whether the assault is recent and the app download is their first step in reaching out to find resources, or a survivor has already entered the mental healthcare system and needs a tool that will assist them in coping with the chronic effects of their trauma and needs a resource to help reinforce their therapy gains.
What approaches to you use to reach your customers?
We know that the majority of our audience is between 13 and 35 years old. Based on this, we are dedicated to having a strong online presence through social media platforms (Facebook and Twitter) as well as online ads and search engines - Google in particular. In addition, RAINN has worked with all the major networks in the airing of PSAs as well as consultation on program scripts. The app will be incorporated into our outreach and marketing efforts as well as prominently placed on rainn.org - which averages over 142000 visits a month.
What are your primary activities?
RAINN (Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network) is the nation's largest anti-sexual violence organization and was named one of "America's 100 Best Charities" by Worth magazine. RAINN created and operates the National Sexual Assault Hotline (800.656.HOPE and online.rainn.org) in partnership with more than 1,100 local rape crisis centers across the country and operates the DoD Safe Helpline for the Department of Defense. RAINN also carries out programs to prevent sexual violence, help victims and ensure that rapists are brought to justice.
Who are your peers and competitors? What problems could these players pose to your success or growth?
Currently, RAINN is the only national anti-sexual assault organization that provides direct services to all victims of sexual assault (Note that there are organizations that serve specific demographics of survivors ex: victims in prisons, etc.).
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?
At this point the only limitation we foresee is keeping up with demand for our services. The online hotline usage has increased over 40% in the past two years. We work hard to ensure a high quality service and have recruited and extensively trained unpaid staff to assist us in keeping up with the demand - keeping wait times low.
Briefly describe your growth strategy going forward
Looking forward we are working to repurpose some of our innovative technology platforms for different audiences, including the licensing of the platforms to direct service providers outside of our issue area. All RAINN programs (technology and service delivery) undergo annual and ongoing evaluations/reviews.
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?
Through the use of mobile technology we can reach survivors that a decade ago were un-reacheable. Creating an application or technology-based service allows us serve survivors in an effective, relatively low-cost manner. Expanding our current suite of survivors services is a natural progression for RAINN.
What are your key growth objectives?
We are committed to expanding services for victims and are currently working on several projects that would reach different demographics as well as expand service delivery as a whole.
What is your timeframe for growth, in the short and mid-term? What are the growth milestones and key activities going forward?
We are currently expanding our suite of services for the Department of Defense and are looking to continue to enhance our current civilian platforms (direct service, education/outreach, policy). We are pursuing several projects related to crisis intervention services and intermediate support both domestically and abroad.
baca seterusnya↓↑ menyembunyikan↑ menyembunyikanWhat has been the impact of your solution to date?
The Safe Helpline App has been met with overwhelmingly positive feedback both from subject matter experts and survivors. This month, we were notified that the app won the American Telemedicine Association's President's Award for Innovation.
What methods for quantification of social impact are you applying (if at all)?
We will use the number of downloads as our primary measuring tool and supplement our assessment with app analytics.
Could your solution work in other geographies or regions? If so, where?
The app can be used anywhere in the world an individual has a mobile device.
What is your projected impact over the next 1-3 years?
If RAINN were to create a civilian self-care app we predict over 20,000 downloads over the next few years. The next natural step would be to create an all- spanish app to reach a traditionally underserved population.
baca seterusnya↓↑ menyembunyikan↑ menyembunyikanElaborate on your current financing strategy
RAINN currently receives and solicits funding from private, corporate, and foundation partnerships as well as revenue through government contracts.
Share of revenue generation in total income of organization (in percent)
Direct sales to patients or other beneficiaries (in percent)
Of the possible sources of these sales listed below, check all that apply to your current strategy
Individu, 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
LSM, Private businesses, Pemerintah negara.
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
LSM, Private businesses, Pemerintah negara.
Explain your revenue generation strategy in more detail
RAINN actively pursues contracts from the Federal government, non-governmental organizations, and private business. These contracts typically involve service delivery, software licensing, content development and subject matter expertise.
Share of philanthropy in total income of organization (in percent)
Philanthrophy strategies you are using
Diversified strategy.
Explain your philanthropic approach in more detail
RAINN actively engages donors through online/social media outreach and campaigns in addition to focusing energy on a large high donor base.
Expand on your selections; explain how you will sustain funding over the next 1-3 years.
RAINN will continue to pursue both private and public contracts, philanthropic funding and licensing agreements to help support our expansion and diversification of services.
Created on 03/26/2013 by Rafah Alkhatib
The leading online social network focused on healthy lifestyle www.3eesho.com at the growth-stage
Launched 3eesho.com on Jan 2010,
Launched 3eesho iPad on Feb 2012,
Launching 3eesho first ebook on Apr 2013.
Our monthly traffic is 400K visitors.
7,000,000 Followers in 30+ Countries
baca seterusnya ↓↑ menyembunyikan↑ menyembunyikanNegara Organisasi
United Arab Emirates, DU, Dubai
Organization's Country of Operation
Type of Organization
Bisnis
Year of launch of the organization
Years in Operation
Operating 1-5 years
Has the organization received awards or honors? Please tell us about them
3eesho.com was semi finalist in 2009 in MIT Arab business plan competition
3eesho.com was on the Arabnet Startup Demo on 2010
Reach is a winner of Arabia500 for 2011 and 2012 as start up to watch
We want to hear about your “Aha!” moment. Share the story of where and when the founder(s) saw this solution’s potential to change the world.
When my eldest daughter start going to the elementary school, I start realizing year after year that the kids are going in width instead of going up. I found out that most of the Arabic content on the net is very poor. I thought about the majority of Arab women and decided to invest my life in solving this problem by creating a platform in Arabic to help nurturing healthy habits for their families
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.?
3eesho.com is the leading online social network focused on healthy lifestyle and wellness. We provide the following for the Arab users
2,000 articles on healthy lifestyle .
Videos and clips for exercises and healthy information
Specialized writers (MDs, nutritionists) publishing only in 3eesho.com
Food nutritional values database consisting of 10,000 food items
Support via Social networking functionality: Friends, Groups, etc.
Weight management tools
A platform for experts (Nutritionist and Dietitians) to offer online services
Mobile application for food intake and daily movements for Arabic users
Describe how your innovation model is distinct from any other organization in your field?
It is a one stop destination for wellness and healthy lifestyle where the users can get information, share experiences and support other members in achieving their health goals.
Online consultancy and coaching with dietitians and nutritionists is providing a quick and cost effective access to help
Apps for mobile and tablets extend the delivery to new channels and enable the uses of tools easily.
Also we offer a personal behavior change information and content.
What type of operating environment and internal organizational factors make your innovation successful?
Highest adoption rate of mobile and internet usage
Obesity and weight related problems are highest globally
Our team is highly motivated and technology experts. we are keep looking to provide and utilize the technology in the best way to serve the users and help in adhering wellness issues
In addition to the above, we have a high attention to users confidentiality and low cost service.
How do you make sure you constantly innovate in light of (potential) external challenges, or your growth plan?
Our technical experts keep enhancing the system based on the latest technology to make sure we are constantly updating our platform to meet the new innovation
Our growth plan is
Reach 1 million visitors by end 2013
Enable platform for experts to offer online services by Jun 2013
Launch 2 books by 2013
Launch the Mobile app by June 2013
This Entry is about (Issues)
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]
Nutrition
Categories along the health continuum you are covering [select all that apply]
Prevention, Follow-up, Social integration.
Please describe in more detail: what problem are you trying to solve in the organization's specific context?
We are aiming to help in solving the obesity problem in the Arabic region where Kuwait, UAE, Saudi, Egypt, Bahrain, and Jordan ranked in top 10 courtiers in obesity ratio.
Stage that best applies to your solution [select only one]
Start-up and growth (pilot is successful and starting to expand)
Core strategies of your business model [select all that apply]
Approaches to behavioral change at the individual level, New approaches to distribution of health products and services.
Most relevant tools you are using to implement the strategies outlined above [select only two]
Technology.
Please describe your solution in more detail
The solution is build around the users interest and benefits. by leveraging the health content in an easy way to read, understand and engage in a form of social network. Enabling the platform for experts to offer a cost effective consultancy service where they can reach to wider range of users with an affordable cost.
It is the leading online social network for Arab users to get information and advises about health and wellness
What are your vision and overall objectives?
Our vision is to become the first online destination for healthy lifestyle and wellness. Provide prevention services and remote care for obesity and lack of activities issues.
Our business model is simple, it is based on
Ads and sponsorship
Selling Ebook
iPad magazine subscription
Paid mobile app
Online nutrition and dietitian services for users to get online consultancy and coaching
What is your value proposition?
We are offering a unique combination of content and online services for the users. our content is prepared to meet the users need and to enhance their level of knowledge about food and exercises. Our online experts will provide one to one help and advises to the users.
And we are leveraging our content to any new technology/devices
Who is your customer(s)?
Arab online general users with age of 20-60
What approaches to you use to reach your customers?
We reach to our customers through social media channels and online, We have a huge presence on facebook with more than 7 millions fan and we are focusing all our marketing effort on social media
What are your primary activities?
We are focusing on the following major activities:
Develop the Health content, Digital publications and Mobile app.
Develop the platform and leverage the service of one to one consultancy
Fundraising
Who are your peers and competitors? What problems could these players pose to your success or growth?
What other challenges - individual, organizational, or environmental – are you currently facing or might hinder future success of your business, and how do you plan to overcome those?
The main challenge is to cope with the technology changes and be ready for any new technology to use and adopt to our online services
Produce enough content for the users and keep tracking with the new health information from international resources.
Also the main players have a traditional oriented approaches in tackling health problems, and it is not easy to shit their approached to be online and virtually.
Briefly describe your growth strategy going forward
We are focusing our efforts to reach to one million visitors monthly by offering a unique content related to the daily issues of wellness. providing support to the people who are struggling to the maintain an healthy lifestyle.
What dimensions for growth are you currently targeting for your innovation [select all that apply]
New customer group(s).
What makes your business "ready" for growth?
We are the first established website for wellness with a huge base of users and fans, we have tested several business model and have developed several products, some are total failure and some are excellent. we know the market, and we know how to cater for the market need
What are your key growth objectives?
We are looking to reach to one million visit monthly the site with a content consumption rate of 10 minutes /visit
What is your timeframe for growth, in the short and mid-term? What are the growth milestones and key activities going forward?
The short milestone is to reach one million visit by end of 2013
the mid term milestone is to reach 3 million by 2015
The key activities is to build a network of experts and leverage their services through the site.
Publish couple of health and wellness ebook in addition to different mobile app for the users to track and maintain a healthy lifestyle. i
baca seterusnya↓↑ menyembunyikan↑ menyembunyikanWhat has been the impact of your solution to date?
It reach more than 76 million page views in 2 years. we impacted people lives in the ground. we organized several walk events in different Arabic capitals.
We build a great library of articles for different health and weight management related topics
What methods for quantification of social impact are you applying (if at all)?
Could your solution work in other geographies or regions? If so, where?
Yes. It can applies in any region. we just need to build another version localized for any specific region.
What is your projected impact over the next 1-3 years?
Providing a cost effective access to nutritionist and dietitians for a total of 75million Arabic users online.
Provide a library of 10k articles and 500 videos about wellness and healthy lifestyle information
baca seterusnya↓↑ menyembunyikan↑ menyembunyikanElaborate on your current financing strategy
Ads revenue around $100k yearly.
Share of revenue generation in total income of organization (in percent)
Direct sales to patients or other beneficiaries (in percent)
Of the possible sources of these sales listed below, check all that apply to your current strategy
Friends and family, Individu, Patients.
Licensing fees, e.g., for technology/franchise model (in percent)
Of the possible sources of these licensing opportunities listed below, check all that apply to your current strategy
Yayasan, Private businesses, Regional government.
Service contract with organizations, e.g., government, NGOs (in percent)
Of the possible sources of the service contracts listed below, check all that apply to your current strategy
Private businesses, Regional government.
Explain your revenue generation strategy in more detail
Selling an Ad space on the site
Offering an online consultancy service where the expert get 50% of the fees and the company get another 50%
Selling ebook
Share of philanthropy in total income of organization (in percent)
Philanthrophy strategies you are using
Single strategy.
Explain your philanthropic approach in more detail
No philanthropic approach
Expand on your selections; explain how you will sustain funding over the next 1-3 years.
We have two revenue income to sustain the project, current Ads revenue and
cross selling the team experience and knowledge to the customers. By offering a social media marketing services in the local market. this service generate a good revenue for the company and from this revenue we are able to sustain the projects
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We are in need of professional assistance with communicating our message that will translate consistently from media promotions to our website and also grant writing.
This foundation is unique and innovative in its mission of helping disadvantaged people with spinal disorders or injuries.
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Eliminating Disparity in Healthcare
Nama Organisasi
The Spine Health Foundation, Inc.
Negara Organisasi
United States, TN, Johnson City, Washington County
Negara tempat organisasi ini menciptakan dampak sosial
Apakah organisasi Anda adalah:
Pilih
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Eliminating Disparty in Healthcare
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.
We are in need of professional assistance with communicating our message that will translate consistently from media promotions to our website and also grant writing.
This foundation is unique and innovative in its mission of helping disadvantaged people with spinal disorders or injuries.
We provide the "working wounded" and uninsured access to specialized spine care. The Spine Health Foundation is the only organization of its kind in the nation. I believe that with the right messaging and branding we will be more equipped to attract large donors and supporters across the country to help grow this organization.
What are your organization's top three priorities in the next year?
Raising Awareness of our organization and cause;
Attracting donors to help fulfill our mission;
Enlarge our organization to help more people;
Need #1
Message & Brand Strategy
Need #2
Customer Relationships
Based on your first choice of the eight technical categories you selected above, what is your specific project need? Please be specific!
Creating a brand awareness of our organization to help identify our organization and its mission, as well as set it apart from other non profits, as unique, innovative and important.
I would like our logo and mission statement to be clear, specific and identifiable. This same branding and messaging to also translate over to all PSAs, our website, and even our grant requests.
Clarity and identity is so important when reaching out to potential donors for support. We need to bring these important elements to our branding and messaging before we can begin to grow as an organization.
1.
Maintain communication with customers/donors by sharing updates and successes
2.
Recognize how their support is making a difference with our foundation and in the community
3.
Ask for their feedback or suggestions on how we are doing in the community
Will support from American Express be focused on your organization overall or a specific product/service? Please describe.
Support from American Express will be to enhance the overall brand and message of our organization.
Have you focused on the above area previously? If so, please explain, including whether you have worked with outside consultants before.
As the founder of this organization, I have created the logo, mission statement and any branding that we have, so far. I have not reached out for professional consultant advice, since we are a new organization. All of my efforts and time have been dedicated to getting the organization up and running so we can begin to help disadvantaged individuals who suffer with chronic pain related to spinal injuries or disorders.
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.
Create a clear, concise branding and mission of our organization
2.
Grow our donor base across the nation
3.
Strengthen our organization to help more people access specialized spine care
What has been the impact of your solution to date?
Since February 2011, we have provided more than 165 resources including 10 spine surgeries to more than 30 individuals who are uninsured or under-insured. The Spine Health Foundation has provided hope and a helping hand who would have otherwise been left to deal with the chronic pain and negative effects of untreated spinal disorders. The resources we provide range from diagnostics such as MRIs, CTs, consults with specialists, epidural treatments, chiropractic treatments, financial assistance, surgeries, physical therapy, orthotics, and more!
Untreated spinal disorders or injuries can lead to pain medication addiction, depression and even suicide.
What is your project future impact after receiving professional support from American Express?
The support of American Express providing a helping hand to our foundation will us provide assistance to countless people now and into the future for many years to come. When we help an individual suffering with debilitating back pain as a result of a spinal disorder we are also helping their families, employers and communities. As we help one person return to work to support their family, we are also strengthening the communities in which they live .
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To make a better world –to make our life blessed –to fulfill oneself, –to make free our society from inhuman activities, –to make conscious about oneself and about our aim of life, we have an excellent – incomparable system of essential education for true & universal development of human beings. All these educations –teachings –knowledge and methods is present in ‘MahaVad’.
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baca seterusnya ↓↑ menyembunyikan↑ menyembunyikanOrganization's Country of Operation
Type of Organization
Non‐profit/NGO
Year of launch of the organization
Years in Operation
Idea phase
Has the organization received awards or honors? Please tell us about them
We want to hear about your “Aha!” moment. Share the story of where and when the founder(s) saw this solution’s potential to change the world.
Traditional Medicines are effective,proven and affordable and have no side effects. Traditional medicines like Ayurveda and Sidhha are known for several thousands of years and have a divine blessing.Medicinal route powders is the basis for these medicines.Effective cure for Diabetes and blood pressure. Homeopathy is another proven low cost medicine. Small funds can help many people.
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traditional medicine offers affordable and effective health care
Explain what the "innovation" is about, e.g., is it the idea and/or the model you use to accomplish the idea, or your understanding of the target population, etc.?
Innovative changes in the health care to benefit the masses and to provide low cost , effective and proven health solutions by encouraging to use traditional health care systems like Ayurveda, Sidha , Naturopathy , Yoga and Homeopathy for general medical care where operations and surgery is not required. Presently , modern medicine system that is being used to serve medical needs is expensive and out of reach of majority of the population at least in the developing countries . The child mortality and mall nutrition is in alarming levels in most of the developing countries and sub Sahara Africa. To help and solve the situation ,and make usage of the traditional systems popular , there is a need to educate the masses, governments with the help of few NGOs to get going homeopathic, Ayurveda and other traditional medical centers to be operative in remote villages and also get good number of medical practitioners trained from available Medical colleges for the traditional medicine. Ayurveda is a proven system for the past several thousand of years and the medicine has no side effects. Yoga coupled with the traditional medical system provides development of a sound mind , body system and good health at at practically no cost or a very very low cost. Homeopathy is another effective low cost medical system.This system originally originated from Germany and is also well developed in India. This system is also very effective providing good health care.
Describe how your innovation model is distinct from any other organization in your field?
Present modern medical system is expensive and is out of reach of many in developing and poor African countries. Health care is minimal and not available at many places. There is a need to provide proven, effective and economical medicines to serve the needy. Traditional medicines like Ayurveda and sidha are known for several thousands of years. They are based of medicinal plant root powders and have no side effects.Known to be best in cure of diabetes and blood pressure etc. There are instances of cure or prolongation of cancer when no radio therapy is administered.
Homeopathy is another effective medicine , economical, effective and with long lasting results.It started in Germany ans now widely used in India. Proper training and set up of facilities is essential.
What type of operating environment and internal organizational factors make your innovation successful?
Traditional medicine should be made available at all places rural and urban. Existing hospitals could be used . or else health centers could be establishes. Even mobile hospitals could be used to cover remote areas. Local village level bodies could be involved in distribution of medicine and coordinate with the medical practitioners.
Medicine is economical and easy to administer and as such it could be easier to expand its services to many places easily.
How do you make sure you constantly innovate in light of (potential) external challenges, or your growth plan?
Traditional medicines like Ayurveda and Sidha are known for ages. More we make use of them , more we know about them by experience. The medicine is made from root powders of medicinal plants and the cure is permanent. Homeopathy is practiced beginning from Germany and in several countries , including in India. There could not be many external challenges to these medicines.
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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]
Primary healthcare services
Categories along the health continuum you are covering [select all that apply]
Prevention, Intervention, Follow-up.
Please describe in more detail: what problem are you trying to solve in the organization's specific context?
Health care systems do not cover most of the public in many developing and poor countries. In result many have no access to modern medicine and suffer from child deaths , mall nutrition and suffer without any medical help.In many villages , there are no health care centers and hospitals and the doctor patient ratio is very high. When there is a need , availability of a qualified doctor is a dream
Out of the traditional medicines, Ayurveda is being practiced from times immemorial .and known to have come from DHANVANTARI which has a divine blessing. Medicine is made out of root powers of medicinal plants and the cure is inexpensive and is very effective and long lasting. There are established colleges to train qualified doctors. Thre is a need to establish base hospitals.
Stage that best applies to your solution [select only one]
Idea (poised to launch)
Core strategies of your business model [select all that apply]
Patient-centered design, Redesign of the public healthcare system for more efficiency (in terms of processes, structure etc.), New approaches to distribution of health products and services, New financing strategies for health.
Most relevant tools you are using to implement the strategies outlined above [select only two]
Consultation, Education/training.
Please describe your solution in more detail
To provide health care units in each village or at least create a separate wing in each hospital or set up mobile units to cover as many remote villages as possible . To train number of qualified doctors in Traditional medicine. Encourage Yoga exercises which shall help in avoiding deceases and also cure certain deceases like diabetes and blood pressure etc. Yoga directs the mind and body in the right direction and helps in many respiration problems. Traditional medicine coupled with Yoga shall offer excellent results at very minimal and affordable cost. Governments and the NGOs can several more people with the same amount and help in a better life.
Homeopathy is another effective traditional medicine well known in India which can be used.
To popularize and help its use.
What are your vision and overall objectives?
Vision is to help the needy to have affordable and effective medicine when and where it is needed and easy to be administered. At a low cost health care could be provided to many and also serve the health needs which other wise could not be met by many poor nations. This will ensure better life and reduction of child mortality , better health and removal of mall nutrition. Medicine without side effects is a boon to the community in remote villages since there will be no facilities to antidote any reaction within time.
There are many cases which could be cures in Ayurveda and Homeopathy which otherise are not curable in modern medicine. traditional medicine is based on the indications and the case history of the patient. Routine health care is possible by the patients.
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What is your value proposition?
Money spent on health care shall get 100 times extra benefit to the public and shall bring in a socio economic development in the community and ensure a longer and better life. It shall also grant longevity . Properly introduced and serviced system shall ensure serving many who could not have reached to any medical health care in time. The effect has an immense valsue which is difficult to be measured.
Who is your customer(s)?
Entire community in all developing and poor countries. Even some of the affluent people who can afford cost shall also be the patients since Traditional medicines can offer a medical cure which could not be cured otherwise. Many results are long lasting. Yoga bring in the mind and body into condition and make it work effectively resulting in a good health. Some of the papers attached shall give details
What approaches to you use to reach your customers?
1. Government agencies / Government Hospitals
2. Private hospitals
3. NGOs
4. Social service organizations like Lions , Rotary and Red Cross etc. and
5. Village Panchayats and Other local bodies.
What are your primary activities?
To approach various governmental and non government bodies
as stated above and try to impress on then the need , effect and the benefit.
At the impleovernmental bodies for the help.mentation stage to involve our Lions clubs to take an active part in the service and
also encouraage other non g
Who are your peers and competitors? What problems could these players pose to your success or growth?
The competition can be from the present modern medical system. But the cost wise there shall be no problem.
NEXT PROBLEM SHALL BE TO CONVINCE THE PUBLIC TO FOLLOW A TRADITIONAL SYSTEM OF MEDICINE AND CHANGE OVER.
TO work with the political system and convince them to fund , organize , train doctors and to implement the scheme and make it effective.
To take along with us the other NGOs.
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?
1. Acceptability at community level.
2. Political and Governmental acceptability to implement the programmes in full scale.
3. Setting up of health care centers in remote areas.
4. Awareness in community
Briefly describe your growth strategy going forward
1. Create an awareness campaign
2. Coordinate with the Governmental agencies and NGOs
3. Work for political support
4. Create an atmosphere of usage of Traditional medicines
5. Propagate the success messages in curing the deceases by use of traditional medicines and their
cost benefits.
What dimensions for growth are you currently targeting for your innovation [select all that apply]
New customer group(s), New regions(s).
What makes your business "ready" for growth?
1. Already proven medicines
2. Economy
3. effective cure
4. No side effects
5. easy to administer
6. Can be used in line with other medicines in some cases
7..Can reach remote areas
8. Medicine from local medicinal plants
What are your key growth objectives?
1.To make sure that the medicine reaches the needy in remote areas.
2. To provide affordable medicine when and whee needed.
3. To provide health care to people who would go without medical attention otherwise.
5. To cover as many area as possible and to make as many as possible benefited.
What is your timeframe for growth, in the short and mid-term? What are the growth milestones and key activities going forward?
1. To start implementation as early as possible.
2. To achieve short term benefits while aiming at long term , sustainable and a permanent
solution.
baca seterusnya↓↑ menyembunyikan↑ menyembunyikanWhat has been the impact of your solution to date?
Traditional medicines are being practiced in several places but in a small way.
Many villagers use them but at a very small level. They have to be educated and medicine
has to be provided in the Government hospitals and also in the private hospitals and at
the health centers of NGOs.
What methods for quantification of social impact are you applying (if at all)?
Normal statistics like any other health care have to be taken to find the effectiveness.
Mere fact of many people being treated and benefitted shall be the proof.
Could your solution work in other geographies or regions? If so, where?
Yes. All most in all parts of the world.
The restriction are conditions of growth of the medicinal plants.
They are mostly tropical plants.
Other countries may have to import basic medicines.
What is your projected impact over the next 1-3 years?
shall improve health care by 25 % more , if proper care and actions required are taken. In a 10 year period 85% implementation could be expected.
baca seterusnya↓↑ menyembunyikan↑ menyembunyikanElaborate on your current financing strategy
When compared to the present state finance budgets for health care , this amount is very
nominal. Depending on the results , more funds could be allocated in the budgets.
For implementation of these schemes by NGOs thea re are several donors prepared to fund.
In India , in the Finance bill 2013 , there is requirement of the industry to spend 2% of their net income
for social responsibility. If a proper case is made out and commence implementation, Fundding should no face a problem.
Share of revenue generation in total income of organization (in percent)
50% from Government subsidy , 25% from contributions out of social responsibility and balance 25% from collection on medicines.
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
Patients, 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
Others.
Service contract with organizations, e.g., government, NGOs (in percent)
Government 50% AND Ngos 25%
Of the possible sources of the service contracts listed below, check all that apply to your current strategy
LSM, Private businesses, Regional government, Pemerintah negara.
Explain your revenue generation strategy in more detail
We assist in the implementation and do not directly handle the helth care.
Share of philanthropy in total income of organization (in percent)
we use groups and service organizations like Lions and Rotary etc for support and implementation,
Philanthrophy strategies you are using
Diversified strategy.
Explain your philanthropic approach in more detail
As explained above , we shall explain and make the members of the Lions Clubs and the other service
organizations like Rotary etc involve in the exercise. This will enable us to secure man powere and also
rise donations for the purpose. This group also shall be able to influance the Goverment and other Industrial establishments.
Expand on your selections; explain how you will sustain funding over the next 1-3 years.
1. Clubs and individual contributions.
2. Collection of sponsorship
3. Discuss with the Government
4. Discuss with the other NGOs and Industrial donors
Created on 03/15/2013 by isaferrar
Centro Medico Santagostino is an innovative healthcare institution in Italy.
It offers high quality medical examinations in more than 40 specialties at affordable prices, even in specialist areas which are not fully covered by the Italian National Health Service (such as dentistry, psychopsychotherapy) or in areas where public sector waiting lists are excessively long.
baca seterusnya ↓↑ menyembunyikan↑ menyembunyikanNama Organisasi
Centro Medico Santagostino
Organization's Country of Operation
Type of Organization
Bisnis
Year of launch of the organization
Years in Operation
Operating 1-5 years
Has the organization received awards or honors? Please tell us about them
ADI Design Index 2010: the ADI Design Index is the annual selection of the finest of Italian Design made by commissions of experts working all over Italy. We were awarded in the “Service Design” category.
E-Content Award Italy 2012: E-Content Award Italy is organised by MEDICI Framework and inspired by the WSA - WORLD SUMMIT AWARD in order to select quality e-content and promote creativity and innovation in new media applications in Italy. We received the second prize in the category “E-health” for our website.
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 2003 Luciano Balbo set up Oltre Foundation, the first Italian venture philanthropy operator. In 2006 Oltre began working on a new health-care model that could add value to the Italian society: the era of a clear-cut separation between public and private health-care system was over and Oltre had the opportunity to create a new model that could offer high medical quality at affordable prices.
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Centro Medico Santagostino: a new model in the Italian healthcare
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.?
Our project aims to interpret an emerging and widespread need for high-level specialist medical care at a reasonable price with rapid intervention and consideration also for the doctor-patient relationship. Centro Medico Santagostino of Milan intervenes in this area with a new healthcare model, offering quality services guaranteed by the involvement of top physicians from hospitals and universities in Milan, at accessible costs (medical examinations cost 60 Euro, approximately 30-50% less than private sector), also in areas that are not greatly covered by the nation health system, such as dentistry and psychotheraphy. The centre is open to working with associations, cooperatives, parishes and other local organizations to take joint responsibilities for those vulnerable from a socio-cultural and economic point of view and for organizing seminars in schools and companies for providing information and education (diet, diseases prevention, sexual issues..)
Describe how your innovation model is distinct from any other organization in your field?
In the Italian healthcare system the institutions can be completely private or totally public, or a mix of both. We are a completely private institution. In this sector the main difference between us and our competitors regards pricing and model of institution. Our prices are between 30% and 50% lower than the private market. We have 2 different types of competitors: single doctors and hospitals. The first group is suffering because cannot lower its prices in a situation where patients cannot afford afford huge fees. Hospitals are trying to enter in the “low-cost” market but this is very difficult because they should "cannibalize" their private offer.
What type of operating environment and internal organizational factors make your innovation successful?
Our shareholders are strong both financially and in terms of management know-how.
As regards the internal environment, we have created a competitive and challenging climate in which meritocracy and hard-work are the key elements for career advancement.
We tend to hire young people with high potentiality and our strategy is to let them “swim in the pool” of decision-making and continuous learning on the job.
This approach, if the worker has been chosen well and is put into a suitable working condition, creates a very effective mix of good results and limited costs.
How do you make sure you constantly innovate in light of (potential) external challenges, or your growth plan?
We use an experimental approach, both theoretical and practical, and we put innovation at the center of daily discussions within the management team.
We know that the only barrier to the entrance of competitors in our business consists in our ability to be at the forefront of innovation.
We also invest financial resources in experimenting new solutions for solving problems, grasping opportunities and create new ways of communicating and offering our services.
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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, 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?
Centro Medico Santagostino supplies medical care services in every primary medical area (specialist examinations, diagnostic tests, therapies for the main medical specialties, dentistry, psychotherapy and physiotherapy) with excellent quality and at affordable prices. It covers the supply gap in the area of health services, which was supposed to be covered by the Health National System (mostly in the area of dental care and psychological assistance), offering services at prices slightly higher than the public sector. Moreover, it offers a new model in which the Centre takes care of its patient in an integrated manner, diminishing his/her costs and increasing his/her satisfaction.
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]
Patient-centered design, New/redefined roles for healthcare service provision, New approaches to distribution of health products and services, New financing strategies for health.
Most relevant tools you are using to implement the strategies outlined above [select only two]
Technology, New skills, Others.
If other, specify here:
New financing strategies: the project has been promoted and financed by Oltre Venture, a company whose remit is to carry out pu
Please describe your solution in more detail
Providing high quality services at an affordable price, even in areas which are not fully covered by the public system or where its waiting lists are excessively long . The project is promoted by Oltre Venture, a company whose remit is to carry out public interest projects, focusing on social rather than financial returns. The investors agreed to forego any financial return: the objective is to preserve the value of the capital invested for a social return designed to benefit society. It thus becomes possible to keep tariffs down: they are 30-50% lower than the rates applied by the private sector.
What are your vision and overall objectives?
In the next five years we aim to be the first brand in primary healthcare in Italy. In order to achieve this ambitious goal, we are going to implement a network of medical centers with the same characteristic of pricing, medical offer, and of course quality standards. We want to be the first “quality option” of the city where we will operate.
What is your value proposition?
Our claim is “The choice of value”.
We built up a qualitative offer in every stage of care process, and we did this without transferring costs on the patient, but, on the contrary, making the price itself an element of our value proposition.
Our team, from doctors to desk officers, is committed to offer the best care experience. High medical quality is guaranteed by specialists of proven experience, severe clinical line guides and advanced technical equipments. We offer brief waiting lists, convenient opening hours, an easily accessible and pleasant location, a wide offer of services. We use technologies to improve services, such as the online booking.
Who is your customer(s)?
Our patients (more than 34.000 in 4 years) is mostly composed by women (70%) and the average is between 30 and 50 years old.
We serve especially middle-class people, with a good scholastic and cultural level.
The majority of our patients claim to be satisfied: we continuously monitor the customer satisfaction through feedback forms that are sent via e-mail after every medical examination.
What approaches to you use to reach your customers?
Our marketing strategy privileges the investment on a careful and innovative management of the Customer Relationship than on massive advertising campaigns. As a matter of fact we believe that in healthcare is far more important to build a good and personal relationship with the patient/customer than to spread the company's brand with publicity. Moreover, as a low profit company we rather invest in the optimization of our resources using creativity and innovative tools, such as flash mob events, web-based client services and so on.
What are your primary activities?
- keeping word of mouth high (almost 70% of new patients) by monitoring the customer satisfaction and intervening promptly in case of complaints;
- web (almost 20% of new patients): in 2012 we launched a brand new website using SEO principles and user-centered design approach, providing visitors with a wide and transparent set of both practical and clinical information (prices, waiting lists, professional profiles, explanations of medical therapies and pathologies). Photographs, videos and texts are all original. We also use social media;
- monthly newsletters;
- events: art exhibitions, open days and educative events with doctors, flash mobs and contests of ideas to innovate health;
Who are your peers and competitors? What problems could these players pose to your success or growth?
Private hospitals that might create a private offer similar to our price range. They have the financial muscles and skills for entering in our market and compete with us. They did not do that until now because of the danger of cannibalization of their high-price private offer, and in general they do not see this area as an enough profitable one to invest on.
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?
HR development. We usually hire young people and train them in-house. Therefore there is an intrinsic maximum speed of development . We train people to be trainer and in this way we evolve our speed of growth.
Briefly describe your growth strategy going forward
By the end of 2013 our goal is to open two new medical centers in Milan covering other territorial areas of the city. We would like to replicate our business model in neighbourhoods that are similar to the one we are in today in terms of characteristics of people that live or work there and accessibility. A long-term challenge is to open new locations in other Italian cities, starting from Rome.
What dimensions for growth are you currently targeting for your innovation [select all that apply]
New customer group(s), New regions(s), New market(s)/country(ies).
What makes your business "ready" for growth?
We began as a start-up 4 years ago and today our business model has demonstrated to be a sustainable one. Today, in order to expand our business, we need to have more centers. Since now we have been operating in the very centre of Milan and our brand is popular especially in this area. Now we need to be known in other parts of the city, and of Italy as well.
What are your key growth objectives?
We want to consolidate our healthcare model In Milan by the end of 2013, and then to open new centers in Italy. In the next 5-10 years we aim to be a known brand in at least 3 regions of Italy.
What is your timeframe for growth, in the short and mid-term? What are the growth milestones and key activities going forward?
To open 2 new centers in Milano in 2013, a new big center in Rome in 2014 and then 3 or more centers in other big cities in Italy. As a matter of fact, our business is very much related to the national (and even regional) health system, which requires to have a thorough knowledge of it.
baca seterusnya↓↑ menyembunyikan↑ menyembunyikanWhat has been the impact of your solution to date?
In its first 36 months Centro Medico Santagostino has served 34.000 patients for a total of 145. 0000 health services supplied.
Approximately 50% of our patients has chosen Centro Medico Santagostino as a point of reference for their health and keep taking regular medical appointments, also for other members of their families.
From our customer satisfaction reports, and from other surveys that we made in the past, we know that our patients are satisfied by the accessibility and affordability of our offer, that in fact allows them to spend approximately 30-50% less than with other private institution and, at the same time, to get the health service much faster than in the public system.
Moreover we have tested that, as soon as we broaden a specific service in terms of available hours, it gets immediately full. This proves that there is a large request and need for the type of medical offer that we represent today.
We also want to provide health education, and this is the reason why we regularly organize workshops in schools or companies or open days in our location where people can meet doctors, receive information about a specific topic and ask questions. These type of events are always fully booked, which testifies a deep social interest also in this kind of offer.
What methods for quantification of social impact are you applying (if at all)?
Expecially market success: the rate of growth is the key value that we consider most. We also weight the customer satisfaction: today almost 70% of our new patients claims to have chosen our medical center because of positive word of mouth.
And of course we analyse how our social reputation grows among public institutions, such as local government institutions and public healthcare organizations. This is easy to monitor through their spontaneous contacts and request of information or collaboration.
Could your solution work in other geographies or regions? If so, where?
In all developed countries where private health-care is substantially high-cost.
What is your projected impact over the next 1-3 years?
We grow by 50% per year, therefore we expect that our impact will grow with this same speed in the next 3 years. In terms of quality, we know that the higher the volume we have, the higher the quality we can provide to our patients because of a series of technical reasons.
baca seterusnya↓↑ menyembunyikan↑ menyembunyikanElaborate on your current financing strategy
We just got 1 million Euro from our shareholders for financing the new openings in Milan. We want to get between 7 and 15 million Euro for financing the growth in other Italian cities. Therefore we will make an IPO or a private placement in 2014.
Share of revenue generation in total income of organization (in percent)
Direct sales to patients or other beneficiaries (in percent)
Of the possible sources of these sales listed below, check all that apply to your current strategy
Friends and family, 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
Others.
Service contract with organizations, e.g., government, NGOs (in percent)
Of the possible sources of the service contracts listed below, check all that apply to your current strategy
Private businesses.
Explain your revenue generation strategy in more detail
We currently get 100% of our revenues from “out of pocket” patients and from private insurances. In particular, private insurances represent approximately 20% of our income.
As a matter of fact, today Centro Medico Santagostino is completely auto-sustainable in its ordinary balance. When it comes to make investments, for example in case of new openings, we still need t an external financial aid by our shareholders. And of course we make budget plans in order to get to the breakeven point in a short time.
Share of philanthropy in total income of organization (in percent)
Philanthrophy strategies you are using
Single strategy.
Explain your philanthropic approach in more detail
We intend to launch a project of social healthcare that will be aimed at providing free examinations and therapies to poor or impoverished people that cannot afford medical treatments. These people will be sent to us by local institutions such as Social Politics Departments, parishes or social cooperatives.
Expand on your selections; explain how you will sustain funding over the next 1-3 years.
We plan to ask to all our stakeholders to contribute to this project in different ways.
Our shareholders may provide economic funds; our patients may donate money; our doctors and specialists may provide their service for free; our employees may volunteer in their free time in order to do specific activities related to the project. Centro Medico Santagostino will provide logistics, organization, and communication resources.
Of course we plan to inform regularly our stakeholders about the quantitative and qualitative social impact of their effort.
Created on 03/14/2013 by McKenzy Haber
Wounded Warriors Happiness Course will help soldiers replace their triggers with happiness on the golf course by skillful teen golfers teaching Wounded Warriors golf and Wounded Warriors mentoring teen golfers. This service will be no sacrifice because everyone shares what they can: wounded warriors-guidance, teens-golf skills, marine officers-administration and players-golf lessons, tee times, and everybody has foursomes of fun.
Created on 03/13/2013 by Jezaegis
Social Enterprises developed to create self sustaining business models which both fund from profits care professionals salaries and provide training opportunities for young Rwandans in the hospitality industries.
baca seterusnya ↓↑ menyembunyikan↑ menyembunyikanNegara Organisasi
United Kingdom, NTT, Newark
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
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.
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baca seterusnya↓↑ menyembunyikan↑ menyembunyikanName Your Entry
Aegis Rwanda Trauma Counselling Project
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.?
Given both the high demand in Rwanda from the post 1994 Genocide surviving community for trauma services and also the low economic output that could be accessed to fund services, the Aegis Trust embarked on a progamme of self-sustaining health and social care interventions which were built on a social enterprise (SE) model. The SE would both generate income to fund trauma counselling and at the same time provide training and development opportunities for survivors and their families. Work was available in four activity areas: a cafe, a gift shop and the sale of audio-guides (all of these linked directly to the Kigali Genocide Memorial (KGM) in Gisozi, Kigali, Rwanda, which Aegis built and operated on behalf of the Kigali City Council and subsequently the National Commission against Genocide (CNLG). There was no funding available from any sources within Rwanda for either the Memorial building itself or the counselling and other social care programmes and funds had to be raised by Aegis from outside the country or from visitors, none of whomm could eb charged entry as the KGM is a national memorial and burial ground fro 280,000 victims of the genocide.
Describe how your innovation model is distinct from any other organization in your field?
It is self sustaining as we both generate income to fund psychologists in post who provide the trauma services AND we offer training and development opportunities in the hospitality industries that we operate. From no activity three years ago we now generate over $150,000 net income for the services and the running of the KGM national memorial.
What type of operating environment and internal organizational factors make your innovation successful?
We operate businesses that are supported by thousands of visitors each year and provide hospitality services and hostel accommodation for young international visitors (Discover Rwanda Hostel is ranked number 2 in Trip Advisor for stays in Kigali). We have provided jobs and training opportunities for 10 young Rwandans (survivors of the genocide or orphans of victims) to learn new skills and achieve gainful employment. We maintain high standards and offer value for money and are able to tap into a network of professional advisors from across the world who give us pro-bono advice and development services.
How do you make sure you constantly innovate in light of (potential) external challenges, or your growth plan?
By constantly scanning the market environment for price and quality indicators and by using our consumers as sounding board for approaches and techniques e.g. when young international visitors come and stay at the hostel. We also harness the enthusiasm and ambition of our staff who are all in various stages of training and development. We operate a highly devolved business model where young people can pursue imaginative solutions.
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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]
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?
Sustainably funded provision of trauma care to those with PTSD many years after the Rwandan Genocide but who also have a range of otter debilitating conditions such as HIV, physical disabilities and also social care needs such as housing.
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]
New financing strategies for health.
Most relevant tools you are using to implement the strategies outlined above [select only two]
Education/training, Community financing.
Please describe your solution in more detail
We are a model of sustainability. We take the income that comes from international tourists and students coming to the Kigali Genocide Memorial and who might stay at our hostel and use our cafe and gift shop and we use the proceeds of the enterprises to fund health and social care programmes for our 140 beneficiaries and yet we also use our businesses to train young Rwandans to develop skills and trades and become entrepreneurs themselves.
What are your vision and overall objectives?
Our vision is to grow businesses as social enterprises which not only produce profits which fund our care programmes and educational activities but also train and develop young Rwandans to create their own businesses also. We see the staff that we develop going on to create their own profitable businesses and help them to start their businesses with loans and investment,in which we could retain a stake and thus help the continuous and sustainable cycle of investment and growth.
What is your value proposition?
Provide investment in healthcare from profits from sustainable enterprise which seeks to employ, train and develop people from that heath and social care programme to achieve greater health and independence. This creates a virtuous cycle of enterprise, investment, social and economic return. In the process young Rwandans get chance to develop their own business ideas through our "business incubator" and that then gives them a greater sense of having a stake in their own society
Who is your customer(s)?
The 70000 visitors to the Kigali Genocide Memorial (40,000 of whom are international visitors) plus the 140+ survivors and their families who we support in the health and social care programmes. Potentially anyone who visits Rwanda is a customer and this is a growing market.
What approaches to you use to reach your customers?
Web based marketing, CRM database management (sort of!), on-site promotions, word of mouth, reputation developed from networking of international youth visitors
What are your primary activities?
In healthcare: trauma counselling for a static population of 140 and then the thousands of Rwandan visitors who come each year who suffer trauma related distress when visiting the Memorial. But in in our social enterprises we run a hostel, a cafe, a gift shop and we hir out audio guides. We also have an interest in a coffee roasting business which we sell through our cafe.
Who are your peers and competitors? What problems could these players pose to your success or growth?
Our competitors are related entirely to the hostel so low cost hotel competition which is growing but we are Number 2 on Trip Advisor for RWanda and offer a unique travel and stay experience for young people in a relaxed central location in Kigali
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?
Raising money to invest capital in the business. We do not own any of the premises we operate from and find it hard to raise enough money for one off investment e.g. for coffee machines for our baristas or for our own coffee roaster. We could also expand the business by opening a second hostel.
Briefly describe your growth strategy going forward
Double turnover in three years by expanding rooms at the hostel, developing our more profitable lines of gifts, changing our procurement processes, better merchandising and customer relationship management, couples with a development of "safari tents" in our grounds at the hostel.
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?
Strong track record over three years i.e. from zero to $450,000 turnover in that time; opportunity for physical expansion; growth of African and Eco tourism
What are your key growth objectives?
Double turnover in three years, increase margins from 50 - 65%
What is your timeframe for growth, in the short and mid-term? What are the growth milestones and key activities going forward?
Expand camping facilities at hostel in 2013, and increase number of double rooms by investing RWFr 30,000,000; relocating kitchens in 2014 along with increased and improved washing facilities; increase the number of languages in our range of audio guides from 6 to 10 along with an increase in price from $10 - $15.
baca seterusnya↓↑ menyembunyikan↑ menyembunyikanWhat has been the impact of your solution to date?
Training of staff, treatment of beneficiaries receiving trauma care in both the static population of 140 and the thousands of Rwandan visitors and schoolchildren on our education programmed each year who come to the KGM and experience some degree of trauma related mental health issues.
What methods for quantification of social impact are you applying (if at all)?
We have adopted Outcome Mapping as part of our M&E methodology and we link our business planning methodology with M&E at departmental level.
Could your solution work in other geographies or regions? If so, where?
Yes - wherever there was active populations of consumers associated with programmes for the treatment of victims of conflict.
What is your projected impact over the next 1-3 years?
Increased profitability to feed in to the care programmes and more staff trained and assisted in developing their own businesses.
baca seterusnya↓↑ menyembunyikan↑ menyembunyikanElaborate on your current financing strategy
We need $600,000 to run the memorial and associated education and care programmes of which $225,000 is contributed from the net income of SE. The remainder si made up of grants and donations.
Share of revenue generation in total income of organization (in percent)
Direct sales to patients or other beneficiaries (in percent)
Of the possible sources of these sales listed below, check all that apply to your current strategy
Individu, Private businesses, Other beneficiaries.
Licensing fees, e.g., for technology/franchise model (in percent)
Of the possible sources of these licensing opportunities listed below, check all that apply to your current strategy
Service contract with organizations, e.g., government, NGOs (in percent)
Of the possible sources of the service contracts listed below, check all that apply to your current strategy
Explain your revenue generation strategy in more detail
Sale of goods and services to visitors to the KGM and provision of accommodation to international youth visitors.
Share of philanthropy in total income of organization (in percent)
Philanthrophy strategies you are using
Diversified strategy.
Explain your philanthropic approach in more detail
We seek grants from philanthropic institutions and / or government aid programmes as well as individual visitors (30% + 30%). We use institutions with a particular interest in Africa, education and social welfare and have developed a reliable body of interested Foundations and government grant makers e.g. Annenberg Foundation and the Swedish International Development Aid Agency.
Expand on your selections; explain how you will sustain funding over the next 1-3 years.
invest in businesses, increase margins, develop membership support scheme. We have and will increasingly work with leaders of business and industry to secure advice and development support on a pro bono basis through their personal commitment to our good causes.
Our mission is to create a world where everyone can live to their fullest potential.
Our vision spans four areas:
1. Building a brand, philosophy and way of life that empowers every individual the freedom to live a passionate and fulfilling life. To build a community and movement around human thrivability, prosperity and flourishing.
2. A framework that can be adapted and integrated into existing systems, such as business organization systems, education systems, government, and innovation and design.
Created on 03/12/2013 by anastasialawrence2013
SPEAK (Suicide, Prevention, Education, Awareness, Kit) is a 9x6 hard cover journal design to help teens cope with life issues and help prevent suicide. Our mission is to help teens get help without being judged, so they can feel comfortable with themselves, relationships and life stressors.
Created on 03/8/2013 by Brandon Zerbe
Uniting Fitness uses a combination of technology and personal interaction to teach clients about nutrition and exercise to achieve a healthy lifestyle.
Created on 03/6/2013 by anshula
The mission of Jot Happy is to use the latest research, especially in the field of positive psychology, to organize simple, fun, and concrete activities to decrease depression and increase mental wellness in high school students.
This project also has a Changeshop where you can read more about its latest progress.
Go to Changeshop: Yoga Outreach .
Created on 03/6/2013 by delaniedyck
Yoga Outreach is committed to developing and delivering life-affirming Service Yoga programs to people who do not have access to these resources for a variety of reasons. Barriers to access include mental health, age, gender, trauma history, violence, addiction, poverty, and incarceration. We approach Service Yoga in an innovative way by engaging yoga instructors who are all volunteers, and partnering them with social service organizations. We support volunteer teachers and partner facilities with training, mentorship, and ongoing program facilitation.
baca seterusnya ↓↑ menyembunyikan↑ menyembunyikanNama Organisasi
The Yoga Outreach Society
Negara tempat organisasi ini menciptakan dampak sosial
Apakah organisasi Anda adalah:
a. Nirlaba
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baca seterusnya↓↑ menyembunyikan↑ menyembunyikanPilih tahap yang paling sesuai untuk solusi Anda:
Established (past the previous stages and has demonstrated success)
What problem is your organization committed to solving? In particular, share what is innovative about your approach.
Yoga Outreach is committed to developing and delivering life-affirming Service Yoga programs to people who do not have access to these resources for a variety of reasons. Barriers to access include mental health, age, gender, trauma history, violence, addiction, poverty, and incarceration. We approach Service Yoga in an innovative way by engaging yoga instructors who are all volunteers, and partnering them with social service organizations. We support volunteer teachers and partner facilities with training, mentorship, and ongoing program facilitation. Our students are in turn supported by knowledgeable instructors that have an understanding of their needs based on the setting, classes that are trauma-informed, safe, and hopefully fun!
What are your organization's top three priorities in the next year?
Our number one focus is to continue to build capacity for yoga based programming to be utilized as a complimentary therapy for people who are already accessing services. These service settings include mental health, addictions recovery, shelters, youth centres, and correctional facilities. In order to support this focus we have identified several priorities for the coming year. Our first priority is to enhance our marketing and communications to better advocate for Yoga Outreach programs and trainings in the Lower Mainland and more broadly throughout BC. Our second priority is to streamline our yoga program delivery to maximize existing resources and allow for expansion. We currently accept all requests for programming and the level of support we offer is quite high. Our third priority is to ensure that any growth is also building a foundation for the organization to move to the national level.
Need #1
Message & Brand Strategy
Need #2
Digital Marketing Strategy
Based on your first choice of the eight technical categories you selected above, what is your specific project need? Please be specific!
Our branding and messaging still stems from our origins 17 years ago. Quite simply we need to update! We want to create a renewed excitement around Yoga Outreach and the work we do. We recognize the need to strengthen our brand to get people talking about Service Yoga, and to shift the perceptions around the people and settings we work with and in. There is a great deal of evidence that shows yoga can be a powerful tool for healing. Our project requires a knowledgeable guide to help us hone our core message and develop a strategy to build engagement with our brand. As we only have one full time staff member, developing a comprehensive strategy around our marketing and communications is key to maximize available staff time. Our project would include developing key messaging, an editorial calendar, and strategies for increasing digital engagement. In addition, the development of a system for tracking the impact of our messaging would be helpful.
Will support from American Express be focused on your organization overall or a specific product/service? Please describe.
The support we receive will be focused on our organization as a whole. In building stronger messaging and branding for our services we hope to increase the overall capacity and recognition for yoga as a valuable tool for healing in people's lives.
Have you focused on the above area previously? If so, please explain, including whether you have worked with outside consultants before.
In 2011 the new Executive Director began to prioritize messaging and branding and has made some increases in community awareness of YO and it's programs. We have not worked with any outside consultants as we have limited resources.
Are you able to commit 3-5 hours/wk over 10-12 weeks?
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.
Greater clarity and consistency of our message
2.
Greater brand recognition
3.
Increased community engagement as a resutl of 1 and 2
What has been the impact of your solution to date?
Each year, we estimate that between 1500 and 2000 people have access to yoga as a result of our program support. We know that without our support the 25 weekly yoga programs we facilitate in partner facilities would not be able to continue. Research has shown that yoga provides numerous benefits for emotional self-regulation, physical relaxation, as well as an opportunity to experience safety and choice in one's own body. When asked about the yoga program, 95% of clients in an addictions recovery program said they would recommend the class to others. Additionally 90% of these clients reported feeling like they would be able to translate the skills they learned in class into their daily lives.
What is your project future impact after receiving professional support from American Express?
Our hope is that we will be able to increase our access to a larger pool of donors and sponsors so we can expand programming to other areas of BC and beyond. In addition, we anticipate increased numbers of volunteer teachers applying to work in YO settings. As part of our 3 year plan we would like to position the organization to become a national leader in the development and implementation of yoga programs for marginalized groups.
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Created on 03/6/2013 by susannerik
MultiTaske is a special non-profit social entreprise for people excluded from the labor market. We produce high quality fashion products made from upcycled products.
We are dedicated to make a change in inequality in health for vulnerable people.
We have created a binding community, based on happiness at work, healthy food, excersize and counselling.
baca seterusnya ↓↑ menyembunyikan↑ menyembunyikanOrganization's Country of Operation
Type of Organization
Non‐profit/NGO
Year of launch of the organization
Years in Operation
Operating 1-5 years
Has the organization received awards or honors? Please tell us about them
Unfortunatly no awards yet
We want to hear about your “Aha!” moment. Share the story of where and when the founder(s) saw this solution’s potential to change the world.
The idea was perceived in 2007 Austin, Texas. A bag was the inspiration to work with upcycling of innertubes, The bag and an old wish to integrate health care, fysical and mental health with work integration was the inspiration to create a working community for excluded people, living on social welfare.
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baca seterusnya↓↑ menyembunyikan↑ menyembunyikanName Your Entry
MultiTaske - social entreprise for inclusion and health
Explain what the "innovation" is about, e.g., is it the idea and/or the model you use to accomplish the idea, or your understanding of the target population, etc.?
In Denmark social welfare is based on 3 pillars. Health Care, social services and employment messures. There is no connection between the 3 pillars. The result is that at least 100.000 people live on cashbenefits without any chance of being able to become selfsupported. The result is that this group has a larger suicide rate, attends hospitals and doctors more frequently than the rest of the population, has more problems with drugs and alcohol and live shorter than the rest of the population. This group will become a bomb under the danish welfare system, unless drastic measures are made to include this group in the danish society. If nothing is done the health costs of these people will grow imensely. The exclusion of people is an underrated problem in Denmark.
These people are unemployed and socially isolated, They have all sorts of health problems, social problems, economic problems. They don´t get sufficient food, they drink too much alcohol, they smoke to much, they have drug and drugrelated problems. In stead of excercising they watch tv and have fastfood. There children become undereducated.
As a negative sideeffect these people have no or little acces to the internet and have therefore difficulties in communicating with the public authorities. This is an increasing problem as all communication with the authorities will be internet based fra 2014.
Our model is integrating work, healthcare, prober food, fysical and mental excercise with counselling. Our theory is: Happiness at work is the keyfactor in recovery and improved health and the path to inclusion
Describe how your innovation model is distinct from any other organization in your field?
in Denmark a lot of companies are working in the field of work integration. The basic distinction from our organisation is the methodological approach. We create security, we create challenges, we are inclusive and we give people assignments they fancy. Every individuel in our organization has assignments designed especially for him or her.
Our enterprise is not a drop-in center. Our enterprise is not a course where you learn to write a CV. We offer an obligating community where people are recognized for their skills and not their social status.
We spend 70 % of our time an human relations and 30 % on production. We know that the people we engage have a very low work capacity and therefore need time and training before there is a room for them in companies all over Copenhagen.
What type of operating environment and internal organizational factors make your innovation successful?
As owners we have a background as a head of municipal jobcenter and as socialworker specialised in rehabilitation. This means that we know how to cooperate with the municipality and have an insight in procedures and legal stuff. We have specific good skills on creating projects and implementing our ideas in our entreprise.
We are skilled in hiring people. We have a principle on hiring people who combine beeing enthusiastic and unemployed. We combine this principle with hiring people who are skilled on the area we are hiring them.
Internally we are patient with those of our employees who are being sent from the local jobcenter. Nobody are being sent off because they are late or drunk or mentally ill. We work together with them and the work community is the biggest motivational factor
How do you make sure you constantly innovate in light of (potential) external challenges, or your growth plan?
We are working in a sector with a great need for innovation. We are constantly innovating in the light of the reforms coming up on early retirement, fleksjob and cash benefit. We constantly have to be focused on the needs made by law, the demands of the municipalities in the Copenhagen area and the needs from the people that attends us.
We have a saying: We build the road as we go. We are experts in incremental innovation. Right now our focus is on employment and educating strategies. We are devolping schemes for more local community involvement and onn a longer scale we are looking forward to become part of social housing projects.
We feel we have the strategic surplus to meet the challenges of the future, due to our great knowledge of the danish welfare society.
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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]
Intervention, Social integration.
Please describe in more detail: what problem are you trying to solve in the organization's specific context?
In the near future a new model for cooperation between public sectors is implemented. The basic idea is to lower the number af early retirements and develop working capacity on an individual level.
At MultiTaske we have the ability to develop working capacity of individuals. We can do this in a partnership with the regional healthcare, the local jobcenter, municipal social services and health department.
By cooperating with us we are solving problems on a national level and give excluded people new opportunities so that they and their children can get a healthier and better life and even on the long run get a job.
We are making a change in public health strategy. We have created a model that can change the inequality in health care in Denmark.
Stage that best applies to your solution [select only one]
Start-up and growth (pilot is successful and starting to expand)
Core strategies of your business model [select all that apply]
Approaches to behavioral change at the individual level, New approaches to distribution of health products and services, Unconventional partnerships (between traditional healthcare players and players outside healthcare).
If other, specify here:
producing goods for a market
Most relevant tools you are using to implement the strategies outlined above [select only two]
New skills, Education/training.
Please describe your solution in more detail
You dont get the proper treatment when you are classified in the vulnerable group of people receiving social benefits. When you have addiction problems, mental problems, housing problems physical problems and living on social welfare, you have to go to 5 to 7 agencies, some on ammunicipal level and some on a regional level. That creates inequality in health provision and increases public expenses.
Our solution: When you participate in a public, private partnership you can improve health on an individual level level. Creating working communities with production to a market you increase selfesteem, improve physical condition, structure your day, improves your health and ability to cope with the challenges you meet. You get the opportunity and the skills to go from excluded to included.
What are your vision and overall objectives?
Instead of mainstreaming the employment strategy and excluding a growing group from society. We are implementing a practice-oriented method to include vulnerable groups of individual. We are the alternative to be left on your own in a society that makes it more difficult to be a participating member when you are excluded.
It is a giant waste of people we are witnessing and we want to change that attitude, by showing that we can create better health and a better quality of life for this group.
What is your value proposition?
One person on social welfare from the age of 30 until retirement is a negative income for society. Transfer payments and health expenses is a major threat to the danish welfare model if this group of people continues to grow.
We are showing that the benefits for society are enormous when you turn yourself from dependent on welfare benefits to being indepent and selfsupported.
We are not able to make a calculation on the social return on investment. But we have an assumption saying that we on a yearly basis make a contribution of more than 50.000 usd for every person we include on the labour market.
Who is your customer(s)?
Our Customers can be divided into 3 groups
The customers for our bags and other products are people above 40. They are interested in upcycling and have a great concern for the vulnerable groups in the danish society.
One part of our customers are vulnerable people. They hear about us and contact us. We help them so that they get in touch with the jobcenter.
Our main customers are the municipalities around Copenhagen and primarily the municipality og Copenhagen.
Within the Municipality we are working for the jobcenter. Due to the organization of the workflow in the municipality we dont work directly together with health services, the department for addiction treatment and the department of socialservices
What approaches to you use to reach your customers?
We get in contact with our targetgroup for products by traditional means. We use social media, we tell our story to the written medias, we use our website and we are spreading the word from mouth to mouth.
When it comes to the municipality we have implemented a long term strategy of getting known. We have spent much time on becoming known among central officials. This is about pitching the project and writing interesting applications. The next part of our strategy is to become reach the politcians. We have reached that point by making a hearing on social entreprises for local politicians and members of the local employment councils. Next step is to become known among the social workers in the jobcenter. This is a question of doing a great job to be chosen again.We are good networkers.
What are your primary activities?
We have 4 teams. One team is the sowing team. Here we teach people to sow professionally step by step. We have elaborated a system with descriptions. It is possible to register your progression.
The practical team is responsible for maintenance of the production site and delivers the raw material for the sowing production. They also collect innertubes and will be responsible for our new product called "Life in the windows" which is a multipurpose project.
The Kitchen Team is responsible for making 2 nourishing and healthy meals a day and also clean the kitchen. They learn to make healthy food and also learn the importance of hygienic behavior.
The Administrative team does the accounts, develops webshop, website, facebookaccount and is responsible for sales of our products.
Who are your peers and competitors? What problems could these players pose to your success or growth?
In Denmark we are approximately 300 social entreprises working with inclusion of 5000 vulnerable people in the labourmarket. We are the only ones making bags. We have a lot of peers and competitors on working with inclusion.
The employment business is a threat to us. In the Copenhagen area there is a lot of competition, but mostly on pricing. We know that we can be competitive on prices.
What differs us from the other busines´s is our methodology and approach to our participants, or employes as we prefer to call them. When people experiences happiness at work they really believe that they can achieve their goal. We go for that.
What other challenges - individual, organizational, or environmental – are you currently facing or might hinder future success of your business, and how do you plan to overcome those?
Right now our biggest challenge is to obtain contracts with the municipalities. We have made a number of measures to ensure that we willw succeed in continuing our busines.
Besides the financial challenges there are challenges concerning legislation. We are waiting for measures to be taken to improve the conditions of social enterprises. Therefore we spend a lot of time on networking to make sure that the politicians realize that they have to invest in solutions like the ones we are creating.
The procurement regulations is an organizational challenge. We have upgraded our legal knowledge on the subject and are waiting for the municipalities to losen up and play it by the new rules.
Briefly describe your growth strategy going forward
We have made a 5 year plan a year ago. We wants to expand our business according to the sale of our products. We have grown from a staff of 4 to a staff of 7. When our 5 year plan is realized we have a staff of 20 people and are working from 3 sites all placed in Nørrebro. We are working with 100 vulnerable people at a time. Next step is making a franchise model based on our methodology.
What dimensions for growth are you currently targeting for your innovation [select all that apply]
New customer group(s), New regions(s).
What makes your business "ready" for growth?
We have a very strong concept of how to organize our production site. We have come to the conclusion that instead of moving to bigger premises it would be better to create new sites. This is because it is obvious that 30 to 35 people, where the majority has combined problems with health and so on, is the ideal size of site to improve health and include people on the labor market.
What are your key growth objectives?
We want to grow on staff. We want to create jobs in Denmark for people living in Denmark
We want to create appropriate opportunities for vulnerable people excluded from society
We have developed a model for improving the health of the vast group of people with physical, mental and abuse problems.
We can grow by spreading our model as a franchise in social entrepreneurship.
What is your timeframe for growth, in the short and mid-term? What are the growth milestones and key activities going forward?
We have made a 5 year plan based on the fact that we can develop the sale of our products. The first milestone is to secure survival by getting contracts with the municipalities. This is by august this year 2013.
In 2014 we open our second site in Nørrebro.
In 2015 we open our third site in Nørrebro
By the end of 2016 we have developed our franchise model and have spread the idea to several major cities in Denmark
baca seterusnya↓↑ menyembunyikan↑ menyembunyikanWhat has been the impact of your solution to date?
50 people have been participating in MultiTaske. 37 have been associated for a longer period of time. Approximately 1/3 have problems related to abuse. 1/3 have problems related to mental disease. 1/3 have physical problems.
We have no intention of stating that we can rescue the whole world. We give people the opportunity to choose a better way of living.
Every participant gets 2 daily meals. Breakfast and lunch. Breakfast gives some basic energy to start working and lunch is also an opportunity to start eating healthier. No fast food, nu prepared meals. The impact is that everybody gets something healthy to eat and the possibility to bring an extra meal back home.
We make sure that people take their medication correct. One person with epilepsy has had no attacks for one year.
Half of the people with problems related to alcohol have reduced their drinking habits to an acceptable level. One person is still struggling with her approach to alcohol.
We spent a lot of time structuring the day for those who suffer from depressions and ADHD. It helps them to have specific tasks to fulfill everyday. We protect people from loneliness and mess at home and in their head. 3 people tell us that they are more calm and they dont need support from the social department any longer. The rest are happy that they can organize their own lives in a better way.
The last third have become more physical fit due to food and excersize. This is a great impact for them as individuals. They say they are closer to the labor market. We organize their working life according to their capacaty
What methods for quantification of social impact are you applying (if at all)?
We do not have any statistic method of quantificating the social impact. It is important to us to talk to the people participating. We treat them the same way as every ordinary employee.
Could your solution work in other geographies or regions? If so, where?
Our solution is based on a danish context. We do believe that our solution can be transformed to a solution in other european countries. But the solution must be transformed to and be modified according to the local conditions.
Basically we believe that this solution works best in a welfare model that can be compared to the danish versing
What is your projected impact over the next 1-3 years?
Within the next 3 years more than 150 people have been participating in MultiTaske. We have recruited at least 10 for our own staff.
25 have quitted drinking alcohol and doing drugs
35 have reduced their medication
50 have lost/gain weight and are more fit.
120 can work longer and know how to solve their problems
25 % of those participating can not be helped by us.
baca seterusnya↓↑ menyembunyikan↑ menyembunyikanElaborate on your current financing strategy
Our financing strategy is tripple one. First and foremost we are working on getting contracts with the municipality of Copenhagen and the municipalities around Copenhagen. We have developed a model which is adapted to the early retirement reform from january 2013. We have a product which is the missing link between the intentions of the reform and the local practice. Right now we are working on selling our products. Secondly we are funded by pools.Our first year was funded by the Municipality of Copenhagen (the method development pool). From june we are partly funded by the local employment council,
The third part of our strategy is selling products based on upcycling of bicycles innertubes and promotion banners. We would like to be 100 % financed by selling our products. But this is not possible due to difficulties of our labourforce. Selling our products follows two lines. We are developing a b2b solution and we are selling luxury products as bags.
Basically we are open to gifts from philantropic societies but this is not on our agenda.
Share of revenue generation in total income of organization (in percent)
Direct sales to patients or other beneficiaries (in percent)
Of the possible sources of these sales listed below, check all that apply to your current strategy
Individu, 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
Yayasan, Regional government, Pemerintah negara.
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, Regional government, Pemerintah negara.
Explain your revenue generation strategy in more detail
As earlier stated we do sell our products. We have a small but increasing market. Our products are beeing sold on several danish webshops and a few but well placed shops in Copenhagen and Århus. On this level of our development our limit is 500 bags a year. This will mean that the financial limit of our sales are app. 20 % of our annual budget.
We are therefor dependant on contracts or pools with municipalities. Right now we are negotiating with municipalities and suppliers of employment Measures on contracts.
We are deeply engaged in the political work of improving the conditions for social enterprises in Denmark. It is important to do this as it will make it possible for us to get grants from the danish government.
Share of philanthropy in total income of organization (in percent)
Philanthrophy strategies you are using
Single strategy.
Explain your philanthropic approach in more detail
We do not have a specific approach towards philanthropics. We have made a great number of applications at private foundations. So far we have not been succesful.
We have the conviction that as long as we are in the shadow land between business, voluntary organization, and public service makes it difficult for us to be recognized by the private foundations.
We are open to receiving grants from private foundations. But we believe that our target group does not appeal to foundations.
Expand on your selections; explain how you will sustain funding over the next 1-3 years.
We are basically funded for the rest of 2013. We have to make contracts worth 500.000 dkr. This is possible as we already are negotiating with 3 municipalities around Copenhagen.
Our plan is that we will make long term contracts with the municipality of Copenhagen and two more municiplities. The contract will ensure that app. 25 people will be associated to MultiTaske. This model will ensure our funding for the next 3 years.
Within the next 3 years we will increase the sale of our products. It has taken us one year to become known in a greater audience. We get great feed back on our products. The biggest problem is that our production limit is 500 bags a year. We are therefore working on a plan how to develop the production and the production facilities. We are also working on how to make other products that are easy to make and can create a surplus. This is part of our Business to business strategy.
Within the next 2 years we have reached the production level. Year 3 from now we have to expand the workshop to part 2. We are planning to do this by expanding our staff, hiring among the best of the people sent from the minicipalitties.
Created on 03/3/2013 by SharonDR
Limited family support in the rural communities unless the family comes to Penticton. The population served is 30,000 (2010 census). Families are hesitant to reveal they have a mentally ill member due to stigma. Community agencies report a lack of expertise to support these families adequately. Taking family support to these communities is new in our area. caregivers need skills to care for themselves as well as support the person in their recovery.
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Nama Organisasi
BC Schizophrenia Society Penticton Branch
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Apakah organisasi Anda adalah:
a. Nirlaba
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baca seterusnya↓↑ menyembunyikan↑ menyembunyikanName Your Entry
Mental Illness Family Support in Rural Communities
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.
Limited family support in the rural communities unless the family comes to Penticton. The population served is 30,000 (2010 census). Families are hesitant to reveal they have a mentally ill member due to stigma. Community agencies report a lack of expertise to support these families adequately. Taking family support to these communities is new in our area. caregivers need skills to care for themselves as well as support the person in their recovery.
What are your organization's top three priorities in the next year?
1. Implement a Family Support Worker for Rural Communities
2. Implement a Manager position for the Society that inclusive of a fundraising development program
3. Explore options to develop Martin House (young adult program) as its own society
Need #1
Peer Benchmarking Analysis
Need #2
Consumer/Audience Acquisition
Based on your first choice of the eight technical categories you selected above, what is your specific project need? Please be specific!
Developing a case for financial support to augment the basic contract with Interior Health Authority for Family Support to provide funding to provide the family support program in situ.
Will support from American Express be focused on your organization overall or a specific product/service? Please describe.
We need to learn how to do more effective fundraising including grant writing and events
Have you focused on the above area previously? If so, please explain, including whether you have worked with outside consultants before.
We did receive a grant (2011) from Bell Let's Talk Community Fund for vehicle expense ($5,000) and have a current campaign to raise a similar amount ($1250 from December to date).
Yes. Sharon Evans, our President, is registered for the Simple Development Program with Pamela Grow Consulting GrowConsultingPA | PO Box 274 | Haverford, PA 19041. A personal contribution of time and money.
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.
Every community will have direct weekly family support access so families can learn how to cope.
2.
We will have a development program for donor acquisition and retention.
3.
Volunteers will assist with community projects to combat stigma and discrimination
What has been the impact of your solution to date?
Family Support Worker has been able to connect in the rural communities at least monthly with other agencies. At this time, she is attending the Neighbourhood Hub in Oliver weekly for 2 hours with some volunteer support. Family member contacts have increased by 2.5 times during the past 4 years.
What is your project future impact after receiving professional support from American Express?
We will improve our expertise in sustainable fund development for society operations including maintaining 2 Family Support Worker positions and a Society Manager.
This Entry is about (Issues)
Created on 03/2/2013 by Jhollinger
Our collaborative portrait-biography process and our interactive "Archive of Adolescence" address the decline of opportunity for youth-led, civic dialogue among diverse constituents vital to sparking activism on social justice issues and to forming alliances across the entrenched and divisive lines of culture, social class, and race . Our process uses technology to enhance authentic face-to-face communication among young people that fosters their empathy for each other and helps them work together across differences in support of building healthier communities.
baca seterusnya ↓↑ menyembunyikan↑ menyembunyikanNama Organisasi
The American Teenager Project
Negara Organisasi
United States, CA, Oakland, Alameda County
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Apakah organisasi Anda adalah:
a. Nirlaba
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baca seterusnya↓↑ menyembunyikan↑ menyembunyikanName Your Entry
The American Teenager Project
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.
Our collaborative portrait-biography process and our interactive "Archive of Adolescence" address the decline of opportunity for youth-led, civic dialogue among diverse constituents vital to sparking activism on social justice issues and to forming alliances across the entrenched and divisive lines of culture, social class, and race . Our process uses technology to enhance authentic face-to-face communication among young people that fosters their empathy for each other and helps them work together across differences in support of building healthier communities. Our collaborative process subverts the common journalistic division between "subject", "author/artist", and "audience" by connecting participants to each other and inviting the audience to engage, rather than view passively.
What are your organization's top three priorities in the next year?
complete our pilot youth journalism program and Unlock the Talk Exhibition in Richmond, California and have these resonate with the community to create lasting collaboration and a shift toward empathic youth culture.
Finalize our professional development plan for our Teacher Ambassadors and general educators and train and enlist at least 20 Ambassadors to run our workshops in their home communities.
Raise the money for and build our interactive, digital Archive of Adolescence - our growing gallery of portraits and personal stories of youth from throughout the country.
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 have established a strong product which itself has a look and a brand - but the overall organization needs help refining our look/mission/logo/branding etc. and we have three distinct audiences to reach if we are going to be able to fund and expand our programs: 1.) funders! - corporate, individual, foundations 2.) educators and educational institutions and 3.) Teenagers - the primary participants, but not the ones who have the capacity to fund the program - but their support of the program will be the success funders are looking for. So how do we choose the right look and messaging so that all three groups are inspired to come on board!
2.
Professionalism - time management, can culture shift depending on environment, respectful of ALL
Will support from American Express be focused on your organization overall or a specific product/service? Please describe.
Overall organization - how to expand from two co-founders into a more full-fledged organization with a staff and a much wider pariticipant pool in our programs
Have you focused on the above area previously? If so, please explain, including whether you have worked with outside consultants before.
Are you able to commit 3-5 hours/wk over 10-12 weeks?
Yes
Are you able to meet virtually or at a convenient in-person location?
Yes
Are you able to meet in the city where your organization is based?
Yes
1.
Committed to our mission/brand/logo and ready to go live with it
2.
Marketing and Outreach strategy
3.
Strategic Plan for organizational growth over next five years
What has been the impact of your solution to date?
Success connecting young people from multiple lncome, geographic and ethnic backgrounds to each other through programs in Massachusetts, Cincinnati, New York, and Bay Area California. Building a Core group of youth journalists from five high schools in our pilot who express that the program is unique in its ability to create community among this group and give them authentic opportunity to make a difference in their neighborhoods. Have provided 100 young people with training so far. Secured major funding and exhibition venue for our pilot programming.
What is your project future impact after receiving professional support from American Express?
Our goal for mid 2014 is to have >20 Teacher Ambassadors running The American Teenager Project in their home communities spanning at least 5 states - these Ambassadors will work directly with 20 - 100 students each and their exhibitions will reach 400 - 1000. Our Web Archive and Mobile App will go live by January 2014 and will allow for us to significantly expand the reach of our programs in 2015. Our traveling exhibition will go to 10 sites in 2014 and at least that many in 2015 - our gallery will travel to multiple states serving a range of demographics. With the support of American Express we will be able to raise the money to facilitate these expansions process and create our permanent brand/logo/messaging that will allow for solid/appropriate/effective messaging moving forward.
This Entry is about (Issues)
Created on 03/2/2013 by Lawrence Cann
Street Soccer USA is an exciting social enterprise, now replicated in 18 cities across the country. SSUSA uses sport to teach life and job skills to homeless and impoverished youth and young adults. Practices on the field and off-the-field sessions take place weekly all year long. The safe space and trusting relationships SSUSA creates enables these skills to be transferred and thus unlocks participants' future potential. 75% of participants pursue further education or secure full time employment.
baca seterusnya ↓↑ menyembunyikan↑ menyembunyikanNegara Organisasi
United States, NY, New York
Negara 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↑ menyembunyikanPilih tahap yang paling sesuai untuk solusi Anda:
Established (past the previous stages and has demonstrated success)
What problem is your organization committed to solving? In particular, share what is innovative about your approach.
Street Soccer USA is an exciting social enterprise, now replicated in 18 cities across the country. SSUSA uses sport to teach life and job skills to homeless and impoverished youth and young adults. Practices on the field and off-the-field sessions take place weekly all year long. The safe space and trusting relationships SSUSA creates enables these skills to be transferred and thus unlocks participants' future potential. 75% of participants pursue further education or secure full time employment.
What are your organization's top three priorities in the next year?
In addition to our core social program described above, SSUSA also operates for profit model soccer leagues and unique street soccer tournaments in locations like Times Square. It also sells it's own brand of soccer gear. The leagues and tournaments create job opportunities for program graduates and generate an income stream for the non profit. Therefore growing the enterprises is a top priority for the organization. Our top three priorities include
1. Acquire customers for our leagues, tournaments, and gear sales.
2. Retain and Cultivate Donors and Customers
3. Refine our training, accreditation, monitoring model to improve staff performance and ensure we continue to produce exceptional social outcomes.
Need #1
Consumer/Audience Acquisition
Need #2
Performance Management
Based on your first choice of the eight technical categories you selected above, what is your specific project need? Please be specific!
Support from American Express will focus on one specific aspect of our business--our social enterprise leagues and tournaments.
Street Soccer USA effectively reaches the homeless and impoverished youth it serves through our partnership model with social service agencies and low income housing developments.
Currently Street Soccer USA engages its other customers as
*volunteers /coaches in / donors to our community programs
*individual or team registrants in our soccer leagues
*individual or team registrants in our street soccer tournaments
*consumers of Street Soccer USA's "I PLAY FOR" gear
To date we have attracted volunteers, donors, registrants, and consumers through word of mouth, earned, media, personal and professional networks.
Street Soccer USA is seeking American Express support to formalize its outreach and customer acquisition strategy, tactics, and processes.
We need to define and segment more effectively our target audience, identify the tools that we require to research, outreach to, and track our targets for specific initiatives.
Finally we need to effectively cross sell across volunteers, donors, registrants, and consumers.
1.
Trust (we must be honest and we must feel safe enough to be honest)
2.
Accountability (say what we mean and do what we say)
3.
Commitment ( when the going gets tough, we stick together)
Will support from American Express be focused on your organization overall or a specific product/service? Please describe.
Support from American Express will focus on specific aspect of our business--our social enterprise leagues and tournaments and our gear sales.
The leagues and tournaments are essential to our mission because they provide tangible job opportunities and experience to the homeless and impoverished youth we serve. They are also essential because they drive revenue that funds operational costs of our weekly programs.
Have you focused on the above area previously? If so, please explain, including whether you have worked with outside consultants before.
We have not worked with outside consultants before, however we have focused on this area significantly internally. We successfully operate ongoing leagues in multiple cities, have executed major tournaments, and are currently planning two large tournaments, one set for New York City this summer.
We were able to bootstrap these ventures with the dedication of existing staff because we believe this model is the future driver of our sustainability and social impact.
We feel we are in a good position to benefit from consulting now as we seek to grow these social businesses.
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.
Creation of Sales Strategy and Plan
2.
Establishment of Sales Tools and Processes
3.
50% increase in sales next quarter
What has been the impact of your solution to date?
Street Soccer USA has established a proven model and replicated in multiple markets across the country. To date over 90% of participants successfully attain the life and job skills in the SSUSA Curriculum and over 75% of them are able to move into housing, find employment, or pursue further education or training within one year of joining the program. To date that amounts to more than 1,100 individuals. SSUSA is on track to serve 2,000 in 2013 and believes its model can significantly scale in coming years. SSUSA is currently creating an econometrics model to establish in rigorous terms the relationship between participation in its program and reduces costs in terms of behavioral health, health care usage in general, crime prevention, and long term employment.
What is your project future impact after receiving professional support from American Express?
The American express support at this juncture can be leveraged for huge impact. It will help refine our customer acquisition strategy and process and increase our sales, but also completes our sport for social change model. We see this model- our leagues and tourneys in combination with our social program-as a key element to the package will seek to replicate and scale across the country. Thus the American Express support meets a timely need.
Already in San Francisco, one of our program graduates was hired by the company Solar City. They featured him in a PR piece about the excellent employees they hire. Solar City also has a team in our adult soccer league, so in effect the money they spent on recreation funds the program that trained and developed a new and high performing employee.
This Entry is about (Issues)
To be frank I am telling with you, the innovation is the best one to give awareness among the all type of communities’ people, but this progress has been hampered by the regulatory requirements in the major world markets. Even the Government may oppose this with the help of medical boards through legal procedures in order to slow down this process.
We are just planning to adopt this innovation with school and college students and then to the society. Hence, the student community will penetrate in to the market and give result accordingly.
Created on 02/26/2013 by GeneticAlliance
Reg4All: The registry for all people, all diseases, all health.
The world's first participant-controlled, cross-disease health data registry. Because the haystack is made of needles.
Giving participants control, accelerating research, allowing support and trials to flow to the people.
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United States, DC, Washington
Organization's Country of Operation
United States, DC, Washington
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
2007:
Sharon Terry won 1st Annual Patient Service Award from UNC Institute for Pharmacogenomics and Individualized Therapy
2009:
Sharon Terry is elected Ashoka Fellow for life.
Genetic Alliance received 2009 Research!America Award.
Genetic Alliance is named in 2009 Washingtonian's Best Places to Work list.
2011:
Sharon Terry is elected to the Institute of Medicine's Board.
Sharon Terry received 2011 Clinical Research Forum and Foundation’s Annual Award for Leadership in Public Advocacy.
2012:
Sharon Terry received 2012 FORCE Spirit of Empowerment award
2013:
Sharon Terry was recognized by FDA as one of 30 rare disease heroes
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.
My children were diagnosed with a genetic condition in 1994 and there was no treatment. We discovered there was no system for creating treatments. The aha came when I realized that while researchers were trying to find needles in haystacks, the haystack is made of needles - all citizens are able and willing if they are given the right tools - data sharing and access privacy preference tools.
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baca seterusnya↓↑ menyembunyikan↑ menyembunyikanName Your Entry
Registries for ALL: Reg4ALL
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.?
It is time for individuals to reclaim their health, like they claim every other aspect of their lives. The time for paternalism is over. It is time for individuals, families and communities to drive research— to decide who will use their health information and why. To be drivers of research. Then incentives will align. Researchers strive for promotions and funding, industry strives for blockbusters and profit, and even advocacy organizations often strive to sustain their organization. Reg4All was created with the radical idea that patients and researchers should be able to join an online network that would link the two together in the spirit of sharing information for the greater good. Patients gain access to potentially life saving clinical trials, researchers gain access to a centralized database of participants, and data will be freely shared (respecting each participant's custom sharing/privacy settings, of course!) in BOTH directions.
This idea changes the way people view their health, pushes researchers to a 2-way relationship with patients, and transforms a broken system that does not serve enough of the population.
Describe how your innovation model is distinct from any other organization in your field?
Disease advocacy organizations have attempted registries. But lacking committed researchers, often do not meet their data usage goals, and are hard to sustain financially. Commercial orgs also attempt registries, but find it difficult to sustain an environment of trust. And both advocacy and research communities too often take a single-disease approach.
Reg4All is cross-disase. It is participant centric, with trust as a founding principle. And it is designed for the widest proliferation, helping create and sustain new relationships between participants and researchers.
What type of operating environment and internal organizational factors make your innovation successful?
We operate on a 10+ year long foundation of openness, systems thinking, and respect of persons. We are a non-profit org that works like a lean startup. We surround ourselves with helpful voices. For example, we convened the ethics team for this project at its founding, making participant-centric governance a founding principle rather than just tacking on ethical oversight at the end.
We apply to health habits we've learned from the networked world. Less like traditional health research, more like facebook and twitter.
How do you make sure you constantly innovate in light of (potential) external challenges, or your growth plan?
Embracing Eric Ries' Lean Startup philosophies (Eric is a friend of one of our founders), we progress through product experiments. We see what works and we grow it. We see what doesn't work, and we adapt. We weekly (and sometimes daily) learn from our metrics and our qualitative feedback.
Think, Make, Check. Repeat. Innovation is a way of life, not a project.
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]
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?
People are looking for needles in the haystack, but the haystack is made of needles!
We are missing the health research world's greatest assets: people and their health data, unified across all health and disease.
People's (patients') health information must become easy to assemble, and must be done cross-disease and with the participants in control of what they share. Only then will we create the next breakthroughs in research.
Stage that best applies to your solution [select only one]
Start-up and growth (pilot is successful and starting to expand)
Core strategies of your business model [select all that apply]
Approaches to behavioral change at the individual level, Patient-centered design, Redesign of the public healthcare system for more efficiency (in terms of processes, structure etc.), New/redefined roles for healthcare service provision, New approaches to distribution of health products and services, Unconventional partnerships (between traditional healthcare players and players outside healthcare), New financing strategies for health.
Most relevant tools you are using to implement the strategies outlined above [select only two]
Technology, New skills, Education/training, Community financing.
Please describe your solution in more detail
The world's first ever participant-controlled, cross-disease registry for health and disease data.
What are your vision and overall objectives?
We are helping fuel the movement toward individuals, families, and communities reclaiming control of their health.
We invite them to control the registry that contains their health data.
Respecting each participant's sharing/privacy desires, we help researchers engage with people and their data: to generate research hypotheses, discover research cohorts, enroll studies/trials, and achieve breakthroughs more quickly than before.
What is your value proposition?
For consumers: add your piece to the health puzzle and let support and research come to you.
For researchers: a high-engagement source for growing research cohorts
For disease advocacy orgs: create deep, lasting connections with your constituency and accelerate research breakthroughs
Who is your customer(s)?
- Consumers
- Researchers/Pharma Cos
- Disease Advocacy Organizaions
What approaches to you use to reach your customers?
PR
Links from partners
Viral loops
SEO
SEM
Events
What are your primary activities?
Developing systems and user experiences
Operating databases
Exercising ethical governance
Attracting consumers & researchers
Who are your peers and competitors? What problems could these players pose to your success or growth?
So many narrow or incomplete registries in the world. Some of those organizations may feel threatened by how Reg4All puts control in the hands of participants. With so many registries out there, we see some competition for the attention of consumers and researchers. But our marketing/attraction strategies will be quite different.
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?
Genetic Alliance does not have very much experience running consumer-facing web products, and doing good branding and marketing. This is why we brought in an Entrepreneur-in-Residence who has deep expertise in these areas.
We also need more cash investment during the start-up phase on our way to reaching financial sustainability.
Briefly describe your growth strategy going forward
CONSUMER SIDE: start with our core audience in rare disease. Use viral loops attract many more. Event marketing, SEO, SEM.
RESEARCHER SIDE: start with trials most desperate to enroll. Letters to researchers/medical centers. Event marketing. SEO, SEM.
What dimensions for growth are you currently targeting for your innovation [select all that apply]
New customer group(s), New regions(s), New market(s)/country(ies).
What makes your business "ready" for growth?
We have proven with a pilot that our approach works. We are receiving high levels of interest from all quarters. We have a proven, collaborative team executing. We are using lean startup techniques and will execute micro- or macro-pivots as we grow.
What are your key growth objectives?
2013: Tens of thousands of consumer participants. Tens of studies.
2014: Hundreds of thousands of consumer participants. Hundreds of studies.
2015/2016: Millions of consumer participants. Thousands of studies.
What is your timeframe for growth, in the short and mid-term? What are the growth milestones and key activities going forward?
2013: Tens of thousands of consumer participants. Tens of studies.
2014: Hundreds of thousands of consumer participants. Hundreds of studies.
2015/2016: Millions of consumer participants. Thousands of studies.
baca seterusnya↓↑ menyembunyikan↑ menyembunyikanWhat has been the impact of your solution to date?
- Thousands of users
- Unlocking cooperation across ecosystem
- First clinical trial ready preparing to use system
- First data-based study ready to use system
- Renewed hope from participant communities
- Great entusiasm from the research community
What methods for quantification of social impact are you applying (if at all)?
We have created a whole second 'product' to watch, mine, and learn from online and usage metrics (including visitors to site, conversion rate to account users, # abandoned accounts, engagement on site per visit, source of visitors, success of marketing campaigns, successful research searches, etc.).
We are in the process of building other metrics to measure more upstream impact such as clinical trials enrolled and at what speed, research questions formulated by individuals and communities and so on.
Where possible, we are thoroughly metrics-oriented.
In addition, we are commissioning longitudinal studies about use of Reg4All.
And we are seeking ways to quantify impact on the larger ecosystem.
Could your solution work in other geographies or regions? If so, where?
It is designed from the ground up to be global in reach and in service. Health and disease know no national boundaries. We are in discussions for pilot projects in India and China. This solution is particularly pertinent to areas of the globe which are currently being exploited in clinical trials because they are in less regulated countries. This will also leap frog problems we have experienced in more developed countries with a sense of powerlessness and the belief that they are channels that will work to solve that engagement. In less developed countries, individuals have some advantage in that they are not already in rigid structures that have failed in the developed nations. However, they will need simpler access, for example through text based products.
What is your projected impact over the next 1-3 years?
In the next 1-3 years we will see a greater number of individuals in clinical trials. We will see those trials enroll faster, and less trials close because of 'low enrollment'. We will see more diverse clinical trials - they will not just be the healthiest quartile of white men, they will include minorities and other underserved communities. We will also see more individuals and communities understand that they can reclaim their health. They can drive the clinical questions in trials that they believe will benefit them most.
Ultimately we will see faster drug and other therapy development, decreasing the 17 year, 90% failure rate for a one billion dollar price tag. Any improvement will save enormous amounts of money.
baca seterusnya↓↑ menyembunyikan↑ menyembunyikanElaborate on your current financing strategy
We started with a grant from Sanofi. We added to that some in-house budget to get the pilot completed. In addition, development partners are donating some work.
Next, we simultaneously a) seek additional capital donations to fuel rapid growth ahead of sustaining revenue and b) begin to grow recurring revenue which will eventually sustain the whole project. Our strategy is to price access to data at price points vastly below current market rate. We are looking to iTunes and app store models - volume over high prices. At the present time, a pharmaceutical company might pay between $5,000 and $40,000 to accrue one individual into a clinical trial. We hope to make that price point less than $10 per person, or even better, a sustaining subscription model like Pandora or LinkedIn.
In addition, we are offering a Kickstarter type model for companies who seek individuals in specific disease areas.
We offer tiered pricing for sponsorship for the 13,000 pages in Disease InfoSearch, for links on those pages, and for the 13,000 associated surveys in Reg4All.
And finally, we will drive some pilot programs for companies or academic institutions in specific disease areas for costs well below their current ones.
Share of revenue generation in total income of organization (in percent)
Direct sales to patients or other beneficiaries (in percent)
Of the possible sources of these sales listed below, check all that apply to your current strategy
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
Yayasan, LSM, Private businesses, Pemerintah negara.
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, Pemerintah negara.
Explain your revenue generation strategy in more detail
We earn money through:
- Sponsor ad placement
- Registry services for disease groups
- Subscription fees to researchers
Share of philanthropy in total income of organization (in percent)
Philanthrophy strategies you are using
Diversified strategy.
Explain your philanthropic approach in more detail
Our philanthropic approach has three pathways:
1) We have received unrestricted grants from the family foundations of successful professionals in our field
2) We have applied for and received small grants from public foundations
3) We have competed for prizes in contests such as this and received them on occasion.
Expand on your selections; explain how you will sustain funding over the next 1-3 years.
- We will create focused success early on, then market opportunities based on those audience-specific success stories.
- We will grow our revenue channels through combination of great web based interfaces for low-touch revenue, and a small, talented sales/bizdev team for higher-touch opportunities.
- We will constantly watch for new or refined revenue opportunities to seize.
Created on 02/21/2013 by Reena Singh
Khushi Pediatric Therapy Centre is a registered non-profit organization and we strive to bring happiness in the lives of kids with disabilities. We work with individuals diagnosed with Autism. We provide various therapies and conduct professional and parent training workshop..
baca seterusnya ↓↑ menyembunyikan↑ menyembunyikanNama Organisasi
Khushi Pediatric Therapy Centre
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
We have received various sponsorship for various projects. We got sponsored by the Johnson and Johnson Asia Pacific region to start a new branch of our set up. We were sponsored by Valuable group of companies to support kids who cannot afford treatment. We also got sponsored by the Consular corps at the Oberoi melting pot to make educational aids for kids with Autism and also to raise Autism awareness. We were also funded by Johnson and Johnson India to buy recent technology aids to help kids with Autism.
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.
Autism is believed to be a puzzle but when one child on the spectrum started talking,going to school,interacting with kids and travelling by public transport alone, then all these moments were "Aha!"moments.
But when other kids in the spectrum could not be as independent as the one described above and will have no place to live once their parents are no more,we feel we need to do something!!!
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baca seterusnya↓↑ menyembunyikan↑ menyembunyikanName Your Entry
Respite care for Autism in Mumbai
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.?
It is not an innovation but rather a model that I wish to use to set up a respite and a residential set up for adult autistics in Mumbai.
Most of the kids diagnosed get better but there are so many more who are still not independent with their daily living skills and won't be able to live life once their parents are no more. Some model of financial pooling by parents like an insurance is needed which will take care of the adult autistics once their parents are no more. Initially,it has to get started with a respite care where the adults stay with us for two-three days and then gradually over a period of time as per the level of the child,they stay with us and also work in the same set up.
Describe how your innovation model is distinct from any other organization in your field?
Till now,most of the organizations focus on providing early intervention strategies ,provide a pre-vocational set up and a vocational placement for adult autistics. There is no set up which has a planned respite and residential set up which focuses on INDEPENDENCE. We wish to do that and need a lot of guidance and help for its successful execution.
What type of operating environment and internal organizational factors make your innovation successful?
We need funds and space of around 500 square feet to start it off. We will need a lot of experienced staff mainly on shift basis and some system by which a decent salary can be paid to the employees without causing a big stress on the part of the parents to make this happen. Salary should be such that we can retain the employees on long term basis. Fee charged should be such that it should not cause financial stress to parents. Some form of system is needed which can be learnt and understood from the guidance of insurance or pension companies.
How do you make sure you constantly innovate in light of (potential) external challenges, or your growth plan?
Initially the set up will start will just a few adults -around 5-10 and gradually the number of adult autistics will increase. We will try to collaborate with corporate firms who will pledge to help us on long term basis through CSR. Once we have a few corporates who support us for a long term basis,we can always keep adding more to face external challenges. Also, we can collaborate with colleges who can provide volunteers through their NSS program.
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]
Disability
Categories along the health continuum you are covering [select all that apply]
Intervention, Long-term care.
Please describe in more detail: what problem are you trying to solve in the organization's specific context?
We are trying to help the kids who are seeking our services since the last five to six years. The kids are now in their adolescence and very soon will become adults. Our aim to help them as they grow and make them independent rather than turn them away saying that we don't have the facilities to help them. Instead we would create a set up to help them and many many more who need help and are at home and their parents are constantly thinking of what happens to them when they are no more. We wish to change this depressing picture and give a quality life to parents and their adult individuals with Autism!
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), New financing strategies for health.
Most relevant tools you are using to implement the strategies outlined above [select only two]
Consultation, Education/training.
Please describe your solution in more detail
We have started pre-vocational training centre for the adolescents. We also have frequent sleep overs where the kids and adolescents stay with us for one or two days. We have no vacations in our set up so that we don't break the structure the kids need.
Aim is to now have a fully efficient vocational centre for adults on Autism spectrum. Make the sleep overs happen every alternate week rather than once in three months. And gradually have the sleepovers for three-four days rather than fewer days.
We need more training on how to deal with this scenario from places where this is happening very well!
What are your vision and overall objectives?
My vision is to have a respite and residential setup for adults with Autism in Mumbai which adds quality to their life. Residential set up will start after successful completion of three years of respite care
My objective is that parents of adults with Autism are stress free and not worried about their kids when they are no more.
Respite care is a set up where clients with Autism will stay with us for two days in a week and residential facility is a set up where they will stay with us and work with us forever.
What is your value proposition?
To begin with the respite care centre for 10 clients four times in a month -each time for two days.
Who is your customer(s)?
Individuals with Autism who are from 15 years and beyond.
What approaches to you use to reach your customers?
We have been working with Autism for last 12 years and families of kids with Autism know us. We also have a website and a Facebook page by which we reach to our clients and update them. We also attend conferences and workshops on regular basis and meet with professionals in our field and update them with happenings at our center.
What are your primary activities?
We mainly provide 4 services. One in which kids comes to us for individual therapy once, twice or thrice depending on their requirement. In the second form of service, kids come to us everyday for two hours and three and half hours. In the third form of service, kids come in a group once in a week for development of social skills. In the fourth form of service we provide training and education to parents and professionals.
Who are your peers and competitors? What problems could these players pose to your success or growth?
Many child development centers and early intervention centers are our peers and competitors. None of the child development centers or centers who deal with Autism have the concept of sleepovers, respite care and residential setup for adults with Autism. Everyone is trying to work out this model and most others are not very keen to work with adults since handling them is difficult.
What other challenges - individual, organizational, or environmental – are you currently facing or might hinder future success of your business, and how do you plan to overcome those?
The main challenge that we are currently facing is lack of space - we are operating out of a rented premise and thus we have to shift every time the lease expires.
We have approached corporates, rotary clubs, hospitals and other charitable organizations who have their own space and trying to work out opportunities to get space on long term lease of 25 to 50 years.
Briefly describe your growth strategy going forward
In the beginning when we start off the project there would be 10 individuals with Autism in respite care. After every three months one new client will be added to the respite care.
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?
There are ten lakhs people with Autism spectrum in Mumbai. Out of these, around two to three lakhs are adults. Most of them and their families are waiting for a setup that we are proposing and it is the need of the hour not just in Mumbai but India at large.
What are your key growth objectives?
My key growth objectives are to be able to provide a model of service to adults with Autism where they live with respect and dignity and get value added to their life. They will be engaged in activities that provides them an opportunity to sustain themselves. Another major objective is to relieve the stress on the part of their parents as to what will happen to their kids when they are no more.
What is your timeframe for growth, in the short and mid-term? What are the growth milestones and key activities going forward?
My short term goals are to be able to provide this service model to 10 individuals with Autism in the respite care. Gradually have the service extended to 18 in the respite set up by the end of one year. In the second year and third,we will continue with the same number of individuals. We will shift the individuals from respite to residential care in the beginning of the fourth year.
baca seterusnya↓↑ menyembunyikan↑ menyembunyikanWhat has been the impact of your solution to date?
Till now we have only done sleepovers. Parents have been asking us as to how we can make it happen on consistent basis because their children got an opportunity to become independent in daily living skills and parents also got a break and could give better quality time to them when they returned back home after two days.
What methods for quantification of social impact are you applying (if at all)?
Could your solution work in other geographies or regions? If so, where?
Yes, it will work in all the geographical regions because there are individuals with Autism all over the world. It will work very well in places where people have to manage and create respite and residential care setups and not offered by the government.
What is your projected impact over the next 1-3 years?
We will be able to reach out to 18 clients in one year. There will be 18 families who will get break from their kids and give better quality time when they return back home.There will be 18 families who will be relieved of the fear "what after us?". Once the project grows,it will also be contagious in terms of giving hope to all the other families who would not have started with us.
baca seterusnya↓↑ menyembunyikan↑ menyembunyikanElaborate on your current financing strategy
We will be charging 20,000 INR per month for the first year. For the ones who cannot afford we will arrange for sponsorship.
Share of revenue generation in total income of organization (in percent)
Direct sales to patients or other beneficiaries (in percent)
90% direct sales from clients and 10% from donors
Of the possible sources of these sales listed below, check all that apply to your current strategy
Friends and family, Individu, Patients, Caregivers, Private businesses, Other beneficiaries.
Licensing fees, e.g., for technology/franchise model (in percent)
Of the possible sources of these licensing opportunities listed below, check all that apply to your current strategy
Service contract with organizations, e.g., government, NGOs (in percent)
Of the possible sources of the service contracts listed below, check all that apply to your current strategy
Yayasan, LSM, Private businesses, Others.
Explain your revenue generation strategy in more detail
We will be taking 20,000 INR as fees from each family for respite care twice in a week and eight times in a month for two days each week.We will be reaching out to 10 clients and thus generate 2 lakh INR per month. From families who can't afford,we will get a percentage of the fee sponsored.
Share of philanthropy in total income of organization (in percent)
Philanthrophy strategies you are using
Diversified strategy.
Explain your philanthropic approach in more detail
We will be contacting various rotary clubs and corporates to help us with funds.
Expand on your selections; explain how you will sustain funding over the next 1-3 years.
We will be mainly charging fees from parents which will be the main source of funding. We will approach a lot of corporates through their CSR opportunities.
Created on 02/15/2013 by Judy101
providing a completely new perspective in perceiving reality
baca seterusnya ↓↑ menyembunyikan↑ menyembunyikanOrganization's Country of Operation
Type of Organization
tidak ditentukan
Year of launch of the organization
Years in Operation
Idea phase
Has the organization received awards or honors? Please tell us about them
new ideas are not known therefor do not have honors - why promote old ideas when change involves something new
We want to hear about your “Aha!” moment. Share the story of where and when the founder(s) saw this solution’s potential to change the world.
When I noticed I was being labelled mentally ill because I was experiencing abuse - I noticed the abuser was considered mentally healthy while victims are mentally ill
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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 model for a new health care system is holodynamics - although it needs one flaw fixed. it has cured all mental health issues as well cancer, aids and addictions based on curing causes to cure dis-ease. the diagnosed patient is never the patient but the community the patient lives in - forces community change for a better society
Describe how your innovation model is distinct from any other organization in your field?
this method deals with issues instead of pills that ignore causes. Looks at our reasoning that causes all our actions and re-actions.
What type of operating environment and internal organizational factors make your innovation successful?
it has given me confidence to know I am not mentally ill, those judging me are the one's with the health issues. I've been diagnosed with delusion because I see a different picture then others, I'm manic when I actually have panic attacks when in a dangerous environment, paranoid because I see flaws within all our dysfunctional systems, personality disorder because I see black and white - or right and wrong while others see shades of grey confusing right from wrong
How do you make sure you constantly innovate in light of (potential) external challenges, or your growth plan?
My focus is on film production - Globally we are lacking information, all problems are nothing more then a lack of information, all problems are solved once receiving missing information. producing a product that others are inspired by measures my personal success's
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]
Disability
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?
we need to look at core causes and transform them into solutions. Our medical world loves pills that do nothing but ignore causes - ignored causes grow affecting us all
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, Redesign of the public healthcare system for more efficiency (in terms of processes, structure etc.), New/redefined roles for healthcare service provision, New approaches to distribution of health products and services, Unconventional partnerships (between traditional healthcare players and players outside healthcare), New financing strategies for health.
Most relevant tools you are using to implement the strategies outlined above [select only two]
Others.
If other, specify here:
I am currently working with software to develop educational video's to be uploaded on youtube
Please describe your solution in more detail
how we perceive reality is causing social problems. We can all admit we live in systems and all systems are dysfunctional. Insanity is doing the same thing over and over expecting a different outcome. What's different is actually recognizing flaws and introduce solutions. to see something wrong is to know what is right - so we do have all answers if we can make a complaint. We will never introduce social change if we don't fix all flaws in the systems we live in. Working within flawed systems to cause change is doing the same thing we've done since time began - it doesn't work.
What are your vision and overall objectives?
I am at the stage of producing video on all the research I've done. it would have more impact if done professionally with amazing graphics and special effects.
What is your value proposition?
How can you put a value on social change? I can say this solution would generate enough funds to unfold all Global changes needed. This not only provides new information but new information can generate funding for new ideas -
Who is your customer(s)?
anyone who is dying, suffering from illness, aging or wanting to find solutions to any problems experienced
What approaches to you use to reach your customers?
because this concept involves some deep, complex sciences, it requires an educational film. anything short of this would bring misunderstanding and miss beliefs as to it's potential. the claims are to big for most to believe
What are your primary activities?
developing animation using zero funds- using what I have to make things grow
Who are your peers and competitors? What problems could these players pose to your success or growth?
I have no competitors as this is something completely new
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 this information unfolds solutions, all challenges offer more solutions. I have no obstacles other then the belief in myself
Briefly describe your growth strategy going forward
once I have uploaded a completed video, I've achieved my personal success. From there I examine how others relate and make improvements based on that. If I can't explain it, then I work on my personal communication skills
What dimensions for growth are you currently targeting for your innovation [select all that apply]
New customer group(s), New regions(s), New market(s)/country(ies).
What makes your business "ready" for growth?
being at the very bottom provides nothing but growth. The more society recognizes social problems the more motivated people will be in learning new ways. If everything is wrong, that provides opportunity for everything that is right.
What are your key growth objectives?
to produce video's that make people question and think about possibilities.
What is your timeframe for growth, in the short and mid-term? What are the growth milestones and key activities going forward?
produce video, examine perceptions and constantly making improvements until it's well understood.
baca seterusnya↓↑ menyembunyikan↑ menyembunyikanWhat has been the impact of your solution to date?
While being diagnosed with delusion, manic, paranoia, personality disorder, cluster B personality - The numbers are growing in professionals who disagree with this diagnosis. I've also healed physical disabilities that are said to be incurable - all without medication.
What methods for quantification of social impact are you applying (if at all)?
when we recognize social change involves fixing all flaws within the systems we live in I will gauge this successful
Could your solution work in other geographies or regions? If so, where?
this is a global solution and would work no matter where you live
What is your projected impact over the next 1-3 years?
my goal is to produce a completed video within the next year and I will spend the rest of my life making improvements-a good idea spreads like a wild fire - when it's spreading I know it's worded perfectly
baca seterusnya↓↑ menyembunyikan↑ menyembunyikanElaborate on your current financing strategy
currently I am working the project with zero funds - it would increase it's potential using more professionally produced film
Share of revenue generation in total income of organization (in percent)
other then receiving a moderate wage for my work all funds will go towards funding new ideas
Direct sales to patients or other beneficiaries (in percent)
anyone wanting change has a good idea that needs funding - this project will provide the funding needed
Of the possible sources of these sales listed below, check all that apply to your current strategy
Friends and family, Individu, Patients, Caregivers, Other beneficiaries.
Licensing fees, e.g., for technology/franchise model (in percent)
this is open source to be productive other wise it's dysfunctional
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
selling information is how to generate funds, as well using water - water is much more involved and provides unlimited funding for social change
Share of philanthropy in total income of organization (in percent)
Philanthrophy strategies you are using
Explain your philanthropic approach in more detail
once funds are generated, if anyone has a good idea that improves on society we will not refuse to fund
Expand on your selections; explain how you will sustain funding over the next 1-3 years.
I don't need funding to be successful, funding just speeds up the progress of social change needed
Created on 02/10/2013 by njavo95
Cubs for Coping provides hospitals, shelters, and eating disorder programs with handmade teddy bears to help spread hope.
Created on 01/31/2013 by hei3paak3
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Year of launch of the organization
Years in Operation
Operating 1-5 years
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Obesity and Diabetes Prevention
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.?
It is in the interest of companies and organizations to prevent the occurrence of debilitating conditions and diseases such as obesity and diabetes. Governments, health organisations and school authorities have failed to address this problems and are still struggling to find strategies to deal with the consequences of this epidemic.
Mental and and physical performance suffers significantly when a person is affected by obesity and diabetes. Any number of affected employees influences the economic performance of companies. The impact can already been measured.
The innovation we present enables companies and organisations to address the problem of early obesity in a proactive and systematic way. By using a systems approach of evidence based knowledge, easy to learn tools, simple processes and common sense nutritional advice, the employees are empowered to actively prevent and in some cases cure the occurrence of insulin resistance, obesity and early diabetes.
The service provided consists of individual and group training sessions, group activities and exercises and the administration of mild and herbal nutritional supplements.
Describe how your innovation model is distinct from any other organization in your field?
Currently only government organizations do make efforts to fight the obesity and diabetes epidemic. These efforts are based on non-scientific assumptions, popular and outdated nutrition myths and a lack of understanding of body chemistry and biology.
What type of operating environment and internal organizational factors make your innovation successful?
While working in a company context, and by emphasizing the economic aspects and impact of health conditions, we can expect a higher success rate than public service advice or half-hearted or inaccurate nutritional advice.
How do you make sure you constantly innovate in light of (potential) external challenges, or your growth plan?
The scientific literature covering the prevention, the influence and the cure of insulin resistance and obesity is constantly growing. By staying informed and keeping track of the scientific insights as they emerge, we will be able to adapt training programs continuously.
Also, observing and analyzing successes and failures of the training programs over long periods of time will bring into light feedback of participants and will enable us to improve on the methodologies and methods.
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]
Nutrition
Categories along the health continuum you are covering [select all that apply]
Prevention, Detection, 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?
Prevention and detection of insuline resistance, early obesity and diabetes.
Stage that best applies to your solution [select only one]
Idea (poised to launch)
Core strategies of your business model [select all that apply]
Approaches to behavioral change at the individual level, New approaches to distribution of health products and services, Unconventional partnerships (between traditional healthcare players and players outside healthcare).
Most relevant tools you are using to implement the strategies outlined above [select only two]
Consultation, Education/training.
Please describe your solution in more detail
- Intensive group training and coaching
- Individual coaching session
- Long term follow-up and reinforcement
What are your vision and overall objectives?
The business model relies on the financing of training and coaching efforts by companies. While it is our main objective to establish long term relationships with companies, family members or community members may also be included in training programs. The fees may then be covered by the individuals.
What is your value proposition?
By preventing insulin resistance, obesity and diabetes, work force performance can be improved significantly. Also, by improving well-being and health of employees, the company can document its commitment to improve working conditions and employee welfare.
Who is your customer(s)?
- Small to medium companies, in particular in rural areas or regions affected by economic downturn
- Larger companies observing a general decline in employee well-being and performance
What approaches to you use to reach your customers?
- Through industry trade fairs
- Direct contact with management and networking
- Through networking via professional associations
- By collaborating with health insurance companies
What are your primary activities?
- Group and individual coaching, training and consulting
- Analysis and reporting of the impact of training efforts
- Long term follow-up and reinforcement
Who are your peers and competitors? What problems could these players pose to your success or growth?
Companies such as "Weightwatchers" and other organisations are using an approach of group dynamics
and target individuals. Also, the emphasis is on cosmetic weight loss, while we promote health improving life style changes.
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?
Employee motivation
Employee participation and motivation is often unevenly distributed even in companies where a large amount of employees are affected by obesity. Motivation is the most important aspect in training an coaching and a special effort is necessary to promote motivation and provide incentives.
Legal framework for health related services
The legal framework for providing health services varies significantly from country to country. By employing medically trained staff and consultants, risks of legal trouble is minimized.
Briefly describe your growth strategy going forward
- Finalizing and improving training programs, training material
- Design promotional materials
- Find partners with medical background
- Identify partners supplying herbal and nutritional supplements
What dimensions for growth are you currently targeting for your innovation [select all that apply]
New customer group(s), New regions(s), New market(s)/country(ies).
What makes your business "ready" for growth?
In view of increased health risks through obesity and diabetes, companies can not wait for government intervention, The must act proactively to prevent an economic impact through the decline of general health in their work force.
What are your key growth objectives?
- To have a profitable an sustainable business in all stages of the development of the company
- Create a well-known and respected brand
- Become the main contact for general, collective health issues in companies and organisations
What is your timeframe for growth, in the short and mid-term? What are the growth milestones and key activities going forward?
- To have a complete training system with training material in 6 months
- To be operational with a group of 5 to 6 coaches in 12 months
- 10 coaches in 18 months
- To develop a franchisable business with strict quality control in 24 months
baca seterusnya↓↑ menyembunyikan↑ menyembunyikanWhat has been the impact of your solution to date?
- Increase in awareness of the problem
What methods for quantification of social impact are you applying (if at all)?
Subjective and objective assessments of health of individuals:
- General well being
- General health indicators: amount of body fat, blood glucose levels
Could your solution work in other geographies or regions? If so, where?
Yes, considering and respecting local diets, cultural issues and language, it is possible to use this solution in different geographies.
What is your projected impact over the next 1-3 years?
- Improved well being of employees
- Better general health
- Better work performance
baca seterusnya↓↑ menyembunyikan↑ menyembunyikanElaborate on your current financing strategy
A detailed financing strategy has yet to be developed.
Share of revenue generation in total income of organization (in percent)
Direct sales to patients or other beneficiaries (in percent)
Of the possible sources of these sales listed below, check all that apply to your current strategy
Friends and family, 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
Private businesses, Others.
Explain your revenue generation strategy in more detail
Share of philanthropy in total income of organization (in percent)
Philanthrophy strategies you are using
Diversified strategy.
Explain your philanthropic approach in more detail
Expand on your selections; explain how you will sustain funding over the next 1-3 years.
Funding through service contracts and slow organic growth.
Psychosocial empowerment and recovery program for survivors of socio-political violence (e.g. violation of human rights).
Birmingham United Kingdom
52° 29' 10.4748" N, 1° 53' 25.4436" W
From mytime.org.uk:
My Time is a Community Interest Company (Social Enterprise) based in the West Midlands that delivers award winning, evidenced based, culturally sensitive and professional counselling and support services.
So many families are suffering. Our country is suffering. We have a mental health system that is broken. There aren't enough beds in psychiatric hospitals. Mothers fight with treatment teams trying to get their children longer hospital stays just so they can be treated before being discharged. Our jails and our streets have become our new go-to destination for the mentally ill.
Families are ready to be organized to advocate for improvements to treatment services and community services, including housing, job training and employment.
Created on 01/16/2013 by VynnChoo
A Smart application that will help you to manage your anger.
baca seterusnya ↓↑ menyembunyikan↑ menyembunyikanTell us about yourself/your team.
What makes you an intrapreneur? What are the skills, capabilities, and personality traits that make you an intrapreneur?
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Primary country where this project is creating social impact
Additional countries or regions
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Ide (yang Anda yakini layak diluncurkan)
The Need: What social or environmental problem are you trying to solve?
Anger management is a problem faced by many people nowadays. Some people are good at managing it, while others are suffering from severe consequence resulting to poor anger management. They ended up being hated by other people, being forsaken, being outcasted and being lonely.
The Solution: What is your solution? Be specific!
The solution is to create an application which can detect your anger from your voice. The application will be able to identify your anger level and will be able to remind you to calm down and relax.
The Solution: Why is this solution innovative for your company and industry?
This solution is important to help people to manage their anger and will help to build an individual that have greater tolerance and better attitude.
The Model: Walk us through a specific example of how your solution makes a difference; include your primary activities.
The solution are to be developed in the form of an application. Where the application are able to detect the sound and alert the user to calm and to relax.
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?
Psychologist is the main competitor as more people consult psychologist to solve their anger management problem. The advantage of this application is that the device will act as a substitute for the psychologist where the user will only need to set the reminder to alert them when they are angry.
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baca seterusnya↓↑ menyembunyikan↑ menyembunyikanFounding Story: 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.
Aha! now that i can manage my anger easily, i can cut my cost to visit psychologist that often.
What has been the impact of your solution to date?
What is your projected impact over the next 1 to 3 years?
More people with good anger management.
What barriers might hinder the success of your project? How do you plan to overcome them?
THe technology that will be used in implementing the solution
baca seterusnya↓↑ menyembunyikan↑ menyembunyikanWhat is the benefit or value you're creating for your business?
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How are you leveraging internal resources (funds, time, knowledge, etc.) to support this initiative?
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Expand on your answer, explaining the long-term funding and support plan.
Tell us about your partnerships across your company and externally that are key to your project's success.
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What internal support have you gotten for your project? What kind of push-back have you received?
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In any aging population, age related illness/condition is something that we may not be able to avoid altogether. Hence it is important that some remedy and control measures be in place.
This idea that we have, conceptually, is similar to those from Tracking Systems Direct. However, the difference is that,
1. we have a SIM card, allowing voice communication.
2. GPS can be tracked using a similar system to that of 'Find My Phone" app found in all smartphones.
Facilitated through Heartland Hospice (HCR-Manor Care) office in Richmond, Virginia, Flower-Power builds upon collaborative relationships with and shared resources among Heartland Hospice, The Jerusalem Connection, Renew Richmond, Riverside PACE, Virginia Cooperative Extension, Four-H Program of Richmond, Henrico Master Gardeners, Virginia Tech University, Richmond Behavioral Health Authority, Shalom Makers, ASHOKA, families of former hospice patients, and diverse community-based and faith-inspired organizations.
Created on 01/14/2013 by shalommakers
From growing flowers to producing colorful, hope-filled flowerpots and processing losses, Flower Power provides spaces, places, activities, methods and volunteer opportunities that engage and benefit communities as a whole.
baca seterusnya ↓↑ menyembunyikan↑ menyembunyikanTell us about yourself/your team.
Flower-Power is informed, developed and sustained by a Guiding Group composed of a world-renowned leader in therapeutic horticulture Dr. Diane Relf; retired professor of horticulture Dr. Len Morrow; a behavioral therapist/prevention specialist; bereavement specialists from a hospital, hospice and geriatric care; a national leader of the Start Empathy Now initiative; Virginia Cooperative Extension agent; faith-inspired community leaders; family members of hospice patients; Coordinators of Volunteers and Bereavement of Heartland Hospice.
David Cooper, MSW, MDiv, CPM serves as a catalyst and partner in the initial phases of development and operations. Serving as a national trainer and facilitator of Asset Based Community Development, Mr. Cooper is the architect of Flower Power.
What makes you an intrapreneur? What are the skills, capabilities, and personality traits that make you an intrapreneur?
In my hospice and community development work, I:
* Build “whole” and transformative community relationships
* Catalyze creative discovery of previously unrecognized resources
* Connect people, organizations, institutions, and associations
* Facilitate and host opportunities for mutual learning
* Develop teams that produce and deliver effective community-transforming projects
* Advocate for social, economic, physical, political, and spiritual equity and justice
* Coach leaders and teams to produce measurable, transformative outcomes
I use:
* Asset Based Community Development
* Asset Mapping
* Appreciative Inquiry
* Theory U
* Dynamic Systems
* Empathic, empowering, transformative care-giving
Company Country
United States, VA, Richmond
Primary country where this project is creating social impact
United States, VA, Richmond, Richmond City
Additional countries or regions
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Permulaan (eksperimen pertama baru saja beroperasi)
The Need: What social or environmental problem are you trying to solve?
When people experience loss, the customary methods of bereavement are to participate in a "grief group" or see a therapist. In the project proposed here - Flower Power: Growing Hope in a Season of Change - the focus is upon empathic caregiving (growing and donating flowers to hospice patients and their families) during which therapeutic horticulture (adults) and therapeutic art (children and youth) are applied in a broad systems engaging approach to transitioning throught the loss.
The Solution: What is your solution? Be specific!
Flower Power:
(1) Grows flowers for donation to hospice patients and their families
(2) Provides the venue for those who have experienced a loss to grow through and beyond the loss
(3) Builds supportive, restorative relationships among diverse community members
(4) Establishes a creative, multidisciplinary, systems-engaging, sustainable model for bereavement
(5) Educates the community in the benefits of hospice
(6) Fosters community good will
(7) Engages all ages from children to adults
(8) Recruits volunteers
(9) Develops a unique and replicable model of therapeutic horticulture
10) Creates a social enterprise in which portions of Flower Power will be offered on a fee for service basis to other hospices; and, some flowers will be marketed in local gift shops.
The Solution: Why is this solution innovative for your company and industry?
Heartland Hopsice is a division of HCR-Manor care has, until now, used traditional grief workshops with its beravement patients. It also has not partnered in provision of these services. This is the standard approach to bereavement used by the majority of bereavement providers. Attendance and participation in these workshops has been very low. However, the October 2012 pilot project (called "Getting Potted") of Flower Power yielded an overwhelming interest and participation.
The Model: Walk us through a specific example of how your solution makes a difference; include your primary activities.
From growing flowers to producing colorful, hope-filled flowerpots and processing losses, Flower Power provides spaces, places, activities, methods and volunteer opportunities that engage and benefit communities as a whole.
Adults will grow flowers in donated greenhouse space. While growing these flowers, a bereavement facilitator/Master Gardener will facilitate both the growing process and the Appreciative Inquiry (therapeutic) conversations. The tactile, cognitive, emotive (multi-sensory), relational, and empathic engagement with people and flowers will yield individual and community benefits.
Children and youth will create art work to be incorporated into the flower pots used by the adults in growing and potting the flowers. Therapeutic art work is created in partnership with a nonprofit arts organization and an elementary school. The art work will be created under the guidance of art specialists and bereavement facilitators.
In each of these venues, a mixture of "bereaved" and "not bereaved" will work side by side in an empathetic investment and social bonding project.
When flowers are ready to donate, adult volunteers will deliver the flowers and pots to bereaved familiy members.
Flower Power becomes sustainable as it markets the processes and venues to other bereavement providers in the form of fee for service offerings. Also, a percentage of the flowers will be sold in gift shops to defray some project costs.
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?
Extensive internet research has been conducted; yielding that there are no projects like Flower Power in terms of multiple systems engagement, collaborating partners, multiple therapeutic approaches, mult-generational participation, motivation to altruistic, empathic helping, social enterprise development, and Asset Based Community Development.
This writer applied similar processes and strategies to develop a very successful regional food security project: Shalom Farms.
Importantly, this writer firmly believes collaboration - not competition - will yield the greatest common good.
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baca seterusnya↓↑ menyembunyikan↑ menyembunyikanFounding Story: We want to hear about your "Aha!" moment. Share the story of where and when the founder(s) saw this solution's potential to change the world.
The architect (David Cooper) applies this model as a national catalyst, facilitator, trainer, and coach of Systems Thinking approaches that use Asset Based Community Development. Mr. Cooper has worked with communities in Richmond, VA; Los Angeles, CA; Grand Rapids, MI; Newburgh, NY; and LaGrange, GA with community leaders (residents) to develop locally led and resourced projects that contribute to holistic community wellbeing.
For Flower Power, Mr. Cooper simply saw that the traditional model of bereavement was not working; therefore, he applied entrepreneurial leadership within the traditional organizational structure to achieve intrapreneurial success.
What has been the impact of your solution to date?
Ten collaborating partner organizations and several bereaved family members formed the Guiding Group and collectively guide and resource Flower Power.
A delightful and productive pilot project (Getting Potted) was held in October 2012. The pilot was a success and resulted in an article in the City of Richmond Cooperative Extension newsletter.
Since Flower Power is not a formal business entity, the Bon Secours Foundation has agreed to serve as a fiscal agent until such time as Flower Power formally incorporates or establishes some other operating entity.
What is your projected impact over the next 1 to 3 years?
Year one:
(1) Grow flowers for donation = 300 pots delivered- measured by delivery receipts
(2) Develop loss groups- 36 sessions- measured by participant rosters
(3) Build relationships among diverse community members: 216 adult & 144 children/youth totaling 360 volunteers. Measured by pre and post evaluation forms.
(4) Establish unique bereavement model. Measured by a completed year 1 plan.
(5) Educate participants in the benefits of hospice. Measured by participant pre and post evaluation forms.
(6) Foster community good will. Measured by participant evaluation forms.
(7) Multigenerational participation. Measured by participant evaluation forms and group session rosters.
(8) Market fee-for-service bereavement to hospices, hospitals, and orgs.
What barriers might hinder the success of your project? How do you plan to overcome them?
Barriers may include (1) insufficent start-up funding, (2) Heartland Hospice continuing to allot sufficient time for David Cooper to coach the project toward fruition, and (3) insufficent interest by organizations as a fee for service project.
Strategies to overcome barriers: (1) applying for internal and external grants; (2) negotiating with Heartland Hospice to envision the project as unique, viable and replicable; (3) negotiate sales outlets to brand and market Flower Power potted plants.
baca seterusnya↓↑ menyembunyikan↑ menyembunyikanWhat is the benefit or value you're creating for your business?
Emapthic altrusim (giving time and flowers), Bereavement processing (therapeutic horticulture and therapeutic art), social bonding and bridging, income to support the project, and hope amidst life's transitions.
How are you leveraging internal resources (funds, time, knowledge, etc.) to support this initiative?
A small seed grant ($500.00) has been awarded by the Heartland Memorial Fund, employee time contributed by representatives from 10 organizations, David Cooper's specialized experience and training in forming Community Collaboratives across the US, donated website creation and hosting by Shalom Makers, and a recent blog article published by the ASHOKA Start Empathy Now project.
Expand on your answer, explaining the long-term funding and support plan.
Market and sell a percentage of the products (flowers in decorated flower pots) through local outlets. One partnering organization, Bon Secours Hospitals, is considering placing some of the flowers in their hospital gift shops.
Develop fee-for-service offerings and market to local hospices, palliative care organizations, schools, and hospitals. Hospices are required by Conditions of Participation to provide bereavement group services to all bereaved. Since Flower Power offers a unique blend of approaches, and will meet the requirements of Hospice Conditions of Participation, Flower Power can fulfill requirements and provide services in collaborative, cost-saving ways.
Tell us about your partnerships across your company and externally that are key to your project's success.
Facilitated through Heartland Hospice, Flower-Power builds upon collaborative relationships with and shared resources among Heartland Hospice, The Jerusalem Connection, Renew Richmond, Riverside PACE, Virginia Cooperative Extension, Four-H Program of Richmond, Henrico Master Gardeners, Virginia Tech University, Richmond Behavioral Health Authority, Shalom Makers, ASHOKA, families of former hospice patients, and diverse community-based and faith-inspired organizations.
What internal support have you gotten for your project? What kind of push-back have you received?
Heartland Hospice Memorial Fund has provided a small seed grant ($500.00) to assist with start up.
The local administrator of Heartland Hospice is supportive as long as Bereavement Coordinator, David Cooper, continues to meet corporate policies and procedures and accomplishes customary job tasks.
The holding company, Carlyle Group, for HCR-Manor Care - Heartland Hospice states in its brand that it supports collaborative and creative approaches.
Dandelion Dollars promotes the spiritual practice of sending off dandelion seeds of LOVE, JOY, and HOPE into the world using the paper currency system to deliver them to all humanity. All you need is a dollar, a pen, a minute, and a message!
This project also has a Changeshop where you can read more about its latest progress.
Go to Changeshop: Dandelion Dollars.
Created on 01/14/2013 by Dandelion Dollars
Dandelion Dollars promotes the spiritual practice of sending off dandelion seeds of LOVE, JOY, and HOPE into the world using the paper currency system to deliver them to all humanity. All you need is a dollar, a pen, a minute, and a message!
baca seterusnya ↓↑ menyembunyikan↑ menyembunyikanTell us about yourself/your team.
Dandelion Dollars promotes the spiritual practice of sending off dandelion seeds of LOVE, JOY, and HOPE into the world using the paper currency system to deliver them to all humanity. All you need is a dollar, a pen, a minute, and a message!
What makes you an intrapreneur? What are the skills, capabilities, and personality traits that make you an intrapreneur?
My project fulfills Charles Eames mandate to do "the best, for the most, for the least"
Company Country
United States, CA, Santa Monica, Los Angeles County
Primary country where this project is creating social impact
Additional countries or regions
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Permulaan (eksperimen pertama baru saja beroperasi)
The Need: What social or environmental problem are you trying to solve?
I am trying to reverse the present negative imbalance in global karma
The Solution: What is your solution? Be specific!
Dandelion Dollars promotes the spiritual practice of sending off dandelion seeds of LOVE, JOY, and HOPE into the world using the paper currency system to deliver them to all humanity. All you need is a dollar, a pen, a minute, and a message!
The Solution: Why is this solution innovative for your company and industry?
Because it costs nothing at all yet creates ripples of enormous spiritual benefit that will re-introduce the West to the true meaning of karma, which is not, "I do something good and then something good happens to me" as it has become popularly understood, but rather, "I am connected in unity and oneness to everything and everyone, so when I do something good for others, I am already receiving something good myself"
The Model: Walk us through a specific example of how your solution makes a difference; include your primary activities.
The Federal Reserve claims the average lifespan of a new dollar bill is 4.8 years = 1,752 days. There is unfortunately, no data available on how frequently an individual bill changes hands in its usable lifetime. Once a day sounds about right to me, but wouldn’t you agree that with a single wallet full of Dandelion Dollars, you could realistically expect to reach 10,000 people in the lifespan of those bills?
According to government statistics, out of 10,000 adult Americans:
1,810 suffer from an anxiety disorder
1,500 are living in poverty
930 needed treatment for a drug or alcohol abuse problem in the last year
670 suffer from a major depressive disorder
400 will divorce in the next year
38 will commit a violent crime in the next year
11 will attempt suicide in the next year
1 will die from suicide in the next year
If you could reach out to these 5,360 struggling people with a message of LOVE, JOY, HOPE don’t you think that it would make a real difference to one, or two, or five, or 100 of them to receive it at just the right time when they desperately needed a sign that things can get better. That there are forces out there in the universe pulling for them?. What if my math is wrong? What if it wouldn’t reach 5,360 people like this? What if it only reached 536? Or 53? Or 5? Wouldn’t that still be reason enough to reach out to them? But what if one Dandelion Dollar recipient picked up a dollar and a pen and made a Dandelion Dollar of their own? What if 5 did? What if 53 did? What if 536 did? What if 5,360 did? What if everyone did? :-)
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?
Everyone is my peer and nobody is my competitor. We are all one. :-)
This Entry is about (Issues)
baca seterusnya↓↑ menyembunyikan↑ menyembunyikanFounding Story: We want to hear about your "Aha!" moment. Share the story of where and when the founder(s) saw this solution's potential to change the world.
I suggest that you watch the "origin story" video clip attached in media.
What has been the impact of your solution to date?
In our first month of existence we have gone from 0 to over 60 likes on Facebook purely on the strength of the idea without notifying any of my personal "friends" or contacts.
What is your projected impact over the next 1 to 3 years?
The Dandelion Dollars movement will provide the army of good with a viral "weapon of mass instruction" that will ripple through the karmasphere with a force the likes of which no military weapon ever could. We will all receive random, inspiring messages of LOVE, JOY, HOPE throughout the day that will restore our sense of connection to one another, and of the possibility of magic inherent in every moment
What barriers might hinder the success of your project? How do you plan to overcome them?
There are no barriers to LOVE, JOY, HOPE! :-) They cost nothing, and are available to all of us in every moment.
baca seterusnya↓↑ menyembunyikan↑ menyembunyikanWhat is the benefit or value you're creating for your business?
A better karmasphere for all of humanity to exist in! :-)
How are you leveraging internal resources (funds, time, knowledge, etc.) to support this initiative?
I don't need funds, It takes almost no time, and if you know how to pull the cap off a pen then you have all the knowledge you need! :-)
Expand on your answer, explaining the long-term funding and support plan.
No funding! No waiting! No excuses! Only doing now! :-)
Tell us about your partnerships across your company and externally that are key to your project's success.
I am partnered with the entire world. We are all one! :-)
What internal support have you gotten for your project? What kind of push-back have you received?
My heart is filled with LOVE, JOY, HOPE! What force could ever push back against that?! :-)
Created on 01/12/2013 by joyburkhard
Depression during pregnancy/postpartum impacts up to 20% of moms, yet isn't routinely diagnosed.
Untreated depression leads to adverse medical and emotional health outcomes for the baby, mom & other children.
Cigna is implementing a measurement system to learn how many women are being screened & will work for 100%,
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I have been with Cigna's health care insurance division for 17 years, and have been fortunate to have served in several roles, including quality management and compliance. I've also been fortunate to volunteer with the Junior League, a women's organization that works to improve our local communities and more specifically the lives of women and children. Through my Junior League experience in the State Public Affairs Committee, I was involved in two pieces of legislation, addressing depression during pregnancy and the postpartum period. The state did not have the funding needed to support the solutions called for, but because of compelling testimony the legislature called stakeholders to form a volunteer task force, which I formed in 2010. Now, I'm promoting change within Cigna.
What makes you an intrapreneur? What are the skills, capabilities, and personality traits that make you an intrapreneur?
Each position that I've held over the years has prepared me for this point in my life, arming me with knowledge, organizational agility, perseverance, and most importantly an ability to see interconnections and identify creative solutions that might otherwise be missed.
I've learned through both Cigna and the Junior League, the power of government to bring about change. And even more importantly I've learned that a committed, inquisitive and fearless few who have a bold vision can be even more effective in using multiple connections, forming new strategic partnerships, and helping organizations learn why they should be interested in creating change proactively.
Company Country
United States, MN, Eden Prairie
Primary country where this project is creating social impact
Additional countries or regions
Cigna is an International company and this solution can be scaled outside of the U.S.
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Permulaan (eksperimen pertama baru saja beroperasi)
The Need: What social or environmental problem are you trying to solve?
Mothers are the cornerstone of their homes, yet far too often their emotional well being is jeopardized during pregnancy and the postpartum period. Untreated maternal depression can lead to long term negative outcomes for her and her family. Women in their childbearing years account for the largest group of Americans with depression. Postpartum depression is the most common complication of childbirth, effecting 15-20% of mothers. Despite the prevalence, due to many complex barriers, maternal depression goes largely undiagnosed and untreated costing the US health care system billions, our families the security and joy they deserve, and too often resulting in loss of life. A survey of OBGYNs noted less than 44% always screen for depression. Every woman deserves to be screened.
The Solution: What is your solution? Be specific!
My personal vision to make screening for depression available to all pregnant and postpartum women by 2020. OBGYNs site a number of barriers to conducting screening, including not having enough time, not qualified to screen, unaware of where to refer patients for mental health therapy, concerns over prescribing drugs during pregnancy or lactation noting the shortage of psychologists to refer to or consult with. There is no measurement/reporting of screening rates. Informed by the experts in my network, I'm proposing the first steps include: (1) Insurer adoption of the voluntary 2012 NCQA/ACOG Maternity Care Measure for screening (2) Insurer-led build-up of qualified and informed providers through adoption of a credentialing program to identify mental health providers experienced and trained in maternal mental health and, contracting with a existing pregnancy/lactation drug-use psychiatrist consult line, for contracted OBGYNs to access, ultimately (3) insurer conducted screening.
The Solution: Why is this solution innovative for your company and industry?
Until insurers measure and see the screening rates for their patients, maternal depression will continue to fall under the proper radar. By voluntarily measuring OBGYN screening rates through medical record reviews (using records already collected to monitor other screening and treatment rates), insurers will identify the need for change. Insurer-led screening and identification of services will reduce pressure on already overburdened OBGYNs and bring consistency and scale.
The Model: Walk us through a specific example of how your solution makes a difference; include your primary activities.
By being the first insurer to adopt the 'early' recommendations (1) measuring screening rates and (2) building up and identifying qualified mental health professionals and a psychiatric consult line, then (3) if rates suggest drastic change is necessary, Cigna can "experiment early and often" with the help of the Collaborative's network of experts if/when needed, modeling and sharing best practices with other insurers and encouraging adoption of the measure through public reporting organizations like the business groups on health, and possibly the state insurance exchanges formed to address the Affordable Care Act individual plan marketplace.
In terms of monitoring, Cigna would use the NCQA HEDIS record review process, which is established, but add the new measure. This review happens once a year and includes a statistically valid sampling methodology, etc. Cigna may determine that altering the measurement specs slightly might be beneficial. For example the NCQA/ACOG maternity care guideline suggests that the measurement period focus on only the first trimester appointment. Cigna may also add additional screening measurement periods, including repeated measurement of screening using frequency recommended in recognized guidelines throughout pregnancy and the postpartum period (including a discussion about calling to be screened if the mother has concerns after the last OBGYN postpartum visit). After measurement interventions can be planned, including determining whether the gap in screening rates is large enough to warrant insurer conducted screening (as expected).
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?
The insurance screening solution (3) has caused some to pause.There aren't yet "competing" insures adopting these recommendations or something similar (that would actually be ideal, if solid research methods were in place to test multiple process changes). These new ideas have garnered much interest and support by multiple stakeholders, including the CA Association of Health Plans (HMO insurers), and more. Many mental health practitioners and organizations are also promoting pediatrician screening as a way to increase screening during the postpartum period. However the survey research suggests they site the same barriers as OBGYNs (noted above) and also that the mother is not his/her patient. Doctors who wish to screen still should; insurer screening could supplement & identify services.
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baca seterusnya↓↑ menyembunyikan↑ menyembunyikanFounding Story: We want to hear about your "Aha!" moment. Share the story of where and when the founder(s) saw this solution's potential to change the world.
I had been suggesting that the CA Association of Health Plans consider hosting a call or training event to address maternal mental health, knowing there was real opportunity for insurers to "go deeper" impacting the health of their customers and their bottom line. After learning they were planning a forum in 2011 called "Behavioral Health Across the Continuum" I approached them again. It wasn't until after a few more subtle offers, and a prior speaker's cancellation that I was contacted. I had 5 days to create a power point to explain the problem and barriers. As I wrote out those slides combing through research and my go-to white paper, I had goosebumps. More women than ever are now going to be insured in the US, our health care providers will be more burdened than ever. Insurance companies could use existing processes to add a new measure to monitor screening, and our industry could offer the game-changing solution, of conducting screening directly & identifying services.
What has been the impact of your solution to date?
To date, discussion of this solution has helped to generate awareness among key stakeholders and more women as I've taken these ideas on a 'road show,' of sorts presenting that same deck to new crowds. Working toward making screening available to all by 2020 will ensure that no mom/family falls through the cracks. Screening shouldn't be a luxury or left to chance.
What is your projected impact over the next 1 to 3 years?
Over the 1-2 years: Cigna implement monitoring and the Collaborative continue to encourage outside organizations to request measurement data so it can be publicly reported. Begin to build up/identify in our contracted network, providers to treat maternal depression.
2-3 years: Other insurers adopt same processes (by voluntarily signing on to agree to measure and report data). The list and data could be made available through the Collaborative's website, and/or other organizations, like the regional and/or national business group on health.
2-4 years: Cigna implement interventions, including insurer conducted screening, if screening rates are extremely low (under 50%) as expected.
4-6: Other insurers adopt interventions bringing screening and treatment options to all women.
What barriers might hinder the success of your project? How do you plan to overcome them?
Early identification of pregnant women by the insurer so proper screening can be conducted is a concern. Because OBGYNs would receive assistance with screening and identification of qualified services, it's our hope that OBGYNs will be willing to share this information as a matter of routine, reducing their medical liability risk. Some have raised concern with privacy rules, however exchange of information for purposes of "treatment, payment and health care operations," I have requested that the NIHCM consider outside legal counsel provide an opinion/confirmation. Additionally, we are suggesting that insurance companies consider forming on-line birth clubs that would allow mothers to voluntarily connect through the web portal with one another and receive screenings and incentives.
baca seterusnya↓↑ menyembunyikan↑ menyembunyikanWhat is the benefit or value you're creating for your business?
Depression costs the US 83.1 billion in 2000. Women with depression have more expensive medical claims and utilization, children born to mothers suffering from untreated depression have a lifetime of higher office visit and ER utilization and consequently higher medical claim cost. Pregnant women with depression are 3.4 times more likely to deliver pre-term and 4 times more likely to deliver a low birth weight baby. In 2005 the average cost for an infant born prematurely was $51,600. There is cost-benefit of early identification/treatment.
How are you leveraging internal resources (funds, time, knowledge, etc.) to support this initiative?
Though there is strong internal support for this project within Cigna, because of numerous priorities address implementation of the Affordable Care Act, this is a difficult time in most insurance companies to suggest any new initiatives. There is a core team of five at Cigna working "off the sides of our desks" to launch this program. The team includes the Senior Medical Director for Cigna Behavioral Health, the Health Disparities Council leader, the Medical Director for High Risk Pregnancies, a Quality Manager and I. Any funds provided through Changemakers would both serve as additional outside validation of the program and help to move implementation forward potentially by a few years.
Expand on your answer, explaining the long-term funding and support plan.
First it's anticipated that once the program launches we will be able to make further demonstrable links to reduced medical expenses, thereby demonstrating the value in early detection and treatment and the resources needed to support that effort long-term. This generally isn't a concern; however funds for start-up project and possible IT solutions are difficult to come by.
Tell us about your partnerships across your company and externally that are key to your project's success.
The American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology's District IX co-sponsors the Collaborative's events and a member serves a co-chair of the Collaborative. The District Chair and other members are in support of these recommendations. Additionally the RAND group has been invited to an upcoming forum (Jan. 24) to discuss these ideas and potentially lend expertise. The Leapfrog Group, and the National Institute for Health Care Management are joining me on regular calls.
What internal support have you gotten for your project? What kind of push-back have you received?
Our project is endorsed by the Chief Diversity officer and Behavioral Health Medical Director. Additionally, we believe that this year we will be able to collect some measurement data on screening rates through the maternity medical records already collected for HEDIS measures. Funding for that work hasn't yet been raised as a need. So far any additional dedicated project resources/funding have not been identified primarily because of competing ACA projects.
Created on 01/7/2013 by Memphasis
The lesson from this is never to underestimate the extent to which we all have gifts to express and with the right opportunities, can re-emerge as part of our restitution after the excesses of ill-health have run their course. Facilitators who work in mental health, please take special note!
baca seterusnya ↓↑ menyembunyikan↑ menyembunyikanTell us about yourself/your team.
Champions of change are an independent network of local people who support each other to use the power of our own journeys to improve health services, raise awareness and reduce stigma.
What makes you an intrapreneur? What are the skills, capabilities, and personality traits that make you an intrapreneur?
Anyone who has lived with symptoms of schizophrenia for a considerable length of time will recognize the perspectives given here: the diagnosable symptoms of sz may be incurably lodged within us and May be a part of our make-up, but that does not in itself present a grim predicament. This is because our disabilities are also our Attributes. Maybe unwittingly, the psychiatrist's diagnosis undermines these attributes and sets them in a grim light. We do not languish in despair but set about engaging the symptoms as evidence of rare qualities to be expressed and applied creatively. My 'pathway to progress' has been photography. Seeing things which 'are not there' enables me to develop an awareness of the imaging possibilities of any scene I see and record it.
Company Country
United Kingdom, NTT, Nottingham
Primary country where this project is creating social impact
United Kingdom, NTT, Nottingham
Additional countries or regions
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Pertumbuhan (eksperimen Anda sudah dijalankan, dan mulai dikembangkan)
The Need: What social or environmental problem are you trying to solve?
The social integration of socially excluded elements who seek restitution and meaningful activity, to develop skills and expertise that help to re-engage them creatively and more effectively. So much of the resources devoted to mental health is wasted in non-productive, badly targeted measures more to do with security-obsessions than welfare improvement, when effective measures Stick and do not need the repetitious cycles of a revolving door.
The Solution: What is your solution? Be specific!
With the right help, a low maintenance dosage of appropriate medication to reduce the intensity of symptom's extremes -one which does not pile on a burden of disability which excessive medicating is apt to do- and some vocational and training guidance, we can be the creative artists that nature intended us to be, using our gifts to master the medium which is best suited to our attributes.
The Solution: Why is this solution innovative for your company and industry?
It works for the individuals who put forward their creative ideas as part of the solution to some intractable problems regarding engaging incurable people so we are meaningfully occupied and on a road to true integration, in consultation and partnership and in Open dialogue to resolve remaining health issues conclusively.
The Model: Walk us through a specific example of how your solution makes a difference; include your primary activities.
That is photography and visual hallucinations. What then of reconstructing the Dramatist and Playwright, the writer and novelist from auditory hallucinations? Musicians, composers, singers and lyric writers are also only a step away from the same level of creative attribute and giftedness.
The lesson from this is never to underestimate the extent to which we all have gifts to express and with the right opportunities, can re-emerge as part of our restitution after the excesses of ill-health have run their course.
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?
Healthcare trusts frequently engage former patients in voluntary involvement activities. Tthis has a detrimental effect of preferment for a sector of patients according to their aptitudes and willingness to give back to a system which in turn selectively prioritises favourite patients on a fast track and shuts out less trendy or intractable conditions like schizophrenia. Such preferment is subversive of equal treatment and opportunity and entangles professionals in increasingly corrupt practices.
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My medication was severely disabling for many years. I lost faculties which many take for granted and they were only restored to me gradually as dosages were reduced and the guard lowered in the hostilities between clinician and patient. I realized during this process that the elements of symptoms which the clinician was trying to eradicate were my Strengths as an artist! Small wonder that the level of medicating is critical in not rendering patients more disadvantaged than we need to be. And of course this has a strong bearing upon our capacity to recover or make progress.
What has been the impact of your solution to date?
More Open dialogue and a greater understanding and acceptance of the essential humanity of people whose repellent qualities are mostly born out of over-medicating and a receptiveness to peer-working and consultation respecting people with lived experiences of conditions and the light we shed upon dark areas of understanding.
What is your projected impact over the next 1 to 3 years?
Capacity-building will enable us to encompass and develop more influence respecting our approach to the integrity of personal experiences.
What barriers might hinder the success of your project? How do you plan to overcome them?
A lack of resources is pegging us back currently. Nothing succeeds like success however, and we need to build upon our growing momentum to influence more people with Open dialogue
baca seterusnya↓↑ menyembunyikan↑ menyembunyikanWhat is the benefit or value you're creating for your business?
Better outcomes, more effective practices and more humane approaches to our predicaments, enabling more to be achieved for less and streamlining the process to everyone's benefit
How are you leveraging internal resources (funds, time, knowledge, etc.) to support this initiative?
We all give of our time voluntarily and with greater commitment, as our survival depends upon our acceptance and inclusion. We do not see a future in marking us out as pariahs or the excluded. We intend to be back in the fold on our own merits and talents.
Expand on your answer, explaining the long-term funding and support plan.
Simply a proliferation in acceptance of our better methods which draws upon a wider engagement and more wide adoption of peer-support techniques
Tell us about your partnerships across your company and externally that are key to your project's success.
The development of working practices tried and tested in West Finland which are delivering markedly better results to any comparable region throughout the world, whose principles of Open dialogue are spreading contagiously and high-lighting why other approaches fail, through revolving-door wastage and inappropriate antagonisms between patients and staff with excessive emphasis upon security and risk issues which result from this antagonism
What internal support have you gotten for your project? What kind of push-back have you received?
It is early days but interest in holding pilots which test the success of new approaches are getting a good reception thus far. This needs to be matched by funding of more projects to make the case irrefutable.
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Aid underserved youth in recovery from psychological trauma through art therapy and healing public art installations.
Output:
- 150 hours of individualized sessions in a year
- 60 hours of group sessions for communities in a year
- 4 large-scale public art installations in a year
- 300 hours of individualized sessions by year 5
- 6 large-scale public art installations annually by year 5
- continue to scale and increase output years 5-10
Outcome: decrease suicide attempt rate and recovery from trauma in targeted youth.
Measurement System:
Created on 12/20/2012 by Norman Mustafa
The goal is to bring access to clinical trials to an underserved population and developing future minority healthcare leaders by penetrating underserved communities to provide education, resources and links to other community resources to increase access to better healthcare and leveraging existing services.
baca seterusnya ↓↑ menyembunyikan↑ menyembunyikanTell us about yourself/your team.
The GSK Hispanic Patient Recruitment Advisory is comprised of supportive GSK R&D clinical trial disciplines and the Hispanic community. It is an integral component of GSK US Diversity Team.
What makes you an intrapreneur? What are the skills, capabilities, and personality traits that make you an intrapreneur?
Ability to keep this initiative moving forward through staff turnover, organizational change and with zero budget this year.
Company Country
United States, NC, Research Triangle Park, Durham County
Primary country where this project is creating social impact
Additional countries or regions
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Ide (yang Anda yakini layak diluncurkan)
The Need: What social or environmental problem are you trying to solve?
Penetrate underserved US Latino communities to provide education, resources and links to other community resources to increase access to better healthcare.
The goal is to bring access to clinical trials to an underserved population and developing future minority healthcare leaders (Investigators). Any successes in the US may be used in other parts of the world while meeting the regulatory goal of ensuring medicines are meeting the needs of a specific population.
The Solution: What is your solution? Be specific!
Gaining the partnership of existing community organizations, NGOs, Academia and GSK LOCs to “spread the word” and make the connections in the community to increase patient involvement in clinical trials.
Start by developing a local model by engaging a local NGO that serves the Hispanic population and then refining that model in order to replicate it for other NGOs to use.
The Solution: Why is this solution innovative for your company and industry?
Currently, there iis no solution that serves to connect the diverse existing associations (multiple LatinAmerican/Hispanic medical groups, Student groups, State organizations, community organizations, etc.) to allow shared expertise, knowledge and reaching the patient through the services provided.
The Model: Walk us through a specific example of how your solution makes a difference; include your primary activities.
GSK employee time and potentially funding suppot for this innovative solution. Partnering with existing organization to host/create a single point of information source for all Hispanic / Latin American investigators or potential investigators and patients to learn about clinical trials and resources in their communities.
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?
There are many Hispanic/Latin associations in the US. Several are in the healthcare domain, however not partnering to captilize on resources.
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baca seterusnya↓↑ menyembunyikan↑ menyembunyikanFounding Story: 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 working with the GSK Hispanic Patient Recruitment Advisory Council, we were able to "connect the dots" with organizations to participate/support in local health fairs. This made me realize that there is great opportunity to "connect the dots" on a much larger scale.
What has been the impact of your solution to date?
We have increased awareness of the need for Hispanic/ Latino's in clinical trials with a goal of matching the clincial trial participation to that of the US population.
This year, GSK has gone from 10% to 13% participation by Hispanic/Latino's in our US clinical trials.
What is your projected impact over the next 1 to 3 years?
An increase in the Hispanic patient recruitment to match US population rates (currently about 15%) would be a metric of success.
What barriers might hinder the success of your project? How do you plan to overcome them?
Human resource to undertake the challenge of bringing organizations together to build a single network of information - reach out internally and externally for volunteers
Resources necessary to support this - continue working internally to raise awareness and support.
Clinical Research awareness in the Hispanic/Latino Community - educating clinical research site about this vulnerable population who are underrepresented in clinical trials and focus on raising awareness for cultural competence.
baca seterusnya↓↑ menyembunyikan↑ menyembunyikanWhat is the benefit or value you're creating for your business?
The FDA has stated that all pharmaceutical patient populations should reflect the patients that will be served by a medicine. The 2000 US Census indicates that the US Demographic for Hispanic Population will increase from 14.9% in 2010 to 29% over the next 50 years. This represents the fastest growing group in the US. Access to healthcare is major challenge for this population as is understanding the Latino Community health needs and improving Hispanic Investigator participation in clinical trials.
How are you leveraging internal resources (funds, time, knowledge, etc.) to support this initiative?
Leading the GSK Hispanic Patient Recruitment Advisory Council committtee, which is part of the US Clinical Diversity Momentum team, which is a multi-disciplinary team raising awareness and developing supporting materials to increase Hispanic/Latino participation in clinical trials.
Expand on your answer, explaining the long-term funding and support plan.
Long-term funding and support is a challenge with the changing internal environment. Will continue to work to ensure funding is available to support these activities.
Tell us about your partnerships across your company and externally that are key to your project's success.
The creation of the GSK Hispanic Patient Recruitment Advisory Council which is comprised of GSK clinical trial disciplines and members of the US Latino community. This Council will bring unique knowledge and skills which complement the knowledge and skills of the GSK to offer objective and independent insight on recruitment efforts to influence direction. The Council will identify barriers to and share the benefits of this knowledge beyond GSK.
What internal support have you gotten for your project? What kind of push-back have you received?
Multidisciplinary support internally and funding to host a face-to-face kick off meeting with the Advisory Council. Ongoing committment of GSK staff to support the Council.
Pushback has been limited to funding request for subsequent meetings being denied.
Created on 11/21/2012 by Josethose
Project MOSES: A project to improve Mood Outcomes using Scientific and Educational Support in the society! We aim to reduce the impact of depression & anxiety on society and help more patients with mood disorders reach the right treaters
baca seterusnya ↓↑ menyembunyikan↑ menyembunyikanTell us about yourself/your team.
Project MOSES is managed by a cross functional team with diverse capabilities united by an undying passion to aid humanity & to do more, feel better and live longer, the corporate philosophy practiced at GSK.
Our team comprises of colleagues from Information & Technology, medical and commercial teams. We in our individual capacities strive to innovate and find solutions to simplify issues that dogs our teammates across GSK especially in the area of depression. In the current project, we have been come together to reach out to make an impact on the society at large!
What makes you an intrapreneur? What are the skills, capabilities, and personality traits that make you an intrapreneur?
We are a team, trying to find practical solution to problems and issues that we face in our day to day lives. We use creativity and innovation to address gaps in the value chain. We are a team that’s proactive and do not take no for an answer. Thinking outside the box and taking calculated risks is something we take pride in. And all of us are committed to see our projects are completed successfully.
Company Country
United Kingdom, LND, Brentford
Primary country where this project is creating social impact
n/a
Additional countries or regions
Across the emerging economies & countries
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Ide (yang Anda yakini layak diluncurkan)
The Need: What social or environmental problem are you trying to solve?
Every minute almost 2 lives are lost to suicides across the world. And depression, a mental disorder is a major factor in most cases. Depression is considered as a leading cause of disability across the world by WHO( World Health Organization) & affects 350 million people world wide. It can become chronic or can reappear even treatment and lead to substantial impairments in an individual's ability to take care of his or her everyday responsibilities. Depression can co-exist with other chronic diseases like diabetes, asthma, angina & arthritis and is know to worsen outcomes in these patients. Anxiety adds to the list of mood disorders.
Suicides can be prevented and depression can be managed better with better awareness and treatment. Someone should augment the existing efforts!
The Solution: What is your solution? Be specific!
Spreading awareness by helping people reach out to the right treatment and treaters is our solution! We will use conventional and unconventional tools, monetary and non-monetary resources to raise awareness, both at treaters and seekers!
To be specific our solution is Project MOSES! A web-based solution to help people with depression & mood disorders. We will use the internet to disseminate information on depression & help patients locate the right treaters across the world. Our solution will also update treaters on latest developments in the field of depression & mood disorders.
GSK owns a website called www.depression.com & will be the crux to solution to fight depression.
The Solution: Why is this solution innovative for your company and industry?
Historically direct to patient activities in space of depression has been low & limited because
Patient education is costly and has a lower success rate as compared to other tools
Strict government regulations in the healthcare sector prevent promotion of brands directly to patients in most of the countries.
Meeting a psychiatrist is a taboo & people depend on alternative routes to get better with limited progress
Our model will help address these 3 core challenges
The Model: Walk us through a specific example of how your solution makes a difference; include your primary activities.
Spread awareness using social media, viral or chain mails, search engine optimization, word of mouth tools and educate people on impact of depression and need to seek treatment.
Use these tools to help interested people reach the website www.depression.com
Help people assess the level or severity of their mood disorders using various scales and mood monitors.
Help them locate and reach a treater in their neighbourhood
The website will further help patients assess the progress on mood scales using the tools.
Increased awareness and ease of locating a treater should help many patients currently suffering from depression reach right treatement.
Since depression coexists with many ailment like angina, asthma, diabetetes, more patients could become more aware of their disease condition and could check with their existing treaters about depression.
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?
Currently such tools & support is offered by government bodies in a couple of developed countries. Our peers, pharmaceuticals promoting other antidepressants, do some work on the patient awareness. Very few have website or programs dedicated to enhance awareness or bridge treatement gap in the management of depression. ( treatment gap referes to the gap in number of people suffering from a disease and the number of people getting treatment, ~ 70% is treatement gap in mood disorders)
Project MOSES, is an ambitious project that will not only help patients with depression reach right treaters but also help GSK reflect a very socially responsible image.
However the idea is easily replaceable and will quickly add to the clutter if the model is commercially viable.
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baca seterusnya↓↑ menyembunyikan↑ menyembunyikanFounding Story: We want to hear about your "Aha!" moment. Share the story of where and when the founder(s) saw this solution's potential to change the world.
The project was first shared with senior management as part of 2013 plans. The simplicity, ability to be scaled up if successful and the power to change dynamics in the market in the plan was encouraged by all. The plans raised some critical questions and suggestions as well. We believe Project Moses has excited and inspired all with its plan as it addresses key aspects of
a) Need gap in the society to create disease awareness
b) Bridging the treatment gap in depression & ensure more patient reach treatment
C) Generating additional revenue in the antidepressant market which will help sustain efforts
The support and guidance from the leadership team is what then motivated us to take the project ahead.
What has been the impact of your solution to date?
The project is in its Ideation stage. We are working together will all stakeholders internally to secure approvals and to ensure that we are compliant to internal and external regulations. We are also working with partners to develop the tools and platform for our project. We also have our teams in the pilot markets excited about the initiative. We expect the project to go live in 2nd Quarter of 2013.
Our great impact as on date is the excitment and the interest generated by Project MOSES.
What is your projected impact over the next 1 to 3 years?
This project will be considered a success if it creates the following impact
Acceptance by our colleagues in key markets by 2nd year based on feedbacks from pilot markets & its success in 1st year
It continues to have increasing hits on the website over the years with increasing usage of the find a doctor section and is able to have hits equivalent to 5% of population of the country by end of 3years
Increase in the number of doctors registering to the website to support the initiative to cover atleast 30% of the countries Psychiatrists
An increase in the number of people seeking treatment as assessed by secondary research tools by atleast 20% every year
In terms of a revenue increase a 5 x ROI in pilot markets will be a reasonable success measure.
What barriers might hinder the success of your project? How do you plan to overcome them?
We have 2 major barriers to overcome for Project MOSES’s success
Barrier of low awareness about initiative
To overcome this we plan to work on various methods. Search engine optimization & social medial optimization tactics, viral marketing with emailers, use of parallel social media by uploading videos and tools on internet sites leading patients to the websites & apps. Partner with key doctor association to propagate and promote our effort right from the launch.
Teething trouble at execution
The Pilot in select countries is with an objective to learn the process and become aware of the troubles that we couldn’t envisage in the first place. To avoid any major trouble, we have key stakeholders from pilot countries engaged in the ideation stage
baca seterusnya↓↑ menyembunyikan↑ menyembunyikanWhat is the benefit or value you're creating for your business?
Approximately 70 words left (570 characters).If the models succeeds, it will help a lot of people suffering from depression and hence create a good will for us
The efforts will also help create good will for the treaters
Some of these patients may be prescribed antidepressant and we should see and overall additional growth contribution to the category
There will a similar growth in our brands too
How are you leveraging internal resources (funds, time, knowledge, etc.) to support this initiative?
All key stakeholder and decision makers who make the idea better and compliant to both internal and external requirement are involved. External vendors to setup up the tools and apps needed are parallelly engaged. To ensure buy in and execution is time bound, the pilot project is incorporated into brand plan & internal stake holders are contributing to give shape to the project. The project is a self funding one.
Expand on your answer, explaining the long-term funding and support plan.
The project is a self funding one! To test our hypothesis we are executing this project in couple of pilot markets. Based on the success in the pilot markets we will scale up or tone down Project MOSES!
Tell us about your partnerships across your company and externally that are key to your project's success.
The project is depended on support from the cross-functional team, teams across geographies involved in the rolling out the project and external teams that will create the entire structure. A well coordinated effort within all the teammates is critical for the successful rollout and results for this project
What internal support have you gotten for your project? What kind of push-back have you received?
We have been seeking internal clearance across various levels and we have received very encouraging messages and also words of caution. The words of caution are to ensure we are careful & act responsibly when we interact externally. We expect local execution related issues and are currently checking feasibility in identified pilot markets. Since ours is a cross functional team, each team member secures IT, Medical and commercial teams endoresements
