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The Starter Pack Program

Program to assist unemployed job seekers to better understand the needs of a company and help them gain better access to employment opportunities. It will also provide hands on experience to the job seeker and assure the business that they understand the position.

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Darius

Brown

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Borough(s) where you are creating or plan on creating impact

Brooklyn.

団体の所在国

United States, NY

Country where your solution is creating social impact

United States, NY

団体の種類:

非営利団体

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The Starter Pack Program

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The Need for your solution: What problem or challenge are you trying to solve?

The biggest problem in my community when it comes to employment opportunities is that people have trouble finding jobs when they do not have previous experience working in that field. Job applications and experience requirements are very stringent and even though someone may be capable of performing the task the mere fact that they do not have experience doing it eliminates them from the hiring process almost immediately.

The Solution: What is your solution? Be specific!

I would like to start a program focused on week long training programs for members of my community. The training will be facilitated by employers, and they will demonstrate and train members on what the job entails. At the end of the week long training the trainee will give the member a score based on their performance. The applicant will then apply for the position with their score as well as their other employment, and educational background. The employer will then know, that despite the applicant not having experience in the field, after being scored by the trainee they are skilled and capable or in some cases not capable of doing the job.

The Model: Walk us through a specific example of how your solution makes a difference; include the primary activities that are involved in your solution. Consider telling us a story about the solution in action and how it creates impact. For idea-stage pitches, consider providing a hypothetical example

For example if a shipping company that transport numerous amounts of crates overseas needed an operator that can work a forklift, the program will be opened up to recruit about 20-30 unemployed members to attend a week at a work site to have hands on supervised training. During this process the applicants will be scored on the abilities to complete the task and assignments. At the end of the week the members will get a final grade based on their performance. So for example one member who performed really well may score a 95 whereas someone who could not pick up the skills would only score a 50. The member who scored a 95 would then move on to the application process with the employer now knowing how skilled he is in operating a forklift despite him not having any experience in the past doing it.

The Marketplace: Who else is addressing the problem that you are addressing with your solution. And how does your proposed solution differ from or build on these approaches?

This model is similar to an internship, but an internship usually focuses on one area (i.e. internship to be an accountant). This program will have people focusing on different areas within a company and an opportunity to learn about different areas within a company. So, if they were in a 4 week training program, each week they could learn about a different area within the company and take tests for each area. If they would like to retest in a certain area they would be able to do so as well.

This Entry is about (Issues)

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Founding Story: Share a story about the “Aha!” moment that led you or the person who came up with your proposed solution to get started and/or to see the potential for it to succeed.

Out of my own experience and what I have seen in the community, this has helped me craft a solution to fix the problem. This program has the potential of closing the hiring disparities in our communities that exist due to previous opportunities. It levels the playing field for members of my community with our counterparts who may have had better opportunities in the past. It also will allow the trainees, who will be representatives of the employers, to connect with members of my community. This will bridge the gap and allow them to see us as individuals rather than stereotypes, and statistics.

Impact: What is the impact of your solution to date? Also describe the projected future impact. (If your solution is an idea you can just describe projected future impact.)

This program is based on making sure every applicant is comfortable and satisfied with the job they are working at. This also will assure the employer that they have reliable employees. If needed, applicants can repeat classes when the training is introduced again, if the desired position is what the member wants. This program also gives members opportunity to learn new positions they have branched out to try before. It’s easy and effective, and can solve numerous money problems. I recommend it as a great program to strengthen my community, and every community that struggles to succeed.

Full Impact Potential: How do you plan on spreading your solution moving forward? (Please consider spread within New York City or beyond, policy reform, how you might get others to replicate/adopt your solution or other mechanisms)

Once the model is tested and proven, working with other businesses, corporations etc that are interested in investing in communities and improving the quality of life, this will be able to spread. Businesses are always in need of qualified employees and this will give them an opportunity to help someone learn about a position, get hands on experience and once the person moves to the application phase, they will know that they received pre-training. Getting business participation in this program, I believe would be the easy part because businesses seek qualified employees and want to improve the quality of life for the areas they reside in.

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Current annual budget, in US dollars (if your solution is an idea please estimate what your budget will need to be in order to carry out your solution)

100,001~250,000

Tell us about your partnerships. If your solution is an idea tell us about who you would partner or plan on partnering with in order to make your solution a success.

I would partner with workforce organizations, business associations, trade associations, local development and community development corporations.

Shared backyard food gardens with community kitchen

The existing groups of backyard food gardens provided portion of household needs of nutrients, mostly fruits and vegetables. They will be enhanced and organized to create closer-to-balance nutrient supply at the community level. Community kitchen will provide freshly-cooked food with local material.

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Project

This project also has a Project where you can read more about its latest progress.
Go to Project: Dinero Global.

Dinero Global nuevo sistema financiero

El Dinero Global creará una nueva fuente de riqueza a la cual tendrá acceso toda la población mundial expandiendo de forma explosiva no sólo el mercado mundial de nutrientes sino la economía en general.
El sistema DG romperá con la cuña que no permite el pleno empleo en esta economía actual

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Jose

Blanco

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団体の所在国

n/a

この団体が社会的なインパクトをもたらす国

United States

団体の種類:

Hybrid

Has the organization received awards or honors? Please tell us about them

Changeshop

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Dinero Global nuevo sistema financiero

Year founded

2004

Stage

Idea (poised to launch)

Elevator Pitch

El Dinero Global creará una nueva fuente de riqueza a la cual tendrá acceso toda la población mundial expandiendo de forma explosiva no sólo el mercado mundial de nutrientes sino la economía en general.
El sistema DG romperá con la cuña que no permite el pleno empleo en esta economía actual

Problem

El desempleo es un problema que afecta el ingreso de numerosas familias en el mundo; ingreso necesario para cubrir sus necesidades esenciales incluyendo la nutrición. El nuevo sistema Dinero Global rompe con las difíciles condiciones necesarias para generar empleo bajo la economía y el sistema financiero actual, propiciando el pleno empleo y generando una nueva fuente de riqueza de fácil acceso para toda la población.

Solution

El sistema Dinero Global te da la oportunidad de inscribirte en el sitio en internet y recibir tu deposito inicial en Dinero Global con la introducción de tus datos personales. Con esos recursos ya podrás recibir cualquiera de los cientos de servicios disponibles en la red, ademas tendrás también la posibilidad de intercambiar tus nuevos recursos (Dinero Global) por dinero real a la tasa establecida y así adquirir productos materiales para cubrir tus necesidades.
Con el nuevo sistema no sólo los empleados sino también aquellos empleados que dispongan de tiempo libre podrán utilizar su tiempo ofreciendo cualquier servicio que sean capaces de ofrecer satisfactoriamente

Example

Un ejemplo sería el del barbero que hace uno $27000 al año en Estados Unidos trabajando unas 40 horas a la semana. Con este nivel de sueldo una persona puede cubrir apenas sus necesidades básicas de alimentación, ropa, transporte y vivienda pero no tendrá la posibilidad de ahorrar ni acceso a servicios de salud, educación y muchos otros necesarios para vivir una vida plena. El sistema Dinero Global permitiría a este barbero o a cualquier otro desocupado producir recursos trabajando tres días a la semana podría producir una cantidad parecida a la anterior y adicionalmente otra cantidad en Dinero Global y recibir toda clase de servicios inalcanzables para él bajo el sistema actual. Este ejemplo puede también hacerse con cualquier trabajador

Impact

Siguiendo con el ejemplo del barbero, el impacto en él será apreciable a nivel personal, dado que duplicará sus ingresos, y aún cuando la mitad será en DG, el acceso a los servicios se duplicará también mejorando apreciablemente su nivel de vida. Esto es de esta manera quizás el primer año, pero los años subsiguientes pudiera tener la oportunidad de reducir de manera importante el tiempo laborable para dedicarse más a sí mismo y a su familia. A nivel comunitario y global es donde podría haber el mayor impacto debido a la posibilidad que los individuos formen comunidades de consumo y de servicio. Un ejemplo podría ser el Centro Comunal de Servicios donde una comunidad agrupa la mayor cantidad de servicios necesarios para ellos en un solo lugar. Esto mismo puede extenderse a nivel regional o global en diversas comunidades e intereses.

Marketplace

Son muchas las instituciones que se están dirigiendo hacia el problema entre las que podemos contar gobiernos, universidades, organismos multilaterales entre otros, pero la diferencia que vemos está en que sus soluciones se basan en el sistema económico-financiero actual que ya demostró no ser capaz de satisfacer la mayor parte de la población. Estas soluciones tendrán siempre esta limitación mientras no se basen en un sistema nuevo y diferente. El Sistema DG se basa en los servicios y con esto elimina todas las difíciles condiciones necesarias para la inversión en el sistema actual

Sustainability Plan

Plan de sustentabilidad
El plan básico de sustentabilidad se basa en que algunos de los servicios necesarios para la implementación serán ofrecidos por los mismos suscriptores o asociados del sistema por un lado y por el otro, a pesar de que en el sistema DG la ganancia, lucro o especulación no tienen sentido, durante la fase de implementación se ofrecerá una ganancia a los socios inversionistas proveniente del intercambio con dinero real

Founding Story

Historia fundacional
En el año 2003 durante la investigación de grado para la maestría en finanzas de la Universidad de Carabobo- Venezuela, viendo cómo en los avances mas importantes de las ultimas décadas en ciencia y tecnología estaba siempre presente la virtualización de una actividad humana me encontré con la posibilidad de virtualizar el dinero y explorar la posibilidad de progreso que traería de forma similar a los avances vistos en las comunicaciones y tecnologías de la información, así fue cómo surgió la idea que estamos implementando, el Dinero Global. Así como Frederic Gauss dió el paso genial de lo real a lo virtual y componiendo ambas partes en algo mayor así surgió esta posibilidad genial que promete mucho para todos

Nutrients For All

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Where do you ensure the availability of nutrients?

Human wellness and vitality.

If you had greater capacity, which additional sectors would you like your solution to target - either through expansion, partnership, or thought exchange?

Full nourishment foods.

How specifically would this added capacity help you improve the quality, efficiency, or sustainability of your existing product or service?

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Nutrient Economy

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How is your product or service connected to vitality for the people and planet?

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People need appropriate nutrients to grow, learn, and fight off disease. How do you measure, track, or make use of information about nutrient levels in your own work?

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Considering the flow of nutrients from ecosystems to soil to farms to food to communities, what are the barriers to achieving vitality for people and the planet?

Other barriers you have identified

In your view, what developments need to happen in order to help overcome those barriers and produce a more nutrient rich and vital public and planet?

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What do you consider the most promising trends or evidence that indicates that the developments you described are emerging? Please elaborate.

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FundUni

FundUni is a web-based software platform designed to create a free market connection between those who require and those who provide capital (crowdfunding). The firm plans to dramatically reduce the national level of student debt by revolutionizing the way students fund
their education.

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Dinero Global

El Dinero Global creará una nueva fuente de riqueza a la cual tendrá acceso toda la población mundial expandiendo de forma explosiva no sólo el mercado mundial de nutrientes sino también los recursos disponibles para tal fin.

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PRODUCTION OF BIO PANCHAGAVYA AND BIO AMRUTHA JALAM.

Experiments
1. Saving precious water,
2. Improving soil fertility,
3. Reduction of labor cost,
4. Reduction of input cost
5. Avoiding loss of production during conversion,
6. Remunerative price to farmers and make agriculture sustainable
Answers
A.1 Use of Laser Leveler, SRI method, grown green manure crops to save water
A.2 Green manure crop, using Bio Amrutha Jalam resulted in earthworm and microbial population growth, helped formation of rich humus, improved soil fertility
A.3 Use of agricultural machinery reduced labor cost

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DUMA - The Future of Hiring in Emerging Markets

DUMA, the Swahili word for cheetah, is a job-matching service designed for emerging markets. Our mission stands: To be the developing world’s job reference system, to deliver a superior system to word-of-mouth hiring, and to enrich and empower a global workforce.

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Bridging the Gap

We bridge the gap between youth and companies by providing youth with practical skills for the workplace and showing companies the benefits youth provide.

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Salima

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United States

この団体が社会的なインパクトをもたらす国

Canada, BC

団体の種類:

未登録の

運営期間

1 年未満

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Summary: What specific issue or problem does your Venture address?

Our venture addresses the issues of youth unemployment and youth underemployment. Youth are the only demographic that has not yet recovered from the employment losses suffered during the recession, and the unemployment rate for youth currently sits at 14.8%. In addition, 1 out of 3 individuals with a post-secondary diploma moved into a low-skilled occupation after graduation. These youth are bright and passionate and just need the tools to land the right job after they graduate.
While we believe further research is necessary to fully understand the scope of the problem, some of our existing research (http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/article/1296040--how-did-we-create-su... & http://youngandjobless.com/) shows that the problem is a skills gap.

Misson Statement: What will your venture do?

Our venture aims to bridge the gap between seemingly unattainable jobs and recent graduates. For recent graduates we hope to provide skills training that will help enhance skills they have already learned and obtained in their post-secondary education. This will better prepare them to find a job that reflects or stems from their education. Next, we aim to work with employers to understand the value that youth can bring to the workplace - from fresh and youthful perspectives to their tech savviness. In addition, we hope to utilize the Get Youth Working grant available to employers from the government to further encourage them to hire youth. This venture works both with youth and employers, understanding that both can work together to start to solve this problem.

The Model: Walk us through a specific example of how your solution makes a difference; include your primary activities

A fourth year Sociology student is looking for a job upon graduation. She is not planning on going back to school but isn't sure what she can do with her degree. She comes to us because she heard about our data analysis workshops. She took survey methods and statistics in school, so she has a background in analysis, but she wants to enhance her existing skills.

On the other end of things, we are talking with a local market research company that is looking to hire. We help them see the value in youth and introduce them to the Get Youth Working program. As a result, they are keen to hire some recent university grads with a background in data analysis for their market research projects.

After the student finishes our workshop, she is confident in her data analysis ability. In addition, she has practiced in her own time and applies to the market research company. She is hired because she has proven proficiency in data analysis. The company has a fresh outlook from her perspective and is also fortunate to receive a grant from Get Youth Working for hiring a youth.

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?

The Vancouver community will be the initial community we will target, as we are able to meet with both students and employers in the region. The population that will be affected is youth, specifically upper year students and recent post-secondary graduates. There are organizations working in this space including organizations like Get Youth Working as well as career centres at post-secondary institutions. What sets us apart from these groups is that we are in the same position as these grads so we can understand them and their grad fears better than any other generation. The Get Youth Working program focuses on younger youth for their job postings. Career centres are limited and stretched to help all students with all barriers and backgrounds on a campus, whereas we are focused.

Founding Story: What inspired your venture? Why?

As university students, we have personally seen the way the job market is affecting youth. Seeing the students around us worry about the job market and their ability to obtain a job, and we have also seen recent graduates who are struggling to find work. Students are trying to work, volunteer, do extracurricular activities, etc. all while taking a full class load, in order to try and better themselves for when they graduate. Recent grads are faced with rejections and entry-level positions that they do not qualify for. Being surrounded by this constant worry has led us to become extremely passionate about helping youth find meaningful work.

What is your long-term vision for your Venture?

Our long-term vision for our venture is to expand nationally and to help put a dent in youth unemployment. We want to become a premier service that both students and employers turn to in order to find the right candidates and the right jobs.

Define your company, program, service, or product in 1-2 short sentences

We bridge the gap between youth and companies by providing youth with practical skills for the workplace and showing companies the benefits youth provide.

Goals

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What do you want to accomplish in your first year?

In 12 months we want to have found out which industries post-sec grads are struggling the most in and which employers are interested and willing to hire youth, but need additional support and prepared students. We want to work closely with grads to follow their stories and identify the strengths and weaknesses of our pilot program. We can learn from and improve upon this pilot and by the end of the 12 months we hope to have built a successful working model through our pilot that we can then expand into other career centres and cities while working within the industries that we have identified need it the most.

Winning entries present a strong plan for how they will achieve and track growth. Identify your six-month milestone for growing your impact

Our 6 month milestone will be to complete the research to identify what is contributing to youth unemployment.

Identify three major tasks you will have to complete to reach your six-month milestone

タスク 1:

Analysis of unemployment markets

タスク 2:

Hold 6 focus groups, with 7-10 individuals each

タスク 3:

Meetings with potential business partners and career centres

Now think bigger! Identify your 12-month impact milestone

By our 12-month milestone, we will have completed our first pilot and have iterated our program based on the results.

Identify three major tasks you will have to complete to reach your 12-month milestone

タスク 1:

Hold 3-4 workshops

タスク 2:

Continue meetings with potential business partners and university career centres

タスク 3:

Online website created where attendees from workshops can continue the conversation

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How will your Venture define success in the short term (1-12 months)?

In the short term we will define success by having the market research completed to show us which area is the greatest need. This will include an analysis of the national/provincial/local stats on youth unemployment to give us a snapshot of the current state. In addition, a documented “business case” will be created to provide to employers on why it makes sense to partner with us and find the right youth for their organization.

In the long-term (1 year?)

Our long-term definition of success includes working through a pilot project to help us better understand and identify the barriers and opportunities we will face. This will give us a better understanding of iterations we will need to make, and will allow us to create a model that works and is successful based on our research and testing of assumptions.

How will you measure success?

In the short-term, we will measure success by completing our research, having help 6 focus groups with youth and signing on 2 business partners and one career centre.

In the long-term, we will measure success by completing our pilot project in one industry. In addition, we will complete pre and post surveys and video interviews to document the students' growth and identify their remaining weaknesses so we can improve these gaps for the next stage. We want to help a minimum of 2 students get hired. In addition to the business partners and career centres from the short-term, we hope to gain interest from at least one new business partner and one new career centre.

Why?

We need to focus both on strong research as well as actions through the pilot project to plan for long-term success.

MySoft: The App for Small Service Providers

MySoft intends its production and distribution of computer applications (apps) for use by service providers in classes C and D, promoting the digital inclusion of small businesses from the base of the social pyramid. The creators of the applications are youth from the same social reality, organized in professional cooperative networks, for income generation via the production of software.

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Sebastião

Cartaxo

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団体名

Dossier Digital

ウェブサイト

団体の所在国

Brazil, BA, Salvador

この団体が社会的なインパクトをもたらす国

Brazil, BA, Nordeste Brasileiro

Age of Innovator

Over 34

Gender of Innovator

Male

団体の種類:

企業

運営期間

5 年超

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MySoft: The App for Small Service Providers

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1~5 年

The Need: What problem are you trying to solve?

Small service providers, such as street market salesmen, curtain fitters, car washers, confectioners and day laborers, were largely benefitted with the popularization of cell phones. Now they demand these small devises help them organize their day to day, the operationalization of the services they provide. We supply this demand.
These micro entrepreneurs need to organize their list of clients, appointments, deadlines, can benefit by having greater control over on credit sales, etc. In principle, information technology can contribute as much as it does with larger businesses.
However, these small service providers are disregarded by conventional suppliers of information technology.

The Solution: What is your solution? Be specific!

The MeuSoft solution innovates the technology of app production, the technology of collaboration, in networks, and in the business model, whereby the royalties resulting from the sale of the apps are shared among the participants of social projects.
Once produced, for a specific client, each app goes through an approval and generalization process, in order to serve similar demands and gain scale in target audience. The apps are hosted in the cloud (Cloud Computing) and are sold, at the price of snacks, in large scale.
The MeuSoft platform develops apps for numerous systems. Initially designed for Windows 7, MeuSoft has guaranteed resources to develop the app for smartphones in the three leading platforms: Windows 8, iOS and Android.
But it´s the collaborative aspect that is the most innovative. MeuSoft allows the reutilization of a wide range of devices produced by the participants. Thus, a new app comprises a vast collection of features, as a starting point.

The Model: Walk us through a specific example of how your solution makes a difference; include your primary activities

There are four actors: the social project participant, the future app users, the endorsing institutions and the Digital Dossier.
The participants are trained to develop apps that will generate income. The more apt can achieve a minimum wage salary, continuous and increasing, as of the third year. This is a major prospect for a youth from the periphery at age 19 (average age of participants).
The participant is part of the network from the first day of classes and monitors sales performance through monthly statements. The participant may remain in the network as long as desired.
The small service providers, target users of MeuSoft, will attribute greater utility to their smartphones (increasingly affordable), and will be able to expand their businesses as a result of greater control and organization.
As na example, we have FinanX, a financial app that speaks the language of the small service provider and goes straight to the point. It controls the receipt and payment of bills, keeping the cash flow updated. The FinanX has just been approved by SEBRAE-BA and wll be distributed to all the public assisted by SEBRAE.
The partner institutions benefitted from the promotion of the communities, and for the sake of measuring results, the monitoring of the performance of the participants. Each participant in a social project becomes part of a network, where they will be challenged to produce, and ranked in comparison with their colleagues. The ranking is published on the MeuSoft website.
The Digital Dossier benefits from the collaborative network it promotes.

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?

We produce professional apps for laptops and smartphones, a market that comprises numerous competitors. Our greatest differential is the price. A subscription is equivalent to one meal a month at McDonalds.
The price we are able to offer is the result of the technology used (could, disconnected operation, high level of component reuse), of directing (for simple apps) and lower production costs, due to the labor used
The social Project network developed is, at the same time, a social contribution and part of our strategy to achieve capillarity and variety of solutions, all at a very competitive price.
The result of the research undertaken to identify this proposal´s competitors is very favorable: no direct competitor.

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What solution(s) does your initiative address to help emerging entrepreneurs and small businesses grow and thrive in underserved communities? (select all applicable)

Access to supply chains, Access to technology, Access to economic opportunity.

What has been the impact of your solution to date?

We are still in an experimental phase, but we have already gathered some results. We had the support of two companies (Eletrobras and the JCPM Group – the largest network of malls in Northeast Brazil) for which we conducted training for over 200 youth in pilot projects. In both cases, new classes are planned.
With each class, a MeuSoft collaborative network gains shape, as the training qualifies the participant to produce software as a member of the network. As such, actual professional work and income generation happen after the training. The participant remains in the network as long as he considers he is being productive.
A good example is the case of Idon Alves, participant in the first class promoted by AMACH (Pelourinho/ Salvador), sponsored by Eletrobras. Idon is developing an app to organize the ordering and delivery of warm lunches. His testimony is annexed in the videos section (media), through the link http://youtu.be/X6z30OPy5fA .

What is your projected impact over the next 1-3 years?

In three years, through partnerships with NGOs, Civil Society Organizations of Public Interest (OSCIPs) and neighborhood associations, we will have trained and brought into the MeuSoft Network about ten thousand youth. These youth will be able to produce apps and obtain remuneration for their intellectual work through royalties.
The market potential reaches 27 million small service providers who will also benefit with the availability of apps 100% adherent to their realities and at an accessible price.
The apps produced will have a chance to climb the market and spread in viral progression, making their authors as successful as famous football players.
This impact can be exported to other regions of the world, following our course of expansion and internationalization.

What barriers might hinder the success of your project? How do you plan to overcome them?

Attracting financing to leverage the business is prohibitive due to high interest rates, especially given the lack of real guarantees demanded by the banks, including government banks.
We will overcome this barrier by attracting partners who will support us through sponsorship, or through the endorsement of fundraising. Another possibility is the enlargement of the society, with the acceptance of new partners.
The Project will be lucrative from the third year, due to the multiplication of subscriptions in geometric progression.
The current perception is that the critical point which determined the survival of the enterprise has already been overcome. Now it is a question of speed of growth and scale.

Winning entries present a strong plan for how they will achieve and track growth. Identify your six-month milestone for growing your impact

Obtain our first international partnership.

Identify three major tasks you will have to complete to reach your six-month milestone

タスク 1:

Increase our visibility by participating in events and expanding our relationship network.

タスク 2:

Finalize the projects that are underway for the development of app generators for mobile platforms.

タスク 3:

Improve the organizational processes in order to better cope with a larger scale

Now think bigger! Identify your 12-month impact milestone

Achieve our first international partnership, taking MeuSoft to other continents.

Identify three major tasks you will have to complete to reach your 12-month milestone

タスク 1:

Deepen the international contacts we are making.

タスク 2:

Develop a technology for multilingual app generation.

タスク 3:

Improve our organization so as to supply demands at a global scale.

Founding 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.

In 2008, a private client, from the area of OSH Management (Safety, Medicine and Occupational Health) hired us to develop a platform that would increase its productivity with the development of variants of the app.
We delivered a solution but noticed that it could evolve into a platform that benefitted more people due to the facility in modeling apps.
We then proposed a partnership with the client to develop the necessary resources to make the platform even more accessible, facilitating its use by people without computer training.
The client, who had great sensitivity and social responsibility, came to support the business, participating as a capital partner.
After the initial phase of developing the technology, we received incentive funds and the project began to take the shape it has today.
At the root, there was our aspiration to do something for the public least contemplated by information technology, and get away from conventional solutions.

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The Digital Dossier is a technology laboratory that depends 100% on partnerships to guarantee the dissemination success of this project.
There era two kinds of partners, the institutions liked to communities and the sponsors of projects.
The institutions are essential because the selection of talents in the communities is strategic for the business. The sponsors enable the projects financially.
Another kind of association would be with a technology partner. We produce simple apps that can be integrated to corporative systems with large synergy potential.

Please elaborate on any needs or offers you have mentioned above and/or suggest categories of support that aren't specified within the list

The Digital Dossier is a technology laboratory that depends 100% on partnerships to guarantee the dissemination success of this project.
There era two kinds of partners, the institutions liked to communities and the sponsors of projects.
The institutions are essential because the selection of talents in the communities is strategic for the business. The sponsors enable the projects financially.

Count On Us - HRRS benefiting companies, vulnerable people & NGOs

This solution has a triple goal: to develop among NGOs a model of social economy which provides access to the labor market and improves the financial situation for vulnerable groups, as well as to create an accesible employment tool for economic agents that focus on financial efficiency, social responsibility and solidarity.

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Labour Connect

Labourconnect.org is a portal using web based application software to connect unorganized blue color informal sector to organized sector for better job opportunity and platform for informal sector workers to increase their livelihood by the use of technology.

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Labour Connect

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Shanker

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団体名

NIDAN

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India, DL, Delhi

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The Need: What problem are you trying to solve?

Labourconnect.org is a joint initiative of NASVI (National Association of Street Vendors of India), and NIDAN.

We at Labourconnect.org believe that we should not view this blue color jobs (informal sector workers) as nuisance but should be seen as an assets for job creation and helping our economy to grow.

For blue-collar workers such as drivers, maids, cooks, and construction workers etc, finding out about the jobs available with various employers is often considered to be an arduous task and the employers, too especially urban population, struggle and sometime they don’t even find a right person they intend to fill.

To minimize this gap NIDAN comes up with an idea of (Labour Connect).

The Solution: What is your solution? Be specific!

Labourconnect.org is a portal using web based application software to connect unorganized blue color informal sector to organized sector for better job opportunity and platform for informal sector workers to increase their livelihood by the use of technology.
At the moment, we're focusing on Delhi NCR, Uttrakhand, Uttar Pradesh, Harayana and Bihar areas as our first phase of launch and soon we will enter to other states with the help of our partners NASVI and NIDAN.
It will help unorganised workers
For blue-collar workers such as drivers, receptionists, office assistants, etc, finding out about the jobs available with various employers is often an arduous task.

The employers, too, struggle to attract the right people for the various vacancies they intend to fill.
The present situation, however, will soon be a thing of the past. Labour Connect, a job portal developed mainly for unorganised workers and to bridge the large gap between the demand and supply of skilled manpower.

The Model: Walk us through a specific example of how your solution makes a difference; include your primary activities

1. Fresh as well as experienced unorganised workers can register with www.labourconnect.org, service providers, and job trainers can also register in the same way. Registration is free.
2. Since many candidates looking for jobs in the unorganised sector might not be proficient in using the internet and thereby creating their profiles properly, our field workers and vocational training institutes should submit the details on their behalf.
3. Currently, the portal offers information about jobs in Delhi NCR area only, in other states we are creating database of job seekers at the moment.
4. Labour Connect is building an online data repository to provide labour intelligence on blue collar jobs in India. It is intended to help participating organizations visualize the current and near-future size of the demand for blue collar workforce, while being able to populate the repository with their own data. The data is aggregated, anonymized and syndicated* for participants to gain from an overall perspective of the demand for blue collar workforce in their geography.
The value that labourconnet offers to both its employers and job seekers is in its ability to provide access to critical job and job seeker information through various technology platforms. By leveraging web and mobile technology, labourconnet is able to scale and engage a wider audience creating greater efficiency for employers and having a social impact on job seekers. Employers can conveniently browse job seeker profiles based on salary, location, languages, employment background, skills and references.

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?

300 million working age, non-farm, informal sector workers with a mobile in the home. Various studies on India’s unorganized employable workforce range from 300 million to 360 million so Sean’s market size number is within the range. Interestingly, the size of the migrant population is 100 million – in other words, 1/3 of the informal sector workers are on the move.At this early stage of the informal sector job marketplace, labour connect doesn’t have a direct competitor.

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This project also has a Project where you can read more about its latest progress.
Go to Project: Count On Us - HRRS benefiting companies, vulnerable people & NGOs.

Count On Us! - Human Resource Rental Service benefiting companies, vulnerable people and NGOs.

Encourage and facilitate self development among vulnerable people through immediate actions and programs that lead to their socio-economic independence.

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AMURT

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AMURT Romania

ウェブサイト

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Romania, B, Bucharest

この団体が社会的なインパクトをもたらす国

Romania, B, Bucharest

団体の種類:

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運営期間

5 年超

Has the organization received awards or honors? Please tell us about them

Award from Ministry of Education in 1994, AMURT Center as good model for alternative home for orphanages.

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Which of the following best describes the barrier(s) your innovation addresses? Choose up to two

Access, Quality.

The Need: What problem are you trying to solve?

In Romania the socio-economic consequences of the current economic crisis has caused three major problems:

(1) The disappearance of economic agents in the market.
(2) The worsening of social-professional and economical problems concerning disadvantaged youth and vulnerable people.
(3) The financial difficulties encountered by NGOs when continuing to provide services for their beneficiaries.

Due to the lack of job opportunities homeless youth are forced to work on the black market in order to survive. The black market is not a viable solution for homeless people because it does not offer financial security or social insurance. It is not a solution for companies or NGO-s either because they risk of jeopardizing their own existence.

The Solution: What is your solution? Be specific!

By creating a social-economical agency, which responds to the temporary needs of the companies, we can support vulnurable people in finding their way back into the labour market, becoming contributing members of society, while partially sustaining the service expenditures of the NGO.

The Human Resource Rental Service (HRRS) is an agency which aims to solve both economic and social issues. This temporary employment agency is a solution which provides vulnerable people with access to the labour market in order to improve both their financial situation and their quality of life. This agency also represents an income generated activity for NGO's, that provide services for disadvantaged groups, who also need to sustain their daily costs.

In addition, this agency is a permissive instrument for those ecomonic agents who are interested in new trends within the employment market, based on their effectiveness but also their commitment to fulfilling their goals for social responsibility

The Model: Walk us through a specific example of how your solution makes a difference; include your primary activities

This agency creates jobs for vulnerable people: opportunities to plan a better future for their careers; learn how to respond to challenges; learn how to manage their own income, create a secure environment for themselves and become responsible and well respected citizens. It improves their self esteem and bring stability into their lives. This is a transitional point for them from a socially dependent background, to becoming part of the 'big labor market', that can offer a future within their independence. If they do not succeed in this transitional stage they still have the opportunity to go back to the AMURT Romania Life Skills Training Programme located in Domnesti. Here they benefit from entrepreneurship courses as per the model of Street Kids International (UK): learn how to start a small business and be "self-employed".

This solution offers the company quick access to a preselected and qualified workforce, covering a temporary employment need, sparing the time and money of the companies in finding the right person and offering guaranteed quality work. The quality of the employees' work is guaranteed in two ways:

1) Recrute vulnerable people who have already attended the Life Skills Training Programme at the AMURT Center or the Work Skills Training programmes sustained by AMURT's Partners
2) Qualification providers will evaluate and give certified diplomas to people in vulnerable situations, based on their performance/acheivment. This solution offers the NGO an income which will cover basic costs for service users, to sustain them on their way to independence.

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?

In Romania there are 212 employment or human resource counseling agencies: 79 in Bucharest; 5 in sector 6, which has the 2nd largest number of agencies. Our agency is in sector 6. No agency has taken the innovative approach of creating a 'social plus' agency that covers major social and economic issues.

Our unique advantage is that we have three areas of focus:
- Companies quick access to preselected and qualified workforce
- Job opportunities and career guidance as well as the possibility of creating a self-sustaining environment for vulnerable people.
- NGOs sustainability.

Should other agencies decide to engage in with a similar target group, our project would actively encourage and support those efforts. The more agencies working toward the same goal, more job opportunities.

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Founding 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.

When we started the project in 2009, other NGOs working with homeless youth told us about the difficulties with this target group. They said that only 2 or 3 youths out of 10 will succeed.

With our successful training in Life Skills, which is provided for in our friendly center together with the youths joy and inspiration when they receive their certified vocational skill diplomas, 8 out of 10 suceeded. But life skills and vocational skills are NOT enough. 50% of the youth find themselves back on the streets again. If jobs are not available, then the ovious solution is that the NGOs themselves will have to provide. The question is, HOW?

Six months ago when our project manager visited Strasbourg (France), she heard about a successful human leasing agency for disadvantage people. This information itself was an immediate idea as the best and most suitable solution in creating jobs for homeless youth, taking in consideration their background and psychology.

Please describe the goal of your initiative; outline what you are trying to achieve

There is a dual goal: to develop among NGOs a model of social economy which provides access to the labor market and improves the financial situation for vulnerable groups, as well as to create an accesible employment tool for economic agents that focus on financial efficiency, social responsibility and solidarity.

- Increasing employment opportunities for the target group by training them in social entrepreneurship and providing vocational qualifications required in the current job market.
- Creating jobs for the target group by establishing an innovative socio-economic model: a temporary employment agency.
- Promoting the economic activity of the agency and ensuring its financial sustainability through publicity campaigns and partnerships with the private and public sector.

Which barrier(s) to financial inclusion does your solution seek to address? (select all applicable)

Physical and other accessibility obstacles that prevent communities from reaching financial services, The lack of affordable financial products tailored to the needs of underserved and excluded communities,, Other (Please describe below).

If you selected 'other' above, please specify which other barriers to financial inclusion you solution seeks to address:

Increasing the credibility as “reliable workers” among economic agents who have already had negative experiences with homeless.

For which underserved or excluded communities will your solution create access to valuable, affordable, secure and comprehensive financial services?

This initiative is proposed for homeless youth (aged between 18-26 ), vulnerable people (aged between 2 7-35) and the unemployed, from rural areas surrounding Bucharest, who will be identified by our organization in the local community or refered to us by AMURT's collaborators.

Could your solution work in other geographies or regions? If so, where?

The Human Resource Rental Service (HRRS) is a model which can be used by all the NGO's in Bucharest that deal with the same target group, as well as NGO's throughout Romania, which provide social services and vocational/life skills training for homeless youth or vulnerable people.

This solution is also a way of stopping the migration of the population from poor rural areas to the capital, cities or towns. This initiative is a local solution for local problems.

There is a strong possibility that this solution can be replicated in other countries that encounter the same problems with vulnerable groups.

If your solution is dramatically successful, how will things be different in 10 years?

In 10 years this solution will drastically reduce the number of people dependent on social services ('hoppers” from one social service to another).

It wil significantly reduce the rate of unemploymet, increase the variety of craftsman and skills available, be a strong financial support for the NGO who develops this kind of income generating activity (at least 5 % from annual NGO budget will be covered by the agency).

It will also create a functioning network of HRR services developed by NGO's in Romania, be a platform for social community, a tool for temporary employment used by all big companies for casual jobs as well as for SMEs which have a organizational culture based on efficiency and effectiveness.

What will have had to have changed to make this happen?

We have to accelerate the process of growth, in terms of the number of clients (companies) and the number of employees (qualified homeless youth&vulnerable people), in accordance with the dynamics of the labour market. Obtaining accreditation for the agency to become a certified qualification and entrepreneurship provider, having a long term marketing & communication strategy as well as annual action plans and operating standards procedures will become essential.

What has been the impact of your solution to date?

In our annual report for 2011 our Life and Vocational Skills training programme had 21 recipients, 13 recipients for the independent living skills programme, 12 acquired knowledge about community resources, 6 managed their financial resources efficiently, 11 developed personal skills, 13 have improved self-image, 10 are able to develop lasting personal relationships, 13 acquired minimal knowledge of the legal system and can work with them, 4 have formed artistic expression, 10 have achieved career planning skills, to identify a job and how to keep.

Impact on the community: youth became a useful and active resource for the local community, real potential employees - a contributing member of society.

What is your projected impact over the next five years?

Within the next five years, AMURT Romania will create a model for a complete social and professional integration programme. We are committed to helping homeless youth and those young people leaving the care system to acquire life, vocational, and entrepreneurial skills, secure jobs and resources to become self-sufficient in the basic necessities needed for sustaining an independent lifestyle.

The agency creates a variety of jobs, not only in one area but in many areas according to market demands.

There is no minimum or maximum number of people that may be employed by leasing. From the experiences, there is usually no drop but steady increase in number of requests from companies thereby ensuring the availability of jobs for the vulnerable people.

What barriers might hinder the success of your project? How do you plan to overcome them?

Barriers:
- The costs of leasing can be higher than the salary of the job.
- The unwillingness of companies to hire people who have an unstable personality.
- Companies will have to justify, to the authorities ,that this is a temporary activity.
- Attitude and lack of loyalty.

Plan to overcome barriers:
- A marketing manager working on behalf of the agency will persuade the companies that this type of service is more efficient in the long term.
- The agency will offer the guarantee that the activity of the company will be properly fulfilled.
- For companies who work on a project it becomes easy to justify. Natuarlly, projects means temporary work and temporary activity.
- a social worker from AMURT and a psychologist will act as a mediator between them and the company.

Winning entries present a strong plan for how they will achieve and track growth. Identify your six-month milestone for growing your impact

Completed business plan of the agency.

Identify three major tasks you will have to complete to reach your six-month milestone

タスク 1:

Feasibility study of the job market - supply and demand, the interests and trends of the market.

タスク 2:

Sustaining courses for certified qualified persons.

タスク 3:

Obtaining approvals from public institutions for establishing the agency.

Now think bigger! Identify your 12-month impact milestone

Create leasing contracts.

Identify three major tasks you will have to complete to reach your 12-month milestone

タスク 1:

Strategic partnership with online recruitment agencies.

タスク 2:

Promotional champagnes to arise the awareness of this new style of service.

タスク 3:

Public institutions to hire the services thereby supporting the people in need.

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- APEL Association providing certified vocational skill trainings and referrals for companies.
- Parada Foundation ans Samu Social Association selecting and providing vulnerable people.
- Concordia Foundation providing certified professionals
- Streets Kids International (UK and Canada) – providing “know how” in social entrepreneurship

Are you currently targeting other specific populations, locations, or markets for your innovation? If so, where and why?

Not at the moment. But since we are dealing with vulnerable groups and low income, the agency would consider including pensioners with a small pension, as a future development. Although they are already qualified, according to the labour law, they can only be employed part-time.

What type of operating environment and internal organizational factors make your innovation successful?

This innovation has a great chance of success because of; our organizational culture based on efficiency and performance, our skilled staff who create a youthful and friendly working environment and the enthusiasm of both personnel and volunteers involved in designing this new approach for the social-economic field.

Please elaborate on any needs or offers you have mentioned above and/or suggest categories of support that aren't specified within the list

Increase the number of women in computing

Why isn't there enough women in computing? Can women learn to code? We know there's a solution. We aim to teach women how to code in a safe learning environment

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Vincent

Ohprecio

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団体名

Hacker Collective

ウェブサイト

団体の所在国

Canada, BC, Vancouver

Country where this solution is creating social impact

Canada, BC, Vancouver

Region in BC where your solution creates social impact

Vancouver, Coast and Mountains, Vancouver Island, Thompson Okanagan, Northern British Columbia, Cariboo Chilcotin Coast, Kootenay Rockies, Columbia Basin.

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Which of the following best describes the barrier(s) your solution addresses? Choose up to two

Access, Cost.

The Need: Describe the need for your solution and the size and characteristics of the community(ies) your solution is engaging

There is a gender imbalance in software and computing fields. Very few women opt to become programmers, system administrators, or hardware/software engineers. The number of women who try, seems to be falling rather than rising.

Many solutions try coercive schemes to achieve “gender parity”. We propose to treat this as a journey, hoping for a global movement. There are many barriers faced by women in computing, such as the cost of education, and there is a struggle through the academic pipeline, from childhood to postdoctoral studies.

Whether it's social conditioning or systematic institutional discouragement, women are simply not on equal footing for learning opportunities.

Our aim is to share our success and give the tools to the community to reproduce in other communities.

The Solution: What is your solution? Be specific!

Our program is a three-month, full-time, skills workshop for becoming a better programmer. The program will be free and provide space, structure, time to focus, and a friendly community of smart mentors.

We are an agile, motivated, and passionate group dedicated to self-powered learning Ruby on Rails in several weeks, in a safe learning space for beginners. We provide an awesome space, a safe learning environment for beginners, and a learning structure to keep them on track. Each woman will bring passion to learn and we’ll give them an experience they will never forget.

We will take 12 women who are not software engineers and provide them skills to enter the workforce as Junior Developer/Programmers. Our goal will be to have all them employed as software engineers in BC.

We intend to publish (open source) all of our budgets, lesson plans, and lectures.

We want to teach women about software development in order to help them pursue their passions, their dreams, and ideas.

The Model: Walk us through a specific example of how your solution makes a difference; include the primary activities involved in your solution.

Twelve women will attend a safe learning space in the city of Vancouver. The immersive learning opportunity will be similar to a 90-day programming bootcamp. All computers and software will be available to use 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, to complete classroom projects. They will learn from experienced mentors using a proven industry curriculum.

We’re looking at a commitment of eight to ten weeks from attendees (that's roughly 400 hours). During weeks one to three, we’ll learn how to program in the Ruby language. Working in pairs and small groups, we’ll learn syntax, methods, tools, and command line. We’ll push the code to the cloud using Git. By week 3, you’ll be surprised what you know. We’ll code. We’ll make stuff. We’ll have fun!

Weeks four to five will expose us to HTML, CSS, Javascript, and Ruby on Rails. We’ll slice and dice data with mad programming skills, explore how websites are built, and how web applications are made. We’ll continue to work in pairs and work on small projects. We’ll have guest instructors and speakers every week.

By the time week six rolls around, we’ll be ready to dive deep into Ruby on Rails and start building model view controller (MVC) applications. For the next three weeks, we’ll learn about SQL and work on larger projects, and still in pairs. We’ll make clone projects like, Twitter, Facebook, and bit.ly. We’ll use object oriented programming (OOP) techniques and mash them with HTML, CSS, and Javascript for fun. Together, we will build the extraordinary!

The Marketplace: Who are your peers and competitors? Identify others working to address the same needs as you and indicate what sets you apart from them.

There are many ways for a beginner to learn how to program. You could pick up a book from the library and teach yourself or try online learning.

There is a gap between teaching yourself and going to University for a 4 year Computer Science degree. It's not just about time and money, it's about being productive, competitive and having the right skills. Our solution provides a clear alternative to either of the traditional learning paths.

Here’s some places that we have stumbled across in our search for learning opportunities for women in computing:

https://www.hackerschool.com/
http://www.girlswhocode.com/about/
http://devbootcamp.com/
http://railsgirls.com/
http://starterleague.com/
Read more at: http://hackercollective.ca/faq/

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Founding 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.

We have been passionate about providing opportunities to women in computing. Our small group of volunteers have noticed there aren't many women in technology. Why is that? How can we change that?

In the summer of 2012, we explored the full business plan to bring a group of mentors together to provide a learning experience for women, unmatched in BC. Our group formed the Hacker Collective and we plan to launch the project for the summer of 2013.

In the meanwhile, we have studied smaller weekend workshops targeting the Vancouver market. Following the success of the worldwide movement (http://railsgirls.com), we established Vancouver's first RailsGirls.

In less than one week we registered 12 women committed to learning how to code. (http://railsgirls.eventbrite.com/).

We have tremendous support from the programming community and we have found suitable space, built the curriculum, found mentors, and we are certain we will have an overwhelming response.

Please describe the goal of your initiative; outline what you are trying to achieve

Our primary goal is to make 12 new women programmers in BC and provide them access to technology, life-long learning skills, technical computer skills, technology expertise, and to support them so they are leaders and mentors for other women in computing.

Our secondary goal is to establish a foundation of materials that promotes and encourages participation. We want to facilitate the replication of our program and services in other organizations so that they may also create an atmosphere of inclusion and belonging for women in computing.

What has been the impact of your solution to date?

We are past the planning stages and committed to begin. We have identified volunteers ready to work with the project, and have planned out the logistics of the project.

The collection of volunteers have already started spreading the word and we have women already interested in participating.

What is your projected impact over the next five years?

Hundreds of women in computing. How will that change the industry? What might that do for BC?

We want to develop a sustainable ongoing program, with partner organizations, and a full complement of mentors. We want a dedicated learning space and we want to continue offering the program for free.

We want to be able to offer the program as barrier free for women. We envision industry support and community support. We look forward to establishing solid relationships and partnerships with the community.

We want to grow this project to reach all of the women in BC.

What barriers might hinder the success of your project? How do you plan to overcome them?

Staffing solely on a volunteer basis is not sustainable. This project is going to cost money: for the space, the equipment, and quality instruction.

For a project such as this to be sustainable, there will have to be both staff and volunteer positions. We will publish all of our materials because we think people make good projects, not just great ideas. We envision providing 'train the trainer' opportunities.

Each batch of graduates is a batch of potential mentors who can help teach classes on special topics.

The funds, if awarded, will be used to pay for the learning space, technology assets, and the sustainment of the program.

Winning entries present a strong plan for how they will achieve and track growth. Identify your six-month milestone for growing your impact

Teach and graduate 12 new women coders for the BC tech economy

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タスク 1:

Train 12 women as employable junior developers, ready to tackle the BC software and computing industry

タスク 2:

Develop the 12 women social capital and public profile. Programs written by the women will be shared publicly on the Internet.

タスク 3:

Foster life long learning, mentorship and volunteerism with opportunities to return as mentors.

Now think bigger! Identify your 12-month impact milestone

Establishing organizations with their own sustainable women learning to code projects and forging industry apprenticeships

Identify three major tasks you will have to complete to reach your 12-month milestone

タスク 1:

Publish for public consumption, the complete framework of learning materials from lectures to budgets.

タスク 2:

To establish a sustainable non-profit agency responsible for continuing the success of this project.

タスク 3:

Invest in mentor development and training, like "train the trainer" to evangelize the projects values and mission.

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We are currently leveraging the Rails Girls framework and material for weekend workshops. We are also leveraging experience from Hacker School. Our project lead and mentor is currently attending an exclusive free programming bootcamp in NYC with 50% enrollment by women. Industry sponsorship has provided enough funding to provide $5000 grant assistance for women during their stay in NYC, in addition to the free tuition.

We want to establish collaborative partnerships with community and industry to share our values and vision.

Are you currently targeting other specific populations, locations, or markets for your solution? If so, where and why?

Our target population are underemployed or unemployed women, who can't afford to spend the time and money on getting a Computer Science degree in four years.

Our target population are women who need support, encouragement, access to role models, access to technology, and access to a safe learning environment.

What type of operating environment and internal organizational factors make your innovation successful?

We are using the industries best practices to introduce women to computing. We are providing the best barrier-free learning environment for their learning. We are sharing our values, network, knowledge, and time for their life-long learning success. We are fostering growth, innovation, and social equality.

Please elaborate on any needs or offers you have mentioned above and/or suggest categories of support that aren't specified within the list

Please join us in our successful project. We are committed to the success of this project, regardless of the funding outcomes, but we would really like your support.

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Count On Us! - Human Resource Rental Service benefiting companies, vulnerable people and NGOs.

Encourage and facilitate self development among vulnerable people through immediate actions and programs that lead to their socio-economic independence.

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AMURT

Romania

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AMURT Romania

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団体の所在国

Romania, B, Bucharest

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Romania, B, Bucharest

Age of Innovator

18-34

Gender of Innovator

Female

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非営利団体

運営期間

5 年超

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Count On Us! - Human Resource Rental Service benefiting companies, vulnerable people and NGOs.

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The Need: What problem are you trying to solve?

In Romania the socio-economic consequences of the current economic crisis has caused three major problems:

(1) The disappearance of economic agents in the market.
(2) The worsening of social-professional problems concerning disadvantaged youth and vulnerable people.
(3) The difficulties encountered by NGOs when continuing to provide services for their beneficiaries.

We propose a type of solution which can resolve these issues. By creating a social-economical agency, which responds to the temporary needs of the companies, we can support vulnurable people in finding their way back into the labour market while partially sustaining the service expenditures of the NGO.

The Solution: What is your solution? Be specific!

The Human Resource Rental Service (HRRS) agency is an socio-economic structure which directly aims to solve both economic and social issues. This temporary insersion/employment agency is an innovative solution which provides vulnerable people with access to the labour market in order to improve their quality of life. This structure also represents an income generated activity for NGO's, that provide services for disadvantaged groups, who also need to sustain their daily costs.

In addition, this agency is a permissive instrument for those ecomonic agents who are interested in new trends within the employment market, based on their effectiveness but also their commitment to fulfilling their goals for social responsibility.

This approach, within the labour market, is a relatively new one in Romania compared with other EU countries. The concept of personnel leasing/employment agencies only appeared in the mid 1990's and then later, in 2004, was framed within the labour law.

The Model: Walk us through a specific example of how your solution makes a difference; include your primary activities

This agency creates jobs for vulnerable people, offers the opportunity to plan a better future for their careers, as well as the potential to learn how to respond to challenges, create a secure environment for themselves, become responsable citizens and well respected. Improve their self esteem and bring more stability into their lives. It is a transitional point for vulnerable people, from a socially dependent background, to becoming part of the 'big labor market', that can offer a future within their socio-economic independance. If they do not succed in this transitional stage they still have the opportunity to go back to the AMURT Romania Life Skills Training Prgramme located in Domnesti.

This solution offers the company quick access to a preselected and qualified workforce, covering a temporary employment need, sparing the time and money of the companies in finding the right person and offering guaranteed quality work. The quality of the employees' work is guaranteed in two ways:

1) Recrute vulnerable people who have already attended the Life Skills Training Programme at the AMURT Center or the Work Skills Training programmes sustained by AMURT's Partners
2) Qualification providers will evaluate and give certified diplomas to people in vulnerable situations, based on their performance/acheivment. This solution offers the NGO an income which will cover basic costs for service users, to sustain them on their way to independence.

The proposed idea ensures the junction between human resource, job place and time. “right man in a right place and in right time".

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?

Thoughout Romania there are 212 employment agencies or human resource counseling agencies. 79 are In Bucharest; five are in sector 6, which has the 2nd largest number of agencies. Our agency is also in sectgor 6. No agency has taken the innovative approach of creating a 'social plus' agency that covers major social and economic issues.

Our agency's competitive advantage is thet we have three areas of focus:
- Companies quick access to preselected and qualified workforce
- Job opportunities and career guidence for vulnerable people
- NGOs sustainability.

Should other agencies decide to engage in with a similar target group, our project would actively encourage and support those efforts. The more agencies working toward the same goal, more job opportunity for vulnerable people.

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What solution(s) does your initiative address to help emerging entrepreneurs and small businesses grow and thrive in underserved communities? (select all applicable)

Access to economic opportunity.

What has been the impact of your solution to date?

In our annual report for 2011 our Life and Vocational Skills training prgramme had 21 recipients, 13 recipients for the independent living skills prgramme, 12 acquired knowledge about community resources, 6 managed their financial resources efficiently, 11 developed personal skills, 13 have improved self-image, 10 are able to develop lasting personal relationships, 13 acquired minimal knowledge of the legal system and can work with them, 4 have formed artistic expression, 10 have achieved career planning skills, to identify a job and how to keep.

Impact on the community: youth became a useful and active resource for the local community, real potential employees - a contributing member of society.

What is your projected impact over the next 1-3 years?

Within the next three years (until 2014), AMURT Romania will create a model for a complete social and professional integration programme. We are committed to helping homeless youth and those young people leaving the care system to acquire life, vocational, and entrepreneurial skills, secure jobs, and resources to become self-sufficient in the basic necessities needed for sustaining an independent lifestyle.

The agency creates a variety of jobs, not only in one area but in many areas according to market demands.

There is no minimum or maximum number of people that may be employed by leasing. From the experiences, there is usually no drop but steady increase in number of requests from companies thereby ensuring the availality of jobs for the vulnerable people.

What barriers might hinder the success of your project? How do you plan to overcome them?

Barriers:
- The costs of leasing can be higher than the salary of the job.
- The unwillingness of companies to hire people who have an unstable personality.
- Companies will have to justify, to the authorities ,that this is a temporary activity.
- Attitude and lack of loyalty.

Plan to overcome barriers:
- A marketing manager working on behalf of the agency will persuade the companies that this type of service is more efficient in the long term.
- The agency will offer the guarantee that the activity of the company will be properly fulfilled.
- For companies who work on a project it becomes easy to justify. Natuarlly, projects means temporary work and temporary activity.
- a social worker from AMURT and a psychologist will act as a mediator between them and the company.

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Completed business plan of the agency.

Identify three major tasks you will have to complete to reach your six-month milestone

タスク 1:

Feasibility study of the job market - supply and demand, the interests and trends of the market.

タスク 2:

Sustaining courses for certified qualified persons.

タスク 3:

Obtaining approvals from public institutions for establishing the agency.

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Create leasing contracts.

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タスク 1:

Strategic partnership with online recruitment agencies.

タスク 2:

Promotional champagnes to arise the awareness of this new style of service.

タスク 3:

Public institutions to hire the services thereby supporting the people in need.

Founding 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.

When we started the project in 2009, other NGOs working with homeless youth told us about the difficulties with this target group. They said that only 2 or 3 youths out of 10 will succeed.

With our successful training in Life Skills, which is provided for in our friendly center together with the youths joy and inspiration when they receive their certified vocational skill diplomas, 8 out of 10 suceeded. But life skills and vocational skills are NOT enough. 50% of the youth find themselves back on the streets again. If jobs are not available, then the ovious solution is that the NGOs themselves will have to provide. The question is, HOW?

Six months ago when our project manager visited Strasbourg (France), she heard about a successful human leasing agency for disadvantage people. This information itself was an immediate idea as the best and most suitable solution in creating jobs for homeless youth, taking in consideration their background and psychology.

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- APEL Association providing certified vocational skill trainings and referrals for companies.
- Parada Foundation ans Samu Social Association selecting and providing vulnerable people.
- Concordia Foundation providing certified professionals.

Please elaborate on any needs or offers you have mentioned above and/or suggest categories of support that aren't specified within the list

Global Distance MBA for Professional Employment.

Global Distance MBA for Professional Employment - an opportunity to learn and earn, upgrade skills and gain an education degree from the comfort of your home. We provide capacity building, personality development, skill enhancement, and recruitment. A opportunity to serve through sensitization programmes on current issues, advocacy and social change. Those interested visit our website for info.

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Michelle

Vas

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団体名

GMI / Global Management Institute

ウェブサイト

団体の所在国

India, MM, Mumbai

この団体が社会的なインパクトをもたらす国

India, MM

Age of Innovator

Over 34

Gender of Innovator

Female

団体の種類:

企業

運営期間

5 年超

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Global Distance MBA for Professional Employment.

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The Need: What problem are you trying to solve?

GMI / Global Management Institute has an innovative project to provide MBA Degree via Distance Learning to India for the largely informal labour market in dire need of such professional education compounded with a dearth of funds for foreign travel as well as time constraints while learning and earning to keep up with the technological changes in the global job market scenario; and the incredible insecurity of the current job situation worldwide.

The Solution: What is your solution? Be specific!

GMI provides for a huge target population of management students, adult educated personnel, employees and teachers who may need to upgrade their professional skills and young adults who may wish to prepare for the Corporate world. Millenniumrunner.com provides personality and skill enhancement for entrepreneurship and capacity building through its PDSE I-IV a creative programme for GMI`s aptitude testing of EQ along with IQ Testing to better prepare for Organisations in a Global Environment. The plan is to involve the key stakeholders in the solution and facilitation programmes have been initiated to form core teams to visit Select Schools and Colleges on completion of the First and Second levels each of 24 sessions respectively. The third level is due to start off next month so as to prepare the team to expand to wider markets to search and identify suitable personnel to join the core team in order to market the project to middle-level management to maintain their competitive edge.

The Model: Walk us through a specific example of how your solution makes a difference; include your primary activities

A plan to partner the EU and the Government in the Skill Enhancement of 92% of the Local Labour Force which is largely in the Informal Sector and is mostly unskilled in a market environment which has a shortfall of over 50% of skilled labour and in a situation where only 8% of the labour force matches the requirement. In a demographic situation where over 50% of the population is comprised of a very young population and a very old population the entire burden for productivity and progress lies with the middle-income groups who are battling inflationary market forces on the one hand and repressive taxation on their productive income thus stifling this supportive group. Our effort is to provide a support system to inculcate this quality education in the basic course curriculum to provide a timely, supportive climate for the present work force. If this effort is made by the government now in the present education system the graduates will already have basic professional skills and be ready to join the workforce & be productive almost immediately as they will be fulfilling a ready need of the marketplace and this may be replicated worldwide. Training & Facilitation of Personnel in Service Industries; Mentoring, Counseling facilities; Developing Business Strategies for targeting markets; harnessing capacities and developing potential in schools and colleges; for homemakers and professionals; for employees and students. Corporate Social Responsibility as agents of change and advocacy and policy change. Sensitization programmes along with NGOs (Non-Government Organisations).

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?

India Skills, Millennium Business Solutions, other NGOs. A dire need for funding and resources although we have 24 years of training, counseling and management experience. Our work is mostly target-oriented with a view to maximize time utility and effort; a virtual office and flexi-time based entirely on delivery of products and services. These players need the skills we have and can only provide a supportive and encouraging base if approached correctly due to the dearth of skilled trainers and the huge requirement.

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What solution(s) does your initiative address to help emerging entrepreneurs and small businesses grow and thrive in underserved communities? (select all applicable)

Access to financing, Access to talent, Access to supply chains, Access to technology, Access to economic opportunity, Policy change/advocacy.

What has been the impact of your solution to date?

We have conducted intensive programmes, regular programmes and workshops both professionally and on a volunteer-basis to reach out to the target audiences to develop latent potential and harness innate talent. Through Training of Trainers we are able to reach larger audiences and generally benefit society at large. Those who have benefitted from our capacity building have moved on to assume positions of responsibility in senior positions in Corporations. Others may have utilised the learning as homemakers to impact a large section of youth and families creating a foundation for change in society. Our present efforts are to target trainers and select schools and colleges to study the impact of Management Education by providing for the dire needs of society to build self-esteem, deal with peer pressure, build up inner resilience in a world of fast paced technological change where the stakeholders can assume control over self and situation to deal with the impact of globalization.

What is your projected impact over the next 1-3 years?

Over the next 1 - 3 years we hope to have a student base of professionally qualified MBA postgraduates capable of holding middle and senior management positions; homemakers who are ready to work from home in corporations which provide flexi-work hours and steady incomes to dignify their efforts. If we strategize well along with the governmental efforts, we may be able to tap the entire teaching profession to facilitate their training for including the new work-oriented vocational curricula in the college / university syllabus; and the personality development and skill enhancement programmes in the school syllabus. Our efforts will be to partner the EU and India Skill programme to take skill development to the masses. The Corporate Governance programme will need to tap the marginalised.

What barriers might hinder the success of your project? How do you plan to overcome them?

Space to conduct training; funding for all projects; time to tap the target groups and generate interest in our programmes; and liaison personnel to approach the government and corporates for their involvement. Staff to provide support systems; and the beneficiaries themselves - who need to participate without whom the show cannot go on.
We plan to use the registered office for training small groups in facilitation programmes. We may have to tap only those who can pay for their training for the present until we can generate more savings over the longer period; word-of-mouth publicity instead of costly advertising; tie-up with other like-minded NGOs to connect up with government and other stakeholders. Develop our own strategy to maintain and preserve records.

Winning entries present a strong plan for how they will achieve and track growth. Identify your six-month milestone for growing your impact

Identify three major tasks you will have to complete to reach your six-month milestone

タスク 1:

Partner with the University providing the MBA Degree

タスク 2:

Get a minimum of 150 students for the first year.

タスク 3:

Form at least 10 Core Teams to take the Programme to the Schools and Colleges

Now think bigger! Identify your 12-month impact milestone

Reach out to the NGOs and BPOs and Corporates with 10 teams which have now completed the third and fourth levels of PDSE.

Identify three major tasks you will have to complete to reach your 12-month milestone

タスク 1:

Develop a data base of NGOs, BPOs, Corporates to target - immediately start communicating with them.

タスク 2:

Identify their strengths and areas for cooperative work and incorporate these after 6 months once the teams are ready.

タスク 3:

write a white paper for the government machinery to investigate and adopt to proactively implement in education curricula.

Founding 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 was with an NGO at the Board of Control Meeting when I realized that there was tremendous potential in the Organisation. However, the same proposal was raised over and over again but fell on deaf ears. I decided that my 24 years of experience as an entrepreneur and as a student of three streams of Management would stand me in good stead if I tried to venture out into my pet dream to provide an opportunity for education to many who might never dream of achieving such education for lack of funds and opportunity. I knew that time was of the essence and I immediately "planned my work and then worked my plan". I registered my name and accepted the proposal that my colleague offered me for partnering a University abroad through her uncle who had brought in the business. Since all of life is a give and take, I offered her a position based on her offering and the rest is history. I set up the web-site, & immediately offered what services were already present at Millenniumrunner.com to GMI.

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GMI plans to partner a foreign university that has the distance learning MBA programme.
Millenniumrunner.com partners GMI with a personality development and skill enhancement programme designed in 4 levels; Beginners, Pre-Elementary, Elementary, Advanced. This is like a finishing school for Management personnel.
Many NGOs and Corporates who provide appropriate guidance and support at senior levels.
Many contacts who will liase with the Government and may approach the EU in their present projects to include us.

Please elaborate on any needs or offers you have mentioned above and/or suggest categories of support that aren't specified within the list

In areas of Training and Facilitation, there are many who need the same but cannot afford it. Yet they have the basic qualities which will aid their Selection into our teams. Subsidizing them will be our gain. We offer social programmes to alleviate the plight of the less fortunate whether on issues of loneliness, depression, micro-finance, self-help groups, counseling skills for helpers.

Projet d'autonomisation de la femme et la jeune fille

AHED-TOGO, Association à but non lucratif créée le 10 octobre 2010. Numéro du récépissé de déclaration N°1341/MATDCL-SG-DLPAP-DOCA. AHED-TOGO a pour vision un développement humain durable où tous les enfants sont épanouis.Promouvoir droits de l’enfant,Promouvoir l’éducation au développement sur les différentes thématiques pour un ;Amener les communautés à se prendre en charge

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Hounlété

Atchade

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団体名

Action Humanitaire pour les Enfants en Difficulté

ウェブサイト

団体の所在国

Togo, K, Bafilo

この団体が社会的なインパクトをもたらす国

Togo, K, Bafilo

Age of Innovator

18-34

Gender of Innovator

Male

団体の種類:

非営利団体

運営期間

1 年未満

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Projet d'autonomisation de la femme et la jeune fille

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The Need: What problem are you trying to solve?

Notre projet tente d'améliorer les conditions de vie de femmes (surtout les veuves, les filles ayant les grocesses précoces et délaissées, les femmes délaissées par leurs maris,les femmes divorcées).Nous tenterons d'aider ces femmes à se prendre en charge afin qu'elles puissent être autonomes sur le plan économique et social. D'une part, les femmes n'ont pas assez accès à un emploi décent et stable, on les trouve dans la débrouillardise selon certaines enquêtes et d'autre part, notre présent sera mis en œuvre dans un milieu musulma. En effet, les veuves musulmanes ne pas sont impliquées dans le partage de l'héritage de leurs maris. Une veuve, selon plusieurs hommes est en second plan suite à plusieurs raisons, pour cela, elles ne trouvent plus de mari.

The Solution: What is your solution? Be specific!

Notre projet va mettre à la disposition les veuves, les filles grossies et délaissées, des femmes délaissées par leurs maris, des femmes divorcées, des emplois décents et durables. Par conséquent, la possession de ces emplois va permettre l'intégration sociale et économique des femmes.

The Model: Walk us through a specific example of how your solution makes a difference; include your primary activities

Notre présent projet va concerner la fabrication et la vente du savon local beaucoupt utilisé appelé "Grève Bourè, en langue locale du milieu" en français c'est le "caillou de la grève". Le savon en question avait fait son entrée sur le marché togolais dès le début de l'année 1990, une année durant laquelle les troubles socio économiques (grèves répétitives) ont vu le jour. Les principales activités du projet sont: Récensement des femmes en difficulté (c'est-à-dire toute genre de femmes citées plus haut),Achat du matériel nécessaire pour la fabrication du savon; fabrication du savon, Vente du savon, Distribution du savon.

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?

Nos premiers collèges sont ceux qui vendent et fabriquent de l'huile rouge, de soda… brèf, tout ceux qui nous livrent les produit et matériel de fabrication du savon. Nos second collègues sont les vendeurs du savon en détail car nous vendons en gros dans une localité donnée pour permettre aux détaillant de pouvoir vendre aussi. Nos concurrent sont des femmes qui viennent vendre chaque jour du marché de notre ville.

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This Entry is about (Issues)

What solution(s) does your initiative address to help emerging entrepreneurs and small businesses grow and thrive in underserved communities? (select all applicable)

Access to financing, Access to talent, Access to supply chains, Access to technology, Access to economic opportunity.

What has been the impact of your solution to date?

Pas encore

What is your projected impact over the next 1-3 years?

Les conditions de vie des femmes en difficulté sont améliorées; les conditions de vie des enfants sont améliorées à travers l'autonimisation de leurs mères; les utilisateurs du savon en question, brèf, la communauté bénéficiaire du projet trouve achètent à un bon moment et à bon prix.

What barriers might hinder the success of your project? How do you plan to overcome them?

L'ostacle qui risque de bloquer notre projet est le manque de financement. Les ostacles qui risquent de freiner notre projet sont : Insuffisance du financement, présence des concurrents, la mévente du savon, insuffisance du dynamisme des femmes bénéficiaires du projet. Respectivement à ces obstacles, nous debuterons avec les moyens financiers de bord, nous fabriquerons le savon de bonne qualité et nous ferons une publication suffisante de notre produit pour combattre la mévente, nous organiserons des sénaces de formations à l'endroit des femmes bénéficiaires sur plusieurs modules (marketing, les aptitudes de la vie…) qui susciterons le dynamisme et certaines qualités.

Winning entries present a strong plan for how they will achieve and track growth. Identify your six-month milestone for growing your impact

Nos objectifs de croissance dans six mois sont: recruter 15 salariers stables; Augmenter notre chiffre d'affaire de 20%; Mo

Identify three major tasks you will have to complete to reach your six-month milestone

タスク 1:

La première tâche principale à accomplir est de créer une entréprise du savon dans un endroit propice.

タスク 2:

La deuxième sera de former les femmes en en fabrication du savon, en marketing, et aptudes personnelles…

タスク 3:

Rechercher les débouchers et lutter combattre nos concurrents

Now think bigger! Identify your 12-month impact milestone

Recruter 30 femmes salariers stables; Augmenter notre chiffre d'affaire de 30%; créer une entreprise de plus.

Identify three major tasks you will have to complete to reach your 12-month milestone

タスク 1:

Etendre notre marché sur d'autres villes ou créer d'autres entréprises dans ces villes.

タスク 2:

Diversifier ou ajouter d'autres produits à la fabrication du savon dans nos entreprises.

タスク 3:

Vendre nos produits en ligne

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L'idée de notre projet est née de l'orientation de lapolitique générale de notre association AHED-TOGO qui signifie Action Humanitaire pour les Enfants en Difficlté Basée à bafilo, une ville du Togo en Afrique de l'ouest. En effet, AHED-TOGO a pour but de contribuer à l'amélioration des conditions de vie des enfants à travers lapromotion de leur santé et éducation. Les enfants à qui nous apportons nos aides Donc qui enfant dit une mère alors, il faudrait rechercher les voies et moyens par lesquels une mère pourrait être indépendante et épanouie. Une des solution est de créer des AGR, Activités Génératrices de Révenus. Il ya beaucoup d'AGR mais celle de fabriquer du savon local est plus pressante et nécessaire car le savon est venu des autres villes. Ensuite, c'est un savon moyen que chacun peut acheter selon le pouvoir d'achat. De surccroît, tout le monde l'achète non seulement le prix est abodable, mais aussi on l'utilise pour le linge, la vaisselle, se laver.

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Nos différents partenaires seront les responsables des bar et restaurants,des boutiques

Please elaborate on any needs or offers you have mentioned above and/or suggest categories of support that aren't specified within the list

Nous avons des persoones qualifiées dans différents domaines. A l'aide du marketing, nous sommes en mésure de faire aimer et acheter nos produits; la recherche consiste à rassembler les données ou informations fiables et les analyser pour les utiliser efficacement; la collaboration est un outils ou stratégie qui permet à une structure de réajuster sa polique générale dans le but d'évoluer;

students entrepreneurs supporting sports through technology

Ddevelop an in school manufacturing business to employ work experience student to produce wooden awards medals for the Canadian Freestyle sking Timber series.

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Summerland Secondary School

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Canada, BC, Summerland

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Canada, BC, Summerland

Region in BC where your solution creates social impact

Thompson Okanagan.

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Which of the following best describes the barrier(s) your solution addresses? Choose up to two

Cost.

The Need: Describe the need for your solution and the size and characteristics of the community(ies) your solution is engaging

Where’s the switch? What can I do to spark their interest to ignite their self-motivation? These are questions I ask myself countless times as a high school teacher looking for ways to foster self-efficacy, enable innovation, empower and increase high school graduation rates. Summerland Secondary School has about 485 students. To graduate they must all complete a work experience placement. The intent of this initiative is to develop an in school student run manufacturing business. Through this business students would be exposed to all aspects of production, marketing, shipping and receiving. The initiative has the ability to provide successive years of students with peer mentoring and a template to explore business ideas and products of their own.

The Solution: What is your solution? Be specific!

Summerland Secondary School Technology department has been provided with the opportunity to supply the BC freestyle/Provincial freestyle Timberlines freestyle series with wooden award medals for their competitions. At this time our primary goal is finalizing the choice of a CNC router table, secure funding and order the equipment. Once the equipment arrives at the school all aspects of the business will be the responsibility of the selected work experience students supported by the careers councilor and technology instructors. It is the intention of this initiative that all students involved will work and learn all aspects of production. Some of these include:
Assembly of equipment and maintenance
Using computer software to develop logos
Learning the computer operating system for the CNC router table
Working with a production team
Learning material science and finishing techniques
Shipping & receiving
Marketing
Mentoring students new to the production venture

The Model: Walk us through a specific example of how your solution makes a difference; include the primary activities involved in your solution.

All B.C. secondary school students who are enrolled in Grade 10, 11 or 12 must complete Graduation Transitions. In order to meet this goal, students must participate in at least 30 hours of work experience and/or community service and describe what was learned. This type of experiential learning increases the relevance of school by helping students connect what they learn in the classroom with the skills, knowledge, and attitudes needed to be successful in both the workplace and larger community. Our model will provide any grade 10 through 12 student with the opportunity to apply to the in school business. Students will follow standard practices for work experience placement by providing a resume and attending an interview. Once they have successfully become a member of the business team they will embark on learning the business from the ground up. It is the intention of our initiative to provide students with the skills and knowledge that will empower them with the responsibility to run an in school manufacturing business. Students would begin at this time with the assembly of equipment and training in its operation. As we progress and new studnts come on board the existing team will mentor and train the new staff on all aspects of the business. To complete their transition requirement they will complete a report that documents their work, and identifies the employability skills used or developed.

The Marketplace: Who are your peers and competitors? Identify others working to address the same needs as you and indicate what sets you apart from them.

At this time BC Freestyle has been purchasing their award medals from a private business. As we are just in the initial stages of the project I have no knowledge of other schools that are producing award medal. I am aware of high school programs in our district that partner business with school initiative programs to increase student’s exposure to career training opportunities. These play a vital role in providing students with meaningful opportunities to provide services for their communities. When student get involved with projects in the community they see directly the positive results their efforts are having in the lives of others. Our students can be proud participant in their own achievements and the success of others through the medals they will be producing.

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The AHA! The moment!
I strongly believe that it is the relationships that we develop in life that have the greatest impact on individuals ability to promote positive change in the world. When I was approached by Wade Garrod of BC freestyle with the question of producing wooden award medals at school, the AHA gonged in my head. This is a perfect opportunity to build relationships and community within the school and with business and organizations outside of the school. Win, win!! Bring together a diverse group of students to implement a business plan, develop transferable skills and take pride in supporting Canada’s young Freestyle skiers.

Please describe the goal of your initiative; outline what you are trying to achieve

This initiative will give us the ability to purchase state of the art CNC technology for our students that otherwise is not being made available to them. By introducing one new piece of production CNC equipment and a business partnership with BC Freestyle the opportunity exist to produce revenue that can be reinvested into our business model. This will impact not only those students who complete a work experience placement but every student who enrolls in our wood technology programs. Subsequently, there is the possibility that momentum from the wooden medals business model will encourage all students to investigate and pursue new innovations of their own creation. This, it is hoped, will help to foster self-efficacy, enable innovation, empower and increase high school graduation rates.

What has been the impact of your solution to date?

At this time the impact has not been felt in the student population as we are in the fundraising and program development stage. The greatest impact so far is in the energy and excitement of students and the departments involved in our school. The prospect of being able to provide such a unique and positive learning experience for our students is producing a positive creative energy.

What is your projected impact over the next five years?

To help students seize the many opportunities in B.C.’s vibrant economy, education is changing. By initiating an operational business we have the ability to offer a mixture of: career exploration, pre-employment training, skills enhancement, and work experience placements for credit towards graduation. It is hoped that this partnership will enhance the goal of career development for a wide range of learner needs and help more students in preparation for further education and training in a career area.

What barriers might hinder the success of your project? How do you plan to overcome them?

The greatest barrier at this time is procuring the funds to buy the equipment. As this venture was only incubated in July of this year, we have a short time span to get product made before the start of the 2012/13 ski season. The plan is to develop relationships with as many interested parties both within the school district and private business. We have to date introduced the venture to our principal in the hopes of qualifying for innovation funding through the school district. There has been some interest from private parties to help fund the purchase of equipment on a 0% financing loan. In addition, we are approaching local cabinet making businesses who might be interested in developing a similar joint venture for piece manufacturing of some aspects of their production.

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At this point getting the equipment on the floor and operational

Identify three major tasks you will have to complete to reach your six-month milestone

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purchase and assemble CNC router table

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technical training for students to learn computer programs and router operation

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organize with customer type of materials, logos, and shipping dates

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developing a business plan in conjunction with careers department to run inschool business and expand the partnerships

Identify three major tasks you will have to complete to reach your 12-month milestone

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Organize in school work experience student work schedules

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develop a business plan with carrers department to have students run the business

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organize student groups to brainstorm and develop additional innovative projects

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The primary partnership is between students producing wooden award medals and the young Canadian freestyle skiers competing to win them. Pride in production, pride in competing. At this time the partnership is the combined efforts of Summerland Secondary School technology and careers departments, our School District and all the individual freestyle clubs across the country associated with provincial freestyle associations.

Are you currently targeting other specific populations, locations, or markets for your solution? If so, where and why?

At this time our only target group is BC Freestyle and the provincial Timber Freestyle series. It is our intention to try to get on board with other BC sports disciplines in the hopes of producing award medals for their perspective disciplines. In addition, the intention of the solution to foster entrepreneurship and innovation among our students and pursue any possible initiative they may present.

What type of operating environment and internal organizational factors make your innovation successful?

As a school we are already set up to run programs and are always looking for way to provide more apportunites and experiences for students. We have the facility to set up the equipment and run a production facility.

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The rampant need for Person's with Disability to gain access to a decent job is what I am trying to solve.But because of poverty,lack of Government support a lot of talented PWDs could not work.
All over the world we are faced of lots of opportunities waiting to alleviate povert,improve the Human Soul and help satisfy the mind.

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Padraic

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団体の

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LocalSwitch

ウェブサイト

団体の所在国

Ireland, TP, Cloughjordan

この団体が社会的なインパクトをもたらす国

Ireland, XX, Nationally

Age of Innovator

Over 34

Gender of Innovator

Male

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The Need: What problem are you trying to solve?

Ireland imports energy (fossil fuels)at a cost of 6 billion € a year & this cost is rising.This is a staggering loss of wealth.Our mission is help communities to put this loss into reverse and keep much of this wealth within Ireland,& instead of exporting cash -use it to create new enterprises.We want to switch communities in Ireland one by one,to begin producing their own energy, food & transport enterprises as much as possible from the resources within their own community.As we do this, we aim to help create 50 jobs in each community per 1000 head of population over a 5 year period.This aim can & will be fulfilled if there is sufficient buy-in from the community.Its our function to enable this buy-in,& to provide communities with the means and the opportunity to make this positive change

The Solution: What is your solution? Be specific!

Our plan is quite simple, while at the same time needs good effort and time to roll out:- We set up a FESCo.(Food and and energy sovereignty company) This is a company with a strict focus of aiding the beginning of enterprises in its own electoral area, enterprises that are given heavy support locally. The FESCo setups community owned enterprises that are owned locally, supply locally and keep wealth local. These enterprises fall under energy food and transport and isolate communities from rising energy (oil) and food prices. Some of these are completely new business models while others are already working in many countries.

The Model: Walk us through a specific example of how your solution makes a difference; include your primary activities

LocalSwitch engages with a community and identifies the local resources that are available. Energy initiatives can be any of the following but not limited to, Windfarms, solar pv farms, district heating, micro hydro, biomass, biogas, solar thermal,housing retrofits,(energy saving upgrades). Food initiative examples,Community shared agriculture, community farms, allotments, shared orchards, aquaponics, home growing initiatives, community recycling/zero waste initiatives, waste to energy initiatives, fuel crop co-op's.Transport examples electric vehicle car sharing, community owned vehicles, electric /cargo bike sharing.

Specific example: We setup a FESCo in a particular community-we fund raise to pay for the employment of a community cataylst-this person builds a subscriber base/association of local people who wish to make cost savings on their home heating oil bill. The catalyst matches suppliers to the market and sets up a wood fuel supplier,a wood burning stove retrofit supplier and the subscriber base. The subscriber base can pay for the capital cost in a number of ways, Irish Government Energy saving grants, a pay as you save scheme facilitated through local credit union or personal upfront payment. The wood fuel supplier creates a fixed contract with the FESCo to supply to it subscriber base. The subscribers benefit from a lower fixed home heating cost and isolate themselves from rising oil prices.The wood co-op is based on a renewable harvest cycle.Local employment demand is created through wood supply and housing retrofit.

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?

This is a not new initiative to Ireland, energy co-ops and food co-ops exist worldwide. We are not reinventing the wheel here. We are tweaking some of the business models that exist in other and bringing them all under one umbrella. No one has done this in Ireland. National utilities and foodchains could be looked upon as competition, but these organisations take money out of the country. Local based, locally owned community initiatives will begin to make sense in these poor economic times. The challenge we face if getting this off the ground and initiating our first 5 FESCo's.

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Access to talent, Access to economic opportunity.

What has been the impact of your solution to date?

We have opened our first Hub in Borrisokane Co Tipperary. National green TV personailty Duncan Stewart champions our cause has was at the official opening.Each hub host's local training and community meetings for subscribers. A hub also showcase potential technology of local partners/suppliers. We have recieved local and nation press coverage and are in the process of seeking funding from numerous sources including national and international companies.eg Kingspan, Mitsubishi electric.
Funding is all that is holding us back.

What is your projected impact over the next 1-3 years?

We aim to Locally Switch 6-12 communities per year, creating between 1800 and 3200 jobs directly and indirectly from the enterprises to be setup.

What barriers might hinder the success of your project? How do you plan to overcome them?

Funding! Overturn ever stone to make this happen, its the right way and one of the best ways to get the country of Ireland up off its financial knee's. It will create positive atmospheres in each community and have positive health benefits from local organic food production. We look for national grants, philanthropic support and companies to partner with.

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Identify three major tasks you will have to complete to reach your six-month milestone

タスク 1:

Secure funding

タスク 2:

Launch Fesco, including local catylst employment

タスク 3:

Setup community enterprises

Now think bigger! Identify your 12-month impact milestone

Identify three major tasks you will have to complete to reach your 12-month milestone

タスク 1:

Secure major permanent funding streams

タスク 2:

Setup first 6 FESCo's

タスク 3:

Grow campaign to National level

Founding 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 3 founders were all living near the eco village of cloughjordan, Aidan O Brien was involved in the building projects, Ross Rabette was involved in the district heating systems and Michael Newham Lived in the area. There were lesson to be learned from the eco-village project and the benefit's were enormous.The 3 men got together and looked at the practicalities and the positives of the setup, some stigma is associated with eco and green and hippy type stereotypes so they all and said , "lets stripe away the green veneer and look at the practical elements of cost saving which can be applied to every community. Combined with concern for rising oil and food prices, a destabilizing economy and carbon pollution, they embarked on the creation of LocalSwitch.

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Part of our fund raising requires the local communities to raise their own funds. We facilitate this through small donations form partner companies who donate product for a renewables themed raffle. The include Irish companies as much as possible.Thermomax solar,Ecograte,Ecopal,Boru Stoves,Danfoss,CosyHome Store,Mitsubishi Solar PV,Saint Gobain/ Gyproc,Dimplex Renewables,Carey Glass Solar,Grow Green Solutions
D-Plant,Quick Crop,Get up and Grow.
These are just some of the companies who have donated product for community raffles.

Please elaborate on any needs or offers you have mentioned above and/or suggest categories of support that aren't specified within the list

We would welcome collaboration on social enterprises business models and impact on local communities.

Nueva Oportunidad

Nueva Oportunidad nace producto de la iniciativa de un grupo de estudiantes universitarios de apoyar a una población desatendida: los privados de libertad.

Es una fundación sin fines de lucro, cuyo objetivo es servir de apoyo a los privados de libertad en su proceso de resocialización y reinserción a la sociedad, como lo indica su eslogan: Re-socialízate, Re- edúcate, Re-insértate. Y a largo plazo, contribuir en la disminución de: la reincidencia penal, hacinamiento carcelario y la inseguridad ciudadana.

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Children flourish in school because their moms and big sisters are making 500 sets of school uniforms for the NGOs and schools. We want to reach out to more girls and young women to take home with them a useful skill so they can hold their own. Making 1000 school uniforms is our goal!

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Riverkids Project

団体の所在国

Singapore

この団体が社会的なインパクトをもたらす国

Cambodia

Age of Innovator

Over 34

Gender of Innovator

Female

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非営利団体

運営期間

5 年超

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The Need: What problem are you trying to solve?

For families from broken or abusive families, sending a child to school instead of on the streets to work is an impossible dream. The people have very little education, limited employable skills to earn sufficient income to support their families and there is a lack of suitable support from NGOs and the government.

Many women and their children are infected with HIV, tuberculosis and other chronic illnesses. In addition, many underage girls have been cheated and sold into prostitution in night clubs or whorehouses.

As a result of their exorbitant medical bills and the rent that they cannot afford to pay especially when older women sex workers could not get enough clients, they found themselves in a desperate situation to sell their children to traffickers.

The Solution: What is your solution? Be specific!

Before they face further risk in HIV, losing their children or get into forced sex-labour on the streets, we have to reach out to the young women and girls early.

We train the women in sewing. We sell around 500 sets of school uniforms to NGOs a year and are looking for more NGOs and private schools that will support us. This will mean more income for the women, a better life and sustainable livelihood.

The women graduate will buy their own materials at the Ouressey Market in Phnom Penh and sew them. Riverkids will buy the school uniforms from them and sell them at par to our established NGO contacts.

For our earlier group of women, we want to train them up for more skilled work. We wish to teach them to make and sew silk ornaments. The Singapore office has secured orders of at least 1000 ornaments every year end and this will raise about $10,000 in the last quarter yearly. We aim to make our own brand instead of buying them from other Cambodian NGOs to resell them.

The Model: Walk us through a specific example of how your solution makes a difference; include your primary activities

We surveyed and had long thoughtful conversations with the families in our community to find out what works and what wouldn’t. We learned that for them to be able to keep their children safely in school year after year, have enough food on their table and escape poverty, they need new skills, safe jobs and decent incomes.

We reach out to the young women and girls early. To help these women overcome the social stigma and integrate into our classes more easily, we arrange field trips to the zoo and water park. Volunteers join our social workers to organise ice-breaking games so like-minded women can meet to chat comfortably, provide one another with peer support and engage in mentally-wholesome activities.

Through our social workers encouragement, they are motivated to join our training courses. Then, to enable the women with babies and toddlers to concentrate on learning and complete the year’s training, we help care for their children in our Baby Room in the day. During the training period, we provide foodbox (rice, packet-noodles and canned food) for their families and allowance for these participants. This is our income replacement plan that will ensure that the women graduate successfully instead of dropping out mid-way. At no charge, we loan the women staying further from our centre, donated bicycles so they can travel to work.

Besides training the women in sewing using our own donated sewing machines, we conduct workshops such as Domestic Violence, HIV and trafficking prevention workshop, Business and Financial Management and industrial field trips

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?

We sell the school uniforms that the women make to NGOs like Who Will(www.who-will.org, New life (www.cambodianewlife.org), Sunshine Centre (www.sunshinecentrecambodia.org) and Asian Hope (http://www.asianhope.org/).

Currently, we've not come across any NGO sewing school uniforms like us and at our quantity.

What differentiates us from other NGOs is that we choose to work with the most difficult families in the slum - those at high risk of trafficking and abuse. This is because these are the under-served and we have the various units such as Social Work, Health & Nutrition and Education to make our outreach work. We have the critical success factors like foodbox, income replacement strategy, Daycare and bicycles to see them succeed.

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Access to financing, Access to talent, Access to supply chains, Access to economic opportunity, Policy change/advocacy.

What has been the impact of your solution to date?

In March 2011 and 2012, we graduated 21 and 11 women in sewing respectively. They are able to make up to 40 pieces of school uniforms and standard baby clothes and dresses, earning between $100 and $135 a month on regular working hours.

The women have learned to be disciplined, are working in safe, favourable working conditions and are fairly treated. This is because we establish partnerships with potential employers and monitor their progress during apprenticeships.

With a safe job and decent income, a significant minority of our women are able to step out of their previous health hazardous jobs to support their families. With further support from our income generation programs such as small loans and business training, and positive changes from our social work programs, they have been both able and willing to take responsibility for some or all of their children’s education needs. This makes the women very independent and our programs sustainable.

What is your projected impact over the next 1-3 years?

In the long term, women and children will be free from HIV infection because of the women’s safe jobs. The income sustains the family and their children can make great strides in school and meals. Through our workshops, their awareness of health, family and financial matters make them become better parents. Their children grow up making well informed decisions with education. They escape poverty, abuse and trafficking.

In 3 years’ time, we should have established a select group of highly skilled women in handicraft who can create our own home-grown brand of silk ornaments, increasing the potential funds raised by over $10,000 in the last quarter of the year where part of it can go back to support training and material purchase again.

What barriers might hinder the success of your project? How do you plan to overcome them?

Death of a family member. This can happen because of a traffic accident or illness, sending the family straight into a financial crisis. We help the family with funeral and enable them to access our microfinance emergency loan that will see them through this temporary crisis. We’ve seen families get back up on their feet quickly after the most difficult period with our counselling and financial assistance.

Some NGOs that we sell our made-to-measure school uniforms closed down. If this happens, we will source for more NGOs and private schools for our sale. In fact, we are constantly looking for more contacts in Cambodia. We also have alternative products such as the silk products that have stable orders solicited from the Singapore marketing office.

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Identify at-risk women for skill training and conduct family, health, financial and business planning workshop to empower them.

Identify three major tasks you will have to complete to reach your six-month milestone

タスク 1:

Survey, interview and recruit girls and young women

タスク 2:

6 months intensive skills training

タスク 3:

Workshops and fields trips for participants, income replacement, food support and counselling.

Now think bigger! Identify your 12-month impact milestone

Women will be able to sew without supervision, have a stable job and generate their own income.

Identify three major tasks you will have to complete to reach your 12-month milestone

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Women can sew without supervision

タスク 2:

Women actively working to fulfill clothes and ornaments orders

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Women able to support their family and send their children to school

Founding 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.

It all started with a small group of women we were trying to help by generating their own income. We had orders from Australia’s Tractor Home. These are paper products that make earrings and broaches. These and some orders we receive from people in Cambodia are however, adhoc. One of our students in the Bright Girls program (a sheltered co-op workshop of teenage girls) is very talented and began teaching a few of the women how to sew. We learn that school uniforms are easier to sew and we’ve got donated sewing machines that we can make use of. So we started contacting some NGO schools to see if they’d like to support us. They did. We began to receive more sewing machines and they sewed more and more. With good feedback from our school clients and with no other NGOs doing what we are doing, we are determined to leverage on what we have, to provide opportunities to more women and training up our earlier batch to sew more complex products such as the delicate silk ornaments.

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We use the materials purchased to sew the school uniforms, baby clothes and dresses. Then, we sell them to NGOs such as Who Will (www.who-will.org/), Asian Hope (www.asianhope.org/), New life (www.cambodianewlife.org/) and Sunshine Centre (www.sunshinecentrecambodia.org/)

We sell around 500 sets of school uniforms to NGOs a year and are looking for more NGOs and private schools that will support us. This will mean more income for the women, a better life and sustainable livelihood.

The selling prices are at $4.00 for Small, $5.50 for Medium and $7.50 for Large uniforms.

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DUMA: The Future of Hiring in the Developing World

DUMA is an SMS-based job matching service that connects short-term laborers and potential customers in emerging markets.

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Christine

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DUMA

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United States, DE, Wilmington, New Castle County

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Kenya, RV, Countrywide, beginning in Nakuru and Eldoret and expanding to Nairobi, Kisumu, Kisiii

Age of Innovator

18-34

Gender of Innovator

Female

団体の種類:

企業

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1 年未満

Has the organization received awards or honors? Please tell us about them

Since we began working on DUMA at a Startup weekend on the Princeton campus in November, we have gained an incredible amount of momentum. We were accepted into the Princeton eLab accelerator program over the summer, where we completed our software. We are currently running a private beta test in the transportation industry in Nakuru. We have won various awards and grants from entrepreneur competitions, such as mtvU/Ashoka Youth, Princeton Tigerlaunch Competition (2nd place), Princeton Pitch Competition (runner up), Kairos Society Member, Kairos 50, Princeton StartUp Weekend 3rd place and winner of Twilio API prize. We were also semifinalists in the Echoing Green Fellowship. We have received recognition in media in the USA, such as a feature in the Forbes magazine: “Top 5 Most Exciting Kairos Companies,” Genius Country: “Faces of Innovation: eLab - The First Class,” Princeton Alumni Weekly: “Entrepreneurs Develop Ideas at Startup Weekend,” and “Tigerlaunch 2012 Rewards Top Student Entrepreneurs.”

Lastly, throughout the process of building DUMA, we have created many valuable relationships. We have met twice with the Hon. Dr. Josephine Ojiambo, the Kenyan Ambassador to the UN. During our conversation with her, we met the Minister of Labor of Kenya, Hon. John Munyes, who we look forward to speaking with further when we're in Kenya. We have also spoken with Nick Hughes, one of the key players behind MPESA and John Simon, the former Ambassador to the African Union.

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Which of the following best describes the barrier(s) your innovation addresses? Choose up to two

Access, Cost.

The Need: What problem are you trying to solve?

The ability to earn an income is the driving force behind health, happiness, and a better future for the next generation. We believe that in countries where unemployment rates are sky-high, every lost opportunity to earn an income is unacceptable. Which is why we have created DUMA, a text message-based service that uses basic phones to connect short-term workers & customers in emerging markets. The problem we see is a disconnect in the entire ecosystem between service providers & customers, especially in the short-term labor market.. In fact, the only way that people currently find temporary workers is through word of mouth, relying completely on referrals from family and friends, and sometimes even disregarding skill sets of the worker. This is where DUMA comes in.

The Solution: What is your solution? Be specific!

DUMA is a text-message based job-matching service that connects short-term laborers with potential consumers in real time, through the click of a button on a basic cell phone. We are the ideal matchmaking system for jobs, in markets where employers value trust above all during the hiring process. Our unique software pairs employers with job seekers that they are socially connected to (a friend of a friend of a friend) in their city who has the skills they are looking for. All this can occur in seconds and on a basic mobile phone.

MOBILE DEVICE, NOT COMPUTER: Our text messaging system makes DUMA the most accessible platform for workers and customers without access to broadband.

REAL-TIME, NO LAG TIME: For short-term jobs, people demand pre-screened matches to begin working immediately.

SKILL MATCHING + SOCIAL MATCHING: Trust is a huge component of hiring in emerging markets. DUMA adds value to a job search engine by incorporating a reference network into its matching system.

The Model: Walk us through a specific example of how your solution makes a difference; include your primary activities

Through an online registration accessible through desktop and mobile browsers, a user lists his phone number, geographic location, job experience and skills, and “reference network.” The reference network consists of the people whom an individual would contact if he were looking for a job, looking to hire, or whom he has worked with in the past (a social network of sorts, but for jobs). These contacts receive a verification SMS to confirm that they know this individual and that they would indeed like to be referenced by him.

When a customer has a job opening (perhaps he needs a taxi to take him to town), he sends a text message to DUMA. In this SMS, the customer specifies the type of job he needs completed, the number of workers he needs, and his geographical location. Our software then finds the worker with a matching skill set and geographical location, who is most closely connected in the reference network (2 degrees of separation vs. 3). After the worker confirms his availability via SMS, our software sends an SMS to both the customer and the worker exchanging their respective phone numbers. A post-job rating system serves as a quality control mechanism for workers.

DUMA is a for-profit enterprise with a double bottom line. We generate revenue from annual subscriptions for employers (2 USD) and monthly subscriptions for employees (0.30 USD). If an employee does not receive a job alert that month, his next month will be free. Payments from our users will be received through M-PESA, the mobile payment system that already has over 19 million subscribers in Kenya.

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 only method currently in place to find workers for short-term, small jobs is via word-of-mouth from close contacts. There is a relatively strong network between friends and family who would recommend someone for a task, but this system tends to be slow, inefficient, restricts access to potential employees, and encourages hiring with a disregard for skills. There are websites in Kenya that act as job boards or online recruitment portals - for example Brighter Monday, Kenya Job Link, & Njorku - but these services typically target formal sector, long-term employment. There are also various mobile competitors that have been launched in the past year in Kenya: M-Kazi, Souktel, and Pigiame. These too do not offer targeted matching, and they are not catered to the temporary job market.

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What solution(s) does your initiative address to better the lives of girls and women by leveraging technology? (select all applicable)

Access to economic opportunity.

What has been the impact of your solution to date?

We have just begun putting our business plan into motion. We are in the second week of our private beta in Nakuru, Kenya. We are targeting the transportation sector as our initial market, which includes motorbike and taxi drivers. We have just enrolled 20 people to test out the software from a technical perspective. However, we are working out a partnership with KEMORA (which manages 70,000 drivers across Kenya), and with their help, we hope to have 350 drivers and 1000 customers, averaging 100 job posts per day, by January 2013.

What is your projected impact over the next 1-3 years?

DUMA builds income, confidence, and stability for the underemployed and unemployed in urban areas of Kenya. Our goal is a 15 USD increase in income/employee/month, which is about half the urban poverty line. In doing so, we hope to alleviate the direct impacts of poverty like unsafe living conditions and food insecurity, while empowering people with a sense of social significance. By helping people get off the street and find temporary jobs, we improve their chances of securing stable and higher-income jobs later on.

What barriers might hinder the success of your project? How do you plan to overcome them?

Externally, we anticipate obstacles in both entering and operating in the Kenyan business market. Strong community partnerships and the help of an advisory board will guide DUMA through the bureaucracy and nuances of the Kenyan professional sector. Market research will also be crucial for determining how to advertise DUMA to the community. We are currently planning a large-scale survey with members of our target community to ensure that our services match consumer demands. Internally, our main challenge will be identifying reliable and qualified employees for sales, marketing, customer support, and software maintenance. We have already started interviewing candidates for these positions, based on references from our personal contacts in Kenya.

Winning entries present a strong plan for how they will achieve and track growth. Identify your six-month milestone for growing your impact

Expand from Nakuru to Nairobi

Identify three major tasks you will have to complete to reach your six-month milestone

タスク 1:

Hire 5 full-time employees to form a sales & marketing team

タスク 2:

Form partnerships with at least 20 labor unions and technical schools

タスク 3:

Enroll 5,000 workers and 10,000 customers, bringing in at least $25,000 in monthly revenue

Now think bigger! Identify your 12-month impact milestone

Expand to Eldoret, Kisumu, and Kisii

Identify three major tasks you will have to complete to reach your 12-month milestone

タスク 1:

Establish headquarter offices in Nairobi and set up branches in Nakuru, Eldoret, Kisumu, and Kisii

タスク 2:

Form partnerships with the government and telecom companies

タスク 3:

Enroll 25,000 workers, 50,000 customers, bringing in $150,000 in monthly revenue

Founding 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 initial idea was sparked from Christine and Arielle’s summer 2011 experiences in Kenya, where they observed first-hand how a decentralized and inefficient job networking system fosters nepotism, skills-mismatches, and under-productivity. They left Kenya wanting to create an effective and scalable way to help the local people they met find work. What started out as a conversation about unemployment in Kenya turned into a brainstorming session, which turned into a business plan, and then into a developing venture that they are fully committed to seeing through. Soon after coming up with the initial idea for a cell phone-based job matchmaking service, Christine and Arielle met and began working with Eric, a computer science major at Princeton. As a native of Kenya originally from Eldoret, Eric has been crucial in shaping the original concept into its current form. It has been an incredible journey thus far, and we hope to gain your support in continuing our efforts.

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Throughout the process of building DUMA, we have created many valuable relationships. We have met twice with the Dr. Josephine Ojiambo, the Kenyan Ambassador to the UN. During our conversation with her, we met the Minister of Labor of Kenya, who we look forward to speaking with further when we're in Kenya. We have also spoken with Nick Hughes, one of the key players behind MPESA; and John Simon, the former Ambassador to the African Union. We have created partnerships with theater groups in Kenya for marketing purposes, and are solidifying a partnership with KEMORA to enlist workers.

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CRS Tourism SMEs Development Plan

Cross River State Tourism Bureau was established in 2003
to encourage sustainable tourism development for the social
& economic benefit of the State’s population.
CRSTB’s vision is to make Cross River the preferred destination in West Africa in terms of creating memorable experiences through superior service
delivery,quality accommodation, fun-filled activities, while providing value for money

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Akan

Odu

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Cross River State Tourism Bureau

団体の所在国

Nigeria, CR, Calabar

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Nigeria, CR, Calabar

Age of Innovator

18-34

Gender of Innovator

Male

団体の種類:

政府機関

運営期間

5 年超

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The Need: What problem are you trying to solve?

Tourism is a new word in Nigeria. It is perceived to be the responsibility of the Government. The tourism SMEs development plan will address the issue of dependence of communities on the Government for developing the sector and support for SMEs.

However, the Cross River State Tourism Bureau acting as destination manager of the state will help show tourism SME potentials to investor audiences through development of elaborate tourism SME business plans and an investment platform for CRS tourism SMEs.

Further to this, fora will be created to connect Tourism SMEs with investors (business Angels and venture capitalists) who will form partnerships with tourism SMEs in the state for development and expansion of the businesses.

The Solution: What is your solution? Be specific!

Support innovative product development for emerging SMEs that demonstrate strong market potential
Assist undeserved communities in Cross River investor ready platforms; investor relations, attraction and communication
Support creation and revitalization of tourism attractions, sites and experiences
Enhance the quality of tourism SMEs services and practices through training

The Model: Walk us through a specific example of how your solution makes a difference; include your primary activities

CRS Tourism SMEs Development Fund is a private equity fund structure that encourages private investment in tourism SMEs based on the realization that the tourism industry's risk owners is the private sector not the government.
The fund is structured as a limited partnership of the investors and tourism SMEs.
The fund allows business angels and private equity companies to invest in tourism startups and expanding tourism SMEs.

Obudu Delight is one of Cross River State's Tourism SMEs.
Obudu Delight is a honey farm, supplying tourists visiting the Obudu Mountain Resort, Cross River State and southern Nigeria as its market reach.
The farm's production level have been increased through private investment by helping the locals with the necessary farm implements to keep bees rather than get into the wilds and forests to hunt bee hives with low productivity as the output.
The scalability of this tourism SME was achieved through private equity funding. However, the investors had a good return on investment for the 6 years Obudu Delight has been in operation and the community is running the farm with little supervision and advice on the management of the farm.
The following are a list of CRS tourism SMEs and markets to be developed:
1. CR Cocoa Processing Factory
2. Palm oil bottling company
3. Dry gun distillery
4. Yam and cassava flour processing company
5. Obudu delight - Obudu honey farm (currently in existence for 5 years)
6. Palm-wine bottling company
7. Art and craft markets for each senatorial district
8. Reconstruction of beach market & beach restaurants

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?

Akwa Ibom and Plateau states make up Cross River State's tourism competition.
The government of these states are the risk bearers of the tourism industry, constantly providing funding for the sector with little private sector participation and political regimes come with mind set shifts to divers areas of interests.

The CRS Tourism Bureau only serves as a fulcrum to support the industry through marketing to investor audiences to access critical funds for the industry. This private sector mindset has helped the industry grow faster with little government presence.

The challenge this competition poses is that they take a slice of Cross River State's tourist visit pie, but not investible funds from the private sector.

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What solution(s) does your initiative address to help emerging entrepreneurs and small businesses grow and thrive in underserved communities? (select all applicable)

Access to financing, Access to talent, Access to technology, Access to economic opportunity.

What has been the impact of your solution to date?

The solution has enlightened communities on self sufficiency and tourism idea generation and development. The first face of CRS tourism development plan is the community based tourism: this initiative helped communities to understand the business of tourism, preserving their culture and how to make their tourism product offering Ppealing and available to tourist and destination visitors.

What is your projected impact over the next 1-3 years?

It projected impact is to have CRS tourism shift from a current 60/40 government/private sector participation to a 30/70 government/private sector participation in the tourism industry.
To achieve this, we should be able to create a system that connects investors to tourism SMEs, train tourism SMEs in areas of marketing and service quality.

What barriers might hinder the success of your project? How do you plan to overcome them?

Formation of Public/Private Partnerships (PPP)
CRSTB's method of overcoming barrier of creation and sustenance of PPP is through the behavioural change and sensitization campaigns which are done at community level to sensitize communities on risk bearing in tourism industry, and leveraging tourism SMEs through strategic alliances and partnerships. This is ongoing: Cross River State is made of South, Central and Northern senatorial districts, currently we have covered the southern senatorial district.

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To create a working investment vehicle to CRS tourism SMEs

Identify three major tasks you will have to complete to reach your six-month milestone

タスク 1:

Development of business plans for CRS tourism SMEs

タスク 2:

Investor lead generation for investment in the SME

タスク 3:

Creation of investment platform

Now think bigger! Identify your 12-month impact milestone

Provide tourism SMEs with 'A' round of funding (Seed capital) through private partnerships

Identify three major tasks you will have to complete to reach your 12-month milestone

タスク 1:

connect private investors and SME and create concrete Public Private Partnerships (PPP)

タスク 2:

Have first round of funding (seed capital)

タスク 3:

Begin to produce/provide tourism SME product and services

Founding 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 began conducting small scale researches on the retail economy of Cross River State Tourism, keeping in mind that tourism SMEs were the key to driving the states economy.
However, the Cross River State Tourism Bureau is not set our to generate profits, it is to ensure that the communities and locals benefit from the tourism market.
This stirred up the CRS tourism private equity fund initiative.
In addition, we do not only look forward to having this initiative work for Cross River State tourism, we look forward to its scalability and application in other tourism states in Nigeria and for them to consult Cross River as the foremost destination managers of Nigeria.

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The Cross River State government as per the Tourism Bureau has partnerships with:
Guinness Nigeria to promote the Calabar Festival, which commences on the 30th of November to 31st of December, driving in 2,000,000 tourist (local and International)annually.

MTN Nigeria is the annual sponsor of our traditional festivals (Leboku).

First Bank Nigeria is sponsor on tourism SME and the proposed fund manager of the tourism SMEs Development funds.

Please elaborate on any needs or offers you have mentioned above and/or suggest categories of support that aren't specified within the list

NEEDS
Provision of funding to build a system of investor/tourism SMEs partnerships.

Help promote a sustainable CRS tourism through marketing the state's tourism effort to global travel trade.

Assist the Cross River State Tourism Bureau with partnerships a& collaborations that will aid product development of CRS SMEs.

OFFERS
Assist other destination managers with similar product offering

HunarOnes

In countries like India with a high percentage of unskilled labor. There is a huge gap between the opportunities and their employment. While some labors are lucky enough to find work regularly, There are many who are not so lucky. Despite being able to work due to the lack of proper assistance and guidance they hardly find work on a regular basis.As a result both the workers/Labors and the employers and Household people face the burn of unemployment and high wage rates. Hunar Ones meaning 'the skilled ones' is a freelancing web based company.

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Taxi Service Reform

Business models for common carriers (taxicabs) establish drivers as independent contractors with no control over costs to participate. In other words, to conform with regulatory requirements as common carriers, private companies organize drivers to serve all consumers (cash payment paradigm). The result is unreliable service (no forced dispatching) and exploited drivers.

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Nidan’s Micro-Finance Programme - Sanchay thrift and financial services to the poor

場所

New Delhi
India

Economic pursuance of people from the poor sections of the society requires amicable support system to develop them as sustainable profitable pursuance. They need financial services. Nidan promotes the saving habit and makes credit accessible through various Financial Institutions, both Government and Non Governmental. Through 4,688 self-help groups, Nidan reaches out to 58,888 members in 25 blocks of six districts of Bihar for different micro finance and micro credit services.

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Maid in India

For millions of unskilled maids, MII provides training, employment and a benefits package to holistically improve their standard of living. Benefits consist of health and life insurance, savings schemes, annual bonus, paid and sick leave, vocational training and interest-free loans. MII not only employs maids, but also provides legitimacy and respect to their profession.

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kamal

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Decimal Foundation

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India, MM, mum

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India, MM, mumbai

Age of Innovator

18-34

Gender of Innovator

Male

団体の種類:

Hybrid

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1~5 年

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1~5 年

The Need: What problem are you trying to solve?

India has a population of 1.24Bn with 407 million earning less than 28INR/day. 1/3 to 1/2 the population in cities lives in slums. In some cities this results in informal work force, upto 60% in the service segment. 95% of the workfoce earns between 500-4000INR a month, while women earn INR 1000 less than men for the same job. 64% women have no direct toilet access, while only 2% of slums have direct water supply, affecting both productivity and health. 30% women working as maids are widowed and 35% have atleast one chronic disease like TB, cancer, leprosy, asthma. Thus, opportunities is not the only barrier to a better standard of living. Potential solutions should address all their social, psychological, health and living condition issues.

The Solution: What is your solution? Be specific!

For millions of unskilled maids (house-helps) in India who have no recognition as a labor-force, Maid in India organizes, trains and provides them employment, which enables them to access employment benefits, including comprehensive healthcare, health and life insurance, financial saving schemes, gratuity and pension, and daycare for children. This has helped us provide legitimacy to their vocation, create a healthier, more effective and more prosperous labor force. Most importantly, our program allows them the rights of other labor sectors in India, by giving them access to many government and NGO schemes reserved for conventional laborers. It also induces social consciousness in employers, who pay a small fee per maid per month to enable us to provide these benefits.

The Model: Walk us through a specific example of how your solution makes a difference; include your primary activities

Samiksha, a 29 year old teacher earning USD 100/month, working 6 hours a day might not sound like someone interested in being a domestic worker. She joined Maid in India and has grown to be one of our brightest, most hardworking and most liked maid so far. She now earns more than USD 250/month, working 6 hours/day. She has been able to send 2 kids to school this year, and will send the other 2 next year, with upto USD 50 saved each month with MII saving schemes. She said “maid in India earned me the respect in my neighborhood that teaching could not for years. I earn anyone else in my slum and save the most for my kids. I have a LIC policy and a lot of money saved every month. Maid in India is an organization that treats us like employees and not maids and the same reflects in the attitude of our owners. When I fall sick, I now know where to go and seek help immediately, since I'm not charged exorbitantly like before. MII even gives me short-term interest free loans, keeping my good work in mind."

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?

With growing urban needs for domestic help and lower availability of maids, they are becoming a valued commodity. Knowing this, 80% maids find jobs on their own via word of mouth, and negotiate their own salaries. The other competitors are maid agencies that promise higher wages. These are certainly competitors in terms of creating the image of middle men in the service and their vested interests have been a challenge for us. They do not, however, provide maids with training or benefits, or even accountable service to employers, despite exorbitant charges.

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What solution(s) does your initiative address to help emerging entrepreneurs and small businesses grow and thrive in underserved communities? (select all applicable)

Access to supply chains, Access to economic opportunity, Policy change/advocacy.

What has been the impact of your solution to date?

In the past years, we have given employment to 150 maids in 500 households. 25% of these maids were previously unemployed. Each maid saw an average rise in monthly income of 150% and now earn at least 220% of minimum wage income. Each maid is able to work at an average of 3 households, resulting from efficient time-management strategies employed by Maid in India. About 20% of maids are widows thus primary earners. In addition to higher income, maids get 2 days paid leave each month, and a benefits packages.
Employers find our rates 10% lower than neighborhood.
They also get maid replacement service on days that their maids are on leave (planned or unplanned).
Now we provide difficult to find skills as trained maids (childcare, elderly care, cooks)
60% maids have opened their first bank account with 50,000 accident cover
100% health screening of maids every quarter.
Due to effective time management maids earn 150% more than before.
40% maids have their first insurance

What is your projected impact over the next 1-3 years?

Provide formal vocational training to 600 maids in Mumbai over 3 years (~20/month).
Expanding to new neighborhoods, to reach service provision to 1000 households in 3 years, to be able to employ over 500 new maids.
Collaborating with other non-profits to provide training to and enroll women in their target areas (victims of abuse, rescued prostitutes etc)
Expand our benefits package to include pension and gratuity for all maids.

What barriers might hinder the success of your project? How do you plan to overcome them?

Funding is a barrier to expansion of the project. Since we're fully client funded at this point, our net profits are too low to enable swift growth. Infusion with some capital investments can accelerate the growth drastically, and we plan on raising money through social ventures or grants to enable this expansion and increase our pool of beneficiaries.
Our reliance on external partners to provide benefits has worked so far, but is a rate limiting process in how swiftly we can provide these benefits. We'd like to build some of these capabilities in-house.

Winning entries present a strong plan for how they will achieve and track growth. Identify your six-month milestone for growing your impact

Identify three major tasks you will have to complete to reach your six-month milestone

タスク 1:

Expand to one new neighborhood and provide employment to 35 new maids.

タスク 2:

Create a employer-friendly website to showcase maids and our services, enable online booking and create a brand they can trust.

タスク 3:

Establish a partnership to create a formal training program for maids that is able to provide training every month.

Now think bigger! Identify your 12-month impact milestone

Identify three major tasks you will have to complete to reach your 12-month milestone

タスク 1:

Expand to 3 neighborhoods and employ 100 new maids

タスク 2:

Position and optimize website enough to obtain at least 20% leads through the website

タスク 3:

Run at least 6 training sessions, and train 120 maids.

Founding 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 founders were impressed by the ingenuinity of MERU cabs, a simple organized taxi service in mumbai, and naukri.com, a convenient portal serving both, job hunters and employers in finding the right fit. Both are an example of resource management, and fulfill core needs of their target audience with a simple business plan. Having mulled over the problem faced by the unorganized labor force in Mumbai, especially women, we thought an idea that is based on these principles of addressing core needs of both beneficiaries and clients, and a simple business plan would be extremely appropriate. Thus began the journey of planning how we would reach both population groups, package the service, and assemble a benefits package that was affordable, and yet addressed all the problems faced by maids in a holistic fashion.

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Rotract club of the Cadeuceus (Mumbai) has supported us with funding and volunteers for our quarterly health camp.
Doctor's 4 you provides us with doctors and medical residents students for the health camps
Axis bank has given us zero balance accounts and debit cards for all maids.
Pearsons foundation has given us training and funding for 5000$ to kick start our project.
Yuva Youth Initiative and Nimaya foundation helped raise 100,000 INR to fund our pilot training program for 40 maids

Please elaborate on any needs or offers you have mentioned above and/or suggest categories of support that aren't specified within the list

Needs: Web development, SEO management and viral marketing to grow our consumer base online.
Offers: We can help other organizations with research on this market segment, to help position and promote their services/products.
We can also offer employment to female beneficiaries of other organizations who help these women in other ways (human trafficking, prostitution, health workers etc)

Entrepreneurship As A Collaleral To Access To Microfinance Among The POOREST and DISABLED In Kenya

The innovation leverages the power of entrepreneurship education,access to microfinance & mentorship to transform the lives of the poorest and disabled in Kenya

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jacob

mwaniki

団体の

団体名

The People To People Foundation

ウェブサイト

coming soon

団体の所在国

Kenya, EA, Embu

この団体が社会的なインパクトをもたらす国

Kenya, EA, EMBu

団体の種類:

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1~5 年

Has the organization received awards or honors? Please tell us about them

PHILIP LIVABLE CITIES AWARD
DELL SOCIAL INNOVATION

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Which of the following best describes the barrier(s) your innovation addresses? Choose up to two

Access.

The Need: What problem are you trying to solve?

The problem the innovation is trying to address is a lack of access to financial service from banks and micro finance institutes specifically among the POOREST and DISABLED in Kenya. It's been widely noticed banks and micro finance institutes do not lend to persons who have not yet started an economic activity. This is one of the major bottlenecks to get access to loans among the poorest and disabled who dream to start businesses. The majority of them have no prior business experience which therefore make them ineligible to access to micro fiance from banks and micro-finance institutes. When this happens, the poorest and the disabled remain with no source/means of income as a result it activates cycle of poverty in the community.

The Solution: What is your solution? Be specific!

The innovation fills this preparation and sustainability gap in current services by collaborating with its partners such as school of business, banks and micro finance institutes to train the poorest and disabled in economic activity/entrepreneurship, provide them with financial support, and mentor them-either individually or in groups to develop themselves in self-employment activities and support them to be sustainably "self-provisioning and "self-reliant."

The Model: Walk us through a specific example of how your solution makes a difference; include your primary activities

Activity 1
-Prepare training curricular with School of business
-Selection of 400 people by conducting a random selection through a lottery to promote fairness and transparency to participate in program.
-Walk the selected trainees through the established preconditions: 1. to attend the training to completion and come up with a business idea either individually or in group capable of offering a service or a product to the market and as well as develop a comprehensive business plan/framework with a mentor in order to be eligible for financial support from the project/our partners, 2. To set up a business at the end of the training(and if they do not set up the business, they have to refund grant for the course).

Activity 2:
-With our partners, train the selected participants in financial literacy, business plans, management, marketing, product and service development, customer service and social networking.
-Leverage the expertise of successful entrepreneurs to share skills, administrative services,web development, and other operational costs with the trainees.

Activity3:
-Support graduates in developing business plans/framework, enter an agreement to offer subsidize business loan to capitalize business( in order to give them time to develop their business) and offer them with lower interest rate and longer grace period and assign with expert mentors to help them grow their business over time. At the end of the project each person will undergo a self-assessment of his/her confidence and capability to remain in employment.

The Marketplace: Who are your peers and competitors? Identify others also working to address the needs you are and what differentiates you from them. What challenges could these players pose to your success or growth?

Our main peers and competitors are Barclays Banks, business entities,Youth Development Fund Department, Handicap International, National Council for people with disabilities. The innovation however stands out in the way this seeks to use evidence-based solution to have a long-term impact to the underserved community by leverages new ideas and practices such as emphasis of compulsory entrepreneurship training for the clients, hiring successful entrepreneurs to sharing their skills with the trainees, assigning trainees with expertise mentors to help them develop comprehensive business plans/framework, in partnership with lending institutes giving them direct access to micro-loans to capitalize their chosen business individually or in groups with long term repayment grace period.

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Founding 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.

One day, I walked into a bank to deposit some savings for a rainy day and I happened to see a group of 8 individuals inside the bank looking very frustrating. They're disabled and poor.Out of empathy, I approached them and asked them nicely" Why do you guys look so frustrating today?" Together, they responded the bank denied them a micro-loan they simply wanted to start a Cyber Cafe business in town center as a group. I visited the bank manager,he said he's afraid he's not in a position to offer them loans for they lacked collaleral and prior experience in business. Therefore the banks doubted people like them would repay the loans. This was from that moment,I was inspired to explore further on this specific groups to have a solid understanding of their challenges accessing financial service.I found out 90% of them have similar experiences accessing micro-loans. For that, my innovation seeks to address the problem to help transform their overall livelihoods through economic activities.

Please describe the goal of your initiative; outline what you are trying to achieve

To improve access to support service such as basic business skills training, business development and financial service among the poorest and disabled-to enable the them to efficiently initiate or expand entrepreneurial activities toward social and economical empowerment which in turn will deactivate poverty in such community-

Which barrier(s) to financial inclusion does your solution seek to address? (select all applicable)

Physical and other accessibility obstacles that prevent communities from reaching financial services, The lack of affordable financial products tailored to the needs of underserved and excluded communities,, Powerful incentives for financial service providers to move up-market.

If you selected 'other' above, please specify which other barriers to financial inclusion you solution seeks to address:

For which underserved or excluded communities will your solution create access to valuable, affordable, secure and comprehensive financial services?

The POOREST and the DISABLED persons.

Could your solution work in other geographies or regions? If so, where?

While the innovation begins by serving its target audience(poorest and disabled) residing in Eastern region of Kenya, the innovation has the potential of scaling up and transforming the lives of a widespread of the poorest and the disabled people in other geographies or regions like Central, Rift Valley, and Western of Kenya-

If your solution is dramatically successful, how will things be different in 10 years?

The poorest and disabled people:
- earn income through their own chosen economic activities as individuals or in groups that decrease the risk of HIV/Aids, unwanted pregnancies and crimes
-have access to support service-basic business skills training, business development and financial services to initiate or expand entrepreneurial activities
-Are recognized as successful entrepreneurs, and productive, contributing members of the community
-Are able to contribute to the development of inclusive communities through promotion of economic activities and the influence of positive role-models
- Women have control over the money they earn, income, property, savings, and financial capital to work productively and foster well-being.
-Mainstream government and nongovernmental, small-enterprise development programmes, banks and micro-fiance institutes change their policies and practices to include people with disabilities and the poorest in the training and financial service assistance.

What will have had to have changed to make this happen?

-Continued support of obligatory training for the poorest and disabled rather than optional training in entrepreneurship for those with no prior experience in economic activities/entrepreneurship.
-A more efficient and continuous provision of direct microfinance to the poorest and the disabled on a non-discriminatory basis who have graduated from the training by partnership with lending institutes such as banks and micro-fiance institutes to help them start business-and assign them with expertise mentors to help them grow their business over time.
-Mainstream government and nongovernmental, small-enterprise development programmes,banks and micro-fiance institutes to change their policies and practices to include people with disabilities and the poorest in the training and financial service assistance.

What has been the impact of your solution to date?

By mean of entrepreneurship training, financial and mentoring support, innovation with its partners will enable the poorest and poorest people to have opportunities to earn livelihood through (self)-employment activities, improve their standard of living and contribute to the well-being of their families, and communities.

What is your projected impact over the next five years?

Improved (self)-employment activities among 10,000+ poorest and the disabled persons that provide an alternative to a competitive and discriminatory labor market and help them understand their entrepreneurship aspirations, develop mentoring support system, develop business feasibility and business plans, acquire financing, and grow and sustain their businesses-either individually or in groups toward economic empowerment

What barriers might hinder the success of your project? How do you plan to overcome them?

-Failure by clients to repay the loans: clients may fail to make a payment to us/our lending partners. To overcome this, the innovation will assures business training, monitoring and self-confidences buildings etc. to equip the clients/graduates to undertake self-employment economic activities successfully.
-Failure by selected clients to attend training to completion-we will ensure they sign an agreement to attend otherwise they won't be eligible to apply for loans.
-High interest on loans by lending institutes; the organization will enter a partnership/an agreement with Equity Bank and Family Bank to work together to offer the trainees with low and affordable rates on micro-loans borrowed and as well as long payment grace period.

Winning entries present a strong plan for how they will achieve and track growth. Identify your six-month milestone for growing your impact

Since it's a one year project, it will merge its tasks into a 12-month plan of action in order to reach impact milestone

Identify three major tasks you will have to complete to reach your six-month milestone

タスク 1:

Preparation of entrepreneurship training curricular and materials in collaboration with our stakeholders-(2 month)

タスク 2:

Selection of trainees who were part of our focus groups , survery and inteviews study through a random approach-(2 month)

タスク 3:

2-month entrepreneurship training, successful entrepreneurs' skills sharing, and networking and mentoring assignment-(2 month)

Now think bigger! Identify your 12-month impact milestone

Identify three major tasks you will have to complete to reach your 12-month milestone

タスク 1:

Brainstorming of business ideas, preparation of comprehensive busines plans/framework with mentors' support/guidance

タスク 2:

Graduates' application of direct financial support/small loans to capitalize business-individuallly or in groups

タスク 3:

monitoring and evaluation, and follow-up through self-assessment, marketing success measured through clients' leads.

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KIVA connects people through lending to alleviate poverty. It only lends money to individuals through an existing organization (field partner). Partnering with KIVA will enable our graduates to apply for microloans for their business through our organization (field partner of KIVA).
-Equity Bank-our lending partners so that our graduates can access loans to capitalize business at very low interest rates. Equity bank will send staff to train our trainees
-School of Business-To develop an entrepreneurial training curriculum for our target groups. Staff will be part of training and mentoring

Are you currently targeting other specific populations, locations, or markets for your innovation? If so, where and why?

We also target customers in the market at local, national and global levels because at the end of the training, our clients will develop their own chosen economic activities capable of offering a product or a service(like Poultry, Cyber Cafe, Hairdressing) to the market. Therefore customers from all across the nation and international community must be able to satisfactorily buy/use a product or a service that generate revenues for our clients. The innovation will closely monitor such income-generating initiatives to help them prosper. Our markerting success will be measured via clients leads.

What type of operating environment and internal organizational factors make your innovation successful?

The TEAM: The organization contains a multidisciplinary team of radiant, dynamic and highly talented people. Displaying diversity in interest and skill, the team boasts an array of professionals from Project manager, Entrepreneurs, Educators, Financial Officer, Accounts, IT and development specialists who all have rolled up their sleeves to make this innovation a success.

RESEARCH and STAKEHOLDERS: Having first hand of those impacted the most through research, and the support of our stakeholders and understanding of the impact the innovation is striving to deliver, we know we can achieve success with the very people we are serving supporting us as we develop the solution.

Please elaborate on any needs or offers you have mentioned above and/or suggest categories of support that aren't specified within the list

monitoring-Since the innovation will create other income-generating initiatives, it will closely monitor such initiatives to ensure they grow and thrive.

Mentorship: The project assigns the clients with a more experience person/more knowledgeable person to help guide/mentor them in design, establishment and development of their businesses. This is what initiatives need in order to be success.

Making formal financial systems work for the poor- Leveraging existing bank branches to service the needs of migrant workers

An innovation that leverages existing banking infrastructure to offer a formal,reliable and affordable remittance service to 2 mn migrant workers across India.

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Team

FINO

団体の

団体名

FINO PayTech Limited

ウェブサイト

団体の所在国

India, MM, Mumbai

この団体が社会的なインパクトをもたらす国

India, HR, Rewari

団体の種類:

企業

運営期間

5 年超

Has the organization received awards or honors? Please tell us about them

2011

Young Global Leader Award by World Economic Forum

Mr. Manish Khera, CEO of FINO, has received the Young Global Leader (YGL) Award from the World Economic Forum.

CFO 100 Roll of Honor By CFO India magazine

Mr. Rishi Gupta - CFO, FINO has been awarded "CFO 100 Roll of Honor" - an effort to recognize the top 100 senior finance professionals in India, who have made a difference with their acumen, attitude and energy.

Skoch Financial Inclusion Award

FINO has recently been awarded, by Skoch Foundation, for it’s contribution in the financial inclusion space.

Sankalp Awards

FINO has been awarded by Sankalp – Intellecap Forum in the “Growth Enterprise” Category for its technical innovation in implementation of RSBY programme, one of the largest micro-insurance program in the world touching 30+ million customers.

2010

Manthan South Asia 2010 Award

FINO's technology solution was awarded as the Best Project in the category "e-Inclusion: Financial Inclusion at the Bottom of the Pyramid through use of Technology".

Asia Insurance Review Awards

FINO was awarded "Technology Initiative of the Year" for transforming the delivery of micro-insurance services.

Financial Times Sustainable Banking international award

FINO won Financial Times Sustainable Banking international award for 'Achievement in Banking at Base of the Pyramid' in recognition of the impact made by the company in the field of Financial Inclusion. FINO was the only nominee to be selected from India.

2009

EDGE Award

FINO was honored by EDGE (Enterprise Driving Growth & Excellence) Network in June 2009 for using Information Technology in maximizing business impact.

'Excellence in Innovation' -2nd Indira International Innovation Summit.

FINO was presented 'Excellence in Innovation' Award during the 2nd Indira International Innovation Summit.

2008

Frost & Sullivan South Asia Product Line Strategy Award

FINO was presented the Frost & Sullivan South Asia Product Line Strategy Award in 2008, in the 'Integrated Smart Cards and Biometrics Market' category.

2007

'Breakthrough Award' -17th Annual Card Tech Secure Tech 2007 conference held at San Francisco, USA.

FINO won the 'Breakthrough Award' in the New Markets Category at the 17th Annual Card Tech Secure Tech 2007 conference held at San Francisco, USA.

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Established (past the previous stages and has demonstrated success)

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1~5 年

Which of the following best describes the barrier(s) your innovation addresses? Choose up to two

Access, Cost.

The Need: What problem are you trying to solve?

In India, over 100 million migrant workers confront a significant challenge every month- how to remit their earnings to their families, back home, in a safe, timely and affordable manner. Majority of these workers do not have access to formal financial services- per an estimate, 70% of the domestic remittances, in India, flow through informal channels (cash couriers, hawala, etc.) that are unsafe, expensive and time-consuming. Workers, in several cases, end up losing their hard-earned income to unscrupulous middlemen.

FINO PayTech, through it’s innovative business model, strategic relationships, cutting-edge technology and a vast customer service network offers a safe, reliable and affordable option, for transferring funds, to migrant workers.

The Solution: What is your solution? Be specific!

FINO PayTech’s service addresses the need of migrant workers by establishing and operating a customer-friendly “frontend” of 30,000+ customer service points and utilizing innovative technology, like biometric solutions, to meet mandatory KYC norms. FINO PayTech’s remittance service leverages existing investments in backend infrastructure (technology, processes, etc.) of banks and makes it possible for migrant workers to use a formal channel which was, in the past, either difficult or not possible for them to use.

The key elements of FINO PayTech’s remittance service (strategic relationships with formal financial services providers like banks, pan-India network of 30,000+ service agents and robust & scalable technology) circumvent the barriers, faced by migrant workers, to access and avail remittance services from banks. This service allows migrant workers to safely remit funds, from an accessible customer service point and at an affordable cost.

The Model: Walk us through a specific example of how your solution makes a difference; include your primary activities

FINO PayTech’s solution consists of the following key activities/processes-

Strategic relationship with formal financial services providers (banks) - FINO PayTech leverages the services delivery infrastructure of banks to serve a hitherto under-served customer segment- migrant workers. This existing infrastructure plays a dominant role in influencing the end customer experience and is thus, key to the successful delivery of the core service.

Simplified processes - Reduced KYC norms allow FINO PayTech to enroll and service migrant workers, on behalf of banks, who may not meet standard KYC requirements for opening and operating a bank account.

Establishment and maintenance of customer service points- The customer service points, strategically located and with convenient “office hours”, offer easy access and obviate the need for migrant workers to visit the bank branches and potentially, lose half a day’s work.

Innovative technology- FINO PayTech’s smart card solution, coupled with biometrics, allows migrant workers to remit money without the need to complete cumbersome documentation every time and averting the risk of submitting incorrect recipient information by mistake.

All of the above come together to make it possible,for a migrant worker, to walk into one of FINO PayTech’s customer service points, at a time and day convenient to him/her and securely transfer funds to his/her family back home.

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 domestic remittance market, in India, is estimated to be $ 10 billion annually. Given that only about 30% of the domestic remittances are channeled through the formal sector, the primary competitor for FINO PayTech and other formal players remains the informal medium- cash couriers, hawala, etc. The market is at a very early stage of it’s development and all market expansion efforts, by formal players, especially in the area of customer awareness, would benefit the end customer and the industry as a whole.

Compared to other players,FINO PayTech’s service is differentiated in the following aspects- largest customer service network (30,000 service points), ability to transfer funds between 2 different banks as against within a single bank’s network and favorable pricing.

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Founding 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.

Dharavi, in Mumbai (India) is one of the largest slums in the world. Spread over 500 acres, Dharavi’s population is estimated to be between 600,000 and a million. Dharavi residents include migrants from all over the country- in a city where house rents are among the highest in the world, Dharavi provides a cheap and affordable option to those who move to Mumbai to earn their living.

FINO PayTech, founded in 2006, is headquartered in Mumbai, India. In the initial years, FINO PayTech was exposed to the challenges, faced by migrant workers, in availing formal financial services, while establishing customer service points and offering banking services in Dharavi. These valuable experiences lead the organization to explore the possibility of offering reliable and affordable remittance services, in partnership with banks, to migrant workers across the country.

Please describe the goal of your initiative; outline what you are trying to achieve

FINO PayTech’s goal is to offer an affordable and a reliable remittance service to over 100 million domestic migrants in India. Our objective is bring an end to the dependency that migrant workers have on informal solutions by removing the key barriers that prevent migrant workers from utilizing formal channels for meeting their remittance needs.

Given that an estimated 30% of the household consumption expenditure, in remittance receiving households, is financed by remittances, FINO PayTech appreciates the value that this service has for millions of people in India. It is this realization that continues to motivate the team to deliver a reliable service every time a customer steps into the customer service point.

Which barrier(s) to financial inclusion does your solution seek to address? (select all applicable)

Physical and other accessibility obstacles that prevent communities from reaching financial services, The lack of affordable financial products tailored to the needs of underserved and excluded communities,.

If you selected 'other' above, please specify which other barriers to financial inclusion you solution seeks to address:

For which underserved or excluded communities will your solution create access to valuable, affordable, secure and comprehensive financial services?

FINO PayTech’s remittance service is targeted at solving the challenges faced by domestic migrant workers in India. Majority of the workers who migrate to larger cities, for earning their livelihood, are less educated and belong to socially disadvantaged groups. These workers typically work in brick-kilns, unskilled construction, loading and unloading of commercial goods transport vehicles, etc. where living and working conditions leave much to be desired. A slightly well-off category of migrant workers would be working as security guards, in the hospitality industry, as domestic help and/or as plumbers and carpenters.

Since dependency on informal channels, for sending remittances, also poses a problem for the families, dependent on remittance incomes, which run the risk of not receiving the much-needed funds in time, FINO PayTech’s service has an impact on the migrant’s family members as well. Remittances enable higher spending on education, health and investments.

Could your solution work in other geographies or regions? If so, where?

FINO PayTech’s solution leverages existing banking infrastructure coupled with innovative technology and a large, customer-facing service network to serve migrant workers.

The solution has the potential of working in other geographies and regions where there has been rapid industrialization/urbanization, in recent years, leading to a large concentration of migrant workers in select cities/towns who face challenges in accessing formal financial services channels.

Our understanding is that industry players in the following countries/regions could draw learnings from our work and benefit from our experiences while addressing the unique requirements of their local markets - China, South-East Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America.

If your solution is dramatically successful, how will things be different in 10 years?

With rapid urbanization being experienced in developing countries across the world, the challenges faced by migrant workers is only beginning to be realized. To ensure long-term, sustainable economic development and to avoid social unrest, it is extremely essential, for all stakeholders, to identify and meet the needs of fellow citizens who leave their families behind for earning a living in the cities.FINO PayTech’s solution is a step in this direction.

Our solution has also demonstrated the critical value of partnerships and the active participation of various stakeholders as being absolutely essential for serving low-income customers, profitably.

In the next 10 years, the success of our solution would position us to meet the needs of the target customer and also create the blueprint, for similar efforts, not only in the area of financial services, but in other domains of social importance as well.

What will have had to have changed to make this happen?

FINO PayTech would continue to innovate in order to achieve the following- increase the footprint of it’s service network, improve the quality of it’s processes & services and offer comprehensive financial services to migrant workers through it’s existing infrastructure.

FINO PayTech would like all stakeholders to work, in a collaborative fashion, with the objective of meeting the financial as well as non-financial needs of the under-served segments. We would also encourage industry players to explore the potential of leveraging existing infrastructure (banks in our case) to serve low-income customers as against efforts to develop a parallel solution from scratch.

What has been the impact of your solution to date?

FINO PayTech's solution has, so far, made it possible for over 2 million migrant workers, across 6 states in India, to remit money to any of the 80,000+ bank branches across the country, at any point of time during the year, reliably.

Our service has lead to an estimated annual savings of USD 4 million for our customers, who were previously dependent on informal means for sending remittances to their families.

Indirectly, our service has positively impacted the lives of 8 million family members by ensuring timely receipt of funds on a regular basis. This, in the long run, is expected to lead to better outcomes in the area of education, health and overall financial well-being.

Given that remittance destinations are usually in low-income states and in under-developed regions, our service is creating stronger local economies by ensuring smooth flow of funds, throughout the year, in 5 of the least developed states in India.

What is your projected impact over the next five years?

Over the next 5 years,FINO PayTech, would like to increase the footprint of it's network and quality of it's services to serve more than 5 million migrant workers and an estimated 20 million family members across India.

What barriers might hinder the success of your project? How do you plan to overcome them?

The industry is still at a very early stage of it’s evolution. Lack of awareness, among migrant workers, about affordable and formal remittance solutions leading to the dominance of informal players is the biggest challenge facing the industry. FINO PayTech faces the same challenge.

As an industry player, FINO PayTech focuses it’s efforts on increasing customer awareness by running financial literacy campaigns, in target locations, with high concentration of migrant workers. This has resulted in an increased uptake of our services. FINO PayTech also reaches out to family members, at the remittance destinations, by making them aware of the risks of using informal channels for receiving funds.

An industry-wide initiative, with a similar objective, would benefit all stakeholders.

Winning entries present a strong plan for how they will achieve and track growth. Identify your six-month milestone for growing your impact

Improve quality of service

Identify three major tasks you will have to complete to reach your six-month milestone

タスク 1:

Financial literacy campaigns targeted at increasing awareness and establishing the right expectations among potential customers.

タスク 2:

Productivity and customer service training for channel partners managing customer service points.

タスク 3:

Improvements in technology platform.

Now think bigger! Identify your 12-month impact milestone

Increase volume of transactions

Identify three major tasks you will have to complete to reach your 12-month milestone

タスク 1:

New product innovation

タスク 2:

Identification of new target locations (remittance origination points as well as destinations)

タスク 3:

Strategic partnerships

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FINO PayTech delivers it's remittance service in collaboration with banks.

FINO PayTech acquires and services the customer per the regulatory guidelines and business processes established in consultation with the partner bank. FINO PayTech utilizes it's 30,000+ customer service points to acquire and service customers while leveraging the bank's backend infrastructure to transfer funds to over 80,000 bank branches across the country.

Are you currently targeting other specific populations, locations, or markets for your innovation? If so, where and why?

FINO PayTech first launched it’s services in major migration hubs of India- Delhi and Mumbai. The company, gradually, expanded it’s presence, in regional hubs, of both North as well as South India.

Given the concentration of economic activity and industries, in select cities, across the country, big as well as small, there is a need to explore new locations for establishing customer service points. The following cities and states are the major markets for domestic remittance services in India- Delhi, Mumbai, Hyderabad, Bihar, Uttar Pradesh, Maharashtra, Orissa, Gujarat and Madhya Pradesh.

What type of operating environment and internal organizational factors make your innovation successful?

FINO PayTech's innovative remittance service has been made possible because of a supportive regulatory environment, in India, which allows and encourages banks to partner with other organizations for increasing their reach beyond the traditional, brick & mortar branches.

As an organization, FINO PayTech, has built it's business around meeting the financial needs of under-served customers, both rural as well as urban, in India. It is this focus that encourages the organization to continuously innovate on new products and improved services delivery mechanisms while trying to unearth newer sub-segments within the larger target market.

Please elaborate on any needs or offers you have mentioned above and/or suggest categories of support that aren't specified within the list

FINO PayTech would welcome interested researchers to collaborate with it's product teams for developing and executing research projects, in specific geographies, in India, focused on assessing existing customer service levels and potential areas of innovation.FINO PayTech would also be interested in collaborating with international stakeholders in highlighting the challenges faced by migrants.

SOS SMS Helpline

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Philippines

The SOS SMS System for distressed Overseas Female Workers (OFW) is initiated and developed by CMA OFW partners in Saudi. It runs 24 hours, 7 days a week to respond reports from OFW. The SMS system is also used to ensure voting right for overseas workers.

Maid in India

Domestic helps, also known as maids form an ubiquitous part of our lives in India. We grew up with them being an integral part of our household. Given how important their role was, it was always surprising that very little was done to ensure an improvement in their standard of living.

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Indonesia

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STEM4Girls by Qeyno Labs

Qeyno Labs works with local partners and schools to bring technology-enabled career discovery into under-served classrooms using game-like rewards and mentorship from real-life professionals.

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Kalimah

Priforce

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Qeyno Labs

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団体の所在国

United States, CA, Berkeley, Alameda County

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United States, CA, Berkeley, Alameda County

Age of Innovator

18-34

Gender of Innovator

Male

団体の種類:

企業

運営期間

1~5 年

Has the organization received awards or honors? Please tell us about them

2010 Kauffman Labs finalists
2011 Echoing Green Semi-Finalists
2011 Ashoka Changemakers (Partners for STEM) - Early Entry Prize Winners
2012 Unreasonable Institute Semi-Finalists
2012 Echoing Green Semi-Finalists

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STEM4Girls by Qeyno Labs

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立ち上げ(試験的な運営を開始している)

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1~5 年

Which of the following best describes the barrier(s) your innovation addresses? Choose up to two

The Need: What problem are you trying to solve?

In 2010, 26% of US high school seniors paid private college and career consultants (Flew College Prep, Think Tank Learning, Oxford Advisors, and others) $8K to $40K. What happens to the 74%?

Counseling at the Crossroads (2011) reported that school guidance counselors, especially in urban and rural school settings lack the tools to provide college access and career readiness for all students, in part due to high caseloads and tasks that take up too much of their time.

Kids, especially under-served girls don't know what careers are possible and how to achieve them. Kids failing to connect scholastic achievement with lucrative yet challenging opportunities have zero motivation to work their butts off in higher demanding school work and short to long-term goal-setting.

The Solution: What is your solution? Be specific!

We solve this problem with a web and mobile software application called Qeyno where high school age kids can more readily discover what motivates and interests them which they can chart and share. We break down career pathways into incremental steps with guidance from mentors.

The Model: Walk us through a specific example of how your solution makes a difference; include your primary activities

Qeyno is a classroom product that uses game-like rewards to introduce young millennials to career possibilities with the help of professionals as subject-related mentors (micro-mentorship), a mission/badge achievement system, and a challenge-board where they can compete and win prizes, internships, and scholarships.

The Marketplace: Who are your peers and competitors? Identify others also working to address the needs you are and what differentiates you from them. What challenges could these players pose to your success or growth?

Our direct competitors are Alleyoop (http://alleyoop.com) a Pearson Education incubated startup, and Rocket21 (http://rocket21.com), a VC-funded stealth "social learning site” focused on tweens (and subject to data collection restrictions).

ConnectEDU (http://connectedu.com) is the current market leader for web-based college and career planning has grown to include 5 million high school and college-aged students, 2,500 high schools, 450 colleges. They recently closed a $7M equity offering led by Allen & Co.

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What solution(s) does your initiative address to better the lives of girls and women by leveraging technology? (select all applicable)

Access to education/training, Access to economic opportunity.

What has been the impact of your solution to date?

For our bootstrapped alpha build, we've curated over 300 playable content (videos & games) across 17 media partners including Google, NASA, EA, and the Girl Scouts of America.

What is your projected impact over the next 1-3 years?

We expect to release a product beta that will go out to local schools in the San Francisco Bay Area by fall 2012. Our test run will include 15 schools with 10K-15K number of students with access to Qeyno, majority of which will be girls.

What barriers might hinder the success of your project? How do you plan to overcome them?

Our biggest barrier has been pre-seed funding to advance our application's development.

Winning entries present a strong plan for how they will achieve and track growth. Identify your six-month milestone for growing your impact

Qeyno - Private Beta Launch

Identify three major tasks you will have to complete to reach your six-month milestone

タスク 1:

Raise 50,000 in Pre-Seed Funding

タスク 2:

Curate 500 playable content for 10K-15K students in 15 schools

タスク 3:

Launch the STEM Bound Channel (STEM for Black and Latino male youth)

Now think bigger! Identify your 12-month impact milestone

Qeyno - Public Beta Launch

Identify three major tasks you will have to complete to reach your 12-month milestone

タスク 1:

Raise 300,000 in Seed Funding

タスク 2:

Launch at a major technology and/or social enterprise conference

タスク 3:

1500 mentors signed up for 30,000 students in 20-25 schools

Founding 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 day my eighteen year old brother was shot and killed behind our old elementary school in Brooklyn New York, I had an argument with him. Frustrated with his lack of ambition to complete and pursue his post-high school plans, I asked him, "What do you want to do with your life? What are your dreams?"
He admitted to me that he didn't know and that it was too late for him to do anything about it. I'm essentially building the product that could have saved my brother's life.

It is why I focus specifically on 13-17 year olds because it is a critical time in a young person's life and the difference between why one brother makes it and how another doesn't has less to do with test scores and more to do with whom and what they are exposed to.

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We have garnered our content from various partners that include Google, EA, NASA, Girl Scouts of America, and others.

Please elaborate on any needs or offers you have mentioned above and/or suggest categories of support that aren't specified within the list

"VAJRA"(VESSEL DESK)-dignity to labors

The innovation has been focused to rich people since many years but nothing has been done to reduce the drudgery of working class people. through this design i have tried a little to think and work for them, so the effort had worked.
The device has got NATIONAL AWARD FROM "NATIONAL INNOVATION COUNCIL OF INDIA".
we are looking to get funding to scale and promote it to production level.
"OUR DREAM IS TO REDUCE THE DRUDGERY OF WORKERS".

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Ethnic Threads

Ethnic Threads is a new charity project, set-up with the aim of selling clothing made from traditional East African material (Kitenge),

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john

frewen

The competition is only open to people between 18-34 years-old and resident in UK, Ireland, Sweden, Denmark or the Netherlands. Does this apply to you

Yes.

Country of residence of entrepreneur

Ireland

Tell us about your personal background. Why are you passionate about this issue? Making an idea a reality takes innovation, dedication and strong leadership. Do you have the necessary entrepreneurial skills to realize your vision?

I visited Uganda last year and the most rewarding aspect was seeing the dedication and compassion Ugandan workers show, both those working in hospitals,and those working in orphanages for disabled infants who have been abandoned. Their positivity, attitude and gratitude toward life is admirable.

The most challenging aspect was having to accept the limited impact we could make during our medical elective, as we were at an early stage in med school and had little knowledge of communicable diseases. That was part of my inspiration to make a sustainable contribution to the Ugandan people. I have recruited a team, each with different educational back rounds to bring as much skill to this business venture as possible.

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団体名

Ethinic Threads

ウェブサイト

under construction

団体の所在国

Ireland, DB, dublin

この団体が社会的なインパクトをもたらす国

Uganda

団体の種類:

非営利団体

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The Need: What problem are you trying to solve?

We are constantly exposed to horrific humanitarian conditions in third world countries yet dont do much more than occasionally drop a few euro in a charity box. These contributions have gotten smaller in these recessionary times so we think offering people a product that they want combined with the feel good factor of giving to charity will create a substantial and steady revenue supply.

The Solution: What is your solution? Be specific!

We want to actively create revenue through what we believe to be a sustainable and potentially very profitable business. ( all profits will of course be traveling back to Uganda! ) We will be using a reputable charity as an intermediatry as we lack the experience and connections for this business to be fully effective.

The Model: Walk us through a specific example of how your solution makes a difference; include your primary activities

There is a huge demand for our product from the small amount of market research that we have done. As a start up we are still only in the foundation stages of setting up this company we cannot give exact examples but we plan on creating fair trade jobs in Uganda as well as supporting local products and raising awareness by association with the jackets here in Ireland

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?

At the moment we have no direct competitors, of course there are countless numbers of jacket styles on sale but none of them have our unique selling point. In terms of peers, when the company grows we would consider partnerships with different brands as part of their corporate social responsibility. for example an African style addidas jacket for the olympics 2016 (wishful thinking I know!) Our main threat would be a well known brand bringing in a line that looks like ours.

Select the stage that best applies to your business

1 年未満

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What is the social impact you have had to date and how you measure it?

We are still in talks with producers but we will fill this space soon!

What barriers might hinder the success of your business? How do you plan to overcome them?

our main barrier at the moment is accessing information but we are connecting with Lifeworks charity that operated a production business alike ours.

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How does your model address financial, social, and environmental sustainability?

By creating jobs both in the production, raw materials and logistics areas we will be helping financial stability in Uganda and by pumping our profits back (after the company is established of course) we will be creating social improvement, with the help of our nominated charity. As of yet we haven't chosen a producer or distributor so dont know their environmental abilities, but we intend on making the process as green as possible.

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How do you see social entrepreneurship contributing to the improvement of developing countries?

I think it takes more than simply rattling a box in somebodies face to raise money. Although that may help charities survive in developing countries it is not enough to improve them. Innovative ideas with a real selling point is vital to a dependable cash flow. I want to improve these peoples living standards and not settle for the bare minimum.

What aspects of your stay in Uganda as part of the competition do you think you will find most challenging and rewarding?

"Our Iinitial aim is to donate proceeds for a pilot programme of €30 jackets to Makondo Health Centre, Uganda, run by the Medical Missionaries of Mary. " This is a quote taken directly from our facebook page. I would like to be at the other end of this, its easy to just throw money at a problem but actually bring part of that problem would be an incredible experience. Although it is not the same industry as our product it is important to understand the local customs and issues of the place you are supporting.

Bridge the Gap : Project Galaxy Bazaar - A SocioEntrepreneurship Venture of Grade 11-12 Students

Galaxy Bazaar is a social entrepreneurship venture by students of Grade 11-12 of The Galaxy Education System based at Rajkot, Gujarat, India.

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The Galaxy Education System

ウェブサイト

団体の所在国

India, GJ, Rajkot

この団体が社会的なインパクトをもたらす国

India, GJ, Rajkot

団体の種類:

Non‐profit / NGO / Citizen sector organization

Your role in Education

Teacher.

The type of school(s) your solution is affiliated with

Private (tuition-based)

運営期間

5 年超

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Established (past the previous stages and has demonstrated success)

How long has your solution been in operation?

5 年超

The Need: What problem are you trying to solve?

Like every city, even my city – Rajkot has two extreme classes of people residing. I teach in a Private school where students are dropped in chauffer drive Audi car and in the same vicinity, there are children who drop out of formal school system and work as child labour trying to earn the living for the family. So there are two goals – to teach my students the business techniques so that they become creative capitalists in future and to bridge the gap in opportunity by providing education opportunity to children working as labour.

The Solution: What is your solution? Be specific!

The Solution comes in form of Project Galaxy Bazaar. A bazaar which is set by students before Diwali and money is raised based on pure business principles. Students contribute the capital, get the goods from wholesaler or retailers, rent out the venue, and market the event. A lot of hard work is put in and students face the risk of running a real business. Sponsorship is sought from various industries in the area. The net profits are donated to provide education to children who have dropped out of formal education system. The project has been carried out for the last six years taking sponsoring education of more than 450 underprivileged students
The project bridges the gap between different classes of people in the community. It also provides the privileged students a chance to help their lesser privileged counter parts.

The Model: Walk us through a specific example of how your solution makes a difference; include your primary activities

Project Galaxy Bazaar involves not only students but many members of the community in its working. It’s a Win Win Projects where various stakeholders of the society are involved – directly or indirectly. The primary activity of the students is to hone their business skills, target profit earning but keeping in mind the business ethics. This exercise plants the seeds of ethical business dealings at the impressionable age. (I am dealing with 16-18 years old.) Goods are sought from the Manufacturer or Wholesaler on ‘Sale or Return’ basis. Many new products and producers are encouraged and provided the ready platform. The Bazaar is set up before Diwali keeping in mind Diwali shopping requirements. All the goods are made available under one platform. Variety of promotional activities takes place during Bazaar days. Students run the Bazaar and after accounting for every expense, come to Net Profits. These profits are donated for education of the underprivileged children.
Galaxy Bazaar is a much awaited project in the community. The project has started in the year 2005 and six Galaxy Bazaars have already taken place with INR 8000 (Sponsoring education of 4 students) as the profit in first year to INR 700000 in the fifth and sixth year ( sponsoring education of more than 500 students) Something that was started as a simple Classroom project, Galaxy Bazaar has come a long way.

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?

My peers in this project are my students of Grade 11 and 12. ( Different set of students every year as batches change) There are many NGOs working in this area but I do not consider them as my competitors as this is the Project carried out by the students. Instead of competition, we join hands and collaborate with people or organizations who are working in the same area. For example, for two years, we teamed up with Rotary District 3060, one year with NGO Pratham etc. So I do not consider them as my competitors – I consider them as potential collaborators.

Now that you have thought out your entry, help us pitch it.

Define your company, program, service, or product in 1-2 short sentences [136 characters]

Galaxy Bazaar: Commerce in Education and Education in Commerce. A Social Venture - for the students, of the students, by the students.

Identify what is innovative about your solution in 1-2 short sentences [136 characters]

A Project which attempts to bridge the opportunity gap between privileged and lesser privileged students. It’s more than business.

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What has been the impact of your solution to date?

The impact of Galaxy Bazaar has been two fold. The first impact is on the underprivileged children who have been working as child labour. They got a chance to get the education out of the funds raised by my students. We have managed to touch lives of more than 450 children.

The second impact is on my own students. These students are future entrepreneurs. And I am glad that this project provides them with the most important lessons in business ethics and corporate social responsibility at an early age. Many Ex-students can vouch for it that GB has made them better human being and better entrepreneurs.

What is your projected impact over the next 1-3 years?

We are planning to get more involved in this project. Students will be introducing basic ICT skills to these children. We have already received a technology grant from HP which will be used to bridge the digital divide as well.
Inquiries have been received by other schools and colleges wanting to be part of this project, we can think of expanding the horizon of the market. Moreover, we introduce something new every year. Plan for the next two years is as follows :
1] Introduce Flea market where we can bridge the divide of the resources between various classes of society
2] To introduce the Online market to reach out to that segment of the society which does not manage to come physically to bazaar.

We wish to introduce underprivileged students to basic Technology skills.

What barriers might hinder the success of your project? How do you plan to overcome them?

We need to introduce some changes in Bazaar to retain the interest of the customers. Students are working on revamping the model to make it more interesting.

Winning entries present a strong plan for how they will achieve and track growth. Identify your six-month milestone for growing your impact

Introducing underprivileged students to technology skills

Identify three major tasks you will have to complete to reach your six-month milestone

タスク 1:

Design Basic ICT related curriculum for underprivileged children

タスク 2:

Arrange for buying Akash tablets for these children

タスク 3:

Prepare my students to deliver ICT training to these children

Now think bigger! Identify your 12-month impact milestone

ICT Module in its place

Identify three major tasks you will have to complete to reach your 12-month milestone

タスク 1:

Will manage to get at least 20 Akash Tablets which will be used among underprivileged children

タスク 2:

Game Based learning for Underprivileged children

タスク 3:

May be able to train and help the teacher as well

Founding 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 [125 words]

As I would come to my school in school bus everyday, I would witness two different worlds at the same time - Neo rich kids getting down the chauffeur driven expensive cars to come to school and children working as labour in the same vicinity - working at a tea stall or selling flowers or newspapers or working as labour in construction sites.
The divide in the community is astonishing and at that time the idea of Project Galaxy Bazaar sprouted in my head. I realized it is important that privileged students not only empathize but come up with a solution to this problem. What my student blows up in one day can buy a year's education for these kids and its important for privileged kids to know it. I am sure the students who have been part of Galaxy Bazaar will always think of generating employment for lesser privileged people in the society when they will grow up to be big entrepreneurs. I wanted to mold 'CREATIVE CAPITALIST' who thinks beyond their own profits.

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In this venture, students enter into two types of partnerships.
1] Partnership among 120 students - a Win Win is drafted as Partnership Deed
2] Partnership between students and suppliers
Moreover, we work in partnership with NGOs like Rotary, Pratham etc. to better utilization of our hard earned money.

What type of team (staff, volunteers, etc.) will ensure that you achieve the growth milestones identified in the Social Impact section? [75 words]

As mentioned earlier, the team working for this project consist of Project Co-ordinator (i.e. me) and my team of 120 students. Together we are responsible for achieving the above mentioned goals. Many times, ex-students too provide their services for better functioning of the event.

We have Rotary members helping us to reach out to these children and fulfilling our goals.

Please elaborate on any needs or offers you have mentioned above and/or suggest categories of support that aren't specified within the list

Need :
1] We need to expand and if any other school is interested in the Project, we can set up the Bazaar in other town, city, state or country to raise the money for educating underprivileged children in our vicinity.
2] Generous and consistent sponsorship from any corporate body would help us grow.My students can work for these corporates to compensate for their help.

VerdraaidGoed!

VerdraaidGoed! creates playful sustainable products out of (industrial) waste materials, produced by people with work disabilities.

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Lisanne

Addink

The competition is only open to people between 18-34 years-old and resident in UK, Ireland, Sweden, Denmark or the Netherlands. Does this apply to you

Yes.

Country of residence of entrepreneur

The Netherlands

Tell us about your personal background. Why are you passionate about this issue? Making an idea a reality takes innovation, dedication and strong leadership. Do you have the necessary entrepreneurial skills to realize your vision?

Sustainability
Mankind gets more and more out of touch with nature. We created industrial systems that pollute the planet we live on, we create products that result into unusable waste and we see animals and nature as just another industry.
As tomorrow’s designer I do not want to play a role in this. I want to be part of the movement that reverses this trend; I want a more sustainable society. Sustainability in itself, however, is nothing. Sustainability should be a ‘verb’, it’s a way of living, a way of choosing. And I am the one who can choose. I can choose not to create rubish, but create eco-friendly products and avoid wastage. Sustainability is part of everything and I want it to play a dominant role in my life. I want to live a conscientious life myself and I would like to inspire others as well to choose for a more sustainable way of behaving and living.

Contribution
Already during my studies I actively tried doing this, by founding the Delft Technical University(TU) "Sustainability Committee" for example. This committee – full of students I had motivated – looked for ‘unsustainabilities’ within the TU itself and helped the TU to overcome those. With this initiative I won the WNF sustainability Award, which included an entry ticket to the most untouched place on earth: Antarctica!
Furthermore, I also decided to start publishing Osiris Magazine, a magazine about all kinds of sustainability initiatives on and around the Delft TU. I was a board member of the Sustainability Platform of the Delft TU.
I was also assistant on the TiDo - Techniek in Duurzame ontwikkeling (Engeneering in Sustainable Development) annotation and co-organizer of the TiDo bootweek. I was the initiator and organizer of the 1st edition of the Delft Sustainability Event and I was the vice chairperson of the TU Delft Energy Club.

Development Aid
In the past I also gainded experience in the field of developing aid. It feels good to help others who are less fortunate and under educated, but I also see that it’s really difficult to decide what ‘helping’ really is.In my opinion spreading knowledge is the best thing you can do. Important however is to know the country and to understand the way people think and live, before you can trully contribute. My main conclusion is that good development aid is often very difficult because of the social difference between countries. The problems are too complex to address from behind your desk in The Netherlands, so I believe one should have lived in the country for a considerable number of yearperiod of time before being fully able to make meanigful contributions and add true value.

As a matter of fact, I live in the Netherlands for 26 years now and I think our country can use some ‘development aid’ as well. Especially in the field of showing respect and love to nature, animals and each other, improvements can be made. Therefore I would like to work on ‘development aid’ in my own country. I do this by means of VerdraaidGoed!, the company I founded.

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団体名

VerdraaidGoed!

ウェブサイト

団体の所在国

Netherlands, UT, Zeist

この団体が社会的なインパクトをもたらす国

Netherlands, XX, The whole country

団体の種類:

企業

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The Need: What problem are you trying to solve?

Each year - within the European Union - three billion tons of waste is being produced.... In the Netherlands alone this is 60 million tons each year. Greenhouse gas emissions and air-, water- and soil pollution are the result of this large amount of waste and its processing. This is detrimental to the environment and human health. Even the more responsible ways of processing waste, like recycling, still have a negative impact on the environmen as energy is needed for processing waste, and parts of waste will ultimatedly end up in the environment. Moreover, part of our waste is even exported to developing countries for processing, often under very polluting and unhealty conditions. Therefore VerdraaidGoed! takes on the battle against waste by reusing it through upcycling on a large scale!

The Solution: What is your solution? Be specific!

“It's not waste until you waste it!” VerdraaidGoed! likes to keep things simple and positive. Industrial waste is reused directly as raw material to make good products. The direct reuse of waste not only saves material, it also saves energy by avoiding recycling.
The products are based on available waste streams and the characteristics of these materials. So when designing a product, we let us get inspired by the shape and features of
the waste materials and make no or very limited adjustment. As a result, the energy needed for making the products is kept to a bare minimum. All products are manufactured at sheltered/social workshops in the Netherlands, where people with work disabilities get a chance to work and participate in society. Therefore, VerdraaidGoed! not only reduces waste, it also avoids the harmful effects of long distance transportation, provides work for a disadvantaged group within our community, and ensures all products are made under good working conditions.

The Model: Walk us through a specific example of how your solution makes a difference; include your primary activities

We always start with the question: “Which waste materials are available?” And then, “What can we create with it?” For the Tof-hee, a fun 5-in1 game set, we got inspired by different waste materials. Small aluminium arts with the size and shape of a coin, direct by-products of the manufacturing of truck components, would be great as checkers. Residual pieces of fabric from the furniture industry is used to make rollable game boards. And with laces from a warehouse, which were no longer used, we could button up the game board with the checkers in it so it looks like a toffee. A prototype is made and the Tof-hee's are manufactured by people at a Sheltered workshop. Instead of all these materials ending up in waste processing, we make these useful again by creating a product which people still can enjoy for many years! And moreover, stimulated greater Social Responsibility awarenss of those using our product!

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?

VerdraaidGoed! as Social Entrepreneur is a "niche" player in the Netherlands in the area upcycling and the re-use of industrial material and resources, where creativity and exclusively working with social work places take centre stage. The "social" component and the "sustainability" element play a critical role throughout the value-chain, from acquiring the waste material, production, storage, logistics, sales & marketing to delivery

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What is the social impact you have had to date and how you measure it?

Realistically speaking, it is early days to make claims on impact considering the fact that we only launched late 2011. However, initial evidence based on feedback from the many parties we have initiated things with and have worked with, looks very promising, underpinning the potential in terms of generating the aspired large scale social impact.

Also in terms of media attention, invitations for participation in various competions for young social entrepreneurs and in various seminars and conferences have also offered a useful early opportunity for a "reality"-check! Feedback and attention has been very positive and motivating, and have also give very valuable input in to working towards furture success...

What barriers might hinder the success of your business? How do you plan to overcome them?

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Economics crisis: in an effort of the government to reduce public spent, production capability/capacity of social workplaces is under presure, with potential shutdown of some of the social work places. One way to address this, is for us to set up lean & mean social workplace ourselves of with one of our partners, where we could offer those social workplaces - that are under threat - work for the same people on secondment-basis.

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How does your model address financial, social, and environmental sustainability?

This long-term plan is still under development. The experience gained at the early stages of start-up is providing direct input into this plan. This was a trade off.... We took a consious decision to use the window of opportunity to make a timely launch against the backdrop of the worsening economic climate and call for practical and pragmatic sustainable action in a truly social fashion, rather than delaying this for the sake of completing our long-term plan.
In the meantinme it has also become clear that we need the short to medium term success to sustain long term finacial security.

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How do you see social entrepreneurship contributing to the improvement of developing countries?

I think that 2-way learning is the most important thing. We should not think that the developing countries have the problems and the western countries have the answers. We all live on the same planet and we both face problems that we should solve by cooperating and learning from each other. We should share our knowledge and continuously look for ways to reinforce each other.

What aspects of your stay in Uganda as part of the competition do you think you will find most challenging and rewarding?

What I think is really interesting for me, is to see what kind of creative reuse ideas people in Uganda came up with. In developing countries reuse is much more common and you can find very inspiring examples there! I think I can learn a lot from them. I think I will bring inspiration and knowledge back home, that will stimulate the design of new VerdraaidGoed! products. On the other hand I hope to inspire the people over there that are still dumping there waste. You still see, that in developing countries a lot of waste ends up on the streets because there are no good waste treatment facilities. If I can show them the value of waste, they will hopefully be motivated to turn trash into treasure more and more.

Eurasia Foundation of Central Asia

場所

Bishkek
Kyrgyzstan

Improving the Lives of People with Disabilities.Improving the Quality of Higher Education,Labor Migration Program,Media Development,Cross-Border Youth Cooperation,Youth Rights, Inclusion and Political Engagement

People's Corp - Screw Profit

Publicly owned, not-for-profit retail stores with food and everyday products.

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Peter

Petrovcic

The competition is only open to people between 18-34 years-old and resident in UK, Ireland, Sweden, Denmark or the Netherlands. Does this apply to you

Country of residence of entrepreneur

UK

Tell us about your personal background. Why are you passionate about this issue? Making an idea a reality takes innovation, dedication and strong leadership. Do you have the necessary entrepreneurial skills to realize your vision?

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団体名

ウェブサイト

団体の所在国

United States

この団体が社会的なインパクトをもたらす国

Slovenia, Kranj

団体の種類:

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The Need: What problem are you trying to solve?

I want that people themslefs are getting involved intp changing the way profit is shared.
Whith my concept we can help those close and below powerty with more accesible (chepaer) everyday products and we can also help to our local community producers to keep them running and employing.

The Solution: What is your solution? Be specific!

My idea is that we have to create totally new and our own (peoples) economy, such an economy that will be independent from existing corporations that are profit driven. It is even not so difficult. We just have to do it.. Every local community should establish new not-for-profit company with as much people possible as founders with small shares. Imagine, in Slovenia we have only 2 mio population, if 500.000 of them would participate 50 EUR a company with 25 mio EUR capital is born.
This new Peoples Corp. should has priorities. First to help those living under or close to the line of poverty. A small, simple retail shops can be established easily where product would be sold with no or very little margin. Second priority is that majority of the products should be purchased only from local community producers - this will help keeping them alive and create more jobs.

The Model: Walk us through a specific example of how your solution makes a difference; include your primary activities

Invite all people to participate in collecting funds to found a company. Everybody becomes shareholder.
Company establish very simple/basic retail stores for every-day products that every family need. First company source the product from local producer and opreate with MINIMUM gross margin. Later company can start also with production of certain products and also create jobs.
Because gross margin will be at minunum level, such retaile stores will offer bread, pasta and similar every day products/food for much affordable price then current retailers. This will help to the poor people.

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?

Market are all people with under average family incomes. No competitors yet at this level.

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What is the social impact you have had to date and how you measure it?

Project is not yet active. It can heve huge impact on the way how we see economy.

What barriers might hinder the success of your business? How do you plan to overcome them?

Those with capital and profit interest can undermine the project and fight with it not to happen. Strong community can overcome this.
Lack of startup capital to present the project to public in a way that it will offer a trustfull model. We are searching for a startup investor to prepare all the marketing materials in a proper way.

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How does your model address financial, social, and environmental sustainability?

We will not be a profit driven organisation. Gross margin on a products level will only cover the organisational costs.

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How do you see social entrepreneurship contributing to the improvement of developing countries?

It is the only type of business htat can help to solve all those issues.

What aspects of your stay in Uganda as part of the competition do you think you will find most challenging and rewarding?

I can't wait to hear all those great ideas that will be spoken there.

Indigenous Health & Safety for YOUth

Many young Indigenous people in the province of Manitoba injure themselves each year. SAFE Workers of Tomorrow (SWOT) knows this thanks to the stories and experiences that are shared with us throughout the presentations we deliver. For that reason, we feel it is important to develop and deliver programming to the Indigenous youth of the province, to provide them with enough tools to become active players in changing the perspectives of Indigenous youth, and indeed the entire Indigenous community around the importance of occupational health and safety.

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自己紹介

Michael

Redhead Champagne

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northendmc

About You, Your Group, or Your Organization

Name

SAFE Workers of Tomorrow

Country

Canada, MB

Please confirm that this project could benefit First Nations, Métis and Inuit Peoples

Yes

Twitter の URL

Youtube URL

What categories best describe who your group or organization serves (check all that apply)

First Nations, Métis and Inuit people, その他.

What best describes your group or organization

Non-profit organization.

How long have you, your group, or your organization been operating?

5 年超

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Name Your Project.

Indigenous Health & Safety for YOUth

Tell us the story of your idea or project

Many young Indigenous people in the province of Manitoba injure themselves each year. SAFE Workers of Tomorrow (SWOT) knows this thanks to the stories and experiences that are shared with us throughout the presentations we deliver. For that reason, we feel it is important to develop and deliver programming to the Indigenous youth of the province, to provide them with enough tools to become active players in changing the perspectives of Indigenous youth, and indeed the entire Indigenous community around the importance of occupational health and safety.

The developer of this initiative (Cree from Shamattawa, Manitoba) is the Indigenous Liaison at SWOT and the idea came to him as a result of being exposed to other forms of cultural integration, and noting how much more effective those presentation styles were when presenting to Aboriginal learners. In personal experiences as a youth, he was not exposed to culture, and was not proud of his own heritage. As an adult, learning about the strengths that are inherent within his Indigenous culture have enabled him to do great things. Once this was realized and other, smaller community initiatives became successful, this application and integration of cultural teachings in all aspects of health and safety seemed natural.

Upone experiencing the delivery of Health and Safety presentations to ABoriginal learners, it was apparent that adapting the presentation slightly to include cultural elements increased the level of engagement during presentations. This small observation was looked into more, partners were approached and the initial experiment of developing an Indigenous Health & Safety presentation for youth was initiated.

We know that this approach is effective because of the feedback that we have received from the groups who have received such a presentation. The youth feel proud of their ancestry, and can now articulate and share those helpful cultural elements to their peers, even if they work in a non-Aboriginal environment. Thus far, the stories have encouraged us to try and develop this resource more fully.

Define your idea / project in 1-2 short sentences

Equip and inspire Indigenous youth to take an active role in sharing elements of our culture to improve the health and safety of current & future generations.

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Please tell us about the social impact of your idea or proect

Your Future Goal(s): Tell us what you hope to achieve with your idea or project in the next year

Develop this into a permanent initiative that is established, yet flexible enogh, to meet the needs of MB Aboriginal youth.

In 5 years, what will be different as a result of your idea/project?

There will be a reduction in the number of youth that are injured in the workplace. There will also be a dramatic decline in the number of workplace fatalities. Also, we want young Aboriginal workers to feel confident in their culture, and are able to share elements of it for the betterment of their entire workplaces and communities. We hope that the young leaders that are engaged in this early stage of the project can remain connected to us, and share their successes and challenges.

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Tell us about the people/ partnerships that are already involved and why they are important to your idea or project.

MB Federation of Labour - Occupational Health Centre: We are working with their coordinator, previously of Ningwanuk Mesquajese (Wings of Change) a similair, more in depth program for adults. They are sharing their past successes and challenges to help guide this initiative.
Children of the Earth High School: Have agreed to welcome us as the project develops. They hosted the very first experimental Indigenous presentation
RB Russell High School: students from the Graphic Arts vocational class designed the images and concept for Hand out material for the Indigenous presentations
Individuals: Several community elders and Aboriginal workers have offered their experiences and expertise in ensuring the content is relevant, and respectful of community protocol.

If there are other people/partners that you will reach out to tell us who they are and why they will be important to your idea or project.

We will be reaching out into the future to School Divisions and Aboriginal workers and young people to further develop the project. The school divisions will be important because their advocacy will enable us to deliver the presentations in a uniform way across a specific geographic region in Manitoba. The individual Aboriginal workers will be important as their experiences and expertise will guide the details of what the content of the presentation will be. The young Aboriginals will be integral to inform us on HOW to deliver the presentations. Also, volunteer speakers from the specific community will be helpful to increase relevance on a case by case basis.

Describe the kinds of support you receive (other than money) or will need to support your idea or project (e.g.: donated, space, equipment and volunteers)

We will need each group receiving a presentation to host, organize attendees and advertise the events in their own way. We will also be establishing 2 groups to guide the initiative, one that provides expertise from Aboriginal workers, and a second that receives recommendations from the Aboriginal Youth interested in helping design ad guide the initiative. We will also be recruiting individuals that have fluency in Aboriginal languages (Ojibwe, Cree & others) to further increase how messages can be delivered to groups that are not fluent in English. We will also rely heavily on these organizations and groups to refer our presentation to their networks, in a relationship based and personalized manner.

Do you currently have funding for your idea or project?

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Mobile Voices: A Mobile, Open Source, Popular Communication Platform for First-Generation Immigrants in Los Angeles

Mobile Voices appropriates technology to create power in marginalized communities and participate in the digital public sphere.

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Pedro Joel

Espinosa

Twitter の URL

Facebook の URL

団体の

団体名

Instituto de Educación Popular del Sur de California

ウェブサイト

団体の所在国

United States, CA

この団体が社会的なインパクトをもたらす国

United States

団体の種類:

非営利団体

運営期間

5 年超

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Mobile Voices: A Mobile, Open Source, Popular Communication Platform for First-Generation Immigrants in Los Angeles

あなたのソリューションに最もあてはまる段階を選択してください:

確立(成功)

運営期間を選択してください。

1~5 年

ニーズ: あなたのソリューションのニーズと、働きかけるコミュニティの規模/活動について説明してください。

"Digital media and learning" invokes "digital natives" who have grown up with computers, broadband internet, and high-end mobile phones. Mobile Voices speaks to a different group: marginalized communities who lack access to digital technology but would like to transform their own realities and participate meaningfully in the digital realm. Low-wage immigrant workers and community members are left voiceless in many of the most important debates of our times: immigration reform, health care, poverty, housing rights, juvenile justice system, the economic crisis, among other topics. These communities are among those most affected by policy decisions, but are too often completely excluded from the debate. Furthermore, day laborers in Los Angeles (and elsewhere) are frequently represented in the media, often negatively, they are almost never the architects of their own stories. A key aspect of the Mobile Voices project is empowering workers to voice their own narratives about themselves and their community.

ソリューション: ソリューションが提供する内容と、それがいかに革新的であるかを説明してください。そのソリューションを利用者または受益者に届ける方法を具体的に説明してください。

Mobile Voices is a popular communication platform that helps low-wage immigrants in Los Angeles gain increased media and technology skills for community building and public participation by using mobile phones to create, share, and reflect on stories about their lives and communities. As participants use cell phones to depict their lives, share ideas and information, and comment on each other's work, they learn to be citizen journalists creating community media. This digital media is also a source for a printed community newspaper, thereby fostering further opportunities for self-representation and reflection. Through participating in Mobile Voices, immigrant families learn to choose an appropriate phone and plan for their budget and needs; to navigate the various features of the phone, including SMS, MMS, and camera; and to use an online platform that heightens and creates community as members post, share, and comment on their digital content. They are drawn to learning computer use, as they want to edit the stories they sent from their phone. Participatory learning is achieved as workers join together in both formal and informal sessions that involve hands-on learning of phone functionalities, computer keyboards, basic Internet skills, and social software. An open source platform is a crucial element of Mobile Voices because participants in the project have direct input into software development and user interface design, and because the software we develop becomes available to others who might wish to use it.

モデル: あなたのソリューションでは、どのように IT やメディアを利用して変化を起こすのか、具体例を挙げてください。

IDEPSCA's Popular Education methodology coupled with Mobile Voices' complementary popular communication approach is helping to build a process of reflection, dialogue, and action within immigrant worker communities and to develop alternative, community-based media outlets in Los Angeles County. IDEPSCA incorporates Mobile Voices as a popular communication vehicle to bridge the technological gap that continues to marginalize the immigrant community. It creates a space for immigrant workers to share their stories, learn about their rights, counteract negative stories that are written about them, document human rights abuses as well as to highlight their own humanity. For example, IDEPSCA's families participate in various conferences, marches, and actions to raise awareness about discriminatory anti-immigration policies and rhetoric. Through the Mobile Voices platform, supporters have used their cell phones to take photos, audio, and video recordings at these different events, upload them to the Mobile Voices website, and then spread the word about the mobilization to their friends, family, and communities.

市場: あなたの仲間と競争相手について教えてください。

Mobile Voices promotes peer-to-peer learning. The Mobile Voices model is designed from top to bottom to be easily replicable, and to be shared, modified, and used by others. Our workshop curriculum and training materials will be made freely available under a creative commons license; our content management system and other software we develop are all licensed under the GPL as Free and Open Source Software, and our code is available for download at code.vozmob.net; the stories published on the Mobile Voices site are all licensed as Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike-Noncommercial. In addition, the Mobile Voices project has already begun to offer hands-on training, workshops, and software customization support to other community based organizations interested in replicating our model.

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創設のストーリー: このアイデアを「ピン!」とひらめいたときの状況を教えてください。このソリューションについて、世界を変えることができるという可能性を見出した場所や時期を具体的に説明してください。

Co-founding members Amanda Garcés and Sasha Constanza-Schock both come from a popular communication background and Mobile Voices was created out of an ongoing, two-year effort to use Communication for Social Change methodology to analyze the political, technical, and organizing needs of innovative multiethnic media projects controlled by low-wage immigrant workers in Los Angeles. This participatory communication project has been focused on, first, strengthening internal, intragroup, and external communication channels among Los Angeles' low-wage immigrant populations, second, developing specific and appropriate technology solutions in this context, and third, carefully documenting the research process and the tools developed in order to make them available to others for adaptation and local re-use. Our project team's initial research, supported by the SSRC's Small Collaborative Grants program in 2007, mapped the communication ecology of low-wage immigrant worker organizations in LA and, through interviews, surveys, and a participatory production workshop, identified audio (radio and
CD) and mobile phones as the two most important communication tools for the community partners.

現時点における、このソリューションの社会的なインパクトの深さと規模を具体的に示してください。

IDEPSCA's Popular Education methodology coupled with Mobile Voices' complementary popular communication approach is helping to build a process of reflection, dialogue, and action within immigrant worker communities and to develop alternative, community-based media outlets in Los Angeles County and across the United States. To create community change, IDEPSCA has partnered with several organizations to document and circulate the crucial education, organizing, and advocacy work happening in Southern California. Our partner organizations already include the Los Angeles Community Action Network, the Southern California Library, Youth Justice Coalition, and we are in the process of creating partnerships with the Vermont Workers Solidarity Project, Conexion Comunitaria, Media Lieteracy Project, Unidad Latina en Accion, Media Mobilizing Project and East Los Angeles Community Corporation.

今後 1~5 年以内に、どのようなインパクトが予想されますか。あなたのアイデアは第三者が活用できるものですか。活用できる場合、それはどのような方法ですか。

The Mobile Voices model is designed from top to bottom to be easily replicable, and to be shared, modified, and used by others. Our workshop curriculum and training materials will be made freely available under a creative commons license; our content management system and other software we develop are all licensed under the GPL as Free and Open Source Software, and our code is available for download at code.vozmob.net; the stories published on the Mobile Voices site are all licensed as Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike-Noncommercial. In addition, the Mobile Voices project has already begun to offer hands-on training, workshops, and software customization support to other community based organizations interested in replicating our model.

実現および成長に向けて強力な計画を提示できたプロジェクトが入賞します。インパクトを拡大するための 6 か月後の目標を提示してください。

Participating workers will help Mobile Voices grow and also expand to other organizations across the Los Angeles region.

タスク

タスク 1:

Technology: upgrade our codebase to Drupal 7; develop an install profile to facilitate adoption of our code by other organizatio

タスク 2:

Organizing: extend the funding for our community organizer beyond 2011, in order to continue project growth and integration with

タスク 3:

Training: complete our popular communication curriculum, provide hands-on workshops both internally and for other community base

ここでさらに大きな目標を立てましょう。インパクトを実現するための 12 か月後の目標を提示してください。

Participating workers will help Mobile Voices grow and also expand to other organizations across the United States.

タスク

タスク 1:

Upgrade our codebase to Drupal 8; develop an install profile to facilitate adoption of our code by other organizations; improve

タスク 2:

Organizing: extend the funding for our community organizer beyond 2012, in order to continue project growth and integration with

タスク 3:

Training: our popular communication curriculum will be used to provide hands-on workshops both internally and for other communit

あなたのプロジェクトは何人にインパクトを与えましたか。 この人数は選考には影響しません。単にイノベーションが現在どの段階まで進んでいるのかを把握することが目的です。[次の中から選択してください]

1,001 - 10,000

次に、今後 3 年間でこのプロジェクトは何人にインパクトを与えることができますか。

10,000 人超

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あなたの会社、プログラム、サービス、または商品の構成について説明してください。

非営利団体

これまで、プロジェクトを成功させるうえでどのような問題が妨げになりましたか。ソリューションが拡大していくに従い、その問題や他の課題をどのように乗り越えましたか。

One major setback to the project could be a lack of participation; if this occurs we need to develop strategies for recruiting new members as we evaluate obstacles to participation. We would have to ascertain whether waning participation is due to lack of interest, time, or understanding. Another potential obstacle is resistance to technological appropriation and innovation. A main focus of this collaborative effort is to open avenues of digital participation for individuals who might have low levels of technological literacy. In order to keep the project truly participatory, we must ensure that all tools are intuitive, user-friendly, accessible, and affordable.

今後 10 年間で、IT とメディアの世界はどのように移り変わっていくと思いますか。変化し続ける環境を反映するために、あなたのソリューションはどのように適応していく予定ですか。あなたのソリューションがその変化を推し進めるものである場合、どのようにして推し進めますか。

The fastest-growing means for accessing news and information is the mobile device. Fifty-six percent of all mobile device users, and 47 percent of the population, now use them to get local news via an Internet connection. Over the next decade mobile media will be the primary means of accesing information and the Mobile Voices platform promotes the appropiration of technology by marginalized communities to consume less and instead start creating their own media.

すすんで失敗を選ぶ人はいないでしょうが、今後 2 年間であなたのソリューションで思うような効果が出せなかった場合、他にアイデアを応用できる可能性はありますか。

We are living within one of the most difficult economic and fundraising climates so it is difficult to advance our work if we solely depend on foundation grants. That is why we expect that our innovative model will continue to attract interest from private foundations, public media initiatives, and some private sector firms, as it has in the past. At the same time, we will be moving to implement earned income strategies, for example through training and software installation and customization, as well as grassroots fundraising activities, in order to reduce our dependence on grants.

1. あなたの選択した計画を拡大させ、経済的に維持する方法を説明してください。

Mobile Voices will be moving to implement earned income strategies, for example through training and software installation and customization, as well as grassroots fundraising activities, in order to reduce our dependence on grants.

あなたのパートナーシップについて教えてください:

We have shared the VozMob tools and platform with the Los Angeles Community Action Network. Through workshops based in IDEPSCA's popular education approach workshops have been co-lead by all Mobile Voices members where we also share multi-cultural experiences. Thanks to our affiliations and partnerships VozMob now hosts a wide selection of stories ranging from stories about work and labor created from IDEPSCA’s Job Centers to stories about demanding justice and equality for youth of color.

どのような種類のチーム(スタッフ、ボランティアなど)によって、「社会的なインパクト」セクションで記入した成長の目標を達成しますか。

The Popular Communication Team (PCT), a group of volunteer day laborers and household workers devoted to using popular communication for social change, has been involved in conceptualizing and piloting the platform, and now produces a continuous stream of multimedia content. Recently, the team has started teaching others in and outside of their communities how to use it, building the local storytelling and information-sharing network.

チェンジメーカーズは、協力とサポートが生まれる空間です。あなたのイニシアチブを成長させ、維持するために必要なコミュニティ リソースを指定してください。[あてはまるものをすべて選択してください]

投資, 人的資源/才能, 調査/情報, コラボレーション/ネットワーキング, イノベーション/アイデア, メンター.

あなたが他のイニシアチブをサポートするために提供できるリソースを指定してください。[あてはまるものをすべて選択してください]

人的資源/才能, 調査/情報, コラボレーション/ネットワーキング, イノベーション/アイデア, メンター.

上記のニーズまたはサービスについて詳しくご記入ください。また、リストで指定しなかったサポートのカテゴリについてご提案ください。

Mobile Voices embraces a notion of participatory learning shaped by Paolo Freire's concept of education as a transformative endeavor, where reflection, action, and dialogue produce shared understanding as well as individual and collective transformation. Mobile Voices brings together day laborers, popular communication practitioners, university researchers, and open source software developers in the design and deployment of a low-cost, mobile, multimedia platform that promotes everyday sharing and dialogue. Mobile Voices facilitates participatory learning from across different collaborators and supportive spaces.

要約

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あなたの会社、プログラム、サービス、または商品の構成について、短く 1~2 行にまとめてください。

Mobile Voices is a platform for marginalized communities in Los Angeles to create stories about their lives using cell phones.

ソリューションがどのように革新的であるかを短く 1~2 行にまとめてください。

Mobile Voices appropriates technology to create power in marginalized communities and participate in the digital public sphere.

Positive-Media, saved more than 15,000 people from suicide

POSITIVE solutions for suicidal thoughts are created from 200 evidences by those who overcame suicide.

自己紹介

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自己紹介

Ryuichi

Okita

Twitter の URL

団体の

団体名

POSi-MEDiA

ウェブサイト

団体の所在国

Japan, XX

この団体が社会的なインパクトをもたらす国

Japan, XX

団体の種類:

企業

運営期間

1~5 年

プロフィール情報(興味、団体情報、ウェブサイトなど)に空欄がある場合、ここで入力した情報が該当の欄にコピーされます。連絡先情報が公開されることはありません。情報をコピーしたくない場合は、このチェックボックスをオフにしてください。.

イノベーション

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役職

Positive-Media, saved more than 15,000 people from suicide

あなたのソリューションに最もあてはまる段階を選択してください:

拡大中(次のステップで、地域または世界規模でインパクトを拡大させる予定)

運営期間を選択してください。

1~5 年

ニーズ: あなたのソリューションのニーズと、働きかけるコミュニティの規模/活動について説明してください。

POSi-MEDiA (Positive Media) is a first place to access for people who are suffering from problems such as suicide thoughts, bullying, debt problems, and violence. We provide a website called “Iki-tech” to find the solution to these issues. (Iki-tech is a Japanese coined word meaning for Techniques to Live On)
"Iki-tech" is one of the key projects of Positive-Media. It is a service for those who are having suicidal thoughts. The annual number of suicides in Japan is 32,000. Meanwhile, we’ve saved more than 15,000 people from suicide with this website in the last three and half year.
"Iki-tech" website compile database and publish the techniques to live on: show alternatives or solutions to suicide. These techniques are obtained through exhaustive interviews to more than 200 people who overcame suicide.
We hope that this database will be more enhanced so that it could be provided to other serious issues and to be globally shared too.

ソリューション: ソリューションが提供する内容と、それがいかに革新的であるかを説明してください。そのソリューションを利用者または受益者に届ける方法を具体的に説明してください。

Here is an example of the media being used in a negative way. In Japan, the number of suicide increases commensurately when the mass media constantly report on crimes and suicides. Our purpose is to increase the number of solution by increasing positive news, therefore we think it is more important to focus on solution, not the problem. There are many websites dealing about suicide in Japan but there is no other website that is showing the solution simply.
“Iki-tech” is our representative project website. Here, we’ve created eight kinds of distress such as love, overwork, illness, bullying, bereavement, violence, debt, and others. To these problems there are eight categories of solution methods:
1) Literature ex) encounter a good book that give you hope to live
2) Physical ex) to physically train yourself to become stronger
3) Changing Circumstances or Residence
4) Studying ex) to find a deep enthusiasm to study, which can set your suicidal thoughts aside
5) Communication ex) to communicate and meet different people who can bring hope to you
6) Changing Job
7) Solved by Time
8) Legal Protections ex) to learn about legal protections available, such as to those in debt problems.
These methods for solution are created through interviewing to those people who also were once on the brink of committing suicide, but overcame their suicidal thoughts. This makes it easier for people to find the survival techniques that suits him/herself most.

モデル: あなたのソリューションでは、どのように IT やメディアを利用して変化を起こすのか、具体例を挙げてください。

In Japan, when you search the word “suicide” on the Internet, you will easily find hundreds of different ways to commit suicide. We wanted our people to find the “techniques to live on” not the “techniques to commit suicide.” Hence, we put much greater importance on SEO and search engines. As a result, now when people look up “suicide” on Google, our “Iki-tech” website is shown on the first three results.
On the other hand, we made many newsworthiness performances to raise the profile of “Iki-tech”; intending to attract attention from such media as Twitter and Facebook. For example, we’ve designed 100 different types of T-shirts with words that will reduce the desire to suicide. In this event, 100 volunteers wore these shirts and literally took over the train and the city. As a result, “Iki-tech” was featured in TV shows, magazine, news paper, and received a very famous award. We succeeded in raising our profile in a very short term.
For the future, we are going to use various kinds of social media to gain more recognition and to increase access number of our blog and website.

市場: あなたの仲間と競争相手について教えてください。

We already have a system called "Hot Line for Life" (provided by Federation of Inochi No Denwa,Inc.) in Japan but it’s not functioning because the line is so crowded and when people try to make a call to this hot line, they can catch the counselor only once in five calls. We also have telephone counseling by social workers but it also doesn't function enough because they can't provide solutions, they could only listen to them. On the other hand, “Iki-tech” can provide various effective solutions shared from many suicide survivors, twenty-four-hour, anytime you want.
Though, we still need to work on increasing our websites recognition because “Hot Line for Life” is more known.

社会的なインパクト

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創設のストーリー: このアイデアを「ピン!」とひらめいたときの状況を教えてください。このソリューションについて、世界を変えることができるという可能性を見出した場所や時期を具体的に説明してください。

When I was working as a Marketing planner & advertising art director I was worried about a feeling I had. “Am I really contributing to this world?”
One night, I was in the office alone, and this project came up to my head. I knew that this could reform the society.
Back then, I myself was mentally worn out too. Therefore, I was able to regard this as a problem of my own. I was sure that my Project could change the world.

現時点における、このソリューションの社会的なインパクトの深さと規模を具体的に示してください。

Between 1/1/2008 and 11/9/2011, 15,771 people “decided to quit suicide” by viewing our “Iki-tech” website. In many cases there are close friends and families to suicide victims. We suppose that there are about 10 people deeply related to one suicide victim, and from this number we can calculate that 15,771 ×10=approximately 150,000 people did not have to suffer from psychological distress and from economic hardship.
Further out, in a country where there are 30,000 suicide victims, the effect to the GDP is said to be minus one trillion yen. Thus, when 15,000 people stopped him/ herself from committing suicide, it means that five hundred billion yen has been protected against GDP losses.
In a different project called “The Heavens Passport”, 150 thousand young people were concerned in it and made an act to do a hundred nice things to make the world better. This became a social phenomenon. As a result, we succeed to effectively control young people’s problematic behaviour.
*Reference: http://www.crs.or.jp/backno/old/No553/5532.htm

今後 1~5 年以内に、どのようなインパクトが予想されますか。あなたのアイデアは第三者が活用できるものですか。活用できる場合、それはどのような方法ですか。

If we can build a system that will automatically ask for the headquarters approval, this project could be expanded in to the international arena by third party.

実現および成長に向けて強力な計画を提示できたプロジェクトが入賞します。インパクトを拡大するための 6 か月後の目標を提示してください。

Increase 50 case studies about “Iki-tech (Techniques to Live On)”by utilizing social media.

タスク

タスク 1:

Design a PR strategy utilizing social media’s that has a high word-of-mouth effect such as Twitter, Facebook, and blogs.

タスク 2:

Increase three more personnel who can firmly commit in interviewing to those suicide-survivors who provide us “Iki-tech.”

タスク 3:

Increase two or more personnel who can rewrite and edit the contents in the website to make it into a more reader-friendly text.

ここでさらに大きな目標を立てましょう。インパクトを実現するための 12 か月後の目標を提示してください。

Globalize Iki-tech and aim to decrease 10% of annual rate of suicide in other countries.

タスク

タスク 1:

Recruit personnel who want to globalize “Iki-tech” and share the contents in their own country through this competition.

タスク 2:

Recruit one Int'l personnel who can make a close search of his/her country’s status quo of suicide problems, infrastructure, etc

タスク 3:

Manualize the process and skills we have cultivated through this project into English, so it would be easier to globalize.

あなたのプロジェクトは何人にインパクトを与えましたか。 この人数は選考には影響しません。単にイノベーションが現在どの段階まで進んでいるのかを把握することが目的です。[次の中から選択してください]

10,000 人超

次に、今後 3 年間でこのプロジェクトは何人にインパクトを与えることができますか。

10,000 人超

持続可能性

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あなたの会社、プログラム、サービス、または商品の構成について説明してください。

企業

これまで、プロジェクトを成功させるうえでどのような問題が妨げになりましたか。ソリューションが拡大していくに従い、その問題や他の課題をどのように乗り越えましたか。

Before we started this project, we had a great deal of anxiety toward the fact that we were going to deal with a very sensitive theme such as suicide and psychological problems. But we managed to overcome this fear by developing a strong “conviction” about making the action and to succeed in it.
There also were conflicts between other people who worked on the same issue from a different approach, but when we got to a point where we could show results, we overcame this problem too.
Though, we still have to keep working on how to handle these sensitive contents. To this problem, we recruited some more personnel and by carefully making action it is gradually moving towards resolution.

今後 10 年間で、IT とメディアの世界はどのように移り変わっていくと思いますか。変化し続ける環境を反映するために、あなたのソリューションはどのように適応していく予定ですか。あなたのソリューションがその変化を推し進めるものである場合、どのようにして推し進めますか。

Especially in Japan, constrained and negative communication is increasing. And we envisage that in near future, this tendency will become stronger in the mass media.
Even so, we will keep on sending out “Positive Messages” to the world to change this society with the help of those who are suffering from this constrained world.

すすんで失敗を選ぶ人はいないでしょうが、今後 2 年間であなたのソリューションで思うような効果が出せなかった場合、他にアイデアを応用できる可能性はありますか。

If there is anyone who wants to create a Positive-Media like “Iki-tech” that will focus on the solution methods, not the problem it selves, it can be expanded in any country.
Though, there is a possibility of failure if you just copy the concept. To prevent failure, we would like to make this media as an “headquarter approval system” (which would be the Japanese POSi-MEDiA) so that we can support and share the knowledge.

1. あなたの選択した計画を拡大させ、経済的に維持する方法を説明してください。

Currently, as a joint-stock-corporation POSi-MEDiA receive commission to develop a branding strategy for private companies. “Iki-tech” and other social projects are run by this profit
To expand our project, we will utilize the knowledge we earned trough these works. We will provide a problem-solving service for companies looking for a solution to help their employees who suffer from depression, and also to those who have problems peculiar to corporate managers. We will receive payment for showing solutions to those companies who have problems in handling and rehabilitating their employees with depression whose productivity are not high. Services for corporate managers will be more profitable.

あなたのパートナーシップについて教えてください:

Iki-tech has made many collaborative events with Japanese local governments and with suicide-bereaved –family associations.
We also published some books by the offer from a publishing company.

どのような種類のチーム(スタッフ、ボランティアなど)によって、「社会的なインパクト」セクションで記入した成長の目標を達成しますか。

As a company, we will support our personnel who share the philosophy of “Positive-Media” and to those volunteers who have suffered or are still suffering from problems just like the people who visit our website have. By making this support we will expand and globalize our network.

チェンジメーカーズは、協力とサポートが生まれる空間です。あなたのイニシアチブを成長させ、維持するために必要なコミュニティ リソースを指定してください。[あてはまるものをすべて選択してください]

投資, 人的資源/才能, マーケティング/メディア, 調査/情報, コラボレーション/ネットワーキング, 無料のサポート(法律、金融など).

あなたが他のイニシアチブをサポートするために提供できるリソースを指定してください。[あてはまるものをすべて選択してください]

人的資源/才能, マーケティング/メディア, コラボレーション/ネットワーキング, イノベーション/アイデア.

上記のニーズまたはサービスについて詳しくご記入ください。また、リストで指定しなかったサポートのカテゴリについてご提案ください。

“Iki-tech” is a knowledge-base of “solution methods for problems.”These “solution method” could be found in other social activities other than our project too. By generalizing and mutually sharing this knowledge we can cooperate with many other social activities.
We also create branding strategy for other companies as one of our business. Thus, we were able to effectively use the branding knowledge for cultivating “Iki-tech.” We believe that this knowledge for branding could be used as a tool to “transmit information to the society” and also turn it in to a “tool to communicate.”
With this skill and knowledge, we can cooperate for the people who can form a partnership with us. (such as raising the profile in Japan.)

要約

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あなたの会社、プログラム、サービス、または商品の構成について、短く 1~2 行にまとめてください。

Tools for "Solution" from POSITIVE perspective, in this NEGATIVE "suffering" era

ソリューションがどのように革新的であるかを短く 1~2 行にまとめてください。

POSITIVE solutions for suicidal thoughts are created from 200 evidences by those who overcame suicide.

Project

This project also has a Project where you can read more about its latest progress.
Go to Project: Freedom Registry: Accessible space to collaborate, share best practice & recognize gaps in the movement to end human trafficking.

Freedom Registry: Accessible space to collaborate, share best practice & recognize gaps in the movement to end human trafficking

Freedom Registry provides data about nationwide anti-trafficking stakeholders, highlighting efforts committed to best practice

自己紹介

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自己紹介

Tania

Docarmo

団体の

団体名

Chab Dai USA

ウェブサイト

団体の所在国

United States, CA, Sacramento County

この団体が社会的なインパクトをもたらす国

United States

団体の種類:

非営利団体

運営期間

1~5 年

プロフィール情報(興味、団体情報、ウェブサイトなど)に空欄がある場合、ここで入力した情報が該当の欄にコピーされます。連絡先情報が公開されることはありません。情報をコピーしたくない場合は、このチェックボックスをオフにしてください。.

イノベーション

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役職

Freedom Registry: Accessible space to collaborate, share best practice & recognize gaps in the movement to end human trafficking

あなたのソリューションに最もあてはまる段階を選択してください:

成長(試験運営を続けながら拡大を開始している)

運営期間を選択してください。

1~5 年

ニーズ: あなたのソリューションのニーズと、働きかけるコミュニティの規模/活動について説明してください。

Human trafficking (HT) is a growing global phenomenon. Efforts to end HT have increased in recent years, but several challenges remain if HT is to be brought to an end. One such challenge is collaboration and best-practice sharing among anti-HT stakeholders is insufficient. Concrete and sustainable referral systems between agencies are not in place, knowledge sharing is neglected, and stakeholders often "reinvent the wheel" due to lack of understanding of what's already being done.
Internet accessibility and social media platforms such as Facebook and Twitter have undoubtedly assisted in the increase of public participation and concern regarding various social issues, including HT. While this increases volunteerism and raises the community's social conscience, it has also led to an overwhelming increase in new (often inexperienced) efforts; not to mention competition; regurgitation of inaccurate sensationalized information; and wasted resources. This leaves stakeholders and community advocates unsure and confused about who is doing what, and who is doing good work. To truly capture how stakeholders can end HT, we must coordinate our efforts and understand one another.

ソリューション: ソリューションが提供する内容と、それがいかに革新的であるかを説明してください。そのソリューションを利用者または受益者に届ける方法を具体的に説明してください。

The Freedom Registry is an online database of anti-HT stakeholders across the U.S. The project's aim is to increase collaboration, reflect best practice standards, and recognize gap areas within the anti-HT movement. Freedom Registry is unique and innovative in several ways:
First, Freedom Registry is a collaborative effort. The project was designed and is monitored by a steering committee of 7 well-respected national stakeholders including representatives from law enforcement, academia, policy-level advocates and direct practitioners.
Second, Freedom Registry is specifically aimed at being comprehensive. Currently, there is no place to find comprehensive information on the national (or int'l) response to HT. Freedom Registry seeks to include all anti-HT efforts in various sectors, whether it's social service providers, law enforcement, research firms, academic institutions, grassroots organizations, labor activists, businesses, or student-led initiatives.
Third, the Freedom Registry not only depicts what stakeholders do (objectives, activities, etc.); gathered data also reflects best practice standards adhered to by each participating organization - allowing concerned citizens, donors, government agencies, students, and other users to get a glimpse into the exact training, knowledge and standards that are informing each stakeholder's work.
Finally, Freedom Registry is not a static effort. Project design includes strategic phases of using collected data to understand gap areas within research and across the movement, and make recommendations for change.

モデル: あなたのソリューションでは、どのように IT やメディアを利用して変化を起こすのか、具体例を挙げてください。

CASE STUDY #1: Janice, Project Manager for a domestic violence (DV) shelter, realizes she has several new cases of young women involved in prostitution and wants to incorporate a HT recovery element into their program. She does not have a lot of experience in HT and has difficulty finding someone to help her. Using Freedom Registry, she searches for likeminded efforts, even DV shelters who have expanded into HT. She can see which stakeholders have set specific standards, such as an implemented training policy. She gathers relevant contact information, is better informed on what needs to be done before she expands their program, and has an understanding of where to refer clients to if need be.
CASE STUDY #2: Erik, a (student, businessman, teacher, etc.) sees a HT special on TV. He is horrified and wants to get involved. He does numerous Google searches, Facebook inquiries, etc. finding information on many organizations, but it's difficult to understand what their activities are, and many of them only talk about fundraising or "trafficking overseas". Many also claim to be the "only" program of their kind. He's not sure how to navigate this information, or where he fits in. He wonders whether he should just start his own organization. He even wonders if he needs to move overseas to help. When he discovers Freedom Registry he is able to search for stakeholders in his own surrounding community and gain a clear picture of existing efforts. With the information provided he can see which organizations adhere to various best practices and is better informed on how to take action.

市場: あなたの仲間と競争相手について教えてください。

Freedom Registry seeks to be a collaborative effort. As mentioned above, our project team has worked hard to incorporate the voices of various stakeholders into our project design, especially through the creation and involvement of our steering committee, representing 7 well-respected anti-HT stakeholders. During the first phase of this project we met with over 20 major stakeholders across the United States (outside of the steering committee) to gather insight from them about our vision. Many of these organizations kept in touch with us throughout the process to provide advice and input. We have also presented the model at various conferences and events to explore the needs and wants of the anti-HT community.
While there are certainly some websites and networks of anti-HT organizations already in existence (i.e. End Slavery Now, Freedom Network, Nt'l Human Trafficking Resource Center, HHS Rescue & Restore Coalitions, DOJ Task Forces, etc.) these efforts do not aim to be comprehensive, nor do they have the intention of reflecting best practice standards. In fact, many of these groups support the aims of Freedom Registry and have expressed an interest in getting involved.

社会的なインパクト

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創設のストーリー: このアイデアを「ピン!」とひらめいたときの状況を教えてください。このソリューションについて、世界を変えることができるという可能性を見出した場所や時期を具体的に説明してください。

The vision behind Chab Dai (CD) was founded in Cambodia in 2005. Helen Sworn (UK), Int'l Director of CD, had been working on issues of HT for several years and recognized a gap in collaboration between stakeholders. Today, CD in Cambodia has expanded to more than 50 member organizations, and over 30 partners, including UN and gov't agencies. In addition, core organization leadership has been handed over to a team of 4 Cambodian nationals. The impact of increasing collaboration and raising the standard of care in Cambodia has made significant change in the nation's response to HT.
In 2008, Tania DoCarmo (US), after working with CD in Cambodia for 2 years, established CD USA based on the same values and principles of CD in Cambodia. After conducting baseline research among U.S. based stakeholders for over a year, and speaking at conferences where she was constantly "connecting" stakeholders with one another, she realized that while the U.S. anti-HT movement was growing rapidly it was uncoordinated, and many stakeholders (especially new ones) were not well-informed regarding the big picture. Thus, the idea behind Freedom Registry was born.

現時点における、このソリューションの社会的なインパクトの深さと規模を具体的に示してください。

The potential social impact of Freedom Registry is tremendous. Based on Chab Dai USA's baseline study, there are well over 1,000 anti-HT organizations claiming to be involved in anti-HT activities across the United States. Freedom Registry will benefit all national stakeholders by increasing collaboration and knowledge of other efforts, and increasing pressures to adhere to best practice standards.
The program will also serve HT survivors (estimated 17,000 foreign-born survivors each year, not including U.S. citizen survivors) who will directly benefit from increased collaboration between their agencies (more access to individualized services, add'l options for service, holistic approach to rehabilitation, etc.) One organization cannot do it all. In collaboration organizations can focus on their core competencies.
Finally, Freedom Registry will have a direct impact on the anti-HT movement by engaging and informing the tens of thousands of Americans currently following and/or engaging in the HT issue. Mass media representatives, students, academics, donors, health care professionals, and members of the faith community will all benefit from access to this information.

今後 1~5 年以内に、どのようなインパクトが予想されますか。あなたのアイデアは第三者が活用できるものですか。活用できる場合、それはどのような方法ですか。

Currently we are in Phase 3 of the project. During Phases 1 and 2 we spent considerable time learning from stakeholders and designing the database. During Phase 3 (12 months) we will start data collection and develop a solid base of stakeholder participants. For Phases 4 (6 months) and 5 (ongoing), the committee will analyze data received thus far to recognize gap areas within the movement and make recommendations as to how gaps can be filled. We are in dialogue with a partner organization interested in also using this data for additional research. Post Phase 4, Freedom Registry will remain as a sustainable network. Already, a Canada organization is replicating the model for the Canadian context, and we are in conversation with others in Nepal and Australia interested in doing the same.

実現および成長に向けて強力な計画を提示できたプロジェクトが入賞します。インパクトを拡大するための 6 か月後の目標を提示してください。

In 6 months we plan to have at least 300 organizations registered in the Freedom Registry database

タスク

タスク 1:

Contact all stakeholders on our baseline list of 1,000+ orgs (via email and phone) to seek their involvement

タスク 2:

Partner with at least 2 government entities to assist with widespread implementation

タスク 3:

Verify data provided by stakeholder organizations and publish to website

ここでさらに大きな目標を立てましょう。インパクトを実現するための 12 か月後の目標を提示してください。

We will be at the close of Phase 3 and preparing for analysis, and plan to have at least 500 orgs registered in the database

タスク

タスク 1:

Contact non-responsive stakeholders on our baseline list (via phone and post) to seek their involvement

タスク 2:

Partner with at least 1 additional government entity to assist with widespread implementation

タスク 3:

Verify data provided by stakeholder organizations and publish to website

あなたのプロジェクトは何人にインパクトを与えましたか。 この人数は選考には影響しません。単にイノベーションが現在どの段階まで進んでいるのかを把握することが目的です。[次の中から選択してください]

101 - 1,000

次に、今後 3 年間でこのプロジェクトは何人にインパクトを与えることができますか。

10,000 人超

持続可能性

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あなたの会社、プログラム、サービス、または商品の構成について説明してください。

非営利団体

これまで、プロジェクトを成功させるうえでどのような問題が妨げになりましたか。ソリューションが拡大していくに従い、その問題や他の課題をどのように乗り越えましたか。

Thus far, we have faced two primary challenges. First, a tremendous challenge has been finding funding. While this project will undoubtedly benefit the human trafficking movement as a whole, many donors within anti-HT are more interested in funding rehabilitation efforts and/or direct services to survivors and it is difficult to demonstrate the potential of increased collaboration. Second, is marketing and promotion. We certainly have contacts and widespread supporters, but need additional assistance to promote the project to additional audiences (in diverse sectors) on a grander scale. While we are confident that many stakeholders are enthusiastic about this project and will participate, the project will only be successful with widespread buy-in.

今後 10 年間で、IT とメディアの世界はどのように移り変わっていくと思いますか。変化し続ける環境を反映するために、あなたのソリューションはどのように適応していく予定ですか。あなたのソリューションがその変化を推し進めるものである場合、どのようにして推し進めますか。

Information-technology will continue to shift and change the way we interact with the world, including the way we develop and implement resources for social change. With the invention of the internet, 3G and now rapid information sharing through networks like Facebook and Twitter, we can reach people like never before. With consistent monitoring and evaluation based on the needs of stakeholders and community activists, we are confident in our ability to staying relevant to our users, while also exploring possibilities with new technologies.

すすんで失敗を選ぶ人はいないでしょうが、今後 2 年間であなたのソリューションで思うような効果が出せなかった場合、他にアイデアを応用できる可能性はありますか。

We are committed to monitoring and evaluation regardless of the outcome. If our current vision does not play out the way we imagined, or stakeholders demonstrate a need for additional database modules, etc. we are committed to ensuring the project is relevant to our audience. Whether Freedom Registry gains nationwide traction in the next two years or not, it will continue to be a valuable tool for the global anti-HT community. If the project is unable to gather enough information about anti-HT in all U.S. states for example, the database model can still be utilized at a state- or county-level. We are already discussing replication opportunities in other countries as well, where the model can be used by other stakeholder groups.

1. あなたの選択した計画を拡大させ、経済的に維持する方法を説明してください。

It is often difficult to secure early adopters for innovative projects such as this one. Therefore, most of our funding thus far has depended on foundations (and some individuals). With the project launch just around the corner, we will have more opportunity to pitch the project to a more diverse funding base. Once stakeholders and other community members recognize the value of this project and see its success on the ground, we plan to present funding challenges to businesses, regional government and national government in addition to foundations.

あなたのパートナーシップについて教えてください:

The Freedom Registry steering committee is made up of representatives from eight organizations, including: Chab Dai USA (chair), Vanguard University Center for Gender & Justice, San Jose HT Task Force, The Salvation Army, FAAST, Love146, University of Washington, and Global Centurion. In addition to these partnerships, we are working with 20 pilot organizations who agreed to provide feedback on the database survey; and various other organizations who have provided insight and advice along the way.

どのような種類のチーム(スタッフ、ボランティアなど)によって、「社会的なインパクト」セクションで記入した成長の目標を達成しますか。

Chab Dai USA is governed by a Board of Directors of five individuals with varying experience in human rights, law, and community engagement. Our Cambodia and USA Founders serve as Advisors for direct program staff. Currently, Freedom Registry represents 80% of our program activities. The Program Manger oversees day-to-day operations and manages a Program Assistant, Community Liaison and interns. Because data verification will be a major task, we have partnered with a research team at Vanguard University Center for Gender and Justice to assist.

チェンジメーカーズは、協力とサポートが生まれる空間です。あなたのイニシアチブを成長させ、維持するために必要なコミュニティ リソースを指定してください。[あてはまるものをすべて選択してください]

投資, マーケティング/メディア, コラボレーション/ネットワーキング.

あなたが他のイニシアチブをサポートするために提供できるリソースを指定してください。[あてはまるものをすべて選択してください]

調査/情報, コラボレーション/ネットワーキング, イノベーション/アイデア.

上記のニーズまたはサービスについて詳しくご記入ください。また、リストで指定しなかったサポートのカテゴリについてご提案ください。

NEEDS: Our greatest needs are financial investment and assistance with promotion, especially as the success of this project depends on buy-in from various sectors. We strongly believe in the benefits of collaboration, so additional support in this areas is always helpful.
OFFERS: Chab Dai has a proven track record for coalition-building, especially based on our work in Cambodia, so we are happy to assist other organizations in their collaboration or coalition-building efforts. Chab Dai is also heavily engaged in research initiatives in the area of human trafficking, and can assist in this area. Because we have access to many avenues of anti-HT and a good understanding of the HT "big picture" we can assist stakeholders consider innovative solutions to cover gap areas.

要約

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あなたの会社、プログラム、サービス、または商品の構成について、短く 1~2 行にまとめてください。

Freedom Registry is an interactive database of national stakeholders combating trafficking across the U.S.

ソリューションがどのように革新的であるかを短く 1~2 行にまとめてください。

Freedom Registry provides data about nationwide anti-trafficking stakeholders, highlighting efforts committed to best practice

Gerência de Trabalho

O projeto "Gerência de Trabalho", enquanto uma estratégia de inclusão social voltada às pessoas com transtorno e/ou deficiência mental pela via do trabalho, visa investir em possibilidades afirmativas ao sujeito com transtorno e/ou deficiência mental no que toca o reconhecimento à sua cidadania e ampliação de laços sociais.

自己紹介

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自己紹介

Ana Cecília

Alvares Salis

Twitter

Facebook Profile

団体の

団体名

Projeto Gerência de Trabalho

ウェブサイト

団体の電話番号

団体の所在地

団体の所在国

Brazil

この団体が社会的なインパクトをもたらす国

Brazil

団体の種類:

企業

運営期間

1~5 年

プロフィール情報(興味、団体情報、ウェブサイトなど)に空欄がある場合、ここで入力した情報が該当の欄にコピーされます。連絡先情報が公開されることはありません。情報をコピーしたくない場合は、このチェックボックスをオフにしてください。.

イノベーション

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役職

Gerência de Trabalho

What change do you want to bring to the world?

O projeto "Gerência de Trabalho", enquanto uma estratégia de inclusão social voltada às pessoas com transtorno e/ou deficiência mental pela via do trabalho, visa investir em possibilidades afirmativas ao sujeito com transtorno e/ou deficiência mental no que toca o reconhecimento à sua cidadania e ampliação de laços sociais.

What are the primary activities of your project?

- Proposta de preenchimento de pessoas com transtorno e/ou deficiência mental no plano de cotas de empresas com mais 100 funcionários (conforme previsto em lei).
- oferecer o suporte dos "gerentes de trabalho" aos clientes com transtorno mental, seja treinando-os no próprio local de trabalho, seja acompanhando-os semanalmente para avaliar evolução, satisfação e desempenho. Assim como, dirimir dúvidas e intermediar as relações estabelecidas entre cada cliente e colegas de trabalho e empregador.
- Estabelecer contato permanente com todos os profissionais de saúde envolvidos no tratamento de cada cliente.
- Propor horário diferenciado de trabalho conforme cada caso.
- provar que é direito de pessoas com transtorno mental ingressar no mercado formal de trabalho admitindo o devido suporte a elas.

What is innovative about your initiative? How is it a new contribution to the field?

Não conheço quem faça no Brasil esse trabalho. O diferencial está na presença de um novo agente no campo, o "gerente de trabalho", que é treinanado para acompanhar e treinar uma pessoa com transtorno mental no seu próprio local de trabalho.

What stage is your project in?

Tell us about the community that you engage? eg. economic conditions, political structures, norms and values, demographic trends, history, and experience with engagement efforts.

A contratação responsável e coordenada de pessoas com transtorno e/ou deficiência mental por uma empresa, possibilitando apontar que essas pessoas podem participar do contrato social admitindo-as como "diferentes", e não como incapazes.

Share the story of the founder and what inspired the founder to start this project

Meu interesse pela psiquiatria data dos meus dezesseis anos quando li um livro sobre o tratamento psiquiátrico de uma menina psicótica. Aos dezoito, fiz o vestibular para psicologia e no primeiro dia aula descobri e ingressei em um grupo de "acompanhamento psicoterapêutico" que se destinava a atender pacientes em crise no próprio domicílio. De lá para cá, vão-se 30 anos, venho me deidcado à causa dessas pessoas e, recentemente, investido na questão do reconhecimento à cidadania das mesmas pela via do trabalho.

社会的なインパクト

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This Entry is about (Issues)

Please describe how your project has been successful and how that success is measured

Espera-se provar que pessoas com transtorno e/ou deficiência mental são aptas para o trabalho assim como são capazes de participar do pacto social usufruindo do pleno direito de exercício da cidadania.
Espera-se que, com esse projeto, se possa forçar uma mudança na lei de cotas obrigatórias para empresas com mais de cem funcionários para que se inclua pessoas com transtorno mental.

あなたのプロジェクトは何人にインパクトを与えましたか。 この人数は選考には影響しません。単にイノベーションが現在どの段階まで進んでいるのかを把握することが目的です。[次の中から選択してください]

100 人未満

次に、今後 3 年間でこのプロジェクトは何人にインパクトを与えることができますか。

100 人未満

Winning entries present a strong plan for how they will achieve growth. Identify your six-month milestone for growing your impact

200 caracteres

タスク 1:

Que outras empresas possam se voltar para a proposta do projeto.

タスク 2:

Que políticas públicas se sensibilizem com os resultados até aqui obtidos.

タスク 3:

Que se possa ampliar para o ambito público a proposta do projeto.

Identify your 12-month impact milestone

200 caracteres

タスク 1:

200 caracteres

タスク 2:

200 caracteres

タスク 3:

200 caracteres

How will your project evolve over the next three years?

Mudança na lei de cotas, contemplando, para além de pessoas com deficiência, também as pessoas portadoras de transtorno mental.
A ampliação do projeto para outras empresas.
Fomento à capacitação de novos gestores em "Gerência de Trabalho".

持続可能性

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What barriers might hinder the success of your project and how do you plan to overcome them?

1600 caracteres

あなたのパートナーシップについて教えてください:

É condição para o bom andamento deste trabalho, a parceria com o serviço público no que toca o atendimento médico/psiquiátrico de cada usuário de saúde mental (Centros de Atenção Psicossocial CAPS, Ambulatórios, Institutos, etc.
Esta sendo importante o contato com a Secretaria Estadual de Trabalho SETRAB/RJ e o Núcleo de Saude mental e Trabalho NUSAMT/RJ para que sejam revistas leis de proteção ao trabalho para pessoas com transtorno mental.

Current annual budget of project, in US dollars

[次の中から選択してください]

Explain your selections

1.600 caracteres

How do you plan to strengthen your project in the next three years?

1.600 caracteres

Challenges

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Which barriers to health and well-being does your innovation address?
Please select up to three in order of relevancy to your project.

PRIMARY

Lack of affordable care

SECONDARY

Lack of affordable care

TERTIARY

Lack of affordable care

Please describe how your innovation specifically tackles the barriers listed above.

800 caracteres

How are you growing the impact of your organization or initiative?
Please select up to three potential pathways in order of relevancy to you.

PRIMARY

Grown geographic reach: Within host country

SECONDARY

Grown geographic reach: Within host country

TERTIARY

Grown geographic reach: Within host country

Please describe which of your growth activities are current or planned for the immediate future.

800 caracteres

Do you collaborate with any of the following: (Check all that apply)

If yes, how have these collaborations helped your innovation to succeed?

800 caracteres

Apparel Lesotho Alliance to Fight AIDS (ALAFA)

場所

Lesotho

Apparel Lesotho Alliance to Fight AIDS was launched in Maseru in May 2006 to provide prevention and treatment for the almost 40,000 mainly women Basotho workers in the textile and apparel industry. Surveys show that around 40% of employees are HIV positive.

Core Reaction: Connecting Classrooms with STEM Careers in the Nuclear Energy Industry

Core Reaction,http://corereaction.org, is an engaging,story-based, free, online game that provides students with a first-hand understanding of careers in the nuclear energy field. Students learn how nuclear energy is created, correlated with National Science Education Standards. Through a series of simple decisions and equations, students are provided with the opportunity to discover how math and science skills they have learned in the classroom correlate with real-world applications.

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自己紹介

Kiersten

Clements

団体の

団体名

EnergySolutions Foundation

団体の電話番号

801-649-2286

団体の所在地

PO Box 510583 Salt Lake City, UT 84151

団体の所在国

United States, UT, Salt Lake County

この団体が社会的なインパクトをもたらす国

United States, XX

団体の種類:

非営利団体

運営期間

5 年超

プロフィール情報(興味、団体情報、ウェブサイトなど)に空欄がある場合、ここで入力した情報が該当の欄にコピーされます。連絡先情報が公開されることはありません。情報をコピーしたくない場合は、このチェックボックスをオフにしてください。.

イノベーション

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Core Reaction: Connecting Classrooms with STEM Careers in the Nuclear Energy Industry

What change do you want to bring to the world?

Core Reaction,http://corereaction.org, is an engaging,story-based, free, online game that provides students with a first-hand understanding of careers in the nuclear energy field. Students learn how nuclear energy is created, correlated with National Science Education Standards. Through a series of simple decisions and equations, students are provided with the opportunity to discover how math and science skills they have learned in the classroom correlate with real-world applications. This two-fold focus – providing insight into career opportunities while enhancing math and science education is based on the EnergySolutions Foundation's mission to promote STEM education. Core Reaction also addresses pressing concerns about a pending industry-wide workforce shortage.

What are the primary activities of your project?

The Core Reaction game and website include four main components to teach science content and motivate interest in STEM careers in the nuclear energy industry:

1. Game Play - Core Reaction is a role-playing game in which students select one of five nuclear professionals they will play in the game. Each position has a variety of tasks students must manage to help run the nuclear power plant. This game play experience will help students recognize the connection between the science they’re learning in the classroom and their potential to be STEM professionals in the nuclear energy industry. Visit http://corereaction.org/ to learn more about the game.

2. Assessment – Teachers can program the game to administer an assessment to students at the end of the game. Based on National Science Education Standards, the assessment will provide instant feedback about students’ science content knowledge gains.

3. Supplemental Activities and Videos – The website will include supplemental activities teachers can use to reinforce content taught in the game. The website will also include video interviews with nuclear energy professionals to further motivate students to consider STEM careers in the nuclear energy industry.

4. Student Dashboard – At the end of playing the game, students will be shown a dashboard that provides additional information about the STEM career they just played. The dashboard will help students understand what needs to be done to transition from being a middle school student to a nuclear energy professional.

What is innovative about your initiative? How is it a new contribution to the field?

The significant number of students choosing not to pursue STEM education threatens the United States’ security and economic prosperity in a global marketplace. The nuclear energy industry is particularly invested in encouraging students to pursue STEM careers, because the industry will shortly experience a workforce shortage.

Organizations like the Center for Energy Workforce Development (CEWD)and the Nuclear Energy Institute actively address the workforce shortage through a variety of strategies. CEWD has created the impressive website, Get Into Energy, with the goal of creating awareness about career opportunities available in the energy industry. Many nuclear utilities also have education outreach programs that provide classroom speakers and/or supplemental tools for teaching nuclear energy. Whyville's energy game, WHYPOWER, explores topics and careers related to a variety of energy resources as students manage Whyville’s power grid. Although WHYPOWER has role-play activities for technicians and engineers, the Core Reaction role-play experience is intended to explore the STEM positions in much greater depth.

Where the Core Reaction game and website differ from these resources, is in the knowledge and motivation gained through providing students with an increased level of engagement through role play. Students have the opportunity to feel what it’s like to perform the duties of an engineer, reactor operator, used fuel specialist, etc. Instead of just reading about the career or listening to someone talk about the career, students can experience the career.

What stage is your project in?

Idea phase

Tell us about the community that you engage? eg. economic conditions, political structures, norms and values, demographic trends, history, and experience with engagement efforts.

Core Reaction is being designed for use in traditional classrooms, but has tremendous potential to be used across a wide range of learning environments, including:
• Cyber/virtual schools
• Home school settings
• After-school programs
• Science and technology centers and museums

The free game will be available to anyone with access to the internet or many mobile devices. According to the NPD Group, a leading North American market research group, 46 million children between ages 5 and 17 are gamers (http://www.theesa.com/gamesindailylife/education.pdf). Thirty percent of children ages 6–17 go online to play individual or multiplayer games at least once a week (http://www.fas.org/gamesummit/Resources/Summit%20on%20Educational%20Game...). By targeting this demographic, the EnergySolutions Foundation and its partners can increase STEM competency and career awareness among an age group that is, for the most part, unfamiliar with engineering and related careers. In its report, Engineering in K-12 Education, the National Academy of Engineering and the National Research Council reported that “many students who are capable of becoming engineers never even enter the educational pipeline leading to an engineering career because they either do not understand what engineers do or they do not believe that they have the necessary aptitude or interests to become engineers.” Core Reaction is meant to combat this lack of awareness and ignite the interest needed to motivate students to pursue STEM education.

Share the story of the founder and what inspired the founder to start this project

While working for the EnergySolutions Foundation, I learned that the nuclear industry is approaching a workforce shortage that will create a variety of job opportunities for high school graduates through PhDs. I also discovered that nuclear plants pay their workers approximately 36 percent more than average salaries in the local area. In spite of this, according to the U.S. Department of Labor, "stereotyping of energy careers as unstable, dangerous, and low-skilled causes qualified workers, especially youth, to be unaware of the many highly skilled, well-paying career opportunities the industry offers." I came to the conclusion that the foundation had a unique opportunity to develop a tool that would help students explore STEM careers in an industry that most students know very little about, but that is ripe with opportunity.

Based on further research, I determined that an online game would provide the following benefits:

1. Teaching in a style for 21st century learners:engaging graphics and videos; fast paced and retains interest, simple and straight-forward interfaces and controls that are intuitive to use; communication and teamwork, through networked play; immediate feedback; and a compelling game-play element.

2. Ability to potentially reach thousands of students
3. Ability to track usage through web analytics
4.Easy-to-use resource for teachers requiring minimal preparation time

With this understanding, the EnergySolutions Foundation began the development process for Core Reaction.

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Please describe how your project has been successful and how that success is measured

Core Reaction is still in the development phase. The EnergySolutions Foundation plans to spend the next 6 months fundraising and then the following 12 months in game development. Once the game is complete, success will be measured based on the following criteria:

1. Reach – The number of people playing the game or are using web content. Through web analytics and log in data we can evaluate if our target audience, teachers and their students, are using the game.
2. Knowledge Gains
3. Career Motivation - Because science content knowledge gains and career motivation are two of the main objectives for Core Reaction, the EnergySolutions Foundation has included in the project budget to hire the Center for Technolgy in Teaching and Learning at Rice University to help evaluate whether or not the game does increase science content and career motivation. Dr. Leslie Miller’s team has conducted research on the efficacy of online science games to teach science content and to increase interest in STEM careers. We’re anxious for similar evaluations to be conducted on Core Reaction.

あなたのプロジェクトは何人にインパクトを与えましたか。 この人数は選考には影響しません。単にイノベーションが現在どの段階まで進んでいるのかを把握することが目的です。[次の中から選択してください]

100 人未満

次に、今後 3 年間でこのプロジェクトは何人にインパクトを与えることができますか。

10,000 人超

How will your project evolve over the next three years?

Over the next three years, Core Reaction will be developed and launch. Other than the actual development of the game, the main evolution the foundation expects to see is not in major changes to the game, but changes as to the number of people and types of people playing the game.

The initial audience, for the game, will most likely be science teachers with special interests in energy curriculum or using technology in the classroom. After the game launches and the initial group of interested teachers uses the game in their classroom, we expect teachers less engaged in the topic to try the game in response to teacher testimonials or word of mouth. After the game has gained some traction in the classroom,we expect to see more students playing the game at home.

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What barriers might hinder the success of your project and how do you plan to overcome them?

The greatest hurdle for Core Reaction will be funding. The EnergySolutions Foundation (ESF) will be seeking sponsorships from utilities to finish game development, and to sustain the game for five years post launch. If ESF is unable to raise the money needed to proceed, the foundation will next apply for grants from foundations that sponsor STEM and/or technology in teaching projects. Another source of funding are technical colleges looking to recruit students into their nuclear-specific programs.

Another barrier will be teachers or critics who don’t want nuclear energy taught in the classroom. ESF has distributed thousands of free nuclear education tools to teachers who are anxious to use them. While some teachers will choose not to use the game, the foundation’s response to criticisms may include the following:

1. Teachers play an important role in preparing the next generation to make significant energy policy decisions. Students should be taught about all forms of energy, including nuclear. Currently nuclear energy provides nearly 20% of the nation’s electricity and 70% of the nation’s zero-emission electricity.

2. Much of President Obama’s “Educate to Innovate” campaign relies on partnerships with the private sector. One of President Obama’s priorities is “expanding STEM education and career opportunities for underrepresented groups."Regardless of one’s personal beliefs about nuclear energy, Core Reaction helps students learn about careers they may not normally be aware of, and motivates interest in STEM careers.

あなたのパートナーシップについて教えてください:

ESF hired Imagine Education for game design and development. Imagine Education funded, developed and launched its premier project, Ko’s Journey, an online math game for middle school students in less than a year. Ko’s Journey was recently awarded $500,000 from the highly competitive Next Generation Learning Challenges grant. It was also a winner in the Popular Vote in the National STEM Video Game Challenge. Scott Laidlaw EdD., founder of Imagine Education, has tirelessly researched the mechanics of the nuclear energy industry and the roles of key professionals. He has tested game story and art concepts with students and has been thorough in working with programmers and artists to identify the best platform for the game to be designed in, based on user needs and trends in technology.

Nuclear energy professionals from EnergySolutions, the Nuclear Energy Institute, and nuclear utilities, Entergy and Southern Nuclear Company, have spent many volunteer hours sharing their expertise with game designer, Scott Laidlaw.

Dr. Melanie Stegman, Program director of Educational Technologies at the Federation of American Scientists (FAS), has served as an advisor to ESF on navigating many of the complexities of producing an online educational game. Dr. Stegman manages the FAS game, Immune Attack (http://www.fas.org/immuneattack/players-2/download), and is currently working on the production of Immune Attack 2.

ESF is looking forward to working with Dr. Leslie Miller at the Center for Technolgy in Teaching and Learning at Rice University, to evaluate the game’s effectiveness and publish results.

Current annual budget of project, in US dollars

50,001~100,000

Explain your selections

The original investment for Core Reaction was donated by EnergySolutions. The annual dollar amount indicated, covers remaining cost of game development including marketing, research, travel expenses, video content, miscellaneous expenses and five years of game and website maintenance. The EnergySolutions Foundation (ESF) plans to approach nuclear utilities and related organizations (Nuclear Energy Institute and possibly the Department of Energy) to help fund these costs. The initial investment was made so that enough information would be in place to approach potential funders. The deliverables for this initial development phase included a technical design document, backstory storyboard, 60 second script sample, animated story sequence, game art, music samples, website architecture, and technical consultation.

As previously mentioned, the budget includes the cost to maintain the game for five years after the game is launched (~$1,000 per month). At the completion of the five years, and based on the game’s success (i.e. usage, research results of science content and career motivation), the Foundation will decide whether to continue to fund game maintenance independently, or work to renew sponsorship support to not only maintain the game, but create new video content or game features.

How do you plan to strengthen your project in the next three years?

Imagine Education has proven its ability to design engaging educational games for middle school students. However, ESF and its partners need to create the publicity and interest to get teachers, students, and parents to the site to play the game. Using the new rules of marketing, attributed to the internet and social media, ESF plans to begin engaging potential game players in the next few months. This will be done through regular blog posts, online news releases, and later on a trailer video. Creating this following over the next 18 months will play a significant role in the games’ initial success.

Core Reaction will also be strengthened through a partnership with the Center for Technology in Teaching and Learning at Rice University. ESF is planning to use the center for feedback on the game design, to help with recruitment of schools to test the game, to design the test procedure, to analyze the results, and to assist in writing a publication of the results. Prior to the game’s launch, this partnership will add an additional level of expertise to ensure that the game is effective in teaching science content. Once the game is launched, published research should add value to the game and contribute to the current research available on the efficacy of online games to teach science content.

Partnerships and Accountability

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Please tell us more about how your partnership was formed and how it functions. What specific role does each partner play? What unique resources does each partner bring to the initiative?

Imagine Education
I met game designer, Scott Laidlaw at a STEM conference in New Mexico in October 2010. I originally contacted him with questions regarding his experience distributing his online math game, Ko’s Journey. It quickly became apparent that Scott had the passion and expertise in the education sector to design a game that both teaches and inspires. Scott conducts industry-specific research and works with the artist and programmer to design a game that best meets the foundation’s objectives. My job has been to ensure that Scott is introduced to the appropriate nuclear energy professionals so that he has the knowledge he needs design a game that accurately reflects careers found in the nuclear energy industry.

Industry Professionals
Nuclear energy professionals from Energy Solutions, Southern Company, Entergy, and the Nuclear Energy Institute have served as consultants on the project. They have shared their expertise about the nuclear fuel cycle and the responsibilities of the professionals working in the industry. They have helped our game designer identify positions and situations that should be focused on during game play.

Educational Consultants
Middle school science teacher, Shannon Hudson is serving as the head educational consultant for this project. Her main responsibility is to ensure that the game meets science teachers’ educational needs, particularly that it satisfies national science education standards. Shannon has taught 7th and 8th grade science and health for 20 years. She has an undergraduate degree in elementary education with a minor in junior high science and a master’s degree in curriculum and instruction. Among many accomplishments, Shannon was the 2010 National Health Physics Society Teacher of the Year for the chemistry unit that she developed covering topics ranging from the basic structure of the atom to nuclear energy. She was awarded the Biocrossroads Award to pursue professional development through the Indiana Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics (I-STEM) resource networks. She also has been a teacher leader for PRISM, a STEM Education portal run by Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, creating one of nine pioneer projects that demonstrated the efficacy of the on-line gathering space. During the summer of 2007, she participated in Power Up for Science through Indiana University to create a problem based unit that would allow middle school students to study renewable energy resources. Shannon was the 2006 Indiana Computer Educators Teacher of the Year. She is a writer for WebLessons, an E-learning system and has presented at conferences including the Hoosier Association of Science Teachers, National Gifted Conference, and the National Service Learning Conference.

In addition to Shannon, other teachers are being asked to contribute questions for the assessment at the end of the game. With time, more teachers and classes will be recruited to test game prototypes and to conduct research regarding the game’s efficacy to teach science content and motivate kids to pursue STEM careers.

Research Consultants
We have budgeted to hire Dr. Leslie Miller’s team from the Center for Technolgy in Teaching and Learning (http://cttl.rice.edu/default.aspx) at Rice University to provide feedback on the game design, help with recruitment of schools to test the game, design the test procedure, analyze the results, and assist in writing a publication of those results. Dr. Miller has conducted extensive research on the efficacy of online science games. We hope that research results regarding Core Reaction will both increase teacher confidence to use the game and contribute to the research available to other organizations considering developing online games.

Sponsorship Partners
If we are successful at receiving sponsorship support from a handful of the nuclear utilities, we will have great opportunities to market the game at the local level. Sponsoring utilities will be motivated to share their involvement with the game within the communities they serve. We foresee sponsors promoting this resource through a variety of outlets including links to the game on online billing statements, hosting lunch and learns for teachers to familiarize them with the game, promoting the game at state science teacher association conferences, and encouraging employees to share the game with their children’s teachers.

We also expect to increase the number of industry professionals contributing to the game design as sponsors are invited to participate with game development. Some of the professionals will also be featured in video interviews on the website.

How are you building in accountability for students' successful STEM learning outcomes? Please provide a summary and examples.

The EnergySolutions Foundation is currently working with teachers to create an online assessment that will be available for students to take at the end of game play. The assessment is being designed now to ensure that the game content is designed with these learning objectives in mind. The goal is for the game to meet National Science Education Standards for 6th through 8th grade students. The assessment will provide immediate feedback to teachers so that they can identify concepts that students have mastered and those that need more attention.

Needs

投資, Marketing/Media, メンター.

Please use this space to elaborate on your selection above and/or to add needs that may not be listed.

Investment: Our greatest need is currently funding to finish game development. In addition to the investment, receiving funding through this Changemakers competition would add valuable support for this concept as we approach other potential sponsors.

Marketing/Media: We are anxious to talk with anyone willing to discuss Core Reaction in their social media, with their cohorts, or in their professional groups.

Mentorship: We are always interested in talking with people who have experience with similar types of projects. If you are willing to respond to occasional emails or phone calls related to fundraising, marketing, or project management, we'd appreciate your sharing your expertise.

Offers

Marketing/Media, Collaboration/Networking, Innovation/Ideas.

Please use this space to elaborate on your selection above and/or to add offers that may not be listed.

Marketing/media - We would like to help promote other organizations' STEM initiatives through the foundation's social media.

Washington State CTE - STEM - College and Career Readiness - Tim Knue - WACTE

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Washington State
United States

The Washington Association for Career and Technical Education Awards Program seeks to promote excellence in Career and Technical Education by recognizing individuals who have made extraordinary contributions to the field, programs that exemplify the highest standards, and organizations that have conducted activities to promote and expand Career and Technical Education programs.

Deadline to submit awards is May 1, 2011.

There are 11 categories of WA-ACTE awards for 2011:
Lifetime Achievement Award
Distinguished Service Award
Hall of Fame
Award of Merit
Outstanding Service Award

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