Here's a story of a Changemaker who is developing a rural economy while also preserving the environment.
If you could name one economic development project that directly benefits the environment, what would it be? Or should we say, “bee?” Honeybees have the power to help secure a food supply, keep a local environment cleaner, bolster biodiversity, and generate income through honey production. And numerous initiatives in Africa are spreading the word about the advantages of honeybees and are training small farmers to add honey production to their agricultural activities.
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Enabling Farmers Reach Markets - a 'click-and-mortar' solution combining ICT platform and ground supply chain network to fix the agri crisis. Key pain areas for farmers is marketing support , rising input costs , migration of educated and skilled labour to cities and having to bear all wastage/transport costs for uncertain revenue. For any modern industry the various key functions like production, marketing, sales, HR and logistics are managed by professionals and backed by advanced software and ICT tools .
Criado em 07/13/2009 por Elizabeth
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Our company develops and sells functional snacks (products that provide health benefits to our customers)
We have developed snacks using a grain called quinoa.
We want to create impact not just selling beneficial products but also creating impact with quinoa producers and our stakeholders.
For 35 years Venkatesh Mannar has worked in salt iodization, including 20 years at the Micronutrient Initiative (MI). A universal staple, salt is an ideal vehicle to provide micronutrients. Salt iodization to prevent intellectual impairment is considered one of the most effective public health campaigns. Mannar wanted to combine iron and iodine in a stable form in salt to redress iodine and iron deficiency at the same time, which affects about 1 billion people. In 1997, he & Dr. Levente Diosady (U. Toronto) created double fortified salt (DFS).
Fairleaf offers nutrient-rich, organic, and fairtrade food and beverage products made from the superfood, Moringa. A portion of all our proceeds will fund nutrition and reforestation programs in low-income countries, beginning with Nicaragua.
Criado em 05/15/2013 por HarvestFlo
Sustainable Harvest International empowers families to produce a healthful diet for themselves all the time by providing them with regular, hands-on technical assistance for five-years so they can successfully transition to using sustainable farming practices to grow many traditional and new crops.
Organização: Sustainable Harvest International
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Sustainable Harvest International
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País da organização
Estados Unidos , ME, Ellsworth, Hancock County
Países onde este projeto vem gerando impacto social
Honduras, various rural communities in Yoro & Santa Barbara, Honduras. We also work in Panama, Belize & Nicaragua.
Sua organização é
OSCIP/ONG
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June 2012 - Shriver Award for Distinguished Humanitarian Service, National Peace Corps Association
November 2011 - Woodrow Wilson Visiting Fellow, The Council of Independent Colleges
May 2011 - Honorary Doctorate, University of New Hampshire
June 2009 - Americans Who Tell The Truth, Portrait by Robert Shetterly
May 2009 - Distinguished Service Award, Garden Club of America
October 2007 - Classic Woman Award, Traditional Home Magazine
February 2007 - Women of the Earth Award, Yves Rocher Foundation
May 2005 - Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters, Southern New Hampshire University
May 2005 - Distinguished Alumnus Award, University of New Hampshire
October 2004 - e-chievement Award, etown
May 2003 - Women of Achievement Award, Business & Professional Women
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Sustainable Farms Feed the World
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Sustainable Harvest International empowers families to produce a healthful diet for themselves all the time by providing them with regular, hands-on technical assistance for five-years so they can successfully transition to using sustainable farming practices to grow many traditional and new crops.
Problema
Most of the 2.1 billion people living in poverty in rural areas suffer from ongoing hunger and malnutrition. Though most have access to land and other natural resources and a desire to learn new farming techniques, they lack the intensive technical assistance necessary to recuperate degraded lands and make them productive long term. They also do not know how to grow more than a few crops of limited nutrient value.
Solução
UN expert Olivier De Schutter has stated that organic and sustainable farming can end world hunger and global climate change. Most of the 2.1 billion rural poor would like to transition to sustainable farming but need technical assistance to succeed. By supporting regular visits from trained, local extension agents, SHI empowers these families to start producing a balanced diet for themselves and additional income through the use of sustainable farming practices. Our five-phase approach to solving the nutritional problems of Central America is innovative, hands-on and long-term. Families are still producing a balanced diet for themselves years after graduating from our program and have each trained an average of seven more families.
Exemplo
In the words of Panamanian farmer José Aníbal Valdés: "I visited my neighbor and met the [SHI] Field Trainer. I was interested in knowing if I could do organic farming and what help I could receive; the answer was that Now, I have the technical assistance, seeds for the plantings, and I know how to make organic compost, natural pest repellents and other items we use. At this time, I have a parcel of tomatoes, red beans, peppers and corn. It is nearby, so we can harvest close to home. My wife and children are very excited because we know that we are now secure in having food three times a day. Before, we only thought about where we would earn some money, and when there was no work to be had, there was nothing else we could do [to eat]."
Impacto
Since 1997, SHI has worked with more than 2,000 families almost half of whom have graduated from our sustainable farming extension program. Collectively, those families have converted more than 16,000 acres of degraded land to sustainable, productive farms. In 2010, a survey was conducted with 20% of the graduates from eight of SHI's first participating communities. On average families said that they were able to meet family nutritional demands 80% of the time with items produced on their farms. Each family also said that they trained an additional seven families to use the techniques taught by SHI and the people conducting the survey saw evidence that these techniques were being used throughout the communities although SHI worked directly with only 20% of the population. Most impacts of SHI's work in relation to nutrition are anecdotal but plentiful.
Mercado
Most poverty alleviation efforts seem to focus on helping the poor to set up businesses to earn more money to buy more food. Business skills can usually be increased only so much, though, and when businesses fail due to lost or shifting markets or other factors poor families are often left with no income AND no food. Programs that do focus on farming usually depend on expensive, toxic agro-chemicals that ultimately decrease productivity. The few programs that promote sustainable farming are usually too short-term or narrowly focused to be successful in the long run.
Plano de Sustentabilidade
It costs $4,000 to put one family through our program, but once they graduate they need no further assistance and will train seven more families bringing the cost down to $500 per family. The impact will last for generations. SHI is looking into earned-income opportunities that could both further our mission and fund the expansion of our program. Additional resources are need, however, to take the program to scale.
Histório de Fundação
As a Peace Corps volunteer in Panama, I saw first-hand how slash-and-burn farming or chemical-dependent farming was not allowing farmers to sustain their families in their rural communities. What really came home to me was how much the farmers wanted to learn an alternative and needed long-term technical assistance to be successful. After working for several other nonprofits, I founded SHI working out of a spare bedroom at my parents' house to support our first two field trainers in Honduras. One surprise donation from a Swiss man I had met in Panama weeks earlier got it all started. A Honduran partner organization, US Board and more donors soon got the organization on its feet.
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By partnering with others more knowledgeable about nutrition, we could help our participating families take fuller advantage of their increased and diversified farm production.
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Criado em 05/14/2013 por clovel2
Sustainable conservation agriculture (SCA) is a different kind of greener revolution. It is an empowering movement for small stakeholder farmers to revolt, and reclaims their soil and environment so that they could get the nutrients to grow their health, longevity and prosperity.
Organização: Organization for Research and Community Development Global
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Organization for Research and Community Development Global
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Países onde este projeto vem gerando impacto social
Sua organização é
OSCIP/ONG
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ORCD has been recognized and honored with numerous provincial and international awards since its inception in 2011.
International:
• Aga Khan Development Network for sustainable management
• GIZ-DETA on behalf of Germany Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development in agriculture
• International WorkLife Balance Award for contributing to welfare of women in society
Provincial:
• Department of Women Affairs (women empowerment) in Daikundi
• Women literacy training in Baghlan
• Baseline Nutrition Survey using SMART methodology in Kandahar
• Provincial Coordination and Management Committee for agricultural projects in Baghlan
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A Food Revolution to Reconnect Our Nutrient Chain
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Crescimento (piloto operando e começando sua expansão)
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Sustainable conservation agriculture (SCA) is a different kind of greener revolution. It is an empowering movement for small stakeholder farmers to revolt, and reclaims their soil and environment so that they could get the nutrients to grow their health, longevity and prosperity.
Problema
Our productive and sustainable solution is unique because it can address a multitude of issues face by today’s expanding global population such as shrinking suitable arable land, declining soil potency, water shortage, and expensive fuel and agro-chemicals. Most of our food production is grown at the expenses of our environment, economy and farmers, and they are operated by mostly women stakeholders which are the most vulnerable group.
Solução
SCA is smarter farming with a one-stop solution. As an empowering movement, it uses updated scientific agricultural knowledge to increase and improve food production and builds sustainable income using local inputs. Studies showed that SCA using a 4000 square feet bed can provide a complete nutritious diet for a person annually with some leftover for income production. SCA maintains social, environment and economy sustainability. It allows for an extensive usage of available labor from family and community leading to social cohesion and justice. Moreover, it encourages a harmonious relationship with human and nature using concept of recycling, management and protection to increase soil biodiversity. It requires only minimal inputs.
Exemplo
Chipo lives in the African urban slum with her three kids but one died young due to malnutrition and her husband left her for the city to work and never came back. Chipo was introduced to CSA but her main problem was lack of suitable cultivated land, and so we taught her to grow crop vegetables in bags of soil tied together to make a 100 square feet outside her home. She was successful and able to feed her family. She also formed a group with other women to do the same but each having to grow different crops and then sharing the outputs. Soon they are able to afford a goat and some chickens from selling the excess vegetables. The women started a micro-finance system to help their fellow friends and to propagate the CSA.
Impacto
Many parts of the world are using CSA in ‘bits and pieces’ but never in a complete system like us. Therefore, the data about it is not absolute but almost all have been positive. The world contains about 470 million smallholder farms with almost all operated by women. CSA has the ability to provide a complete and balanced diet with all the macro and micronutrients for 8 persons per acre annually with enough remaining for income production. Imagine Africa where 33 million small farms produce the bulk of the nation’s food supply. If we take the math of 2 hectares per smallholder farm then we have about 82 million acres in total in Africa that can feed a population of 652 million Africans or 60% of the continent annually and forever. CSA can be a revolutionary idea to transform people’s live and elevate them out of poverty and food insecurity.
Mercado
Global food production is generally approaches on a large scale using unsustainable mechanized chemical or organic farming. The food value is often supplemented with fortification and hybrid breeding. CSA differs by engaging women farmers who hold the largest share to apply cost-effective principles such as small bed preparation, composting, crop rotation, and et cetera. It unites and uses all family labor and local resources without expending on fertilizers, soil amendments, and heavy farm machinery. All the works can be done with little land and resources. This is our advantage.
Plano de Sustentabilidade
CSA is employable at any settings and sizes. It works best for small farms. The model is financially sustains from participants’ tuition fees, sponsored community trust fund, profits from selling crops, and setting up sponsored training facilities throughout. Another financial model can involved charging certification fee for approved CSA farm. Of course, by winning this competition we are able to get a head-start in executing our plan.
Histório de Fundação
As a physician by trade, I am most concern about the nutritional effects of food on our human growth and potential. My ‘aha’ moment came when I was listening to President Clinton giving a speech about challenging us to find solution for food security. This was later deepened when I heard the world’s leaders at the UN discussing about insecurity of women and children. Therefore, I wanted an innovative solution to solve this ineffective nutrient chain. Our idea must be adaptable, cheap, uses local resources only, unifies communities and families, and most importantly, empowers women and children. We wanted an idea that uses women as Changemakers.
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Alimentos completos em nutrientes, Bem estar e vitalidade humana.
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The benefits of CSA can be extended by collective gathering of the outputs in a community food store and kitchen. The centralized location provides community members a space for sharing ideas about developments and support in health, business and skills trainings, and the processing of food procurement, preparation and distribution. A community kitchen is a great place to also learn how to cook and eat healthy, and to store excess food away from bugs and rodents. This capacity building is beneficial to create nutritious food for the people and promotes wellness.
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Sustainable conservation agriculture (SCA) is a different kind of greener revolution. It is an empowering movement for small stakeholder farmers to revolt, and reclaims their soil and environment so that they could get the nutrients to grow their health, longevity and prosperity.
Sustainable Harvest International empowers families to produce a healthful diet for themselves all the time by providing them with regular, hands-on technical assistance for five-years so they can successfully transition to using sustainable farming practices to grow many traditional and new crops.
Criado em 05/14/2013 por Dhruv Bansal
Balancers trying to reduce hunger crisis, are developing a food-o-social website cum application which would elaborate the concept of social inclusion. We are availing an opportunity to the people, to be recognized for the efforts they have put with innovative calorie donation cum execution.
Organização: Balancers
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OSCIP/ONG
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Balancers trying to reduce hunger crisis, are developing a food-o-social website cum application which would elaborate the concept of social inclusion. We are availing an opportunity to the people, to be recognized for the efforts they have put with innovative calorie donation cum execution.
Problema
The unbalanced state of our society, the deteriorating condition of nourishment, unequal distribution of resources and lack of awareness amongst the masses motivated us, to work for the society, for the sake of people, for the social welfare.The website-cum-application will generate awareness and provide practical solutions to the issues, the ones we face today.Providing practical solutions to deal with the epidemic obese and undernourishment.
Solução
Food|booK focuses on generating, operating and spreading solutions by creating a Global Alliance. This leads to the ultimate goal of uprooting the status-quo and thereby promoting an idea to feed a massive population of 9 billion.
-To make people aware and awaken their consciousness.
-To hand out practical solutions by connecting people.
-Accounting and recognizing people's efforts by Socializing Food Credits.
-To create a balanced calorie distribution system.
-Cartel NGO's for channelizing of funds and promote transparency.
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Histório de Fundação
As any idea gets its roots from another idea, to us that another idea was the Thought For Food Challenge’13. One pleasant morning, we all were surfing on Google, starting with as simple as Food wastage to as complicated as Sustainable Food Systems, etc; and after going through all the leading websites like fao, wfp, etc and wonderful blogs by different enthusiasts, we came across simple questions-Why do I have to go through various websites working for the same vital issues? Why aren’t some exploding-ly interesting blogs not able to reach out to people they should have? When I am ready to help, why do I have limited resources and options? Then we thought, are we capable enough to club? And the answer came YES, WHY NOT!
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Criado em 05/14/2013 por Nicholas Luther
Kwik Khana aims to reduce food insecurity in urban slums worldwide by providing people in need with nutritious, affordable and convenient food. Our current model has been developed forDharavi, Mumbai, one of the largest urban slums in the world, and we hope to expand to slums worldwide.
Organização: Kwik Khana
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Estados Unidos , Berkeley
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Hult Prize 2013 Global Event, Top Ten Finalist; recognized as one of the top ten social entrepreneurship ideas out of more than seventy video submissions by public votes
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Kwik Khana aims to reduce food insecurity in urban slums worldwide by providing people in need with nutritious, affordable and convenient food. Our current model has been developed forDharavi, Mumbai, one of the largest urban slums in the world, and we hope to expand to slums worldwide.
Problema
We live in a world where 925 million suffer from hunger. Each day, people suffer in both health and happiness due to lacking easy access to affordable and nutritious food. Food insecurity rural areas is widely-known. But tackling the issue in urban slums requires a different approach.
Solução
All Kwik Khana products are contained within a revolutionary flexible packaging system that contains two compartments separated by a resin seal. One compartment contains the solid ingredients, Kwik Khana’s fortified food blend, while the adjacent compartment contains clean water. When the resin seal separating the two compartments is broken by hand, the solid and liquid ingredients mix creating a porridge-like consistency familiar to diets around the world.
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Ambientes saudáveis, Alimentos completos em nutrientes, Bem estar e vitalidade humana.
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Criado em 05/14/2013 por Fanny Widadie
School of SL-PTT is the place of farmer school to learn how producing rice with integrated farming management approach - land, water, plants. School of SL-PTT is create to help farmer repairing their cultivation ways with Integrated-organic and increasing their rice productivity, income and welfare
Organização: SL-PTT
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Indonésia, YO, Sleman - Yogyakarta
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Government Honors, Indonesian Ministry of Agriculture
(Supporting for the existence of SL-PTT program)
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School of SL-PTT - Education of Integrated Farming System on Rice
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Start-up (piloto lançado e começando a operar)
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Elevator Pitch
School of SL-PTT is the place of farmer school to learn how producing rice with integrated farming management approach - land, water, plants. School of SL-PTT is create to help farmer repairing their cultivation ways with Integrated-organic and increasing their rice productivity, income and welfare
Problema
Indonesia farmers do not have knowledge and information enough about rice cultivation system in a sustainable and integrated, so that the rice productivity is still very low. It causes low farm income and food insecurity in farmer household. Besides it, the type of rice produced is also low nutritional quality. Indonesia farmer need knowledge and new technologies on integrated rice farming practices which are sustainable, healthy and prosperous
Solução
Establishing and Developing school of integrated agricultural management by enganging the farmers and agricultural extension workers.Indonesia farmers are generally lack knowledge of rice cultivation and information access, therefore it needs to solve through the development of SL-PTT School. This school is intended to help farmers acquiring knowledge and technology transfer in an integrated agriculture and cultivation. This school is facilitating farmers and agricultural extensions to learn and discuss together determining the types and methods of agricultural technology that will be selected and developed. These technologies include the selection of rice varieties, tillage, seeding, fertilizing, pest control, harvest and post-harvest.
Exemplo
Integrated farming is a cultivation system that integrates the resources of land, water, plants, organism and climate to be able to increase the productivity of land and crops. School of SL-PTT will help all the problems of farmers in relation to technology transfer. For example, selecting to use rice varieties suitable local environment, managing of plant spacing to use legowo system, fertilizing, integrated pest management-avoiding of pesticides and harvesting effective through mechanization. All was done to improve the productivity and efficiency of rice farming. The learning process is doing for free which facilitated farmers to solve their problems with extension in SL-PTT school. The learning is done directly on the practice field.
Impacto
School of SL-PTT have an impact on increasing rice production, farmers’ income and it has changed the way of rice cultivation by implementing integrated farming system.Generally, rice production in 1 ha paddy field was producing 5 tons, but after implementation of integrated farming sstem from SL-PTT school, it is rising to 8 tonnes/ha. The high rice productivity is due to the adoption of technology by farmers in a changing rice cultivation way. Integrated farming system combining resource of land, water, plants, management of pest and pos-harvest can improve rice production and farmers’ revenue. The kinds of technology that farmers adopted widely such as spacing of plant using legowo system, yielding varieties, using organic matterial and reduce on chemical. In addition, the quality of rice is higher and healthier because the residu of the chemical substance is low.
Mercado
Training of rice cultivation have been carried out but using the integrated farming system approach is very rare. The model of SL-PTT learning is done directly in the paddy field where the farmer can determine the combination of technologies used to increase their rice production. School of SL-PTT is only as a medium of information and knowledge center for integrated farming system and then farmers and agricultural extension together applies these technologies in the field. Each of selected technology is adapted to land potential, the ability of farmers and knowledge of agricultural science.
Plano de Sustentabilidade
To development and sustainability of SL-PTT school will be undertaken in collaboration with ministry of agriculture and developing a business unit. The facilities in SL-PTT School will be upgraded, not only as education institutional but also providing of farming materials and production equipment and marketing services. Therefore, the production budget of this project is not few and it needs banking services.
Histório de Fundação
The establishment of SL-PTT school begans from the declining productivity of rice farming and the wrong manners of rice cultivation by farmers – unsustainable and high production cost. These problem make ministry of agriculture to move agriculture extension of guidance and assistance the farmers to reform the way with technolog transfer. One way to solve this problem, the goverment has created and developed of SL-PTT school. Because of the limitations of government aids, consequently the SL-PTT school do not operation well to service farmers. Therefore to make SL-PTT more optimal, we built new SL-PTT in Sleman-Yogyakarta. This school was not only as education institutional but also serving the needs of rice farmers both inputs and markets.
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Alimentos completos em nutrientes.
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To be able to grow and existence in serving the needs of farmers, it will be set up a business unit of the SL-PTT. These business will be providing farming inputs and services. The farming input such as fertilizers, seeds, farming equipment rental and harvest and post-harvest mechanization. In addition, SL-PTT will provide marketing services helping the sell of rice yields to the official government agencies and rice milling industry. The cooperation between SL-PTT school and farmers are mutually beneficial cooperation where farmers are served to get knowledge and services – input and market.
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Criado em 05/13/2013 por GaryMO
While 1 out of 6 Americans is food insecure yet can't get fresh food from a food pantry, millions of American homeowners grow more food in their home gardens than they can use. It doesn't have to be this way.
AmpleHarvest.org connects the dots. The solution to hunger is in our backyards.
Organização: AmpleHarvest.org
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CNN Hero
Highlighted by Michelle Obama in a speech and in her book
Met the President of the United States
USDA People's Garden Initiative Award
Huff Post Greatest Person of the Day
Huff Post Game Changer 2011
Russ Berrie "Unsung Hero" award
Elfenworks "In Harmoney With Hope"
Glynwood "Wave of the Future"
Echoing Green Semifinalist
New Jersey "Environmental Achievement Award"
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While 1 out of 6 Americans is food insecure yet can't get fresh food from a food pantry, millions of American homeowners grow more food in their home gardens than they can use. It doesn't have to be this way.
AmpleHarvest.org connects the dots. The solution to hunger is in our backyards.
Problema
50 million Americans rely on the more than 33,500 food pantries across America to help feed their families.
These pantries get a large percentage of their food from a regional food bank. A structural flaw in this network prevents them from accepting or distributing fresh food.
The impact is that they distribute canned produce processed with sugar/salt which helps to contribute to America's health care and environmental problems.
Solução
AmpleHarvest.org, moving information instead of food to end hunger and malnutrition in America, is educating, encouraging and empowering growers to share their excess harvest with the needy in their community instead of letting it rot in the garden.
This virtual solution to hunger sustainably helps eliminate food waste, food insecurity, diminishes the waste stream and methane emissions from trash dumps, lower the food pantry carbon foot print, creates community engagement, promotes sustainable community agriculture, reduces the likelihood of diabetes, childhood obesity, etc. along with other food related illnesses and helps to expand availability of healthy food to those with least access to it - at no cost to the community.
Exemplo
Historically, growers with excess food let it rot in the garden or threw it away - this while nearby neighbors were hungry or malnourished and nearby food pantries helping to feed these people had to continually buy processed food shipped in from across the country.
Now that AmpleHarvest.org connects the local grower with the pantry,
1. Freshly harvested food is now available to the needy.
2. Excess food is kept out of the waste stream and doesn't create methane in trash dumps
3. The pantry carbon footprint is reduced, no packaging enters the waste stream
4. Donors are able to donate at no cost to themselves for the rest of their garden life
5. Illness (diabetes, obesity, etc) is reduced along with America's long health care costs
Impacto
AmpleHarvest.org's goal is educate, encourage and enable America's 40 million gardeners to share their excess food with a local food pantry.
Heretofore "invisible" Pantries must become "visible" to the local grower before donates can be made. As of 5/1/13, nearly 6,000 (and growing) pantries serving an estimated 8 million food insecure people have become accessible via AmpleHarvest.org to these gardeners.
The education/encouragement is best measured in the media/blogger coverage we've had to date (see www.ampleharvest.org/news-merged.php) along with the outreach by people such as First Lady Michelle Obama (www.AmpleHarvest.org/WhiteHouse), USDA Master Gardener administrators, the faith community and growers themselves.
Current estimates are that more than 30 million lbs of food was donated through the end of 2012 - getting fresh food to those with least access to it.
Mercado
One program created in 1995 called Plant-A-Row has been encouraging people to plant extra food and then they arranged to pick it up and take it to a food pantry. This was a very labor intensive and very limited geographic spread.
By using the Internet, AmpleHarvest.org reaches every town and enables the grower themselves to take the food to the pantry - making labor and transportation a distributed effort. AmpleHarvest.org has in effect done to local food donations what Amazon.com did to book store services - make it available to anyone anywhere without incremental costs.
Plano de Sustentabilidade
AmpleHarvest.org's innovation results in a nationwide operations cost of a few hundred thousand dollars - a tiny fraction of other programs. For example, our budget is 5 minutes of Feeding America's annual budget.
Today, AmpleHarvest.org relies on donations, virtual food drives and grants. Long term plans for sustainability include a "store", monetizing our data and partnerships although donations will remain a needed resource too.
Histório de Fundação
As director of a community garden in 2008, I learned that some garden plot holders, like millions of gardeners nationwide, left large amounts of produce unharvested when they grew more than they could possibly use.
Aware that hunger is a problem, I suggested that we gather this food and deliver it to local food pantries. Pantries however are nearly impossible to find and typically don’t accept fresh food.
In 2009, I created AmpleHarvest.org, new supply side channel in America’s food network that would educate, encourage and enable growers with extra produce to donate it to a local food pantry thereby enabling them to garden-by-garden, help diminish hunger, malnutrition and food waste in America while helping the environment.
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While the AmpleHarvest.org program has been nationally acclaimed as an innovative virtual solution to hunger, AmpleHarvest.org the organization is still in its relatively early growth stages and needs critical infrastructure to help nurture the programs' long term sustainability. With this additional support in place, we would be able to remain 100% focused on continuing to build and expand this new supply side distribution channel between local growers with an ample harvest and the nearby food pantries that most need it – critical for the pantry clients are desperate for fresh food.
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Criado em 05/13/2013 por rdoiron
Do you dig good food? We do too, literally. We're Kitchen Gardeners International (KGI), a nonprofit of 30,000 people growing our own healthy food and helping others to do the same. We're best known for having led the successful campaign for a kitchen garden at the White House. We're ready to grow!
Organização: Kitchen Gardeners International
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Kitchen Gardeners International
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Estados Unidos , ME, Scarborough, Cumberland County
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-On Day One contest grand prize winner (United Nations Foundation)
-Edible Nation grand prize winner (eHow.com and Rachael Ray)
-Heart of Green award winner (Hearst Corporation)
-Do Good Outdoors contest winner (Good Magazine)
-Climate Matters Video Contest - 3rd prize (Vimeo)
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Do you dig good food? We do too, literally. We're Kitchen Gardeners International (KGI), a nonprofit of 30,000 people growing our own healthy food and helping others to do the same. We're best known for having led the successful campaign for a kitchen garden at the White House. We're ready to grow!
Problema
How can we manage to feed 10 billion people both nutritiously and sustainably in 2100 when we're not managing to do either in 2013 with a population of 7.1 billion? (Hint: the answer is in our own backyard.)
Solução
KGI thinks that the best way to accomplish something big is to inspire and empower a lot of people to do something small. We seek to improve food security and maximize human and environmental health through the promotion of food gardens, the smallest and most accessible form of agriculture. Our approach is to harness the resources-human, technical, financial-of people who grow their own nutritious, delicious, and sustainable food to help others do the same. We do this through three programs: 1) educational programming to teach more people how to grow their own food 2) awareness-raising campaigns that make the case for more food gardens to policy-makers and thought-leaders and 3) mini-grants to small,like-minded groups in the US and abroad.
Exemplo
KGI has excelled at applying modest financial resources to targeted societal pressure points to achieve big results. To date, we've achieved our biggest victories by mobilizing people online to create momentum towards a goal, using that momentum to attract media attention (we've been covered 10 times in the New York Times in the past 5 years), and then using the media attention to mobilize even more people. This is the approach we used with our White House Kitchen Garden campaign which ended up winning the United Nations Foundation's On Day One competition and coverage in Washington Post, BBC and Wall Street Journal. That high-profile garden is now thriving and serving as the best advertisement for food gardens that money can buy.
Impacto
While our past results are impressive for such a small organization (reaching, teaching and inspiring millions of people with an annual budget of under $100,000), we're most excited about our future impacts, especially in connection with our new mini-grants program called Sow It Forward. Launched last year, Sow It Forward leverages the volunteer resources of our community along with the financial and material resources of gardening companies and funders to plant and sustain food gardens that serve vulnerable and underserved populations. In our first year, we offered 80 grants (73 in the US, 7 abroad) that reached 24,000 people and helped them to grow 80,000 pounds of healthy food. Yet, we're just scratching the surface of this program's potential: our online application received over 920 applications in just 5 weeks. Our goal in 2014 is to double our grants and impacts.
Mercado
There are many gardening & small-scale agriculture initiatives underway globally. One thing that sets us apart from many traditional garden organizations (eg the National Gardening Association) is our focus on food gardens. We share some of the same goals of groups working in the re-localization/resilience space (like the Transition Network) but there too, our focus on food gardens sets us apart. We're similar to an Ashoka-sponsored group in Ireland called GIY, but rather than create local chapters like they're doing, we're partnering with existing local groups like schools, churches, etc.
Plano de Sustentabilidade
We're finding that there are many people, foundations & companies willing to donate their time, seeds, cash, supplies and know-how for redistribution to garden projects in need. Our sustainability plan is create value by serving as a clearinghouse for these donations and to fund the mini-grants part of our work (our main activity moving forward) via foundations and companies that share our garden goals. It's working, but we'd like to do more.
Histório de Fundação
My epiphany came when I returned to my childhood neighborhood in the suburbs of Portland, ME (where I now reside again) after living and traveling abroad for 10 years. I came home to see that the gardens of my youth had disappeared or been downsized and that the neighborhood farm where I had picked peas and beans as a 12 year old had been plowed under and sown with a different type of crop: a subdivision of 100 houses growing immaculate, chemically-enhanced lawns and absolutely nothing to eat, unless you happen to be a sheep. Prior to my return to Maine, I had been working in Brussels as head of Friends of the Earth Europe, an environmental NGO. I realized that one good way to make the world a better, healthier place was to plant a seed.
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Se você tivesse uma capacidade maior, quais funções adicionais você gostaria que sua solução abordasse – por meio de expansão, parcerias, ou intercâmbio de ideias?
Ambientes saudáveis, Agricultura rica em nutrientes, Alimentos completos em nutrientes, Bem estar e vitalidade humana.
Como, especificamente, esta capacidade adicional ajudaria a melhorar a qualidade, eficiência, ou sustentabilidade do seu produto ou serviço?
Support via Nutrients for All would help us do three things:
1. Increase the number of local partner groups we could support and engage via our Sow It Forward program, especially those in the Global South. This past year, we supported 80 groups total, 7 of which abroad. Our goal this year is to double that.
2. Improve KGI.org as an online community for our partner groups by migrating our Drupal 7 site to Drupal Commons 3.0.
3. Create more global solidarity and networking via improved coordination of World Kitchen Garden Day.
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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.
This project also has a Changeshop where you can read more about its latest progress.
Ir ao Changeshop: Fairleaf Foods.
Criado em 05/12/2013 por tiffanydanae
Fairleaf uses nutrient dense Moringa trees to empower communities to nourish themselves. Our food products will be sourced from a fair trade supply chain. We’ll train, source and produce with smallholder farmers, using profits to improve incomes, education, reforestation and food security programs.
Organização: Fairleaf Foods
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Fairleaf Foods competed in this year's Echoing Green Fellowship competition, and was selected as a semi-finalist from among nearly 3000 applications.
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Fairleaf uses nutrient dense Moringa trees to empower communities to nourish themselves. Our food products will be sourced from a fair trade supply chain. We’ll train, source and produce with smallholder farmers, using profits to improve incomes, education, reforestation and food security programs.
Problema
Worldwide, an estimated 870 million are undernourished. 165 million of those are children under 5, including 38% of children in Nicaragua. Extreme poverty is a primary indicator, and 76% of Nicaraguans live on under $2 a day. Progress towards eradicating hunger is achievable with income and agriculture interventions that include smallholder farmers. We can solve these issues in Nicaraguan communities by utilizing Moringa to its full potential.
Solução
We will sell Moringa based food products in the US and international markets. In doing so, we will harness the economic power of the US consumer, utilizing untapped profitability to fund our social mission. We will address the root causes of hunger (poverty, lack of access, lack of education, deforestation) through our economically driven model. Building capacity in Nicaragua to both grow and produce will create a direct from farm, sustainable supply chain that aims to educate, diversify income, create jobs and above all support our non-profit nutrition and educational intervention programs, This will ensure broad impact in food security through addressing these root causes, bringing lasting solutions that will not be mere band aids.
Exemplo
Instead of giving out a bandaid intervention, we will be embracing a cycle that empowers individuals, smallholder farmers, and entire communities. As an example, we would engage with a community through our partnerships that is food insecure, where current and potential smallholder farmers are present. With just one farmer, we can impact an entire community. We will provide resources and education for growing Moringa, source directly from that farmer for our production, set up production within that community, and sell products in US markets. We will then bring profits back into that community through educational programs, micro financing for expansion, and job creation in our production.
Impacto
So far, we have trained 180 households in a pilot curriculum in Rwanda. We will adapt this model to Nicarauga to ensure broad community impact. We will improve the health and livelihoods of rural smallholder farmers, employees and communities in Nicaragua. In year 1, we’ll train and source Moringa from 20 smallholder farmers, aiming for a 30% increase in their income and boosting their communities’ economies with education, food security, job creation and reforestation (totaling about 5,000 Nicaraguans). We also plan to reach 100,000 US customers with healthier food choices and Moringa education. Within 5 years we’ll expand to Africa, sell nationally in the US, and source from at least 100 smallholder farmers and impact 30,000 Nicaraguans. We will fund and collaborate with partner organizations, enabling them to educate and promote Moringa for nutrition and reforestation.
Mercado
Numerous programs worldwide focus on malnutrition and impoverished smallholder farmers. Few though are currently using Moringa in their programs (e.g. Trees for Life). Moringa has been primarily relegated to supplement and cosmetics markets (e.g. Grenera, Body Shop respectively), and only one other company that we know of is selling a prepared beverage (Zija Drink). With current “super food” consumption trends, Moringa is poised for broad acceptance.
Plano de Sustentabilidade
After start up, our goal is to rely mainly on earned income from sales of our foods. We’ll develop strong relationships with customers, securing large contracts with vendors such as Whole Foods and Trader Joe’s quickly. As costs go down with discounted wholesale purchasing and moving production to Nicaragua, more funds will go towards our social outreach programs until we reach our target funding of them.
Histório de Fundação
Fairleaf Foods was conceived by four friends in a rural village in the mountains of Nicaragua. The three other co-founders were in the Peace Corps while I was completing my MPH internship nearby. We
were all experimenting with Moringa recipes in food security and nutrition efforts in our communities, and enjoying eating them ourselves. We realized if we enjoyed them so much, others would buy similar products in the US, especially if they knew their purchase would impact social change.From that moment, we started sharing our passion and recipes with others and have realized that so many are eager to contribute to fighting malnutrition while eating delicious, healthy foods themselves!
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Se você tivesse uma capacidade maior, quais funções adicionais você gostaria que sua solução abordasse – por meio de expansão, parcerias, ou intercâmbio de ideias?
Ambientes saudáveis, Agricultura rica em nutrientes, Alimentos completos em nutrientes, Bem estar e vitalidade humana.
Como, especificamente, esta capacidade adicional ajudaria a melhorar a qualidade, eficiência, ou sustentabilidade do seu produto ou serviço?
We feel we are only beginning to touch on all these sectors. Our business model will engage us in all of them, but this added capacity will ensure we can dive deeply into creating a thorough educational model for our farmers, with on the ground support staff. Added capacity will also help us ensure we are building our brand quickly to encourage sustainability and efficiency of our manufacturing. We will also have more opportunities for diversifying our impact on the environment and overall human wellness as we engage the local community in reforestation and other educational efforts.
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Food Shift is developing innovative food recovery models that generate revenue so vulnerable populations can be trained and employed in the process of reducing food waste.
While 1 out of 6 Americans is food insecure yet can't get fresh food from a food pantry, millions of American homeowners grow more food in their home gardens than they can use. It doesn't have to be this way.
AmpleHarvest.org connects the dots. The solution to hunger is in our backyards.
Every child should have access to fresh, nutritious, and delicious food at school to support healthy eating habits AND healthy food systems. The Food Family Farming Foundation provides the tools and resources to help schools nourish children's bodies, minds and futures.
Do you dig good food? We do too, literally. We're Kitchen Gardeners International (KGI), a nonprofit of 30,000 people growing our own healthy food and helping others to do the same. We're best known for having led the successful campaign for a kitchen garden at the White House. We're ready to grow!
Criado em 05/10/2013 por malavikavinodkumar
The multiple micronutrient fortified salt developed by us, for the first time in the world, is a clinically and commercially proven way to provide micronutrients for all in the cheapest and guaranteed way. Our mission is to reach this salt to the needy particularly in developing countries.
Organização: Sundar Serendipity Foundation
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Nutrients for all through Multi-Micronutrient enriched salt
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The multiple micronutrient fortified salt developed by us, for the first time in the world, is a clinically and commercially proven way to provide micronutrients for all in the cheapest and guaranteed way. Our mission is to reach this salt to the needy particularly in developing countries.
Problema
Over 50% of women and children in developing countries suffer from iron, iodine, B12 ,folic acid , Vitamin A and zinc deficiencies. Anaemia causes decrease in productivity in adults and impairs cognition and learning in children and low birth weight in infants. Vitamin A and zinc deficiencies impair the immune system. B12 and folic acid deficiencies cause birth defects in the foetus. Food eaten by the poor is deficient in micronutrients.
Solução
Therapeutical solutions for multiple micronutrient deficiencies are not sustainable because of cost, logistic problems and lack of knowledge on micronutrient deficiencies. Salt is universally consumed by all. Hence salt is the best carrier to guarantee the reach of multiple micronutrients to all. We have developed for the first time in the world salt containing Vit A, iron, iodine , folic acid B12 and zinc at near RDA levels. We produce fortified crystal and powder salt. Our technology ensures that the micronutrients are stable in the salt during storage, during cooking and are bioavailable. Clinical trials have shown that the use of this salt increases productivity, memory, cognition,anthropometry and micronutrient levels in blood.
Exemplo
We have done social marketing of this multiple micronutrient fortified salt in Kariapatty, Gandhigram and Tirupattur in Tamilnadu.We had worked with Kasturba hospital, Gandhigram to improve the micronutrient status of pregnant women.For more than a decade we have been giving this salt to St Thomas home , Kolkatta,where it is given to tuberculosis patients. Several residential schools in Chennai have been using this salt to improve the micronutrient status of children.With BAIF,we have done multicentric studies in Gujarat,Madhya Pradesh and Karnataka where our salt enriched with iron and iodine(DFS) was used. DFS was also used by tea pickers in plantations. Thousands of users of this salt have reported enormous benefits in improved health.
Impacto
The multiple micronutrient fortified salt has improved statistically significantly the levels of iron, vit A,folic acid, B12 and zinc in the blood and urinary iodine proving that the micronutrients in our salt are stable and bioavailable. This salt has also improved anthropometry, memory and cognition in children. Our salt fortified with iron and iodine(DFS)has improved the productivity of tea pickers and reduced absenteeism due to fatigue in them. It has also improved the micronutrient status of pregnant women. Thousands of people who have used this salt have reported reduced fatigue, better ability to work, and decreased morbidity,especially in children.Since anaemia and other micronutrient deficiencies affect 50% of women and children and almost 25% of men too in India, and salt is universally used, the impact of combating micronutrient deficiencies through this salt is enormous.
Mercado
We are the only manufacturers of the multiple micronutrient fortified salt in the world both in crystal and powder form. There are few manufacturers of salt fortified with iron and iodine(DFS)in pure powder salt but none in crystal salt which is used by the poor predominantly.The iron in our salt is highly bioavailable and all the other micronutrients are microencapsulated for stability and bioavailability. We have an Indian patent.We are targeting the poor with fortified crystal salt which nobody has done.Current method of giving Iron and folate tablets have not been able to combat anaemia.
Plano de Sustentabilidade
We have produced a film on our salt for nutrition education for the poor-see youtube link. Our experience shows that when they see the film and understand the role of micronutrients and that the fortified salt is the cheapest way of getting micronutrients-half US cent per person per day, they are willing to buy our salt.If seed capital is provided for Nutrition education,enabling buyers pull,at our pricing,financial sustainability can be ensured.
Histório de Fundação
My father Mr K. Ramu of Sundar Chemicals Pvt Ltd was the pioneer who commercially made iron fortified salt in India in 1985. Since salt was universally used, he felt it would be an ideal vehicle to combat anaemia which was rampant in India then and now too. Universal iodisation became mandatory in late eighties, and hence we did our own Research to microencapsulate iodine so that it is stable along with iron in double fortified salt. We were the first company to launch commercially double fortified salt in India in 1992. Since 1998 we have been doing social marketing of the multiple micronutrient fortified salt. We are also pioneers in the manufacture of multiple micronutrient crystal salt for the poor since the poor use only crystal salt.
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Alimentos completos em nutrientes, Bem estar e vitalidade humana.
Como, especificamente, esta capacidade adicional ajudaria a melhorar a qualidade, eficiência, ou sustentabilidade do seu produto ou serviço?
Scaling up and added capacity with factories located in various regions would enable us to do social marketing on pan India basis reducing logistical cost of long distant movements.Thiswill enable us embark on All India movement for "Nutrients for all or Freedom from silent hunger" We have spent a million rupees in making a film on our fortified salt named Sundar health salt for Nutrition education and have also dubbed it in several regional languages with english subtitles. The seed capital/grant for nutrition education will create the pull from the buyers thus sustaining financial viability.
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Pessoas precisam de nutrientes apropriados para crescer, aprender, e evitar doenças. Como você mede e segue níveis ou usa informações sobre nutrientes no seu trabalho?
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Considerando o fluxos dos nutrientes dos ecossistemas para o solo, para fazendas, para alimentos, para comunidades, quais são as barreiras para atingir vitalide para as pessoas e o planeta?
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Na sua opinião, que desenvolvimentos precisam acontecer para ajudar a superar essas barreiras e produzir pessoas e um planeta mais rico em nutrientes e vitalidade?
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The multiple micronutrient fortified salt developed by us, for the first time in the world, is a clinically and commercially proven way to provide micronutrients for all in the cheapest and guaranteed way. Our mission is to reach this salt to the needy particularly in developing countries.
This project also has a Changeshop where you can read more about its latest progress.
Ir ao Changeshop: Kuli Kuli.
Criado em 05/8/2013 por Lisa Curtis
Kuli Kuli makes superfood bars with a mission to feed the world. These bars connect people in the US in search of healthy food to those in the developing world who need healthy food through moringa, the most nutrient-rich plant on the planet.
Organização: Kuli Kuli
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Estados Unidos , CA, Alameda, Alameda County
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Ashoka Emerging Innovator American Express Award,
William James Foundation Finalist (we find out if we're a winner on June 3rd)
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Kuli Kuli makes superfood bars with a mission to feed the world. These bars connect people in the US in search of healthy food to those in the developing world who need healthy food through moringa, the most nutrient-rich plant on the planet.
Problema
In West Africa, more than eighteen million children are severely malnourished and over 75% of the population lives on less than $2 per day. In the same region, Moringa Oleifera — a tree also known as the “miracle tree” — thrives and contains high levels of protein, iron, calcium, vitamins, and antioxidants. However, three main barriers prevent local communities from reaping the nutritional and economic benefits of moringa.
Solução
Kuli Kuli sells nutritional bars in the U.S. made with moringa imported from West Africa. Through our supply chain, we help form and encourage women-operated farming cooperatives to process moringa in a way that retains its nutrients. As our grassroots partners work with women to incorporate this nutrient-rich moringa into local diets, malnutrition levels decline and the income levels of the moringa growers increase. By creating an international market for the moringa and purchasing moringa from these women, they will be financially empowered: many of the women we work with make up to $300 per month, 5-10 times the average income in the region.
Exemplo
Our flagship moringa partner is Adaeze Agu, founder of Moringa Revealed. For the past six years, Adaeze has worked closely with women’s groups in her home country, Nigeria, as well as in Chad and Ghana to reduce malnutrition using moringa. Her foundation provides seed capital and training to women’s groups adhering to ancestral and sustainable farming methods. To ensure that the moringa is used locally, Adaeze only purchases 40% of the moringa they produce, leaving the majority of the nutrient-rich moringa to improve the health of the women’s families and communities.
Impacto
Within the last year, Kuli Kuli has transformed from an idea into a company. Through the team’s hard work, dedication, and growing support network, we have incorporated as a company, developed product recipes, manufactured and packaged our bars, and forged partnerships with organizations on the ground in West Africa. Within the last few months, we have completed our first round of consumer product testing by selling our product at farmers’ markets, with an exceptional consumer conversion rate. We are now doing an Indiegogo campaign to raise $50,000 for the first manufacturing run of our bars and to prepare for an upcoming meeting with Whole Foods. Though our impact to date has been limited by our small amount of sales we are confident that this impact will grow exponentially in the next three months.
Mercado
The key to Kuli Kuli's competitive edge is moringa. As the first company to bring moringa to the United States in an easily palatable form, Kuli Kuli has the opportunity to introduce this incredible superfood to the U.S. market. The U.S. market is ripe for Kuli Bars. According to the 2011 Mintel U.S. Nutrition & Energy Bars Retail sales of nutrition and energy bars in the U.S. grew at 9% annually between 2006-11, reaching $1.7 billion in 2011, despite a general decline in consumer goods spending.
Plano de Sustentabilidade
It currently costs Kuli Kuli $1.50 to produce and package our bars. We anticipate a dramatic decrease in this price, to $0.75, as we reach economies of scale. We intend to take a 40% gross margin to sustain our business while also estimating an approximate 100% gross margin in distribution and retail costs per bar. We are pricing our bars at $2.99 which is on the higher end for nutritional bars but is low for specialty raw and gluten-free foods.
Histório de Fundação
Kuli Kuli was founded in September 2011 by Lisa Curtis, Jordan Moncharmont, and Valerie Popelka. Lisa Curtis conceived of Kuli Kuli while serving as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Niger, West Africa. One of her major projects while in the Peace Corps was working with moringa to reduce malnutrition. She discovered three major challenges to the successful implementation of moringa as a form of nutritional intervention: seed inaccessibility, a widespread tendency to boil the leaves -- leaching the nutrients and little funding for agricultural projects. Lisa, Jordan, and Valerie started Kuli Kuli to address these issues while meeting U.S. demand for unique and interesting superfoods.
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Ambientes saudáveis.
Como, especificamente, esta capacidade adicional ajudaria a melhorar a qualidade, eficiência, ou sustentabilidade do seu produto ou serviço?
Within the last year, Kuli Kuli has transformed from an idea into a company. Through the team’s hard work, dedication, and growing support network, we have incorporated as a company, developed product recipes, manufactured and packaged our bars, and forged partnerships with organizations on the ground in West Africa. Additional mentorship and resources from Ashoka will accelerate our business development and help us reach our goal of developing moringa into a well-recognized nutrient-rich superfood in the United States that serves as a catalyst to improve nutrition and livelihoods worldwide.
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Considerando o fluxos dos nutrientes dos ecossistemas para o solo, para fazendas, para alimentos, para comunidades, quais são as barreiras para atingir vitalide para as pessoas e o planeta?
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Na sua opinião, que desenvolvimentos precisam acontecer para ajudar a superar essas barreiras e produzir pessoas e um planeta mais rico em nutrientes e vitalidade?
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Kuli Kuli makes superfood bars with a mission to feed the world. These bars connect people in the US in search of healthy food to those in the developing world who need healthy food through moringa, the most nutrient-rich plant on the planet.
Criado em 05/7/2013 por sigit.kusumawijaya
Indonesia Berkebun is an urban farming community networks spread in currently 27 cities & 3 campuses throughout the country socializing public to optimize non-productive land in urban area to be better able to provide food security and empower people via both social media and on-field real action.
Organização: Indonesia Berkebun
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Indonésia, spread on 27 cities & 3 campuses throughout Indonesia
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Indonésia, 27 cities & 3 campuses networks in overall Indonesia
Sua organização é
OSCIP/ONG
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1. Finalist on Klik Hati Awards 2011: inspiring community do a positive movement
2. Google Asia Pacific Awards 2011: category web heroes
3. Urban Leadership Award 2012 from University of Pennsylvania, USA for the initiator, Ridwan Kamil
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Indonesia Berkebun - Urban Farming Act for Community Empowerment
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Elevator Pitch
Indonesia Berkebun is an urban farming community networks spread in currently 27 cities & 3 campuses throughout the country socializing public to optimize non-productive land in urban area to be better able to provide food security and empower people via both social media and on-field real action.
Problema
The development target in most cities nowadays is clearly seen focused on the development of residential and business areas, with the incessant demand for real estate, apartments and commercial areas. This is exacerbated by the condition of forestry and agricultural land in the suburbs that has been converted to residential or industrial areas. As a result, productive farmland is decreasing and a pending food crisis is expected in the near future
Solução
The concept of agriculture intensification was created. It could be said that this method is an attempt to optimize the limited land to be more productive and able to provide food security. One way is through urban agriculture, or often known as urban farming. Indonesia Berkebun, an urban farming community, has activists which spread in 30 city and/or campus networks. They have many social activities utilizing non-productive land in urban areas by planting useful crops in a way that makes it as a productive garden. Every weekend they plant, treat, and harvest various plants at the area lent by the owner to be tilled. Every network also use social media, mostly twitter, to socialize their vision and ask everyone to join with their action.
Exemplo
The 3E concept: Ecology: to bring back soil fertility & saving the environment, Economy: create a sustainable city food supply, and Education: create public awareness how to utilize non-productive land in urban area or their own house. In these matters, Indonesia Berkebun with its 30 city/campus network can be act as both facilitator and also advisor for anyone want to optimize their limited space in their house to be planted with vegetables or in community scale make an urban farming movement by using social media such as Twitter & Facebook. Each network has their own site borrowed from the owner to be utilized as a community garden which is used by the activists to get together to plant, treat and harvest with the people live surround it.
Impacto
The spirit of gardening in urban areas which started from the community in Jakarta, eventually already multiplied to several places in Indonesia which mostly through social media like Twitter & Facebook. Within a period of less than 3 years, Indonesia Berkebun activities have been spread across 27 cities and 3 campuses throughout the country. Indonesia Berkebun’s twitter account: @IDberkebun already has more than 35,000 followers and each city/campus networks also has account which their follower number range from 500 to 7000 currently. Each network also has its own gardening event which always crowded and rousing. Thank also to the conventional media (local, national & international) who always covering and exposing the story or events so that nowadays “berkebun” literally means “gardening” become a new lifestyle for urban dwellers who try to start gardening in their own home.
Mercado
Urban agriculture is not a new activity for Indonesian. However, not many of the municipalities in this country have an urban farming program. Indonesia Berkebun was initiated with bottom-up method. It does not depend on the government or private even though it always opens for positive collaboration from any parties. This community has already collaborated with other positive communities have similar interest concerning the environment such as GreenerationID, Indonesia Organic Community and also Akademi Berbagi which result Akademi Berkebun, a free education class of Indonesia Berkebun.
Plano de Sustentabilidade
Indonesia Berkebun hopes that urban farming activities can transmit the spirit to citizens especially for the next generation to become more resilient and self-contained towards food crisis. These activities need some sustainable financial plan to face the possibility of becoming bigger in the future. There is some idea to establish a foundation to get funds or professional company to sell some harvesting products for running the community.
Histório de Fundação
Indonesia Berkebun program is started from the small community in Jakarta named JktBerkebun who held an event called First Planting on February 20, 2011 located on the area owned by some developer. It was attended by over 150 people from various backgrounds and professions. The impact was being exposed by many successive media covering the community activists to find out more about the vision of this action. Followed by next event called First Harvesting on April 10, 2011 in the same location, the spirit of farming in Jakarta eventually inspired people from other cities which also followed and made similar kind of activities. With their own way, each community of Indonesia Berkebun networks does the activity that carries the same vision.
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Se você tivesse uma capacidade maior, quais funções adicionais você gostaria que sua solução abordasse – por meio de expansão, parcerias, ou intercâmbio de ideias?
Ambientes saudáveis, Agricultura rica em nutrientes, Alimentos completos em nutrientes, Bem estar e vitalidade humana.
Como, especificamente, esta capacidade adicional ajudaria a melhorar a qualidade, eficiência, ou sustentabilidade do seu produto ou serviço?
There are two factors for improving the quality, efficiency and sustainability of our community movement: internal & external. Internally, we want to strengthen our system, management, and knowledge by participate on some training, seminar and some knowledge exchange about urban farming, landscape design, agriculture, business, etc. with other institutions have similar vision. Externally, we want to make more good connection, relation with and also getting support such as donation, fund or other policies from other institution such as government, private sector, media and public as well.
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Considerando o fluxos dos nutrientes dos ecossistemas para o solo, para fazendas, para alimentos, para comunidades, quais são as barreiras para atingir vitalide para as pessoas e o planeta?
Outras barreiras identificadas
Na sua opinião, que desenvolvimentos precisam acontecer para ajudar a superar essas barreiras e produzir pessoas e um planeta mais rico em nutrientes e vitalidade?
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Indonesia Berkebun is an urban farming community networks spread in currently 27 cities & 3 campuses throughout the country socializing public to optimize non-productive land in urban area to be better able to provide food security and empower people via both social media and on-field real action.
This project also has a Changeshop where you can read more about its latest progress.
Ir ao Changeshop: Hunger Below Zero.
Criado em 05/5/2013 por HungerBelowZero
Our mission is to Curb world hunger starting from creating a Hunger free Africa where we can Plant,Eat and Repeat nutritious vegatables while greatly reducing environmental damage
Organização: Hunger Below Zero
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Our mission is to Curb world hunger starting from creating a Hunger free Africa where we can Plant,Eat and Repeat nutritious vegatables while greatly reducing environmental damage
Problema
Millions of people who live in disadvantaged communities in Kenya suffer from poor nutrition. They need easy access to affordable, fresh, organic vegetables on an ongoing basis!
Solução
Hunger Below Zero effectively tackles the challenge of providing food security to disadvantaged communities in a financially sustainable way by establishing grassroots entrepreneurs who are trained to start and run small scale agri-businesses that supply their families and neighbourhoods with fresh, organic produce. Our solution is scalable and replicable. The key to our success in each target community is our innovative hub and spoke model.
Exemplo
We use Foodboxes, a " FoodBox"is a 35m² collection of 200 crates which are purpose-built crates used for growing vegetables. The base and sides of the crates are lined with hessian fabric that acts as a special planting layer for a mixture of soil and compost manure which is poured into this make-shift container.
Vegetable seedlings or seeds are planted directly into this grow medium. Each crate accommodates twenty seedlings. The ideal grow medium makes it possible for crops to be harvested within a few weeks of planting. Crates are movable and easily replaced once the produce has been consumed or sold. This innovation eliminates all soil preparation and preservation, which reduces maintenance to a minimum.
Impacto
Hunger Below Zero is well positioned to reduce the level of Hunger and poverty by 50% (215,000 people of 1,208,009 ) in the first 2 years through our intended 8 Strategically placed hubs within the pilot region. These hubs will train over 2,100 Franchisees per month (25,200 p.a) who will intern add up to the number of people already not going hungry by constantly feeding an extra 151,200 poor individuals with affordable, fresh, organic vegetables on an ongoing basis!
Hunger Below Zero project is scalable and replicable to neighboring regions hence it is the Revolution for drastic drops in Poverty and Hunger indexes in Africa there by ANSWERING the question of "feeding 9 Billion people by 2050."
Mercado
Sales and distribution is facilitated through a ‘hub and spoke’ model.The hub is a well-established community project, NGO, church or school in the target community. It functions as a manufacturing, sales, distribution, training and resource centre. The hub enlists individuals who live in the immediate vicinity as Franchisees.
Each franchisee is provided with a FoodBox and trained to grow organic vegetables for their tables and to sell excess produce to their neighbours. When the produce in each box has been consumed or sold, the Franchisees exchange it for a new, ready-to-sell box
Plano de Sustentabilidade
The income generated from the sale of excess produce enables the Franchisees to sustain their livelihoods and replenish their boxes from the Hub. The business operation of the Hub is sustained through box sales to repeat customers. Hunger Below Zero, the company, sustains its operations by providing Hubs with soil, compost, crates, hessian, seed, seedlings, training and support.
Histório de Fundação
We care about the creation of a Hunger free Africa where we can Plant,Eat and Repeat. This is why we use initiative to pioneer implementation of viable ideas and work as part of a team to achieve predetermined goals,which in this case is Curbing world Hunger using a concept we developed named "Triple I" meaning
-Idea
-Implementation
-Impact
"Triple I" is A process involving thinking brilliant viable ideas, implementing them and creating sustainable impact in a society.
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Se você tivesse uma capacidade maior, quais funções adicionais você gostaria que sua solução abordasse – por meio de expansão, parcerias, ou intercâmbio de ideias?
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Considerando o fluxos dos nutrientes dos ecossistemas para o solo, para fazendas, para alimentos, para comunidades, quais são as barreiras para atingir vitalide para as pessoas e o planeta?
Outras barreiras identificadas
Na sua opinião, que desenvolvimentos precisam acontecer para ajudar a superar essas barreiras e produzir pessoas e um planeta mais rico em nutrientes e vitalidade?
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Our mission is to Curb world hunger starting from creating a Hunger free Africa where we can Plant,Eat and Repeat nutritious vegatables while greatly reducing environmental damage
To etymologically transform our ability to arrest the production of Garbage.
To build small very easily replicable systems that use little or no knowledge.
To take brand new approaches every time to completely utilize 100% of everything we consume.
Particularly food.
The result will be:
Nothing remains.
Staying off the landfills.
Reduction of fossil fuels used.
Reduction in energy consumption.
Robust economies for all,
Opportunity to Wealth Creation instead of Struggling with poverty alleviation.
Criado em 05/2/2013 por BenitoB
AgriCool tackles poverty by creating opportunities in agriculture. AgriFoods is a start-up social enterprise that forms part of AgriCool. AgriFoods adds value to the produce by developing nutrient-rich food products, sold through an advocacy marketing to "awaken" the consumer to healthy consumption.
Organização: AgriCool
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AgriCool tackles poverty by creating opportunities in agriculture. AgriFoods is a start-up social enterprise that forms part of AgriCool. AgriFoods adds value to the produce by developing nutrient-rich food products, sold through an advocacy marketing to "awaken" the consumer to healthy consumption.
Problema
Poverty in the Philippines is widespread with more than 20 million slum dwellers, a great majority of them ending up in gangs or in unregulated jobs. This, the unhealthy food that is available to them because of cheap imports, and the survival-mode lifestyles, prevent the development of lives characterized by wellness and well-being. The problem: How to eliminate poverty and enable healthy consumption - without sacrificing our planet.
Solução
Through AgriCool we create dignified employment in organic and sustainable farming. Our platform is the Enchanted Farm, which we use to enhance at the same time the wider provincial farming cooperatives (2700 farmers). This work includes the advocacy of organic farming as employment and the provision of trainings that focus on integrated farming bio systems, as well as establishing the farmers’ autonomy as primary producer in society. AgriFoods seeks to expand our impact by bringing the consumer into our value chain. We must enable nutrient-rich food to all. This requires an advocacy marketing to make the Filipino aware of the importance of healthy consumption. With AgriFoods, our motto now is: "Wellness from Source to Shelf".
Exemplo
Farming is seen as the lowest form of employment here (average age of farmers is 57). We seek to redefine a farmer's life as a life in dignity; with essential social value. We send the kids of farmers to school, and teach them six days a week on how to cultivate the land and grow crops sustainably and organically. We believe that this creates the greatest chance that they will later wish to take up farming as occupation. With AgriFoods, we are currently investigating the feasibility of producing nutrient-rich ketchup and sweet potato chips from our organic Tomatoes and Camote; fit for a healthy lifestyle. We believe that these ordinary products are the gateway to making the average consumer aware of the importance of healthy consumption.
Impacto
Two and a half years after we started, we are employing 20 farmers and are sending 42 kids to school. 44 college students graduated a month ago as teachers from our program. As of last week, we commenced collaboration with 2700 provincial farmers on 3600 Ha of land to optimize their productivity and to establish a secure market for their produce. We are also preparing ourselves to expand our social enteprise in 5 additional Enchanted Farms that are being developed. As we seek to establish a brand that attracts and pushes consumers to consume healthy, locally sourced food, we really address poverty over the entire spectrum: pursuing human-nature harmony at the source through organic farming; poverty eradication by providing dignified jobs in farming and agri-industries; and solving the food security problem by providing affordable nutrient-rich food on the shelves.
Mercado
There are two basic dimensions to our work: countryside development (farming) and nutrient-rich food production. On the farming side, we partner with the Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) and with the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR), as we share similar goals. They provide land, equipment, seedlings and expertise. On the market, we operate in a category that would typically be called organic, but without the exclusive price-tag & high-end branding. Here, we seek to partner with other food producing social enterprises to create a wide and consistent marketing campaign.
Plano de Sustentabilidade
With regard to the farming itself, our partnerships provide us the resources needed. Where we need capital is on the part of the education (the Agricool program) and on the establishing of our brand and setting up the production process of intermediate ingredients (dried veggies, spices and vinegar). We must also acquire an expert in food production, and an additional colleague to manage the expanded farm operations. Our market is already secure.
Histório de Fundação
AgriCool started April 2011 on two Ha of idle and quarried land (31 Ha today). The founders felt challenged by the fact that the Philippines has twelve million Ha of unproductive land, and still, 41% of the people are claiming they are going hungry. AgriCool, started as an educational program of sending 10 kids to school (we call them 'Agricoolers'). They're taught about agriculture at the farm aside from their regular classes, and we promote farming as the new cool and fashionable career option. Five of their fathers, former construction workers, drivers and rebel returnees, were the first to become farmers. Bottom line, seeing an idle land and hopeless people, the founders began to dream of flourishing sustainable farming communities.
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Ambientes saudáveis, Agricultura rica em nutrientes, Alimentos completos em nutrientes, Bem estar e vitalidade humana.
Se você tivesse uma capacidade maior, quais funções adicionais você gostaria que sua solução abordasse – por meio de expansão, parcerias, ou intercâmbio de ideias?
Ambientes saudáveis, Agricultura rica em nutrientes, Alimentos completos em nutrientes, Bem estar e vitalidade humana.
Como, especificamente, esta capacidade adicional ajudaria a melhorar a qualidade, eficiência, ou sustentabilidade do seu produto ou serviço?
With regards to farming, establishing human-nature harmony and the wellness and vitality of our farming communities, the added capacity would enable the expanse of our work, such that our scope increases. It would also increase the quality of our work through the enabling of expertise and/or technologies. Greater capacity in the dimension of full nourishment foods would enable the development of such food products (through AgriFoods), which in turn impacts on the wellness and vitality of our customers.
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Pessoas precisam de nutrientes apropriados para crescer, aprender, e evitar doenças. Como você mede e segue níveis ou usa informações sobre nutrientes no seu trabalho?
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Considerando o fluxos dos nutrientes dos ecossistemas para o solo, para fazendas, para alimentos, para comunidades, quais são as barreiras para atingir vitalide para as pessoas e o planeta?
Outras barreiras identificadas
Na sua opinião, que desenvolvimentos precisam acontecer para ajudar a superar essas barreiras e produzir pessoas e um planeta mais rico em nutrientes e vitalidade?
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Criado em 05/1/2013 por Hayu
The world is presently over-dependent on a few plant species. On the other hand, there are more than 7,000 plant species from the wild that could be eaten. This has lead into malnutrition problem that people face around the world. Mantasa works with edible wild plants to fight malnutrition.
Organização: Mantasa
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Países onde este projeto vem gerando impacto social
Indonésia, JI, Jombang, Yogyakarta, Pasuruan
A organização recebeu algum prêmio ou reconhecimento público? Por favor, conte-nos mais detalhes
No, the organization hasn't received any awards so far, but in 2010 we got project fund from UNDP for a year term. And within the last 2 years the organization has grown so fast and our events always covered by national media, that somehow is also an honor for us.
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Eat Wild and Get Nourished
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Crescimento (piloto operando e começando sua expansão)
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Elevator Pitch
The world is presently over-dependent on a few plant species. On the other hand, there are more than 7,000 plant species from the wild that could be eaten. This has lead into malnutrition problem that people face around the world. Mantasa works with edible wild plants to fight malnutrition.
Problema
Malnutrition is a complex problem hence need to be tackled in a holistic way. Malnutrition from lacking of vitamins and minerals are still affecting the world today, including Indonesia, and it has long-ranging effects on health, learning ability and productivity. Indonesia still suffer from micronutrient deficiency and this actually can be tackled with an easy and cheap way, using local resources and traditional knowledge.
Solução
Edible wild plants, although sounds very specific, actually covered many issues. Each plant brings its own wisdom and function, yet little consideration have been put into these plants and consider them as useless. Edible wild plants are nutritious and easy to find everywhere and locally and culturally accepted. Eating edible wild plants also helps to conserve biodiversity and traditional knowledge of local people. We will collecting and documenting traditional knowledge related to edible wild plants processing as well as educate people to increase their appreciation on edible wild plants and then willing to use them back in their daily life.
Exemplo
A group of village mother in Galengdowo village has long believe that getting food from market or shop is the only way to get nutritious foods for their family. Although this village is surrounded with forest and mountain, the knowledge about utilizing plants for food is almost gone for many reasons, one of it is prestige. Collecting plants from the wild for food is considered as an activity for the poor. Another reason is they believe that industrial foods offered them so much nutrients they need thanks to media advertisement. Mantasa enter this village and present wild plant's nutrient facts and also encourage the women to experiment with edible wild plants to make them into attractive foods that the children like. And it was successful.
Impacto
Impact to date: the sense of pride from local people about their local food, value added to edible wild plants from turning it into attractive food for everyone, media coverage also encourage local people to dig out more their local resources hence this has helped the biodiversity conservation and traditional knowledge are regained.
Future impact (quantitative): 1,000 edible wild plants identified from around Indonesia complete with its information about how local people use it and its nutrition facts. 200 wild food garden are set up as an educational means, information center as well as seed garden. And 5,000 from around Indonesia will be sharing with each other about their wisdom and knowledge about edible wild plants around them.
Future impact (quantitative): Increase awareness about the value of nature and traditional wisdom and also sense of pride of their food culture.
Mercado
Edible wild plants is not really an issue to look up to address malnutrition, but in the last 5 years some international movement talking about edible wild plants has grown and I've joined all the international meeting about this since I was a university student. What makes us different is because we make a holistic approach, laboratorium research to search for nutritional content, ethnobotany research to dig out traditional knowledge about plants and also education. We also do participatory research to empower people so they have power over their own knowledge and resources.
Plano de Sustentabilidade
People participation is always the main thing we want to emphasize in our solution. We give support in the form of information, trainings and workshops. Of course we need another support to organize trainings and workshops and we got it from grants, but we also have a shop where we sell food products made of edible wild plants by village women and also some merchandise, and so far it's been 2 years since we received last grant and we still exist.
Histório de Fundação
In 2002 I was doing my research project for my thesis. I studied Food and Nutrition Technology and I wanted something different to research other than industrial foods. After reading so many journals I found an old book about plants in Indonesia wrote by a Dutch. In that book I was amazed by diversity of plants that local people's use to feed themselves. Each community in each island have their own way to process some plants into food. I decided to research about mangrove based on Papuan traditional knowledge processing mangrove seeds for their staple food. Although I got some rejection from my lecturer and bad mark for that research, my passion had grown to search more about other plants and dig out their potential to combat malnutrition.
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Ambientes saudáveis, Agricultura rica em nutrientes, Alimentos completos em nutrientes, Bem estar e vitalidade humana.
Se você tivesse uma capacidade maior, quais funções adicionais você gostaria que sua solução abordasse – por meio de expansão, parcerias, ou intercâmbio de ideias?
Ambientes saudáveis, Bem estar e vitalidade humana.
Como, especificamente, esta capacidade adicional ajudaria a melhorar a qualidade, eficiência, ou sustentabilidade do seu produto ou serviço?
Ecosystem will grow in its optimum condition only in healthy environment. Healthy environment will provide everything people's need, but only if people have a strong basis on keeping their environment healthy from sustainable use of environment. So these two are interlinked and interconnected.
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Pessoas precisam de nutrientes apropriados para crescer, aprender, e evitar doenças. Como você mede e segue níveis ou usa informações sobre nutrientes no seu trabalho?
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Considerando o fluxos dos nutrientes dos ecossistemas para o solo, para fazendas, para alimentos, para comunidades, quais são as barreiras para atingir vitalide para as pessoas e o planeta?
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Na sua opinião, que desenvolvimentos precisam acontecer para ajudar a superar essas barreiras e produzir pessoas e um planeta mais rico em nutrientes e vitalidade?
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Despite being the among the largest source of food carbohydrates in the tropics and the most drought-tolerant crops, Cassava tuber is considered inferior to rice. The government's agricultural policy and the subsequent people's view of cassava as "food of the poor" has made rice and flour dominant food staple.
Criado em 04/29/2013 por geralisu
In a context strongly affected by poverty and high levels of malnutrition, by boosting agricultural production and encouraging food diversification, we will simultaneously invest on training for people to manufacture a nutritional supplement based on local resources to prevene nutrition problems.
Organização: Instituto de Solidariedade e Cooperação Universitária (ONGD)
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Instituto de Solidariedade e Cooperação Universitária (ONGD)
Página da organização na internet
Países onde este projeto vem gerando impacto social
Moçambique, NA, Mogovolas
Sua organização é
OSCIP/ONG
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Olha Orathene - malnutrition prevention in Mozambique
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Elevator Pitch
In a context strongly affected by poverty and high levels of malnutrition, by boosting agricultural production and encouraging food diversification, we will simultaneously invest on training for people to manufacture a nutritional supplement based on local resources to prevene nutrition problems.
Problema
Nampula province in Mozambique has one of the highest rates of chronic malnutrition in the country (> 50%), which is due to the existence of a framework of food insecurity and the fact that the diets of the population are monotonous and have strong micronutrient deficiencies. While providing the necessary energy, it lacks fat and protein, as well as micronutrients such as iron.
Solução
Our proposal aims to reduce poverty in the communities of Mogovolas, Nampula province, through an intervention to boost local agricultural production, to diversify diets thus preventing malnutrition and allow greater access to factors of production, in particularly for women. The project aims to increase knowledge of women about nutrition and maternal and child health, by conducting awareness and training sessions and reducing the rate of malnutrition among pregnant women and children, by encouraging the consumption of a food supplement consisting of local agricultural products. Additionally by conducting nutritional follow-up analyses with the population we will monitor results and take the appropriate measures to improve it continuosly.
Exemplo
Considering the widespread lack of knowledge of the population in relation to nutritional issues, conducting awareness-raising and training sessions for women and young people about nutrition and maternal and child health may result in a change in eating habits and increase attention on community health care. The production and distribution of a nutritional food supplement composed of local ingredients has the objective of creating more autonomy towards local solutions to local problems and mobilize local resources from community's gardens. With the completion of nutricional follow-up meetings with target groups (pregnant women and children) we will seek to control and monitor the impact of the project and introduce contigency measures.
Impacto
It is anticipated a 15% reduction in cases of anemia and malnutrition among pregnant women and children from 0 to 5 and 30% increase in women's access to food and diversification of their diet. The project will raise awareness to change attitudes about the situation of women and especially pregnant women. We believe the project will also have an impact on increasing women's access to resources, including agricultural, and raise their level of education and training, while seeking to improve their general health and their perspectives in relation to motherhood and maternal health care. The project will at the same time encourage improvements in the diet of children (variety and quality of food consumed), to avoid situations of severe or chronic malnutrition, which often exist in Mozambique.
Mercado
The government of Mozambique is strongly working towards the prevention of malnutrition in the country and the project will involve governmental structures and their human resources. At the same time the project will have the possibility of gaining innovations through contact with other similar experiences being carried out in other countries such as Guinea-Bissau and Brazil (also portuguese speaking) and exchanging practices and solutions to problems encountared during the implementation phase.
Plano de Sustentabilidade
The methodology used to implement the activities of the project will include a period of time to raise awareness towards malnutrition and incorrect eating habits and at the same time will promote the consumption of a nutritional suplement that the project will start by giving people and as time goes by people will buy. At the same time the production of agricultural goods within the community will allows for extra income for the people.
Histório de Fundação
This project idea derives from an experience that ISU carried out in Guinea-Bissau with a religious mission with wich for 4 years we developed a similar idea and started a small social business that creates local products that prevene malnutrition and continue to contribute to people's diet improvement in terms of the diversification of products consumed and the creation of small community gardens, from which the products are sold allowing for extra income for the people.
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Agricultura rica em nutrientes, Alimentos completos em nutrientes.
Se você tivesse uma capacidade maior, quais funções adicionais você gostaria que sua solução abordasse – por meio de expansão, parcerias, ou intercâmbio de ideias?
Ambientes saudáveis, Bem estar e vitalidade humana.
Como, especificamente, esta capacidade adicional ajudaria a melhorar a qualidade, eficiência, ou sustentabilidade do seu produto ou serviço?
The project will accomplish further impacts if there is an intervention that simultaneously garantees healthy environments in terms of water supply and sanitation and the continous local availability of human resources to help people implement changes in their environment and to have access to health care. These two elements are specially important in what relates to improve human wellness and well-being.
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Considerando o fluxos dos nutrientes dos ecossistemas para o solo, para fazendas, para alimentos, para comunidades, quais são as barreiras para atingir vitalide para as pessoas e o planeta?
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Criado em 04/24/2013 por SolomonRajput1
Solving Dinner is a social enterprise that aims to shift America towards a healthier and more sustainable diet by simplifying the home cooking process.
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Países onde este projeto vem gerando impacto social
Estados Unidos , NH, Hanover, Grafton County
Você trabalha com alguma organização sociais?
Como você ficou sabendo sobre essa competição?
I am part of the Making More Health Youth Venture Webinar Series
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Resumo: Qual problema específico é que o seu projeto tenta resolver?
One of the best ways to eat well is to cook your own food. However, at the end of a long work day, the last thing many working Americans want to think about is how to put a meal on the table. Although they would love to eat a home-cooked meal, they often don't want to put up with the hassle that comes with cooking. Instead of trying to put up with the stress of planning, shopping, and prepping that comes with cooking, many opt for convenient, but unhealthy, alternatives: fast food, microwavable meals, take out, etc.
Missão: O que o seu projeto faz?
Solving Dinner is a social enterprise that aims to shift America towards a healthier and more sustainable diet by simplifying the home cooking process. We produce meal kits that make cooking healthy food a breeze and we partner with companies to market and distribute the kits to their employees. Solving Dinner is looking to completely overtake our customers’ weeknight meal routine so that people can eat well regularly.
O Modelo: Demonstre através de um exemplo específico como sua solução faz a diferença; inclua suas atividades primárias
Every meal kit contains everything you need to make dinner: all the ingredients, in the exact quantities, with everything already prepped so all you have to do cook! We also save our customers a shopping trip because we will actually deliver to their workplace so that they can pick it up right before they go home and then cook it when they're home. All of our meals will meet recommendations set by dietitians and the government as to what constitutes a healthy meal: less sodium and sugar, and more fruits, vegetables, and whole grains.
We will receive all the ingredients from food distributors, and then we will prep all of the ingredients, package them into meal kits, and store them overnight in a cooling unit. The next day, we will load the meals onto a refrigerated truck and make a series of deliveries to various workplaces; we will collaborate with the employers to make sure refrigeration at the workplace is taken care of. Then, customers will take their meal home and cook a tasty meal in less than 30 minutes. We aim for around fast-food prices: $5-7 per person.
It's quick, convenient, affordable, tasty, and above all, healthy.
Comunidade: Definir a comunidade que você trabalha em nome de. Que população é afetada? Há outras organizações trabalhando neste espaço?
All of America struggles with obesity; it's not just impoverished individuals in food deserts. Many other organizations are working to increase access to healthy food, but the majority of people who have access choose not to eat well; often they don’t cook healthy meals because they feel too busy and stressed. Working parents and busy, young single people are our two initial target demographics-- they often don’t cook because they’re either too tried or don’t want to put up with the hassle. Some organizations try to raise awareness about what to eat; we actually make the process easier.
História: O que inspirou o seu empreendimento? Por quê?
Watching a documentary called “Forks over Knives” sparked my interest in our nation’s diet, and after consuming volumes of information, I gradually accepted a shocking truth: if we change what we eat, we can solve many pressing environmental and health problems. Most of our healthcare costs come from preventable illness, which is largely caused by poor diet, and the food sector actually contributes more greenhouse gasses than the entire transportation sector. I resolved that I wanted to tackle this problem, to shift America to a healthier and more sustainable diet, and after doing in-depth market research I realized that the home-cooking process was a real paint point many people had. By simplifying home cooking, I could create a healthier and more sustainable world.
Definir o seu projeto em 1-2 frases curtas
Solving Dinner is a social enterprise that aims to shift America towards a healthier and more sustainable diet by simplifying the home cooking process.
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We first want to prove that this model works and that there is demand for this product. I've taken this term off to pursue this business idea, and in a week we will start delivering meals to our first company partner. We are renting out a kitchen for the next month in order to pilot this idea for the next month. We will spend the pilot tweaking our model and seeing what demand we get, and at the end we will evaluate if this is worthwhile to pursue in its current incarnation or if we need to pivot. If our model seems promising, we will seek initial funding to lease a facility and to hire labor to produce the meals. We will create partnerships with multiple workplaces in the area that we launch in order to expand our market and our impact. After showing that we can operate with multiple businesses and that sufficient demand exists, we will seek further investment to create other production centers in areas all around America. If our trial goes well and much demand exists with our current model, we believe that we can rapidly expand within our first year of operating.
Defina o seu primeira meta ou marco para sua equipe nos próximos 6 meses, que o levará para a sua visão
Get at least 1/3 of the employees in our pilot to have ordered at least twice by the end of this month
Atividade 1
Hold a catered luncheon at the company where employees can taste test the food they will ultimately cook for themselves
Atividade 2
User customer feedback to modify our products and our prices in order to yield the highest engagement
Atividade 3
Make sure to create our product in a safe way that abides by government regulations to prevent cross contamination
Definir uma segunda meta ou marco para sua equipe nos próximos 6 meses, que o levará para a sua visão
Gain funding to establish a permanent facility
Atividade 1
Ask friends and family for money
Atividade 2
Refine our formal business plan to present to angel investors
Atividade 3
Determine where we want to have our initial launch site and scope out a kitchen facility we can lease
Definir uma terceira meta nos próximos 6 meses, que irá levar a sua equipe mais perto de sua visão
Start operating from our facility and be present at 5 large workplaces
Atividade 1
Find someone with much operational expertise in food service to help run our operation
Atividade 2
Find an experiences sales person to make formal partnerships with new businesses
Atividade 3
Hire labor and find a manager or learn how to manage
leia mais↓↑ ocultar↑ ocultarComo é que vai definir o sucesso no curto prazo (1-12 meses)?
In the short term, we will define success by having at least 1/3 of the employees at a given workplace using our service regularly (order at least one week's worth of meals per month). We will also define success if we're profitable by the end of a year (because then we can reinvest in ourselves and spread to more regions and create more impact). Ultimately, our true measure of success will be whether we are actually changing a large component of our customers' diets using behavioral assessments. If 1/3 of our customers think they cook at home more often because of our product, or if they're eating healthier more often because of our product, we are succeeding. Of course, creating a product that people love, developing customer loyalty, leaving our employer partners satisfied, and proving that our model both has high social impact and a large return are all important parts of success.
No longo prazo (1-3 anos)?
In the long term, we want to rapidly expand to many different regions; we will be successful in terms of scale if we are growing and have many production facilities to service many customers. In regards to proving our health impact, ultimately we want to create a large-scale study that assesses whether the companies who use our service actually have healthier employees. That will help us validate that we're fulfilling our mission, and that will also be a very powerful competitive advantage we have over potential competitors that emerge in this space.
Como você vai medir o sucesso?
Immediately for our month-long pilot, we are using before-and-after questionnaires to assess behavior. We will be asking them how often they cook at home, how often they eat meals at dinner time that aren't home cooked meals, and how much of a hassle they find cooking. We will also ask them how important it is for them to eat healthy meals (meals with lots of fruits, vegetables, whole grains and not much sodium and sugar). After the pilot, we will see if these people cooked more because of our product and if the types of people who were using it were those who weren't all that concerned with healthy eating already. As indicated in the previous question, we will ultimately measure success if we can clearly show that we made the employees healthier at the companies we partner with. We are aiming for 1/3 of the company to sign up with us, and 1/3 of our customers to gain healthier habits because of our offering.
Since we are a double-bottom line company, we are aiming for both high impact and a high financial return so that we can grow quickly. Business metrics, like profit margin, customer retention, customer satisfaction, and number of locations opened will also be important. We are aiming for a profit margin of 20% (higher than the average for the food service industry) and we want to have 20 production facilities by the end of our 5th year. We aim to pay our employees a living wage as well, so the quality of life of our employees will be important to us; we want to pay them at least $10/ hour with benefits. We don't think we can be successful unless we treat our customers well.
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We will recruit new members for our venture by first assessing the skills we need. Immediately we will need people in sales and operations, and we would like a dietitian or a MD on board. Already I've been in talks with some of these people from attending conferences with them and being connected to them. After having a successful pilot in hand, it will be much more compelling for top-quality talent to join me.
Como você vai nomear novos líderes e transferir a liderança quando os membros fundadores quer deixar o equipe?
New leaders will be appointed through a merit-based promotion system; employees will be offered much autonomy and those who will perform best will be in line to be new leaders. We will consult with our board to help transfer leadership when the founding members want to leave the team.
In all honesty, we would like more assistance with this part of our business; we have very little experience with this and are seeking advice in this area.
Como você vai continuar seu projeto em seis meses ou uma vez que você gastou todo o seu capital inicial?
After seeking initial investment, this shouldn't be a challenge for us because we will be creating revenue from day one, and we hope to have positive cash flow within a year.
Criado em 04/18/2013 por victoradamu
The AIC is a win-win for PAD Ltd & host communities. PAD makes profit while communities achieve better access to info and markets for agribusiness. AIC has various agric value chains on the same space, feeding off each other with technology integrated for effective/efficient production & marketing.
Organização: Premier Agricultural Development Limited
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Premier Agricultural Development Limited
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Países onde este projeto vem gerando impacto social
A organização recebeu algum prêmio ou reconhecimento público? Por favor, conte-nos mais detalhes
Yes the organization has received award/honors and they are;
- Federal Government of Nigeria Youth Enterprise with Innovation in Nigeria (YouWiN) Program Grant Award, 2012.
- Batadon Community Honors Recognition for contribution to community development
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Agribusiness Incubation Center (AIC)
Estágio
Crescimento (piloto operando e começando sua expansão)
Temas relacionados à inscrição
Elevator Pitch
The AIC is a win-win for PAD Ltd & host communities. PAD makes profit while communities achieve better access to info and markets for agribusiness. AIC has various agric value chains on the same space, feeding off each other with technology integrated for effective/efficient production & marketing.
Problema
There is impending food crisis, poverty, increasing unemployment and life threatening effects of climate change. Agriculture is the highest employer in Africa and can do more if well developed. One key thing that has prevented development of agriculture is the poor utilization of technology for agriculture in Africa, right from production up to market access. Lack of interaction with optimum systems has also reduced adoption by rural farmers.
Solução
Have a functional model Agribusiness Incubation Center (AIC) in place. Here various activities will interact with each other on the same space. For instance feeds are produced to feed livestock and the livestock waste is then used as manure for vegetable production with technology integrated for efficient and effective production & marketing. The farming community then interacts with the AIC by supplying raw materials for production and also serving as out-growers (contract farmers) to generate sufficient volumes for consistent market supply under same brand for sales. That way there is fast adoption of new and optimum technology by the rural communities as earnings are generated corporately.
Exemplo
Our operational facility has the entire catfish value chain in operation. To this we have integrated ICT & training services with students and professionals undergoing educational visits to the facility. As a result catfish farming in about 65km radius of our location has developed tremendously. Over 50% of beneficiary farmers make use of waste water from their farms to grow fruits and vegetables all year round, which we have demonstrated at our facility. Most recently one of such beneficiaries won the best small scale entrepreneur in Nigeria and was a West African runner up under the VSO/OXFAM scheme for small scale agri-entrepreneurs. His farm in Fadia Gida, Zonkwa, Kaduna is now a community market where farmers & women sell their wares.
Impacto
At present AIC which is only about 15% implemented has generated 6 new jobs in 6 months, which directly impacts on 6 new families in addition to 14 other staff of PAD Ltd. We have reached over 1,255 farmers in 2 years of the executing the pilot phase through training, implementation of demonstration farms, supporting farmer groups and agribusiness clusters and working with educational institutions for excursion to our facility as well as creating internship positions on our facility. At 75% functionality AIC has the potential of affecting 2500 farm families directly. This should be realized in 2 years with availability of funds. Average family size is 6 persons. Envisaged impact is increased income for better nutrition, education and health conditions for over 10,000 person directly and indirectly.
Mercado
At present no one does exactly the same thing we do, which reinstates the innovation in our approach. However, because of the hybrid nature of the solution we have various people doing one unit of what our entire system proposes. The major difference with what is found around is the synergy of our system and synergy among businesses. The system has various units working together independently but interdependently and also the farming community and AIC work independently but interdependently all to reduce unit cost and increase unit profits and create a win-win.
Plano de Sustentabilidade
The AIC sustains itself through multiple income streams and a fast replication of the ideas and technology through the active training activities on the facility targeted mostly towards youth. This way sustainability is not only achieved through generation of income but also training of hands and minds that will subsequently get involved in managing AIC beyond the active years of the current management.
Histório de Fundação
While implementing a World Bank funded project for development of the catfish farming industry in Kaduna we put up a small demonstration facility to support business development service provision, which was the focus of the project. Through this we were able to generate additional substantial earnings and we discovered people learnt faster interacting with the facility than through structured courses. Again funds from donors were not forthcoming at some point and it was that moment that we realized that what we can go about actively chasing income through production and allows disadvantaged farmers learn from what we do rather than concentrating on teaching and earn little since the poor beneficiary farmers cannot pay for our services.
leia mais↓↑ ocultar↑ ocultarOnde você garante a disponibilidade de nutrientes?
Ambientes saudáveis, Agricultura rica em nutrientes.
Se você tivesse uma capacidade maior, quais funções adicionais você gostaria que sua solução abordasse – por meio de expansão, parcerias, ou intercâmbio de ideias?
Alimentos completos em nutrientes, Bem estar e vitalidade humana.
Como, especificamente, esta capacidade adicional ajudaria a melhorar a qualidade, eficiência, ou sustentabilidade do seu produto ou serviço?
Having trees and vegetables such as moringa, sour-sop which are potent medicinal plants we have a potential to work around human wellness and vitality. Being able to deal diversify into this sector will improve utilization of our existing resources and increase traffic to the AIC which will impact positively on the other activities taking place on AIC.
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Criado em 04/18/2013 por juan almeida
Our company develops and sells functional snacks (products that provide health benefits to our customers)
We have developed snacks using a grain called quinoa.
We want to create impact not just selling beneficial products but also creating impact with quinoa producers and our stakeholders.
Organização: dosmargaritas functional foods
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dosmargaritas functional foods
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dmff (functional and nutritional cereal bar)
Estágio
Start-up (piloto lançado e começando a operar)
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Elevator Pitch
Our company develops and sells functional snacks (products that provide health benefits to our customers)
We have developed snacks using a grain called quinoa.
We want to create impact not just selling beneficial products but also creating impact with quinoa producers and our stakeholders.
Problema
Children from families with low income, especially in the developing countries, lack complete nutritional food intakes.
This problem produces effects that do not let our children develop their whole potential resulting in poor academic and physical development and, in some cases, general unhappiness.
Solução
We develop and sell a product (quinoa cereal bar) that has 90% of the required micronutrients (without additional micronutrients) for children from 5 to 12 years old.
Exemplo
Our company, initially sold our products to the World Food Programme in Ecuador, until Ecuador government started doing the operation of this programme activities (buying, logistics, etc...) by itself.
Later on, Ecuadorian authorities approached our company with corruptive practices. Therefore, we stoped our product production, until we find another institution interested in our product.
Our company and our products make a difference because we have high ethical standards and corporate values. We are interested in all stakeholders - not just clients or governments - from the quinoa producer to the child who enjoys our bar.
We want to make a real impact by actioning our ideas, values and by not taking short cuts.
Impacto
When children eat products full of micronutrients (powder) is good for them but the bioavailibility of our product is much better because it has 90% of the required micronutrients into it,
Quinoa helps their body to intake all the macronutrients and micronutrients thanks to its "high quality protein".
Mercado
Some companies have products to feed vulnerable children and work with different institutions, what our product brings to these children is the bioavailability that give them better chances to intake all macro and micronutrients into their body system.
Plano de Sustentabilidade
We plan to work with quinoa producers given them chance to access better harvest efficiency practices, better commercial practices (fair prices) and also offer them be part of the company ownership (through selected process).
We consider that our product will bring more health and happiness to the vulnerable children of our world.
Histório de Fundação
Our company started with a very strong feeling that we have a role to play in changing the future of our region (Andes region, Bolivia, Peru and Ecuador).
We started developing a functional soft candy, later on, we developed this amazing product - the quinoa cereal bar (focused on helping children from low income families).
Every time we found that we had a product that will bring very effective benefits to our customer, we knew and know that our company has a very bright future not only because of our products qualities but also because we want to be part of the "changemakers movement". To leave a better world for our children.
leia mais↓↑ ocultar↑ ocultarOnde você garante a disponibilidade de nutrientes?
Alimentos completos em nutrientes, Bem estar e vitalidade humana.
Se você tivesse uma capacidade maior, quais funções adicionais você gostaria que sua solução abordasse – por meio de expansão, parcerias, ou intercâmbio de ideias?
Ambientes saudáveis, Agricultura rica em nutrientes.
Como, especificamente, esta capacidade adicional ajudaria a melhorar a qualidade, eficiência, ou sustentabilidade do seu produto ou serviço?
If we have the chance to develop practices to have better quinoa production activities, we would get better and more quantities of our raw material, which will give us the chance to offer our product to more children in need.
Also could be interested to have access to develop healthy environments because around them people get better information about what to eat and what food is better for their body, therefore people will reconized our products in a better way and we will have the chance to benefit more people with our work.
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Criado em 04/17/2013 por wemhazi
239 million Africans are chronically hungry. Many of them are poor smallholder farmers who already produce most of Africa’s food. We help improve their yields and profits. Our approach focuses on information and training, agro-ecology, loaned inputs, and risk management and appropriate technology,
Organização: African Food Initiative
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País da organização
África do Sul, MP, Malelane
Países onde este projeto vem gerando impacto social
África do Sul, MP, Malelane
Sua organização é
OSCIP/ONG
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Elevator Pitch
239 million Africans are chronically hungry. Many of them are poor smallholder farmers who already produce most of Africa’s food. We help improve their yields and profits. Our approach focuses on information and training, agro-ecology, loaned inputs, and risk management and appropriate technology,
Problema
239 million Africans are chronically hungry. African malnutrition claims the lives 3.5 million children each year, and contracts economies by 2-3% yearly. 65% of Africa’s population runs 30 million smallholder farms that produce 80% of the continent’s food. Those farmers are overrepresented among the poor, and their yields are 1.5-2 tons/ha while Western farmers obtain up 5-10tons/ha. We need to help them get higher yields.
Solução
Our mission is to combat hunger and poverty in Africa by enlarging the yields and profits of the continent’s smallholder farmers. Our approach includes farmer training; loaned inputs (such as improved seed and fertilizer); appropriate irrigation technologies (such as treadle pumps); insurance against drought or market collapse; constant contact with farmers through mobile phones; and access to markets. We emphasize sustainability and empowerment of local communities, as such we (1) train farmers on agroecology; (2) take a participatory approach; we (3) don’t give handouts, but we charge reasonable fees and ask for loan repayments when farmers sell their produce; and (3) we are especially keen to work with women farmers.
Exemplo
Rudo is a smallholder farmer in rural Zimbabwe. She is a widow, and has four young children. Rudo grows corn on a 1 hectare piece of land they owned with her husband, but her yields are very low and her family often experiences hunger. We sit down with Rudo and her friends to discuss their needs and suit our work to their context. We bring a local extension worker to train Rudo on maintaining her farm, and on basic nutrition, pros of improved seed, smallholder irrigation and insurance. We then lend those things to her and her friends, and continue monitoring them. After the harvest, we help her store food for subsistence, and to find the best prices for their corn. We collect repayments from her and give her another loan soon afterwards.
Impacto
Projected impact: we expect to triple yields and double incomes of smallholders. We also expect to reduce chronic hunger in Africa by 35% within 15 years. In turn, we expect significant pro-poor economic growth and continent-wide improvements in adaptation to climate change and in environmental management. We also expect higher incomes among the poorest to translate to improved access to healthcare and education, and thus to generally improved standards of living. Further, we expect to strengthen millions of women’s farms; strengthen self-worth among poor farming communities and strengthen local farmers’ organizations and institutions.
Mercado
One Acre Fund trains and lends inputs to farmers in East Africa, and myAgro uses mobile phones to encourage saving and early input purchases among Malian farmers. While both are doing great work, they don’t have some crucial markers: (1) they are not continent-wide movements; and more importantly (2) they overlook important bottlenecks such as risk, climate change, access to markets, and gender dynamics. Helping African smallholders out of the poverty trap effectively requires a whole-systems approach—and that’s what we’re doing.
Plano de Sustentabilidade
We don’t give hand-outs—we lend. That empowers farmers, and makes us financially sustainable. Similar smaller-scale work has had repayment rates of over 96%, so we’re not worried. We expect to fund 100% of field costs through farmer repayment by 2023. We also plan to establish a fund (like an endowment), that generates interest and helps us fund more of our work.
Histório de Fundação
AFI was founded by Douglas Mapondera. Douglas grew up in rural Zimbabwe where he experienced hunger during the country’s recent depression and after his father’s death. When his mother turned to smallholder agriculture, he was both struck by the obstacles she faced, and impressed with her creativity and resilience. He continued to identify with farmers like his mother while studying at Macalester College in Minnesota, which is why he fundraised to repair communal irrigation infrastructure at her village during his sophomore year. That empathy for his mother and her fellow smallholder farmers across Africa led him to create AFI in January 2013.
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Se você tivesse uma capacidade maior, quais funções adicionais você gostaria que sua solução abordasse – por meio de expansão, parcerias, ou intercâmbio de ideias?
Ambientes saudáveis, Bem estar e vitalidade humana.
Como, especificamente, esta capacidade adicional ajudaria a melhorar a qualidade, eficiência, ou sustentabilidade do seu produto ou serviço?
Our current approach only addresses farm sustainability, and not general environmental management around those farms. Such added capacity would enable us to partner with local communities at the grassroots level to improve the the general health of their environments (for example, reforestation). We would also like to promote human wellness and vitality by training farmers on basic nutrition, as well as extending support to gardening projects and diversifying our crop program.
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Criado em 04/17/2013 por Duron Chavis
RVAFARMS is an urban farm that will be located in a USDA designated food desert. We will provide a wide selection of organic greens and other nutrient dense produce that will be grown year round on our urban farm. The urban farm will use hoop houses for year round intensive biodynamic agriculture.
Organização: McDonough Community Garden
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McDonough Community Garden
Página da organização na internet
País da organização
Estados Unidos , VA, Richmond, Richmond City
Países onde este projeto vem gerando impacto social
Estados Unidos , VA, Richmond, Richmond City
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2012 Golden Trowel Award - Tricycle Gardens
"Community Outreach & Education"
Award was given by local Richmond non profit Tricycle Gardens commending McDonough Community Gardens for its work around outreach and education.
Finalist - IE Start Up Competition 2013
Greater Richmond Chamber of Commerce
Start up Entry - RVAFARMS
One of 13 finalists that earned the opportunity to pitch their business to the Greater Richmond Chamber of Commerce. Our pitch was/is RVAFarms as a solution to food insecurity for the city of Richmond.
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Alleviating Poverty and Food Insecurity through Urban Agriculture
Estágio
Crescimento (piloto operando e começando sua expansão)
Temas relacionados à inscrição
Elevator Pitch
RVAFARMS is an urban farm that will be located in a USDA designated food desert. We will provide a wide selection of organic greens and other nutrient dense produce that will be grown year round on our urban farm. The urban farm will use hoop houses for year round intensive biodynamic agriculture.
Problema
The 2010 census places the percentage of people in poverty in the city of Richmond VA at 25%. The USDA designates 12 census tracts within the city of Richmond Virginia as food deserts. These are areas that have limited access to fresh fruits and vegetables. As a result of limited access, residents of food deserts are more prone to diet related illnesses and behavioral disorders associated to malnutrition.
Solução
Everybody has to eat. Unfortunately everyone does not have access to healthy foods. The RVAFARMS business model is to simply grow high quality food on urban land in Richmond for communities that lack access to healthy fresh produce.
RVAFARMS food desert urban farm will feature an on site farmer's market, host pop up farmers markets for other food deserts located throughout RVA and sell CSA shares and per pound produce online. We will also provide nutrition education, urban agriculture and culinary arts programming to inspire healthy lifestyles.
The urban farm viability will be achieved by direct to grocery store, restaurant and other business while also utilizing an on farm stand and pop up markers for direct to consumer sales.
Exemplo
There are over 30,000 active SNAP cases in the city of Richmond alone. Over $6,000,000 circulates through the city monthly via SNAP benefits. Through usage of entrepreneurial urban agriculture, low income communities in Richmond even if able to tap into only .5% of that monthly 6 million consistently on a month to month basis has reinvested 30,000 dollars back into itself or 360,000 dollars in a year.
We will build urban farms that target food deserts for clientele while also marketing to restaurants and grocery stores. The farms will employ people from the community and accept SNAP benefits to maintain a sustainable business model. Our measurement of success will be reduction in diet related illnesses in food desert communities.
Impacto
Growing up in Richmond I wondered why everyone I knew Had someone in their family with diabetes or a heart condition. Working for Richmond Dept of Social Services I realized a big reason is because poor people lack healthy food access.
For example, in Richmond the corner of N. 25th St and P St used to be a corner store. That same corner is now a dialysis center. There are no grocery stores in this part of Richmond. This part of Richmond is a food desert.
According to the USDA a food desert is a place where the grocery stores are more than a mile away. They do have plenty of corner stores with unhealthy food that cause chronic diet related illnesses.
RVAFarms is an urban farm that will grow and sell fresh produce all year round through the use of hoop houses in the food deserts of Richmond that will also market direct to consumer and direct to grocery stores and restaurants.
Mercado
RVAFARMS competitive advantage is clear. The prevalence of food deserts in RVA is a result of the lack of interest/value of grocers for economically disadvantaged communities within the city. Our model appeals to an untapped market that lacks access to current local farmers markets and grocers. RVAFARMS will control local production and local distribution while also providing nutrition education classes as community outreach. By targeting this traditionally marginalized market, RVAFARMS stands to tap into the $7M per that is spent in SNAP benefits monthly throughout the city of Richmond.
Plano de Sustentabilidade
RVAFARMS potential clients fall into two categories: RVAFARMS to consumers and RVAFARMS to firms. Consumers will be reached at our farm, at our pop up farmers markets, social service agencies, online and at farmers markets located throughout the city. A variety of firms will be contracted such as independent restaurants, personal chefs and caterers, independent grocery and corner stores, food cooperatives, daycare centers and group homes.
Histório de Fundação
The idea to start RVAFARMS came from working with black farmers in Virginia connecting them to food deserts through a project I started called Richmond Noir Market. Working with those farmers revealed that we could grow food in an urban environment as well to further localize the food system while creating jobs and increasing healthy food access. The conversations and wisdom we received from our farmers taught us and still teaches us how to grow food efficiently and intensively. The goal of starting an urban farm became clear when I realized how much money was circulating in SNAP benefits through food deserts and that people were only buying what was conveniently available. So we decided to grow in and sell to the community with RVAFARMS.
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Ambientes saudáveis, Agricultura rica em nutrientes, Alimentos completos em nutrientes, Bem estar e vitalidade humana.
Se você tivesse uma capacidade maior, quais funções adicionais você gostaria que sua solução abordasse – por meio de expansão, parcerias, ou intercâmbio de ideias?
Ambientes saudáveis, Agricultura rica em nutrientes, Alimentos completos em nutrientes, Bem estar e vitalidade humana.
Como, especificamente, esta capacidade adicional ajudaria a melhorar a qualidade, eficiência, ou sustentabilidade do seu produto ou serviço?
Start up funding will allow us to develop an urban farm in a food desert of the city of Richmond. We will use hoop houses, an outdoor demonstration garden and a learning pavillion. With funding we will install 6 - 20 x 96 hoop houses on one 1/2 acre of land, install refrigerated storage for harvested produce and install solar powered drip irrigation systems. After initial start up funding is invested we will be self-sufficient and profitable within the first year of operation.
Once established we will partner with social service agencies to further synergize our program with the community.
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Criado em 04/10/2013 por Makhotso
"World Foundation for Prosperity and Autonomy" invites the creation of Centres for Community Consultation where local government, NGO and civil society participants can share their needs and resources.
Organização: World Foundation for Prosperity and Autonomy
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World Foundation for Prosperity and Autonomy
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Recently the European Commission put out a Call for Proposals dealing with the collaboration of local government, NGO's and civil society. We see this as a crucial step toward the poorest people being heard in their needs. Once the communication happens all will work together. We promote community consultation centres and focus on adequate nutrition for the young children and pregnant women.
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Consultation with the community
Explique sobre o que trata a "inovação”; por exemplo, é uma idéia e/ou um modelo que você usa para concretizar uma idéia, ou talvez seria sua compreensão da população-alvo, etc?
Descreva como o seu modelo de inovação é diferente de qualquer outra organização na sua área.
Tthe health of the children and women depends on the production and distribution of adequate nutrition. The model is an integrated rural development model run in the community by the participants on the basis of cooperation. Each person that starts up an agriculture business will follow moral leadership training to ensure that all work in harmony and focus on service
to the community. The agriculture model takes into consideration climate change challenges and allows each farmer to use his initiative to succeed. The model uses agroforestry, intercropping, indigenous planting techniques, among others. Families of children and pregnant or breastfeeding women receiving supplement will also become involved in initiating small agriculture businesses so that their incomes may increase. .
Que tipo de ambiente operacional e fatores da organização interna ajudarão o projeto a ser bem sucedido?
All decisions are based on a process of consultation between the different instances of the organization and project participants. Our international organization is consulting with local organizations for the planning and training components. The project itself begins with community consultation of local government, NGO and civil society representatives to ensure that the needs of all are heard. The consultation- action- reflection model allows for each step of our work to be evaluated by those involved and innovative ideas to be put into practice. Colloboration with international knowledge sharing organizations brokered by our organization allow people on community level to profit from newly generated discoveries. We rely on traditional knowledge that respects the environment.
Como você garante que inova constantemente à luz de (potenciais) desafios externos, ou do seu plano de crescimento?
We collaborate with a local organization who assist ex-miners to rebuild their lives after leaving the mines. their participation will allow ongoing monitoring of progress. Reflection and consultation about each action undertaken is part of the process of development. We intend to have the participants in the project work involved in the reflection and consultation too. These participants will be invited to form marketing consulation groups so they can share ideas and continue to collaborate. Ongoing surveys of the nutritional status of the children and women will be undertaken by the local organization affiliated with World Foundation for Prosperity and Autonomy. We intend to establish an affiliation with the International Research Centres for Agriculture and Nutrition so that new knowledge can be constantly integrated into the local activities via the local organizations.
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Levar assistência médica acessível a comuniaddes em mercados emergentes
Área da Saúde (mercado alvo) em que a necessidade está [selecione apenas um]
Nutrição
Categorias ao longo do continuo da saúde que você está cobrindo [selecione todos que se aplicam]
Prevenção, Diagnóstico, Intervenção, Acompanhamento, Tratamento de longa duração, Integração social.
Por favor, descreva mais detalhadamente: qual problema você está tentando resolver no contexto específico da organização?
Many children die of malnutrition related diseases, and many more are stunted for life due to inadequate protein intact in childhood. Adequate nutritional status of pregnant and breastfeeding women can ensure a better health state of the future generation and for their own health and for raising these children. It has also been shown that adequate nutrition for people living with AIDS can give them a longer and more productive life. We are particularly working on creating autonomy in economic growth by assisting participants in starting up small agriculture businesses that will provide the income necessary to buy foods not grown and provide other needs and possibly further education. Providing microfinance loans can eliminate a barrier to income generation activities of rural people.
Estágio que melhor se aplica à sua solução [selecione apenas um]
Start-up e crescimento (piloto operando e em expansão)
Estratégias centrais do seu modelo de negócios
Abordagens para a mudança de comportamento no nível individual , Novas abordagens para a distribuição de produtos e serviços de saúde, Parcerias entre atores não convencionais (entre atores tradicionais e atores externos ao sistema de saúde), Novas estratégias de financiamento para a saúde, Outros.
Por favor, especifique:
consultation of community members about their specific needs in terms of health and nutrition.
Ferramentas mais relevantes que você está usando para implementar as estratégias descritas acima [selecione apenas duas]
Consulta, Financiamento comunitário.
Por favor, descreva sua solução mais detalhadamente
Qual é sua visão e objetivos gerais?
Bring local governement, NGO's and civil society together to elucidate specific needs and skills available. Create collaborative project activities followed up by reflection and further consultation.
Income generation based on agriculture and the use of local resources. Marketing groups of community participants. Production and distribution of nutritional and health needs in the community. Monitoring by local organizations to ensure sustainable action.
Qual é sua proposta de valor?
What is the value of the health and life of a child or a woman? Too many are dying from lack of resources and collaborative action. Assisting people to provide their own adequate nutrition and other needs has a long reaching effect on this and other generations of healthy citizens.
Quem são seus clientes?
People (primarily parents and gardiens of young children, pregnant or breatfeeding women) who have inadequate nourishment and those responsible for them.(government , NGO's )
Farmers and gardeners in the rural communities who can benefit from increased income, and those responsible for assisting them.
Quais abordagens você usa para alcançar seus clientes?
Invitation to community meetings to consult about the project activities and share about needs and possible resources.
Quais sãos suas atividades principais?
Community consultation about needs. Invitation to community members to participate as cultivators or food supplement producers; training of participants in moral leadership, agriculture techniques, basic nutrition, small business management...
Quem são seus pares e concorrentes? Quais problemas esses atores poderiam representar para seu sucesso e crescimento?
Quais outros desafios – individuais, organizacionais ou de meio ambiente – você atualmente enfrenta ou poderiam impedir o futuro sucesso do seu negócio e como você pretende superá-los?
People that see success and are not directly involved in it, tend to become jealous and try to destroy the activities and participants. The training within the participant group will create a strong collaborating mentality. Ongoing consultations among local goverment, NGO's and the community participants with ongoing invitiation to new participants is a first step. Open communication among all involved will hopefully reduce this kind of abuse from happening
Certain environmental practices such as burning the earth are much a part of the way of life of the community members. Ongoing educational workshops with possible participation of university and researchers can gradually bring in more environmentally friendly practices. The project invites people to cultivate organically.
Descreva brevemente sua estratégia de crescimento futuro
Consolidation of the planning group; initial community consultation ; assuring that the community structures are working together in harmony; monitoring of participant marketing groups for constantly increasing sale of agricultural products; sharing of feedback so that all participants can improve their practices.
Project groups in other regions and in other countries can then be established
Em quais dimensões de crescimento você atualmente está focando para sua inovação? [selecione todas que se aplicam]
Nova(s) região(ões).
O que faz o seu negócio estar “pronto” para crescer?
When the planning group is communicating in harmony and each person taking responsibility for their role (in country 1) and the project is working smoothly with ongoing evaluations within the community, expansion to other areas in the country repeating the model will be possible.
In other countries the planning and action must follow the same guidelines, assuring communication with our NGO.
Quais são seus objetivos-chave de crescimento?
From one project in Lesotho to ten district projects; an intial project in two other African countries in the next two years followed by expansion in each of these countries to project in each district of those countries. One initial project in a South American country followed by expansion in that country, as well as initial and further projects in Haiti. Communication among all these actions
Qual é o seu prazo para crescimento, no curto e médio prazo? Quais são as metas de crescimento e atividades-chave futuros?
First project established within the next year; ten projects within the next two years. Ongoing monitoring to ensure stability. First projects in two African countries during the second year of running of the first in Lesotho. Assurance of the consolidation of our organization and all local organizations during this time. Expansion to districts of the two African countries during the third year of action (second year in those countries). Year four, a Haitian project; year five, a South American project. Ongoing evaluation of all project activities by feedback through local organizations to the NGO in Canada and periodic visits of WFPA staff. Communication among projects via a bimonthly newsletter or magazine. Eventually radio programming about project activities in each country.
leia mais↓↑ ocultar↑ ocultarQual foi o impacto da sua solução até hoje?
A small workshop to produce the food supplement was set up showing the interest of community women for the activity. Some community women involved children in the picking of leaves for the workshop. Farmers contracted to grow vegetables and herbs. The need for the moral leadership training became evident and communication begun with local organizations has taken much time to develop and is in progress. The impact at this stage is the learning being acquired by WFPA and the lcoal organizations in working together which will be invaluable when we soon begin the community consultations. The model for collaborative action is being set and we can build on this success in our future actions. interest and the need for the project activities have been established in several districts of Lesotho as preparation for the launching of the programme. Consultations with possible collaborators in other African countries are underway, as is a communication with an agriculture research centre. We calculate the impact in each country initially to touch 5000 children and pregnant or breastfeeding women, as well as 600 participant farming families.
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Quais métodos de quantificação de impacto social você está usando (se alguma)?
Consultation- reflection - action. Baseline surveys of nutritional status and of income level of participants. Evaluation of these variables after each year of the project. Health statistics from Health Ministries will show change in malnutriton and stunting levels of the children and women.
Sua solução poderia funcionar em outras locais ou regiões? Se sim, onde?
.We believe this ation can be carried out, and should be, in any country of the world that has some land for cultivation The types of plants grown may have to be modified according to soil types, climatic conditions and possible innovative developments (like greenhouses for harsher climates or irrigation for very dry areas. The project is designed to be adapted to many situations and specifically focuses on water retention and agroforestry for improved agricultural production. In each country or region, the project participants can chose the kinds of plants that are most appropriate and can consult with the agriculture research centres about the best trees to use around vegetable plots. The innovation can be used in countries to prevent children dying before they are five years old
Qual é a sua expectativa de impacto para os próximos 1 - 3 anos?
Beginning with the first project of 60 farming families; 500 children and 500 pregnant or breastfeeding women receiving supplement; 12 marketing groups selling produce
Ffollowed by:
Children receiving supplement in three countries- minimum 15,000.
Pregnant and breastfeeding women minimum 15,000.
Farmers and gardeners increasing income 1800 to start or (maybe many more)
Marketing groups in each country (12 groups of 5 people each) in each district for a total of 120. Healthy produce being sold in country by local stands, in hotels and restaurants, buying groups, etc increasing income to some extent for participants and providing healthy food for many purchasers who have the disposable income . Most important, community collaboration.
leia mais↓↑ ocultar↑ ocultarDescreva sua estratégia financeira atual
We are seeking funding from aone Canadian source initially as a pilot project in Lesotho and from another that will allow actions in several countries.. At one point in the life of the project in Lesotho and in the other countries ,a small fee will have to be charged to families of the young children and the women receiving supplement. There is also a plan for the supplement to be packaged and sold outside of the project through pharmacies and other markets that will be developped by the participants and the local organizations in collaboration. The revenues from agricultural activities will first serve to pay back microfinance loans and then a small amount will be requested from each participant to continue paying the monitoring and assistance activities of the local NGO members. Rnning of the Canadian NGO WFPA is primarily based on offering the training programme to groups planning actions in the country or overseas.
Parcela da geração de receita na renda total da organização (em porcentagem)
Vendas diretas a pacientes e outros beneficiários (em porcentagem)
Das possíveis fontes dessas vendas, listadas abaixo, selecione todas que se aplicam à sua estratégia atual
Pacientes, Outros beneficiários.
Taxas de licenciamento, por exemplo, para modelos de tecnologia/franquia (em porcentagem)
Das possíveis fontes de oportunidades de licenciamento, listadas abaixo, selecione todas que se aplicam à sua estratégia atual
Governo nacional.
Contrato de serviço com organizações, por exemplo, governo, ONGs (em porcentagem)
Das possíveis fontes de contratos de serviço, listadas abaixo, selecione todas que se aplicam à sua estratégia atual
ONG/OCS.
Explique sua estratégia de geração de receita mais detalhadamente
Two funding applications will permit the initial project work in Lesotho and two African countries. Running the NGO in Canada requires the training workshop revenue which is $700. per person attending for a 9 day workshop.
Parcela da geração de receita na renda total da organização (em porcentagem)
Estratégias de filantropia que você usa
Estratégia diversificada.
Explique sua abordagem filantrópica mais detalhadamente
Currently we are looking at funding sources from government related organizations. There is also a plan to initiate a series of fundraising events in Montreal, Canada,featuring local musicians and cultural foods. Certain government programmes that fund youth to travel overseas may also be accessed to increase the level of volunteer participants in the community monitoring and support work.
Fale mais sobre os itens selecionados; explique como você vai manter o financiamento.
Each of the funding applications are applied to projects of at least two years duration and may be renewable. Our training workshops are ongoing as new groups are invited to participate. We would like to see this particular training being offered to all organizations who send youth overseas as volunteers
By organizing the local (Montreal) fundraising activities we will also offer an opportunity to local musiciens to present their talent and attract funders to our events .
Criado em 04/10/2013 por eralda
Grupo de educação alimentar e nutricional com uma abordagem ludica inovadora.
leia mais ↓↑ ocultar↑ ocultarPágina da organização na internet
País da organização
Brasil, RJ, rio de janeiro
9. País onde organização atua, possui seu projeto implementado
Natureza da organização
Não registrado
Ano de fundação da organização
Anos em Operação
Fase de concepção
A organização recebeu algum prêmio ou reconhecimento público? Por favor, conte-nos mais detalhes
Queremos saber mais sobre seu momento “A-ha!”. Compartilhe a história sobre onde e quando o(s) fundador(es) viu(viram) o potencial desta solução para transformar o mundo.
As informações que você fornecer aqui serão usadas para preencher todas as partes do seu perfil deixadas em branco, como interesses, informação da organização e website. Nenhuma informação do contato será tornada pública. Por favor, desmarque aqui se você não deseja que isso aconteça..
leia mais↓↑ ocultar↑ ocultarExplique sobre o que trata a "inovação”; por exemplo, é uma idéia e/ou um modelo que você usa para concretizar uma idéia, ou talvez seria sua compreensão da população-alvo, etc?
Educação alimentar e nutricional para crianças e adolescentes atraves de um modelo ludico de criação de pensamento critico e criativo sobre a cultura alimentar e a percepção corporal.
Jogos de tabuleiro usando a filosofia do jogo autoral(modelo alemão) será o produto de cada encontro
Descreva como o seu modelo de inovação é diferente de qualquer outra organização na sua área.
A construção de um jogo de tabuleiro para um grupo especifico é uma forma original de construção coletiva de conhecimento com vivencia ludica que aproxima diverte e permanece ao longo da vida dos participantes pelo impacto emocional positivo da criação.
Que tipo de ambiente operacional e fatores da organização interna ajudarão o projeto a ser bem sucedido?
E necessário uma sala ampla e agradavel`, materiais cartolina, canetinhas cartas, dados, brinquedos pequenos para servir de avatar entre outros e muita imaginação que levará em conta o contexto social, cultural e economico do grupo especifico para que parta do grupo a criação e conscientização da alimentação saudavel dentro da realidade e das perspectivas de mudança sustentável.
Como você garante que inova constantemente à luz de (potenciais) desafios externos, ou do seu plano de crescimento?
Diversão e educação parecem conceitos bem distantes e a possibilidade de criação e diversão e entreterimento. O joga autoral criado em grupo apodera os participantes construindo uma confiança em seu potencial individual e coletivo. Acredito que o crescimento se dará pelo propria iniciativa de resolver problemas a partir da realidade e das possibilidades de mudança criadas.
Temas relacionados à inscrição
leia mais↓↑ ocultar↑ ocultarDesafio Sistêmico que você está tentando resolver [selecione apenas um]
Realinhar os incentivos no sistema público de saúde em mercados maduros, ou
Área da Saúde (mercado alvo) em que a necessidade está [selecione apenas um]
Nutrição
Categorias ao longo do continuo da saúde que você está cobrindo [selecione todos que se aplicam]
Prevenção.
Por favor, descreva mais detalhadamente: qual problema você está tentando resolver no contexto específico da organização?
criação de habitos alimentares saudaveis para a comunidade, familias de uma forma agregadora e que possa ser aplicada ao longo de toda a vida, uma adesão a vida saudavel.
Estágio que melhor se aplica à sua solução [selecione apenas um]
Ideia (pronto pra lançar)
Estratégias centrais do seu modelo de negócios
Abordagens para a mudança de comportamento no nível individual , Papéis novos/redefinidos para prestação de serviços de saúde.
Ferramentas mais relevantes que você está usando para implementar as estratégias descritas acima [selecione apenas duas]
Novas habilidades, Educação/treinamento.
Por favor, descreva sua solução mais detalhadamente
Qual é sua visão e objetivos gerais?
realizar programas de educação nutricional e alimentar de forma ludica que estimule a criatividade e possibilite a adesão a uma alimentação saudavel adequada a realidade de cada grupo
Qual é sua proposta de valor?
a proposta de valor é o respeito a cultura alimentar de cada grupo com a possiblidade de mudança atraves das possibilidades vislumbradas no processo de criação.
Quem são seus clientes?
Grupos familiares de comunidades atendidas na atenção basica da rede de saude principalmente crianças e adolescentes .
Quais abordagens você usa para alcançar seus clientes?
estimulo para fazer algo divertido em grupo com a perspectiva da liberdade de criação dentro do tema alimentação saudável com a quebra do paradigma da educação verticalizada.
Quais sãos suas atividades principais?
exposição do problema e convite a achar possibilidades de solução atraves das criatividade estimulada para elaboração do jogo
Quem são seus pares e concorrentes? Quais problemas esses atores poderiam representar para seu sucesso e crescimento?
meus pares são atores e profissionais de saude que utilizam a forma ludica de trabalhar problemas na promoção e prevenção em saude meus concorrentes são as praticas engessadas e que não consideram a subjetividade da população afetada.
Quais outros desafios – individuais, organizacionais ou de meio ambiente – você atualmente enfrenta ou poderiam impedir o futuro sucesso do seu negócio e como você pretende superá-los?
preciso de apoio financeiro para realizar o projeto e acredito que através de parcerias para local, material de trabalho, alimentação para participantes etc.este obstaculo será superado
Descreva brevemente sua estratégia de crescimento futuro
Este trabalho tem uma proposta de crescimento em grupos diversos e posso tornar essa proposta de educação utilizável em diversas areas de promoção e prevenção.
Em quais dimensões de crescimento você atualmente está focando para sua inovação? [selecione todas que se aplicam]
Novo(s) grupo(s) de cliente(s), Nova(s) região(ões), Novo(s) mercado(s)/país(es).
O que faz o seu negócio estar “pronto” para crescer?
é uma ideia ja testada em grupos de amigos e clientes com repercusão excelente entre parentes e amigos dos que participaram todos tem muito entusiamo em participar do programa e realmente mudaram seus habitos alimentares.
Quais são seus objetivos-chave de crescimento?
Criar grupos que se possam se reunir periodicamente para jogar o produto elaborado no projeto com novas possibilidades de diversão e aprendizagem continua.
levar esta metodologia a outros estados e paises. Criar uma rede interativa com crescimento e desenvolvimento continuo.
Qual é o seu prazo para crescimento, no curto e médio prazo? Quais são as metas de crescimento e atividades-chave futuros?
a curto prazo quero atingir a minha comunidade aonde vivo, e deposi ter uma abrangencia regional conseguir parcerias que possam realizar o projeto para onde ele for.
leia mais↓↑ ocultar↑ ocultarQual foi o impacto da sua solução até hoje?
mudança de habitos alimentares de forma permanente consequentemente prevenção das doenças cronicas não trasmissiveis.
Quais métodos de quantificação de impacto social você está usando (se alguma)?
melhora da qualidade de vida da população afetada no projeto, peso corporal, frequencia alimentar de alimentos saudaveis
Sua solução poderia funcionar em outras locais ou regiões? Se sim, onde?
essa proposta pode ser usada em qualquer região pelo fato de respeitar a cultura individual e local.
Qual é a sua expectativa de impacto para os próximos 1 - 3 anos?
acredito que existe uma demanda reprimida sobre essa forma de transformação do pensamento e dos habitos de vida, em um ano um estado em 2 anos um pais em 3 anos 3 a 4 paises
leia mais↓↑ ocultar↑ ocultarDescreva sua estratégia financeira atual
arrecadação de recursos financeiros de empresas interessadas na melhoria social
Parcela da geração de receita na renda total da organização (em porcentagem)
Vendas diretas a pacientes e outros beneficiários (em porcentagem)
Das possíveis fontes dessas vendas, listadas abaixo, selecione todas que se aplicam à sua estratégia atual
Amigos e família, Doações individuais, Pacientes, Cuidadores, Empresas Privadas.
Taxas de licenciamento, por exemplo, para modelos de tecnologia/franquia (em porcentagem)
Das possíveis fontes de oportunidades de licenciamento, listadas abaixo, selecione todas que se aplicam à sua estratégia atual
Fundações, ONG/OCS, Empresas Privadas, Governo local/regional, Governo nacional, Outras.
Contrato de serviço com organizações, por exemplo, governo, ONGs (em porcentagem)
Das possíveis fontes de contratos de serviço, listadas abaixo, selecione todas que se aplicam à sua estratégia atual
Fundações, ONG/OCS, Empresas Privadas, Governo local/regional, Governo nacional, Outras.
Explique sua estratégia de geração de receita mais detalhadamente
a comercialização do produto e o compartilhamento da experiencia em empresas privadas
Parcela da geração de receita na renda total da organização (em porcentagem)
Estratégias de filantropia que você usa
Estratégia diversificada.
Explique sua abordagem filantrópica mais detalhadamente
o programa é realizado gratuitamente para o publico de baixa renda e com preços de mercado para empresa privado
Fale mais sobre os itens selecionados; explique como você vai manter o financiamento.
as empresas que comprarem a proposta serão convidadas a serem parceiras no seguimento social
Criado em 04/8/2013 por arun@kuchibhotla.com
Our company envisions a future where the standard of living in the third world is equal to that of the developed nations. We strive to innovate and offer the best solutions possible to achieve this goal. Through the plethora of options our company would be able to provide, rural communities would be able to better their living standards
Organização: i^3: Innovative International Ideas
mais ↓↑ ocultar↑ ocultarNome da Organização
i^3: Innovative International Ideas
Página da organização na internet
País da organização
Estados Unidos , AZ, Mesa, Maricopa County
9. País onde organização atua, possui seu projeto implementado
n/a
Natureza da organização
Privada
Ano de fundação da organização
Anos em Operação
Fase de concepção
A organização recebeu algum prêmio ou reconhecimento público? Por favor, conte-nos mais detalhes
With our business still in its birth phase, our business has yet to earn any accolades.
Queremos saber mais sobre seu momento “A-ha!”. Compartilhe a história sobre onde e quando o(s) fundador(es) viu(viram) o potencial desta solução para transformar o mundo.
When working on a school project to create a more efficient stove for coastal Ghana, we accidently realized the full potential of offering high living solutions at a low cost manner to third world communities.
As informações que você fornecer aqui serão usadas para preencher todas as partes do seu perfil deixadas em branco, como interesses, informação da organização e website. Nenhuma informação do contato será tornada pública. Por favor, desmarque aqui se você não deseja que isso aconteça..
leia mais↓↑ ocultar↑ ocultarNome do seu projeto
i^3: Innovative International Ideas
Explique sobre o que trata a "inovação”; por exemplo, é uma idéia e/ou um modelo que você usa para concretizar uma idéia, ou talvez seria sua compreensão da população-alvo, etc?
We sell better living solutions, such as our initial community stove product, to third world community government agencies who desire a better quality of life for their constituents. The concerns our solutions will address are the negative costs be it financial, health, or otherwise, that many of the substandard realities of life in the third world bring down upon its people. The problems faced are anywhere in that range from annoying, to life saving, to cost saving. In terms of just cooking, fuel usage has the hidden costs of unhealthy smoke inhalation and the fact woman needs to go to the jungle (where she could potentially be raped and killed) to chop or gather wood. Our solution is to design a new way for them to cook which simultaneously burns less fuel and produces less smoke.
Descreva como o seu modelo de inovação é diferente de qualquer outra organização na sua área.
Unlike traditional charities and NGOs that typically distribute handouts to individuals, our innovative products are aimed at empowering entire at risk communities. Whatever the solution may be, we are giving these communities a tool, the knowledge of how to make said tool, and more importantly how to fix it themselves if something breaks.
Que tipo de ambiente operacional e fatores da organização interna ajudarão o projeto a ser bem sucedido?
We seek to enrich the lives of third world communities by providing them with the opportunity and ability to obtain high-living solutions in a low cost fashion. Our company would act as the in house testing principle where we ideate, test, and implement our solutions. One of our initial products we plan to release is a new stove design aimed to better the fuel efficiency and lower the health risks due to smoke of the current design. Along with the stove, we hope to increase our solution pallet to tackle some of the more prevalent issues currently affecting the third world communities today. We hope to have solutions which would address areas like dirty water, lack of electricity, food shortage.
Como você garante que inova constantemente à luz de (potenciais) desafios externos, ou do seu plano de crescimento?
We know that the people of the third world use extremely primitive methods of cooking food, and other everyday activities that people in the developed world take for granted. For example, the ever increasing fatalities due to smoke inhalation are a problem we hope to solve through our innovative stove design. Solutions like our stove, and a vast number of other solutions we plan to implement in the future, will have direct implications like preventing global warming, lower deforestation to name a few. The local residents will notice better health, longevity in lifespan all while offering solutions which will lower their costs, enabling them to give more back to their households.
Temas relacionados à inscrição
leia mais↓↑ ocultar↑ ocultarDesafio Sistêmico que você está tentando resolver [selecione apenas um]
Levar assistência médica acessível a comuniaddes em mercados emergentes
Área da Saúde (mercado alvo) em que a necessidade está [selecione apenas um]
Nutrição
Categorias ao longo do continuo da saúde que você está cobrindo [selecione todos que se aplicam]
Prevenção, Tratamento de longa duração.
Por favor, descreva mais detalhadamente: qual problema você está tentando resolver no contexto específico da organização?
The concerns our solutions will address are the negative costs be it financial, health, or otherwise, that many of the substandard realities of life in the third world bring down upon its people. The problems faced are anywhere in that range from annoying, to life saving, to cost saving. In terms of just cooking, fuel usage has the hidden costs of unhealthy smoke inhalation and the fact woman needs to go to the jungle (where she could potentially be raped and killed) to chop or gather. Our solution is to design a new way for them to cook which simultaneously burns less fuel and produces less smoke.
Estágio que melhor se aplica à sua solução [selecione apenas um]
Ideia (pronto pra lançar)
Estratégias centrais do seu modelo de negócios
Novas abordagens para a distribuição de produtos e serviços de saúde, Parcerias entre atores não convencionais (entre atores tradicionais e atores externos ao sistema de saúde), Novas estratégias de financiamento para a saúde.
Ferramentas mais relevantes que você está usando para implementar as estratégias descritas acima [selecione apenas duas]
Tecnologia, Financiamento comunitário.
Por favor, descreva sua solução mais detalhadamente
In just our first “solution” a new stove design aimed at better fuel efficiency and lowering negative impact health of the current design, we estimate an initial cost/labor cost of around $200 US, and anticipate charging $300. $50 would go to a local individual who would be taught the idea, and the steps previously developed by us for implementing said solution. $30 would come back to our group where the capital would be spent on further testing of design solutions already in progress or possibly to jump start the process of creating more solutions on a and $20 would go to the partner firm with existing money networks.
Qual é sua visão e objetivos gerais?
We sell better living solutions, such as our initial community stove product, to third world community government agencies who desire a better quality of life for their constituents. Unlike traditional charities and NGOs that typically distribute handouts to individuals, our innovative products are aimed at empowering entire at risk communities. Whatever the solution may be, we are giving these communities a tool, the knowledge of how to make said tool, and more importantly how to fix it themselves if something breaks. So often, you see the good intentions of people go to waste because they get caught up in the passing out handouts. Handouts only make a difference for as long as the handout lasts, Our group's ultimate purpose is to create a model that makes a permanent difference.
Qual é sua proposta de valor?
The value our solutions bring are that it allows members below the poverty line to enhance their living standards. This would improve their overall livelihood. Through the micro-financing model, the primary goal of community would to repay the initial cost of the solutions we set in place. Since the majority of the solutions our company would provide are of the communal scale, the physical expense of each solution would be spread amongst the members of the society. Benefit of this is that no individual family pays more than $1-5 a year. This is an important factor as majority of the people below the poverty line earn no more than $2 dollars a day. Asking one individual family to spend more $50 for one product is an impossibility.
Quem são seus clientes?
We currently are working on making a more efficient stove for Abuesi, Ghana, a rural fishing village where we have a contact on location. The town of Abuesi contains approximately 3,000 inhabitants, a quantity provided to us by our source. There are more than 20 towns in the 5 mile radius around Abuesi. We learned that Ghana has approximately 300 miles of coastline proving that Ghana alone has over 6,000 villages along its coastline for us to sell our innovative stove. To go beyond that, looking at the continent of Africa alone, which as an estimated 16,000 miles of coastline, our company would be looking over 300,000 potential clients we would go to for just one of our product offerings.
Quais abordagens você usa para alcançar seus clientes?
Identification of the most pressing needs of an area would be the very first element or activity that is required for us to succeed. Locating and defining where the most pressing needs are in a community would give us a very important, very real perspective on what the people living under the poverty line actually need. Once we identify problem, our job would be to devise the best possible solution. We would conduct all the necessary and proper testing measures to ensure the best results possible for our customers. Once we reach a design for a solution we are content with, we will begin to market it for our customers and initiate proper distribution tactics.
Quais sãos suas atividades principais?
Our business aims to create solutions of the highest quality to ensure the better livelihood of our customers. We strive to create solutions which will impact the greater good of third world communities. By creating high end offerings at low costs, we will make better living a reality to those who would have never thought possible. We will explore the more reoccurring issues which third world communities face today, and create a collection of solutions which these communities purchase from.
Quem são seus pares e concorrentes? Quais problemas esses atores poderiam representar para seu sucesso e crescimento?
Our peers and competitors are mostly NGOs that give handouts in the form of "aid" to these impoverished nations and peoples, however the improved quality of life as a result of the handout only lasts for as long as the handout. We seek to implement living solutions that empower these people to raise their standard of living without a handout, so that the difference made lasts for generations and can be potentially improved upon further.
Quais outros desafios – individuais, organizacionais ou de meio ambiente – você atualmente enfrenta ou poderiam impedir o futuro sucesso do seu negócio e como você pretende superá-los?
Identification of the most pressing needs of an area would be the very first element or activity that is required for us to succeed. Locating and defining where the most pressing needs are in a community would give us a very important, very real perspective on what the people living under the poverty line actually need. Once we identify problem, our job would be to devise the best possible solution. We would conduct all the necessary and proper testing measures to ensure the best results possible for our customers. Once we reach a design for a solution we are content with, we will begin to market it for our customers and initiate proper distribution tactics.
Descreva brevemente sua estratégia de crescimento futuro
We are working hard to increase our product pallet and create the vital connections with some of the largest third world communities across the globe. These connections will enable us to grow.
Em quais dimensões de crescimento você atualmente está focando para sua inovação? [selecione todas que se aplicam]
Nova(s) região(ões), Novo(s) mercado(s)/país(es).
O que faz o seu negócio estar “pronto” para crescer?
We will scale our business by not only getting a stronghold in large third world communities, but creating important and exclusive partnerships. The more communities we begin to serve, the greater the revenue we build on.
Quais são seus objetivos-chave de crescimento?
Our company envisions a future where the standard of living in the third world is equal to that of the developed nations. We strive to innovate and offer the best solutions possible to achieve this goal. Through the plethora of options our company would be able to provide, rural communities would be able to better their living standards.
Qual é o seu prazo para crescimento, no curto e médio prazo? Quais são as metas de crescimento e atividades-chave futuros?
Within the next one year, we hope to complete the testing phase for our initial product offering of the more efficient stove. We also expect to establish partnerships with existing micro-financing firms to be able to offer our solutions in a low cost fashion.
leia mais↓↑ ocultar↑ ocultarQual foi o impacto da sua solução até hoje?
We are currently still in ideation phase and are in the process of establishing our company. Through the funding this competition would bring, we would able to about bringing our solutions to reality.
Quais métodos de quantificação de impacto social você está usando (se alguma)?
We hope to quantify our social impact based on the number of communities our solutions are implemented. The strength of our business is that we power entire communities, not just the individuals.
Sua solução poderia funcionar em outras locais ou regiões? Se sim, onde?
Since we will offer a broad pallet of solutions, we have no geographic or regional restrictions. Based on the community's needs, we would place the necessary solutions. For example, with our initial product of the stove, this stove could be utilized anywhere, not just the third world coastal regions of world.
Qual é a sua expectativa de impacto para os próximos 1 - 3 anos?
We hope to empower the main third world communities in the next 3 years. This would mean having our solutions established in locations like Ghana, Kenya, Sudan and more.
leia mais↓↑ ocultar↑ ocultarDescreva sua estratégia financeira atual
Our goal is to partner with a preexisting micro-financing firm early on, removing the need for us to create an entire infrastructure. Because of our partnership with other firms with access to existing micro-financing infrastructure this would allow our group to focus completely on the development and testing of physical solutions that we deem desirable/attainable. In just our first “solution” a new stove design aimed at better fuel efficiency and lowering negative impact on health of the current design, we estimate an initial cost/labor cost of around $200 US, and anticipate charging $300. $50 would go to a local individual who would be taught the idea, and the steps previously developed by us for implementing said solution. $30 would come back to our group where the capital would be spent on further testing of design solutions already in progress or possibly to jump start the process of creating more solutions on a and $20 would go to the partner firm with existing money networks.
Parcela da geração de receita na renda total da organização (em porcentagem)
Vendas diretas a pacientes e outros beneficiários (em porcentagem)
Das possíveis fontes dessas vendas, listadas abaixo, selecione todas que se aplicam à sua estratégia atual
Empresas Privadas, Outros beneficiários.
Taxas de licenciamento, por exemplo, para modelos de tecnologia/franquia (em porcentagem)
Das possíveis fontes de oportunidades de licenciamento, listadas abaixo, selecione todas que se aplicam à sua estratégia atual
Fundações, Governo local/regional, Outras.
Contrato de serviço com organizações, por exemplo, governo, ONGs (em porcentagem)
Das possíveis fontes de contratos de serviço, listadas abaixo, selecione todas que se aplicam à sua estratégia atual
Empresas Privadas.
Explique sua estratégia de geração de receita mais detalhadamente
We would establish partnerships with existing micro-financing firms in order to be able to offer our high-living solutions in a low cost fashion. This would enable us to primarily focus on the widespread implementation of the physical solutions themselves. We will also partner with firms who express the same vision and ideology as our company does. The vision to eradicate third world problems is a global effort. We hope to create strategic alliances with other companies to distribute their solutions under our network. By charging a premium for doing so, this would not only bring in revenue, but expand the offerings we provide.
Parcela da geração de receita na renda total da organização (em porcentagem)
Estratégias de filantropia que você usa
Explique sua abordagem filantrópica mais detalhadamente
We currently do not have any plans for utilizing philanthropic efforts.
Fale mais sobre os itens selecionados; explique como você vai manter o financiamento.
The primary focus of the business is to scale vastly, ensuring the better livelihood of the many currently living under the poverty line. In order to scale at such a large scale, this would require the company to have a large quantity of trained experts ready to bring the solutions to reality. Our trained staff would then go out to the respective communities who purchased our solutions, establish the solution in that locale and train the inhabitants of that community how to go about using that solution. In order for all of this work without constraint, each of our solutions would be charged at a premium. Of the premium charged, part goes to trained expert, part goes to pay for any banking fees, and the remainder goes to the company.
Criado em 03/27/2013 por robertp1
EarthBox Mexico imports, and soon will locally manufacture - very space + water efficient - and simple to use - vegetable growing systems to families, schools, clinics and institutions across the country. Mexico has the world's highest levels of childhood obesity and Type 2 Diabetes. The solution is access to and consumption of fresh green vegetables every day. Using EarthBoxes, we can re-introduce "at the doorstep" cultivation using minimal space, 60-80% less water, and much less labor. Youth and women's groups can use our products to generate income and overcome basic poverty.
Organização: EarthBox Mexico / Huertos Sostenibile
mais ↓↑ ocultar↑ ocultarNome da Organização
EarthBox Mexico / Huertos Sostenibile
Página da organização na internet
País da organização
México, JAL, Zapopan (Guadalajara)
Países onde este projeto vem gerando impacto social
México, JAL, Guadalajara + national
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leia mais↓↑ ocultar↑ ocultarNome do seu projeto
EarthBox Mexico - Sustainable Gardens (Huertos Sostenibile)
Selecione o estágio que melhor se aplica à solução
Inicial (um piloto que começou recentemente)
What problem is your organization committed to solving? In particular, share what is innovative about your approach.
EarthBox Mexico imports, and soon will locally manufacture - very space + water efficient - and simple to use - vegetable growing systems to families, schools, clinics and institutions across the country. Mexico has the world's highest levels of childhood obesity and Type 2 Diabetes. The solution is access to and consumption of fresh green vegetables every day. Using EarthBoxes, we can re-introduce "at the doorstep" cultivation using minimal space, 60-80% less water, and much less labor. Youth and women's groups can use our products to generate income and overcome basic poverty. Our innovation is entirely portable, requires no motors, no operating costs, and is guaranteed minimum 12 years - it is a revolution in sustainable food production. Grow your own fresh, tasty healthy food!
What are your organization's top three priorities in the next year?
1. Develop a dedicated network of distributors who know and feel passionately about our products and services.
2. Raise sales (and capital) to the level that will allow us to purchase molds and manufacture the EarthBox in Guadalajara, using maximum recycled plastic.
3. Promote our products and services to generate "volume" sales (schools, projects, institutions, corporate sector).
Need #1
Consumer/Audience Acquisition
Need #2
Opportunity Analysis
Based on your first choice of the eight technical categories you selected above, what is your specific project need? Please be specific!
EarthBox Mexico needs an effective strategy to place awareness of our products and services before decision-makers in the corporate, institutional, philanthropic and governmental secotrs - to assure understanding of our products' advantages, and to spur "volume" sales.
"Institutional" and "volume" sales will be followed by sales on the retail level - to families - through a dedicated network of distributors.
One major challenge is the very nature of our product and services: while transportable and functional virtually anywhere there is sunshine, the EarthBox is "three-dimensional"...It must be seen in use to be fully understood.
EarthBox Mexico will need (1) creative help to widely demonstrate the advantages of our products and services, and (2) an effective strategy to display / introduce this product to key decision-makers in industry, government, institutions and the philanthropic sector.
1.
Commitment to using strengths, assets and connections to reach a progressive and lasting social impact
2.
Ability to listen, absorb and respond to the unique needs and priorities of a diverse audinece (including clients, vendors, and
3.
Transparence / honesty and trust in day-to-day activities.
Will support from American Express be focused on your organization overall or a specific product/service? Please describe.
EarthBox Mexico / Huertos Sostenibile has one core product - the EarthBox, plus our services which include training, project design and installation.
The primary focus will be on the introduction of our core product to potential "volume" clients.
The EarthBox is, in a sense, "too easy" to use. Decision-makers often look for complicated solutions, and the straight-ford and functional "universal products" get overlooked. The earthBox is a "universal" product.
The "service" aspect, while potentially very reward, is easier understood than the core product - the EarthBox - itself.
Have you focused on the above area previously? If so, please explain, including whether you have worked with outside consultants before.
We have worked on this focus area only in respect of personal contacts.
We need to go far beyond this.
No - we have not engaged consultants - we have focused our effort on (1) finalizing the horticultural/agronimic package - making sure it is organic, local and effective - and low cost, and (2) developing our training/service package so as to complement sales with additional, service oriented revenue streams.
Are you able to commit 3-5 hours/wk over 10-12 weeks?
Sim
Are you able to meet virtually or at a convenient in-person location?
Sim
Are you able to meet in the city where your organization is based?
Sim
1.
Our core product, and our Company/Cooperative, are known to key decisions-makers and also - on a much wider level that at presen
2.
Knowldege of the product leads to increased "volume" or institutional sales, and we enhance our distribution network nation-wide
3.
Our sales / capital situation improves + allows us to purchase our mold set to manufacture locally w/recycled plastic.
Qual foi o impacto da sua solução até hoje?
We have developed our supply chain for Jalisco and generated local retail and "school-client" interest (sales of several thousands of units).
We have a modest network of distributors in major cities.
We have - on the family and school level - many repeat buyers, which reflects the quality of impact, and this convinces us that theproduct has massive business potential, and even greater potential for social impact.
EBMexico has localized our growing inputs - organic soil/fert.
IN our direct philanthropic efforts - in isolated indigenous communities, we have enhanced nutrition / food security by the introduction of EarthBox-grown green vegetables, and we have groups of women who are commercially organized around the growing box for market - to develop sustained supplemental income.
What is your project future impact after receiving professional support from American Express?
Our hope is that we have the strategy and tactics to present our products and services to potential clients, thus improving volume and institutional sales.
Increased sales will lead to local manufacture using recylced plastic, and lower end-prices - thus increased social impact (nutrition, food security, health, income generation).
The business, agronomic and social experience we gain in Mexico is absolutely applicable beyond the country's borders.
Our team is the most experienced user group of this innovation in the world; our experience has proven the product for rich/middle-class/poor communities, in rural + hyper-urban settings, in humid and dry climates, and in tropical/moderate and areas. This system works; we have localized and adapted it with great success.
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Criado em 03/23/2013 por katiekay
Many indigenous communities here in Canada and around the world are struggling with the right to a healthy environment including access to fresh clean water to drink, fertile soil to grow food and many lack access to employment and education. Furthermore, many indigenous children are in foster care or orphaned and require guidance and support. Water is the key to life and without water we cannot grow food, work or go to school.
Organização: Vancouver Board of Education
mais ↓↑ ocultar↑ ocultarTítulo
Learning and Development Consultant Aboriginal Education
Nome da Organização
Vancouver Board of Education
Página da organização na internet
Países onde este projeto vem gerando impacto social
Sua organização é
OSCIP/ONG
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leia mais↓↑ ocultar↑ ocultarNome do seu projeto
Social Justice Cooperative Program
Selecione o estágio que melhor se aplica à solução
Ideia (você está para lançar)
What problem is your organization committed to solving? In particular, share what is innovative about your approach.
Many indigenous communities here in Canada and around the world are struggling with the right to a healthy environment including access to fresh clean water to drink, fertile soil to grow food and many lack access to employment and education. Furthermore, many indigenous children are in foster care or orphaned and require guidance and support. Water is the key to life and without water we cannot grow food, work or go to school.
The program that I am proposing is to work with indigenous communities to provide them with employment in their communities and developing sustainable projects that enhance the quality of life among their people such as building water catchment systems, creating agriculture programs and building schools, orphanages and health care facilities.
What are your organization's top three priorities in the next year?
Establish partnerships with various communities, government agencies, and NGOs here in Canada and in Kenya as well as secure funding for the project.
Do a SWOT assessment to prioritize our next steps and which communities to start working in first.
Secure and obtain specific permits, land and permissions to start the project and solidify partnerships and communities to work in.
Need #1
Customer Relationships
Need #2
Opportunity Analysis
Based on your first choice of the eight technical categories you selected above, what is your specific project need? Please be specific!
We need to first establish partnerships with various NGO's and government agencies that want to be involved in the project here in Canada as well as in Kenya. We then need to do a SWOT analysis to discover which communities we should target first and how local community members can be involved in the development of the project and working on the project to gain employment skills.
We also need to know all the specific building permits and land purchases required to make the project happen including how to go about obtaining those permits.
1.
Gender Equality and fairness regarding offering employment opportunities to local community members.
2.
Respect and understanding regarding cultural differences, cultural practices and beliefs.
3.
Trust between organizations, government agencies and communities regarding contract obligations, permits, land and funding.
Will support from American Express be focused on your organization overall or a specific product/service? Please describe.
We need assistance with ensuring partnerships from various NGO's and government agencies to assess the products and services needed to make the project happen.
Have you focused on the above area previously? If so, please explain, including whether you have worked with outside consultants before.
I have worked with various NGO's and government agencies such as CIDA here in Canada as well a 3 NGOs in Kenya.
Are you able to commit 3-5 hours/wk over 10-12 weeks?
Sim
Are you able to meet virtually or at a convenient in-person location?
Sim
Are you able to meet in the city where your organization is based?
Sim
1.
Establish water and agriculture programs that are sustainable for the communities we are working in.
2.
Offer work experience and employment to youth and community members in the areas we are working in.
3.
Assist with building schools and medical facilities to remote areas that don't have access to those facilities.
Qual foi o impacto da sua solução até hoje?
I have worked with many Aboriginal youth here in Vancouver offering them work experience opportunities and leadership opportunities and they have become better people as a result. I have also worked with youth and various NGOs in Kenya and interviewed many community members and they are in dire need to have access to clean water and food. They also need employment opportunities. I worked in one school outside of Nairobi and the youth did not have opportunities to be involved in work experience out in the community which is a valuable experience. I also spent time with Aboriginal youth from Canada in Kenya and it was amazing for them to interact with Kenyan youth because they were able to identify with each others hardships and culture and made new friendships and connections.
What is your project future impact after receiving professional support from American Express?
To offer indigenous communities around the world with the right to a healthy environment with access to clean water and fertile soil through developing water and agriculture programs as well as offering employment opportunities and assist with building schools and medical facilities in remote areas.
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O Irater - Instituto Regional de Assistência Técnica e Extensão Rural é um empreendimento social criado em 2011 no município de Apuiarés, sertão do Ceará, através da mobilização e organização de jovens que participaram do Programa Jovem Empreendedor Rural (PJER) da Agência de Desenvolvimento Econômico Local (Adel) e recém-formados em Agropecuária no Instituto Federal de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia do Crato (IFCE), Unidade Umirim.
239 million Africans are chronically hungry. Many of them are poor smallholder farmers who already produce most of Africa’s food. We help improve their yields and profits. Our approach focuses on information and training, agro-ecology, loaned inputs, and risk management and appropriate technology.
This is a book written by a young Kenyan budding author about the challenges that face African youth such as climate change and unemployment and lack of opportunities. The a step by step practice and workable solutions that are brand new, innovative creative and perfect not just for developing countries but also for developed countries suffering from economic downturns. The book will spur thinking, debate, change, and growth world wide putting the youth agenda first in a remarkable way just needing more publicity to change the entire system.
Criado em 03/10/2013 por bpa1501
I started a nonprofit to help feed the homeless, and provide supplies, technology tools, and Christmas presents for children living in low income housing. We have raised over $513,000 over three years so far for our various efforts.
Criado em 03/7/2013 por bahsi15
Team change is an organization that plans on educating teens about malaria, unclean water, and hunger. We also plan on fundraising for certain charities.
Criado em 03/4/2013 por Global Health Corps
GHC aims to mobilize a global community of emerging leaders to build the movement for health equity. We recruit talented young professionals from around the world and place them with excellent nonprofits for a year of service. Our fellows impact the health of the communities in which they work and draw upon their experience and networks to deepen their impact throughout their careers.
Organização: Global Health Corps
mais ↓↑ ocultar↑ ocultarPágina da organização na internet
País da organização
Estados Unidos , NY, New York
9. País onde organização atua, possui seu projeto implementado
Natureza da organização
Sem fins lucrativos/ONG
Ano de fundação da organização
Anos em Operação
Anos de operação da organização
A organização recebeu algum prêmio ou reconhecimento público? Por favor, conte-nos mais detalhes
President and CEO, Barbara Bush, was awarded an Echoing Green Fellowship and a Draper Richards Fellowship in 2009 to support the development of Global Health Corps.
Queremos saber mais sobre seu momento “A-ha!”. Compartilhe a história sobre onde e quando o(s) fundador(es) viu(viram) o potencial desta solução para transformar o mundo.
GHC is the creation of a team of six twenty-somethings who met through a summit focused on engaging young people in the future of global health. We share the belief that our generation must build a world in which everyone has access to comprehensive health care. We can create this world by engaging young leaders with diverse skill-sets into building more effective and just health systems.
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leia mais↓↑ ocultar↑ ocultarNome do seu projeto
Global Health Corps: Health is a Human Right
Explique sobre o que trata a "inovação”; por exemplo, é uma idéia e/ou um modelo que você usa para concretizar uma idéia, ou talvez seria sua compreensão da população-alvo, etc?
Global Health Corps aims to mobilize a global community of emerging leaders to build the movement for health equity.
Changing the unacceptable status quo of deep health inequities requires a new generation of leaders with diverse skills and backgrounds. Emerging leaders need opportunities to build their skills and a community in which to reflect and innovate.
GHC provides opportunities for young professionals from diverse backgrounds and nationalities, to work on the frontlines of the fight for global health equity in yearlong fellowships. Our fellows have a measurable impact on the health of the communities in which they work, and draw upon their fellowship experience and the GHC alumni network to deepen their impact throughout their career.
The Global Health Corps program consists of three primary components:
• Building partnerships and increasing the impact of great organizations today
• Training and Supporting the leaders of tomorrow
• Building a global community of changemakers
Global Health Corps’ programming and training curriculum is based on a leadership development framework that integrates professional development, intellectual exploration, and interior formation as it relates to conducting service work. Over the course of the fellowship year and following, fellows will be provided opportunities to build their skills and strengths in each of these domains. Through our programming, fellows develop and continually “practice” leadership behaviors and skills that we consider crucial to achieving progress in global health and social change work.
Descreva como o seu modelo de inovação é diferente de qualquer outra organização na sua área.
GHC partners with organizations working on healthcare delivery and access. Fellows work with organizations in yearlong positions and make significant and measurable contributions to the organizations and the target population. Each fellowship team is composed of a pair of fellows, one from the country where the partner organization works, partnered with an international fellow. Over the course of the fellowship year, fellows participate in a wide range of activities aimed at increasing their effectiveness as practitioners and their development as leaders. Throughout the year, they receive on-going training, support and mentorship from the GHC team and our network of advisers. Fellows build a set of shared values, commitment and skills that they carry well beyond the fellowship year.
Que tipo de ambiente operacional e fatores da organização interna ajudarão o projeto a ser bem sucedido?
Como você garante que inova constantemente à luz de (potenciais) desafios externos, ou do seu plano de crescimento?
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leia mais↓↑ ocultar↑ ocultarDesafio Sistêmico que você está tentando resolver [selecione apenas um]
Levar assistência médica acessível a comuniaddes em mercados emergentes
Área da Saúde (mercado alvo) em que a necessidade está [selecione apenas um]
Categorias ao longo do continuo da saúde que você está cobrindo [selecione todos que se aplicam]
Prevenção, Diagnóstico, Intervenção, Acompanhamento, Tratamento de longa duração, Integração social.
Por favor, descreva mais detalhadamente: qual problema você está tentando resolver no contexto específico da organização?
Changing the unacceptable status quo of deep health inequities requires a new generation of leaders with diverse skills and backgrounds. The extreme disparity in health outcomes and access to healthcare that exists today between the world’s rich and the world’s poor is unjust and unsustainable. Opportunities are scarce for individuals with backgrounds outside of medicine to use their unique skills in public health. At the same time, for those who work in public health, a lack of community among leaders limits collaboration, knowledge sharing and support. To truly improve the health of those most in need, we must come together across broad divides of geography, class, professional discipline, religion, and age.
Estágio que melhor se aplica à sua solução [selecione apenas um]
Start-up e crescimento (piloto operando e em expansão)
Estratégias centrais do seu modelo de negócios
Redesenho do sistema público de saúde para mais eficiência (em termos de processos, estrutura, etc), Papéis novos/redefinidos para prestação de serviços de saúde, Novas abordagens para a distribuição de produtos e serviços de saúde, Parcerias entre atores não convencionais (entre atores tradicionais e atores externos ao sistema de saúde).
Ferramentas mais relevantes que você está usando para implementar as estratégias descritas acima [selecione apenas duas]
Tecnologia, Novas habilidades, Consulta, Educação/treinamento, Financiamento comunitário, Outras.
Por favor, especifique:
Monitoring & Evaluation, Quality Assurance/Improvement
Por favor, descreva sua solução mais detalhadamente
GHC programming and training curriculum is based on a leadership development framework that integrates professional development, intellectual exploration, and interior formation as it relates to conducting service work. Over the course of the fellowship year of the fellowship and following, fellows will be provided opportunities to build their skills and strengths in each of these domains. GHC will create a pipeline of young leaders for the global health equity movement today, and at scale will play a central role in sustaining and consistently reinvigorating this movement for change. This infusion of young, passionate, skilled leaders will help to tip the balance towards a more equitable and just global distribution of health services.
Qual é sua visão e objetivos gerais?
GHC believes that a global movement of individuals and organizations fighting for improved health outcomes and access to healthcare for the poor is necessary in order to change the unacceptable status quo of extreme inequity. GHC works to strengthen this movement by recruiting, training, and supporting the movement’s future leaders. GHC draws young people with diverse talents and skills from a broad range of backgrounds, geographies and past experiences to diversify the pool of committed people working in global health, and amplify the impact of individuals through the formation of a strong community of leaders.
Qual é sua proposta de valor?
Quais abordagens você usa para alcançar seus clientes?
Quais sãos suas atividades principais?
Annual 2-week training and orientation program at Yale University, quarterly regional retreats, distance learning, collaboration, and communication (blog posts, self directed learning), GHC staff site visits and phone check-ins, professional development opportunities (language classes, professional conferences), community building and networking events, advisor program (Fellows are matched to an outside GHC advisor and receive technical support and career advice), and connecting alumni and building community.
Quem são seus pares e concorrentes? Quais problemas esses atores poderiam representar para seu sucesso e crescimento?
Quais outros desafios – individuais, organizacionais ou de meio ambiente – você atualmente enfrenta ou poderiam impedir o futuro sucesso do seu negócio e como você pretende superá-los?
Descreva brevemente sua estratégia de crescimento futuro
Em quais dimensões de crescimento você atualmente está focando para sua inovação? [selecione todas que se aplicam]
O que faz o seu negócio estar “pronto” para crescer?
Quais são seus objetivos-chave de crescimento?
Exponential increase of fellows/applications from year to year, strengthen programming in leadership practices, develop tools to evaluate fellow growth, expand number of placement organizations, standardize protocol for fellow-receiving partners while maintaining diversity of partners and placement types.
Qual é o seu prazo para crescimento, no curto e médio prazo? Quais são as metas de crescimento e atividades-chave futuros?
This plan identifies GHC’s goals related to Fellows, Alumni, Movement Building, and Organizational Development for 2012-2015. GHC intends to grow every year for the next six years, at which point the annual corps will number 500 fellows.
leia mais↓↑ ocultar↑ ocultarQual foi o impacto da sua solução até hoje?
In July 2012, Global Health Corps welcomed its fourth class of fellows. Class sizes have grown consistently from 22 fellows in the first year to 90 currently. Over the past three years, GHC has placed and supported 216 fellows from 15 countries in East Africa, Southern Africa, and the United States. Fellows have built financial management systems for grassroots HIV organizations in Uganda, counseled homeless teenagers in New Jersey, supported district pharmacies in Rwanda in rolling our new supply chain management tools, and conducted policy research in Washington DC. As a young organization, GHC’s programming has evolved significantly from year to year, with new programming components added and new operational systems developed to support growing class sizes.
Global Health Corps is currently in the process of selecting fellows for the 2013-2014 class. Applications for the new class opened on December 3, 2012 and closed on February 3, 2013. We received 9,330 applications from 3,878 applicants. We hope to select 108 fellows by May 2013 for positions serving more than 45 placement organizations in our 6 placement countries. The 2013 Training Institute for the new class will take place at Yale University from July 7-20, 2013.
Quais métodos de quantificação de impacto social você está usando (se alguma)?
GHC conducts regular surveys to ensure that programming meets fellows’ needs and placement organizations are satisfied with fellow’ contributions and with the support provided by GHC. The focus of the next three years is to supplement these surveys with assessments of fellow growth in leadership practice areas, and to use the results to continually inform programming.
Sua solução poderia funcionar em outras locais ou regiões? Se sim, onde?
GHC believes that the global health equity movement needs effective leaders now! With the aim of helping other organizations and people develop GHC-style leaders, GHC will develop the capacity to easily share the GHC leadership development framework, curricula, programming guides and assessment tools with others interested in leadership development.
Qual é a sua expectativa de impacto para os próximos 1 - 3 anos?
To achieve its mission, GHC intends to expand the size of its fellowship class as much as possible while maintaining the quality of each fellowship experience. GHC intends to grow every year for the next six years, at which point the annual corps will number 500 fellows. We seek to be truly global, and will expand to new regions of the world over the next five years. But to ensure a high quality of experience for the fellows, and to maximize the support GHC can provide to fellows, GHC will expand in hubs of impact, clustering fellowships in specific regions rather than establishing small numbers of fellowships in a larger number of regions.
leia mais↓↑ ocultar↑ ocultarDescreva sua estratégia financeira atual
Parcela da geração de receita na renda total da organização (em porcentagem)
Vendas diretas a pacientes e outros beneficiários (em porcentagem)
Das possíveis fontes dessas vendas, listadas abaixo, selecione todas que se aplicam à sua estratégia atual
Taxas de licenciamento, por exemplo, para modelos de tecnologia/franquia (em porcentagem)
Das possíveis fontes de oportunidades de licenciamento, listadas abaixo, selecione todas que se aplicam à sua estratégia atual
Contrato de serviço com organizações, por exemplo, governo, ONGs (em porcentagem)
Das possíveis fontes de contratos de serviço, listadas abaixo, selecione todas que se aplicam à sua estratégia atual
Explique sua estratégia de geração de receita mais detalhadamente
Parcela da geração de receita na renda total da organização (em porcentagem)
Estratégias de filantropia que você usa
Explique sua abordagem filantrópica mais detalhadamente
Fale mais sobre os itens selecionados; explique como você vai manter o financiamento.
Criado em 03/2/2013 por adam@moveforhunger.org
Fact: 1 in 6 Americans, including 17 million children, go to bed hungry each night. Many people tend to think of hunger as a third-world problem, but the reality is that more and more Americans struggle with hunger every day.
Organização: Move For Hunger
mais ↓↑ ocultar↑ ocultarTítulo
Founder/ Executive Director
Página da organização na internet
País da organização
Estados Unidos , NJ, Neptune, Monmouth County
Países onde este projeto vem gerando impacto social
Sua organização é
OSCIP/ONG
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What problem is your organization committed to solving? In particular, share what is innovative about your approach.
Fact: 1 in 6 Americans, including 17 million children, go to bed hungry each night. Many people tend to think of hunger as a third-world problem, but the reality is that more and more Americans struggle with hunger every day.
Fact: 1 in 7 Americans relocate each year. When people move, they throw away a whole bunch of “stuff.” Unfortunately, a lot of this “stuff” is food that could be given to a family in need rather than thrown away. Move For Hunger works with moving companies across the nation to pick up unwanted non-perishable food items during the moving process and deliver them to local food banks.
We are mobilizing the entire relocation industry to include hunger relief as part of their core business practices, creating a sustainable solution to hunger.
What are your organization's top three priorities in the next year?
1. Grow Staff & Create a Better Baseline for Performance Metrics
2. Create & Implement a Development Plan
3. Double the Amount of Food Collected in 2013 From 2012
Need #1
Staffing Capabilities
Need #2
Consumer/Audience Acquisition
Based on your first choice of the eight technical categories you selected above, what is your specific project need? Please be specific!
Our staff is currently in transition as we are beginning to bring on new employees and losing others to grad school. We are creating a new development role for the organization and will be looking to fill other roles in the near future. With limited funding, we are trying to maximize our efforts in recruiting new staff that will help our organization grow. In addition, creating new metrics to accurately measure performance will be important to the success of our entire team.
Our organization has experience incredible growth both internally and externally over the past 3.5 years. In 2012, we doubled our staff as well as our partners, programs, and impact. We hope to continue this trend in 2013 (at least on the impact metric). Through new partnerships we are poised for another year of growth. We are seeking the assistance of AMEX to help implement the proper staffing practices to achieve our organizational goals. In addition, AMEX's support would be utilized to better define the roles and functions currently in place while strategically planning for the addition of new team members down the road.
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The partnership must be mutually beneficial. Creating a win-win is the key to a successful relationship.
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Terms of the partnership should be laid out from the start. Both parties must be able to commit to the terms they agree to.
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Metrics must be put in place to measure the value and impact of the partnership.
Will support from American Express be focused on your organization overall or a specific product/service? Please describe.
AMEX's support will focus on our organization as a whole. While our team is small (just 5 full-time staff), we have worked hard to created a hard-working and fun culture at the organization. Without losing that culture, we are excited for the opportunity to implement practices from AMEX to advance the capabilities of Move For Hunger.
Staff is our organization's greatest asset. As we continue to grow our organization's reach and impact, it is also important to grow professionally as individuals. There is a lot to be learned from a company like AMEX
Have you focused on the above area previously? If so, please explain, including whether you have worked with outside consultants before.
Are you able to commit 3-5 hours/wk over 10-12 weeks?
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Are you able to meet virtually or at a convenient in-person location?
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Are you able to meet in the city where your organization is based?
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Aquire the skills needed to recruit and train new staff more effectively
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Better define the roles and responsibilities of current staff and outline a roadmap for the future
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Identify new partnership strategies based upon the new perspectives of AMEX consultants
Qual foi o impacto da sua solução até hoje?
Move For Hunger was founded by my family's small moving company in NJ in 2009. Since then, we have grown to work with over 450 moving companies in 47 states and have expanded to Canada. Together, we have delivered over one million pounds of food to food banks and pantries across the nation. That's enough to provide over 770,000 meals to those in need. In 2012, we doubled our network of moving partners and launched a real estate program to increase hunger awareness locally throughout the country. In addition to our everyday collections, Move For Hunger organizes a ton of food drives to get young people involved in fighting hunger. It's easy to work with us since our moving partners do all the heavy lifting. From 2011 to 2012, we increased our food drives from 70 to 170.
What is your project future impact after receiving professional support from American Express?
We see great opportunity in working with AMEX to grow our internal capabilities. Our organization still has a lot of work to do within the US to increase the amount of companies working with us to fight hunger. However, we do not want to stop here. Hunger is a problem the affects people all across the globe. We strive to take our organization to new heights by expanding into new countries and incorporating our sustainable solution into new markets. A relationship with AMEX could go beyond just consulting support. We see value in creating employee engagement to get your company even more involved in the fight against hunger.
In terms of impact, Move For Hunger is just getting started. There are many more opportunities in scaling our organization, and AMEX can help us get there!
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