Here's a story about how members of the Changemakers community are encouraging intercultural relations in India:
In India where sectarian violence has bitterly divided urban communities, this is the stuff of radical poetry. They write a lot of it at the Ankur after school centers, where amidst poverty and deep distrust, they are quietly and determinedly planting the seeds of peace.
Ankur, which literally means “seedling,” was founded by a group of activists, artists and thinkers who felt that India’s textbook-based education system failed to give children the real life skills to cope with their complex society.
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A Peace of Cake primarily aims to achieve two goals which are the core belief for every activity to build upon: first is to unlock every children's hidden potential in order to allow them to use their capacity to their full potential, and second is to create a peaceful society based on understanding
This project also has a Changeshop where you can read more about its latest progress.
Ir ao Changeshop: Move This World.
Criado em 03/31/2013 por Ouida Maedel
Move This World (MTW) is a global nonprofit using creative movement as a vehicle to transform conflict, violence and bullying in communities. MTW focuses on empowering individuals with skills to identify emotions within themselves, to be empathetic in their interactions with others, and to act as change agents in their communities. Our hallmark program is an evidence-based curriculum engaging students Pre-K-12 in movement-based activities promoting empathy, diversity appreciation, anger management, and conflict transformation.
Organização: Move This World, Inc.
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Estados Unidos , VA, Alexandria, Fairfax County
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n/a
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.
Move This World (MTW) is a global nonprofit using creative movement as a vehicle to transform conflict, violence and bullying in communities. MTW focuses on empowering individuals with skills to identify emotions within themselves, to be empathetic in their interactions with others, and to act as change agents in their communities. Our hallmark program is an evidence-based curriculum engaging students Pre-K-12 in movement-based activities promoting empathy, diversity appreciation, anger management, and conflict transformation. Using MTW's holistic approach, we engage students, families, educators, administrators, and communities with targeted programs that promote social change through the art of movement. MTW has worked with over 9,000 individuals across 22 cities on four continents.
What are your organization's top three priorities in the next year?
In the next year, Move This World's top priority is to hire two full-time leadership positions to help to lead programmatic growth and operational strategy. These full-time positions will provide current staff with the support, resources, and expertise for Move This World to scale and enter new markets. Our second priority is to grow the number of classrooms we have in current program hubs. Thirdly, Move This World would like to pilot its special needs curriculum and identify potential new product lines in the next year.
Need #1
Message & Brand Strategy
Need #2
Peer Benchmarking Analysis
Based on your first choice of the eight technical categories you selected above, what is your specific project need? Please be specific!
In February of 2013 Move This World underwent a re-brand to become the organization it is today. Formerly known as Dance 4 Peace, Move This World leadership decided to pursue a re-branding process to find a name that truly articulated our use of innovative practice using creative movement for empathy education. We also wanted to find a name that embodied our growth potential, vision, and mission more fully. While we feel confident that we have found that name in Move This World, we are working to embody the new brand across the organization and realize our growth potential not only through our current curriculum and training programs, but also through new product lines to distinguish ourselves from peers and become the standard among organizations offering innovative empathy education programs.
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Move This World prioritizes flexibility and responsiveness to the needs of partners, customizing programs and arrangements.
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Move This World prioritizes open communication between partners and MTW staff, ensuring we are available to partners.
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Move This World prioritizes cultural awareness, ensuring our programs are appropriate for diverse contexts.
Will support from American Express be focused on your organization overall or a specific product/service? Please describe.
Support from American Express will be focused on Move This World as an organization overall in order to maximize the impact of the support. In order to work on our strategic positioning as an organization, we must pursue processes that foster cohesive branding and messaging strategies, and help us situate ourselves in the civil society space in relationship to peer organizations.
Have you focused on the above area previously? If so, please explain, including whether you have worked with outside consultants before.
Move This World has worked with outside consultants before, including with consultants who advised us throughout the re-brand process. We have also worked with consultants to evaluate the efficacy and growth potential of Move This World's programs in certain markets. While individual staff members have dedicate some time to considering branding and messaging and a part-time Communications and Strategy Specialist is a crucial member of our team, outside facilitation will prioritize branding and messaging for all staff to ensure consistency and confidence.
Are you able to commit 3-5 hours/wk over 10-12 weeks?
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
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To empower all Move This World staff to speak and write confidently and consistently about the new Move This World brand.
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To be internationally recognized as the standard provider of empathy education programs.
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To identify and strategize about potential distinct product lines for development under the Move This World umbrella.
Qual foi o impacto da sua solução até hoje?
The MTW curriculum transcends countries, socioeconomic differences, languages and cultures; it is being adapted and implemented in diverse communities worldwide. In the fall of 2011, aggregate data MTW collected indicated an 80% increase in student positive empathetic reactions to seeing an isolated peer after exposure to a semester of our programming. When given a situation involving bullying, there was a 48% decrease in violent responses. Survey questions to MTW students testing for appreciation of diversity showed a 15% increase in listening to others, 30% increase in liking group work, and 25% increase in likelihood to try new things. Suspension data in one school declined from 53 incidents to 16, after one semester of Move This World programming in several classrooms.
What is your project future impact after receiving professional support from American Express?
Based upon our strategic scaling model and business plan, Move This World will have an annual budget of $1.7 million in five years and will have worked with 55,000 youth and educators. Move This World has already shown success at scaling from one classroom in Bogota, Colombia to serving over 9,000 individuals in 22 cities on four continents. Support from American Express will enable Move This World to take the next step in becoming the standard bearer in innovative empathy education practice. Our programs are already sought after by a diversity of partners, and undergoing a peer benchmarking analysis will empower us to identify growth areas and customize product lines based upon the market need and feedback from partners.
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Criado em 03/29/2013 por Nicholas Carlisle
Student bullying is epidemic across industrialized nations worldwide, involving approximately 30% of students. It causes its targets physical, cognitive and emotional distress, marginalizes diverse youth and leads its targets to commit suicide and school shootings. Unless schools intervene promptly and effectively, the result is student disengagement and long-term mental health challenges, which impact school performance and impede students from ever reaching their lifetime potential.
Organização: No Bully
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Estados Unidos , CA, San Francisco
Países onde este projeto vem gerando impacto social
Sua organização é
OSCIP/ONG
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Scaling solutions to bullying
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Crescimento (seu piloto está em andamento e começa a se expandir)
What problem is your organization committed to solving? In particular, share what is innovative about your approach.
Student bullying is epidemic across industrialized nations worldwide, involving approximately 30% of students. It causes its targets physical, cognitive and emotional distress, marginalizes diverse youth and leads its targets to commit suicide and school shootings. Unless schools intervene promptly and effectively, the result is student disengagement and long-term mental health challenges, which impact school performance and impede students from ever reaching their lifetime potential. Students who habitually bully tend to engage in delinquency, alcohol abuse, anti-social behaviours and crimes in to their adult lives. Unchecked, bullying creates unsafe school environments and leads to greater violence in our communities.
What are your organization's top three priorities in the next year?
I. Deliver the No Bully System to schools most at need across the United States. We will create a team of No Bully trainers available to train school districts how to implement the No Bully System starting in the Western US States.
II. Create strategic partnerships to deliver the No Bully System at low or zero cost to schools. In order to scale our program rapidly, No Bully will secure corporate sponsorships and foundation funding for No Bully trainers to work with schools at low or zero cost.
III. Establish the No Bully System as the best practice in how to respond to student bullying. In the age of evidence-based programs, we will demonstrate the success of the No Bully System through gathering and publishing quantitative evidence of its effectiveness.
Need #1
Staffing Capabilities
Need #2
Performance Management
Based on your first choice of the eight technical categories you selected above, what is your specific project need? Please be specific!
No Bully is poised for growth. Six months ago we had just one employee - the ED - and operated our trainings through independent contractors. Now we have three employees, having brought on a development director and trainer. Our goal over the next twelve months is to increase our staff to eight.
In order to create a high level and effective team, our project need is to create a detailed staffing plan that defines how we will advertise, recruit, interview and create job descriptions for new and existing hires.
If the coaching process can extend to two needs/goals, we would highly value American Express guidance on performance management as we move from a virtual office to a physical office in San Francisco.
Will support from American Express be focused on your organization overall or a specific product/service? Please describe.
This project will review all our staffing needs and in that sense will cover the whole organization. Here is our staffing plan - the full team that we are aiming to create over the next twelve months.
Executive Director
Office Manager
Development director East Coast
Development director West Coast
Grant writer
Program Director
Lead Trainer
Lead Trainer
Have you focused on the above area previously? If so, please explain, including whether you have worked with outside consultants before.
We have worked with our board of directors and advisory board to create job postings and interview existing hires but have never worked with outside consultants in this area.
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
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Detailed staffing plan that links to our strategic goals
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Job descriptions for every member of our team
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Performance management strategies for all staff
Qual foi o impacto da sua solução até hoje?
Over the past thee years we have trained educators at nearly two hundred California schools in the No Bully System and so helped support bully-free campuses for an estimated 60,000 students. Two independent studies have shown that educators trained by us are solving incidents of student bullying in at least 80% of cases, and this held true three months later, making No Bully one of the most effective strategies available for ending student bullying.
What is your project future impact after receiving professional support from American Express?
Support from American Express will enable us to scale up our impact to reach more schools. Our goal is to partner in depth with a hundred schools over the next school year and train them how to implement and sustain the No Bully System long-term. Our three year goal is to expand our work from California to the East Coast, hire more trainers and increase our impact to two hundred schools a year. The project impact is preventing the lives lost or forever changed by student peer bullying.
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Criado em 03/27/2013 por asheren
Neighborsations is an easy, free way to make closer friends. A website that enables people to make friends in their neighborhood and prompts them to take their online connection offline, we ask users 4 questions about their interests and skills and then show them who in the neighborhood shares those interests. Although we have plenty of online contact with people regardless of location, we have lost that sense of community we crave. A recent study showed 1 in 5 reported adults feel lonely on a regular basis and the average American has only 4 close contacts.
Organização: Neighborsations
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Estados Unidos , DC, Washington, Washington
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Estados Unidos , DC, Washington, Washington
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What problem is your organization committed to solving? In particular, share what is innovative about your approach.
Neighborsations is an easy, free way to make closer friends. A website that enables people to make friends in their neighborhood and prompts them to take their online connection offline, we ask users 4 questions about their interests and skills and then show them who in the neighborhood shares those interests. Although we have plenty of online contact with people regardless of location, we have lost that sense of community we crave. A recent study showed 1 in 5 reported adults feel lonely on a regular basis and the average American has only 4 close contacts. Neighborsations sees that the current ways to make friends and meet neighbors are not satisfactory. We take proven concepts from other companies and integrate them to provide a better way to make connections with people in your area.
What are your organization's top three priorities in the next year?
1. Gain more users and reduce the barriers to meeting in person
2. Begin to generate revenue
3. Expand to additional neighborhoods and be in every DC neighborhood by the end of the year.
Need #1
Digital Marketing Strategy
Need #2
Consumer/Audience Acquisition
Based on your first choice of the eight technical categories you selected above, what is your specific project need? Please be specific!
Neighborsations has been validating the idea continually while developing the product. We have conducted a survey about the problems of meeting people in neighborhoods and the desire (or lack thereof) to do so. We participated in a Lean Startup workshop to execute customer interviews. Finally, we partnered with a local neighborhood festival to provide neighbor matches to festivalgoers. As the product develops, we continue to do customer development interviews and research to ensure we are focusing on the right pieces of this issue, however we know that our digital footprint could be significantly stronger. We need to capitalize on SEO, engage with other blogs, and execute a social media strategy that connects to the rest of our brand involving both local residents and influential bloggers and leaders in the DC neighborhoods.
Will support from American Express be focused on your organization overall or a specific product/service? Please describe.
Neighborsations is a company that only has 1 specific service, therefore support from American Express will be focused on the organization overall.
Have you focused on the above area previously? If so, please explain, including whether you have worked with outside consultants before.
Neighborsations is new company that has yet to focus on the above area. We have attempted different strategies related to digital marketing but have not worked with outside consultants on the issue.
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
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Partner with local bloggers and influential digital partners to increase recognition and support
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Engage our core base of customers so that they both love and feel connected to our brand
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Optimize our website's ability to show up in search results
Qual foi o impacto da sua solução até hoje?
Neighborsations launched approximately three month ago and already has a few hundred users. Users are interacting with one another via the internal messaging system and we are starting to host small gatherings to actually get people together. The largest impact remains to be seen. If more people in a neighborhood are friends or even know each others names, the fabric of that neighborhood will change making it safer, more connected, and more of a community.
What is your project future impact after receiving professional support from American Express?
As stated above, this company could have an enormous impact on the way people interact with others around them. Although we have plenty of online contact with people regardless of geographic location, we have lost that sense of community we crave. People are lonely but hate the idea of loneliness and dislike admitting the difficulty of making friends as an adult. In a recent study of adults, 1 in 5 reported being lonely on a regular basis and the average American has only 4 close social contacts. Neighborsations both engages community and helps people be less lonely. People want to get together in person, not just online. It is about making people feel like they are part of something larger and providing them with regular positive contributions to their life in the process.
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Criado em 03/21/2013 por SDCN
Too many people have lost the capacity or will to listen thoughtfully, talk respectfully, and relate constructively. Nowhere is this clearer than in the K-12 system: students often experience exclusion, poor achievement and depression that follows them into adulthood. 85% of LGBTQ youth reporting harassment at school. Too often, teachers are poorly equipped to battle these issues. The good news: Over 1,000 alumni of the International Institute of Sustained Dialogue (IISD) alumni graduate each year with unique abilities to solve problems, make decisions, resolve conflict, and listen actively.
Organização: International Institute for Sustained Dialogue
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International Institute for Sustained Dialogue
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País da organização
Estados Unidos , DC, NW, Washington
Países onde este projeto vem gerando impacto social
Sua organização é
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Inicial (um piloto que começou recentemente)
What problem is your organization committed to solving? In particular, share what is innovative about your approach.
Too many people have lost the capacity or will to listen thoughtfully, talk respectfully, and relate constructively. Nowhere is this clearer than in the K-12 system: students often experience exclusion, poor achievement and depression that follows them into adulthood. 85% of LGBTQ youth reporting harassment at school. Too often, teachers are poorly equipped to battle these issues. The good news: Over 1,000 alumni of the International Institute of Sustained Dialogue (IISD) alumni graduate each year with unique abilities to solve problems, make decisions, resolve conflict, and listen actively. We want support our alumni who teach in K-12 classrooms as they use Sustained Dialogue and inclusive leadership to transform relationships and create change in their classrooms and communities.
What are your organization's top three priorities in the next year?
Our Strategic Plan outlines our top three priorities for the coming year:
1. Increase impact through our current work on campuses by deepening, enhancing, and evaluating program offerings and services.
2. Mobilize a network of alumni to broaden impact. Our alumni are critical to our mission. To catalyze alumni impact, IISD will focus on strengthening its alumni database, providing training for alumni to bring SD skills to communities and workplaces (especially those in education settings), and developing workplace recruiting pipelines to position alumni with inclusion and dialogue skills in every sector. SD will begin a pilot program of training and supporting alumni teachers in their efforts to bring SD to their K-12 classrooms.
3. Build organizational infrastructure to enhance effectiveness and financial sustainability.
Need #1
Opportunity Analysis
Need #2
Message & Brand Strategy
Based on your first choice of the eight technical categories you selected above, what is your specific project need? Please be specific!
This year marks the ten-year anniversary of the International Institute for Sustained Dialogue. As we celebrate this milestone, we find ourselves at a critical juncture. Over the past ten years, our program has grown in ways that cause us to reconsider several questions: How do we best position and leverage the work that we do to deepen and maximize impact? How do we reach K-12 students so that they become inclusive, empathetic leaders before stepping foot on a college campus? How do we create a cadre of alumni who use SD to harness empathy in their classrooms? Given the endless need and opportunity for SD, how do we choose where to focus our time and resources? While we have hypotheses, the support of American Express in developing a SWOT analysis will ground and direct our strategy so that the next ten year are as even more successful than the last.
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Committed and passionate about working towards our mission
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Committed to joint learning
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Organized and invested in progress and improvement
Will support from American Express be focused on your organization overall or a specific product/service? Please describe.
Support from American Express will be specifically focused on the services we provide to alumni who are in the education sector. We hope to use the support to achieve the following goals: (1) develop an in-depth understanding of the context of K-12 and how to best enter this arena, and (2) develop specific strategies for reaching our target alumni and enabling them to create change through Sustained Dialogue. We will pilot the determined strategies for the 2013-2014 academic year.
Have you focused on the above area previously? If so, please explain, including whether you have worked with outside consultants before.
Three years ago, IISD completed at strategic plan in which we conducted our first SWOT analysis. We led this analysis internally and focused on the Campus Network arm of the International Institute. Since then, we’ve gathered new data from our constituents, supporters, and other broad audiences that suggest we reassess the way we create change in campuses, workplaces, and communities. We have recently begun working with Spark to create a new website that better reflects our work (people often confuse us for an environmental organization). IISD is primed and ready for American Express support!
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
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Teachers who are able to create inclusive classrooms through Sustained Dialogue
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K-12 students who practice inclusive leadership and dialogue
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Schools where dialogue becomes a norm for communication
Qual foi o impacto da sua solução até hoje?
From pilot programs, we know this service will have high impact for our alumni, their students, and communities. We know that participation in SD increases empathy and has long-lasting effects. While, nationally, students’ empathy scores are decreasing, 91% of SD students report thinking critically to improve experiences of others and working to change group norms. An SD alumna and teacher writes: “I truly believe that my success thus far is a direct consequence of learning how to really listen, foster communication, and build relationships through SD.” Another integrated SD methods as a catalyst for dialogue in her lessons with great success. Given the power of SD in versatile contexts, and the impact we already see with alumni, we expect high impact through our solution.
What is your project future impact after receiving professional support from American Express?
We will directly train and support 150 SD alumni teachers in the next 3 years, reaching an estimated 15,000 youth, and youth-advocates. Each year, we will work with 50 teachers to infuse a unique culture and skill-set of empathy: Given that inclusion leads to better performance and speaking up and talking to someone are the best ways to end bullying, creating a norm for building trust, finding voice, and taking action will positively impact academic and civic lives. SD provides the much-needed outlet and skills needed to walk a mile in someone else’s skin.
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Favela Experience provides adventure and cultural tourism activities that develop local communities and benefit the environment. The core product is overnight homestays in a network of favela (urban slum) households in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, which provide sustainable income to hosts. For this product, target customers are 18-35 year-old adventure travelers. This segment significantly contributes to the $89B adventure travel market and the $15M Rio de Janeiro favela tourism market.
This project also has a Changeshop where you can read more about its latest progress.
Ir ao Changeshop: My Name My Story.
Criado em 03/16/2013 por amit@mynamemystory.org
Empathy!
My Name My Story (MNMS) is a Youth Run Social Leadership Organization that involves students, faculty and the community in the spirit of “inspiring the next generation of leaders” and all actions of the organization are aligned with the philosophy of “Hope – Believe – Succeed –Inspire”
Our Mission: To increase Unity, Tolerance and Empathy, in the community, while developing leaders.
Organização: My Name My Story
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País da organização
Estados Unidos , CA, West Hills, Los Angeles County
Países onde este projeto vem gerando impacto social
Estados Unidos , CA, West Hills, Los Angeles County
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Crescimento (seu piloto está em andamento e começa a se expandir)
What problem is your organization committed to solving? In particular, share what is innovative about your approach.
Empathy!
My Name My Story (MNMS) is a Youth Run Social Leadership Organization that involves students, faculty and the community in the spirit of “inspiring the next generation of leaders” and all actions of the organization are aligned with the philosophy of “Hope – Believe – Succeed –Inspire”
Our Mission: To increase Unity, Tolerance and Empathy, in the community, while developing leaders.
I started the organization simply to inspire the youth, but after seeing the tremendous positive impact of the organization, and in wake of the recent tragic events in schools across the country, our mission has morphed into inspiring Empathy in schools.
What makes us unique is that we were created and lead by youth, and we believe that “when youth talk to youth, they listen.”
What are your organization's top three priorities in the next year?
- Scale the organization to 30+ MNMS School Clubs, including the first few International Clubs.
- Collect and Donate over 25,000+ books through MNMS to underprivelidged schools and childrens hospitals.
- Organize 20+ Live "Inspire Empathy" Events in School across America.
Need #1
Consumer/Audience Acquisition
Need #2
Message & Brand Strategy
Based on your first choice of the eight technical categories you selected above, what is your specific project need? Please be specific!
For MNMS the first year has been about change and learning and we are very pleased with the direction we are headed in.
In order to scale and attract more schools to set up MNMS School Clubs and MNMS Leaders, we would like to :
- Refine & develop our 'elevator pitch.'
- Establish what 'words' should we use in our messaging to reach the youth.
- Analyze our digital presence, website, facebook, twitter etc, to make sure it appeals to our target market.
- What are the best practices that other organization like ours employ to impact the student community?
- We have already started to establish strategic partnerships with other organizations in the education sector. But how to properly leverage that relationship.
- Review our message during our live talks.
There a host of other things that we would love to have a third party perspective on.
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Continuous Communication.
Will support from American Express be focused on your organization overall or a specific product/service? Please describe.
MNMS can benefit in all areas from the support of AMEX: from branding, scaling, legal, organizational structure and finance.
We are blessed with various individuals that have advised us and that has got us to where we are, but the opportunity for and organization like ours to learn from experts will be invaluable.
I believe that this exposure will expand our thinking and help us clearly define our growth plan.
Have you focused on the above area previously? If so, please explain, including whether you have worked with outside consultants before.
Yes, as MNMS has developed, each of these areas of our organization has been worked on.
I have used the help of my mentors & advisors - they consist of family, teachers and my parents.
We have not worked with 'outside consultants' before.
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
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Increase Empathy in Communities.
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Do our part to bridge the literacy gap with Book Drives that impact the underpriveledged.
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Build Leadership, Connect & Inspire the youth of the world.
Qual foi o impacto da sua solução até hoje?
Here is a summary of the impact:
-14,500 Books collected & donated. (2012: 10,500 )
-An additional 8,000 sorted and packed.
-Books have been donated to 4 children’s hospitals and to low income schools in California and New Jersey.
-The stories and the website have been viewed in 50 States and 80+ countries.
-400+ students have heard Amit speak at their schools about Empathy, Unity and Tolerance.
The organization has made tremendous intangible impact. A storyteller:
“I've decided to post my story here on MNMS because this is the only time I can release my feelings. Thank you to whoever made this website, I feel like a new person. I don't feel worthless anymore.”
For more testimonies, please read the 2012 Impact Report: www.mynamemystory.org/impact-report---2012.html
What is your project future impact after receiving professional support from American Express?
Here are our goals for 2013, that we are looking to reach with the help of receiving the professional support from American Express:
MNMS School Clubs: 30 +
MNMS Leaders: 200 +
Books Donated: 30,000 +
Individuals Directly Benefited (including attendance at MNMS Events & Books): 20,000
MNMS Inspire Empathy Events: 20 +
Goals for Content and Reach for our MNMS website:
Stories: 100+
Videos: 25 +
MNMS Songs: 1st Album Release.
Visitors: 100,000 visitors.
Reach: 100 + Countries, all of the US.
Average Visit Duration: 6:00 Minutes.
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Criado em 03/12/2013 por Jflora@ashoka.org
Comfort Zone is a program where families of different socioeconomic status' living in the same city can come together for a meal and share experiences with one another while building a unique friendship. The dinner can be held at the home of either family or in a neutral common area. The only requirement from the families is to show up and build relationships by getting to know one another! For the first dinner both families will be given the same amount of money to prepare part of the meal and they can bring prepared food or buy food to share.
Criado em 03/11/2013 por jennifernilsen
MÁS Guatemala is working to provide a creative learning space to inspire and support rural youth.
Criado em 03/10/2013 por nataliesereda
Recorders of Hope, a not-for-profit organization, aims to bring the joy of music to AIDS and HIV impacted children across the globe who would otherwise not have access to musical instruments and instruction. We collect new and used plastic recorders and other instruments from the community and distribute them, while introducing musical instruction. www.recordersofhope.org
Criado em 03/8/2013 por The GR818ERS
Hip Hop 4 partners with local artist-activists to advocate for social justice through Hip Hop culture by organizing youth programs and community events.
In a world so filled with technology and ways to reach people instantaneously, the idea of stamps, envelopes, and hand written letters are quickly fading away. Our organization, Heart-to-Heart, plans to reinstate human relationships through the power of the printed word, and making letters a popular idea once more. As useful as social networking sites and text messaging is to receive and give information, we at Heart-to-Heart that nothing beats the power of the relationships and bond between people.
This project also has a Changeshop where you can read more about its latest progress.
Ir ao Changeshop: Girl, unKnown..
Criado em 03/7/2013 por AlexisMHW
The goal of Girl, unKnown. is to give women the opportunity to change their realities through accountability, networking and healthy social interactions by offering a website and structural site that supports all these qualities. Girl, unKnown. is an online/onsite interactive, goal-oriented social network, eventually to open Girl, unKnown Centers around the United States and elsewhere.
Organização: Girl, unKnown Inc.
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País da organização
Estados Unidos , WI, Milwaukee, Milwaukee County
Países onde este projeto vem gerando impacto social
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Ideia (você está para lançar)
What problem is your organization committed to solving? In particular, share what is innovative about your approach.
The goal of Girl, unKnown. is to give women the opportunity to change their realities through accountability, networking and healthy social interactions by offering a website and structural site that supports all these qualities. Girl, unKnown. is an online/onsite interactive, goal-oriented social network, eventually to open Girl, unKnown Centers around the United States and elsewhere. Through girlunknown.com, women of all ages have the opportunity to use goal accountability programming that, like Match.com, links an individual to people and resources that match their interests, hobbies and career goals. Through Girl, unKnown Center, we would like to offer our members to connect, in-person with other members, give access to solid resources such as, computer labs, advisors, etc.
What are your organization's top three priorities in the next year?
The top three goals for Girl, unKnown in the next year are as follows:
1. Get girlunknown.com up and running with accountability, goal planning and tracking services.
2. Have strong community awareness through a great marketing campaign to grow our member base.
3. Get dialogue between older and younger women flowing, we really want to see a connection of generations take place and more cooperation between women.
Need #1
Message & Brand Strategy
Need #2
Performance Management
Based on your first choice of the eight technical categories you selected above, what is your specific project need? Please be specific!
The biggest problem that we are having in developing Girl, unKnown is getting people to understand exactly what we are trying to do. We are taking a few concepts from established companies, marrying the ideas and putting a new spin on it.
We also need help in establishing our brand and structuring it against competition. While we are not copying anyone else's business, it may seem similaar at first to the public, but we are giving a more hands on approach, really getting people to get involved with their community, but also in themselves by helping women to set goals and giving the opportunity to help them reach them.
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Good ethical practices, no stealing, cheating, etc.
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Standing behind one's word.
Will support from American Express be focused on your organization overall or a specific product/service? Please describe.
Support from American Express will be focused on the organization as a whole. We would like to learn some of the ropes from an established firm as we begin to delve deeper into our business to help people succeed.
Have you focused on the above area previously? If so, please explain, including whether you have worked with outside consultants before.
I have not worked with an outside consultant before, it's been an idea that I have since college and I've been developing it for the last two years. I work with friends already to help them plan and establish goals, teach them how to use planners and make budgets. I decided to do it on a larger scale and Girl, unKnown was born. That is why I would absolutely love some guidance as to how to move forward.
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
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To send more confident, mature, resilient women into society to help themselves as well as others.
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Open dialogue between women of different generations, ethnicities, professional backgrounds etc.
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I want this business to continue and grow, I would like to see it blossom and give more opportunity to members around the world.
Qual foi o impacto da sua solução até hoje?
It has been a small scale impact thus far, I've been helping friends and family members and directing them to resources in the community that can help them further succeed. We have become more aware of organizations that we didnt previously know existed and I'm glad to pass the information forward and make more people aware of their existence.
What is your project future impact after receiving professional support from American Express?
I would like for Girl, unKnown to reach a much wider audience and give more women the opportunity to follow the program to success. The website portion gives us the tools, but the in-person portion gives us the socialization piece thats being taken away by modern technology. The two entities coupled can really take Girl, unKnown. far and with the guidance of the employees at American Express, I see this being a very lucrative business. I want to see it go global one day, and open Girl, unKnown Centers around the world, connecting us all by the internet, with summits to bring us together every few years or so. There are so many possibilities and ideas for Girl, unKnown. but the first one is to get it off the ground.
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Criado em 03/6/2013 por Marvin J Mathew
We are a platform for the future leaders of America, its youth, who are studying abroad to foster dialogue and build their globally competency. Understanding sports as a lowest common denominator between cultures, we employ sports as our means to connect.
Criado em 03/6/2013 por cantbashcause
Pangaea Project brings social change to schools in India through raising awareness, self-introspection, and creating projects to abolish marginalization. Tackling the root of the problem by students examining their role in society is a radical yet probable way of approaching discrimination in India. When students can take ownership over the problems in the world, they will be mobilized to implement innovative solutions! Pangaea Projects provides a space for this transformation to occur and supports students in their personal growth to change society.
Organização: The Orbis Institute
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Países onde este projeto vem gerando impacto social
Sua organização é
OSCIP/ONG
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Pangaea Project! Bringing the world back together. (An Orbis Institute Program)
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Crescimento (seu piloto está em andamento e começa a se expandir)
What problem is your organization committed to solving? In particular, share what is innovative about your approach.
Pangaea Project brings social change to schools in India through raising awareness, self-introspection, and creating projects to abolish marginalization. Tackling the root of the problem by students examining their role in society is a radical yet probable way of approaching discrimination in India. When students can take ownership over the problems in the world, they will be mobilized to implement innovative solutions! Pangaea Projects provides a space for this transformation to occur and supports students in their personal growth to change society. Pangaea Project is a class that can be taught in schools in India that engages students' personal experiences and invites participation in social-justice advocacy through inter-caste dialogue, volunteerism, and critical thinking.
What are your organization's top three priorities in the next year?
The organization hopes to 1) partner with more schools in India to teach this curriculum 2) train teachers to administer this curriculum and 3) graduate 100 more students from this program so they can have the multiplier effect and bring the lessons to hundreds more.
Need #1
Consumer/Audience Acquisition
Need #2
Staffing Capabilities
Based on your first choice of the eight technical categories you selected above, what is your specific project need? Please be specific!
The Pangaea Project aims to target schools and organizations in India to teach youth about how to be the problem-solvers for issues in their communities. When this project started, it was a 6 month teaching fellowship in India with one partner school in Bhubaneswar, India. That partner school was identified by organizational connections. To make the project grow, it will be important to engage more audiences, ie schools and stakeholders, to want to participate in this project. Approaching schools, developing a "pitch", developing a marketing strategy and packet, tapping into the right networks, and knowing how and when to follow-up with schools will be essential in getting community buy-in for this socially transformative project.
Will support from American Express be focused on your organization overall or a specific product/service? Please describe.
The support from American Express could be focused on the Pangea Project, which is an off-shoot of the Orbis Institute. While the focus will be the Pangaea Project, there is undoubtedly influence from the Orbis Institute that could be an area of focus as well. Both components are open to the help and support from American Express.
Have you focused on the above area previously? If so, please explain, including whether you have worked with outside consultants before.
No, we have not worked with outside consultants before. This would be the first time.
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
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Relationships between students from diverse caste and socioeconomic backgrounds
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Youth feeling empowered and capable to utilize their strengths and privileges to attack injustice
3.
Schools in India valuing this curriculum, project, and impact
Qual foi o impacto da sua solução até hoje?
So far, 60 students have graduated from the pilot of Pangaea Project, the Global Leadership program through the Orbis Institute. Half of the students were from a poor "tribal" school, and half were from an upper-class private schools. The groups interacted, learned about one another, learned from one another, challenged their stereotypes, and formed friendships. Students participated in final projects which evaluated their self-efficacy to engage in changemaking behavior, and the students who were in this program greatly increased their confidence in their ability to make a difference in the world.
What is your project future impact after receiving professional support from American Express?
I think the help from American Express can help Pangaea Project strategize ways to engage audiences across India and can help us find a way to market the program so schools across India will want to participate. We hope that we can train more teachers, teach more students, and start integrating a curriculum into the school system that addresses the challenges and history the India population faces and helps kickstart Indian student engagement in social advocacy.
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Criado em 03/4/2013 por stevezika
KidKnits believes that American youth often do not appreciate the severity of world poverty. Additionally, staggering world poverty statistics often hide the names, stories, and faces which can provide an opportunity for children to empathize with those in need. Even those with an awareness seldom hold the belief that they can be an active part of a real solution to world poverty. Existing curricula about world poverty lack hands-on evidence to show children how they can truly make a difference.
Organização: KidKnits
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País da organização
Estados Unidos , IL, Peoria, Peoria County
Países onde este projeto vem gerando impacto social
n/a
Sua organização é
OSCIP/ONG
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Estabelecido (estágios anteriores completos e com sucesso comprovado)
What problem is your organization committed to solving? In particular, share what is innovative about your approach.
KidKnits believes that American youth often do not appreciate the severity of world poverty. Additionally, staggering world poverty statistics often hide the names, stories, and faces which can provide an opportunity for children to empathize with those in need. Even those with an awareness seldom hold the belief that they can be an active part of a real solution to world poverty. Existing curricula about world poverty lack hands-on evidence to show children how they can truly make a difference. KidKnits simultaneously provides youth education about world poverty while making a measurable difference in the lives of 100's of people living in poverty in developing countries through a custom curriculum and a simple knitting project using hand-made yarn from artisans in developing countries.
What are your organization's top three priorities in the next year?
1. To expand KidKnits to additional schools and after-school programs, to expose greater numbers of American youth to the fundamental KidKnits messages: to be aware of world poverty, and to believe that they can truly make a difference in the world, no matter what age.
2. To add a third partner supplying yarn in a different country. Today, we import yarn from fair-trade partners in Rwanda and Chile. We expect to add a third partner this year, most likely from India or Mongolia. By so doing, we maximize the global impact of KidKnits on impoverished regions, while also strengthening the global message of KidKnits for American youth.
3. To expand KidKnits curriculum offerings to create new programs targeting high school students and home school students.
Need #1
Message & Brand Strategy
Need #2
Consumer/Audience Acquisition
Based on your first choice of the eight technical categories you selected above, what is your specific project need? Please be specific!
After conducting extensive benchmarking, and receiving feedback from dozens of teachers and school administrators who have participated in the KidKnits program, we believe that KidKnits is a unique service learning opportunity in the market today. Many teachers have told us they have never seen another program like KidKnits, while other teachers have said it is the best service-learning project they have ever participated in. However, in part because of the uniqueness of this program, it has proved to be difficult to show the value of the program through very quick branding and messaging. We strongly believe that KidKnits can grow rapidly, with the proper messaging and branding around this very unique program.
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Above all other characteristics, alignment of mission drives all of our existing partnerships.
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We look for complementary skill sets, such that all of our partners can provide unique value to us, and we to them.
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Willingness to take appropriate risks is also important for our partnerships
Will support from American Express be focused on your organization overall or a specific product/service? Please describe.
The support from American Express will be focused on one specific channel through which the KidKnits kits and service is distributed, specifically the educational channel. While KidKnits is also distributed online and through brick and mortar retailers, it is our strong belief that the educational channel is both the largest opportunity, and the channel which is best aligned with our two-fold mission of educating American youth about world wide poverty while supporting economic development for artisans in developing country.
Have you focused on the above area previously? If so, please explain, including whether you have worked with outside consultants before.
The educational market has been our area of focus for the past twelve months, be we have as yet not engaged external consultants.
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
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A consistent brand message that tells the unique and many-layered story of KidKnits succinctly to the education audience.
2.
A marketing tool kit that will enable us to easily bring the KidKnits message to communities that are currently out of reach.
3.
Expanded presence in American schools, such that more students understand the KidKnits messages.
Qual foi o impacto da sua solução até hoje?
The impact of KidKnits is measured both domestically with the impact on youth, and internationally with the impact on economic development in impoverished regions. KidKnits has created demand for yarn which has helped our Rwandan partner grow from 0 employees spinning yarn to 35 today. While we do not consume all of the yarn produced by this group, we do consume a majority. Our Chilean partner supports 14 women spinning yarn, and we are their sole customer.
Here in the US, we have brought the KidKnits program to approximately 750 students, and have created a unique and impactful service opportunity for each of them. Both students and teachers alike have provided exceptionally positive feedback. Each school who has done KidKnits thus far plans to continue KidKnits in future years.
What is your project future impact after receiving professional support from American Express?
With our yarn-producing partners able to scale their capacity, and our plans to bring on board a third yarn partner, who expect to be able to impact nearly 100 women in developing countries through the purchase of their handspun yarn, thereby enabling them to support their families through this project.
Here in the US, having grown from 3 pilot schools in year one of our program to 18 schools this year, we expect to be able to continue the growth of KidKnits in schools, and would have a goal of reaching 50 schools in the 2013-2014 school year.
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Criado em 03/2/2013 por Jhollinger
Our collaborative portrait-biography process and our interactive "Archive of Adolescence" address the decline of opportunity for youth-led, civic dialogue among diverse constituents vital to sparking activism on social justice issues and to forming alliances across the entrenched and divisive lines of culture, social class, and race . Our process uses technology to enhance authentic face-to-face communication among young people that fosters their empathy for each other and helps them work together across differences in support of building healthier communities.
Organização: The American Teenager Project
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The American Teenager Project
Página da organização na internet
País da organização
Estados Unidos , CA, Oakland, Alameda County
Países onde este projeto vem gerando impacto social
Sua organização é
OSCIP/ONG
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The American Teenager Project
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Crescimento (seu piloto está em andamento e começa a se expandir)
What problem is your organization committed to solving? In particular, share what is innovative about your approach.
Our collaborative portrait-biography process and our interactive "Archive of Adolescence" address the decline of opportunity for youth-led, civic dialogue among diverse constituents vital to sparking activism on social justice issues and to forming alliances across the entrenched and divisive lines of culture, social class, and race . Our process uses technology to enhance authentic face-to-face communication among young people that fosters their empathy for each other and helps them work together across differences in support of building healthier communities. Our collaborative process subverts the common journalistic division between "subject", "author/artist", and "audience" by connecting participants to each other and inviting the audience to engage, rather than view passively.
What are your organization's top three priorities in the next year?
complete our pilot youth journalism program and Unlock the Talk Exhibition in Richmond, California and have these resonate with the community to create lasting collaboration and a shift toward empathic youth culture.
Finalize our professional development plan for our Teacher Ambassadors and general educators and train and enlist at least 20 Ambassadors to run our workshops in their home communities.
Raise the money for and build our interactive, digital Archive of Adolescence - our growing gallery of portraits and personal stories of youth from throughout the country.
Need #1
Message & Brand Strategy
Need #2
Consumer/Audience Acquisition
Based on your first choice of the eight technical categories you selected above, what is your specific project need? Please be specific!
We have established a strong product which itself has a look and a brand - but the overall organization needs help refining our look/mission/logo/branding etc. and we have three distinct audiences to reach if we are going to be able to fund and expand our programs: 1.) funders! - corporate, individual, foundations 2.) educators and educational institutions and 3.) Teenagers - the primary participants, but not the ones who have the capacity to fund the program - but their support of the program will be the success funders are looking for. So how do we choose the right look and messaging so that all three groups are inspired to come on board!
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Professionalism - time management, can culture shift depending on environment, respectful of ALL
Will support from American Express be focused on your organization overall or a specific product/service? Please describe.
Overall organization - how to expand from two co-founders into a more full-fledged organization with a staff and a much wider pariticipant pool in our programs
Have you focused on the above area previously? If so, please explain, including whether you have worked with outside consultants before.
Are you able to commit 3-5 hours/wk over 10-12 weeks?
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.
Committed to our mission/brand/logo and ready to go live with it
2.
Marketing and Outreach strategy
3.
Strategic Plan for organizational growth over next five years
Qual foi o impacto da sua solução até hoje?
Success connecting young people from multiple lncome, geographic and ethnic backgrounds to each other through programs in Massachusetts, Cincinnati, New York, and Bay Area California. Building a Core group of youth journalists from five high schools in our pilot who express that the program is unique in its ability to create community among this group and give them authentic opportunity to make a difference in their neighborhoods. Have provided 100 young people with training so far. Secured major funding and exhibition venue for our pilot programming.
What is your project future impact after receiving professional support from American Express?
Our goal for mid 2014 is to have >20 Teacher Ambassadors running The American Teenager Project in their home communities spanning at least 5 states - these Ambassadors will work directly with 20 - 100 students each and their exhibitions will reach 400 - 1000. Our Web Archive and Mobile App will go live by January 2014 and will allow for us to significantly expand the reach of our programs in 2015. Our traveling exhibition will go to 10 sites in 2014 and at least that many in 2015 - our gallery will travel to multiple states serving a range of demographics. With the support of American Express we will be able to raise the money to facilitate these expansions process and create our permanent brand/logo/messaging that will allow for solid/appropriate/effective messaging moving forward.
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Criado em 03/1/2013 por lpmp
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Organização: La Poderosa Media Project
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La Poderosa Media Project
Página da organização na internet
País da organização
Estados Unidos , NY, Tompkins County
Países onde este projeto vem gerando impacto social
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Crescimento (seu piloto está em andamento e começa a se expandir)
What problem is your organization committed to solving? In particular, share what is innovative about your approach.
Approximately 100 words left (800 characters).
What are your organization's top three priorities in the next year?
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!
Will support from American Express be focused on your organization overall or a specific product/service? Please describe.
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?
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
Qual foi o impacto da sua solução até hoje?
What is your project future impact after receiving professional support from American Express?
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Criado em 02/8/2013 por ellied605@gmail.com
Kesem Shel Shir provides free musical theater enrichment for underprivileged students at schools with little or no funding for the arts. Engaging children through project-based learning, Kesem works magic - igniting imagination, learning, empathy and fun for entire school communities.
Criado em 01/28/2013 por Amelia Friedman
Promoting culturally inclusive American universities that discharge students prepared to communicate and engage with diverse populations at home and abroad
Criado em 01/10/2013 por Nikon
Pullapproach identifies profitable business models that create social impact, analyzes what makes them successful and attracts them to other regions using advanced technology that integrates human insight. Through data mining, modeling and crowd sourcing, we develop regions and scale businesses.
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Our team brings together experts in business development, international development and technology who are passionate about creating impact.
After his 8 years of professional experience in research and industry, with a focus on Innovation, Data Mining, Entrepreneurship and Biotechnologies, Nikon is driven to combine scientific and business-oriented methodologies to innovate the enterprises of tomorrow. He completed his PhD from Cambridge University in Computational Neuroscience.
The rest of the Pullapproach team includes: Robin Rahe - MBA & Product Development, Jose Luis Arteche - Big Data and Carlos Hernandez Corbato - PhD & Data Mining, Hector Calleja and Irene Chinchilla - Design. Our advisors are Pablo de Manuel Triantafilo, Luis Gonzalez Blanch, Ester Botica and Jose Sanz.
O que faz de você um intraempreendedor? Quais são as habilidades, capacidades e características pessoais que fazem de você um intraempreendedor?
I have been developing the Global Incubator technology for entrepreneurs since August 2010. Seeing a need for regional development agencies and other international actors to pull tailored social enterprises into their region, I co-proposed a spin-off called Pullapproach.
Since July 2012, we have been testing and developing our prototype with a large non-profit agency in Latin America. As CEO, I am responsible for establishing strategic goals and coordinating efforts between the core Pullapproach team and Global Incubator in order to co-develop technology that measures social impact and is based on complex models. Prior leadership experiences equip me to identify opportunities, establish vision for the team and to build long-term partnerships with key stake holders.
País da Empresa
Estados Unidos , CA, Mountain View
País principal onde este projeto está criando impacto social
Países e regiões adicionais
Latin America, Europe, and U.S.
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Inicial (um piloto que começou recentemente)
A Necessidade: Qual problema social ou ambiental você está tentando resolver?
Pull business models with social impact to a region
Imagine that tomorrow you wake up and have been put in charge of stimulating economic and social development in Chile. How would you start? You believe that the best approach is to use business models that are both profitable and impactful. The world is full of great initiatives that solve local problems with sustainable business models. But, how will you find and implement such models in Chile in order to create jobs, activate local economies, and improve education? How could you actually align different agencies and stakeholders on the desired goals and coordinate future steps? How could you demonstrate to public and private investors beforehand how these business models would lead to measured social impact and profitable outcome?
A Solução: Qual é a sua solução? Seja específico!
How we identify, relate and recommend business models
1 We discover business models through our partnerships with social incubators as we help them to foster profitable social ventures.
2 We analyze current development models and recommend tailored strategies to development organizations using expert opinion in conjunction with our technology.
3 We identify opportunities to overcome development challenges that are both feasible and generate high impact for the specific challenge.
4 We tie together local challenges, feasible opportunities, and business models through our relational database to recommend a roadmap that will that will resolve specific issues in a financially sustainable way.
5 We offer an array of business development and collaboration tools to launch these businesses and to foster communication between entrepreneurs, experts and engaged citizens.
A Solução: Por que esta solução é inovadora para a sua empresa e indústria?
Our parent company (Global Incubator) is focused on large, profitable businesses and start-ups. We build upon this by measuring their social impact, adding new social enterprises and by using crowd sourcing and experts to analyze where initiatives can have the biggest impact. We use technology to reverse typical regional development processes by pulling in companies tailored to a region´s needs instead of pushing a generic solution to different regions.
O Modelo: Nos mostre um exemplo específico de como sua solução faz a diferença; inclua suas principais atividades.
Case Study: Socialab Regional Innovation
Problem:
Before launching as Socialab, the Centro de Innovación Social struggled to manage the growth of its contests and to capitalize on synergies across offices spread throughout the continent.
Solution:
- It is very easy to compare what is happening in each country, even as the communities grow, because the ecosystems are centralized.
- With support from Pullapproach, Socialab has run 4 competitions in 3 countries simultaneously, amassing a community of 16,000 members.
P: Socialab hosts many incredible conferences and events to investigate development challenges but not all of its members can attend due to timing or geographic constraints.
S: - Problem definition continues online, extending the conversation to others and maintaining an ongoing debate.
P: Socialab´s communities were created based solely on the country divisions, making it difficult to test ideas or to get feedback from more homogeneous groups of people.
S: - Smaller groups can be created across countries, joining people together based on similar roles, areas of interest, and other factors.
P: The Socialab values of transparency and mentorship were not being honored because basic software limited them from sharing ideas and comments openly.
S: - The Socialab website and platform are linked so that business proposals are instantaneously shared with the community where entrepreneurs, mentors, and community members pose questions and recommendations. More than 1,000 initiatives have been reviewed in the past 4 months.
O Mercado: Quem são os seus pares e concorrentes? Identificar os outros que também estão trabalhando para solucionar as mesmas necessidades que você e o que você faz de diferente em relação a eles. Quais seriam os desafios impostos por esses concorrentes que impactariam no seu sucesso ou crescimento?
Many organizations tackle pieces of the value chain: 1) identify social enterprises (UpSocial), 2) provide acceleration tools to entrepreneurs(many turn-key examples), 3) offer open innovation tools to define challenges, (Open Ideo)
Frequently, efforts to classify businesses with social impact are done manually and are limited in scope in language, whereas we offer a meta solution that identifies many initiatives from around the world.
We are different because we deliver the entire process thanks to the technology and business tools developed by our parent company. Ultimately, we are not competitors with these organizations because we offer to partner with them as technology specialists and implement development and entrepreneurial initiatives.
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Global Incubator was founded on a principle that I fully subscribe to: entrepreneurs can change the world. This broad scale impact that entrepreneurship can have is especially powerful when experienced firsthand.
Although I did not have one specific ¨aha!¨moment, I became involved with Global Incubator because our social values are completely aligned. We have worked together for the past years to create leading software technology for entrepreneurs. Now that the technology is so advanced, it seemed the perfect opportunity to re-purpose the platform for customers specifically interested in business-driven impact. From my personal interest in social entrepreneurship, I have seen frequent attempts to publicize and promote successful social entrepreneurs. However, due to language barriers, differences in format and a range of other factors, these attempts too often cannibalize a shared purpose. Pullapproach aims to reverse that and to revolutionize regional development.
Qual foi o impacto da sua solução até hoje?
We operate in 3 countries and have a database of profitable business models with a social impact for more than 10,000 companies. Through our technology more than 7 social enterprises have gotten seed funding and start-up space to further improve and scale their businesses.
Qual é o impacto previsto nos próximos 1 a 3 anos?
We are currently developing long-term partnerships with our clients
and partners. These relationships will determine the size of our impact.
We connect regions in need of sustainable development solutions with brilliant entrepreneurs who have devised such solutions but face barriers to scaling into
those regions.
We have customized our services for the following segments:
1 Government agencies at local, regional and national levels that invest in development and
promote entrepreneurship.
2 Multinational companies who want to align their core values with regional development
opportunities and to foster social ventures.
3 Development Organizations including think-tanks, NGOs and for-profit organizations
dedicated to promoting global social and economic development.
Quais são as barreiras que podem impedir o sucesso do seu projeto? Como você planeja superá-las?
Within the segment of clients interested in profit-driven impact, there are many sub-sectors. Certain clientele require a relatively longer time to approve new projects. They face internal policies that prevent fast decision making.
Luckily, these clients represent only a fraction of those interested in scaling social businesses. So, we are establishing and strengthening our relationships with clients who have immediate needs and are faster to implement our services. This approach allows us to continue talks with the clients who need more time for project approval while still acquiring new clients and enhancing our database.
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1. Pullapproach serves the needs of an entirely different market segment than Global Incubator´s. We focus on organizations concerned with international development, social impact, and profitability. We have identified a way to bring together all stakeholders of regional development, an untapped vertical for GI.
2. We enhance the core tools and add new functionalities for measuring impact which can be further developed for traditional business clients.
3. We fulfill the social mission of Gl to make the world better through technology.
Como você está alavancando recursos internos (fundos, tempo, conhecimento, etc) para apoiar esta iniciativa?
The platform and tools were designed based on consultations with more than 250 leading
incubators in over 20 countries and from analysis of 1200 entrepreneurial tools. Our base technology is valued at $3.5 million.
In addition to the use of this technology, Pullapproach may use up to 80 hours of consultation per month from Global Incubator staff to adapt the platform. By developing this technology over 3 years, the staff have developed expertise in creating software tools for a many types of clients. Moreover, Pullapproach collaborates with Global Incubator´s extensive network of clients with whom we tests various service packages and delivery options. The Global Incubator board of directors also provides feedback on business development and provides introduction to potential clients.
Detalhe sua resposta, explicando o plano de financiamento e apoio de longo prazo.
The arrangement stated above will continue for the rest of the fiscal year. At that point, we must demonstrate that future revenue from signed customer contracts will be used to offset at least half of the costs of personnel. This arrangement ensures that Pullapproach continues to co-develop its technology and product offering for our market segments.
Conte-nos sobre suas parcerias dentro da empresa e externas que são fundamentais para o sucesso do seu projeto.
Our partnership with Socialab has given us insight into the needs of social incubators. Helping our partners to scale quickly is essential to expanding our database of business models exponentially. Meanwhile, our Singularity partnership enables us to interact with leaders and adds disruptive new initiatives to our database.
We work with senior in-house developers to enhance the platform for development-oriented actors and with designers to establish our online presence.
Qual apoio interno você obteve para seu projeto? Que tipo de críticas você enfrentou?
So far, working with Global Incubator has been an incredible asset. Pullapproach can defray high development costs and yet offer immediate access to an advanced suite of tools being used by institutions around the world. At times, our team must dedicate itself towards core technology improvements but the partnership also ensures that Pullapproach technology will continually improve as Global Incubator enhances software to meet the needs of its growing user base.
Criado em 01/9/2013 por Ecoviva
Escolas Vivas é um programa com assessoria de um ano para inspirar, apoiar e ensinar a gerenciar ações de sustentabilidade dentro de escolas. Temos uma proposta de 10 passos para que qualquer escola se torne sustentável. Nosso diferencial é utilizar educação vivencial e sensibilizar, motivando ações com o coração.
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Sempre desejei dedicar minha vida ao social. Me decidi pelo Jornalismo aos 13 anos. A informação era minha melhor "ferramenta" para mudar o mundo. Aos poucos, depois de 10 anos no mercado editorial, fui aliando a comunicação à ecologia. Ao apaixonar-me pela ecologia e verdadeiramente entender a sustentabilidade, nasceu meu projeto de vida. Idealizei a Ecologia Viva em 2011 e ela virou realidade em 2012. Entendi, então, que a minha contribuição na transformação social está no desenvolvimento de projetos em educação vivencial para crianças. Trabalho com parcerias maravilhosas, duas oficineiras-coordenadoras que me ajudam na produção dos eventos e atividades e outros, contadores de histórias, pedagogos que tornam nossas atividades únicas, cheias de personalidade e inspiradoras.
O que faz de você um intraempreendedor? Quais são as habilidades, capacidades e características pessoais que fazem de você um intraempreendedor?
Determinação e dedicação são duas habilidades que utilizei bastante na minha trajetória. Ninguém vive só de idealismo, é preciso gostar de colocar a "mão na massa". E eu amo! Sou uma ótima pesquisadora, busco as informações necessárias para organização e sucesso de um projeto, tenho capacidade de organização desses dados e transmissão para meus parceiros e equipe. Qualidade para mim é muito importante. Não me dou por satisfeita com trabalhos bem feitos, eles precisam ser impecáveis. Me dedico a buscar sempre dizer e liderar de forma gentil, mas firme. Acredito cada dia mais na força das relações para que os projetos sejam verdadeiramente bem-sucedidos. Conheço minhas fragilidades e busco sempre aprender a melhorar e a superá-las. Tudo com gentileza e bom humor, sem isso, nada é possível.
País da Empresa
Brasil, RJ, Rio de Janeiro
País principal onde este projeto está criando impacto social
Brasil, RJ, Rio de Janeiro
Países e regiões adicionais
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Inicial (um piloto que começou recentemente)
A Necessidade: Qual problema social ou ambiental você está tentando resolver?
Fiz diversos trabalhos com escolas e instituições de ensino e percebi que há muita boa vontade, desejo de trabalhar com questões ambientais, de implantar a sustentabilidade, de transformar, mas poucos recursos para criar um projeto completo integrado em todas as áreas da escola. Faltam projetos com começo, meio e fim, avaliações eficientes de resultados e compartilhamento. A maioria dos projetos começa e não tem continuidade nas escolas. Vi muitas hortas abandonadas, brinquedos de materiais reutilizados pelos cantos, lixeiras coloridas ignoradas, professores cansados e desmotivados tendo que "criar às pressas" projetos ambientais. Necessidades das escolas: 1) saber integrar e gerenciar projetos de sustentabilidade. 2) sensibilizar educadores para que vivam, saboreiem a sustentabilidade.
A Solução: Qual é a sua solução? Seja específico!
O programa Escolas Vivas é uma assessoria de um ano que apresenta um passo-a-passo para escolas sustentáveis, ou vivas, o que inclui creches e escolas da rede pública e privada sustentável. As ações começam com uma avaliação do espaço, das ações já realizadas e das necessidades apresentadas pelos próprios professores, diretoria e pais. A equipe da Ecologia Viva faz parte do dia-a-dia da escola por um ano. Nesse período serão co-criadas oportunidades para sensibilizar o corpo docente por meio de treinamento experiencial ao ar livre, capacitá-lo com materiais e fontes de informação em sustententabilidade, desenvolvimento de horta, minhocário, compostagem, sistemas eficientes de uso de recursos naturais, alternativas ecológicas para materiais... Com as crianças, inicia-se uma série de atividades ao ar livre para despertar nelas o amor pela natureza que as levará a seguir os projetos propostos dentro da escola ao longo do ano. Sabemos que as pessoas só cuidam daquilo que amam.
A Solução: Por que esta solução é inovadora para a sua empresa e indústria?
Porque ela reúne as melhores soluções em gerenciamento de projetos, recursos de sustentabilidade disponíveis e busca facilitar as atividades dentro de escolas. O ambiente escolar, seja das instituições públicas ou particulares, têm muitas dificuldades. Os profissionais vivem sobrecarregados, projetos novos exigem mais dedicação e muitas vezes são rejeitados sem tentativas pelas dificuldades de implantação e dúvidas dos envolvidos. Essa supervisão gera resultados incríveis.
O Modelo: Nos mostre um exemplo específico de como sua solução faz a diferença; inclua suas principais atividades.
Um case real é o trabalho que fizemos em uma creche em São Cristovão, Solar Bezerra de Menezes, que atende mais de 200 meninas carentes, por meio da parceria com a Onda Solidária. Eles sempre desejaram ter um projeto de Educação Ambiental, mas tinham dificuldades de engajar os educadores em atividades e criar projetos. Passamos um ano no espaço realizando encontros quinzenais com as educadoras e semanais com as crianças (aulas extracurriculares). Implantamos uma horta, minhocário, integramos a horta ao projeto deles de alimentação saudável, falamos sobre reciclagem e separação do lixo. Promovemos festas de sustentabilidade, passeios em parques da região e a maior parte das aulas com as crianças era na praça em frente ao Solar. As crianças passaram a conhecer e se apaixonar por seu lugar na natureza, mudaram hábitos e tornaram-se menos violentas (são de comunidades). O projeto fez a diferença porque sensibilizou os educadores, a coordenação e permitiu que as ideias continuassem mesmo depois que tinhamos saído. Os educadores sabem hoje onde buscar informações e desmitificaram a ideia da tal "sustentabilidade", passando a encontrar sentido para seus projetos nas boas lembranças que tinham da infância na natureza e na importância do amor pela vida que passaram a compartilhar com seus alunos e com toda a comunidade escolar. Essas ações foram marcantes e inesquecíveis e seus passos podem ser replicados com facilidade, adaptando-se às realidades únicas e às necessidades específicas de cada escola e região.
O Mercado: Quem são os seus pares e concorrentes? Identificar os outros que também estão trabalhando para solucionar as mesmas necessidades que você e o que você faz de diferente em relação a eles. Quais seriam os desafios impostos por esses concorrentes que impactariam no seu sucesso ou crescimento?
Os principais concorrentes que encontro no mercado hoje são empresas que promovem aulas extracurriculares e curriculares de ciências e ecologia nas escolas particulares (a mais conhecida no Rio é a Ecobé) e empresas de passeios e excursões ecológicas, trilhas nas matas de parques do Rio (a Moleque Mateiro). Na Ecologia Viva utilizamos esses dois recursos para montar o projeto Escolas Vivas, porém, o projeto é muito mais do que isso ou aquilo, seria amplo e completo. As escolas acabam não nos chamando por priorizar uma ou outra ferramenta e desprezar soluções mais holísticas e completas. Esse seria o desafio que impacta hoje na entrada no mercado, mas que será logo solucionado com a venda dos primeiros projetos e a divulgação dos resultados.
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A Ecologia Viva é uma empresa social que atende escolas públicas e particulares. Para gerar recursos, investimos na venda do programa EScolas Vivas para empresas interessadas em desenvolver projetos de responsabilidade social nas comunidades onde atuam. As escolas particulares pagarão diretamente pelos serviços. O meu sonho seria transformar o projeto em um material didático para ser distribuido por todo o Brasil. Ele poderia ser um site explicativo com tutoriais aulas, livros e manuais, DVDs, aulas online, tudo para facilitar a vida dos educadores.
Como você está alavancando recursos internos (fundos, tempo, conhecimento, etc) para apoiar esta iniciativa?
Hoje financio a Ecologia Viva com recursos próprios, todos os prestadores de serviço estão acreditando no projeto e recebem por atividade por enquanto. Estou 100% dedicada, vendendo os projetos e também atividades avulsas como piqueniques educativos. Tenho divulgado o trabalho, buscado parceiros em áreas similares de atuação, inscrito o projeto em diversas competições como Changemakers e buscado apoio de empresas interessadas em alavancar este projeto. Tenho parceria com uma ong, a Onda Solidária, que permite que inscrevamos os projetos para editais sociais. Essencialmente, o projeto está no mercado como um produto a ser comercializado em escolas particulares. Tenho feito cursos diveros no SEBRAE e buscado informações de gerenciamento de projetos e uso eficiente de recursos financeiros.
Detalhe sua resposta, explicando o plano de financiamento e apoio de longo prazo.
A Ecologia Viva precisa ser uma empresa lucrativa. É um negócio com função social e com o passar do tempo empregará cada vez mais trabalhadores de comunidades, utilizará artesanato de comércio justo, etc... No longo prazo, precisa vender seus projetos e ter uma cartela variada de serviços e produtos. O Escolas Vivas é o principal deles e precisa do apoio de diversas empresas, além de recursos de fundos governamentais ambientais para o lançamento de um material didático impresso e online com o passo-a-passo de como tornar escolas sustentáveis. O apoio de longo prazo seria pulverizado entre recursos gerados pelos projetos de escolas privadas da Ecologia Viva, do Governo (em fundos) e por empresas que apoiariam a aplicação do projeto em escolas públicas nas áreas em que possuem negócios.
Conte-nos sobre suas parcerias dentro da empresa e externas que são fundamentais para o sucesso do seu projeto.
Temos hoje parceria com a ONG Onda Solidária. Trabalhamos em uma relação próxima por causa dos projetos socioambientais. Também hoje buscamos estreitar laços com a empresa de plantio de mudas Biovert no Rio de Janeiro e com iniciativas similares como os Ecochefs. Buscamos agora parcerias acadêmicas com universidades. É fundamental para o projeto ter pelo menos uma grande empresa que atue no âmbito nacional e tenha interesse em financiar o projeto.
Qual apoio interno você obteve para seu projeto? Que tipo de críticas você enfrentou?
O projeto está na fase de start-up. É uma empresa social. Acredito que esta pergunta não se aplica ao projeto.
The Yaro Collective is a multi-group network that seeks to create a community without walls, where discussions are each can come as they are. We facilitate the environment and spiritual space needed for a holistic and culturally relevant understanding of Islam, where creativity is nourished and diversity is valued.
Allowance for Good is a network of US teens that partner together to improve the lives of youth living in poverty globally by investing in their educational potential.
Nourish International engages students and empowers communities to make a lasting impact on extreme poverty. Our innovative model, past success, and future plans for growth prove that Nourish International is a high-impact movement. Nourish International delivers its services with a lean staff and stewards funds with a limited budget.
In 2011, there was a drought in the Horn of Africa and disaster, relief response was ramping up. Unfortunately, the narrative, the complexity and the presentation of the issue as well as the position of the people affected by the drought was discouraging. 26 years have passed and the was the same old tired story of Africans as victims that had to be saved. Africans were generally invisible in the dialogue and the presentation of the issues. It was the same old approach that has been seen in the many years past were people needed food and those that could ‘save’ them will.
In summary, Abundance Journeys addresses both TAP's financial needs as well as those of our partner organizations. These organizations play an important role in civil society development, especially among youth who lead many of them, yet they constantly face financial obstacles. While this may be somewhat par for the course in this sector, we see that by acting as a bridge by which local groups can connect to Western supporters, we can help them supplement if not entirely overcome their budgetary shortfalls.
The Youth Leadership & Community Development Program will focus on building a sense of belonging for the local Hua Ren community, engaging Hua Ren youth between ages of 18-35, and empowering them to become environmental leaders through:
Criado em 11/13/2012 por benchan85@gmail.com
A community based business model or platform that empowers youth and elders to develop meaningful inter-generational relationships.
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Países onde este projeto vem gerando impacto social
Há quanto tempo sua organização está em operação?
Menos de um ano
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Resumo: Qual problema específico é que o seu projeto tenta resolver?
The design problem being explored is a social issue, which involves the wisdom that is being lost from our elder generation to our younger generation. There is a inter-generational gap between our elders and our youth, which respectively includes people in the baby boomer generation and older generations such as seniors and the younger generations, such as the millennial generation – people born after 1980.
The design opportunity that is presented involves bridging the gap of communication and interaction with these two demographics – the elders and the youth in hopes to connecting the elders’ knowledge, experience and wisdom to the younger population.
Missão: O que o seu projeto faz?
The mission of this project is to facilitate meaningful relationships with our youth and elder populations within a sustainable model. These relationships will be developed by the idea of togetherness through the act of doing, making and teaching with the potential of gaining empathy towards each other through inherent story telling, mentorship and sharing of life.
O Modelo: Demonstre através de um exemplo específico como sua solução faz a diferença; inclua suas atividades primárias
My research has reveals a very common problem in Vancouver that is rooted by language barriers with inter-generational relationships. Without a meaningful path of communication, personal relationships are often lost, therefore empathy and wisdom is lost.
The retiring baby-boomers are the most knowledgable, skillful and employable talents to take on retired life and so they could be a resource to draw from as communicative mediators to conversations in foreign languages.
An example of how my solution will make impact is by arranging "play-dates" with the youth and elder where a translator can mediate a meaningful conversation. The play-dates would be time that the youth and elders can spend time together doing an activity such as restoring old furniture and while they spend time, a translator will open a path of personal dialogue between the two as they work together. The job of the mediator is to facilitate deeper dialogue which otherwise, would be hindered by lack of expressive language.
The Community: Define your community, local or international, that you will work on behalf of. What population is affected? Are there other organizations working in this space?
The stakeholders in this venture include retirees and seniors in Vancouver and youth in their 20's to 30's. The development of my concept is based on the design process that I've embraced as an Industrial Design student at Emily Carr University of Art and Design and currently my community will start local and small taking on the idea of sticking to "Grassroots" and "Amplifying" approach. This approach speaks to starting small, local and with early adopters with the goal of nurturing a community with the potential to scale up to larger capacities.
The key populations affected would include the following; retirees, especially the baby boomer population preparing for retirement and adjusting to retirement. The senior population in care homes and small communities (i.e. Strathcona).
História: O que inspirou o seu empreendimento? Por quê?
My story was inspired by multiple factors. First, my mother who is a baby boomer, who has been a home-maker for much of her parental life, but was forced to work when my parents separated. Being a long-time accounting clerk for a non-profit, she was laid off in an ultra-competitive job market. For nearly a year of unemployment, we tried to see ways of employing her natural informally train skills. Through this experience, it dawned on me how many baby-boomers who are like my mother who have a wealth of knowledge, skills and abilities that aren't acknowledged by our society and in addition to the working world, they are not embraced by youth. The tragic part of this phenomenon is that wisdom is lost when the rising generation operates more-so amongst themselves and with less communication with their respective elders. I delved into research which reveals the wicked problem of retiring baby-boomers as well as the ongoing issue of lonely neglected seniors in our society.
What is your long-term vision for your Venture?
The long-term vision of this venture is have my hyper-local communities spread all over the Lower Mainland, where elders and youth intermingle, sharing time, knowledge and skills together. My research has reveals that for the youth population, being rooted in ancestral relationships has the potential provide people with a grounding, a higher level respect for their elders and a level of inherent life-mentorship and guidance in their decision making. In terms of the elder perspective, being engaged with society has health benefits, physically and psychologically. Physically, community engagement promotes physical activity and psychologically, there is a higher sense of belonging and empowerment by being acknowledged and relevant to society.
Defina sua empresa, programa, serviço ou produto em uma ou duas frases curtas
A community based business model or platform that empowers youth and elders to develop meaningful inter-generational relationships.
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In the first year, I would hope to implement this venture in a hyper local community, such as the Strathcona neighbourhood in Vancouver. Strathcona is an ideal location as it has a long standing multi-cultural, multi-generational heritage and is known for its tight knit community – a prototypical location of early adopters which include both youth and elders.
Understanding that the first year would be a year for trial and error, I would hope to prepare a small group of passionate community members as volunteers to bring this to life. Having passionate personnel is our key to success. This approach is inspired by the success of Creative Mornings, a monthly lecture series of creatives developed by New York-based designer, Tina Roth Eisenberg which runs all over the world and is successfully running in Vancouver, managed by Vancouver's Mark Busse.
In order to continuously improve, this system would have clear performance quantitative and qualitative metrics. Quantitative data may include, the number of connections made in the community, the longevity of the relationships, measure of cultural diversity and the number of participants involved. Qualitative data is a designer's specialty and is a key area to gain actionable insights. Our qualitative information may include feedback systems through dialogue, questionnaires and training our volunteers to be mindful of the user experience in order to generate constructive insight.
An overarching goal would be to establish a revenue generating model to be implemented in the following year.
As inscrições vencedoras apresentam um plano sólido sobre como vão alcançar e acompanhar o crescimento do projeto. Identifique as metas de seis meses para aumentar seu impacto.
Atividade 1
Acquire key organizational staff and passionate, knowledgable volunteers.
Atividade 2
Establish working group of early adopters. Mediators, Youth, Elders.
Atividade 3
Facilitate a dozen relationships to grow, document them and publicize the information for awareness online and in the community.
Agora pense grande! Identifique qual seria sua meta de impacto para 12 meses
Atividade 1
Develop reoccuring interactions with the community youth and elders.
Atividade 2
Acquire corporate sponsors to support the system.
Atividade 3
Plan for year 2 based on quantitative and qualitative date from our feedback system.
leia mais↓↑ ocultar↑ ocultarComo é que vai definir o sucesso no curto prazo (1-12 meses)?
Having strong administration of a system is important however, success will ultimately be based on the amount of impact it has on the relationships between youth and elders. The discovery of knowledge and information between the youth and elders.
In the long-term (1 year?)
In the long-term, which would most likely be more than one year, success would be the adaptability of the service to variance in the volume of participants large or small and the ability to sustain itself as an organization.
Como você vai medir o sucesso?
I will measure success based on my sense of developing leaders within the community in both the youth and elder demographic. I feel that the wisdom that is being passed on is a two-way street – elders provide experience and perspective and youth can bring a modern version of that but also a rejuvenating level of ambition and courage. I would feel accomplished, when I know that this service has sparked behaviour change in a way that it facilitates relationships by removing stigmas between the different generations – relationships that are ongoing, fruitful and loving.
Why?
Community living is essential to making our world a more sustainable place to live – environmentally as well as socially.
Criado em 11/12/2012 por Dan Queirolo
O Toró Cultural é uma série de eventos culturais acessíveis a uma grande parcela da população que não tem acesso a uma programação cultural variada e de qualidade, e é também um meio dos artistas independentes conseguirem expôr suas obras a um público maior, valorizando assim sua arte e gerando renda e mais cultura.
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Sou micro-empreendedor, Designer Gráfico, ilustrador e Produtor Cultural.
Sou descendente de uma família circense e desde sempre estive envolvido com arte e cultura, principalmente com música, desenho e teatro.
Faço parte da liderança do Instituto Klim - Cultura, arte e capacitação profissional, sou sócio-fundador da Genese Coletivo (uma empresa que oferece soluções em comunicação) e fundador do Toró Cultural (eventos culturais para transformação).
O que faz de você um intraempreendedor? Quais são as habilidades, capacidades e características pessoais que fazem de você um intraempreendedor?
Vejo oportunidades onde existem problemas a serem solucionados, sou bastante observador e consigo reunir e gerir grandes equipes multidisciplinares.
País principal onde este projeto está criando impacto social
Países e regiões adicionais
Cidades que fazem parte da Região Metropolitana de Curitiba, como as cidades Colombo, Araucária, São José dos Pinhais e outras.
Indústria
Arte, Entretenimento, Lazer
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Estabelecido (estágios anteriores completos e com sucesso comprovado)
A Necessidade: Qual problema social ou ambiental você está tentando resolver?
A população da periferia de Curitiba e da Região Metropolitana não tem acesso facilitado a eventos e produtos culturais como shows musicais, peças de teatro, dança e circo, além de exposições. Estas, se encontram apenas no centro de Curitiba, ou nos bairros, mas em horários inacessíveis a maior parte da população de baixa renda. Os artistas iniciantes ou até mesmo os que já estão a um certo tempo na cena artística, não conseguem vender seus serviços pois não tem seu trabalho valorizado, sua arte, assim, o público não os conhece, e os artistas não crescem. Estes são os dois problemas que pretendo resolver.
A Solução: Qual é a sua solução? Seja específico!
A proposta é oferecer eventos culturais de baixo custo e alta qualidade para população da periferia de Curitiba e cidades da Região Metropolitana, e valorizar os artistas para que por sua vez consigam vender sua arte, através da produção dos eventos e assessoria na divulgação e promoção destes artistas.
A Solução: Por que esta solução é inovadora para a sua empresa e indústria?
Até o presente momento, as produtoras que realizam eventos culturais não se preocuparam em apresentar bandas ou artistas novos pois acreditavam que isto não daria lucro. Minha empresa consegue produzir eventos a baixo custo para atender a uma demanda existente que poucos atendem e cria oportunidades de crescimento e geração de renda para vários artistas, que ao seu modo, são empreendedores também.
O Modelo: Nos mostre um exemplo específico de como sua solução faz a diferença; inclua suas principais atividades.
Nós oferecemos vários eventos que promovem nossos objetivos:
Mostra de Compositores
1 - Os grupos ou artistas pagam um pequeno valor de inscrição para participar do evento.
2 - Os grupos ou artistas participantes tem seus materiais divulgados nas mídias sociais e materiais impressos.
3 - Na mostra de compositores, os artistas ou grupos apresentam 2 músicas para uma platéia que não tem acesso facilitado a este tipo de evento a um valor baixo.
4 - Os compositores apresentam suas músicas e ao final do evento tem a oportunidade de vender seus materiais como cds, dvds, etc.
Além do exemplo acima, temos também Exposições Coletivas de artistas gráficos, Shows musicais, peças de teatro, e apresentações de dança e circo, além de cursos e workshops.
O Mercado: Quem são os seus pares e concorrentes? Identificar os outros que também estão trabalhando para solucionar as mesmas necessidades que você e o que você faz de diferente em relação a eles. Quais seriam os desafios impostos por esses concorrentes que impactariam no seu sucesso ou crescimento?
Meus concorrentes são outras produtoras culturais e a própria fundação cultural de Curitiba.
A fundação Cultural de Curitiba oferece eventos culturais gratuitos para toda população, e isso às vezes pode causar alguma concorrência com meus eventos.
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Sou descendente de uma família de circo, e por conta disto sempre soube quais eram os problemas e dificuldades enfrentadas por artistas e pessoas envolvidas com negócios relacionados à arte, mas foi a 4 anos atrás que descobri um dos maiores problemas enfrentados por artistas e público. Eu reunia um grupo multidisciplinar de artistas que gostavam de debater assuntos relacionados a cultura e artes, e foi então que percebi que estes artistas eram excelentes mas não sabiam vender seu trabalho, assim o público não os conhecia e não comprava seus materiais. O público, por sua vez, não tinha eventos acessíveis e que divulgassem estes artistas independentes. Foi aí que surgiu a ideia de produzir eventos culturais.
Qual foi o impacto da sua solução até hoje?
Fiz um projeto piloto em 2011 com 3 eventos: 1 mostra de compositores, 3 shows musicais, que agregou cerca de 20 artistas e alcançou cerca de 400 pessoas em um período de 3 dias. Também fizemos 1 exposição coletiva e itinerante com 6 artistas gráficos, que alcançou cerca de 2000 pessoas em 30 dias.
O resultado final disso foi:
- 4 das bandas que se apresentaram na mostra de compositores tem várias apresentações agendadas pois tiveram um grande impulso com nosso evento.
- 3 artistas gráficos conseguiram bons trabalhos por causa de sua divulgação na exposição.
- Um público cada vez mais crescente conheceu o trabalho destes artistas e esteve exposto a boa cultura que não tinham acesso por altos valores ou localização inacessível.
Qual é o impacto previsto nos próximos 1 a 3 anos?
Em nosso planejamento, previmos 1 evento por mês para 2013, que alcançarão uma média de 10.000 pessoas por ano, sendo dividida pelos eventos mensais, e até 2015 previmos 3 eventos por mês, alcançando cerca de 50.000 pessoas, sendo que alguns destes eventos serão festivais e/ou feiras/congressos.
Quais são as barreiras que podem impedir o sucesso do seu projeto? Como você planeja superá-las?
Conseguir verba para alguns destes eventos será uma dificuldade grande, mas pretendo conseguir reunir verba através de sites de financiamento coletivo, leis de incentivo a cultura (captação de recursos por meio de incentivo fiscal), e patrocínio do setor privado.
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A cada evento que produzo os artistas estão sendo valorizados, conseguem vender seus produtos/obras artísticas, e o público tem eventos culturais de qualidade é são transformados pelo poder da arte.
Como você está alavancando recursos internos (fundos, tempo, conhecimento, etc) para apoiar esta iniciativa?
Eu fiz um curso de Marketing cultural pela Unidança, um curso de empreendedorismo social pela Aliança Empreendedora e alguns workshops sobre gestão de projetos. Além do conhecimento adquirido com os cursos, tenho o conhecimento pessoal de muitos anos de experiência na cena cultural de minha cidade.
O tempo utilizado neste projeto, está sendo planejado para que não prejudique outras áreas da empresa. Os fundos iniciais para realizar os primeiros eventos de 2013 virão do financiamento coletivo por meio de um site de CrowdFunding e patrocínios do setor privado.
Detalhe sua resposta, explicando o plano de financiamento e apoio de longo prazo.
Os 2 primeiros eventos do Toró Cultural serão financiados 50% através de um site de crowdfunding e 50% através de patrocínio de empresas privadas. Este financiamento será completo em cerca de 70 dias a partir da estréia do projeto no site de crowdfunding. Enquanto o projeto está no ar no site, nós captaremos os recursos de patrocínio de empresas.
Os demais eventos serão financiados por recursos próprios da empresa (adquiridos com os eventos anteriores), com patrocínio privado e com captação de recursos por dedução de imposto de renda com a Lei Rouanet.
Conte-nos sobre suas parcerias dentro da empresa e externas que são fundamentais para o sucesso do seu projeto.
As parcerias que temos são ligadas à área da divulgação.
A Rede de Intercambistas de Curitiba divulga os eventos do Toró Cultural, assim como alguns blogs e sites de cultura, como Cristianismo Criativo e outros.
Qual apoio interno você obteve para seu projeto? Que tipo de críticas você enfrentou?
Todos que fazem parte do Coletivo apoiaram a ideia e fizeram parte da concretização dos eventos iniciais. Não houveram críticas, apenas sugestões e conselhos que foram cuidadosamente selecionados e implementados com os devidos agradecimentos a cada um que ajudou.
Criado em 11/9/2012 por ebonder
The Virtual TV Studio for Youth : a mentored, collaborative web space for all high schoolers across Canada and around the world, in partnership with local TV broadcasters and their clients. A place to create for school, and the real world.
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Broadcast professional and social entrepreneur are the appropriate tags for Ely Bonder. From his teens on he has advocated youth empowerment by finding ways for youth to contribute to society. Beyond his day-job he has brought together broadcasters and students through partnerships. As a CTV employee, he has not been shy about advocating for youth. As a wellknown Canadian news anchor with experience at ABC News said about Ely: “Ely has his eye firmly on the future and is one of the few senior members of our News Division working on new models for quality content consumption in the digital age. It is his brand of pioneering mind, rooted in a career of producing quality journalism, that are needed most to ensure the standards of existing media transfer into the next.” (source: LinkedIn.com)
O que faz de você um intraempreendedor? Quais são as habilidades, capacidades e características pessoais que fazem de você um intraempreendedor?
An example of Ely's entrepreneur skills was preparing a business plan for the internet that was recognized by a Toronto-based GIGATHON2000 prize sponsored by INTEL, as the web bubble was beginning. It placed youth in the forefront of community development in partnership with the private sector. After just a few years on the job at CTV, he convinced management to pay heed to youth voices and the company allowed him to pilot a TV news magazine by youth, for youth. Later he helped launch an application for a youth-driven Satellite channel, and then convinced his English TV station to allow French kids to take over all the job functions of the professional TV studio for two weekends , in order to produce a demo of youth creativity ( http://youtu.be/L-QThdlowqs ).
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A Necessidade: Qual problema social ou ambiental você está tentando resolver?
French-language broadcasters in Quebec have been accused of "white-washing" their on-screen appearance, despite an ever-growing multicultural audience base. Ely's eMage.ca organization filmed a cohort of youth who pointed out this issue gently, and as a result received prize recognition by Quebec's broadcast community "Tele Diversite" ( http://youtu.be/lfYoIpcjJsk ) .
Local TV Broadcasters generally have to confront the issue of audience drift to the web, and to maintain the loyalty of their viewers, they must be proactive. Meanwhile youth feel their voice is not reflected on the TV screen . They do not see themselves except when the issue is drugs, sex, bullying, and suicide. There is so much more to being a youth than just social ills.Yth engagement is needed to diminish dropping-out.
A Solução: Qual é a sua solução? Seja específico!
The eMage Virtual TV Studio for Youth , a secure, mentored and collaborative webspace, would welcome local TV broadcasters to work side-by-side with students from grade 7 upwards. The studio would be integrated into the school curriculum, and empowered by professional and peer mentors across Canada and around the world. Broadcasters would link up with youth projects and visibility of youth creativity and engagement would be integrated into TV broadcasts and their related websites.Youth would be encouraged to answer curriculum requirements through video, and engage in media entrepreneurship and current affairs, in collaboration with broadcasters.
Mentors would help focus the student's concepts and vision, and productions would leverage the natural sense of humour and concerns of youth. Youth video projects would link and be placed at local broadcasters' sites and on-air where appropriate, with sponsorship opportunities. Self-esteem for youth, identity with broadcasters, win-win.
A Solução: Por que esta solução é inovadora para a sua empresa e indústria?
Local TV broadcasters of all stripes will be given an opportunity to compete with each other to mentor the most youth, thereby increasing the number of potential loyal viewers to their brand. In turn, students will have greater opportunities to access the real world and apply their curriculum goals in the public space. This leads to greater self-esteem and engagement. Sponsors have an innovative way to enhance viral marketing of their brands, due to engagement with youth.
O Modelo: Nos mostre um exemplo específico de como sua solução faz a diferença; inclua suas principais atividades.
In collaboration with schools, school boards, ministries of education, and local broadcasters/marketers across the country, the Virtual TV Studio for Youth would be constructed online, incorporating such features as a secure mentorship system for students, a free resource base for collaborative video-editing, relationship building with local broadcasters and their sponsors/partners, teachers’ curriculum guide, and video entrepreneur opportunities for students.
Encouragement would be provided to students to create TV projects that answer the requirements of curriculum objectives. Novel ways of research and results explanation through TV and New Media, explored and produced by students, would be credited as part of their course requirements.
Social engagement with world and local issues would be encouraged as part of students’ social studies , and peer collaboration from around the world through online TV production, would be supported by commercial brands, in cooperation with TV newsbroadcasters, PBS-style. News directors may choose to air student productions as part of their newscast or as interstitial PSAs (Public Service Announcements). An example is our proprietary initiative called NewsRap.TV : http://youtu.be/x2JR6SFvIfU .
As Peppler/Kafai reported in Learning, Media and Technology 06/ 2007, educational engagement is enhanced because media production reinforces the underpinnings of constructionism: learning experiences are most engaging when people are designing and creating. And now, for a larger public, and a larger impact.
O Mercado: Quem são os seus pares e concorrentes? Identificar os outros que também estão trabalhando para solucionar as mesmas necessidades que você e o que você faz de diferente em relação a eles. Quais seriam os desafios impostos por esses concorrentes que impactariam no seu sucesso ou crescimento?
Recently WEVIDEO , associated with Google, launched a collaborative online video editing service, the most recent of a number of attempts to do so. This holy grail has been sought after for years, and my initiative banks on such technology to make it happen. We add on the aspect of mentorship and sponsorship and access to local broadcasters, for young people.
We are the first to marry mentorship/broadcasting/education, and the challenge remains to maintain propriety on the concept, before Google searches this public article, and goes ahead on its own dime.
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In the mid-eighties, I founded Les Ateliers Super Jeunesse, and rounded up mentors,public funding, francophone youth creators, artists, and a local TV station. I tasked them with creating a TV series for youth and general audiences, and said express yourself. The kids created a 13-part series and completed the screenplay for one 30-minute episode. Then they took over a real anglophone TV studio and all the jobs necessary to make a TV show, with the volunteer collaboration of the employees. The result was "Woups !"
Everyone discovered to their surprise that kids were competent and funny and really good at creativity, that adults loved to mentor, and that making TV was fun ( http://youtu.be/L-QThdlowqs ) . What that could do for education, I said to myself. And then the internet happened, and the pipes became bigger. We are on the cusp of Youth TV Nation.
Qual foi o impacto da sua solução até hoje?
My non-profit, Youth eMage Jeunesse since 1999, has collaborated with schools and youth-serving agencies, in implanting new-media and video production programs as integrated activities. Youth created PSAs for TV, fought for a basketball court at the municipal council level using video and ppt, tweaked Quebec broadcasters' sensitivities regarding ethnic representation on-screen, and became video journalists.
By our actions, we have concretely contributed to the public discourse concerning the new curriculum, making education more relevant to youth.
Qual é o impacto previsto nos próximos 1 a 3 anos?
With a successful launch, I project that at least 50,000 high schoolers across Canada and around the world will sign on to the Virtual TV Studio with the approval of their teachers, while dozens of TV stations and Networks will commit resources, airtime, and webspace to their mentored youth collaborators.
Youth entrepreneurs will collect thousands of dollars of discretionary spending as they create PSAs, sponsored educational video documents, and viral commercials for small business, And the drop-out rate will diminish markedly across the board.
Quais são as barreiras que podem impedir o sucesso do seu projeto? Como você planeja superá-las?
There has been marked resistance to any scent of commercialism by half the schools in Canada and the U.S., as the experience of Channel One (U.S.) and Youth News Network (Canada) can attest to. Both of those projects have had very limited number of students acting as producers, and depended on youth as consumers.
In contrast, the Virtual Studio encourages a mass of students to act as producers, and attract an audience of adults as the consumers. The Studio is integrated throughout the curriculum, not just Social Studies or Media Literacy. Youth engage in their studies as creators, with the side benefit of creating relationships with the private sector who are banging a drum in applause for the students' academic and creative tour de force.
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TV Broadcasters are concerned about the drift of viewers to the unregulated web, and need to reverse that flow. They need to create loyalty for their brand and their own commercial clients from current and future audiences. In order to do so, they must be seen to be on the side of their viewers, and especially youth, The Virtual TV Studio for Youth is that infrastructure.
Como você está alavancando recursos internos (fundos, tempo, conhecimento, etc) para apoiar esta iniciativa?
Within the TV station where I work, management is sensitive to this project and admire the persistence with which I pursue it. However, it is perceived as a national project in terms of funding, and whenever the opportunity arises to comment, they have committed themselves to be supportive.
A national TV correspondent and anchor says : "Ely has his eye firmly on the future and is one of the few senior members of our News Division working on new models for quality content consumption in the digital age. It is his brand of pioneering mind, rooted in a career of producing quality journalism, that are needed most to ensure the standards of existing media transfer into the next." ( source : LinkedIn ).
Detalhe sua resposta, explicando o plano de financiamento e apoio de longo prazo.
Marketing to long-term sponsors, lobbying to broadcasters, and contributing to social policy development at the Federal government level are all current strategies.
The Federal Dept of Human Resources/Skills Development is currently soliciting projects for Social Finance. BCE (national private telecom company) is submitting an acquisition request to the Federal regulator, and is proposing community tangible benefits as part of that. In both cases we are submitting long-term funding proposals leveraging the goals of each project.
Out-reach to long-term commercial sponsors is ongoing, sensitizing them to the dual benefits of both youth and TV partnerships.
We are projecting a yearly operating budget of $500,000 .
Conte-nos sobre suas parcerias dentro da empresa e externas que são fundamentais para o sucesso do seu projeto.
The work that Youth eMage Jeunesse has accomplished over the years, leveraging free access to TV station technology , has been submitted by the TV station to the Federal Human Resources Ministry, as part of their mandated Diversity strategy.
eMage also benefits from a partnership with non-profit LEARN QUEBEC, and free marketing services from a commercial marketing firm.
Qual apoio interno você obteve para seu projeto? Que tipo de críticas você enfrentou?
Within the TV station where I work, management is sensitive to this project and admire the persistence with which I pursue it. However, it is perceived as a national project in terms of funding; whenever the opportunity arises to comment, they have committed themselves to be supportive. At the national level, I have not yet received any feedback, after multiple requests for such.
Criado em 10/26/2012 por GeorgSeiler
Tailered, corporate rap songs and videos to engage audiences and foster positive engagement accross companies and communities.
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I am originally from Austria, but have grown up predominantly in the UK. I have a 1st Class Masters Degree in Comparative Jurisprudence but have worked in Business Development activities since graduating in 2007. I love music, people and big ideas.
O que faz de você um intraempreendedor? Quais são as habilidades, capacidades e características pessoais que fazem de você um intraempreendedor?
I am never satisfied with the status quo. I’m always on the hunt to identify and set up collaborative opportunities, I take calculated risks and I have an understanding of how to connect with audiences. I can be a bit cheeky and am gutsy. I love to experiment and take feedback well. I never lose my optimism.
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Crescimento (seu piloto está em andamento e começa a se expandir)
A Necessidade: Qual problema social ou ambiental você está tentando resolver?
Simply, communication and engagement for employees. Business is people. Without motivated people there is stagnated business. Bringing ideas to life and communicating in a fun and memorable way applies to all industries and causes. This Includes fund raising as well as for commercial purposes.
A Solução: Qual é a sua solução? Seja específico!
Tailored rap songs and videos. Using the medium of music, we take briefs from clients that wish to communicate specific key messages to target audiences and write a tailored song for the organization to use. This is coupled with a custom video that emphasizes the key points.
A Solução: Por que esta solução é inovadora para a sua empresa e indústria?
By packaging the key messages into a rap song, it acts as a playful but impactful & engaging "call to action".
O Modelo: Nos mostre um exemplo específico de como sua solução faz a diferença; inclua suas principais atividades.
Recently I took part in a charitable initiative with the "Princes Trust" - in order to raise funding and awareness I decided to create a rap song in tribute along with a video. My offer to potential sponsors was that if they gave me £15 or more, I would include their name in the scrolling tickertape along the bottom of the video. Everyone I spoke to/heard about it were genuinely very interested in this due to its originality. I worked with my network of designers and producers to create a song, write the lyrics and record/edit the footage. I then worked with Accenture's executive, communications and corporate citizenship team to gain formal sign off on the content. The content got superb endorsement and the song is being released to the entire UK/I workforce (~12k) with the aim of helping achieve a £40k sponsorship rate for the cause. Furthermore I am working with the Princes Trust directly to use the song to promote the great work the Trust is doing and our contribution. There are discussions about monetizing the song further via iTunes and radio with proceeds going to the cause. Ultimately the value lies in reaching the relevant target audiences and making an emotional connection to communicate key messages in a memorable way.
O Mercado: Quem são os seus pares e concorrentes? Identificar os outros que também estão trabalhando para solucionar as mesmas necessidades que você e o que você faz de diferente em relação a eles. Quais seriam os desafios impostos por esses concorrentes que impactariam no seu sucesso ou crescimento?
There are many communications, digital and event facilitation companies working with corporate entities, charities and governments. However, there is not a company offering a service such as this. The key differentiation lies in a deep understanding of the client's requirement and an appreciation of the style, desired effect and brand of a specific client then delivering outputs in a highly engaging way. This tailored, KPI focused approach woven with existing client initiatives creates an unprecedented level of engagement. People are fascinated with the "coolness" of rap, but they feel it is an inaccessible world to them. This bridge allows people to have fun, feel young and embrace the messaging. A challenge is getting material signed off. Companies need to be brave.
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I have always been fascinated by poetry and music. At university I founded a music society (Beats and Bass) where members put on professional nights and radio shows for and by members in an entrepreneurial way. This was hugely successful and profitable (all profits reinvested intp growing the society). The society still thrives today 8 years on. At work, I was running a training course and thought "how can I engage the audience and deliver the key messages?" I decided to write a parody of a well known song whereby I changed the lyrics to deliver my key points. The level of engagement was incredible. I have since performed at many events and created projects against numerous briefs. The response is always overwhelmingly positive. It changes the dynamics of what you are communicating and it is fun and engaging. Also the consultative approach to the brief requires business acumen. My dream is to raise awareness on key issues & inspire people through this medium and develop artists.
Qual foi o impacto da sua solução até hoje?
The impact of this solution is to deliver a message through a new and unique form of communication. The key measure is whether the intended message is being delivered or whether the song creates merely hype. The deliverables in the past have received universal endoresement accross levels and ages. They have informed, increased engagement and generated calculable revenue towards fund raising causes. The impact to businesses is on a commercial and emotional level.
Qual é o impacto previsto nos próximos 1 a 3 anos?
Depending on the projects being taken on (there is a very strong pipeline), I believe this will become incredibly popular – and I intend to make it so. Growth areas for the company will include performers, producers, graphics designers etc to meet the demand of our clients. The potential of the social impact is also very large. This medium can be used to create awareness on important issues (every topic in the "key word" section of this application is potentially relevant). I plan to engage young people in rap workshops to foster positive communications and to relay important messaging. These work shops can also be incorporated into corporate projects. The only limit for its application is ones imagination...
Quais são as barreiras que podem impedir o sucesso do seu projeto? Como você planeja superá-las?
The main barrier will be getting sign off from branding. I will overcome this by working in a collaborative manner from the outset with the relevant stakeholders to ensure that this is a credit to the brand, not a dis-service. Another challenge I foresee is delivering original material consistently and managing client demand. I plan to overcome this through expectation management and having the highest standards of QA. Getting a clear brief and extracting the value criteria is important to creating the right tone.
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This is a services business, therefore there is not a large financial outlay. The USP rests on the network of talented music and film producers and the consultative business output focused approach to gathering the "brief" of each project. I am the founder and am currently writing the content (working with an established artist network). The business will work with the community to bring this creative medium into the business environment. I also am working with prospective and current clients to build and deliver against the strong sales pipeline.
Como você está alavancando recursos internos (fundos, tempo, conhecimento, etc) para apoiar esta iniciativa?
My employer works with 96 of the Fortune 100 companies and there is great support for this initiative both from an internal call to action/fund raising perspective as well as potentially utilizing this with our change management work with clients. I am receiving coaching at a senior level both in terms of content creation and sign off delivery. It will take time to completely integrate the offerings and leverage the corporate citizenship strategy but there is a huge wealth of support and encouragement. People love the original and novel approach to content distribution.
Detalhe sua resposta, explicando o plano de financiamento e apoio de longo prazo.
Long term this business has a high potential growth trajectory and is entirely self funding through organic growth. The reason for this is that companies, clients and charities already have their own established platforms for distributing content. In addition there is plenty of established media platforms (e.g. YouTube) if the deliverables are to be used externally. This means that Corporate Rap is responsible for the creation of content rather than its hosting. Also, the nature of the work means that demand will drive number of people needed. There are a wealth of community projects, live and corporate initiatives possible and this will involve collaboration with leading organizations to scale as required.
Conte-nos sobre suas parcerias dentro da empresa e externas que são fundamentais para o sucesso do seu projeto.
The success of the company lies firstly with its human capital (musicians, producers and artists) and secondly with a collaborative partnerial approach to business. Demand for projects comes through word of mouth and an integration with offerings of other companies. This can take many shapes from educational institutions, charities, 3rd party offerings, events and workshop companies amongst many others.
Qual apoio interno você obteve para seu projeto? Que tipo de críticas você enfrentou?
Bridging original musical with serious underlying messages has received universal appeal and support. Once the initial surprise passes (which is a key part of the strategy), executives have seen an impressive response rate to the communication. This has been accross a wide range of areas,topics and sectors. One push back and challenge is getting global branding sign off. Close collaboration and transparency with these teams is critical to the successful delivery,
Criado em 10/21/2012 por david.thompson@boehringer-ingelheim.com
The social contract is not to approach a table of strangers, or someone in an elevator, and start talking to them. Lunch Roulette is a simple web-based process to meet new people, be exposed to new areas of your organization, and new ideas. The concept transfers across industries, and definitions of organization.
leia mais ↓↑ ocultar↑ ocultarConte-nos sobre você/sua equipe
Our Team is Christopher Tan, Meghan Wherrity and I. We have interesting backgrounds ranging from science to sales, through finance and operations. We now all work in different aspects of ‘digital’. One of us used to host a late night college radio show, one of us is a breakdancer, and one of us hula hoops. We all like making things and came together through our love of diversity, innovation, and lunch.
O que faz de você um intraempreendedor? Quais são as habilidades, capacidades e características pessoais que fazem de você um intraempreendedor?
An intrapreneur openly asks questions, of everything and everyone. But, in contrast to an entrepreneur, they do so within the context of an organization. As such, they have to be aware of themselves, their colleagues, and the structures within which they’re working.
An intrapreneur sees the situation around themselves, can envision a future state, and can clearly influence, at all levels, in order to realize this vision.
An intrapreneur sets realistic expectations as projects evolve; these expectations are visited and re-visited as a project develops. Projects are never fully shelved; an intrapreneur has a deep bench of work they’d love to execute, and recognizes that it might take longer than hoped, given organizational realities, to make something happen. We embody these principles.
País da Empresa
Estados Unidos , CT, Ridgefield, Fairfield County
País principal onde este projeto está criando impacto social
Países e regiões adicionais
This could benefit all organizations, in all countries; wherever people break together
Indústria
Assistência Médica
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Crescimento (seu piloto está em andamento e começa a se expandir)
A Necessidade: Qual problema social ou ambiental você está tentando resolver?
Beyond a certain organizational size it’s difficult to bake serendipity into your day, especially in such settings where we tend to stick to the same groups. Serendipity is a staple ingredient in the creation of value through innovation, and it’s a route to organizational health through the fostering of ‘weak ties’.
We’ve built a simple tool to bake an element of serendipity into your day. Using Lunch Roulette will foster an environment of learning and inclusion and will help deconstruct organizational silos. It will foster an environment of empathy, as each lunch will force you to step outside of yourself, and listen and learn from any and all of your colleagues and co-workers.
A Solução: Qual é a sua solução? Seja específico!
Our solution is a simple web application we’ve called Lunch Roulette. Here’s how it works:
1. Look at your calendar
2. Select a day, or days, that you have no plans for lunch, and some places/cafeterias within your organization that you’d be willing to travel to
3. Click the ‘Match Me’ button, and kick back and wait for a lunch match to be emailed directly to your inbox, along with a calendar reminder
4. On the date of your lunch, turn up with your ears and mind open and become one with the awesome wave of new possibilities now crashing over you
5. Proceed to step 1, pausing only to tell all of your colleagues how awesome Lunch Roulette is.
A Solução: Por que esta solução é inovadora para a sua empresa e indústria?
We are told all the time to be diverse in our thinking, to think outside of the box, to ‘never lunch alone’, and yet how easy is it to actually do that? The social contract is not to approach strangers and start talking to them. Lunch Roulette provides a process you can use to be exposed to new areas of your organization, and new ideas. This isn’t new thinking for our company or industry; this is a way to make that thinking a reality for all companies and industries.
O Modelo: Nos mostre um exemplo específico de como sua solução faz a diferença; inclua suas principais atividades.
We've focused on the use of Lunch Roulette in our organization, but we believe it will work in most organizational structures. Imagine an example of two social entrepreneurs working in the same co-working space, but unknown to each other. Were both to use Lunch Roulette, who knows what magic might ensue. As we work to test this hypothesis we've partnered with a social incubator at Portland State University to see if we are right. We can't control what happens when people collide, but we can work to make it happen more often, and with more meaning.
Also, in addition to what has already been described, you could imagine using Lunch Roulette as part of an employee onboarding experience. It moves well beyond the traditional buddy system, while complementing it, and is a sustainable way to marinate an employee in an organizational culture. It could also be used during the hiring process what's a more powerful statement about your organization than pairing a future colleague with a random employee and leaving them for an hour over lunch.
We're also quite passionate about balance at work and using Lunch Roulette ensures that you stop, take a pause, and enjoy a break.
O Mercado: Quem são os seus pares e concorrentes? Identificar os outros que também estão trabalhando para solucionar as mesmas necessidades que você e o que você faz de diferente em relação a eles. Quais seriam os desafios impostos por esses concorrentes que impactariam no seu sucesso ou crescimento?
While we initially thought we were the first to have developed this idea, we’ve subsequently found other implementations (Code for America & Betaworks). Both of these seem focused on niche communities, while we are looking at this as a tool for organizations with tens, to hundreds of thousands of employees. In true intrapreneurial style though, we’ve contacted one of the groups who implemented one of these solutions and are looking at how to work together moving forward.
With this being our first iteration of this product we’ve tried for simplicity. There are plenty of places that this could be more tightly coupled to business processes, and we are actively looking at all of these options. Our backgrounds in data, sales, and science are helping us evaluate where to press forward.
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This was an idea born of frustration. Upon coming back from vacation, one of us wanted lunch with people, versus his desk. But none of ‘his people’ were available for lunch. Upon leaving the cash register, lunch in hand, on route to desk – the noise of the cafeteria, and the sense of exclusion from it, was palpable, and galling. That night, en route home, the question of the social contract popped into his head, and met with the idea of how difficult it would be to create a web application to randomly pair people for lunch. An email was sent that evening and a prototype product was born just a day later. Only as the idea was socialized did we realize the full potential – this is a way, a tangible way, of creating links where none had been before, and exposing our colleagues to ideas outside of their day-to-day routines. It is independent of our company and industry and is broadly applicable anywhere an organizational structure exists.
Qual foi o impacto da sua solução até hoje?
At our company more than 500 people have been matched since this went live. We have an 80% match rate and have had participants from the U.S. executive board all the way through the organization, and as broad participation as deep. Based on demand we’ve rolled this out to colleagues at one of our sites in the mid-west, and we have shepherded this through approval to be used across our German campuses to be made available within weeks.
The intellectual property is now independent of our organization and we're actively giving this away. We're currently piloting this at Ashoka, on Capitol Hill, at a Social Incubator at Portland State University and are working to have this available during Philly. Tech. Week 2013. We've worked hard to spread the word on the availability of this tool and, just recently, received a wonderful write up by a blog contributor at the Harvard Business Review: http://blogs.hbr.org/hbr/hewlett/2013/01/a_new_way_to_network_inside_yo....
Qual é o impacto previsto nos próximos 1 a 3 anos?
Internally we will continue to connect our people, across all levels and functions.
As we mention above, we are currently giving this tool away so that other organizations can benefit from it.
Yes, that’s right, you read that correctly, we are going to give this away to whoever wants it, as we try to create a community of organizations using this thing, to foster discussion, dialogue, connections – and to ultimately create value for the world. We all benefit when the people that comprise our organizations (and please think as broadly as you can about that term) are exposed to new ways and modes of thinking about their world views and problems. If you, or your organization, is interested in this as a potential solution please let us know: info [at] lunchroulette [dot] us
Quais são as barreiras que podem impedir o sucesso do seu projeto? Como você planeja superá-las?
We’ve been a little surprised at the number of people who seemingly don’t have time for lunch. This could be an issue of organizational culture and addressable through it becoming a norm. Standard organizational ‘change’ tactics could be used to overcome this.
The utility of the tool gets exponentially greater as more people use it; as less people use it, and less people get matched, the tool becomes less valuable, and the incentive to sign up decreases. We plan on addressing this in two ways: 1. Actively promote at every turn. 2. Bake Lunch Roulette into standard company processes. That can range from new hire on-boarding, to managerial organizational announcements.
We also need to figure out how to capture the stories/value that result through using Lunch Roulette.
leia mais↓↑ ocultar↑ ocultarQual é o benefício ou valor que você está criando para o seu negócio?
One of our organization’s core beliefs is the creation of Value through Innovation. This tool enables that in a meaningful way, it is purposely simple to use and engaging for all. In addition to innovative solutions that will hopefully occur as our people randomly collide, we are building an organizational resilience through the creation of weak ties that will allow us to become more agile and flexible.
Como você está alavancando recursos internos (fundos, tempo, conhecimento, etc) para apoiar esta iniciativa?
This was developed on our own time, with our own resources, but then rolled back into the organization with the full support of a host of colleagues in a variety of functions: Information Systems, Human Resources (HR), Corporate Communications, etc.
We're encouraging people to share their Lunch Roulette experiences on our internal social networking platform to continue to drive momentum and excitement.
Through a contact in HR we've gotten connections to academics who are interested in looking at this from a more formal perspective. We're also encouraging colleagues to share through their networks to help build out the number, and type, or organizations using this.
Detalhe sua resposta, explicando o plano de financiamento e apoio de longo prazo.
We are quite well networked individuals with links across our global organization. At this stage we don’t need people’s resources (having built this externally, and now using an existing infrastructure) - outside of a little attention and a desire to share their stories on, and encourage other folks to use this. We have a well refined elevator speech and shamelessly promote this at every turn. We have infographics too.
Externally, and as we think about other companies using this, we might need a little money to house this on the web, and we have a whole host of ideas for making this better. Some of these may take some money, and advice, and we are actively on the look out now for both. Most intriguingly we're looking to include enterprise scale social network data.
Conte-nos sobre suas parcerias dentro da empresa e externas que são fundamentais para o sucesso do seu projeto.
We recently made a great connection to someone very influential at our corporate headquarters. Within a day they’d sent an introductory note extolling the myriad virtues of Lunch Roulette and offered to sponsor its global roll out.
Externally we’ve made key connections to the vendor in charge of our cafeteria space, colleagues at partner organizations that we happen to interact with, and co-working spaces. Each of these avenues are currently being pursued.
Qual apoio interno você obteve para seu projeto? Que tipo de críticas você enfrentou?
Support has been extraordinary. We’ve seen participation at all levels, with one VP saying “Lunch Roulette is fun. I am telling everyone.” Initial push-back from IS colleagues who saw that we’d hosted this externally, and were concerned that we were storing things we shouldn’t have been (we weren’t). We had anticipated this, and helped move the code base into the organization easily. Other push-back has been more subtle, and seems to be of the organizational culture variety.
This is a great opportunity to give honest press to these hard working organizations. It is my hope that telling these stories not only inspires people to work for these kinds of organizations, but that it also inspires them to work for the one that best fits their ideals and goals. An even better result would allow these charitable organizations to see themselves and see how they can improve to become better at engaging their participants and developing their community.
Criado em 09/12/2012 por Beth Hutchinson
Kids need stories! And sometimes grownups need support to learn to tell stories well. The Storytelling Club gives grownups the help they need.
Organização: Parent-Child Mother Goose Program within the BCCF
mais ↓↑ ocultar↑ ocultarNome da Organização
Parent-Child Mother Goose Program within the BCCF
Página da organização na internet
País onde esta solução está criando impacto social
Region in BC where your solution creates social impact
Vancouver, Coast and Mountains, Vancouver Island, Thompson Okanagan, Northern British Columbia, Cariboo Chilcotin Coast, Kootenay Rockies, Columbia Basin.
Sua organização é
OSCIP/ONG
Há quanto tempo sua organização está em operação?
Mais de 5 anos
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Ideia (você está para lançar)
Há quanto tempo está em funcionamento?
Em execução por mais de 5 anos
Which of the following best describes the barrier(s) your solution addresses? Choose up to two
Acesso, Custo, Qualidade.
The Need: Describe the need for your solution and the size and characteristics of the community(ies) your solution is engaging
Kids need stories! Stories build imaginations, grow vocabularies, strengthen critical thinking skills. Stories stimulates development of neural pathways in the brain essential to the development of literacy and academic success.
Yet fewer and fewer parents tell stories to kids.
At the Parent-Child Mother Goose program, we know many parents need encouragement to feel confident telling stories. We help parents in communities throughout BC, in urban and rural areas, in immigrant communities, Aboriginal communities, special needs populations and mixed neighbourhood groupings to develop storytelling ability.
But to bring the gift of stories to families, Mother Goose teachers need ongoing training. They need to connect with other storytellers, to practice and grow their skills.
A Solução: Qual é a sua solução? Seja específico!
For many new teachers, storytelling is the most challenging part of the Mother Goose program. Storytelling workshops to reinforce skills and expand repertoires are in high demand – but these can be expensive, and difficult for teachers in rural areas to attend.
To improve the quality of storytelling in the program in a cost-effective way that is easily accessible to all we will use online technology and the telephone to re-inspire teachers in this ancient art.
We will connect Mother Goose teachers to meet regularly with one another online to share stories and to practice storytelling techniques in safe and supportive groups of their peers.
As researchers Vrasidas and Glass (2004) remind us: Students learn best when they are actively engaged in meaningful activities; when they collaborate with peers, exchange ideas, and provide and receive peer feedback; when they reflect critically ... But we tend to forget that teachers learn best in these ways too.
The Model: Walk us through a specific example of how your solution makes a difference; include the primary activities involved in your solution.
Imagine: you are a new teacher in the Parent-Mother Goose program. You have taken a two-day training session, you have worked with and learned from experienced teachers. Now you are delivering the program. You love singing children’s songs and telling silly rhymes: they’re fun, everyone loves them. But you’re nervous about telling stories. What if you forget how it goes? What if you can’t keep the audience interested?
Practice Makes Perfect: that’s what your teachers told you, and you believe it. So when you see a notice in your Mother Goose enewsletter to join a Storytelling Club, you decide to do it.
You are pleased to see that you can choose webinar or teleconference. You register, at www.bccf.ca or by phone. In either small group, you’ll meet new and experienced other Mother Goose teachers, you will listen to stories, tell stories, encourage each other and laugh about it all. You will also be learning about ways of building the enjoyment of storytelling in our own program.
You’re shy, but you go ahead and try it, and you find it so much easier than you had thought. The tips from the other storytellers are so helpful, and the stories that others share are inspiring.
The Difference: Now parents and kids love your stories! Parents tell you that you inspired them to try telling stories at home to their children, and they’re amazed at the difference they see already in their children’s attention spans and language. You decide to keep connected with the Online Storytelling Club, and to encourage other new teachers to join.
The Marketplace: Who are your peers and competitors? Identify others working to address the same needs as you and indicate what sets you apart from them.
Parent-Child Mother Goose is unique in that it uses the oral interactive use of song, rhyme and story to help parents develop children’s language and literacy skills and support social interaction and connection. The benefits develop through the experiences in the program and through repeated used of song, rhyme and story at home.
Since the development of the Mother Goose program in the 1980’s, its influence has been widespread, and many aspects of the program are now accepted best practice within the fields of early childhood development, early learning, and literacy. Yet evidence shows that the strongest results for children are found when the program is delivered as initially designed: a ten-week program led by two trained teachers, leading parents in rhymes, songs, and stories.
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Once upon a time, in a town not very far from here, a group of family program staff were learning how to lead a program for parents and young kids. A simple, fun program where kids and grownups sang songs, chanted rhymes, and told stories together. It was called the Parent-Child Mother Goose program, and it was proven to increase children’s academic success and support development of literacy.
They were all very happy that they would soon be able to lead Mother Goose groups in their communities. There was only one problem: they felt shy telling stories. So when they led the program, sometimes they left those out.
That’s when BC’s Mother Goose coordinator thought, “Aha! I could bring these teachers together to practice telling stories. It would help them, and it would sure help all the kids and families they teach. I know, I’ll ask BC Ideas!”
The End.
P.S. Please help kids enjoy stories happily ever after by supporting Mother Goose!
Descreva a meta da sua iniciativa; fale sobre o que você está tentando alcançar.
We are trying to enable program teachers in many and diverse communities to be able to assist the parents to tell stories to their children, because stories have profound effects on the developing literacy and life long learning capacity of young children.
‘Narrative ability is the single most important language ability for success in school.’ (Feagans & Appelbaum, 1986:359)
The goal of the Online Storytelling Club initiative is to support program teachers to continue to grow in their ability to engage both parents and young children with stories and to inspire those parents to become a storyteller for their own babies, young and growing-into-big children.
Qual foi o impacto da sua solução até hoje?
Programs like Mother Goose are instrumental in addressing the developmental needs of young children, and with more than 30% of BC’s children entering kindergarten not ready to learn (according HELP data), measures to strengthen the capacity of teachers are critical. Currently, up to 3000 BC children attend Mother Goose programs with a parent or caregiver each year.
Parental confidence and skill as well as adult language ability grows.
The Online Storytelling Club has not yet been introduced in BC. However, the feedback from the storytelling training workshops across BC has been very positive. Teachers tell us about their joy and amazement in realizing that they really can tell a story. We know that with the Storytelling Club, we can extend the benefits of storytelling workshops effectively to many more program teachers. And each of those teachers will reach many more children and parents, bringing the profoundly powerful learning effects of stories into countless families
Qual é a sua expectativa de impacto para os próximos 5 anos?
The goal of the Online Storytelling Club initiative is to increase the number of trained Mother Goose teachers reporting that they feel confident in delivering stories to children and parents by 25% within five years. We project that the impact of that increase in storytelling ability among trained teachers will be a corresponding increase in storytelling at home by participating parents.
The effects of these increases in storytelling will impact levels of kindergarten readiness and future academic success among children participating in the program, however these changes will be difficult to track without longitudinal studies beyond the scope of BC Ideas funding.
Quais são as barreiras que podem impedir o sucesso do seu projeto? Como você planeja superá-las?
Potential Barriers:
1. Mother Goose teachers may not hear about the group.
2. Some teachers lack computer access or expertise.
3. New Mother Goose teachers may be hesitant to participate.
Keys to Overcoming Barriers:
1. The group will be publicized through enewsletters sent regularly to all trained BC Mother Goose teachers, as well as at upcoming training sessions, and through our extensive networks of service providers throughout BC.
2. For participants who lack computer access or the necessary software to participate via webinar, conference calling can be arranged.
3. By ensuring that each group has a mix of experienced and new teachers, a comfortable and supportive atmosphere will help to make teachers feel the club is a safe place to practice their storytelling techniques.
As inscrições vencedoras apresentam um plano sólido sobre como vão alcançar e acompanhar o crescimento do projeto. Identifique as metas de seis meses para aumentar seu impacto.
• had one storytelling club - webinar • had one storytelling club - teleconference • collected pre post evaluative feedback
Agora pense grande! Identifique qual seria sua meta de impacto para 12 meses
Storytelling club participants report greater parental responsiveness to their storytelling on our 12 month participant survey
Atividade 1
o Review all tasks and adapt according to experience and feedback
Atividade 2
o Record program teacher participant progress; share with BC programs and National Program
Atividade 3
Decide: worth continuing?, adapt for second stage and new participants, grow in what ways?, next sustainability step?
leia mais↓↑ ocultar↑ ocultarPor favor, explique de que forma o estabelecimento de parcerias é importante para o sucesso de sua inovação
The following agencies want to partner with us:
Options Community Services
Katherine MacIntyre, Program Manager FRP
Phone: 604-572-8032 ext. 1551
Email: Katherine.MacIntyre@options.bc.ca
Kamloops Early language and Literacy Initiative
Interior Community Services
Contact:
Maureen Doll, KELLI Project Co-ordinator
Phone: 250-554-3134
Email: kelli@ interiorcommunityservices.bc.ca
and
Early Learning Programs at the Boys and Girls Clubs, Vernon, BC
Contact:
Asia Dolling, Co-ordinator
Phone: 250-542-3121 ext. 108
Email: earlylearning@boysandgirlsclubs.ca
Are you currently targeting other specific populations, locations, or markets for your solution? If so, where and why?
Our initial target audience for the Storytelling Club project will focus on trained Mother Goose teachers who can benefit from additional support in storytelling in order to improve the quality of service and programming offered to vulnerable children and families participating in Parent-Child Mother Goose. As the success of the initiative grows, we will investigate the potential to expand the Club on a fee-for-service basis to other professionals in the child and family-serving sector.
Que tipo de ambiente operacional e fatores da organização interna ajudarão o projeto a ser bem sucedido?
The BC Council for Families is a non-profit organization with a 35-year history in BC of developing and delivering innovative training and professional development solutions for practitioners serving young children and families in our province. For over 12 years, the Council has been home to the Provincial Office of the Parent-Child Mother Goose program. In that time, the Mother Goose program has become one of BC’s most popular and highly-regarded early literacy programs for parents and their young children.
Both the Council and the Mother Goose program have a history and current practice of using funds wisely for maximum benefit, and both are characterized by working relationships that foster co-operation and mutual support.
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Criado em 09/11/2012 por Umoja
To provide the Literacy and Life Skills necessary for newcomer immigrants and refugees to thrive in their new environment.
Organização: Umoja Operation Compassion Society
mais ↓↑ ocultar↑ ocultarSobrenome
Operation Compassion Society
Nome da Organização
Umoja Operation Compassion Society
Página da organização na internet
País onde esta solução está criando impacto social
Region in BC where your solution creates social impact
Vancouver.
Sua organização é
OSCIP/ONG
Há quanto tempo sua organização está em operação?
Mais de 5 anos
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Estabelecido (estágios anteriores completos e com sucesso comprovado)
Há quanto tempo está em funcionamento?
Em execução por mais de 5 anos
Which of the following best describes the barrier(s) your solution addresses? Choose up to two
Acesso.
The Need: Describe the need for your solution and the size and characteristics of the community(ies) your solution is engaging
In a study done by AMSSA, English language proficiency was noted as being contributory to any other challenges that newcomer families face. In addition newcomers are not only challenged by learning the English language; some also have low literacy levels in their first language making it that much more difficult to learn English. Beyond language, the ever growing newcomer immigrant and refugee population seeking a new home in Canada can often lack the knowledge and life skills necessary to assimilate into their new social environment to fully participate within society and contribute economically. Thus our hope is continuing to provide literacy and life skills classes for newcomer immigrants and refugees.
A Solução: Qual é a sua solução? Seja específico!
Newcomers who come to Canada and do not yet have the English language skills to participate in an ELSA course or a more advanced English language class are able improve their language ability at Umoja. Our solution is providing an opportunity and an appropriate educational environment to teach Literacy and Life skills classes. Classes are offered 4 times a week focusing on reading, writing, comprehension, day-to-day conversation, critical thinking, numeracy, Canadian culture, accessing resources, learning the Canadian social system and computer skills. Participants are placed into the appropriate learner level (1, 2 or 3) upon entering the program until confidence and skill level has improved to begin the next level. We ensure that the comprehension and skill level has been acquired before participants can advance.
The Model: Walk us through a specific example of how your solution makes a difference; include the primary activities involved in your solution.
In attending classes and learning the material given participants will be able to interpret important written information, for example: prescription instructions, nutrition factors, signs and symbols like road signs, warning signs, safety signs, and transit schedules. In addition parents are able to help their children more with homework where it may have been too difficult before and also communicate their own thoughts and feelings to service providers, teachers, etc. We help bring the confidence needed to participate in the broader community, access resources, find and maintain a job, and further any desired education. Through workshops, field trips, guest speakers and lesson plans taught the Umoja class helps newcomers feel empowered to become apart of society by teaching about how Canadian government and social systems work such as emergency response, healthcare, housing, education system, and legal system. Participants are also encouraged to share stories, experiences, and practices from their countries of origin, promoting cultural diversity and inclusiveness.
The Marketplace: Who are your peers and competitors? Identify others working to address the same needs as you and indicate what sets you apart from them.
Others who work to address adult literacy needs are Mosaic, Immigrant Services Society, City of Surrey, and S.U.C.C.E.S.S to name a few. The benefit of Umoja is that we provide an opportunity for those with extremely low levels of literacy to attend classes. Some clients who have attended Umoja literacy classes never received any formal training in their countries of origin some because of economic status or living in refugee camps. Thus bringing them to a place where it is increasingly difficult to read and write in another language. Many clients begin the program learning the alphabet and basic numeracy.In addition Umoja continues to provide support based on the individual need, ensuring that the material has been learned before level advancement ,not necessarily a time restriction.
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The organization was founded by a couple who over 25 years ago immigrated into Canada from Uganda, Africa due to political instability at the time. Even while facing struggles and hardship in trying to integrate into Canadian society they recognized the great need for outreach and support for other newcomers within the African community and so began helping people out of their home. Since the organizations inception in 2002 Umoja has grown to offer a variety of programs. Language is something that is deeply rooted in who we are as people. For so many recent immigrants and refugees who are building a new life here in Canada, language can be a huge wall that seems impenetrable. Knowing the English language is a key factor in being able to adapt and transition into Canadian Society. The lack of opportunity to learn the English language and life skills can greatly inhibit the integration process for newcomers which creates hardship and feelings of hopelessness in newcomers.
Descreva a meta da sua iniciativa; fale sobre o que você está tentando alcançar.
Goal 1 is to Acquire literacy and numeracy skills in a friendly culturally sensitive environment. Our objectives are reading, writing, comprehension, participating in conversation and learning numbers, addition and subtraction. Goal 2 is acquiring necessary Canadian life skills to integrate successfully into society. Our objectives are learn Canadian culture, emergency preparedness, learn skills to access resources, and community safety. Goal 3 to provide relevant technology training. Objective to teach how a computer works, setting up email, typing practice, browsing and navigating the internet, completing documents.
Qual foi o impacto da sua solução até hoje?
Since it's inception in 2002 Umoja has had a strong community impact by supporting over 1500 individuals and families through our literacy and life skills program. Participants of our program have continued on to gain more job training, gone back to school, become more engaged in their community,develop a greater understanding of society and culture, and gained the confidence to live happy, healthy lives.
Qual é a sua expectativa de impacto para os próximos 5 anos?
Our projected impact over the next 5 years is to continue to reach out to newcomer immigrants and refugees in teaching literacy and life skills classes. As we are able to expand the program our community impact will be greater as we reach more people. Our impact is to equip newcomers with the necessary education and skills to live confident, productive lives in society and within their own families. Students will continue to graduate from the program to pursue and accomplish other goals.
Quais são as barreiras que podem impedir o sucesso do seu projeto? Como você planeja superá-las?
An ongoing barrier to expanding the literacy/life skills program is receiving adequate financial support. Each year the program has continued to grow, as more and more newcomers learn about our program and are eager to start classes. However a barrier is being able to accommodate an increased number of participants due to space, staffing, and resources. We do not charge for our services and still we provide bus tickets so people are able to access our program who otherwise would not be able to. Our hope is to influential community members will see our need for increased support to ensure the sustainability of the program for the benefit of our clients.
As inscrições vencedoras apresentam um plano sólido sobre como vão alcançar e acompanhar o crescimento do projeto. Identifique as metas de seis meses para aumentar seu impacto.
Atividade 1
Find sources of funding in order to maintain the operation of the program
Atividade 2
facilitate and maintain a relevant literacy and life skills program made specifically for the multicultural adult learners
Atividade 3
facilitate workshops, field trips, guest speakers for relevant community and life skills information
Agora pense grande! Identifique qual seria sua meta de impacto para 12 meses
Atividade 1
Facilitate an effective participants progress tracking system and evaluation system of material learned
Atividade 2
Promote the service to reach out and attract community support and increased awareness of the program
Atividade 3
Facilitate focus groups with participants in order to ensure program stays highly effective and relative to newcomers needs
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We have partnered with community members such as the RCMP, the fire department of surrey, the City of Surrey, local libraries, Arocha, BC Transit, the Provincial Government of Canada,the BC Farm Market Association (BCFMA),Oak Avenue Neighborhood Hub,Surrey Food Bank, individual donors,local churches. Through the Provincial Government and the BCFMA our clients have been given access to participate in a community kitchen once a week given coupons for the Surrey Urban Farm Markets each week when it operates from June - September. We receive clothing, books, food and distribute to our clients.
Are you currently targeting other specific populations, locations, or markets for your solution? If so, where and why?
Que tipo de ambiente operacional e fatores da organização interna ajudarão o projeto a ser bem sucedido?
Umoja works to meet clients where they are at in their transition into Canadian society. Staff are always available to meet with clients to ensure needs are being met and to address any concerns or additional support that may be needed. As a team the staff at Umoja work together to ensure the success of the client whether its to gain confidence in everyday life or pursue a career path. In addition we see many clients taking the time to help other students within the class, fostering an environment of community support.
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Criado em 09/11/2012 por jwindecker
Vancouver Island Regional Library can play a vital role, and be an important community partner, in the effort to preserve indigenous languages in B.C.
Organização: Vancouver Island Regional Library
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Vancouver Island Regional Library
Página da organização na internet
País onde esta solução está criando impacto social
Region in BC where your solution creates social impact
Vancouver Island.
Sua organização é
OSCIP/ONG
Há quanto tempo sua organização está em operação?
Mais de 5 anos
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Ideia (você está para lançar)
Há quanto tempo está em funcionamento?
Em execução por mais de 5 anos
Which of the following best describes the barrier(s) your solution addresses? Choose up to two
Acesso, Equidade.
The Need: Describe the need for your solution and the size and characteristics of the community(ies) your solution is engaging
The state of First Nations languages in B.C is critical. B.C. is home to 60 percent of First Nations languages in Canada, most of which have been identified as "nearly extinct" or "severely endangered". On Vacouver Island, our library's primary service area, there are 32 First Nations languages (and 59 dialects)that are at risk of demise. The revitalization of these languages is paramount as the loss of language goes hand in hand with the loss of culture and identity for First Nations Peoples. As stated in the 2010 Report on the Status of B.C. First Nations Languages, “It is important to act now to revitalize and maintain B.C. First Nations languages so that the cultures, identities, health and pride of First Nations communities can also be revived”.
A Solução: Qual é a sua solução? Seja específico!
Vancouver Island Regional Library (VIRL) can play a vital role, and be an important community partner, in the effort to preserve traditional languages. Our Mission is to enrich lives and communities through universal access to knowledge, lifelong learning and literacy. Our Vision is to develop strong library branches that are vital community destinations for knowledge, inspiration, innovation ad renewal. Our mandate is LITERACY!
VIRL will work to help foster language revitalization through the creation of a First Nations Language Resource Centre. Acting as language champions, VIRL will work to develop a centralized place for resources, archives, documentation as well as a space for language teaching and learning. VIRL will begin this project in collaboration with First Nations Communities in the Nanaimo/ Ladysmith area of Vancouver Island.
The Model: Walk us through a specific example of how your solution makes a difference; include the primary activities involved in your solution.
Vancouver Island Regional Library will work with First Nations communities and organizations working with First Nations communities across Vancouver Island to gather/purchase all available language resources. These resources would include traditional book formats as well as incorporating the use of new and innovative technological language teaching tools. This collection would be available for any member of the public to use in the library. Our pilot project would be at the Nanaimo Harbourfront branch located in South Nanaimo. Registered library customers throughout our service area (majority of Vancouver Island) will be able to borrow these materials and access information and applicable resources via our library website. Collaboration and common goals is the key to this model.
VIRL will help to create new language speakers by providing the resources necessary to learn the language. The Language Centre can be used by elementary, high school and university students in Nanaimo and surrounding area as a resource and support for language teaching and learning already taking place. Most importantantly, communities working towards the revitalization of their language will have a central place to house their available recordings and documentation for their community to use.
VIRL will also promote and advocate awareness of other innovative language tools, such as a newly created ipod applications, so that indigenous language use is not lost.
This would be a unique collection and service offered by public libraries.
The Marketplace: Who are your peers and competitors? Identify others working to address the same needs as you and indicate what sets you apart from them.
Outside of individual efforts being undertaken by communities on Vancouver Island, there are some noteworthy work being done by:
CURA Language Project
Project has attempted to speed the recovery of languages by including the use of modern technologies and the Internet to make the languages more accessible to more people.
First Peoples’ Heritage, Language and Culture Council:
Offers services and programs to support First Nations’ language arts, and culture revitalization in B.C.
Vancouver Island Regional Library sees these as partners and guides in the revitalization process. VIRL, as with all other public library systems, is able to offer the expertise of information gathering and sharing, as well as a community meeting space to any members of the public.
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"Language is at the core of our identity as people, members of a family and nations: it provides underpinnings of our relationship to culture, the land, sprirituality, and the intellectual life of a nation."
This quote by the First Peoples" Heritage, Language and Cultural Council was the spark towards the realization of how public libraries can be involved in the language revitalization process. Public libraries serve their communities by archiving, sharing, and disseminating knowledge, by preserving and maintaining culture, through education and through social interaction. Public libraries are an integral part of a democratic society. On Vancouver Island (and throughout B.C. and the rest of the world), the public library system is in a perfect position to collaborate and to help ensure that First Nations languages can once again thrive as functional languages in our communities.
Descreva a meta da sua iniciativa; fale sobre o que você está tentando alcançar.
The ultimate goal of this initiative is to play an integral part in the language revitalization process - to ensure that First Nations languages spoken on Vancouver Island are recognized and not lost. The is a BIG goal and one that will take time and strong partnerships to achieve!
Qual foi o impacto da sua solução até hoje?
This project is in the development phase. Communication has been made with the First Nations community and partnering organizations in the Nanaimo (our central service area) area and feedback has been overwhelmingly positive. There is an understanding that this project has grand implications and will require a lot of collaboration and partnerships to succeed. Just as the issue is immense, the quantity and quality of the impact of the project seems immeasurable. If this "model" works in our communities, it can be shared and implemented throughout the Province and other communities facing indigenous language demise. In the short term, the issue of language loss has been brought to the forefront and solutions are being discussed which is a very important first step.
Qual é a sua expectativa de impacto para os próximos 5 anos?
According to the Report on the Status of B.C. First Nations Lanaguages only 5.1% of B.C. First Nations populations are fluent speakers of their languages and the vast majority of speakers are elders. The next 5 years are the most critical because a language dies when the speakers die. Over the next five years, the impact of our project will be to help make language resources and tools available, primarily for the younger generations, so their language is not lost for good.
Quais são as barreiras que podem impedir o sucesso do seu projeto? Como você planeja superá-las?
The biggest barrier is the time required to build trusting and open relationships with First Nations Communities. The loss of language is because of colonization and state-sanctioned policies of assimilation. This is the foundation in which conversations are had and must be understood and accepted from our end. As a result, interaction must be guided by the First Nations peoples in our communities. Persaverance and understanding are key to any collaborations made.
As inscrições vencedoras apresentam um plano sólido sobre como vão alcançar e acompanhar o crescimento do projeto. Identifique as metas de seis meses para aumentar seu impacto.
Atividade 1
Community Networking and Collaboration with Key Players (pilot area in Nanaimo)
Atividade 2
Resource Gathering/Sharing
Atividade 3
Collection Development and Creation
Agora pense grande! Identifique qual seria sua meta de impacto para 12 meses
Atividade 1
Library Space Creation - Creation of Welcoming Space
Atividade 3
Collaboration and Program Planning
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We are currently collaborating with Tillicum Lelum Aborignal Friendship Centre to identify possible partners in the Nanaimo area. So far, we have had information meetings with members from Vancouver Island University and Tillicum/Early Literacy Project. First Nations educators and teachers have also expressed an interest to be involved in the project.
Are you currently targeting other specific populations, locations, or markets for your solution? If so, where and why?
The vision is to duplicate the resource collection in other branches of Vancouver Island Regional Library, particularly north (Campbell River) and south (Sidney) of Vancouver Island. The intention would be to make resources available strategically throughout Vancouver Island.
Que tipo de ambiente operacional e fatores da organização interna ajudarão o projeto a ser bem sucedido?
Vancouver Island Regional Library has identified the diversification and innovative development of our Collection as one our main strategic priorities. We are committed to examining creative ways to enhance and provide access to our collection and also in evaluating new materials and formats in response to changing needs of the diverse populations we serve. Most importantly, we have identified the investigation of opportunities to develop unique collections in our branches as one of our key strategic goals. This project will be a success because of the foundation in which our library services are built and currently operate.
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Criado em 09/11/2012 por kevinh09
We are transforming the consumer-to-business feedback loop to demonstrate real-time value for Asian businesses to take leadership for sustainability.
Organização: Shark Truth
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País onde esta solução está criando impacto social
Region in BC where your solution creates social impact
Vancouver.
Sua organização é
OSCIP/ONG
Há quanto tempo sua organização está em operação?
Entre 1 e 5 anos
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..
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Ideia (você está para lançar)
Há quanto tempo está em funcionamento?
Em execução entre 1 e 5 anos
Which of the following best describes the barrier(s) your solution addresses? Choose up to two
Acesso, Equidade.
The Need: Describe the need for your solution and the size and characteristics of the community(ies) your solution is engaging
Metro Vancouver is home to the second largest Chinese restaurant industry in North America (CRFA, 2009). More notably, it is internationally known to serve the best Chinese cuisine in the world (Condé Nast, 2010). Although our Chinese restaurant industry has achieved global recognition, they are radically underdeveloped in the competitive advantage of ‘sustainability’. Using the topic of shark finning to initiate dialogue with restaurants, our solution will increase accessibility of opportunities for Asian restaurants to green their businesses. Our solution will develop a business network and produce quantifiable results through case studies to demonstrate to the broader Chinese and Asian restaurant industries that greening their operation benefits both their business and the environment.
A Solução: Qual é a sua solução? Seja específico!
We will launch a lighthouse Program to transform an Asian restaurant that will be our Pilot Business (PB) who will be the first in Canada’s Asian restaurant industry to shift to these Green Initiatives (GI) 1. sourcing local produce, 2. removing all unsustainable seafood items from their menu, 3. reducing energy consumption, and 4. committing to zero-waste goals.
Working with our partner organizations Ocean Wise (OW) and Green Table Network (GTN), we will publish, distribute, and publicize a bilingual Case Study (CS) detailing the business analysis for each Initiative. The CS will increase accessibility for other businesses in the Asian restaurant industry. Moreover, we will demonstrate business value by using positive consumer reinforcement through public celebrations and events. This will directly creative a competitive advantage for the PB, showcasing to competitors that there is financial and social value in operating sustainably.
The Model: Walk us through a specific example of how your solution makes a difference; include the primary activities involved in your solution.
This Program is not only significant for the restaurant industry but for local Asian businesses in general that are looking for strategies to gain a competitive advantage - this will be the spark that will create a demand from local consumers for green business.
Each of the PB’s GIs will be rolled out individually to collect data independent of the other Initiatives. Consumer data will be conducted to gauge demand, support and awareness.
Timeline as follows:
Pre-change/ adoption of Initiative
- Work with partners and PB to secure suppliers needed to implement the change
- Measurement of pre-change data
Implementation of GIs
For three months post-transition:
- Survey consumer demand, support, and awareness
- Measurement of post-change data to assess PB's triple bottom line
- Assessment of change in relation to goals and ff needed, make further changes to meet goals
Fourth month post-transition:
- Writing, designing, and publishing of this Initiative’s Case Study; highlighting challenges, Asian restaurant specific changes, and consumer, business, and environmental impact data
Throughout the implementation of the PBs GIs, we will be:
1. Publicizing their business leadership to illustrate to the public a new market niche;
2. Demonstrate value by organizing events where we will leverage our and our partner organizations' social networks to support the PB’s business leadership by “voting with their dollars” and creating positive reinforcement;
3. Coordinating meetings to encourage and consult interested restaurants in implementing similar GIs
The Marketplace: Who are your peers and competitors? Identify others working to address the same needs as you and indicate what sets you apart from them.
Across Canada, there are currently a few organizations working on “greening” restaurants and filling specific niches, ranging from supplying green material to consulting restaurants on their operations. What sets Shark Truth apart from our peers is that our Program will be to first to be a cross-cultural bridge for these organizations to break into and have access to the Asian restaurant industry.
Shark Truth will provide the network, relationships, and communications support for our partners to continue building long-term partnerships with the businesses on board.
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Kevin: While working with Chinese restaurants in Metro Vancouver to get them to remove shark fin from their menus, Shark Truth also set a goal of having these restaurants provide sustainable seafood options as alternatives. Many of the restaurants we talked to knew about the shark fin issue but were unwilling to remove the item citing losing competitiveness and seeing this change as a risk as reasons why they maintained the status quo.
The “Aha!” moment was when one restaurant that Shark Truth has been working with agreed to remove shark fin from their menu but also expressed that they wanted to become the Greenest Chinese restaurant in Vancouver. This was a pivotal moment as this presented the opportunity to implement green changes in a traditional Chinese restaurant beyond shark fin and obtain measured (versus theoretical) data to show others that these green changes for any restaurant will result in a competitive edge that is a smart long-term investment - not a risk.
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Goal 1: Engaging Businesses
-To increase awareness, exposure, and accessibility of green solutions for the Asian restaurant industry. Quantitatively, to have an increasing number of Asian restaurants actively greening their operations.
Goal 2: Creating a Market Niche & Competitive Edge
Giving consumers tools such as Green List maps to make informed decisions about what kind of green alternatives are and how their choice can make a difference
Working with English and ethnic media to create a public narrative for the emerging field of “green Asian restaurants”
Goal 3: Transforming the Feedback Loop
Integrating Goals 1 and 2, we will create one of the first public, accessible consumer-to-business feedback loops for the Asian restaurant industry for continued positive reinforcement
Qual foi o impacto da sua solução até hoje?
Having worked on the shark conservation issues for the past three years, we are witnessing that consumers are not only staying away from shark fin products but are also actively requesting sustainable alternatives to shark fin at restaurants. We have activated a dialogue with consumers about “sustainable consumption” when dining out, and now we’re ready to turn that dialogue into action.
The PB will be the first Asian restaurant in Metro Vancouver to provide sustainable menu options and publicly announce that they committed to greening their business for reducing their environmental impacts. With the Program being in its final planning stages, it has already had positive impact as the PB has committed to:
1. Removing shark fin from their menu
2. Signing on as our Pilot Business to further green their restaurant
2. Willing to be a spokesperson for shark fin issues, and GIs they adopt
Qual é a sua expectativa de impacto para os próximos 5 anos?
Short-term Impact (1 year)
• The transformation of the first Asian restaurant to “Go Green”
• 500 restaurant clientele concerned about environmental issues given opportunity to show demand and support for green alternatives
• A consumer-business feedback loop created to demonstrate real-time and tangible value for businesses that implement GIs
Medium-term Impact (2-5 years)
• Dramatic increase in demand for green alternatives among restaurant clientele
• 5-10 Asian restaurants participating in greening operations
• Development and growth of a green economy to serve the needs of the Asian restaurant industries
• Restaurants increase transparency by publicly reporting a triple bottom line
• Competitive niche for sustainable Asian restaurants is developed and profitable
Quais são as barreiras que podem impedir o sucesso do seu projeto? Como você planeja superá-las?
1. Green business network needed to support this Program: We have identified this as a potential barrier as a network of organizations with services for greening Asian restaurants has not yet developed. A key role for the Campaigner will be to build business relationships among partner organizations and restaurants as a way to foster this network and help existing organizations extend their work into Asian restaurants.
2. Language and cultural barriers: This will be overcome by facilitating meetings with bilingual team members who understand the language, culture, and the business perspective, in addition to production of bilingual materials.
As inscrições vencedoras apresentam um plano sólido sobre como vão alcançar e acompanhar o crescimento do projeto. Identifique as metas de seis meses para aumentar seu impacto.
The successful completion of one GI at the PB and a public celebration of it through positive consumer reinforcement.
Atividade 1
Secure funding to implement the Program.
Atividade 2
Research and implementation of GI and organize public event to celebrate it.
Atividade 3
Publication of one CS showcasing the result of the implementation of the first GI.
Agora pense grande! Identifique qual seria sua meta de impacto para 12 meses
4 separate GIs at the PB and interest from 3 or more additional Asian restaurants in implementing and publicizing their own GIs.
Atividade 1
Develop and grow a green business network to facilitate additional restaurant’s GIs.
Atividade 2
Research and implementation of GIs. Collect data, analyze, and write reports.
Atividade 3
Writing, design, publication, and design of CS.
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The Program’s main partners are:
“The Original” ChongQing Restaurant on Broadway
• Pilot Business for this Program; willing to invest in green initiatives to meet Program goals
Ocean Wise (OW)
• Research and knowledge of seafood options
• Connect restaurant(s) with sustainable seafood suppliers
Green Table Network (GTN)
• Support in consulting and connecting restaurant(s) with suitable suppliers for green materials and equipment
Both OW & GTN will support the Program and restaurant partners in marketing and promotion of their participation in respective initiatives.
Are you currently targeting other specific populations, locations, or markets for your solution? If so, where and why?
The City of Vancouver has the goal to be the Greenest City in the World by 2020 and Metro Vancouver is home to some of the best Chinese food in the world. We are strategically working with a PB in this area to amplify the first announcement, and to set an international stage for sustainable leadership in the Asian restaurant industry.
There is potential to expand the Program to the Greater Toronto Area where there is also a significant Asian restaurant industry, after 2-3 years of launching our model here.
Que tipo de ambiente operacional e fatores da organização interna ajudarão o projeto a ser bem sucedido?
In only three years with less than $100,000, we have diverted 80,000 bowls of shark fin from consumption through our consumer campaign, saving 8,000 sharks from being eaten. We are in a strong position to be the cross-cultural bridge between existing foodservice-related environmental organizations and the industry: we have built expertise on how to effectively activate consumers using a cultural lens, and now are poised to move up the supply chain to work with the industry directly.
Perhaps most importantly, the staff and volunteers involved in this Program are genuinely passionate and dedicated to helping the Asian restaurant industry transition into greener operations as *we are* their clientele, and we want to support businesses that align with our personal values of sustainability.
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Our solution is to offer FREE, quality, culturally relevant after school activities for children and youth. We aim to increase the positive aspects of physical and emotional health, create a safe space for vulnerable youth and promote healthy choices.
Criado em 09/10/2012 por carrie11
The "On-Line Feed" is a dynamic web forum that captures and mobilizes the culture of shared food practices for newcomers and host communities in Canada.
Organização: Kinbrace Community Society
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Kinbrace Community Society
Página da organização na internet
País onde esta solução está criando impacto social
Region in BC where your solution creates social impact
Vancouver.
Sua organização é
OSCIP/ONG
Há quanto tempo sua organização está em operação?
Mais de 5 anos
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..
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Ideia (você está para lançar)
Há quanto tempo está em funcionamento?
Ainda na fase de ideia, mas você deseja lançá-lo em breve
Which of the following best describes the barrier(s) your solution addresses? Choose up to two
Qualidade.
The Need: Describe the need for your solution and the size and characteristics of the community(ies) your solution is engaging
Newcomers often face isolation and barriers to social integration as they resettle in Canada. Kinbrace Community Society aims to counter social isolation for refugee claimants through practiced forms of hospitality. Weekly community dinners often include around 40 people and have become a catalyst for community across cultural divides. This model of sharing food extends beyond a community kitchen framework, as newcomers are supported to plan, cook and serve meals for others while they are in transitional housing. Celebrating the culture of food has become a poignant marker for creating a sense of home in the flux of transitions. Designing an "On-Line Feed" web forum will harvest this cultural knowledge and leverage the momentum that is already being generated across the tables.
A Solução: Qual é a sua solução? Seja específico!
Kinbrace Community Society is proposing an "On-line Feed" interactive web forum to capture the culture of food that is shared between newcomers and host communities at community meals. The culinary expertise and knowledge of food has been shared informally through conversations for over 14 years. These intercultural exchanges around food have not been well documented. As recipes from around the world are shared alongside learning modules on global food systems, a new vision for intercultural relations in Canada will begin to take root.
The Model: Walk us through a specific example of how your solution makes a difference; include the primary activities involved in your solution.
Creating an "On-Line Feed" web forum will aim to make a difference by:
- capturing "living" recipes and culinary techniques from the weekly community meals;
- accompanying recipes with learning modules on the culture of food in relation to location and livelihoods;
- offering an on-line mentorship program for newcomers on local/sustainable food systems in Canada from community gardeners and local experts (with reference to global food systems);
- creating a multimedia web-based cooking series that highlights the expertise of newcomers who are cooking meals at Kinbrace;
- generating tips for making nourishing and economically viable meals in Canada;
- combining collective resources into an on-line cookbook with strategies on how to promote community-buidling across cultures through food (residents will write on food in relation to identity, celebratory rituals, etc).
The Marketplace: Who are your peers and competitors? Identify others working to address the same needs as you and indicate what sets you apart from them.
Immigrant Services Society Welcome house, Journey Home and New Hope all offer a residential space for newcomers, but do not offer intentional community building around making and sharing food in community.
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Newcomers living at Kinbrace have catalyzed this "aha" moment through moments of transformation that consistently happen around sharing meals together. The weekly community meals have served as a primary anchor for relationship building, celebration and place making in this transitional community. The idea was born from watching Kinbrace residents scratch recipes down on napkins while community members from the neighbourhood consistently asked "What is the story?" behind the delectable culinary customs. These rare insights on food and culture have been exchanged on a small scale but deserve a larger audience.
Descreva a meta da sua iniciativa; fale sobre o que você está tentando alcançar.
The goal of the "On-Line Feed" is to create an interactive web forum for knowledge sharing and intercultural learning in order to capture, build and mobilize the cultural food practices of newcomers as they resettle in Canada. This forum will be rooted in a broader educational discourse on the culture of local food and emerging patterns in global food security.
Qual foi o impacto da sua solução até hoje?
The Kinbrace staff are in the initial stages of compiling recipes and documenting cultural food practices from newcomer residents. This momentum has generated a keen interest from the community at Kinbrace and residents from surrounding Vancouver neighbourhoods. Local community gardeners have been attending the weekly community meals for several years and have expressed an interest in creating a framework for this knowledge exchange at public workshops and events.
Qual é a sua expectativa de impacto para os próximos 5 anos?
Over the next five years, this project will directly involve over 200 newcomers from the Kinbrace community who will have the opportunity to engage with the "On-Line Feed" forum through knowledge sharing, learning modules and community workshops that will be open to the public. This project has the potential to impact thousands through both the website forum and community workshops.
Quais são as barreiras que podem impedir o sucesso do seu projeto? Como você planeja superá-las?
Language and literacy are barriers for newcomers. We plan to have interpreters for translation, and aim to use the "On-Line Feed" forum as a creative platform for learning English. Newcomers will work closely with staff members, local mentors and community volunteers. These cultural narratives have the potential to create generative opportunities for intercultural learning.
As inscrições vencedoras apresentam um plano sólido sobre como vão alcançar e acompanhar o crescimento do projeto. Identifique as metas de seis meses para aumentar seu impacto.
We aim to have a fully functioning interactive "On-line Feed" web forum for intercultural exchange and skills building
Atividade 1
Map and create the framework for the "On-Line Feed" community web forum with newcomers, web designer, staff, and volunteers.
Atividade 2
Develop website content for learning modules on cultural culinary expertise, local food systems and global food security.
Atividade 3
Integrate multi-media component of website, identify facilitators to offer workshops on intercultural community food practices.
Agora pense grande! Identifique qual seria sua meta de impacto para 12 meses
Learning food modules will generate hundreds of daily hits, recipes will be compiled into a cookbook and posted online for free
Atividade 1
Post cultural culinary narratives and correlating recipes from residents living at Kinbrace to the "On-line Feed" site
Atividade 2
All residents will have access to shared cultural culinary expertise and learning modules on food systems and food security
Atividade 3
Multi-media will capture the community culinary workshops through filming/photography of cultural food practices at Kinbrace
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We have a range of funders including:
The Government of Canada's Homelessness Partnering Strategy, Vancouver Refugee Alliances Services, The Law Foundation of British Columbia, World Vision Canadian Programs, Salsbury Community Society, Grandview Calvary Baptist Church, Canadian Baptists of Western Canada, Just Work Economic Initiative, Stronger Together Grants
Are you currently targeting other specific populations, locations, or markets for your solution? If so, where and why?
We anticipate that this initiative will bring generate interest from other sectors and communities throughout the city, and we aim to create new connections to local farming, food initiatives and will approach educational institutions.
Que tipo de ambiente operacional e fatores da organização interna ajudarão o projeto a ser bem sucedido?
This initiative builds on the resilience of residents in the Kinbrace community and recognizes that the generative life force consistently revolves around one thing: food. The "On-line Feed" acknowledges how food reveals these inherent resources in the community. This initiative aims to create a visible platform to reflect the many transformations that happen at the table.
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After fourteen years, Kinbrace has developed a breadth of supportive networks across sectors. These connections will be an asset as we seek out community resources that can create relevant linkages between food systems, culinary skills building, refugee settlement and intercultural community building.
Criado em 09/6/2012 por tsoutham
In Fall 2012 Selkirk will launch a series of garden parties to share indigenous ways of knowing by planting the beds surrounding its Gathering Place.
Organização: Selkirk College
mais ↓↑ ocultar↑ ocultarPágina da organização na internet
País onde esta solução está criando impacto social
Region in BC where your solution creates social impact
Columbia Basin.
Sua organização é
OSCIP/ONG
Há quanto tempo sua organização está em operação?
Mais de 5 anos
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..
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Inicial (um piloto que começou recentemente)
Há quanto tempo está em funcionamento?
Implementado há menos de um ano
Which of the following best describes the barrier(s) your solution addresses? Choose up to two
Custo.
The Need: Describe the need for your solution and the size and characteristics of the community(ies) your solution is engaging
Recent studies, including a report from the Ottawa-based Centre for the Study of Living Standards, suggest that, if current lower educational trends continue for aboriginal people "Canada could lose billions of dollars in productivity. The centre estimates that more than $170-billion could be added to Canada's economy by 2026 if natives achieved the same education levels as other Canadians" (Globe and Mail, Why aboriginal education is our business, June 21,2011)
A Solução: Qual é a sua solução? Seja específico!
A building is only a shelter and garden beds only soil. For either to grow relationships people must come together and be nourished.
Plants in indigenous worlds have always been a source of healing and knowledge. By bringing together Aboriginal community reps with non-Aboriginal staff and students at Selkirk to create, maintain and harvest a garden of native plants, these relationships can be built.
For this to happen, post-secondary institutions need to be more relevant, inviting and supportive of Aboriginal Learners.
Aboriginal Author and University of Victoria Indigenous Governance Faculty Taiaiake Alfred emphasizes the responsibility of students for helping to shape a better future.
"It's not a time when someone can sit back and be complacent or think that they don't matter. It's absolutely up to every individual because we're in that kind of historical moment" (The Free Library http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Taiaiake+Alfred%3A+shaping+a+bet
The Model: Walk us through a specific example of how your solution makes a difference; include the primary activities involved in your solution.
Spirit Garden Parties
Fall, 2012 - Root Harvest and Plant Garden Party
Traditional Knowledge Keepers from the Ktunaxa, Colville Federated Tribes, and Okanagan Nation will be invited as guests to show party attenders how to harvest, prepare and cook fall ripening plants, especially roots. Some of these roots will be the first plants in the Gathering Place plant beds. Stories, photos and illustrations will be recorded in a the Gathering Place gardening book, an oversized book placed in the elders room and meant for recording and sharing knowledge.
Spring, 2013 - Renewal and Cleansing Garden Party
Traditional Knowledge Keepers from the Ktunaxa, Colville Federated Tribes, and Okanagan Nation will be invited as guests to show party attenders how to harvest, prepare and cook spring plants, especially tonics for cleansing. Some of these plants will be placed in the beds. Stories, photos and illustrations will be recorded in a the Gathering Place gardening book, an oversized book placed in the elders room and meant for recording and sharing knowledge.
Summer Garden Party, 2013 - Preserving for the Winter
Traditional Knowledge Keepers from the Ktunaxa, Colville Federated Tribes, and Okanagan Nation will be invited will be invited to instruct on how the programming in the Gathering Place building and gardens can prosper and be properly maintained. A celebratory garden potluck will follow the discussions.
Fall, 2013 - Spirit Garden Official Opening
To celebrate the work of the past 18 months a celebratory official opening of the garden will take place.
The Marketplace: Who are your peers and competitors? Identify others working to address the same needs as you and indicate what sets you apart from them.
Since this garden will concentrate on plants with medicinal and food value there are likely to be some value-added products, such as preserves, ointments, tonics, that will be developed by participants. A partnership with local co-ops (Kootenay Food Co-op and Health Co-op with all profits going to Aboriginal support not-for-profits) would be appropriate,. The Kootenay School of the Arts, studying students, musicians and other will find the garden inspirational and worth booking and may create products worth marketing! Since this is a healing garden, all profits should go back to organizations that benefit Aboriginal students.
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Selkirk College is currently working with several partner First Nations for the benefit of all Aboriginal students. Often matters of which story or which knowledge to tell arise. Eminent ethnobotanist Nancy Turner once advised that you can always turn to the plants. As the College continues to open up spaces for indigenous ways of knowing at its campuses the Spirit Garden parties will give us all an opportunity to hear more stories and see many ways of knowing demonstrated. I have a feeling that Nancy was right about starting with the plants.
Descreva a meta da sua iniciativa; fale sobre o que você está tentando alcançar.
Selkirk College wants the Spirit Garden to:
- make the College a more inviting and relevant place for Aboriginal students, their parents and children
- to provide opportunities for Aboriginal community providers and partners to contribute knowledge and ways of knowing to the College
Qual foi o impacto da sua solução até hoje?
In the first month of opening of the Gathering Place we have had many inquiries about booking the building. As people utilize the building they look out the windows and ask about the garden beds.
The garden is an important signal that relationship building has only begun and there are many projects that still require input and advice.
By carefully and respectfully documenting the planting, maintenance, harvesting and preparation of the plants we will be creating a shared resource of the College, its community partners and students.
The amount of knowledge and ways of knowing shared while creating the garden will be the marker of our success, but so will the diversity and level of commitment of the contributors. How connected do the contributors feel to the College? How do the students respond to their sharing?
Qual é a sua expectativa de impacto para os próximos 5 anos?
The Spirit Garden is thought to provide the basis of future relationships at the College that could lead to:
- revised curriculum,
- new indigenous programming,
- increased retention of Aboriginal Learners,
- more interest from K-12 schools in the area,
- and increased enrollment of Aboriginal learners.
Quais são as barreiras que podem impedir o sucesso do seu projeto? Como você planeja superá-las?
If the College is seen to be aligning itself with any one political cause or group it could decrease the diversity and quality of knowledge sharing. Organizers of the Spirit Garden events must be meticulous in their efforts to be inclusive.
The knowledge of indigenous people has been collected and misused and disregarded by many for generations. The College must seek permission for sharing any knowledge obtained during the Spirit Garden parties and work with knowledge keepers in respectful and mutually beneficial ways.
As inscrições vencedoras apresentam um plano sólido sobre como vão alcançar e acompanhar o crescimento do projeto. Identifique as metas de seis meses para aumentar seu impacto.
Atividade 1
Work through First Nation/Metis education coordinators to arrange for traditional ecological knowledge keepers to participate.
Atividade 2
Identify sources of plants and prepare the beds for the first garden party.
Atividade 3
Work with the College Aboriginal Advisory Committee to determine what knowledge from the party will be shared and how.
Agora pense grande! Identifique qual seria sua meta de impacto para 12 meses
Atividade 1
Ask for feedback from the partner First Nations/Metis on the first Fall planting and knowledge sharing.
Atividade 2
Plan the Spring garden party with the College Advisory Committee by acting on the feedback received.
Atividade 3
Ask Aboriginal students, community groups and partner Nations about the value of the gardens.
leia mais↓↑ ocultar↑ ocultarPor favor, explique de que forma o estabelecimento de parcerias é importante para o sucesso de sua inovação
At the official opening of the Gathering Place (the building that the gardens surround) the Okanagan Nation Alliance, Ktunaxa Nation Council, Colville Confederated Tribes, Sinixt Nation Society, and Metis Nation BC were represented.
Are you currently targeting other specific populations, locations, or markets for your solution? If so, where and why?
Programming at the Gathering Place will send a message to other student populations such as new Canadians and International students that Selkirk College embraces diversity.
Que tipo de ambiente operacional e fatores da organização interna ajudarão o projeto a ser bem sucedido?
On opening day the Gathering Place filled and an adjoining room accommodating over 100 more guests was equipped with a live broadcast to accommodated the huge interest. Many participants refer to the opening of the Gathering Place as a "watershed event" at the College.
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In opening the Gathering Place we have learned a lot of lessons about collaboration between post-secondary institutions and indigenous partners that we are willing to share (offer). However we also know that we have a lot to learn (needs).
This project also has a Changeshop where you can read more about its latest progress.
Ir ao Changeshop: Floorball Hockey.
Criado em 09/5/2012 por Greg Beaudin
Team Sports are imperative to creating healthy individuals and societies.
Floorball brings hockey to everyone, everywhere, equally and economically.
Organização: BC Floorball Federation
mais ↓↑ ocultar↑ ocultarPágina da organização na internet
País da organização
Canadá, BC, North Vancouver
País onde esta solução está criando impacto social
Region in BC where your solution creates social impact
Vancouver, Coast and Mountains, Vancouver Island, Thompson Okanagan, Northern British Columbia, Cariboo Chilcotin Coast, Kootenay Rockies, Columbia Basin.
Sua organização é
OSCIP/ONG
Há quanto tempo sua organização está em operação?
Mais de 5 anos
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↑ ocultarSelecione o estágio que melhor se aplica à solução
Crescimento (seu piloto está em andamento e começa a se expandir)
Há quanto tempo está em funcionamento?
Em execução por mais de 5 anos
Which of the following best describes the barrier(s) your solution addresses? Choose up to two
Acesso, Custo, Qualidade, Equidade.
The Need: Describe the need for your solution and the size and characteristics of the community(ies) your solution is engaging
Hockey in Schools has all but collapsed in Canada. The activity of Floor Hockey is inneed of a facelift. Floorball is fresh, safe, gender neutral, fast, fun, and easy to rollout. It's a new twist on an old game. Floorball has universal appeal,comes complete with a governing body, global rule book, and is on path to become an Olympic Sport. Hockey is Canada, yet our schools have not delivered a safe and effective version of indoor gym hockey, in line with CS4L. Floorball is the solution. Floorball will work for every school in British Columbia and across Canada, It speaks to hockey purists, hockey players, hockey fans and everyone in between. Floorball is the ideal sport for Canada. Floorball is the next big thing!
Where communities lack ice arenas, Floorball becomes more important.
A Solução: Qual é a sua solução? Seja específico!
Our solution is regional delivery of Floorball educational demos and workshops. We have a mobile pop-up hockey experience that will increase healthy and friendly sport participation in communities and schools. Education on the history, equipment and rules of Floorball is necessary. PE teachers, hockey coaches, players, parents and students alike all need some guidance to fully embrace the value proposition and ethics of Floorball vs Floor Hockey. At BC Floorball we have embarked on Floorball teaching and learning missions with an incredible success rate. Our demos have the power to change schools and change lives. Every student gets a stick and a ball, they learn the fundamentals of gym hockey; shooting, stick handling and agility. Friendly challenges and games are introduced to make it fun and engaging. We get kids moving, playing hockey and experiencing team play, without aggressive and unsafe behaviours. We show participants, the kinetic magic and sportsmanship of Floorball.
The Model: Walk us through a specific example of how your solution makes a difference; include the primary activities involved in your solution.
Example 1:
During a Floorball hands on tutorial, a young female student picks up a Floorball stick, it's ergonomic fit and lightweight feel allow her to flick her wrists and sizzle a shot towards a goalnet, going top hand corner with very little effort. A smile emerges and the young athlete has now experience a new thrill of making an amazing hockey shot and scoring a goal.
Example 2:
A new Canadian student, wearing a Canucks Hockey jersey has never had the pleasure of skating and playing Hockey. Through our Floorball clinics, we enable that student to feel the power, exhilaration, speed and flow of Hockey via a Floorball stick and ball. A fan becomes a participant, and through a positive safe and healthy tutorial, a fan gets to experience the dynamic of being a hockey player, without the expense of ice and equipment.
http://tomhawthorn.blogspot.ca/2011/07/little-known-floorball-gaining-sh...
http://www.bcfloorball.com/?p=1287
http://www.nsnews.com/sports/North+Vancouver+aims+Olympic+sport/6140859/...
Example 3: A Young Hockey fan is in love with hockey. She yearns to play, but cannot, because she is in a wheelchair. Through one of our wheelchair floorball demos, she is introduced to the lightweight, easy to use Floorball stick. The ball is also extremely light making it easy for the young hockey fan to pick up a stick, wheel, stickhandle, pass and shoot. The feeling is like magic. The innovative, ergonomic design of the Floorball stick and ball make it safe, accessible, and affordable for her to be active in the sport!
The Marketplace: Who are your peers and competitors? Identify others working to address the same needs as you and indicate what sets you apart from them.
Ball Hockey is a competitor, however Ball Hockey is not allowed in schools because of the equipment damage (hockey sticks on gym floors) and the aggressive nature of the game. Ball Hockey is not gym or school friendly and is played mostly in arenas and streets.
Floor Hockey has no formal rules, no International governing body, no universality. Floor Hockey is merely an activity with clunky and awkward plastic sticks. It has a traditional place in Canadian schools, but is often dominated by the better hockey players in a class, making it very intimidating and exclusive, not inclusive. The floor hockey sticks are too long and heavy for younger athletes and young female students.
Only Floorball supports all stages of Canada Sport for Life and Long Term Athlete Development.
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While on an outreach mission in Sweden, Greg Beaudin founder of BC Floorball saw thousands of youth enjoying clean, fast, simple, and poetic hockey action via Floorball. He picked up a Floorball stick and could immediately understand why Canada had fallen behind in the skills development side of hockey. The Europeans have been playing Floorball in their schools for over thirty years and we were still playing Floor Hockey. The Aha! moment had occured, and it became clear that Canada had to get moving quickly and embrace this new form of indoor hockey. Floorball in Sweden and across Europe proves that Floorball is not just for elite hockey player development, but for everyone, the masses, the young, the experienced, wheelchair athletes, disabled athletes. The true essence of Floorball is that it's very accessible, economical and can be played anywhere, by everyone.
Statistics in the top Ice Hockey nations validate the trend that Floorball can be massive for communities across BC.
Descreva a meta da sua iniciativa; fale sobre o que você está tentando alcançar.
Every school in BC deserves to be playing Floorball.
Every hockey player in BC should have their own Floorball stick.
Every disabled athlete in BC can and should have the option to play Floorball.
The goal is to make Floorball the most participated sport in Canada as it is in countries like Sweden, Finland, Switzerland, that share a similar socio-economic structure and connection to ice-hockey.
Another goal for BC Floorball is to bring the innovations of Floorball to the Special Olympics groups across BC. The outcome would be a BC Team and/or players competing in Floorball at the Special Olympics.
Qual foi o impacto da sua solução até hoje?
Floorball has touched over 10000 players in BC. Over 100 schools have picked up Floorball as a safer, healthier and smarter alternative to floor hockey. Through this action Players have been selected to play on National teams and traveled to compete for Team Canada. New Canadians have begun to play ice-hockey after getting hooked on Floorball. Floorball has developed some major ice hockey skills and we have seen some of our Floorball Hockey athletes reach the NHL.
Floorball has changed lives, teenagers that were unable to play ice-hockey have fallen in love with Floorball and it's created an identity for these Youth.
Floorball has allowed heavily concussed young hockey athletes to continue to play Hockey, but in a safe and non-contact environment.
Schools have resurrected their passion for hockey via Floorball.
Floorball has inspired young female athletes who were previously unable to create a solid connection to the sport.
Qual é a sua expectativa de impacto para os próximos 5 anos?
In the next five years, Floorball will impact nearly all Canadians. It will earn its proper place in the sport landscape of Canada, and it will impact the overall ice-hockey and team sport movement in a positive way.
Floorball will become a massive influence on BC and across Canada, the health benefits impact will be huge.
Projected statistics can be found here: http://gongfloorball.com/news/2012/8/23/north-america-holds-the-key.html
Quais são as barreiras que podem impedir o sucesso do seu projeto? Como você planeja superá-las?
Developing new team sports in Canada is difficult. We face a lack of knowledge, awareness, and appreciation for what Floorball brings. People need to understand and be educated as to what are the key differences between floor hockey, ball hockey, and floorball.
As inscrições vencedoras apresentam um plano sólido sobre como vão alcançar e acompanhar o crescimento do projeto. Identifique as metas de seis meses para aumentar seu impacto.
Our goal for the sixth month milestone is to have reached and thus entered 1000 participants in our online tracking system.
Atividade 1
present Floorball to 50 schools
Atividade 2
present Floorball to 10 minor hockey associations
Atividade 3
create a Membership acquisition strategy
Agora pense grande! Identifique qual seria sua meta de impacto para 12 meses
In one year we will have reached 3000 participants and this will be added in to our registration system at www.floorball.co
Atividade 1
complete 100 school demos
Atividade 2
host an IFF educational seminar at the Richmond Olympic Oval
Atividade 3
create a mobile membership management tool to track and monitor growth
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BC Floorball is partnered with an innovative technology company that creates mobile solutions to make sport more accessible. www.hockeycommunity.co
BC Floorball is a member of SportBC and the BC Sport Agency.
We have partnered with the top agency in the World for creating innovative marketing strategies in the world of Hockey- kommunity hockey.
BC Floorball has partnered with BC Hockey and Hockey Canada to align with their own initiatives to develop more awareness and skills development for hockey players in schools.
BC Floorball is partners with Modern Hockey, an equipment provider.
Are you currently targeting other specific populations, locations, or markets for your solution? If so, where and why?
BC Floorball is currently positioned to be the leader in developing a complete Floorball development eco-system that could be rolled out across the Americas. Floorball is expanding rapidly in the Americas, and BC Floorball founder is the Central Board member of the International Floorball Federation from the Americas, so it makes sense for the development ideas to come from our work at BC Floorball.
From the Haida Gwaii to remote areas of BC, the BCFF has introduced Floorball as a form of fitness and hockey where ice arenas options are limited or non-existent. Floorball works everywhere.
Que tipo de ambiente operacional e fatores da organização interna ajudarão o projeto a ser bem sucedido?
Our operating environment is flexible and our organization has virtually no overhead or complex restrictions that would prevent hyper-growth form occurring. We are poised to be successful with what we consider to be a great and simple sports product and a very committed and passionate team.
Again, our strong ties with Core Floorball nations and our direct connection to the International Floorball Federation position us ideally to address any operational challenges and allow us to make our innovative programs succeed.
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BC Floorball has a clear handle on some of these areas of need above, but we are completely open to learning and collaborating with organizations and people that can help us improve in each area. We also feel that we are innovators ourselves and would be willing to give back to the community at large, to make the sport landscape more harmonious. We can make communities stronger and healthier.
Criado em 09/5/2012 por Gail G.
A Cooking Circle building an intercultural community of support & offering English conversation practice for immigrant families and mutual learning for all.
Organização: The Gulf Islands Intercultural Society
mais ↓↑ ocultar↑ ocultarNome da Organização
The Gulf Islands Intercultural Society
Página da organização na internet
País da organização
Canadá, BC, Salt Spring Island & the Southern Gulf Islands
País onde esta solução está criando impacto social
Canadá, BC, Salt Spring Island & the Southern Gulf Islands
Region in BC where your solution creates social impact
Coast and Mountains.
Sua organização é
OSCIP/ONG
Há quanto tempo sua organização está em operação?
Menos de um ano
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↑ ocultarSelecione o estágio que melhor se aplica à solução
Inicial (um piloto que começou recentemente)
Há quanto tempo está em funcionamento?
Implementado há menos de um ano
Which of the following best describes the barrier(s) your solution addresses? Choose up to two
Acesso, Equidade.
The Need: Describe the need for your solution and the size and characteristics of the community(ies) your solution is engaging
The need for strong settlement and linguistic support is imperative. Our immigrant population previously had no dedicated Settlement Services and Support organization, prior to our incorporation as the Gulf Islands Intercultural Society. Previously no dedicated support for needs assessment, referrals, employment & housing assistance, nor advocacy. We are governed by the Islands Trust & the Capital Regional District - many agencies are located in Victoria only and there is refusal to "duplicate" some services, even though they are completely inaccessible to many island dwellers. We serve a population of 15,000 islanders with approximately 250 potential clients, new Canadians, and the entire population to be sensitized to cross-cultural issues and the importance of diversity & inclusivity.
A Solução: Qual é a sua solução? Seja específico!
A weekly Cooking Circle, with each participant, in turn, hosting and teaching the others the basics of a typical dish from their culture. It is participatory in that everyone in the circle works together to learn how to make, to then prepare and cook, and then to eat together, the food which has been prepared communally. Outreach is required to invite new participants to the group. Co-ordination is required to communicate who is hosting and who is attending in any given week; to let the host know how many are attending; to determine if there are any food allergies; to facilitate the purchasing of ingredients, if required; to arrange for transportation, as required; to attend each cooking circle, to co-ordinate the clean-up at the end of each dinner; to arrange the date and host for the next cooking circle; to collect the recipes for inclusion in the cookbook. To organize all aspects of the International Dinner & Music & Dance Festival, a fund-raiser for the Intercultural Society.
The Model: Walk us through a specific example of how your solution makes a difference; include the primary activities involved in your solution.
A Cooking Circle cross-section: a Korean woman teaches us all to say "please" and "thank you" in Korean, none of the others can pronounce the words properly, we all laugh, it's tough to use different muscles to communicate and to feel embarrassed that we can't say things properly; a Russian woman teaches us that Luna is the word for moon, the same as in Spanish & Italian - we marvel; a woman from Fiji tells us that there is a huge Indo-Fijiian population and that they and the indigenous Fijians subsist, integrated and happy. A 9 year-old Canadian girl attends with her Dad; she befriends & charms everyone in the group, friends from around the world. We realize that almost every culture has their own unique version of the dumpling - noodles are pretty popular too. All the while, we are using Engilsh, practical, everyday language about the most basic of necessities, food, and about life. It is conversation in a family setting, with people correcting one another and taking turns being the teachers and the students. It is inclusivity. It is the development of relationship - the expansion of support systems. It is increased knowledge, expanded understanding. It is appreciation of things other than what is familiar. It is increased skills - literacy, numeracy (as we measure), computer literacy ( as we communicate), spoken language, social interaction, referrals, networking. It is appreciation for how difficult it can be to operate in a culture that is not your own. It is a lesson in how similar we all are and how wonderful our differences make us. Community building!
The Marketplace: Who are your peers and competitors? Identify others working to address the same needs as you and indicate what sets you apart from them.
Our peers are not in our geographic area, but include the Cowichan Intercultural Society in Duncan, the Victoria Intercultural Society and the Mid-Island Intercultural Society in Nanaimo.They are tremendous mentors for us, but only we, in situ, can serve our own immigrant population with its particular insular problems.Salt Spring Literacy offers ESL tutoring; however, only our Gulf Islands Intercultural Society is dedicated to providing support for all the issues (including advocacy, employment, housing, referrals, needs assessment, individualized client support) faced by our immigrant population and we are the only agency offering all services, including English language tutoring, on all of the Southern Gulf Islands, including Pender, Galiano, Mayne and Saturna Islands.
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At a Cultural Exchange Dinner with a South American family, who had moved to Canada several years ago, the Dad said that this was the first time that there had been laughter in their house..can you imagine? In all the years that they had lived here, few Canadians had ever been to their home, no neighbour had ever invited them into a Canadian home and they had not entertained anyone! Even in a major blizzard and power outage, no one had checked to see if they were all right or if they had food,water and heat, something that would be quite normal in our small community.They had not been assimilated nor accepted. It became obvious that using food as a vehicle for conducting informal English conversation groups was an ideal way of providing opportunity for language practice, certainly, but equally importantly, for relationship development, for social circle expansion, for two-way, mutually enriching cultural exchange. Each person takes a turn leading the cooking lesson, empowering all.
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Do you know that almost every culture in the world has some type of dumpling? Italian gnocchi, Russian pelmeni, German spaetzle, Chinese pot-stickers, etc. The same...yet different...and all equally delicious. A metaphor for our intercultural dinners.Cooking & eating together provides opportunity for rich cultural exchange and English language practice in a conversational and downright jovial setting.It empowers new Canadians with new acquaintances and friends, enlarging their support system. It allows multi-directional sharing of one another's cultures and languages, finding commonalities that reinforce that we are all a lot more similar than we are different and simultaneously, appreciating the unique characteristics of diversity. Linguistic proficiency in a family setting.Compassion!
Qual foi o impacto da sua solução até hoje?
The development of a strong circle, indeed a family, of friends from many different cultures and across generations. Improvement in English language proficiency in an informal setting without the pressures and intensity of one-on-one tutoring, a perfect complement to structured language instruction.The magic of shared laughter. Invaluable personal social support to individuals and families who are easily isolated. Priceless opportunity for Canadians to learn other cultures and languages.Unique opportunity for children of different cultures to interact with one another in a family setting and to learn about other cultures in a hands-on way.The origins of a similar program, centering around the Arts, with each member in the circle introducing the others to a particular art form of their culture.The real empowerment of new Canadians, who are usually always on the receiving end of the support and of the teaching.This way, each person takes a turn leading, teaching..has the power position.
Qual é a sua expectativa de impacto para os próximos 5 anos?
Circles creating circles. Culinary circles, handcraft circles, music circles, dance circles... Creation of microcosms of international communities built around mutual support and morphing into macrocosms. Increased appreciation of diversity. Increased equity in the workplace. Educational awareness & cross-cultural sensitivity and decrease of discrimination in housing & employment. The creation of an annual International Dinner and Music & Dance Festival. The creation of the Salt Spring Language Centre, a social enterprise, to assist in the funding of the Gulf Islands Intercultural Society. Partnership with school districts and local businesses offering Cross-cultural Awareness and Sensitivity training. Retention of a greater percentage of immigrant families on the Gulf Islands.
Quais são as barreiras que podem impedir o sucesso do seu projeto? Como você planeja superá-las?
On the Gulf Islands everyone must deal with extreme difficulty of finding and keeping both employment & housing.Employment is challenging...there are a limited number of low-paying service jobs, seasonal for the most part, and very few professional positions available.These are even harder for immigrants, particularly visible minorities.Self-employment has its intrinsic challenges adding to the stresses on the immigrant. English language deficiency, by definition, limits employment.We will provide learner-directed English tutoring and practice groups; a pro-active Awareness workshop to employers, promoting accessibility for new Canadians;provide advocacy tailored for each individual's circumstance; offer an encouragement network & practical things like transportation & flexible hours.
As inscrições vencedoras apresentam um plano sólido sobre como vão alcançar e acompanhar o crescimento do projeto. Identifique as metas de seis meses para aumentar seu impacto.
Atividade 1
Securing funding for the co-ordinator & supplies required for our Cooking Circle, Dumplings Round the World
Atividade 2
Having a new Canadian sharing the Co-ordination of the Cooking Circle, Dumplings Round the World
Atividade 3
Quantitative & qualitative tracting of benefits to participants - evaluation forms and language benchmark assessments
Agora pense grande! Identifique qual seria sua meta de impacto para 12 meses
Atividade 1
The ripple effect of a second circle for language practice -demand exceeding 10 participants
Atividade 2
The publication of an International Cookbook - fundraiser for the Gulf Islands Intercultural Society
Atividade 3
Food Around the World - International Dinner & Music & Dance Festival - fundraiser for the Gulf Islands Intercultural Society
leia mais↓↑ ocultar↑ ocultarPor favor, explique de que forma o estabelecimento de parcerias é importante para o sucesso de sua inovação
Partnerships in development with Thrifty Foods, Country Grocer, School District 64, Artspring, the Chamber of Commerce, The Salt Spring Foundation, Community Services, iwav(Island Women Against Violence), the Salt Spring Public Library, the Cowichan Intercultural Society, the Lions' Club, the Rotary Club, the Salt Spring Library, The Golden Dragon, Pasta Fresca, The Vesuvius Store, the Victoria & Mid-Island Intercultural Societies, individual donors, invaluable volunteers, and growing new partnerships with additional local and then expanding to regional, national and global partnerships.
Are you currently targeting other specific populations, locations, or markets for your solution? If so, where and why?
Targeting the new immigrant populations as clients through outreach, referrals, publicity and word of mouth. Targeting a committed volunteer corps, trained in sensitivity to cross-cultural differences, confidentiality and privacy. Using dedicated website, social media, posters, newspapers, radio pubic service, the Salt Spring Exchange( on line & the most popular vehicle for info exchange), promoting word of mouth through our partnerships & current clients, an invaluable source of referrals. Developing ever new partnerships. Social enterprise, a Language Centre, to help fund our non-profit.
Que tipo de ambiente operacional e fatores da organização interna ajudarão o projeto a ser bem sucedido?
An experienced Co-ordinator to handle the logistics and encourage attendance for each weekly cooking lessons, to collect recipes for the Cookbook, to co-ordinate the International Dinner and Music & Dance Festival. Great communication and superior organizational skills. As a society, professionalism and confidential, private consultations. As a program, respectful, inclusive, fun, well-organized. Facilitating participation, including transportation. Language tutors screened, police record checked, trained professionally. Reporting importance - qualitative and quantitative evaluations essential. Numbers of participants, demographics, language benchmark assessments, recipe collection & publication, etc. Co-ordinator autonomy with exceptional ability to create & maintain community.
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Washington, DC Estados Unidos
38° 53' 42.4032" N, 77° 2' 10.9176" W
BloomBars is working to unite communities through the arts into a model for energizing and inspiring communities to strive for personal and collective progress. Established in 2008 in Washington, DC’s burgeoning Columbia Heights neighborhood, BloomBars is driven by a volunteer team of artists, educators, and community and business leaders. Based in the heart of Columbia Heights, BloomBars is committed to serving a new generation of change agents who believe in the transformational of the arts to affect positive growth in the community.
COBURWAS International Youth Organization to Transform Africa (CIYOTA)is a group of youth from Kyangwali refugee camp that run a commercial farm in order to generate funds that they invest in the futures of children from the camp. With their revenue, CIYOTA provides quality education, school fees, leadership training, and has rented two hostels for older students to access quality secondary school. With an brilliant self-funded model, CIYOTA is building future leaders of East Africa.
Inspiring citizen diplomacy and philanthropy by redesigning embassy.org.
This project also has a Changeshop where you can read more about its latest progress.
Ir ao Changeshop: Faith and Diplomacy.
Criado em 09/4/2012 por Robert Modrall
Inspiring citizen diplomacy and philanthropy by redesigning embassy.org.
Organização: Embassy Vision
mais ↓↑ ocultar↑ ocultarPágina da organização na internet
País da organização
Estados Unidos , GA, Ringgold, Catoosa County
Países onde este projeto vem gerando impacto social
Idade do inovador:
Entre 18 e 34 anos
Gênero do inovador
Masculino
Sua organização é
OSCIP/ONG
Há quanto tempo sua organização está em operação?
Menos de um ano
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Ideia (você está para lançar)
Há quanto tempo está em funcionamento?
Ainda na fase de ideia, mas você deseja lançá-lo em breve
A necessidade: Qual é o problema que você está tentando resolver?
I need financing to pay web designers or commitment from a University that would allow their students to do the work for credit and place it on their resumes. I need authorization in writing from Dr. Stapleton-Grey. I need international legal expertise to obtain appropriate permissions and licenses from each nation around the world. This business model will instantly be fully global and will benefit emerging economies tremendously.
A Solução: Qual é a sua solução? Seja específico!
The solution is an improved communication infrastructure that will facilitate multi-lateral trade and supply chain management. This platform will facilitate the growth, expansion, and international market entry of mid-sized non-profits.
O Modelo: Demonstre através de um exemplo específico como sua solução faz a diferença; inclua suas atividades primárias
As an individual I have been blessed to be able to facilitate the international market entry of Room to Read into Zimbabwe. This organization would expand on that exponentially.
O Mercado: Quem são os seus pares e concorrentes? Identificar os outros que também estão trabalhando para solucionar as mesmas necessidades que você e o que você faz de diferente em relação a eles. Quais seriam os desafios impostos por esses concorrentes que impactariam no seu sucesso ou crescimento?
The peers of this organization are all of the myriad non-profits worldwide who are serving humanity. Competitors are the global governments and regimes whose policies influence communication and trade.
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Quais tipos de soluções fazem parte do foco de sua iniciativa para apoiar novos empreendedores e pequenos negócios a crescerem e se desenvolverem em comunidades menos desenvolvidas? (selecione todas que se aplicam)
Acesso a financiamento, Acesso a talentos, Acesso a cadeias de distribuição/logística, Acesso a tecnologia, Acesso a oportunidade econômica, Mudança política/advocacy.
Qual foi o impacto da sua solução até hoje?
As it is as of yet an idea the impact is mostly intangible. For reference I can merely point to the fact that I have met with delegates from Zimbabwe who expressed an interest in the work of Room to Read and put them in touch with its founder Mr. John Woods and would reccomend you distinguished gentlepeople speak with him.
Qual é a sua expectativa de impacto para os próximos 1 - 3 anos?
Rapid development of midsized non-profits such as the United Way, Big Brother/Big Sister, and Make A Wish. It will not immediately benefit organizations such as the Red Cross or Habitat for Humanity which aree allready operating globally.
Quais são as barreiras que podem impedir o sucesso do seu projeto? Como você planeja superá-las?
Barriers most likely to hinder development are bureacracy and policy among the various regional trade agencies and local governments. Convinceing them of the merit of the organization would be tantamount to a successful implementation.
As inscrições vencedoras apresentam um plano sólido sobre como vão alcançar e acompanhar o crescimento do projeto. Identifique as metas de seis meses para aumentar seu impacto.
Atividade 1
Written authorization from Dr. Stapleton-Grey.
Atividade 2
Importing all current information onto a up to date framework and receiving new information.
Atividade 3
Obtaining the necessary international licenses and permits.
Agora pense grande! Identifique qual seria sua meta de impacto para 12 meses
Developing a first comprehensive market entry strategy.
Atividade 1
Develop partnerships with national and international non-profits.
Atividade 2
Formalize these partnerships contractually.
Atividade 3
Select an initial region to begin development.
História: Queremos saber mais sobre o momento de descoberta desta solução. Conte-nos um pouco a história sobre onde e quando o(s) fundador(res) vislumbrou(aram) o potencial desta solução para mudar o mundo:
I struck upon the idea when contacting all of the global embassies in an attempt to secure a project worthy of a Franklin Fellowship with the United States State Department. I noticed that many nations on the globe had not updated their websits in many years and decided that it would be worthwhile to do so whether or not there was any financial gain simply as an effort in citizen diplomacy. Another outstanding moment was when making use of some free continuing education webinars provided by the Research Triangle Institute I received an invitation to meet and have lunch with delegates from Zimbabwe. The forum turned out to be rather intimate at the National Press Club in Washington, DC. Honorable Editor Matamisa expressed an interest in having Room to Read begin operations there. Knowing that this would make logical since as a next market entry for Room to Read based on their current operations and the educational background of the African Regional Director Mr. Wiseman Ngwata.
leia mais↓↑ ocultar↑ ocultarPor favor, explique de que forma o estabelecimento de parcerias é importante para o sucesso de sua inovação
While there currently know formal partnerships as the organization is in the idea stage I have been building working relationships with a number of area non-profits through service work the last several years and greatly desire to expand on this impact significantly through improved communication and working smarter rather than harder to global benefit.
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Collaboration with this idea will provide a great deal of information and valuable research that will facilitate the growth and development of those organizations which are sustainable and will benefit indigenous populations.
The power to change is in your pocket. How a small change in your spending habits can have a big impact your health, wealth and the environment.
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