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Nutrients for All: Thriving Ecosystems for Productive, Resilient Food Systems

Created: 07/25/13 by Kristie Wang

Natural ecosystems ensure that vital nutrients flow from soils to food to people. Thriving ecosystems are the bedrock of healthy nutrient chains, the basis of all life on the planet.

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OPTIMISING ORANGE (CITRUS SINENSIS) FRUIT VALUE CHAIN TO IMPROVE POSTHARVEST QUALITY AND STORABILITY IN RUSITU VALLEY, ZIMBABWE

Created on 05/20/2013 by Ste'vntaw Musasa

Orange farmers in Rusitu Valley have been reported to be losing more than 30% of their produce. The project goal is to determine causes of post-harvest losses within the orange value-chain and develop sustainable strategies to enhance post-harvest quality and storability of oranges in Rusitu Valley.

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chinhoyi university of technology

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Zimbabwe, MW, chinhoyi

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Zimbabwe, ML, chimanimani

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OPTIMISING ORANGE (CITRUS SINENSIS) FRUIT VALUE CHAIN TO IMPROVE POSTHARVEST QUALITY AND STORABILITY IN RUSITU VALLEY, ZIMBABWE

Year founded

2013

Stage

Idea (poised to launch)

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Elevator Pitch

Orange farmers in Rusitu Valley have been reported to be losing more than 30% of their produce. The project goal is to determine causes of post-harvest losses within the orange value-chain and develop sustainable strategies to enhance post-harvest quality and storability of oranges in Rusitu Valley.

Problem

Inadequate orange storage and cold chain management facilities in Rusitu Valley, coupled with poor post-harvest technologies and lack of access to markets have caused exceptionally high post-harvest losses, estimated to be greater than 30%. Oranges are perishable and they tend to ripen almost at once causing seasonal gluts; resulting in post-harvest management challenges when in season

Solution

A business pre-investment study will be conducted to identify and characterize the post-harvest losses in the Rusitu Valley orange value chain. We propose to design and construct low cost evaporative coolers (less energy consumption) for temporary storage of orange fruits in Rusitu Valley. These will be constructed using charcoal. We propose to construct four demonstration evaporative coolers in each of the four oranges producing wards and open one post-harvest training center in Rusitu Valley. The farmers in Rusitu Valley will then be trained on appropriate post-harvest management of orange fruits (handling practices, value addition, construction of evaporative coolers and storage management) to improve the value of their oranges.

Example

The construction of evaporative coolers will help to reduce post-harvest losses through temperature and respiration management at the primary stage (reduction of field heat soon after harvest). A study on pre-cooling systems for smallholder producers by Kitinoja and Thompson (2010) revealed that cold chain management reduces respiration rate, extends shelf-life, and protects produce quality, while reducing postharvest losses by decreasing the rates of water loss and decay. The important technical aspect is that cooling involves heat transfer and is usually done before processing, or storage to enhance produce shelf-life.

Impact

To date appropriate cold chain management has reduced post-harvest losses to between 2 - 12 % in the developed countries especially the United States of America. The project is expected to reduce the reported 30 % post-harvest losses to be less than 15 % in the long run. The project will construct four evaporative cooler in each of the producing wards in Rusitu Valley and one post-harvest management center at Kopa Business Center in Rusitu Valley. At this center at-least 20 post-harvest extension trainers will be employed to manage and facilitate orange fruit post-harvest technology transfer amongst academics, policy makers, and farmers. We intent to train more than 500 local farmers on appropriate post-harvest management each year. With all this capacity, we expect that the improved orange production will play a roll to availability of nutrients in the food-value chain in Zimbabwe.

Marketplace

In Tanzania a post-harvest training center is being established and is only covering training farmers from central and east Africa only. At this center the farmers are expected to learn about fruit and vegetable post-harvest handling issues only. Our proposed project is focusing on orange fruits post harvest management and the construction of storage facilities for the farmers in Rusitu Valley. Farmers from other surrounding areas are expected to be trained on post harvest handling and construction of appropriate cold chain management.

Sustainability Plan

A US$24 374 grant application was made, to cover the pre-investment study and design of appropriate evaporative coolers. This grant was requested from the Chinhoyi University of Technology and is under consideration. We also plan to continue applying for competitive grants to complement the financial resources from Chinhoyi University of Technology. We plan to charge training fees starting in 2015 so that the idea is self sustainable by 2016.

Founding Story

The idea started when the founder was studying Bachelor of Technology (HONS) Post-harvest Technology in 2007. The founder was attached by University of Zimbabwe - Development Technology Center as an attachee research assistant for Chimanimani Fruit - Value Addition project in Rusitu Valley. The founder realised that Rusitu Valley farmers are losing most of their orange fruits at the farm stage. Thus value addition project was threatened. In 2011, the founder carried out a survey to determine the orange production situation in the Valley after the decade of Zimbabwe's economic downturn. It was after this study when it was revealed that orange production still got potential in the Valley since it is still the livelihood source for farmers.

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Healthy environments, Nutrient-rich farming, Full nourishment foods, Human wellness and vitality.

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A healthy environment in the Valley will enhance sustainable orange fruit production (SMART farming practices) that is complimented with more of organic and permaculture farming techniques. This healthy farming situation is expected to improve the livelihood, food, and nutrition security of local farmers in Rusitu Valley, Zimbabwe. The added capacity support a climate friendly farming practices.

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Affordable Nutrients/Technologies for Agricultural Breakthroughs

Created on 05/14/2013 by cvsi

Affordable Nutrients/Technologies for Agricultural Breakthroughs program provides affordable natural nutrients or integrated solutions through the application of and access to small scale agricultural and production technologies which give health and economical advantage especially to women.

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CHRISTIAN VOLUNTEER SERVICE INTERNATIONAL

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Ghana, GA, Accra

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Ghana, GA, Accra

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2007- Finalist - Google/Technoserve Ghana National Business Plan Competition; 2009 - Finalist - Improved Nutrition Solutions through Innovation Competition (The Green Journey); 2010 - Finalist - Women|Tools|Technology|: Building Opportunities & Economic Power Competition (Productive Agricultural Linkages and Marketing Systems- PALMS)); 2010 -Finalist- Leveraging Business for Social Change: Building the Field of Social Business Competition (Moringa Oleifera Farms and Industries Limited - MOFIL); 2010 - Finalist - Global Social Benefit Incubator (GSBI) program - Santa Clara University.

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Affordable Nutrients/Technologies for Agricultural Breakthroughs

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2010

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Growth (the pilot has already launched and is starting to expand)

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Elevator Pitch

Affordable Nutrients/Technologies for Agricultural Breakthroughs program provides affordable natural nutrients or integrated solutions through the application of and access to small scale agricultural and production technologies which give health and economical advantage especially to women.

Problem

Unsustainable agricultural practices, excessive use of chemical agricultural inputs and obsolete/labour intensive methods yield poor dividends and are also very unfriendly to the environment. Coupled with alarming soil fertility loss, lack of appropriate technological know-how and suitable natural agrochemicals, amongst others, militate against efforts to improve food security and availability of nutritious food necessary for optimal health.

Solution

Provision of nutrients and simple/appropriate technologies required in four stages of agriculture, with the aim of strengthening cereals, vegetable, fruit and moringa value chains is focused on. Aerobic disease suppressing compost and budded/grafted disease resistant seedlings are made available at the nursery stage whilst simple mechanized ploughing and weeding implements, drip irrigation equipment and technology, organic agrochemicals, nutrient, farm and integrated pest management, post-harvest storage/drying and value added production including fortification of staple foods with natural inputs like moringa and a modern marketing system are undertaken at the plantation, production and marketing stages backed by appropriate training.

Example

Kofi Koi Agricultural Co-operative Society, a predominately women group, engages in vegetable farming along the banks of the Densu River. After suffering great losses in 2009 and 2010 on account of erratic rainfall patterns and flooding, Maame Adwoa Mansa, the President, enrolled them under the ANTAB program as they could not produce the needed affordable nutrients themselves. Aerobic disease suppressing compost, compost tea, improved seedlings and oxygenated moringa leaf foliar sprays were given to them. Use was made of brushcutters to keep weeds down and cheap improvised drip irrigation system using plastic waste water bottles was established. Yields as high as four times the normal were recorded giving them greater income.

Impact

Over 100,000 vegetable farmers have been using moringa plant growth hormones on their vegetables since 2010 with a resultant increase in their produce three to four times giving them more income. 25,000 farmers have been introduced to the use of aerobic disease suppressing compost. The enthusiasm generated by this program is quite high and we are encouraged to institute farmer field schools. Soil fertility and human health is improving quickly as moringa is incorporated in various forms: disease suppressing compost, plant growth hormones, organic fertilizers, food supplements to fight malnutrition, food fortification, water purification agents and a number of notable products. For now, 25,000 farmers are being served directly and 300,000 indirectly. 150,000 farmers are to be reached directly and 1,000,000 indirectly in the next three to five years.

Marketplace

The Ministry of Food and Agriculture is interested in food security and has invested heavily in the provision of subsidized chemical fertilizers, tractors and irrigation equipment mostly sprinkler systems. Much water is wasted in the traditional sprinkler systems. We utilize drip irrigation which uses less water but gives excellent results. Our adapted drip irrigation system allow for proper fertigation although on a small scale. Declining soil fertility has occasioned the use of more inorganic fertilizers which is detrimental. We rely on enhanced compost from organic waste and moringa.

Sustainability Plan

300,000 to 600,000 farmers are to be supported in the next five years. A market penetration of 15% for our products in 2014 is estimated which will increase to 25% by 2015 with an annual sales growth of 15% to 65%. Expected cash from grants/investment is $1,500,000 with grants at 70% in 2014 which will decrease to 5% by 2016. Earned income is expected to reach $5,500,000.00 by 2017. The program is expected to be self-sustaining by 2015.

Founding Story

Mary Ansa, a vegetable farmer in Aveyime in the Volta region, belongs to Dekaworwor Women Group, a hundred and fifty member farmer group. They form part of the over 300 women farmer based organizations that have benefited from various workshops and training by the Productive Agricultural Linkages and Marketing Systems (PALMS) of Christian Volunteer Service International. Her main problem has been the availability of affordable natural agricultural inputs and mechanized implements. To meet this need, the Affordable Nutrients/Technologies for Agricultural Breakthroughs (ANTAB) program was mooted and put in place in association with various women groups and farmer based associations which will be of great benefit to them and the environment.

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Healthy environments, Nutrient-rich farming, Full nourishment foods.

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

Production of affordable and quality nutrients, nourishment foods and small scale mechanized implements require standard machinery and processes for economies of scale which will be assisted by added capacity in terms of capital, machinery and expertise. This will be of appeal to the small holder farmers who will use such for their profit and the sustainability of the program. The environment will be equally protected and soil fertility ensured. Our microfinance unit – Co-operative Finance Institute – will be strengthened to assist in acquisition of needed machinery by farmers especially women

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Food & Trees for Africa - Food Gardens for Africa Programme

Food gardens are fundamental to ensure food security. FTFA introduced Permaculture to South Africa in 1991 & these principles are applied to all FTFA food gardening projects.Today hundreds of communities & schools apply to FTFA for assistance to develop permaculture food gardens & many are helped.

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Food & Trees for Africa - Food Gardens for Africa Programme

Created on 05/14/2013 by FTFA

Food gardens are fundamental to ensure food security. FTFA introduced Permaculture to South Africa in 1991 & these principles are applied to all FTFA food gardening projects.Today hundreds of communities & schools apply to FTFA for assistance to develop permaculture food gardens & many are helped.

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Food & Trees for Africa

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South Africa

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South Africa

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International and local awards for FTFA, founder and staff: United Nations Global 500 Laureate, the President Nelson Mandela Forestry Award, The Department of Environment Conserva Award, The Mail & Guardian Green Trust and Investing in the Future Awards, The Impumelelo Award, PMR Awards, the Eskom Chairman’s Award, the Mail & Guardian Chairman’s Award and the Institute for Housing SA Community Upgrader Award, the International Chevron Conservation Award, the United Nations Environmental Programme Sasakawa Climate Change Award, Arbor Day Foundation Award in the USA, the SAB Environmentalist Award, the best use of social media and website Sangonet award, UN supported SEED Award and Moola for Amanzi.

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Food & Trees for Africa - Food Gardens for Africa Programme

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1990

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Elevator Pitch

Food gardens are fundamental to ensure food security. FTFA introduced Permaculture to South Africa in 1991 & these principles are applied to all FTFA food gardening projects.Today hundreds of communities & schools apply to FTFA for assistance to develop permaculture food gardens & many are helped.

Problem

Food security is reaching crisis proportions. 1 billion on the planet go to bed hungry every night. This is increasing with the devastating effects climate change affecting large & small scale agricultural yields & rising food costs. 1 in 15 children die before their 5th birthday in South Africa. 15% of babies are born with a low birth weight. 2.7 million children (15%) live in households where there is child hunger. 1 in 10 children suffer from severe malnutrition.
12 million people suffer from food insecurity, and 4 million of those are on the brink of starvation. AIDS & child headed households are another challenge. Natural resources eg water are under severe pressure.

Solution

Food Gardens for Africa provides support to start up or developing food gardens through starter packs that include training workshops, necessary tools, plant material & education material to thousands of schools & community groups that apply for help. Those that then show commitment are selected and presented to funders for further support. FTFAs decades of experience shows that ideally food gardens need support over 3 years to take them through seasons & ensure participants receive adequate training in horticulture, nutrition & basic business. Projects become self sustaining through effective food production, food cost savings, income generation & sustainable natural resource use & management. Gardeners & their dependents' health improve.

Example

FTFA started working with disadvantaged Toronto Primary School in 2004 to establish a productive garden, nursery & poultry production. FTFA then provided additional support & training on garden maintenance, water management, harvesting, AIDs & nutrition, record keeping & pest management, topics that could have presented challenges that would detract from the project’s success. Now, even in FTFA’s absence, Toronto teachers & parents utilise information, skills and resources to assist other schools & home gardens with their own project development, troubleshooting satellite projects. Toronto has raised money to develop medicinal plant gardens & for other community support & have won many awards for being an exemplary project.

Impact

This program has produced thousands of food gardens in all provinces of the country in urban, rural & peri urban areas over the years, many of which are still operating. Through this small scale, local food production, tons of natural produce have been produced & money has been saved on produce. Thousands of educators, learners & community members have been trained to grow their own food organically & use & manage natural resources sustainably, resulting in improved & increased water and fertile soil. The produce from many of these gardens is used to feed Orphaned and Vulnerable Children & those infected with HIV. The skills transfer & capacity building through Food Gardens for Africa are key to the sustainability of the projects & facilitate other employment or entrepreneurial activities. Schools no longer need government feeding schemes & most sell healthier food to these & teachers.

Marketplace

FTFA pioneered carbon offset, tree and bamboo planting & permaculture in S Africa. As climate change & food security become a greater concern more organisations are establishing similar projects. FTFAs 23 years of experience & success, great communications, education initiatives & good reporting make this an outstanding, recognised & reliable organisation. FTFAs Permaculture Starter Pack (PSP) helps to assess the viability of necessary long term investment in projects while boosting projects in their infancy. The PSPs range from level one to three, with funds and resources increasing with project success.

Sustainability Plan

Ideally a food garden project requires 3 years of support to become sustainable. During this time the project is addressed holistically, taking into account sales, marketing, production, planning & more. This helps projects to become sustainable. FTFA depends on donor funding at the outset but aims to help them to save costs, resources & generate their own income over time.

Founding Story

23 years ago, as one of Jeunesse Park's heroes, Nelson Mandela, was about to be released from 29yrs in jail she decided to return to the land of he birth, from which she had gone into self imposed exile during the dark days of apartheid. Over years of traveling on the planet she saw some of the most beautiful places in the world & also saw the terrible environmental devastation we have caused to destroy them, usually forever. She returned to S Africa to do something positive for her country, to put down roots & contribute in a unique way to the earth & to the people, especially those living in the barren, dusty & inhumane townships. Her sense of responsibility & understanding that one can make a difference led to the founding of FTFA.

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Full nourishment foods.

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

Adding full nourishing food programmes would help to close the circle and create a larger impact in implementing these projects. Being able to holistically integrate the full nourishment foods aspect into our food gardens project would help to create more meaning for the project, hopefully making them more sustainable.

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Trade as Aid: Alternative Rural Development Framework (ARDF) in sub-Saharan Africa

Created on 05/13/2013 by matthewoa2010

To improve income level of each rural dweller above $2USD per day by growing their agribusiness to sustainable livelihood:Networking rural areas with urban centers and international markets via social media and extension agents for supply and demand of edible food alongside environmental management.

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Ideal Makers Linkage (IML)

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Nigeria, OY, Ibadan

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Nigeria, OY, Ibadan/Lagos

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NO. The organization has just started with young innovators who have won different awards in academics, entrepreneurship and research.

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Trade as Aid: Alternative Rural Development Framework (ARDF) in sub-Saharan Africa

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2012

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Elevator Pitch

To improve income level of each rural dweller above $2USD per day by growing their agribusiness to sustainable livelihood:Networking rural areas with urban centers and international markets via social media and extension agents for supply and demand of edible food alongside environmental management.

Problem

Sub-Saharan Africa is most infectious victim of poverty and nutritionally insecure,most especially in its rural areas. Food insecurity, environmental challenges, ill health, unemployment and low income prevail among them despite aid interventions. Rural areas--farmers--lack aid for economic empowerment of their agribusiness that ranges from input supply to optimum production with environmental management, and to marketing for their profitability.

Solution

In sub-Saharan Africa, agricultural growth is said to be 11 times more effective against poverty. Raising agricultural production and productivity up to profitable marketing underlying environmental sustainability remains crucial for reducing poverty in a cost-effective manner and to prevent endangering ecosystem, especially in low-income countries.
We are thinking about "Ecology of Commerce" by Paul Hawken; under consideration for environmental sustainability, agribusiness would be grown to empower rural people to a profitable and sustainable livelihood. When they are economically stable with high income through agribusiness, other problems like ill health, malnutrition, food insecurity and unemployment would be easily solved thereby.

Example

This deliberative framework promises to alleviate poverty by networking rural farmers for marketing, investments, storage, zero-waste management and, to bring their hearings to quick aid intervention in terms of environmental pollution soil and water management: Using Young Extension Agents and Social Media as tools for outreaches.
One of our agents on 13th of April,2013,contacted Mr. Shotade,a rural farmer at Ado-Awaye,who has been affected by low demand of his plantain in the area and tends to loss. Our agents helped him to market through our Social Media Skills(Technological Modern Rural Market) on facebook,wordpress etc, and also contacted people at Ibadan city who are highly demanding for it.He had 70% net profit increase.

Impact

Current reach: Our Technological Modern Rural Market (TMRM) through mobile phones and social networks is reaching up to 5% of farmers (19males, 1 female) in rural communities we have just started with in 2012 till now, and reaching up to 500 Ibadan/Lagos dwellers for marketing and environmental campaign through our social networks.
Future reach: We would Improve income level of about 5 million rural dwellers above an average of $2 USD per day, by growing their agribusiness through a controlled market price, optimum storage, and zero-waste management, starting from Ibadan, sub-Saharan Africa, in the next ten years.

If we could get funds, aids, and other grants up to $500,000 USD; we would grow to reach up to 50, 000 rural farmers in affiliation; also, we would market and campaign to about 5,000,000 urban communities' dwellers in the next one year.

Marketplace

Some organizations in sub-Saharan Africa help to alleviate poverty by supplying input to farmers, others in production stage and some educate to sell. Our organization trades as aid, have to have-not, empowers rural farmers by marketing their produce, educate them to expand and diversify,and supply them cheaper inputs through their investments with us. Our new cyclic strategy combines marketing for profitability, modern storage,urban food supply, environmental management through recycling and campaign, investment through saving, supply cheaper inputs, and rural aid broadcast--via social media.

Sustainability Plan

ARDF will continue to grow in as much there is existence of rural, urban and suburban centers whose needs are insatiable. And, base on the fact that the urban areas cannot do without food supply. We collect 5% of farmers net profit after we have market for them as maintenance fee. We collect agricultural wastes and commercial biodegradable wastes, recycle them into bio gas, paper and organic fertilizers and sell cheaply--money got keeps us going!

Founding Story

During my primary education, I grew up in the village of less than 20, 000 population who depend on agriculture as major occupation. My Father owed laborers in many cases due to poor sales, and this was the same story for many others. In 2012,when I visited villages to collect data for my research on rural development as a final year undergraduate student, 50kg tuber of yam cost me about $2USD in the village,when I got to Lagos(most populated city in Nigeria), I sold the same 50kg of yam at about $20USD and made a gross profit of about $15USD. I was moved to help rural people. Then, I included ARDF project (Trade as Aid)as part of IML's projects as the CEO, to aid rural people using social media marketing skills and young extension agents.

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Healthy environments., Human wellness and vitality.

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Nutrient-rich farming, Full nourishment foods.

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

Nutrient-rich farming for full nourishment foods supply is an initiative we project to curb malnutrition in sub-Saharan Africa.We will encourage rural farmers by supplying those improved cultivars of crops and breeds of animals of high economic and nutrient-rich value from Institute of Tropical Agriculture(IITA)and others—to plant and rear.Doing this will make our project achieve a high degree of economic empowerment and sustainable livelihood impact on rural and urban centers.Food production and supply would increase by at least 50%,with continuous balance diet food supply, free of poisoning.

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AmpleHarvest.org

Created on 05/13/2013 by GaryMO

While 1 out of 6 Americans is food insecure yet can't get fresh food from a food pantry, millions of American homeowners grow more food in their home gardens than they can use. It doesn't have to be this way.

AmpleHarvest.org connects the dots. The solution to hunger is in our backyards.

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AmpleHarvest.org

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United States, NJ

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United States, NJ, Newfoundland, Passaic County

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AmpleHarvest.org

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While 1 out of 6 Americans is food insecure yet can't get fresh food from a food pantry, millions of American homeowners grow more food in their home gardens than they can use. It doesn't have to be this way.

AmpleHarvest.org connects the dots. The solution to hunger is in our backyards.

Problem

50 million Americans rely on the more than 33,500 food pantries across America to help feed their families.

These pantries get a large percentage of their food from a regional food bank. A structural flaw in this network prevents them from accepting or distributing fresh food.

The impact is that they distribute canned produce processed with sugar/salt which helps to contribute to America's health care and environmental problems.

Solution

AmpleHarvest.org, moving information instead of food to end hunger and malnutrition in America, is educating, encouraging and empowering growers to share their excess harvest with the needy in their community instead of letting it rot in the garden.

This virtual solution to hunger sustainably helps eliminate food waste, food insecurity, diminishes the waste stream and methane emissions from trash dumps, lower the food pantry carbon foot print, creates community engagement, promotes sustainable community agriculture, reduces the likelihood of diabetes, childhood obesity, etc. along with other food related illnesses and helps to expand availability of healthy food to those with least access to it - at no cost to the community.

Example

Historically, growers with excess food let it rot in the garden or threw it away - this while nearby neighbors were hungry or malnourished and nearby food pantries helping to feed these people had to continually buy processed food shipped in from across the country.

Now that AmpleHarvest.org connects the local grower with the pantry,
1. Freshly harvested food is now available to the needy.
2. Excess food is kept out of the waste stream and doesn't create methane in trash dumps
3. The pantry carbon footprint is reduced, no packaging enters the waste stream
4. Donors are able to donate at no cost to themselves for the rest of their garden life
5. Illness (diabetes, obesity, etc) is reduced along with America's long health care costs

Impact

AmpleHarvest.org's goal is educate, encourage and enable America's 40 million gardeners to share their excess food with a local food pantry.

Heretofore "invisible" Pantries must become "visible" to the local grower before donates can be made. As of 5/1/13, nearly 6,000 (and growing) pantries serving an estimated 8 million food insecure people have become accessible via AmpleHarvest.org to these gardeners.

The education/encouragement is best measured in the media/blogger coverage we've had to date (see www.ampleharvest.org/news-merged.php) along with the outreach by people such as First Lady Michelle Obama (www.AmpleHarvest.org/WhiteHouse), USDA Master Gardener administrators, the faith community and growers themselves.

Current estimates are that more than 30 million lbs of food was donated through the end of 2012 - getting fresh food to those with least access to it.

Marketplace

One program created in 1995 called Plant-A-Row has been encouraging people to plant extra food and then they arranged to pick it up and take it to a food pantry. This was a very labor intensive and very limited geographic spread.

By using the Internet, AmpleHarvest.org reaches every town and enables the grower themselves to take the food to the pantry - making labor and transportation a distributed effort. AmpleHarvest.org has in effect done to local food donations what Amazon.com did to book store services - make it available to anyone anywhere without incremental costs.

Sustainability Plan

AmpleHarvest.org's innovation results in a nationwide operations cost of a few hundred thousand dollars - a tiny fraction of other programs. For example, our budget is 5 minutes of Feeding America's annual budget.

Today, AmpleHarvest.org relies on donations, virtual food drives and grants. Long term plans for sustainability include a "store", monetizing our data and partnerships although donations will remain a needed resource too.

Founding Story

As director of a community garden in 2008, I learned that some garden plot holders, like millions of gardeners nationwide, left large amounts of produce unharvested when they grew more than they could possibly use.

Aware that hunger is a problem, I suggested that we gather this food and deliver it to local food pantries. Pantries however are nearly impossible to find and typically don’t accept fresh food.
In 2009, I created AmpleHarvest.org, new supply side channel in America’s food network that would educate, encourage and enable growers with extra produce to donate it to a local food pantry thereby enabling them to garden-by-garden, help diminish hunger, malnutrition and food waste in America while helping the environment.

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While the AmpleHarvest.org program has been nationally acclaimed as an innovative virtual solution to hunger, AmpleHarvest.org the organization is still in its relatively early growth stages and needs critical infrastructure to help nurture the programs' long term sustainability. With this additional support in place, we would be able to remain 100% focused on continuing to build and expand this new supply side distribution channel between local growers with an ample harvest and the nearby food pantries that most need it – critical for the pantry clients are desperate for fresh food.

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Red Tomato - Reinventing Local Food Systems

Red Tomato creates opportunities for our region’s farmers to become primary suppliers of a sustainable regional food system by coordinating the marketing and logistics of their products throughout the Northeast to grocery stores and other wholesale outlets that are widely accessible to shoppers.

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While 1 out of 6 Americans is food insecure yet can't get fresh food from a food pantry, millions of American homeowners grow more food in their home gardens than they can use. It doesn't have to be this way.

AmpleHarvest.org connects the dots. The solution to hunger is in our backyards.

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Promoting Permaculture through Community Demonstration

Created on 05/10/2013 by ccarlton

Through education, demonstration and farmer networks, Kusamala promotes permaculture as a means to increase food security and combat environmental degradation in Malawi. By building agricultural systems that mimic natural systems, permaculture increases diversity, resilience and sustainability.

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Kusamala Institute of Agriculture & Ecology

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Malawi, Lilongwe

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Malawi

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Through education, demonstration and farmer networks, Kusamala promotes permaculture as a means to increase food security and combat environmental degradation in Malawi. By building agricultural systems that mimic natural systems, permaculture increases diversity, resilience and sustainability.

Problem

In Malawi more than 85% of the population are subsistence farmers, nearly 60% of which experience year round food insecurity. Micronutrient intake is a serious concern with high levels of vitamin A and iron deficiency among children and pregnant women. These farmers depend on a single, nutrient poor crop: maize. Cultivated intensively, this has led to soil nutrient loss, reduced livelihood and food security, and high rates of malnutrition.

Solution

Permaculture is a design method that builds agricultural systems based on natural models. Utilizing permaculture principles, Kusamala focuses on the household level, encouraging nutrient rich fruit and vegetable production, crop diversification, water and soil management to maximize productivity while improving the health of the land. This increases access to diverse, nutritious foods, improving diet diversity and reducing malnutrition. It also reduces agricultural costs and improves soil health by promoting natural, local soil fertility methods. By building a network of household demonstrations Kusamala spreads permaculture from within communities; creating strong permaculture leaders that encourage behavior change through personal action.

Example

Dan Chikhawo lives in a rural village outside of Malawi's capital. Sitting on a hillside, erosion from deforestation has carved a 15m deep gully through the village. A year ago, Dan participated in a permaculture training with Kusamala. Armed with new knowledge and Kusamala's support, Dan built a vegetable garden and orchard behind his house. He improved soil health using compost and manure, planted shared and saved seed, and harvested water off the hillside. Where his neighbors have bare ground around their houses and walk over an hour to buy vegetables, Dan harvests enough nutrient-rich produce to meet his family's needs and to share. Dan's neighbors often ask about his garden and he hopes to use it to spread permaculture to his village.

Impact

Quantitative: 200 Malawians trained in permaculture over the past year; 20 household demonstration sites established; Access to nutritious foods increased for approximately 400 individuals; Over 60,000 multi-use trees planted for food, fuel, fodder and soil fertility
Qualitative: Improved ability to sustainably increase food security; Improved soil health and nutrient content through natural fertilizers; Increased livelihood resilience through income diversification; Improved environmental stewardship through a better understanding of the connection between human health and the environment
Future: Increase uptake of permaculture spreading from community permaculture demonstrations; Further in-depth trainings to increase number of demonstration sites; Expansion into surrounding communities; Surveys to measure exact impact on household diet diversity and food security

Marketplace

Concepts such as "organic" and "conservation" are well known. Yet both of these approaches have a limited focus, addressing aspects such as chemical use or tilling methods. Permaculture is a holistic method that looks at how to improve all interactions between humans and the environment. It is not a set of universal instructions but an adaptive thinking tool. Many interventions focus on training or material support. Kusamala invests in home demonstrations that fit local resources and environments, show immediate benefits to families and that most people already have the resources to implement.

Sustainability Plan

In the community, our goal is to work within available resources so that participants can implement permaculture without external aid. However to expand our work, Kusamala raises funds through a hybrid NGO-sustainable business model. Current funding is from grants, income from NGO trainings and produce sales from our functioning farm. We will continue seeking grants but plan to expand our on-farm sales to reduce dependence on outside aid.

Founding Story

Four years ago, Luwayo Biswick learned about permaculture. He saw the potential and began designing a garden at his home. He planted root crops to break up the hardpan from years of sweeping, instead of burning his leaves he mulched with them, he collected organic material for compost, he grew edible vines on existing trees and planted lots of new fruit trees. In his first year of experimentation, Biswick's neighbors called him crazy and said no one would marry him. Four years on, his community has begun to embrace permaculture. His neighbors are making compost for their own beds and each borehole has a grey water system. Working from within, Biswick made the benefits of permaculture real for his community. His story is our inspiration.

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Healthy environments, Nutrient-rich farming, Human wellness and vitality.

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Added capacity would help us better support our household demonstration sites and extend permaculture into surrounding communities. Through more frequent community visits, additional trainings and more field staff, Kusamala will work more effectively and consistently with our household demonstrations, ensuring they are productive, well-managed examples of permaculture in practice. We will help those implementing permaculture spread their ideas and innovations to others, ensuring uptake and sustainability of these practices, and creating a practitioner network to share best practices.

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Affordable Nutrients/Technologies for Agricultural Breakthroughs

Affordable Nutrients/Technologies for Agricultural Breakthroughs program provides affordable natural nutrients or integrated solutions through the application of and access to small scale agricultural and production technologies which give health and economical advantage especially to women.

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Alley-cropping with Inga edulis trees

Created on 05/7/2013 by sschofield

EcoLogic applies an agroforestry method known as ‘alley-cropping with Inga edulis trees’ with smallholder farmers in Central America that addresses the interrelated issues of food and economic insecurity, soil nutrient sustainability, and deforestation prevalent in the region.

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EcoLogic Development Fund

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United States, MA, Cambridge, Middlesex County

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Guatemala

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EcoLogic recently became a one of the top 100 innovators for the Rockefeller Foundation’s Next Century Innovators award for our agroforestry program being presented in this application. Our sustainable agroforestry work was also recently featured in a publication entitled, “Impact Innovations: Lessons from Small-scale Agriculture in Latin America and the Caribbean,” put out by the International Institution for Cooperation in Agriculture (IICA) the International Development Bank (IDB) and El Fondo Regional de Tecnología Agropecuaria (FONTAGRO). (PDF can be viewed here: http://www.fontagro.org/sites/default/files/Innovaciones_de_Impacto.pdf)

In June 2012 at the Rio +20 Conference in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil our Honduran partner organization, AJAASSPIB, was honored as one of 25 recipients of the UN Equator Prize. This earned them prestigious recognition out of 800 nominees from 113 countries, to “recognize and advance local sustainable development solutions for people, nature and resilient communities.” EcoLogic nominated AJAASSPIB for this award.

Additionally, EcoLogic was named Runner-Up in June 2011 for the Swiss Re ReSource Award for Sustainable Watershed Management, an internationally recognized prize for leadership in community‐based watershed management. This award honored our work in northern Honduras. Finally, EcoLogic was awarded the 2007 Energy Globe National Award for Honduras in recognition of its launching of Pico Bonito Forests LLC.

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EcoLogic applies an agroforestry method known as ‘alley-cropping with Inga edulis trees’ with smallholder farmers in Central America that addresses the interrelated issues of food and economic insecurity, soil nutrient sustainability, and deforestation prevalent in the region.

Problem

Central America faces the most rapid deforestation of all world regions and its most impoverished and marginalized communities often coincide with highly degraded forest areas. The use of slash-and-burn agriculture by subsistence farmers contributes largely to this problem. Although convenient in the short-term, the method is inefficient and costly over time, and depletes available land and soil nutrients while producing meager crop yields.

Solution

Alley-cropping, the planting of rows of trees with agricultural crops planted in between, is a well-known sustainable alternative to slash-and-burn. It helps meet local demand for food while halting the loss of productive land and workable soil and maintaining forest ecosystem structure, especially when using the tree species, Inga edulis. Inga roots effectively fix nitrogen into the soil, and its fallen leaves eliminate weeds by mulching the soil. Cropland with Inga edulis can be cultivated for an estimated eight to ten years continuously, compared to two to three years for slash-and-burn plots, by properly maintaining the soil nutrients needed to grow food. It also yields a higher quality and more abundant product on less land.

Example

In 2008, EcoLogic provided José Salvador Toc, a farmer from Ixcán, Guatemala, with Inga edulis seeds to start his own alley-cropping plot. Two years later, his Inga edulis plots harvested 40% more corn compared to his conventional plot, and the Inga leaves had suppressed weeds and mulched the soil so that no extra fertilizer was needed. Within months, hundreds of fellow farmers had requested training and seeds to begin alley-cropping plots. The alley-cropping program in Ixcán now 400 farmers and serves as a node for teaching and learning for EcoLogic’s agroforestry program. Don Salvador offers training and seeds to fellow farmers, seeing the technique as critical for the community’s health, food security and economy.

Impact

EcoLogic supports over 300 alley-cropping plots across four sites in Guatemala and Honduras. A 2011 analysis by researchers from CIPAV at our largest project in Ixcán, Guatemala showed that alley-cropping plots yield approximately 350 kg more corn per hectare than traditional plots, a value of approximately US $577/hectare per year. As the poverty line in Guatemala is US $542, this technique can significantly improve economic and food security for rural communities.

We plan to expand impact by: 1) supporting current participating farmers in diversified crop production with the technique, and 2) expanding participation in current alley-cropping communities and introducing alley-cropping in EcoLogic projects in Chiapas, Mexico and Darién, Panama. These sites will serve as hubs to promote alley-cropping as a means for meeting local food demand while preserving forest resources.

Marketplace

This specific alley cropping technique was developed by Dr. Michael Hands of Cambridge University and Honduras’ Inga Foundation. Various other groups use alley-cropping techniques to help subsistence farmers produce more food in a sustainable manner. EcoLogic’s innovation is that it applies the technique with farmers on land used by of one of their peers, rather than in a controlled research setting. This allows farmers to test the approaches in a familiar environment, making them local experts in balancing immediate consumption needs with long-term stewardship of forest resources.

Sustainability Plan

EcoLogic has raised $100,000 for development of this program. Financial sustainability hinges on two strategies: 1) establishing a group of farmers in each community capable of training others in alley cropping; and 2) establishing local seed production centers. These strategies will ensure that costs stay stable even as EcoLogic expands the overall number of communities and farmers that it supports in the adoption of this technique.

Founding Story

In 2002 in northern Honduras, EcoLogic’s Regional Director visited demonstration plots using an alley-cropping method with Inga edulis trees designed by British researcher, Dr. Michael Hands, at the Centro Universitario Regional del Litoral Atlántico (CURLA). Farmers in our nearby project site had voiced interest in alternative agriculture techniques and the director of EcoLogic’s local partner at the time, the Pico Bonito National Park Foundation (FUPNAPIB), passionately promoted the multitude of community benefits related to Inga edulis trees. Our regional director determined that the technique would strengthen and compliment the forest conservation and community development work already being implemented in this project site.

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Added financial capacity will allow us to meet demand for training and seeds, to increase crop production and food security, and to strengthen the evidence needed for scaling uptake throughout the region. We will also be able to explore alternate techniques and high-nutrient food production. Furthermore, it will allow us to refine our monitoring and evaluation, scaling, and farmer outreach mechanisms. Lastly, we will be able to support the creation of more local seed production enterprises and, hence, eliminate the import of seeds from Honduras for all project sites.

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Improving food production and resource protection in Mesoamerica

Approximately 45% of Guatemala and Honduras’population is food-insecure. EcoLogic combats this, and saves forest, using ‘alley-cropping with Inga edulis.’ Farmers increase staple food production, improve soil quality, and use less land, preserving forest resources and ecosystem services.

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PLANT A FRUIT

Created on 05/7/2013 by PLANT A FRUIT

Plant-a-fruit is a self-help non-profit org equipped with members who have taken initiative to protect our environment. We encourage practical, bottom-up, and participatory solutions to environmental issues. Our model is aimed at mitigating global warming and directly increasing food security.

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Kenya, Nairobi

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Kenya, NA, Nairobi

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Plant-a-fruit is a self-help non-profit org equipped with members who have taken initiative to protect our environment. We encourage practical, bottom-up, and participatory solutions to environmental issues. Our model is aimed at mitigating global warming and directly increasing food security.

Problem

Climate change is one of the greatest global challenge, the impacts of climate change are increasingly evident. One disturbing factor is that climate change leads to increased risks for food production potentially leading to higher malnutrition rates. Kenya is one of the most vulnerable countries to climate change, most of the population’s livelihoods and economic activities are reliant on climate-sensitive natural resources.

Solution

This project aims to address climate change and enhance food security. There is no better way that this can be realised than partnering with schools. Young pupils are the real change agents for they have the potential of converting small ideas into mass movements. Most schools in Kenya have idle land. Our aim is to help them create fruit orchards and grow food, this will improve the school feeding program .We have been piloting this project in 3 schools . We have seen how pupils love outdoor learning activities and how the pupils can be a great resource when it comes to planting and looking after the fruit trees as they develop other skills. We have seen measurable success and we now seek to expand this project to other schools.

Example

We encourage schools to engage in climate-smart agroforestry by implementing a school gardening program where students will be encouraged to plant fruit trees and grow locally available nutritious food crops .We have teamed up with Kariobangi pri. school to create a fruit and food garden . We have planted 103 fruit trees of different varieties that include mangoes,guava,avacado,sapote,tree tomato,banana and indigeneous vegetables . This is the pilot project that served as an example to be replicated elsewhere.Students were very excited to be part of this activity and many enrolled to the environment club established. Students take care of the garden and very soon they will be able to eat fresh farm produce planted by themselves.

Impact

To date, more than 300 pupils,teachers & non-teaching staff have directly participated in our fruit planting and food growing events where they get to learn more about environment conservation and horticulture. Necessary training will be given to them to develop the skills and approaches they need to grow food and plant trees in their school, and embed growing across their whole school and neighbourhoods.Idle land has been reclaimed and put into proper use. Many schools have pieces of idle land , we have turned such land into fruit orchards/gardens. This takes the home grown school feeding program a step further by making schools eat what they grow. Schools will be in a better position to interact with the local farmers exchanging products and ideas in the process. Within a short period of time schools we have partnered with will start harvesting high quality fruits and food crops.

Marketplace

Our strategy is unique for we have specialized in grafted fruit trees and we work with students who we recruit as our ambassadors. Lack of environmental literacy is a major factor that leads to environmental degradation. We intend to inculcate environmental literacy and food growing skills,we will practically engage the students in fruit planting & food growing and offer them training on grafting and fruit tree nursery development. We intend to set up an incubator that will help the youth transform their ventures into business models that are sustainable and will help in wealth creation.

Sustainability Plan

We act as a social enterprise, operating under strong business principles, generating our own revenues through the sale of grafted fruit seedling and providing specialized extension services but with the sole purpose of effecting social change. We have great potential to team up with various organizations’ that are willing to give us in-kind support and resources to support fruit tree planting and food growing in schools.

Founding Story

Plant-a-fruit is a self-help not-for-profit organization equipped with members who have taken initiative to protect our environment. We started as a self-help group in 2009 called TAF initiative with a mission to protect and clean our environment.
The fact that climate change affects food production and news of people going without food made us rethink our strategy. No one should go hungry because of lack of food, all of us cannot drive cars, that's acceptable but one to go without food is unacceptable. This gave birth to plantafruit.org that will enable us expand our activities and realise our vision of a fruit tree/garden in every kenyan home and institution.

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This added capacity will enable us build local human capacity required to support the youth to engage in climate smart agro forestry initiatives and ensure the environment is well protected and cleaned.

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PLANT A FRUIT

Plant-a-fruit is a self-help non-profit org equipped with members who have taken initiative to protect our environment. We encourage practical, bottom-up, and participatory solutions to environmental issues. Our model is aimed at mitigating global warming and directly increasing food security.

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Feed a Child Project

Created on 05/4/2013 by Treasureland123

A project with strategic partnership to harness resources that will ultimately lead to the implementation of combination interventions of food fortification, Hygiene promotion & education, capacity building for caregivers. Integrating maternal, newborn & child health & nutrition interventions.

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Ifesinachi

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Sam-Emuwa

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Treasureland Health Builders Initiative

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Nigeria

该组织在哪些国家/地区创造了社会影响力

Nigeria, LA, Lagos

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公益

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Yes, LEAP Africa/Nokia Leadership Award 2008 also Honor awards from Religious bodies, Corporate firms and communities

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Feed a Child Project

Year founded

2011

Stage

Start-Up (a pilot that has just started operating)

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Elevator Pitch

A project with strategic partnership to harness resources that will ultimately lead to the implementation of combination interventions of food fortification, Hygiene promotion & education, capacity building for caregivers. Integrating maternal, newborn & child health & nutrition interventions.

Problem

Nigeria loses 2,300 of 0-5 yrs old daily & became 2nd largest to under 5 & maternal mortality rate globally(UNICEF).Malnutrition is the root cause of death of million children that die each yr, the bodies/brains of many fail to develop properly due to inadequate nutrition,CSOs, other partners have been sensitizing general public on adequate diet, yet Nigeria still face many challenges in its efforts at improving nutrition situation of children.

Solution

1.Empower caregivers with agro & non agro based skills.
2.Train & create awareness of ICTs potentials & usefulness among the caregivers. how to get current information on best practices for sustainable agriculture & data collection. Access up-to-date agricultural information on new technologies
3.Provide nutrition for Orphans & Vulnerable children ranging from food items & provisions, Fruits & infant formulas.
4.Create a sustainable link between the caregivers, other partners globally in disseminating agricultural information through the use of internet.
5.Employs a collaborative initiative of different development partners contributing to project implementation, hence minimizing resources.

Example

Many children 0-1yr are malnourished because their caregivers don’t have capable means of caring.Those not empowered or have job find it hard to properly care for children under their care or help in any community development. Mr&Mrs Ehodosa are graduates & had no job for 2 yrs.,they have triplet children who were malnourished & very sick, they went to see Mr.Malomo a Nutritionist at Lagos State Children Hospital & were referred to us after all, with information he contacted us through his phone.He didn’t travel to see us, he saves time & it was fast,this was the work of ICT & referral method.They didn't have access to rich food as they could not afford it,but with our help nutrient rich food was given from time to time which have help them

Impact

Our aim is to progressively sustain effective and efficient systems that will reduce the level of poverty among caregivers whereby provide services that will enhance the quality of lives of orphans & Vulnerable Children thereby increasing life expectancy. We have provided nutrition for more than 700 children & have 68 Children on our care, Taking care of their Nutrition, Health & Education. We have also trained more than 259 Caregivers on how to Make bead/hat & more than 2000 on ICT which has given them the opportunity to gainfully employed and started up their own businesses contributing to nation building. Mrs Uka a single parent was trained & now training others & making money to take care of her 5 children and can also contribute to community development. We make sure that the caregivers we train also in-turn train others in their various communities.

Marketplace

Ministry of Health, CSOs & other agencies are addressing this issue yet the problem is in increase, people are tired of preachings that made Nigeria the second largest contributor to child and maternal mortality rate globally(UNICEF), they now need ACTION. Empowering/building capacity of Caregivers, visiting them & their children at home will make a great change.It will enhance them to properly care for the children under their care contribute to the Development of the community, communicate globally, take part in major decision making & take good care of their family affairs respectively.

Sustainability Plan

To progressively sustain effective & efficient advanced ICT programs in a way that it constantly empowers Caregivers socio-economically to cater effectively the Vulnerable Children. Developed context specific tools that will enhance our advocacy, communication & social mobilization (ACSM). Establish association for the caregivers to meet, donate, network & sustain themselves. We have policy for fund raising. Our Board of Trustees make donations

Founding Story

Childhood experiences,My Passion; Ifesinachi's parents run a small restaurant in a local community in Rivers State, Her parents were not rich either but she usually see & witness how some other families gather in their restaurant to ask for left over food. Some came as if they need it for their dogs but we knew they eat them when they get home.At a time , My parents started selling it because of the rush, this is not good, i always tell my parents but could not change it,I wanted to assist humanity but did not know how, I grew up to 14 years and had my own challenges which inspired & geared my spirit into 'what to do to cause a change' still did not know how to go about my vision until i got into the university where i started a Health Club

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Nutrient-rich farming, Full nourishment foods, Human wellness and vitality.

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

Healthy environments.

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

My existing services will improve with the added capacity when the caregivers are sensitized on sanitation/hygiene promotion, they will learn the benefits & implications of living in a healthy environment, They will have a long term behavioral change which will influence the children under their care. Their capacity built on Agro & non Agro skills relates to Nutrient-rich farming, interventions of various food fortification applies to full nourishment foods & all implementation of combination interventions above give Human wellness & vitality.

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Food for all

Training of Rural communities of Umtata on agriculture and farming ,so as to enable them to create economic activity .Supply of implements .The products will be supplied to local markets and allow for communities to have better nutrition,alleviation of poverty and curb unemployment in villages.

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The Energy and Resource Institute (TERI)

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India

TERI has created an environment that is enabling, dynamic and inspiring for the development of solutions to global problems in the fields of energy, environment and current patterns of development, which are largely unsustainable.

M S Swaminathan Research Foundation (MSSRF)

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India

MSSRF has all along been developing and following a pro-nature, pro-poor, pro-women and pro-sustainable on-farm and non-farm livelihoods through appropriate ecotechnology and knowledge empowerment.

Students for the environment and society

Created on 04/29/2013 by Stefani Daryanto

Students as agents of change will incorporate the theory they learn in class with field-based experiments and marketing where they will need to produce organic food. Additionally, they must apply zero waste intergrated farming approach, where the biomass of the products will be returned to the soil

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Surya University

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Indonesia

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Indonesia, BT, Tangerang

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Hybrid

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The organization was formerly an institute which educated young people from remote areas in Indonesia such as Papua and Maluku. Recently it was established into the first research-based university in Indonesia and is going to start it first lecture in September 2013.

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Students for the environment and society

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2013

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Elevator Pitch

Students as agents of change will incorporate the theory they learn in class with field-based experiments and marketing where they will need to produce organic food. Additionally, they must apply zero waste intergrated farming approach, where the biomass of the products will be returned to the soil

Problem

Indonesia is rich in resources, yet the prices of commodities, particularly food, are becoming more expensive. Most of traditional markets have been shut down by the monopoly of few giant supermarkets which control commodity price. People think less about their environment and become self-centered, which may relate to the education system that does not develop human as a whole.

Solution

We would like to re-introduce traditional market system where producers and consumers can meet directly by bringing quality (organic) products. We hope that we can reduce the cost of the products since there is no transport, land, labor, and equipment cost. Since in traditional markets, real social networking is also happening, we expect that the students may spread the knowledge of organic farming. Therefore, not only that the consumers get fresh produce, but they also get science on how to interact wisely with the planet. We expect that this kind of curriculum which integrates classroom teaching with real world may develop students' interest on ecosystem processes and eventually taking care of their environment.

Example

Students engage in Ecology, Conservation Biology, and Green Economy will be grouped and each group needs to develop a plan to build their own organic garden. They will manage a small farm of plant veggies, medicinal plants, or staple food according to their own interests in University's land as part of their field work. Since this farming method is part of their curriculum, they will be assessed based on their land productivity and the amount of money they can get by selling their products. In determining the price of their products, they should include everything but the price of land, labor and equipment.

Impact

With the advance of technology, students nowadays have sizeable networks which can be used to promote their activities. If 1 student has 10 friends, meaning there will be 1000 other people who know about this activity if there are 100 students. They are the agent of change, meaning they can spread the knowledge to greater society. They will also become the future decision makers of the world, and therefore they need to understand not only about how the market works and but also about how people are interacting with each other and their environment. Since this is also part of academic curriculum, we expect to get more interest and publications using University's brand and media. We hope to spread nutrient availability to the surrounding neighborhood by selling cheap fresh produce because we do not include the cost of labor, land and equipment.

Marketplace

While there have been similar proposals to make use abandoned land by planting organic products, this solution differs from others because we would like to concentrate ourselves to educate 'green' young generations. We incorporate scientific knowledge with field works and marketing strategies since we would like to develop them to become someones who are aware of the environment and the socio-cultural setting of local society. We believe that young people have great capacity to develop their ability and open their mind given the right education.

Sustainability Plan

We need fund to develop our small farms and buy ecological tools. Once we are able to produce and sell our organic products, we will use the money as capital for the next cohort of students. Here students must return the initial 'loan' (which is the plant seeds or seedlings and manure), may share the remaining among them and hopefully donating some of their revenue for the incoming students since they also receive support from others.

Founding Story

We have students and land and academic capacity, why don't we combine them so that students will also get real life experience (how to become environmentally-friendly entrepreneurs) while having FUN. They also do something good for the planet (organic farming and zero waste), and the society (how to consider others). Our motto is to generate entrepreneurs which are able to develop profitable business yet they are environmentally and society friendly. We hope that our project will interest many people, starting from the students, their families and friends and eventually greater society.

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Healthy environments, Nutrient-rich farming, Full nourishment foods, Human wellness and vitality.

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

I hope that this kind of curriculum, which combine scientific knowledge and real life challenges will be adopted by other lectures and other universities so that we may build a better environment and provide economic benefits and prosperity to local community.

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EM-POWER INDIA (Empowering India)

Created on 04/26/2013 by Abhishek Pandey

We at EMPIWF aware, train and equips farmers to use EM method of Farming to check depletion of soil health and crop health and increase agricultural productivity. We emphasize to create a system of earth healing and situation that is both economically and physically beneficial for everyone.

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EM-POWER INDIA (Empowering India)

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EM-POWERINDIA WELFARE FOUNDATION

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India, UP, Kanpur

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The Need: What problem are you trying to solve?

Urea accounts for 82% of total nitrogen consumption and DAP for 63%of phosphate consumption. Soil fertility depletion and increasing deficiencies of certain micro-nutrients are cause of concern and pose major threat to environment. Weak crop and diseased crop consumed by population have hazardous effect on their health and wealth,Poverty is a major contributory factor to food insecurity and Agonized condition of farmers community in India.

The Solution: What is your solution? Be specific!

Em is a liquid solution which contains beneficial organism from three main genera phototropic bacteria, lactic acid bacteria and yeast.This is not a fertilizer, a chemical and a synthetic or genetically engineered product. It is used with the organic materials to enrich the soil. Japanese bokashi method to prepare compost it is prepared with EM solution ad from manure, rice bran, sugar molasses, solid waste, kitchen garbage, green leaves, grass or all. it is kept for some period in anaerobic state to get fermented. This compost is used in agriculture. EM can be used for several other purposes apart from agriculture such as poultry, fisheries, animal husbandry, recycling of solid city waste and kitchen garbage, recycling polluted water.

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

Poverty is a major contributory factor to food insecurity, and organic farming has a positive impact on poverty in a variety of ways. Farmers benefit from: (a) cash savings, as organic farming precludes the need to purchase synthetic pesticides and fertilizers; (b) extra incomes gained by selling the surplus produce resulting from the change to organic farming; (c) premium prices for certified organic produce obtained primarily in India for export but also for domestic markets; and (d) added value to organic products through processing activities.Engagement with the lucrative and rapidly expanding organic foods market in India, is a key indicator of the potential benefits of the organic sector.Improvement of soil fertility and better yield.

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

.The cultivated area is about 141 million ha and has remained constant for last three decades although cropping intensity has increased from 118% to 135% . We through Effective Micro-organism will spread happiness and try to make India healthier and wealthier. Expert estimates that enough food production for 10 billion people is possible with the use of EM technology on world wide basis.  Actually, there are numerous reported examples of abundant harvests and unprecedented multiple crops for a wide range of products with the use of Effective Micro-organism.

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EM-POWER INDIA (Empowering India)

Created on 04/26/2013 by Abhishek Pandey

We at EMPIWF aware, train and equips farmers to use EM method of Farming to check depletion of soil health and crop health and increase agricultural productivity. We emphasize to create a system of earth healing and situation that is both economically and physically beneficial for everyone.

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India

该组织在哪些国家/地区创造了社会影响力

India, UP, Kanpur

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Hybrid

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

Winner of idea category of Spark The Rise contest of Mahindra group

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EM-POWER INDIA (Empowering India)

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2013

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Elevator Pitch

We at EMPIWF aware, train and equips farmers to use EM method of Farming to check depletion of soil health and crop health and increase agricultural productivity. We emphasize to create a system of earth healing and situation that is both economically and physically beneficial for everyone.

Problem

Urea accounts for 82% of total nitrogen consumption and DAP for 63%of phosphate consumption. Soil fertility depletion and increasing deficiencies of certain micro-nutrients are cause of concern and pose major threat to environment. Weak crop and diseased crop consumed by population have hazardous effect on their health and wealth,Poverty is a major contributory factor to food insecurity and Agonized condition of farmers community in India.

Solution

Em is a liquid solution which contains beneficial organism from three main genera phototropic bacteria, lactic acid bacteria and yeast.This is not a fertilizer, a chemical and a synthetic or genetically engineered product. It is used with the organic materials to enrich the soil. Japanese bokashi method to prepare compost it is prepared with EM solution ad from manure, rice bran, sugar molasses, solid waste, kitchen garbage, green leaves, grass or all. it is kept for some period in anaerobic state to get fermented. This compost is used in agriculture. EM can be used for several other purposes apart from agriculture such as poultry, fisheries, animal husbandry, recycling of solid city waste and kitchen garbage, recycling polluted water.

Example

Poverty is a major contributory factor to food insecurity, and organic farming has a positive impact on poverty in a variety of ways. Farmers benefit from: (a) cash savings, as organic farming precludes the need to purchase synthetic pesticides and fertilizers; (b) extra incomes gained by selling the surplus produce resulting from the change to organic farming; (c) premium prices for certified organic produce obtained primarily in India for export but also for domestic markets; and (d) added value to organic products through processing activities.Engagement with the lucrative and rapidly expanding organic foods market in India, is a key indicator of the potential benefits of the organic sector.Improvement of soil fertility and better yield.

Impact

Conducted surveys and awareness Program in 24 villages of U.P,M.P & W.B
More than 300 Farmers shown there interest in association with us.
We get better Yield And improved soil health in lab test with BCKV agriculture college.
This project in future may results in establishment of organic retail stores which will be a new revolution in retail market To grow our regular vegetables / local fruits by using Organic-Farming (EM) methods and sell in local supermarkets / restaurants / hotels etc. under a brand name.. We will empower farmer and environment both EM-power will be a boon for India and world in order to provide food to people at affordable rates and insulating and empoering farmers.

Marketplace

.The cultivated area is about 141 million ha and has remained constant for last three decades although cropping intensity has increased from 118% to 135% . We through Effective Micro-organism will spread happiness and try to make India healthier and wealthier. Expert estimates that enough food production for 10 billion people is possible with the use of EM technology on world wide basis.  Actually, there are numerous reported examples of abundant harvests and unprecedented multiple crops for a wide range of products with the use of Effective Micro-organism.

Sustainability Plan

This project have module for self-sustainability if it once get appropriate fund for start up.there are two ways to generate financial resources as one is the sale of em as fertilizing and conditioning media and other is sale of agriculture produce.As it is organic this will pay extra premium which will be utilized for achieving our goals.. We change the present social structure based on a chemical farming along the line of coexistence

Founding Story

I was part of Poject under Dr. Afzal Ahmad to study Impact of EM on various crops,vegetables and fruits Which was monitered by INFRC and CDS in Mat Block,Mathura and results were stupendous.I found that people are paying too much for unhealthy food and condition of soil,food quality and farmers are pathetic and there is very little scope.I try to bring a changeIf we Increase awareness of the viability of intensive EM method agricultural alternatives to facilitate a shift toward sustainability which may supplant the need for damaging chemicals in food cultivation, could improve nutrients to the human diet and increase agricultural productivity, then it will pay social and financi

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Healthy environments, Nutrient-rich farming, Full nourishment foods, Human wellness and vitality.

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We at EMPIWF aware, train and equips farmers to use EM method of Farming to check depletion of soil health and crop health and increase agricultural productivity. We emphasize to create a system of earth healing and situation that is both economically and physically beneficial for everyone.

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Health and Happiness in the Forest

Created on 04/17/2013 by Eugenio Scannavino Netto

Promoting and supporting participatory processes of integrated and sustainable community development managed by the residents themselves, with programs focused on health and sanitation, education, culture, communication and digital inclusion, youth participation, women and children's rights, land and environmental planning, social organization, citizenship, income management, and the environment.

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Scannavino Netto

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Health and Happiness Project

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Brazil, PA, Santarém

Organization's Country of Operation

Brazil, PA, Santarém

Type of Organization

Non‐profit/NGO

Year of launch of the organization

1985

Years in Operation

Operating 1-5 years

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

1999-2001

Pioneers of Century XXI Award from World Media in the Eco-activist category (on
behalf of founder Eugênio Scannavino)

2002

-Milton Santos Award for Health and Environment from the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation
and Pan-american Health Organization

-Super Ecology Award in the NGO/communities category sponsored by the magazine
Super Interessante

-World Bank Citizenship Award for Innovative Social Experiences sponsored by the
World Bank, Solidarity Community, and the United Nations

2003

-Finalist for the Bank of Brazil Foundation's Social Technology Award-Experiences

2004

-Stories of Youth Mobilization sponsored by Aracati with the support of the Kellogg
Foundation

-Listed on the BOVESPA Social Stock Exchange

2005
- Yeomans Award for Local Content granted by the Open Knowledge Network
and Global Knowledge Partnership for the project Mocorongo Network of Popular

Communication, received at the II World Summit on the Information Society in Tunis
-Social Entrepreneurs Award sponsored by Ashoka / McKinsey – for the Income
Generation Project in the urucureá community through community management of
tucumã straw for the production of handicrafts.
-Experiences in Social Innovation in Latin America and the Caribbean Award- awarded
by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), with
support from the Kellogg Foundation
- 5th place with the project Action for Community Health in the Tapajos National
Forest.

-Social Entrepreneur of the Year (Eugenio Scannavino) - Folha de São Paulo and the
Schwab Foundation.
2006
-Humanist of the Year - Latin Trade Magazine (selected in the top three)‬
-Planet House Award in the Social Action category-given by Casa Claudiamagazine
-Finalist in the Stockholm Challenge Award Award 2006 - The "Nobel" of the Internet
for the project Digital Inclusion in the river communities of the Amazon
-Chosen by the magazine Selections as the best social project investing in health.
-Angel of the Earth award, Prince Albert II of Monaco Foundation
2007
- X World Citizenship Award 2007 - Defense of the Environment in United Actions-
Bahai community in Brazil
2008
Sustainable Stewart Award 2008 - Pamela Peeters Sustainable Film Festival
2009
Dom Helder Camara Medal - National Council of Secretaries of Health
2013
- Global Mobile Award for Best Mobile Product, Initiative or Service for Emerging
Markets - Ericsson

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In 1984 the physician and educator Marcia Eugenio Scannavino Gama, went to the
Amazon to serve isolated communities, where they could feel more useful. They found
a very serious health situation and social exclusion. In 1985, with his brother Caetano
Scannavino and other volunteers, he created Health & Happiness. After an arduous
struggle to get external support, in 1987 the work was resumed on a broad scale.

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We work with isolated communities in the Amazon, living in social exclusion and with basic services only, but that, even though being fragile, struggle against enormous external pressures of devastation of their reserves, being the true guardians of the forest. With them, we seek to contribute and adapt modern and innovative social technologies that bring social inclusion and citizen participation, and that indicate real and replicable models of development that are sustainable, integral, and harmonious with these people.
Health is the biggest issue! In 2006, after years of health education and sanitation, we completed the proposal for two hospital boats, creating an innovative model for the River Family Health Program. Adapted for the rivers of the region, the boats serve 150 locations (30,000 inhab.), with all basic programs (prenatal, child health, women, family, elderly care, oral health, medical care, outpatient examinations, as well as surgical and dental rounds). Besides doctors and nurses, clowns and educators join in promoting issues of hygiene, school health, nutrition, STDs / AIDS, and citizenship (like women and children's rights, social control, environment, etc.). Also a boat—A school with
internships for university research and professional training. It was considered a model of health success adapted to the Amazon and, in 2010, it became a national public policy of the Ministry of Health, allowing it to be funded by the Health System for similar models in all municipalities of Amazonia and the Pantanal.

Describe how your innovation model is distinct from any other organization in your field?

Health is a chronic emergency for the communities of the Amazon. Simple and preventable diseases become serious and health levels deteriorate. With municipalities as the size of countries, long distances, scattered populations, difficult access, low investment in sanitation, transport and communication difficulties and high costs of logistical access, public health has a limited range in these areas, without any sort of public funding mechanisms or appropriate models for this context. Patients must go to the nearest cities, facing long lines and waits, inadequate services, and travel costs that
they do not have the means to pay. We created a model adapted to Amazonian reality, which brings leading quality healthcare to their door, offering all the basic programs and complementary action and also a regular and efficient training of local collaborators in their own communities.

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

The PSA, as initial project executor and throughout these 26 years of health work
together with the communities, acquired much experience, methodologies and efficient
approaches to reality in the region. The partnership developed with local governments,
community representatives, universities, and related organizations allow a demonstrative
model of participatory and dynamic health, attuned to the local reality and diversity in
offering services and solutions, which today is the Ministry of Health's reference for
implementation of policies and primacy care strategies across the region.

How do you make sure you constantly innovate in light of (potential) external challenges, or your growth plan?

Art, play, and communication are the main instruments of education and mobilization.
Based on the most pressing needs and considerations of the residents, we seek to involve
all sectors, age groups, leaders, local agents, and fulfillment teams in collective creation
processes, creating tailored solutions and qualifying them as agents of actions, who
serve as demonstrative references of replicable socio-environmental technologies -
principally by the Government - raising the scale and scope of work. Participatory
diagnosis facilitates continued monitoring of results and joing planning of actions,
providing the tools to support the population in managing its development.

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The systemic challenge you are trying to overcome (select one)

Bring accessible healthcare to communities in emerging markets

Health area (target market) where the need is [select only one]

Primary healthcare services

Categories along the health continuum you are covering [select all that apply]

Prevention, Detection, Intervention, Follow-up, Social integration.

Please describe in more detail: what problem are you trying to solve in the organization's specific context?

Given the difficult context of health in coastal communities, the expertise accumulated by the PSA with solutions, and the opportunities opened especially after the 2191 Ordinance, there is already a growing demand for extending the reach and the passing on of the methodologies developed. For this, a larger institutional structure is necessary to facilitate replication in other municipalities through training and advisory programs (like the Boat School), so that direct areas of expertise can be consolidated into a laboratory for social technologies that are transferrable to other regions in need.

Stage that best applies to your solution [select only one]

Scaling (growing impact on a regional or global scale)

Core strategies of your business model [select all that apply]

Approaches to behavioral change at the individual level, Redesign of the public healthcare system for more efficiency (in terms of processes, structure etc.), New approaches to distribution of health products and services, Unconventional partnerships (between traditional healthcare players and players outside healthcare), New financing strategies for health.

If other, specify here:

Most relevant tools you are using to implement the strategies outlined above [select only two]

Technology, Education/training.

If other, specify here:

Please describe your solution in more detail

The developed model can be reapplied on a large scale and generate systemic improvement in the form of service to all those previously excluded populations. We want to set up a specific program to meet this demand, systematizing the experience and transferring technology to other social actors in partnerships with NGOs, local public power, regional and federal governments, universities, and the private sector, functioning as a laboratory of best practices, qualifying basic actions and inducing internalization of health. Structuring the current Boat Hospitals as Boat Schools to train managers for replicating similar models in other regions likely to get funding for the Ministry of Health's Ordinance 2191.

What are your vision and overall objectives?

- To promote participatory processes of integrated and sustainable community development, which contribute in an evident manner to the improvement of public policies, quality of life and the exercise of citizenship. It works directly in four counties in western Amazon.

- To consolidate the basic health care model integrated with public policies and adapted to the Amazon region - demonstrative, participatory, resolute, sustainable, expanding access to health services together with the most excluded riverside populations and promoting its replication in other regions.

What is your value proposition?

Health model = R$ 77 per capita per year

Continuity PSA / 3 years:

Support for healthcare services R$ 128.000

Complementary Health Project R$ 54.000

Monitoring/Continuous Advisory 244.000

Training R$ 90.000

Total. R$ 516.000

Who is your customer(s)?

Possible direct executors of basic health like CONASEMS / National Council of Municipal Health Secretaries, federations of municipalities, as well as potential beneficiaries (networks od social movements and riverine populations as REDE GTA, etc), as well as other private organizations and businesses involved social responsibility programs and other NGOs and advisory services for rural community development in other similar contexts.

What approaches to you use to reach your customers?

Carrying out a systematization of experience and the publication of guidance manuals and for those interested in and replicating it, offering training and technology transfer services. Fulfillment of requests for consultations and field visits and prospective plans for spontaneous demands that arise. Broadening the impact of materials and publications.

What are your primary activities?

Currently, education/prevention campaigns, training local agents, social control training,
health-related information technologies, and links with other related institutions to establish joint activities (surgical rounds, volunteer reception, residents and students via universities, etc.) With the structure of the Boat School, offering courses, residency, field visits to doctors and stakeholders in implementing the RiverFamily Health Model in their municipalities.

Who are your peers and competitors? What problems could these players pose to your success or growth?

There aren't really any competitors because it is a unique model in Brazil, but there are indeed risk factors that could impair or interfere with the quality of the initial design. Among them, little managerial attention to these populations, unpreparedness of healthcare managers in meeting the requirements established by ordinance, leading to discontinuation of funding. A more welfare-centered project concept, displacing the education, prevention, sanitation, organization and popular participation components. Turning the service into what is just a replica of existing neighborhood health centers, with irregular quality and limited outreach. Lack of managerial ability to enhance other partnerships and institutions, supporting with research, education and service-related training.

What other challenges - individual, organizational, or environmental – are you currently facing or might hinder future success of your business, and how do you plan to overcome those?

Currently we have neither the funding nor the permanent staff that would permit us to develop the strategies proposed. We would like to systematize the experience and its divulgation, manage communication with clients and partners, and build mechanisms for sustainability in the future.

Briefly describe your growth strategy going forward

- Qualify complementary health actions:
-Health Education and Prevention / Education and Mobilization for Social Control
-Boat-School: Research and Professional Education / SFF Residency
-Support for the implementation of Sanitation Technologies
-Assistance to Municipalities in managing USFFs
-Cooperation with public, private and social institutions
- Publication of results

What dimensions for growth are you currently targeting for your innovation [select all that apply]

New customer group(s), New regions(s).

What makes your business "ready" for growth?

For twenty-five years, it has promoted basic health along the riverside with very significant impacts. And for eight years we have deployed a successful model featuring territorial coverage and complete basic healthcare, which has become public policy. This model has provided municipalities with the opportunity for funding via the Ministry of Health through its replication across the Amazon and Pantanal.

What are your key growth objectives?

To consolidate the health model's demonstrated character in a social technology laboratory, complete integration into the public system, and the role of PSA as advisor for management, education, social control, teaching and research, information systems, rounds, etc. Institutional structuring for replication by training programs and assistance to other regions in need.

What is your timeframe for growth, in the short and mid-term? What are the growth milestones and key activities going forward?

In 3 years: Dissemination of PSA's technologies and social practices to NGOs, social movements, public and private sectors, education, research and systematic model
Readjustment of PSA's role in the co-implementation of health actions Health (mobilization, education, prevention, social control, sanitation, education, and research).
Activities:
Assembling a portfolio of advisory services
Preliminary links (Municipalities, networks, etc.)
Initiatives emphasizing the surrounding region
Initiatives with other regions of the Amazon

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What has been the impact of your solution to date?

Throughout the years, the results have been quite positive, covering 72 communities (13,000 inhabitants), with an annual average of 20 thousand health procedures and resolution of 93% - only 7 per 100 patients are referred to the urban centers,

-200 educational activities, 22 research projects and 48 interns and medical residents received, contributing to improvements in quality of life, particularly in the reduction of maternal and infant mortality.

In 2008 we already had the best indices that the whole region north and Brazil, who have been improving since then.

Coverage of ACS (community health agents) Brazil = 14% / 35% = North / PSA 100%

Vaccination coverage: Brasil91, 1% / 85.8% = North / PSA = 96.5%

Exclusive breastfeeding: Brazil = 72.6% / 76% = North / PSA = 89.9%

Prenatal Consultations: Brazil = 84.3% / 73.2% North = / = 98% PSA

Malnutrition: Brazil = 3.3% / 3.9% = North / PSA = 1.8%

Comparative data between communities served (AT) and missed (NAT) for PSA in the Tapajós basin

Pregnant women receiving prenatal care: AT = 82.36% / NAT = 74.6%

Source of drinking water (Well / microsystem): AT = 80.1% / 70.2% = NAT Rio: AT = 18.21% / 31.26% =
NAT Using Chlorine: AT = 32.9% / NAT = 6.6%

Pregnant women <20 years: AT = 25.9% / 44.5% = NAT receiving prenatal care: AT = 72.7% / NAT21, 4%

Children 6-22 years in school: AT = 92.4% / 85.4% = NAT Skipping school: AT = 11.11% / NAT = 18%
Extracurricular training: AT = 44% / NAT = 1.07%

A member of the family participating in any community organization: AT = 79.3% / 49.2% = NAT

Source: Brazil, North Pará - DATASUS (2007) Abare - Sosniski, Cristina (2008), Health and Socioeconomic Research and Reports from Abaré

What methods for quantification of social impact are you applying (if at all)?

Every 5 years, we conduct general and technical diagnostics, comparing the health indicators of the population served and its unserved surroundings. Independent consultants are hired from universities and specialized institutes to complete this task. We maintain a system of computerized, automatically-updated health information and for all procedures, which monitors the health of the whole population registered on the boat. This system is integrated with SUS time, generating absolute and comparative data on the health coverage of the population, which are inserted into the official system. Audits are conducted annually on accounting activities by independent expert bodies.

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

Yes, in all municipalities with populations isolated in rural areas, especially on rivers or around protected areas, including similar contexts in other countries. Particularly, all of the municipalities of Amazonia and Pantanal (the coverage area of the Ministry of Health's Ordinance 2191) which now are demanding our assistance.

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

Indicadores / Ano 1 /Ano 2 /Ano 3:
N° Famílias com acesso regular à Atenção Básica de Saúde /2.754 /4.851/ 9.271
N° Famílias com acesso à água encanada / 1.800/2.000/2.200
Taxa mortalidade infantil bacia do Tapajós/31,9/28,7/25,5

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Elaborate on your current financing strategy

Building on the success of local experiences, the strategy is to develop new, larger projects focusing on territorial development in a comprehensive and sustainable way, in protected areas where we work and to scalesuccessful models, involving a network of institutions of excellence and partners with different expertise.

Share of revenue generation in total income of organization (in percent)

5%

Direct sales to patients or other beneficiaries (in percent)

not applicable

Of the possible sources of these sales listed below, check all that apply to your current strategy

Private businesses, Other beneficiaries.

Licensing fees, e.g., for technology/franchise model (in percent)

Apply via consultancies and service providers

Of the possible sources of these licensing opportunities listed below, check all that apply to your current strategy

基金会, 非政府组织, Private businesses, Regional government, 国家政府, Others.

Service contract with organizations, e.g., government, NGOs (in percent)

25%

Of the possible sources of the service contracts listed below, check all that apply to your current strategy

基金会, 非政府组织, Private businesses, Regional government, 国家政府, Others.

Explain your revenue generation strategy in more detail

Perform consulting services and establish agreements to qualify management and methodologies to interested customers, municipalities, governments and private institutions. Specially provide services facilitating the implementation of compensation programs and corporate socio-environmental responsibility in connection with the large projects currently underway or planned in the government's PAC (Growth Acceleration Program) in the Amazon and Brazil, and also the projects of domestic companies operating in other countries (for example: Mozambique and Angola).

Share of philanthropy in total income of organization (in percent)

70%

Philanthrophy strategies you are using

Diversified strategy.

Explain your philanthropic approach in more detail

Participating in bids for large projects with territorial focus or establishing executive partnerships with other entities through integrated programs having to do with sustainable community development.

Expand on your selections; explain how you will sustain funding over the next 1-3 years.

long-term projects, continued sustainability through public policies and formation of an endowment found

i^3: Innovative International Ideas

Created on 04/8/2013 by arun@kuchibhotla.com

Our company envisions a future where the standard of living in the third world is equal to that of the developed nations. We strive to innovate and offer the best solutions possible to achieve this goal. Through the plethora of options our company would be able to provide, rural communities would be able to better their living standards

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Arun

姓氏

Kuchibhotla

组织

组织名称

i^3: Innovative International Ideas

网站

NONE

组织所在的国家/地区

United States, AZ, Mesa, Maricopa County

Organization's Country of Operation

n/a

Type of Organization

商业

Year of launch of the organization

2013

Years in Operation

Idea phase

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

With our business still in its birth phase, our business has yet to earn any accolades.

We want to hear about your “Aha!” moment. Share the story of where and when the founder(s) saw this solution’s potential to change the world.

When working on a school project to create a more efficient stove for coastal Ghana, we accidently realized the full potential of offering high living solutions at a low cost manner to third world communities.

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i^3: Innovative International Ideas

Explain what the "innovation" is about, e.g., is it the idea and/or the model you use to accomplish the idea, or your understanding of the target population, etc.?

We sell better living solutions, such as our initial community stove product, to third world community government agencies who desire a better quality of life for their constituents. The concerns our solutions will address are the negative costs be it financial, health, or otherwise, that many of the substandard realities of life in the third world bring down upon its people. The problems faced are anywhere in that range from annoying, to life saving, to cost saving. In terms of just cooking, fuel usage has the hidden costs of unhealthy smoke inhalation and the fact woman needs to go to the jungle (where she could potentially be raped and killed) to chop or gather wood. Our solution is to design a new way for them to cook which simultaneously burns less fuel and produces less smoke.

Describe how your innovation model is distinct from any other organization in your field?

Unlike traditional charities and NGOs that typically distribute handouts to individuals, our innovative products are aimed at empowering entire at risk communities. Whatever the solution may be, we are giving these communities a tool, the knowledge of how to make said tool, and more importantly how to fix it themselves if something breaks.

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

We seek to enrich the lives of third world communities by providing them with the opportunity and ability to obtain high-living solutions in a low cost fashion. Our company would act as the in house testing principle where we ideate, test, and implement our solutions. One of our initial products we plan to release is a new stove design aimed to better the fuel efficiency and lower the health risks due to smoke of the current design. Along with the stove, we hope to increase our solution pallet to tackle some of the more prevalent issues currently affecting the third world communities today. We hope to have solutions which would address areas like dirty water, lack of electricity, food shortage.

How do you make sure you constantly innovate in light of (potential) external challenges, or your growth plan?

We know that the people of the third world use extremely primitive methods of cooking food, and other everyday activities that people in the developed world take for granted. For example, the ever increasing fatalities due to smoke inhalation are a problem we hope to solve through our innovative stove design. Solutions like our stove, and a vast number of other solutions we plan to implement in the future, will have direct implications like preventing global warming, lower deforestation to name a few. The local residents will notice better health, longevity in lifespan all while offering solutions which will lower their costs, enabling them to give more back to their households.

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The systemic challenge you are trying to overcome (select one)

Bring accessible healthcare to communities in emerging markets

Health area (target market) where the need is [select only one]

Nutrition

Categories along the health continuum you are covering [select all that apply]

Prevention, Long-term care.

Please describe in more detail: what problem are you trying to solve in the organization's specific context?

The concerns our solutions will address are the negative costs be it financial, health, or otherwise, that many of the substandard realities of life in the third world bring down upon its people. The problems faced are anywhere in that range from annoying, to life saving, to cost saving. In terms of just cooking, fuel usage has the hidden costs of unhealthy smoke inhalation and the fact woman needs to go to the jungle (where she could potentially be raped and killed) to chop or gather. Our solution is to design a new way for them to cook which simultaneously burns less fuel and produces less smoke.

Stage that best applies to your solution [select only one]

Idea (poised to launch)

Core strategies of your business model [select all that apply]

New approaches to distribution of health products and services, Unconventional partnerships (between traditional healthcare players and players outside healthcare), New financing strategies for health.

If other, specify here:

Most relevant tools you are using to implement the strategies outlined above [select only two]

Technology, Community financing.

If other, specify here:

Please describe your solution in more detail

In just our first “solution” a new stove design aimed at better fuel efficiency and lowering negative impact health of the current design, we estimate an initial cost/labor cost of around $200 US, and anticipate charging $300. $50 would go to a local individual who would be taught the idea, and the steps previously developed by us for implementing said solution. $30 would come back to our group where the capital would be spent on further testing of design solutions already in progress or possibly to jump start the process of creating more solutions on a and $20 would go to the partner firm with existing money networks.

What are your vision and overall objectives?

We sell better living solutions, such as our initial community stove product, to third world community government agencies who desire a better quality of life for their constituents. Unlike traditional charities and NGOs that typically distribute handouts to individuals, our innovative products are aimed at empowering entire at risk communities. Whatever the solution may be, we are giving these communities a tool, the knowledge of how to make said tool, and more importantly how to fix it themselves if something breaks. So often, you see the good intentions of people go to waste because they get caught up in the passing out handouts. Handouts only make a difference for as long as the handout lasts, Our group's ultimate purpose is to create a model that makes a permanent difference.

What is your value proposition?

The value our solutions bring are that it allows members below the poverty line to enhance their living standards. This would improve their overall livelihood. Through the micro-financing model, the primary goal of community would to repay the initial cost of the solutions we set in place. Since the majority of the solutions our company would provide are of the communal scale, the physical expense of each solution would be spread amongst the members of the society. Benefit of this is that no individual family pays more than $1-5 a year. This is an important factor as majority of the people below the poverty line earn no more than $2 dollars a day. Asking one individual family to spend more $50 for one product is an impossibility.

Who is your customer(s)?

We currently are working on making a more efficient stove for Abuesi, Ghana, a rural fishing village where we have a contact on location. The town of Abuesi contains approximately 3,000 inhabitants, a quantity provided to us by our source. There are more than 20 towns in the 5 mile radius around Abuesi. We learned that Ghana has approximately 300 miles of coastline proving that Ghana alone has over 6,000 villages along its coastline for us to sell our innovative stove. To go beyond that, looking at the continent of Africa alone, which as an estimated 16,000 miles of coastline, our company would be looking over 300,000 potential clients we would go to for just one of our product offerings.

What approaches to you use to reach your customers?

Identification of the most pressing needs of an area would be the very first element or activity that is required for us to succeed. Locating and defining where the most pressing needs are in a community would give us a very important, very real perspective on what the people living under the poverty line actually need. Once we identify problem, our job would be to devise the best possible solution. We would conduct all the necessary and proper testing measures to ensure the best results possible for our customers. Once we reach a design for a solution we are content with, we will begin to market it for our customers and initiate proper distribution tactics.

What are your primary activities?

Our business aims to create solutions of the highest quality to ensure the better livelihood of our customers. We strive to create solutions which will impact the greater good of third world communities. By creating high end offerings at low costs, we will make better living a reality to those who would have never thought possible. We will explore the more reoccurring issues which third world communities face today, and create a collection of solutions which these communities purchase from.

Who are your peers and competitors? What problems could these players pose to your success or growth?

Our peers and competitors are mostly NGOs that give handouts in the form of "aid" to these impoverished nations and peoples, however the improved quality of life as a result of the handout only lasts for as long as the handout. We seek to implement living solutions that empower these people to raise their standard of living without a handout, so that the difference made lasts for generations and can be potentially improved upon further.

What other challenges - individual, organizational, or environmental – are you currently facing or might hinder future success of your business, and how do you plan to overcome those?

Identification of the most pressing needs of an area would be the very first element or activity that is required for us to succeed. Locating and defining where the most pressing needs are in a community would give us a very important, very real perspective on what the people living under the poverty line actually need. Once we identify problem, our job would be to devise the best possible solution. We would conduct all the necessary and proper testing measures to ensure the best results possible for our customers. Once we reach a design for a solution we are content with, we will begin to market it for our customers and initiate proper distribution tactics.

Briefly describe your growth strategy going forward

We are working hard to increase our product pallet and create the vital connections with some of the largest third world communities across the globe. These connections will enable us to grow.

What dimensions for growth are you currently targeting for your innovation [select all that apply]

New regions(s), New market(s)/country(ies).

What makes your business "ready" for growth?

We will scale our business by not only getting a stronghold in large third world communities, but creating important and exclusive partnerships. The more communities we begin to serve, the greater the revenue we build on.

What are your key growth objectives?

Our company envisions a future where the standard of living in the third world is equal to that of the developed nations. We strive to innovate and offer the best solutions possible to achieve this goal. Through the plethora of options our company would be able to provide, rural communities would be able to better their living standards.

What is your timeframe for growth, in the short and mid-term? What are the growth milestones and key activities going forward?

Within the next one year, we hope to complete the testing phase for our initial product offering of the more efficient stove. We also expect to establish partnerships with existing micro-financing firms to be able to offer our solutions in a low cost fashion.

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What has been the impact of your solution to date?

We are currently still in ideation phase and are in the process of establishing our company. Through the funding this competition would bring, we would able to about bringing our solutions to reality.

What methods for quantification of social impact are you applying (if at all)?

We hope to quantify our social impact based on the number of communities our solutions are implemented. The strength of our business is that we power entire communities, not just the individuals.

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

Since we will offer a broad pallet of solutions, we have no geographic or regional restrictions. Based on the community's needs, we would place the necessary solutions. For example, with our initial product of the stove, this stove could be utilized anywhere, not just the third world coastal regions of world.

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

We hope to empower the main third world communities in the next 3 years. This would mean having our solutions established in locations like Ghana, Kenya, Sudan and more.

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Elaborate on your current financing strategy

Our goal is to partner with a preexisting micro-financing firm early on, removing the need for us to create an entire infrastructure. Because of our partnership with other firms with access to existing micro-financing infrastructure this would allow our group to focus completely on the development and testing of physical solutions that we deem desirable/attainable. In just our first “solution” a new stove design aimed at better fuel efficiency and lowering negative impact on health of the current design, we estimate an initial cost/labor cost of around $200 US, and anticipate charging $300. $50 would go to a local individual who would be taught the idea, and the steps previously developed by us for implementing said solution. $30 would come back to our group where the capital would be spent on further testing of design solutions already in progress or possibly to jump start the process of creating more solutions on a and $20 would go to the partner firm with existing money networks.

Share of revenue generation in total income of organization (in percent)

20

Direct sales to patients or other beneficiaries (in percent)

60

Of the possible sources of these sales listed below, check all that apply to your current strategy

Private businesses, Other beneficiaries.

Licensing fees, e.g., for technology/franchise model (in percent)

10

Of the possible sources of these licensing opportunities listed below, check all that apply to your current strategy

基金会, Regional government, Others.

Service contract with organizations, e.g., government, NGOs (in percent)

10

Of the possible sources of the service contracts listed below, check all that apply to your current strategy

Private businesses.

Explain your revenue generation strategy in more detail

We would establish partnerships with existing micro-financing firms in order to be able to offer our high-living solutions in a low cost fashion. This would enable us to primarily focus on the widespread implementation of the physical solutions themselves. We will also partner with firms who express the same vision and ideology as our company does. The vision to eradicate third world problems is a global effort. We hope to create strategic alliances with other companies to distribute their solutions under our network. By charging a premium for doing so, this would not only bring in revenue, but expand the offerings we provide.

Share of philanthropy in total income of organization (in percent)

Philanthrophy strategies you are using

Explain your philanthropic approach in more detail

We currently do not have any plans for utilizing philanthropic efforts.

Expand on your selections; explain how you will sustain funding over the next 1-3 years.

The primary focus of the business is to scale vastly, ensuring the better livelihood of the many currently living under the poverty line. In order to scale at such a large scale, this would require the company to have a large quantity of trained experts ready to bring the solutions to reality. Our trained staff would then go out to the respective communities who purchased our solutions, establish the solution in that locale and train the inhabitants of that community how to go about using that solution. In order for all of this work without constraint, each of our solutions would be charged at a premium. Of the premium charged, part goes to trained expert, part goes to pay for any banking fees, and the remainder goes to the company.

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Developing and Empowering Rural Communities in Argentina

Created on 03/27/2013 by vtorassa

In Argentina, many rural communities are faced with the problems of inequality, resignation, apathy and isolation. Azul Solidario fosters social innovation through public-private partnership methodology and since 2005 has coordinated a rural development project (ProMeCER) that focuses on improving education, health, women’s empowerment and youth involvement. This integrated approach strengthens rural identity, promotes more sustainable rural development and helps prevent rural exodus to major cities.

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1. 名字

Veronica

姓氏

Torassa

Title

President/Coordinator

组织

组织名称

Asociación Civil Azul Solidario

网站

组织所在的国家/地区

Argentina

该组织在哪些国家/地区创造了社会影响力

Argentina

您的组织属于什么性质：

公益

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Developing and Empowering Rural Communities in Argentina

请选择最符合您的解决方案的阶段：

调整（下一步将着眼于地区性乃至全球性的影响）

What problem is your organization committed to solving? In particular, share what is innovative about your approach.

In Argentina, many rural communities are faced with the problems of inequality, resignation, apathy and isolation. Azul Solidario fosters social innovation through public-private partnership methodology and since 2005 has coordinated a rural development project (ProMeCER) that focuses on improving education, health, women’s empowerment and youth involvement. This integrated approach strengthens rural identity, promotes more sustainable rural development and helps prevent rural exodus to major cities.

What are your organization's top three priorities in the next year?

1. Strengthen current management structure with paid staff.
2. Reinforce current inter-institutional bonds and involve new peers from both private and public sectors.
3. Expand our donor network and improve our accountability and communication with them (fundraising strategy).

Your project

Project Support

Need #1

Peer Benchmarking Analysis

Need #2

Consumer/Audience Acquisition

Based on your first choice of the eight technical categories you selected above, what is your specific project need? Please be specific!

In the last 8 years, Azul Solidario has worked to learn how to build a stronger organization and design sustainable fundraising campaigns. We are currently searching for advice on strategies to draw interest from a broader group of citizens, companies and government sector employees in order to improve our support network and sustainability.

What three characteristics or qualities do you prioritize in working relationships/partnerships?

1.

Trust/empathy

2.

Outreach (community involvement)

3.

Entrepreneurship

Will support from American Express be focused on your organization overall or a specific product/service? Please describe.

We would like to utilize support from American Express in order to address the 3 previously stated priorities.
1. Strengthen current management structure with paid staff.
2. Reinforce current inter-institutional bonds and involve new peers from both private and public sectors.
3. Expand our donor network and improve our accountability and communication with them (fundraising strategy).

Have you focused on the above area previously? If so, please explain, including whether you have worked with outside consultants before.

No. We have already formed a strategic plan but we are still seeking strategies to overcome our organizational scaling and its financial sustainability.

Are you able to commit 3-5 hours/wk over 10-12 weeks?

Yes

Are you able to meet virtually or at a convenient in-person location?

Yes

Are you able to meet in the city where your organization is based?

Yes

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Rank your three intended outcomes of this project:

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Local new partners (100 citizens and 10 companies)

2.

Regional & National partners (3 NGOs/ Foundations and 10 companies)

3.

Devise an efficient communication program

What has been the impact of your solution to date?

22 rural primary schools and 9 rural kindergartens have developed the personal, familiar and community links to become Changemakers in the areas of education, health, female empowerment, and environmental care.
1. Education. Children are receiving a well-rounded education with an enriched curriculum including arts, music, sports, computing and English.
2. Health. Approximately 500 children are involved in annual vaccination schemes and annual pediatric and odontopediatric rounds. In addition, health and nutrition education is provided through two exemplary organic orchards.
3. Female Empowerment. 32 rural women from 8 regions are involved in our sheep wool spinning and knitting project
4. Environmental Care. 4 sanitary wells have been built in farms to prevent hydatidosis.

What is your project future impact after receiving professional support from American Express?

We would like to utilize support from American Express in order to address the 3 previously stated priorities.

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Kijani Technology

Kijani Tecnology wants to bring renewable energy to every home on the planet. Heat is energy, and energy is what drives our world. By focusing on developing radically affordable solar energy collection we are positioning ourselves to do more than just provide electricity to the world, we are providing energy and what we can do with energy is only limited by our imaginations.

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Climate Access: Building a network of climate leaders

Created on 03/26/2013 by mherr

Not nearly enough progress has been made in addressing climate change despite scientific consensus and the many solutions at our disposal. Climate leaders in nonprofit organizations and government agencies need effective tools to deal with opponents, mobilize diverse constituencies, shift energy behaviors, and prepare for climate impacts.

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The Resource Innovation Group

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United States, OR, Eugene

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United States

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Climate Access: Building a network of climate leaders

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What problem is your organization committed to solving? In particular, share what is innovative about your approach.

Not nearly enough progress has been made in addressing climate change despite scientific consensus and the many solutions at our disposal. Climate leaders in nonprofit organizations and government agencies need effective tools to deal with opponents, mobilize diverse constituencies, shift energy behaviors, and prepare for climate impacts.

Climate Access is focused on improving the ability of climate leaders to engage the public in making the transition to low-carbon, resilient communities. We take an innovative “network of networks” approach and work to expand the base of support for climate action by providing practitioners with hands-on technical assistance, public engagement tools, problem-solving sessions, and training in climate communications and behavior change strategies.

What are your organization's top three priorities in the next year?

1. To diversify the base of support for climate action by determining how best to communicate about climate issues with stakeholders from low-income communities, youth groups, communities of color, faith groups, and public health associations.

2. To publish a strategic guide on engaging the public in preparing for climate impacts based on research findings and interviews with leading climate practitioners.

3. To develop in-person climate communication and behavior change training sessions in key locations where we have concentrations of Climate Access members and that offer strategic base-building opportunities.

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Project Support

Need #1

Opportunity Analysis

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!

We developed Climate Access to test our “network of networks” concept and ensure there was a demand for field building by key climate players. The concept has been strongly validated and demand is now far exceeding our capacity. In addition, we realize that we have only begun to scratch the surface of what is needed in terms of providing thought leadership, training, tools, opportunities for peer-learning exchanges, and campaign coordination. As we seek to grow and scale our impact, an analysis of our strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats as well as how to best generate sustainable funding for our initiative will help us succeed at this critical juncture.

The network currently consists of more than 1,500 practitioners from nonprofit organizations, government agencies, and academic institutions primarily in the US and Canada, but also includes members in 40 other countries. Our small team would benefit greatly from the expertise of an American Express executive to help us develop a new strategic and financial plan aimed at expanding services to our existing membership and reaching an even wider network in the pursuit of public engagement and climate solutions.

What three characteristics or qualities do you prioritize in working relationships/partnerships?

1.

Shared vision

2.

Open communication

3.

Commitment

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 Climate Access network, which is an initiative of The Resource Innovation Group’s Social Capital Project.

Have you focused on the above area previously? If so, please explain, including whether you have worked with outside consultants before.

Our team developed the launch strategy for the Climate Access Network (www.climateaccess.org). Our advisory board reviewed the strategy; however, no external consultants were involved. We did work with design consultants when creating the site and continue to hire developers when needed.

The launch strategy served us well but must be updated to reflect network growth, funding needs, competitive efforts, and opportunities for collaboration. We are interested in determining how to add fee-based member services and in exploring opportunities for funding from corporate foundations.

Are you able to commit 3-5 hours/wk over 10-12 weeks?

Yes

Are you able to meet virtually or at a convenient in-person location?

Yes

Are you able to meet in the city where your organization is based?

Yes

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Rank your three intended outcomes of this project:

1.

Develop tools and training programs to help climate leaders build public support for climate policies and energy programs.

2.

Determine the most effective ways for climate leaders to communicate about reducing and preparing for climate impacts.

3.

Track best practices in the field to accelerate learning and incorporate into the skill-building and technical support programs.

What has been the impact of your solution to date?

In our first 18 months, we engaged 1,500 leaders from the most influential nonprofit and government agencies in the US and Canada. They are using our tools, training programs, and technical services and are seeing greater success as a result. For example, WWF used our work to create the Earth Hour City Challenge. We worked with ICLEI to help address attacks to local sustainability and climate plans from those opposed to the UN Agenda 21. And we pulled network members together in the wake of events such as Hurricane Sandy, to help these climate leaders develop a public response. Our guides are used by thousands of practitioners and as a result, our recommendations, such as using the term climate disruption and adopting a climate preparation frame are shaping the public conversation.

What is your project future impact after receiving professional support from American Express?

The American Express Serve2Gether professional support will allow us to develop a new strategic and financial plan for Climate Access so we can meet the needs of our current members, as well as expand our efforts. In particular, this planning effort will provide the foundation to help us launch a national, in-person climate communication and behavior change training program so we can accelerate the ability of practitioners to build public support for climate action. Through this program, we will be sharing our insights on how to connect with the public around climate impacts and leverage that concern to drive efforts to reduce carbon. Finally, we will be able to increase our ability to track and measure the effectiveness of efforts we have contributed to as well as to the field as a whole.

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KIDS OWN WISDOM

Created on 03/26/2013 by Kids' Own Wisdom

Brain science confirms: Humans are hard-wired at birth to empathize + to cooperate. So, why do we see rampant dysfunction and disconnection between people, nations, and the environment? Failure to engage + exercise inborn sensitivity to the interconnectedness of all life on earth is a major factor.

As with any natural born talent or skill, deep-seated tendencies (to empathize, etc.) need to be consistently drawn out and exercised for authentic development + integration. Lectures, at a certain point, are counter-productive.

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Kids' Own Wisdom

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United States, CA, Sausalito, Marin County

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United States, CA, Sausalito, Marin County

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What problem is your organization committed to solving? In particular, share what is innovative about your approach.

Brain science confirms: Humans are hard-wired at birth to empathize + to cooperate. So, why do we see rampant dysfunction and disconnection between people, nations, and the environment? Failure to engage + exercise inborn sensitivity to the interconnectedness of all life on earth is a major factor.

As with any natural born talent or skill, deep-seated tendencies (to empathize, etc.) need to be consistently drawn out and exercised for authentic development + integration. Lectures, at a certain point, are counter-productive.

KOW's researched + tested, wide-ranging, open-ended questions engage groups of students in relevant, age-appropriate, enthusiastic discussions that consistently activate + consolidate emotional intelligence, critical thinking + win-win problem solving abilities.

What are your organization's top three priorities in the next year?

1. To be recognized and respected as change agents in the area of social-emotional learning that spurs creative critical thinking, throughout the United States, other English-speaking countries, and Spanish speaking-countries, as well. (KOW is currently in the final stages of being professionally translated into Spanish.) We will achieve recognition and respect through: expansion of our materials into many more schools, speaking engagements, more active social media, creating mutually supportive professional alliances, and publication of a book (in the works) that describes the rational, research and results behind the design and unique approach of KIDS' OWN WISDOM.

2. Within a year: develop, classroom test and start selling the next 2-4 levels of KIDS' OWN WISDOM. (Our goal is to produce at least 10 more levels of KIDS' OWN WISDOM, serving all children, 4-15 years of age.)

3. To enlist adequate numbers of qualified sales representatives / trainers (preferably former or current teachers).

Your project

Project Support

Need #1

Message & Brand Strategy

Need #2

Digital Marketing Strategy

Based on your first choice of the eight technical categories you selected above, what is your specific project need? Please be specific!

Our most pressing specific project need is to develop a stand-out presence in the Early Childhood Education (ECE) market with a powerfully compelling/coherent message that positions KIDS' OWN WISDOM (KOW) as the uniquely valuable resource it has proven itself to be. Once KOW gains national recognition, advanced levels of the program can be produced and distributed.

In addition to the logo we recently acquired, the following would help to create the stand-out presence KOW deserves: √ Consistent brand messaging that reflects KOW's vision and values, as well as its short and long-range benefits √ A more effective web site, capable of securely accepting credit cards √ Search engine optimization
√ Podcasting √ Video series √ Social media management √ Database integration

What three characteristics or qualities do you prioritize in working relationships/partnerships?

1.

Shared values as the basis of solid trust.

2.

Mutual respect for different, complementary strengths, making it possible to achieve far more than we could separately.

3.

Open, honest communication that prioritizes Big Picture goal of bringing KOW to maximum number of schools, worldwide.

Will support from American Express be focused on your organization overall or a specific product/service? Please describe.

Our organization, overall, is in need of solid business savvy in the following areas:

1.) Marketing the cumulative, multi-dimensional benefits derived from regular use of KIDS' OWN WISDOM.

2.) Accounting and database integration.

3.) Forging professional alliances, creating speaking engagements, interviews, etc.

... I'm completely open to guidance about what other activities and achievements are necessary to promote progress in this area.

Have you focused on the above area previously? If so, please explain, including whether you have worked with outside consultants before.

I have given some attention to the above area, but never in a consistent way, because I had no confidence in how to achieve significant results. I've never formally worked with outside consultants, but the time is now for professional business guidance.

Are you able to commit 3-5 hours/wk over 10-12 weeks?

Yes

Are you able to meet virtually or at a convenient in-person location?

Yes

Are you able to meet in the city where your organization is based?

Yes

影响

Rank your three intended outcomes of this project:

1.

To rank as one of the most highly regarded approaches to impacting significant growth in empathy + critical thinking skills.

2.

To be internationally adopted as a tool for sparking and engaging kids' capacity to think + collaboratively problem solve.

3.

To activate the positive potential of education + to counter-balance the "standardizing" effect of most educational systems.

What has been the impact of your solution to date?

With accurate and consistent implementation of KIDS' OWN WISDOM, teachers report: (1) More cooperation between students during indoor and outdoor activities = reduced bullying, reduced cheating, reduced pushing. (2) Even the most shy students participate in, and contribute to, KOW discussions - a crucial and important school readiness/success skill. (3) Distinct carry-over influence, both short and long-term, at taking more personal responsibility for decisions and choices. (4) Reduced need for repetition of instructions and behavior modification. (5) Marked increase in children's awareness, empathy and sensitivity towards others.

What is your project future impact after receiving professional support from American Express?

Functioning within the guidelines of a legitimate and successful business model will enable us to more quickly achieve one of our major goals: to donate KIDS' OWN WISDOM resources to schools, after school programs, institutions, etc, that cannot afford to purchase them.

We fully expect to be adopted in developing nations, as well as developed nations, and we project powerful alliance building with organizations that demonstrate similar values and results. Examples of 3 organizations we'd love to coordinate efforts with: Ashesi University Foundation, in Ghana (http://www.ashesi.org/), Shanti Children's Foundation, in Nepal (http://www.shantichildrensfoundation.org), and The Communiversity of South Africa (http://www.thecommuniversityofsouthafrica.com/).

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OneFarm: Localising farm advisory services and enabling access to smallholder farmers on Mobile phone

Created on 03/23/2013 by vijay.aditya

Ekgaon is working to enable access to information and services to under-served markets primarily rural. The focus is to enable those services which support rural livelihoods and increase competitive advantage of rural artisans and farmers in the market. OneFarm is agriculture advisory service focussing on providing farmers advisory services localised for there land and crop (and variety), customised to there micro-climate and personalised to be delivered on there mobile phone in text or voice in local language.

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Aditya

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Ekgaon Technologies

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组织所在的国家/地区

India, DL, New Delhi

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India, TN, Nagapattinam, Cuddalore

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What problem is your organization committed to solving? In particular, share what is innovative about your approach.

Ekgaon is working to enable access to information and services to under-served markets primarily rural. The focus is to enable those services which support rural livelihoods and increase competitive advantage of rural artisans and farmers in the market. OneFarm is agriculture advisory service focussing on providing farmers advisory services localised for there land and crop (and variety), customised to there micro-climate and personalised to be delivered on there mobile phone in text or voice in local language. OneFarm platform provides weather forecast, crop management, soil nutrient management, disease alert, market prices, networking with inputs suppliers and supply chain integration, while helping reduce fertiliser and pesticide usage by 30% and increase farm productivity by 15%.

What are your organization's top three priorities in the next year?

Our top three priorities for next year are

1) Secure growth funding for the company
2) Scaling OneFarm services across geographies and crops/varieties
3) Build business development and customer support team for customer acquisition and support

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Need #1

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Based on your first choice of the eight technical categories you selected above, what is your specific project need? Please be specific!

Consumer/Audience Acquisition:
We seek to scale our services to new markets (geographies), crucial for the same are strategic channel partnership for distribution and outreach of our services across remote rural distribution networks/franchisees of various companies. We also need to identify strategies for building our own franchisee/distribution network, franchisee retention strategy and customer retention strategies.

Message & Brand Strategy:

OneFarm is a highly customised service for individual farmer and his/her farm. This is the distinguishing feature of the service against the prevailing competition. We want to place the project USP amongst the stakeholders of the sector in such a way that its brand catches attention, recall and repeated customers, while also attract attention of other services providers who can utilise the platform/network thus created for accessing there services to the farmers.

What three characteristics or qualities do you prioritize in working relationships/partnerships?

1.

Focus on the customers satisfaction through service quality

2.

Synergy in mutuals goals for service/sector/customers

3.

Focus on sustainability of services and long term parnership

Will support from American Express be focused on your organization overall or a specific product/service? Please describe.

The support for American Express would focus on specific service, viz OneFarm only as per the identified areas of technical support. However some of the strategies could also have impact on over all organisations business planning, customer acquisition strategies and brand promotion.

Have you focused on the above area previously? If so, please explain, including whether you have worked with outside consultants before.

We have focussed on all these areas previously, however have never used any consultants for the same due funding constraints. However in other areas of our work such as crop content development, voice dubbing, translations of content in local language, we always use consultants.

Are you able to commit 3-5 hours/wk over 10-12 weeks?

Yes

Are you able to meet virtually or at a convenient in-person location?

Yes

Are you able to meet in the city where your organization is based?

Yes

影响

Rank your three intended outcomes of this project:

1.

More savings from reduced use of agri-inputs and increase income of the farmer

2.

Better crop management practices, improving soil and crop health, enhacing productivity

3.

Repeated customers for utilising OneFarm services

What has been the impact of your solution to date?

Over two years of impact assessment studies we have identified that farmers have been able to reduce usage of agri-inputs such as fertilizers and pesticides by over 30% while enhancing productivity by over 15%. The services could help save over 12 $ per farmer per crop season (2 acre farm) in agri-inputs (fertilizers & pesticides), healthy soil with enhanced farm productivity and hence better return on investment to farmers. The indirect impact on environment is by reduction of nitrogen poisoning due to over use of fertilizers in soil and water. The services has reached over to 300000 farmers, with active subscribers changing in each crop season. The service helps farmer diversify his/her farming with better choice of crop and variety as per market demand.

What is your project future impact after receiving professional support from American Express?

The future impact of the project could be larger on the small holder farmers if the proposed scale is reached. However this impact would be both a factor of right amount of investment as well as professional support. If the professional support helps to create strategic partnerships which would help scale without requiring much investment then the prospects of scale and impact could be much wider. For example a partnership with a mobile network operators could be potentially beneficial partnership, which would help get both scale as well as larger sustained revenues.

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Alertfy - ONE Button Alert Alarm System

Created on 03/21/2013 by duketive

The world population is rapidly ageing. Between 2000 and 2050, the proportion of the world's population over 60 years will double from about 11% to 22%. The absolute number of people aged 60 years and over is expected to increase from 605 million to 2 billion over the same period.

Alertfy is a ONE button alert alarm system that is a wireless, plug & play alert alarm panic button for use within the house/home. Enhancing the integration and living between generations and caregiver thus ensuring a peace of mind.

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组织名称

Safety Empowers

网站

组织所在的国家/地区

Singapore

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Singapore

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What problem is your organization committed to solving? In particular, share what is innovative about your approach.

The world population is rapidly ageing. Between 2000 and 2050, the proportion of the world's population over 60 years will double from about 11% to 22%. The absolute number of people aged 60 years and over is expected to increase from 605 million to 2 billion over the same period.

Alertfy is a ONE button alert alarm system that is a wireless, plug & play alert alarm panic button for use within the house/home. Enhancing the integration and living between generations and caregiver thus ensuring a peace of mind.

Comprising of a receiver (Light/Sound Alert) and a Battery free button, using energy harvesting technology. Imagine this, when you need help/assistance, you run out of battery? or there is a battery leak?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mcyOQM4l7Jc

What are your organization's top three priorities in the next year?

We want to become a leader in consumer applications for the Sliver market.
The following are our top priorities for 2013
- Selection of a manufacture
- Distribution channels
- Goto Market

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Project Support

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!

Message & Brand Strategy:
- To develop a product diffraction & value message/plan for greater impact as the solution is simple but there is practical needs for it.
- Growth planning guidance, building a company to growth.

What three characteristics or qualities do you prioritize in working relationships/partnerships?

1.

Relationship

2.

Ethics

3.

Integrity

Will support from American Express be focused on your organization overall or a specific product/service? Please describe.

The core will be the product "Alertfy" but the base is within our organisation, which will have a domino effect from American Express support and assistance.

Have you focused on the above area previously? If so, please explain, including whether you have worked with outside consultants before.

Yes, we have work closely with
- Manufacturing partners , costing and to market plans
- Educational Providers (Nanyang Polytechnic ), electronics and incubation

Are you able to commit 3-5 hours/wk over 10-12 weeks?

No

Are you able to meet virtually or at a convenient in-person location?

Yes

Are you able to meet in the city where your organization is based?

Yes

影响

Rank your three intended outcomes of this project:

1.

Manufacturing of product

2.

Marketing of product

3.

Launch the product

What has been the impact of your solution to date?

There is a need and instresed buyes for our solution, the key is the price Vs. Design element http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NZT2D8rbSd8

What is your project future impact after receiving professional support from American Express?

Goto market, i have a product with your help, helping caregivers/family members to do daily chores and spend time doing their personal thing, while the person needing assistive care or elderly can get assistance by pressing the button when needed.

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Alertfy - ONE Button Alert Alarm System

Created on 03/21/2013 by duketive

Alertfy is a ONE button alert alarm system that is a wireless, plug & play alert alarm panic button for use within the house/home. Enhancing the integration and living between generations and caregiver thus ensuring a peace of mind.

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组织名称

Safety Empowers

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Singapore

Organization's Country of Operation

Singapore

Type of Organization

未注册

Year of launch of the organization

2011

Years in Operation

不到 1 年

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

We want to hear about your “Aha!” moment. Share the story of where and when the founder(s) saw this solution’s potential to change the world.

My dad got a stroke not long ago, my mum had to take care of him and the household, there was no solutions to help us. Also the world population is rapidly ageing, the proportion of the world's population over 60 years will double from about 11% to 22%. A call for assistive technology.

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Alertfy - ONE Button Alert Alarm System

Explain what the "innovation" is about, e.g., is it the idea and/or the model you use to accomplish the idea, or your understanding of the target population, etc.?

The world population is rapidly ageing. Between 2000 and 2050, the proportion of the world's population over 60 years will double from about 11% to 22%. The absolute number of people aged 60 years and over is expected to increase from 605 million to 2 billion over the same period.

Alertfy is a ONE button alert alarm system that is a wireless, plug & play alert alarm panic button for use within the house/home. Enhancing the integration and living between generations and caregiver thus ensuring a peace of mind.

Comprising of a receiver (Light/Sound Alert) and a Battery free button, using energy harvesting technology. Imagine this, when you need help/assistance, you run out of battery? or there is a battery leak?

Describe how your innovation model is distinct from any other organization in your field?

There are a number of competitors in the market with the following disadvantages: Cost
• Expensive solutions ($300-500)
• Subscription services

Practicality
• Must recharged battery

Our value is a perfect balance of cost vs. practicality.

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

Message & Brand Strategy:
- To develop a product diffraction & value message/plan for greater impact as the solution is simple but there is practical needs for it.

How do you make sure you constantly innovate in light of (potential) external challenges, or your growth plan?

We have taken a very systematic approach towards the product development, we have a competent team of engineers to help us innovate and a strong community manager always seeking feedback.

Our growth plans include global distribution channels and product enhancements to include other features when have been started.

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The systemic challenge you are trying to overcome (select one)

Realign the incentives in the public healthcare system in mature markets, or

Health area (target market) where the need is [select only one]

Other specialty care

Categories along the health continuum you are covering [select all that apply]

Long-term care, Social integration.

Please describe in more detail: what problem are you trying to solve in the organization's specific context?

SINGAPORE may suffer the most among Asian economies from an ageing population, with the average growth in economic output falling more than 40 per cent over the next 25 years. The Republic is set to be the world's third- fastest ageing nation, as the proportion of those aged 65 and above will double to 20 per cent in 2020.

Caregivers/family members can proceed to do daily chores and spend time doing their personal thing, while the person needing assistive care or elderly can get assistance by pressing the button when needed.

Enhancing the integration and living between generations and caregiver thus ensuring a peace of mind.

Stage that best applies to your solution [select only one]

Start-up and growth (pilot is successful and starting to expand)

Core strategies of your business model [select all that apply]

Patient-centered design.

If other, specify here:

Most relevant tools you are using to implement the strategies outlined above [select only two]

Technology.

If other, specify here:

Please describe your solution in more detail

Alertfy is a ONE button alert alarm system that is a wireless, plug & play alert alarm panic button for use within the house/home. Enhancing the integration and living between generations and caregiver thus ensuring a peace of mind. Comprising of a receiver (Light/Sound Alert) and a Battery free button, using energy harvesting technology. Imagine this, when you need help/assistance, you run out of battery? or there is a battery leak? Caregivers/family members can proceed to do daily chores and spend time doing their personal thing, while the person needing assistive care or elderly can get assistance by pressing the button when needed.

What are your vision and overall objectives?

We want to become a leader in consumer applications for the Sliver market.
The following are our top priorities for 2013
- Selection of a manufacturer
- Distribution channels
- Goto Market

The business model is direct sales. Based on current manufacturing cost, we plan to sell the devices below $50, with a base cost price at $20 for 8000 units. Our value is the long term cost savings and the promotion of intergrated care.

What is your value proposition?

Our value is the long term cost savings and the promotion of intergrated care. The 3 key benefits:
• Maintenance free
• Longer Lifespan
• Feel safe and secure

Who is your customer(s)?

Our customers:
- Caregivers
- Family members
- Hospitals/Community groups (Package as a caregiver assistance package after discharged)

What approaches to you use to reach your customers?

We leveraging on the following methods:
- Distribution partners
- In-house Marketing/Sales
- Community Events
- Government based programmes

What are your primary activities?

Technology development, sales and marketing.

Who are your peers and competitors? What problems could these players pose to your success or growth?

There are a number of competitors in the market with the following disadvantages: Cost
• Expensive solutions ($300-500)
• Subscription services

Practicality
• Must recharged battery

Design
• Ugly

Our value is a perfect balance of cost vs. practicality.

What other challenges - individual, organizational, or environmental – are you currently facing or might hinder future success of your business, and how do you plan to overcome those?

Message & Brand Strategy, to develop a product differentiation & value message/plan for greater impact as the solution is simple but there is practical needs for it.
We value our realationship with the following partners:
- Manufacturing partners , costing and to market plans
- Educational Providers (Nanyang Polytechnic ), electronics and incubation

Briefly describe your growth strategy going forward

We are also seeking funding to support the manufacturing, which is the main expenses. The following are our top priorities for 2013.

- Selection of a manufacturer
- Distribution channels
- Goto Market

We have also invested into the future with our product lifecycle planning,

What dimensions for growth are you currently targeting for your innovation [select all that apply]

New customer group(s), New market(s)/country(ies).

What makes your business "ready" for growth?

Yet to launch, Singapre will be our home base, within the next 6 months, we will also be looking at internation distrubution networks.

What are your key growth objectives?

We want to become a leader in consumer applications/innovations for the Sliver market.

What is your timeframe for growth, in the short and mid-term? What are the growth milestones and key activities going forward?

The following are our milestones:

- Secure Funding
- Selection of a manufacturer
- Distribution channels
- Goto Local Market (V1)
- Goto Overseas Market (V1)
- Improvement (GSM/GPRS)
- Goto Local Market (V2)
- Goto Overseas Market (V2)

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What has been the impact of your solution to date?

Very good feedback, cost effective and practical.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NZT2D8rbSd8

What methods for quantification of social impact are you applying (if at all)?

Alertfy is a ONE button alert alarm system that is a wireless, plug & play alert alarm panic button for use within the house/home. Enhancing the integration and living between generations and caregiver thus ensuring a peace of mind.

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

Anywhere with a power socket, 110V-240V.

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

Enhancing the integration and living between generations and caregiver thus ensuring a peace of mind.

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Elaborate on your current financing strategy

$50,000 secured via funders.
Seeking another $50,000. To offset initial production cost of 4000 pcs at $80,000.

Share of revenue generation in total income of organization (in percent)

60

Direct sales to patients or other beneficiaries (in percent)

40

Of the possible sources of these sales listed below, check all that apply to your current strategy

个人, Patients, Caregivers, Private businesses, Other beneficiaries.

Licensing fees, e.g., for technology/franchise model (in percent)

0

Of the possible sources of these licensing opportunities listed below, check all that apply to your current strategy

Service contract with organizations, e.g., government, NGOs (in percent)

0

Of the possible sources of the service contracts listed below, check all that apply to your current strategy

Explain your revenue generation strategy in more detail

The business model is direct sales. Based on current manufacturing cost, we plan to sell the devices below $50, with a base cost price at $20 for 4000 units.

Share of philanthropy in total income of organization (in percent)

Philanthrophy strategies you are using

Explain your philanthropic approach in more detail

Expand on your selections; explain how you will sustain funding over the next 1-3 years.

Urban Bulbs

Created on 03/14/2013 by dear.abril.pena@gmail.com

Urban Bulbs is a program that starts green roofs on top of school buildings.

reap benefit

Created on 03/10/2013 by reapbenefit

Reap Benefit works with the motto of “Making Green a habit”. Engaging individuals across Schools, Colleges and Organisations , we strive to bring tangible changes in the areas of Energy, Waste, Water and Bio Diversity .We strongly focus on low cost innovation and systemic changes as a driver for personal transformation. We believe that if right “green” habits, are inculcated in it will have a ripple effect in all forms of life. This not only would provide practical support/framework but also drive quantifiable environmental, social and financial benefits.

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Reap Benefit

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India, KA, Bangalore

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India, KA

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发展（从试行步入正轨，并开始扩展）

What problem is your organization committed to solving? In particular, share what is innovative about your approach.

Reap Benefit works with the motto of “Making Green a habit”. Engaging individuals across Schools, Colleges and Organisations , we strive to bring tangible changes in the areas of Energy, Waste, Water and Bio Diversity .We strongly focus on low cost innovation and systemic changes as a driver for personal transformation. We believe that if right “green” habits, are inculcated in it will have a ripple effect in all forms of life. This not only would provide practical support/framework but also drive quantifiable environmental, social and financial benefits.

As a social enterprise working to co-innovate and co-implement solutions for issues/optimization-opportunities on campuses in the areas of waste management, water and energy usage, and dwindling biodiversity with the participants.

What are your organization's top three priorities in the next year?

1-Expand distribution networks for De-grade ( low cost organic enzyme for composting) negating organic-waste-management issues in about 10,000 households .

2- Expand into 50 government schools, 30 private schools and bring tangible changes in waste,water,energy and bio diversity and personal transformation

3- Develop the patent pending energy efficiency software for computers, develop water visualizer tool, develop enzyme to accelerate bio gas production,develop an app for local bio diversity mapping

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Your project

Project Support

Need #1

Message & Brand Strategy

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!

As mentioned Reap Benefit is a social enterprise which focuses on environmental innovations in four categories of energy,waste,water and bio diversity. We serve both for-profits (private educational institutions and businesses) and non-profits (government schools, other NGOs and bodies). Today, we have worked with 85+ educational institutions, 30 organisations, conducted 3 pivotal research projects, co-developed a composting-solution (D’grade ) and en-route to file our first few patents. We are bound to Innovation and Empowerment as core values.

As an organisation with a diverse focus and a plethora of choices to embrace sustainability sometimes the message of the organisation is lost. We are unable to develop a consistent brand which occupies a steady mind share in our potential customer irrespective of profile,age and requirement. It is imperative for an organisation like ours to develop a robust brand in a specialized field of environment as a one stop shop for innovative low cost solution with a strong human focus to sustainability. In the long run having a well defined brand message, position and strategy will give an added edge but will make all communication effective.

What three characteristics or qualities do you prioritize in working relationships/partnerships?

1.

Commitment

2.

Empathy

3.

Creativity

Will support from American Express be focused on your organization overall or a specific product/service? Please describe.

It will be focused on over all organisational branding of environmental innovations and services to educational institutions both private and government, organisations both ngo's, government bodies and corporate. Once we are able to have a well defined strategy of the overall organisation then we would like specific consultation for our low cost composting enzyme De'grade.

The main focus would be long term brand of Reap Benefit, the message the brand delivers, the position in the minds of the stakeholders and the brand delivery

Have you focused on the above area previously? If so, please explain, including whether you have worked with outside consultants before.

No. As we are making the shift we feel there is a need for uniform and enhanced communication with are stakeholders

Are you able to commit 3-5 hours/wk over 10-12 weeks?

Yes

Are you able to meet virtually or at a convenient in-person location?

Yes

Are you able to meet in the city where your organization is based?

Yes

影响

Rank your three intended outcomes of this project:

1.

Well Defined Brand of Reap Benefit

2.

Easier Internal Branding with interns and employees

3.

Defined communication strategy

What has been the impact of your solution to date?

1. Closely worked with 12000 students directly and 100,000 youngsters indirectly in the year 2012-Feb 2013
2.Reduced carbon footprint by 80.5 tonnes of CO2
3.Diverting 122 tonnes of solid waste from the landfills
4. Involved in a research on power savings in computers which was presented to a major IT company yielding a potential savings of Rs 1,00,000/- per month
5.About 10 working Water Barrels in multiple institutions collect about 50 liters/day each allowing 500 liters to be reused every day
6.Saved 3000 liters of water a day in one and 1kwh of electricity through simple interventions
7. Build Low cost sanitation facilities from discarded plastic for boys and girls in Government schools
8.Worked with 6000+students in 5 days on Solid Waste Management for students.

What is your project future impact after receiving professional support from American Express?

1-Be recognized as the most innovative eco-solution provider for anyone
2-Expand distribution networks for D’grade negating organic-waste-management
3-Expand completely into 2 networks with 600+ Government schools and draw a co-relation between sanitation and school drop out in 3 years
4-Reduce per-house water-energy consumption by 20% as a service
5-Expand and serve new areas/needs/customers deepening our impact and experience
6-Allow our eco-clubs/students/participants leverage innovations through the support of Eco Clubs

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A Kids Day At The Park: Making Kids Environmentally Aware

Created on 03/9/2013 by stephanie.davidson

I am planning on initiating a program to increase environmental awareness in elementary school students. This program will be led by my high school's environmental program so that both sides will have an increased appreciation for our environment.

Enviro Spinnovations

Enviro Spinnovations Inc. (ESI) is a technology development company that innovates, develops and offers green, sustainable, clean technologies in the area of purification/desalination of water. This project is proposed because the need for clean water is a pressing global problem that must be addressed. Nearly 1 billion people worldwide do not have access to clean drinking water and this number is growing every day. ESI believes that clean water should be a right not a privilege and we plan to make this a reality.

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Farming for Conservation

Farming for conservation entails a new paradigm: shifting the focus away from protecting the environment from farmers, to investing in farming as a way to enhance the delivery of a wide range of public goods and services. It is highly innovative in terms of the measures adopted, the simplicity of approach and the output based payment system. It has been piloted in a highly complex protected landscape of the Burren and has proven envirnmental, agricultural and socio economic benefits.

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TGIF - Turn Grease Into Fuel, which collects waste cooking oil (WCO) from residents and restaurants and refines it into biodiesel. Then the biofuel is distributed to financially stressed families.

Created: 03/05/13 by jason lin

位置

Westerly
United States
41° 22' 39.3564" N, 71° 49' 38.2332" W
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The team convinced five towns / cities in RI and CT to place 10 WCO receptacles at their transfer stations. They distributed thousands of flyers / calendars and made over 50 presentations to students and adults. The project partnered with grease collectors, biodiesel refiners, and local charities to collect, refine and distribute biofuel to needy families. With 122 restaurants participating in the program, TGIF has collected 130,000 gallons of WCO and produced 100,000 gallons of biodiesel, which has helped heat 210 homes to date.

BOULD

Created on 03/5/2013 by sgring

With the growing demand/requirement for green in design and construction, the building industry is experiencing challenges finding a qualified workforce. This bottleneck is due to a lack of entry-level green project experience available for professionals and students.

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Gring

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组织名称

BOULD

网站

组织所在的国家/地区

United States, CO, Lakewood, Denver County

该组织在哪些国家/地区创造了社会影响力

United States, CO, Denver, Denver County

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What problem is your organization committed to solving? In particular, share what is innovative about your approach.

With the growing demand/requirement for green in design and construction, the building industry is experiencing challenges finding a qualified workforce. This bottleneck is due to a lack of entry-level green project experience available for professionals and students.

Thus, BOULD partners with community projects (ie a Habitat for Humanity home) and transforms it into a hands-on green building education experience for developing professionals and students. We connect a cohort of emerging architects, engineers, and builders seeking entry-level access to a local green project to capture that difficult to find green building experience -- while also building green, affordable homes for low-income families!

What are your organization's top three priorities in the next year?

Our company’s top three priorities are to:
1) Establish partnerships with schools, workforce centers, and building industry firms to develop a consistent pipeline of participants to receive our crucial green building training.
2) Expand our programming to 10 new major municipalities, serving 800 new students and supporting 100 new affordable homes.
3) Continue building new programming and piloting new delivery methods (online, condensed) .

Your project

Project Support

Need #1

Consumer/Audience Acquisition

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!

BOULD is currently transitioning from a direct sales model -- to a partnership model with schools, universities, and businesses. Historically, the programming has be sold directly to consumers, interested in filling their professional "experience gap." This model was tough, given the amount of effort it took to attract, then sell each individual consumer. Thus moving forward, BOULD is developing a partnership model to work directly with major universities and community colleges to embed this crucial programming into undergraduate education. This route will streamline our operations and revenue cycle -- in that, we will be working with only one payment agent (the school) and we can anticipate a consistent crop of committed participants. We're currently exploring the structure of those relationships with 5 schools across 2 states -- and constantly learning about how to effectively navigate school/university relationships.

What three characteristics or qualities do you prioritize in working relationships/partnerships?

1.

Trust/ Transparency

2.

Excellence

3.

Win-Win

Will support from American Express be focused on your organization overall or a specific product/service? Please describe.

The support will be targeted on how BOULD navigates partnerships with schools/workforce centers/veterans/local governments to source program participants.

Have you focused on the above area previously? If so, please explain, including whether you have worked with outside consultants before.

BOULD has worked with other social entrepreneurial accelerators to help refine our business model. However, we have never specifically tried to tackle this problem with a group of consultants. We have tried to approach these different groups with our internal team, but have had very little success to formalize a partnership.

Are you able to commit 3-5 hours/wk over 10-12 weeks?

Yes

Are you able to meet virtually or at a convenient in-person location?

Yes

Are you able to meet in the city where your organization is based?

Yes

影响

Rank your three intended outcomes of this project:

1.

Establish Clear Strategy/Plan and Begin Executing on Building Formal Partner Relationships

2.

Benchmark our Product Against Online Competitors to Focus our Branding

3.

Receive Feedback to Continue Refining our Model

What has been the impact of your solution to date?

225 Professionals graduated. We're focused equipping the next generation building professional with the skills and experience required to tackle the environmental challenges of today. Down the line, we're aiming build up a job placement pipeline -- and measure jobs created -- but presently, we're laser focused on building a better-trained and qualified work force. By 2015, we plan to have trained 800 professionals.

27 Affordable green Homes built. Each of the projects we transform into our "learning laboratories," ultimately becomes an affordable home for a low-income family. And, because we take additional green steps and have support from program participants -- these homes are incredibly affordable and environmentally friendly. By 2015, we plan to have supported 150 homes.

What is your project future impact after receiving professional support from American Express?

BOULD impact could double with the help and support of this program. Once we are able to establish and build out long lasting partnerships with institutions, we believe we can train 1,600 students and build over 300 LEED homes for low-income families by the end of 2014.

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Nalda Comunidad cuidadora

Trabajaremos con una metodología de implicación de toda la comunidad en las soluciones a las situaciones que impidan la salud física, siquica o social de alguno de los miembros. Bien resolviendo el problema o paliandolo a corto plazo
El enfoque de derechos civiles en todas las edades de la vida y la implicación como sociedad civil organizada

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Miss Earth BVI Pageant

Apart from a strong emphasis on environmental protection programs, MISS EARTH BVI also aims to showcase and promote territory as a tourist destination. Every year, 6 candidates from all over the British Virgin Islands will compete on beauty and knowledge of environmental issues. The winner of MISS EARTH BVI will serve as the Ambassador to environmental protection campaigns throughout the territory.

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i-Solarlite

With the help of our partner organisations, i-Solarlite aims to eradicate the usage of dangerous kerosene lighting or candles. It has also been found that daily usage of solar lanterns has been able to double the household income of village families. They have been able to work during night which children attend night schools (in few of the cases) or are able to study at nights.

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psYOUconnect

Created on 02/4/2013 by sfulton

PsYOUconnect (www.psyouconnect.com) is an online platform created to connect individuals with oppportunities in their educational, social, and physical environment. The website is designed to serve as a resource for events, networks, and activities within the realm of social innovation and entrepreneurship, sustainability, local agriculture and the outdoors on the Penn State - University Park campus and in the surrounding State College community.

TGIF - Turn Grease Into Fuel

Created on 02/2/2013 by jasonlin

Project TGIF is a sustainable system designed to collect waste cooking oil (WCO) and convert it into bio-fuel. This renewable fuel will be distributed to local families in need of heating assistance.

The Real Conservator ( Documantery)

this documents is a motivational & impressive to volunteers & Social worker.
this example is for each other to conserve & save the nature.
this encourage full work & challenge volunteer ship.
self decision & planing to innovative action.
Important work for Nature & humanity.
how & why ? it's no matter
Example for each other
love with nature & community
community faith & support

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