CLIP: Cultural Legacy and Influence Program

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CLIP: Cultural Legacy and Influence Program

Doha, QatarMadinat Khalifa South, Qatar
Organization type: 
nonprofit/ngo/citizen sector
Project Stage:
Idea
Budget: 
$100,000 - $250,000
Website:
http://www.theyouthcompany.com
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Project Summary
Elevator Pitch

Concise Summary: Help us pitch this solution! Provide an explanation within 3-4 short sentences.

There is no lack of potential, it's just a lack of opportunity. The Cultural Legacy and Influence Program for Qatari Women enables a chain reaction of social entrepreneurship amongst the women in MENA through providing training, tools, facilities, resources and required funding to Qatari women.

WHAT IF - Inspiration: Write one sentence that describes a way that your project dares to ask, "WHAT IF?"

What if a human chain reaction of knowledge helps in development of healthy child development?
About Project

Problem: What problem is this project trying to address?

- Lack of funding and opportunity to learn - Cultural and educational barrier to young Qatari women - No understanding of the problems among women in MENA - Barriers between Qatari girls and potential investors. Lack of Networking.

Solution: What is the proposed solution? Please be specific!

- The CLIP program helps funding start-ups among Qatari women and provide them with the required training on soft and hard skills. - Education and knowledge based courses on English language to improve their proficiency in English to be able to communicate with women around the world. - Deep research on issues for MENA women and coming up with Social Enterprise oriented solutions to them, while helping the Qatari women build a sustainable and a long term impact on women in the MENA region
Impact: How does it Work

Example: Walk us through a specific example(s) of how this solution makes a difference; include its primary activities.

A Qatari girl (18 - 24 years old) participates in CLIP. She goes through extensive training sessions provided by leaders worldwide over a span of 3 weeks. She then moves on to Social Entrepreneurship set-up training and an internship in a social enterprise where she learns to be the leader in Civic Engagement. She moves forward along with her fellow members of the program to 6 different places around MENA including Algeria, Tunisia, Egypt, Sudan, Yemen and Iraq. Her major aim for this trip is to set-up social enterprises on her name while she meets and trains village and victimized women in the countries. As a matter of fact, those women in their individual countries become CLIP members and initiate a chain reaction to other women.

Impact: What is the impact of the work to date? Also describe the projected future impact for the coming years.

Since it is a start-up idea, it has no current impact. However, the future consequences of this program can lead to following impact: Empowering 15 Qatari young girls, that in turn empowers 10 women in 6 countries. Among who, each women empowers one other women to set up social enterprises and this in turn helps the economy. Within first 4 months, the Cultural Legacy and Influence Program reaches out to 25 women in helping them start-up. Within a year, through the network of human chain reaction, it reaches out to approximately 100 women and the numbers from there onwards will increases exponentially making a possibility of empowering 6,000 women to help them start-up in 3 years.
Sustainability

Financial Sustainability Plan: What is this solution’s plan to ensure financial sustainability?

The program's initial cost is 124,000 QAR that will be collected through the Ashoka Changemakers fund of $25,000 + potential sponsors and investors including Awesome Foundation and The Youth Company's YOU-Start Program. The program then moves on to an online platform through which each CLIP member can have access to $1,500 to start-up their social enterprise. The enterprises once started up can donate and sponsors will be approached annually.
Team

Founding Story

CLIP (Cultural Legacy & Influence Program) is founded by three young entrepreneurs born and brought up in Qatar. The idea came when a potential was seen in Qatari women (girls) by their participation and will to support the community around them, however a true platform and opportunity was lacking.
About You
Organization:
The Youth Company
About You
First Name

Abdulrahman

Last Name

Sajid

About Your Organization
Organization Name

The Youth Company

Organization Country

, DW, Madinat Khalifa South

Country where this project is creating social impact

, Doha

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Project
Year founded

2013

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Sustainability
Sustainability Plan: What is this solution’s plan to ensure financial sustainability?
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Women Powering Work
Is your project targeted at solving any of the following challenges?

Training and education such as skills workshops, entrepreneurship courses, apprenticeship opportunities

Does your project utilize any of the strategies below?

Group learning experiences such as hands-on learning projects, cooperatives, collectives, support groups, and more

Comments

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