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Business & Social Enterprise
Enabling Farmers Reach Markets - a 'click-and-mortar' solution combining ICT platform and ground supply chain network to fix the agri crisis. Key pain areas for farmers is marketing support , rising input costs , migration of educated and skilled labour to cities and having to bear all wastage/transport costs for uncertain revenue. For any modern industry the various key functions like production, marketing, sales, HR and logistics are managed by professionals and backed by advanced software and ICT tools .
Arohana Dairy Private Limited (Arohana), is a for-profit social enterprise set up with an aim to ensure that the Indian dairy farmer is able to run the dairy farm as a lucrative primary or secondary occupation without a debilitating dependency on labour. Arohana's vision is "Leading rural communities to a better tomorrow". Arohana Dairy is working to create highly productive dairy clusters by providing conveniences to the dairy farmer enabling her to:
-augment her income
-expand herd size
-adopt to appropriate automation at the community level and
ONergy is for-profit social enterprise providing decentralized energy solutions to rural households impacting over 50,000 lives since April 2010. We provide reliable and affordable clean energy solutions and execute projects across lighting, cooking and electrification. We build an ecosystem which connects technology, finance and grassroot organizations - to manage the needs, aspirations and resources of rural BoP beneficiaries. ONergy was established in 2009, led by a strong mission to provide solar energy to 1 million lives by 2016.
This project also has a Project where you can read more about its latest progress. Go to Project: Feeleez.
Feeleez offers tools to build and support emotional development in children and their caregivers. We have made it our mission to help children, parents, teachers, therapists, counselors, and caregivers receive and offer empathy. Our tools are used by, and made available to, a diverse global community.
The centerpiece of the Feeleez mission is our matching game. Twenty five pairs of sturdy card tiles use facial expressions and body language to illustrate brave, sad, worried, surprised, amazed, etc. With ideas for use at play and in the classroom.
Our entire line of tools include:
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What problem is your organization committed to solving? In particular, share what is innovative about your approach.
A matching game. A poster. A learning guide. An ABC eBook. Parenting with empathy workshops. Parent coaching. Life coaching. An empathy hotline.
Please visit us at: www.feeleez.com
What are your organization's top three priorities in the next year?
- Increase awareness of our message and brand - Increase our market - Develop additional tools
Need #1
Consumer/Audience Acquisition
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!
Since Feeleez is already generating sales the goal is to increase the market penetration of Feeleez .
We need to increase brand awareness. Feeleez branding has already been well received by Ashoka, educators, therapists, parents and others but increasing awareness is crucial.
We need to establish channel/distribution partners to introduce not only our mission but also our product.
We need to develop a more enhanced digital market presence through additional search engine optimization.
We need to expand into other, more defined, markets. Feeleez is a small business, and thus far our focus has been on local and internet sales.
Also, our project is in great need of consulting help, especially with regard to developing a SWOT analysis for the company. Aid of this sort will allow us to better understand the market in which we play.
There is a need for Feeleez in both the marketplace and the social structure of our community so once consumers become aware of our product they are excited to forge a relationship with Feeleez. In this light our challenge is simply to make our mission and our product better known and profound social impact develops from there.
Communication. We strive to be extremely timely, empathetic, and sincere in our communications with our partnerships.
Mission driven. Our message is simple and direct. Supporting children and caregivers in developing empathy is what we do.
Innovative. Our product and aesthetic are unique. We aim to bring this fresh form of emotional education to our partnerships.
Will support from American Express be focused on your organization overall or a specific product/service? Please describe.
Nathan McTague and I (Natalie Christensen) are the heart and soul of the Feeleez organization. We have created a product, manufactured it, and have sales to show for it. Feeleez is now at a point where we need help taking it to the next level. We consider sales to be the benchmark for success in that regard.
We believe that a focus on the centerpiece of Feeleez- Matching Game, makes the most sense at this point. We have found that the game is often the initial purchase our customers make and that this purchase serves as the bridge to further purchases of additional products and services.
Have you focused on the above area previously? If so, please explain, including whether you have worked with outside consultants before.
No, we have not received help from outside consultants before. Our success thus far has been entirely based on word of mouth, social media marketing, and a successful product that fills a need in the marketplace.
Are you able to commit 3-5 hours/wk over 10-12 weeks?
Are you able to meet virtually or at a convenient in-person location?
Are you able to meet in the city where your organization is based?
Access to Amex's ability to transform Feeleez by linking into, or creating a strategy for establishing larger distribution.
Benefit from Amex's ability to elevate the level of our brand - i.e. make Feeleez a household name.
Utilize Ashoka and AMEX to help deliver our mission of empathy.
What has been the impact of your solution to date?
Feeleez has been in business for five years. In that time we have developed five potent products, a website, two social media blogs, and a system of emotional support for caregivers by way of coaching, consulting, courses, and community. We sell to accounts and customers throughout the United States and Canada and receive requests for distribution in Europe almost weekly. We have sold over four thousand empathy games alone which are shared with innumerable children via parents, therapists, teachers, and social workers.
Each time a child is offered the chance to play the Feeleez Empathy Game they are being offered the opportunity to be heard, to develop emotionally, and to establish a sense of empathy for others. We believe that the impact of greater empathy in the world is priceless.
What is your project future impact after receiving professional support from American Express?
Receiving professional support from American Express would have a great impact on our company and on the world at large. Feeleez would use this support to grow our audience and penetrate further markets. This not only makes a difference to the bottom line of our company, (increasing our sales many times over), but to the social community in general. For each game purchased by a parent, or teacher, there are many children that have access to that game. The game symbolizes the opportunity to develop emotionally. This increased emotional awareness and sense of empathy is then shared with that child's circle - including children on the playground, adults in their neighborhood, and members of their family. Empathy is the antidote to aggression and bullying, and the foundation for peace.
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ENS manufacture micro-nutrient rich porridge flour, maize meal flour & a health seasoning premix, avail them to the malnourished through affordable retail distribution in rural areas, low market urban areas and smaller outlets
Tell us about yourself/your team.
We are coreteam of diverse individuals, each one bringing unique&complementary skills&experiences to the table, this combination of talent, expertise, high tolerance for ambiguity dedication&determination to impact on the communities we serve & ability to take risks & experiment with new ideas are our greatest strengths. The values we share create a diversity that shall bring the best innovation. Our ability to relate to a wide array of people has empowered us with critical perspectives to impact on human development. We believe in long-term involvement, honest feedback on personal performance to take corrective actions and leverage on each other's expertise.
What makes you an intrapreneur? What are the skills, capabilities, and personality traits that make you an intrapreneur?
We possess the passion and innovative thinking which are essential in intrapreneurs. We care deeply about the communities we serve and regularly seek creative ways to overcome challenges put in our way. The values we share create a diversity that shall bring the best innovation. Our ability to relate to a wide array of people has empowered us with critical perspectives to impact on human development. We believe in long-term involvement, honest feedback on personal performance to take corrective actions and leverage on each other's expertise. We'll continually create out-of-the-box ideas without being locked into the perceived existing solutions.
Company Country
Nigeria, OS, Osogbo
Primary country where this project is creating social impact
Nigeria, OS, osogbo
Additional countries or regions
Health Care
Permulaan (eksperimen pertama baru saja beroperasi)
The Need: What social or environmental problem are you trying to solve?
According to a World Bank global health status report, malnutrition is the most pressing health problem implicated in the deaths of 20,000 children worldwide everyday & adversely affects the physical/cognitive development of generations of children. The communities are unable to migrate from nutritional dependency to independence & few health initiatives (supplementation/ nutrition programs in public health facilities) reach them. The consequential failure to tackle Malnutrition places it as a common underlying factor that continues to derail the achievement of all the 8 MDGs.
The Solution: What is your solution? Be specific!
Eureka Nutritional solutions provide solutions to micro-nutrient malnutrition. Fortifying staple flours for over 300 million children & young women who are limited by expense & imprecision to access Iron, Vitamin A & Zinc is our mission. We manufacture micro-nutrient rich porridge flour, maize meal flour & a health seasoning premix, avail them to the malnourished through affordable retail distribution in rural areas, low market urban areas and smaller outlets in smaller packs of 250 grams that the majority millions at the BoP can easily access & afford.
The Solution: Why is this solution innovative for your company and industry?
Historically, small-scale fortification efforts have been limited by expense and imprecision; preventing the most vulnerable populations from accessing the benefits of additional vitamins and minerals added to staple food products. This innovation proportionately dispenses nutrients into flour that is affordable, effective and accurate.
The Model: Walk us through a specific example of how your solution makes a difference; include your primary activities.
Staple Food fortification has been endorsed by the 2008 Copenhagen consensus as the least expensive/most reliable approach to address micro-nutrient deficiencies on a larger scale. This strategy works in favor of millions with limited access to centrally processed foods by effectively addressing limitations that prevent fortification efforts from being widely implemented by ensuring this micro-nutrient premix availability in the first instance. It's coupled with innovative equipment such as the all-important micronutrient fortification facility and product availability in affordable, accessible, reusable economy packs in the most common retail outlets as impactful designs that will eventually lead to nutritional autonomy. The strategy uses staple flours as delivery vehicles for the critical micronutrients, avail them through affordable retail distribution in rural, low market urban areas in smaller packs of $0.5 that the majority millions in the survival markets can access. The economy packs to the majority who live on $1-2 a day generate low unit margins but profitable volumes to ensure financial growth and scalable
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?
ENS has exclusively packaged a new model of nutritious food delivery which is not offered by any of peers & competitors who generally offer only a direct service. There are ventures that sales staple food - for example, liberty Food, & Rose allied - but these services typically target urban sector. However, as a core team of diverse individuals, each one bringing unique&complementary skills&experiences to the table, this combination of talent, expertise, high tolerance for ambiguity dedication & determination to impact on the communities we serve & ability to take risks & experiment with new ideas are our greatest strengths
Founding Story: We want to hear about your "Aha!" moment. Share the story of where and when the founder(s) saw this solution's potential to change the world.
ENS began within Rainbow Gate Foundation in 2012 in response to the enormous gap between the health care systems in Nigeria. Interested in looking at sustainable preventative health care strategies, ENS's initiator learned that micronutrient health was the basic building block on which rests everything from a child's ability to resist HIV to a country's ability to migrate from economic dependency to independence. Yet the most vulnerable people would never see vitamins and minerals in their lifetime, no matter what happened. Few health initiatives, such supplementation and nutrition programming would be able to reach them. The solution became clear: a strategy that would reach these most at-risk populations and provide them with the benefits of critically missing vitamins and minerals that other populations had access to. Making this solution a reality would have an enormous impact.
Since inception in 2012, we've Each day gotten closer to reaching our goal of reducing widespread Iron deficiency anemia, vitamin A, zinc,& folic acid deficiencies among millions of children & young women. -We've contracted 200 farmers through their cooperatives to produce grain amaranth, moringa oleifera & mushroom. -Introduced a new micro-nutrient packed seasoning premix with numerous health benefits packaged in 50g reusable dispensation bottles/100g sachets used to season any food just like with iodized salt. - Installed an-all-important micro-nutrient fortification facility that proportionally dispenses micronutrients into flour during processing. -We've invested a total of $5,000 in the enterprise. - Advanced to raise further capital through the Prestigious 2013 Echoing Green Fellowship and striving to raise further capital through the Ashoka Changemaker.
What is your projected impact over the next 1 to 3 years?
The long-term impact of this project are to: 1. Produce a device that allows for effective, affordable, and sustainable production of a fortified product at small, local mills that is nutritionally adequate for the target population. 2. Reduce the prevalence of micronutrient deficiencies in the target population resulting in decreased rates of maternal and infant mortality, childhood blindness, infection, diarrhea, mental retardation, and lead to increased energy, school attendance, worker productivity and economic development. Small-scale fortification promises to be one of the most significant break-through technologies in reaching rural and most at-risk populations.
What barriers might hinder the success of your project? How do you plan to overcome them?
The simplicity and adaptability of the current procedure would likely rule out any insurmountable challenges. This has proven true during the pilot phase in Abeokuta and would likely be the case once scaled-up across Nigeria and other African countries. Lack of attention to the needs and concerns of the community and inability to adapt to and address local concerns would present a challenge to the project's success. Such success, however, will depend largely on the development and adherence to a strong and sustainable business model, which has been designed by ENS.
What is the benefit or value you're creating for your business?
1. A sustainable business model ensuring the product can be manufactured and distributed globally while maintaining feasibility and affordability. 2. Strong in-country, on-the-ground partnerships that will facilitate the integration of the product and the fortified product within the local context, paying close attention to community concerns. 3. Strong support and willingness on the side of local millers to adopt the new technology and community members to purchase the fortified product.
How are you leveraging internal resources (funds, time, knowledge, etc.) to support this initiative?
Funding has been leveraged from local investors to allow seed funding of the projects. We have a strong internal support that helps us to secure and maintain funding for the initiative. This allows us to staff a small team to manage the overall initiative. We have a supportive team in place that provide strategic guidance and serve as liaisons to important issues throughout the organization.
Expand on your answer, explaining the long-term funding and support plan.
Tell us about your partnerships across your company and externally that are key to your project's success.
Partnering with an NGO working in the community where the product will be used and among the population it will serve will be critical for appropriate tailoring of the innovation and acceptance of the fortified product. Such an operational collaboration will allow for the sharing of information regarding markets and bottom line incentives .
What internal support have you gotten for your project? What kind of push-back have you received?
Trustees of Rainbow Gate Foundation have been instrumental in leveraging internal resource for these projects. Times when support has been requested we have been delighted to receive it unconditionally. As our daily chores fill our time, the main push-back will come when major investment is needed, but we plan to fill these gaps by leverage through supportive and institutional funding.
MS will deliver credit at reasonable interest rates to be an affordable alternative to predatory lenders.Our loans are distributed to individuals living below the poverty line who have great business ideas but have difficulty accessing credit at reasonable rates Each member will have equal share holding.
We are make up of a young and dynamic team of financial and business experts with a self motivation to succeed and to help others succeed
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Finance, Insurance, Real Estate
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Many people have great ideas and wonderful dreams but these ideas usually end up in the grave with their bearers. We have to all accept the fact that idea is the most important resource required by entrepreneurs but if not backed up by a sound social bank, these idea will never ever be put to work. Many people in the developing world end up as potential intrapreneurs due to the high interest rate on borrowing charge by banks and the lack of collateral to secure loans.Moneylenders, payday institutions, and pawnshops offer high rates. These predatory lenders usually loan money at excessively high interest rates, making it extremely difficult for entrepreneurs living below the poverty line to turn their ideas into profitable businesses
My solution is to open a social bank that will act as catalyst financing to new great ideas Members need to; • Have a dream of a business o Be in need and living below the poverty line o Create or join a 7-member group of like-minded individuals who want to start or expand their own businesses o Live in a community with a Branch o Live close to your group members o Be the only member of your household applying for membership in the same Group (close relatives such as mother, sister, or in-laws are not allowed but may join another group) One of the greatest tools for helping people break the cycle of poverty is financial education. I believe that an educated borrower is a successful borrower. Ultimately, forming the habit of saving money takes time to learn. We shall institute a mandatory financial education program for our borrowers to help pave the way for financial success and self-sufficiency.
This solution is innovative because We support transparency and dedicate time to teaching borrowers about their micro-loan, interest rate, and repayment commitment. All borrowers will go through an initial 5-day Continuous Group Training (CGT) with their group of seven. The purposes of CGT are to teach basic financial literacy, to open a savings account at a local bank, and to ensure that borrowers understand the loan process as well as the terms of the loan.
One of the greatest tools for helping people break the cycle of poverty is financial education. We believe that an educated borrower is a successful borrower. Ultimately, forming the habit of saving money takes time to learn. We have instituted a mandatory financial education program for our borrowers to help pave the way for financial success and self-sufficiency. Borrowers meet weekly to repay their loan and continue their financial literacy training. In addition to repayments and savings deposits, weekly meetings are spent discussing financial issues brought up by the borrowers. Center Managers act as facilitators for the groups and often manage group discussions. The unique MS group model encourages group discussion and problem-solving. Center Managers have access to local resources for questions outside MS's scope of work Our primary activity is to create strategic alliances with our local communities. Each registered member of the bank will be a shall holder
MS delivers credit at reasonable interest rates to be an affordable alternative to moneylenders, payday institutions, and pawnshops. These predatory lenders usually loan money at excessively high interest rates, making it extremely difficult for entrepreneurs living below the poverty line to turn their ideas into profitable businesses. With the predatory lenders, you must need the following; • Current bank account • Credit history • Collateral • Guarantors But with MS you just need the following • Have a dream of a business o Be in need and living below the poverty line o Create or join a 7-member group of like-minded individuals who want to start or expand their own businesses o Live in a community with an MS Branch o Live close to your group members
My Aha moment is when as a social intrapreneur and counselor, I organized a seminar/workshop on intraprenership and realized that financial exlusion is the major reason for the failure of most Africans. This was early 2012.So this solution will be a hub for every needed change and catalyst to boost growth
We have organized financial modelling and consultancy training seminars for free to upcoming intrapreneurs and have trained close to 50 individuals so far.
Our impact will be to make every home self sufficient and thus development
Finance and capital
Value adding is they key to moving forward. We are adding value on a routine daily basis with innovative financial modelling technics
We made contributions from our savings and have some donors funding the initiative. We solicit the services of volunteers and to help in the training process
As our membership and operations will increase, we shall have funds to be sustainable
Our most valuable asset are the people we have and the strategic alliance we have created with the community
Members savings and shares
This project also has a Project where you can read more about its latest progress. Go to Project: mLm social networking cum business.
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mLm social networking cum business
India, PB, LUDHIANA
The Need: What problem are you trying to solve?
TIME = MONEY In this world we always hear people saying TIME = MONEY but hardly see because the rich is only enjoying this. Majority of the educated or we can say highly educated people are also unable to find themselves a reasonable job which can satisfy their qualification or needs. So to provide a job or can say a business or doing partnerships or joint ventures with not only educated but talented and uneducated people we can try to bring self dependence to almost every individual irrespective of cast,color,gender,age,etc. Making use of every possible time available and every person either working or unemployed or rejected by society to make a lively hood by his own and make world a better place to live with unity and peace , love and affection ,money and fame.
It is based on the pooling of talent,time,knowledge,hard word,dedication,human resource,funds,etc as much as possible available and using them to provide the best solution or service or job or what ever the case may be in as much areas as possible.
This is like planning and creating a new world where main focus would be on unemployed people and improving the life and living standards of all the people joining by the way of MULTI-LEVEL MARKETING CUM BUSINESS CUM PROFESSION CUM SERVICING.
The Model: Walk us through a specific example of how your solution makes a difference; include your primary activities
collecting the data of people who are unemployed and providing them to work for a specific area according to their desire and at a designation suitable to them after a short training session and try to gather funds for the company or the needed talent.
Funds collected would be for a service or a product(s) but it would be including a profit or advance as the case may be and after about, say 3 months the investor will be getting the funds given by them back in the form say maybe coupons or gift vouchers or special offers or money back into the bank account (if working with us(full time or part time) doesn't matters)
The funds collected will be used in such a manner that it is seen the minimum fixed obligation is achieved with a surety and the balance would be invested in establishing new business which could be small in size but would be providing the best output and results. it is a type of both investment and/or partnership as the case maybe.
Few companies from which the basic plan matches are the general MLM COMPANIES like N-mart,RMP,Amway,Tupperware etc but the way of their working and that of ours Company is totally different and almost every one running legal business from a simple grocery shop to a big business man manufacturing almost every thing would be our competitor . All the existing Companies just do the work in their own way but if they try and change their strategy then they may pose a challenge but this being a different strategy currently has nothing like competition or challenge from anyone.
Kirah Design nacio con el fin de generar oportunidades reales de trabajo a artesanos bolivianos. Creamos piezas unicas con disenos contemporaneos, identidad cultural y altos estandares de calidad. Con un enfoque de negocios combinamos 3 elementos esenciales: trabajar con artesanos de la base de la piramide, utilizar materiales reciclados o desechos y aplicar el enfoque del mercado hacia atras.
Kirah Design
Bolivia, SCZ, Santa Cruz
Age of Innovator
Over 34
Gender of Innovator
Berapa lama organisasi Anda telah beroperasi?
Beroperasi selama 1-5 tahun
Kirah Design, un nuevo concepto en artesania
Berapa lama Anda terlibat dalam operasi?
Kirah Design después de 4 años de trabajo e inversión esta en la etapa de crecimiento en escala. Nuestra necesidad en el área productiva es asistencia técnica para poder seguir capacitando a los artesanos, incorporar nuevos artesanos e invertir en herramientas que les permitan incrementar su capacidad productiva. En el lado comercial necesitamos participar en más ferias internacionales para poder incrementar nuestras ventas.
Nuestra solución es seguir reforzando nuestra formula de combinar dos elementos claves: trabajar con artesanos de la base de la pirámide utilizando únicamente materiales reciclados o desechos para crear piezas con un alto nivel de diseño que respete la identidad cultural de cada comunidad donde trabajamos. Nuestra solución no es vender pobreza sino mas bien aliviarla a través de un enfoque de negocios y no paternalista donde las ventas son las responsables de generar el impacto social, económico y ambiental que buscamos.
Un tallador de madera de la zona de la Chiquitania, una tejedora de Tarabuco- Sucre, la esposa de un minero de Potosí, un soplador de vidrio en Cochabamba, una tejedora de palma en el Chaco tienen muy pocas oportunidades de trabajo o de generar ingresos a traves de su arte. En Kirah Design nos especializamos en buscar talentos y darles las herramientas necesarias para crear piezas y generar ingresos sostenibles. Además utilizamos solamente materiales reciclados, de deshechos o fibras naturales con tintes naturales. La artesanía en Bolivia no es conocida en el mundo ni por su calidad ni por su diseño. Nuestro enfoque del mercado hacia atrás nos permite elevar el nivel de las artesanías y acercarnos más a la creación de piezas de arte donde los diseños contemporáneos vienen acompañados de dos elementos fundamentales, la identidad cultural del artesano y altos estándares de calidad. En cada comunidad a la que vamos nos apoyamos siempre de emprendedores sociales que no solamente conocen el idioma (aymara, quechua, guaraní) sino la idiosincrasia del lugar, los valores culturales de la zona y las bondades de la materia prima. En Kirah no ensenamos la técnica sino mas bien diseño, calidad, consistencia, medición de costos, responsabilidad a la hora de entregar y poco a poco hacemos un cambio de mentalidad en varios artesanos para mostrarles los beneficios de una alianza estratégica donde cada actor de la cadena es responsable de hacer lo que mejor sabe hacer. Ademas, el concepto de productividad se vuelve clave en todo momento del proceso.
Cuando decidí crear Kirah Design inverti 18 meses en USA entendiendo los ritmos del mercado, la forma de compra y la competencia a nivel mundial. Una vez que me di cuenta de las necesidades del mercado decidí regresar a Bolivia y empecé a buscar nichos de mercados no explorados y tome la decisión de cambiar una realidad muy arraigada en Bolivia: falta de oportunidades reales de trabajo para artesanos en la base de la pirámide. Lo que nos diferencia de la competencia es nuestro enfoque de negocio, el de crear alianzas estratégicas con los artesanos y los clientes y nuestro interés en ser lo mas transparente posible en todo el proceso, costos especialmente y responsabilidades. Somos pioneros en Bolivia en lo que hacemos. Nuestra competencia esta en Peru, Colombia, Africa.
What solution(s) does your initiative address to help emerging entrepreneurs and small businesses grow and thrive in underserved communities? (select all applicable)
Access to talent, Access to supply chains, Access to economic opportunity.
Desde el 2008 hemos capacitado a más de 700 artesanos en toda Bolivia y hemos logrado crear una empresa que ofrece productos con diseño y calidad de exportación. Estamos trabajando en crear el concepto de ser la marca boliviana mas conocida de productos hechos a mano, donde se muestra la riqueza y diversidad de Bolivia y con mucha aceptación en el exterior. Nuestros artesanos hoy en dia están muy bien capacitados y hemos logrado darles una oportunidad real de trabajo, hemos logrado devolverles el orgullo perdido por lo hecho a mano, darles valor a ellos como artesanos y mostrarles una alternativa para vivir mejor dentro de sus condiciones de pobreza o extrema pobreza. Falta mucho camino por recorrer todavía pero si puedo asegurar que nuestra formula de trabajo ha sido validada. Cartier nos ha nominado entre sus 18 finalistas del premio Cartier Women's Initiative Award y estamos participando en el Green Pitch de New Ventures como una de las 30 empresas verdes de America Latina.
What is your projected impact over the next 1-3 years?
Nuestro impacto proyectado es vender US$800.000 en 3 años más y trabajar con más de 2.000 artesanos. Además, elevar el nivel de las artesanías en Bolivia y crear el concepto de marca Bolivia a través de piezas hechas a mano con materia prima reciclada en distintos paises del mundo. Estamos logrando alianzas estrategicas con nuestro proveedor de desechos de madera porque estamos por obtener la certificacion FSC para la cadena de custodia y estamos reforzando nuestro equipo de trabajo para estar preparados para el proceso de incrementar nuestras ventas y por ende nuestra capacidad productiva.
Llevamos 4 años invirtiendo en capacitar a los artesanos y mejorar la capacidad productiva pero este es un trabajo intenso donde las capacitaciones deben ser constantes y la inversion en maquinarias tambien y para eso necesitamos asistencia tecnica. Nosotros como empresa debemos enfocarnos en generar ventas y saber que podremos cumplirlas. El otro problema es que en Bolivia no contamos con el apoyo de instituciones como Prompex Peru o Artesanias de Colombia donde hay apoyo en participacion a ferias y capacitaciones a artesanos. Nuestra empresa no puede seguir invirtiendo en capactitaciones y en las falencias a nivel estructural. Estamos buscando varias soluciones para conseguir apoyo de diferentes instituciones en Bolivia y en el exterior que nos acompanen en nuestra etapa de crecimiento.
Winning entries present a strong plan for how they will achieve and track growth. Identify your six-month milestone for growing your impact
Ganar el premio Cartier para tener acceder al coaching de 1 anio y incrementar nuestro network y visibilidad en Europa
Tugas 1
Certificarnos FSC en Octubre para poder entrar con mas facilidad al mercado europeo.
Tugas 2
Participar con exito en ferias internacionales: Guatemala, New York, Miami, Chile (todas confirmadas)
Tugas 3
Incrementar las ventas locales para poder lograr que nuestros artesanos trabajen de forma constante
Now think bigger! Identify your 12-month impact milestone
Concretar las ventas proyectadas y acompanarlas con nuestra mejora en capacidades productivas para generar mas impacto
Contratar a un experto en branding para que nos desarrolle la estrategia que necesitamos para estar en las grandes ligas.
Capacitar mas artesanos para poder cumplir con las ventas que concretemos en las ferias internacionales
Conseguir apoyo de instituciones que entiendan nuestro proyecto y nos acompanen en nuestro proceso
Despues de vivir muchos anios fuera de Bolivia regrese como Gerente General de una empresa de transporte maritimo. A mis 25 anios no solo tenia mucha responsabilidad sino que en el 2000 el pais vivia un momento politico muy intenso. Ver el nivel de pobreza y desigualdad fue algo muy fuerte. Intente ayudar a traves de fundaciones pero me di cuenta que por mas dinero o tiempo que aportara yo no podría solucionar el problema de fondo. Despues de 5 anios decidí tomarme un año sabático en Washington DC para reinventarme y ver de que forma podía vivir en mi pais y generar un impacto medible, real. Siempre quise poder mostrar algo bueno de Bolivia al mundo y se me ocurrio fue hacerlo a traves de la artesania. Finalmente me anime a dejarlo todo, a renunciar a mi zona de confort y despues de estudiar el mercado regrese a Bolivia lista para crear Kirah Design. Cuando vi como salio nuestro primer jarron de una pedazo de madera casi podrido me di cuenta que este emprendimiento tendria mucho exito.
Ceritakan tentang kemitraan Anda:
En estos cuatro anios hemos intentado mostrar nuestra realidad y nuestras necesidades a varias instituciones en Bolivia y en el exterior. Lamentablemente seguimos recibiendo mucho mas apoyo del exterior pero cada vez en Bolivia entienden mejor nuestro proyecto y nuestra vision. Tenemos una red de contactos muy amplia y hemos logrado que todos se comuniquen para que logremos apoyar a una comunidad y entre todos ver el impacto que generamos. Aun queda un largo camino por recorrer pero estamos demostramos que nuestro enfoque de negocio genera impacto medible y oportunidades relaes de trabajo.
Please elaborate on any needs or offers you have mentioned above and/or suggest categories of support that aren't specified within the list
Es clave contar con redes de apoyo en todos los niveles, compartir experiencias y aprendizajes con otros emprendedores, intercambiar ideas de que funciona y que no en determinados temas, ventas, expertos en acceso a mercados y ferias, expertos en reciclaje, fuentes de financiamiento para emprendimientos como los nuestros. Crear alianzas estrategicas es clave para el exito de nuestro proyecto.
This project also has a Project where you can read more about its latest progress. Go to Project: Rural ERP.
Niqotin is an Enterprise Application Service provider and our flagship product Rural ERP is the World't first Indian Lanuaguge Cloud ERP for Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises, MSMEs.
India, TN, Chennai
Rural ERP
India has nearly 50 Million SME's employed around 60 Million people and over 90% are Micro enterprises. Only 10-15% of them have adopted IT in their businesses to improve productivity. They lack access to latest technology due to non-availability and high cost constraints, absence of skilled manpower, inadequate infrastructure etc. At this juncture Niqotin is developing Rural ERP considering the MSME pain-points in mind. The Products / Services on offer are affordable, latest in technology, easy-to-use, Indian language specific and can access from anywhere, anytime. Rural ERP will enable enterprise users in Tier-1, Tier-2 cities, rural and semi-urban areas by creating great value for their investment.
Rural ERP is the world's First Indian Language Cloud ERP available in 9 Indian languages such as Bengali, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Punjabi, Tamil and Telugu apart from English. Here Rural means "Rural Urban Resources Across Languages". Rural ERP will be an Enterprise Rise Platform by addressing the pain-points challenging the MSME sector and will be part of the Eco-System in the near future. We wish to bridge the digital divide among the Enterprises, whether Rural or Urban, and we call it as EDI, Enterprise Digital Inclusion. Anybody who can read, write their local language (i.e Tamil or Hindi) can operate and manage the day-to-day businesses. The main advantage is the Lowest TCO (Total Cost of Ownership). No upfront investment is needed for setup, implementing and maintaining the infrastructure, as Rural ERP resides on Cloud and available On-Demand (Software-As-A-Service). So MSMEs can "Pay for what they Use" and "Scale as they Grow".
Rural ERP is a B2B product available for an Annual Subscription targeting MSMEs. Almost all the competitors charge per user per month. But our pricing model is based on Per Edition Per Annum.
Rural ERP has 4 distinct Add-on platforms that differentiate itself from the competition. Those are Commerce, Content, Community and Infrastructure. Commerce platform consists of Rural EXIM (Export-Import), Rural Pay, Rural SMS, Rural Store and Content platform is having Rural CMS (Content Management System), Rural KB (Knowledge Base), Rural Support and Community platform consists of Rural Ideas, Rural Apps, Rural SME (Social Media Environment), Rural Jobs, Rural CSR (Community. Society. Realty) and Infrastructure platform consists of Rural IMS (Infrastructure Management System), Rural DC (Data and Disaster Recovery Center), Rural BC (Business Center).
Revenue Model:
Rural ERP Pricing / Edition / Annum Micro - US $ 180 (INR 9000) Small - US $ 380 (INR 19000) Medium - US $ 580 (INR 29000) Enterprise - US $ 780 (INR 39000)
Additional Revenue Stream: -Chargeable Add-on Services / Features -Selling Websites, Servers, Mail Solutions, Data Services, Data Center Solutions etc. -Connect/Showcase/Sell others' products/services through Business Centers -Technology and Business Consulting for MSMEs - Customized ERP implementation - Membership based Rural/Urban Business Centers - Expand to Global Market with more Languages
The ERP market is served by MNC's like SAP, Oracle, Microsoft, Sage, Infor, Zoho, Epicor, Netsuite and CDC Software and Indian players like Tally, Ramco, Wings Info, A2Z Apps, eResource, Eastern Software, ERP Next and other Local service providers who mostly target small-to-bigger companies for their products. Most of the MSMEs are aware of high technology license and implementation costs and postpone their technology adoption.
Rural ERP Advantages: ERP in your language Visual Business Workflow Enterprise Digital Inclusion Less Total Cost of Ownership Virtually Nil CapEx and Less OpEx Pay-as-you-Go & Build-as-you-Grow Anytime Anywhere Access – PC, Laptop, Tablet, Smartphone, Mobile Self Service portal for Customers, Suppliers, Vendors and Employees Integrated Commerce Tools
Access to technology, Access to economic opportunity.
We've implmented our Rural ERP, CRM and SCM solutions to nearly 20 SMEs in Tamil Nadu. India based on their requirements and business flow we've done the customozation of ERP and maintain it in Data Center. So far the MSMEs can reduce the operating cost by roughy 30% and increase the Productivity with the help of Technology. At shop floor level we are trying implement the ERP in the Local language and it benefits the semi-skilled or unskilled labour workforce. And the Salesforce and Service engineers can manage their day-to-day activities very effectively using Rural ERP. And the decision making is very quick thus implement strategies very well and organized on time.
We are planning to implement our Cloud based Rural ERP to nearly 12,000 MSMEs all over India and other countries. We are targeting a revenue of US $ 0.6 M for the FY 2012-13, US $ 2.0 M for the FY 2013-14 and US $ 5 M for thr FY 2014-15. We wish to associate with various industry bodies like FIMSME, FICCI, SME Exchange, Assocham, Nasscom and other Government departments to promote and create awareness about technology adoption, Selection, Implementation etc. We are planning to launch atleast 15 language versions of Rural ERP including 9 Indian languages.
Convince the MSMEs to invest in Cloud technology and bring their confidence in securing data over cloud. Strong security measures with encryption Cloud and Local Storage for greater Control On-Premise Data Management/Backup Lack of infrastructure like Computing, Telephony, Broadband, Networking, Convergence etc., among MSMEs. Better use of Mobile Apps Providing integrated infrastructure solutions with third party support Rural Business Centers (Both Virtual and Physical) Managed Services Growing Competition More features/solutions for Affordable Price Market facing innovation in product/service delivery (Localization, Social Connect, Green Computing, Mobility etc.) Single Point Support for most solutions/services Working towards Enterprise Digital Inclusion
Rural ERP on cloud will be integrated with Rural Support Desk, Knowledge Base, EXIM and Social Media Environment.
Launching Micro Edition of Rural ERP
Launching Rural SME platform for Social Meida integration
Developimng and Testing Small Edition of Rural ERP
All the 4 editions of Rural ERP named Micro, Small, Medium & Enterprise will be launched with 9 Indian Languages
Launching Medium and Enterprise editions of Rural ERP
Launching Rural Apps platform
Launching Mobile Apps
While developing custom CRM applications to our customers in Tamil Nadu we were facing several questions and challenges in front of us. And the Two basic myths about ERP are 1. ERP Systems are Complex 2. ERP Systems are Costly. We wish to break these myths and provide Simple and Affordable ERP to the MSME Community. We wish to show the world that MSMEs mean Most Smartly Managed Enterprises by addressing these challenges with our offerings thus born the product Rural ERP.
Currently we are selling our Products with direct sales force approaching the customers. We are planning to sell through Hardware / Software Vendors, Cloud Technologists and Resellers. We are also planning to tie-up with MSME associations, Industry bodies, Government functionaries to improve the awareness and technology adoption amongst the MSME and create the Eco-System to improve the business practices.
We need investments to scale up our operations and GTM strategy.
Zambikes is a social business that manufactures, assembles and distributes high quality bicycles, ambulance trailers and cargo trailer to underprivileged, empowering individuals to fight the mindset of poverty and address economic and social needs worldwide.
Zambia, Lusaka
Zambia, LK, Lusaka
Penyekalaan (langkah selanjutnya adalah menumbuhkan dampak pada skala regional atau bahkan global)
Issues with rural transportation and accessibility to healthcare, markets, and work due to lack of roads, bad roads, or lack of disposable income in impoverished areas. In Africa and in parts of South America, there is need for access to jobs, medical care, or need to carry good from farm to market. Having a bicycle or trailer can be the difference between life or death; or between "making it" or "missing it" in this world.
Rural transportation products designed specifically to meet needs of people with lower income in developing economies. We accomplish this by providing high quality bicycles, ambulance trailers, and cargo trailers to the developing world.
Zambikes is a social business that manufactures, assembles and distributes high quality bicycles, ambulance trailers and cargo trailers to the underprivileged, empowering individuals to fight the mindset of poverty and address the economic and social needs. Practically, weach product address different social, economic and health issues for developing economies. Our bicycle was specifically designed (we go straight to the manufacturer in China and design it ourselves) to meet the rugged roads in Africa and can help an individual carry product to sell, get to a job, therefore mobilizing people. Our ambulance trailer specifically addresses the need for access to rural healthcare where "land cruiser" ambulances cannot reach. It also address HIV positive people receiving their ARV's more easily and women being able to have safe child birth in a clinic opposed to in the village. Our Cargo trailer adds capacity to any bicycle or motorcycle in order to increase productivity for rural farmers trying to get goods from farm to market.
Our peers are any other bicycle or trailer organization trying to improve the quality of rural transportation in impoverished areas. Other groups such as, World Bicycle Relief, Sakaramenta, Africycle, Project Rwanda, Cycling Out of Poverty, Bicycles for Humanity, and others. Most of these peers/competitors are focused on supplying used or new bicycles to areas of need. We are interested in selling relevant products to create long term sustainability and have branched out beyond just bicycles and into our trailers that are locally manufactured (increases local labor as well).
Access to talent, Access to supply chains, Access to technology, Access to economic opportunity.
We have distributed over 9,000 bicycles and 1,000 trailers (both ambulance and cargo trailers) around Africa. We have trained over 50 undereducated employees (many whom are still working with us today). We have designed the best ambulance trailer and cargo trailer for the African conditions (with help from American designer, Daryl Funk) We have sponsored over 20 individuals with further education (from finishing high school, to trade schools, to receiving an MBA). We have raised awareness worldwide (a lot through our unique bamboo bicycles) on the issues in Zambia and around Africa when it comes to poverty and lack of access to rural healthcare
We project to scale up operations in Zambia for Southern Africa, open a branch in Uganda for Eastern African operations, and Argentina and Brazil for South American operations. We would like to build thousands of ambulances for rural health care access in those areas. We would like to provide quality bicycles across Africa and South America as well as Carts where needed.
With scaling up, we need to have the right people and the right partners. The biggest barriers will be to prove sustainability in any new market that we expand and then once proven, getting the funding to accomplish the task. We plan to raise money for feasibility and once we have received the needed information on sustainability, then we will approach social investors for expansion capital.
Open our new branch in Uganda and locally manufacture over 100 Zambulances and 100 Zamcarts into rural areas with partners.
Sign MOU with local partner to manufacture zambulances and zamcarts
Find partner to help distribute and monitor each unit in the field and give required feedback every month
Raise enough capital to build all 200 units and distribute within 6 months.
With positive feedback from the 6 month milestone, our 12 month milestone would be to have contracts for over 1,000 Trailers
Find partners to buy over 500 Zambulance trailers
Find partners to buy or retails over 500 Zamcarts
Build our own private entity to grow beyond the current partnership MOU.
In 2004, Vaughn Spethmann and Dustin McBride traveled with a team of fellow college students on a missions trip to Zambia. The people of Zambia quickly stole their hearts and opened their eyes to the difficult realities of poverty. During the team's last day in Zambia, Vaughn accompanied a newfound friend, Benjamin, on a bicycle ride. It was difficult for Vaughn to ignore the state of the bicycles around them. They had cracked frames, bent rims and seat posts, missing spokes and were covered in rust. Vaughn asked Benjamin how much his bike had cost, to which he replied, "Used, it was $200 US." After a lot of prayer and thinking through how they could address this issue with their business minds and compassionate hearts, they founded Zambikes with 2 Zambian partners, Mwewa Chikamba and Gershom Sikaala, in 2007.
Our key partnership is with Zambikes USA, a 501c3 non-profit that aids in the start up and consulting process for Zambikes social enterprises around Africa. Zambikes USA helped to fund the first 2 years of operations while we were testing the market in Zambia but now only helps with some education sponsorship and consulting now and again.
We need help to scale up when it comes to networking, marketing, partners, and funding. In the scale up process, we partner with local organizations so they will also receive help in supply chain, consulting, and funding from us potentially.
Feeleez offers tools to build and support emotional development in children. We believe that empathy starts at home and have made it our mission to help children, parents, teachers, therapists, counselors, and "folks in general" receive and offer empathy.
Our tools include: A matching game. A poster. A learning guide. An ABC eBook. Parenting with empathy workshops. Parent coaching. Life coaching. An empathy hotline. Personal stories and examples.
Please visit us at: www.feeleez.com (website) www.talkfeeleez.typepad.com (blog community)
Yasa empowers women globally by connecting companies with procurement needs to qualified women-owned businesses with supplier capabilities.
Welfare of scravanger by the social business
Profile Defenders is the leading online reputation management service that is making strides and headway in the ORM field. With recent articles and mentions in Entrepreneur magazine, Bloomberg, Yahoo! Finance, and other top publications it is known that when you want to fix something negative about you online that you go to Profiledefenders.com for help.
With a lot of great innovations and ideas on the rise its important for Profile Defenders to grow strategically with the right changes implemented at the same time.
This project also has a Project where you can read more about its latest progress. Go to Project: Making Weavers Life Better.
BDT Weavers Livelihood programme had been promoting weavers owned institutions in form of Mutual Benefit Trust, , bank & credit link the weavers institutions ,building capacities to develop latest designs of sarees, stoles & fabrics and facilitate marketing orders for these products. Over 400 weavers in five clusters are associated with the programme in Bhagalpur, Bihar.
India, BR, Patna
India, BR, BHAGALPR
a. Nirlaba
Making Weavers Life Better
Bhagalpur was on the ancient Silk Route, is famous for its tussar silk and supplies the product domestically and export it to West Asia, Europe, Japan and the US.The Rs 2000 crore industry in the district produces two million metres of silk a year. It employs around 100,000 people—who are engaged in spinning the yarn to weave into cloth. Mounting odds—such as lack of credit, power shortage and rise in competition from other silk-producing centres in the country—have put silk manufacturers of Bihar's Bhagalpur, India's so-called Silk City, on the brink.The industry is also unorganized with weavers taking credit from the market at 5% interest per month. With payments getting delayed they face a tough time. Over period of time, they have become one of the poorest community in the Bhagalpur.
The solution is promoting weavers organisation and building capacity among them to manage finances and share profits. BDT has taken a value chain approach for implementation of livelihood programme. It is providing services in all primary activities like inbound logistics (aggregating raw material like yarns of various kinds ), operations (production and processing like dyeing, calendaring), outbound logistics (aggregating products,packaging, transporting products like fabrics etc), marketing and sales (linking to buyers ), and services etc in all the programmes. It is provided support services like institution building, design development, technical knowledge, knowledge transfer, agri extension, procurement etc. BDT is promoting the institutions owned by weavers which will be matured in micro-enterprise group supported by marketing linkages from BDT.
Bihar Development Trust has always adopted an inclusive and innovative approach towards implementation of development projects. 100% of BDT beneficiaries are economically poor while more than 50% of them belong to backward caste, schedule caste and minority communities. The most innovative approach has been the model which BDT has adopted for promote market linkages for its producer owned organization which will be provided capacity building support for institution development, design development , marketing linkages etc. The mutual benefit trust of weavers are step in the directions. The mutual benefit trust will earn profit by doing sales and distribute the residual profit it among the members. Slowly, the residual profit is expected to rise and stablise at a level which will provide a decent quality of life to all of its members. The income proposed has sufficient income to spend for welfare purpose as well as provide bonus to the members. The model will create 100s of grass root institutions with 1000s of community leaders which will be robust enough to withstand all pressures of most of market and political forces. The model will result in significant wealth creation for the members as most of the gains of the value additions are passed back to them. If BDT succeeds in its vision of implementing such models across Bihar, it will be second instance of wealth generation at such a large scale after AMUL in India.
Unorganised Business houses at Bhagalpur are the major competitors. The biggest challenge is the practice of buyers to take a sample from one supplier and gives it to different suppliers in an attempt to getbetter rates. There is no intellectual design rights protecting the designs of samples. There are very few non profit working among weavers like ASEED etc with an objective of bettering lives of weavers in Bhagalpur. Then, there is the threat of large orders getting rejected on small quality issues. The market in very brutal in this regard. One mistake, and your whole capital is wiped off and you are on roads.
Access to financing, Access to technology, Policy change/advocacy.
400 weavers are trained in better design and weaving ability. 400 weavers are made aware about safety & occupational hazards issues associated with their trade. 400 weavers are market linked for selling their products through Bihar Development Trust. 400 weavers income increased by 50% with BDT interventions. Three producer institutions of weavers have been promoted by BDT.
1000 weavers income increase by 50% through institution building, bank & credit linkages, market linkages, technical support like training in design development etc
Barriers Lack of Working capital for the producer organisation Lack of grants from maintaining the expenses of producer institutions Plan to Overcome: Try to link with local banks and motivate them to lend against purchase orders Raise grants from donor agencies like goodbye poverty, FWWB for promotion producer organisations of weavers
Bring Market orders of Rs. 50 lakhs
Conduct two training for design development
Conduct six training for managing accounts and governance of producer organisations
Bring Market Order of Rs. 100 lakh
Promote Saving of Rs. 10,000 in each producer organisation of weavers
Credit link at least one producer organisation of weavers
Handicrafts in the second biggest employer after agriculture. Bhagalpur is one of the major center for handloom weavers in India and was in perennial decline over last 20 years. Over last five years, It has seen upswing in business and many activities are planned by government as well as business persons. We knew nothing about weaving when we started. Community Friendly Movement has given us a order and we were searching in weavers villages to do the order. None of the weavers did the orders and we failed in our deadline. It took six months to deliver an order that too by those weavers who have left weaving and were doing construction labour. There are more than one lakh weavers families in bhagalpur who can benefit from the intervention if a win win model evolves. Our effort is an work towards that evolution of model which is taking its own time. Once the model gets right, the benefits of this model can change the lives of lakhs of weavers of bhagalpur plus other artisans clusters.
We have partnerships with AIACA for conducting workshops related to design development, safety & occupational hazards etc for weavers. Its an apex institution for weavers in India. We have buyers linkages with Rangsutra, Bengal Artisans , ANS exports, Creative bee etc which support us with orders. We have linked weavers to weavers service center run by government for design development.
We need investment and mentorship for taking our ideas forward. We are looking to promote an marketing company for weavers associated with Bihar Development Trust. We are open for equity investment in new venture.
The innovation applies the power of education and socioeconomic empowerment to transform the lives of people in the underserved community.
Hands-on, in-depth training of engaging in & earning a living from affiliate marketing, the fundamental form of Internet business. The project will span over several months, at the end of which, the participants would have their own online affiliate marketing venture set up, will be given the grants needed to begin self-employment (for the purchase of fairly used computing, budget Internet access etc) & mentored on an on-going basis, to ensure the sustenance of their success.
Rural Yellow Times Pvt Ltd train the youths, educated as well as school drop outs, in local specific market oriented skills and entrepreneurship skills to facilitate better livelihood options through enhanced employability and self-employment opportunities.
• To impart skill development/ up-gradation training programme in the areas of self-enterprise development and market oriented job opportunities • To facilitate the job placement of the trainees through Placement Linked Employability Training in the concerned sector.
Our goal is to enhance the financial well-being and create opportunities for sustainable livelihoods for young people in Greater Victoria through financial education and training that is based on principles of youth engagement and to support youth maximize their role as leaders in movement for a new community- centred economy.
Independent Innovative-Village or in Indonesian called DESA INOVASI MANDIRI (DIM) is a Mega Project which aims to make a big contribution for nation development.
We do believe that we can build a community independent from all of its aspects which are education, health, environment, and especially economy. Our vision is to make the community become national and international reference model.
This project also has a Project where you can read more about its latest progress. Go to Project: @house.
@house mobile app gives people access to the four factors of production for example capital,land,labor and entrepreneurs.
Uganda, KMP
Uganda, kampala
Inadequate access to the four factors of production for example capital,land,labor and entrepreneurs. This can be explained below:
1) Inaccessibility to capital. This is a result of the high levels of poverty yet there are many capital providers such as money-lenders, micro-finance institutions, banks and investors.
2) Under-utilization of Land. Huge chunks of land are available yet under-utilized due to the fact that many people are not aware of the available land.
3) Under-utilization of Labor. There are many graduates as well as people willing to provide manual labor(man-power).
4) Inaccessibility to entrepreneurs. There are many entrepreneurs available but can not easily be accessed due to limited direct contact to them via the internet.
The @house mobile app provides access to the four factors of production to an individual looking forward to start producing goods and services. The mobile app integrates the factors mentioned above on a single interface for easy access by producers(individuals starting production of goods and services) and their service providers(those that provide capital,land,labor and entrepreneurship).
The @house mobile app can accessed at http://www.maketeconsults.com/athouse. The app is compatible across all mobile platforms(smartphones,Symbian phones etc). We developed the mobile app to solve these economic problems using jquery mobile technology. The development model to be used shall be incremental model which delivers software in small but usable pieces; each piece builds on pieces already delivered.
Actually, many service providers tend to focus on one factor of production without considering others. This creates an imbalance of access to capital,land,labor and entrepreneurs with in the population that tries to start producing goods and services.
This time, its gonna be different. Our mobile app intends to go "GLOBAL". Trust me, many people are going to get rich in the shortest time possible, with all the factors of production in their handsets. Access will be no option.
Access to economic opportunity.
The solution was picked to be part of Microsoft east and southern Africa regional finals 2012.
The solution will work in all low developed countries(LDC's) around the globe as well as emerging world economies like India with a big population but low income per capita.
Funding. We shall conduct regular advertising on our platform.
Developing and more enhancements to the existing product.
Advertising the product.
Assessing the results regarding the user experience and Maintaining the product.
Add on's to the product
More partnerships with business leaders to enhance the delivery of services.
Training sessions and workshops to beneficial communities.
@house was founded in November 2011 by Nsibambi Ashirafu.K in a bid to develop an app to improve the standards of living of all people in the world.
We are currently in partnership with College of computing and information sciences at makerere university Kampala.
Grants and cash prizes.
il existe dans beaucoup de pays, des système de payement par le téléphone mobile mais dans la majorité des cas, c'est entre un client et une entreprise. Et quand il s'agit de 2 personnes dans un village? comment pourrai-je payer des peignets ou des arachides en utilisant mon téléphone. Comment je peux envoyer des photos ou de la musique, je pourrai envoyer de l'argent pour regler mes achats.
The importance of quality seed in productivity of legumes and oil seeds are well known, but the present seed replacement rate of these crops are very low. It is important for farmers, particularly those who are resource poor, to have control over their seeds. This requires knowledge and appreciation of alternative technologies for crop and seed production and other related issues.
This project also has a Project where you can read more about its latest progress. Go to Project: Virtual Telesavings and Asset Acquisition (VAT) .
VAT buys assets and gives them to persons on loan, who pay periodically through a telesaving process. When complete, the assets become theirs indefinitely.
African Community Team Support (ACTS)
Uganda, MBA
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Which of the following best describes the barrier(s) your innovation addresses? Choose up to two
Access, Cost.
Many people work hard but save little (if any) in developing countries like Uganda. They cannot easily accumulate funds to buy assets, machines or other necessary equipment to use. The process of making savings or getting credit itself is complicated by distant banks and paperwork (and is seemingly meant for only literate people). Moreover, mainstream credit/loans have conditions such as collateral security which most of them (especially women and youths) do not posses.
VAT enables marginalized but yet hardworking persons to acquire capital equipments through an informal loaning process. These include motorcycles and hair cutting machines for youths and women; and agricultural implements such as pumps for irrigation, tractors and grinding machines for peasants. They are also provided with a virtual bank(banking money on a designated phone) through which they pay and save.
A machine is bought and given to a person (or a team), who uses it to earn and pay for it periodically through telephone money transfers. Part of the amount transferred is a saving for the payee and is paid to them after an agreed time frame for reinvestment.
Savings and credit cooperatives exist and are trying to reach even in rural areas. This means that there is a competition for clients. However, their stringent conditions, bureaucratic behavior and too much formalized paperwork is their undoing. Besides, VET attaches credit to equipment which is used to raise the money to pay it and this is the niche.
I was orphaned early in a marginalized conflict area. I worked hard to gain formal education with a hope of getting a job. The misery and helpless state of similar others in my vicinity has been a continuous challenge in my life. After my undergraduate degree in 2004, I individually accommodated some in my small room. I was jobless and life was very difficult for all of us. When I got a scholarship at Cambridge University, I saved part of it and bought a sewing machine for one of them to learn tailoring. On my return from Cambridge in 2007, I realized the importance of giving people practical skills and equipment to work. She even partly supported me since I was still unemployed. Since then, I informally mobilized similar others into nursery teachers and hair dressers; and formerly registered a hybrid company in 2009 to officially operate. Although they can earn, they do not save and invest for sustainability and growth, a gap this project seeks to fill.
Please describe the goal of your initiative; outline what you are trying to achieve
Empower as many poor people as possible with not only skills but resources to work and lead edifying lives. I aspire to realize a society where everybody does something beneficial to him/herself and others; and a world without social injustice arising from marginalization and exploitation due to socioeconomic powerlessness.
Which barrier(s) to financial inclusion does your solution seek to address? (select all applicable)
Physical and other accessibility obstacles that prevent communities from reaching financial services, The lack of affordable financial products tailored to the needs of underserved and excluded communities,, Other (Please describe below).
If you selected 'other' above, please specify which other barriers to financial inclusion you solution seeks to address:
Provision of required capital inputs (equipment) to enable hard working persons earn and save for investment.
For which underserved or excluded communities will your solution create access to valuable, affordable, secure and comprehensive financial services?
-Women and youths: These are proportionately marginalized and exploited in male dominated societies. They are economically powerless and depend on their male counterparts or spouses for their livelihoods. -Rural small scale farmers (mainly peasants): These constitute over 60% of populations in Sub Saharan Africa, including Uganda. Their rural nature limits their accessibility to financial and/or banking services. Similar, majority are illiterate and find it difficult to go through the detailed formal processes that mainstreaming banking requires.
Could your solution work in other geographies or regions? If so, where?
This solution is capable of operating anywhere in the world where machinery is limited yet there are people who can use them. However, for virtual telesaving (banking) to work, the solution needs locations where mobile money transfer facilities exist.
If your solution is dramatically successful, how will things be different in 10 years?
Every person will be able to acquire important assets needed in the production process such as tractors (for peasants). Savings will increase and credit will be spread to thousands of beneficiaries. Credit services will increase to reach to remotest of creditors. Similarly, the agency will grow into a multimillion entity worldwide.
What will have had to have changed to make this happen?
Mobile phones and telephone networks will have reached even such remote areas envisioned here. This is so because, telesaving is dependent on the mobile money transfer solution.
A motor bicycle has been bought and given to a youth who is using it to pay back the original price plus 20% of that price.Five shaving machines have also already been bought and given to two youths who are now paying back. Two oxen were also bought and used as a pilot activity with a peasant group in one of the villages and they have so far advanced to a level of being able to acquire a second hand tractor. Other groups were initiated but without this saving component and are yet to be introduced to it so they can save too.
What is your projected impact over the next five years?
Over 10 groups will have been established and given equipments to generate incomes. Over 30 durable machines and equipment such as motorcycles, tractors, irrigation pumps and grinding mills will have been bought and loaned to groups and individuals to work, pay the loan and be able to move out of their poverty stricken conditions.
The telesaving component is solely dependent on the availability of the mobile money transfer facility of telephone companies. Where this is not existent, the service will be curtailed. With the confidence building among team members, the traditional method of physical saving (say by paying to one selected member) will be the alternative. The important aspect is to develop the working and saving culture among poor people.
Mobilize a few team members and induct them as beneficiaries
Buy initial cheaper equipment and/or machines
Evaluate and roll out the solution to other members
Mobilize more members with experiences from the first lot
Buy more equipment and machines
Evaluate and roll out the solution further
We currently collaborate with global giving (UK) which link us to volunteers and aid in collecting and disbursing donations from well wishers worldwide. Others are government agencies such as police and local councils. I am also working with a group of friends in Germany who will be collecting and shipping relevant equipments such as saws and hair cutters for teams to use.
Are you currently targeting other specific populations, locations, or markets for your innovation? If so, where and why?
Southern Sudan is very lucrative country for business and is our my next target. Many are poor as they have been at war for decades and need support to develop. However, the lack of mobile money transfer facilities there is the main limitation. We will base in northern Uganda and only make entries occasionally using the porous nature of the social boundaries. Our team members will be crossing and carry out business there and comeback with our support.
What type of operating environment and internal organizational factors make your innovation successful?
All board members are working voluntarily. We do what we do with our spare time and this makes us self-sustaining. We also begun operations informally and just got registered in 2009. This has made us know how to go about our efforts with ease.
While I aspire to mentor others, I need to network with others to be supported legally, financially or technologically to successfully operate say in other countries. Ideas are varied and getting insights of others' innovations is vital for me as they mentor me too. I am also willing to collaborate and share my coalition/team building skills, research work and ideas with others.
VAT is an empowerment project in which assets and machinery are acquired and given to marginalized and poor persons on loan basis. They use them to earn and periodically payback in agreed time frames through a telesaving process (telephone money transfers to a central phone number). When payments are complete, the assets become theirs indefinitely
The iF Foundation works to create economic opportunities for the disadvantage int he developing countries of the world, enabling and empowering the people living in these communities to create their own pathway out of poverty.
Created to celebrate Kootenay girls and women. Our initiative is to help young women look great without having to spend an arm and a leg. In today's society looking good is important especially to women. Many young girls are made fun of for not having nice clothes and many parents can't afford to buy expensive clothing for their daughters even though they wish they could. Kootenay Girls Vintage Shop provides the look these girls are looking for at a fraction of the price. Used, upcycled or clothing bought on sale is then resold in Castlegar area.
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We Mariapia Vernile, president of CUAMJ NPO (Universe Autism Centre based in South Jonico Matino (Lecce), Enrico Maria Fantaguzzi, president of Autism RIMINI. We seek partners that we will finance the project and maybe after the START UP, spread it in other countries
This project also has a Project where you can read more about its latest progress. Go to Project: JOBS ACCESS NETWORK.
SOLAR COMPUTERIZED PERPETUUM MOBILE OF THE SECOND KIND NETWORK is a mass production factory concept to manufacture all the items existent on the market.
United States, IL, Chicago, Cook County
Country where this solution is creating social impact
Region in BC where your solution creates social impact
Vancouver, Coast and Mountains, Vancouver Island, Thompson Okanagan, Northern British Columbia, Cariboo Chilcotin Coast, Kootenay Rockies, Columbia Basin.
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Which of the following best describes the barrier(s) your solution addresses? Choose up to two
The Need: Describe the need for your solution and the size and characteristics of the community(ies) your solution is engaging
I have a solution to offer jobs accessible to all the people who do not have neither jobs nor money power; jobs in these fields: education and research, energy, agriculture, technology/factory replicating, manufacturing , processing. Jobs means money power, high living standards and overall access to a decent quality of living and why not better civilization results.
The solution is to implement my innovation, an updated version for our times of Perpetuum Mobile of the Second Kind Network(the one workig on energy) , called: SOLAR COMPUTERIZED PERPETUUM MOBILE II NETWORK which offers jobs to everybody in manufacturing , energy and processing industries because is able to produce all the items existent on the market most performantly and quantitatively as well as qualitatively beginning with energy and continuing to all that it is to be manufactured which serves our society's needs to ensure a satisfying needy-free society at all times and/ kinds. It is a mass production , robotical automatic factory concept able to create all: from clean energy to all the products on the market, without involving human working effort, since all is done automatically, on a clean and green basis.I intend to develop the idea in British Columbia, CA. .Thank you very much!
The Model: Walk us through a specific example of how your solution makes a difference; include the primary activities involved in your solution.
The SCPM2N concept stands primarily for an automatic robotical factory at the most updated standards , programmed by a computer ( which monitors the 3D behavor of the function continuously when its variables change), running on self created clean energy, and able /built such that it created / manufactures all the items existent on the market (see the Library of Congress Patents), this way giving supervising jobs to all the people .
The Marketplace: Who are your peers and competitors? Identify others working to address the same needs as you and indicate what sets you apart from them.
The automatic factory concept is one of the competitors but it is insufficient in order to be able compete with the complete status of the SCPM2N.
The SCPM2N is a mass production automatic robotical factory concept able to manufacture at the most performant rate all the items existent on the market and this way it satisfies the society material needs.
To wipe off poverty, create higher living standards and create jobs.
The idea status is at the theory level.
If helped, the project will probably on rolls, if not, I will as well sell it as it is.
Finances are the major barriers.
construction of the devices
opening the business
expanding the business.
Are you currently targeting other specific populations, locations, or markets for your solution? If so, where and why?
Publicity and implementation of the project.
Financial and company needs to implement it.Thank you !
The solution is to implement my innovation, an updated version for our times of Perpetuum Mobile of the Second Kind Network(the one workig on energy) , called: SOLAR COMPUTERIZED PERPETUUM MOBILE II NETWORK which offers jobs to everybody in manufacturing , energy and processing industries because is able to produce all the items existent on the market most performantly and quantitatively as well as qualitatively beginning with energy and continuing to all that it is to be manufactured which serves our society's needs to ensure a satisfying needy-free society at all times and/ kinds. It is a mass production , robotical automatic factory concept able to create all: from clean energy to all the products on the market, without involving human working effort, since all is done automatically, on a clean and green basis. .Thank you very much!
Access to financing, Access to talent, Access to supply chains, Access to technology, Access to economic opportunity, Policy change/advocacy.
on rolls, if helped.
multiplication in building the devices
The SCPM2N is a mass production automatic robotical factory concept able to manufacture all the items existent on the market and this way responds to all the society material needs by satisfying its demands.
I am in need of finances to support this project. Thank you !
Innovation awards from Germany and USA
What solution(s) does your initiative address to better the lives of girls and women by leveraging technology? (select all applicable)
Access to technology, Access to economic opportunity, Policy change/advocacy.
The idea status = at the theory level.
On rolls, if I receive help from authorities.
multiplying the devices
building,selling and multiplying the devices
Through manufacturing all the items existent on the arket which are so much needed by the society everywhere.
I need an experienced team to put the project on rolls or to sell the project as it is to some third interested party. Thank you !
""Responsible Business is Good Business - Just as private public partnerships changed the way infrastructure projects were executed, so too market based solutions will drive the corporate, public and development sector and through that overall sustainability of our world as it exists"
This project also has a Project where you can read more about its latest progress. Go to Project: THE BAZAAR: market for fairtrade & organic.
'THE BAZAAR: market for fairtrade & organic' is balancing the impact of increasing consumerism by advocating a fair price and enabling sustainable production to reducing environmental risk. It includes an organic restaurant, a fair-trade shop and a market for organic groceries and fresh food produce. It empowers the local producers in rural Nepal and provides innovative market to their products.
Development Voyage
Nepal, GA, Pokhara
THE BAZAAR: market for fairtrade & organic
In the next few decades, the Asian middle-class (also in Nepal) will most probably become the world's most important consumer group demanding alternative products to match its new lifestyles. Fresh consumerism is creating new (global) markets and wealth in the country. As the middle-class finds its way into the new world, local producers in Nepal lag behind in the global competition, suffer from environmental damage and risk losing their livelihood. Nepal needs initiatives for balanced growth to counter social imbalances and environmental damage. Strengthening the producers to compete in the market and providing fair market linkage is prime to tackle those problems. Production of, and awareness about, sustainable products (i.e. organic & fair trade) is part of the solution.
THE BAZAAR is a retail store creating new consumer market in Pokhara by connecting local producers to middle-class Nepali consumers. In joint efforts with 'THE BAZAAR Agriculture Cooperative', it provides capacity building, financial and technical support to its producer members to increase volume, variety and quality. THE BAZAAR is a pioneering concept and the first store to create a local market dedicated to sustainable products. THE BAZAAR sells organically grown products, ensures that the procurement is fair-trade, that its marketing operations raise awareness and that the sales are profitable. The cooperative provides market information to the producers by mobilizing information and communication technologies and strengthen their capacities to produce according to the market demand. THE BAZAAR provides a reliable and common branding to these producers that ensures consumer trust.
Based on a strong notion of sustainable development, THE BAZAAR is creating a new consumer market with a focus on locally-produced products; home decoration, accessories, groceries & fresh food produce. THE BAZAAR includes an organic cafe, a fair-trade shop, a market for organic groceries and fresh food produce, and an information counter with internet & library facilities all under one roof. The information counter is aimed to provide information & raise awareness about our producers & their production methods, about sustainable living etc. directly to our customers.
In the period 2009-2011 the members of the cooperative have proved their individual capacity and collaboration to produce and sell sustainable products. After shaping the supply chain, the producers together with THE BAZAAR (retail) have founded the cooperative in 2012 and formulated their collective future. The collective aim of the cooperative members is: increasing sustainable income through production of quality products in sufficient variety and volume. As an apex body, the cooperative will assist small producers by providing access to capacity building and finances, so that they could enter into the formal market with required volume, variety, quality and value-added branding. This provides regular supply to THE BAZAAR for delivering high quality and genuine Nepali products to the growing consumer base. The profit that goes back to the cooperative from the market is fairly distributed and/or reinvested among the members.
THE BAZAAR'S competition comprise a motley collection of independent shops in one market area, while the more upmarket handicraft shops offering the same products as its decoration & gift segment focus only on the tourist trade, neglecting local consumers. There are many supermarkets (e.g. Salesway, Binayak, Munal), grocery & fresh products stores selling a variety of international and locally-produced grocery items, like rice, honey, etc. It is likely that supermarkets or other individual stores start to exploit this trend of 'organic & fairtrade' as well. Moreover, misuse or opportunistic use of the above words can gradually erode credibility and can make us vulnerable. Nevertheless, various NGOs and government agencies are supporting us and working together to address these needs.
Access to financing, Access to supply chains, Access to technology, Access to economic opportunity.
THE BAZAAR & the cooperative jointly aim to serve both commercial and social goals: 1. Marketing: branding, promoting and selling sustainable products 2. Quality and Volume: educating, training of producers. 3. Fair Trade: implementing and monitoring fair trade principles 4. Environmental conservation: motivating community producers to adopt sustainable production concepts, such as bio/organic farming and eco-friendly productions
The most important impacts of our initiative to date are: i) Around 500 community producers/farmers have access to formal markets through THE BAZAAR. All of these producers are following organic methods. ii) More than 150 farmers have got trainings and access to financial & technical support on bio/organic farming, ecological fish farming and management of group farming. iii) At least 30% of middle-class consumers (In total 60% of 300,000 population in Pokhara are middle class) are sensitised to purchase local and sustainable products.
The projected impact over the next 1-3 years are: i) More than 1000 to 1500 producers will get access to formal markets through THE BAZAAR. All of these producers will get access to trainings and capacity building in different ways. ii) More than 50% farmers and/or more than 50% of product line sold through THE BAZAAR will be certified under appropriate fair trade/organic certification. iii) THE BAZAAR will be one of the trusted and leading brands in Pokhara with market coverage of more than 20% in the sector of organic & fair trade. Our target is more than 500 households being regular customers of our products. iv) By 2015 we expect to scale-up THE BAZAAR in two more cities of Nepal by delivering our impact in larger group of producers and customers.
We have identified following threats : - As general sales of sustainable products will grow, it is likely that supermarkets start to exploit this trend as well - Our products & services have to face heavy competition with imported goods. - Misuse or opportunistic use of the 'organic & fair trade' words can gradually erode credibility - Nepali people in general have the tendency to adopt new trends slowly - Copycatting of handicrafts with a fair trade label can present a risk To tackle these barriers we have developed retail marketing plan together Mr. Dick van der Eijk (retired VP Marketing at Unilever). We have also worked together with NGOs like Organic Certification Nepal, One World Al. and government agencies like District Agriculture Development Office etc.
Improved retail concept to communicate the message to customers and gain trust from the market.
Redesign and build the interior and exterior of THE BAZAAR to meet the concept.
To develop customer communication plan according to the improved concept and launch marketing plan already developed.
Start-up the developed store within the end of 2012.
Capacity building of the producers to meet the market demand.
Identifying the capacity building needs of different producing groups.
Providing trainings and exposures according to the identified needs.
Regular monitoring and taking into certification from our expert team members.
The driving force behind the concept is Mr. Tulsi Giri, a sociology graduate from Tribhuvan University in Nepal. At an early stage in his professional life he travelled through Europe and Asia attending conferences, meeting experts and discussing social and economic development issues. Already in 2008 while initiating USSHA Foundation and implementing 'Youth in Sustainable Development Project' in rural village of Nepal, Mr. Giri saw the potentials of local production sector. People were leaving the production sector and going abroad for labor migration and the country facing youth unemployment. Contrarily, Mr. Giri saw huge potential in production sector esp. agriculture and natural resources of the rural Nepal to build sustainable economy and tackle those problems. He realized that without mobilizing sustainable production methods, value-added branding and market development there would be no way out for these problems. This led to the initiation of THE BAZAAR.
We have initiated partnerships with a variety of organisations including NGOs (USSHA Foundation, NEST, Li-Bird, Organic Certification Nepal, One World ALC.), financial institutions (Acacia, Basel & GLS Foundation, Germany), youth organisations (IDEM-Network, Basel), and government bodies (district agricultural development office, Regional Cooperative Office). Besides that we are working with PUM.nl (senior experts program for entrepreneurs). Our initiatives benefits from these partnerships as we acquires\access to financial, expertise, technological and business institutions.
The prime need for emerging entrepreneurs like us is the expertise support on different topics of specific business. Our business model has clear opportunities and possibility to succeed in the market. Nevertheless, we need to develop our own business skills and expertise to realize these potentials. At the same time access to easy & strategic financing is also core to get success.
Do Good Sports is a movement that inspires people to improve lives through sports.
We aim to build a sustainable sports ecosystem that creates a sporting culture, builds a sporting infrastructure and groom talent.
As a result, individuals will have greater opportunities to excel in sports, society will move closer in creating a sustainable sporting environment, more people will be find opportunities of livelihood through sports and we will have together done a social good.
Sports is power. Giving is Life. Attitude is everything. Do Good Sports!
Chak de!
Samoolam started in Gaya district of Bihar in 2010 with an aim to generate livelihood for local community, realizing individual's potential towards positive social change. Our strength comes from our roots, we work with community in need women in specific. More than an organization it is a message for youth reminding their responsibilities towards their society.
Doing with human intellect what AMUL did with rural milk 40 years ago is the essence of this idea. Basically using modern telecom and internet technology to enhance rural education quality directed towards eventual development of Rural IT, and not ITeS, since Rural IT would be revolutionary for Indian economy due to its higher profit margins and the intellectual nature of work. A Rural India better off monetarily as well as intellectually is obviously more desirable for faster development of our "village" nation and to bridge the urban-rural chasm.
B2R believes in "Rural Ethos - Business Ethic" and that, through strategic intertwining of business goals and social objectives we can achieve both sustainably. We want to leverage the huge potential in rural India, to create a best-in-class, service delivery value proposition to provide business support services to clients, which enables the creation of sustainable rural livelihood opportunities.
B2R's vision is to:
Rural ERP is the world's First Indian Language Cloud ERP available in 9 Indian languages such as Bengali, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Punjabi, Tamil and Telugu apart from English.
Rural ERP - An Enterprise Resource Planning application for Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises, MSMEs, delivered on Cloud as a SAAS product and bridging the digital divide among enterprises. Here Rural means "Rural Urban Resources Across Languages".
PROTSAHAN [a Hindi word = encouragement] a youth led and youth run social impact organization, commenced in 2010. We encourage design, art and creativity in India's slums through CREATIVE EDUCATION & generate SUSTAINABLE LIVELIHOODS by skills training at the level of darkest of urban slums and red light districts in New Delhi for at risk young girls facing exploitation/sex abuse. We use Art & ICT tools [Information, Communication and Technology] as the fore bringer of social change.
The project: "The Second White Revolution" The benefit:
Rural women can develop economically by providing direct and indirect employment.
Social / Economic Impacts
The basic day to day routine work activities releasing enormous amount of pressure can be fruitfully used to drive power using the natural tendency of some elements.
We have devised simple sandwich structure that uses the routine pressure and gets activated . This can be miniaturized to be small enough to fit into a shoe as MOBILE SHOE CHARGER whose need and demand is clear from the below stats.
Mind-controlled video games for teaching kids (and kids at heart) mindfulness, attentional focus and self-compassion skills.
From a team of former neuroscientists, engineers and game designers with backgrounds from MIT, Stanford and the Harvard-MIT-MGH Martinos center.


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