The skills and tools you need to launch and grow a social venture
2. Workshops and trainings that provide you with critical skills and tools
3. Small seed funding
OUR INVESTEES
Ecofemme
www.ecofemme.org
Vision: a global women’s empowerment initiative. Rising from rural India, reaching out to women around the world, we promote and revitalize menstrual practices that are healthy, dignified, afforda
ble and eco positive.We dream of a transformed world view in which girls and women are:
*honored and dignified;
*free from shame and oppression;
*free to participate fully in their lives;
*have the knowledge, resources and skills to live in harmony with their bodies;
*globally connected and supported;
*empowered to care for Our Mother Earth. The full team are currently all volunteers except 1 part time girl who we pay for packing support. We have 3 full time and 2 part time volunteers at present. Activities: We have 2 product ranges - a premium range which is for profit and a cost price range which economically disadvantaged women. The first range is launched and the second we are awaiting results from the product testing process to finalise design. We are working on a marketing plan for and preparing to launch the cost price range and see this as needing a full campaign to raise awareness about these alternative products - we would really require help with this and can further elaborate. We also would like to expand markets both in India and internationally for our products. Beneficiaries: women and adolescent girls, the environment
Reap Benefit -
www.facebook.com/reapbenefit
Vision: an environment services organisation working with companies and educational institutions. We provide environment consultancy with low cost innovations which bring systemic and tangible changes which will in turn will create awareness and personal transformation. Heal The Soil Community Supported Agriculture
www.healthesoilcsa.org
www.facebook.com/Heal.The.Soil.Has.Soul
Vision: Empowering underprivileged village communities towards self sustaining future
3 Employees, 4 Long Term Volunteers, 3 short term volunteers (this number fluctuates)
Activities: Promoting Kitchen Gardens and Permaculture in village homes and village schools,
Every month we conduct weekend workshops on Introduction to Permauclture
Every year we organise up to 2 intensive 'Permaculture Design Course'
main beneficiaries: We are in a followup training programe with Village women 30, village school going children 80, village kids 12
Tip4Change
www.tip4change.wordpress.com
The Tipping Point is a new venture promoted by Gijs Spoor, Anil Kumar and Bernd Hausmann. A Step by Step guide through the process:
1. Producer groups apply for consumer support by submitting a format with basic project data and a personal story of someone directly affected by their initiative;
2. This data is entered in a database, capturing categories relevant for consumers. Spot check verification is done where needed;
3. The database is linked to an existing track & trace software that follows the movement of goods from producer to consumer;
4. Once the goods reach the retailer they come with a pack of Point Of Sale display material and an IMPACT MENU card handled by retail staff;
5. Consumers see the product, read about the projects in any of 4 ways: 1)swing-tag, 2)in store barcode scanner, 3)mobile app, 4)menu card at cash counter;
6. If consumer decides to support a project the check out software registers this by scanning the barcode + the amount, this is added to the bill;
7. Retailers report on sales on weekly basis. At this moment donations are tallied and money transferred to our payment gateway along with project ID codes;
8. We pay producer groups in tranches of Rs 20,000 -each after getting report on the related milestone. Wasteless
www.iwasteless.org
Vision: changing the world, one piece of garbage at a time
Provide children with knowledge, skills and tools to Inspire children to intervene and stimulate waste systems change;
Create and reinforce values of personal responsibility towards the future on Earth; and
Stimulate resource conservation through conscious Consumerism
Activities: Garbology 101 - an interactive, interdisciplinary, multi-age educational kit for children from 6 to 12 years of age. The curriculum is divided into 6 different themes (waste, resource conservation, avoidance & reduction, conscious consumerism, systems change and whole school activity) each providing a unique perspective on waste and its responsible management. Waste Audit Services:
Waste Stream Analysis
Segregation systems
Revenue maximization through sale of recyclables
Comprehensive waste minimization strategy
Reduction of toxic inputs and assist in finding safer alternatives
Staff training
Composting technologies
Customized awareness campaign with IEC materials (internal marketing)
Certification
Atmasanga
www.atmasanga.com
Vision: say a “BIG NO” to plastic shopping bags. ATMASANGA literally means the ‘coming together of souls’. Humans have chosen to ignore the fact that this beautiful world will remain so only if we decide to preserve and protect her. We cannot afford to exploit and plunder our natural resources and defile the environment indefinitely. We have reached a point in time when we should STOP, THINK and ACT! Seed to Self
www.seedtoself.in
founder:Theresa Grantham
Vision: developing an educational tool kit for schools and colleges to explain the manufacturing process and how it impacts on peoples lives. Retail should not just be about acquiring goods or services in exchange for money. It should be about the selection of those purchases through a conscious process of self enquiry to benefit all the parties involved – raw material suppliers, manufacturers, retailers and end users. In a spirit of true transparency and respect for the natural environment, all stakeholders have it within themselves to care about and nurture mutual, spiritual well-being.
