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2012 Competition Winners

Two outstanding organizations – CATALYST KITCHENS and 10,000 DEGREES – were selected as winners of the Social Impact Exchange’s 2012 Business Plan Competition. The award recipients were selected from among three early-stage and three mezzanine-stage finalists who presented their business plans and responded to questions about scaling their initiatives from a panel of expert judges and field leaders. Read the full press release by clicking here.

Six organizations – 10,000 Degrees, F.E.G.S. Health and Human Services System, Green & Healthy Home Initiative, Catalyst Kitchens, College Possible, The Hill Center – presented their plans before an audience of 250 people and responded to questions from a panel of experts. View presentations from the finalists here.

The mezzanine-stage award recipient, Catalyst Kitchens, demonstrates a scalable and sustainable

solution for job and life skills training for individuals facing significant barriers to employment.

After a successful four year pilot, Catalyst Kitchens’ collaborative network of foodservice social

enterprises now includes member programs across 18 states that provide job training and nutritious

meals for communities in need. Over the next four years, the organization will launch 50 new

programs, quadrupling annual training to 6,000 individuals; produce and deliver more than 10

million nutritious meals; and generate $15 million in revenues using all net proceeds to sustain its

mission. "We are deeply honored by this recognition from the Social Impact Exchange," said David

Carleton, Founder and Director of Catalyst Kitchens. "As we work together to scale our collective

impact, this takes us one BIG step forward to reaching our goals."

The early-stage award recipient, 10,000 Degrees, provides financial, technical and personal support

to low-income, San Francisco Bay Area students to help them earn a college degree. 10KD students

attend public schools, live below the poverty line, and are often the first in their families to pursue a

college degree. Despite these factors, 84% have not only gained acceptance to college but have

graduated. 10KD expects to grow from 2,500 to 10,000 students by the end of 2015, and 20,000

students by 2020. “At 10,000 Degrees we are investing in low-income youth and producing results

that help lift entire families out of the cycle of poverty,” said its president, Kim Mazzuca. “The

Social Impact Exchange affirms our approach and will help us take our college success solution to

scale.”

Round II Results: 6 Finalists Selected

Congratulations to the finalists in the 2012 Social Impact Business Plan Competition!  These organizations will present at the Symposium on Scaling Impact on June 12 in New York City.

Early-Stage 10,000 Degrees F.E.G.S. Green & Healthy Homes

Mezzanine-Stage Catalyst Kitchens College Possible The Hill Center

Round I Results

The complete list of organizations invited to Round II include:

Mezzanine Stage:

  • AARP Experience Corps
  • Ashoka's Youth Venture
  • Big Brothers Big Sisters of South Texas
  • Catalyst Kitchens
  • College Possible
  • Generation Citizen
  • Grameen Foundation USA
  • Mercy Portfolio Services
  • The Hill Center, Inc.
  • Women's Microfinance Initiative

Early-Stage:

  • 10,000 Degrees
  • Arts to Grow
  • Asylum Access
  • Big Brothers Big Sisters of Greater Miami, Inc.
  • Center for Educational Pathways
  • Coalition to End Childhood Lead Poisoning (Green & Healthy Homes)
  • College Forward
  • Congo Leadership Initiative
  • Corporation for Supportive Housing
  • Durham Economic Resource Center (DERC)
  • Embraced
  • F.E.G.S
  • Generation Schools Network, Inc.
  • Larkin Street Youth Services
  • More Than Wheels
  • National Housing Trust-Enterprise Preservation Corporation
  • NC Prevention Partners
  • Next Step Network
  • Project Change
  • Roca, Inc.
  • Sexual Assault Victim Advocate (SAVA) Center
  • Students Today Leaders Forever
  • Teen Success, Inc.
  • Twin Cities RISE!
  • Wayne State University Research and Technology Park in the City of Detroit (TechTown)

2011 Business Plan Competition

Business Plan Competition Winners Round II Results: 6 Finalists Selected Round I Results Press Release

2011 Business Plan Competition Winners

We are proud to announce that two outstanding organizations – BELL and WINGS for Kids, Inc. – were selected as winners of the Social Impact Exchange’s 2010-2011 Business Plan Competition, held at the Social Impact Exchange 2011 Conference on Scaling Impact, June 15 & 16.

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New York – Two outstanding organizations – The Hill Center and Juma Ventures – were selected as winners of the Social Impact Exchange’s 2013 Business Plan Competition. The award recipients were selected from among three mezzanine-stage and three early-stage finalists who presented their business plans and responded to questions about scaling their initiatives from a panel of expert judges and field leaders.
 
The winners receive a cash award and consulting services. Consulting will be provided by TCC Group, a leading firm that develops strategies and programs that enhance the efficiency and effectiveness of nonprofits to achieve scaled impact, and The Finance Project, specialists in helping leaders finance and sustain initiatives that lead to better futures for children, families, and communities.
 
Last fall, dozens of nonprofits entered the Exchange’s Business Plan Competition and proceeded through several rounds of evaluation by 57 qualified professionals from the private, public, and nonprofit sectors. All entrants received customized written feedback on their plans.
 
The mezzanine-stage award recipient, The Hill Center, addresses the problem of school failure through a research-based curriculum that allows trained teachers to address gaps in skills for sutdents ages 3 to 18. The organization is based in Durham, North Carolina, and scale-up will be accomplished through a "Promote a Model" approach that will scale-out geographically across eastern North Carolina. Hill has over ten years' experience working with public schools implementing its program model. Over the next 3 years, the Hill Center will expand to 9 additional school districts, while also training and certifying 636 additional teachers, supporting the academic success of 10,000 students.

"This recognition is especially appreciated because of the strong field of finalists this year," said Hill Center CEO, Dr. Shary Maskel. "The award will provide new momentum for our business plan implementation and really validates the work of so many who share the vision of improved academic achievement and better outcomes for struggling learners in North Carolina and beyond. We thank the Social Impact Exchange for their pioneering work in the field of social innovation." 
 
The early-stage award recipient, Juma Ventures, creates hundreds of jobs for low-income students and provides an array of support services to ensure those students succeed in college and in their careers. Its model combines employement opportunities, financial literacy education, and academic support. Last year, 100% of Juma's seniors graduated from high school and 94% successfully transitioned to post-secondary education. In the next 3 years, Juma will expand its social enterprise model into new markets, including aligning with major sports franchises to create thousands more jobs for low-income young people at sports venues throughout the country. Additionally, Juma will increase the number of students served from 1,202 to 2,578 over the next 3 years.

"We're thrilled to receive this support and recognition from the Social Impact Exchange," said Juma CEO Marc Spencer. "The consulting and financial resources will help Juma bring our mission to more students in more places and at lower cost, beginning with our expansion to Santa Clara in 2014."
 
The awards were conferred yesterday on June 17 at the Social Impact Exchange’s 2013 Symposium on Scaling Impact before an audience of more than 250 grantmakers and nonprofit leaders. In addition to witnessing the Business Plan Competition, Symposium attendees participated in several breakout and plenary sessions including understanding the evolution of growth, keys to successfully scaling impact, achieving sustainability at scale, and the power of collaboration. 
 
The Symposium is followed today by the Exchange’s 2013 Conference on Scaling Impact June 18-20, which specifically targets funders and their advisors. Highlights of the conference include keynote addresses from Tonya Allen, incoming president and CEO, The Skillman Foundation; Jeff Bradach, managing partner and co-founder, The Bridgespan Group; Jim Canales, president and CEO, The James Irvine Foundation; Linda Gibbs, Deputy Mayor, City of New York; and Rip Rapson, president and CEO, The Kresge Foundation. Conference sessions focus on how cross-sector collaboration is taking social impact to new levels.
 
Both the Symposium and Conference on Scaling are presented by Growth Philanthropy Network and Duke University’s Center for Strategic Philanthropy and Civil Society at the Sanford School of Public Policy and Center for the Advancement of Social Entrepreneurship (CASE) at the Fuqua School of Business.
 
Conference sponsors include Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, American Express, Bank of America, Veris Consulting, TCC Group, The Finance Project, Chronicle of Philanthropy, The Foundation Center, The Whelan Group, and WiT Media.

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I have not seen in my 71 years of life an opportunity to support youth co-create futures like SDG Metaverse Prize - since my father met von neumann the year I was born my family has kept an eye on entrepreneurial revolution open societal flows. living up to smithian or keynsian values 
Special thanks to zasheem launches of 2 journals with adam smith scholars and around Glasgow's greatest 20th C alumni for good. See alsdo EconomistDiary.com and Greatests of All Time
Following on with Japan ambassador to Bangladesh support from 2010 in mapping last decade of Fazle Abed and the billion womens economic model he gravitated over 50 years http://www.abedmooc.com, Team of Asian media graduates, and friends and I were lucky to follow movements of Guterres (very granular levels of 100 ops leaders inside UN) around digital un2.0 from their start in 2016.
As a statistician, datawise. I can offer a quick start mapping every last mile operation branch of UN that is linking in to maximise tech nd deep data with smartest possible logistics even as sad new fractures of world trade flows are caused most lately by Russia. Whats still needed is more clarity on which multilateral has the most data on broken value chains- fortunately i personally know who at the world bank has since 2006 the most data on food prices across every country. Maybe you know // sources .
 Digital cooperation has been celebrated solutionwise in Geneva where the ITU has actually been the digital twin of ny policy headquarters from the start in 1946 (and actually earlier since 1865 collaborations needed for there to be one telegraph standard instead of many).
By 2018 the first digital cooperation report mainly chaired out of geneva with 30 national tech leaders eg melinda gates representing USA to guterres and he formed tech envoy transformation office round 10 transformation processes -see Overview of the Office’s Ongoing Work | Office of the Secretary-General's Envoy on Technology
The ITU started taking its responsibility to a new level with AIforgood- specifically this went year round zoom not juts annual summit- and a first 50 operational branches of the UN identified at least one ai project each. Meanwhile Guterres hosted expert roundtables around the 10 processes uniting not just un branches and national leaders but corporations , leading ai university centres and NGOs -see https://www.un.org/techenvoy/sites/www.un.org.techenvoy/files/List_of_roundtables_key_constituents.pdf
Three more things came together- it turned out that 20 operational units of the UN had been discussing web1 &2 in annual vents of ITU -in thi=ose days called worldwide information society; the xprize out of moutnain view's singularity university got involved. By december the 10 million dillar avatar prize will  be debriefed- the last 4 xprizes have been on urgen tai solutions eg related to covid. And japan has been uniting about 40 cities' colleges through two investment streams geared to society5.0 and Osaka Data Track Expos - connection places where the UN has a training college and connecting AI regional epicentres fortunately Nordica, Netherlands & selected East Europe's smartest community AI researchers (ie who value DAO) are miles more connected than west EU's bureaucratic offices. (I did help moderate EU Knolwgeboard for 3 years so have followed this rather strange old world happening) You could also check with Romano Prodi as died and he shared most entrepreneurial revolution maps.
Back in 2018 the tufts arctic circle club were miles ahead on virtual reality than other boston students including mit100k prize that i once judged in a minor way.  The over 18 teams are effectively free to help the UN digitalise and connect this with web 3 or metaverse or ai or whatever is the leap forward 2020s that you see tech mobilising
 can a prize help celebrate new Greatest of All Time. This will be one way to unite celebrities of sports and fashions with real tech heroines.
Exponentially we are at a critical time as nature judges us. Due to last week's supreme court rulings, around the world nations are being told taht it is only at the state level they can expect any american partners of climate, energy etc. However there is a chnace e that if we map who cares about water this may even unite some republican states. 
Thanks to the work led by people like Eban he has a listing of which institutions joined their youth in March 2022. Is there a way to see who wants to help youth connect before december's starting line for year 1 of sdgmetaverseprize.org? As far as I can see this prize isnt just us last chance to be be trusted rest of the world on cop26 but it is every community's chance to benchmark digital gov. UN2.0 if succeeds  Meta will not only provide a benchmark for digital multilateral but will in effect unite every best govtech - at community state nation level. So already when it comes to goal 4 education places like singapore and south korea are both leaders of ai for every age group and leading connectors of Guterres Digital UN , and in effect every sustainability goal solution. of course the problem is penisular and  developed island states are not sufficient to help with massive inland solutions on continent scales let alone messy landlocked nations borders. The reality is west (US and EU) depends on Asian solutions  more than many Atlamtic policymakers view. Europe is not yet better situated for peace than the 1920s and this time round the US is not united on being a leader in saving the world. The great thing about the prize is with teams of 2-6 getting on with deep digital solutions youth can advance in joy and productivity even as elder generations have designed 60 years of accelerating media to propagate hate or fear or mental illness.
i welcome any way to follow this up eg whatsapp +1 240 316  8157, zooms, last month while wall street was still investing mainly in naked apes - educators started an NFT aimed at connecting 6000 educators; to be frank this is mainly k-12 leaving the 2 main areas fazle abed's last 20 years focused newly on university and pre-school maximum opportunity to represent women empowerments voice if you should so choose to collaborate
cheers chris macrae

===================please note most of this column is due to be re-edited we hope to issue a list of yunus top 10 stories but when it comes to solutions matching those challeges there's all to play for as web3 is humanity's last chnace to leap ahead

  hottest youth-spring question of our life and times-can online education end youth unemployment for ever ? yes but only if you help map how!

Breaking News to action now!

About Pro-Youth economics at Norman Macrae Foundation online library of norman macrae - The Economist's Unacknowledged Giant -videos 1 2 -fansweb  NMFoundation- youth projects - include yunuschoolusa

 

fullest press reports  Grameen Brand Partnership Architecture

exponential impact advisory: the social business youth networks inspired by muhammad yunus -without which millennium goal actions networks would be way behind are worth far more than any individual parts according to Norman Macrae Foundation  trilliondollaraudit methodology and charter notespace

Beyond the extraordinary investment of the members bank at Grameen, and the approximate third share its members foundation holds in grameenphone, here is our Unofficial League Table of Most Impactful Social Business Investments around yunus - last update 1 dec 2012

! Grameen Solar

2 Grameen Mobile Nursing nets and college

3 Portfolio of investments linkedin by Japan

4 Portfolio of youth-led networking inventions in US educationsystem  tertiar and secondary - transparency note NM Foundation has minor donation/loan interest

5 Investments in Grameen as collaboration brand linked in out of paris- the origin of global social business partnership funds

6 OpenTech investments of Grameen Intel

 

-------- while not controlled by yunus we see wholeplanetfoundation microcredit investment table and conscious capitalsm movements and hugely important to advancing pro-youth economicsmission of friends of youth and yunus

 

email chris.macrae@yahoo.co.ukif you have questions or recommendations of entries that should be in this league table

-please read notes about what pro-youth economists mean by superapps being most

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