The floating bridge of dreams
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This document provides information about a social enterprise that focuses on social innovation design, social enterprise investment, and sustainable development. It summarizes the enterprise's services, clients/partners, key impacts, portfolio examples in various countries, approach, and volunteer opportunities. Some key points include that it has helped over 2.5 million people access health information online and supported 27 social enterprises as of 2009. The portfolio section lists several social enterprise examples across Asia focused on areas like agriculture, renewable energy, and fair trade.
The floating bridge of dreams
- 2. Sunit Shrestha, founder
- 3. e bridge of dreams Floating on a spring night Soon breaks off: Parting from the mountain top, A bank of clouds in the open sky. Fujiwara no Teika (1205)
- 4. e Floating Bridge of Dreams
- 5. About us
- 6. Our service: Social innovation design Social enterprise investment
- 7. Our clients & partners:
- 9. 2.5+ million people access to high quality health information via the Internet.
- 10. Mobile/Internet disease surveillance systems
- 11. Socially responsible investment (SRI)
- 14. Number of social enterprises 27 15 5 2007 2008 2009
- 15. PIPELINE: Examples of portfolio social enterprises (mix of seeding, start-up and scale-up cases) BANGLADESH PHILIPPINES Padma Ideal!s Provides critical information on agricultural best- Provides high-quality communications solutions for non-profits who practices to farmers through information kiosks. cannot afford commercial service. XayanIT Let IT help Provides IT training, education and jobs within the enterprise to provides capacity building on PAKISTAN underprivileged youth. specific IT skills that are in market demand and match trainees to job opportunities. Youth Engagement Service Provides seed financing and incubation Youth Works for youth-led micro social enterprises in Provides microfinance services to youth entrepreneurs in rural remote rural areas. communities Kaarvan Rural Light Channelling women groups handicrafts Provides rural electrification solutions at the small community level. around Pakistan to shops in big cities employing fair-trade model. Mobile Telecentres Provides on-site training and career opportunities for students through 3 wheeler trike mobile telecentres. THAILAND INDIA Grassroot Innovation Network School and Community Hoticulture Provides micro organic agriculture methods and (SCHE) inputs to over 1,000 poor rural farmer families Provides nutritional supplements to that improve multi-crop farm productivity by mid-day meals in schools in India over 400%. MALAYSIA through poly-houses. OpenDream SOLS-24/7 MicrofinanceJobs.com Provides web, online application and virtual SOLS 24/7 provides life-skills education to Online jobs placement and aggregator in the communities services to non-profits. underprivileged youth in Cambodia, East Timor and micro-finance sector in India. Thoth Media Malaysia. Krishak Mitra Provides video podcasting and viral clip services Elevyn Improving the livelihood of marginal farmers in and news platform for citizen journalism, non- Online platform that links the selling of India by using agriculture decision-making profit and social groups. handmade products to the support of social and software at various rural knowledge centers. Chivalry Silk environmental causes. Source wholesale unique silk products from poor rural Community Friendly Movement families and conducts sales overseas. CFM sources hand-made crafts from artisan communities in India and conducts sales to wholesale craft buyers overseas.
- 16. Areas Micro-finance Sustainable agriculture Information and communication technologies (ICTs) Community-scale renewable energy Development communications Fair-trade and cultural preservation ink-tank
- 17. Our method; the flow Social entrepreneurs / Change Fusion Process innovators Attraction Finance Innovation partners Incubate Social Innovations Social Enterprises Investors / donors Co-design
- 19. Grameen
- 20. Aravind
- 21. One world health
- 23. Kiva.org
- 24. Doi Tung
- 25. ai cra fair trade
- 26. Apaipubet
- 28. A rising global trend
- 29. the funding gap
- 30. Social enterprise investment gap in Asia.
- 31. Some interesting development Regional infrastructure in Hong Kong and Singapore. Emergin social enterprise support interest in ailand. ailand will launch ‘Social Enterprise Committee’ chaired by the PM.
- 32. e Essence of Social Enterprise
- 33. OUTCOME Economic Social SE Environment
- 34. DISCIPLINE Compassion Capacity SE Market
- 35. PROCESS; Sensing > Innovating > Testing > Scaling
- 36. ACCELERATION METHOD Full potential analysis > Game plan > Focused performance > Capacity > Exit
- 37. Cases from the Portfolio
- 38. Community Friendly Movement (CFM)
- 39. Ideals Creatives
- 40. Let IT Help
- 41. Open Dream
- 42. Grassroots Innovation Network (GIN)
- 45. Business development Business plan Connection Marketing Strategy Finance Legal
- 47. or just be a bridge