1. Source: NASA

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3. we enable everyone

4. March 22, 2010 © 2010 AP Photo/Color China Photo/Li Huang

5. to invest in social enterprises

6. here’s how it works:

7. there’s a 21-year-old college student in Los Angeles, CA

8. his name is Jake

9. 9

10. Jake has $30

11. there’s a 21-year-old college student in Malawi, Africa

12. his name is William

13. 13

14. William has an idea

15. 15

16. their connection is our mission

17. to answer the most important ? of our time:

18. 9 Billion People + 1 Planet = ?

19. 19 not with

20. apathy

21. our answer?

22. 22 100 million solutions

23. Jake, meet William

24. 33needs flips the start-upfunding model on its head

25. it’s called crowd-funding

26. Number of social enterprises 33needs will fund by year four: Number of ventures (social or otherwise) funded by more than 100 people during the previous 70 years:

27. how?

28. a social entrepreneur creates a profile on 33needs.com

29. 29

30. what’s a social entrepreneur?

31. n.,1. a pioneer of innovative solutions for the planet

32. William is one

33. William builds windmills that provide energy + clean water

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35. thousands of entrepreneurs think like William::

36. “I find out what the world needs, then I proceed to invent.” Thomas Edison September 23, 1889

37. 37 what do they care about? what do they want?

38. clean water sustainable food community clean-energy education for all global health opportunity

39. back to William

40. William needs seed capital to scale his impact

41. William: “I want to harnessthe wind across Africa.”

42. from his profile, he chooses a $10,000 “funding target”

43. then he chooses to share 3% of his revenue with investors

44. your turn, Jake

45. Jake explores a few of the 33 profiles on 33needs.com

46. the ideas are organized into 8 “big need” categories

47. communityhealthopportunitywatersustainable foodenvironmentenergyeducation

48. what’s a big need?

49. hint: it’s urgent. for example:

50. 50 One of the 70 billion animals suffering behind the walls of factory farms (2)

51. Haizi Town, Luliang, Yunnan Province March 22, 2010 Climate change responsible for massive droughts and water scarcity © 2010 AP Photo/Color China Photo/Li Huang

52. 52 34 million girls living on the street instead of receiving an education

53. back to Jake

54. he finds William’s magetsi a mphepo – “electric wind” idea

55. he likes this “invest in a better world” thing

56. 56

57. Jake invests $30 (or 3 “parts”)in William’s idea

58. FYI: Jake can invest in steps of $10 (“the part price”)

59. he is now a “Believer” (also pondering his own big idea)

60. Who (or what) benefits from Jake’s investment?

61. 61 (1)

62. William has seed $ to grow his purposeful business model

63. 63 (2)

64. Jake receives a small % of William’s future revenue

65. 65 (3)

66. 33needs receives 5% of the established funding target

67. 67 (4)

68. the world has a solution

69. 69

70. remember

71. this is not charity

72. business can change the world

73. 73 join us at <33needs.com>