The Creative Activist Toolkit is a series of PDF booklets designed to help today’s youth impact the world through creativity and social entrepreneurship. Produced by the Global Youth Fund and the Creative Visions Foundation, the toolkit chapters are offered free to download. Email us if you would like to contribute a chapter. This chapter helps young changemakers create an effective presentation to show funders and offers useful tips on how to "perfect their pitch."
The Creative Activist Toolkit is a series of PDF booklets designed to help today’s youth impact the world through creativity and social entrepreneurship. Produced by the Global Youth Fund and the Creative Visions Foundation, the toolkit chapters are offered free to download. Email us if you would like to contribute a chapter. This chapter helps young changemakers create measurable change - so they can demonstrate their impact for funders, supporters and themselves..
Want to change the world but not sure where to begin? This simple guide - The Creative Activist Toolkit - takes you step-by-step through the beginning stages of social innovation and helps you avoid common mistakes. (We will enable downloading when toolkit is finalized - sometime in May 2011.)
The Creative Activist Toolkit is a series of PDF booklets designed to help today’s youth impact the world through creativity and social entrepreneurship. Produced by the Global Youth Fund and the Creative Visions Foundation, the toolkit chapters are offered free to download. Email us if you would like to contribute a chapter. This chapter is a PowerPoint template that helps young changemakers create an effective presentation to show funders.
The Creative Activist Toolkit is a series of PDF booklets designed to help today’s youth impact the world through creativity and social entrepreneurship. Produced by the Global Youth Fund and the Creative Visions Foundation, the toolkit chapters are offered free to download. Email us if you would like to contribute a chapter. This chapter helps changemakers identify and address root causes of problems.
Here is our inaugural issue of Innovation Excellence Weekly. Inside you'll find ten of the best innovation-related articles from the past week on Innovation Excellence - the world's most popular innovation web site and home to nearly 5,000 innovation-related articles.
We are proud to announce our thirteenth Innovation Excellence Weekly for Slideshare. Inside you'll find ten of the best innovation-related articles from the past week on Innovation Excellence - the world's most popular innovation web site and home to 5,000+ innovation-related articles.
We are proud to announce our twenty-sixth Innovation Excellence Weekly for Slideshare. Inside you'll find ten of the best innovation-related articles from the past week on Innovation Excellence - the world's most popular innovation web site and home to 5,000+ innovation-related articles.
The Creative Activist Toolkit is a series of PDF booklets designed to help today’s youth impact the world through creativity and social entrepreneurship. Produced by the Global Youth Fund and the Creative Visions Foundation, the toolkit chapters are offered free to download. Email us if you would like to contribute a chapter. This chapter helps young changemakers create measurable change - so they can demonstrate their impact for funders, supporters and themselves..
Want to change the world but not sure where to begin? This simple guide - The Creative Activist Toolkit - takes you step-by-step through the beginning stages of social innovation and helps you avoid common mistakes. (We will enable downloading when toolkit is finalized - sometime in May 2011.)
The Creative Activist Toolkit is a series of PDF booklets designed to help today’s youth impact the world through creativity and social entrepreneurship. Produced by the Global Youth Fund and the Creative Visions Foundation, the toolkit chapters are offered free to download. Email us if you would like to contribute a chapter. This chapter is a PowerPoint template that helps young changemakers create an effective presentation to show funders.
The Creative Activist Toolkit is a series of PDF booklets designed to help today’s youth impact the world through creativity and social entrepreneurship. Produced by the Global Youth Fund and the Creative Visions Foundation, the toolkit chapters are offered free to download. Email us if you would like to contribute a chapter. This chapter helps changemakers identify and address root causes of problems.
Here is our inaugural issue of Innovation Excellence Weekly. Inside you'll find ten of the best innovation-related articles from the past week on Innovation Excellence - the world's most popular innovation web site and home to nearly 5,000 innovation-related articles.
We are proud to announce our thirteenth Innovation Excellence Weekly for Slideshare. Inside you'll find ten of the best innovation-related articles from the past week on Innovation Excellence - the world's most popular innovation web site and home to 5,000+ innovation-related articles.
We are proud to announce our twenty-sixth Innovation Excellence Weekly for Slideshare. Inside you'll find ten of the best innovation-related articles from the past week on Innovation Excellence - the world's most popular innovation web site and home to 5,000+ innovation-related articles.
This guide was prepared for the September 2015 Dpharm Conference in Boston as a catalyst for discussion around disruptive innovation in drug development.
The ideas transfer well to any industry and we invite you to use it next time you are needing fresh thinking.
We are proud to announce our eleventh Innovation Excellence Weekly for Slideshare. Inside you'll find ten of the best innovation-related articles from the past week on Innovation Excellence - the world's most popular innovation web site and home to nearly 5,000 innovation-related articles.
We are proud to announce our 35th Innovation Excellence Weekly for Slideshare. Inside you'll find ten of the best innovation-related articles from the past week on Innovation Excellence - the world's most popular innovation web site and home to 5,500+ innovation-related articles.
We are proud to announce our eighth Innovation Excellence Weekly for Slideshare. Inside you'll find ten of the best innovation-related articles from the past week on Innovation Excellence - the world's most popular innovation web site and home to nearly 5,000 innovation-related articles.
Microsoft's annual inspirational global hackathon, oneweek invites all employees to tinker. There are new product expos, a speaker series and parties. CEO, Satya Nadella wraps it all up with a rousing talk.
Exactly the kind of All Hands you’d expect from a company laser focused on reinventing culture.
Here you can see some of the work we did with Microsoft around changes at play there, especially culture. We created this as an internal e-book to spread the word about change, it's now available for public viewing!
We are proud to announce our twenty-second Innovation Excellence Weekly for Slideshare. Inside you'll find ten of the best innovation-related articles from the past week on Innovation Excellence - the world's most popular innovation web site and home to 5,000+ innovation-related articles.
We are proud to announce our fourteenth Innovation Excellence Weekly for Slideshare. Inside you'll find ten of the best innovation-related articles from the past week on Innovation Excellence - the world's most popular innovation web site and home to 5,000+ innovation-related articles.
Is it enough to design for a great patient experience, improved health outcomes, and overall cost reductions in health care? While incentives may soon change, the idea of data-driven solutions to improve health care is not a new one. Yet why have technological solutions so frequently fail on all three of the triple aims? We need to be able to ask deeper questions, and experiment with more humanistic approaches.
Looking at specific interaction examples from incumbents and startups in health tech, I will contrast the current approaches for data-driven solution development, and how they fall short at the moment of interaction. Incumbents deploy top down approaches that comply with regulation, and meet the needs of payers and providers, but famously fail to deliver engaging patient and practitioner experiences. New entrants want to disrupt the entire system, but often struggle to understand deep unmet patient needs, and how to demonstrate evidence-based outcomes.
For each solution born onto the health tech scene, can we ask: Are patient’s lives enhanced by the addition of data? Do doctors become more wise? Do nurses feel more empowered? Do spouses know how to effectively intervene? Do adult children of aging parents get more time in their overly stretched days? And do these collective interactions actually result in improved population health?
This talk will outline an approach to design for a higher aim and enhance the lives of everyone who seeks care from the health care system.
Design isn't just about creating pretty pictures. It's about meeting basic human needs. In design, we identify problems by finding specific users with specific needs. Then we solve problems by prototyping and testing solutions with the user in their environment.
This February I taught a sold out class at General Assembly how to harness the power of design thinking. How to use observation and psychology. How to truly enjoy and analyze the experiences that occur every day. Look at the nuances at feed our loyalty to brands.
We are proud to announce our twelfth Innovation Excellence Weekly for Slideshare. Inside you'll find ten of the best innovation-related articles from the past week on Innovation Excellence - the world's most popular innovation web site and home to 5,000+ innovation-related articles.
We are proud to announce our twenty-third Innovation Excellence Weekly for Slideshare. Inside you'll find ten of the best innovation-related articles from the past week on Innovation Excellence - the world's most popular innovation web site and home to 5,000+ innovation-related articles.
We are proud to announce our twenty-first Innovation Excellence Weekly for Slideshare. Inside you'll find ten of the best innovation-related articles from the past week on Innovation Excellence - the world's most popular innovation web site and home to 5,000+ innovation-related articles.
We are proud to announce our 37th Innovation Excellence Weekly for Slideshare. Inside you'll find ten of the best innovation-related articles from the past week on Innovation Excellence - the world's most popular innovation web site and home to 5,500+ innovation-related articles.
This course covers what is Innovation and why everything needs to start with alignment.
If you don’t know where you’re going... Chances are you won’t get where you want to go.
Alignment is the foundation of effective growth and Innovation. It is about finding what is important to you (MISSION) and matching this with what the market wants (NEEDS) and plan to deliver and extract value. It is also about an honest assessment of who you are. (CULTURE)
Deliverables: After this course you will be able to identify 3-4 True North priorities for your company /division (True north) priorities can be:
1. Changing what you are doing and why
2. Changing how you work to generate or extract more value
3. How to work smarter and / or get your culture supporting your innovation objectives
This is an improved (and abridged) version of my old presentation on VALUES FOR PLANNING, where I discuss ideas related to the main framework given to us by the Enlightenment. NOTICE that this presentation was designed in times of Trump, President Bannon, fake news and "alternative facts", so in a way, it is a response to all this.
This guide was prepared for the September 2015 Dpharm Conference in Boston as a catalyst for discussion around disruptive innovation in drug development.
The ideas transfer well to any industry and we invite you to use it next time you are needing fresh thinking.
We are proud to announce our eleventh Innovation Excellence Weekly for Slideshare. Inside you'll find ten of the best innovation-related articles from the past week on Innovation Excellence - the world's most popular innovation web site and home to nearly 5,000 innovation-related articles.
We are proud to announce our 35th Innovation Excellence Weekly for Slideshare. Inside you'll find ten of the best innovation-related articles from the past week on Innovation Excellence - the world's most popular innovation web site and home to 5,500+ innovation-related articles.
We are proud to announce our eighth Innovation Excellence Weekly for Slideshare. Inside you'll find ten of the best innovation-related articles from the past week on Innovation Excellence - the world's most popular innovation web site and home to nearly 5,000 innovation-related articles.
Microsoft's annual inspirational global hackathon, oneweek invites all employees to tinker. There are new product expos, a speaker series and parties. CEO, Satya Nadella wraps it all up with a rousing talk.
Exactly the kind of All Hands you’d expect from a company laser focused on reinventing culture.
Here you can see some of the work we did with Microsoft around changes at play there, especially culture. We created this as an internal e-book to spread the word about change, it's now available for public viewing!
We are proud to announce our twenty-second Innovation Excellence Weekly for Slideshare. Inside you'll find ten of the best innovation-related articles from the past week on Innovation Excellence - the world's most popular innovation web site and home to 5,000+ innovation-related articles.
We are proud to announce our fourteenth Innovation Excellence Weekly for Slideshare. Inside you'll find ten of the best innovation-related articles from the past week on Innovation Excellence - the world's most popular innovation web site and home to 5,000+ innovation-related articles.
Is it enough to design for a great patient experience, improved health outcomes, and overall cost reductions in health care? While incentives may soon change, the idea of data-driven solutions to improve health care is not a new one. Yet why have technological solutions so frequently fail on all three of the triple aims? We need to be able to ask deeper questions, and experiment with more humanistic approaches.
Looking at specific interaction examples from incumbents and startups in health tech, I will contrast the current approaches for data-driven solution development, and how they fall short at the moment of interaction. Incumbents deploy top down approaches that comply with regulation, and meet the needs of payers and providers, but famously fail to deliver engaging patient and practitioner experiences. New entrants want to disrupt the entire system, but often struggle to understand deep unmet patient needs, and how to demonstrate evidence-based outcomes.
For each solution born onto the health tech scene, can we ask: Are patient’s lives enhanced by the addition of data? Do doctors become more wise? Do nurses feel more empowered? Do spouses know how to effectively intervene? Do adult children of aging parents get more time in their overly stretched days? And do these collective interactions actually result in improved population health?
This talk will outline an approach to design for a higher aim and enhance the lives of everyone who seeks care from the health care system.
Design isn't just about creating pretty pictures. It's about meeting basic human needs. In design, we identify problems by finding specific users with specific needs. Then we solve problems by prototyping and testing solutions with the user in their environment.
This February I taught a sold out class at General Assembly how to harness the power of design thinking. How to use observation and psychology. How to truly enjoy and analyze the experiences that occur every day. Look at the nuances at feed our loyalty to brands.
We are proud to announce our twelfth Innovation Excellence Weekly for Slideshare. Inside you'll find ten of the best innovation-related articles from the past week on Innovation Excellence - the world's most popular innovation web site and home to 5,000+ innovation-related articles.
We are proud to announce our twenty-third Innovation Excellence Weekly for Slideshare. Inside you'll find ten of the best innovation-related articles from the past week on Innovation Excellence - the world's most popular innovation web site and home to 5,000+ innovation-related articles.
We are proud to announce our twenty-first Innovation Excellence Weekly for Slideshare. Inside you'll find ten of the best innovation-related articles from the past week on Innovation Excellence - the world's most popular innovation web site and home to 5,000+ innovation-related articles.
We are proud to announce our 37th Innovation Excellence Weekly for Slideshare. Inside you'll find ten of the best innovation-related articles from the past week on Innovation Excellence - the world's most popular innovation web site and home to 5,500+ innovation-related articles.
This course covers what is Innovation and why everything needs to start with alignment.
If you don’t know where you’re going... Chances are you won’t get where you want to go.
Alignment is the foundation of effective growth and Innovation. It is about finding what is important to you (MISSION) and matching this with what the market wants (NEEDS) and plan to deliver and extract value. It is also about an honest assessment of who you are. (CULTURE)
Deliverables: After this course you will be able to identify 3-4 True North priorities for your company /division (True north) priorities can be:
1. Changing what you are doing and why
2. Changing how you work to generate or extract more value
3. How to work smarter and / or get your culture supporting your innovation objectives
This is an improved (and abridged) version of my old presentation on VALUES FOR PLANNING, where I discuss ideas related to the main framework given to us by the Enlightenment. NOTICE that this presentation was designed in times of Trump, President Bannon, fake news and "alternative facts", so in a way, it is a response to all this.
Presented by Nate Curran and Greg Bullock of the Center for Entrepreneurial Innovation (CEI), this presentation is the definitive resource for entrepreneurs and startups who want to know more about business incubators, accelerators and coworking spaces. It shares the differences and similarities as well as answers questions such as "how do I know what is right for my business" and "how do I maximize my experience." Download the full kit at http://info.ceigateway.com/phxsw2016.
Pitching your designs, ideas, media and marketing can be the culmination of all your hard work. It can also be the hardest part! Walk through this helpful guide for pitching your marketing campaigns and related initiatives.
Beyond the Gig Economy: How New Technologies Are Reshaping the Future of WorkThumbtack, Inc.
Thumbtack's newest economic report describes how skilled professionals are using new platforms to find new work and build their business – and their lives. Called “Beyond the Gig Economy: How New Technologies Are Reshaping the Future of Work,” this report explores how technology enables buyers and sellers of services to connect, moving the conversation beyond a one dimensional discussion of the so-called gig economy.
Building an enduring, multi-billion dollar consumer technology company is hard. As an investor, knowing which startups have the potential to be massive and long-lasting is also hard. From both perspectives, identifying companies with this potential is a combination of “art” and “science” — the art is understanding how products work, and the science is knowing how to measure it. At the earliest stages of a company, it comes down to understanding how a product is built to maximize and leverage user engagement.
In this presentation, Sarah Tavel shares her "Hierarchy of Engagement" framework she uses to evaluate non-transactional consumer companies she is looking to invest in.
3 Things Every Sales Team Needs to Be Thinking About in 2017Drift
Thinking about your sales team's goals for 2017? Drift's VP of Sales shares 3 things you can do to improve conversion rates and drive more revenue.
Read the full story on the Drift blog here: http://blog.drift.com/sales-team-tips
Seminar 9 Asset creation and Designing Your Life - 10 May and 13 May 2021Fahri Karakas
In this seminar, we will go over your portfolio project expectations and guide you on how to prepare an outstanding and creative portfolio. We will go over numerous checklists to guide you in the right direction.
We will also cover a wide variety of topics that will help you in your journey of asset creation.
We will cover the following topics:
-Life Advice: A Poster Guide
- Act Now: You Need Courage and Action
- Gen Z are hustling for their post-covid futures
- Welcome to the YOLO economy
- Exercise: Which Assets will you create?
-What Causes Creativity?
- Storytelling Secrets
- London StorySlam
- Case Study: Gary Vaynerchuk
- Case Study: How to go viral
- Case Study: Principles for Content Creation
- Kevin Kelly: Reach Your 1000 True Fans
- Life Advice from Kevin Kelly
- Advice from Jay Samit: Futureproofing You and Disrupt Yourself
- Disruption and Innovation: Your Role
- Shared Economy and crowdfunding: Capital C
- Create Your Own Creative Assets on the Internet
- Creating Assets is like rolling 1000 snowballs down
- The rise of the entrepreneur
- Daniel Priestly: 10 Challenges for the Entrepreneur
- Becoming an Entrepreneur by Anna Vidal
- Guide books to Side Hustles
- Entrepreneur Revolution
-Shark Tank Exercise
- Startup school by Y Combinator: Register!
_ Productivity Manifesto
- How to start your day
- Create your own assets now
- Steve Jobs Quote
A practical guide and template to create a winning corporate venture pitch.
What is it for?
When you need to ask corporate leadership to back your venture and you want to convince them with a compelling story rooted in data.
Available in an editable PPT and Keynote template on our website. https://www.bundl.com/reports/the-proven-pitch-deck-template
Benefits:
Unlock the funding and resources you need to move your venture forward.
Gain the support of internal stakeholders, your board of directors and/or corporate leadership.
Get real-world examples of successful corporate venture pitches.
A practical guide and template to create a winning corporate venture pitch.
What is it for?
When you need to ask corporate leadership to back your venture and you want to convince them with a compelling story rooted in data.
Available in an editable PPT and Keynote template on our website: https://www.bundl.com/reports/the-proven-pitch-deck-template?utm_medium=Template platform&utm_source=Slideshare&utm_campaign=Slideshare%20-%20proven%20pitch%20
Benefits:
Unlock the funding and resources you need to move your venture forward.
Gain the support of internal stakeholders, your board of directors and/or corporate leadership.
Get real-world examples of successful corporate venture pitches.
Making the Product Strategy Effective by Spotify Sr PMProduct School
Main Takeaways:
-Defining scalable and efficient products
-Developing a culture with a strong ownership
-Creating the buy in among stakeholders and developing a roadmap that addresses the long term value.
Making the Product Strategy Effective by Spotify Sr PMProduct School
Main Takeaways:
-Defining scalable and efficient products
-Developing a culture with a strong ownership
-Creating the buy in among stakeholders and developing a roadmap that addresses the long term value.
Webinar: Powerful Product Vision & Effective Strategy by Spotify Sr PMProduct School
Main Takeaways:
-Defining scalable and efficient products
-Developing a culture with a strong ownership
-Creating the buy in among stakeholders and developing a roadmap that addresses the long term value.
This a presentation I did at Bamboo Detroit about how to execute on your idea. There's lots of Google and other Social Media tips for market research and discovery.
Welcome to the Program Your Destiny course. In this course, we will be learning the technology of personal transformation, neuroassociative conditioning (NAC) as pioneered by Tony Robbins. NAC is used to deprogram negative neuroassociations that are causing approach avoidance and instead reprogram yourself with positive neuroassociations that lead to being approach automatic. In doing so, you change your destiny, moving towards unlocking the hypersocial self within, the true self free from fear and operating from a place of personal power and love.
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In addition to their physical benefits, reborn dolls can also offer emotional support. For many people, having something to care for and nurture can bring a sense of purpose and fulfillment. Reborn dolls can also serve as a reminder of happy memories or loved ones who have passed away.
3. If you have to raise
funds for your soci
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change project,
sooner or later,
you’ ll have to mak
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a formal
presentation to
a funder.
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the ess ential slides
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provide you with a
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and offer tips on how
to perfect your pitch!
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10. Before we begin, download the template (in either PowerPoint
or Keynote formats) and follow along....
Microsoft PowerPoint
Apple Keynote
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11. First, youʼll need a cover
page. Use the best
photograph you have.
It should be captivating, or
at least interesting.
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12. Add your project name and
motto or slogan.
For example…
Everyone a Changemaker
World Change Starts with
Educated Children
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13. There should be eight main
sections to your presentation.
You can use this slide
unchanged.
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14. Many funders will tell you
what they care about most
are the people theyʼre
funding. So talk about your
team first.
Who are you and why do you
make a good team?
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15. Provide a one sentence
summary of your project.
It should be short and
simple enough that
someone can easily
repeat to someone else.
Project X is the first and
only youth-run tutoring
program in Town A.
Tip: If you can use “first”
or “only,” do so.
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16. Include your mission
statement. It should
address what you plan to
do and why.
To offer an after-school
tutoring program for
teenagers in Town A so
they can improve their
grades and complete their
secondary school
education.
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17. Include your vision. What
will the world be like if you
are successful?
Everyone in Town A
completes a secondary
school education.
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18. Tell us about the problem
youʼre addressing. What
are three or four facts or
statistics that can help us
understand the scope of
the problem.
Include what you think is
the “root cause” if you can.
Use Chapter 1 to
figure out your
problem’s root cause.
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19. OPTIONAL: At this point,
you may choose to add
images (not more text) to
help us understand the
problem better.
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20. Now, write one sentence
that describes your
solution and answer the
essential questions:
who, what, how,
when, where, why.
Tip: You can also present
this in bullet form.
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21. Now, add a second
sentence that talks about
how your approach is
innovative or unique.
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22. Again, you may wish to
include images (but not
much more text) to show
us your solution and the
who, what, when, where,
how, why.
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23. Give numbers that show
how many people can
potentially use your
service or product.
For example, in your town,
you find there are…
2000: homeless people
15%: percent of youth say
they need tutoring
300: businesses that
need their used vegetable
oil recycled
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24. Tell us about your
potential revenue. How
much money does your
project hope to have in the
coming year?
Tip: Be realistic. If youʼre
just starting out, keep your
revenue total small. One
line should include the
amount youʼre trying to
raise from the funder
youʼre pitching to.
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25. Tell us why you need the
money? What do you plan
to spend it on?
Tip: Try not to spend
money on things that can
easily be donated.
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26. Include your revenue total
(from previous page)
under your total expenses.
Revenue should be about
the same as expenses.
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27. Tell us what you plan to
achieve in the next year
or two.
What will your project be
like or what will it have
done by certain dates.
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28. Explain what difference
you hope to make and
what data (indicators) you
will use to measure that
difference year after year.
For example…
20 businesses eliminating
plastic bags
50 youth report better
grades in school
2000 meals served to
homeless
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29. Consult Make It Count and
The Tao of MacGyver to
come up with meaningful
and achievable outcomes.
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32. 1. Keep It Short!
Get through the slides in
under 10 minutes. It’s hard
for anyone these days to
listen for longer than that.
So keep your speech short
and leave more time for
Q&A.
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33. 2. Show Teamwork
There is strength in
numbers. Show up with
two other team
members if you can.
That alone will tell
funders your project
has the support of
others.
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34. 3. Show Passion
It’s your passion that sells, not your idea. Chances are the people
you’re pitching to think they know more than you do and have
better ideas. So make a good case but don’t count on the idea to
sell itself. Impress them with your commitment and authenticity.
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35. 4. Show the Real You
Don’t try too hard to fit
your project into other
people’s agenda. The only
thing worse than not
getting money is getting
money from the wrong
sources. So be honest
about what you want to
do and stick to it. If there
isn’t a good fit, it’s better
to know now.
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36. 5. Show Openness
At the same
time, show
that you’re Don’t get
willing to learn stuck on your
and improve. “brilliant idea.”
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37. 6. Commit to Short-term
Outcomes
You might want to bring
about everlasting peace but
what are you going to
achieve in the next six
months? Funders want
results and they don’t want
to wait three years to see
change. Commit to creating
some change now with
resources you have.
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38. 7. Address Your Challenges
During the Q&A, talk about
the challenges you think
you’ll face and how you
might overcome them.
If you don’t bring it up
yourself, you will be
asked. So be
forewarned. This is a
test to see how
prepared – or naïve –
you are.
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39. 8. End with Inspiration
At the end of your
Q&A, repeat or remind
funders what’s
inspirational about your
project – or what could
be. When your group has
accomplished your goal,
what is the inspirational
story you can tell? Tell that
story, even if it’s only
imaginary at this point.
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44. Charles Tsai
Social Entrepreneurship Educator
Charles Tsai is a journalist, writer, speaker
and consultant for social entrepreneurs.
A former reporter and producer for CNN,
Charles ventured into the social sector to
help youth design and implement their
own solutions for change. He then helped
Ashoka launch its first global campaigns
to support youth-led social ventures.
Now, he has launched SOCIAL Creatives,
a new framework to learn, teach and
practice social entrepreneurship.