Extending Hope

Extending Hope

by | Apr 19, 2018 | Education, Featured Project

Extending Hope

Schools as Social Entrepreneurship. There is a desperate need for quality education in many areas of the world and the huge costs involved in building facilities and recruiting trained teachers, stump the most passionate educators.  Entrepreneurs and Social activist Decent and Nadia in Malawi, are using some of these ideas in setting up a new school called “Extending Hope”.

Started last September in their home with a building plan begun on a nearby piece of land. This school already has 42 students( paying fees) and has had to turn away students while they look for an immediate investment of $20,000 to expand to three classrooms. Their vision of the school as a sustainable business that grows to support other social initiatives is an intentional move away from western funded NGO models that are caught up in a never-ending fundraising cycle.

Extending hope has 3 trained, passionate teachers making a difference in the lives of the children they teach. Their vision is to grow incrementally and build a sustainable model that can multiply. They are working with a business coach to finalize an initial business plan to complete a facility that will house the first five grades.

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Business Conference Vancouver

by | Mar 30, 2018 | Uncategorized

Business As Mission

Vancouver

Partnering with ACE Development Fund

Social impact investment conference

Modelling transformative businesses to create change and impact for communities most in need both locally and globally.

Date & Time

6pm – 9pm Friday June 1st, 2018 8am – 4pm Saturday June 2nd, 2018

Location

Pinnacle Harbourfront Hotel, 1133 West Hastings Street, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Date & Time

Pricing
2-day Full Conference – $299
Friday Only – $149
Saturday Only – $ 199
Student Rate Full Conference – $150

*Scholarships or Partial Assistance available, contact businessasmissionvancouver@gmail.com
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Conference topics

Ideas, strategies, community, networks, encouragement, engaging with people, design, creative energy, intentional networking, business design. 

Social Impact Investment
Business as Mission connects engages and inspires business leaders, who share a common goal of implementing business solutions to help bring people out of poverty and building a sustainable future through economic and social development.

Transformational Business
Our panel will be looking at what it means to be transformational in their own businesses by sharing their experiences about the impact their businesses are having a positive change in the community.

Mentorship/Eagle’s Nest
The Eagles Nest will provide opportunities for you to participate in the success of small businesses locally and internationally.  This could be through a financial donation, through your business or professional expertise, through business coaching, connecting through your network, or any other way that helps develop sustainable business solutions.

Join Us

This two-day event includes a chance to network with like-minded people, share ideas and knowledge, and collaborate to help entrepreneurs, business people, students, investors transform that way you think about how you do business and invest in social impact. 

June 1st

Friday night from 6-9pm there will be a networking reception with business people, entrepreneurs, philanthropists, investors and Non-for-profits.  Followed by a keynote speaker and another session with a panel of Investors/Business People called the Eagles’s (modeled after Dragon’s Den) who will share their own business as mission passion and journeys.

June 2nd

Saturday is a full day 8am-4pm Includes panel talks on the theology of business and another session on transformational business.  Followed by a networking lunch a time for people to share their experiences and stories and network with the panel and speakers.

June 2nd

Saturday is a full day 8am-4pm Includes panel talks on the theology of business and another session on transformational business.  Followed by a networking lunch a time for people to share their experiences and stories and network with the panel and speakers.

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Eagle’s Nest

There will be a live “Dragon’s Den” (we call it Eagle’s Nest) where real-life entrepreneurs (both locally and internationally) pitch their business ideas to a panel of established business people people “the Eagles”. Each of these people on the panel have agreed to provide significant financial support for these small businesses, IF they have a sound business plan and IF they meet their criteria for success.  The audience will have a chance to have watch this live to see the start of their business that have a social impact or transform their community.

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Business Conference – Chiangmai

by | Jan 31, 2018 | BWAM, Events

Business Training & Conferences

February 7-11, 2018    Chiangmail, Thailand

We look forward to this time of networking and collaborating with our partners in Asia as social entrepreneurs from around the world gather to learn from one another and from our training sessions. At least 4 entrepreneurs will pitch their business plans before a panel of business leaders for investment in an exciting shark tank like event.

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Fair Trade

by | Nov 8, 2017 | Events, Webinar

WEBINAR

December 6, 2017  

  2:30 – 3:45 PM PST

An Entrepreneurs Story

Behind the scenes of the Global story of Change

What does it take to enable Fair Trade?

December 6, 2017 

2:30 – 3:45 PM PST

Dave & Tasha

Dave is CEO and co-founder with his wife Tasha, of Village Artisan.They are lovers of Jesus, adventure, and those who have never heard of Him. This passion took them to India, embedded them in a community, and birthed Village Artisan. By His grace, Village Artisan is a growing fair trade company that empowers women, brings dignified work to men and raises families out of the cycle of poverty.

They currently have 2 sites and over 150 employees. As it keeps growing he sees his role as an opportunity creator for those who are starting out. With this in mind, they have started the Village Artisan network. This is the network of folks who are building on the social enterprise model they created to enter new needy communities in North India. Teaching, training and deploying people to new locations, sometimes within the Village Artisan network and sometimes outside, is a way to multiply the impact of the model they began.

BWAM NW 2017

BWAM NW 2017

by | Oct 24, 2017 | BWAMNW, Events

We had a wonderful event in Seattle-Tacoma sharing about Social enterprise and Impact Investing. Our Speakers Gloria Nelund, CEO of Trilinc Global and Dr Kim Tan serial entrepreneur and Co-founder of Transformational Business Network were inspirational and spoke from a wealth of experience in the field.

Our shark tank like event called  ‘Eagles Nest’ had three presenters: Janice pitched for a Furniture Business in PNG, Blake for a Crossfit Gym in Kona and Rob who for a ferry in Nigeria. After some deliberation from our panel of experienced business leaders, Janice was received a loan to start the furniture making business in Papua New Guinea. We wish her all the very best in this new venture!