The floating bridge of dreams

Sunit Shrestha, founder

e bridge of dreamsFloating on a spring night

Soon breaks off:Parting from the mountain top,

A bank of clouds in the open sky.

Fujiwara no Teika (1205)

e Floating Bridge of Dreams

About us

Our service:

Social innovation design Social enterprise investment

Our clients & partners:

Key design impact

2.5+ million people access to high quality health information via the Internet.

Mobile/Internet disease surveillance systems

Socially responsible investment (SRI)

Community bio-gas facilities

Key investment impact

2007 2008 2009

27

15

5

Number of social enterprises

BANGLADESH

PadmaProvides critical information on agricultural best-practices to farmers through information kiosks.

XayanITProvides IT training, education and jobs within the enterprise to underprivileged youth.PAKISTAN

Youth Engagement ServiceProvides seed financing and incubation for youth-led micro social enterprises in remote rural areas.

Kaarvan Channelling women groups handicrafts around Pakistan to shops in big cities employing fair-trade model.

INDIA

School and Community Hoticulture (SCHE)Provides nutritional supplements to mid-day meals in schools in India through poly-houses.

MicrofinanceJobs.comOnline jobs placement and aggregator in the micro-finance sector in India.

Krishak MitraImproving the livelihood of marginal farmers in India by using agriculture decision-making software at various rural knowledge centers.

Community Friendly Movement CFM sources hand-made crafts from artisan communities in India and conducts sales to wholesale craft buyers overseas.

MALAYSIA

SOLS-24/7SOLS 24/7 provides life-skills education to underprivileged youth in Cambodia, East Timor and Malaysia.

ElevynOnline platform that links the selling ofhandmade products to the support of social andenvironmental causes.

PHILIPPINES

Ideal!sProvides high-quality communications solutions for non-profits who cannot afford commercial service.

Let IT helpprovides capacity building onspecific IT skills that are in market demand and match trainees to job opportunities.

Youth WorksProvides microfinance services to youth entrepreneurs in rural communities

Rural LightProvides rural electrification solutions at the small community level.

Mobile TelecentresProvides on-site training and career opportunities for students through 3 wheeler trike mobile telecentres.

THAILAND

Grassroot Innovation NetworkProvides micro organic agriculture methods and inputs to over 1,000 poor rural farmer families that improve multi-crop farm productivity by over 400%.

OpenDreamProvides web, online application and virtual communities services to non-profits.

Thoth MediaProvides video podcasting and viral clip services and news platform for citizen journalism, non-profit and social groups.

Chivalry Silk Source wholesale unique silk products from poor rural families and conducts sales overseas.

PIPELINE: Examples of portfolio social enterprises (mix of seeding, start-up and scale-up cases)

Areas

Micro-financeSustainable agriculture

Information and communication technologies (ICTs) Community-scale renewable energy

Development communications Fair-trade and cultural preservation

ink-tank

Social entrepreneurs / innovators

Innovation partners

Investors / donors

Attraction

Co-design

Finance

Incubate

Social InnovationsSocial Enterprises

Change Fusion Process

Our method; the flow

Social Enterprise Cases

Grameen

Aravind

One world health

Participant media

Kiva.org

Doi Tung

ai cra fair trade

Apaipubet

Trends and situation

A rising global trend

the funding gap

Social enterprise investment gap in Asia.

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.

e Essence of

Social Enterprise

Economic

Environment

SocialSE

OUTCOME

Compassion

Market

CapacitySE

DISCIPLINE

PROCESS;

Sensing > Innovating > Testing > Scaling

ACCELERATION METHOD

Full potential analysis > Game plan > Focused performance > Capacity > Exit

Cases from the Portfolio

Community Friendly Movement (CFM)

Ideals Creatives

Let IT Help

Open Dream

Grassroots Innovation Network (GIN)

Supreme Renewable Energy

Volunteer opportunities

Business developmentBusiness planConnectionMarketing

StrategyFinance

Legal

Approach

RespectSimplicity HarmonyEmptiness

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just be a bridge