Simon Mainwaring

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“It is not about what makes you/me feel good, it is about doing something for the people that at the moment have nothing.” Jayson Bryant, Gianpaolo Grazioli. I recently had the pleasure of meeting Jayson Bryant, one of the great people behind this year’s most delicious outreach for Haiti – Charity Sorbet. The Winevault and Giapo are fundraising […]

“It is not about what makes you/me feel good, it is about doing something for the people that at the moment have nothing.” Jayson Bryant, Gianpaolo Grazioli. I recently had the pleasure of meeting Jayson Bryant, one of the great people behind this year’s most delicious outreach for Haiti – Charity Sorbet. The Winevault and Giapo are fundraising …

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View more presentations from Simon Mainwaring. Here are my slides from Connect Now in Sydney today. The topic is: “How Non-profits think like For Profits”. I’m sharing these here because I want the seminar to be a creative exchange rather than a lecture. To that end I’ve collected a lot of examples of best practices in the social …

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This is the final instalment of my chat with Lawrence Chickering and Safeena Husain of EGG. Part 1 focused on what they do and how they are achieving their amazing results. Part 2 addressed community mobilization and the roles of parents, children and teachers. Here we discuss to truly transformational nature of their work, the …

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This is Part 2 of my discussion with Founder, Lawrence Chickering, and Executive Director, Safeena Husain of Educate Girls Globally. In Part 1 we discussed the EGG model itself and the remarkable results it’s achieving. Here we look at community mobilization, the roles and responsibilities of family, parents and teachers, cost effectiveness and the wider …

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One of the highlights of my recent trip to Doha was the chance to work with people like Lawrence Chickering and Safeena Husain, the founder and Executive Director (respectively) of Educate Girl Globally (EGG) that is revolutionizing schooling and the opportunities for young women in India. Here Lawrence and Safeena take us through the exciting …

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