Simon Mainwaring

We First provides consulting and training to help companies tell the story of their good work in ways that build their business

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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 […]

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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Cameron Sinclair founded the wonderful organization Architecture for Humanity that does so much meaningful work in distressed areas like Burma, New Orleans and now Haiti. What’s so exciting about their work is their commitment to emergency and long-term relief, their insistence and transparency and the insights Cameron provides as to how NGO’s and relief organizations …

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For the last few weeks I’ve been working on the Entertainment Industry Foundation’s ‘I Participate’ campaign. Having worked with several non-profits, I’ve found they face a similar challenge. While raising awareness for a cause, issue or initiative was vital, getting people to actually do something was the real challenge. It’s been my experience that raising …

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