This document provides information about a social enterprise that focuses on social innovation design, social enterprise investment, and sustainable development. It summarizes the enterprise's services, clients/partners, key impacts, portfolio examples in various countries, approach, and volunteer opportunities. Some key points include that it has helped over 2.5 million people access health information online and supported 27 social enterprises as of 2009. The portfolio section lists several social enterprise examples across Asia focused on areas like agriculture, renewable energy, and fair trade.

2. Sunit Shrestha,
founder

3. e bridge of dreams
Floating on a spring night
Soon breaks off:
Parting from the mountain top,
A bank of clouds in the open sky.
Fujiwara no Teika (1205)

4. e Floating Bridge of Dreams

5. About us

6. Our service:
Social innovation design
Social enterprise investment

7. Our clients & partners:

8. Key design impact

9. 2.5+ million people access to high quality
health information via the Internet.

10. Mobile/Internet disease surveillance systems

11. Socially responsible investment (SRI)

12. Community bio-gas facilities

13. Key investment impact

14. Number of social enterprises
27
15
5
2007 2008 2009

15. PIPELINE: Examples of portfolio social enterprises (mix of seeding, start-up and scale-up cases)
BANGLADESH PHILIPPINES
Padma Ideal!s
Provides critical information on agricultural best- Provides high-quality communications solutions for non-profits who
practices to farmers through information kiosks. cannot afford commercial service.
XayanIT Let IT help
Provides IT training, education and jobs within the enterprise to provides capacity building on
PAKISTAN underprivileged youth. specific IT skills that are in market demand and match trainees to job
opportunities.
Youth Engagement Service
Provides seed financing and incubation Youth Works
for youth-led micro social enterprises in Provides microfinance services to youth entrepreneurs in rural
remote rural areas. communities
Kaarvan Rural Light
Channelling women groups handicrafts Provides rural electrification solutions at the small community level.
around Pakistan to shops in big cities
employing fair-trade model. Mobile Telecentres
Provides on-site training and career opportunities for students through 3
wheeler trike mobile telecentres.
THAILAND
INDIA
Grassroot Innovation Network
School and Community Hoticulture Provides micro organic agriculture methods and
(SCHE) inputs to over 1,000 poor rural farmer families
Provides nutritional supplements to that improve multi-crop farm productivity by
mid-day meals in schools in India over 400%.
MALAYSIA
through poly-houses.
OpenDream
SOLS-24/7
MicrofinanceJobs.com Provides web, online application and virtual
SOLS 24/7 provides life-skills education to
Online jobs placement and aggregator in the communities services to non-profits.
underprivileged youth in Cambodia, East Timor and
micro-finance sector in India.
Thoth Media Malaysia.
Krishak Mitra Provides video podcasting and viral clip services
Elevyn
Improving the livelihood of marginal farmers in and news platform for citizen journalism, non-
Online platform that links the selling of
India by using agriculture decision-making profit and social groups.
handmade products to the support of social and
software at various rural knowledge centers. Chivalry Silk environmental causes.
Source wholesale unique silk products from poor rural
Community Friendly Movement
families and conducts sales overseas.
CFM sources hand-made crafts from artisan
communities in India and conducts sales to
wholesale craft buyers overseas.

16. Areas
Micro-finance
Sustainable agriculture
Information and communication technologies (ICTs)
Community-scale renewable energy
Development communications
Fair-trade and cultural preservation
ink-tank

17. Our method; the flow
Social entrepreneurs / Change Fusion Process
innovators
Attraction Finance
Innovation
partners Incubate
Social Innovations
Social Enterprises
Investors / donors Co-design

18. Social Enterprise Cases

19. Grameen

20. Aravind

21. One world health

22. Participant media

23. Kiva.org

24. Doi Tung

25. ai cra fair trade

26. Apaipubet

27. Trends and situation

28. A rising global trend

29. the funding gap

30. Social enterprise investment gap in Asia.

31. 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.

32. e Essence
of
Social Enterprise

33. OUTCOME
Economic
Social
SE
Environment

34. DISCIPLINE
Compassion
Capacity
SE
Market

35. PROCESS;
Sensing > Innovating > Testing > Scaling

36. ACCELERATION
METHOD
Full potential analysis > Game plan > Focused performance > Capacity > Exit

37. Cases from the Portfolio

38. Community Friendly Movement (CFM)

39. Ideals Creatives

40. Let IT Help

41. Open Dream

42. Grassroots Innovation Network (GIN)

43. Supreme Renewable Energy

44. Volunteer opportunities

45. Business development
Business plan
Connection
Marketing
Strategy
Finance
Legal

46. Approach
Respect
Simplicity
Harmony
Emptiness

47. or
just be a bridge