🚀 BfE Briefs, Vol. #15 | |
Welcome to the September BfE newsletter! 🎉 | |
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Dear BfE family,
I hope this newsletter finds you doing well! Summer days have ended and we're finally heading back into the school year. For BfE chapters, this kickstarts an exciting time for many students and a great opportunity to support passionate and inspiring social entrepreneurs around the world. With 10 social enterprises beginning their Incubation Programme journey with us this term, I couldn't be more excited to see the types of deliverables that will be produced to support their growth trajectories. A big shoutout and note of gratitude to the amazing students and professional mentors who are spending time to make this all happen. đź‘Ź
At the global level, it's been a summer full of focusing on internal operations to better stabilize our efforts over the long-term. We're very excited to welcome new BfE members across various roles, and look forward to continuing to fill vacancies that add value to keep our impact engine oiled and running smoothly. I hope to share more details about some exciting pending changes to our operational model over the next few months. đź‘€
Until then, please don't hesitate to contact me if there's anything I can do to support you. Be well and take care!
With lots of gratitude,
Jordan |
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We've continued to make steady progress on various initiatives at the global level. Here's what each division was up to:
đź“Š Incubation
- Diagnostic Phase: Richa (Global Consulting Manager) has been leading efforts to collect feedback from stakeholders in the Diagnostic Phase Pilot. We are undergoing discussions with the global team regarding strategies to systematically integrate the Diagnostic Phase into the Incubation Programme.
- BfE Academy: We are thrilled to welcome Dennis (Global Academy Volunteer) to the team. Dennis will work closely with Arnas, our Global Academy Manager, on building up the academy resources for student associates. Dennis is from Nairobi, Kenya, and has work experience creating education programmes for professional workforce development.
- Cambridge Leadership: Albert (Global Technical Advisory Manager) has led discussions with the Cambridge Chapter leadership on how to retain manpower for the director role and recruit associates for the coming term.
🤝 Outreach
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Communications: The Global Communications division is working on case studies of startups from different chapters: New York (NY): Alkyl Recycling (Kenya), Singapore (SG): E&L Suppliers (Malawi), as they wait to confirm the case studies from the other chapters.
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🔋 Strategy & Operations
- Strategy:
- Chapter Manager Search: We are looking to onboard a new Chapter Manager to begin transitioning to the Platform model by December 2022.
- New Chapter Handbook: A portion of the handbook has been socialized to Chapter Leadership but it still requires finalisation.
- BfE Platform Model: The BfE’s Platform Model is making progress, with materials prepared by Annie (Global Strategy Head) & Erika (Global Strategy Manager)! More information on the strategy to come soon! Thank you to Erika Oshima for driving this forward!
- Talent Onboarding: The team recruited and onboarded a new Talent Volunteer! Welcome Nnenna Nick-Obiegbu.
- Operations:
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👩‍💻 Impact Research
- BfE Impact Wheel: We are continuing to gather responses for the BfE Impact Wheel database and have distributed them to the most recent startup cohorts. BfE Impact Wheel will collect impact metrics across our client population and help us construct a holistic view of the progress of both startups’ impact as well as BfE’s.
- Impact Dashboard: Impact Research is also planning to collaborate with BfE Tech to develop an impact dashboard where we can visualize the results from our post-engagement surveys.
⚙️ Technology
- The Cyber Security (Technology Support) team is working on migrating all BfE members’ accounts from Google admin to Azure (the cloud service provided by Microsoft). Once complete, we can just rely on Azure AD to authenticate users across most of the applications in the BfE tech stack, including our future Intranet. This is a long term process and we have broken it to 4 major steps:
a. Standardise and test the account migration process
b. Migrate all Global Managers from BfE Tech division to Azure
c. Migrate all members in BfE Tech division to Azure
d. Migrate all BfE members to Azure, and ask GMs and chapter directors to track the progression so that we can ensure all members are on-boarded
- Step a and b are complete. Each member has to create an Azure account by themselves. The Cyber team has already prepared a documentation to provide a detailed step-by-step guidance to create Azure accounts, and all Tech Global Managers (GMs) have already created their accounts based on this guidance. Big thanks to Chandan (Global Cyber Security Manager) and his team on this! We will follow up with more details within a few weeks time on what other BfE members need to do in order to finish the migration.
- It’s our pleasure to welcome Lillya (Global Tech Talent Volunteer) to BfE Tech as the Tech Talent Management volunteer. Lillya has over 15 years of experience in recruiting globally distributed teams, building and maintaining candidate relationships to keep a consistent talent pipeline. Lillya will be working closely with Hesam (Global Tech Talent Manager) to review and refine the talent recruitment and engagement strategy of BfE Tech, simplifying and integrating the processes further.
- Shoutout to Aliyah (Global Tech Talent Volunteer) for completing the collating and transcribing of BfE Tech’s onboarding deck slides speakers’ notes. This is especially helpful for all Tech GMs conducting the onboarding of new members and provides a single source of truth for latest Tech GM updates. Thank you Aliyah for your hard work on maintaining this deck and script!
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🇬🇧 Cambridge
- The is no update from the Cambridge Chapter as we are on break at the moment.
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🇺🇸 New York
- Engagements kick-off: The Consulting and Finance Advisory teams have officially started their engagements with initial founder calls, finalized deliverable outlines, and scheduled mentor meetings.
- Growth and Partnerships: Growth and Partnerships is working on some exciting events including a mentorship program and workshops with prominent consulting firms.
- Communications: The Communications Team has restarted posting Sustainability News on our Instagram page. Follow for updates from BfE New York Chapter.
- Recruitment: The Freshmen Education Program is wrapping up their recruiting and sending out final decisions by Friday.
- Partnerships: New York (NY) Chapter Leadership has coordinated with the Gamecock Consulting Club( University of South Carolina) to start their engagement with Parker’s Mobile Clinic (Nigeria) and talked about a potential collaboration.
- Startup Recruitment: Startup Recruitment has finished their interview training and begun their first leadership social.
- You can catch a glimpse of us at the round table dinners 📷⬇.
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🇸🇬 Singapore
- Engagements: The advisory teams have completed their first point calls with the clients and have kickstarted their respective engagements.
- Growth & Partnerships: The Growth and Partnerships team is planning an exciting lineup of events for our associates, including our upcoming Town Hall 2 which will involve social enterprise founders as our speakers, and potentially a learning journey to a social innovation park!
- Communications: Our Communications team has been hard at work coming up with case studies and content for our social media, such as the Live Better series which will be released really soon.
- Startup Recruitment: The Startup Recruitment team is proud to say that they've interviewed several impressive startups this round and are excited to pitch them during the Global Review Committee! 🎉
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🇨🇦 Vancouver
- Programme Developments: The incubation engagements are progressing well with both Consulting and Finance Advisory leadership drafting Scope of Work documents and Project Management work plans to roadmap the semester ahead. Associates are in the process of conducting business and industry analysis. Our Growth and Partnership (G&P) team is preparing for our first external-facing event, Starting a Social Enterprise, and Communications is working on social media graphics and website updates.
- General Updates: We hosted our first monthly town hall in September, are in the process of organizing merch purchases for the team, and had our second social of the year - a happy hour sushi social! Here's a picture of BfE Vancouver social. 📷⬇.
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🇮🇳 New Delhi
- Consulting Engagement: The New Delhi Chapter Recruitment Team had an introductory meet with Nanolabs (Philippines) to decide the scope of the engagement and have an in depth discussion regarding Nanolabs.
- Finance Advisory: After a discussion about the financial needs of Ladewin Education (Nigeria), we requested Ladewin Education to share relevant information to then further discuss with the mentor.
- General: The New Delhi team is working on an undergraduate casebook - a first at the college.
- Founder Meet and greet: The New Delhi team met BfE Founder - Tanya Chiaranussati over lunch, to have a candid conversation about her experience at BfE and everything that BfE New Delhi has been doing! (you may be able to pick us out in the photo opp. below with Tanya! 📷⬇)
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We are so grateful for the outstanding contributions made by the following BfE members this month. Thank you and well done! đź‘Ź |
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There is no startup spotlight at the moment. Look out for our startups featured here next time! |
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There is not upcoming event update. Look out for upcoming events here next time.🚀 |
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