Welcome to the November BfE newsletter! 🎉 (... a bit delayed 😓) | |
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Dear BfE community,
I hope this email finds you doing well and getting into the holiday spirit. I spent the better part of November in Tanzania and Kenya for work, and it was fantastic to reunite with old friends, make new friends and connect with people in-person that I had only met online. While in Nairobi, I had the opportunity to meet Janet (Global Program Assistant), Aparupa (BfE Advisor), and Angelous (BfE Advisor) on multiple occasions. For me, after experiencing the power of the BfE online community for years, it was memorable to connect with like-minded peers in Kenya. While in Nairobi, I also visited some social enterprises, such as the award-winning Sanergy, and spoke to students at Strathmore University about BfE and social entrepreneurship more generally. It was exciting to see the enthusiasm among students and to experience the vibrant, fast-growing East African startup ecosystem firsthand. I left the trip feeling even more conviction about BfE's mission, gratitude for all of you who make it happen, and fresh with new ideas for progressing our impact further.
Stay tuned for more to come in 2023 and beyond. I'll be back in January with more updates. Until then, I wish you and your family a happy and healthy holiday season ahead!
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:
📊 Incubation
- Diagnostic Phase: Albert (Global Technical Advisory Manager) is planning an internal discussion on the strategy of the Cambridge Technical Advisory team.
- BfE Academy: Arnas (Global Academy Manager) and Dennis (Global Academy Volunteer) had regular catchups on BfE Academy and are steadily working on creating the content for the Academy.
🤝 Outreach
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🔋 Strategy & Operations
- Strategy:
- Chapter Manager Search: The Global Strategy Division is looking to onboard a new Global Chapter Manager to begin transitioning to the BfE Platform model.
- New Chapter Handbook: The New Chapter Handbook is being finalised.
- BfE Platform Model: The BfE Platform Model is making progress, with materials being prepared by Annie (Global Strategy Head) & Erika Oshima (Global Strategy Manager)!
- Talent: The global strategy team is working on a new talent-sourcing strategy and evaluation framework.
- Alumni database: The Global Strategy team is working on a BfE alumni database to be able to contact former members more easily.
- Operations:
- Startup Review Committee: You are invited to attend the Startup Review Committee on 17 Dec, 2-4 pm (UK time) to get a preview of our Spring 2023 Cohort and celebrate the work of the SR teams! 📌
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👩💻 Impact Research
- Impact Dashboard: The Impact Research Division continues to work with BfE Tech to develop dashboards to visualise post-engagement feedback metrics. We hope to utilize these dashboards for future annual reports and enhanced impact reporting.
- BfE Annual Report: The process of developing next year's Annual Report has begun.
- Impact Statistics: The team has been focusing on updating the Impact portion of the website to ensure we're displaying the most accurate statistics and information regarding our stakeholders, portfolio, and case studies.
⚙️ Technology
- Intranet: Thanks to Ruochen (Global Software Development Manager) and Tom (Global Software Development Manager) who lead the intranet development. We have completed the development of another important feature, and are transitioning into the testing stages. Both Ruochen and Tom have been very dedicated in managing the team and contributing to the app developments, which is not easy work as volunteers. We would also like to thank all other teams that assist the software development team to develop the Intranet and hope we can deploy the app soon for the end users to test. 🎊
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🇺🇸 New York
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Chapter Member Recruitment: We've successfully finished the first half of our Spring 2023 Student Recruitment Cycle which consisted of a week full of recruitment events leading to nearly 50 applications to join one of our teams! Interviews and acceptances will be done by mid-December.
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Incubation: Our client engagement final deliverables are on track to be completed, and we had a very useful Excel/financial modeling training for associates.
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Programme Development: We've launched our chapter mentorship program with an exciting kickoff, hosted a community service event where we made gratitude cards for veterans and friends, and ran a panel of some of our previous/current startup client founders to discuss how students can get more involved with social entrepreneurship. 🙏
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🇸🇬 Singapore
- Incubation: Our client engagements are coming to an end with the teams looking to schedule end-point calls soon! Our members are looking forward to seeing the fruits of their labour and we want to commend all our associates for their hard work despite the busy finals season. 🎉
- BfE Singapore Townhall 3: We just concluded Townhall 3 virtually on Zoom, where we had a guest speaker Tion Hui Yeo (Manager, Base of Pyramid Innovation Lab) from EssilorLuxottica who shared about his experience working there. Here's a picture of some of us! 📷
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🇨🇦 Vancouver
- Incubation: Our Finance Advisory and Consulting teams are working their way towards their upcoming final deliverable calls, which will be held on December 4th and December 10th, respectively. Congratulations to both teams for almost making it to the end of the semester! 🥳
- Outreach: Both our G&P team and Comms team have been hard at work promoting our November recruitment season, resulting in our strongest recruitment yet! We’ve gained 40+ social media followers since we launched hiring, and were invited to promote our chapter at the 2022 National Strategy Consulting Competition & Conference (NSCC) on November 19th: UBC’s largest case competition and conference for aspiring consultants.
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🇮🇳 New Delhi
- Engagement Updates:
- The team has been in touch with our mentors Mr. Aditya Chopra & Mr. Tag Yujie to guide us in our projects.
- We’re in the process of developing deliverables for both our engagements and hope to finalise them in the first weeks of December.
- Recruitment:
- The team has conducted numerous open-house sessions at the campus to engage with freshers and scout recruits.
- The open-house session and other promotional initiatives included the creation of a video that we’d urge you all to have a look at on our Instagram handle @bfe.nd.
- Some photos of the great turnout at our open house! 📷
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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! 👏 |
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- 🌍 From BfE Global Technology:
- Shout out to Aliyah (Global Tech Talent Volunteer) She joined us in May 2022 and ever since has been an important force in helping shape the day-to-day operations of the talent team. Her enthusiasm and integrity along with her work ethic have been exemplary. Aliyah continuously went ahead and beyond by working as a point person between different hiring managers and the Tech Talent Manager to coordinate interviews and pick up loose ends; Hesam (Global Tech Talent Manager) cannot be more thankful for her time and helpful manner in organizing the operations of the Talent Team. She is soon going to step away from BfE as she is pursuing her career dreams and we would like to wish her the best of luck in her future endeavours 🎉
- 🇬🇧From BfE Cambridge Chapter: Jon (Cambridge Growth and Partnerships Director) has done a great job this term helping to organise external speaker events and training sessions.
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Our Startup Spotlight features Beyond Solid Waste Management (Kenya), a Kenyan-based social enterprise that coordinates waste disposal logistics for low-income households in Kisii, Kenya. You can now access the Beyond Solid Waste Management Case Study by the BfE Vancouver Chapter on our website! |
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