Welcome to the April BfE newsletter! 🎉 | |
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Dear BfE community,
I hope you've been doing well and taking advantage of the springtime rolling around! With client engagements wrapping up across our five chapters, I wanted to say a huge THANK YOU to all the hard working team members for producing high-quality client deliverables. I know that these materials will go a long way towards supporting these social enterprises to make them more sustainable (and, ultimately, amplify their impact) in the long-run. Your continued hard-work is exemplified in the number of new applications we received for our Autumn 2023 Cohort, which we will be announcing in the coming months.
Keep up the great work and please reach out with any feedback, ideas, or just to chat!
My best regards,
Jordan (BfE Global President) |
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We've continued to make steady progress on various initiatives at the global level. Here's what the global teams have been up to: |
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🔋 Strategy & Operations
- Operations (Startup Recruitment):
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- Autumn 2023 Cohort: We received 73 applications from 23 countries, with most startups (80%) continuing to be based in Sub-Saharan Africa. Click here to helps us out by spreading the good news on LinkedIn! 🎉
- Startup Recruitment is expanding: The BfE New Delhi and BfE Vancouver Chapters are working to set up their own Startup Recruitment teams as we continue to strengthen our core capacities in the BfE Cambridge, Singapore, and New York Chapters.
- Regional Startup Review Committees: Starting with our Autumn 2023 Cohort, the Global BfE Startup Review Committee will be decentralized and BfE chapters will host twice-yearly regional events more suited to their operating timelines and key stakeholders.
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⚙️ Technology
- Machine Learning and Operations (MLOPs) Project: We are starting a project which aims to build a MLOps (Machine Learning and Operations) system for BfE to allow for a more agile deployment of our existing machine learning models, so these models can be more available and maintainable to end users. Xing (Global Analytics and Algorithm Manager) will lead this project with our new Analytics and Algorithm volunteers, and we aim to gradually split and convert the team into a longer-term MLOps team thereafter.
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🇬🇧 Cambridge
- Startup Engagement: BfE Cambridge successfully completed all client engagements in March and have been able to wrap up positive feedback.
- Startup Spotlight: We would like to appreciate and provide a spotlight to Concept Loop (Pakistan), a client in Consulting, and Sonvisage (Nigeria), a client in Finance Advisory.
- Chapter Event: Our Celonis x Bridges for Enterprise session with Angela-Sophia Gebert (Celonis employee) on 30 March was quite nice. Her case study on pizza delivery was interesting along with her treat of pizza after the event. Check out some photos below! 📷👇
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🇺🇸 New York
- Startup Engagement: Our incubation teams are nearing their final engagement calls and created successful deliverables for our clients.
- Chapter Recruitment: Our recruitment efforts this cycle garnered over 40 applications for 14 open spots! We are in the process of conducting interviews to select the student team members for Autumn 2023.
- Communications: Our Communications team is wrapping up their Instagram and other social media posts for the semester. They've also created amazing flyers to market our recruitment week and professional panel.
- Chapter Events:
- Our Growth & Partnerships (G&P) team hosted a collaborative professional panel with NYU's Consult Your Community Chapter on Sustainable Investing with Professor Cary Krosinsky.
- We hosted a chapter-wide social picnic in Washington Square Park!
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🇸🇬 Singapore
- Advisory: The Consulting and Finance Advisory teams scheduled mid-point calls with their respective clients.
- Leadership: The BfE Singapore Leadership Team scheduled coffee chats with chapter members over the course of April.
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🇨🇦 Vancouver
- General Updates:
- We have officially wrapped up the 2022/23 school year 🎉
- We received 73 applications in our recruitment round for next year and are currently in the process of conducting interviews for new chapter members to join us.
- We will begin our leadership transition shortly, with Alex Chow stepping into the BfE Vancouver Chapter President role, and Avniel Kumar and Lucy Gordon taking on the Vice President of Incubation and Vice President of Outreach roles, respectively! A BIG congratulations to these three and a job well done to the outgoing chapter leaders! 👏
- Incubation:
- Our Finance Advisory team presented their final deliverables on April 8, to Tele-Bere Green AgroFarms (Ghana). The deliverables included a 3 Statement Financial Model, Forecast and Valuation Model, Financial Model User Guide, Pitch Deck, Fund Ranking Framework, Grant Acquisition Guide, and an Impact M&E Framework.
- Our Consulting team completed their engagement with Helgg Scooters (Nigeria) on April 16, with key deliverables including Sample Marketing Materials and Case Studies, Pitch Deck and User Guide, Partnership Ranking Framework, Partner Strategy Handbook, and a Pricing Strategy Analysis.
- Outreach:
- In April, the Growth & Partnerships (G&P) team facilitated our first in-person event: the Impact-Driven Career Fair! It was a networking event featuring organizations such as Propel Impact, RePurpose Global, On Deck Fisheries AI, and more! It brought together 50+ impact-oriented students and professionals. A photo from the event is below :)
- The Communications team was hard at work promoting both recruitment and our Impact Career Fair. As a testament to their hard work, our chapter Instagram page gained 53 new followers in April!
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🇮🇳 New Delhi
- Engagement Updates:
- We are currently in the final stages of wrapping up client projects for this semester, both for our Consulting and Finance Advisory teams.
- We hosted an impact consulting case competition on campus in collaboration with 180 Degrees SSCBS and received 100 participants on campus for the final round. Check out an image of the event below! 📸
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There are no upcoming events in May, but stay tuned for future events ! |
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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 New Delhi:
- We would like to appreciate and give a spotlight to our members Saanya Singh (Junior Consulting Associate) & Charvi Gera (Junior Consultant) for their work on our project with Meraki Academy (Jordan) this semester 🙌 🎉
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