Dear BfE community, 

I hope that you are doing well as the year wraps up soon! I'm pleased to share with you that the 2022 BfE Annual Impact Report will be released soon on social media! 🎉 Efforts to produce this report were led by Fareeha and Yuan from the BfE Impact Research Division, and the process took multiple months after gathering input from various stakeholders, consolidating data, and packaging it all into a sleek report. I'm particularly excited about the report being published as the year wraps up, as it showcases the continued progress this volunteer-run organization has accomplished together. Please stay tuned for the forthcoming announcement and make sure to give it a read as well 📰

As always, a deep thank you to everyone for your continued passion and commitment. Collectively, we have served over 120 social enterprises across emerging markets since 2015, and we're not stopping anytime soon!

My best regards,

Jordan (BfE Global President)

We've continued to make steady progress on various initiatives at the global level. Here's what the global teams have been up to:

⚙️ Technology

  General Updates

• • Within the Division, the separation between Cyber Security and System Admin tasks started earlier this year and has now finally been completed🎉The Division has onboarded a new Cyber Security Manager, Malachi (Global Cyber Security Manager), and a new System Admin Manager, Micheal (Global System Admin Manager), and welcomes all new volunteers who have joined those two teams! From now on, they will work closely with each other and all other members to operate, maintain, and protect the entire BfE information system and data infrastructure. These changes should not affect any daily operations, but, if you have any questions, please do contact us 🙋🏼

  • The UI/UX Design team is in the process of creating a comprehensive solution aimed at facilitating better connectivity among all BfE members, providing useful tools to enhance efficiency, and ensuring the accessibility of valuable information. This encompasses improvements to our intranet portal, workplace knowledge repository, and redesign of our public website. BfE members may hear from this team periodically for requests to fill out surveys or to gather information, and their support would be greatly appreciated.

📰 Update from BfE Academy 

• • In the past few months, BfE Academy has undergone manpower changes in scaling up the team. Yining Kong is currently taking up the role of Deputy Head of Academy. She was previously a member of the Startup Recruitment team within BfE Cambridge, and joined the global team while completing her graduate degree at London Business School. Furthermore, three new BfE Academy volunteers have been onboarded, including Alankrita Varmani, Gaurav Singh and Neo Maphakisa, who will be working alongside existing volunteer Dennis Lighare. A warm welcome to the new volunteers! 🌸

  • The BfE Academy team hopes to accelerate the internal content creation project with the larger BfE organisation 🚀 The team will send a questionnaire to chapter teams soon to understand their current resources and knowledge gaps. Current work also includes collaboration with the Tech Division to choose BfE Academy tech platforms and collaboration on project management learning modules.

🇬🇧 Cambridge

• Chapter Recruitment: BfE Cambridge is ready for the new startup cohort and client engagements! The Chapter shared more about BfE's vision and goals and promoted open roles for this year at the Cambridge Freshers Fair on 3-4 October. During the session, BfE Cambridge received interest from 120 students including undergrads, postgrads and doctoral students. A photo from the Fair can be seen below ⬇️
• University of Cambridge Vice Chancellor Meet: Soniya talked about the work of BfE with the Vice Chancellor of the University of Cambridge, Deborah Prentice, during her visit to the business school. Soniya helped showcase BfE Cambridge's work, research activities, and discussed interdisciplinary collaboration across the University, too. See this LinkedIn post for more details and a photo below 🤩

🇺🇸 New York

• • Incubation: The BfE New York Incubation teams have either scheduled or conducted their intro calls with clients CysterCare (India), Ady's Agro (Nigeria), and InstaHEAL (India), and 1-on-1s are currently being conducted with individual chapter members to set expectations
  • Chapter Training: The BfE New York Startup Recruitment team has started interview and screening training for new and existing members ahead of the start of the 1st round of interviews
  • Chapter Recruitment: This is currently underway, replete with revamped Finance Advisory cases prepared by the BfE New York Incubation Directors and led by the VP of Incubation, Athina Papageorgiou!
  • Leadership Social: The BfE New York leadership team had a social gathering this month and got to learn a lot about some of the member's views on philosophy! See a 📷 below ⬇️
  • Workshop with Deloitte: The BfE New York Chapter held a successful logical structuring workshop with Deloitte at Rockefeller Center in NYC! See a 📷 below ⬇️

🇸🇬 Singapore

• Events: The BfE Singapore Chapter concluded recruitment for H2 2023 and completed Townhall 1, inviting former Vice President Aldrich Williams as the guest speaker to share more about his experience in BfE and how it helped him in his professional career
• Chapter Restructuring: The BfE Singapore Startup Recruitment team has expanded as part of the regionalization strategy in handling APAC startup recruitment for the BfE Singapore and BfE New Delhi Chapters
• Startup Engagement: The Chapter concluded kick-off meetings for Consulting and Finance Advisory engagements with its respective clients this semester

🇮🇳 New Delhi

• Chapter Recruitment:
  • The BfE New Delhi Chapter received an overwhelming amount of interest with 300+ applications for Consulting Associate roles
  • BfE New Delhi recruited 18 freshers as Consulting Associates after an intensive application process consisting of a group discussion round followed by 2 rounds of personal interviews 🎉
• Consulting Induction Program: BfE New Delhi has started its Consulting Induction Program for the 2023-24 team in order to equip them with skills which revolve around the foundation of Consulting
• Startup Engagement: The BfE New Delhi Chapter has reached out to the founders of its allocated clients, and is ready to start the Autumn Cohort with full enthusiasm. Chapter members have conducted the first meeting with the founders of both consulting engagements and begun working on the deliverables 👏
• Onboarding Training: The BfE New Delhi Chapter has completed training sessions for the newly inducted batch of members. The sessions included training on presentation-making, financial concepts, and market research
• Casebook Interviews: BfE New Delhi has started the process of interviewing people for the second edition of the chapter casebook. Interviews have been conducted with people cracking a job at Bain Capability Network, LEK Consulting, DE Shaw and other such well-regarded firms 
• Startup Recruitment: The BfE New Delhi Startup Recruitment team has started reviewing applications that have been submitted from prospective startups and will start scheduling the interviews soon

There are no featured events in November, but stay tuned for future events!

We are so grateful for the outstanding contributions made by the following BfE members this month. Thank you and well done! 👏

• 🇮🇳 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 with Meraki Academy (Jordan) this semester 🙌 🎉
• 🇬🇧 From BfE Cambridge:
  • We would like to give a shout-out to Vice Presidents Brendan (Vice President of Incubation) and Kyle (Vice President of Outreach) who supported fast-tracking the startup recruitment process along with Jeson (Global Operations Head). We have been able to get on track for our project timeline 👏
• 🇺🇸 From BfE New York
  • A well-deserved shout-out to Saransh Gupta, our Consulting Associate, who created a fantastic report template for our incubation associates to use on future deliverables for our client! 👏

Reads:

• Wrap-Around Services Are Changing the Face of Microfinance – For the Better: New Research Shows the Impact of Going Beyond Credit (Next Billion) 
• Does Universal Basic Income Really Work? Understanding the Early Findings from the World’s Largest UBI Experiment, and Their Implications for Financial Resilience (Next Billion)
• Apple and Acumen Launch Cohort to Help Uplift Lives of Poor While Protecting Environment (Next Billion)
• Analysis: Philanthropy’s Great Convergence (Next Billion) 
• Social Entrepreneurship Has To Be More Entrepreneurship Than Social To Succeed (Forbes)
• Your Customers Are More Interested in Your Purpose Than Ever — Here Are 3 Steps to Showcase It (Entrepreneur)

Roles:

• Manager, Social Sector Financing @ Genesis Analytics (Nairobi, Kenya)
• Business Development and Partnerships Lead @ WaterAid (London, UK)
• Co-managing Editor, International Journal for Court Administration @ International Association for Court Administration ( Remote)
• Programme Monitoring and Improvement Advisor @ Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (New Delhi)
• Policy Analyst, Tax and Investment @ International Institute for Sustainable Development (Toronto)

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