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do you think you are too small to make
an impact today we want to say to you
something quite obvious something that
probably most of you in this room
already knows every day all around the
world each of us voluntarily or
involuntarily has to deal with a social
issue it could be I don’t know and
homeless sleeping on a payment on the
road when you are going to your office
it could be one of your young daughter
or son who cannot find a proper job or
you could be also one of your relatives
or friends who are suffering from some
mental illness needing for a special
support believe me the number of
examples the list of examples it’s huge
so saying that it is not something very
new to all of us that’s the number of
people who are currently supporting some
social causes around the world is
increasing every day every year so let’s
make a brief survey now how many of you
are currently supporting a social cause
in your life or your deed it could be
being part of a nonprofit organization
or even just donating some money to a
nonprofit organization
raise your hand if you did something
like this of we are doing something
ladies okay thank you
this is this result is not so far from
what we discovered from some recent
researches in 2005 15 sorry in 2015 the
research showed that 1 in 3 people all
around the world donated to a charity
donated some money to a charity and that
one on four volunteered so this is a
very impressive result and this is the
picture in 2015 but if we
move our perspective to a different
level to Europe and for example to
Germany in Germany we have around
600,000 NGOs but what is interesting is
that 40% of these NGOs was born after
the year 2000 and what about Italy if we
take the most recent report about
nonprofit organization we can see that
in Italy in between the year 2001 in the
year 2010 the number of nonprofit
organization increased almost 30% and
even more important the number of
volunteers increase over 40 percent and
now we’ll give you another quite obvious
piece of information in recent times we
are observing an increasing number of
people who decided to run their own
business so let’s make another brief
survey raise your hand if you have
already decided to run your own business
or if you will seriously consider that
if you had the chance to raise your hand
I’m part of this survey good good number
so the most significant aspect of this
trend is that it is made of people of
all ages all incomes both employed and
unemployed probably someone will say
that this trend is mainly led by the
category of young unemployed people who
is looking at atropine ership and
self-employment as the only way of
salvation but what some recent studies
made about a sample of thousand and
thousand of employees so people with the
permanent job around the world are
showing something different different
scenario in particular at global level
we can see that the number of people
with an employment who is interested in
dropping his own job to run their own
business or to become self-employed is
it just is a 57 percent of the entire
population
and 28% of the people surveyed is
already planning is currently planning
to drop the job and become a self
employed or intrapreneurs and if we talk
about Europe this number is even higher
the number of people who are seriously
considering the idea to become
self-employed and entrepreneurs is
higher and in Italy probably something
that is interesting to us today the
number of people who already planned to
start to become self-employed and to
start a business by their own is even
higher than the average in Europe and at
global level so on the one hand we are
observing an increasing number of people
supporting social causes and on the
other hand we are observing an
increasing number of people who decided
to run their own business what is
probably less obvious is that these two
quite obvious traits are somehow linked
to each other and in our opinion the
connection between these two trends lies
on three strong assumptions the first
assumption is that we won’t we all want
to improve the society in the community
we live in second assumption is that we
all want to be the makers of our own
lives and thirdly one important thing is
that in our current society profit is
key to sustainability and how can these
three assumptions live together
concretely our answer is social impact
entrepreneurship yes
that’s the news you are not so bad if
you try to make money while making a
social impact business and in order to
validate these theses
we want to tell you three stories coming
from our global network which are in
this storybook
on how people from different countries
different backgrounds and different
motivations became successful impact
entrepreneurs and these stories may be
about you you that are sitting there you
that may have a question which has been
passing around in your head and that
maybe has brought you here
the first story explains how personal
engagement to a social calls can
represented the motivation to start a
social business this is the story of
Anton Atkinson founder of de cape and
impact business from Stockholm at a
young age
Anton was temporarily diagnosed as being
within the autistic spectrum this
experience left him with an
understanding of how daunting daily
tasks can be full treatment with autism
can you imagine how daunting could it be
children with autism have incredible
difficulties in planning their own tasks
daily and they need for a special
softball to understand what they have to
do next when Ansel was a child he loved
the Spider Man inspired by his childhood
love for spider-man Anton went on to
found take a an interactive digital
image calendar that helps autistic
children to plan their day collaborating
with family teachers and friends so Bay
Cape is a mobile app that displays very
simple images supporting children to
understand what they have to do at
certain times it is a very simple idea
but with an incredible impact consider
that nowadays it is estimated that one
in sixty
children around the world are diagnosed
with autistic disorder and this number
is increasing this is a way to transform
autism into a superpower Anton said
that’s why I think they cave needs to
exist just like Peter Parker these
children struggle with powers they don’t
understand but with the right help from
family and friends they can discover
their own superpowers it doesn’t matter
who you are
anyone can put on a cake and prepare for
a super day the second story is about
Francesco dito an experienced manager
from Torino who found the right recipe
to combine a business opportunity with a
social impact this is also a win-win
story where the participation from
citizens really makes the difference
this is the story of Las Minnesota Casa
in impact business from Torino every
evening that Francesco passed through
his neighborhood bakery shop window he
saw a salt pizza thrown away it is not
fair
he thought while in the street this
bakery says pizza expiry soon in the
same street there should be many people
who would love to buy pizza at a
discounted price he realized and that’s
how the business idea was born
Francesco found a business opportunity
in the food waste problem he connects
retailers with citizens in so with
potential customers in the same
neighborhood since 2015 Francesco and
his a small team have been working hard
to spread their business through
citizens and to demonstrate that making
social impact is not only a matter
for NGOs and cooperatives socially
impact can generate profits
Francesco says and profits can attract
the interest of multinationals yes you
heard well multinationals that’s what’s
happening now to Francesco and his
company an important group French group
decided to invest in his idea
and business model nowadays Francesca’s
steam is made of nine professionals and
is growing day by day as well as the
community of people who is regularly
using his mobile app is however it is
not enough Francesca says citizens are
the power of this anti-west process
which said trade tools fresh food each
month without people using the platform
no impact can be reached and the last
story is about presume Kumar a talented
Indian architect who decided to devote
his skills to solve one of the most
pressing global problems homelessness
this is the story of billion bricks and
impact the business from Singapore
during his international career in
architecture he noted that although
Asian cities are growing extremely fast
and are generating in abundance of new
wealth the quality of life for many is
actually going down the huge shift in
populations moving from rural to urban
areas has created the housing crisis
that the word doesn’t know how to solve
thousands of people lose their lives
because they either live on the streets
or in such poor conditions that they are
unable to withstand something like harsh
rain heat or cold present set and that’s
the reason why I presume decided to
found billion bricks
he designed shelters and infrastructure
solution and he provide them to homeless
and vulnerable people all around the
world this solution are scalable and
sustainable so they allow poor
communities to get out of poverty to
take ownership and pride to unlock
potential for change pres all things
solving the complex housing problem of a
billion people cannot happen on a
project to project phases there is a lot
of work that needs to be done to do it
right and bring systemic change and we
don’t think a single organization like
ours or even a consortium of
organizations can solve it
it needs a movement but the mice to go
don’t sway presume from his dream of a
world without homelessness until we are
able to achieve our vision nothing can
stop us these were three stories of the
same book a global book where any one of
us can write the next page and we say
that because of the following three
reasons business and entrepreneurship
are not just stuff for Donald Trump like
people secondly what really matters in
developing a social impact business it’s
not just a matter of skills and
competencies but it’s especially how
much you believe about the social cause
that you want to defend that you want to
support
and the last but not the least you can
think about your role in the social
impact business starting from now and
now it’s time to open the letter that
you received at the desk please open it
inside you can find a small action that
you can take right now to become an
impact maker and create a better world
so do you still think you are too small
to make an impact
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you
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do you think you are too small to make
an impact today we want to say to you
something quite obvious something that
probably most of you in this room
already knows every day all around the
world each of us voluntarily or
involuntarily has to deal with a social
issue it could be I don’t know and
homeless sleeping on a payment on the
road when you are going to your office
it could be one of your young daughter
or son who cannot find a proper job or
you could be also one of your relatives
or friends who are suffering from some
mental illness needing for a special
support believe me the number of
examples the list of examples it’s huge
so saying that it is not something very
new to all of us that’s the number of
people who are currently supporting some
social causes around the world is
increasing every day every year so let’s
make a brief survey now how many of you
are currently supporting a social cause
in your life or your deed it could be
being part of a nonprofit organization
or even just donating some money to a
nonprofit organization
raise your hand if you did something
like this of we are doing something
ladies okay thank you
this is this result is not so far from
what we discovered from some recent
researches in 2005 15 sorry in 2015 the
research showed that 1 in 3 people all
around the world donated to a charity
donated some money to a charity and that
one on four volunteered so this is a
very impressive result and this is the
picture in 2015 but if we
move our perspective to a different
level to Europe and for example to
Germany in Germany we have around
600,000 NGOs but what is interesting is
that 40% of these NGOs was born after
the year 2000 and what about Italy if we
take the most recent report about
nonprofit organization we can see that
in Italy in between the year 2001 in the
year 2010 the number of nonprofit
organization increased almost 30% and
even more important the number of
volunteers increase over 40 percent and
now we’ll give you another quite obvious
piece of information in recent times we
are observing an increasing number of
people who decided to run their own
business so let’s make another brief
survey raise your hand if you have
already decided to run your own business
or if you will seriously consider that
if you had the chance to raise your hand
I’m part of this survey good good number
so the most significant aspect of this
trend is that it is made of people of
all ages all incomes both employed and
unemployed probably someone will say
that this trend is mainly led by the
category of young unemployed people who
is looking at atropine ership and
self-employment as the only way of
salvation but what some recent studies
made about a sample of thousand and
thousand of employees so people with the
permanent job around the world are
showing something different different
scenario in particular at global level
we can see that the number of people
with an employment who is interested in
dropping his own job to run their own
business or to become self-employed is
it just is a 57 percent of the entire
population
and 28% of the people surveyed is
already planning is currently planning
to drop the job and become a self
employed or intrapreneurs and if we talk
about Europe this number is even higher
the number of people who are seriously
considering the idea to become
self-employed and entrepreneurs is
higher and in Italy probably something
that is interesting to us today the
number of people who already planned to
start to become self-employed and to
start a business by their own is even
higher than the average in Europe and at
global level so on the one hand we are
observing an increasing number of people
supporting social causes and on the
other hand we are observing an
increasing number of people who decided
to run their own business what is
probably less obvious is that these two
quite obvious traits are somehow linked
to each other and in our opinion the
connection between these two trends lies
on three strong assumptions the first
assumption is that we won’t we all want
to improve the society in the community
we live in second assumption is that we
all want to be the makers of our own
lives and thirdly one important thing is
that in our current society profit is
key to sustainability and how can these
three assumptions live together
concretely our answer is social impact
entrepreneurship yes
that’s the news you are not so bad if
you try to make money while making a
social impact business and in order to
validate these theses
we want to tell you three stories coming
from our global network which are in
this storybook
on how people from different countries
different backgrounds and different
motivations became successful impact
entrepreneurs and these stories may be
about you you that are sitting there you
that may have a question which has been
passing around in your head and that
maybe has brought you here
the first story explains how personal
engagement to a social calls can
represented the motivation to start a
social business this is the story of
Anton Atkinson founder of de cape and
impact business from Stockholm at a
young age
Anton was temporarily diagnosed as being
within the autistic spectrum this
experience left him with an
understanding of how daunting daily
tasks can be full treatment with autism
can you imagine how daunting could it be
children with autism have incredible
difficulties in planning their own tasks
daily and they need for a special
softball to understand what they have to
do next when Ansel was a child he loved
the Spider Man inspired by his childhood
love for spider-man Anton went on to
found take a an interactive digital
image calendar that helps autistic
children to plan their day collaborating
with family teachers and friends so Bay
Cape is a mobile app that displays very
simple images supporting children to
understand what they have to do at
certain times it is a very simple idea
but with an incredible impact consider
that nowadays it is estimated that one
in sixty
children around the world are diagnosed
with autistic disorder and this number
is increasing this is a way to transform
autism into a superpower Anton said
that’s why I think they cave needs to
exist just like Peter Parker these
children struggle with powers they don’t
understand but with the right help from
family and friends they can discover
their own superpowers it doesn’t matter
who you are
anyone can put on a cake and prepare for
a super day the second story is about
Francesco dito an experienced manager
from Torino who found the right recipe
to combine a business opportunity with a
social impact this is also a win-win
story where the participation from
citizens really makes the difference
this is the story of Las Minnesota Casa
in impact business from Torino every
evening that Francesco passed through
his neighborhood bakery shop window he
saw a salt pizza thrown away it is not
fair
he thought while in the street this
bakery says pizza expiry soon in the
same street there should be many people
who would love to buy pizza at a
discounted price he realized and that’s
how the business idea was born
Francesco found a business opportunity
in the food waste problem he connects
retailers with citizens in so with
potential customers in the same
neighborhood since 2015 Francesco and
his a small team have been working hard
to spread their business through
citizens and to demonstrate that making
social impact is not only a matter
for NGOs and cooperatives socially
impact can generate profits
Francesco says and profits can attract
the interest of multinationals yes you
heard well multinationals that’s what’s
happening now to Francesco and his
company an important group French group
decided to invest in his idea
and business model nowadays Francesca’s
steam is made of nine professionals and
is growing day by day as well as the
community of people who is regularly
using his mobile app is however it is
not enough Francesca says citizens are
the power of this anti-west process
which said trade tools fresh food each
month without people using the platform
no impact can be reached and the last
story is about presume Kumar a talented
Indian architect who decided to devote
his skills to solve one of the most
pressing global problems homelessness
this is the story of billion bricks and
impact the business from Singapore
during his international career in
architecture he noted that although
Asian cities are growing extremely fast
and are generating in abundance of new
wealth the quality of life for many is
actually going down the huge shift in
populations moving from rural to urban
areas has created the housing crisis
that the word doesn’t know how to solve
thousands of people lose their lives
because they either live on the streets
or in such poor conditions that they are
unable to withstand something like harsh
rain heat or cold present set and that’s
the reason why I presume decided to
found billion bricks
he designed shelters and infrastructure
solution and he provide them to homeless
and vulnerable people all around the
world this solution are scalable and
sustainable so they allow poor
communities to get out of poverty to
take ownership and pride to unlock
potential for change pres all things
solving the complex housing problem of a
billion people cannot happen on a
project to project phases there is a lot
of work that needs to be done to do it
right and bring systemic change and we
don’t think a single organization like
ours or even a consortium of
organizations can solve it
it needs a movement but the mice to go
don’t sway presume from his dream of a
world without homelessness until we are
able to achieve our vision nothing can
stop us these were three stories of the
same book a global book where any one of
us can write the next page and we say
that because of the following three
reasons business and entrepreneurship
are not just stuff for Donald Trump like
people secondly what really matters in
developing a social impact business it’s
not just a matter of skills and
competencies but it’s especially how
much you believe about the social cause
that you want to defend that you want to
support
and the last but not the least you can
think about your role in the social
impact business starting from now and
now it’s time to open the letter that
you received at the desk please open it
inside you can find a small action that
you can take right now to become an
impact maker and create a better world
so do you still think you are too small
to make an impact
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[Applause]
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you
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