We are _SocialStarters and we design international development, career change and social entrepreneurship programmes that see the growth of social enterprise with some of the world’s hardest to reach people. We are looking for the right people to join us!

•Are you a career changer, career breaker, post-grad, sabbaticalist, corporate learner, freelancer or aspiring social entrepreneur?•Are you looking to travel with purpose?•Would you like a career changing volunteer experience that tackles real social goals with a heavy focus on two way development and sustainability?

#JoinUs in two of India’s best kept secrets - Hyderabad and Auroville! Our flagship social entrepreneurship programme will see you collaborate, learn and design alongside grassroots social enterprises tackling key social issues in their communities such as women’s empowerment, environment, education, health and livelihoods. As a special one-off our August programme has a Women’s Empowerment focus.

Our partners UnLtd Hyderabad and UnLtd Tamil Nadu, are affiliates of the leading social enterprise incubators in UnLtd India. You will also be working with a team of international skilled professionals from all walks of life who have incredible skills in all areas of business.

Our current volunteers have worked at L’Oreal, the UN, Innocent Drinks, Sony Playstation, KPMG and various other organisations, from theatre production companies to tech start-ups and everything in between.

Interested? Then apply to info@socialstarters.org ASAP. We have two programmes running in 2015 - August and October (6 Weeks) in Auroville. We have two programmes running in 2016 - January and March(6 weeks) in Hyderabad . Email us for details.

_Hello _WhoWeAre We are a small group of young professionals who have been making our move away from the corporate sector in the last few years. Since then we’ve been notching up hours in volunteer management, international development, youth media, CSR & Social Enterprise.

We have over 30 years of professional experience, managing over 200 volunteers along the way.

_SocialStarters works with two groups of people:

1. International volunteers who want to gain hands on social entrepreneurship experience

2. Entrepreneurs in developing countries who lack access to training in social entrepreneurship

The idea is that the skilled professionals (that’s you!) return to your communities, motivated and inspired to take the next step in your social impact career journey.

We connect these two groups together to develop sustainable social impact ventures and launch new impactful start-ups.

Our collaborative accelerator programme sees international volunteers become _ SocialStarters, taking all the current thinking around social innovation and design thinking to hard to reach places, developing along the way sustainable social impact ventures.

_WhoWeWorkWithWe are delivering training programmes throughout 2015 in Sri Lanka, India & Brazil working with brilliant partners who aim to nurture and grow social entrepreneurship in their communities. In India we work with UnLtd India, and in Brazil we work with key organisations playing a role in the cultural and youth development legacy of the Rio 2016 Olympic Games.

We work with small group of grassroots Indian social entrepreneurs who are making a huge different in their communities tackling real world problems for consumers at the base of the pyramid.

Our partners UnLtd Hyderabad and UnLtd Tamil Nadu, are affiliates of the leading social enterprise incubators in UnLtd India. where they are developing social impact start-ups around environment, education, health and livelihoods.

We will be working in Hyderabad and Auroville backed up by UNESCO and the Indian government, the creators of the contemporary township of Auroville wanted to create a new civilisation that was as dynamic and it was multi-cultural. We will be working with social entrepreneurs who are making a huge difference in their communities tackling real world problems, gender inequality and social impact.

COLLABORATEWe bring together people from different worlds to create change. We train you up to become a Social Enterprise Consultant, and you will work with a group of micro start-ups, young people, or existing grassroots social entrepreneurs to help them identify problems, design solutions, test ideas, build brands and get them ready for launch. You will work with a group of early stage social enterprises and entrepreneurs to help them identify problems, design solutions, test ideas, build brands, validate revenue options and get them ready to scale or grow.

LEARNDuring the Bootcamp you will learn about specific tools that enable you to devise, test and develop your own ideas for social change in your community. You’ll be introduced to social entrepreneurship, start-up methods, business modelling, financial sustainability and what it means to work with at the base of the pyramid. in Sri Lanka - getting inspired by incredible people doing amazing things.

DESIGN_SocialStarters gives you the tools and inspiration to design change in your own lives as well as others. Whether you want to develop your own start-up ideas, turn your passion into a business or move into a more meaningful career, we create space for you to explore your values and what it is that makes you tick so that you can return home feeling ready to make your next move.

Working with _SocialStarters pushed me in many ways that I will continue to benefit from for a long time after this programme. From working abroad, experiencing a new culture (both socially and workwise), learning about social entrepreneurship and working/living with a diverse mix of talented people. _SocialStartes Graduate, India, Feb 2015

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“Bootcamp was an enriching experience; it is not often you get the chance to work with such a diverse and impressive group of people, at the same time building and developing your own business and personal

skills.”

Juan Galan, Graduate from McGill University, Canada

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I’ve attended dozens of training courses and workshops in my time, and I have to say that the format, style and quality of the training has been exceptional. I’ve learnt more than I ever could have imagined on topics such as social enterprise, lean start-ups and the local market. It’s been a fully rounded and immersive experience.” Paul Goff, Former Supply Chain Consultant, Deloitte, UK.

You will gain hands on experience of working with a start-up social enterprise (that’s us!) contributing to our own start-up journey. Helping us be able to show more people globally how to climb their own way out of poverty.

Our collaborative accelerator programme sees international volunteers become_SocialStarters, taking all the current thinking around social innovation and design thinking to hard to reach places, developing along the way sustainable social impact ventures.

The idea is that the skilled professionals (that’s you!) return to your communities, motivated and inspired to take the next step in your social impact career journey.

We’ll be supporting you through career coaching and ideation workshops to enable you to feel ready to tackle your

‘what next’.

This programme means you can travel with purpose. Over the six weeks, you’d collaborate, learn and design solutions to real social challenges in India alongside likeminded, talented, international peers. You’d meet incredible social entrepreneurs who are changing the face of India, and get to take part in workshops and sessions that broaden your knowledge and experience of start-up methods and social entrepreneurship.

_CaseStudy: UMeed, Hyderabad Cohort February 2015

Consultant: Emma Wilson

Umeed was founded by two young women, Gauri and Udita, who train women from the poorer communities in Hyderabad on how to make eco-friendly, simple and beautiful household products out of recycled materials. By selling these products the women can then start to contribute to their household income, thus positively impacting the lives of their families. Through weekly workshops, Udita and Gauri empower these women by targeting the following 3 important areas; 1) Teaching life skills such as budgeting, planning and collaboration 2) Altering mindsets from oppressive to progressive ones 3) Giving women exposure to opportunities they would not otherwise get.

When I heard that I would be working with Umeed, focusing on their branding, business strategy and building a website, I was thrilled! Over the last 5 weeks of working together Umeed have made progress around many areas of their business; building a business strategy, focusing on the team structure, implementing a new financial forecasting tool and most excitingly the prototype for their website is almost ready to be launched!! Gauri and Udita’s determination, dedication and passion towards Umeed shines through and I feel incredibly privileged to have worked with them.

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I have found my involvement with _SS as one of the most rewarding cultural, intellectual and socially impactful experiences of my life. I’ve met some amazing people both locals and other _SS consultants ; learnt new skills and it’s really opened my eyes to new opportunities. _SS is definitely traveling with true purpose. _SocialStarters Graduate, India Feb 2015

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“Social Starters gives you the chance to spend time learning and living with a bunch of amazingly talented people, working alongside social entrepreneurs putting their hearts and souls into brilliant projects impacting other peoples lives for good. What’s not to like? You simply can’t put a price on

this type of experience.”

_Social Starters Graduate, India, Feb 2015

_WhatYouWouldDoYour clients will be a small group of grassroots Indian social entrepreneurs who are making a huge difference in their communities tackling tackling real world problems, gender inequality and social impact.

India is a hotbed of social entrepreneurial talent so this is a really exciting opportunity to get involved at a grassroots level and gain hands on experience in international development, making a real difference to the entrepreneurs who are changing people’s lives for the better.

What are your passions and values and how will this shape the path you lead yourself on? We will help you try and answer some of these questions on our Immersion Programme.

The tools you learn will be transferable to your own professional development and you’ll be able to utilise the skills and knowledge of the international group.

We have the most incredible range of talent within the room, covering almost every topic you can imagine, from developers to entrepreneurs. It’s been incredible getting to know each persons background and I can tell that I will be lucky enough to gain something insightful from each one of them. Emma Wilson, Former Brand Controller, L’Oreal, UK.

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Gender inequalityGender inequality is a huge social issue around the world. But one that greatly affects India. Through taking part in this programme, you will be providing support to these incredible social entrepreneurs, who are working to tackle the issue of gender inequality in their country and promote wom-en’s empowerment through their work.

Some key statistics about women in India:

•India is ranked at 101 among 136 countries that were assessed for women empowerment on social, economic and political parameters

•Around 70% of women in India are victims of domestic violence

•A crime against a women is committed every three minutes, a women is raped every 29 minutes, a dowry death occurs every 77 minutes and one case of cruelty committed by either the husband or relative of the victim occurs every nine minutes

•Around 100 million women and girls are estimated to be victim of human trafficking•44.5 percent of girls are married before the age of 18

•Domestic violence in India is endemic and widespread predominantly against women

As a team member on this programme, your work as a volunteer will result in these social enterprises being able to better serve the women they work with. WOMEN EMPOWERMENT

We are recruiting our second cohort of trainee ‘Social Enterprise Consultants’ in Auroville, Tamil Nadu, volunteers we train to deliver the learning of a group of grassroots social entrepreneurs.

Auroville has an incredibly fascinating heritage and it’s root are embedded in experimentation - in this case, it came out of a simple ideal that you could ‘create’ a harmonious civilsation from scratch.

Backed by UNESCO and the Indian government, the creators of the contemporary township of Auroville wanted to create a new civilisation that was as dynamic and it was multi-cultural. To this day, Auroville is a living testament to sustainable living and the future cultural, environmental, and social needs of its population.

It’s been described as “a place to ditch the life you’ve lived, and live the life you’ve always wanted, even if for a few days; here your conviction to follow your passion holds more value than your salary or title.

_SocialStarters gives you the chance to spend time learning and living with a bunch of amazingly talented people, working alongside social entrepreneurs putting their hearts and souls into brilliant projects impacting other peoples lives for good. What’s not to like? You simply can’t put a price on this type of experience.

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“My experience in India with _SocialStarters has been nothing short of incredible. I took on this journey looking to learn more about social enterprise, entrepreneurship, all in a new place far away from home, and it’s exactly what I got. I’ve worked with some incredible people, and have learned so many valuable skills that will stick with me my entire life. This trip was worth every penny spent, and I have no regrets about participating in this experience. Would recommend it to anyone looking for something “different” in their lives, and want to take part of something more meaningful.” _SocialStarters

Graduate, India, Feb 2015

#JoinUsIndia is a growing economy with some exciting things happening as the Indian Governemnt and Social Enterprises continue to tackle issues around ethnic division, women’s empowerment, environment and education. The social community has improved but there is still lots of work to do.

We’ve got a big ask – to help us take social entrepreneurship training to an country that is challenging women empowerment and real life problems within their community. We will train you, but you’ll also bring a wealth of experience to the country from your time working marketing and communications, business strategy, customer development, finances, lawor sales – it’s all relevant. We’ll show you how transferable your skills are. What’s essential will be your passion to drive a new form of impact, in a place that’s starting to truly recognise the future of social enterprise.

“Life’s too short” is repeated often enough to be a cliche, but this time it’s true. You don’t have enough time to be both unhappy and mediocre. It’s not just pointless, it’s painful. Instead of wondering when your next vacation is, maybe you ought to set up a life you don’t need to escape from.”

- Seth Godin

_Includes:

Accommodation (42 nights)

*1 week-long training bootcamp

*Teaching materials for your clients

*Any programme related printing, photocopying, workbooks

*Travel within the community to visit clients

*Pre-arranged return airport transfer from nearest local airport

*WIFI

*Local sim card (bring your own phone)

*Weekly phone credit budget

*Weekly ‘headspace’ half day excursion/trip

_Doesn’t Include:

- International flights

- Tourist visa

- Vaccinations

- Insurance

_ProgrammeFee: £1580.00

_HowWeStarted We started this in Kenya as an experiment to test whether social entrepreneurship training with hard to reach people can empower them to climb their own way out of poverty. Follow a successful pilot, and new launches in India, Sri Lanka and Brazil, we are confidant about our methodology and approach to bringing people together to create change. We have ambitious aims! We do expect with your help, that aspiring social entrepreneurs will be able to strengthen their solutions to serious social issues. And we look forward to seeing your ideas for creating change in your community. Could this be the start of a sustainable volunteer programme that truly creates change? You will be instrumental in helping us find out.

_Founders

A social enterprise, communications and youth engagement specialist who studied one of the first digital media degrees in the UK.

Andrea thrives when impacting positive change. She spent a while post-university selling advertising & marketing campaigns to global brands, charities & media; then found herself launching and developing projects for some of the brightest youth organisations and social enterprises in the UK, including taking Brixton’s foremost youth-run ‘Live Magazine’ national for Livity (2013 Queens Award for Enterprise, the Observer & Nesta’s New Radicals 2012, E&Y Entrepreneurs of the Year).

Has a passion for community development, particularly around impact of digital; and is dedicated to global & UK youth issues. Over the years clients and employers have included News International, Bauer Media, Livity, O2, Barclays, Converse, Nike, Adidas, PwC, Australia Tourism, British Film Institute, C4, Cabinet Office, and TFL.

With eight years’ experience in the development sector, and experience of working on seven different youth volunteer programmes overseas for organisations such as VSO (the ICS Programme), Balloon Kenya and Project Peru.

Anna previously set up and run a two-year volunteer programme in Peru, for which she was nominated for Woman of The Future Voluntary Award, and is passionate about social entrepreneurship as an alternative approach to addressing social issues.

She believes that overseas volunteer programmes are a valuable opportunity to develop young people into future leaders and social entrepreneurs.

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_ANNA MORAN

_ANDREA GAMSON

_CO-FOUNDER

_ProgrammeDates

_2016Hyderabad: 30th January Hyderabad: 12th March

_2015Auroville: 22nd AugustAuroville: 24th October

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