5 Steps to Grow Your Social Enterprise When You Start with Zilch
Convinced your social enterprise idea can change the world, but not sure where to start? Without a large team and millions in the bank, turning nothing into something can be difficult if not impossible.
But one social entrepreneur, Elizabeth Scharpf, founder of Sustainable Health Enterprises (SHE), did just that. During her MBA program, Elizabeth had an idea to empower Rwandan women and girls; seven years later, SHE has eyes on reaching 250,000 customers by 2017.
In this webinar, Elizabeth will share steps from her own journey—from recruiting her first teammates to partnering with a multinational company—and offer tangible, actionable advice to get your idea off the ground.
Elizabeth is the Founder and CEO at Sustainable Health Enterprises (SHE), a social venture recognized by Harvard Business School, the NYTimes’ Nick Kristof, and Bill Clinton for shaking up the status quo in the international development industry by investing in people and ideas that are overlooked and often times taboo but can have positive social impact. SHE’s first initiative is SHE28 which addresses girls' and women's lack of access to affordable menstrual pads in Africa, Asia, and South America causing them to miss school and/or work. SHE is currently helping women roll out a franchise model in Rwanda manufacturing and distributing affordable, eco-friendly menstrual pads by sourcing local, inexpensive raw materials (e.g., banana fibers) and leveraging existing female networks. Prior to SHE, Elizabeth was a Fulbright Scholar and then started up other ventures and advised businesses on growth strategies around the world at Cambridge Pharma Consultancy, the Clinton Foundation, and the World Bank. Elizabeth has an MBA and MPA-International Development from Harvard and a BA from the University of Notre Dame. Despite all the academic acronyms, she thinks her best education has come from talking with those sitting next to her on buses around the world.