babysling.gad.v2
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a "women helping women" social business driven by mobile smartphone platform, designed for GIVE-A-DAY, now the Stephen Lewis FoundationTRANSCRIPT
THE BABYSLING PROJECT a proposal for a GiveADay cause marketing project
Tuesday, January 25, 2011
CONCEPT
custom handmade African babyslings, designed in Africa by African women, are focus of mobile phone cause marketing campaign with two goals:
open new revenue source for GiveADay by personalizing moms-helping-moms relationship
create artisan ‘training village’ to ensure project is sustainable for local textile designer/sewers
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RATIONALE
‘close the loop’ with donors by co-creating an interactive narrative amongst donors/designers/distributors that’s entirely personalized
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HOW D’YOU DO THAT?
Easily and inexpensively: each step along the value chain—from conception of the one-of-a-kind babysling through to the personal thank-you from the designers in Africa—is narrated by a video clip interactively showing provenance
every step of the process will have a narrative attached, describing where/when/how: provenance
that narrative will be activated by a QR code on the babysling...swipe your mobile: see the story
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ENGAGING STORY = DONOR VALUE
If each process along the value chain—from design concept to donor thank-you—is an interactive story, we have created a sustainable ‘brand story’ for GiveADay...and incited initial ‘early adopters’ to spread our ‘moms-helping-moms’ story
the entire process is also an educational platform for HIV/AIDS awareness in Africa: every piece of narrative is branded GiveADay
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CONVERSATIONSTARTERS
who are our medical partners in Zimbabwe?
what connections can we build on to advocate for GiveADay while selling GiveADay-branded babyslings?
what does our media campaign look like to support the project?
what other strategic partners can we ID?
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WHAT’S THIS LOOK LIKE?
St. Marys, Ontario is home to May Garcia, a Spanish fashion specialist based for 20 years in Zimbabwe. May has a network of design/textile worker/distribution contacts across SW Africa and all over Western Europe
Her concept? Use the untapped creative capital of African textile design/build workers to build a business which ‘tithes back’ a portion of profits to fund a ‘creative village’: make the process local and sustainable
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WHO ARE THE PARTNERS?
COMSolve Inc of Toronto is a cutting-edge mobile technology firm guided by deep social values (Ofir Smadja CEO)
THINKstate of Stratford is a non-profit media strategy/cause marketing firm (Brendan Howley ExecDir)
May Garcia and her African/European network...
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...AND THE MONEY
The MasterCard Foundation is our financial services partner
they handle the transactions and
supply marketing communications clout
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THANK YOU.
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the power of thank-youfor a truly amazing donor thank you piece we can adapt (from donorpowerblog.com) for GAD/babysling project40 thank-you notes = one grateful donor
A whole bunch of kids in South Carolina think I'm cool. These kids are impressed with me because I donated the money to buy a microphone for some music classes so they can record their singing. I did this through an organization called http://www.donorschoose.org/, which won a coveted Donor Power Award in March.My gift was some weeks ago, so it wasn't much on my mind when I received a thick packet from Donors Choose: hand-drawn thank you cards from the kids. About 40 letters, most with drawings -- sweet, funny, heartfelt, real. (Logan hopes I didn't go bankrupt.)They also pointed me to where on the web I can hear their recording of "Hot Cross Buns," made with "my" microphone. If you'd like to hear them too, http://www.myteacherpages.com/webpages/JRoberts1/files/Taylor's%20Hot%20Cross%20Buns.wavIn terms of emotional ROI, I'd say that gift was among the best charitable donations I've ever made.We spend a lot effort "marketing" what we do. But all that fades to insignificance compared to the gratitude of 40 kids. That’s the donor power revolution living out in full color!Can you create a powerful experience like that for your donors?
Tuesday, January 25, 2011