Social Ventures

Social Mission Rinato Eco Floral Shop is a social enterprise established under the Tung Wah Group of Hospitals. Rinato creates open employment opportunities and on-the-job training on flower arrangement and sales skills for the hearing impaired people. Business Model Out of 11 employees, 8 of them are people with hearing impairment. Together, they operate various types of floral services in the floral shop and workshops in other services center. Our core services are (1) Flower (e.g. bouquet, basket), (2) Flower processed products, and (3) Flower arrangement and flower products workshop. Our operation team produce various types of floral products and job practice for the staff on a daily basis. Rinato also provides floral products delivery services for customers. Founding Team Rinato was founded by Tung Wah Group of Hospitals with the support from “Enhancing Employment of People with Disabilities through Small Enterprise” project in 2016. Social Impact According to the Hong Kong Poverty Situation Report on Disability 2015, there are 155,200 people with hearing difficulty who are at their working-age, among which 24.9% of them are living below the poverty line. Not only do they find it difficult to find a job, but they also face workplace discrimination. We created job opportunities and training for more than hearing difficulty in the past 3 years. Rinato assists them to secure more opportunities by providing on-the-job training of flower arrangement skills. Proposed Project for Students  A marketing campaign to raise public awareness in recognizing the ability of the hearing impaired person through the flower products.      

Social Mission Festyle believes that health, family wellness and home-cooking culture are crucial yet often neglected elements in our society. Empowering underprivileged housewives, we transform women household wisdom into products and services, extending the workforce, yielding commercial and social values. Business Model Festyle offers fresh and raw healthy home-made food packs, ready-to-eat catering and meal boxes with delivery service, cooperation and workshops with enterprises, with focus on different dining needs. Festyle’s experienced home-chefs delivers the home-cooking solution. They carefully handle food ingredients, take customers’ different dining needs into account when making food pack. They provide recipes and the taste of home-made food, which can be rarely found in restaurants and the market. Founding Team YIP Hiu Wai, Ding-ding, Managing Director Ding-ding believes a simple heartwarming homemade meal helps bring the family together and serves as the foundation of a person's physical and social well-being. She gathered genuine experience in the food and beverage industry and enjoys her different positions in previous jobs, ranging from frontline operations to back-office support. Ding-ding founded Festyle and won the Hong Kong Social Enterprise Challenge with her team before graduation at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. CHAN Wai Yiu, Yo, Operations Director Yo participated in organizing social movements since his undergraduate life and has been a reporter in Hong Kong In-media, both served him well with his organizational skills and the ability to co-operate with the mass media. Yo is passionate about social issues and was elected as one of the outstanding volunteers in Hong Kong Playground Association (2016). Yo believes that social changes should derive from the structure system. He is now exploring and advocating the room for female empowerment and family-friendly working measures in Hong Kong. Social Impact Festyle has employed 20+ women with family-friendly, flexible working hours and opportunities with on-the job trainings, helping them return to work, while having generated 1600+ recipes. Currently, 2 women have been upskilled to clerical and sales position. In terms of products and services, 13800+ cuisine boxes have been sold, serving 1100+ families with heart-warming cooking experience, turning 1200+ into products with commercial and social values. Festyle has changed women’s lives by revitalizing their career and dream. They proudly showcase the cuisine and recipes designed by them on media reports. Proposed Project for Students  Online marketing strategies and potential new product line development.      

Social Mission We believe in creating a world where art can bridge social inequalities, bring people together, enable social impact and enrich families or communities. We believe that creativity should be accessible to all; regardless of socio-economic or educational background. Business Model Bizzie Bee specialises in kids' products and workshops that are creative, educational and fun. We create and manufacture  DIY craft kits available in retail and kids activity ranges for hotels, restaurants, museums and healthcare.  We are a team of educators, community arts practitioners and designers and can customise to any specification. Proceeds of the sales go back to our charity, setting up community arts projects to build stronger and healthier communities. We believe our business model is quite unique: we are a grassroots organisation creating a niche in global industries such as Hospitality and Healthcare. We bring community, expertise and industry together in a scalable model. With proceeds being invested in the local community; we bring purpose to our business, our staff and the companies we partner with. Since 2017, we have sold 123,000 products with a revenue of HK$3.5 million. Even in start-up phase the growth of our social impact was considerable, involving 5,860 participants and 871 volunteers. Founding Team Bizzie Bee was set up by Neil Avern and Liz Avern-Briers as a means to care for a bigger society and to create a self-sustainable charity. Neil and Liz started in 2010 with setting up the charity Lizzie Bee Foundation. The need to expand was the catalyst to set up a sustainable revenue stream, Bizzie Bee. Liz Avern-Briers, Founder & Director  Liz delivered the business plan, strategy and secured the funding for the start-up.  Liz’s role is to provide vision for new product ranges, run workshops and take the lead on material procurement. She is also responsible for HR and the overseeing of commercial operations. Together with Neil, Liz takes an active role within business development and sales. Neil Avern, Founder & Director  Neil is responsible for product design, implementation, advertising and bringing to market of the Bizzie Bee B2B and B2C ranges including management of all financial and logistical aspects. Social Impact With our expansion into Healthcare, we want to create an activity kit to keep kids busy when waiting for consultancy or treatment. Through fun and play, we want them to learn about the hospital, familiarize themselves with the environment and talk about what is happening to them. The goal is that their hospital visit is a better experience. We want kids to be engaged and involved in their medical treatment which means: helping children understand their medical needs whilst helping their parents and medical staff to understand their psychological needs through continuously positive communication. It will reduce anxiety and add to a recovery with a positive mindset. Proposed Project for Students  Develop a business strategy and marketing plan for our new healthcare range

• Product Development
• Market Research and analysis
• Identify key stakeholders & potential growth

     

Social Mission A registered NGO, ImpactHK believes in the importance of kindness in addressing the pressing problem of the homeless in Hong Kong. Our journey started with the simple aim of doing one act of kindness per month for the homeless. We have grown significantly since then and many volunteers have joined us in our journey to support the less fortunate in a meaningful and measurable way. Together, we have evolved into a powerful humanitarian movement with the opportunity to make a positive impact on the plight of the homeless in Hong Kong. ImpactHK’s goal is to provide the homeless with a connection to friends, society and a safe and comfortable home. While getting the homeless off the streets and settled into employment and their own homes is the ultimate objective of ImpactHK, this is a long and painful journey for the individuals involved. ImpactHK seeks to provide a stepping stone that is filled with love, kindness and opportunity to help these individuals. We hope to provide a rehabilitative support programme that is totally holistic in its approach, offering: counselling, financial advice, mentorship, nutritional advice, physical activity, language learning and job opportunities. By reaching out through kindness, we transform the lives of the homeless – one life at a time. Business Model ImpactHK has successfully grown at an incredible pace to serve the homeless in Hong Kong due to the support of our volunteers and donors. Our message of friendship has resonated with the wider community in Hong Kong and we have a broad support base. We now have established multiple revenue streams to fund our work. Kindness Walks: Our Kindness Walks now take place on a daily basis. Volunteers can register via HandsonHongKong to attend their chosen time slot and location and pledge a minimum donation of $100 to participate. These Kindness Walks are the “bread and butter” of our daily work, on the ground, with the homeless. In addition to spreading the message of friendship and kindness, the amounts raised ensure that the food and daily necessities we distribute are fully self-sustainable. We currently support approximately 400 people through Kindness Walks in six locations across Hong Kong – 150 in Sham Shui Po, 100 in Yau Ma Tei, 50 in Tai Kok Tsui, 40 in North Point, 30 in Happy Valley and 10 in Shau Kei Wan. The people we help include the homeless, street cleaners, elderly recyclers and those living in coffin homes. We undertake up to 50 walks each month. Private Kindness Walks: Our programme of private Kindness Walks are growing in popularity with organizations and corporations. We are able to tailor specific Kindness Walks to suit the needs of individual organizations for a significant donation to ImpactHK. As there is growing demand and this is becoming an entrenched service in our portfolio, we have set the minimum donation from an organization at HK$8,000 per private Kindness Walk going forward. We are currently holding approximately 6-8 such Kindness Walks each month. Individual & Corporate donations: ImpactHK is supported by many generous individual donors, and has also been the beneficiary of significant donations from corporations.   Founding Team Jeff Rotmeyer, Founder and Director Jeff Rotmeyer started ImpactHK because he saw a great need for fresh ideas on how the homeless in Hong Kong are treated.  Jeff believes multiple connections are essential for overcoming difficult times and he is extremely passionate about giving people in need an opportunity at happiness. Doris Lee, Accountant In addition to over 15 years of accounting experience, Doris also has great knowledge and skills in forecasting, business development, budgeting and office administration. Doris is fluent in Cantonese, Mandarin and English. She was previously awarded the Gold Award for Volunteer Service by the Social Welfare Department.   Social Impact ImpactHK has expanded significantly since our establishment in 2017. We now carry out a number of fundraising initiatives that fund a growing range of programmes and services to serve the needy. Kindness Walks: Through our regular walks, we build trust and friendship with the homeless in the hope of creating opportunities for change. Along the way, we also support others in need, such as the elderly, cleaners and the poor. Guestroom: Our Guestroom is a safe place for the homeless to visit. We have a Community Fridge at the Guestroom where the homeless or needy can help themselves to food and refreshments. Housing: For those that have shown commitment and capability to take responsibility for themselves, we are able to offer them financial assistance for their own deposit and first month’s rent. Job Creation: At the Guestroom, we offer employment to Community Helpers – by being paid to carry out ImpactHK’s work, these individuals are provided with a nurturing environment in which to improve their transferable work skills.   Proposed Project for Students  In order for us to be able to support more homeless individuals by providing a more meaningful path off of the streets and into a happy future, we need to expand our employment opportunities. It is our hope to start a second-hand shop. Through our thousands of volunteers, we receive multiple emails daily from individuals looking to donate products such as clothing, furniture and housewares. We hope to utilise this large amount of donated items by selling them at extremely fair prices to support the poor in Hong Kong while also providing more job opportunities for the homeless. This will have three great benefits for our society; saving waste from filling up our landfill, supporting the poor and providing a great employment opportunity for the homeless. It is our hope that this will be a meaningful opportunity for your students to develop a concept that is so important and could be put into reality by ImpactHK in a short amount of time.      

Social Mission KELY Support Group (KELY) is a Hong Kong-based non-profit organisation whose mission since 1991 is to equip young people with the skills, knowledge, and opportunities needed to support themselves and each other. We envision a world where young people are empowered to reach their full potential.   Business Model We collaborate with schools and other community partners to offer programmes to Chinese- and English-speaking youth including those from Ethnic Minority backgrounds, between the ages of 14 and 24 around our three core focus areas: Drug and Alcohol Awareness, Mental Well Being, and Positive Youth Development. Our programmes range from skills building and knowledge based training workshops to experiential learning opportunities for groups of students across all core focus areas of our work. Different programmes in our portfolio are financially supported by the following means:

• Government-subsidised Grants
• Corporate and Family Foundations Grants
• School donations
• General donations

  Founding Team In the early ‘90s, a group of youth who grew up in Hong Kong started a movement of peer support when they found a lack of support services that met their needs. They started informal support groups to allow peers to chat about what was troubling them, encouraged each other in their pursuit of wellbeing, and those who fell into drug and alcohol abuse went to local schools to share about their personal journeys of recovery as a prevention education initiative. Generous benefactors and philanthropists including Mrs Ann Marden and several Rotarians saw the innovation and passion among these youth and financially supported it to become officially established as a charity in Hong Kong to serve young people through non-judgemental peer support. Today, our Board Emeritus Chair, Mr Andrew Jones, still serves on our Board.   Social Impact Youth in HK are continually facing a myriad of challenges during their key developmental years. With each generation comes different challenges. We have seen our programmes over the last 28 years impacting young people in making positive choices for their life and later on in their careers as well. In the last year, we worked with 100 school partners across Hong Kong, reaching over 30,000 young people through our programmes and outreach. Some of our other impacts include:

• From our drugs & alcohol awareness workshops, 82% of participants indicated that they had learned strategies for resisting peer pressure related to drugs.
• 75% of peer supporters trained felt more confident in promoting a positive influence on fellow students

  Proposed Project for Students 

• Exploring a business model for scaling up across our Positive Youth Development offerings.
• Market research and analysis of our existing programme models to understand where technology or other platforms can help to increase operational efficiency.
• Propose new models of service delivery that would be able to generate revenues to support innovation and research around our work.

     

Social Mission

• Provides a dignified paid job for people with disabilities.
• Create a truly ‘Inclusive’ society where both disabled and abled-bodied come to learn and HAVE FUN TOGETHER
• Provides an innovative, fun and eye-open team-building experience for our users to learn about Change Management, teamwork, communication and most importantly to understand the definition of Empathy from the first-hand experience.

  Business Model The majority of the corporate training services are conducted either in the classroom or through adventure camp. These methods may not be practical and profound due to the lack of impactful insight and experience during the training process. Our corporate workshop consists of two stages: 1) a first-hand wheelchair experience, which is designed by Inclusive Impact team. It aims to initiate customers’ willingness for change, and prepares their shift in mindset; 2) design thinking and coaching. This is the most popular and effective tool introduced by Stanford University IDEO to set a new goal and achieve it by using Lean Startup procedures. Customers will learn and grasp the idea of the tool within a day, and hence they will be able to apply in their business and departments immediately. In Hong Kong, there are over three hundred thousand of small and medium enterprises (SME). All these enterprises would lead to a high demand for internal staff training and retreat program. Staff training budgets are up to millions per annual in Hong Kong, not to mention that additional budgets are introducing from corporate social responsibility (CSR) and the marketing department. Our program is targeted to cover all the above sectors. We ran a self-sustain model providing tailor-made training programs, which is entirely coach and facilitated by persons with disabilities.   Founding Team Our founding team structure builds up by a Chairman, a vice-chair, one founder, three co-founders. Each of their experience speaks for itself of how they benefit the business and team. Our Chairman (Dr KK Tse - Founding Chair of Hong Kong Social Entrepreneurship Forum) and Vice Chairlady (Ms Rebecca Yung - Founder & Chair of Golden Age Foundation and Chair of Social Enterprise Summit) as well as providing us direction and mentorship, their worldwide networks and reputation gave us an unfair advantage in making new business opportunity and potential expansion into Asia. Our founder (Tom Chui - an Ex-Private banking portfolio professional and Great Britain Paralympic Badminton Coach), a purpose- and people-driven person, overseeing strategic planning and development. His experience is well used in maintaining and ensuring a win-win-win business. A win for Inclusion purpose, Win for the business and Win for the client. Three co-founders (Larry, Wing and Thomas), a combination of expertise. Larry, a registered social worker with ten years plus experience in team training and organizational innovation. Wing, a Hong Kong Para-athletes, certified in Life Coaching Fundamentals & EQSQ Program Facilitator. Thomas has over 2000+ hours of voluntary experience in events organization and oversea retreat in Asia. Our coaches, all our workshops are run by people with disabilities. Currently, we have ten coaches who are existing and post Hong Kong Para-athletes. They are empowered with confidence in demonstrating the exact definition of sportsmanship, communication, teamwork and change management. They have already shown across corporates, NGOs and HK government sector, with unremarkable testimonials and praises from users.   Social Impact We conduct an average of 8 coaching and training workshops per month for corporate, non-corporate and school / University. From youngest as 12 to oldest as 70 years of age, on average of 18 people (all abled-bodies) per workshop. Since August 2018, we have employed thirteen part-time and contractor PwDs coaches and assistance, ten of which are post-Hong Kong para-athletes representative. 146.8 sessions of employment offered and each session paid on average of 400 per cent more than Hong Kong minimum pay standard.

• Corporate clients such as Hong Kong Broadband Network, Hong Kong Electric and Coca-Cola HK.
• Non Corporate clients such as Caritas, The Salvation Army, YWCA and
• HK Social Enterprise Summit
• School/University: Vocational Training Council (VTC),  Open University, Hong Kong and Chinese University Hong Kong

  Proposed Project for Students  To come up with a complete funding proposal for an amount between HKD3m - 5m, to deliver 120 secondary school groups in Hong Kong to understand the meaning of Empathy and Social Inclusion within three years. This proposal must include Employment opportunities for people with disabilities, especially for post-Hong Kong para-athletes. With the long term objectives to reduce unemployment as well as preventing future athletes quitting their love of sport due to fear of unemployment.      

Social Mission BNET-TECH Company Limited is a social enterprise leveraging technology in product design to lower the resistance of the elderly to digital products and thus reducing the safety risk.   Business Model The revenue stream is from the products and services that BNET-TECH provides:   Founding Team   Social Impact Proposed Project for Students       

Social Mission We strive to support the emotional needs of children.  O-I-C sees insufficiencies in this aspect. The resources currently available in society mainly focus on providing services of occupational therapy, physiotherapy, tutorial classes, social skill training and group works for dealing with attention and behavioural problems. No specific approach nor intervention is made available to take care of children and their family who are experiencing distress.  The O-I-C program targets to raise awareness while providing services to tackle these issues in the early stages of life, minimizing long term impact to the individual and to society. We pay extra effort in supporting underprivileged groups.  O-I-C sees how difficult backgrounds create negative impact on children. By using the natural languages of play, arts, music and movement, we unleash individuals’ inner resources and together combat the emotional hindrance that intensifies disparity in society. We see a joyful world of kids that are resilient to psychological difficulties, be it caused by income inequality, physical differences, abuse, etc. We see a stronger generation, a happier Hong Kong.   Business Model Revenue stream:

1. School/NGO partnership for children: provision of group workshops and one-on-one sessions.
2. School/NGO programs for adults: tailored programs for specific needs of parents and teachers
3. Private cases: referral by social workers, parents and school teachers/principals on individual cases.

  Founding Team Athen Chung, Chief Executive Officer

Athen is a U.K. certified Play and Creative Arts Therapist.  Her professional practice is governed by the Professional Standards Authority of U.K.. She has been supporting children of difficult backgrounds for years. The traumatic cases include physical abuse, sexual abuse, abandonment, parent imprisonment and parent separation, etc. Before starting her NGO service, Athen held various senior positions in multi-national corporations.

She was the Sales and Marketing Director of Mannings, Dairy Farm Ltd. She cultivated the branding to become the top 4 percent among retailers worldwide. Prior to that, she was the Brand Director of Coca-Cola China Ltd.

Athen holds a master’s degree in counselling from University of Hong Kong.

  Social Impact O-I-C spearheads a holistic approach that supports both children and their parents. We follow through on cases and make sure the affected children will not be left with helplessness.  Concerted effort is made to support the underprivileged that cannot afford treatment costs and traveling expenses. We provide services to districts and settings that do not afford a space for playroom set-up. The services are positioned as fun-oriented treatments and activities.  The project strives to take away the stigma of emotional issues and to promote positivity in the community.   Proposed Project for Students  Develop a business strategy and marketing plan for services that support deprived children. Primary objectives of the project include :

• Identify and engage the key stakeholders to expedite and enable the penetration of the services
• Substantially raise public awareness of the importance of emotional health in children
• Minimize stigma in society

     

Social Mission Studio Doozy creates accessible, upgradable and beautiful bathroom solutions for the silver age community and their families to live an independent and high-quality life. In Hong Kong, almost 60% of elderly deaths are directly or indirectly caused by falls at home or elderly residences. They often lack properly adapted homes with holistic solutions for fall prevention, which makes it difficult for the elderly to age at home. Studio Doozy is currently working on accessible furniture for the bathroom space, as this area is one of the major falling hotspots for elderly and people with limited mobility when they execute daily functions, like using the toilet or showering. Studio Doozy aspires to redesign ageing and believe that happy, healthy ageing at home is possible.   Business Model Studio Doozy will have multiple streams of revenue. Initially, we will be working with a B2B model, selling individual products and add-ons. Our initial target customers are real estate companies, hotels and elderly centres. As our products not only focus on functionality and all-inclusivity but incorporate modern design, hotels and new residential properties can benefit and may be more willing to have more all-age friendly apartments and rooms. Direct sales will also facilitate faster customer feedback for quick iterations and improvements. After the company matures, Studio Doozy will partner with elderly product distributors to expand. Lastly, the technology aspect of the toilet will be sold as a separate add-on, complete with an online interface in which a user’s vital signs information will be available online. There will be an additional option in which customers can purchase an annual subscription service that can connect them with doctors, physiotherapists, and trainers to receive personalized care and attention to their needs, based on vital signs information in the toilet. These multiple product lines will help to generate the revenue necessary to sustain and to further develop products and services.   Founding Team Mr. Joan Calduch Ferran, R&D and Technical Lead Born in the Mediterranean city of Barcelona, Joan Calduch has been involved in the field of Software development, CGI, design and media creation for more than 10 years. Joan has worked for companies in Europe, USA and Asia developing creative and technical solutions. Ms. Emily Tang, R&D and Product Development  Emily is a product and industrial designer focusing mainly on healthcare and lifestyle design solutions that can increase users' standard of living, physically and physiologically. Emily’s work has been recognized by multiple awards like the Innovating for Good Award from SCMP Spirit of Hong Kong Award in 2017, Hong Kong James Dyson Award and the HKDC Hong Kong Young Design Talent Award.   Social Impact In Hong Kong, almost 60% of the elderly die directly or indirectly from falling at home and the residences where they live. From those who survive, many can never fully recover, affecting the quality of living and eventually causing depression among the elderly. In the US and China, the bathroom is in the top 2 falling hotspots for the elderly. Yet many "young old" are reluctant to implement existing adapted bathroom equipment as it makes them feel even more sick. Given this situation, Studio Doozy is focused on creating solutions for the bathroom space. We aim to reduce the number of falls, thus reducing hospital admission and increasing a higher standard of living for a longer period of time. Additionally, we aim to increase "young old" acceptance of solutions that can prevent accidents from happening from an earlier date. In Hong Kong, as per current law, hotels are only required to have one accessible room for every 100 rooms. This makes it very difficult for wheelchair users or users with limited mobility to book a room that is suitable for them. With our toilet solution, we will be enabling this type of facility to easily and seamlessly increase the amount of available accessible toilets benefiting users with limited mobility. Finally, one of Studio Doozy’s greater goals is to redesign ageing. In our current society, ageing comes with the connotation of a "downgraded" living. We aim at developing solutions that change this perception and make people see ageing as an upgrade, making it easier to adapt to the physical and psychological changes that it entails. Proposed Project for Students  We aim at working together with students to fully develop a business plan and marketing strategy for the products we are currently developing at Studio Doozy. The following are some of the aspects that we propose to students to help us research and develop:

•  B2B/B2C Market Penetration - strategies for marketing the products and bringing awareness to users and/or their family members.
• Study and research the household market for accessible products and develop strategies to sell and implement our products to those target users.
• Study and research on elderly care centres and the need for certain accessible products.
• Partnership development strategy and short-term/long-term market penetration strategy

     

Social Mission The setup of DeepHealth originated from an interdisciplinary public health research team at The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK).  DeepHealth aims to promote knowledge transfer from academic findings into services and products to improve population health with the use of digital platforms and data technology, thus bringing smarter work, smarter health, and smarter life to all walks of life in society.   Business Model The revenue model is generated by bridging the gaps among healthcare providers, patients, and researchers. Patients can enhance health awareness by better self-management while healthcare providers can save consultation time, enhance healthcare quality and efficiency. Researchers can utilize the data collected from digital platforms to generate health knowledge to serve the community.   Founding Team Dr. Kelvin Tsoi, Founder Dr. Kelvin Tsoi is an associate professor (by courtesy) of the Jockey Club School of Public Health and Primary Care, Institute of Ageing, and a research associate professor of the Big Data Decision Analytics Research Centre of the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) since 2013. He developed a strong interest in evidence-based medicine, digital epidemiology, and big-data research for healthcare applications. He has more than 8 years of experience in conducting healthcare related evidence-based research and service evaluation projects involving database management, cost-effectiveness appraisal, and statistical modeling techniques.   Social Impact DeepHealth offers affordable digital health monitoring solutions to the public for continuous health monitoring with the aim of improving self-literacy of health and providing additional health information to healthcare providers to yield better care services. HealthCap, a health monitoring mobile application, was launched in May 2019. It serves as the technical support on blood pressure measurement of the May Measurement Month Campaign in Hong Kong. This campaign aimed at promoting hypertension management in the community. More than 200 people recorded their blood pressure with HealthCap and screened for the risk of hypertension. Feedback from active users indicates that HealthCap encourages active daily measurement of blood pressure since the application offers a convenient way of data logging through photo capture.   Proposed Project for Students  Develop a business plan for HealthCap

• Market analysis
• Product development plan
• 6-month budget plan
• Potential revenue model

     

Social Mission 90% of seniors want to age in place but 2/3 will not be able to due to high cost, labour shortage and unsuitable housing. Facing the ever growing shortage in healthcare resources and manpower, automating the key ADLs (Activities of Daily Living- bathing, toileting and functional mobility) is the only cost-effective yet quality of care assured solution for affordable independent living. Automation for Humanity aims at promoting ageing in place, independent living for seniors and the mobility impaired in an affordable manner, helping them to live with greater autonomy, dignity and privacy   Business Model Automation for Humanity is the leader in healthcare automation that focusing on product development and production of automated solutions that takes care of key ADLs.  We sell our Sit & Shower automated bathing device in HK through Kerry Medical to nursing homes, rehabilitation institutions and household customers. Current clients include major public nursing homes and rehabilitation hospital.  We are also expanding to other markets, for instance, Japan, Canada, through distribution partnership.   Founding Team Prof. Lee, Neville Ka-Shek  - CTO & Chairman, Associate Professor Emeritus, HKUST. For close to 20 years, Prof. Lee led many large research projects (80+ engineers) in the Hi-Tech industry with many large multi-national corporations, with over 40 U.S. Patents & 60 Publications. Mr. Samuel Hui  - CEO, Samuel was honoured Spirit of Hong Kong Award 2018 – Innovating for Good. Samuel has managed the Fastest Growing market for a USD billion dollar energy company, and he has worked with Prof. Lee on a revolutionary, Air Cooled footwear technology. Samuel's expertise includes Operations, Intellectual property, human interface management and liaison with retirement homes, test labs, hospitals.   Social Impact BATHING is one of the most important issues in healthy ageing with more than 1/3 of seniors falling each year; Up to 80% of these falls happened in the bathroom. And falls prematurely and greatly adds to need for care. A study by the Yale University School of Medicine found that persistent bathing problems increase the likelihood of nursing home admission by over 77%. Bathing disability is also a “sentinel event” - loss of bathing autonomy increases the likelihood of other disabilities by 5 times. In another aspect of safe bathing, thermal shock and bathing are considered one of the most dangerous triggers for heart attacks with cardiovascular diseases remaining the #1 killer in the United States.  Heart disease is also the third leading cause of death in Hong Kong. It is also a challenge for caretakers to handle seniors bathing, especially with either non-cooperative, fatigue, incontinent and overweight bathers. It is dangerous for seniors to bathe alone but it is also injury-prone to both sides alike for caretakers to assist seniors in bathing. The injury rate of caretakers is even higher than construction workers. AfH’s debut product – Sit & Shower fully automatic bathing device enables users to bathe independently and can eliminate the physical involvement of caretakers. The unique fit-on-toilet design provides automated solutions to toileting and bathing. The device possesses features such as automatic soaping & shampooing, automatic temperature control, bathing programs and self-disinfection, etc. Transfer poses another challenge to both caregivers and care recipients. Besides bathing, transferring from bed to wheelchair is another daily living activity that seniors and the mobility impaired rely on assistance the most. For nursing homes/ rehabilitation centres, every day, a long period of time and staff is dedicated to transferring.  There are approximately 132 million people that are physically disabled and require a wheelchair. AfH’s next products – Bed Ready Go transfer system automates the bed to wheelchair transfer process with just 1 command needed. The system consists of a bed and self-driving wheelchair and power wheelchair. Seniors are no longer restricted to bed and can freely go to anywhere anytime, bathroom, kitchen, etc. Greatly reduce users’ reliance on caretakers. Pilot trial of the system will start in 1 year. Through automation and preventing any potential risks associated with bathing and transfer, our systems can effectively prolong seniors’ independence and functional autonomy.   Proposed Project for Students 

1. Study hospitals, private sector of care and property developers (especially the ones that plan on building senior apartments and community) in their needs in ADLs automation, how to create awareness among them and how to reach out to them.
2. Market landscape research:

• Study the market needs for features of the transfer system (e.g. bed heights, width, etc.)
• Profile (%) of people with ADLs issues in nursing homes and at home
• Other areas of ADLs need, besides bathing/toileting and functional mobility
• Explore a B2C market strategy for reaching out and improve customer awareness of our products

     

Social Mission Founded in 2015 by a group of Hong Kong educators, creative practitioners as well education and social entrepreneurs, Ednovators is a charitable platform in Hong Kong working collaboratively with education practitioners and tri-sector pioneers to catalyse innovations in education. Ednovators aims to co-create education innovation with tri-sector pioneers and strive for practical innovations in education. Through continuous dialogue and collaboration with education and tri-sector pioneers, we nurture changemakers for innovations in education and call for a more student-centric and enabling learning environment for the younger generation in the 21st century and beyond.   Business Model Ednovators co-create and catalyse innovation in education with cross-sector pioneers through the following: Inspiration: Brings inspiration from local and overseas about the latest trends and possibilities of innovation in education Capacity building: Nurtures the change-maker mindset and innovation capacities of education stakeholders to initiate changes in education Incubation: Provides cross-sector coaching, network, resources and opportunities to incubate initiatives to innovate education Community building: Builds a peer learning network for innovators to continuously share insights and experiences and collaborate to co-create better education Consolidation and Dissemination: Consolidates the best practices of the education innovators, shares the insights and experiences to a wider sector and spread the impact   Founding Team Ednovators is founded by innovators from 8 organisations which are working on diverse fields in education, including: Ms. Ada Wong, Convenor, The Good Lab Mrs. Rebecca Yung, Vice Chairman, Education for Good Ms, Angelina Lo-Chui, Founder, CreativeKids Mr. Arnold Chan, Founder & CEO, Teach4HK Mrs. Christine Cheung, Honorary Program Director, The Jade Club Mr. Kinal Ng, Founder, Holistic Education Foundation Mrs. Rainbow Chow, Founder, Sow Charity Foundation Ms. Karman Wong, Director, Da Vinci Education   Social Impact Ednovators has conducted customised teachers training for whole teaching team in 3 local schools, and all schools of two school sponsoring bodies, reaching over 1,200 secondary and primary teachers in Hong Kong. More than 4,000 education stakeholders, including teachers, parents, students and cross-sector representatives have participated in the Ednovation Fest starting from 2016. The Fellowship for Teachers incubates of the innovative education initiatives of 39 Teacher Fellows from 39 local primary, secondary and special schools in Hong Kong in the three academic years from 2017 - 2020. Working together with their innovation teams with management and teachers in schools and cross-sector collaborators, the Teacher Fellows plan and implement education innovation to respond to the needs of their students and bring about changes in education. The Teacher Fellows also share and disseminate their innovative practice to other schools in Hong Kong.   Proposed Project for Students 

1. Develop strategies for trainings on education innovation

There is increasing demand from the education sector for continuous professional development training for school leaders and teachers on education innovation. Ednovators see a potential market to further develop customised and themed training programs and even consultancy services to build the capacities of educators to innovate and further bring about changes from within schools. And the training opportunities can bring potential income to Ednovators apart from relying on funding.

     

Social Mission Bright Services (BS) aims to challenge the perception about ex-offenders and break the cycle of reoffending by providing a variety of job opportunities to assist ex-offenders and the underprivileged in increasing their competitiveness by capitalizing on their potential which can facilitate them to reintegrate into society and the economy. During the process, the ex-offenders and the underprivileged re-establish proper working habits and attitudes as well as their employability to sustain a job and develop self-reliance, lead productive lives and contribute positively to society. They will either find the career upward mobility within the company or find decent work at the mainstream market after the job learning at BS.   Business Model BS takes a double bottom-line model to earn profit to sustain the business for the social mission we pursue. All the businesses set up are both labour-intensive or with specific vocational skills which are market-oriented to ensure the future integration of employees into the mainstream industries. Who are recruited: BS focus on recruiting discharged prisoners who are lacking skills and work experience. Therefore, they are very difficult to get a job with reasonable pay in the market upon discharge. Co-working with the social workers of the Society of Rehabilitation and Crime Prevention, Hong Kong (SRACP), BS will intensively coach them to re-establish proper work habits and healthy life pattern. As a result, they can build up their resume gradually and attain self-reliant in the long run. Peer to peer coaching: BS also offers a career path with upward mobility for staff who achieve to work satisfactorily. They can be promoted to take up the leadership and management role in the teams. In particular, they can act as a role model for newly employed ex-offenders through peer support at work. This arrangement is effective to facilitate them to adjust new skills at work while unlearning undesirable habits.   Founding Team The business idea and concept is originated from Mr. Anthony Tang, our previous Chief Executive, and the senior team in 1997 when most of the ex-offenders were facing discrimination in the labour market. We, therefore, decided to employ them ourselves by setting up a separate entity, namely Bright Services Co. Ltd. As there was a large potential market in the delivery business, the first team of removal and logistic was established.   Social Impact BS creates about 15 full-time and 52 part-time stable job posts in average every year while over 70% posts are occupied by the ex-offenders and underprivileged who are given job opportunities and on-the-job training at market salaries of the industries. We also provide 4 to 5 promotional posts in team leading and management to assist them in career progress and enhance them to work at their full potential. In 2017/18, we have arranged 10,487 job opportunities and earned a total revenue of 9.6M. As a social enterprise, our businesses also serves the elderly, disabled and underprivileged customers by offering services at a lower price.   The recidivism rate of ex-offender service users of SRACP is 30% while that of BS staff is 18%. The latter is far less than the data released by Hong Kong Correctional Services Department (CSD) in 2013 which is 27.1%. It proves that the assistance given by BS is effective in preventing re-offending. Moreover, in a consultancy paper of CSD studied the social costs arise from crime indicated that every crime will incur $240,000 expenses calculated from the arrest, trial and imprisonment as well as the loss of victim involved. The social costs saved from the prevention of re-offending in return increase the public money for the general public. They not only get a job, but a few of them also start their businesses or work at senior posts of other companies in the industries.   Proposed Project for Students 

1. Explore the feasibility of visits engaging a particular type of stakeholder. e.g. visits engaging celebrities, corporate management, single parent, foreigners, and corporate volunteers
2. Potential marketing campaigns promoting the 1) Street Q&A program 2) Children KOL program 3) Children meet VIP program 4) courses and educational exhibition 5) song production program

     

Social Mission Doctor BB explores, empowers and brings the organic power and love of children under six years old to society, bringing joy to people, inspiring people to innovate and reminding people of their inner child. Its offerings have been developed in response to the imbalance of social resources caused by an aging population and a low birth rate.   Business Model The revenue streams of Doctor BB are mainly from parents, corporates, and the general public. Parents pay for:

1. Experiential learning activities, e.g visit, free hug, playgroup for dementia
2. Interesting activities, e.g. sports, music and arts
3. Purchasing products from Doctor BB.

On the corporate side, clients pay Doctor BB to organize various CSR campaigns. In addition, fundraising campaigns are launched with donations received from charitable foundations and the general public.   Founding Team Li Koon Kiu and Poon Ka Lee, who both have a career background as social workers   Social Impact Doctor BB is the first organization looking to redefine and scale up the organic power of children. We have organized over 300 visits since 2012 and conducted several playgroups with children for the elderly with dementia. The impact of the innovative group work is proved by research conducted by various parties. More than a thousand parents benefited by bringing along their children to visit elderly service units which enhanced the self-image of the elderly. These visits also inspired elderly service practitioners to provide disruptive and innovative social services, whilst nurturing the mindset of thousands of families to give back to society.   Proposed Project for Students 

1. Explore the feasibility of visits engaging a particular type of stakeholder. e.g. visits engaging celebrities, corporate management, single parent, foreigners, and corporate volunteers
2. Potential marketing campaigns promoting the 1) Street Q&A program 2) Children KOL program 3) Children meet VIP program 4) courses and educational exhibition 5) song production program

     

Social Mission My Main Stage is a pioneer program designed for secondary school and primary students to reveal and develop their creativity and talents through music, with a mission to advocate and promote positive and enterprising attitudes and values among students. The higher aims are to rebuild a healthy music industry in Hong Kong; on one hand helping passionate and talented young artists to create a career in their respective fields, while on the other hand building audience and the market for local music.   Business Model 1) Music production workshop: My Main Stage has developed a music production curriculum aimed at promoting creativity and music production in primary and secondary schools. The program gives basic knowledge and inspiration to students in how to use mobile applications to produce their own music. The target beneficiaries are Primary 4 to Secondary 4 students. Through existing mobile applications, a self-motivated approach is developed with courses that are short and effective; the whole production can be completed in 5 lessons. 2) Professional music production mentorship: Recruit talented students through school talks and our own music production workshops. Professional guidance and assistance is given through the workshops to participants, helping them to develop their own music production In addition, professional services are offered in production, release, distribution and marketing of participants’ music label. Artist management and performance production: We provide artist management related to our participants and the production of their performances.   Founding Team My Main Stage is a program founded and designed by Mr. Chiu Tsang Hei, veteran music producer and composer.   Social Impact My Main Stage offers a career platform to underprivileged students and youth. SEN students are welcomed to join the music workshop and the mentorship program; job opportunities and training are provided to SEN students equipping them to become our tutors and helpers in music workshops. Furthermore, school tours and talks are organized, aiming to inspire students and encouraging them to pursue their dreams.   Proposed Project for Students  Online marketing and promotion, aiming to:

1. Build a network of primary and secondary schools to share news and information
2. Enhance the business development opportunities of the music production workshop to schools
3. Promote our new music brand “大台主My Main Stage”
4. Promote the songs and music produced by the students “大台主My Main Stage” and build up an audience

   

Social Mission Under Production (UP) founded in 2015, is a social enterprise platform that offers young and passionate people real job opportunities in 5 business segments:

1. Video production
2. Book publishing
3. Graphic design
4. Music production
5. Social media marketing

UP wants to empower passionate young people and provide a platform for real job experience in the creative industry and social projects. UP will also identify and assist youths who are entrepreneurial to run their own social businesses.   Business Model UP is a marketing agent who provides services for clients on multi-media production. We receive sales order and payment from all kinds of clients who need marketing services. UP as a project manager recruits young talents from a pool of student freelancers developed by UP, with different skills that suit the job requirement. We provide guidance to student freelancers, communicate with clients and assure that all quality and timelines are met. UP pays the student freelancers according to their work and experience which match the market price, and UP earns the net profit as a project management fee. For example an initiative of publishing a book about HK local social workers' stories. UP helps to 1) recruit 10 University student reporters (Communication or Chinese major) to interview social workers and write up articles for the book, 2) provide training and support in articles editing and interview skills, and 3) handle the communication between reporters and clients. These projects help students built their portfolio, receive training and gain experience.   Founding Team Founder and Director: Mr Kit Wong

• Winner of the 7th Youth Leader
• Former Vice President at an American Bank
• Bachelor degree in Risk Management and Master degree in Economics
• Lyricist, with over 100 pop songs published
• Founder of La Violet Education, advocate creative learning and art for all-rounded development of youth

Project Director: Ms Cindy Suen

• More than 10 years experience in Corporate Banking
• Inspired by the social business model
• Believes in the power of young talent
• Dedicated to making a change for the society

  Social Impact 1) Students build their portfolio and at the same time get inspired from the social projects; whilst they earn income and experience which enhances their employment opportunities in the future. 2) Clients receive quality work with affordable cost, and free themeslves from managing the communication with young freelancers. This helps to foster the revitalization of the creative industry in HK with young talent. In 2018, UP received government support from SIE fund to run a 3-year project called “Internship Program on Creativity" for underprivileged youth and has started to offer training with job matching in the creative industry. This project is targeting youths aged 15-35, who have low income, low educational level or low skills. UP will train up 200 youths and provide 400 work opportunities during the 3-year project.   Proposed Project for Students 

1. Conduct sales analysis; developing marketing and brand building strategy
2. Explore corporate clients engagement strategy and distribution model

     

• Social Mission

Generation’s mission is two-fold: to empower young people to build thriving, sustainable careers and to provide employers with the highly-skilled, motivated talent they need. Generation has a skills-training methodology that aims to serve hundreds of thousands—and eventually millions—of unemployed and underemployed young people a year.   Generation connects unemployed and underemployed young people aged 18-29 with skills and jobs in career-launching entry-level roles. The program can be implemented effectively by a wide range of organizations—non-profits, employers, government—in a variety of cultural and sector contexts, enabling it to scale globally.   In Hong Kong, Generation seeks to address the two-sided talent mismatch, supporting youth aged 18-29 with no university degree. We specifically seek to bridge this talent mismatch and challenge the societal perception that grades and level of education as the major screening factor for hiring entry level employees.

• Business Model

Generation is an employer-driven program and connects young people aged 18-29 with skills and jobs in career-launching entry-level roles. Generation encompasses a seven-step approach with a 4-12-week boot camp-style training that integrates technical, behavioural, and mindset skills. By focusing on the repeated practice of the most important activities for a role—what Generation calls “breakdown moments”—the program prepares graduates to perform well from day one on the job. Other elements of the approach such as the availability of mentors, direct access to employers, and a focus on data, are also factors behind the success of the program.   Generation is built on a model of sustainability. Generation initially launches in a city with catalytic philanthropy or government funding, and is transitioned to stakeholders contributing towards program operating costs. Generation is mindful that no single institution can solve the complex problem of youth unemployment. Generation is a methodology, and partnership is essential to our scaling trajectory and impact in a city. Generation trains and supports a coalition of local partners to deliver Generation by providing the curriculum, digital tools, on-going quality assurance, data tracking, and employer mobilization. Generation is embedded in local non-profits, training providers, and employers.

• Founding Team

Generation is a global non-profit youth employment organization founded by McKinsey & Company in 2014. Generation was born from a study that looked at 150 employment programs in 25 countries and surveyed 17,000+ employers, students, and education providers, identifying gaps in existing offerings and the most effective approaches to fill them.   Dr. Mona Mourshed, who leads McKinsey’s global social-responsibility agenda, is the founding CEO of Generation. Mona is also the CEO of McKinsey.org, a non-profit founded by McKinsey to have a lasting and substantial impact on complex social challenges. Mona was selected as one of Fortune magazine’s “40 under 40,” serves on the board of governors of the International Baccalaureate Organization, is a board member of New America Foundation, and a member of the global advisory council for Teach for All. She also holds membership of the Council on Foreign Relations.   Mr. Brian Cheng is the Chief Operating Officer of Generation Hong Kong. Brian has been in the higher education sector over the past decade, and has led a number of youth-oriented initiatives. Through his leadership of Generation Hong Kong, Brian aims to build an enabling platform which helps bring a shift in the mindset of both youth and employers in valuing attitudes and personal qualities beyond academic qualifications.

• Social Impact

3.5 years after its founding, Generation now has over 20,000 graduates, and is active in 78 cities and 195 sites across 9 countries. Generation offers programs in 20 professions across four sectors—healthcare, customer service/sales, technology, and skilled trades. 83% of our graduates attain jobs within 3 months of completing Generation and more than 70% of them remain employed one year later. Participant incomes jump to 2-6 times of what they were before Generation. And of 1700+ employer partners, 88% of them say Generation hires outperform peers and 98% would hire from Generation again.   Studies show that more than anything, people want a job—not just any job, but a good job. Absent that, young people face frustration and despair. Providing them with skills and opportunity to change their life trajectories boosts their long-term well-being, and that of their families and communities. Generation aims to bring this optimism and opportunity to the young people of Hong Kong.   Generation Hong Kong aims to help: - Coach Hong Kong’s next generation to equip them with the skills to shape their own future. There is no such thing as the wrong choice; Generation helps young people to switch careers without a high commitment in time and cost when they are still carving out their unique path. - Train young people through scenario-based training and repeated practice so that they can hit the ground running from day one on the job. Generation works closely with employers from various sectors to develop a curriculum that is relevant for both the geography and the industry. - Challenge the societal perception that grades and education level should be the major screening factors in hiring entry-level employees. We have discovered, and are continuously on the lookout for, like-minded employers to join us in addressing this challenge to relax the academic criteria and identify innovative approaches to hire the talent they want and need.

• Proposed Project for Students

From Generation’s current target (youth), to perform an STP analysis - a further segmentation of youth population, from there choose a specific segment, and design a strategic marketing plan to conduct outreaching to and engagement of this segment.

•  Social Mission

 Through 3D animation – The Rubberboy Series, as a story-telling vessel to promote sign language to the public, and thus creating an inclusive society for the hearing and the deaf. Provide vocation training to hearing impaired on animation and cartoon production, and thus one hand opening doors for them widen their career spectrum, unleashing their potential; and on the other hand to showcase the talent of hearing impaired to the creative industry.

•  Business Model

- Licensing - Video/ Animation Production - Product IP

•  Founding Team

 ALAN LEE Alan has over 18 years of experience in Creative & Design industry, responsible for ideas generations and project management, as well as overseeing the implementations of marketing strategies for different industries, including media creatives, branding and online related projects. His area of focus ranges from pre-visualization and original creative designs to CGI effects and compositing, as well as 3D animations and product work flow design. FION YAU Fion is a a founding director in Rubber Boy Academy and Flamesquads Creative Ltd. Fion has a reputation for creating and developing company brand that deliver change with impact; cooperating with every single unit to deliver and manage targeted goals. WILLY KWONG Willy Kwong has worked in the areas of youth development and sustainable development for the past 10 years. His work in these fields has seen him combine his talents and interests into a career focus on social innovation and empowerment of the next generation. Mr. Kwong is currently the executive director of The Jane Goodall Institute Hong Kong and Plastic Oceans Hong Kong, Board Member of Resolve HK and also Business Development Consultant of Rubberboy Academy. He also holds the Master of Arts in Applied Sociology from The Chinese University of Hong Kong and completed various important international courses and training programs in the areas of human rights, social innovation and public engagement.

•  Social Impact

 Through licensing with different broadcasting channels including mainstream TV station Viutv, Create Hong Kong, we shared sign language and inclusion stories to more than 1.5 million Hong Kong audience last year (2017). Besides, through our vocation-based 3D animation course, we trained 15+ hearing impaired 3D animator and connected 4 of them into different animation studios.

•  Proposed Project For Students

Currently, we are meeting 2 impact investors that wish to invest in Rubberboy Academy and the total investment amount is approx. $7.2 million HKD. They are patient capitals and what they want from us is to figure out feasible ways to: - be the leading animation based e-learning platform in ASIA (China, Korea, Taiwan and Hong Kong, excluding Japan) where everyone can enjoy the fun in leaning; - be the regional ambassador in social inclusion In order to do so, we, the Rubberboy Team need to - Maximum Our Exposure: by working with major broadcasting channels, and thus we need to map the existing channels, and also analysis their preference; - Understanding The Market: map major animation based e-learning platform in ASIA, analysis of their target audience, capacity and figure out our niche/cornerstone - Rebranding   And thus we need your students  to help us to understand the animation market (Hong Kong and China), especially their business models and how they gain exposure and generate revenue via IP and licensing,  and this is the competitor analysis Alan mentioned before. Some of the top list we are studying: https://www.misspandachinese.com/chinese-cartoons-for-kids/

• Social Mission

Robotic-assisted therapy in stroke rehabilitation is regarded as a more effective and efficient method than conventional rehab therapies to promote recovery after stroke, but unfortunately, its adoption in stroke rehabilitation is limited to hospital service providers due to the high cost and bulky size. Zunosaki aims to make assistive robots available to community rehab service providers by developing a portable stroke rehab robot at an affordable cost.  

• Business Model

We sell our product to community-based rehabilitation service providers with physiotherapy and occupational therapy services at an affordable cost. We also offer monthly rental services to stroke patients via our partners. On one hand, we help rehab professionals provide more effective and efficient rehabilitation services. On the other hand, we allow therapists to monitor patients’ progress via our cloud-based system.  

• Founding Team

Mr. Newmen Ho, CEO – R&D and Product Development Mr. Alvin Cheung, COO – Commercial and Business Development  

• Social Impact

25,000 suffer from stroke in Hong Kong every year. The Golden Recovery Period is the first 3-6 month post incident. Many stroke survivors continue to recover significantly up to 2 years after a stroke. However, the public healthcare system in Hong Kong can only provide 1 – 2 months of rehabilitation therapies to most patients. Patients can only continue their rehabilitation therapy in the community. We aim to empower community rehab service providers with our affordable and portable robotic rehab system. Our product is expected to: - increase the productivity of PT/OT by reducing manual labour force. - increase rehabilitation efficiency by providing quantitative, data drive reports. - improve patients’ daily activities performance, regain working ability and, thus, enhance self-confidence.  

• Proposed Project for Students 

- B2C/B2B2C Rental Programme Development – market research with stroke patients and their family members, programme design and distribution partnership development. - B2B Market Penetration – marketing partnership development, public awareness programme.    

• Social Mission

Elite Thai Boxing and Fitness (ELITE) is a social enterprise established in May 2015 with vision to empower youths and mission to solve youth depression, suicide problems and social marginalization through Project 1.0: using Thai Boxing to empower underprivileged youths and as an alternative therapy to fight depression; and Project 2.0: constructing a digital platform with social enterprise network to facilitate meaningful social services as a holistic measure to fight depression

• Business Model

ELITE offers Thai Boxing and fitness classes to corporates, club members and working professionals at a market rate. Our main revenue stream is originated from class & training fees, event performances, and sales of equipment. We use over 20% of revenue to fund and support Elite Charitable Foundation (our s88 charity) in providing sponsored Thai boxing classes for diverse underprivileged groups, such as: 1) Boxing Class plus Empowerment program for at-risk youths; 2) Box-Off Depression Class for mental illness (depression) patients; 3) Self-Defense Class for underprivileged girls/women; 4) Golden Age Boxing Class for middle-aged to elderly/retirees; 5) Family Boxing Class for the low-income families. To further resolve or prevent youth depression and its subsequent problems in Hong Kong, ELITE is developing a digital platform to extend our service to reach greater portions of youths. Utilizing our social enterprise network to provide more empowerment events and programs for the youths, with incentive and meaningful awards for participation, interest-based community hubs and crisis center for direct support from social workers. The digital platform is planned to generate revenue mainly via product placement fees and advertisers.

• Founding Team

Chen Wai Yui Anne, Wong Tak Shing Eden, Mok Wai Suet Sunny

• Social Impact

Our social enterprise is the only social enterprise in Hong Kong that uses Thai Boxing to empower youths. Since our establishment, we have help youths to fight addictions including drug addiction, stop fighting on the street, teaching them to fight in the ring with discipline; giving youths job opportunities and increase their social capital; training them to become assistant coaches to teach the mainstream. Empower youths to serve other underprivileged, e.g. In “Box off Depression 1.0”: 1) Provide opportunities for them to work as assistant coaches, who help depression patients fight off depression using Thai Boxing. Character building for the youths: 2) Enhance their perseverance, courage, discipline, positiveness, problem-solving skills, motivation to improve and the strength to overcome challenges.   To date, we have trained over 100 underprivileged youths, and some of them found a career in the sport and fitness industry. 10+ have qualified to become our assistant coaches, and we provided them with 200+ coaching hours with an hourly rate of HK$200.  1) Provided Box off depression classes for more than 90 depressed patients, with great positive feedback for improving their mental and physical situations. 2) Cooperated with 10+ NGOs/SEs to coordinate different types of Thai boxing classes for the underprivileged  

• Proposed Project for Students

- Enhance business model and refine funding proposals - UI/UX design and explore effective solutions for executing our Project 2.0 digital platform - Conduct impact and effectiveness measurements for our projects

• Social mission

FOOD-CO works with like-minded partners to solicit resources for poverty alleviation. We cultivate a culture of save and share, with an aim to reducing food waste and creating a better living environment.  

• Business model

Our strategy and operating model focus on the achievement of the ultimate goal of this engagement while delivering the four specific outcome objectives in measurable terms. We add value through enhancing delivery capability and providing capacity service and best practice (on the ground) knowledge to our partner agencies and other existing players. We help balance and utilize community and business resources through collaboration with our networks of corporate and individual donors and leveraging our engagement platform to reach all other like-minded partners. We establish wider cross-sector participation and collaboration through on the ground working relationships with existing players, mind-changing advocacy and promotion campaign to the public and strategic and policy communication with key stakeholders of the food support service.  

• Founding Team

In order to expedite the implementation of the project, a project start-up program management team consists of all work-streams will kick-start the project. The start-up will be supported by an internal team from SJS. Information design and implementation will be overseen and managed by a dedicated IT team consist of both resources from SJS and TalkBox. The dedicated marketing team will be formed by SJS and CoDesign in designing the marketing plan to arouse public awareness.  

• Social Impact

There are over 1,234,000 tons of food surplus is wasted every year, but around 970,000 Hong Kong People live below the poverty line every day. FOOD-CO aims at reducing food waste and creating a better living environment. After FOOD-CO launches for a year, the number of food support service points registered on FOOD-CO has increased from 161 prior to service commencement to 221, while more than 330 corporates and organizations offer support through food donations. FOOD-CO has received close to 200 tonnes of food of a total value of approximately HK$20 million and provided nearly 2.6 million sets of meals in total.  

• Proposed project with students

-Exploring a business model for FOOD-CO to sustain. -Enhancing the logistic procedure to complete the entire food donation process. -Finding the source of the food waste and developing the mechanism to reduce waste at source.

• Social Mission 

Teach Unlimited Foundation (“TUF”) was founded in April 2011 by a group of local parents concerned about the quality of education for socially disadvantaged students in Hong Kong. The following shares its vision and mission: Every youth has a dream and can learn to realize it. To support the education and personal development of socially disadvantaged students through enhancing their learning attitude, motivation and self-esteem. To develop high calibre and socially conscious university graduates as role models and future leaders to advance the cause of quality education for all. To model an effective way of mentorship and promote its integration into youth education in HK.

• Business Model

1) We develop leaders: training high calibre graduates from local universities who are interested in education and service as our Program Mentors. 2) We mentor students: mentor, teach and empower students who are socially disadvantaged 3) We inspire communities: Partner Schools adopt TUF’s mentoring model and apply in their students to trigger positive change; Volunteers work with TUF to support students and be inspired by TUF’s way of working; Donors, who echo with TUF’s vision & mission, offer financial support to allow TUF to continue our program, to expand and benefit more people.

• Founding team

TUF was founded in April 2011 by a group of local parents. To ensure its work effectiveness, it is made up of the Board of Directors (BOD) and an operation team led by an Executive Director. The following provides an overview of the Chairman and Vice Chairman of the BOD: Roger Ng, PhD, FHKITA, Chairman. Founder of TUF, leadership and membership in various industry/community services groups such as the HK Institute of Textile and Apparel, Rotary, political consultant of CPPCC (Pan Yu region). And Maria Lee Cheng, Vice Chairman. HR Manager, Director of the school management board.

• Social Impact

TUF has recruited 32 Program Mentors (university graduates) up until the 2017/2018 school year. Nearly all of the “graduated” Program Mentors (i.e. those who successfully completed the 2-year service term) stayed in education-related fields to continue and expand their contribution and impact.

• Proposed Project for Students

Embedded and sustained changes in students’ learning attitude, motivation and self-esteem.

Social mission: The vision of acesobee limited is to empower 360 degree caring between care-receivers (i.e. the elderly, patients with chronic diseases, etc.) and caregivers (i.e. helpers, family members, medical professionals, etc.) by providing an easy and affordable eHealth accessible personal healthcare data platform for self care management and team-based caring. Business model:  We operate in a B2B2C model with:

• SaaS Subscription Services to NGO and SME Primary Care Service Providers (i.e. Clinics, Nursing Home, Home Care Providers, etc.) to offer Enterprise Resources Planning, Patient Relationship Management and Care Planning Support
• SaaS Subscription Services to IOT and Medical Device Partners to offer API connection and Service Portal
• Once-Off White-labeling Purchase with annual maintenance

Founder Albert Au. As a self-made entrepreneur in the eHealth and HealthTech industry, Albert started out as a Healthcare Solutions Specialist at IBM China / Hong Kong., he successfully founded his first business venture Healthbasic.com and was acquired by Quality Healthcare in 2001. Albert holds a bachelor degree in Computer Science and an MBA degree from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. Social Impact:  Hong Kong’s population is ageing rapidly. By 2040, it is estimated that approximately 30% of Hong Kong’s population will be aged 65 or over, and the elderly dependency ratio will increase dramatically. In order to cope with the increasing demand of the elderly caring and declining labor force, we need Gerontechnology / HealthTech to empower the service providers to deliver community care and empower family / patient to conduct self care with more accessible and manageable personal healthcare information. The solution allows:

• Better team base caring / coordination between care-givers to reduce the pressure
• Patients to have their dignity handle self care management

Proposed project with students:

• Exploring effective solution selling models and offerings to NGOs and Primary Care Service Providers and identifying the early adopters
• Exploring new features and elements to market and to increase service providers and care-receivers / care-givers loyalty with the marketing campaign

Social Mission: Students with learning difficulties / SEN require professional support and training to bring out the best of their potentials. AESIR is dedicated to advance SEN training and support with AR, VR Edu Tech Games with therapists, teachers and parents, aiming to better support SEN students’ learning. Business Model: AESIR developed Games on a subscription basis, selling to clinics and family households; we also offer AR VR development service to various commercial parties. Founding Team: Ho Sing Ernest CHAN and Yun Wa Zero WONG Social Impact: AESIR’s positive impact is measurable under the Social Impact Metrics below, aiming to maximize impact reflected by 2 key factors, Reach and Relevance. Reach:

• 10 Serious Motion Sensor Games launched
• 100 Users engaged
• 7 NGO Centers
• 5 Schools / Care institutions

Relevance:

• 5 Domain Expert endorse/co-design AR/VR Games
• 1 University research collaborator

Proposed Project with Students:

• Train the Trainer Program entering special schools co-designed by STEAM Workshops for SEN students
• Business pitching for establishing a Special Needs Caring and Education center
• Connecting AESIR.HK to worldwide SEN communities to co-develop AR VR Gaming solutions for SEN training and Rehab

   

• Empower and facilitate middle-aged people to find jobs, releasing the manpower into the workforce. Provide a clear career path for the worker and professionalize the home service industry so as to increase the prospect of the lower educated middle-aged group.
• Quality assurance and professional.Provide an easy way to hire a home-helper or book a home service, including home cleaning, childcare and elderly care for families, and filling the gap for family to pay a premium for a better service.

• Re-branding and marketing strategy
• Market positioning strategy of the Home service for elderly

Social mission: Breaking the viscous cycle of poverty/ low income trap as a result of 1) lacking timely income opportunities, 2) upward mobility, 3) being excluded from the financial and credit system and 4) paying too much for health related expenses. Business model: JOBDOH’s current revenue stream is mainly originated from monthly subscription fee. JOBDOH is developing additional revenue streams, including: -Wage-backed financing: current wage transfer via e-wallets takes 7 days to deposit into the workers’ account. Wage-backed financing reduces the process time from 7 days to less than 24 hours after workers finished their work. -Payroll servicing: JOBDOH provides payroll subscription service where the employer funds to JOBDOH and JOBDOH disburses wages to employees on daily basis.-Contract signing and insurance package offerings: -JOBDOH is developing a mechanism to enable contract signing between employers and employees. We are also in a progress negotiating with insurance companies to provide medical and health insurance available for both parties to purchase. Founding Team: Xania Wong, CEO/Founder, was formerly an investment analyst in Royal Bank of Canada, management consultant at Bain & Co. and product manager at MSCI Inc. leading the launch of MSCI Indonesia futures on SGX. She is a CFA charter holder and obtained an INSEAD MBA. Vaughn Hew, CPO, was CPO of Bindez, taking their consumer media app from 40k MAU to 200k+ MAU. He was also an engineer in cyber security working for the national security of Australia and America. Eric Fong, Tech Advisor/Founder, has nine years of experience as a full stack developer in Microsoft and Hong Kong Observatory. Social Impact: Our social impact KPIs include: KPI 1 – 30% of users coming from underserved communities including single parents, ethnic minorities, the working poor and students KPI 2 – Targeting a 15+% income improvement KPI 3 – Once the insurance is implemented, a decrease in health care expenses Proposed project with students: JOBDOH wants to develop a brand new piece-meal healthcare benefits program, where every worker, when obtaining non-permanent jobs from the platform, can accumulate credits and exchange them for discounted healthcare insurance packages.  

Social mission OurCityLove Social Enterprise (OCL) combines innovative technology and passionate social entrepreneurs to raise awareness, increase inclusivity and improve accessibility for the elderly, mobility impaired, and people with disabilities (PWDs). OCL recently developed a hotel booking platform named Friendly Hotel, to help travelers easily find accommodation to meet their specific needs. Information of available services and facilities, such as pictures of hotel rooms, availability of shower chairs, baby bath tubs, and even the width of doors, can be found through the booking platform. With the detailed information provision, we ensure guests have the most enjoyable and relaxing stay! The booking platform also helps hotels to fully utilize their accessible guest rooms. OCL empowers people with disabilities by employing them as ‘friendly consultants’ to test accessibility and facilities, as well as to advise larger organizations on how to develop more accessible solutions. Business Model – The Friendly Version of Hotels.com (1) Hotels can register online for free. (2) Hotels could purchase Friendly Surveyor training and advanced data registration, i.e. on-site photos on the platform; (3) Commission from hotels for accessible rooms books through Friendly Hotel (4) Commission from joint marketing and promotion events (5) Installing assistive technologies for the disabled (6) Issuing Annual Friendly Certificates and Awards to hotels" (7) Advanced data registration and photos by the Friendly Surveyors Founding Team Founder and President, Prof. Dr. Chong Wey Lin (Taiwan) ChongWeyLin@gmail.com｜+886-932-868403｜http://Fb.Me/ChongWeyLin HK Supporting Team Lilian Li (OurCityLove Hong Kong) Silver.Lillian@gmail.com｜+852 922801036｜http://FB.me/LillianLi Researcher, Liz Godwin (GMBA NCTU Taiwan) Liz_Godwin@dcms.nctu.edu.tw｜+886- 905-555-917｜http://FB.me/Elisabeth.Godwin.16 Impact and Vision Since 2013, OurCityLove has launched friendly technologies in 10 Taiwan major cities, and has licensed our technology in Hong Kong, Kuala Lumpur and Manila. In collaboration with government and corporate, we’ve developed a series of smart accessibility information applications, from restaurant to public/private transportation, accommodation and tourism. These innovative humanitarian services have won more the 90 championships and top design/startup awards in technological, industrial and social innovation competition worldwide. We believe that social enterprise should solve social problems smartly and strategically form the business approach. It must create a new social framework for the disadvantaged people to flip the long-rooted stereotypes in our society and must initiate fair chances to bring them job, confidence, dignity and the real happiness. With adequate technology and our assistive supports, OurCityLove has trained and paid 387 disabled fellows -- the “Friendly Surveyors”, to collect various accessibility information in our cities, as they have better understanding in accessibility needs. The licensed “Friendly Consultants” have also hosted hundreds of training courses for business owners and staffs, successfully motivating and helping 2,000+ restaurants and hotels to improve their accessible environment and quality of friendly service. The global tourism market is expanding and a significant number of elderly, mobility impaired, families with young children and PWDs are looking to travel. However, they are often met with difficulty in finding suitable accommodation. With their specific needs in mind, OCL launched the Friendly Hotel platform to allow these guests to easily find suitable accommodation, regardless what their special needs are. The Friendly Hotel platform was established in Taiwan in 2016, growing rapidly to include more than 70 hotels. Proposed Project with students

• Develop a market or user survey on the accessible guest room service in HK
• Research on legal regulation on hotel accessible guest room and the status quo
• Refine business model and web service
• Initiate a marketing and promotion plan for the Friendly Hotel Hong Kong

Social mission: In Teach4HK, we envision a future where every child is empowered to fully unlock their greatest potential regardless of socioeconomic constraints. We believe in the passion and vitality of our young leaders to embark a transformative and experiential era of education. Teach4HK aims to enlist outstanding university graduates with diversified talents to serve underprivileged students through a one-year teaching fellowship. Our underlying goals and missions of such project are as follows:

• To deliver holistic quality education to underprivileged students and positively impact their achievement through recruiting and training enlisted passionate and outstanding university students as teaching fellows.
• To nurture future leaders with empathy and passion while creating a growing movement of alumni network who are long-term leaders capable of facilitating systemic change in Hong Kong’s education.

Business model: A one-year Teaching Fellowship & Leadership Program where outstanding university graduates are trained, supported and placed in underprivileged school to serve the following roles: 1. A Teacher Our Teaching Fellows are placed in our partner schools to individually design and deliver regular classes, lead extra-curricular activities and provide close-to-life and career guidance. 2. A Leader A good teacher is at the same time a good leader. Apart from in-class teaching, our Teaching Fellows leverage their diversified talents to initiate and lead extra-curricular activities to broaden students' horizon. They bond with students as role models and lead by example. 3. A Social Entrepreneur With Teach4HK's open platform, Teaching Fellows utilize resources from schools, business and social sectors to design innovative learning projects and life and career education activities to provide greater exposure to students. 4. A Social Entrepreneur With Teach4HK's open platform, Teaching Fellows utilize resources from schools, business and social sectors to design innovative learning projects and life and career education activities to provide greater exposure to students. Alumni Impact We envision that Teach4HK is more than an organization; it is a movement. Our long-term aim is to nurture our fellows into social leaders and life-long advocates of education. It is our vision to see fellows drive systematic impact from different positions of the society, as they carry with sympathy and first-hand understanding of education through the fellowship program. We realize this vision by providing our fellows post-fellowship support through our strong alumni network. We build on their continued dedication to provide quality education for all. Team: Arnold Chan, Iris Wan, Theron Mok, Jane Lau, Jacky Lo, Mavis Yeung, Ernest Wong Social Impact: Our Fellowship Program was first launched in 2015-16 with 3 schools and 6 teaching Fellows. In the following year, we received support from the SIE Fund and D.H. Chen Foundation and doubled our program to 6 schools with 11 Fellows. To date, our first two cohorts have served 7,305 students and initiated 140 ECA and LCE activities. During the 2017-18 academic year, Teach4HK continues to grow to having 24 fellows serving in 12 partner schools in our 3rd cohort. An External Impact Assessment Report by Dr. Sammy Fung has estimated a Social Return of Investment of 1: 5.88, where for every HK$1 invested, a social return of $5.88 will be generated between the period of 2016-2021. Proposed project with students: 1. Branding and Marketing Strategies To develop marketing strategies to drive for a paradigm shift among young, passionate elites from diversified fields to join our fellowship program 2. Internal Management and Fellowship Support Structure As per our growth projection, we plan to review the human resources framework to minimize the overall recruitment and management costs, and establish a staff career ladder to reduce staff turnover rates. Staff-to-Fellow Ratio would reduce from 0.41 (current) to 0.15 (2021). This would require us to establish elaborate internal guidelines for consistent and efficient administration    

Social mission: Direction Association For The Handicapped – Social Enterprise aims to encourage and promote more employment opportunities for severely physically disabled people in order to boost their confidence, enable them to become financially independent and to give them a chance to fulfill their duty as a member of the community contributing to society. To strengthen relationship and communication between the disabled and the non-disabled people and thereby foster an inclusive environment in the workplace. To raise public awareness on disabled employment. Business model: Sell AQ training workshops to corporates. What is Adversity Quotient (AQ) Training workshop: AQ is about how you respond to life, especially the tough stuff. It is a gauge or measure of how you respond and deal with everything, from everyday hassles to the big adversities that life can spring on you. The more resilient you are, the more effectively and constructively you respond to life’s difficulties. Wheelchair users experience adversity and uncertainties in life. They are usually strong in mind with high Adversity Quotient level. With their strong will, character, and power, we trained over 10 wheelchair users equipped with knowledge and skills to serve as AQ trainers. This is mutually beneficial to the community as their adversity handling skills and life education values can be passed on to next generation, and they can continue to build their career as Life coaches or AQ trainers. Founding Team: Chief Executive – Lillian Li Project Coordinator – Shanice Chau Social Impact: According to customer responses, the workshops enhanced the overall emotional and adversity quotients of their organizations as a whole, enabling them to be more capable of transforming negative energy to positive momentum, and turning stress to motivation. For the participants: - Their adversity quotient has been significantly improved. - They learn how to appreciate people with different abilities. For the trainers: - They turn disabilities into capabilities. - Their self-confidence has been greatly improved. Since 2013, more than 45 AQ workshops were delivered to corporates, government departments, schools and NGO's, with over 1,000 total participants Proposed project with students:

• Market research
• Client segmentation
• Business plan

Social mission: HOHOLIFE aims to break stereotypes on ageing and create a more accepting and positive age-embracing environment in our community. Our missions are to offer good choices in support to “ageing in place” such that our active agers can enjoy their lives gracefully at their own places and truly live up to our goal - “active ageing”. Business model: We have 2 revenue streams: product sales & consultancy services. We sell innovative and quality products to corporate (B2B) and individuals (B2C) via our online and offline platforms. Our products are exclusive, imported and in high quality. These good designs and selections differentiate ourselves from other suppliers who focus solely on traditional medical /rehab items. In collaboration with other professional partners, we provide consultancy services to the corporate, facilitating their implementation of ageing-friendly facilities. We also help individuals conduct home assessments and design elderly care plans accordingly. Founding Team: 1) Ms. Aries Lee Aries is a care-giver to her mother who has suffered from a stroke few years ago.  Her personal need to search for suitable products/aids for her mother motivates her to establish HOHOLIFE, with the intent to assist people with similar needs. With a Mathematics degree and several years of work experiences in banks, Aries's role is more on business development, finance, and operations. 2) Ms. Elis Siu Elis has a Computer Engineering degree with 10+ years of software development experience in investment banks and the mobile industry. Elis' role is on e-commerce, digital marketing, and merchandising. Social Impact: We introduce 300+ good designs and products to enable elderly to live in a graceful and comfortable life. We are the first one brining this new concept in Hong Kong. Before that, elderly products are associated with medical or rehab products that remind users of their ages and disabilities. We hope to mitigate this stereotypy by introducing stylish, functional, and quality choices so that they can see possibilities in their daily living. We have been sharing this vision to cross-sector stakeholders in order to help building a more age-friendly community together. Besides, we hire retirees to join our team so that they can re-enter the workforce and make a living at the same time. HOHOLIFE has won wide recognition and several awards in past few years, including SCMP Enterprising Hong Kong Brand Awards 2017, JCI innoBrand GOOD SO 2016 and awardee of HSBC Living Business 2016, Family Friendly Scheme 2016, HKCSS/TID - Silver Emblem Recognition Scheme. Proposed project with students: Students can help us with below: 1) Develop an age-friendly environment in HK Reference to Taiwan/Japan cases, can we initiate a campaign to encourage commercial corporate (banks / restaurants / hotels, etc.) and civil services (post office / community centres, etc.) to implement more age-friendly facilities? 2) Build a more dementia-friendly community in HK Network with local dementia centres and professionals, can we work on a Buy-1-give-1 program - whenever customers buy Dementia (or related) products, another relevant product will be given to underprivileged Dementia elderly. The entire process will be filmed/recorded for promotional/ educational purposes. 3) Promote the importance of fall prevention in HK There are many good products are for fall prevention but there are very few people know about this.  Can we encourage the corporate to sponsor “fall prevention kit” or “fall prevention package” in their CSR programmes? Or encourage their staffs to give out these packages to the underprivileged elderly, while get more fall prevention knowledge during the process?

Social mission: Sharing Kitchen HK aims to recruit the grassroots or middle-aged persons for food production by making use of the kitchens of six existing restaurants during non-peak hours. The food produced will be sold on-site. We alleviate labour shortage of the restaurants and help them develop new products and increase revenue, and also boost the confidence of the grassroots and motivate them to work and earn a living. Business model: There are two kinds of business model executing in Sharing Kitchen: provide food production service in corporation, and supply food and drink product to customer and restaurant. Founding Team: Sharing Kitchen HK is founded in April 2016, and the founding team is constituted by various profession: Social work (Dodo Cheng), Business management (Alec Lai), and Catering Management (Brandon Cheung). Social Impact: In this 16 months, Sharing Kitchen HK corporate with six restaurants and one food factory to develop a "shared kitchen" business model. It created more than 1.1 million economic benefits, and a total of $505,973 revenue for the grassroot participants, which accounting for 45.7% of total sales. At present, there have been 30 grass-roots participants developed more than 100 products and 27 of them has launched to the market. 17 grass-roots participants continued to participate in Sharing Kitchen HK. Each participant earns about $ 50- $ 80 per hour, and some of them can earn $100 per hour in some project. The hourly salary is higher than the traditional catering industry. And now, Sharing Kitchen HK has been shared 9,101 hours in idle kitchen, saving about 227 million. Proposed project with students:

• To improve management on online shopping customer experience.
• To develop marketing analysis tools to record and rank participants’ products.

Social Mission Comfort Me's mission is to empower women with breast cancer by providing affordable bra products to enhance their rehabilitation and life quality. Secondly, through lingerie and health education, we hope to raise awareness about women’s health as well as support teenage girls to reflect on the genuine needs for their bodies through proper lingerie education and demystifying “body ideals” portrayed in both traditional and social media. In addition, we offer sponsorships to mentally disabled, LBLD groups, single parents and the underprivileged support the improvement of quality of life. For those underprivileged and rehabilitated ladies, we offer employment opportunities through our professional training program to enable them to become bra-fitting advisers to serve others in need.   Business Model With our business model of product sales plus professional fitting service, we provide affordability of Value for Money and Quality to customers. Comfort Me employs a variety of product ranges from specialized designed bra for breast cancer rehabilitation, normal range of lingerie for youth and ladies and sport lines with Yoga and swimwear collections. We utilize a part of our profit to make products to be distributed freely to those in need from underprivileged backgrounds.   Founding Team With Mrs. Kwan So Chiu Yan (Lonna) as our Founder, we have 3 directors’ collaboration in different aspects and contributions. Mrs. Lin Lai Ka Wah (Angie) as Marketing and Administrative Director, Mr. Kwan Cho Yam (Joe) as Brand Relationship Director and Mr. Lin Cheng Cheng (Frank) as product R & D Director.   Social Impact Comfort Me generates several impacts to society with professional rehabilitating lingerie product and fitting services:

1. Providing cancer caring and rehabilitation products for patients to boost their confidence, self-esteem and help them to better integrate into society.
2. Providing health education and knowledge on lingerie for teenage girls to help their holistic development.
3. Create job opportunities for women as bra-lifting advisors/professionals

  Project for Students We would like to get support from various aspects of marketing (4Ps) with special focus on:

1. Branding and promotion strategy (such as possibilities of crossover projects with reputable brands; social media marketing)
2. Review of current pricing strategy and develop more value offering (such as combo deals ideas)
3. Possible expansion plan to sustain the business: for example, through franchising? New products development?

• The Background

Over 10,000 people in HK, and even more, over 10 million people around the world, are living with Parkinson’s disease. Apart from tremor, people with Parkinson’s also suffer from rigidity and bradykinesia, which hinder their mobility and affect their daily life. Currently available treatment methods include pharmacotherapies and deep brain stimulation (DBS), but they each have their own drawbacks.

• Technology and Innovation

MedEXO Robotics aims at developing a publicly affordable, multifunction wearable robotic device, which is also fashionable and lightweight to assist the disabled, injured, and elderly to improve their living standard. Development of this robotic device will involve the use of design and technology, such as sensors and actuation systems, as well as a consideration of ergonomics. Our core technology focuses on the hardware novel lightweight exoskeleton and its actuation system. Meanwhile, the software side concerns the smart sensing recognition control system of the device. In view that other existing products in the market are bulky and not fully functional for different scenarios, our product can be adapted for various functions since our mechanism and the algorithm is designed to be a real-time adapting to the change of the motion and human behavior. A company "Liftware" acquired by Google[X] makes a handheld product for essential tremor or Parkinson's disease patients that can compensate the vibration of the cutlery when holding it. (https://www.liftware.com) A startup called "DOPA" is developing a vibration pen for Parkinson's disease patients. (http://www.dopasolution.com) While the company Handsteady developed a bottle that can be kept stable even when the hand is still shaking. (http://handsteady.com) Our wearable robotic device can suppress the tremor not limited to spoon and folk, but also can deal with any other situation like holding newspaper, a pen or a cup via our active sensing algorithm.

• Team

Our team consists of enthusiastic and multidiscipline specialists including medics, programmer, industrial engineer, and bioengineer, which can help the business to build and grow. We have a strong team whose expertise spans many areas relevant to the project, bringing together both fresh and experienced suggestions and ideas to the project. Members of our team also bring in invaluable networking and partnership potentials through their previous involvement and happenings in the field.

• Market and Competitors

Initial target customers are the individuals with Parkinson’s disease and their families. The pervasive wearable robot could potentially support the individual to have a prolonged active life without stigma, which would be very appealing to the individuals and their families. Statistics from the Parkinson’s Disease Foundation show that there are over 10,000 PD patients in HK. We are looking to reach out for other markets including mainland China, which has 2,080,000 people affected, and even the global 10 million plus affected individuals. Apart from “Liftware”, “DOPA” and “Handsteady” (see III. Technology and Innovation), there is a competing startup called “GyroGear” which develops a glove for stabilizing the patient’s hand by the gyroscope on the glove. (http://gyrogear.co)

• Sales & Marketing

The device will be produced in manufacturers with customized design and molding and hence the manufacturing cost is estimated to be at around USD $154 each for 250 pieces mass production. The retail price of it will be set at USD $385 each and rental fee at USD $26 per month. It will have smart programs with advanced sensing system and a slimmer design of the shape of the device with textile-based material and actuation-sensing structure. We have identified and contacted some potential manufacturing partners for helping us to produce the devices in China. Home of the Elderly (Hong Kong) agreed to be one of our distribution channels for our product to potential end users in Hong Kong and China elderly centres. We have also partnered with patient groups in Hong Kong such as Hong Kong Parkinson’s Disease Association and managed to reach our potential end-users via their networks including overseas. We are planning to approach Parkinson’s UK for recruiting patients for trial in UK. We had a meeting with representatives of Indiegogo at their headquarter in San Francisco in June 2016. They are willing to support our project and will help us to launch a crowd-funding campaign on their platform.

Social Mission SLCO Community Resources Limited ("SLCO-CR”) is dedicated to providing sign bilingual development programmes and social enterprise projects based on linguistic research and front-line experience, to enhance the language, cognitive, communication and social abilities of those in need and to promote Sign Bilingualism in communication, education and social inclusion, with the goal of building a diversified and inclusive society without communication barriers. Business Model The major service programme of SLCO-CR is “Fun with Sign and Speech (FS²) – Early Sign Bilingual Development Programme 雙語樂-早期手語雙語發展計劃”, a preschool parent-child language development programme targeted at families with deaf and hearing children aged 0-6 years old. The aim of the programme is to help children with hearing impairment build up language foundation through sign bilingual language activities. The children’s parents will also attend the classes and learn sign language with their kids in order to facilitate parent-child interactions and communication. The classes also enroll hearing children and children with special education needs, demonstrating how cross-modal (auditory and visual mode of communication) bilingual input could contribute to children’s overall development and social inclusion. The Programme consists of the Baby Sign Bilingual Class (for families with children aged 0-3 years old); and the Sign Bilingual Reading Class and Parent Signing Class (for families with children aged 3-6 years old). Every class of the programme is led by one hearing instructor and one deaf instructor co-teaching using spoken language (Cantonese/English) and signed language (Hong Kong Sign Language) respectively. The Programme will also develop a learning package in Chinese and Hong Kong Sign Languages. It will consist of illustrated stories, flash cards, story-based activities and sign language videos to help parents and children to learn sign language with ease. The learning materials will be available for sale after research and development. Founding Team Prof. Gladys TANG, Director; Mr. Chris YIU, Director; Mr. Raymond WONG, Project Officer; Ms Ham CHU, Assistant Project Officer Impact Expected Impact of “FS² – Early Sign Bilingual Development Programme”:

• Enhanced social integration for hearing-impaired children
• 125 families with hearing-impaired children and 283 hearing/SEN families to be benefited by the FS²
• 500 families to be benefited by the learning package

Project with Students The Company is proposing projects in the following areas, depending on the expertise and interest of the students:

• Developing a marketing campaign for the promotion of the “Fun with Sign and Speech (FS² )– Early Sign Bilingual Development Programme”
• Market research for the production of the FS² sign bilingual learning package
• Developing a business plan for a new service line involving sign language teaching to specific businesses, e.g. customer services, catering, etc.

Social Mission: 1) Every charity faces its own challenges and pursues its own opportunities, while we would say the biggest, most consistent challenge for the majority of charities is fundraising. In Hong Kong, we have 400 new charities set up every year. More and more social problems are being taken care of. However, the total amount of donations does not increase as rapidly as the number of charities. With so many groups seeking funds, raising funds and growing income has become one of the biggest challenges for the sector as a whole. There is hardly an organization that does not want to grow its income, or could not do more if it had more money. Established charities strive to grow income for further development or start a new project while small ones struggle to keep up their services. Are there any ways we can help the charities with good causes to reach more donors or even generate a new income stream for them? AdCare aims to serve this cause with an innovative business model. We help charities and projects to focus on their good cause instead of constantly worrying about money issues. 2) AdCare values people’s attention. Every one of us is exposed to advertisements that do not have our permission to view them. AdCare serves to filter out what people are not willing to watch, and provide monetary benefits to viewers and their chosen charity for every single advertisement watched. Viewers are encouraged to donate their spare time to watch ads and give help to charities with limited resources, in turn helping those who suffer in poverty. Business Model: AdCare is an advertising platform that gathers viewers by social causes. Advertisers or brands place their advertisements on the AdCare platform to their targeting consumers. AdCare aims to reach an agreement with viewers based on the 4-3-3 mechanism: 40% of advertising revenue will automatically be donated to the charities specified by the viewers, 30% is given back to the viewers as reward and 30% represents AdCare’s operating income. We envision AdCare becoming an advertising platform compatible with any smart device, taking care of all the day-to-day advertising information being delivered to its users, filtering out ads that they don’t want to be exposed to, and filtering in ads and special offers that they do prefer. By obtaining users’ consent to play advertising information, users are more willing to accept advertisements, and advertisers can target customers more easily. Founding Team: Rick Tsing, Co-founder & CEO Rick has been a serial entrepreneur since 1992. He worked in TVB as media sales after graduating from university and founded his first company, Lunch Republic, which invented and adopted multiple supplier platforms to provide student lunchbox to schools. Rick continued his entrepreneurship and teamed up with Andrew Law in 2014 to start AbundantWhale, a project starting with an idea of "Suspended Healthcare”, in the hope of helping people who cannot afford medical treatments. In the midst of executing his crazy ideas, Rick came up with the magic number 4-3-3 and started the project AdCare. Andrew Law, Co-founder Andrew has been a successful businessman running Salotto Ltd. since 1973. This company is a major player in the commercial contract furniture supplies industry. Apart from representing many world renowned brands like Wilkhahn, Walter Knoll and Unifor from Europe, Salotto also has a factory in Dongguan producing furniture to the specifications of their customers. In 2013, Salotto was acquired by Okamura, the biggest furniture company in Japan, and Mr. Law retired from the company in 2014. Since then he teamed up with Rick Tsing to form the AbundantWhale Group of companies, in the hopes of combining business and charity into unity. Andrew is one of the major shareholders and principal investors of AdCare. Impact: 1) New stream of money for good causes AdCare is going to extract the resources from the advertising market to fund charitable projects that do social good. 40% of AdCare’s total revenue goes to charitable projects selected by the viewers directly, while no one is actually donating a dollar in the process. AdCare serves as a crowdfunding platform for charities to promote their good causes and contributions, at the same time viewers donate time and generate real money for the development of meaningful projects. 2) Normalization of giving We help users to turn their attention to real social contribution. By adopting this model of double-layer revenue sharing, we aim to create dual motivation to attract the most viewers to watch ads on AdCare, in a way that some might be motivated by the charitable factor, some by the earning of ad fees, and some by both. AdCare will be able to gather a highly socially-conscious community, which is a good channel for small charities to reach the public. On the other hand, those who come to AdCare because of extra pocket money will also be exposed to the good causes and impact evaluation provided on AdCare platform. We believe that people will definitely be moved by their own positive impact on the city, whether small or large, and carry it forward in their daily life.

SOCIAL MISSION: ASKI Global is a global center that assists foreign workers and local underserved communities to make their overseas work and stay become more meaningful and productive through Entrepreneurship and Financial Literacy Programs. The focus of the capacity building program is to promote economic empowerment through provision of an enabling environment for micro and small enterprise development. ASKI Global plans to bring positive changes in mindset and behavior, accelerate savings and investment of the target project beneficiaries. The training courses provided by ASKI Global have been enhanced to suit the needs and capabilities of the communities we serve. The learning methodologies employed in the training include the use of highly interactive learning materials (videos and case studies), utilizing the case methodology and modular approach. This is a new model of financial inclusion and transformation where participants will be directly coached, trained and mentored in the areas of value formation, business development and social leadership.  BUSINESS MODEL: The organization’s main revenue source comes from grants provided by financial institutions in the Philippines. Training programs on Entrepreneurship and Financial Literacy programs for low-income migrant workers in Hong Kong are currently being funded by the Bank of the Philippines (BPI) Foundation. A small amount of revenue comes from registration fees for the implementation of the training and education programmes.  FOUNDING TEAM: Howard Ling (HK), Herman To (HK), Albert Chu-Ying Teo (Singapore), Rolando B. Victoria (Philippines) and Irma L. Cosico (Singapore and Philippines)  IMPACT: Having an outstanding track record in creating significant impact and assisting underserved sectors in Singapore, where the program was launched in 2010, ASKI Global has trained over 7,000 participants coming from such countries as the Philippines, Indonesia, Malaysia, Sri Lanka, India, Bangladesh, and Myanmar. As a newly registered social enterprise in Hong Kong, the organization intends to adopt similar bottom lines:

1. Financial Empowerment (Wealth Creation) - Documented change in mindset and financial behaviour. Opening of savings accounts or increase in level of savings; Accessing financial products and services from formal institutions; Developed habits of financial responsibility & competence; Investing in financial instruments
2. Job Generation – setting up & maintaining a family enterprise guided by a structured Financial Plan
3. Achieve Self-Sustainability and Develop a Strong Sense of Dignity and Inclusivity - Progressive communities become active contributors to a Progressive HK society

ASKI Global has been awarded the Asia CEO Outstanding Overseas Filipino Workers Organization in 2015.  PROJECT FOR STUDENTS: An educational program shall be designed and implemented by ASKI Global Limited (Q1 of 2017) to help underserved Ethnic Minorities (EMs) build assets through enterprise development. The focus of the capacity building program is to promote economic empowerment of EMs through provision of an enabling environment of SME development. We plan to bring positive change in mindset and better financial savings and investment behavior of participants. The combined program on financial management and entrepreneurship will expose EMs to a multi-cultural setting and learning experience through personal sharing and understanding among entrepreneurial migrant workers and local Hong Kong business owners with the end of goal of developing family enterprises where EMs will become more economically active and supportive of each other. ASKI Global will target Ethnic Minority groups in Hong Kong specifically the out-of-school youth, unemployed, housewives and new immigrants. Some challenges faced by these groups are unemployment due to low educational level, low level of work qualifications and lack of access to economic opportunities and financial services. A unique feature and approach of particular potency is peer-mediated learning. Collaborative, peer-mediated, learning activities help promote deep learning approaches and foster communities of practice in learning. Students generally flourish in collaborative learning settings. ASKI Global describes the development of peer-mediated learning through student-focused and student-led learning as Shadow Learning. Students who take part in the program will assist in the following areas:

1. Module and Training Materials Development and Enhancement
2. Marketing Strategy - Partnership building with social enterprises assisting EM communities & identification of possible On the Job Training placements for EMs (training ground before they start their enterprises)
3. Monitoring and Evaluation of the Project Impact using the SROI (Social Return on Investment) tool or other appropriate metric

Social Mission: The "hidden youth" of Hong Kong are those that have stopped their education and unemployed, staying at home without hope, aspirations or productivity. They are often from underprivileged families and low-income neighborhoods, where the environment may not be able to guide their talents. Act Plus Animation & Media Studio (formerly Sky High Animation) seeks out those "hidden youth" with artistic and creative talents. We provide them with professional skills training in them modeling and animation, as well as mentorship programs. Upon completion of their training, we also provide them valuable experience as they work on the jobs that we take on from our clients. In this way, the "hidden youth" become exposed to the wider world, building up their portfolios, tools and confidence, becoming contributing members of society. Founding Team: Mr. Sunny Tang Impact: While Act Plus Animation was founded in 2016, we have been offering our programs and services under the banner of Sky High Animation since 2008, and during this time we have successfully trained 125 animators, who've gone on to command entry-level salaries comparable to university graduates.

Home renovation should always be a happy thing – marriage, new born baby, an achievement in life, etc. all lead to the need of renovation, either through a new apartment or existing one. However, with the loose regulations and standards in the market, it has easily become a nightmare when a customer encounters a bad contractor. That’s why we founded HOCFU, an intermediary platform for renovation service that aims at resolving asymmetric and unfair situations in home renovation our society currently faces. On top of offering renovation service through pre-screened contractors, we leverage the use of technology to provide better matching and communication channels between contractors and customers, while empowering and supporting contractors in need. We believe we are not just improving the efficiency of renovation, utilization of labor resources for contractors and user experience for customers, but also improving the ecosystem in the home renovation industry. Social Mission: Our social mission is to help contractors and workers against exploitation, while improving their income level. In most cases, they lack sales and marketing skills, and thus suffer from low closing rates. As a result, they have no choice but to rely on project managers, who subcontract out jobs and take a 15-20% cut without effectively doing anything. Itt is not uncommon that these contractors and workers (often coming from low-income families) experience a “working poor” situation. Bridging the gap, HOCFU consolidates marketing efforts to gather renovation demand, distributing jobs based on matching criteria to contractors and workers. We match jobs not only based on suitability of skills, budget and schedule, but also in terms of interest and the right fit. By feeding jobs to our contractors and workers continuously and letting them directly deal with customers, now the middlemen can be eliminated and exploitation has been largely reduced, allowing contractors and workers to have a better and more stable income. We also empower them with the help of technology to manage their jobs better, and provide customer service officers to facilitate communication with the customer to help them close the deal in a better way. Business Model: HOCFU is a matchmaking + service platform. To homeowners, HOCFU introduces a selection of contractors with the right skills, within their budget, available for their renovation schedule, are interested in their renovation projects, and – most important of all – reliable and of good quality, as HOCFU pre-screens contractors before allowing them to join the network. To contractors, HOCFU offers a stable source of jobs that are always suitable in terms of time and skills thanks to our well-developed matching mechanism, with a mobile app to improve their work efficiency. On top of the matching service, HOCFU’s CS officers are always ready to serve each project from the very beginning till the end, and facilitate the communication between two parties, a critical part of the renovation process. HOCFU is free-of-charge to the customer and takes commission from contractors and workers, ranging from 6-8%. This contrasts with the 15-20% cut they receive on jobs from project managers or any other parties they rely on when they have no jobs. This is widely welcomed by contractors as they have ownership over the job as well as extra support from HOCFU. Founding Team: Woody has extensive experience in auditing, corporate finance, private equity, IPO, M&A, etc. He is a CPA and holds an MPhil in Physics. Ross is a growth expert who has 10+ years’ experience in digital marketing, growth and big data analysis from startups to MNCs. He holds a BEng in Computer Science and MSc in Multimedia and Entertainment Technology. Raymond has 10+ years’ experience in developing multi-tier systems and mobile application. He holds a BA(Hons) in computing and MSc in Software Technology Impact: We focus on assisting contractors and workers in need. By facing less exploitation and having more stable source and ownership of the job, not only do they have an improvement in income, but their work is also improved and empowered as they don’t need to worry about sales and can focus on their work with our help. Customers are also benefited as they now have an easy way to reach a group of reliable contractors and workers whenever they have any kind of renovation demand. We have witnessed stories of contractors having their lives changed and improved by the HOCFU service. Contractor Chan, who moved from China to HK, has a family of four and an average income of only around HKD15K - which in Hong Kong is considered as working poor. Now he is able to take jobs from HOCFU almost non-stop, receiving better and more stable income. Contractor Pang, who used to work mostly on minor jobs, was assigned and successfully completed a full home renovation job, which he feels proud about, as an upgrade in career progression. These are just two examples of successfully changed of their lives through our platform.

Social mission: For persons with disabilities and their families and friends, finding an accessible and friendly restaurant has always been a headache for a long time! Combining ICT innovation, young social entrepreneurs and people with disabilities (PWDs), the OurCityLove Social Enterprise, we devote ourselves in developing various smart applications and cloud services to provide the general public hands-on accessibility information on the city. Our representative service, the "Friendly Restaurant Taipei App", features information of accessible entry, pathway, friendly service, toilets, charging outlets, free wifi and etc. with detailed on-site photos and related ordering and transportation. This handy service is well known and highly valued by citizens of Taipei, because it benefits not only persons with disabilities (around 400K), but also those who are pregnant, old, injured, and their friends and families (around 3 million in Taipei and 3 billion in the Asian Pacific region). However, the most exciting thing is this innovative app is made by 300+ passionate disabled civil designers who have spinal cord injuries, cerebral palsy, had polio, and those with visual or hearing impairment. Utilizing a mobile survey tool supported by cloud computing, they worked as "Friendly Surveyors", investigated 2000+ restaurants in 9 cities of Taiwan, and made the app free for the public. It is now the leading accessibility mobile information service in the Chinese speaking markets, with around 200K downloads. In 2015, we started the very first step in HK with Joint Network (共融網絡), Enactus HKBU (浸大同路行學生會) and Maxim’s restaurants. This year, we hope to launch the "Friendly Restaurant Hong Kong App" with 300+ restaurants in the summer, to leverage more social resources to empower the continuous improvement of accessible environment and services, and, most important of all, to enable positive social participation of HK’s citizens with disabilities. We need your help to make all these friendly dreams possible. Please join us and let’s make a difference! Business Model:

• Developing Smart Accessibility Information Applications with Government and Business
• Accessibility Consulting and Training Services for Government and Business
• Accessibility Career Training for People with Disabilities
• Issuing Annual Friendly Certificates and Awards

B2G and International Organizations

• Ministry of Economic Affairs, Ministry of Transportation, Ministry of Health and Welfare Taiwan
• City Governments, 9 major cities in Taiwan, Hong Kong, KL Malaysia, Manila Philippine
• Asian Development Bank, European/Asia-Pacific Network for Accessible Tourism

B2B

• Chung-Hwa Telecom, Asus, Acer, Samsung Taiwan, Microsoft Taiwan
• Taiwan High Speed Rail, Taipei/Kaohsiung Metro
• Restaurants such as Cosmo Group, Mövenpick, Mr. Onion, Le Blé d'Or, Maxim's HK

Founding Team: Dr. Chong Wey Lin, Ms. Momo Huang Impact: Since 2013, the OurCityLove Social Enterprise has launched Friendly Restaurant Apps in 9 Taiwan major cities, and has licensed our technology to Hong Kong, Kuala Lumpur and Manila. Cooperating with government and business, we’ve developed a series of smart accessibility information applications, from restaurant to public/private transportation, accommodation and tourism. These innovative humanitarian services have won more than 50 championships and top design/startup awards in technological, industrial and social innovation competitions worldwide. However, we believe that social enterprise should mean much more than solving social problems via business approaches. It must create a new social framework for disadvantaged people to flip the long-rooted stereotypes in our society and must initiate fair chances to bring them jobs, confidence, dignity and real happiness. With adequate technology and our assistive supports, the OurCityLove Social Enterprise has trained and paid 300+ disabled fellows, the “Friendly Surveyors”, to collect various accessibility information of our cities for the obvious fact that no one knows the needs of accessibility better than they do. The licensed “Friendly Consultants” have also hosted hundreds of training courses for business owners and staff and had successfully motivated and helped 500+ restaurants to improve their accessible environment and friendly service quality. It is clear that, through the positive social partition of OurCityLove’s disabled fellows, the traditional “those who need help” dramatically become “those who can help”. We proved to the world that PWDs are NOT persons with “disabilities”, but “Citizens with Very Different Abilities.” Our achievement demonstrates a continuous and self-sustainable effort for public, private and non-profit partners to create an even better accessible and friendly environment in rapidly aging societies around the world. Now, we need your help to make it happen in HK. Don’t hesitate. Join us and let’s make it happen!

Social Mission: We salvage from scrap yards disposed car parts which are hidden treasures made of precision metals. Using our creativity and the craftsmanship of marginalized local workers, ATB transforms these discarded parts into pieces of high-quality and inspiring art. This is our way of protecting the environment, as well as showing recognition and respect for the city’s expert craftspersons who have honed their skills for a lifetime, but are now working in sunset industries. Their contribution to Hong Kong’s prosperity is now etched into our artistic creations. Business Model ATB products are made from discarded vehicle parts dumped as scrap metal destined to be destroyed. Recognizing the beauty in these components, we salvage them, restore them, re-conceptualize their functionality, and craft them into usable, artistic and inspiring furniture and accessories. Chic and stylish, each item comes with our Certificate of Authenticity, and is guaranteed to be an original and unique art piece. Every ATB creation is an accumulation of inspiration, practicality and artistic form, giving a new perspective to things easily ignored. These include:

1. Art Furniture & Lamps
2. Home Accessories
3. Trophies & Souvenirs
4. Product Rental
5. Custom-made Art Pieces or Solutions
6. Upcycling creativity workshop

ATB is also keen to support non-profit organizations and schools to educate people in Hong Kong about the possibilities and potential of upcycling in everyday life. We actively participate in seminars, workshops, exhibitions and media interviews to share our social mission, inspiring the public to pay more attention to the treasures hidden in such discarded materials. We believe that with creativity, these materials can be upcycled into artistic items of much higher value, and in turn these creations should help to raise people’s quality of living. We give this process the name “art-cycling” – the transformation of hidden art into new and redefined art. Founding Team Miss Telly Woo Impact

• Assembly of more than 5,000 pcs auto parts
• Reduction of more than 20,000 pcs disposed vehicles parts
• Co-operation with 30 local workers in sunset industries
• Changing public perception towards abandoned property.
• Over 150 interviews published with HK and foreign media.
• Hosted 100 workshops, with 3000 participants from the general public.
• Participation in more than 50 exhibitions.

Social mission: Genie is an app-based hiring platform for temporary and part-time job seekers. We help families in need to generate extra income through having quick access to flexible working hours. Families in need include families of single parents, 53% of single-parent family in Hong Kong are classified as low-income household, as well as rehabilitated offenders. Often, these people have difficulty or prior obligations that prevent them from finding a steady full-time job. In order to make ends meet, they choose to take on multiple part-time. Genie help to remove the pain of applying for part-time work and help the people in need to capture all opportunities to find extra income. Business model: Genie only charges employers for using the app. There are two plans employer can choose from; the posting model and agency model. If employers opt for the posting model , Genie charges a posting fee. If the employer chooses an agency model, where Genie screens and matches candidates themselves, Genie charges a commission fee. Founding Team: Mary Cheung founded OBDAN in 2012, the first organic vino skincare in China. She was also one of 12 winners of the Google EYE program 2014 and one of the top 5 finalists of OZapp Awards. Kelvin Lo graduated from Brown University and is a General Assembly Web Development Immersive alumnus. He also founded HypeDash Media, a digital solutions agency that provided web and mobile development, technology consulting to startups, SMEs and listed companies. Impact: Applying for part-time jobs can be difficult. Many temporary job seekers don’t have a CV, in addition they are burdened by time and money of traveling when employers require a face to face interview.  Their busy lifestyle causes them to miss job opportunities around them. Single parents find it very difficult to find the right jobs with flexible times. Searching, amending CV, applying and interviewing for a job takes an average of 14 hours, worst of all, they may not end up getting hired. Applying for temporary jobs through local agencies, newspaper, friends referral, job fairs are inefficient, disorganized, seasonal or costly. Genie removes these inefficiencies of finding a job by building profiles for each job seeker on their app which include job history, rating as well as a pre recorded interview so candidates no longer have to waste time editing CVs and attending face-to-face interviews. The app based job platform also saves job seekers time by allowing candidates to apply for jobs on-the-go. Genie cares about the job seeker’s career development. We plan to roll out online videos to develop crucial skillset for job interviews, work place communications and food and beverages. Genie will also promote courses offered by institutions such as the ERB, Hong Kong Confederation of Trade Unions and various career development coaches. So far, our unique 360 job searching solution has helped over 5,000 job seekers find work to generate income efficiently improving their lives in 8 months by helping them match over 100,000 hours of work. Our target is to help 100 more single parents to earn over 2500HKD/ month, generating HKD3,000,000 salary by Q3 2017.

Social Mission: iEnterprise aims to develop an employment platform for people with disabilities and underprivileged communities to unleash neglected productivity. Business Model: iEnterprise has developed a Tripartite Collaborative Model ("TCM") to align the missions of commercial enterprises, NGOs and social enterprises to achieve win-win outcomes in terms of financial and social benefits. The iEnterprise Call Centre obtained an outsourcing contract of 1083 telephone enquiry services from Hong Kong Broadband Network, achieving resource synergies with Hong Kong Rehabilitation Power. Founding Team: Dr. Ilex Lam  Impact:

• Created over 40 job opportunities for people with disabilities since Feb. 2013
• Uplifting of over 50% Employment Confidence and Social Wellbeing
• Achieved both high ROI and SROI
• HKBN received Best CSR Award in 2013
• HKRP received Social Enterprise Award in 2014
• iEnterprise received an employee performance award in 2015
• Creating positive externalities via partners' influence to individual sectors
• The risk-reward profile of TCM arouses cross sector partnerships.

Social Mission: Dialogue Experience Silence (DE Silence) invites participants to experience a silent world. Dialogue Experience Silence programs feature the Deaf engaging and interacting with customers in silence in a variety of different programs. It is unique in the way that our programs break down barriers between human beings – participants and Deaf staff alike. Positive behaviors like team spirit, patience, and empathy are observed. For the Deaf – We empower Deaf trainers by knowledge transfer, nurture the Deaf to growth with us by on-going professional trainings and support the Deaf to realize their dreams. For the Deaf Community – Experience-sharing on inclusion, offer respectful jobs and trainings to the Deaf. Business model: Revenue comes from experiential learning workshops including silence workshop series, DE Motion, and Impactainment programs including Silent Yum Cha, Silence le Cabaret—the world’s first silent theatrical dining event. Teambuilding and corporate training Silence Corporate Training workshop – where a team from an organization will have to work together to complete a series of increasingly difficult exercises, in complete silence. Silence Motion 360 – A lighthearted teambuilding workshop that incorporates drama, silence and creativity to create a silent performance with your teammates. Participants are challenged to come up with the story, characters, costumes and the entire performance in complete silence. Impactainment (Entertainment with impact) Silence Le Cabaret – Combining dinner, theatre and silence, a troupe of Deaf performers entertains and draws the audience into the show, making the audience a part of the performance. Complete with costume and theme, the current show is based on a well known crime thriller in Hong Kong. Silence Yum Cha – A twist on the traditional Chinese afternoon tea experience, the entire meal will be in Silence. Participants will take part in a series of fun games and activities while also needing to communicate and get to know each other – all in silence. Even ordering food and drink will require your creative non-verbal communication. Founding Team: Ms Fiona Wat and Mr Patrick Cheung Impact: With the support of Dr. Sammy Fung and Miss Monica Lo at The University of Hong Kong and Miss Suzanna Chiu at The Hong Kong Baptist University, we have done social reports to prove our social impact to society. We have supported a few people of difference (PoD) social entrepreneurs in developing their own business. SROI – HKD 14.7 of social impact is generated. Social objective: Dialogue Experience Silence aims to expand its business within the three major areas of corporate training, education and leisure/entertainment segments, with new partners and new concepts to enable a sustainable business.

Social Mission: Kids4Kids believes in a world where all young people should, by the power of their positive actions, have the opportunity to make a difference. Through service and creativity, Kids4Kids develops platforms to empower all young people to be socially responsible and community conscious. Business Model: Kids4Kids’ revenue derives primarily from a combination of:

1. Traditional fundraising as a registered charity, including from our biennial gala dinner and foundation grants;
2. Corporate sponsorship for programs such as our Buddy Reading literacy development program and our Powered by Youth and Sharing For a Cause youth empowerment programs;
3. Program income from the sale of the books of winning entries from our Writing For A Cause competition, participation payment by learning centres and full fee- paying students for our Powered by Youth empowerment program.

Founding Team: Michele Lai, Shirley Kuan ; current Board of Governors also include James Haybyrne, Jack Lee, Kyran Sze, Brian Tang Impact: Kids4Kids’ mission is to provide a platform for youth programs that: Empower and Educate; ØØ Engage; Enable; and Impact. Kids4Kids has worked with more than 50 charity organizations and schools to benefit children from low income families via programs including Buddy Reading, Writing for a Cause, Powered by Youth Forum and Action for a Cause, and to date, our impact includes:

• 800+ hours reading aloud to kids
• 20+ community centres and schools have benefited from our programs
• 5270+ children have been read to under the Buddy Reading scheme
• Over 5,000 children from 56 primary and secondary schools 10 learning centres have participated in Writing for a Cause
• 67 stories have been published in Kids4Kids Books and Treasury
• 9 youth forums and 140 schools
• Collected and donated 110,560+ items through our annual ‘Sharing for a Cause’ campaign

Social Mission: Outwhiz is an innovative online and mobile platform for practicing and learning Math and English. Our social mission is to alleviate the tutoring cost burden for low-income families in Hong Kong and other parts of the world. By empowering low-income students, we hope to contribute to breaking the cycle of poverty through educational achievement. Let’s make this more concrete. The monthly median household income for Hong Kong families was $23500 in 2014. If a student attends a tutoring program at the cost of $650 a month per academic subject, the $650 alone would constitute 2.8% of median household income. Imagine the household has 2 kids each receiving tutoring in Chinese, English and Math – that would be $3900 a month, or 16.6% of median household income. To alleviate this tutoring cost burden, Outwhiz wants to provide low-income households the tools, curriculum and content for students to practice and learn Math and English themselves, for free. We already support Math and English practice in 6 languages – including Traditional and Simplified Chinese, English, Japanese, Korean and Bahasa Indonesian. In addition, we would like to create a learning-Chinese curriculum in the future, so that students can practice and learn Chinese. Business Model: Revenue Model Outwhiz offers access to educational exercises and content for free. Optionally, paid subscriptions are available for parents to view advanced learning analytics – where they can review student progress, diagnose strengths and weakness, and understand studying habits. Figure 2. Sample of analytics and reward store on Outwhiz Some paid subscriptions also include Outwhiz coins, which can be used to redeem rewards on the Outwhiz Reward Store. Target customer segment Outwhiz’s target customers are parents and students (age 5 to 14), as well as schools who want to supplement classroom learning with our practice platform. With our freemium model, low-income families, ethnic minorities and new- arrival immigrants can all benefit from using our platform for free. Meanwhile, paid subscriptions allow us to operate in a sustainable manner. Founding Team: Andrew Kwan is a Hong Kong native turned Silicon Valley software engineer (Yahoo and SugarSync) who has returned to Hong Kong for startup entrepreneurship. He received his BA in economics from Harvard, MS in Management Science & Engineering and MS in Computer Science from Stanford. Michael Luk is a Hong Kong native who overcame adversity at school to co-found Outwhiz. His academic journey was not smooth, having received a score of 10 out of 40 in the HKCEE (thus was not admitted to Form 6). He attended a vocational training program and subsequently taught himself software programming with online courses. While co-founding Outwhiz with Andrew, Michael has been working on his university degree part-time at Poly U. Impact:

Social mission: Hearing impairment is a hidden epidemic. 15% to 20% of the population in the world would benefit from hearing aids and over 38% of the world has significant hearing loss. Yet most of the affected are not aware of their condition or are daunted by the process to receive free or low cost government hearing care – scheduling a free hearing test typically requires a 3-6 month wait, and if eligible, receiving and fitting a free hearing aid takes up to 3 years. ACE HEARING is the world’s first validated technology to provide accurate hearing screening for the masses. With a calibrated mobile device and headphones, a trained person (e.g. a nurse) can administer a hearing screening session at the point of need within 5 minutes. This technology has been verified by a series of clinical trials with 5 medical journal publications, showing that ACE HEARING can effectively broaden the reach of hearing health care to the general public. The mission of the company is related to poverty alleviation because its technology can assist the hearing disadvantaged communities. Business model: ACE HEARING is already deployed in South Africa for public hearing screening and corporate wellness programs. The business is self-sustained on a screening fee, paid by the subject or subsidized by government/insurance. Should a subject be deemed to require further assistance and evaluation, a referral is given and there may be a referral fee. Team Composition: Founding Team: Prof. Andrew van Hasselt, Paul Lee, Andy Cheng, Dr. Anna Kam, Prof. Tan Lee and Dr. John Sung Impact: ACE HEARING is a Hong Kong invention that has found a foothold in the Third World, and we would like to bring it back to benefit the Hong Kong community. Although hearing impairment is an invisible and tolerated disability, it has a significant negative impact on affected people, their immediate circle and society in general. According to a 2007 report by the Better Hearing Institute titled “The Impact of Untreated Hearing Loss on Household Income”, untreated hearing loss was shown to negatively impact household income on average up to US$12,000 in the USA. At a 15% tax bracket, the cost to the US society could well be in excess of US$18 billion due to unrealized taxes. The use of hearing instruments is shown to mitigate the effects of hearing loss by 50%, and historically one of the biggest hindrances is the lack of awareness and inaccessibility of hearing screening/testing. ACE HEARING is designed to change that.

Social mission: Barrier-free School (BFS) is a social enterprise which provides training and job coaching to people with disabilities (PWDs) in Hong Kong. The school developed an easy-accessible eLearning platform and high quality career-oriented courses to let PDWs learn without barriers anywhere and at anytime. BFS also provides IT accessibility consultancy services and customised training packages to companies/organisations. Business model: There are 4 different sources of revenue: 1) group courses paid by organisations, 2) individual courses paid using study coupons from enterprises, 3) IT accessibility paid by companies and 4) Job hunting for freelance and contract jobs. Founding Team: Dr. Kristen Li, Andy Chan, Wing Cheung, Dr. Wilman Zou, Karen Chen, David Tsao Impact: Impact will be measured through the number of PWDs that receive training and gain employment afterward. The difference in income between the same student before and after training directly measures the value added by Barrier-free School, and these numbers can be aggregated across all students. BFS conducts research to measure the qualitative aspects of increases in self confidence, accomplishment, interpersonal skills and optimism of PWDs that have gone through the courses.

Social mission: Education is not available for all, and this is why organisations such as Khan Academy and Coursera are popular, as they have levelled the battle field, providing high quality education to students around the world. Yet they focus on providing lessons and content videos to students, but what if the student doesn’t understand, or has questions? Who can they go to? This is the biggest problem that we are trying to solve. Snapask wants to provide an instant, high quality, cost effective tutoring service to all students. Our core product is a mobile app that allows students to ask questions about anything in one click. And we can connect them to the most eligible teacher to provide a real-time one-to-one online class. Our social mission is to make private tuition affordable, so that students from poor backgrounds can also have access to the educational support they need. Business model: A high percentage of our revenue will come from student subscription fees at HKD100-200 per month. In the long run, we will rely on big data analysis, and provide schools with useful data on the student learning process. Tutors are paid on a question-by-question basis at HKD5 per question. Founding Team: Timothy Yu, Tracey Ma, Philip Hong, Bradley Chiang Impact: We expect this to be a global product, but currently we’re starting small in Hong Kong. There are 130 million uneducated children on Earth and, with an expected shortage of 18 million teachers by the end of 2020. We do not see this as a problem of an undeveloped education system, but an issue of imbalanced resource distribution and accessibility. With technology, we aim to provide the platform for everyone in the world to receive proper education without a concern of wealth and social status.