Jake, a 21-year-old college student in Los Angeles, invests $30 on 33needs.com in William, a social entrepreneur from Malawi who builds windmills to provide clean energy and water. William's project needs seed funding to scale its impact. Jake will receive a small percentage of William's future revenue in return. Both William, who can now grow his business, and Jake, who supports a solution to global problems, benefit from this model of crowdsourced social investing through 33needs.com.

1. Source: NASA

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3. we enable everyone

4. March 22, 2010 © 2010 AP Photo/Color China Photo/Li Huang

5. to invest insocial enterprises

6. here’s how it works:

7. there’s a 21-year-old college student in Los Angeles, CA

8. his name is Jake

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10. Jake has $30

11. there’s a 21-year-old college student in Malawi, Africa

12. his name is William

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14. William has an idea

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16. their connection is our mission

17. to answer the most important ? of our time:

18. 9 Billion People + 1 Planet = ?

19. 19 not with

20. apathy

21. our answer?

22. 22 100 million solutions

23. Jake, meet William

24. we’re flipping the standardfunding model on its head

25. it’s called crowd-funding

26. how?

27. a social entrepreneur creates a profile on 33needs.com

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29. what’s a social entrepreneur?

30. n.,1. a pioneer of innovative solutions for the planet

31. William is one

32. William builds windmills that provide energy + clean water

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34. thousands of entrepreneurs see the world like William:

35. “I find out what the world needs, then I proceed to invent.” Thomas Edison September 23, 1889

36. 36 what do they care about? what do they want?

37. clean water sustainable food community clean-energy education for all global health opportunity

38. back to William

39. William needs seed capital to scale his impact

40. William: “I want to harnessthe wind across Africa.”

41. from his profile, he chooses a $10,000 “funding target”

42. then he chooses to share 3% of his revenue with investors

43. your turn, Jake

44. Jake explores a few of the 33 profiles on 33needs.com

45. the ideas are organized into 8 “big need” categories

46. what’s a big need? three examples:

47. 47 One of the 70 billion animals suffering behind the walls of factory farms (2)

48. Assam, India July 6, 2009 © 2009 AP Photo/AnupamNath

49. Haizi Town, Luliang, Yunnan Province March 22, 2010 Climate change responsible for massive droughts across Asia © 2010 AP Photo/Color China Photo/Li Huang

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51. communityhealthopportunitywatersustainable foodenvironmentenergyeducation

52. he finds William’s magetsi a mphepo – “electric wind” idea

53. he likes this “invest in a better world” thing

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55. Jake invests $30 (or 3 “parts”)in William’s idea

56. FYI: Jake can invest in steps of $10 (“the part price”)

57. he is now a “Believer” (also pondering his own big idea)

58. Who (or what) benefits from Jake’s investment?

59. 59 (1)

60. William has seed $ to grow his purposeful business model

61. 61 (2)

62. Jake receives a small % of William’s future revenue

63. 63 (3)

64. 33needs receives 5% of the established funding target

65. 65 (4)

66. the world has a solution

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68. remember

69. this is not charity

70. 70 we believe business has a role to play in making the world a better place

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72. 72 we think so. join us at <33needs.com>