Mission-driven capital funding models for sustainable growth
1. Nairobi
Mission driven capital
25k in each region
Brooklyn
Atlanta
Services
Portal
Detroit
Think outside box of
traditional funding methology
How to facilitate self-sustainability
Addis Ababa
Capital
Shared/Balances
Sustainable
revenue models
Niches can align as well
Strategy
Clear Accountability
Oakland
Chicago
Assets
Alignment
We already have great
organizations in the
room which we can support & scale
Vision
Stake is clear
Resources
Leadership/direction
Telling the story
Stakeholders are clear
Leadership
Treat it as a new product being
launched into the community
Shared language
How to tell the narrative
Will be excluded
at youth level
Hackathons everywhere
Personas of scale
Do not sieze opportunity
Portal
Shared talking points
Cooperative
education metrics
Create visibility into our own
sectors with technology
Regions
Access
We need visibility into
our own sector
Nothing happens
Scale Confidence
Self-limitation
Partners
Measurement
Not being able to deliver
Culture
Scaling of skill
How to get 100k kids
we know coding
Confidence
Talent
Ecosystem vs pipeline
Fear of scarcity
We need a network
Metric to
indicate
success
Ecosystem
Ego-centeric
power struggle
Opportunities
Network
Blackballed in industry
because of power
Scale
How do we avoid having great
intentions and no great stuff?
One form - fill out
and implement
How do we avoid a lot of great
stuff no one knows about?
Corruption/Conspiracy
That no one or few "win"
Not talking about billions
Movement being co-opted
Needs
assesment
database
Proof of concept
Fears
Leadership not
seen as ligitimate
Leverage regional partners to
generate great entrepreneurs for
the pitch/product/team worth 1 million
Infrastructure mapping
Addictive element to user experience
Tactics and strategy required
are different for these
Hi-jacked
Fiber of our dna we want to
coopt out to get the million
don't have
knowledge/access
Infrastructure
Racial/wealth/class
divide still remains
When we mve to one place we
mve out of our community
Rebuild The Dream
Staying beyond
silicon valley bubble
Exodus DNA
Not about bringing brown
faces into the room
Deficit based
Understanding
(how to scale)
Eastern and african
centric values
Fragmentation
Values
All the futurists are white
bring integrity
Current State
belief/perception/challenge
Fail to collectively exercise
and understand power
Hopes
Scale what we've got now
All the
historians are
black
Love the people we've
got now and grow them
Economics
create joyfully
addictive experiences
Turn business models into vision
to create equity
Passion for the
solution rather than idea
evolve to create "futuristic" products,
apps, platforms, + vision
create prosperity, not
millionairres, billionarres
Non-competitive,
collaborative
Engage Black Social Media
Marketing Engine
Community
Foster an internal
Meritocracy
create bold vision for collaboration tools
to face problems of our day
Education
everyone online in
next decade
Use tech to uplift
re-brand
STEM as Art
get comfortable working in
"uncomfortable" spaces
(incarcerated + formally
incarcerated)
using tech to support workers
(around food, shelter)
self-exploration,
freedom, creativity
recognizing tech as our
ancestry/legacy
Relevant training pulled from
previous models (industrial)
coding as universal
language of transformation
Reorganize our power, our
time, our learning style
positive imagery put on pedastool
introducing/redirecting values focused on community thriving
international movement that
changes status quo
reconstruction
of culture
changing self perception
of people of color
independent distribution of art,
creativity on our own terms