The DO School - 2016 in Review

How many great things we did together in 2016... Thank you DOers! Take a look at all the great things we accomplished together on our website. We send you peace from Berlin and wish you happy holidays and a safe a good start into 2017. http://thedoschool.org/2016-in-review/

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Today's Fellow Feature is AkiraaParsishanaboina! Akiraa is passionate about education, believing it is the key to solving world problems. He's the founder of SLF, Small Library Foundations, bringing education to children in rural parts of India! Akiraa’s current venture is a website called Social Enablers, a platform to "discuss, promote, and encourage inspiring ideas and impactful stories of social innovations around the world". The website, socialenablers.co, is beginning a campaign to select the top 100 social innovations impacting the world in a great way! Follow their website to find out when the applications come out to have the opportunity to be featured in their book for future impact investors!

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Our Featured Fellow for today is Ryan from the Philippines! He participated in The Connection Challenge program at our Berlin campus. Ryan’s venture, Virtualahan, is a school that offers skills training and employment support for online job workers especially to people who were marginalized by their health condition and disabilities. Virtualahan is among the finalist for 2016 ASEAN Impact Challenge for Scale Stage Innovation and Sankalp Southeast Asia Awards. Virtualahan is also a finalist for the Ten Most Accomplished Youth Organizations in the Philippines. They were part of a video feature supported by Senator Bam Aquino, which will be released at the awarding in February of 2017. They are also collaborating with Accenture Philippines for their Skills to Succeed Program and very recently with Microsoft Philanthropies Asia. Ryan was also invited to speak at the Social Enterprise World Forum in Hong Kong and on the Global Entrepreneurship Community in Kuala Lumpur on December 7-9 to talk about how they are contributing to achieving the UN's sustainable development goals. To learn more about Ryan’s venture check out Virtualahan’s Facebook page!

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Check out this great feature for three of our fabulous fellows!

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Our Featured Fellow for today is Sara from the Philippines! She participated in the #connectionchallenge program at our Berlin campus. Sara’s venture, Reef Nomads Skin Diving Tours, works to reconnect Filipinos with the ocean by giving them deeper experiences with marine life. Her goal is to train local fisherfolk to become skin diving guides so they can earn a living and share about their community to local and foreign visitors. Sara’s next step is to host an informational program to both promote the new business and to create awareness and connections with marine life through Skin Diving. This program will be an information session for beginners who wish to take part in a dive later in the year or to simply learn more about their community marine life. This is a great opportunity to have an amazing experience while also learning more about marine life! To get more information about Sara’s venture check out Reef Nomads Skin Diving Tours on Facebook and Instagram! https://www.facebook.com/GAMEPLANonline/videos/1089351294478102/

Humanity in Action Germany

Check out this great opportunity with Humanity in Action Germany! They are hosting a fully funded program for those who are passionate about human rights around the world! This is a great opportunity for all DOers!

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Our Featured Fellow for today is Viviana from Colombia! She participated in The Connection Challenge program at our Berlin campus. Viviana’s venture, Hugger Island, creates products and services that reach out to disadvantaged people and people in need of therapy. Viviana and Hugger Island are making 2,000 Huggers for the month of December, just in time for the holidays! Half of these Huggers will be donated to hospitals to comfort the children there, and the other half will be for sale benefiting the production of the donated products. All of the Huggers are locally made in Columbia, giving local women opportunities for impactful work. Viviana’s next step is to work on exporting Huggers to Germany and the United States with new packaging in English and Spanish. She wants to spread the joy that Huggers bring around the world so that people everywhere can feel special! To help support Viviana’s venture check out HuggerIsland and visit their website http://huggerisland.com/en https://youtu.be/sWZKc7B2OrM

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Our DO School fellow Neha Walani has just been granted the amazing opportunity to travel on a thirteen day International Antarctica Expedition! This experience will help Neha and her partner Aditya Konkimalla gain knowledge about the current effects of climate change, as well as understand more about the fragile ecosystem we live in. This information is pertinent to future environmental sustainability efforts- and they need our help! Click the link below to learn more and support them in their future ventures, and to contribute to their fundraising goal! https://www.ketto.org/fundraiser/antarctica-expedition-2017

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Check out our newest blog post featuring the DO School 24YOU Program! The participants have just completed the third phase of their program, the Group Challenge. During this phase, our amazing group of young participants successfully presented a plan for a recruiting app to our partners at H&M! Make sure to read our blog to learn more about their success! http://thedoschool.org/blog/do-school-news/exploring-ones-future-outperforming-expectations/

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Last Friday, our 24YOU participants presented their Challenge solution to our H&M guests. After successfully meeting the challenge posed by H&M, they will now move onto the 4th and final phase of the program - stay tuned for their next exciting ideas, and check out our blog for more details!

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The use of water as a resource for drinking and for industry is of high importance and is an integral part of the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals Agenda. 16 participants from private and public water sectors attended our workshop in Berlin yesterday and contributed to the formation of a valuable water-target process planning within companies locally and internationally. Using the DO School Method, our facilitators Florian and Moshe helped tackle this complex challenge to develop a more sustainable economy. #sustainability #water #naturalresources #2030

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Check our new blog post that features an exclusive interview with Ole Hansen Lund, Chief of Business of Tomorrow at UN Global Compact. We've recently launched The Breakthrough Innovation Challenge, in partnership with United Nations Global Compact. This program will assist employees of 11 major companies in developing their skills to identify and harness breakthrough innovation. http://thedoschool.org/blog/do-school-news/11-companies-17-ambitious-goals/

#domore #innovate #getshitdone

Innovating on big problems using Google Venture's #Sprint method #gv

Throwback to looking very serious (and tired) at a DO School workshop Berlin. 🌎✈

Just Rufus was bored during that workshop.... "Been there done that". 😋

Heute hatte ich die Ehre in der #DOschool eingeladen zu sein, wo ich mit dem knuffigen Hund Rufus bald einen sog. MyWayTalk zu Zielen geben darf. Danke Franka, für die Einladung. #ziele #workshop #minihund

Never forget to smile. #marketing

All black? Must be the illustrious creatives and cunning strategists and failed intellectuals of the Communications team.

#berlinwall #comic #berlinmauer

That was a great Exchange about @mentorme_berlin with the students of The Do School! We ❤️ it there! #presentation #startup #socialstartup #vortrag #internationalstudents #berlin #futureentrepreneur #entrepreneurs

Partnership between amazing people in this room incredible <3