Find a challenge, solve it, celebrate
Social entrepreneurs are
individuals with innovative
solutions to society’s most
pressing problems We believe in their ability to
create sustainable models
to solve social and
environmental issues
Our mission is to help social
entrepreneurs
develop and scale their projects
How we help social entrepreneurs
Our acheivements
Projects on top of MakeSense
Media Room
We connect social entrepreneurs and individuals
ready to help them solve their challenges!
1. We spot social
entrepreneurs
3. Together, we solve the
challenges
2. We reach individuals ready
to help them
4. We celebrate!
MakeSense is based on a global community
800+ members
5 continents
86 cities
1. The community spots social entrepreneurs
We meet social entrepreneurs and collect their challenges.
Social entrepreneurs register their challenges on www.makesense.org.
2. We reach sensemakers to solve the challenges
Sensemaker = anybody taking up a challenge on makesense.org to solve it!
It can be you!
3. Together we solve the challenges
HOLD-UP are creativity workshops during which 10 to 15 sensemakers
gather to solve social entrepreneurs’challenges
3. We provide tools to help SenseMakers
We develop manuals to help SenseMakers solve different kind of
challenges, business, design or technology-oriented.
4. We celebrate and meet the community!
How we help social entrepreneurs
Our acheivements
Projects on top of MakeSense
Media Room
In 3 years we mobilized 15,000 people…
436
SUPPORTED SOCIAL
ENTERPRISES
686
HOLD UPS
686 x 10 = 10 290 participants
Our goal for 2017
300 000 people mobilize to solve 15 challenges per day
They support us
They trust and value the MakeSense model :
Institutions
Companies
Schools
And even more…
The social entrepreneurs we helped said…
91%
74%
51%
‘The Hold-Up helped me solve my challenge’
‘I got new contacts’
‘One of the ideas has been implemented’
Members of our community said…
‘I developed new skills such as problem solving facilitation, community
management, collaboration and team work’
95%
74%
‘I learned a lot more about social entrepreneurship’
‘My MakeSense experience has impacted my venture project’
How we help the social entrepreneurs
Our acheivements
Projects on top of MakeSense
Media Room
Projects on top of MakeSense create an additional value
to the tools, methods and model of MakeSense.
They pay a license fee to MakeSense and contribute to its
sustainability.
Academic program
design for students to
solve challenges of
Social Entrepreneurs
Consulting &
technologies for public
& private organisations
Cultural events to raise
awareness on social
entrepreneurship
Social enterprises
accelerator program
Learning by solving challenges of social entrepreneurs
SenseSchool creates programs in which students learn new skills by
solving challenges of social entrepreneurs - in higher education
institutions or through open programs
Contact : [email protected]
Helping organizations create challenge-solving
communities
CommonsSense helps private companies and private organizations
create and animate challenge-solving communities.
CommonsSense’s offer ranges from facilitating challenge-solving
workshops to designing and launching tailor made challenge-solving
communities inside or outside the organization.
References
Contact : [email protected]
www.commonssense.cc
Accelerating the development of innovative social start-ups
The SenseCube program supports for 6 months the development of a
new generation of social start-ups, using digital technologies to solve
social and environmental issue.
Contact : [email protected]
Promoting Social Entrepreneurship Thanks To Music
MKS Room is an open radio live concert event that aims to promote
social entrepreneurship, using music and art to gather a wider range of
people.
contact: [email protected]
FB: Vincent Hejduk
How we help the social entrepreneurs
Our acheivements
Projects on top of MakeSense
Media Room
How does MakeSense work?
http://vimeo.com/46213697
LIEN VIMEO
http://tinyurl.com/jwhmwsa
Special thanks to Vidéaux, Bottledream.com and fplusd.org
What is a Hold-Up?
http://vimeo.com/38024283
special thanks to the Gust trip
Press Review
Francis Pisani, Gangsters doing good (french).
LOGO ARTE
They challenge of social business (french)
Who is the most creative in Brasil (english)
Hold-up of ideas to find innovative solutions (french)
Volunteer gangsters (french)
Gangsters changing the world (french)
Christian Vanizette [email protected]
Leila Hoballah
[email protected]