Students Apprentice Hub(SAH)
SAH is industry driven high quality career pathway that combines paid on the job smart skills mentorship and classroom instructions, where each apprentice is deployed to activate 7 climate finance vehicles and 12 eco/agro smart enterprises for at least 4 villages. SAH begins at college eatery where students initiate own
source climate finance leveraging on student meal 4 skills (SMS)@Smart Meals and Financial Technology. Student join in rotation own source climate financed SAH Fellows. SAH skills include: market activations, finance innovations, smart entrepreneurship, data automations, youth apprenticeship, business process outsourcing, skills curricula, extension services, off grid infrastructural connectivity, market philanthropy
Smart Meals
A meal co-op championing student meal for smart-skills (sms), united by a single Save-As-You-Pay-Eat (SAYPE) Investment Co-op but enjoys high organizational autonomy as decisions are taken at conventions Smart meals started off a basic premise that central procurement of common-user goods/services exploits economies of scale hence huge savings from bulk discounts, especially student patroned eateries serving thousands of students. It enables structuring of inclusive student market participation, partnership, and decision-making processes in their meals. Students determine priority needs, decide how best to manage returns/common resources in student’s interest. Each Smart Meals work to: (a) recruit/induct 10 student smart meals founders and eatery-operator (b) build market community of 1000-5000+ student-cooperators (c) empower cooperators off centrally procured meal stock hence loyalty-savings (d) establish structures to inform partnerships, space, time utilities and (e) capacity-build student cooperators on activation processes.
FINTECH (Village CAN App)
Village CAN app is a mobile wallet for own source climate finance using save as you pay eat (SAYPE) loyalties by students@smart-meals or households@smart-kiosks off centrally procured meal stocks or kiosk stocks.
CLIMATE INVESTMENT CO OP (SAYPE)
Save-As-You-Pay-Eat (Saype) is a climate investment co-op that automates loyalty-savings as households make daily consumption purchases. Saype collectivize investment for members (Saypeans) through climate-finance vehicles (Trust-Housing-Investment-Smart stock-Insurance-Skills-IT) and village smart enterprises (Carbon-Horticulture-Energy-Water-Retail-Waste-Apiculture-Food crops-Poultry-Aquaculture -Meat-Dairy)
SMART KIOSKS
A retail co-op championing household self-retails 4 smart-enterprises, united by a single Save-As-You-Pay-Eat (SAYPE) climate investment co-op but enjoys high organizational autonomy as decisions are taken at conventions. Smart kiosk started off a basic premise that central procurement of common-user goods /services exploits economies of scale hence huge savings from bulk discounts, especially for household patroned kiosks serving hundreds of households. It enables structuring of inclusive household market participation, partnership, decision-making processes in their retail. Households determine priority needs, decide how best to manage returns/common resources in household’s interest. Each smart kiosk works to: (a) recruit/induct 10 climate-mentors , kiosk-operator, seedling-producer (b) build market community of 100 households (c) empower households off centrally procured kiosk-stock hence loyalty-savings (d) establish structures to inform partnership, space, time utilities (e) capacity-build all actors on activation processes
SMARTBASE
SMARTBASE is customized POWERBASE, an initiative that brings popular open source CiviCRM database to market community organizers. The initiative hosts, configures, maintains and supports all aspects of CiviCRM so you can easily use its full featured toolset to help you build and engage a constituency both online and on the ground. SMARTBASE is a web based platform with an integrated system of hosting, training, coaching, consulting, support provided by people who understand the field of market community organizing
Our SMARTBASE partner is Progressive Technology Project (PTP), a non profit working with social justice organizations, people of color and low income communities across the United States. PTP is committed to strengthening organizations by helping them build capacity skills, practices, and understanding to integrate technology strategically into their organizations life. PTP helps from initial set up to planning first campaign to measuring effectiveness of outreach to organizational adoption of SMARTBASE as the standard database for activations/collaborations and is ready to be an extra set of hands to help market community activating and organizing partners like villageCAN PROJECT manage organizational change and make societal change.
VILLAGE CLIMATE ACADEMIES (VCA)
Village Climate Academy offers each village own climate-action learner-doer registered self-help group. It’s a response to climate-crisis, climate-inaction, climate financing-gaps, and village informal-economy. It enables each village to activate own-source-climate-finance, smart enterprises and outsource services. The academy begins at village-kiosk where climate mentors initiate own source climate finance leveraging on households self-retails 4 smart enterprises@smart-kiosk and Financial Technology. Each climate mentor is assigned a sector but collectively responsible for 12 sectors. The 12 eco and agro sectors: carbon horticulture energy water retail
waste apiculture food crops aquaculture meat dairy. Climate-finance vehicles: Trust-Housing-Investment-Smart stock-Insurance-Skills-IT Enabled Services. Climate Mentors are 10 duly recruited 18-33 year-old village resident graduates of primary/high-school/college/university patroned by village-elder. VCA Mentors is do
it yourself smart enterprise entrepreneurship induction on marketing/financing/ operation plans for climate mentors committees, where each committee is deployed to activate and manage own 12 smart enterprises.
SMART ENTERPRISES (SE)
Student apprentices are mentored on 12 eco and agro value chains: Carbon Horticulture Energy Water
Retail Waste Apiculture Food crops Poultry Aquaculture Meat Dairy abbreviated as ‘CHEWRWAFPAMD’.
CLIMATE ACTS DIGITAL MARKET ACTIVATION STRATEGY (CADMAS)
If your project or business isn’t prioritizing its digital presence and capabilities, you are already falling behind’. With 4.7 billion people online daily, brands now have the opportunity to connect with over 60% of the global population. With humanity more digitally connected than ever, digital market activation has never been so important. CADMAS framework is our overarching road-map that outlines actions villageCAN Project will take to achieve its climate acts digital market activation goals, based on factors like VillageCAN PROJECT objectives, vision-mission-value statements, beneficiary and customer personas, and budgets. ADMA highlights the building blocks needed to drive villageCAN Project towards achieving those set goals.
Spring Community Meetup
Join us for our annual spring meetup to connect with community members and enjoy some seasonal activities.
May 13, 2024 · 10am – 2pm
Summer Networking Event
Join us for our annual spring meetup to connect with community members and enjoy some seasonal activities.
June 24, 2024 · 6pm – 9pm
Tech Innovators Meetup
Join us for our annual spring meetup to connect with community members and enjoy some seasonal activities.
July 23, 2024 · 10am – 2pm
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