my objectives 1.present blueenergy: what we do, who we are 2.share our plan for seeking a social...
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My Objectives
1. Present blueEnergy: What we do, who we are
2. Share our plan for seeking a social investment to build a sustainable financial model and grow our social impact
3. Get your feedback on:
• Does blueEnergy’s approach resonate?
• Comments on social investment plan
• Connections to resources: mentoring and financial
May 2010
Social Investment Opportunity
blueEnergy is seeking social investment to strengthen its ability to help isolated, dependent communities break the cycle of
reliance on relief
blueEnergy Targets Those Beyond the “Bottom of the Pyramid”
blueEnergy Breaks the Cycle of Reliance on Relief
blueEnergy connects isolated communities to power, enabling them to transition from relying on relief to starting small business
blueEnergy’s Approach Creates Long-Term, Sustainable Change
All three founders have been heavily involved since inception and are all currently working in organization full-time
35 FTE in Nicaragua, operational headquarters; half local employees and half international professionals
3 FTE in San Francisco providing strategic guidance, fundraising, human resources and administrative support
3 FTE in Paris providing fundraising and international human resources
Board of Directors brings business discipline and deep experience in Nicaragua
blueEnergy Has Strong Leadership and a Strong Team
blueEnergy’s Core Competencies
Recruit broadly, 20 highly-skilled international professionals on-site in Nicaragua.
Work with communities to bring out their voice and ensure its appropriate position at the center of solution design.
Strength in wind and solar power and energy efficiency; water filtration.
Bringing various stakeholders together, even historic enemies, to work towards common goal.
Creating physical spaces (office, workshop, housing) in which to design, build and implement plans.
blueEnergy’s Impact
blueEnergy is working in 15 communities, providing fundamental services to nearly 3,000 beneficiaries.
Estimated 4,500 service-connections
• Local Employees: 20
• International Volunteers: 24
• Wind-solar capacity: 12 kW
• Bio-sand water filters: 54
• Home electricity kits: 34
• Portable LED lights: 253
• Energy efficiency savings: 49 kWh/d
Social Investment Opportunity to Drive Impact GrowthSeeking $1,088,000 in strategic investment to:1) Strengthen and implement business model to achieve financial
sustainability and grow impact
2) Build hard and soft infrastructure to support revenue generation and
effective operations
3) Leverage social investment 2x+ in project funding; 2x of local labor in
international professional labor
(1) Business model development and implementation
40%
(2) Infrastructure19%
(3) Information technology & knowledge management
7%
(4) Administration and core support services
17%
(5) Miscellaneous and unforseen expenses
6%
(6) Addition to reserves11%
An Opportunity to Significantly Increase Impact Growth
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With SocialInvestment
Business AsUsual
Social Investment for GrowthEarly Concept Exploration Growth Projection
Contact Information
For more information contact:
Mathias CraigExecutive Director & Co-founder
+1 (415) 509 - 0155
www.blueenergygroup.org
APPENDICES
Transition From Relief to Social Business
Economic Model
Strategy Map
Service Pyramid
blueEnergy specializes in energy services and catalyzes other necessary services by “seeding” them while working to connect additional service providers to a community
Strategic Investment and Initiatives(continued)
Initiative Description Amount Output
(1) Business model development and implementation
Document and implement blueEnergy's business model ensuring financial sustainability and strong impact delivery
$ 442,900
• Documented business model describing theory of change, metrics, sustainable revenue generation, human resources, community engagement, product and service delivery and service delivery partnerships and support for enterpreneurs.• Secured >$2M multi-year project support• Sufficient direct revenue to cover all fixed expenses not covered by project support• Human resource pipeline to attract international talent to develop local leadership and to provide a high-quality, mutually beneficial fee-based experience to international volunteers and ambassadors
(2) Infrastructure
Establish an independent blueEnergy facility to ensure uninterrupted operations and facilitate community logistics by providing ready access to water transport
$ 204,900
• New independent blueEnergy office/shop and logistics facility with water access to improve operations and strengthen the volunteer and ambassador experience revenue stream
(3) Information technology & knowledge management
Increase capture, analysis and dissemination of information internal and external, with multi-lingual support
$ 72,340
• Increased management ability to plan and execute• Mitigatation against staff turnover by increasing internal knowledge sharing for increased effectiveness• Enhanced stakeholder engagement through information sharing
(4) Administration and core support services
Sustain core administrative functions to support strategic initiatives
$ 181,360 • Effective, efficient operations supporting all initiatives
(5) Miscellaneous and unforseen expenses
5% $ 66,397 • Protection against price volitility, currency fluctuations and other external and internal changes
Subtotal $ 967,897
(6) Addition to reserves 3 months core operations $ 120,000 • Put organization in a financially secure position, which combined with robust revenue stream generation, ensure operations going forward
Total $ 1,087,897
Co-founder Bios
All three founders have been heavily involved since inception and are all currently working in organization full-time
Mathias CraigExecutive Director
Guillaume CraigDirector of blueEnergy Nicaragua
Lâl MarandinManagua Office Director
Mathias Craig started blueEnergy as a nonprofit corporation in late 2003. He provides the organization with administrative, programmatic, and fundraising leadership. Mathias has over seven years of involvement in wind energy and has had significant experience living throughout Latin America. He has spent a considerable amount of time in Nicaragua and has strong ties to the peoples of the Caribbean Coast. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Civil and Environmental Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley and a Master of Science in Civil and Environmental Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Mathias is fluent in English, French, and Spanish.
Guillaume is a co-founder of blueEnergy and has been the Director of blueEnergy Nicaragua since the end of 2004. In this position, Guillaume has built blueEnergy’s presence in Bluefields, Nicaragua, by establishing its current office, workshop and housing facilities. He also created a network of partners at the local, regional, national and international levels that have been crucial to blueEnergy’s early successes. Guillaume has over 10 years of experience in the services industry. Fluent in English, French and Spanish, Guillaume provides the strategic vision for bE Nicaragua and leads the Program Board on all large projects providing guidance strategy and management expertise to the projects.
Lâl Marandin launched blueEnergy’s activities in Nicaragua in 2004, as Mathias Craig’s Associate Director leveraging his engineering skills and past professional experience in Central America. In 2005 he joined blueEnergy Groups’s Board of Directors, as he returned to governmental activities in France, handing over Nicaraguan operations to Guillaume Craig. Along with Pr. Michèle Grégoire and Pr. Colette Grinevald, he co-founded blueEnergy France as a supporting non-profit to which he provided pro-bono organizational and fundraising leadership from 2005 until 2009. Lâl is a French Civil Servant of engineering and military background with several years of Management experience in international Information Technology projects. After being selected among the finalists of the ESA 2008-09 Astronaut Selection, Lâl has set his sights on the non-profit and renewable energy sector, to which he aims to apply his management and technical background, and passion for international cooperation. Lâl holds two Masters of Science, and is a licensed pilot.