4.1. The IMPCT team
The team is composed of four friends from the NCCU Taiwan IMBA program who, sixth months ago, decided to start an incredibly journey to help the world's poorest children. The team believes that experience and cultural diversity are key factors in the success of a social enterprise. With over 20 years of combined relevant experience and four very different backgrounds the team has what it takes.
Figure 9 The IMPCT team AN-NUNG CHEN - TAIWAN - 29
Ann was born in Taipei, Taiwan where the rest of the team were lucky enough to meet her.
She has multiple degrees, including an MFA from the Academy of Art University in San Francisco. She has years of experience in operations, running one of Taiwan's largest food importers and wholesalers. Ann knows the value of operational efficiency and will help IMPCT implement its low cost resource sharing model.
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TAYLOR JOHN SCOBBIE - CANADA - 28
Taylor is from Calgary, Canada where he studied dual Finance and Philosophy undergraduate degrees. Taylor has experience in strategy, IT, and web marketing consulting. He will be using these skills to effectively scale IMPCT's business throughout the world and build a vibrant community on the IMPCT platform.
JUAN DIEGO PRUDOT - HONDURAS - 28
Juan Diego is from Tegucigalpa, Honduras. He is a software engineer by education with 10+
years of experience in IT project implementation for local banks and microfinance institutions in rural areas. JD will be using his deep knowledge to ensure successful development of the revolutionary IMPCT investment platform.
ANDRES ESCOBAR - EL SALVADOR - 28
Andres comes from El Salvador and studied business management at Louisiana State
University, USA and Jean Moulin University in Lyon, France. Andres brings incredible field experience working for major telecoms in urban slums across Latin America and Africa.
Andres has done all of IMPCT's graphics, videos, and branding. He also has a deep appreciation for the necessity of a solution to be culturally appropriate so will be helping ensure IMPCT's schools are responsibly developed in each target community.
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4.2. Key Personnel
Figure 10 Key personnel in a community Teachers
The IMPCT team calls them teachers but they won’t actually have a recognized diploma by the government. IMPCT will offer 100-200 hour training sessions for a mother to become an IMPCT teacher. Of course there will be requirements to apply for this and tests to pass in order to guarantee the quality of education. Every Educational Daycare will have at least one teacher and 2 to 4 caregivers depending on the size. He will not only be in charge of the educational part but also work with the edupreneur with basic management. The edupreneur could also be the teacher if he desires.
Caregivers
Like mentioned before, mothers will undergo 50 and 100 hours of training to be able to use guided-play, use stories that pose problems and active learning to instill in children the values
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Each of the IMPCT Educational Daycares will specialize in an age group, either 0-3 or 3-5 years old. Caregivers are trained to provide age-appropriate content. This way, IMPCT can promote socialization between children of different ages; younger children are inspired to do more advanced work after observing older ones and they, in turn, learn through teaching and helping the younger ones.
Field Agents
IMPCT Field agents are the foot soldiers of the model. They will be hired from within the community because they will be known and recognized by the people in this area. This is because trust is critical for this kind of job. Mothers are by nature extremely protective so if IMPCT is going to have someone going door by door visiting people and talking to them, they need to be trustful and preferably a community leader. Their job is going to be to identify potential edupreneurs within the community. They will hopefully become the ones running the future IMPCT Educational Daycares.
Architect
In order to build the Educational Daycares in a city/country IMPCT will need an architect and an optional civil engineer to be in charge of the construction. Even if the building will be quite simple IMPCT still needs constant supervision and someone to talk with material donors (or people subsidizing them).
Head of Education
Even if IMPCT wants to empower communities to run their own Educational Daycares, they still need to be guided with the help of professionals. IMPCT plans on working with local universities, especially with educational backgrounds, to help with the curriculum application and monitoring. They will be in charge of training every teacher in the assigned area.
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4.3. Mentors
Taipei Angels
Taipei's premiere VC group has helped IMPCT since the early stages of IMPCT with mentorship. They allowed the team to pitch for them and have been paying attention to detail with constructive criticism. Also, with their help and network the team was able to have interviews on TV, radio and many newspapers in Taiwan.
Professors
The IMBA professors were extremely helpful and supportive. The IMPCT team was inspired by Professor Edward Chow in his class of “Case studies in Entrepreneurship”. Classes like Strategic Management, Global Marketing, Management of Information Systems, Financial Management, International Business Modeling and other ones have brought tremendous learning opportunities for the team. Many of them also helped with their extensive network to attract more investors and people in general who want to help.
Crowdfunding expert
Based in Dubai, Eureeca, an investment crowdfunding platform (Website: www.eureeca.com), has been a source of inspiration for us. Since their launch last year Eureeca has posted 14 startups – seven of which have become fully funded. Total raised to date stands at over $1 million. The team talked with the CEO, Chris Thomas, and he gave valuable advice and opened the team’s eyes on the different legal concerns and infrastructure that awaits.
Former World Bank Managing Director
The team was lucky enough to have a meeting via skype with the former Managing Director of the World Bank, Juan Jose Daboub. He is Salvadoran so he was quickly interested in the project and connected the team with some very influential people in Central America ranging from Government, Construction, Banking and NGOs. This was all thanks to one single call the team had with him. The teams plans to meet with him in September 2015 personally and
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4.4. Supporters/partners
FUSAL
FUSAL is an El Salvadoran NGO committed to helping social entrepreneurs who have a human development mission. They are IMPCT’s gateway to urban slums in El Salvador and will be working beside the team for every school built there. During the research trip they kindly opened their doors to IMPCT and have helped immensely. They provided IMPCT with a field research team of 3 members and took Andres to the community of San Isidro, 45 minutres away from the capital San Salvador. When Andres got there he talked with community leaders and interviewed 20 mothers and got some valuable insights on their needs and concerns.
FEPADE
El Salvador’s biggest education NGO, they were the first ones IMPCT contacted and provided the team with great feedback on the first business model. It was thanks to them that the team had to reinvent it and improve it greatly. It is great to have four MBA students come up with an innovative idea but when you talk to people with over 30 years of experience you quickly realize you need to make a lot of adjustments. They’ve provided valuable feedback on localizing the unique curriculum to Latin American slum contexts. They also provided IMPCT with a team of 2 people and a pickup so Andres could go to a government school named “El Sunza”. Here he saw the big difference between 5 year old kids who were ready for school and the ones that were simply not prepared at all. Here is where the opportunity relies.
FEPADE belongs to a vast Latin-American educational network that will be IMPCT’s gateway to expand in several countries.
TECHO
Latin America’s largest NGO builder. IMPCT is working together to build an updeveloped solution to the challenge of building schools in urban slums. They have an intervention plan
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that is proven to work in different countries. The team is planning on using one of their already established areas to build the first IMPCT Educational Daycare in September 2015.
4.5. Organizational chart
Figure 11 IMPCT organizational chart
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