introduction to unltdworld
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UnLtdWorld connectsyou to the
people, tools and informationyou need to
change the world.
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Our Mission Statement
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An online community for social
entrepreneurs, social innovators and the
people and organisations that
support them
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• Launched in March 2008
• Seed-funded by UnLtd, the Foundation for Social Entrepreneurs
• A social enterprise
• Free to join
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What’s a Social Entrepreneur?
A person who uses innovative business models and market-based strategies to achieve positive social and environmental change
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• Market Value of £8.4 billion/year market in the UK, 1% of GDP.
• Over 240,000 social entrepreneurs in the UK
• Investments expected to triple over the next year, reaching £3 billion in 2010
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1. By providing an open platform and a set of tools that help our members achieve their goals
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Being open means our users contribute, rate, comment on, organise and distribute all content on the site:
• Resources• Services• Events• Photos• Videos• News• Groups• Questions• Answers
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Which means our members can:
• access a wealth of information from a broad range of sources
• view feedback from people just like them
• showcase their products and services to the community
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• a live feed of relevant on-site activity
• personalised recommendation engines
• email notifications
...and connecting people, tools and information through:
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Which means our members can:
• receive personalised recommendations of support
• network with people working in similar areas
• stay permanently connected to valuable sources of information
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• Accessible to members and non-members alike
• Free to set up
• For social enterprises and support organisations
Public-facing Company Profiles:
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Which means our members can:
• showcase their services, resources, media and events
• build long-lasting networks of supporters, talent and investors around their projects
• direct potential funders to a live, constantly-updated, visualisation of their businesses
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4 . By using these connections to form themed networks in
conjunction with expert partners
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• Built around specific locations, sectors or demographics
• Bringing together all relevant members and content in one place
• Forming a single destination for specialised support and investment
Themed Networks:
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Which means our members can:
• work on private documents with others across disparate locations, languages and timelines
• manage internal projects more efficiently
• securely share files and information with external stakeholders
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• Integrate all of UnLtdWorld’ssocial tools and features and all relevant members and content
• Retain all your site branding with seamless links to rest of site
• Retain privacy within the network
...and we can even take the entire network and plug it into our partner's website:
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Which means our partners can:
• build engagement and loyalty
• connect in a more open and transparent manner
• reach and support more people, more easily
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5 . We track all on-site activity:
...and map it in our Research Lab
• all connections formed• all support provided• all projects started• all issues tackled• all skills offered • all locations covered
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...to create an unparalleled real-time insight into the changing face of social enterprise across the globe
Which we then share with all our members and partners, to help them improve and refine the work they do.
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We are committed to partnering with the best individuals and organisations in the sector to offer the maximum possible value to
our members:
If you would like to partner with UnLtdWorld, please contact:
Dan Lehner, Head of Business DevelopmentE: [email protected] T: +44 (0) 207 566 1472
Twitter: @danlehner