zeina fayyaz startingbloc essay 2
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Zeina FayyazStartingBloc Boston 2012
ENRICHING THE STARTINGBLOC NETWORK
THIS IS ME2
I am…
• Age 23
• Female
• A Bostonian, transplanted from Stamford, CT
• Daughter of a Pakistani father and a Puerto Rican mother
• Sister of a champion wrestler and budding
filmmaker at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts
• Girlfriend of an IT specialist who moonlights as a NBA star (thanks, Playstation)
• Program Coordinator, Root Cause’s Social Innovation Forum
• A.B. in History with minors in Psychology and Spanish, Harvard College, class of 2010 2
THIS IS ME CONT.3
I am also…
• An avid reader
• A lover of modern art and architecture
• A decent cook
• A better baker
• A frequent flyer at the Wang YMCA in Boston’s Chinatown
• A self-taught HTML, CSS, Drupal, InDesign, and Photoshop guru
• An aspiring bulldog owner
• A hip-hop and salsa dancer (see Essay Question #3, feel free to watch just the one minute)
• A rare American who has traveled to Cuba (see picture at left!) 3
MY DAY JOB
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Currently, I manage Root Cause’s Social Innovation Forum, an annual capacity-building program for innovative, nonprofit organizations in the greater Boston area.
Every year, we partner with leading local funders to select and showcase a handful of these social innovators, each working to address a different social problem.
I MANAGE THE SEARCH, SELECTION…
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Nomination and
Evaluation Committees
Nonprofit Community
Partners and Sponsors Aug 3rd
First-round application due
Aug 23rd Second-round invitations issued
Jun 20th Launch
Sep 13th Second-round application due
Oct.28th – Nov 3rd Final-round interviews
Dec 1st Innovators announced!
…AND SERVICE DELIVERY…
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Root Cause • Five-month consulting engagement $25,000
Social Innovation Forum • Coordination of services• Events, outreach, and materials $37,500
In-Kind Partners• Executive coaching• Presentation skills coaching• Public relations services• Web design support• Graphic design support• Data management consulting• Development consulting
Upwards of $27,500
Root Cause or In-Kind Partner • Follow-on consulting engagement 18 months out of the program $10,000
Track Sponsor• Direct, pass-through grant $10,000
Total Returns per Social Innovator in 2012 $109,000
(TOTAL RETURNS PER SOCIAL INNOVATOR IN 2012)
2006 2004 20032008 20072010 20092011
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…FOR SELECTED SOCIAL INNOVATORS,(THESE ARE JUST A FEW EXAMPLES)
PLUS LOTS OF EVENTS. ;)
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MY IMPACT
Since taking this job in June 2010, I have…
• Organized two Showcase events, each of which attracted more than 300 attendees
• Personally reviewed more than 200 applications and worked closely with 11 social innovators
• Brought together evaluation committees composed of 60+ philanthropists, foundation staff, businesspeople, and government officials for each the 2011 and 2012 application cycles
• Helped direct more than $8.5 million in cash and in-kind services to our social innovators
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IN CONCLUSIONI expect to listen and learn from everyone – other StartingBloc fellows, StartingBloc staff, and guest speakers -- but I also expect to share my own knowledge, experiences, and friends’ email addresses as they can be helpful to others.
• I have deep knowledge of the greater Boston nonprofit “scene” and how intermediaries like Root Cause function within it;
• Expertise in grantmaking processes, market research, project management, event planning, communications, and website/database management; and
• A strong personal network
It is important to me that I give as much to StartingBloc and its fellows as StartingBloc will offer me.
Thank You!
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