“I am not alone!” This is what I felt when I joined oikos and participated in my first FutureLab and Presidents Meeting (2013 – 2014). Right away, I strongly connected with fellow oikees and felt we all gathered around a common vision and a shared determination to make the world a better place. oikos played a decisive role in my personal journey and in becoming who I am now: a committed social entrepreneur and co-founder of Snowball Effect.
At Snowball Effect, our aim is to spread impactful solutions where needed. Why? Because we know solutions exist to tackle the world’s biggest issues. These solutions have a tremendous positive impact, are viable and have developed precious know-how. However, the problem is that they stay at a local scale and do not spread enough to address similar issue elsewhere. Due to the lack of replication of impactful solutions, know-how is lost, people reinvent the wheel, lose time, money & energy. What a waste, right?
As former US President Clinton said: “Nearly every problem has been solved by someone somewhere. The challenge of the 21st century is to find what works and scale it up.”
What if, instead, there was a bridge between established social entrepreneurs who have proven social businesses and aspiring entrepreneurs willing to adopt & implement an existing and proven solution in their home turf? What if there was an effective knowledge transfer, enabling aspring entrepreneurs not to start from scratch? What if, all together, they created collective forces – movements – enabling impact-proven solutions to become the new norm through replication? What if, overall, we could generate a systemic change? A major strength of our century is that we are all interconnected and interdependent. We should take this opportunity to share and build something bigger!
Therefore, we dream of a world…
…Where impactful solutions are popping up like mushrooms, locally, to address our social and environmental issues, everywhere in the world.
… Where these solutions are connected to one another to become part of something bigger.
… Where all these form a powerful network of mindful people striving to do common good.
Life on earth would be much better, wouldn’t it?
