StartupRealities

StartupRealities No 89 ExperienceMBA is an education company that delivers a full-time 12-month education programme for graduate students composed of one-month service postings at 12 different organisations. The postings are a series of CSR-focused companies or charities such as: a shelter for homeless people,  an orphanage,  an emergency response and ambulance service,  a municipal rubbish collection company,  a drug addiction clinic,  a climate change charity a zoo, etc.  Students are admitted and move through the 12 rotations as a monthly carousel, so that a new group of students replaces the previous group at each organisation at the beginning of each month. CEO QUOTE "We don't teach courses in a classroom. We teach experience in the field. We don't simply talk about corporate-social responsibility (CSR) and sustainability: we make it happen." said ExperienceMBA founder and CEO Exel Mbambo. Traditional MBA lecture theatre (imag...

StartupRealities No 77 HomeWithChrome is a charity that finds homes and employment for homeless people by giving them container housing  to live in and Chromebook laptops connected to the Internet to work on. Typically the jobs available via HomeWithChrome are teaching English via video conference or managing social media accounts. CEO QUOTE "We provide a roof, be it a flat one: a comfortable home that previously homeless people can really call home. And we give them jobs that are well within their abilities," said company founder and CEO Homer Chromos. Container housing (image source: Wikipedia ) See also:  https://startuprealities.blogspot.com/2020/03/polychromehome-builds-sustainable-mini-houses.html