Heart Global

 
Location: Cape Town, WoodStock, South Africa
Website: www.heartglobal.org/
   
Heart, a registered Non Profit Organisation, developed FoodTents to enable NGOs and schools to grow their own food. A FoodTent is like a big tent made of shade cloth. It is 2m high, 4m wide and 9m long, and can be erected in 45 minutes (3 hours including vegetable planting). This make-shift greenhouse increases the production of vegetables significantly. One FoodTent provides food for 50 - 80 children per annum.
heart drives real social change by creating, incubating and establishing social enterprises which are sustainable, scalable, replicable and have the potential for long-term social impact on the ground. Heart has a strong history of creating and developing powerful social projects that have generated impact in the community through a financially sustainable business model. Heart take this expertise and seeks out the best social enterprise concepts locally, and from around the world, in order to develop them into impactful social enterprises.

heart offers social entrepreneurs a physical hub environment, with hot desks, shared board room and reception facilities, internet connectivity and a creative environment to test their innovative ideas.

heart has also established a School, designed to practically teach social entrepreneurs on how to plan, startup and scale up their innovative ideas into thriving, sustainable social enterprises.

heart has established a management value circle (management consultancy) to systematically, incubate social entrepreneurs through a seed, venture and capital phase of development which is deliverables based

Current Projects (1):

  • FoodTents

    FoodTents
    Location: Cape Town, South Africa • Supporters: 17

    FoodTents offer a sustainable, cost-effective, low-maintenance solution to provide those most in need with vegetables on an ongoing basis.

Employees (3):

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    J. Welch
  •  
    M. Pichulik
  •  
    C. Williamson
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    by B. Braum, asked on 02 November 2010 at 02:05 PM
    Mein Mann und ich sind Africa-Fans und würden gerne ein Projekt unterstützen. Wir würden uns gerne vor Ort von den Gegebenheiten überzeugen, da wir uns zwischen 18.12 und 3.1. in Südafrika befinden. Bitte um Kontaktaufnahmen, wie das ablaufen kann, ist eine Anmeldung nötig,?, etc. Royce Business Centers GmbH Brigitte Braum, D, Freilassing, Tel. 0049 8654 6080 oder 0043 699 19056306. Ich freue mich auf eine Antwort. bb@royce.at

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