- Description
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Thrive for Good empowers people to grow health and step out of poverty by cultivating Life Gardens.
Globally, we’re better than ever at filling bellies with sheer calories. But food doesn’t equal nutrition.
2 billion people living on low-cost diets don’t get the vitamins, minerals and micronutrients they need for life. Kids don’t get enough nutrients to develop and grow strong. Adults can’t stay healthy to provide for their families.
Thrive is teaching and equipping people to grow an abundance of healthy, organic, disease-fighting foods - sustainably.
Life Gardens make this transformation possible. Well-nourished children get sick less often and perform better in school. Adults can fight disease, so fewer children are orphaned. With health and the skills to generate an income from growing surplus food, they can take hold of a life beyond poverty.
For just $15, you can give one person everything they need to grow their own health for life.
- Number of employees
- 51 - 200 employees
- Year established
- 2008
- Company website
- https://thriveforgood.org/
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- Communications Market research Humanities
- Industries
- Non-profit, philanthropic & civil society
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Recent projects
Assessing Best Practices for Organic Income Generation in Kenya and Canada
The goal of this project is to assess a small scale organic income generation coop in Kenya and compare that to a couple small scale organic income farms in Canada. The project will involve researching best practices in Canada and making recommendations to increase income for coops in Africa. This will involve several different steps for the students, including: - Researching best practices in Canada for organic income generation - Analyzing the current state of organic income generation in Kenya - Developing a comparison between the two countries - Identifying areas for improvement in Kenya - Making recommendations for increasing income for coops in Africa
Excel Cooperative Mini-farm Income Generation Program for Developing Countries
PROJECT SCOPE Positions Available: One individual student Thrive for Good has four pillars in their African community development program . The last one is developing income generation through small scale organic farms that cooperatively work together. The challenge for small scale farmers in Africa is having the ability to cover all the bases from production to sales. Cooperatively several farmers can work together to have someone else sell their market garden produce enabling them to focus on production. The challenge as in most cases is coordinating sales with production. See Ted Talk below for more information to understand farming challenges -
Designer to create a learning course for Canva
PROJECT SCOPE Positions Available: One individual student Create a simple training manual so that international staff in developing countries can produce colorful PDF’s reports in Canva This project may include, but is not limited to: Detail a simple pdf project https://www.canva.com/ Create a 10 step “Canva for dumb’s directions” in video format in Loom Loom is a video screen capture platform that can used to create the video https://www.loom.com/
Strategic Prospecting Plan
Positions Available: One individual student We want to bring together a research team here in North America that can help us identify potential international digital mentors that can help with our online learning platform. This project may include, but is not limited to: Identifying learning organizations (universities and colleges) in the developing world where we could recruit trainer/mentors A new market for us is trying to reach out to church networks in the developing world so finding students who are enrolled in Christian universities/colleges will be the main focus Create a master list of post-secondary institutions outside of North America that have an interest in food and health security Our goal is to be able to set up a network of about 50 digital trainer/mentors
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