For AIESEC LCs interested in organizing Be a Change 2009

Be a Change is an innovation competition for new innovations that are socially relevant. The purpose of the competition is to advance social entrepreneurship. AIESEC and Feelovation organized it first time in 2008. Awarded innovations were branding agency for social entrepreneurs, open money system and communal retirement home.

Be a Change 2009 is going to shake the world for even better through awarding innovations in three categories:
1) awareness and understanding
2) equal access to well-being
3) climate change
This means that Be a Change 2009 is going to be even more meaningful for the world and bring even more credit for its organizer. Your LC could be that organizer.
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What does it take from your LC to organize Be a Change?

A core team of at least 5 people working hard for 2-3 months is necessary, including at least
- team leader
- one team member responsible for external communication only
- people able to organize practicalities of the event, handle sales and manage finances
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How is your LC helped to organize Be a Change?

- Full organizer's guide with things to take into consideration and suggestions for how to do them
- Ready-designed image and marketing materials
- Ready-defined partnership products
- Training for organizing team
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What does your LC get out of it?

- New members who are oriented to making a societal impact
- Learning opportunities for members
- Meaningful roles in AIESEC for members who are almost heading for the future
- Media visibility
- Income
- Networking with potential new partners and TN takers and a good excuse to manage customer relations
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What do the organizers get out of it personally?

- Becoming an expert on social entrepreneurship
- Networking with others who want to change the world
- Personal development
- Balance for studies or work

"As Organizing Committee President of Be a Change 2008 I lived my dream of doing good and growing personally. It was a challenging, rewarding and weird adventure in the intersection of business and activist worlds.

It took me to weird places from recycling center backyard to consultant offices, to meet weird people from CEOs to artists and to do weird things from negotiating plant sponsorship to running innovation workshop for children.

Weird situations and perspectives taught me two key things: that anything is possible for me and that there are incredibly many people who persistently want to do something for the best of the world."

-Meri Lähteenmäki
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What to do if you are interested?

Send a free-form application (max A4) to Tomi Astikainen: tomi@feelovation.com, 045-6708967
Application should answer these questions:
- Why should your LC organize Be a Change?
- Why do you want to do it?
- What resources do you have available?
- When would be a suitable time for you to organize it?
- Which organizations would you approach as partners?
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