The THPA Venture Group was 'catalysed' at Catalyst June 07 'Social Leadership Cafe' in partnership with The Hunger Project Australia.
The group's purpose is to create projects to raise money for The Hunger Project's activities in Asia, Africa and South America. We intend to do this in line with the principles of The Hunger Project - having vision, committment and action. We seek to create partnerships between people in Australia and others living in less fortunate circumstances. For our inspiration we remind ourselves of the courage and unreasonableness displayed by the women empowered by The Hunger Project to transform their village communities and end their own hunger.
Initiatives under way at present include expanding the conversation using FaceBook and a project to create an ASX index for ending world hunger.
In an early meeting the group noticed that investors in The Hunger Project that presented to the group were clearly committed to the cause and had experienced a transformation of thinking. We are using the context of "Theory U", a framework for personal journeys, to create our own transformational experiences through the projects we create.
The THPA Ventures group meets regularly in Sydney to duscuss The Hunger Project's strategies and to create new projects. The next meeting will have a guest speaker talk about the amazing strategy in Malawi and how it offers a "tipping point" to end hunger in Africa.
The Hunger Project Australia
"For the first time in history, ending abject poverty is on the world’s agenda as a priority. We are the generation to end world hunger." - Cathy Burke, CEO The Hunger Project Australia
The Hunger Project is a global, strategic organization committed to the sustainable end of world hunger.
In Africa, Asia and Latin America, The Hunger Project empowers millions of women and men to end their own hunger. The Hunger Project has pioneered low-cost, bottom-up, gender-focused strategies in each region where hunger persists. These strategies mobilize clusters of rural villages to create and run their own programs that achieve lasting progress in health, education, nutrition and family income.
In all our work, the highest priority is the empowerment of women. Women traditionally bear primary responsibility for family health, education, nutrition and - increasingly - family income. Yet women have been systematically denied information, resources and voice in decisions that affect their lives.
The Hunger Project supports a strategy where people think differently, work strategically, and understand who the main players for ending hunger will be.
Adopting an integrated approach The Hunger Project combines programs in health, education, adult literacy, nutrition, improved farming and food security, microfinance, water and sanitation, HIV/AIDS prevention, and builds community spirit that involves the entire population.
To find out more, click on this link: www.thp.org.au/home_THPA.html
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Email Message from Dave Harvey 09 October 07
Hi Ventures Group,
It’s been a couple of weeks since we met and we will be announcing the next meeting date very shortly. In the meantime I wanted to give you an update on a couple exciting things that have been happening in THP world.
Some of you may have heard that Cathy Burke has been in discussion with major high street organisation. The fantastic news is that they are about to pilot a senior management leadership program, offered to several hundred of their top managers, centred around The Hunger Project’s work in India. India is of particular relevance to this organisation as they have a large number of service centre staff there. A group of about 20 managers will travel to India next month to experience first hand our transformational work. They will see The Hunger Project’s commitment to empowerment of local leaders, unleashing the power of women in the community and partnership. During the week they will have time to reflect on their own personal journey and how their experience can be translated back to the workplace. On their return they will be mentored by THP investors as they integrate their thoughts.
The big global news is that The Hunger Project was featured in the 3rd annual Clinton Initiative fundraising meeting. This is known as the world’s premier venue for fundraising. The big names that want to be seen giving go here. Working in partnership with The XL Results Foundation we were publicly presented with a $5m commitment over 5 years. The money is targeted to expand our work in India. This is a significant achievement, not only for the size of the donation but also because being seen as a nominated charity at this event brings significant attention and additional investor interest. A lot of hard work went into some strategic “woo-ing” to have us appear at this event. A great job by an international THP team, including Cathy.
There’s quite a few things in the pipeline. I hope we’ll have some more news when we next meet.
See you soon,
Dave
In Africa, Asia and Latin America, The Hunger Project empowers millions of women and men to end their own hunger. The Hunger Project has pioneered low-cost, bottom-up, gender-focused strategies in each region where hunger persists. These strategies mobilize clusters of rural villages to create and run their own programs that achieve lasting progress in health, education, nutrition and family income.
In all our work, the highest priority is the empowerment of women. Women traditionally bear primary responsibility for family health, education, nutrition and - increasingly - family income. Yet women have been systematically denied information, resources and voice in decisions that affect their lives.
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