Stand On Your Own (SOYO)

a project to empower single parents

I am taking an online course, “Leading Strategic Innovation in Organizations”, through Coursera. It is conducted by instructor David A. Owens of Vanderbilt University.

I am required to submit my course project and I have used an image found on your website. The project I am working on is “Stand On Your Own”, in which I hope to encourage single parents to create eco-friendly product that they could sell at stalls offered to them by non-profit organizations.

You can view how I have used your image in my course work at the following link:http://www.slideshare.net/GreenBeingNancy/stand-on-your-own-soyo

I will remove the image used if it is not acceptable to you.

However, if the idea I have envisioned for “Stand On Your Own” resonates with you, I hope to hear from you soon on how you would like to adopt it in your own community.

Thank you.

Sometimes…

…this is not a reality.

No matter…

…who leaves…

HELP! I AM JUST A KID.

…the ones most hurt are…

…the offspring.

Most single parents I know do not have the skills to go back to work.

I heard about the support from: Non-profit Organizations

Free stalls for single parents during events they hold.

An initiative:Stand On Your Own (SOYO)

Moto: "Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime."

Encourage single parents to create to sell

ECO-FRIENDLY

GREENPRODUCT

Funding:Where will this come from?

Save Cost to Create

Discards and Waste Material?

Copper wire

Extracted from leftover electric cables.

Out of date…

…wallpaper sample book.

Fabric Swatches

free samples

Punctured Tubes

Examples? Extract copper wires from leftover cables.

Copper wires are easier to work with for new students of wire wrapped work.

Save Cost to LearnUse substitutes

Consider fishing line.

Wire wrapped gravels can’t sell?

Will these with crystals do?

Cardboard Transformed

decorate with

Punctured TubeTransformation

These transformed to these…

http://www.pinterest.com/pin/263812490645510391/http://www.pinterest.com/pin/543317142516360485/

paint chipsart

Plastic BagsTransformation

Plastic Bags?

Don’t sell?

Start a Crafting Class

Create Useful Artifacts

Help reduce cost of living

Make for school events.

Give away as gifts

Toys for Children

For dressing up the dolls.

As Tools and Craft material…

…for learning a new craft

Need cords for your work?

This is where you can find them.

Discover free tutorial online:http://www.pinterest.com/pin/516788125961830580/

Do an online search for inspirations.

Search “upcycled bicycle parts” toDiscover things you can make out of bicycle parts.

Isn’t that an airplane propeller?

http://greenbeingnancy.blogspot.com/2013/04/be-green-philanthropist-how.html

Before you throw…

Think. Will this sell…?

…after upcycling them.

http://www.pinterest.com/pin/530861874800095983/http://www.pinterest.com/pin/257901516132437988/

Will this sell?

http://www.pinterest.com/pin/530861874798929467/http://www.pinterest.com/pin/113223378106272526/

Refashioned! Once loved items.

http://www.pinterest.com/pin/530861874800268869/

Will this sell?

http://www.pinterest.com/pin/279082508131359080/

Will these sell?

Broken pots and old toys?

http://thoughtcatalog.com/chloe-cross/2013/07/i-make-art-out-of-my-own-period-blood/

Art from menstrual blood?

Wow! You decide.

How to motivate a start?Share success stories

Carrie creates something to remember your loved ones by.http://www.carriebears.com/

http://www.mouseangel.com/mice.htm

This mouse is dead but Jeanie is able to make it looks cute and alive again.

Create something unique? How?

RagBag is a company that sells fashionable bags and organizers made by a group of people in India. These are crafted out of plastic bags and old cotton sari they collected.http://www.ragbag.eu

http://www.featherlady.net/paws.html

Julie Thompson paints on feathers that her mother's peacocks shed.

Eli Reich, who rides to work, clear the used bicycle-tire inner tubes that were lying around his house by making messenger bag out of them. It is now a business.

http://www.alchemygoods.com/

http://khenkel.blogspot.com/2010/10/teabag-art-cards.html?m=0

Teabag Art CardsKim Henkel create cards out of teabags.

Do a search on Pinterest for “teabag art” and you will find many ways to create with them.http://www.pinterest.com/search/pins/?q=teabag%20art

A portrait of your family painted inside a bottle.

Artists in China make a living doing that.

Art from tree roots and coconut husks.

Often seen in souvenir stores

http://www.pinterest.com/pin/133841420146234447/http://chicorydellarts.typepad.com/photos/roots/drought-2.html

Or sold online

http://www.pinterest.com/pin/157907530660149602/http://past.kauaibotanicalgardens.com/2011/07/tropical-seeds-for-jewelry-beads/http://www.pinterest.com/pin/329959110171137670/

There are thousands of natural products that world cultures use for beads and decoration.

Crafting Material from Nature

Handmade Earrings with Tropical Seeds by NataliaKorolyuk

http://www.justmarketing.info/webshaper/store/viewCat.asp

Underprivileged members of eHomemakers create baskets out of rolled newspaper.

Would your company consider getting them to give away as corporate gifts?

Would you sell themin your shop?

Start a Community Projectfor single parents-donate things for them to sell or to upcycle-join their classes-support their business-be a mentor-adopt or share the idea

How would you work on this?

Would you buy Eco-friendly product made by single parents?

Write to let me know:Nancy Pohgreenbeingnancy@gmail.com

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