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Our impact model is our business model.
Our high level theory of change
Our model ensures families living in poverty have access to household products that will improve their quality of life. Involving women is a key part of our model as they understand the challenges faced by other household managers, who are their customers. Women also stand to gain the most from a reliable and decent income.
Pollinate Group champions the social business model as a sustainable form of development. We also recognise the value of inspiring and engaging like-minded people to tackle global issues, such as those who participate in our programs.
Our impact model is our business model.
Pollinate Group’s program targets the most neglected communities by empowering women in the same community and trains them to be entrepreneurs to distribute clean energy and life-improving products that save time, and money and improve health. This has a three-pronged approach to resolving their problems viz: women are independent, have a voice and decision-making power in the family. The distribution of the products fetches them a considerable amount of income which they contribute to their households and bring their families out of the poverty curve. Through this program, the women are also included in digital training, like operating smartphones for their business management and access to learning systems and banking facilities. This makes our model unique and aims at enabling the community women with more power. Lastly, the clean energy products such as solar lanterns, mixer grinders, and biodegradable sanitary napkins offer a safer and healthier life for the community customers and reduce pollution, which comes in the form of carbon footprint due to burning fossil fuels and plastics for basics like lighting and cooking. Thus, our Suryamukhis and their customers have access to life-improving technology that saves them time and money and improves their health.
How our model works
How entrepreneurship empowers women
Our model is based on teaching entrepreneurship and skills to women living in poverty so they can eventually sustain themselves.
Due to societal norms, many women living in poverty do not have the flexibility to join us as full time employees. By creating access to opportunities for learning and development, and awareness of products and alternatives, many women choose to join our network to learn, earn money, increase confidence and strengthen relationships in their communities.
As part of our approach to identify and recruit new women to join the network we work closely with their family members to ensure full support on her journey.
What is a social business?
Pollinate Group was created and designed to address a social problem, which meets the definition of a social business created by Nobel Peace Prize laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus.
We operate like a business, but we have a purely social agenda. We reinvest any profits into the business with the aim of increasing social impact in the neglected communities we serve. Our registered charities in Australia and the United States mean we can invest in growth and continue to accelerate the scale of our impact.
Is there a definition for social business?
The world is still defining social business, social enterprise and social entrepreneurship. In Pollinate Group’s case we have a hybrid model.
Perhaps the most important point is not the semantics about the model, but focusing on outcomes, ethics and overall impact of an organisation.