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About us > ExpertiseAs a priority focus, the social entrepreneur leadership team at the New Development Solutions Group (NDSG) works to successfully create local solutions by designing, creating and implementing innovative models that facilitate efficient income generating and educational opportunities. Our success is derived from creating practical, low cost and flexible solutions that address real and perceived needs and offer compelling opportunities. NDSG conducts extensive analysis to ensure that the designed solution and implementation mechanism is one that is appropriate for the local environment and constituents. Our success is achieved through an interdisciplinary, intuitive and non-linear approach whereby all stakeholders add value. Throughout this process we are constantly focused on ensuring that financial, human and organizational capital is effectively and efficiently utilized to create high a impact that produces a continuous “multiplier effect”. At our core we firmly believe that sustainable success can only be encountered through work that truly empowers local constituents.
Through our combination of passion, in-depth analysis, creativity and persistent execution we are facilitating profound and measurable progress every day through the leadership of our non for profit Community Enterprise Solutions (CE Solutions) and its sister organization Social Entrepreneur Corps (SE Corps). Through these entities empower the successful work of Soluciones Comunitarias (SolCom), Turismo Ixil (TIX) and the Centro Explorativo (CentroEx), all locally owned and administered ventures that we have created to establish long term field-based financial and administrative self-sustainability.
In addition we have years of experience supporting other development organizations, institutions, universities and individuals in their efforts to create community impact. These efforts have taken us from the remote reaches of Guatemala to distant villages in Senegal to the war torn regions of Bosnia Herzegovina. Our expertise, gained through years of experience, is both deep and wide. An outline of our entrepreneurial and educational expertise with examples are as follows:
Community needs analysis
The NDSG has proven success analyzing community needs working through the process of diagnosing real needs, perceived needs to actual wants and desires.
Identification of needs for services/products for rural families including wood burning stoves, glasses, water purifiers, energy efficient light bulbs and seeds and gardening techniques. Read more…
Solution identification and model design
The NDSG has proven success addressing needs through the identification of solutions and creation of models that are appropriate, compelling and sustainable.
Feasibility studies and pilot project implementation
The NDSG has proven success designing and implementing feasibility studies and pilot project implementation strategies and tactics that leverage existing infrastructures and capacities.
Lead design and implementation of VisionSpring’s reading glasses MicroConsignment initiative in Latin America including El Salvador, Mexico, Paraguay and Nicaragua. Read more… Lead design and implementation of VisionSpring’s reading glasses MicroConsignment initiative in Latin America including El Salvador, Mexico, Paraguay and Nicaragua. Read more…
Overall project management
The NDSG has proven success managing all aspects of development projects that endeavor to create access and opportunity for vulnerable rural constituents.
Social enterprise/organizational development
The NDSG has proven success creating local social enterprises and organizations from “the bottom up” in order achieve local administrative and financial self-sustainability.
The design and establishment of a Guatemalan owned and run social enterprise to implement the MicroConsignment Model on a national scale and incubate new products/solutions for rural low income families. Read more…
Training
The NDSG has proven success training rural developing country constituents, organization leadership and budding development professionals.
The development of training techniques and execution of training for leadership and hundreds of rural entrepreneurs, university students and young professionals. Read more…
Social marketing
The NDSG has proven success creating marketing strategies, tactics and materials that speak to real and perceived rural needs and address wants and desires in the appropriate way and in the appropriate place.
The design of social marketing strategies, tactics and materials to reach rural villagers in need of eye exams and reading glasses including village outreach strategies, radio campaigns, flyers, handouts and posters. Read more…
Resource and material design and creation
The NDSG has proven success designing resources that fill niches to create access for rural low income villagers and development organizations alike.
The design and creation of a free website to encourage the dissemination of inventions, innovations and distribution strategies that benefit individuals and communities at the “Bottom of the Pyramid”. Visit the website…
Expansion
The NDSG has proven success designing and implementing expansion strategies and tactics for models that can effectuate positive change for rural constituents.
The expansion of the VisionSpring reading glasses MicroConsignment Model to Paraguay leveraging an extensive micro credit delivery structure already in place. Read more…
Evaluation
The NDSG has proven success asking the right questions, listening and analyzing in order to both evaluate existing projects as well as recommend modifications and solutions for moving forward.
The evaluation of a greenhouse and income generation project for displaced families from Kosovo living in the Southern region of the Serb republic. Read more…
