On Sunday, we were lucky enough to be driven down through Plymouth to Hyannis Port and Cape Cod.
We found the famous Kennedy compound and swam on the beach close by!
What a beautiful place, absolutely serene!
Later, we managed to talk our way into the Hyannis Yacht Club, very friendly and we all had a superb meal of swordfish and a bottle of Vernaccio!
Today we had our pitches for our groups where we pitch one of our businesses to the entire group, we chose one of our team members, who runs the Instituto of Tennis in Brazil, which helps street kids, find a future and gives them the tools to escape the poverty cycle. Below is the one minute "elevator" pitch.
The purpose of the excercise, is to be able to distill a business into its key elements including "A difference that matters"
Workgroup 12- Instituto Tenis
Pitch Delivered by Andre Buzzoni
For companies who want to improve the lives of children in Brazil, while enhancing corporate brand recognition, Instituto Tenis provides the opportunity to invest in a non-profit organization that focuses on tennis coaching and giving underprivileged children, skills to succeed in life.
Unlike other initiatives, we offer superior outcomes through a proven integrated social development model that takes kids off the street and gives them a future.
The Instituto Tenis was founded in 2002 when 150 children from the poorest areas of Brazil were nominated to participate. Now, we coach 3000 motivated kids. Our goal is to engage 100,000 children across 100 social centers throughout Brazil by 2016 (the year of our Olympics). We currently need $30 million dollars to make this a reality.
We are projecting that the return on this investment will be that by 2016, we will have changed the lives of 100,000 children, created five professional tennis players and sent at least 50 children to study in a university program.
