Describe at least 5 partnerships with individuals and/or organizations that have been formed to support your project and impact the success or failure of your venture.

1. World Hope International
   1. The partnership we have with World Hope is on a Lehigh/GSIF Level
   2. The partnership with World Hope began when Lehigh University and Professor Khanjan Mehta partnered to spin-off different technological social ventures, like the Ukiweli test strips
   3. World Hope International supports our venture by providing us with amenities when traveling in-country like transportation, internet, some meals, office space, and a place to stay.  They also help us form additional relationships, such as Betteh Bakery.
      1. We help World Hope because we are an example of one of the social ventures they partnered with. When we have a successful outcome with our venture or write research papers, it reflects World Hope and their partnership with us, and gives them a good reputation 
   4. Our partnership with World Hope is less of a symbiotic relationship because we reap more from their benefits and indirect funding when we travel in-country to Sierra Leone and stay to conduct research. The only benefit they receive from our partnership is an improvement in their reputation, but they already have a built and positive reputation, so they do not really need us as much as we need them
   5. To strengthen our partnership with World Hope, we could continue to progress and strengthen our venture to have a successful outcome when implementing NewTrition in-country, and publish more research papers to contribute to their reputation. In addition, our team can also communicate more with specific employees from their organization to tailor our project to what they request or need in regards to childhood malnutrition
2. Betteh Bakery
   1. Betteh Bakery is a project by World Hope, and it is a partnership on a Lehigh/GSIF level
   2. The partnership with Betteh Bakery was established with the help of World Hope International.
   3. Betteh Bakery is allowing us to use their facilities for the creation of our food products, and our venture creatures more jobs and business for them. 
      1. We help Betteh Bakery by giving them more business and jobs to women, which helps strengthen their business
   4. Our partnership with Bettah Bakery is a symbiotic relationship because we both benefit from the partnership, with our team giving them an opportunity to have more jobs and business by selling our muffins, while we use their workspace and location to make these muffins and other food products for them to benefit from
   5. The relationship will be strengthened once we are able to conduct fieldwork and get more involved with the people there by making a personal connection with them.
3. The Moringa Community
   1. The partnership we have with the Moringa community was on a team level. To be completely clear, we communicated temporarily with The Moringa Community. While we are no longer in touch with them, the communication we did have with them helped us further our venture.
   2. We reached out to The Moringa Community via email because we saw they had canning initiatives in West Africa.
   3. By speaking with The Moringa Community, we found out that introducing canning techniques to West African communities is a lot more difficult than it seems, since it is hard to properly educate them. Their experience was that West Africans were hesitant to listen to them and ignored safety precautions.
      1. The benefit that the Moringa Community had from us was the opportunity to make a partnership with a venture related to their subject, which was Moringa and food preservation. If they wanted to make more relationships or grow their credibility by supporting an organization, we were there.
   4. Our partnership with the Moringa Community was asymbiotic because we benefited more from their information and experiential knowledge they provided us, when they had little benefit to provide us with such information and we were only an option with them to expand their credibility 
   5. The communication between us and The Moringa Community helped us decide that it was not a good idea for us to pursue implementing canning at this time.
4. Dr. Eva Roberts
   1. She is the CEO of MorVigor in Freetown, which produces and sells moringa powder. 
   2. We came in contact with Dr Roberts when Robert communicated with her through email
   3. Dr. Roberts may be our main supplier for moringa and is able to meet our lower limit and upper limit demands, as well as provide the transportation to Makeni. The wholesale price she has offered us has cut the cost of production in half. She has a cassava farm in Makeni which she is interested in collaborating with Betteh Bakery to provide high grade cassava flour. We put her in contact with Allieu and Joseph and she has provided a sample. 
   4. This is a symbiotic relationship because although we have yet to establish business operations, we have been communicating with one another to discuss how we can leverage her moringa production in exchange for providing cassava for Betteh Bakery to use and produce bread with.
   5. Moving forward, this partnership can strengthen if we are able to coordinate sourcing moringa from MorVigor, as well as creating a value chain through the bread Betteh Bakery sells from the cassava farm. 
5. Adrian Erlinger – American Councils for International Education
   1. The partnership we have with Adrian Erlinger was on a team level, we communicated with him during the Mountaintop Summer Experience in 2020.
   2. During the Mountaintop Summer Experience this July, he had requested a meeting with our team to learn more about our project and what it entailed, and that is how we connected with him.
   3. Adrian gave us information about his connection with his work with the U.S International Public Affairs. This information helped us understand how we could improve our project and its system, specifically through distribution of our project’s resources and applying for grants tailored to our project
   4. We had an asymbiotic relationship with Adrian because the only benefit he got from contacting us was feeding his interest in our project, but we benefited more from him when we explained him what our project entailed and gaining connections through our interactions with him
   5. We can strengthen our relationship with Adrian by keeping in touch with him through email and inform him of what our project’s future achievements our, since he was interested in our project and might want to hear more about what we do

With the help of a visual, describe a coalition you will build to address the larger problem you are trying to address. List the (kinds of) organizations you will bring together, how the coalition can be transformative for the issue, and how you might provide leadership and coordination for the coalition.

   Visual created by Professor Lori Herz

The two key figures in our integrated system are farmers and food producers. The other players are (1) vocational schools, which provide technical and business training, (2) the extension service, which helps farmers implement new methods, and (3) the banks that provide financial services. New opportunities have stimulated a culture of entrepreneurship, while access to electricity and the internet enables efficient operation. In 2050, families enjoy nutritious and locally produced food.

The coalition can be transformative for malnutrition because it seeks to establish value chains based on locally sourced, nutritious produce. The farmers we are able to partner and source from will have bigger markets to sell to. For example, by partnering with MorVigor, we will provide the company a new market to sell to in Makeni as well as future locations we open operations within. By bringing together the manufacturers we need for our products, we are able to expand their markets and lower our cost of production. After we have created our products, we can leverage market vendors to distribute our products to reach our target consumers.We may also partner with local governments to reach schools that may cook with and distribute our products to children and families. This creates another avenue for nutritious food products to reach our target consumer, as well as increasing the demand which will ultimately increase the profits of stakeholders and lower our production costs.

The leadership and coordination that we may be able to provide can be exhibited in how we manage and communicate with our different partner organizations. Since we will not be involved with the groundwork, we can provide support in the form of data collection, business plan implementation, networking, and corporate relations. Meeting with our stakeholders to monitor their progress will allow us to keep an idea of how we are doing across the board, which will help us reduce our risk. 

Kinds of Organizations:

• Schools
• Government
• Banks
• Agriculture
• Manufacturing
• Markets/Vendors
• Transportation