London has witnessed an increasing number of homeless people on its streets previously decade, a troubling trend that didn’t escape Cemal Ezel as he was wanting to begin a business having a social mission.
Change Please, founded in 2015, was created as a social enterprise to become 'staffed through the destitute to assist the destitute.' The nonprofit organization is empowering London’s homeless by training them to be baristas.
You’ll find Change Please coffee within the offices of UBS, National Bank of New York City, Barings, Goldman Sachs — and shortly, Coutts. With corporations more and more taking a careful a look at their daily coffee suppliers, Ezel stated he is able to now with confidence see expansion plans within the U.S. U.S.-based Thomas Finke, Chairman and CEO at Barings, a major investment management firm, stated the company is dedicated to participating in social issues affecting the communities in which it operates.
Change Please runs its business operation with sustainability in your mind, from the sourcing of its the beans to presenting recyclable cups. With 100% of profits returning into training homeless individuals, Change Please is poised to achieve its primary goal: pushing Starbucks aside and providing other options to a neighborhood, both with regards to the coffee it serves and also the social good it provides. With 40% of homeless referrals during the recruitment process, Ezel stated he is able to rely on them for his or her focus, loyalty and commitment.
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Ganesh Natarajan is the Founder and Chairman of 5FWorld, a new platform for funding and developing start-ups, social enterprises and the skills eco-system in India. In the past two decades, he has built two of India’s high-growth software services companies – Aptech and Zensar – almost from scratch to global success.