LEADERSHIP HANDBOOK

ACADEMIC YEAR 2012-2013

GGOO - An international student-run organization devoted to inspiring, identifying and empowering young leaders in developing social entrepreneurial ideas to take leaps towards a better society.

Table of Content
GGOO Overview Introduction to GGOO Organizational Structure Social Entrepreneurship in GGOOs Viewpoint GGOO Annual Grand Project Membership Guideline GGOOs Member Pro le 1 2 5 9 11 12 14

GGOO OVERVIEW
e Worlds Premier Student Initiative of Social Entrepreneurship
GGOO (or GO for short) stands for Giant Gurus of the Odyssey. Alluding to mythical gures, GGOO represents todays young social entrepreneurs, who lead social changes by taking innovative approaches to the most pressing social problems. GGOOs leaders (aectionately called GO-ers) are proactive, innovative and motivated youths around the world with a passion to lead and bring about change in their local communities through the power of social entrepreneurship. We refer to such high-potential individuals as micropreneurs leading social innovations in a macro scale.

OUR NETWORK
GGOO currently connects a number of like-minded college students as well as young leaders of various projects, organizations, social ventures worldwide:

ASIA
Vietnam Singapore

AMERICA
United States of America

EUROPE
United Kingdom Finland Bulgaria

AFRICA

INTRODUCTION TO GGOO
Who are we? GGOO is an international student-run platform dedicated to not only students in universities and colleges but also all young social entrepreneurs or micropreneurs in other entities around the world. By providing a reliable support system of lecture series, mentoring programs, and competitions, we encourage young leaders to apply their acquired invaluable insights to tackle real world problems as they run social entrepreneurial ventures, such as poverty, illiteracy, diseases, environmental pollution, and climate change. GGOOs young leaders are fostered, trained and inspired to initiate their own ideas, map out their action plans and implement their projects that involve various stakeholders in the society such as: Non-pro t organizations (NGO), Governmental organizations (GO), Academia (Universities, Colleges and schools), and Companies. Its not about charity; GGOO is all about investing into the communities where we empower young leaders and talents with drive and ability to make a giant leap in leading social innovations.

Our Mission

To unleash the potentials of young leaders, inspire and empower them to lead social innovations through the power of social entrepreneurship.

We aim at becoming the leading international social entrepreneurial organization of students and other young leaders and gathering their contributions into a global social entrepreneurial platform to boost improvements in the living standard of the community, address the toughest social problems and promote a worldwide social entrepreneurial spirit in our human society.

Our Vision

Core Values

Professionalism Passion Pro-activity Innovation Global outlook

GGOOs members connect with one another via projects, networking events and parties as a family, each one is called a GOer who has a common interest of sharing, supporting, singing, dancing, being open minded and social entrepreneurial spirit. GOers end their emails with GOerly yours! and a formal meeting by shaking hands and hugging each other.

Culture

Why are GO so appealing to young leaders and students?

GGOO is completely open to young people who love to experience and build up their leadership skills and experiences for future career. We oer thousands of leadership roles in various projects of your own. Just with a will and dedication to improving your surrounding people, anyone can reach us and make a change. GGOO extends its global network to numerous colleges and universities, providing countless scholarship, fellowship and career opportunities as well as an immeasurable source of success stories and professional advice. Feel free to subscribe to our global network via our Facebook page, emailing list, and online website/forum. GGOO cooperates with corporate partners to provide its members with valuable internship and working opportunities. GGOO cooperate with our established advisors, professors, CEOs/business leaders, NGO leaders, etc in our eorts to support young micropreneurs in their own initiatives. e GOs experience equips its GOers with invaluable connections with like-minded people, which will come in handy for their future start-up careers as social entrepreneurs as well as foster long-lasting camaraderie in their walks of life. GGOO Alumni (old/inactive members) are happy because they are always invited to parties and networking events organized by active GOers to look back on their past student time and to meet new people.

ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE

Board of Advisor (BOA)

President
Board of Management (BOM)

Organizational chart

Organizing Department (ORG)

G-Local Franchising Dept. (GLO)

Talent Management Department (TAL)

Directors

* Each Department is led by a Chief Operating Ocer or an Executive Director

PR & Marketing Department (MAR)

External Affairs Department (EX)

TASK ALLOCATION FOR DEPARTMENTS

Board of Management (BOM)

Motivating Inspiring Setting goals and "GO" for it Connecting the "dots" (talents, business leaders)

Setting up programs (content, logistics, event, etc) Create internal resources of knowledge and skills Allocate organizing tasks of an entire program to other department COOs: PR, Fundraising, Recruitment"

Organizing

G-Local Franchising

Expand GO network to local region with in the country Expand GO network to other countries"

Fundraising Set up/maintain relationship with strategic partners (NGOs, Companies, Gov, Universities, Advisors, sponsors)

External Affair

TASK ALLOCATION FOR DEPARTMENTS

PR Marketing

PR ""GO"" events, programs Create IT products to position ""GO"" brand and image"

Recruitment Training skills for members Culture build Connect Alumni and opportunities sharing community

Talent Management

* As part of its culture, GO departments are named after dierent gods with dierent characteristics in the Greek Myth of the famous odyssey, which best describes the functions and required respective quality of speci c department as follows: - Organizing Department refers to Hephaistos, God of technologies and skills - External Aairs Department refers to Aphorodite, Goddess of love and beauty - PR & Marketing Department refers to Apolo, God of light, art and knowledge - Talent Management Department refers to Hestia, God of re stoves and solidarity - G-local Franchising Department refers to Poseidon, God of the Oceans - Board of Management (BOM) refers to ZEUS, God of the Gods

NATIONAL STRUCTURE & LOCAL STRUCTURE

NATIONAL STRUCTURE & LOCAL STRUCTURE are up to your creative leadership!
* e structure of BOM is exible for all levels of management (Global, National, Local and Initiative level) * Important Note: BOM (which includes President (Co-Presidents), Founding members and (Executive) Directors) is the most powerful decision-making body of the entire organization and votes to pass strategies and policies. President is the representative of the whole organization supervising all Executive Directors in implementing tasks. Global President Position is rotated among dierent member country leaders. Lower-raking executives and sta members are appointed by Executive Directors to best control and carry out their functional tasks

Decision-making mechanism: BOM leads, Individuals act. Decentralization: GGOO encourages decentralization in its organizational
decision making process to allow individuals to bring out their very own creativity, core values, skills, and knowledge, to achieve organizational targets. !
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F.P

Hierarchical ladder:

*F.P: Founding Members & Presidents (Founding Members are honorably placed at the top of the entire organization.)
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Directors Deputy Directors

Managers Executives Associates

SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP IN GGOOS VIEWPOINT

1. What is social entrepreneurship & social entrepreneur?

Social entrepreneurship, as the combined concept from social and entrepreneurship, is a legally operating entity with: Ultimate purpose: To bring bene t to society through providing a solution for social issues. is part determines the industries social enterprises would involve in. Social issue: Is de ned as a problem aecting human life and interaction. Example: disability unemployment, environment protection, education, etc. Operating method: Assuring the nancially sustainable operation in the long-term. is part determines the nance and accounting activities.

Social entrepreneur is who founds and maintains social enterprise from the initiation to stand-alone phase. GGOO aims to motivate, train and guide students to become from idea incubators (with only good idea, no experience, limited skills), to a social pre-entrepreneur (with plausible idea, theoretical experience, broad skills), and nally to complete social entrepreneur (with executed idea, practical experience, comprehensive skills).

2. Categories of social entrepreneurship initiatives under GGOOs set platform?

ere are 3 types of social entrepreneurship initiatives under GGOOs platform (the basic form of entrepreneurship here is de ned as project): Social responsible enterprise: a wholly standalone enterprise with founding members, determining to provide solution to social issues through products/services, and is nancially sustainable in long term. is is the most original type, by nature, of social entrepreneurship.

Example: Donkey Bakery in Vietnam is a newly founded social enterprise which employs and train cake making skills to many sense impaired employees. ey produce and sell cakes of various types to their customers (Website: http://donkeybakery.com) Business enterprise executing CSR (Corporate Social Responsibility): a socially contributing project under the management of a currently operating corporate.

Example: Danone (a French milk company) open a high-nutrition milk factory in India, using local ingredients and labors, distributing products to local child through Grameen (India NGOs). (Website: http://www.grameenfoundation.org)

Philanthropy organization: a non-pro t organization aims to support human needs, with major nancial supply from donation or grants.

Example: AlManarah is a social enterprise dedicated to Israeli Arab blind and visually impaired people. By fostering social awareness through outreach and advocacy, they seek to change the traditional stereotypes and social stigmas common in Arab society toward the blind. AlManarahs activities include an extensive schedule of workshops and seminars, the distribution of relevant educational materials, leadership development, and self-help groups of Arab blind (and their parents, if relevant). In addition to outreach and support, its colleagues advocate through the Israeli court system to ensure equal access and the protection of inalienable rights. (Website: http://www.almanarah.org )

3. What qualities does a leader need to have to become a social entrepreneurship?

Social spirit: e mindset of permanent concerning and longing for social issue solutions. It is the rst and foremost quality of a social entrepreneur, sustaining passion and social responsibility for GGOO-er. Leadership: e ability of planning and motivating a group of people follow common purposes. Social networking: e ability to eectively communicate, deliver message and establish useful relationship network. Critical thinking: e ability to question and rectify the righteousness of received information. Fundraising: e ability to gain nancial and non- nancial support through mutual trust, comprehensive information, and proven capability. Team working: e ability to eectively share ideas, support teammates and timely complete assignment. Besides, GGOO also prefers individuals who have skills in management or project planning. nancial management, project

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GGOOs Annual Grand Project

GGOO wants to create a new generation of youth who have a great passion for social entrepreneurship and have innovative venture ideas. e main annual grand project that we intend to implement after GGOOs ocial launch in the late of 2012 is the Vietnam's Social Entrepreneurs Empowerment & Development Program (VSEED). rough workshops and open discussions, GGOO hopes to transfer knowledge, passion, inspiration and skills to the mindset of other young future leaders. Our participants will come from a variety of universities in Vietnam with dierent bases of knowledge and experience. ese are group of people who may have potential impact on social entrepreneurship development in Vietnam in long term. We do not only organize workshops, we include eld visit to current social enterprises to let the audiences understand how a real social enterprise works. GGOO will also help interested students to match between theory and practice by the social venture competition at the end of the program. We will provide them with fundamental resources, coaching and mentoring workshops and eldtrips to help them realize their dreams through this venture competition. After the Vietnam's Social Entrepreneurs Empowerment & Development Program, GGOO will organize a birthday party to connect GOers together and improve the GGOOs network. We also intend to run an election when summer begins to raise a new Board of Management who will continue GGOOs projects and ful ll GGOOs missions in the future.

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MEMBERSHIP GUIDELINES

GGOO is divided into 3 divisions: GGOO Global, GGOO National and GGOO Local, each of which has a separate management committee led by a President or Chairperson.

1. GGOOs Membership Acquisition

Interested young leaders are encouraged to contact us regarding membership acquisition. Any talented person may apply directly to GGOO to be granted a leadership position at Global, National or Local Level by sending his/her CV and a cover letter to this email address: application@ggoo.org

* Requests may be made at any time (of year). A- How to join the Global Board of Management (G-BOM)?
* Note: GGOO Global Board of Management (G-BOM) is the highest management body of GGOO worldwide currently includes: (Permanent) Founding members (Founding President, Founding Directors), Presidents or Co-Presidents, Executive Directors and Deputy Directors (Brands, Communications, PR, ICT, Finance, Human resources, Project Management, Business Development, etc) (a) Founding a new country chapter of GGOO by applying to G-BOM selection process at any time. Founder, Co-founders and National President or Directors in a country chapter will automatically join G-BOM as ocial members with a limited number of maximum 2 representatives selected by each National Management Board. (b) Running an election of global leadership position: e management leadership position is decided between G-BOM members by voting. People who get majority of the votes of total members are selected to become the leaders for a new management term of oce. (Usually a term of presidency or other leadership position last for at most 1 year)

B- How to join a National Board of Management (N-BOM)?

(a) Setting up a totally new National BOM of GGOO: For a non-member country, a young talented leader may apply for a Founder position by going through assessment processes including CV screening, application forms, quali cation tests and interviews. (b) At most 2 representatives selected by a Local Board of management automatically join as National Board Members who jointly make decision on strategic policies of the whole national chapter. (c) Running a national election: For a member country, a young talented leader who is an active member of N-BOM may apply for a leadership position in vacancy.

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C- How to join a Local Board of Management (L-BOM)?

(a) Setting up a new Local Chapter under guidance and selection of GGOO N-BOM in that country. An L-BOM must be based in a university or college, called GGOO followed by e name of university (e.g. GGOO NUS) (b) Project Manager of an initiative under GGOO recognition joins local chapter as an L-BOM member who jointly makes decision on management policies. (c) L-BOM members run election to acquire a new term of presidency and other leadership position on a regular basis (Maximum 1 year)

2. GGOOs Project Leadership Acquisition A- How to form a local project team in each country (under the management of the L-BOM)?
(a) Forming an independent team to run a social entrepreneurship initiative: If you are ready to start up a brand new initiative of social entrepreneurship, feel free to reach us by applying for a project leadership position recognized globally by GGOO. We will have you experienced a thorough selection process and consult with you about how to run a social entrepreneurship initiative successfully. Once you are selected as Project Manager/ Program Director, you are recognized as a GGOO member globally and can start forming/recruiting your own team members by yourself. You may join various networking, training, coaching and mentoring programs designed by us as well as worldwide movements of international competitions, scholarship and conference information shared by our members. (b) Aliate your own set initiatives/projects/organizations with GGOO: If you already have been working in a set project, your project and yourself are still able to join GGOO network and enjoy bene t from our global community and contribution certi cations. Any single enrolled student / graduate / and other young leaders in universities and other organizations or projects may apply to attain an international recognized membership and granted with a leadership position of Project Manager/Program Director of GGOO.

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GGOOs Member Pro le

1. Mr. ng Hng i President

2. Mr. Nguyn Minh Phc - Chief Operating Ocer (COO) Organizing Department

Year of Birth: 1990 Education: Degree (International Economics and Business), Foreign Trade University 12 Non-degree, Leadership in a changing world, SIPA|Columbia University 11, New York, US Non-degree, Environmental Leadership, NAC| Montana University 11, Missoula, Montana, US Position(s): National Director, Go Green International Organization (GGIO) Vietnam Communications Manager, Knowledge Link Group Achievement(s): Gold Medalist, Mckinsey Mekong Business Challenge 2011 Favorite quotes: No pain, no gain.
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Year of Birth:1990 Education:B.A (International Business), HAMK UAS, Finland, Currently Enrolled. Position(s):Finland Representative, EON Reality. Achievement(s): Top Ten Talented Candidate, Job Fair FTU 2010, Ring the Golden Bell 3rd, FTU Winner

3. Ms. inh Phng Anh - Organizing Department

Year of Birth: 1992 Education: B.A (International Business Economics), Foreign Trade University 14 Year of Birth: 1993 Education: Meridian Junior College 12, Singapore, Hanoi Amsterdam High School for the Gifted 13, Viet Nam, Currently Enrolled Position(s): Researcher, A*STAR Young Researchers Attachment Program Project Leader, Pathlight Project 2011, Singapore Organizer, Nocturnal Prom 2012 PR Team, SEAMAP English Club Achievement(s): A*STAR Scholarship 12, Singapore First place, Youth Category, A Voyage of Songs International Choir Competition, Hong Kong Favorite Quote: Everything you can imagine is real. Pablo Picasso Positions: Editorial Team Leader, Kenh14 Department, Vietnam Communications Corporation Alumni, Young Entrepreneurs and Sustainability Education (YESE) Achievement(s): First prize, Be Unicorns Talent Contest, Foreign Trade University Favorite quotes: Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish. Steve Jobs

5. Mr. Trn Hong - External Aairs Department

4. Ms. ng Hng Ngc - Chief Operating Ocer (COO) External Aairs Department

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Year of Birth: 1989 Education: B.A. (International Business and Management), Dickinson College, U.S.A Msc. Economics and Strategy for Business, Imperial College Business School, U.K, Currently Enrolled Positions: Financial Assistant, Asia Society, New York City

7. Ms. Phan Nguyn Nguyt Trc o Chief Operating Ocer (COO) GLocal Franchising Department

6. Mr. V anh Tng - Pr and Marketing Department

Year of Birth: 1991 Education: B.A (International Business Administration) Foreign Trade University 13, Ho Chi Minh City Campus Position: Co-founder/ Vice president, GGOO international Favorite Quote:Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.

8. Ms. Nguyn My Phng - GLocal Franchising Department

Year of Birth:1992 Education: B.A (External Economics), Foreign Trade University '14. Position(s): Volunteer and Supervisor, Hanoi Club for Disadvantaged Children at Trung Tu Elementary School Volunteer, Operation Smile Vietnam Favorite Quote: Its more than great, its immense. Why? Because it dares. Victor Hugo, Ls Misrables.

Year of Birth: 1991 Education: B.A (Economics and Business, Specialized in Marketing and Techno-

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entrepreneurship), National University of Singapore Position(s): Director of mentorship/training for Girls In Tech - Singapore Chapter Social Media Marketing Expert for YOOSEPrivateLimited Company Sales Director for Tam An LifePrivate Limited Company Founder of NextEdu.net External Aair Director for NUS Entrepreneurship Society Treasurer for NUS Political Association M&A and Property, Trading Apprentice program Achievement(s): Youth Leaders for GEILLI network Favorite quote: "e greatest pleasure in this world is doing things that people say you cannot do."

Business Analyst Intern, M Service co, LTD Achievement(s): Trustee Scholarship (90% tuition), Dean Awards Social Groups Served: Alpha Sigma Phi Fraternity; Vietnamese Student Association at Ohio Wesleyan University; Disadvantaged children (Columbus Initiative) Favorite Quote: "Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony." - Mahatma Gandhi

GGOOs Advisor: Mr. Bi Thanh Huy

Year of Birth: 1980 Education: MSc (Computer Science) Oxford Brookes University, UK Position(s): IT System Administrator for ChildFund in Vietnam Achievement(s): 1998 - ird prize in National Informatics competition 2002 - First prize in Student Science Research Report competition 2002 - Microsoft Certi ed Professional Certi cate - 2003 version 2005 -John Henry Brookes Scholarships 2012 - Microsoft Certi ed Information Technology Professional - 2008 version, Currently enrolled

9. Mr. Phm Tr Dng - G-Local Franchising Department

Year of Birth: 1989 Education: B.A. (International Business) Ohio Wesleyan University, U.S, Currently Enrolled Position(s): Recruiter and PR Manager outside America, Engtalks LLC
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Platform: IT support service management for ChildFund representative office in Vietnam Social Groups Served: Staffs in ChildFund in Vietnam; Poor communities in Northern Vietnam Favorite Quote: Don't think you are, know you are.

Social entrepreneurship is all about human creativity to solve problems

(Muhammad Yunus)

' For inquiry concerning membership or other questions, contact us at any time! Email:info@ggoo.org/ headoce@ggoo.org President: president@ggoo.org Directors: director@ggoo.org Facebook: Giant Gurus of the Odyssey Phone: Vietnam (84) 973 608 220 USA (1) 8648044880 Bulgaria (359)88594596
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