How do we help the survivors recover long term? They need jobs and food... Beekeeping just might be a way to help bees and people in Japan.
HelpJapan.co is a social venture foundup® of Foundups Corp. It goal is to launch social ventures to help Japan recover from it's horrible Tsunami and nuclear disaster.
Monday, October 17, 2011
Tuesday, April 19, 2011
The Fledgling Team of Visionaries -
"For the last month I have been walking the walk and talking the talk. Pounding my network and scouring for Advisors, Team members and partners. It's not been easy." Trout
Heres is an screen shot of our sliderocket presentation on who's on board.
Heres is an screen shot of our sliderocket presentation on who's on board.
contribute, endorse and share. It's that simple.
contribute, endorse and share. It's that simple.
There are 3 things you can do to help...
1. Contribute - Visit http://Helpjapan.co and make a contribution. People never know what's the right amount... I always recommend that people make 0.1% of their net income. If you take home $25k then make a $25... if you make $100K then contribute $100 etc...
2. Endorse - Linkup with HelpJapanco on LI http://linkd.in/helpmehelpjapan (helpJapan@foundups.com) and
3. Share - our presentations http://bit.ly/beproactive and http://bit.ly/helpjapancodeck or this video
Thanks for your support.
Michael J. Trout
Founder, HelpJapanco social venture foundup
There are 3 things you can do to help...
1. Contribute - Visit http://Helpjapan.co and make a contribution. People never know what's the right amount... I always recommend that people make 0.1% of their net income. If you take home $25k then make a $25... if you make $100K then contribute $100 etc...
2. Endorse - Linkup with HelpJapanco on LI http://linkd.in/helpmehelpjapan (helpJapan@foundups.com) and
3. Share - our presentations http://bit.ly/beproactive and http://bit.ly/helpjapancodeck or this video
Thanks for your support.
Michael J. Trout
Founder, HelpJapanco social venture foundup
Thursday, April 14, 2011
HelpJapanco™ turning the Federal Contractor model into a force for good!
HelpJapanco™ wants to make the Federal contracts a force for global good. Here is a simple presentation on how they aim to do it!
Wednesday, April 13, 2011
Christine Robinson, President Christine Robinson & Associates Joins HelpJapanco Team
Christine Robinson
President
Christine Robinson & Associates
President
Christine Robinson & Associates
Christine Robinson, specializing in technology strategy, architecture and security, drives innovation and transformation through people, processes and solutions, with heavy emphasis on security and emergency preparedness and disaster recovery. As President of the Christine Robinson & Associates consulting and system integration firm, she advises U.S. military and other government and industry leadership concerning the world’s largest information technology deployments down to small-localized solutions. She collaborates with leading local, national and international experts to advance industry thought leadership with application across industry and government. Interviewed on television numerous times on these subjects, her internationally distributed published works on Enterprise Architecture, Business Process Management, security, emergency preparedness and disaster recovery and environmental sustainability appear in books, magazines and online publications. Academic, public and private sectors around the world have incorporated and implemented her concepts. She serves as an advisory board member for the EmeraldPlanet, member of the Security Innovation Network (SINET) communications team, an Armed Forces Communications and Electronics (AFCEA) official guest blogger and volunteer advisor to Arlington County, which are just some of her affiliations. Robinson graduated with her MBA from George Washington University and received her bachelor’s from the University of Texas at San Antonio.
Thursday, April 7, 2011
Wednesday, April 6, 2011
1minute HelpJapan.co Pitch - become a socially responsible Halliburton for Natural Disaster Response and Recovery
Trout talks about his vision and goal for HelpJapan.co
HelpJapan.co is a social venture with a goal to become a socially responsible "Halliburton" for Global Natural Disaster Response and Recovery.
We all know how Halliburton abused the plight of the Iraq people and made 100s of millions off the Iraq war. What if we could provide similar services and solutions via the 4000+ Integrator companies that support the US Government, but do it in a socially responsible way that re-invests profits back into:
1. scaling up to help provide every impacted community the solutions and services they need
2. providing free solutions and services to the victims
Social Ventures aim to be accountable and transparent. Unlike NPOs, NGOs and public/private corps Social Ventures provide a 100% transparency to all stakeholders (contributors, partners and investors).
As a result of our efforts to help Japan we would also be helping American companies by providing more business opportunities to the 4000+ US Integrator support companies that actually do the heavy lifting for the large Integrators (GM, Lockheed, BAE Systems, etc...).
HelpJapan.co goal is to becomes a facilitator for its US and global small to mid-sized business partners by identifying the need and providing the solutions creating a win-win for both the US and Japan...
what if as a result we could scale up to becoming a 1st response services & solutions company for global disaster recovery?... Think of the good we could do. If we are successful I see no reason why we could not set aside a $billion fund to help those directly impacted by providing 0 interest loan and financing allowing victims to recover NOW and not wait in line for the next 5 years for the assistance they require. And most importantly we can be ready for the next disaster and be proactive and not reactive. This is a powerful idea and vision and I need your help and assistance to launch.
Why not help it come to pass by becoming a stakeholder by contributing to http://helpJapan.co and helping us reach our $100K launch goal! So far we have secured $25K in pledges and contribution.
We are also actively seeking Prime Partners (8 slots remaining).
Thanks for your support!
-Michael J. Trout
Founder, HelpJapan.co
(a Foundups Corp., Social Venture Foundup®)
HelpJapan.co is a social venture with a goal to become a socially responsible "Halliburton" for Global Natural Disaster Response and Recovery.
We all know how Halliburton abused the plight of the Iraq people and made 100s of millions off the Iraq war. What if we could provide similar services and solutions via the 4000+ Integrator companies that support the US Government, but do it in a socially responsible way that re-invests profits back into:
1. scaling up to help provide every impacted community the solutions and services they need
2. providing free solutions and services to the victims
Social Ventures aim to be accountable and transparent. Unlike NPOs, NGOs and public/private corps Social Ventures provide a 100% transparency to all stakeholders (contributors, partners and investors).
As a result of our efforts to help Japan we would also be helping American companies by providing more business opportunities to the 4000+ US Integrator support companies that actually do the heavy lifting for the large Integrators (GM, Lockheed, BAE Systems, etc...).
HelpJapan.co goal is to becomes a facilitator for its US and global small to mid-sized business partners by identifying the need and providing the solutions creating a win-win for both the US and Japan...
what if as a result we could scale up to becoming a 1st response services & solutions company for global disaster recovery?... Think of the good we could do. If we are successful I see no reason why we could not set aside a $billion fund to help those directly impacted by providing 0 interest loan and financing allowing victims to recover NOW and not wait in line for the next 5 years for the assistance they require. And most importantly we can be ready for the next disaster and be proactive and not reactive. This is a powerful idea and vision and I need your help and assistance to launch.
Why not help it come to pass by becoming a stakeholder by contributing to http://helpJapan.co and helping us reach our $100K launch goal! So far we have secured $25K in pledges and contribution.
We are also actively seeking Prime Partners (8 slots remaining).
Thanks for your support!
-Michael J. Trout
Founder, HelpJapan.co
(a Foundups Corp., Social Venture Foundup®)
Tuesday, April 5, 2011
Wednesday, March 23, 2011
iFEST co-founder, Mr. Mike Snyder -- Joins HelpJapan.co as an Advisor.
Mike Snyder, HelpJapan.co Advisor Mike is a social entrepreneur and an international economist based in Washington DC and Salt Lake City, Utah. He is the chief evangelist and principal co-Founder of iFEST. He has most recently served as a senior international manager at the American Chemical Society, handling all cooperative programs for Asia. He has also worked for the US Secretary of Education on science and math education reform at the Department of Education, and has managed international life sciences cooperation at the Fogarty International Center of NIH in Bethesda, Maryland. As an entrepreneur, Mike started Asia-Pacific programs from scratch at the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 1996 with over $1 million in grant funding from the US National Science Foundation, the John D. Evans Foundation, the Japan-US Friendship Commission, the Korea-US Science Cooperation Center, and other sources. Mike also served over 3 years researching science and technology policy issues for congressional leaders as an analyst at the congressional Office of Technology Assessment.
Mike earned his baccalaureate and then his MA in Economics from the University of Utah, where he graduated cum laude and was inducted into Phi Beta Kappa. He has lived and worked extensively in Asia, and studied economics and finance for one year at Kyoto University and Doshisha University in Japan as a Rotary Foundation International Graduate Fellow. He is fluent in Japanese. Mike has published numerous articles and presented at numerous conferences on innovation, entrepreneurship, international science cooperation, education policy, and related topics. He has over 15 years of experience leading analytical and program teams to develop and implement landmark scientific, technological, educational, and economic cooperation programs between the US, Asia, and Europe.
Tuesday, March 22, 2011
HELPJAPAN.CO A SOCIAL VENTURE INITIATED BY FOUNDUPS CORP. RAISES $25,000 TO HELP SURVIVORS AND SMALL JAPANESE COMMUNITIES DEVASTATED TSUNAMI
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
CONTACT:
Michael J. Trout
HelpJapan.co
mtrout@foundups.com
+1 202 643-3848
+81 09013920461
HELPJAPAN.CO A SOCIAL VENTURE INITIATED BY FOUNDUPS CORP. RAISES $25,000 TO HELP SURVIVORS AND SMALL JAPANESE COMMUNITIES DEVASTATED TSUNAMI
FUKUI, JAPAN, March 22 2011 – One day after witnessing the devastation of the Japanese Tsunami Michael J. Trout, and former ELT teacher, founder of Foundups Corp., has taken the lead in launching a new social venture: HelpJapan.co. The goal is to provide services and solutions to help survivors and the smaller Japanese communities rebuild their lives. "A lot of these communities will disappear if we dont help them recover. The government will be focused on primarily the larger ones." Some 1.5m people were impacted by the tsunami and 500,000 people are estimated to be without water and shelter. Through crowdfunding efforts and a network of DC Integrator investors HelpJapan.co plans on launch its first solutions in the coming months. Trout's has already secured nearly $25,000 in pledges and contributions via a crowdfunding campaign "Be Proactive, Not Reactive. HelpJapan.co" Trout's goal is to raise $100K in the next 70 days and will use the funds to provide products, services and solutions that will give survivors clean water technology, for bathing, cooking and drinking and their own temporary personal shelter while the government prepares their prefabricated homes. HelpJapan.co will help provide the essentials for the people to make it through this crisis and over the next 10 years work with communities rebuild.
HelpJapan.co is a foundup™ of Foundups Corp., a Delaware corporation, with headquarters in Washington DC and Fukui, Japan that focuses on incubating and developing innovative ideas that will profound impact on society and its communities.
Monday, March 21, 2011
HelpJapan.co Social Venture Fund -- have you invested in rebuilding Japan?
We are releasing our presentation on how HelpJapan.co could help leverage the needed funds for the rebuilding of coastal communities devastated by the 11-3-11 Tsunami that has left Sendai and the surrounding region in ruins. As it stands 1000s of families will NEVER return to their homes and many of the small communities will never recover. They need your help.
The idea of a Social Ventures is simple... provide Solutions and Services to Japan Gov, NGOs and NPOs and keep reinvesting the funds until $1billion fund is created over the next 3-5 years then leverage it to help rebuild the many devastated communities. DC is a community built on providing services and solutions to Integrators (companies that provide solutions to the FED). HelpJapan.co is modeled after Inc. 500 fast growing company PCNStrategies, but instead of providing services and solutions to Integrators they will provide them to that Trout call's "The Bottleneck."
The Bottleneck are NGO, Large NPO and Government agencies all overwhelmed by the devastation of recent event. HelpJapan.co is a long term solution that will still be focused on the recovery efforts when reactionary global NGOs and NPOs go off chasing the next crisis. Social venture re-invest profits that will provide the best possible return for the survivors that can be re-invested to continue to snowball the recovery process. Social Ventures are sustainable just like corporations are... NPOs and NGO are reliant on the support of individuals, groups and governments.
Trout possesses a Masters in Nonprofit management and Administration and a past Strategic Campaign Director for NCDS, Inc. that has raised over billion for economic development initiatives and communities over the last 30 years. His friend and Sempai Mr. Edward D. Miller is one the most known and established of all American's in Fukui with 27 years as a business leader. Fukui Japan is the home some of the wealthiest private companies in the world (7-11 owners and Ono Holdings etc..).
The idea of a Social Ventures is simple... provide Solutions and Services to Japan Gov, NGOs and NPOs and keep reinvesting the funds until $1billion fund is created over the next 3-5 years then leverage it to help rebuild the many devastated communities. DC is a community built on providing services and solutions to Integrators (companies that provide solutions to the FED). HelpJapan.co is modeled after Inc. 500 fast growing company PCNStrategies, but instead of providing services and solutions to Integrators they will provide them to that Trout call's "The Bottleneck."
The Bottleneck are NGO, Large NPO and Government agencies all overwhelmed by the devastation of recent event. HelpJapan.co is a long term solution that will still be focused on the recovery efforts when reactionary global NGOs and NPOs go off chasing the next crisis. Social venture re-invest profits that will provide the best possible return for the survivors that can be re-invested to continue to snowball the recovery process. Social Ventures are sustainable just like corporations are... NPOs and NGO are reliant on the support of individuals, groups and governments.
Trout possesses a Masters in Nonprofit management and Administration and a past Strategic Campaign Director for NCDS, Inc. that has raised over billion for economic development initiatives and communities over the last 30 years. His friend and Sempai Mr. Edward D. Miller is one the most known and established of all American's in Fukui with 27 years as a business leader. Fukui Japan is the home some of the wealthiest private companies in the world (7-11 owners and Ono Holdings etc..).
Sunday, March 20, 2011
Foundups Corp appoints Mr. Edward Miller to lead HelpJapan.co in Japan
Fukui, Japan. Foundup Corps,. appoints Mr. Edward Miller to serve as CEO of HelpJapan.co social venture for helping in the rehabilitation of Japan.
Mr. Miller has 27 years in Japan: created and managed (and continue to manage) a chain of language and consulting services with corporate customer base throughout Japan. A highly skilled manager Mr. Miller served 20 years as a Rotary International member, holding a wide variety of posts including leading a Rotary International sponsored study group to France on a four-week tour; and then received a reciprocal visit from the Lille District Rotary Branch as host branch.
He served five years on the Japan Junior Chamber of Commerce: held a variety of local, regional and national posts; created the seminar “Life-Planning for the 21st Century” that was acknowledged by the Junior Chamber of Commerce International with the distinction of “Official Junior Chamber International Endorsed Seminar”, the first ever from the Japan Junior Chamber. Led a team to all four zones of JCI: Africa, Europe, North and South America, and Asia, to personally present the 2-day seminar in each of the zones. The program continues to be implemented throughout the JCI world since it first being introduced in 2000 at the Hawaii World Congress. I have personally received life-time status as a JCI Senior member.
He possess native level fluency in Japansese and a deep and abiding love, respect and understanding of Japan and its people, customs, and beliefs.
About HelpJapan.co. HelpJapan.co is a foundup™ of Foundups Corp., a Delaware corporation that focuses on incubating and developing innovative ideas that will profound impact on society and its communities. HelpJapan.co was started by Foundups Corp., founder Michael J. Trout after experiencing the earthquake and witnessing the devastation of the 11-3-11 Tsunami cause the people of Japan. The gaol of the social venture is to help communities return and will invest in their development improvements. It has taken the lead in bringing the LifeSaver Systems to Japan.
Mr. Miller has 27 years in Japan: created and managed (and continue to manage) a chain of language and consulting services with corporate customer base throughout Japan. A highly skilled manager Mr. Miller served 20 years as a Rotary International member, holding a wide variety of posts including leading a Rotary International sponsored study group to France on a four-week tour; and then received a reciprocal visit from the Lille District Rotary Branch as host branch.
He served five years on the Japan Junior Chamber of Commerce: held a variety of local, regional and national posts; created the seminar “Life-Planning for the 21st Century” that was acknowledged by the Junior Chamber of Commerce International with the distinction of “Official Junior Chamber International Endorsed Seminar”, the first ever from the Japan Junior Chamber. Led a team to all four zones of JCI: Africa, Europe, North and South America, and Asia, to personally present the 2-day seminar in each of the zones. The program continues to be implemented throughout the JCI world since it first being introduced in 2000 at the Hawaii World Congress. I have personally received life-time status as a JCI Senior member.
He possess native level fluency in Japansese and a deep and abiding love, respect and understanding of Japan and its people, customs, and beliefs.
About HelpJapan.co. HelpJapan.co is a foundup™ of Foundups Corp., a Delaware corporation that focuses on incubating and developing innovative ideas that will profound impact on society and its communities. HelpJapan.co was started by Foundups Corp., founder Michael J. Trout after experiencing the earthquake and witnessing the devastation of the 11-3-11 Tsunami cause the people of Japan. The gaol of the social venture is to help communities return and will invest in their development improvements. It has taken the lead in bringing the LifeSaver Systems to Japan.
Saturday, March 19, 2011
Week One Update
- Around $14,000 secured in donations and pledges to the HelpJapan.co Initiative
- ALL Social media sites created (FB Group, LI Group, LI Profile, LI Corp Profile, Twitter, Blog)
- Key Channel Parter Secured - LifeSaverSystems.com
- Lead Pacesetting pledge secured - $10,000 from PCNStrategies.com
Wednesday, March 16, 2011
Facebook Group created!
JOIN OUR GROUP
Until the cause becomes it own NPO the entity will be using EDUIT as an umbrella. Please keep in mind that donations are NOT tax-deductible. We don't use the word donation but "investment"... we are looking to invest in helping close-nit Japanese communities like the one I live in recover!
Thanks for your support!
Until the cause becomes it own NPO the entity will be using EDUIT as an umbrella. Please keep in mind that donations are NOT tax-deductible. We don't use the word donation but "investment"... we are looking to invest in helping close-nit Japanese communities like the one I live in recover!
Thanks for your support!
Saturday, March 12, 2011
My goal is simple... help a community recover. Help me help Japan!
Join Help Me Help Japan Campaign
I have been living in Japan for 6 years now and want to do whatever I can to help its people. What could have happened to so many could have happened to me and I am acting as if it did. I am stopping my current work and activities to dedicate 100% of my time energy and passion to solving a Japanese communities problems of water, clothing and shelter. I have an extensive global reach and I am asking you to help me crowd-source to help me help Japan. United we can make a difference. Click on this link and contribute to the campaign.
Help me help Japan!
My main blog is "Be Good" at mtrout.com.
I have been living in Japan for 6 years now and want to do whatever I can to help its people. What could have happened to so many could have happened to me and I am acting as if it did. I am stopping my current work and activities to dedicate 100% of my time energy and passion to solving a Japanese communities problems of water, clothing and shelter. I have an extensive global reach and I am asking you to help me crowd-source to help me help Japan. United we can make a difference. Click on this link and contribute to the campaign.
Help me help Japan!
My main blog is "Be Good" at mtrout.com.
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