Past Recipients & Stories
Past Recipients
The social venture for the 2008 internship was Mozzo, a fast-growing fair trade and organic coffee business based in Southampton. Sarah Dodds was actively working with Mozzo’s management at the time of her death in June 2008, and strongly believed that capacity-building input could help the management team and the business achieve impressive growth. Management will require input on growth and marketing strategy, business strategy, and assisting the business to attract investment capital. www.mozzo.co.uk
The second intake was for three interns in different companies. Unpackaged, Blue Ventures and SDEA
You can read more about the social ventures of 2009 in the SDEA Update or the case studies below:
SDEA first placement: Mozzo Coffee and Mike Quinn, 2008
SDEA second placements: SDEA and Meredith Benton, 2009
SDEA second placements: Alex Ghita and Unpackaged, 2009
Sarah Dodds was a social innovator who was passionate about capacity building for early-stage, high potential social enterprises and social businesses. Through her work launching Accenture’s well-known ADP (Accenture Development Partnerships), her work at Crisis and boutique consultancy projects and later her role as Director of Ventures for UnLtd, the UK’s foundation for social entrepreneurs, Sarah identified a crucial gap in the current support mechanisms available to social entrepreneurs. She focused on early-stage enterprises that had achieved some level of “proof of concept” but which were in need of business thinking and operational improvements to create a platform for growth.