INVEST IN GOOD PRESENTATION: PRESENTER NOTES - Good Return
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INVEST IN GOOD PRESENTATION: PRESENTER NOTES Overview of presentation The full presentation is approximately 20 minutes long depending on your presentation style. It's been designed so you can choose to remove slides if they aren't relevant to your presentation. There is a video embedded in the final slide before the end, this video is also hosted on You Tube if you are having technical issues (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8kOMZAoQLI). The video runs for 2.58 minutes. It's important to build a connection with the audience for them to understand and want to 'invest in good'. The best way to connect is through stories. You'll see as you go through the guide that we have several opportunities for story telling but the most powerful story you have to tell is your story. Share with the audience why you support Good Return and the work we do, why is our mission important to you? Preparing for your presentation Whether you're a pro at presenting or just starting out, it is helpful to review some presenting best practices. Rehearse, Rehearse: We've designed the presentation to be simple to present but running through will help you familiarise yourself with the material.
Connect with the audience: Focus on connecting with your audience by facing them and making eye contact. Some slides are conveying complex topics so they are detailed with more text than usual so try not to read the slides if possible. Make it personal: Personalise your presentation with personal stories or anecdotes. If you've been on a trip with Good Return or been touched by someone's story then share it with your audience. Remember it isn't just about sharing the story of the people we help, but also sharing your story and why you support Good Retun. Imagine... Remember if you need any help or extra materials please get in touch.
Slide 1: Introduction
Introduce yourself and Good Return.
Supporting Good Return is
investment because our impact multiplies
as it ripples through local financial
institutions, their clients, families,
businesses, and communities.
This is really important because when you
give to a person, you help that one person
or their family at one point in time. When
you give to Good Return, you invest in a
self-sustaining financial and educational
infrastructure.
Imagine you live in rural Cambodia, you
have your own small farm that you and your
husband work on. You have 2 small children
who are in school and you're making ends
Slide 2: Imagine
meet but you don't have access to a bank
account and you don't have any money
saved.
One day your husband comes off his
motorbike and injures himself quite badly.
Suddenly he can't work on the farm and the
output of the farm drops dramatically. You
have predatory lenders offering to lend you
loans with huge interest rates and you
consider taking the loan. You're feeling
really stressed, you're helping your husband,
managing the farm, trying to work out the
finances for your business and family, and
most of all you're worried about if you can
keep your kids in school.
You end up in debt and you are now starting
to think about taking your kids out of school
to work in the rice fields.
Slide 3: A world without poverty
At Good Return we help people like this,
we give them hope to achieve their
Imagine... dreams and make a better life for them
and their future.
We enable people to build pathways out of
poverty, by providing access to
responsible finance, as well as financial
education and business skills.
We're also accredited by Australian
Council for International Development
(ACFID). This means we're held to high
standards but it also strengthen the
collective impact against poverty.
Slide 4: Our mission
Our mission is ambitious but it focused on
areas where we believe we can make an
impact.
We believe that most effective way of
achieving our mission is so help people and
communities create their own employment
and income earning opportunities.
Slide 5: Alignment with SDGs
Our mission aligns with the UN's
Imagine... sustainable development goals. They're the
blueprint to achieve a better and more
sustainable future for all. There are 17
goals and they address all the global
challenges we face such as poverty,
inequality, climate and peace & justice.
Our focus is on ' no poverty' but they're all
interconnected and our work goes across
several of them.
For the goals to be reached, everyone needs
to do their part: governments, the private
sector, civil society and people like you.
Slide 6: Our history
Although these goals were adopted in 2015,
our story began in 2003 as World Education
Australia Limited. We grew over the next 6
years and officially became Good Return in
2009.
In 2 short years , we financed our 1000th
borrower:
A lady named Chandrawati is from Nepal
where the cooking spice cardamom is one
of local farmers’ most successful crops.
Her husband is a farmer, and together they
work their small plot of land to grow maize
and some rice. As cardamom thrives in the
area, she decided to start cultivating the
spice herself.
She requested a loan to buy seeds and
fertiliser, so that she could start planting.
Her goal was to harvest a fine crop, and sell
it at a good price to local wholesalers who
supply Indian and export markets.
Chandrawati's loan meant that her new
business venture created more income for
her family, and made a lasting difference to
their lives.
And in just another 2 years we had financed
5000 borrowers and had lent $1million.
We've since gone on to help over 2 million
people.
Slide 7 Our Asia Pacific focus
Some of the people most affected by
poverty are right on our doorstep.
Parts of Asia Pacific are experiencing
incredibly fast economic growth but
the growth isnt even. The gap
between the wealthy and those living
in poverty is increasing.
There are also a lot of inequalities,
for example the average woman's
wage in Asia is between 70 to 90% of
a man's. The region's economies are
predicted to continue to grow and
these inequalities are predicted to
grow with them.
Slide 8 Who we work with
We work with people in these
countries who are excluded from
meaningful participation in the
economy, particularly women.
When I think about the people who
benefit from what we do, they aren't
after a handout or pity. They're proud
of their countries and how far they've
come but they just want access to
the same opportunities we have
here.
They have hopes and dreams for the
future, if they have children they
want to their children succeed
Slide 9 How we do it
We're all about creating a sustainable
future and key for us is ensuring they can
build pathways out of poverty, and we do
this by providing access to responsible
finance as well as financial education and
business skills development.
Loans
Microloans: Our online loan platform allows the Australian public to join
forces to lend a hand to our microfinance partners and their clients.
Impact Investing: Small businesses that are too large for microfinance often
struggle to access finance from banks, since they often lack a banking
relationship and sufficient equity and assets to provide needed security. To
address this financing constraint, we have developed a guarantee scheme
that supports and mobilises local bank credit for worthy enterprises that
generate income and employment for those living in poverty.
Education and skills.
CAFE aims to improve the wellbeing of low income populations by boosting
their financial capability and self confidence.
The program brings together microfinance associations, their members,
NGOs and consumers to build a healthy ecosystem. This in turn extends and
protects the interests of clients, and boosts their confidence in the system.
. Face-to-face (F2F) training: this involves delivering financial capability
training over a 10 or 20 week period. Participants appreciate this training
because they find
it easy to understand, and to apply.
2. Financial Coaching: this involves working with small groups of
participants to achieve their personal financial goals
3. Customer Experience: this involves working with financial service
providers to provide more customer-centric and responsive services
Better Banking
Microfinance institutions can struggle to stay abreast of and train their
staff in the requirements of responsible financial service provision.
In an environment where risk management has been elevated by policy
makers, regulators and operators, this is more important than ever.
To address the challenge, Good Return has leveraged its resources to
build a learning platform that focuses on the core principles of
responsible, inclusive finance: RIF Academy.
The RIF Academy portal offers a user-friendly interface, and access for
low bandwidth users across multiple devices (desktop, tablet, or
mobile).
Slide 10 Some of our recent impact
Our work ripples out in communities and
has a multiplier affect.
For example when we fund 10,000 loans
that benefits not only the person
borrowing the money but also their family
and their community.
When we work with 20 financial service
providers to strengthen their capacity this
positively affects 1 million people!
Slide 11 Our partnerships
Central to our work are our partnerships.
We work with organisations that have a
shared mission, we work with them to
build capacity and actually aim at making
ourselves redundant once we've built that
capacity.
Sometimes that means we step back
because we've built that capacity but
sometimes the relationship deepens as
there is more we can help with.
Slide 12 How we're different
We're proud of our relationships and
who we partner with but we're also
different for a number of other
reasons:
We work with technology and
digital solutions so we reach more
people.
We have an inclusive approach so that
no one is left behind
and we genuinely reflect on what we do
and how we can continue to improve.Slide 13 Samai's story Hopefully you remember the story from
the beginning of the presentation about
the lady who was about to pull her kids
out of school.
Well that was Samai. You can see after
participating in our CAFE program she is
looking a lot happier.
Samai learned the right questions to ask
and how to choose and use financial
products like loans responsibly. She
learned how to shop around for the right
financial service provider, how to not
borrow above her capabilities and how to
keep track of her money.
Today, Samai has two separate savings
tins – one for an emergency, like her
husband’s accident, and another to save
for more pigs and, one day, maybe some
cows. She’s just taken out microloan to
pay for her daughter’s wedding and is
confident in her ability to make the right
financial choices to repay it, while
continuing to build her business and
support her family.
Slide 14 Video
The video is 2 minutes long.
It is great to show if you have
time.Slide 15 Get invovled
I want to thank you for your time
today and hope you've found this
session informative.
If you'd like to get involved and
help Good Return please feel to
get in touch directly or speak to
me at the end.You can also read
