Accelerate Change

02/03/2025

See what you did?!
Supporters of Accelerate Change - we’re talking to you!

Because you believed in us, because you supported us and our fellow Kilimanjaro climbers on Give Butter and Climb for Change, you helped us deliver on our mission to uplift Africa-based entrepreneurs.

You felt our passion, saw our vision, and decided that ours is a nonprofit worthy of your support. 🙏

We are so grateful for every one of you who has contributed to putting smiles on these faces! 😍

These are some of the results and feedback we’ve learned since delivering our workshop to Tanzanian and Kenyan entrepreneurs in January:

💰”Negotiated with a client in Brazil that wanted to cut corners. By effectively communicating using Ben’s genius 4P Formula I was able to get full price for my services with an agreement the same day and cut out wasted time and low-ball offers.”

💰 Another participant learned how to effectively package his video and editing skills and was able to create consistent income with a local production company by implementing Value Based Pricing.

💰 Another was able to use the Messaging Matrix and “benefit-driven” communication to become the Tanzanian partner for ALL drone operations in conjunction with a global film producer!

In addition, during our time in Arusha, we supported a female startup business who is one of four in the country being granted an organic certification from the Sustainable Agriculture Tanzania, and we’re presently helping a female practitioner who specializes in releasing family and generational trauma to create messaging around her business to potentially help hundreds more people.

All of this, including all that is to become from our ripples of impact and through our ongoing work at Accelerate Change, is in part made possible because YOU said YES to supporting us.

Thank you so much!

If you feel compelled to give in 2025 and follow along on our journey to continue to address gaps in education and workforce development, find the link to our website in the comments!

09/07/2022

So glad to see the continual development of Green City Solutions since their TEDxGrandPark talk in 2019.
Just months before the globe went through an airborne viral pandemic, this start-up has been growing its innovative solutions to clean the air around us.

Check out the delivering every day.

A hall of every day! 💪

Since the beginning of September 2021, one of our has been tested in an industrial environment for the first time: the first “ ”!

In the production hall of the manufacturer Refratechnik Ceramics GmbH in Melle, it stood until recently near the tunnel kiln, where was strongly felt. Thanks to the special air quality sensor technology, we can also measure and display the special benefits and performance of the . After an initial constant , the daily schedule was adapted to work days and weekends: During working hours, more air is being filtered than on days off. 📊

Daily, an air volume of over 30,000 m³ can thus be purified! This also means: The in the hall with an area of 6,000 m² is completely circulated and filtered every day! 🍃

Read more: https://greencitysolutions.de/en/a-hall-of-fresh-air-every-day.

In order to find the ideal location for the CityTree and to expand our knowledge about , the moss filter has now been moved to another location. This will allow us to test the here as well, under different conditions and with different heat exposure.
We are looking forward to the next results, stay tuned! ⏰

Thanks to Refratechnik Ceramics GmbH for the trustful project ! 💚


Stadtmarketing Melle e. V. Stadt Melle BDI - Bundesverband der Deutschen Industrie EU Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship & SMEs EU Environment Niedersächsisches Ministerium für Umwelt, Energie, Bauen und Klimaschutz Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Klimaschutz

(📸 source: Refratechnik Group/GCS)

05/28/2020

❌ Important talk about Skid Row and the homeless issue ❌

Check out Officer Deon Joseph's recent TEDxGrandPark talk where he discussed the important underlying issues of Skid Row and the mental health state of emergency.

In a time when there is a divide between many citizens and police officers, hear Deon share a balanced perspective through his years of experience in the trenches.

We find ourselves at the crossroads of influencing change either for the positive or negative, through our actions or inactions, through speaking up or keeping quiet, through our vote with our ballots or our dollars.

We invite you to engage with the TEDxGrandPark talks, reach out to the speakers who mostly follow this page and to spark conversations that can accelerate positive change.

Our mission was to bring speakers to present Ideas Worth Spreading and to help put those ideas into action...

What step will you take today?

Deon Joseph is a law enforcement consultant who has worked for the LAPD for over 20 years - seventeen of those years in downtown Los Angeles’ Skid Row community. In his talk, Deon offers practical insights from his experience working boots on the ground in one of the worst homeless situations in t...

05/15/2020

❌ New TEDxGrandPark talk released! ❌

Aminta Skye delivers a passionate, articulate talk about her experience seeing firsthand how cutting art in schools is stifling creativity and imagination in her generation.

She powerfully calls the audience to action with 3 steps we can do to help rectify this for future generations.

"I was living in a society that praised innovation and entrepreneurship but did not provide an educational experience that encouraged the cultivation of that...

05/08/2020

❌ New TEDxGrandPark talk released! ❌

In this talk, Flora Lee shares how a new generation of architects is bridging the divide between nature and built environments and reveals stunning visual designs that are changing the way we live and interact in dense cityscapes.

Check it out!

"I believe that buildings don’t have to be soulless, functional machines for living. They can be more than that. They can become a space that promotes human ...

05/07/2020

❌ New TEDxGrandPark talk released! ❌

In this talk, Sabrina Lynch invites us to work toward a future where tech devices and AI are built around inclusivity so that people from all backgrounds and abilities are included in the design, and shares with us new ways we can use tech devices we already have to communicate and interact in a more inclusive way.

Thank you, Sabrina!

In this talk, Sabrina invites the audience to consider new ways they can use the devices they already have to communicate and interact in a more inclusive wa...

05/04/2020

❌New TEDxGrandPark talk released!❌

Brett Feldman reveals his radical approach to caring for our homeless neighbors as the Director of Street Medicine at USC Keck School of Medicine in Los Angeles, CA.

His remarkably humble, compassionate, and consistent approach to caring for patients on the streets fosters extraordinary trust and camaraderie, which in turn renders extraordinary results in patient outcomes.

Since the December 2019 TEDxGrandPark event when this talk was filmed, Brett and his team have furthered their heroic efforts by publishing Street Medicine guidelines for COVID-19.

Bravo, local hero - positively affecting lives across the globe!

"Homelessness is certainly not just houselessness". Brett Feldman reveals his radical approach to caring for our homeless neighbors as the Director of Street...