I am working on a course project, “Stand On Your Own”, in which I hope to encourage single parents to create Eco-friendly product that they could sell at stalls offered to them by non-profit organizations.

1. Stand On Your Own
(SOYO)
a project to empower single parents

2. I am taking an online course, “Leading Strategic Innovation in
Organizations”, through Coursera. It is conducted by instructor David
A. Owens of Vanderbilt University.
I am required to submit my course project and I have used an image
found on your website. The project I am working on is “Stand On
Your Own”, in which I hope to encourage single parents to create
eco-friendly product that they could sell at stalls offered to them by
non-profit organizations.
You can view how I have used your image in my course work at the
following link:
http://www.slideshare.net/GreenBeingNancy/stand-on-your-own-soyo
I will remove the image used if it is not acceptable to you.
However, if the idea I have envisioned for “Stand On Your Own”
resonates with you, I hope to hear from you soon on how you would
like to adopt it in your own community.
Thank you.

3. Sometimes…
…this is not a reality.

4. No matter…

5. …who leaves…

6. …the ones most hurt are…
HELP! I AM
JUST A KID.
…the offspring.

7. Most single parents
I know do not have
the skills to go back
to work.

8. I heard about the support from:
Non-profit Organizations
Free stalls for single parents during events they hold.

10. An initiative:
Stand On Your Own (SOYO)
Moto: "Give a man a fish and
you feed him for a day; teach
a man to fish and you feed
him for a lifetime."

11. Encourage single parents
to create to sell
GREEN
PRODUCT
ECO-FRIENDLY

12. Funding:
Where will this come from?

13. Discards and Waste Material?
Save Cost to Create

14. Copper wire
Extracted from leftover electric cables.

15. Out of date…
…wallpaper sample book.

16. Fabric Swatches
free samples

17. Punctured Tubes

18. Examples? Extract copper
wires from
leftover cables.
Copper wires are
easier to work with
for new students of
wire wrapped work.

19. Save Cost to Learn
Use substitutes
Consider fishing line.

20. Wire wrapped gravels can’t sell?
Will these with crystals do?

21. Cardboard Transformed
decorate with

22. Punctured Tube
Transformation

23. These transformed to these…
paint chips
art
http://www.pinterest.com/pin/263812490645510391/
http://www.pinterest.com/pin/543317142516360485/

24. Plastic Bags
Transformation

25. Plastic Bags?
Don’t sell?

26. Start a Crafting Class

27. Create Useful Artifacts

28. Help reduce
cost of living
Make for school events.
Give away as gifts

29. Toys for Children

30. For dressing up the dolls.

31. As Tools and Craft material…
…for learning a new craft

33. Need cords for your work?
This is where you
can find them.

34. Discover free
tutorial online:
http://www.pinterest.com/pin/516788125961830580/

35. Do an online search
for inspirations.
Isn’t that an airplane propeller?
Search “upcycled bicycle parts” to
Discover things you can make
out of bicycle parts.
http://greenbeingnancy.blogspot.com/2013/04/be-green-
philanthropist-how.html

36. Before you throw…
Think. Will this sell…?

37. …after upcycling them.
http://www.pinterest.com/pin/530861874800095983/
http://www.pinterest.com/pin/257901516132437988/

38. Will this
sell?
http://www.pinterest.com/pin/530861874798929467/
http://www.pinterest.com/pin/113223378106272526/

39. Refashioned! Once loved items.
http://www.pinterest.com/pin/530861874800268869/
Will this sell?

40. http://www.pinterest.com/pin/279082508131359080/
Will these sell?
Broken pots and old toys?

41. Art from menstrual blood?
Wow! You decide.
http://thoughtcatalog.com/chloe-cross/2013/07/i-make-art-out-of-my-own-period-blood/

42. How to motivate a start?
Share success stories
Carrie creates something to remember
your loved ones by.
http://www.carriebears.com/

43. Create something unique?
How?
This mouse is dead but Jeanie is able
to make it looks cute and alive again.
http://www.mouseangel.com/mice.htm

44. RagBag is a company that sells fashionable bags
and organizers made by a group of people in
India. These are crafted out of plastic bags and
old cotton sari they collected.
http://www.ragbag.eu

45. Julie Thompson paints on feathers that
her mother's peacocks shed.
http://www.featherlady.net/paws.html

46. Eli Reich, who rides to work, clear the used bicycle-tire
inner tubes that were lying around his house
by making messenger bag out of them. It is now a
business.
http://www.alchemygoods.com/

47. Teabag Art Cards
Kim Henkel create cards out of teabags.
Do a search on Pinterest for “teabag art” and
you will find many ways to create with them.
http://www.pinterest.com/search/pins/?q=tea
bag%20art
http://khenkel.blogspot.com/2010/10/teabag-art-cards.html?m=0

48. A portrait of your family painted inside a bottle.
Artists in China make a living doing that.

49. Often seen in
souvenir stores
Art from tree roots and coconut husks.
http://www.pinterest.com/pin/133841420146234447/
http://chicorydellarts.typepad.com/photos/roots/drough
t-2.html
Or sold online

50. Crafting Material from Nature
There are thousands of natural
products that world cultures use
for beads and decoration.
Handmade Earrings
with Tropical Seeds
by NataliaKorolyuk
http://www.pinterest.com/pin/157907530660149602/
http://past.kauaibotanicalgardens.com/2011/07/tropical-seeds-for-jewelry-beads/
http://www.pinterest.com/pin/329959110171137670/

51. Underprivileged members of eHomemakers
create baskets out of rolled newspaper.
Would your company
consider getting them
to give away as
corporate gifts?
http://www.justmarketing.info/webshaper/store/viewCat.asp

52. Would you sell them
in your shop?

53. Start a Community Project
for single parents
-donate things for them to sell or to upcycle
-join their classes
-support their business
-be a mentor
-adopt or share the idea
How would you
work on this?

54. Would you buy Eco-friendly
product made by single parents?
Write to let me know:
Nancy Poh
greenbeingnancy@gmail.com

55. Source of images:
http://sociallyamy.com/its-about-what-you-can-do/
http://www.clipartbest.com/clipart-KijMbEyiq
http://ekpto.com/family-fun-day/
http://www.amode.co.uk/relax-fabric-samples.html
http://twelvemakesadozen.blogspot.com/2011/12/ghost-of-christmas-
present.html
http://www.aperfectworld.org/sports.html
http://www.clker.com/clipart-recyclage-green-1.html#
http://www.clker.com/clipart-piggy-bank-6.html
http://www.clker.com/clipart-11442.html#
http://www.nitrofreeze.com/services/conventional-cryogenic-treatment/
electricalelectronics/
http://www.aliexpress.com/promotion/promotion_16-bike-tube-promotion.
html
http://www.angling-international.com/icast-2/
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Shop.svg