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The Forgotten Ones
According to UNICEF
There are currently
143 Million Orphans
Worldwide
If Orphans Were a Country – 8th Largest
China
1,321,851,888
India
1,129,866,154
USA
301,139,947
Indonesia
234,693,997
Brazil
190,010,647
Pakistan
169,270,617
Bangladesh
150,448,339
ORPHANS
Russia
143,000,000
141,377,752
Somewhere in the world
a child dies…
Every 5.2 seconds
9/11/2001
2,972 people died
in NYC, DC attacks
Today
Over 16,600 children will die …
yet you won’t hear it on the news
12/26/2004
98,000 people died
in the Asian Tsunami
Over 300,000 children will die …
in the next 21 days
From 1939-1945
Hitler executed
6 Million Jews
Over 6 Million children will die …
This Year Alone
• A child dies every 5.2 seconds
22 since this presentation started
• Every 2.2 seconds an orphan ages out of the
system worldwide
• Each day 38,493 age out and are sent away
Over 14 Million this year
• In Russia, of those who age out
• 10-15% commit suicide by age 18
• 60% of girls become prostitutes
• 70% of boys become hardened criminals
• In the US, 520,000+ kids are in foster care
120,000 are immediately adoptable
• In the NY Foster System
60% of kids who age out end up homeless
• 2007 Vanderbilt University Study (by age 20)
84% of foster kids become parents
42% never graduate high school
25% experience homelessness
There are over 27 Million victims of human
trafficking worldwide
13 Million are children
Over 1 Million children are added to this
number each year
“Science may have found a cure for most
evils, but it has found no remedy
for the worst of them all…
the apathy of human beings.”
- Helen Keller
What about Retail?
Can Retail be part of the solution?
What can Retail do about
143 Million Orphans?
What about you?
Will you get involved?
The Retail Orphan Initiative
(www.RetailROI.org)
has been organized to raise awareness
and bring real solutions to help the more than
400 Million vulnerable children worldwide.
“There is one thing stronger than
all the armies in the world,
and that is an idea
whose time has come.”
– Victor Hugo
Pre-RetailROI
RetailROI Groundwork
• Birthed out of the passion and work of
Paul Singer, CIO, SuperValu
• Meeting between Paul and Greg Buzek
at Oracle OpenWorld 9/08
• Calls and Discussions 10/08
• RetailROI Formed 11/15/2008
• Press Release 12/9/2008
• First face to face meeting 1/11/2009
RetailROI - Purpose
• Awareness of the need
• Share the facts in a way that people do not turn the
channel
• Encouragement for Retailers and Vendors to
create internal programs
• Mentoring, adoption assistance, leave for adoptive
parents, foster care training/skills
• Funding “feet on the street” charities that are
making a big difference
RetailROI - Who’s involved so far
• Donor Trustees
• Paul Singer – CIO Supervalu
• Marc Millstein – President RetailConnections
• Greg Buzek – President IHL Group
• Board of Advisors - Retailers
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Timothy Kasbe – CIO Sears Holdings
Ed Collupy – CIO The Pantry
Stephen Bozzo – CIO 1-800-Flowers
Robert Fort – CIO Virgin Media
RetailROI - Who’s involved so far
• Board of Advisors – Vendors/Analysts
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Verlin Youd – SVP Trading SAP
Paula Paravecchio – EMEA Managing Dir. Microsoft
Jeff Roster – Research VP Gartner
Jeff Ketner – President Ketner Barnes
Barry Wise – Founder Wise Retail
Cathy Hotka – Cathy Hotka Associates
Rose Spicer – Sr Director Retail Marketing Oracle
Virginia Dickens – President Visions Advertising
Cathy Marder – Assoc. Publisher Edgell Communications
Ryan Sorley – VP Retail Strategies AMR Research
RetailROI - Structure
• Sub-Fund under The Giving Back Fund
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Provides 501 (c) status
Low administration costs
Dormant until funds are raised
Provides for foundations for athletes and
entertainers (Ben Roethlisberger, Jalen Rose, Shane
Battier, Carlos Boozer, John Thompson, Nancy
Kerrigan, Yao Ming)
Why Retail is the perfect vehicle
• US Consumer – 20% of world economy
• Extraordinary influence around the world through
supply chain relationships.
• Retail touches consumers every week.
• Just a small portion of transactions can add up
fast.
Raise Awareness
• Get the stats out to people in the industry
• PowerPoint Templates
• Mass video email campaign using popular retail
technology people
• Trade events/Trade Publications
• “the Good News in Retail”
• Social Media (Blogs, Facebook, Twitter)
• Enlist famous adoptive parents or adoptees…
Help Companies Create Internal Programs
• Mentors for Foster Kids
• Be the one adult who doesn’t change in a child’s life. (Takes 4-7 hours a
month)
• No-interest loans/grants to employees who adopt
• US gov’t provides $12,150 tax CREDIT, but only after the adoption is made,
Pay it forward.
• Maternity benefits to adoptive/foster parents
• Adoptive parents often need more time than birth parents to adjust to
new child because of existing issues
• Life-skills training for foster kids/orphans
• Financial training, how to be good employee, cooking, integrity, microbusinesses
Help Companies Create Internal Programs
• Back-to-school drives for orphans/foster kids
• When a child is removed from home, they get one garbage bag to
bring items with them. Supplies, clothing, and even diapers are huge
needs retail can meet for the foster system.
• Leveraging supply chain and overstocks to help
provide needs for orphanages/foster kids
• Seek out children’s homes in the US, your home country, where you
operate – donate your overstocks to help with their needs.
• Leverage your supply chain in North America, Europe, Asia,
Latin/South America to distribute goods to kids in need.
Help Companies Create Internal Programs
• Work with suppliers in China/India to support orphan
related causes locally
• Over half the world’s orphans live in the countries that supply retail the
vast majority of our outsourced manufacturing and IT services.
• Get involved locally – ask what the needs are
• There are tremendous needs right here in the US in orphan care,
children’s homes and foster homes. Simply search for the terms
“children’s home”, “foster care”, “Childrens Services”.
• Leverage your organization’s core competencies
• Building materials – construction for children’s homes. Clothing,
school/office supplies, books, children’s toys, logistics, computers, S/W.
• Brainstorm how your company can get involved.
Support “feet on street” charities
• Our goal is to provide grants to charities where the
real work is being done
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Focus on small, entrepreneurial charities
Life skills training, micro-businesses
Hand ups, not just hand outs – provide hope via resources/training.
Where grants of $10,000-$40,000 can double or triple the work, not
just cover admin or advertising costs
• Give 90% + away every year – get the money working
• Bring the “World is Flat” mentality to Orphan Care
• Lowering the cost, broadening the global reach
Current Funding Ideas
• Donations
• Individual and Corporate donations
• Corporate matching donation programs
• Other private foundations
• Specially marked packages of products sold
to support Retail ROI.
• Mother’s Day Bouquet, diapers, children’s clothes and
furniture, sporting goods.
• Logo program for goodwill with your customers, but
benefits RetailROI or other children’s charities.
• In kind donations for items to orphanages
charities (building supplies, school, clothes)
Current Funding Ideas
• RetailROI Branded gift card
• Work through Visa, Mastercard or BlackHawk to create multi-use,
branded gift cards where a portion supports RetailROI
• Round-Up for Orphans at the POS
• Allow consumers to round their transactions to the nearest $, Euro
• Work with POS S/W groups to underwrite any software changes
• A penny or two a transaction really adds up fast
• We are open to any others as well
Retail can make a HUGE Difference
"All that is required for evil
to prevail is for good men
to do nothing.“
-- Edmund Burke
Will you get involved?
My Contact Information
Greg Buzek
[email protected]
+1.615.591.2955
www.RetailROI.org