Inspiration for investors in the
Net4kids projects and their employees
Events
We organize events to involve, motivate, but above all inspire our investors, entrepreneurs and their employees to shape their own role. Will you also come by?
Round Table Meeting
With this annual Round Table Meeting we bring together entrepreneurs who are thinking about Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) but don't know where to start. In a personal setting, we help you and your company to easily undertake corporate social responsibility, in order to enable children all over the world to build a promising life. Questions such as 'how can I make CSR work for my company', 'what can Net4kids mean in this', 'will my organization be relieved' will be discussed.
Impact
Social entrepreneurship is just like commercial entrepreneurship; delivering solutions to customers while creating a revenue model. However, someone who engages in social activities creates added value for society, which Net4kids invariably refers to as 'impact'.
Marcel van der Schaaff, entrepreneur, Net4kids ambassador and initiator of the Round Table Meeting, wants to inspire other entrepreneurs to also create impact. In what way can you contribute to a better world with your company? And what does it contribute to your company? Commercial entrepreneurship and having an impact go hand in hand. We show that there are many possibilities to give substance to your CSR policy.
“The only way we're going to make substantial progress on the challenging problems of our time is for business to drive the solutions.” – Wendy Woods, Boston Consulting Group
Business is leading
What if every company invested 1% of its turnover in 'The Next Generation'? Loek van den Boog, Chairman at General Atlantic and founder of Net4kids, talks about entrepreneurship, philanthropy and how business can play a bigger role. Loek explains why doing good with your company also helps your business. How our business-oriented approach aligns with the CSR goals of organizations and ensures concrete and visible results. For the young people in the projects and for the companies that participate. So: more impact, more involvement, more financial and social returns. The beginning of a better world.
“At Net4kids, we see that companies that work with us and support projects that are a good match for their business, in combination with possible employee involvement through our programs, are more successful in attracting and retaining talent, and customer acquisition and loyalty.” – Loek van den Boog
Have you become curious and is this something for you? You can sign up by sending an email to Anne-Marijn.
September 11, 2023: Golf Event
On Monday, September 11, 2023, we are organizing the eighth edition of the annual Net4kids golf event BurgGolf Golf resort de Purmer in Purmerend. We cordially invite you to play (again) this year.
Golf and networking
In addition to a great golf program, you can network and participate in a lottery with great prizes. With the income from the flights and lottery, together we ensure that the children in the SSH project in India can go to school, receive healthcare and sufficient opportunities for social development and social integration.
Flights
A flight with four participants costs € 1,590. For this amount you can count on a sporty day on a beautiful golf course, with good company and good food in a pleasant atmosphere. A single participation is also possible and costs €450.
Sponsor opportunities
To allow the income from the flights and lottery to benefit the children in India in full, we also have a sponsorship program for maximum visibility among those present. Would you like to become a sponsor of the Net4kids Business Golf Day? We would like to get the full catering, all prizes for the winners, the track flags and the give aways financed so that the income goes entirely to the project. Your company logo will appear on all online and offline communication about the Net4kids golf day, and it is possible to place your own banners on/around the golf course.
We would be happy to discuss further information about all sponsorship options with you personally. Please contact Anne-Marijn.
Aydan Verdonk
Aydan Verdonk
Aydan is 25 years old and a professional golfer with a mission! At 1.92m and the build of a nightclub guard, it's no surprise that Aydan's sensational drives draw attention as the ball flies 300 meters through the air.
After many victories to his name, his sporting highlight, so far, is obtaining a wildcard for the KLM Open. Aydan is busy storming the top and will offer the golfers on the Net4kids golf day some extra challenge.
Iron Shirt or Golf
Relaxed golf in all circumstances? Do you want to hit the balls more often that you know you can do? Learn the absolute nr. 1 mental BASIC skill and take your swing relaxed & successful to the course. Discover that the biggest enemy of your fun and consistency has nothing to do with technique and learn the easy way to play more relaxed and stable without tinkering with your swing. Experience that mental training is not floaty, but concrete, practical, understandable and immediately applicable.
Participate?
Please contact Anne-Marijn.
Investors Meet Up 2023
The Investors Meet Up is a network event especially for Net4kids investors. Be inspired by the stories and practical experiences of other investors and meet like-minded entrepreneurs. At the same time you enjoy a drink and a snack at a beautiful sponsored location, the Design Thinking Center of our investor Nextview, in Amsterdam.
Create engagement. Extremely important if you want to integrate social objectives into your company. But how do you do that? How can you, as a company, mean something to our 'next generation', and involve your employees in this? Or how can I, as an independent entrepreneur, make a difference? This event focuses on the stories and experiences of companies and entrepreneurs from our network.
Marcel Smith, CEO of Energyworx, tells how his personal mission led to a special project that fits the core business of his company. Together with this tech company from the energy sector, we train girls from India for a job in the IT sector. What will it bring him and what will it bring to his employees?
Sophie Snoek, consultant of Been Management Consulting takes the stage and shares the challenges, successes and personal stories of school teacher trainings in South Africa's townships. How important is it for employees that their company promotes these social activities? Moreover, as 'B Corp', Been Management Consulting can tell you how to make sustainability concrete like no other company.
Nextview, our host of the evening, was inspired last year at our Investors Meet Up to use the expertise of employees in addition to years of support for a Net4kids project in Nepal. Which resulted in a very impactful collaboration that they would like to tell you more about.
Because together we can get so much further than alone, we cordially invite you to bring someone with you on February 2nd. This way you also inspire a business relation, friend, colleague or family member, and we can strengthen each other to help as many young people as possible.
We Grow Together event 2022
Young people from 12 countries will come to Campus Landgoed Zonheuvel on June 29 for the We Grow Together Event, a day where young people share their vision and ideas for a sustainable future with partners and decision-makers. The young people develop their ideas for change into local projects and startups and help each other in the international We Grow Together Community.
Support
During the event, the enterprising young people – also called Living Legends mentioned – their current requests for help. They also invite partners to support the implementation of their projects and startups with knowledge, expertise or budget. During the event, the young people and partners learn from and with each other and together build Climate Education & Entrepreneurship for all youth.
Sign Up
Are you or do you know a partner who wants to work for these young people and their future? Someone who wants to use his or her knowledge, expertise or budget to make an impact with young people? You can register via this form. Preferably before June 6.
More information about the program.
Network of young people
The We Grow Together Event is an initiative of ONE WORLD Citizens (OWC), a network of young people who work together to realize sustainable and social changes and improvements in society. OWC and Net4kids work together with Valuable Working Office, Earth Charter Netherlands, SBI . Foundation and the Center for Climate Education & Entrepreneurship.
Golf Event 2022
On Monday, September 19, 2021 we will organize the seventh edition of the Net4kids Golf Day on BurgGolf Golf resort de Purmer in Purmerend. We cordially invite you to play (again) this year.
Golf and networking
In addition to a great golf program, you can network and participate in a lottery with great prizes. With the income from the flights and lottery, together we ensure that the children in the SSH project in India can go to school, receive healthcare and sufficient opportunities for social development and social integration.
Flights
A flight with four participants costs € 1,590. For this amount you can count on a sporty day on a beautiful golf course, with good company and excellent food in a pleasant atmosphere. A single entry is also possible and costs €450.
Sponsor opportunities
To allow the girls in India to fully benefit from the flights and lottery, we also have a sponsor program for maximum visibility among those present. Do you want to become a sponsor of the Net4kids Business Golf Day? We would like to have the full catering, all prizes for the winners, track flags and give aways financed so that the income goes entirely to the project. Your company logo will appear on all online and offline communication about the Net4kids golf day, and on / around the golf course it is possible to place your own banners.
We would be happy to discuss further information about all sponsorship options with you personally. Please contact Anne-Marijn Bentum.
2023: Stakeholder trip India
We offer our (potential) project investors a unique opportunity to see for theirselves how Net4kids' local project partners work in India.
Educational and inspiring
The aim of this Stakeholder Trip is to provide an educational and inspiring experience and to show our stakeholders how Net4kids offers underprivileged children a better future in India. Seeing is believing. We offer you the unique opportunity to see with your own eyes where our investments are going. Be inspired by the insights of the local entrepreneurs in our projects, the wisdom of the talented kids, and come back with a new drive and a mindset to convert the new insights into action. Feel free to bring a colleague, friend or family member and experience this unique 'once-in-a-lifetime' journey together.
Local monitoring
Thanks to paying participants in this trip, Net4kids gets the opportunity to monitor and visualize the projects locally, so that we can create the greatest possible impact with low organizational costs.
The global program
Bangalore – Rainbow Homes & Planet Hope (Thu 2 – Sat 4 Nov)
We start our Stakeholder trip in Bangalore. We have a direct flight (day flight) from Amsterdam. Bangalore is called the 'Silicon Valley' of India, and many international (IT) companies are based here. We stay for two days and visit the projects of Planet Hope, aimed at vocational education for vulnerable girls. And we visit the Rainbow Homes, the shelter program of Rainbow Foundation India. Not only do we take a look at the project locations, but we also visit the former living environment of the girls on the streets and in the stone quarries around Bangalore.
Madurai – Sightseeing (Saturday evening 4 – Sun 5 Nov)
We travel on to Madurai, the cultural capital of the Tamil Nadu region. We will stay in the beautiful Heritage Madurai. Our local project partner is happy to show us the cultural side of their country. Among other things, the colorful Sri Meenakshi Temple is on the program.
Namakkal – Society for Serving Humanity (SSH) (Mon 6 and Tue 7 Nov)
Today we travel to Namakkal in the morning. After lunch with the staff, we visit a few villages where children from the Foster a Child program of SSH live. The next day we will join a meeting of a women's group and the children show us the after-school program in their village.
“How do you summarize 1 week in which you have seen the world at its best? Eyes that look right through your soul, a smile in every glance… ”
Nynke Geus – van den Broek, participant Stakeholder trip India 2017
Tirupur – Social Awareness and Voluntary Education (SAVE) (Wed 8 and Thu 9 Nov)
The next day we leave for Tirupur, to our local partner SAVE. The staff will tell us in detail about their activities to raise awareness and prevent child labor in the region. Then we will visit a number of Bridge Schools and we can take a look at a number of children's homes. Day 2 we visit textile factories so that we see the effect of SAVE's awareness campaigns and learn how they contribute to improving the labor situation in the region. Finally, we will visit the locations where vocational education is given to young people.
Bangalore – Sightseeing (Fri 10 Nov)
Thursday evening we fly back to Bangalore, so that we have a whole day on Friday for some sightseeing, buying souvenirs or just doing nothing at all and relaxing in the hotel with swimming pool. With a night flight we fly back to Amsterdam in the night from Friday to Saturday, where we will arrive early Saturday morning (November 11).
Practical information
The travel sum of € 2,900 per person is based on the participation of at least 4 people and includes travel, accommodation and excursion costs and excludes vaccinations and visa costs (approximately € 85 pp). Of course we can provide support with the (online) application for the visa.
Itinerary subject to change.
Sign Up
Don't you want to miss this unique experience? Make these and see with your own eyes the impact of Net4kids projects. Please contact Sandra Kooijman: sandra.kooijman@net4kids.org. She is happy to tell you more about the trip.
March 8, 2022: Investors Meet Up
Net4kids, together with companies, helps children who hardly get opportunities based on the vision that social involvement is an integral part of entrepreneurship. Net4kids is therefore convinced that the companies that understand and apply this are more successful.
During our Investors Meet Up we bring the investors of Net4kids together to meet and exchange experiences about social involvement within their company. We will share best practices and success stories of our investors and discuss ideas for the future. We also want to show you that there are many options for involving your employees in the CSR policy. The main goal of this afternoon will be: meet like-minded entrepreneurs and go home with a lot of new ideas and insights on how to develop your organization in the desired direction.
What can you expect?
On the stage: inspiring practical examples. Marlon Brand, Improved Corporate Finance talks about how he and his colleagues help Ghanaian young people on their way to a successful career. Thanks to Google expert Emile van de Klok, these Ghanaian youngsters are being trained to become digital marketers. In addition, two entrepreneurs and networkers pur sang, Rex Vermeulen and Paul Joosten, on stage. They talk about how they mobilize their own network to make an entire village in Tanzania self-reliant.
Next to the stage: every company and every entrepreneur in our network makes an impact. Inspire each other about the ways in which you can do social entrepreneurship, how you involve your employees in your project and how you can strengthen each other to ultimately help many more children.
This meet up was organized for the first time in 2020. Do you want to know more about it and/or register for this second edition on March 8, 2022? Please contact Anne-Marijn: annemarijn.bentum@net4kids.org. Until then?
Starter package CSR workshop
Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is becoming increasingly important. The government, consumers and social organizations expect companies to take their social responsibility. Do you still have to be convinced that your company cannot grow without internal and external involvement? How do you start with this?
Where do you start as an organization?
This workshop is for entrepreneurs who want to grow and realize that further growth is not possible without internal and external involvement.
- Social entrepreneurship and social involvement, what can that do for your staff and organization? What can it contribute to turnover, effort, absenteeism and productivity? To what extent does this contribute to business growth?
- Do you get all vacancies filled? What determines whether a candidate in the current market chooses you? What moves millennials? Why on earth would a good candidate choose your company when there are so many other options?
- How distinctive is it to the market and your customers when you say that you don't work irresponsibly, so no child labor, no fraud, no exploitation, no environmental damage, are you proud, is that your brand, your identity? Research shows that more than half of consumers believe that brands should actively commit to stimulating positive changes in the world. What about your image / brand value: are you really sufficiently distinctive and meaningful?
The workshop is given by Mario Huibers, Net4kids ambassador who works every day in his own field to make organizations perform better through internal and external involvement.
Valuable Work in 24-hour Session
Is an off-site session planned? Strategy day? Personal development of yourself as a professional? We offer a 24-hour session Valuable Work, the proceeds of which go entirely to Net4kids.
Oct 5, 2021: Round Table Meeting
Social entrepreneurship is just like commercial entrepreneurship; delivering solutions to customers and thereby creating a revenue model. However, someone who does business in a social way creates added value for society, which Net4kids invariably refers to as 'impact', and we fully support this.
Net4kids Business Golf Event 2021
On Monday September 20, 2021 we will organize the sixth edition of the Net4kids Golf Day BurgGolf Golf resort de Purmer in Purmerend. We cordially invite you to play (again) this year.
3 Sept 2020: RE-BOOST your business for GOOD
In this online event 'RE-BOOST your business for GOOD' we want to show how, even in times of crisis, you can have a positive impact on the world in addition to running a commercial business.
Jan 30, 2020: Investors Meetup
Net4kids, together with companies, helps children who hardly get opportunities based on the vision that social involvement is an integral part of entrepreneurship. Net4kids is therefore convinced that the companies that understand and apply this are more successful.
7 Nov 2019: Nyenrode Masterclass
Nyenrode Alumnus Emile van de Klok is organizing the Masterclass “From Why to Impact” on November 7.
This Masterclass gives young professionals and entrepreneurs the tools to create not only profit but also social impact in your organization.
Past Net4kids Events
Investors Meet Up 2023
The Investors Meet Up is a network event especially for Net4kids investors. Be inspired by the stories and practical experiences of other investors and meet like-minded entrepreneurs. At the same time you enjoy a drink and a snack at a beautiful sponsored location, the Design Thinking Center of our investor Nextview, in Amsterdam.
Create engagement. Extremely important if you want to integrate social objectives into your company. But how do you do that? How can you, as a company, mean something to our 'next generation', and involve your employees in this? Or how can I, as an independent entrepreneur, make a difference? This event focuses on the stories and experiences of companies and entrepreneurs from our network.
Marcel Smith, CEO of Energyworx, tells how his personal mission led to a special project that fits the core business of his company. Together with this tech company from the energy sector, we train girls from India for a job in the IT sector. What will it bring him and what will it bring to his employees?
Sophie Snoek, consultant of Been Management Consulting takes the stage and shares the challenges, successes and personal stories of school teacher trainings in South Africa's townships. How important is it for employees that their company promotes these social activities? Moreover, as 'B Corp', Been Management Consulting can tell you how to make sustainability concrete like no other company.
Nextview, our host of the evening, was inspired last year at our Investors Meet Up to use the expertise of employees in addition to years of support for a Net4kids project in Nepal. Which resulted in a very impactful collaboration that they would like to tell you more about.
Because together we can get so much further than alone, we cordially invite you to bring someone with you on February 2nd. This way you also inspire a business relation, friend, colleague or family member, and we can strengthen each other to help as many young people as possible.
We Grow Together event 2022
Young people from 12 countries will come to Campus Landgoed Zonheuvel on June 29 for the We Grow Together Event, a day where young people share their vision and ideas for a sustainable future with partners and decision-makers. The young people develop their ideas for change into local projects and startups and help each other in the international We Grow Together Community.
Support
During the event, the enterprising young people – also called Living Legends mentioned – their current requests for help. They also invite partners to support the implementation of their projects and startups with knowledge, expertise or budget. During the event, the young people and partners learn from and with each other and together build Climate Education & Entrepreneurship for all youth.
Sign Up
Are you or do you know a partner who wants to work for these young people and their future? Someone who wants to use his or her knowledge, expertise or budget to make an impact with young people? You can register via this form. Preferably before June 6.
More information about the program.
Network of young people
The We Grow Together Event is an initiative of ONE WORLD Citizens (OWC), a network of young people who work together to realize sustainable and social changes and improvements in society. OWC and Net4kids work together with Valuable Working Office, Earth Charter Netherlands, SBI . Foundation and the Center for Climate Education & Entrepreneurship.
Golf Event 2022
On Monday, September 19, 2021 we will organize the seventh edition of the Net4kids Golf Day on BurgGolf Golf resort de Purmer in Purmerend. We cordially invite you to play (again) this year.
Golf and networking
In addition to a great golf program, you can network and participate in a lottery with great prizes. With the income from the flights and lottery, together we ensure that the children in the SSH project in India can go to school, receive healthcare and sufficient opportunities for social development and social integration.
Flights
A flight with four participants costs € 1,590. For this amount you can count on a sporty day on a beautiful golf course, with good company and excellent food in a pleasant atmosphere. A single entry is also possible and costs €450.
Sponsor opportunities
To allow the girls in India to fully benefit from the flights and lottery, we also have a sponsor program for maximum visibility among those present. Do you want to become a sponsor of the Net4kids Business Golf Day? We would like to have the full catering, all prizes for the winners, track flags and give aways financed so that the income goes entirely to the project. Your company logo will appear on all online and offline communication about the Net4kids golf day, and on / around the golf course it is possible to place your own banners.
We would be happy to discuss further information about all sponsorship options with you personally. Please contact Anne-Marijn Bentum.
March 8, 2022: Investors Meet Up
Net4kids, together with companies, helps children who hardly get opportunities based on the vision that social involvement is an integral part of entrepreneurship. Net4kids is therefore convinced that the companies that understand and apply this are more successful.
During our Investors Meet Up we bring the investors of Net4kids together to meet and exchange experiences about social involvement within their company. We will share best practices and success stories of our investors and discuss ideas for the future. We also want to show you that there are many options for involving your employees in the CSR policy. The main goal of this afternoon will be: meet like-minded entrepreneurs and go home with a lot of new ideas and insights on how to develop your organization in the desired direction.
What can you expect?
On the stage: inspiring practical examples. Marlon Brand, Improved Corporate Finance talks about how he and his colleagues help Ghanaian young people on their way to a successful career. Thanks to Google expert Emile van de Klok, these Ghanaian youngsters are being trained to become digital marketers. In addition, two entrepreneurs and networkers pur sang, Rex Vermeulen and Paul Joosten, on stage. They talk about how they mobilize their own network to make an entire village in Tanzania self-reliant.
Next to the stage: every company and every entrepreneur in our network makes an impact. Inspire each other about the ways in which you can do social entrepreneurship, how you involve your employees in your project and how you can strengthen each other to ultimately help many more children.
This meet up was organized for the first time in 2020. Do you want to know more about it and/or register for this second edition on March 8, 2022? Please contact Anne-Marijn: annemarijn.bentum@net4kids.org. Until then?
Oct 5, 2021: Round Table Meeting
Social entrepreneurship is just like commercial entrepreneurship; delivering solutions to customers and thereby creating a revenue model. However, someone who does business in a social way creates added value for society, which Net4kids invariably refers to as 'impact', and we fully support this.
Net4kids Business Golf Event 2021
On Monday September 20, 2021 we will organize the sixth edition of the Net4kids Golf Day BurgGolf Golf resort de Purmer in Purmerend. We cordially invite you to play (again) this year.
3 Sept 2020: RE-BOOST your business for GOOD
In this online event 'RE-BOOST your business for GOOD' we want to show how, even in times of crisis, you can have a positive impact on the world in addition to running a commercial business.
Jan 30, 2020: Investors Meetup
Net4kids, together with companies, helps children who hardly get opportunities based on the vision that social involvement is an integral part of entrepreneurship. Net4kids is therefore convinced that the companies that understand and apply this are more successful.
7 Nov 2019: Nyenrode Masterclass
Nyenrode Alumnus Emile van de Klok is organizing the Masterclass “From Why to Impact” on November 7.
This Masterclass gives young professionals and entrepreneurs the tools to create not only profit but also social impact in your organization.