Earth Company
empowers and inspires
change-makers who realize social change
for our future generations.
OUR PROGRAMS
Earth Company realizes social change through the following three pillars:
IMPACT
HEROES
Supporting social entrepreneurs in the Asia Pacific.
Every year, Earth Company selects one Impact Hero – an exceptional social entrepreneur that has the potential to shape the future of developing countries in the Asia Pacific. We provide tailor-made fundraising, opportunity building, and nonprofit consulting services to maximize his/her potential.
IMPACT
BALI
Nurturing the next generation of change-makers.
Earth Company offers transformative, experiential learning opportunities to students and professionals to learn first-hand from innovative practices of social enterprises. The unique experience aims to inspire participants to consider how to carve out careers with social purpose and meaning.
IMPACT
CONSULTING
Strengthening social purpose organisations.
Earth Company delivers consulting services tailored to the needs of social purpose organizations. Earth Company consultants offer expertise in grant proposal writing, nonprofit management, and monitoring and evaluation.
OUR IMPACT
Earth Company
values quality over quantity and depth over breadth.
IMPACT HERO 2017
Kathy Jetñil-Kijiner
Climate Change Activist / Poet
Co-founder of NGO Jo-Jikum
Marshall Islands
$143,453
Help Kathy save
the Marshall Islands
from the worst effects
of climate change.
Please join us and Kathy in helping the people of the Marshall Islands save their home and culture from fast-rising sea levels!
Under Kathy’s leadership, Jo-Jikum empowers youth to 1) advocate for the international community to take proactive actions, 2) to explore local solutions, and 3) to be stewards of their own cultural traditions in the worst case scenario.
While Jo-Jikum means “Your Home” in its own language, the nonprofit does not have a physical home of its own. As a low-resourced startup, Jo-Jikum has been renting out space wherever available for its activities. It has already achieved much, despite this, but having a physical home in the form of its planned youth center will enable Jo-Jikum to nurture a greater number of young change-makers with the power to shape tomorrow, whose impact will ripple well beyond the eroding shores of the Marshalls.
Your support can make this possible!
IMPACT HERO 2016
Robin Lim
Founder, Bumi Sehat Foundation
We build world peace;
one mother, one baby,
one family at a time.
Under Robin’s guidance, the Bumi Sehat Clinics provide free obstetrics healthcare across Indonesia, the Philippines and disaster zones around the world to expectant mothers and babies who would otherwise be unable to find care, whether through poverty or disaster.
As its lease on the land was coming to an end, Bumi Sehat’s Bali Clinic had to move to a new site. Although a new, bigger site was located, the team struggled to find sufficient funds to build the new clinic. With the deadline to move fast approaching, the clinic faced temporary closure if it couldn’t get the required construction funds in time. This is where Earth Company stepped in. We helped Bumi Sehat find the financial support it needed from donors from around the world, and we are pleased to say that the new clinic is now scheduled to open in October 2016. The new clinic will offer an even wider range of services, catering not just to pregnant mothers and their babies, but also to medical needs of the young and the old, men and women.
Funds Raised
$202K
Media Coverage
10
Opportunities created
2
IMPACT HERO 2015
Bella Galhos
Founder, Leublora Green School
Though now independent,
Timor-Leste has been completely destroyed by war.
As we start from scratch to rebuild our country,
we must make the most of this opportunity.
Finally liberated in 2002, Timor-Leste’s people and land have been decimated by occupation and war. Severely affected by decades of conflict, the people of Timor-Leste have forgotten how to love, care, nurture, or even how to hold ambitions for a brighter future. Earth Company met Bella as she planned to build a school for the children born into such a damaged society, hoping to use the school to teach them how to both care for themselves and for the natural environment around them.
Thanks to Earth Company’s support, Bella was able to open her Leublora Green School in May 2015 on a large plot of land, with a simple classroom and dorm, an organic farm, livestock, a garden and playground. One year on, the school has been garnering international attention, welcoming over 125 students, as well as the President and Prime Minister of Timor-Leste, high-level government officials, and nearly 400 visitors from around the world.
Funds Raised
$110K
Media Coverage
13
Opportunities created
4
IMPACT HERO 2016
Robin Lim
Founder, Bumi Sehat Foundation
We build world peace;
one mother, one baby,
one family at a time.
Under Robin’s guidance, the Bumi Sehat Clinics provide free obstetrics healthcare across Indonesia, the Philippines and disaster zones around the world to expectant mothers and babies who would otherwise be unable to find care, whether through poverty or disaster.
As its lease on the land was coming to an end, Bumi Sehat’s Bali Clinic had to move to a new site. Although a new, bigger site was located, the team struggled to find sufficient funds to build the new clinic. With the deadline to move fast approaching, the clinic faced temporary closure if it couldn’t get the required construction funds in time. This is where Earth Company stepped in. We helped Bumi Sehat find the financial support it needed from donors from around the world, and we are pleased to say that the new clinic is now scheduled to open in October 2016. The new clinic will offer an even wider range of services, catering not just to pregnant mothers and their babies, but also to medical needs of the young and the old, men and women.
Funds Raised
$202K
Media Coverage
10
Opportunities created
2
IMPACT HERO 2015
Bella Galhos
Founder, Leublora Green School
Though now independent,
Timor-Leste has been completely destroyed by war.
As we start from scratch to rebuild our country,
we must make the most of this opportunity.
Finally liberated in 2002, Timor-Leste’s people and land have been decimated by occupation and war. Severely affected by decades of conflict, the people of Timor-Leste have forgotten how to love, care, nurture, or even how to hold ambitions for a brighter future. Earth Company met Bella as she planned to build a school for the children born into such a damaged society, hoping to use the school to teach them how to both care for themselves and for the natural environment around them.
Thanks to Earth Company’s support, Bella was able to open her Leublora Green School in May 2015 on a large plot of land, with a simple classroom and dorm, an organic farm, livestock, a garden and playground. One year on, the school has been garnering international attention, welcoming over 125 students, as well as the President and Prime Minister of Timor-Leste, high-level government officials, and nearly 400 visitors from around the world.
Funds Raised
$110K
Media Coverage
13
Opportunities created
4
OUR TEAM
Aska Hamakawa
Executive Director
Co-Founder
Since leaving PricewaterhouseCoopers as a management consultant, Aska’s career and studies have revolved around the areas of climate change and disaster relief in the Asia Pacific. She managed disaster relief efforts after the 2009 Samoa Earthquake and 2011 Japan Earthquake and Tsunami. Aska served as the Vice President of a climate change NGO, Tuvalu Overview, while working with MIT’s Center for Collective Intelligence to run its crowdsourcing initiative, Climate CoLab, to help solve climate change. Aska has two BAs from Boston University, a master degree from the University of Hawaii with a focus on climate change in the Pacific Islands, a certificate in Marketing Strategy from the Cornell University, and is a certified fundraiser. In 2014 Aska was awarded the Dalai Lama’s Unsung Heroes of Compassion Award.
Tomo Hamakawa
Managing Director
Co-Founder
Tomo is a seasoned development professional having lived and worked in various corners of the world from the Tibetan plateau, Indian drylands, Indonesia’s tropics, to Japanese metropolises. He has extensive field experience working for international and local development NGOs across Asia and Africa, including Kopernik, the Children’s Investment Fund Foundation, Save the Children, UNICEF, and The Bridge Fund. He was formerly an Assistant Professor at the Global Leadership Program at the University of Tokyo. Tomo has a BA in Social Anthropology from Harvard College, a Masters in Public Policy from the Harvard Kennedy School, and was a fellow in the Asia Pacific Leadership Program at the East-West Center. In 2014 Tomo was awarded the Dalai Lama’s Unsung Heroes of Compassion Award.
Aska Hamakawa
Executive Director
Co-Founder
Since leaving PricewaterhouseCoopers as a management consultant, Aska’s career and studies have revolved around the areas of climate change and disaster relief in the Asia Pacific. She managed disaster relief efforts after the 2009 Samoa Earthquake and 2011 Japan Earthquake and Tsunami. Aska served as the Vice President of a climate change NGO, Tuvalu Overview, while working with MIT’s Center for Collective Intelligence to run its crowdsourcing initiative, Climate CoLab, to help solve climate change. Aska has two BAs from Boston University, a master degree from the University of Hawaii with a focus on climate change in the Pacific Islands, a certificate in Marketing Strategy from the Cornell University, and is a certified fundraiser. In 2014 Aska was awarded the Dalai Lama’s Unsung Heroes of Compassion Award.
Tomo Hamakawa
Managing Director
Co-Founder
Tomo is a seasoned development professional having lived and worked in various corners of the world from the Tibetan plateau, Indian drylands, Indonesia’s tropics, to Japanese metropolises. He has extensive field experience working for international and local development NGOs across Asia and Africa, including Kopernik, the Children’s Investment Fund Foundation, Save the Children, UNICEF, and The Bridge Fund. He was formerly an Assistant Professor at the Global Leadership Program at the University of Tokyo. Tomo has a BA in Social Anthropology from Harvard College, a Masters in Public Policy from the Harvard Kennedy School, and was a fellow in the Asia Pacific Leadership Program at the East-West Center. In 2014 Tomo was awarded the Dalai Lama’s Unsung Heroes of Compassion Award.
Goro Tamaru
Program Manager
After graduating from Kyoto University, Goro started his career at Nomura Research Institute in management consulting. However, with an interest in social entrepreneurship, Goro attended an Earth Company study tour, which led to him joining the Earth Company team!
Tomoko Shimomoto
Donor Relations Manager
Having worked in HR for Japan Co. Ltd (now Softbank Telecom), Tomoko moved to the US to study at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Education. She then moved into leadership development and is now focused on developing the two young leaders that are her children – an excellent case study right at home.
Yukari Takizawa
Tokyo Office Manager
Yukari brings with her a wealth of experience working for the Swiss financial firm UBS, managing academic programs at the Tokyo University, and operations at the Harvard Business School Japan Research Center – all with a motherly smile and assuring attitude.
Noriko Komatsu
Marketing Manager
Noriko has extensive experience in career consulting, human resource development, and communications and is a qualified international master of “Food as Medicine”, sommelier and vegetable sommelier, all whilst bringing up two children!
Mariko McTier
Overseas Marketing
Mariko reported on international affairs for a Japanese newspaper before joining the British Embassy in Tokyo. She played the violin semi-professionally until recently. Having picked up Japanese later in life she amuses the team with some ‘original’ expressions.
Koichi Tamate
Finance
Having worked for a public-service corporation and an IT company, Koichi joined an NGO engaged in domestic disaster relief projects and development in Southeast Asia, where he is involved in producing grant applications and financial reports. His motto is “Today is always the first day of the rest of your life.”
Norifumi Maeda
Study Tour Coordinator
With over 15 years’ experience in the Bali travel industry, our Study Tour Coordinator knows Bali so well he’s even beginning to look like a local! Detail-oriented by nature, Maeda-san keeps Earth Company’s tours organized.
Michiyasu Matsui
Project Team
Currently studying at Keio University Shonan Fujisawa Campus, Michi has also been working at a venture capital firm for the past 3.5 years. With post-graduation plans to work at a startup improving financial access in developing countries, Michi is not your average university student!
Shunsuke Morimoto
Board Member
Having worked for UNICEF and Save the Children in less travelled places like Somalia and Afghanistan, Shunsuke recently returned to Tokyo. He currently works for JICA to improve the learning experience of children and youth around the world.
Fumi Sugeno
Board Member
Fumi has been pursuing her passion for developing innovative ways to solve social issues throughout her career, from an international development organization (Plan China), a French Bank (Dexia), a think tank (the Japan Research Institute) to her current role with the Japan Social Impact Investment Foundation. Her other passion is enjoying life with her husband and their young son.
Tomotaka Tsurumi
Auditor
Enjoying a highly successful career with Recruit Marketing Partners, Tomotaka advocates for business education for young people, focusing his energy on ensuring that the future workforce has the skills they require.
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