Empresas Con Valores
“Con Valores”
association (ACV) is a non-profit organization working for work reintegration
& social[DB1] economy. The
association was born out of the experience of one of its founders, Melquiades
Lozano, who worked for 20 years as a highlevel business man in Spanish
companies. At some point in his life, he realized that he wanted to help people
at a disadvantage and he started volunteering, accompanying homeless people in
the streets. During a decade of volunteering, he observed that the world of
business was completely disconnected from societal issues. He then decided to take
the matter into his own hands: he transformed his professional career as a
business developer to become the manager of a professionalized and
business-oriented organization: Asociación Con Valores. We are creating bridges
between the business & social spheres in order to implement an inclusive
approach that supports entrepreneurship for people at risk of exclusion. ACV is
formed by business professionals who share their know-how in order to create a
fairer society. Our mission is to use our business experiences and contacts to
support new companies developed by socially excluded groups. Our business
vision is crucial and fundamental to match with social organizations needs. It
allows us to identify, to generate and to boost work opportunities. We develop tools
and methodologies that support entrepreneurship among people at risk of
exclusion in different contexts. In that sense, we created in 2019 an inclusive
incubation model involving different business profiles: entrepreneurs, business
associations, universities, technology centres, public institutions, etc. All
these professionals are volunteering and bringing professional and specialized
support in small businesses creation. The enterprises will then be managed by
excluded people with the support of a network of high level professionals from
the business sector. Since October 2019 we have supported 70 new entrepreneurs
with fewer opportunities and 34 new business models have been designed with the
support of a community of 120 professionals. Our supportive approach is mainly
based on agile and practical methodologies (Design Thinking, Lean Startup,
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between training courses, mentoring, coaching, evaluation and feedback
committees... From 2020 we are upgrading our incubation model according COVID19
conditions and restrictions. We believe that those adaptations will allow us to
define a resilient model for small businesses incubation supported by new
technologies.