{"id":1683,"date":"2020-09-30T13:37:43","date_gmt":"2020-09-30T13:37:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/global.makesense.org\/notre-histoire\/"},"modified":"2020-11-09T10:28:16","modified_gmt":"2020-11-09T10:28:16","slug":"our-story","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/makesense.org\/en\/our-story\/","title":{"rendered":"Our story"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Once upon a time makesense
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At the very beginning, there were only 2… The story of makesense began on a journey, on the roads of India. In 2010, Christian and Leila, two newly graduated friends, embarked on the adventure of social entrepreneurship by organizing their first \u2018hold-up\u2019, a new type of collaborative and constructive workshops.
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Ten years later, the team has a hundred employees, thousands of volunteers and has sparked hundreds of thousands of actions around the world.
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Let’s rewind!<\/h2>\n

makesense was born in 2010 of an idea: what if citizens could help entrepreneurs<\/strong> to develop their ecological and social projects? What if students could contribute to it?<\/p>\n

This is how makesense\u2019 \u2018gangsters\u2019 and \u2018holdups\u2019<\/strong> appeared: a first meeting between the world of civil society, students and entrepreneurship.<\/p>\n

Soon the community grew and expanded, but we felt there was a missing link if we wanted to go even bigger and farther. To do this, we had to get companies on board<\/strong>, help them change course, change from the inside. So we imagined commonsense, which has become the department working with organizations.<\/p>\n\n <\/div> <\/div>\n\n

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Then came senseschool, an educational branch to train students<\/strong> starting at the beginning of their studies.<\/p>\n

And then we thought that if holdups were a first step for entrepreneurs, we could support them more in-depth. So we created the incubator<\/strong> (which in 2020 will welcome its 10th batch) for longer formats, and sprints, open to a wider public, for shorter formats.<\/p>\n

Finally, we put the finishing touches to this entrepreneurial package by creating Seed I, our own seed fund, in 2019.<\/p>\n

Recently, to leave no one behind, we have begun to approach the public sector: the State and local authorities who have the power to make many innovations possible in their areas.<\/p>\n

In 10 years, we have managed to bring citizens, entrepreneurs and companies on board to solve the major issues facing our society… what will the next the decade bring?\u00a0<\/span><\/h3>\n

Discover our ambition Power of 10<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n\n <\/div> <\/div>\n\n

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10 years, 10 dates<\/h3>\n\n\n
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