Ta-da! The year behind us has been the most successful so far, both in terms of growth in the number of clients and revenues, as well as the social impact we have achieved. Unfortunately, it was also the cause of the increase of our negative impact on the environment, so in 2018 we started to measure it in order to reduce it in 2019. A very brief overview:
In 2018 we initiated:
Our very office space in Belgrade - settled and running full speed
An educational tour run by homeless people along with Fighter Association
Museum of War Photography in Zagreb
Portal Crowdfunding.rs with German-Serbian Initiative for Sustainable Growth and Employment
In 2018 we grew because we:
Increased the total number of Brodoto crew from three to eight and engaged three trainees
Engaged 43 volunteers in our activities
Increased revenues by 119% compared to 2017 and actualized profit
Increased the return to the local budget (employee payroll) by 89%
In 2018 we:
Hosted 250 representatives of non-profit organizations, socially responsible companies and investors at Impact 2018 conference together with ACT group
Awarded the best non-profit campaigns in Serbia and Croatia
Attended 25 conferences and 10 round tables
We educated:
350 teams about crowdfunding in cooperation with German-Serbian Initiative for Sustainable Growth and Employment, Civil Rights Defenders and through Crowd-Fund-Port project
75 young people to start a business as part of international projects Together: Refugees & Youth, Youth Funder and Carbon Offset
We became:
A member of Global Social Entrepreneurship Network
A representative of Techsoup Balkans and distributor of Adobe products in Croatia for non-profit organizations
A member of Serbian Philanthropy Forum
Our main clients and partners in 2018:
German-Serbian Initiative for Sustainable Growth and Employment
Erste Foundation
Greenpeace
ACT Group
Zagrebačka banka
Reach for Change Foundation
Znanje na djelu Foundation
Institute for the Development of Education
Foundation Zajednički put
Civil Rights Defenders
Center for Technology Transfer
Center for Environment
Hamag Bicro
E-Zavod
Techsoup Balkans
HSM Informatika
Our negative impact:
51.523 kilometers flown by plane
21.933 kilometers crossed by fossil fuel vehicles
34,5 tons of generated CO2
But.. We have also implemented some measurements for decreasing negative impact:
We separate the waste generated in the office
We recycle all used paper
We have initiated the process of increasing energy efficiency by replacing all lighting fixtures with LED lighting fixtures
We have launched a project "Plastic free office" where we avoid the use of disposable plastic in regular business
We organize plastic free events
We plant trees
We are walking and biking to the office
That’s all we could remember and calculate. Our goal for the next year is to further increase the positive social impact and decrease the negative one. There are dozens of projects for 2019 on board and in pipeline to which we are looking forward.
