~The first airline in Asia to provide
official flight support~
ANA, Japan’s largest and recipient of a 5-Star rating for five
consecutive years from SKYTRAX World Airline Rating, is now
supporting Endeavor’s high impact entrepreneurs with air travel
through ANA’s “BLUE WING” program. ANA’s support will allow
Endeavor’s entrepreneurs to focus on developing high impact global
business without the cost constraints usually associated with air
travel.
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Endeavor is a global nonprofit organization that pioneered the
concept of high-impact entrepreneurship in growth economies and
continues to lead the movement to discover and accelerate
high-impact entrepreneurism around the world. Endeavor’s
entrepreneurs have scaled their businesses and positively
contributed to significant wealth and job creation in nearly every
industry and region around the world. Currently, Endeavor’s network
stretches across 30 offices in 27 countries, and has generated 8
billion dollars and 600,000 jobs.
ANA’s “BLUE WING” program is a unique initiative partnering
airline and customer to provide support for Changemakers and aid
their challenges across the world to make it a better place.
Since 2014, ANA has supported “Ashoka Japan”, an organization
that supports social entrepreneurs across the world, through the
“BLUE WING” program. So far, we were only able to support social
entrepreneurs, but with this new partnership, we are now also able
to also support business entrepreneurs, and we will continue to
pursue activities that will make a better world.
To drive transformative social impact, Endeavor selects high
impact entrepreneurs from each region based on their talent,
potential, and leadership, and the positive impact they can have on
the region. Anyone public who is interested in supporting
Changemakers selected by Endeavor can help change the world by
sharing the contents of ANA’s original program, “BLUE WING”. ANA is
proud to introduce this partnership with Endeavor as it not only
supports Changemakers, but also helps connect global audiences with
various social initiatives and empower them to be able to further
contribute to initiatives they care about.
Since 2014, ANA has supported “Ashoka Japan”, an organization
that supports social entrepreneurs across the world, through the
“BLUE WING” program. So far, we were only able to support social
entrepreneurs, but by this new partnership, we are able to also
support business entrepreneurs, and we will continue to pursue
activities that will make a better world.
“Currently only 6% of the global population use airplanes as a
means of transportation. When we were thinking about how we could
further promote the use of air travel, we realized that ANA has the
means to contribute beyond the airline industry and support broader
initiatives that make the wider society as a whole better.
Specifically, as an airline, we can close gaps such as distance,
culture, and income around the world, and also achieve our
corporate mission of ‘connecting people through wings’.” - Akira
Fukabori, intrapreneur, Digital Design Lab, ANA Holdings.
ANA started its service over 60 years ago with 2 helicopters and
has become the wings to connect the people of Japan to the world.
And now, ANA would like to build connections beyond just airplanes,
and become the wings that connect people to a brighter future.
BLUE WING × Endeavor ProjectURL to Share:
https://www.ana-bluewing.com/en/special/endeavor_2017/Campaign
Period: From November 27, 2017 – End of March 2018Campaign
Contents:1. Flight support for Endeavor “high-impact”
entrepreneurs.2. Every share of the project page URL on Facebook,
Twitter or LinkedIn earns 15 wings (1WING = 1 Yen) which is then
added to Endeavor’s flight support from ANA.
About ANAANA is the largest airline in Japan by revenues
and passenger numbers. Founded in 1952, ANA flies today on 87
international routes and 117 domestic routes. The ANA group has
39,000 employees and a fleet of about 250 aircraft. In FY2016, it
carried 52.1 million passengers and generated revenues of 1.77
trillion Japanese yen. ANA has been a member of Star Alliance since
1999 and has joint-ventures with United Airlines on trans-Pacific
and Asia routes, and with Lufthansa, Swiss International Airlines
and Austrian Airlines on Japan-Europe routes. Its Frequent Flyer
Program, ANA Mileage Club, has more than 26 million members. ANA
was voted Airline of the Year for 2013 by Air Transport World
Magazine, and in 2017 was awarded five stars for the fifth
consecutive year by the world's leading Airline and Airport review
site, SKYTRAX. ANA is the launch customer and biggest operator of
the Boeing 787 Dreamliner.
Appendix
What is the BLUE WING Program?
~ ANA BLUE WING, Wings for Change-makers ~Started in
February, 2014, as a project for the world’s largest social
entrepreneur network, “Ashoka Fellowship”, the “BLUE WING” program
is a unique initiative partnering airline and customer to provide
support for change-makers and aid their challenges across the world
to make it a better place. Thanks to participation from both inside
and outside Japan, the program has so far provided around 11
million yen in flight support.
BLUE WING Web site: https://www.ana-bluewing.com/en/BLUE
WING Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/anabluewing
About EndeavorEndeavor is the only non-profit
organization that supports high-impact entrepreneurs with 3,000
mentors and 500 board members around the world. Endeavor’s "mentor
capitalist" model breaks down economic and cultural barriers to
entrepreneurship through advising from our network of world-class
business leaders. With their guidance, our 1300+ Endeavor
Entrepreneurs throughout Latin America, Africa, the Middle East,
Southeast Asia and the U.S. have created 600,000 high-value jobs
and, in 2015, generated $8 billion.
As of March 2017, Endeavor started their operation in Japan and
selected the first 4 entrepreneurs: WHILL, Inc, a firm developing
personal mobility innovations, raksul, Inc., Sansan Corp and
UZABASE, Inc. They were selected through a very competitive process
with 2.5 percent acceptance rate.
A Message From an Endeavor Japan Board Member
Oki MatsumotoChairman of NPO Endeavor JapanCEO of
Monexgroup, Inc.
“I believe that innovation has the power to change society for
the better.”Endeavor is all about forging globally connected
ecosystems derived from locally created solutions and innovations
that can scale to make a positive change at the global level.
Through my role in Endeavor, I seek out and support talented
entrepreneurs that can leverage Endeavor’s support and network to
positively contribute to our future.My hope is that through our
partnership with ANA, we can further empower Changemakers and
accelerate the change towards a brighter future.
Endeavor (Global): https://www.endeavor.org/Endeavor
Japan: https://www.endeavorjapan.org/
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