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Survey of 8,703 students: Schoolwork is their biggest source of stress, and nearly 8 in 10 are willing to share their experiences to help friends
Data from a Google Form collected alongside the activity indicate that more than half of students feel moderately to very frequently stressed during their school years, and the feature they like most is reading their friends’ experiences.
From grade-level meeting periods to computer lessons: 6 schools adapt Jaidee Chatbot activities to their own contexts
Teachers at each school chose different ways to integrate Jaidee Chatbot activities into existing lessons and programmes, from guidance and computer lessons to morning homeroom.
Bringing the Jaidee Chatbot to 44 schools nationwide, reaching more than 17,700 students
The team delivered in-person sessions and trained teachers to continue teaching flexibly, bringing the Jaidee Chatbot website to 44 schools across 6 regions nationwide, from large urban schools to small schools in remote areas.
Designing two pathways into schools: the team delivers 3 days of in-person teaching or trains teachers to teach flexibly
The team assesses each school’s readiness before choosing the most suitable activity format, and sets up a system to advise teachers throughout the activities and a reward system to motivate both teachers and students.
The first three years of the accelerator programme: clearer business plans, but funding remains out of reach
The previous model of the accelerator programme (B.E. 2565-2567) helped ventures develop much clearer business plans, but did not effectively address the challenge of accessing funding.
Toolmorrow: A communication lab for social behaviour change
A Champion in cohort 5 (B.E. 2558) using creative communication campaigns to address family communication problems, and achieving rapid growth of 396% after joining the acceleration programme
Second-round funding makes a difference: consistently higher survival and financial sustainability rates
Both the B.E. 2566 and B.E. 2569 reports confirm the same trend: Champions who made it through to the second funding round had clearly higher survival rates and financial performance than those who stopped after the first round.
Reviewing the ecosystem in B.E. 2566: from a starting point to a community of social entrepreneurs
The B.E. 2566 impact assessment report (covering cohorts 1-11) reflects how alumni view BC4C’s role in their own journeys, along with 4 recommendations for next steps.
moreloop: Turning surplus factory fabric into a circular economy
A Champion bringing circular economy ideas to address surplus fabric from the garment industry, and joining the growth acceleration programme in its first cohort in B.E. 2565.
a-chieve: 12 years of being a career compass for Thai youth
Champion cohort 1 (B.E. 2554), which has continued to grow for 12 years, launched the a-chieve Hub online platform in B.E. 2566 after entering the growth acceleration programme the previous year.
Launch of the Acceleration Program to address the missing middle funding gap
After completing a decade of incubation programmes, BC4C launched the Acceleration Program in B.E. 2565 to support alumni that had grown beyond the start-up stage.
Seed funding increased to 80,000 baht and second-round funding to 250,000 baht
When the project resumed after COVID-19, funding for both rounds was increased from the original structure used since B.E. 2554.
The year the project paused: BC4C and the COVID-19 situation
B.E. 2563 was the only year in the project’s 14-year history when incubation activities had to stop due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
YoungHappy: A social space for older people who still want to live vibrantly
Champion cohort 9 (B.E. 2562), creating activities and online and offline communities for active older people in Thailand who lack spaces to express themselves
Cropperz: Technology that gives smallholder farmers more bargaining power
A Champion from cohort 9 (B.E. 2562) that connects smallholder food-crop farmers directly with customers through an online platform and farm management app
Craft de Quarr: When Northern ethnic handicrafts become a livelihood that sustains communities
Champion cohort 8 (B.E. 2561), helping develop the handicraft skills of Northern ethnic communities and turn them into products that can sell in contemporary markets
Wealthi: a microloan app for people overlooked by banks
Champion cohort 8 (B.E. 2561) that developed its own credit scoring system to provide microloans to groups with no access to loans from financial institutions
Thailand’s growing social enterprise ecosystem around BC4C
BC4C is recognised as one of Thailand’s longest-running social enterprise incubation programmes, amid a gradual increase in support for social enterprises.
Voices from mentors: When giving becomes inspiration in return
Many BC4C mentors were not only advisers; they also came away inspired to change their own career paths.
What we learned from the first 6 cohorts: seed funding, knowledge, and precise measurement are key to survival
Lessons from the project's first impact assessment report (B.E. 2560), which surveyed Champions from cohorts 1-6