Ece Çiftçi

Founder of the SocialBen Foundation and Permanent Committee Member of the Council of Europe

Speaker

Languages Spoken: English, Turkish

Topics: Leadership and Teamwork, , , Sustainability

Social Responsibility

Volunteering as a Career
Social Entrepreneurship as a Career
Don’t Be a Spectator, Be a Volunteer
Volunteering for Responsible, Not Troubled, Generations
How Can We Teach Children About Volunteering?
Volunteer Activities You Can Do at Home with Children During the Pandemic
We Are Responsible for the World—but How?
Volunteering, the Universal Language the World Needs to Speak: What Is It Not?
Can Volunteering Become a Way of Life?
Becoming an Employer and Employee Who Makes a Difference Through Volunteering
The Digital Face of Kindness
Volunteering Movements and Transformations in Türkiye and Around the World During the Pandemic

Personal Transformation

How to Become an Active Corporate Citizen
Volunteering 101 Workshop: Creating Volunteering Mascots Through Creative Drama
The Impact of Corporate Social Responsibility on Brand Image
The Impact of Participating in Social Responsibility Projects on Workplace Productivity
The Employment Priorities of the New Activist Generation
Corporate Volunteering: Building a Heartfelt Connection with the Company
Corporate Citizenship: Employees Who Work from the Heart
Becoming a Social-Impact-Driven Brand
Responsible Brand 101 Workshop
Corporate Activism

Sustainability

Social Entrepreneurship

Is a Different World Possible?
Who Cares About Short Giraffes?
Essential Skills Social Entrepreneurs Need to Make a Difference

Leadership and Teamwork

For Those Who Want to Become the Hero of Their Own Story
How Can One Person Begin to Change the World?
A Personal Success Story: “The World Believed in My Dreams”

You can reach us by phone at +90 530 236 42 99 or contact us via email at [email protected].

Born in 1993 in Istanbul, Social Entrepreneur Ece Çiftçi completed her undergraduate studies in only 3 years. She put her social responsibility project, she’d started up in her high school days, on a formal and regular trajectory while in college and established SosyalBen Foundation in 2013. Having pioneered SosyalBen Store, an economic enterprise, and SosyalBen Academy, offering consultancy for individual social responsibility projects, in addition to her foundation work, Çiftçi gathered all her social responsibility activities under the roof of SosyalBen Foundation in 2017. Çiftçi was invited to BBVA Momentum Training Program by Garanti Bank in order to receive strategic investment support for her projects. She represented Turkey in the 2017 G(irls)20 Summit held by G20 countries, where young women aged 18-23 develop solutions to women’s problems in their own countries. With the social enterprise network created by SosyalBen brands, she was chosen as the “Woman Entrepreneur of Turkey” from among 34.000 women in Turkey’s Woman Entrepreneur Competition organized by Garanti Bank and Economist. She became the first and only Turkish woman who received an award from the U.S.A. Foreign Ministry in the “Promising Young Leaders” ceremony held in April 2018. Since October 2018, she has been carrying out various projects in collaboration with Crans Montana Forum UN and other international organizations to reduce poverty in the world, ensure equality and security, and enhance global dialogue. The Forum organizes an annual award ceremony,” New Leaders for Tomorrow”, for achievements of state officials and members of NGOs. Ece Çiftçi was the name who received the “New Leaders of the Future” award from Turkey. She shared her journey of volunteerism and “A Social Entrepreneurship Story” with Turkish participants from Belgium at the invitation of the Turkish Embassy in Brussels in the special event organized for the 100th Anniversary of 19th of May Commemoration of Ataturk and the Youth and Sports Festival. Ece Çiftçi, who is currently the Chair of the SosyalBen Foundation, pursues her PhD in Anthropology. In 2019, she was named one of Forbes Turkey’s 30 Most Successful Young People Under the Age of 30. Moreover, in 2019, she became the first-ever Turk to receive an award at the Global Forum of Education and Learning (GFEL) conference held in Dubai for the SosyalBen Academy model. GFEL awarded the top 50 participants from among the participant institutions and organizations serving on education throughout the world. SosyalBen Academy is the first Turkish institution to have received an award in the Forum. In November 2020, Ünlü & CO Women Entrepreneurs Academy was selected as one of the names selected by the SosyalBen Academy social initiative when young Turkish business world opinion leaders, entrepreneurs and executives of the Fortune Turkey located 40 Under 40 Business took place with SosyalBen Foundation as a social entrepreneur in the human list.
Also in November, she became one of the names whose story was selected within the scope of the 80 Years, 80 Women, 80 Stories project special to the 80th anniversary of British Councile. Finally, prepared by Fast Company Magazine and Turkey with a global jury’s assessment carried out for the first time “50 Leaders for Sustainability” took place in the list. SosyalBen Foundation that aims to support the social development of children aged 7-13 living in disadvantaged areas and to contribute to their growth as happy individuals with self-confidence, organize field and educational activities at national and international levels under Çiftçi’s leadership.