This document provides background information on Big Help Mob (BHM), an organization that coordinates short-term volunteer missions for young people to address community issues. It summarizes research on the benefits of volunteering for young people, including increased well-being, skills, and social connections. The evaluation aimed to measure the social impact of BHM on volunteers. It found that volunteering with BHM leads to personal benefits for most volunteers like feeling useful and meeting new people. It also leads to positive life changes like increased volunteering, new perspectives, and inspiration to make career or education changes for many volunteers. Key factors contributing to these impacts are the social network of volunteers, accessible volunteer opportunities, and exposure to new communities.
Presenters: Sheridy Leslie & Chiara Camponeschi
Attendees of this workshop will learn how to develop an online volunteering program. Expect to learn about the concept of virtual volunteering and the long list of tasks virtual volunteers can perform. Through the use of real cases and examples, you’ll learn the best practices in attracting, recruiting and managing online volunteers, as well as how best to acknowledge and celebrate their efforts.
2015 September Tools for Change CGI NewsletterDr. Chris Stout
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Presenters: Sheridy Leslie & Chiara Camponeschi
Attendees of this workshop will learn how to develop an online volunteering program. Expect to learn about the concept of virtual volunteering and the long list of tasks virtual volunteers can perform. Through the use of real cases and examples, you’ll learn the best practices in attracting, recruiting and managing online volunteers, as well as how best to acknowledge and celebrate their efforts.
2015 September Tools for Change CGI NewsletterDr. Chris Stout
I hope you find this issue to be informative and helpful in your work. Please send me any information you’d like posted in upcoming issues.
The embedded links may not work in SlideShare, so please feel free to email me for a copy at DrChrisStout@gmail.com to be added to our email list.
You can join our Facebook Group and interact with over 1800 likeminded individuals at:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/CenterForGlobalInitiatives/
Any recommendations to improve this communique would be most appreciated!
And if you’d like to support the Center’s work with a tax deductible donation, that would be fantastic(!) and do a great deal: http://centerforglobalinitiatives.org/donateNow.cfm
Cheers, and thank you for your work,
Chris
How do you use LinkedIn to market yourself towards a social justice career? How do you use Twitter to share your response to a world event? What apps do you use to communicate a cause? Everyday we use technology and social media to promote ourselves, share our passions, and to be activists. In 2019, online campaigns and movements are able to change laws and make a difference in the world, but when does the online activism cause problems? As the world is advancing the use of technology and social media, we can learn how to be better social justice advocates and deter the negative impacts of online activism.
Pittsburgh Nonprofit Summit - Poverty in Southwest PA - A Strategy for Stoppi...GPNP
Natalie Branosky, Director of the Center for Economic & Social Inclusion highlighted the poverty situation in Southwest PA utilizing UK indicators and began the dialogue on a strategy to reverse the trend in the Pittsburgh region.
This paper is produced on the basis of the on-going work of the Analyzing Development Issues Centre (ADIC) in collaboration with DC Research team working in Dak Dam commune in Mondulkiri Province, Cambodia, since 2013. It is aims to illustrate a different model of development that takes into account the active involvement of the communities for long term social, economic and environmental development. The paper begins with examining the mismatch of development approaches, followed by the concept of going with the flow of community life (GFCL) in participatory action research (PAR) then the emergence of community-corporate partnership (CCP) concept; its relation to social enterprise, and stock taking of CCP in its current practice in the communities.
Different approaches to development interventions in Cambodia have been tested to examine if they offer greater chance of ownership, benefits, and sustainability to the people or communities. Often, the claim of the intended beneficiaries to the approach comes nil when these factors are brought in. In one instance, community people were urged to advocate for their rights and access to land and forest resources when these were encroached on by powerful individuals or companies. Community people’s motivation comes to despair when the intended achievements end up beyond their reach. On the other hand, there are approaches such as the community forestry program that seeks to improve livelihoods in line with environmental conservation; however, the outcome is not realized because of the dependency on external support and the lack of subsidy to those who sacrifice for forest protection. This paper argues that there is an alternative to build a strong individual or household economic base before they effectively start engaging in protecting their resources. This lends itself to the concept of community-corporate partnership (CCP), which taps into available resources such as land from community people while capital and technical inputs come from outside for collective production that is based on mutually agreed principle of shared benefits and losses. Cases of coffee, pepper production and a few other cash crops are being experimented over the past year with indigenous people in upland Mondulkiri Province. Over the period, there have been manifestations of shared understanding, trust, control of processes and challenges, which indicate a promising path to long term benefits. This has long term potential for strengthening community solidarity for defending their rights to land and natural resources they presently depend upon for their living.
On the 27 February 2016, in Zagarolo (Rome), Nefula holded a 6 hour workshop in occasion of the BackPlayers project.
The aim of this project is to increase not only the mobility of young people but also their ability to share skills and knowledge on different issues like a sustainable way of travelling and experiences the local preciosities.
Here the presentation used to introduce the Near Future Design Methodology and to explore the Near Future of social tourism and sustainable travelling.
Alan Stevenson - Leadership from the top down. A presentation on some of the findings from the Demonstration Project - A new paradigm for volunteering in Scotland. It's time to change.
Presence To Contribution: A Welcoming Community For People With Intellectual ...LiveWorkPlay
This presentation formed the basis of a webinar delivered through the Community Networks of Specialized Care. The presenter is Keenan Wellar, co-leader and director of communications at LiveWorkPlay in Ottawa. Attending directly and remotely were representatives from about 20 organizations across Ontario.
From 2008-2010, the LiveWorkPlay charitable organization in Ottawa engaged in a successful process of "de-programming" by completing a shift from congregated programs to authentic community-based supports and outcomes based on flexible and individualized person-centered planning. They have been living this new way of being for the past three years and will share what they have learned, with a particular focus on life-changing outcomes for individuals who have an intellectual disability, as well as a "social capital" approach to partnerships with citizens and organizations in support of a more inclusive community.
Subtitled "What can we do to make and keep our community healthy, strong, and vibrant", this 4-session guide was developed as a collaboration between The Coalition for Healthier Cities and Communities and Everyday Democracy. The term “healthy community” can mean many things to many people: jobs, schools, clean water and air, basic health services, recreation, celebrations.
Keynote address given to University of South Florida on the occasion of World Health Day, addressing global urbanization and its impact on global health as well as participatory urban design and its contribution to healthy cities.
This guide aims to explain to any and all young people exactly what a social enterprise is. It includes information on legal structure, shining examples, organisations offering support, and the money available to social enterprises. Altogether, this guide should be all you need to learn the basics about social enterprise.
A comprehensive guide designed to help you recruit people to your community change effort, work with the media, master social media, and tell your story in many different formats along the way.
How do you use LinkedIn to market yourself towards a social justice career? How do you use Twitter to share your response to a world event? What apps do you use to communicate a cause? Everyday we use technology and social media to promote ourselves, share our passions, and to be activists. In 2019, online campaigns and movements are able to change laws and make a difference in the world, but when does the online activism cause problems? As the world is advancing the use of technology and social media, we can learn how to be better social justice advocates and deter the negative impacts of online activism.
Pittsburgh Nonprofit Summit - Poverty in Southwest PA - A Strategy for Stoppi...GPNP
Natalie Branosky, Director of the Center for Economic & Social Inclusion highlighted the poverty situation in Southwest PA utilizing UK indicators and began the dialogue on a strategy to reverse the trend in the Pittsburgh region.
This paper is produced on the basis of the on-going work of the Analyzing Development Issues Centre (ADIC) in collaboration with DC Research team working in Dak Dam commune in Mondulkiri Province, Cambodia, since 2013. It is aims to illustrate a different model of development that takes into account the active involvement of the communities for long term social, economic and environmental development. The paper begins with examining the mismatch of development approaches, followed by the concept of going with the flow of community life (GFCL) in participatory action research (PAR) then the emergence of community-corporate partnership (CCP) concept; its relation to social enterprise, and stock taking of CCP in its current practice in the communities.
Different approaches to development interventions in Cambodia have been tested to examine if they offer greater chance of ownership, benefits, and sustainability to the people or communities. Often, the claim of the intended beneficiaries to the approach comes nil when these factors are brought in. In one instance, community people were urged to advocate for their rights and access to land and forest resources when these were encroached on by powerful individuals or companies. Community people’s motivation comes to despair when the intended achievements end up beyond their reach. On the other hand, there are approaches such as the community forestry program that seeks to improve livelihoods in line with environmental conservation; however, the outcome is not realized because of the dependency on external support and the lack of subsidy to those who sacrifice for forest protection. This paper argues that there is an alternative to build a strong individual or household economic base before they effectively start engaging in protecting their resources. This lends itself to the concept of community-corporate partnership (CCP), which taps into available resources such as land from community people while capital and technical inputs come from outside for collective production that is based on mutually agreed principle of shared benefits and losses. Cases of coffee, pepper production and a few other cash crops are being experimented over the past year with indigenous people in upland Mondulkiri Province. Over the period, there have been manifestations of shared understanding, trust, control of processes and challenges, which indicate a promising path to long term benefits. This has long term potential for strengthening community solidarity for defending their rights to land and natural resources they presently depend upon for their living.
On the 27 February 2016, in Zagarolo (Rome), Nefula holded a 6 hour workshop in occasion of the BackPlayers project.
The aim of this project is to increase not only the mobility of young people but also their ability to share skills and knowledge on different issues like a sustainable way of travelling and experiences the local preciosities.
Here the presentation used to introduce the Near Future Design Methodology and to explore the Near Future of social tourism and sustainable travelling.
Alan Stevenson - Leadership from the top down. A presentation on some of the findings from the Demonstration Project - A new paradigm for volunteering in Scotland. It's time to change.
Presence To Contribution: A Welcoming Community For People With Intellectual ...LiveWorkPlay
This presentation formed the basis of a webinar delivered through the Community Networks of Specialized Care. The presenter is Keenan Wellar, co-leader and director of communications at LiveWorkPlay in Ottawa. Attending directly and remotely were representatives from about 20 organizations across Ontario.
From 2008-2010, the LiveWorkPlay charitable organization in Ottawa engaged in a successful process of "de-programming" by completing a shift from congregated programs to authentic community-based supports and outcomes based on flexible and individualized person-centered planning. They have been living this new way of being for the past three years and will share what they have learned, with a particular focus on life-changing outcomes for individuals who have an intellectual disability, as well as a "social capital" approach to partnerships with citizens and organizations in support of a more inclusive community.
Subtitled "What can we do to make and keep our community healthy, strong, and vibrant", this 4-session guide was developed as a collaboration between The Coalition for Healthier Cities and Communities and Everyday Democracy. The term “healthy community” can mean many things to many people: jobs, schools, clean water and air, basic health services, recreation, celebrations.
Keynote address given to University of South Florida on the occasion of World Health Day, addressing global urbanization and its impact on global health as well as participatory urban design and its contribution to healthy cities.
This guide aims to explain to any and all young people exactly what a social enterprise is. It includes information on legal structure, shining examples, organisations offering support, and the money available to social enterprises. Altogether, this guide should be all you need to learn the basics about social enterprise.
A comprehensive guide designed to help you recruit people to your community change effort, work with the media, master social media, and tell your story in many different formats along the way.
Youth Philanthropy: Empowering Youth to Become Contributing Members of SocietyJason Brewer
Philanthropy has become a secondary focus in today's "me driven" society. The presentation explores the importance of creating a culture of philanthropy for today's younger generation.
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Running head: SERVING LEARNING ORGANIZATION ROUGH DRAFT 1
SERVING LEARNING ORGANIZATION ROUGH DRAFT 2
Serving Learning Organization – Rough Draft
Ray Wilson
University
Combatting Senior Isolation with Volunteerism
Senior isolation is a social issue that many of our senior citizens face today. It is estimated that 40% of our senior population suffers from senior isolation. Senior isolation in the elderly has been linked to an increase in illnesses, mortality, depression, elder abuse and a higher incidence of the elderly needing long term care services. It is one of the largest risks to our aging senior’s health and well-being. Volunteer work can help combat senior isolation and have a positive impact on a senior’s health. Senior citizens make up 15.2 percent of the total population of the United States according to the 2016 census bureau and it is reported that by 2060 the number of senior citizens will double. Senior volunteer programs that promote involvement can assist in combating isolation and the negative health consequences while keeping our seniors healthy and active within their communities.
Senior Corps is an organization that currently engages roughly 220,000 older adults between the ages of 55 and above within America in service to their communities through its Foster Grandparent, Senior companion and RSVP programs according to Nationalservice.gov. Utilizing the strengths and assets of our seniors today not only keeps our seniors from isolation but also benefits the communities in which they live. The primary focus of Senior corps is to utilize the strengths, skills and attributes of seniors 55 and above to help tutor, mentor, care for and volunteer to meet the needs of others within their community while also having mutually positive benefits to the health and wellness of the aging senior population. Senior Corp programs not only improve the lives of those served but also the lives of the senior volunteers. Service learning opportunities within Senior Corps could produce beneficial outcomes for the American communities that Senior Corps volunteers, the partnering universities and the student service learners reside. The collegiate service learning students can play an instrumental role in increasing awareness with marketing strategies including recruitment events and informative meetings to promote participation, and enrollment into the programs. Creating and implementing marketing plans while utilizing their technology skills and social media platforms, collegiate service learners can assist Senior Corps in increasing the number of senior volunteers enrolled within each of the programs. Intergenerational learning can promote valuable relationships and partnerships that help bridge the generation gap. Service learners in intergeneration settings report “positive outcomes related to a better understanding of the older generation, enjoyment of interacting with the elders, appreciation of the life exp.
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Analysis 4
CULTURAL ANALYSIS
Name: Samantha Bonds
Date: August 18, 2017
CULTURAL ANALYSIS
In carrying out the qualitative research analysis, I used various qualitative design methods such as the use of questionnaires, interviews, and observation to collect data from different communities or races. For this entire process of data collection, it involved 50 participants from different race and communities. Firstly, the questionnaires were used to collect the data which had both open and closed questions. Through the use of the questionnaires helped in hiding the identity of the person participating thus guaranteeing reliable answers to the questions asked. Furthermore, the participants were also interviewed to explain what are the challenges facing the children at their early ages. There are two types of interviews that were conducted, namely: face-to-face interview and group interview. Moreover, the observation is another data collection method that I used in finding out the challenges facing all children from different communities. According to the findings, they showed that a large number of children are unable to read and there are different solutions that were proposed by the participants. After conducted analysis on the findings, it is shown that there is need to start a youth program which main goal will be helping the children to read since after observation I discovered that most of the children in different are truly do not know how to read. Furthermore, in terms of membership, most of the participants were willing to participate in the youth program and become the members to facilitate the entire process of offering services to the children at their reading level.
The public funding is a unique resource system which does not distribute according to different communities, but it is offered by the state government to facilitate social and economic development (Wilson, 2013). The public funding will aid in facilitating the youth program since it a non-profit group that aims at solving the social problem experienced. This unique resource system will improve the society since it will make sure that the number of children unable to read very well is reduced. This resources system will have a positive impact on the community since it aligns with a plan of government agencies to reform the community or society.
The diversity of the culture can have an effect on the collaboration process because of different values from different communities. In this case, it means that the black community will have its own unique values compared to the Whites. Thus, the way Whites take things may not be the same way Blacks takes things. In addition, there is this issue of superiority and inferiority that may affect the collaboration (Stahl et al., 2010). For instance, Whites may feel are more superior than Blacks. This kind of feeling will ultimately ruin the entire collaboration process. There is no ...
Focusing on three areas essential to nonprofit success in the era of online giving: participatory programs, new younger donors, and communicating one's story. Produced as a training by Reggie Woolery of 'Arts4Good' for participants in "Give Big San Bernardino County 2015" campaign.
This is a set of slides used for a full days talk to social work students. It explores the moral purpose of social work, the meaning of social justice and citizenship and some of the practical and political issues confronting social workers today. The course includes an exercise encouraging people to see the disconnection between our own expectations the reality of social care systems. The course was developed by Dr Simon Duffy and has been run for several years at Huddersfield and Hertfordshire Universities.
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