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A brief introduction to some facts and figures about the arriving millennial generation and why it is important to understand them to educate them, to gain their attention away from very compelling media, to work with their highly saturated online life and to embrace their uniqueness, challenges and emotional and professional lives. Millennials aren't just a demographic, they are people.
This document discusses Philadelphia's WorkReady Project U-Turn program from 2008-2012 which invested over $7 million and helped over 75,000 youth. The program increased employment rates among youth from 57% to 64% and generated $23 million for the local economy. It advocates for collaborative efforts across sectors to prepare young people for global workforce challenges and overcome barriers to solutions through combined efforts. The document promotes applying lessons to other communities and sharing takeaways from related discussions.
Funders Partnering to Drive Innovation in Job Training and Mobility, Jennie S...Social Innovation Exchange
The document describes JOIN, a partnership of funders working to improve job training and mobility in Philadelphia. JOIN brings together philanthropic, public, and private sector partners to develop and test innovative workforce models. As a collective impact initiative, JOIN aims to create a common agenda and mutually reinforcing activities among stakeholders. It invests in new workforce programs, evaluates their impact, and advocates for policies that support best practices. The goal is to increase the number of Philadelphia residents earning family-sustaining wages through an industry-led, integrated approach to workforce development.
This document provides an overview of the MIES (Mapping Social Innovation and Entrepreneurship) project. The summary is as follows:
[1] The MIES project aims to map social entrepreneurship and social innovation initiatives in Portugal through a multi-phase methodology. The goal is to identify high-impact initiatives, provide training and resources to promote scaling.
[2] The methodology involves interviews with experts, screening initiatives, in-depth surveys of selected initiatives, and presentation to an academic council. Selected initiatives are provided with research, training, and support to maximize outcomes.
[3]
The city of Bilbao and the Basque region underwent a radical socioeconomic transformation over 30 years. In the 1980s, the region suffered from a cruel dictatorship, deep economic crisis, high unemployment, and violent conflict. Through a comprehensive public-private partnership strategy and focus on social innovation, the region was able to restructure its obsolete economy. This included learning to compete globally in the 1980s and 1990s, and learning to innovate through cooperation in new social sectors in the 2000s. A key part of this transformation was the decision to build the iconic Bilbao Guggenheim Museum.
The BENISI project aims to build a European network of incubators for social innovation. The objectives are to 1) increase the capabilities of social innovators, 2) support scaling up 300 social innovations across Europe, 3) provide evidence on the role of incubator networks in accelerating social innovations, and 4) test social incubation processes across Europe. The project involves 13 partners from 7 countries and will document social innovations, support their scaling, host events, and provide resources to social innovators. Findings so far show a strong need for networks and partnerships to scale social innovations beyond local markets.
The document discusses different roles of government, including standing over people through policies like war and policing, providing for people through welfare programs, and creating with people through social innovation. It references quotes from George Orwell and John M. Keynes about recognizing situations worth fighting for and the important role of government being things individuals cannot do.
Millennials understanding the emrging new generation YStuart Lenig
A brief introduction to some facts and figures about the arriving millennial generation and why it is important to understand them to educate them, to gain their attention away from very compelling media, to work with their highly saturated online life and to embrace their uniqueness, challenges and emotional and professional lives. Millennials aren't just a demographic, they are people.
This document discusses Philadelphia's WorkReady Project U-Turn program from 2008-2012 which invested over $7 million and helped over 75,000 youth. The program increased employment rates among youth from 57% to 64% and generated $23 million for the local economy. It advocates for collaborative efforts across sectors to prepare young people for global workforce challenges and overcome barriers to solutions through combined efforts. The document promotes applying lessons to other communities and sharing takeaways from related discussions.
Funders Partnering to Drive Innovation in Job Training and Mobility, Jennie S...Social Innovation Exchange
The document describes JOIN, a partnership of funders working to improve job training and mobility in Philadelphia. JOIN brings together philanthropic, public, and private sector partners to develop and test innovative workforce models. As a collective impact initiative, JOIN aims to create a common agenda and mutually reinforcing activities among stakeholders. It invests in new workforce programs, evaluates their impact, and advocates for policies that support best practices. The goal is to increase the number of Philadelphia residents earning family-sustaining wages through an industry-led, integrated approach to workforce development.
This document provides an overview of the MIES (Mapping Social Innovation and Entrepreneurship) project. The summary is as follows:
[1] The MIES project aims to map social entrepreneurship and social innovation initiatives in Portugal through a multi-phase methodology. The goal is to identify high-impact initiatives, provide training and resources to promote scaling.
[2] The methodology involves interviews with experts, screening initiatives, in-depth surveys of selected initiatives, and presentation to an academic council. Selected initiatives are provided with research, training, and support to maximize outcomes.
[3]
The city of Bilbao and the Basque region underwent a radical socioeconomic transformation over 30 years. In the 1980s, the region suffered from a cruel dictatorship, deep economic crisis, high unemployment, and violent conflict. Through a comprehensive public-private partnership strategy and focus on social innovation, the region was able to restructure its obsolete economy. This included learning to compete globally in the 1980s and 1990s, and learning to innovate through cooperation in new social sectors in the 2000s. A key part of this transformation was the decision to build the iconic Bilbao Guggenheim Museum.
The BENISI project aims to build a European network of incubators for social innovation. The objectives are to 1) increase the capabilities of social innovators, 2) support scaling up 300 social innovations across Europe, 3) provide evidence on the role of incubator networks in accelerating social innovations, and 4) test social incubation processes across Europe. The project involves 13 partners from 7 countries and will document social innovations, support their scaling, host events, and provide resources to social innovators. Findings so far show a strong need for networks and partnerships to scale social innovations beyond local markets.
The document discusses different roles of government, including standing over people through policies like war and policing, providing for people through welfare programs, and creating with people through social innovation. It references quotes from George Orwell and John M. Keynes about recognizing situations worth fighting for and the important role of government being things individuals cannot do.
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How Gov't Agencies Can Build Audience and Increase EngagementJoseph Porcelli
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This document summarizes an online workshop about building future-focused schools. The workshop aims to help participants identify principles for building future-focused schools, realize a future-focused approach through aligning school strategies and practices, and lead their school community to provide relevant, future-focused learning. During the workshop, participants discuss topics like the skills students will need for their future lives and careers, challenges facing education, and how to make schools more focused on preparing students for an uncertain future.
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Aseet Based Community Developemnt Blackburn and Darwen July 2014 Gary Loftus
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This document contains the results of a survey given to members of a real estate chapter. The survey aimed to learn how to better plan future programming by understanding members' interests and needs. Key areas covered in the survey included satisfaction with current programming, preferred types of speakers, networking and business development tips, and challenges members face that programming could help address. The results will be used as a blueprint for planning future chapter programs and events.
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Andrew Chow is a social media strategist and entrepreneur based in Singapore. He founded Ideamart in 1994 and Table For Six in 2008. He has received several business awards and is a certified life coach and NLP practitioner. Chow specializes in social networking/social media strategy, brand management consultancy, and personal branding. He maintains a strong online presence across various social media platforms like Facebook, LinkedIn, Flickr, YouTube, SlideShare, and Twitter to share his thoughts and experiences with social media.
Andrew Chow is a social media strategist and entrepreneur based in Singapore. He founded Ideamart in 1994 and Table For Six in 2008. He has received several business awards and is a certified life coach and NLP practitioner. Chow specializes in social networking/social media strategy, brand management consultancy, and personal branding. He maintains a strong online presence across various social media platforms like Facebook, LinkedIn, Flickr, YouTube, SlideShare, and Twitter.
The document provides information about the Samsung Solve for Tomorrow Competition 2023. It invites students ages 16-25 to design tech solutions that address themes like education, sustainability, diversity and social isolation. Students are guided through the design thinking process of finding a problem, researching users, developing ideas, prototyping a solution, and getting feedback. Winners will receive cash prizes and mentorship to help advance their ideas. The deadline to submit an entry is December 18, 2022.
The document provides information about the Samsung Solve for Tomorrow Competition 2023. It invites students ages 16-25 to design tech solutions that address themes like education, sustainability, diversity and social isolation. Students are guided through the design thinking process of finding a problem, researching users, developing ideas, prototyping a solution, and getting feedback. Winners will receive cash prizes and mentorship to help advance their ideas. The deadline to submit an entry is December 18, 2022.
This document outlines the process and questions for an interview assessment used by AIESEC to evaluate candidates for their EXPLORE program. The interview is competency-based and evaluates candidates on their motivation, self-awareness, problem-solving, adaptability, commitment, ambassadorship, and other traits. The interview includes questions to assess candidates in each area, followed by an output file for interviewers to evaluate evidence of competencies. Candidates also complete a questionnaire to provide further evidence of their assertiveness and resilience. The thorough process is designed to select candidates that are the best match for the international internship program.
Demetris C. Hadjisofocli. Presentation of information on how any individual can explore the opportunity to set up and manage their own business and how they can turn an idea into a business opportunity in the area of social enterprise or regular business. This presentation was given to a group of individuals with various types of disabilities and the purpose was to inform them, encourage them, and facilitate their introduction into the business world. A definition of systemic entrepreneurship, a termed and a process that I developed and coined and use the last 2 years, was given out.
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3. A lecture on how work is changing due to trends like technology and outsourcing. Students learn about lifelong learning and 7 key "C" skills of critical thinking, creativity, collaboration, and more.
4. Application activities where students relate skills to career prospects and assess
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Joseph is a young person who completed an ICT diploma but has been unable to find a job. He learns about a new Apprenticeship Academy through his former college and attends an information session. He applies and is accepted to a one-year IT support apprenticeship with the local authority. He receives training through the Academy one day a week while working the other days. Though he initially struggles, he finds support through Academy structures and completes the apprenticeship. All apprentices are assessed using the Academy's evaluation frameworks. Inspired, Joseph then pursues a degree in ICT. The Academy is a partnership that provides back office support while members support local apprentices and liaise with the central organization
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3. The rules of the game
1. Your task is to come up with the best possible idea to SI in the marketplace –
young people back into jobs
2. You will need to look at the present and ahead to the future.
3. You will need to work in your teams
4. You will need to consider future challenges - global and local
5. You will need to debate and evaluate your best ideas
6. Your ideas will be judged against a set of criteria
7. No idea is a bad idea so have fun!
4. The ideas criteria
1. Don’t forget we are looking for the best possible SI idea in getting
the young people back into jobs
2. Your idea can be anything - a policy, service, product or behaviour
3. Ideas are judged against below criteria :
1. Fun - exciting and creative
2. Innovative and futuristic - will produce something new or different
3. Meets local challenges
4. Meets global challenges
5. Relevant to community - people are supportive
6. Sustainable - has a positive and lasting impact
7. Feasible and achievable - the right resources can be found to make it happen
5. Your game kit
The paper to record your thoughts and ideas
Team area
Games Master support
Your knowledge and expertise
Team members
Internet
9. Step 1:
Global Challenges
Step 2:
Local Challenges
Step 3:
Perspectives
of the SI
Step 4:
Ideas
Step 5:
Prioritising ideas
Step 6:
Presenting future
ideas
Step 7:
Preparing for
testing
Step 8:
Real world testing
Step 9:
Preparation and
presenting final
ideas
Step 10:
Voting
11. Step 1: Global Challenges
1. What global challenges will job market face in the future?
2. Are those challenges economic, social, cultural or environmental?
3. Do any of your challenges cut across all the above four perspectives?
4. Record your global challenges and place them around the symbols for
economic, social, environmental and cultural perspectives on the game board
15. Step 1: Global Challenges
Economic: Growing inequality
There are pockets of very rich places within cities and pockets of very poor
places. The gap between the rich and poor is widening
Social: Shifting populations
30% of the world’s population lived in urban areas in 1950, now …. 50% of the
world’s population live in urban areas
Cultural: Increased diversity
The number of migrants more than doubled between 1960 and 2000
Education: Old patterns in the new world
Industries and sectors are becoming more and more diversified. In many
countries educational programmes are just not able to catch up with it.
16. Step 1: Global Challenges
What are the global challenges facing employment among
young people ?
In what ways will
economy keep
growing? How do job
markets relate to
that?
How does the
increasing mobility
impact the job
market outlook?
How far can our
cities grow ? What
will they need in the
future?
What type of jobs
will my children
have? What about
their education?
17. Step 2: Local Challenges
1. You have thought global. Now think local
2. What do you think the most important local challenges facing will be in the
future?
3. Are they economic, social, cultural and educational or something in between?
4. What are the links between global and local challenges?
5. Record the local challenges you identify on paper and place them around the
symbols for economic, social, cultural and educational perspectives
18.
19. Reflect deeply on your work as it relates to the specific theme in order to
get to the real insights.
The four main themes are as follows:
1.How do you create and shape new job markets suitable for a
21st century workforce?
2. How to mobilise outsiders to catalyse, change and move young people
towards employment and business?
3. What are education institutions doing to help young people prepare
for new economies?
4. How do you create better collaboration across sectors that result
in new jobs for younger people?
21. ECONOMIC
‘the wealth of the city’
• Jobs and employment
• Business
• Investment
• Skills
ENVIRONMENTAL
‘the nature of the city’
• Public space
• Waste
• Energy
• Topography and landscape
SOCIAL
‘the wellbeing of the city’
• Welfare
• Housing
• Crime and justice
• Health
• Education
• Happiness
CULTURAL
‘the life of the city’
• Diversity
• Faith
• Arts and events
• Leisure and play
The structure
of your city:
four perspectives
22. How do you create and shape
new job markets suitable
for 21 Century workforce?
• Jobs and employment
• Business
• Investment
• Skills
Mobilising outsiders to
catalyse, change and move
young people towards
employment and business
• Creative solutions
• Unusual suspects
What are education institutions
doing to help young people to
prepare for new economies
How do you create better
collaboration across sectors
that result in new jobs
for younger people
Four themes
23. Step 4: Ideas
1. Come up with ten ideas that will help you achieve your vision for your
social innovation
2. Each idea corresponds to an economic, social, cultural or educational
perspective
3. Your ideas must address the global and local challenges you identified
earlier
4. Think of one advantage and one disadvantage of each idea you have for
your vision
5. Remember to consider the idea criteria
24. Step 4: The ideas criteria
1. Fun - exciting and creative
2. Innovative and futuristic - will produce something new or different
3. Meets local challenges
4. Meets global challenges
5. Relevant to community - people are supportive
6. Sustainable - has a positive and lasting impact
7. Feasible and achievable - the right resources can be found to make it happen
25. Step 5: Prioritising ideas
1. Narrow down to one or two top ideas
2. Rate each of your ideas against the ideas criteria
3. Write your thoughts about each idea on the matrix to help you choose
4. Vote for the strongest ideas as a team or individually if you prefer
5. You can only take two ideas forward for the rest of the game so you must
reach a decision that everyone is happy with
26. Step 6: Presenting future ideas
1. Prepare a presentation about your strongest idea(s)
2. You will be presenting to all the teams
3. You can present in any way you like
4. The other teams will give you helpful hints after your presentation
5. Think carefully about what to tell other groups as they may steal your idea!
27. Step 7: Preparing for testing
1. Think about how you are going to test your ideas
2. Use the ideas criteria to decide what you would need to test
3. Decide how you would like to present your ideas to others
4. Decide who you need to speak to and how you are going to involve them
5. Decide what information you need to gather and check
6. Decide what materials and tools you will need and can use
7. Decide who is going to do what in your team
8. This is your test plan
28. Step 9: Preparation and presenting final
ideas
1. Prepare and deliver a vote winning presentation
2. It is the quality of your idea that really matters
3. Don’t forget you’ll be judged against the ideas criteria
4. Use all the materials you have collected so far
5. You can present in whichever way you choose
29. Step 10: Voting
1. Put your voting box in the middle of your game board
2. Take a voting token. You are going to vote for the best idea
3. Make sure you judge each idea against the ideas criteria
4. You must vote on your own
5. You cannot vote for your own idea
6. Don’t count your team’s votes until everyone has finished voting!