Community Builders is a social entrepreneurship program that aims to connect members of local communities by sharing skills and talents. Their goals are to reduce loneliness, foster a sense of community belonging, and allow people to learn new skills from each other. The program conducted market research, hosted meetup events, and matched participants to share talents in areas such as art, cooking, languages, and more. As a result of donations, they were able to raise funds to support hairdressing training for women in Indonesia, helping achieve their mission of positively impacting societies globally.
We know we need to change if we want the Rotary experience to live up to 21st-century expectations. So why are Rotary clubs so reluctant to change? In this breakout session, participants will discover the reasons people resist change. They also will explore ways to implement new ideas that will reduce potential conflict and motivate members to embrace change.
JCI in Times of Crisis: Guide for creating opportunities and positive impact ...Mohammad Hijazi
As the world is encountering this hard time, we have an opportunity to demonstrate our leadership skills and be part of the support movement that we are witnessing on all levels. We are all in this together; our unity is the only way to overcome this pandemic. This is in line with JCI Mauritius’s 2020 motto “United We Serve. United We Make The Change”! We have been trained to be active citizens, our skills and values are highly needed in these troubled times! It is the time to show our members and the world what JCI can do on every level!
We know we need to change if we want the Rotary experience to live up to 21st-century expectations. So why are Rotary clubs so reluctant to change? In this breakout session, participants will discover the reasons people resist change. They also will explore ways to implement new ideas that will reduce potential conflict and motivate members to embrace change.
JCI in Times of Crisis: Guide for creating opportunities and positive impact ...Mohammad Hijazi
As the world is encountering this hard time, we have an opportunity to demonstrate our leadership skills and be part of the support movement that we are witnessing on all levels. We are all in this together; our unity is the only way to overcome this pandemic. This is in line with JCI Mauritius’s 2020 motto “United We Serve. United We Make The Change”! We have been trained to be active citizens, our skills and values are highly needed in these troubled times! It is the time to show our members and the world what JCI can do on every level!
Network building and having a community following is essential to the sustainability of most not-for-profit and community organisations. For those organisations relying on their community followers for funding it is also necessary to have streamlined processes for collecting donations in what is a competitive space for funds. This workshop was dedicated to the tools and tips that will help community organisations and not-for-profits to engage with their community and make it easy for those followers that want to donate to their cause or group.
This session is part of the Capital Region Digital Enterprise program. For more information visit www.crde.com.au
This workshop was presented by Rachel Wright of Threesides Marketing and Chris Barry, Director, Communications and Fundraising from Communities at Work Canberra.
Rotary Peace Fellows have the potential to be the world leaders of tomorrow. Rotary invests in them for two whole years, and extending that support into the realm of social entrepreneurship amplifies our organization's reach. Through design thinking and evidence-based practice, we ensure Rotary's programs are more sustainable and influential than ever. Join this workshop and learn how clubs and districts can work with peace fellows to problem-solve some of the world's biggest challenges.
Breaking down barriers to successful CSRMark Devan
This talk in on breaking down barriers among key stakeholders and getting them on board for a successful Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) programme.
An organization that operates, as an umbrella, to cultivate women executive leaders in enterprise, start-up and not-for-profit technology organizations, a goal to connect community and increase female leadership at the top; C-Suite, President, GM, CEO, and Public Advisory Board positions across all verticals in Chicago.
You've created your People of Action ad, and you're ready to tell Rotary's story. Now what? Having a plan to share your ads in multiple places is vital to spreading Rotary's message. Use our easy-to-follow outline as you explore both new and traditional media outlets to share your story with your community.
We know that club meetings can become boring, repetitive, predicable, and unwelcoming to existing members, let alone potential new members. How do we improve our experiences? Let’s share our stories, explore challenges and successes together, and create an action plan to improve our meetings — and consequently our membership.
Staying Relevant to Members and Donors in a Constantly Changing WorldiMIS
Several major shifts have changed the landscape for associations and non-profits including economic conditions, demographics, time poverty and technology. Explore how associations and non-profits are fighting for relevance and how to create a game plan to ensure you are essential to your members, donors, and other constituents as well as the community you serve.
We are a group of Youth who came together with mission of improving youth qualities such as; peaceful co-existence, educational values, technical aids, traditional and cultural values, community development projects, collective participation initiation, bringing out the special abilities in youth such as potential with abilities to enhance private progression without depending on government, creating awareness on the ills of social vices and general awareness of how a youth should be or contribute to his society.
Network building and having a community following is essential to the sustainability of most not-for-profit and community organisations. For those organisations relying on their community followers for funding it is also necessary to have streamlined processes for collecting donations in what is a competitive space for funds. This workshop was dedicated to the tools and tips that will help community organisations and not-for-profits to engage with their community and make it easy for those followers that want to donate to their cause or group.
This session is part of the Capital Region Digital Enterprise program. For more information visit www.crde.com.au
This workshop was presented by Rachel Wright of Threesides Marketing and Chris Barry, Director, Communications and Fundraising from Communities at Work Canberra.
Rotary Peace Fellows have the potential to be the world leaders of tomorrow. Rotary invests in them for two whole years, and extending that support into the realm of social entrepreneurship amplifies our organization's reach. Through design thinking and evidence-based practice, we ensure Rotary's programs are more sustainable and influential than ever. Join this workshop and learn how clubs and districts can work with peace fellows to problem-solve some of the world's biggest challenges.
Breaking down barriers to successful CSRMark Devan
This talk in on breaking down barriers among key stakeholders and getting them on board for a successful Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) programme.
An organization that operates, as an umbrella, to cultivate women executive leaders in enterprise, start-up and not-for-profit technology organizations, a goal to connect community and increase female leadership at the top; C-Suite, President, GM, CEO, and Public Advisory Board positions across all verticals in Chicago.
You've created your People of Action ad, and you're ready to tell Rotary's story. Now what? Having a plan to share your ads in multiple places is vital to spreading Rotary's message. Use our easy-to-follow outline as you explore both new and traditional media outlets to share your story with your community.
We know that club meetings can become boring, repetitive, predicable, and unwelcoming to existing members, let alone potential new members. How do we improve our experiences? Let’s share our stories, explore challenges and successes together, and create an action plan to improve our meetings — and consequently our membership.
Staying Relevant to Members and Donors in a Constantly Changing WorldiMIS
Several major shifts have changed the landscape for associations and non-profits including economic conditions, demographics, time poverty and technology. Explore how associations and non-profits are fighting for relevance and how to create a game plan to ensure you are essential to your members, donors, and other constituents as well as the community you serve.
We are a group of Youth who came together with mission of improving youth qualities such as; peaceful co-existence, educational values, technical aids, traditional and cultural values, community development projects, collective participation initiation, bringing out the special abilities in youth such as potential with abilities to enhance private progression without depending on government, creating awareness on the ills of social vices and general awareness of how a youth should be or contribute to his society.
GivingTuesday is coming to Canada on December 3, 2013! It is a new Canadian day of giving and volunteering, taking place each year after Black Friday and Cyber Monday. The movement encourages individuals and organizations to join together and find innovative ways to give back to the charities and causes they support throughout the holiday season.
Join Network for Good to learn about trends in corporate-cause partnerships and the 5 must-have components of awesome and effective cross-sector alliances. These tips will help your collaborations drive impact this #GivingTuesday - and all the Tuesdays after that.
Speaker Information:
Kate Olsen is Vice President of Strategic Projects at Network for Good, a leading digital giving platform in the U.S. Kate executes corporate strategy and growth initiatives and spearheads thought leadership for the enterprise team, helping companies extend the reach of their cause-related initiatives and better engage with nonprofits, consumers and employees through charitable giving.
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Wondering how your economic development organization can successfully launch a talent attrition campaign or how your region can stand out amongst a sea of competition for skilled labor?
Two innovative talent attraction campaigns, Hello West Michigan and Imagine Pittsburgh, offer valuable insight into the unique approaches they are taking in attracting top talent, and DCI shares additional background based on our research of talent attraction campaigns across North America, through our blog series and the creation of our eBook, “10 Top Tips in Talent Attraction.”
At VolunteerMatch we have a unique view into what volunteers are looking for in an opportunity. The age of one-size fits all volunteer engagement is coming to an end. This webinar will start with a review of some of the things that we know about what volunteers are looking for in an opportunity. It will then help you use this information to start designing volunteer opportunities and determining who is the “right” volunteer for your program. You’ll also learn how “word of mouth” plays such a large role in attracting volunteers to your organization and how social media makes this even more important.
This is a great introduction to some of our more advanced webinars including Where do I go from here? Engage Volunteers in New Ways, and Developing a Strategic Plan for Volunteer Engagement
With 17 weeks left until Giving Tuesday, the time to start planning your End of Year campaign is now. Our fundraising and user experience experts discuss tips, trends, and strategies to jump-start your End of Year planning.
How to Build and Run an Effective D&I Council Lever Inc.
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2. Company Overview
• Community Builders is devoted to connecting members of local
communities who may otherwise never meet or interact with one
another by sharing their skills and talents.
• Mission Statement: Our mission is to provide services that link
people together to solve the common, everyday issues they all face
as one strong community, while positively impacting societies across
the globe through social entrepreneurship.
3. • Phase 1: Creating the Business Idea
• Phase 2: Conducting Market Research
• Phase 3: Receiving Feedback + Making Adjustments
• Phase 4: Registration Form + Marketing
• Phase 5: Matching Participants + Hosting Events
• Results + Accomplishments
Phases of the Challenge
4. Phases of the Challenge
• Phase 1: Creating the Business Idea
• Phase 2: Conducting Market Research
• Phase 3: Receiving Feedback + Making Adjustments
• Phase 4: Registration Form + Marketing
• Phase 5: Matching Participants + Hosting Events
• Results + Accomplishments
5. Eight Potential Ideas
• Analyzed each idea in terms of:
• Creativity
• Feasibility
• Profitability
• Sustainability
• Positive Social Impact
6. Original Talent Sharing Program
• Everyone has some sort of talent. Our company will provide a means
by which people of all ages and backgrounds can share their talents
with interested members of their local community.
• The original idea was to have a customized, interactive website:
• One –Time Membership Fee
• Profiles
• Search Filters
• Time Credit System
7. Indonesian Hairdressing Salon Project
• All profits towards Indonesian Hairdressing Salon Project
• Initiative founded by HISG
• Surabaya, East Java Island
• 10 female participants
(5 being offered the opportunity to run a salon, others receiving help looking for employment)
• Training in employable hair dressing skills
• Our goal: Raise $1000 (CAD) to help five candidates receive their LevelTwo &
LevelThree hairdressing skills at $200 each
8. Why did we choose this initiative?
• Common theme
• Locally, our community has been engaging in a skills exchange that
promotes education and community involvement
• In Surabaya, the women will gain skills that will aid in their escape from
poverty
• We both have strong concern for women at risk of poverty, abuse, or exploitation
• We are both passionate about empowering women who might not be able to
flourish on their own
• We feel it is important to realize the extent to which people in other parts of the
world are helpless
9. • Phase 1: Creating the Business Idea
• Phase 2: Conducting Market Research
• Phase 3: Receiving Feedback + Making Adjustments
• Phase 4: Registration Form + Marketing
• Phase 5: Matching Participants + Hosting Events
• Results + Accomplishments
Phases of the Challenge
10. We Contacted 1,000 People…
• …and asked them to participate in a survey…278 actually did!
11. Survey Findings – Positive Social Impact
• 59% of our survey participants suffer from loneliness either sometimes,
often or very often in their lives.
• 69% of our survey participants wish they had a stronger sense of
belonging to their local community either “sometimes” or “very much so”.
• Individualistic Society
• Talent Sharing Program = Connect people within communities who may not
normally interact with one another
• Our Goal: People form meaningful relationships through this program…and
feel less lonely!!
12. Survey Findings – Positive Social Impact
• 46% of our survey participants said they have a desire to learn a new skill,
but can’t because they either have no one to teach them or they can’t
afford lessons/tuitions.
• Talent Sharing Program = People will learn their skills (essentially for free)
from others who are willing and excited to teach
• We walk by so much talent everyday through our daily lives, but we rarely
get the opportunity to directly tap into that talent with members of our
community
13. Survey Findings - Profitability
• 26% of our survey participants said they would be extremely likely to
participate in a talent sharing program.
How much are these people willing to donate??
Between $5 and $10
Between $10 and $20
Between $20 and $40
Between $40 and $100
Over $100
Would Not Donate
14. Phases of the Challenge
• Phase 1: Creating the Business Idea
• Phase 2: Conducting Market Research
• Phase 3: Receiving Feedback + Making Adjustments
• Phase 4: Registration Form + Marketing
• Phase 5: Matching Participants + Hosting Events
• Results + Accomplishments
16. Revised Talent Sharing Program
• People will fill out a registration form telling us what skills they are
interested in teaching and what skills they are interested in learning.
• We will attempt to find participants one or more “community
partner(s)” based on location, availability, interests, and skill level.
• In exchange for a minimum donation of $10 (that will support the
Indonesian Hair Salon Project), participants will be invited to small
meet-up events in safe, public locations where they can meet their
community partner(s) in a group environment and hopefully plan
future meetings.
17. Phases of the Challenge
• Phase 1: Creating the Business Idea
• Phase 2: Conducting Market Research
• Phase 3: Receiving Feedback + Making Adjustments
• Phase 4: Registration Form + Marketing
• Phase 5: Matching Participants + Hosting Events
• Results + Accomplishments
18. Registration for the Talent Sharing Program
HOW ITWORKS, CATEGORIES, PURPOSE
• Personal Information (e.g. Availability)
• Several Categories of Skills
• Extensive List ofVarious Activities
• Everything Kept Confidential
Categories:
• Art
• Cooking
• Dance
• Finance
• General Labour
• Health &Wellness
• Job-Hunting
• Language
• Music
• People/Parenting
• SchoolCurriculum
• Sport
• Strategy Board Games
• Technology
20. Spreading the word through
• Primary method of marketing our services
• We created a Community Builders Facebook page
• Quick, easy-to-read status updates
• Directed people to our website to learn more details
• In the first week:
• 86 people “liked” the page
• 90 people were “talking about our page”
• Posted pictures of meet-up events
In the end, 45 people registered for ourTalent Sharing Program!!
25. Phases of the Challenge
• Phase 1: Creating the Business Idea
• Phase 2: Conducting Market Research
• Phase 3: Receiving Feedback + Making Adjustments
• Phase 4: Registration Form + Marketing
• Phase 5: Matching Participants + Hosting Events
• Results + Accomplishments
26. Meet-Up Events
• Organized 3 meet-up events with 8-12 people each
• Hosted by Community Builders at the SFU Burnaby Campus
• Safe, public environment
• Free venues
• Judgment free space
• Friendly & casual atmosphere
• Light refreshments
27. Meet-Up Event Structure
• Introduction
• Two icebreaker games
• Getting to know everyone, mingling
• 1-on-1 meeting time for community
partners
• Opportunity to plan future partner or
group meet-ups
28. Phases of the Challenge
• Phase 1: Creating the Business Idea
• Phase 2: Conducting Market Research
• Phase 3: Receiving Feedback + Making Adjustments
• Phase 4: Registration Form + Marketing
• Phase 5: Matching Participants + Hosting Events
• Results + Accomplishments
29. Revenues & Costs
Revenues
• 100% of our revenues over the six weeks came from donations made by the
19 participants of theTalent Sharing Program.
Breakdown of Costs
• KwikSurveys Upgrade $ 10.81 CAD
• Web Design Upgrade $ 11.90 CAD
• PayPal Fees $ 5.22 CAD
• Refreshments at Meet-Up Events $ 7.96 CAD
30. Summary of Net Funds Raised
Total Revenue $440.00
Total Costs $35.89
Net Funds Raised: $404.11
As a result, we are able to provide financing for 2 women’s hairdressing
training in Surabaya!
31. Positive Social Impact
• Goal #1: Connect people to build a stronger community by
exchanging talents with people you may otherwise never meet
• 19 people took the initiative to attend a meet-up event, meet their
community partner(s), and plan future meetings
• Some participants have ALREADY followed up with their community partners.
• Others have indicated that they are following up with their community partners as
early as this weekend!
• Weekly outdoor yoga session starting nextWednesday
• When asked how likely participants would be to meet their community partners
again, the average response from all three sessions was 4.5/5.0
32. Positive Social Impact - Continued
• Goal #2: Help people connect with members of their
community regardless of race, age, gender, etc.
• At our meet-up events, our participants were from the following
countries:
• We had participants as young as 16 and as old as 50 !!
• These are people who REALLY may never interact with each other in
their daily lives…
•Canada
•England
•Kenya
•Mexico
•Pakistan
•Russia
•Sri Lanka
•USA
33.
34. Positive Social Impact - Continued
• Goal #3: Create a system, which allows members of local
communities to educate one another in a fun, safe, and
engaging way
Diversity of the talents being exchanged
•Algebra
•Ball Hockey
•Computer Graphics
•Fitness +WeightTraining
•Interview Skills
•Mandarin
•Medical School Interview Skills
•Spanish
•Spreadsheets
•Stock Fundamentals Analysis
•Yoga + Stretching
35.
36. Positive Social Impact - Continued
Testimonials from Participants (Anonymous)
• “…The aim of the organization is very inspirational and it feels
good to be part of an organization that has such a powerful
and life changing goal.”
• “This is exactly what I’ve been looking for!...”
• “I want this program to continue [to] exist because it is the
first program I’ve seen in my life that helps people to get
together rather than get separated by any kind of social
media, technology, etc.”