Dennis Williamson - Workforce Development nado-web
Learn from colleagues that have developed promising workforce development programs tailored to their communities. Pick up ideas about ways communities are working with federal and local partners to implement impactful programs.
Creating a Sustainable Built Environment through Education and Collaboration ...campone
This document discusses the importance of collaboration in achieving sustainable development. It defines sustainable development according to the Brundtland Commission as meeting present needs without compromising future generations' ability to meet their own needs. A place-based approach is emphasized, considering environmental, social, economic factors and intra- and inter-generational equity. The Sustainable Communities model provides eight components for collaboration across sectors and places. Case studies illustrate collaboration principles through regeneration partnerships in North Liverpool, Stewartstown Road in Belfast, and the Resurgam Trust in Lisburn. Guiding principles stress shared vision, action, and resources through inclusive, long-lasting area-wide collaboration and capacity building.
This document discusses sustainable mining in Indonesia. It defines sustainable mining as maximizing economic benefits from mining projects while also improving environmental and social outcomes. The document outlines some efforts in Indonesia to promote sustainable mining, but notes ongoing challenges around stakeholder engagement and measuring intangible impacts. It emphasizes the importance of community engagement to build trust and ensure mining addresses local issues and preferences.
Presentation used for internal training with a corporate client in December 2015. Images and text, I hope it's useful. Contact me for more details at: tobias.webb@innovation-forum.co.uk
Across the nation, the tourism and outdoor recreation sectors are playing a significant role in a region’s overall economic strategy and success. Many regions and communities have included tourism, recreation, and outdoor activities as key components of their CEDS or other strategic plans. Hear about ways local areas are prioritizing tourism and recreation as they look at new ways to bring economic prosperity to their regions.
Presented as part of FOCUS Greater Syracuse's Citizens Academy
Emerging Trends in Economic Development
What it takes for strategic planning implementation success.
UNH Cooperative Extension launched its inaugural Economic Development Academy (EDA) in 2014 at UNH Manchester. Last year's participants included economic development practitioners, county managers, and economic development organization/agency staff. This presentation was given by Jim Damicis of Camoin Associates on trends in economic development.
Trends, Mechanism, and Investors for Resource Mobilization tistalks
This document discusses trends in funding innovation and telecentres as social enterprises. It covers three phases: building knowledge, finding solutions and partners, and planning for innovation, technology, and sustainability. It examines funding sources like philanthropy, social investment, and impact investing. It also discusses challenges for NGOs and opportunities for telecentres, including improving evidence of success, focusing on multi-stakeholder initiatives, and developing services with real demand. New models for telecentres as social enterprises are proposed, like living labs, youth innovation centers, and accelerators of talents.
Dennis Williamson - Workforce Development nado-web
Learn from colleagues that have developed promising workforce development programs tailored to their communities. Pick up ideas about ways communities are working with federal and local partners to implement impactful programs.
Creating a Sustainable Built Environment through Education and Collaboration ...campone
This document discusses the importance of collaboration in achieving sustainable development. It defines sustainable development according to the Brundtland Commission as meeting present needs without compromising future generations' ability to meet their own needs. A place-based approach is emphasized, considering environmental, social, economic factors and intra- and inter-generational equity. The Sustainable Communities model provides eight components for collaboration across sectors and places. Case studies illustrate collaboration principles through regeneration partnerships in North Liverpool, Stewartstown Road in Belfast, and the Resurgam Trust in Lisburn. Guiding principles stress shared vision, action, and resources through inclusive, long-lasting area-wide collaboration and capacity building.
This document discusses sustainable mining in Indonesia. It defines sustainable mining as maximizing economic benefits from mining projects while also improving environmental and social outcomes. The document outlines some efforts in Indonesia to promote sustainable mining, but notes ongoing challenges around stakeholder engagement and measuring intangible impacts. It emphasizes the importance of community engagement to build trust and ensure mining addresses local issues and preferences.
Presentation used for internal training with a corporate client in December 2015. Images and text, I hope it's useful. Contact me for more details at: tobias.webb@innovation-forum.co.uk
Across the nation, the tourism and outdoor recreation sectors are playing a significant role in a region’s overall economic strategy and success. Many regions and communities have included tourism, recreation, and outdoor activities as key components of their CEDS or other strategic plans. Hear about ways local areas are prioritizing tourism and recreation as they look at new ways to bring economic prosperity to their regions.
Presented as part of FOCUS Greater Syracuse's Citizens Academy
Emerging Trends in Economic Development
What it takes for strategic planning implementation success.
UNH Cooperative Extension launched its inaugural Economic Development Academy (EDA) in 2014 at UNH Manchester. Last year's participants included economic development practitioners, county managers, and economic development organization/agency staff. This presentation was given by Jim Damicis of Camoin Associates on trends in economic development.
Trends, Mechanism, and Investors for Resource Mobilization tistalks
This document discusses trends in funding innovation and telecentres as social enterprises. It covers three phases: building knowledge, finding solutions and partners, and planning for innovation, technology, and sustainability. It examines funding sources like philanthropy, social investment, and impact investing. It also discusses challenges for NGOs and opportunities for telecentres, including improving evidence of success, focusing on multi-stakeholder initiatives, and developing services with real demand. New models for telecentres as social enterprises are proposed, like living labs, youth innovation centers, and accelerators of talents.
The NYRC is a youth-led organization that specializes in integrating ICTs to improve youth livelihoods in Zambia. It collaborates with various partners like the ILO and agricultural organizations. The NYRC focuses on developing skills, providing relevant information to youth, and linking youth to opportunities. It pursues strategies like establishing youth resource centers, SMS platforms, and connecting farmer groups to resources. The NYRC's experiences indicate the importance of partnerships for comprehensive programming and engaging local authorities to address stereotypes.
Dealing with Disruptive Change: The Power of Stakeholder ConnectionsColin Habberton
This document discusses how non-profits can deal with disruptive change by connecting with stakeholders. It provides an overview of the session, which will investigate causes of disruptive change through case studies and discuss how stakeholder connections can manage risk and create solutions. The session will help fundraisers understand disruptive change, use diagnostic tools to engage stakeholders, and build collaborative responses. A case study of Habitat for Humanity SA is presented, which showed how shifting its focus from building houses to building communities allowed it to better scale its impact and operations. The document recommends that organizations innovate through collaboration, invest in people and systems, and implement changes through pilots and training to deal with disruptive change.
This document summarizes the challenges of measuring social impact for social investment purposes. It discusses issues such as defining what access to finance means, the lack of demand and supply in the social investment market, difficulties in measuring the impact of individual investments and funds, and ensuring trust in social accounting approaches. It concludes that while social investment can provide finance for social benefit, questions remain around measuring social impact, whether it fills real needs, and if different measurement approaches are required for different stakeholder purposes.
A presentation given at one of the National Youth Agency's regional events on the Governments new ten year youth strategy, "Aiming High for Young People".
The Greater Memphis Chamber is as old as the Memphis business community and as current as the newest start-up. Since its inception in 1838, the Chamber has marketed Memphis’ unique assets – logistics, musical heritage, pioneering medical community – to the world. From placing the first full-page advertisements selling Memphis as a dynamic place to do business in 1941 to launching the most aggressive economic development initiative in the nation in 2008, the Chamber is the lead economic development agency for the City of Memphis and Shelby County.
What is the relationship between women’s empowerment and micro‐credit programmes? Micro‐credit, micro‐finance and micro‐enterprise are now seen as effective poverty alleviation mechanisms, especially for poor women. The 1997 Micro‐Credit Summit Campaign aims to ensure that “100 million of the world’s poorest families, especially the women of those families, receive credit for self‐employment and other financial and business services by the year 2005.” Many micro‐credit schemes specifically target women as they have proven to be very good credit risks with high repayment ratios even with credit at market rates. Proponents argue that as well as increasing women’s income, there are other benefits: • Improvements in women’s role in the household (i.e. through the provision of economic resources, a woman may gain a greater voice in expenditure decisions) • Increased confidence for women gained not only through the economic success of their business but also through increased access to community services and collective action with other women. • Changes at the community level in the perceptions of women’s roles. Yet there is now evidence that questions an automatic relationship between participation in a micro‐ credit (or micro‐enterprise) scheme and empowerment. Specific issues include: • Concerns have been raised that given women’s unequal position within the family, women’s loans may be ultimately controlled by male family members. • Despite increases in income, many participants report an increased overall workload, as there is no respite from their domestic responsibilities.
This document discusses the development of bamboo community enterprise clusters in rural areas to promote livelihoods. Some key points:
1) Bamboo community enterprise clusters aim to improve rural livelihoods by establishing small bamboo businesses and cooperatives that provide training, market access, and other support to local artisans and producers.
2) Setting up these clusters has benefits like quick financial returns, low startup costs, building on traditional skills, establishing market connections, and addressing issues like poverty, the environment, and gender equality.
3) The Tripura Bamboo and Cane Development Centre (TRIBAC) in India works to establish these types of bamboo clusters through participatory enterprise development, capacity building, product development
This document discusses a session on sustainability and funding for civil society organizations. It provides context on shifts in global funding priorities and pressures on advocacy initiatives. It frames questions around where funding has gone, how to keep it locally, and how to demonstrate value. The session process involved unpacking the funding context, critical considerations for future actions, and group discussion and feedback. It encourages thinking beyond just money to sustaining impact, relationships, and the role of civil society.
This document discusses how companies can create shared value by strengthening clusters of interconnected businesses and institutions in specific geographic areas. It provides examples of companies that have improved social conditions and increased their own revenues by addressing needs within their supply chains and local communities. Key ways for companies to create shared value at a cluster level include increasing the competitiveness of local small- and medium-sized enterprises, closing skills gaps through workforce training programs, and collaborating to solve social and environmental problems that affect the cluster's long-term competitiveness.
The document discusses past, present, and future trends in economic development in New York State. It outlines factors influencing the economic development profession, programs and activities of other state economic development organizations, and recommendations for how the New York State Economic Development Council can better support its members through education programs, advocacy, and governance/operational improvements. The presentation covers a wide range of topics related to economic development in New York.
International learning on Self-Directed SupportCitizen Network
Self-directed support has been developing since the 1960s - there is a long way still to go - here are some thoughts about lessons so far from around the world.
Remarks by Mr. Sha Zukang, Under-Secretary-General for Economic and Social Affairs, Secretary-General of The 2012 UN Conference on Sustainable Development
This document discusses the importance of social license to operate for businesses. It defines social license as a local community's acceptance of a company's presence and activities. While not a formal license, it is important for development and protecting investments by building trust and partnerships with communities. The document outlines principles and tools for obtaining and maintaining social license through early and ongoing engagement, transparency, and community benefit. It also discusses challenges in applying global guidance at the local level and ensuring social license remains relevant to local contexts.
YIKE is a Kenyan non-profit that supports youth entrepreneurship programs in Nairobi slums. It was founded to address Kenya's high youth unemployment rate of 75% by providing training, funding, and resources to help youth start income-generating projects through community groups. YIKE currently supports over 40 youth groups and their goal is to improve incomes for youth aged 15-35 living in informal settlements. They provide capacity building programs, equipment, networking opportunities, and collaborate with other organizations to share best practices in empowering unemployed youth through self-employment initiatives.
Robert Zdenek & Sehar Siddiqi, National Neighbors Silver of NCRCkarenskali
The document discusses the need for age-friendly banking practices to better serve the growing older adult population. It summarizes research finding that banks lack comprehensive products and services for older customers and many experience fraud and abuse. The National Community Reinvestment Coalition advocates for principles like protecting older adults from fraud, customizing financial products for seniors, and facilitating aging at home through loans for home modifications. Next steps include further research, local campaigns, and encouraging regulators to incorporate age-friendly banking standards.
2017 foster leadership training 3 hour versionLisa Dickson
This document provides information to facilitate leadership development for foster care youth and alumni. It discusses the importance of collective identity for youth in foster care and examples of consumer and social movements like the foster care movement. The document also addresses designing programs with youth voice and youth-led agencies where youth act as developers and evaluators. It offers models for youth boards and leadership structures, as well as tools for boards to effectively communicate, collaborate, and work with partners and the media. The document aims to teach leadership and advocacy skills through experiential learning so foster care youth can promote positive change.
Collective impact presentation by kate frykbergKatefnz
Collective Impact is a structured approach to collaboration that involves multiple organizations from different sectors working together toward a common agenda to solve a specific social problem. It requires a backbone organization to convene partners and coordinate activities, as well as a shared measurement system. Examples provided include reducing juvenile justice custody in New York by 45% and getting 88 signatories to an education accord in Auckland. While promising, Collective Impact challenges traditional power hierarchies and funding models and requires trust, cooperation, and breaking down silos between organizations. A community-led approach and starting with small collaborative projects can help address these challenges.
The document summarizes a social entrepreneurship workshop for youth in Croatia in 2013. Over two days, participants discussed:
- Definitions of social entrepreneurship and what it means to them
- Examples of social entrepreneurs and their ventures
- Forms of capital important for social enterprises
- The exhibition "Dialogue in the Dark" which creates understanding between sighted and blind people through guided tours in darkness.
CSR Value and Responsibility: Shareholders, communities and governmentsWayne Dunn
A keynote presentation to the East Africa CSR Forum on Developing CSR Policies and Guidelines. Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, Sept 2013
To keep updated on postings and events go to www.csrtraininginstitute.com and sign up for the newsletter
The NYRC is a youth-led organization that specializes in integrating ICTs to improve youth livelihoods in Zambia. It collaborates with various partners like the ILO and agricultural organizations. The NYRC focuses on developing skills, providing relevant information to youth, and linking youth to opportunities. It pursues strategies like establishing youth resource centers, SMS platforms, and connecting farmer groups to resources. The NYRC's experiences indicate the importance of partnerships for comprehensive programming and engaging local authorities to address stereotypes.
Dealing with Disruptive Change: The Power of Stakeholder ConnectionsColin Habberton
This document discusses how non-profits can deal with disruptive change by connecting with stakeholders. It provides an overview of the session, which will investigate causes of disruptive change through case studies and discuss how stakeholder connections can manage risk and create solutions. The session will help fundraisers understand disruptive change, use diagnostic tools to engage stakeholders, and build collaborative responses. A case study of Habitat for Humanity SA is presented, which showed how shifting its focus from building houses to building communities allowed it to better scale its impact and operations. The document recommends that organizations innovate through collaboration, invest in people and systems, and implement changes through pilots and training to deal with disruptive change.
This document summarizes the challenges of measuring social impact for social investment purposes. It discusses issues such as defining what access to finance means, the lack of demand and supply in the social investment market, difficulties in measuring the impact of individual investments and funds, and ensuring trust in social accounting approaches. It concludes that while social investment can provide finance for social benefit, questions remain around measuring social impact, whether it fills real needs, and if different measurement approaches are required for different stakeholder purposes.
A presentation given at one of the National Youth Agency's regional events on the Governments new ten year youth strategy, "Aiming High for Young People".
The Greater Memphis Chamber is as old as the Memphis business community and as current as the newest start-up. Since its inception in 1838, the Chamber has marketed Memphis’ unique assets – logistics, musical heritage, pioneering medical community – to the world. From placing the first full-page advertisements selling Memphis as a dynamic place to do business in 1941 to launching the most aggressive economic development initiative in the nation in 2008, the Chamber is the lead economic development agency for the City of Memphis and Shelby County.
What is the relationship between women’s empowerment and micro‐credit programmes? Micro‐credit, micro‐finance and micro‐enterprise are now seen as effective poverty alleviation mechanisms, especially for poor women. The 1997 Micro‐Credit Summit Campaign aims to ensure that “100 million of the world’s poorest families, especially the women of those families, receive credit for self‐employment and other financial and business services by the year 2005.” Many micro‐credit schemes specifically target women as they have proven to be very good credit risks with high repayment ratios even with credit at market rates. Proponents argue that as well as increasing women’s income, there are other benefits: • Improvements in women’s role in the household (i.e. through the provision of economic resources, a woman may gain a greater voice in expenditure decisions) • Increased confidence for women gained not only through the economic success of their business but also through increased access to community services and collective action with other women. • Changes at the community level in the perceptions of women’s roles. Yet there is now evidence that questions an automatic relationship between participation in a micro‐ credit (or micro‐enterprise) scheme and empowerment. Specific issues include: • Concerns have been raised that given women’s unequal position within the family, women’s loans may be ultimately controlled by male family members. • Despite increases in income, many participants report an increased overall workload, as there is no respite from their domestic responsibilities.
This document discusses the development of bamboo community enterprise clusters in rural areas to promote livelihoods. Some key points:
1) Bamboo community enterprise clusters aim to improve rural livelihoods by establishing small bamboo businesses and cooperatives that provide training, market access, and other support to local artisans and producers.
2) Setting up these clusters has benefits like quick financial returns, low startup costs, building on traditional skills, establishing market connections, and addressing issues like poverty, the environment, and gender equality.
3) The Tripura Bamboo and Cane Development Centre (TRIBAC) in India works to establish these types of bamboo clusters through participatory enterprise development, capacity building, product development
This document discusses a session on sustainability and funding for civil society organizations. It provides context on shifts in global funding priorities and pressures on advocacy initiatives. It frames questions around where funding has gone, how to keep it locally, and how to demonstrate value. The session process involved unpacking the funding context, critical considerations for future actions, and group discussion and feedback. It encourages thinking beyond just money to sustaining impact, relationships, and the role of civil society.
This document discusses how companies can create shared value by strengthening clusters of interconnected businesses and institutions in specific geographic areas. It provides examples of companies that have improved social conditions and increased their own revenues by addressing needs within their supply chains and local communities. Key ways for companies to create shared value at a cluster level include increasing the competitiveness of local small- and medium-sized enterprises, closing skills gaps through workforce training programs, and collaborating to solve social and environmental problems that affect the cluster's long-term competitiveness.
The document discusses past, present, and future trends in economic development in New York State. It outlines factors influencing the economic development profession, programs and activities of other state economic development organizations, and recommendations for how the New York State Economic Development Council can better support its members through education programs, advocacy, and governance/operational improvements. The presentation covers a wide range of topics related to economic development in New York.
International learning on Self-Directed SupportCitizen Network
Self-directed support has been developing since the 1960s - there is a long way still to go - here are some thoughts about lessons so far from around the world.
Remarks by Mr. Sha Zukang, Under-Secretary-General for Economic and Social Affairs, Secretary-General of The 2012 UN Conference on Sustainable Development
This document discusses the importance of social license to operate for businesses. It defines social license as a local community's acceptance of a company's presence and activities. While not a formal license, it is important for development and protecting investments by building trust and partnerships with communities. The document outlines principles and tools for obtaining and maintaining social license through early and ongoing engagement, transparency, and community benefit. It also discusses challenges in applying global guidance at the local level and ensuring social license remains relevant to local contexts.
YIKE is a Kenyan non-profit that supports youth entrepreneurship programs in Nairobi slums. It was founded to address Kenya's high youth unemployment rate of 75% by providing training, funding, and resources to help youth start income-generating projects through community groups. YIKE currently supports over 40 youth groups and their goal is to improve incomes for youth aged 15-35 living in informal settlements. They provide capacity building programs, equipment, networking opportunities, and collaborate with other organizations to share best practices in empowering unemployed youth through self-employment initiatives.
Robert Zdenek & Sehar Siddiqi, National Neighbors Silver of NCRCkarenskali
The document discusses the need for age-friendly banking practices to better serve the growing older adult population. It summarizes research finding that banks lack comprehensive products and services for older customers and many experience fraud and abuse. The National Community Reinvestment Coalition advocates for principles like protecting older adults from fraud, customizing financial products for seniors, and facilitating aging at home through loans for home modifications. Next steps include further research, local campaigns, and encouraging regulators to incorporate age-friendly banking standards.
2017 foster leadership training 3 hour versionLisa Dickson
This document provides information to facilitate leadership development for foster care youth and alumni. It discusses the importance of collective identity for youth in foster care and examples of consumer and social movements like the foster care movement. The document also addresses designing programs with youth voice and youth-led agencies where youth act as developers and evaluators. It offers models for youth boards and leadership structures, as well as tools for boards to effectively communicate, collaborate, and work with partners and the media. The document aims to teach leadership and advocacy skills through experiential learning so foster care youth can promote positive change.
Collective impact presentation by kate frykbergKatefnz
Collective Impact is a structured approach to collaboration that involves multiple organizations from different sectors working together toward a common agenda to solve a specific social problem. It requires a backbone organization to convene partners and coordinate activities, as well as a shared measurement system. Examples provided include reducing juvenile justice custody in New York by 45% and getting 88 signatories to an education accord in Auckland. While promising, Collective Impact challenges traditional power hierarchies and funding models and requires trust, cooperation, and breaking down silos between organizations. A community-led approach and starting with small collaborative projects can help address these challenges.
The document summarizes a social entrepreneurship workshop for youth in Croatia in 2013. Over two days, participants discussed:
- Definitions of social entrepreneurship and what it means to them
- Examples of social entrepreneurs and their ventures
- Forms of capital important for social enterprises
- The exhibition "Dialogue in the Dark" which creates understanding between sighted and blind people through guided tours in darkness.
CSR Value and Responsibility: Shareholders, communities and governmentsWayne Dunn
A keynote presentation to the East Africa CSR Forum on Developing CSR Policies and Guidelines. Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, Sept 2013
To keep updated on postings and events go to www.csrtraininginstitute.com and sign up for the newsletter
CSR and Value Creation: shareholders, communities and governmentsWayne Dunn
Keynote Lecture delivered to the 2013 United Nations Global Compact Annual Awards Banquet. The lecture was also the CSR Foundation of Ghana’s Inagural Public Lecture on CSR. It was delivered at the British Council in Accra, Ghana on Sept 13, 2103
Presentation by Sam Chimbuya and Rahel Otieno from Khanya-African Institute for Community Driven Development, at the Sustainable Livelihoods Approaches seminar on 26th January 2011 at the Institute of Development Studies, Brighton
Challenges Of Corporate Social ResponsibilityElijah Ezendu
Issues in development of workable corporate social responsibility strategy and resolution of awe-inspiring stance for championing effective governance.
Access of Rural People Living in Poverty to Local and National Policy ProcessesBASIS AMA Innovation Lab
A presentation by Khalid El Harizi from the 2009 BASIS Conference on "Escaping Poverty Traps: Connecting the Chronically Poor to the Economic Growth Agenda."
This document summarizes a presentation given by Ismo Heikkila on effectively managing community wealth. The presentation discusses establishing community priorities and managing change through communication strategies and financial education programs. It emphasizes building community capacity to enhance decision making for growing wealth today and preserving it for the future. The presentation covers topics like managing change, literacy, financial education, communication, and Appreciative Inquiry. It stresses taking a community-based approach to capacity building using frameworks like CIRCLE that incorporate Western concepts and community research.
2 - Social Economy Innovation-Bill Slee.pdfOECDregions
The 13th OECD Rural Development Conference was held in Cavan, Ireland on 28-30 September 2022 under the theme "Building Sustainable, Resilient and Thriving
Rural Places".
These are the presentations from the Pre-conference session "The Role of Social Economy and Social Innovation in Rural Communities".
For more information visit https://www.oecd.org/rural/rural-development-conference/.
Isa Gaillard, Senior Program Manager at The Greenlining Institute gave this presentation at Forth Roadmap Win Federal Funding for Electric Mobility in Your Community workshop on Monday, May 15, 2023.
This document proposes a new collaborative funding model for Plymouth's voluntary and community sector in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. It suggests building collaborative networks and infrastructure focused on issues like care, BAME communities, food poverty, and childcare. Funding would flow to networks and collaborations rather than individual organizations. Complete financial transparency and open decision-making would be prioritized. Initial testing would focus on issues like PPE access. The goals are to streamline funding, support emergent groups, and ensure all communities' needs are met through locally-led collaboration.
This document defines community development and outlines various approaches, strategies, and policies related to community development. It discusses definitions of community development, key qualities, reasons for community development, and differences between development "in" and "of" a community. It then describes three main approaches to community development: technical assistance, conflict, and self-help. Finally, it outlines various strategies for community development including locality development, social action, social planning, and capacity building, as well as policies that support community development.
This document discusses the key aspects of community development practice. It begins by defining community development and noting that it aims to involve all citizens in community improvement and change. It then outlines the core values and principles of community development, including participation, representation, consensus-building, and self-help. Finally, it details the typical steps involved in a community development process, such as establishing an organizing group, collecting information, creating a vision/plan, and implementing/reviewing the plan.
The document discusses building partnerships between government and community. It outlines two approaches: agency services which are top-down and focus on needs, and burgerkracht which empowers citizens and focuses on community strengths. Communities face crises like single-use zoning and increased mobility that reduce social connections. The government's role includes providing basic services while ensuring rights, but true partnerships require moving beyond top-down approaches and silos to empowering communities and supporting their priorities. Steps include funding community-driven projects, removing bureaucratic barriers, and building capacity through leadership training and networking forums. Success is measured not just by numbers but also by stronger, self-sufficient communities.
Chapter 2 Social Entrepreneurship.pptxsitiamaliya2
Social entrepreneurship uses business techniques to develop solutions to social, cultural, and environmental issues. While a relatively new term, social entrepreneurship has existed throughout history. Some examples from the 19th century include Vinoba Bhave's Land Gift Movement and Florence Nightingale's nursing school. Social entrepreneurs focus on enhancing economic well-being, ensuring access to healthcare, addressing issues sustainably, and transforming water management. They are passionate visionaries who tackle major problems through innovative solutions and aim to create lasting social change rather than profit alone. Effective governance, including boards, is important for social entrepreneurs to balance financial and social responsibilities among stakeholders.
Vibrant Communities Canada: Measuring Impact Social Finance
This document summarizes the Vibrant Communities Canada initiative, which aimed to reduce poverty through local multi-sector collaboration. It discusses:
1) The initiative was launched in 2002 by three national partners to test an experimental approach to poverty reduction through local action guided by five principles.
2) Thirteen communities participated as "Vibrant Communities" to build collaborations across sectors including government, business, non-profits and citizens with lived experience.
3) Evaluating the comprehensive initiative's impact proved challenging due to its emergent nature, attribution issues, and differences across sites. Developmental evaluation accommodated these challenges by focusing on communities' evolving theories of change.
Social entrepreneurship uses business techniques to develop solutions to social, cultural, and environmental issues. While a relatively new term, social entrepreneurship has existed throughout history in organizations established by people like Vinoba Bhave, Robert Owen, and Florence Nightingale. Social entrepreneurs focus on enhancing economic opportunities, ensuring access to healthcare, addressing issues sustainably, and more. Qualities of social entrepreneurs include being ambitious, mission-driven, strategic, resourceful, and results-oriented. Governance is important for social entrepreneurs to balance financial and social responsibilities and oversee compliance while safeguarding the mission. Boards can provide strategic support, expertise, networks, and ensure the vision continues.
Social entrepreneurship uses business techniques to develop and implement solutions to social, cultural, and environmental issues. While a relatively new term, social entrepreneurship has existed throughout history. Some key aspects include focusing on improving economic well-being, ensuring access to healthcare, addressing issues sustainably, and fostering equity. Social entrepreneurs are mission-driven and tackle major social problems innovatively with limited resources. Effective governance, including strategic boards, is important for social entrepreneurs to balance financial and social responsibilities while achieving their mission over the long term.
Social entrepreneurship uses business techniques to develop and implement solutions to social, cultural, and environmental issues. While a relatively new term, social entrepreneurship has existed throughout history. Some key aspects include focusing on improving economic well-being, ensuring access to healthcare, addressing issues sustainably, and fostering equity. Social entrepreneurs are mission-driven and tackle major social problems innovatively with limited resources. Effective governance, including an expert board, is important for social entrepreneurs to balance financial and social responsibilities while achieving their mission over the long term.
This document provides an introduction to Asset Based Community Development (ABCD). It explains that ABCD focuses on community strengths and assets rather than needs and problems. Traditional development models take a "outside in" and deficient approach while ABCD takes an "inside out" and asset-based approach. ABCD empowers communities by mobilizing local talents, skills, and resources from within. It builds leadership and connections between community members and organizations to develop sustainable solutions to issues defined by the community. The principles of ABCD include taking an asset-based, participatory, relationship-driven and internally-focused approach to community development.
SOC3180 Asset based community developmentShuggafoot
This document provides an introduction to Asset Based Community Development (ABCD). It explains that ABCD focuses on community strengths and assets rather than needs and problems. Traditional development models take a "deficit" approach and focus on problems, whereas ABCD takes an "asset" approach by mapping community strengths and building on local capacities. ABCD emphasizes citizen empowerment, participation, and developing local leadership and solutions from within communities in a bottom-up manner. The document contrasts the traditional and ABCD approaches and provides examples of ABCD principles in action.
Similar to Simanye asset based development paradigms (20)
UN WOD 2024 will take us on a journey of discovery through the ocean's vastness, tapping into the wisdom and expertise of global policy-makers, scientists, managers, thought leaders, and artists to awaken new depths of understanding, compassion, collaboration and commitment for the ocean and all it sustains. The program will expand our perspectives and appreciation for our blue planet, build new foundations for our relationship to the ocean, and ignite a wave of action toward necessary change.
Indira awas yojana housing scheme renamed as PMAYnarinav14
Indira Awas Yojana (IAY) played a significant role in addressing rural housing needs in India. It emerged as a comprehensive program for affordable housing solutions in rural areas, predating the government’s broader focus on mass housing initiatives.
Jennifer Schaus and Associates hosts a complimentary webinar series on The FAR in 2024. Join the webinars on Wednesdays and Fridays at noon, eastern.
Recordings are on YouTube and the company website.
https://www.youtube.com/@jenniferschaus/videos
A Guide to AI for Smarter Nonprofits - Dr. Cori Faklaris, UNC CharlotteCori Faklaris
Working with data is a challenge for many organizations. Nonprofits in particular may need to collect and analyze sensitive, incomplete, and/or biased historical data about people. In this talk, Dr. Cori Faklaris of UNC Charlotte provides an overview of current AI capabilities and weaknesses to consider when integrating current AI technologies into the data workflow. The talk is organized around three takeaways: (1) For better or sometimes worse, AI provides you with “infinite interns.” (2) Give people permission & guardrails to learn what works with these “interns” and what doesn’t. (3) Create a roadmap for adding in more AI to assist nonprofit work, along with strategies for bias mitigation.
How To Cultivate Community Affinity Throughout The Generosity JourneyAggregage
This session will dive into how to create rich generosity experiences that foster long-lasting relationships. You’ll walk away with actionable insights to redefine how you engage with your supporters — emphasizing trust, engagement, and community!
Jennifer Schaus and Associates hosts a complimentary webinar series on The FAR in 2024. Join the webinars on Wednesdays and Fridays at noon, eastern.
Recordings are on YouTube and the company website.
https://www.youtube.com/@jenniferschaus/videos
Contributi dei parlamentari del PD - Contributi L. 3/2019Partito democratico
DI SEGUITO SONO PUBBLICATI, AI SENSI DELL'ART. 11 DELLA LEGGE N. 3/2019, GLI IMPORTI RICEVUTI DALL'ENTRATA IN VIGORE DELLA SUDDETTA NORMA (31/01/2019) E FINO AL MESE SOLARE ANTECEDENTE QUELLO DELLA PUBBLICAZIONE SUL PRESENTE SITO
This report explores the significance of border towns and spaces for strengthening responses to young people on the move. In particular it explores the linkages of young people to local service centres with the aim of further developing service, protection, and support strategies for migrant children in border areas across the region. The report is based on a small-scale fieldwork study in the border towns of Chipata and Katete in Zambia conducted in July 2023. Border towns and spaces provide a rich source of information about issues related to the informal or irregular movement of young people across borders, including smuggling and trafficking. They can help build a picture of the nature and scope of the type of movement young migrants undertake and also the forms of protection available to them. Border towns and spaces also provide a lens through which we can better understand the vulnerabilities of young people on the move and, critically, the strategies they use to navigate challenges and access support.
The findings in this report highlight some of the key factors shaping the experiences and vulnerabilities of young people on the move – particularly their proximity to border spaces and how this affects the risks that they face. The report describes strategies that young people on the move employ to remain below the radar of visibility to state and non-state actors due to fear of arrest, detention, and deportation while also trying to keep themselves safe and access support in border towns. These strategies of (in)visibility provide a way to protect themselves yet at the same time also heighten some of the risks young people face as their vulnerabilities are not always recognised by those who could offer support.
In this report we show that the realities and challenges of life and migration in this region and in Zambia need to be better understood for support to be strengthened and tuned to meet the specific needs of young people on the move. This includes understanding the role of state and non-state stakeholders, the impact of laws and policies and, critically, the experiences of the young people themselves. We provide recommendations for immediate action, recommendations for programming to support young people on the move in the two towns that would reduce risk for young people in this area, and recommendations for longer term policy advocacy.
Combined Illegal, Unregulated and Unreported (IUU) Vessel List.Christina Parmionova
The best available, up-to-date information on all fishing and related vessels that appear on the illegal, unregulated, and unreported (IUU) fishing vessel lists published by Regional Fisheries Management Organisations (RFMOs) and related organisations. The aim of the site is to improve the effectiveness of the original IUU lists as a tool for a wide variety of stakeholders to better understand and combat illegal fishing and broader fisheries crime.
To date, the following regional organisations maintain or share lists of vessels that have been found to carry out or support IUU fishing within their own or adjacent convention areas and/or species of competence:
Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources (CCAMLR)
Commission for the Conservation of Southern Bluefin Tuna (CCSBT)
General Fisheries Commission for the Mediterranean (GFCM)
Inter-American Tropical Tuna Commission (IATTC)
International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas (ICCAT)
Indian Ocean Tuna Commission (IOTC)
Northwest Atlantic Fisheries Organisation (NAFO)
North East Atlantic Fisheries Commission (NEAFC)
North Pacific Fisheries Commission (NPFC)
South East Atlantic Fisheries Organisation (SEAFO)
South Pacific Regional Fisheries Management Organisation (SPRFMO)
Southern Indian Ocean Fisheries Agreement (SIOFA)
Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission (WCPFC)
The Combined IUU Fishing Vessel List merges all these sources into one list that provides a single reference point to identify whether a vessel is currently IUU listed. Vessels that have been IUU listed in the past and subsequently delisted (for example because of a change in ownership, or because the vessel is no longer in service) are also retained on the site, so that the site contains a full historic record of IUU listed fishing vessels.
Unlike the IUU lists published on individual RFMO websites, which may update vessel details infrequently or not at all, the Combined IUU Fishing Vessel List is kept up to date with the best available information regarding changes to vessel identity, flag state, ownership, location, and operations.
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2. The mindset….
“All of life is interrelated. We are all caught in an inescapable network of mutuality,
tied to a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly affects all
indirectly”
- Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1969)
3. Key barriers for economic development
globally and in South Africa
Many of these issues could be resolved through simply starting with an asset based
approach…
• Lack of ownership of communities and lack of buy-in
• Dependence and entitlement of communities, from lower self-esteem and lack of
control
• Non-sustainable projects (in both the impact and financial sense)
• Lack of understanding of the local culture and community structures as well as how
success is defined by local communities
• Finding and addressing real root causes is difficult, leading to projects that do not
tackle the real underlying issues
• Lack of access to opportunities and finance – and distance from formal or
sophisticated markets
• Political instability, crime, and violence all compound other problems
• Corruption and misappropriation of development funds
Source:Simanye
4. Development issues are interwoven and complex,
making impact dependent on a range of factors
Enterprise
development
Supplier
development
Worker
productivity
Job Creation
Regional
development
Health
Education
Infrastructure
Food security
It is difficult to
address higher end
goals (such as
larger enterprise
development)
without looking at
how root causes
(poor health, lack of
education) have led
to the problems in
the first place.
Solutions must be
holistic and
focused on the
most salient issues
in order to create
real change.
Source:Simanye
5. Creating Shared Value begins with
understanding the context from multiple sides
COMMUNITY DRIVERS
• Jobs
• Training and skills development
• Business support
• Procurement opportunities and
supply chain access
• Financing
• Health
• Education
• Food security
• Infrastructure
GOVERNMENT DRIVERS
• Promote business growth and
job creation
• Keep citizens healthy and happy
• Ensure socio-economic
development
• Create political stability
• Integrated Development Plan
(IDP) alignment of initiatives
CORPORATION DRIVERS
• Profitable operations and
shareholder value
• Legislative and policy
compliance
• Healthy and productive staff
• Saving costs, reducing lead
times and increasing quality in
procurement
• Social licenses to operate
• Good public image and relations
• Infrastructure
Source:Simanye
6. Our approach: based on a sustainable livelihoods,
asset driven model
Simanye’s approach begins with a focus on assets (from social to financial and beyond),
and starts with the premise that communities know themselves best. Helping the
communities to mobilise their own assets and consider multiple factors to address
issues holistically therefore leads to ownership, impact and sustainable development.
Sustainable Livelihoods Framework: DFID
Source:Simanye
7. The key to creating sustainable impact
Clear goals and objectives
Adapting to the context and addressing key needs as well as responding to key assets
Considering economic, environmental, social and developmental variables
Bottom-up, community driven and collaborative processes
Partnerships for success
Innovation and research
Focus on cost efficiency and self-sustainability of projects
Source:Simanye
8. Community engagement process
Respect
Listen, understand, learn
Facilitate and educate, but do not impose or force
The community and local factor is the single greatest factor
– above economic, technical or other considerations
Source:Simanye
10. What is ABCD?
“They will use what they have to secure what they have not”
- Rev. Dr. Moses Coady
• Asset Based Community (Driven) Development (ABCD).
• ABCD was developed by McKnight and Kretzmann (1993) in ‘Building
Communities from the Inside Out’
• Further developed by the COADY International Institute of St Xavier
University in Canada.
• In South Africa, ABCD is promoted in collaboration with Gordon Institute of
Business Science (GIBS) and also implemented by the Department of
Social Development
• The focus is on assets rather than needs, as well as letting communities
be the drivers of their own development process thus leading to ownership
and sustainability
Source:Simanye
11. Needs versus Assets
NEEDS BASED ASSET BASED
• Focuses on needs and what is missing • Focuses on what is already there and what
person or community has
• Intrinsically negative as regardless of how
developed a community it will always have
something missing
• Intrinsically positive – no matter how bad
things are there will always be assets
• Top-down, forced solutions • Bottom-up organic solutions
• Use of external experts • Use of local knowledge/expertise and
outside experts (mutual learning)
• Dis-empowering and creates low-self worth • Empowering
• Leads to dependence and entitlement mind-
set
• Leads to increased sustainability through
ownership of the process by the community
• Not conducive to partnerships • Conducive to partnerships
• Not tailored as solutions are not context
specific
• Context specific solutions
• Need for continued external interventions • Community becomes the long term manager
of own development
Source:Simanye
12. ABCD overview: process
Day 1
• Positive stories
• Assets
• Associations
• Power
Day 2
• Community
economic
analysis
• Mapping
Source:Simanye
13. ABCD overview: process
Day 3
• Transect
walks
Day 4
• Action
planning
• Success
indicators
Source:Simanye
14. The leaky bucket and demonstrating the
multiplier effect
Rural community
Assets: tree cutting skills
trees
Regional factory
Assets: factory and tools,
wood-work and carpentry
skills
Big city
Assets: mass markets,
brand, business skills,
scale
Sell: R 20 / pile
Profit margin: R 20
Sell: R 100 / chair
Profit margin: R80
R 220 / chair
Profit margin: R120
Source:Simanye