The presentation of the project "Third Source" (2008-2010) at Employment Week in Brussels, November 2010.

1. Possibilities Ideas Solutions Innovations Provided by the third sector.

2. THIRD SOURCE

3. Third Source coordinates a national development program in the third sector of culture, sports and youth work for the Finnish Ministry of Education and Culture 2007-2013.

4. The development program has been created partly in response to the changes in the Finnish municipal and service structures. The aim of the program is to innovate and test new wellbeing service concepts and to enhance the entrepreneurial and service skills of professionals in the third sector of culture, sports and youth work. Services can generate added resources to civic organisations’ main functions.

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6. What Third Source does Educates Provides support Builds networks and cooperation Produces information Develops guidelines Raises current issues for public discussion Third Source’s primary target groups are national pilot projects and their actors

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8. We believe

9. We believe in culture, sports and youth work enhancing wellbeing in the society.

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11. We believe in the potential of the third sector in culture, sports and youth work also in service production.

12. We believe in preventive wellbeing services for everyone.

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14. We believe in diversity in service production: organisations varying in mission, location and size in the public, commercial and third sectors.

15. We believe in the third sector discovering its own way of using commercial and governmental language in order to thrive in wellbeing services.

16. We believe in cooperation and partnerships cross all borders.

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18. Our goals

19. From 105 local projects we have gathered experiences and understanding of best practices in third sector’s service production in the fields of culture, sports and youth work.

20. We explore local and national as well as European-level models in service production and promote their implementation.

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22. Through education, individual support and communication we seek to increase knowledge and skills among the actors.

23. Through research we call attention to the long-term influences of the actions.

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