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A new player in the digital collaboration tool field – Ryver
Let us introduce you to another highly effective digital collaboration tool that will make the every-day life of your team or organization much easier. Ryver is similar to Slack, however, there are some notable differences. As sated on the Ryver’s website – it is one step ahead of Slack because it offers to turn your conversations into trackable tasks, other than by expensive integration with other apps that have limited functionality. It also allows you to automate mass notifications and task assignments for predictable business processes. What makes Ryver special is the fact that you can create as many teams as you want within the app, and, as is the case with also other digital collaboration apps, you can also use the platform to set up chats with groups and individuals. What is more, Ryver is equipped with some interesting filters – for example, you can choose who can see the things that you post and say on the app and you can join the teams that are most relevant for you. All the public conversations are displayed in a similar style as the Facebook feed and there is also an option to mark some conversations, engagements and news in this feed to come back to them later.
Another reason why Ryver is unique is because it integrates team communication tools, team task management and workflow automation. No other digital collaboration app has yet been able to combine all these three substantial functions into one platform. This integration allows the users to : 1)Collaborate via Chat, Topic-threaded Chat (Topics), and Voice & Video Calls (including screen sharing); 2) Turn conversations into trackable Tasks in a powerful task manager; 3) Automate business processes like notifying teammates, assigning tasks, and delivering information to other apps lightning-fast using Workflow.
Ryver is available for 49$ per month for up to 12 team users and for 99$ per month for unlimited amount of users. Visit https://ryver.com/ to find out more.
The world deserves stories that are true
Pictures and stories are a natural way to understand the world. They create emotion and action. In order for social impact measurement to lead towards more effective leadership and development decisions, it is natural to consider whether it would be worthwhile to visualize impact data and impact reports, and to tell impact through a story.
The power of story
A lot of work is being done on social impact nowadays. An increasing number of companies and communities are interested in managing their sustainability. The trend is also consistent in the lives of individuals: the proportion of people who feel that responsibility is important has increased by 20% in four years, to nearly 90% of Finns today. Today, communications agencies are sustainability offices, and every major corporation has a social mission.
The story economy is booming. When the message of responsibility is no longer a distinguishing factor, the question of whose story is true becomes central.
We humans have begun to explain the world through stories long before scientific thought. Even today, our brains want to connect the individual facts of life to each other, complementing them – often unnoticed – with logical, life-telling stories in our minds. In addition, most people more readily absorb information compressed into visual images than plain text. So, pictures and stories are a natural way for us to perceive the world. They arouse emotion and action.
To make sure that stories do not hide the reality, but tell openly and honestly the impact of the companies operations, let’s start with the data.
Data creates a story
Telling your stakeholders about your impact is at its best data-storytelling. The impact story contains systematically collected data on different parts of the impact chain so that the parts are tightly linked to each other. Each part needs a sufficient amount of credible data from different sources to support it, and one part cannot be thinner than the other. So the chain is as strong as its weakest link.
The impact story starts with defining the problem, challenge or need. The main character of the story is the social and customer need that the operations of companies respond to. Awareness of this need runs through the story, as impact is always evaluated in relation to the need. The proglem – and the answer to it – also crystallizes the whole story arc.
So the question is: what kind of social and customer needs do we respond to? How can we better understand the needs of society and our customers? What type of data do we need?
The story continues towards something we wish for in the future. What is our vision of the society and our customer’s life, once our impact work is done? What kind of goals do we set for the changes that lead to that vision?
The events in the story are the actions that address the identified need. The key is to ask: how will we achieve our goal? What are the key indicators? What information do we need to answer this question?
The end result is also tested through the story – and it is always in relation to the need and vision. Where have we succeeded? What kind of data do we use to verify that our actions are delivering results and impact? What happens after the story: where are we going next?
Data comes to life as the data is summarized and visualized. And told as a story.
Data drama
Today the reality in many organizations could be called data drama. Surprisingly often the social need has not been adequately addressed. The target groups have not been carefully considered and the potential size of the target group has not been outlined.
While impact data is being collected, it is not understood what the potential effects mean in the big picture. Impact as is not modeled. Evaluations are made here and there, and data collected on results, outcome and impact is easily left without analysis, summarizing as information and clear messages – let alone understanding. Impact work is often unstructured and the data does not form a clear story of it.
Understanding, strong emotion – and, often, response from stakeholders will not happen.
The world deserves impact stories that are true
The central role of social impact assessment and measurement is to make the organization able to develop it’s impact activities. According to a Finnish survey, only 13% of company management and only a couple of employees know and understand the organization’s strategy. Strategies are plagued with ambiguity. If the strategy is not understood, it cannot be implemented.
How can we turn impact data and impact reports into something more usable in management and communications? So that better decisions are made possible?
Visualizing impact data and telling an impact story can help. Impact communication based on an data-driven impact story makes the strategy and success of an organization understandable to staff, customers, partners and other stakeholders. It not only helps to understand the purpose of the operations and the factors that influence it, but also challenge and develop them to be even more impactful. It also helps us ask better questions in the future.
Instead of data, of course, it is also possible to use the “mutu” (Finnish slang word for “something we don’t know but we assume we know), and many organizations still do.
The world deserves impact stories that are true.
Writers:
Aino Elina Muhonen, Impact Producer, AIknow Agency Ltd
Katja Anoschkin, Project Lead, Hyvän Mitta Project
The Original article, with links, published in Finnish in June 2019, here
ARTICLE
Upshots of Intrinsic Traits on Social Entrepreneurship Intentions among Young Business Graduates
In this study they deliberated some personality traits that boost the intentions towards social entrepreneurships. These personality traits were LKM (loving-kindness meditation), compassion, and entrepreneurship resilience. These personality traits interacted with each other in this study to enhance social entrepreneurship intentions. It was proven that LKM motivated the persons towards social entrepreneurship with the help of their compassion quality, and this motivation will be at a high level if such a person also has the trait of entrepreneurship resilience. The most important thing that appeared is resilience, especially the personality trait of a persons who is able to cope with difficulties and able to find some creative solution in the case of problems/ difficulties/ failures of social entrepreneurship.
On the notion of “ethics of care” theory, our study also expressed that only those persons having LKM and a compassionate feeling, which are purely based on ethics of care, could be turned towards social entrepreneurship. The persons in a particular community that have the emotions of LKM and compassion, also have a thrill of solving the economic and social problems of others, which can satisfy and fulfil their desire by commencing social entrepreneurship; through this social entrepreneurship undertaking they can solve particular social and economic issues of their society and satisfy their emotions.
This study specifically addressed one of the biggest problem, the unemployment problem, for the government, it is suggested by this study that some incentives, reliefs, and tax exemptions may be formulated in such type of undertakings that comes under the jurisdictions of social entrepreneurship in order to enhance motivation among the communities towards social entrepreneurships, so that communities may solve their economic, financial, and social problems on their own rather than looking for government or other employers for employment opportunities.
However, one grave problem remains, majority of the students belong to poor families, which hardly afford their academic expenses just on the hope that after completing their education, they will get a good job and they will provide financial assistance to their families, and the student and their families do not have such financial resources to invest in social entrepreneurship. So, in this scenario, although the students have the LKM, compassionate emotions, and resilience traits, they cannot have social entrepreneurship intentions due to financial resources/capital constraints.
The full article is available HERE or as a download below.
To cite this article: Sana, H. A., Alkhalaf, S., Zulfiqar, S., Al-Rahmi, W. M., Al-Adwan, A. S., & AlSoud, A. R. (2021). Upshots of Intrinsic Traits on Social Entrepreneurship Intentions among Young Business Graduates: An Investigation through Moderated-Mediation Model. Sustainability, 13(9), 5192.
To link to this article: https://doi.org/10.3390/su13095192
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Photo by Tim Mossholder on Unsplash
This publication has been prepared within INDIGISE project. The content of this publication is the sole responsibility of the project coordinator and may not always reflect the views of the European Commission or the National Agency.
Social gastronomy for social impact
Food is a concept that is understood universally in the whole world. People connect over it, and there is no day we can go by without a meal, too. Since it takes up so large portion of our lives, it is inevitable that food can also be a great catalyst, or prism through which impact in society can be achieved. Which is why in this article we will take a look at the concept of social gastronomy.
What is social gastronomy?
The term was first widely presented by David Hertz. First, he decided to tackle societal injustice in his own surroundings by launching his business, Gastromotiva, which offers vocational kitchen training and runs programs in nutrition, food education and business incubation for people from low-income communities like those in the favelas. After some time with the help of international investors he launched launched the Social Gastronomy Movement: a global effort to tackle social issues through food.
In the basis of this movement, his understanding of societal impact is evident. And to explain one of the ways to create impact through food, here are a few principles he mentions as crucial (republished from this article).
We can use food to create a more inclusive society.
Food touches on every aspect of human life: the environment, agriculture, our economy, health, even our social lives. Social gastronomy “uses food to turn social inequalities — such as hunger, poor nutrition, unemployment, inequality — into dignity, opportunities and well-being,” says Hertz. But what does this look like in practice?
A culinary education can bring opportunity — and dignity.
David Hertz experienced how much empowerment culinary education can bring, and it goes beyond mastery of knife skills. “Social inclusion requires education, because education leads to job opportunities, which can help you provide for your family, but it also means you’re known by society, you’re recognized as a citizen,” he says.
Food can build empathy and community.
During the 2016 Summer Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, Hertz partnered with Michelin-starred Italian chef Massimo Bottura to open Refettorio Gastromotiva, a pop-up community kitchen that turned leftovers from the Olympic village into world-class meals for Brazil’s homeless people. Not only did Refettorio reduce food waste, the space also gathered an amazing community of athletes, tourists and journalists who mingled with the local customers — a rare thing during an Olympics, which can often exclude local marginalized people.
“We were born to be afraid of the homeless, because we don’t know anything else,” Hertz says. “But after you serve, and you talk to people and you look into their eyes, it changes, because you see that you are not better than them. In the end, I can say that 99 percent of the people that come as volunteers, they always say that they got more than what they gave.”
What now?
The example of David is just one of the ways how food, impact on society and social entrepreneurship can come together to make the lives of everyone better. There are many more famous chefs and entrepreneurs working in the field! Among others, check Soul For Food by Massimo Bottura or World Central Kitchen by Jose Andrés if you are interested in seeing the potential business models. But the good thing is – we all have a possibility to change our habits and make our own individual change through food. Talk to neighbors and share the leftover meals to reduce the food waste! Or cook up a recipe from IKEA scrapsbook. Surely, you will find other ways to contribute by a simple Google search. But meanwhile take a look at the inspiring story of David Hertz in his TEDtalk (below).
[embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZiUW59ZTeg8[/embedyt]
This publication has been prepared within SENBS project No. 2020- 1-EE01-KA204-077999. The content of this publication is the sole responsibility of the project coordinator and may not always reflect the views of the European Commission or the National Agency.
Handbook for trainers in Social Entrepreneurship
The Institute of Entrepreneurship Development presents the handbook created for trainers regarding the training courses in Social Economy and Entrepreneurship.
The educational material was created in the framework of the European project ERASMUS+ entitled “Open Mind – gamified platform and open online course in Social Entrepreneurship for female learners and students from diverse fields of study”.
Open Mind project focus on the lack of entrepreneurship skills, especially seeing the differences in skills between genders, attempting to boost entrepreneurship and creativity through an innovative gamified social entrepreneurship course.
The training material which developed for social entrepreneurship, concerns a lot of individuals across Europe, trying to map the skills that are needed to start a business as well as it pursues to enhance employment in this sector.
This special educational material has created with the participation of all partners of the project, however, especially iED edited the graphic design of the handbook.
You can watch the entire educational material completely free of charge HERE.
This publication has been prepared within INDIGISE project. The content of this publication is the sole responsibility of the project coordinator and may not always reflect the views of the European Commission or the National Agency.
Zdanowicz Be Creative Foundation – Creative Power of Help
When fate connects two artistic personalities who love to infect others with their passion and share their extraordinary energy with the world, this world begins to swirl. The Zdanowicz Be Creative Foundation – Creative Power of Help was born out of this need for action, help, faith in the lack of limitations and the desire to create a world better than the one of media hot news.
It was created by Paulina Zdanowicz – a photographer with experience in city promotion and a diploma in human resources management and her husband Bartłomiej Zdanowicz – an actor, singer and announcer. The founders, drawing strength and motivation from their passion and professional experience, assumed that the main area of the foundation’s activity would be creating free time, interpersonal integration, strengthening intergenerational ties and promoting active attitudes. They support artistic activities and help to develop interests at every stage of life and in all circumstances. Furthermore, they create a friendly space where the local community can have fun and develop. The Foundation aim is to build the world in which people want to live, showing that everything depends on commitment and creativity. In their activities they support arts ideas, implement ecological, promotional, educational and sports projects, at the same time participating in typical charity actions such as concerts, fundraisers, etc.
Eco Kitchen workshops under the “Think globally – act locally – ecological workshops in Gady” project financed by the Warmińsko-Mazurskie Voivodeship, photo by Moja Bajka – Fotografia Paulina Zdanowicz
Brąz Van Dyck workshops under the “Think globally – act locally – ecological workshops in Gady” project financed by the Warmińsko-Mazurskie Voivodeship photo by Moja Bajka – Fotografia Paulina Zdanowicz
Photo workshops under the “When I grow up … huge matters of small preschoolers” project financed from 
operator LGD Warmiński Zakątek photo by Agencja Fotograficzno – Filmowa Video & Dance Leszek Waga
So far, the Foundation has organized i.a. a charity concert ‘Friends for Gabrysia’ to support the rahabilitation of a local activist from Lidzbark Warmiński, a several-month project High Flight School – levitation photo workshops in Górowo Iławeckie which is a photo workshops for young people from School Complex with Ukrainian Language of Teaching in Górowo Iławieckie, crowned with a photo session of the effects of levitation co-financed by the Act Locally program of the Polish-American Freedom Foundation implemented by the Academy for the Development of Philanthropy in Poland and the Warmiński Zakątek LGD.
High Flight School – levitation photo workshops in Górowo Iławeckie, project co-financed by the Act Locally program, photo by Otwarte Studio
High Flight School – levitation photo workshops in Górowo Iławeckie, project co-financed by the Act Locally program, photo by Otwarte Studio
Charity concert ‘Friends for Gabrysia”, photo by Moja Bajka- Fotografia Paulina Zdanowicz
Charity concert ‘Friends for Gabrysia”, photo by Moja Bajka – Fotografia Paulina Zdanowicz
However, this is not the end of their activities! Other ideas in progress are:
- the ecological project “Think globally – act locally – ecological workshops in Gady” financed by the Warmińsko-Mazurskie Voivodeship
- “When I grow up … huge matters of small preschoolers” – a project implemented in Paulina and Bartek’s hometown in cooperation with Creative Teachers uninformal group from Nursery School nr 5 in Lidzbark Warmiński financed from operator LGD Warmiński Zakątek.
In order to be able to spread its wings and operate on a large scale, the Foundation also conducts business activities, which allow them to gather funds only used to achieve the statutory goals. Among their ‘foundation children’, as they call it, you will find such initiatives as singing announcer, Moja Bajka – Fotografia Paulina Zdanowicz photo studio or a mobile Cap Track project financed by OWES Olsztyn, which not only brings some cozy childhood memories on your mind, but also presents obstacles referring to the symbols of Warmia-Masuria Region.
Cap Track financed by OWES Olsztyn, photo by Moja Bajka – Fotografia Paulina Zdanowicz
Cap Track financed by OWES Olsztyn , photo by Moja Bajka – Fotografia Paulina Zdanowicz
Cap Track financed by OWES Olsztyn , photo by Moja Bajka – Fotografia Paulina Zdanowicz
These business activities not only allow us to become independent of external sources of financing and maintain continuity of Foundation’s functioning, but also enable to successfully create a world in which we and the recipients want to live – claim the founders. It also helps us to fight against unemployment and exclusion, to employ and support the development of other people.
Every day the Zdanowicz Be Creative Foundation – Creative Power of Help consciously breaks the limits with their founders attitude and work, proving that Only Sky is the Limit.
This publication has been prepared within INDIGISE project. The content of this publication is the sole responsibility of the project coordinator and may not always reflect the views of the European Commission or the National Agency.
A new player in the digital collaboration tool field – Ryver
Let us introduce you to another highly effective digital collaboration tool that will make the every-day life of your team or organization much easier. Ryver is similar to Slack, however, there are some notable differences. As sated on the Ryver’s website – it is one step ahead of Slack because it offers to turn your conversations into trackable tasks, other than by expensive integration with other apps that have limited functionality. It also allows you to automate mass notifications and task assignments for predictable business processes. What makes Ryver special is the fact that you can create as many teams as you want within the app, and, as is the case with also other digital collaboration apps, you can also use the platform to set up chats with groups and individuals. What is more, Ryver is equipped with some interesting filters – for example, you can choose who can see the things that you post and say on the app and you can join the teams that are most relevant for you. All the public conversations are displayed in a similar style as the Facebook feed and there is also an option to mark some conversations, engagements and news in this feed to come back to them later.
Another reason why Ryver is unique is because it integrates team communication tools, team task management and workflow automation. No other digital collaboration app has yet been able to combine all these three substantial functions into one platform. This integration allows the users to : 1)Collaborate via Chat, Topic-threaded Chat (Topics), and Voice & Video Calls (including screen sharing); 2) Turn conversations into trackable Tasks in a powerful task manager; 3) Automate business processes like notifying teammates, assigning tasks, and delivering information to other apps lightning-fast using Workflow.
Ryver is available for 49$ per month for up to 12 team users and for 99$ per month for unlimited amount of users. Visit https://ryver.com/ to find out more.
The world deserves stories that are true
Pictures and stories are a natural way to understand the world. They create emotion and action. In order for social impact measurement to lead towards more effective leadership and development decisions, it is natural to consider whether it would be worthwhile to visualize impact data and impact reports, and to tell impact through a story.
The power of story
A lot of work is being done on social impact nowadays. An increasing number of companies and communities are interested in managing their sustainability. The trend is also consistent in the lives of individuals: the proportion of people who feel that responsibility is important has increased by 20% in four years, to nearly 90% of Finns today. Today, communications agencies are sustainability offices, and every major corporation has a social mission.
The story economy is booming. When the message of responsibility is no longer a distinguishing factor, the question of whose story is true becomes central.
We humans have begun to explain the world through stories long before scientific thought. Even today, our brains want to connect the individual facts of life to each other, complementing them – often unnoticed – with logical, life-telling stories in our minds. In addition, most people more readily absorb information compressed into visual images than plain text. So, pictures and stories are a natural way for us to perceive the world. They arouse emotion and action.
To make sure that stories do not hide the reality, but tell openly and honestly the impact of the companies operations, let’s start with the data.
Data creates a story
Telling your stakeholders about your impact is at its best data-storytelling. The impact story contains systematically collected data on different parts of the impact chain so that the parts are tightly linked to each other. Each part needs a sufficient amount of credible data from different sources to support it, and one part cannot be thinner than the other. So the chain is as strong as its weakest link.
The impact story starts with defining the problem, challenge or need. The main character of the story is the social and customer need that the operations of companies respond to. Awareness of this need runs through the story, as impact is always evaluated in relation to the need. The proglem – and the answer to it – also crystallizes the whole story arc.
So the question is: what kind of social and customer needs do we respond to? How can we better understand the needs of society and our customers? What type of data do we need?
The story continues towards something we wish for in the future. What is our vision of the society and our customer’s life, once our impact work is done? What kind of goals do we set for the changes that lead to that vision?
The events in the story are the actions that address the identified need. The key is to ask: how will we achieve our goal? What are the key indicators? What information do we need to answer this question?
The end result is also tested through the story – and it is always in relation to the need and vision. Where have we succeeded? What kind of data do we use to verify that our actions are delivering results and impact? What happens after the story: where are we going next?
Data comes to life as the data is summarized and visualized. And told as a story.
Data drama
Today the reality in many organizations could be called data drama. Surprisingly often the social need has not been adequately addressed. The target groups have not been carefully considered and the potential size of the target group has not been outlined.
While impact data is being collected, it is not understood what the potential effects mean in the big picture. Impact as is not modeled. Evaluations are made here and there, and data collected on results, outcome and impact is easily left without analysis, summarizing as information and clear messages – let alone understanding. Impact work is often unstructured and the data does not form a clear story of it.
Understanding, strong emotion – and, often, response from stakeholders will not happen.
The world deserves impact stories that are true
The central role of social impact assessment and measurement is to make the organization able to develop it’s impact activities. According to a Finnish survey, only 13% of company management and only a couple of employees know and understand the organization’s strategy. Strategies are plagued with ambiguity. If the strategy is not understood, it cannot be implemented.
How can we turn impact data and impact reports into something more usable in management and communications? So that better decisions are made possible?
Visualizing impact data and telling an impact story can help. Impact communication based on an data-driven impact story makes the strategy and success of an organization understandable to staff, customers, partners and other stakeholders. It not only helps to understand the purpose of the operations and the factors that influence it, but also challenge and develop them to be even more impactful. It also helps us ask better questions in the future.
Instead of data, of course, it is also possible to use the “mutu” (Finnish slang word for “something we don’t know but we assume we know), and many organizations still do.
The world deserves impact stories that are true.
Writers:
Aino Elina Muhonen, Impact Producer, AIknow Agency Ltd
Katja Anoschkin, Project Lead, Hyvän Mitta Project
The Original article, with links, published in Finnish in June 2019, here
ARTICLE
Upshots of Intrinsic Traits on Social Entrepreneurship Intentions among Young Business Graduates
In this study they deliberated some personality traits that boost the intentions towards social entrepreneurships. These personality traits were LKM (loving-kindness meditation), compassion, and entrepreneurship resilience. These personality traits interacted with each other in this study to enhance social entrepreneurship intentions. It was proven that LKM motivated the persons towards social entrepreneurship with the help of their compassion quality, and this motivation will be at a high level if such a person also has the trait of entrepreneurship resilience. The most important thing that appeared is resilience, especially the personality trait of a persons who is able to cope with difficulties and able to find some creative solution in the case of problems/ difficulties/ failures of social entrepreneurship.
On the notion of “ethics of care” theory, our study also expressed that only those persons having LKM and a compassionate feeling, which are purely based on ethics of care, could be turned towards social entrepreneurship. The persons in a particular community that have the emotions of LKM and compassion, also have a thrill of solving the economic and social problems of others, which can satisfy and fulfil their desire by commencing social entrepreneurship; through this social entrepreneurship undertaking they can solve particular social and economic issues of their society and satisfy their emotions.
This study specifically addressed one of the biggest problem, the unemployment problem, for the government, it is suggested by this study that some incentives, reliefs, and tax exemptions may be formulated in such type of undertakings that comes under the jurisdictions of social entrepreneurship in order to enhance motivation among the communities towards social entrepreneurships, so that communities may solve their economic, financial, and social problems on their own rather than looking for government or other employers for employment opportunities.
However, one grave problem remains, majority of the students belong to poor families, which hardly afford their academic expenses just on the hope that after completing their education, they will get a good job and they will provide financial assistance to their families, and the student and their families do not have such financial resources to invest in social entrepreneurship. So, in this scenario, although the students have the LKM, compassionate emotions, and resilience traits, they cannot have social entrepreneurship intentions due to financial resources/capital constraints.
The full article is available HERE or as a download below.
To cite this article: Sana, H. A., Alkhalaf, S., Zulfiqar, S., Al-Rahmi, W. M., Al-Adwan, A. S., & AlSoud, A. R. (2021). Upshots of Intrinsic Traits on Social Entrepreneurship Intentions among Young Business Graduates: An Investigation through Moderated-Mediation Model. Sustainability, 13(9), 5192.
To link to this article: https://doi.org/10.3390/su13095192
– – –
Photo by Tim Mossholder on Unsplash
This publication has been prepared within INDIGISE project. The content of this publication is the sole responsibility of the project coordinator and may not always reflect the views of the European Commission or the National Agency.
Social gastronomy for social impact
Food is a concept that is understood universally in the whole world. People connect over it, and there is no day we can go by without a meal, too. Since it takes up so large portion of our lives, it is inevitable that food can also be a great catalyst, or prism through which impact in society can be achieved. Which is why in this article we will take a look at the concept of social gastronomy.
What is social gastronomy?
The term was first widely presented by David Hertz. First, he decided to tackle societal injustice in his own surroundings by launching his business, Gastromotiva, which offers vocational kitchen training and runs programs in nutrition, food education and business incubation for people from low-income communities like those in the favelas. After some time with the help of international investors he launched launched the Social Gastronomy Movement: a global effort to tackle social issues through food.
In the basis of this movement, his understanding of societal impact is evident. And to explain one of the ways to create impact through food, here are a few principles he mentions as crucial (republished from this article).
We can use food to create a more inclusive society.
Food touches on every aspect of human life: the environment, agriculture, our economy, health, even our social lives. Social gastronomy “uses food to turn social inequalities — such as hunger, poor nutrition, unemployment, inequality — into dignity, opportunities and well-being,” says Hertz. But what does this look like in practice?
A culinary education can bring opportunity — and dignity.
David Hertz experienced how much empowerment culinary education can bring, and it goes beyond mastery of knife skills. “Social inclusion requires education, because education leads to job opportunities, which can help you provide for your family, but it also means you’re known by society, you’re recognized as a citizen,” he says.
Food can build empathy and community.
During the 2016 Summer Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, Hertz partnered with Michelin-starred Italian chef Massimo Bottura to open Refettorio Gastromotiva, a pop-up community kitchen that turned leftovers from the Olympic village into world-class meals for Brazil’s homeless people. Not only did Refettorio reduce food waste, the space also gathered an amazing community of athletes, tourists and journalists who mingled with the local customers — a rare thing during an Olympics, which can often exclude local marginalized people.
“We were born to be afraid of the homeless, because we don’t know anything else,” Hertz says. “But after you serve, and you talk to people and you look into their eyes, it changes, because you see that you are not better than them. In the end, I can say that 99 percent of the people that come as volunteers, they always say that they got more than what they gave.”
What now?
The example of David is just one of the ways how food, impact on society and social entrepreneurship can come together to make the lives of everyone better. There are many more famous chefs and entrepreneurs working in the field! Among others, check Soul For Food by Massimo Bottura or World Central Kitchen by Jose Andrés if you are interested in seeing the potential business models. But the good thing is – we all have a possibility to change our habits and make our own individual change through food. Talk to neighbors and share the leftover meals to reduce the food waste! Or cook up a recipe from IKEA scrapsbook. Surely, you will find other ways to contribute by a simple Google search. But meanwhile take a look at the inspiring story of David Hertz in his TEDtalk (below).
[embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZiUW59ZTeg8[/embedyt]
This publication has been prepared within SENBS project No. 2020- 1-EE01-KA204-077999. The content of this publication is the sole responsibility of the project coordinator and may not always reflect the views of the European Commission or the National Agency.
Handbook for trainers in Social Entrepreneurship
The Institute of Entrepreneurship Development presents the handbook created for trainers regarding the training courses in Social Economy and Entrepreneurship.
The educational material was created in the framework of the European project ERASMUS+ entitled “Open Mind – gamified platform and open online course in Social Entrepreneurship for female learners and students from diverse fields of study”.
Open Mind project focus on the lack of entrepreneurship skills, especially seeing the differences in skills between genders, attempting to boost entrepreneurship and creativity through an innovative gamified social entrepreneurship course.
The training material which developed for social entrepreneurship, concerns a lot of individuals across Europe, trying to map the skills that are needed to start a business as well as it pursues to enhance employment in this sector.
This special educational material has created with the participation of all partners of the project, however, especially iED edited the graphic design of the handbook.
You can watch the entire educational material completely free of charge HERE.
This publication has been prepared within INDIGISE project. The content of this publication is the sole responsibility of the project coordinator and may not always reflect the views of the European Commission or the National Agency.
Zdanowicz Be Creative Foundation – Creative Power of Help
When fate connects two artistic personalities who love to infect others with their passion and share their extraordinary energy with the world, this world begins to swirl. The Zdanowicz Be Creative Foundation – Creative Power of Help was born out of this need for action, help, faith in the lack of limitations and the desire to create a world better than the one of media hot news.
It was created by Paulina Zdanowicz – a photographer with experience in city promotion and a diploma in human resources management and her husband Bartłomiej Zdanowicz – an actor, singer and announcer. The founders, drawing strength and motivation from their passion and professional experience, assumed that the main area of the foundation’s activity would be creating free time, interpersonal integration, strengthening intergenerational ties and promoting active attitudes. They support artistic activities and help to develop interests at every stage of life and in all circumstances. Furthermore, they create a friendly space where the local community can have fun and develop. The Foundation aim is to build the world in which people want to live, showing that everything depends on commitment and creativity. In their activities they support arts ideas, implement ecological, promotional, educational and sports projects, at the same time participating in typical charity actions such as concerts, fundraisers, etc.
Eco Kitchen workshops under the “Think globally – act locally – ecological workshops in Gady” project financed by the Warmińsko-Mazurskie Voivodeship, photo by Moja Bajka – Fotografia Paulina Zdanowicz
Brąz Van Dyck workshops under the “Think globally – act locally – ecological workshops in Gady” project financed by the Warmińsko-Mazurskie Voivodeship photo by Moja Bajka – Fotografia Paulina Zdanowicz
Photo workshops under the “When I grow up … huge matters of small preschoolers” project financed from operator LGD Warmiński Zakątek photo by Agencja Fotograficzno – Filmowa Video & Dance Leszek Waga
So far, the Foundation has organized i.a. a charity concert ‘Friends for Gabrysia’ to support the rahabilitation of a local activist from Lidzbark Warmiński, a several-month project High Flight School – levitation photo workshops in Górowo Iławeckie which is a photo workshops for young people from School Complex with Ukrainian Language of Teaching in Górowo Iławieckie, crowned with a photo session of the effects of levitation co-financed by the Act Locally program of the Polish-American Freedom Foundation implemented by the Academy for the Development of Philanthropy in Poland and the Warmiński Zakątek LGD.
High Flight School – levitation photo workshops in Górowo Iławeckie, project co-financed by the Act Locally program, photo by Otwarte Studio
High Flight School – levitation photo workshops in Górowo Iławeckie, project co-financed by the Act Locally program, photo by Otwarte Studio
Charity concert ‘Friends for Gabrysia”, photo by Moja Bajka- Fotografia Paulina Zdanowicz
Charity concert ‘Friends for Gabrysia”, photo by Moja Bajka – Fotografia Paulina Zdanowicz
However, this is not the end of their activities! Other ideas in progress are:
- the ecological project “Think globally – act locally – ecological workshops in Gady” financed by the Warmińsko-Mazurskie Voivodeship
- “When I grow up … huge matters of small preschoolers” – a project implemented in Paulina and Bartek’s hometown in cooperation with Creative Teachers uninformal group from Nursery School nr 5 in Lidzbark Warmiński financed from operator LGD Warmiński Zakątek.
In order to be able to spread its wings and operate on a large scale, the Foundation also conducts business activities, which allow them to gather funds only used to achieve the statutory goals. Among their ‘foundation children’, as they call it, you will find such initiatives as singing announcer, Moja Bajka – Fotografia Paulina Zdanowicz photo studio or a mobile Cap Track project financed by OWES Olsztyn, which not only brings some cozy childhood memories on your mind, but also presents obstacles referring to the symbols of Warmia-Masuria Region.
Cap Track financed by OWES Olsztyn, photo by Moja Bajka – Fotografia Paulina Zdanowicz
Cap Track financed by OWES Olsztyn , photo by Moja Bajka – Fotografia Paulina Zdanowicz
Cap Track financed by OWES Olsztyn , photo by Moja Bajka – Fotografia Paulina Zdanowicz
These business activities not only allow us to become independent of external sources of financing and maintain continuity of Foundation’s functioning, but also enable to successfully create a world in which we and the recipients want to live – claim the founders. It also helps us to fight against unemployment and exclusion, to employ and support the development of other people.
Every day the Zdanowicz Be Creative Foundation – Creative Power of Help consciously breaks the limits with their founders attitude and work, proving that Only Sky is the Limit.
This publication has been prepared within INDIGISE project. The content of this publication is the sole responsibility of the project coordinator and may not always reflect the views of the European Commission or the National Agency.
A new player in the digital collaboration tool field – Ryver
Let us introduce you to another highly effective digital collaboration tool that will make the every-day life of your team or organization much easier. Ryver is similar to Slack, however, there are some notable differences. As sated on the Ryver’s website – it is one step ahead of Slack because it offers to turn your conversations into trackable tasks, other than by expensive integration with other apps that have limited functionality. It also allows you to automate mass notifications and task assignments for predictable business processes. What makes Ryver special is the fact that you can create as many teams as you want within the app, and, as is the case with also other digital collaboration apps, you can also use the platform to set up chats with groups and individuals. What is more, Ryver is equipped with some interesting filters – for example, you can choose who can see the things that you post and say on the app and you can join the teams that are most relevant for you. All the public conversations are displayed in a similar style as the Facebook feed and there is also an option to mark some conversations, engagements and news in this feed to come back to them later.
Another reason why Ryver is unique is because it integrates team communication tools, team task management and workflow automation. No other digital collaboration app has yet been able to combine all these three substantial functions into one platform. This integration allows the users to : 1)Collaborate via Chat, Topic-threaded Chat (Topics), and Voice & Video Calls (including screen sharing); 2) Turn conversations into trackable Tasks in a powerful task manager; 3) Automate business processes like notifying teammates, assigning tasks, and delivering information to other apps lightning-fast using Workflow.
Ryver is available for 49$ per month for up to 12 team users and for 99$ per month for unlimited amount of users. Visit https://ryver.com/ to find out more.
The world deserves stories that are true
Pictures and stories are a natural way to understand the world. They create emotion and action. In order for social impact measurement to lead towards more effective leadership and development decisions, it is natural to consider whether it would be worthwhile to visualize impact data and impact reports, and to tell impact through a story.
The power of story
A lot of work is being done on social impact nowadays. An increasing number of companies and communities are interested in managing their sustainability. The trend is also consistent in the lives of individuals: the proportion of people who feel that responsibility is important has increased by 20% in four years, to nearly 90% of Finns today. Today, communications agencies are sustainability offices, and every major corporation has a social mission.
The story economy is booming. When the message of responsibility is no longer a distinguishing factor, the question of whose story is true becomes central.
We humans have begun to explain the world through stories long before scientific thought. Even today, our brains want to connect the individual facts of life to each other, complementing them – often unnoticed – with logical, life-telling stories in our minds. In addition, most people more readily absorb information compressed into visual images than plain text. So, pictures and stories are a natural way for us to perceive the world. They arouse emotion and action.
To make sure that stories do not hide the reality, but tell openly and honestly the impact of the companies operations, let’s start with the data.
Data creates a story
Telling your stakeholders about your impact is at its best data-storytelling. The impact story contains systematically collected data on different parts of the impact chain so that the parts are tightly linked to each other. Each part needs a sufficient amount of credible data from different sources to support it, and one part cannot be thinner than the other. So the chain is as strong as its weakest link.
The impact story starts with defining the problem, challenge or need. The main character of the story is the social and customer need that the operations of companies respond to. Awareness of this need runs through the story, as impact is always evaluated in relation to the need. The proglem – and the answer to it – also crystallizes the whole story arc.
So the question is: what kind of social and customer needs do we respond to? How can we better understand the needs of society and our customers? What type of data do we need?
The story continues towards something we wish for in the future. What is our vision of the society and our customer’s life, once our impact work is done? What kind of goals do we set for the changes that lead to that vision?
The events in the story are the actions that address the identified need. The key is to ask: how will we achieve our goal? What are the key indicators? What information do we need to answer this question?
The end result is also tested through the story – and it is always in relation to the need and vision. Where have we succeeded? What kind of data do we use to verify that our actions are delivering results and impact? What happens after the story: where are we going next?
Data comes to life as the data is summarized and visualized. And told as a story.
Data drama
Today the reality in many organizations could be called data drama. Surprisingly often the social need has not been adequately addressed. The target groups have not been carefully considered and the potential size of the target group has not been outlined.
While impact data is being collected, it is not understood what the potential effects mean in the big picture. Impact as is not modeled. Evaluations are made here and there, and data collected on results, outcome and impact is easily left without analysis, summarizing as information and clear messages – let alone understanding. Impact work is often unstructured and the data does not form a clear story of it.
Understanding, strong emotion – and, often, response from stakeholders will not happen.
The world deserves impact stories that are true
The central role of social impact assessment and measurement is to make the organization able to develop it’s impact activities. According to a Finnish survey, only 13% of company management and only a couple of employees know and understand the organization’s strategy. Strategies are plagued with ambiguity. If the strategy is not understood, it cannot be implemented.
How can we turn impact data and impact reports into something more usable in management and communications? So that better decisions are made possible?
Visualizing impact data and telling an impact story can help. Impact communication based on an data-driven impact story makes the strategy and success of an organization understandable to staff, customers, partners and other stakeholders. It not only helps to understand the purpose of the operations and the factors that influence it, but also challenge and develop them to be even more impactful. It also helps us ask better questions in the future.
Instead of data, of course, it is also possible to use the “mutu” (Finnish slang word for “something we don’t know but we assume we know), and many organizations still do.
The world deserves impact stories that are true.
Writers:
Aino Elina Muhonen, Impact Producer, AIknow Agency Ltd
Katja Anoschkin, Project Lead, Hyvän Mitta Project
The Original article, with links, published in Finnish in June 2019, here
ARTICLE
Upshots of Intrinsic Traits on Social Entrepreneurship Intentions among Young Business Graduates
In this study they deliberated some personality traits that boost the intentions towards social entrepreneurships. These personality traits were LKM (loving-kindness meditation), compassion, and entrepreneurship resilience. These personality traits interacted with each other in this study to enhance social entrepreneurship intentions. It was proven that LKM motivated the persons towards social entrepreneurship with the help of their compassion quality, and this motivation will be at a high level if such a person also has the trait of entrepreneurship resilience. The most important thing that appeared is resilience, especially the personality trait of a persons who is able to cope with difficulties and able to find some creative solution in the case of problems/ difficulties/ failures of social entrepreneurship.
On the notion of “ethics of care” theory, our study also expressed that only those persons having LKM and a compassionate feeling, which are purely based on ethics of care, could be turned towards social entrepreneurship. The persons in a particular community that have the emotions of LKM and compassion, also have a thrill of solving the economic and social problems of others, which can satisfy and fulfil their desire by commencing social entrepreneurship; through this social entrepreneurship undertaking they can solve particular social and economic issues of their society and satisfy their emotions.
This study specifically addressed one of the biggest problem, the unemployment problem, for the government, it is suggested by this study that some incentives, reliefs, and tax exemptions may be formulated in such type of undertakings that comes under the jurisdictions of social entrepreneurship in order to enhance motivation among the communities towards social entrepreneurships, so that communities may solve their economic, financial, and social problems on their own rather than looking for government or other employers for employment opportunities.
However, one grave problem remains, majority of the students belong to poor families, which hardly afford their academic expenses just on the hope that after completing their education, they will get a good job and they will provide financial assistance to their families, and the student and their families do not have such financial resources to invest in social entrepreneurship. So, in this scenario, although the students have the LKM, compassionate emotions, and resilience traits, they cannot have social entrepreneurship intentions due to financial resources/capital constraints.
The full article is available HERE or as a download below.
To cite this article: Sana, H. A., Alkhalaf, S., Zulfiqar, S., Al-Rahmi, W. M., Al-Adwan, A. S., & AlSoud, A. R. (2021). Upshots of Intrinsic Traits on Social Entrepreneurship Intentions among Young Business Graduates: An Investigation through Moderated-Mediation Model. Sustainability, 13(9), 5192.
To link to this article: https://doi.org/10.3390/su13095192
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Photo by Tim Mossholder on Unsplash
This publication has been prepared within INDIGISE project. The content of this publication is the sole responsibility of the project coordinator and may not always reflect the views of the European Commission or the National Agency.
Social gastronomy for social impact
Food is a concept that is understood universally in the whole world. People connect over it, and there is no day we can go by without a meal, too. Since it takes up so large portion of our lives, it is inevitable that food can also be a great catalyst, or prism through which impact in society can be achieved. Which is why in this article we will take a look at the concept of social gastronomy.
What is social gastronomy?
The term was first widely presented by David Hertz. First, he decided to tackle societal injustice in his own surroundings by launching his business, Gastromotiva, which offers vocational kitchen training and runs programs in nutrition, food education and business incubation for people from low-income communities like those in the favelas. After some time with the help of international investors he launched launched the Social Gastronomy Movement: a global effort to tackle social issues through food.
In the basis of this movement, his understanding of societal impact is evident. And to explain one of the ways to create impact through food, here are a few principles he mentions as crucial (republished from this article).
We can use food to create a more inclusive society.
Food touches on every aspect of human life: the environment, agriculture, our economy, health, even our social lives. Social gastronomy “uses food to turn social inequalities — such as hunger, poor nutrition, unemployment, inequality — into dignity, opportunities and well-being,” says Hertz. But what does this look like in practice?
A culinary education can bring opportunity — and dignity.
David Hertz experienced how much empowerment culinary education can bring, and it goes beyond mastery of knife skills. “Social inclusion requires education, because education leads to job opportunities, which can help you provide for your family, but it also means you’re known by society, you’re recognized as a citizen,” he says.
Food can build empathy and community.
During the 2016 Summer Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, Hertz partnered with Michelin-starred Italian chef Massimo Bottura to open Refettorio Gastromotiva, a pop-up community kitchen that turned leftovers from the Olympic village into world-class meals for Brazil’s homeless people. Not only did Refettorio reduce food waste, the space also gathered an amazing community of athletes, tourists and journalists who mingled with the local customers — a rare thing during an Olympics, which can often exclude local marginalized people.
“We were born to be afraid of the homeless, because we don’t know anything else,” Hertz says. “But after you serve, and you talk to people and you look into their eyes, it changes, because you see that you are not better than them. In the end, I can say that 99 percent of the people that come as volunteers, they always say that they got more than what they gave.”
What now?
The example of David is just one of the ways how food, impact on society and social entrepreneurship can come together to make the lives of everyone better. There are many more famous chefs and entrepreneurs working in the field! Among others, check Soul For Food by Massimo Bottura or World Central Kitchen by Jose Andrés if you are interested in seeing the potential business models. But the good thing is – we all have a possibility to change our habits and make our own individual change through food. Talk to neighbors and share the leftover meals to reduce the food waste! Or cook up a recipe from IKEA scrapsbook. Surely, you will find other ways to contribute by a simple Google search. But meanwhile take a look at the inspiring story of David Hertz in his TEDtalk (below).
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This publication has been prepared within SENBS project No. 2020- 1-EE01-KA204-077999. The content of this publication is the sole responsibility of the project coordinator and may not always reflect the views of the European Commission or the National Agency.
Handbook for trainers in Social Entrepreneurship
The Institute of Entrepreneurship Development presents the handbook created for trainers regarding the training courses in Social Economy and Entrepreneurship.
The educational material was created in the framework of the European project ERASMUS+ entitled “Open Mind – gamified platform and open online course in Social Entrepreneurship for female learners and students from diverse fields of study”.
Open Mind project focus on the lack of entrepreneurship skills, especially seeing the differences in skills between genders, attempting to boost entrepreneurship and creativity through an innovative gamified social entrepreneurship course.
The training material which developed for social entrepreneurship, concerns a lot of individuals across Europe, trying to map the skills that are needed to start a business as well as it pursues to enhance employment in this sector.
This special educational material has created with the participation of all partners of the project, however, especially iED edited the graphic design of the handbook.
You can watch the entire educational material completely free of charge HERE.
This publication has been prepared within INDIGISE project. The content of this publication is the sole responsibility of the project coordinator and may not always reflect the views of the European Commission or the National Agency.
Zdanowicz Be Creative Foundation – Creative Power of Help
When fate connects two artistic personalities who love to infect others with their passion and share their extraordinary energy with the world, this world begins to swirl. The Zdanowicz Be Creative Foundation – Creative Power of Help was born out of this need for action, help, faith in the lack of limitations and the desire to create a world better than the one of media hot news.
It was created by Paulina Zdanowicz – a photographer with experience in city promotion and a diploma in human resources management and her husband Bartłomiej Zdanowicz – an actor, singer and announcer. The founders, drawing strength and motivation from their passion and professional experience, assumed that the main area of the foundation’s activity would be creating free time, interpersonal integration, strengthening intergenerational ties and promoting active attitudes. They support artistic activities and help to develop interests at every stage of life and in all circumstances. Furthermore, they create a friendly space where the local community can have fun and develop. The Foundation aim is to build the world in which people want to live, showing that everything depends on commitment and creativity. In their activities they support arts ideas, implement ecological, promotional, educational and sports projects, at the same time participating in typical charity actions such as concerts, fundraisers, etc.
Eco Kitchen workshops under the “Think globally – act locally – ecological workshops in Gady” project financed by the Warmińsko-Mazurskie Voivodeship, photo by Moja Bajka – Fotografia Paulina Zdanowicz
Brąz Van Dyck workshops under the “Think globally – act locally – ecological workshops in Gady” project financed by the Warmińsko-Mazurskie Voivodeship photo by Moja Bajka – Fotografia Paulina Zdanowicz
Photo workshops under the “When I grow up … huge matters of small preschoolers” project financed from operator LGD Warmiński Zakątek photo by Agencja Fotograficzno – Filmowa Video & Dance Leszek Waga
So far, the Foundation has organized i.a. a charity concert ‘Friends for Gabrysia’ to support the rahabilitation of a local activist from Lidzbark Warmiński, a several-month project High Flight School – levitation photo workshops in Górowo Iławeckie which is a photo workshops for young people from School Complex with Ukrainian Language of Teaching in Górowo Iławieckie, crowned with a photo session of the effects of levitation co-financed by the Act Locally program of the Polish-American Freedom Foundation implemented by the Academy for the Development of Philanthropy in Poland and the Warmiński Zakątek LGD.
High Flight School – levitation photo workshops in Górowo Iławeckie, project co-financed by the Act Locally program, photo by Otwarte Studio
High Flight School – levitation photo workshops in Górowo Iławeckie, project co-financed by the Act Locally program, photo by Otwarte Studio
Charity concert ‘Friends for Gabrysia”, photo by Moja Bajka- Fotografia Paulina Zdanowicz
Charity concert ‘Friends for Gabrysia”, photo by Moja Bajka – Fotografia Paulina Zdanowicz
However, this is not the end of their activities! Other ideas in progress are:
- the ecological project “Think globally – act locally – ecological workshops in Gady” financed by the Warmińsko-Mazurskie Voivodeship
- “When I grow up … huge matters of small preschoolers” – a project implemented in Paulina and Bartek’s hometown in cooperation with Creative Teachers uninformal group from Nursery School nr 5 in Lidzbark Warmiński financed from operator LGD Warmiński Zakątek.
In order to be able to spread its wings and operate on a large scale, the Foundation also conducts business activities, which allow them to gather funds only used to achieve the statutory goals. Among their ‘foundation children’, as they call it, you will find such initiatives as singing announcer, Moja Bajka – Fotografia Paulina Zdanowicz photo studio or a mobile Cap Track project financed by OWES Olsztyn, which not only brings some cozy childhood memories on your mind, but also presents obstacles referring to the symbols of Warmia-Masuria Region.
Cap Track financed by OWES Olsztyn, photo by Moja Bajka – Fotografia Paulina Zdanowicz
Cap Track financed by OWES Olsztyn , photo by Moja Bajka – Fotografia Paulina Zdanowicz
Cap Track financed by OWES Olsztyn , photo by Moja Bajka – Fotografia Paulina Zdanowicz
These business activities not only allow us to become independent of external sources of financing and maintain continuity of Foundation’s functioning, but also enable to successfully create a world in which we and the recipients want to live – claim the founders. It also helps us to fight against unemployment and exclusion, to employ and support the development of other people.
Every day the Zdanowicz Be Creative Foundation – Creative Power of Help consciously breaks the limits with their founders attitude and work, proving that Only Sky is the Limit.
This publication has been prepared within INDIGISE project. The content of this publication is the sole responsibility of the project coordinator and may not always reflect the views of the European Commission or the National Agency.
