Portal:Social entrepreneurship/networking/ideas

Use this page to share any ideas for projects which students of social entrepreneurship might like to adapt for their community-based projects.

Ideas may be entirely new which come to mind, or old ideas which have been tried before and may be adapted for a new context, perhaps drawing on a broader existing community.

Social Impact

• The Foundation for a Better Life - sharing the values that make a difference in our communities.
• Campaigns
• Franchising Ideas.

Education

• Open Content for Development
• Educating for harmony and strength in diversity
  • for local communities
  • for a global society
  • See for example: Committees for Children - think about something similar, though potentially quite different, for your community of interest. The site includes resources to support the process.
• Health Education
• Environmental Education
• Literacy
• Teachers Without Borders

Local Community Impact

Ideas to bring communities together and encourage friendships and activities towards community upliftment.

• ...

Community Centre

Depending on scale, this could consist of multiple projects, some on-going (e.g. maintenance and on-going community development activities)

• Renovate/build a hall (or barn, etc) and develop a vision for community benefit
  • Community centre
  • Learning centre
  • Library
  • How to Plan A Renovation project ....

Sport

Think about venues, equipment, event organisation and management, ....

• Football
• Athletics
• Table tennis

Examples

• Sadili Oval (Kenya)
• Check out the work of various sports foundations
  • Sports Philanthropy Project
  • Roger Federer Foundation
  • Rafa Nadal Foundation
  • Please add ...
  • ...

Links etc.

• Beyond Sport
  • Beyond the Ball
  • Beyond Sport Integrated, Zambia
• The Philippi Angels Township Baseball Academy

Economic

Ideas to inspire entrepreneurship and job creation.

Bottle Craft

• Ideas

Technology Inspired

Local ICT

• ICT Literacy
• Wireless Africa - SA
• FLOSS Business
  • on WikiEducator
  • Call for Future trainers on “FOSS Business Models for Africa” in East and Southern Africa (May 2009)
• FLOSS Source Camps - how to organise one. Principles may apply to organising other events which seek to build community across existing groups.
• Digital Doorway.

Mobile Phones

• Freedom Phone - Zimbabwe
• Open Phone - SA, Botswana pilot, etc.
• MobilED
• Mobile phones and development

Games

• Social Impact Games

Being Heard

• Video Volunteers
  • How to make videos with FLOSS:
    • For now see video editing software listed here and here ... (find some tutorials).

Appropriate Technologies

• Appropedia

Environment/Agriculture

For a social entrepreneurial idea to be sustainable, always consider environmental and social aspects (as well as social). Similarly, sometimes an environmentally focussed initiative may have social implications. The following suggest sources of ideas inspired by environmental challenges and opportunities.

• Going Green - CNN stories which might inspire ideas in your region, etc.
• Permaculture

Networks and external sources of ideas

• (e.g.) Fixers - "young people using their past to fix the future".
• Impact Hubs - global network with resources and collaboration opportunities to grow impact.
• The World Challenge
• Education that pays for itself - a short animation from Teach a man to Fish
• We can solve it - check this out and think about local equivalents.
• Net²

See Also

• Sharing Ideas