MaD: Social Innovation 101 Prototyping and Improving Workshop on Social business models Part 1

MaD向來鼓勵青年朋友利用創意幫助社會面對各種各樣的挑戰，在8月20-21日特別舉辦了一連兩天工作坊，由英國享負盛名的社會創新組織Young Foundation將成立的新計劃Global Innovation Academy主兵。期間兩位主持Cynthia SHANMUGALINGAM與Louise PULFORD以多個練習帶領參加者思考如何構思社會創新的計劃。

On August 20 to 21, about 60 young people joined the two-day workshop titled "Social Innovation 101" to learn the method of putting their ideas into practice.
Cynthia SHANMUGALINGAM and Louise PULFORD from Global Innovation Academy led a couple exercises about reframing our questions -- after all, we have to understand clearly want caused the problems or what stand in the way in order to come up with an answer that hit the core of the issue.

About Speaker:
Mr Thomas RAVENSCROFT (Tom), Director of Enabling Enterprises
http://enablingenterprise.org/about
After completing his economics & management degree at Oxford University, Tom taught business and enterprise at Cardinal Pole School in East London. In his second year he founded Enabling Enterprise, to encourage students to meet and work with students from other schools, and to develop vital enterprise skills, whatever the subject.

This year, over 2,500 students will be involved in Enabling Enterprise's programme across London, Manchester and Birmingham. Tom's work has been recognised with the Teach First Excellence Award, and he was also the 2009 UK Entrepreneurship Teacher of the Year.

Enabling Enterprise

Tom Ravenscroft founded Enabling Enterprise in 2009 as a result of his reflections on his experiences as a secondary school business teacher in Hackney. While teaching he realised that students were getting little out of the traditional textbook-and-coursework teaching of the subject. To reengage his own students, he put together a course which enabled them to set up their own small businesses. This was supplemented by visits to prestigious organisations to help raise aspirations and relate their efforts to larger-scale enterprising activity.

Enabling Enterprise offers schools all the tools - training, corporate events and teaching resources - to run accredited enterprise courses as part of existing subject curricula, whether French, Maths or ICT.

Enabling Enterprise is the newest member of the Learning Launchpad portfolio, having joined in early 2010. Over the coming months Young Foundation will be working on business and financial planning with Tom to ensure that he can achieve his vision of giving students high quality, accredited enterprise education across the whole curriculum to the vast majority of secondary schools in the UK.

In the 2009/10 academic year, Enabling Enterprise ran 26 programmes reaching 600 students across secondary schools in London and Manchester. Next year, Tom plans to run 50 programmes to provide over 1000 young people with a real enterprise experience.

Category:

Nonprofits & Activism

Tags:

• MaD Asia
• Young Foundatio
• Global Innovation Academy
• Social Innovation
• Social Enterprise
• Business model