Sentences with phrase «social innovation project»

is a social innovation project which has a wide variety of projects.

The partnership has been used to «engage the PopTech community in an open, collaborative social innovation project — developing use cases, distribution strategies, and funding mechanisms, to bring the FLAP project to scale.

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Focused on directing private capital into projects and ventures whose aims are to deliver measurable social outcomes, impact investment (or social finance) has the potential to foster innovation in the social sector.

Hershey's senior director of sustainability, corporate social responsibility and social innovation Jeff King told ConfectioneryNews: «We will provide progress against these KPIs yearly on our Cocoa For Good website, along with stories and updates about what we have learned as we execute our Cocoa For Good projects.

This could be through culinary innovation, a commitment to social responsibility, sustainability or the economic development of their community; involvement in health or environmental campaigns, the promotion of pioneering cultural projects, or works that benefit society through their positive impact on the food industry.

Established to conduct the first large - scale experimental social research project in the United States, Mathematica's commitment to innovation drives us to develop new methods, explore emerging fields, and apply new technologies in ways our early employees could barely have imagined.

With this site, New York State is also pioneering the use of big data and social networking technologies to create transparency around building energy efficiency, drive innovation, and accelerate projects.

Monday 11 March 2013 2.30 pm Oral Questions Plans to tackle inequality in income and wealth in the UK - Lord Dubs Consequences for access to justice for those who will not be able to receive free legal advice on social welfare law matters from 1 April - Lord Bach Future railway re-openings - Lord Faulkner of Worcester Progress towards achieving the projected increase in the size of the UK's reserve forces - Lord Rosser Legislation Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Bill - Report stage (Day 4)- Viscount Younger of Leckie Short Debate Recommendations of the Francis Report into the Mid-Staffordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust - Lord Patel Short Debate Impact of NHS innovation and research strategies on health improvement and wealth creation - Lord Kakkar

Sterrenlab has been selected by the EU funded project BENISI among 300 of the most promising, impacting and employment - generating social innovations in Europe.

The award recognizes innovation and game - changing projects that address climate change and wider economic, social and environmental challenges.

They include Emily Callahan and Amber Jackson, who are using their skills and intellect to turn oil rigs into coral reefs; Nate Parker, the activist filmmaker, writer, humanitarian and director of The Birth of a Nation; Scott Harrison, the founder of Charity Water, whose projects are delivering clean water to over 6 million people; Anthony D. Romero, the executive director of the ACLU, who has dedicated his life to protecting the liberties of Americans; Louise Psihoyos, the award - winning filmmaker and executive director of the Oceanic Preservation Society; Jennifer Jacquet, an environmental social scientist who focuses on large - scale cooperation dilemmas and is the author of «Is Shame Necessary»; Brent Stapelkamp, whose work promotes ways to mitigate the conflict between lions and livestock owners and who is the last researcher to have tracked famed Cecil the Lion; Fabio Zaffagnini, creator of Rockin» 1000, co-founder of Trail Me Up, and an expert in crowd funding and social innovation; Alan Eustace, who worked with the StratEx team responsible for the highest exit altitude skydive; Renaud Laplanche, founder and CEO of the Lending Club — the world's largest online credit marketplace working to make loans more affordable and returns more solid; the Suskind Family, who developed the «affinity therapy» that's showing broad success in addressing the core social communication deficits of autism; Jenna Arnold and Greg Segal, whose goal is to flip supply and demand for organ transplants and build the country's first central organ donor registry, creating more culturally relevant ways for people to share their donor wishes; Adam Foss, founder of SCDAO, a reading project designed to bridge the achievement gap of area elementary school students, Hilde Kate Lysiak (age 9) and sister Isabel Rose (age 12), Publishers of the Orange Street News that has received widespread acclaim for its reporting, and Max Kenner, the man responsible for the Bard Prison Initiative which enrolls incarcerated individuals in academic programs culminating ultimately in college degrees.

; Scott Harrison, the founder of Charity Water, whose projects are delivering clean water to over 6 million people; Anthony D. Romero, the executive director of the ACLU, who has dedicated his life to protecting the liberties of Americans; Louise Psihoyos, the award - winning filmmaker and executive director of the Oceanic Preservation Society; Jennifer Jacquet, an environmental social scientist who focuses on large - scale cooperation dilemmas and is the author of «Is Shame Necessary»; Brent Stapelkamp, whose work promotes ways to mitigate the conflict between lions and livestock owners and who is the last researcher to have tracked famed Cecil the Lion; Fabio Zaffagnini, creator of Rockin» 1000, co-founder of Trail Me Up, and an expert in crowd funding and social innovation; Alan Eustace, who worked with the StratEx team responsible for the highest exit altitude skydive; Renaud Laplanche, founder and CEO of the Lending Club — the world's largest online credit marketplace working to make loans more affordable and returns more solid; the Suskind Family, who developed the «affinity therapy» that's showing broad success in addressing the core social communication deficits of autism; Jenna Arnold and Greg Segal, whose goal is to flip supply and demand for organ transplants and build the country's first central organ donor registry, creating more culturally relevant ways for people to share their donor wishes; Adam Foss, founder of SCDAO, a reading project designed to bridge the achievement gap of area elementary school students, Hilde Kate Lysiak (age 9) and sister Isabel Rose (age 12), Publishers of the Orange Street News that has received widespread acclaim for its reporting, and Max Kenner, the man responsible for the Bard Prison Initiative which enrolls incarcerated individuals in academic programs culminating ultimately in college degrees.

Juliana is a project consultant at the Mindset Education, an organization focused on education innovation and curriculum adaptation for social - emotional and 21st century skills.

- Consideration for «Reach for the Stars» award is given to projects that represent excellence and innovation in social studies education, and have the potential of serving as a model for other teachers.

A frequent speaker at conferences and universities on the confluence of digital activism and narrative, Dan currently serves as Narrative Lead at Kinjin Story Lab, where he incubates story - based projects at the intersection of technological innovation and social good.

, an Instagram project that challenges the status quo of social media, by encouraging users to utilize the platform to gain support around entrepreneurship, innovation, and authentic storytelling.

About the instructor: Larissa May is a creative consultant, fashion blogger, and founder of @HALFTHESTORY, an Instagram project that challenges the status quo of social media, by encouraging users to utilize the platform to gain support around entrepreneurship, innovation, and authentic storytelling.

Our projects generate shared social value by creating local jobs, empowering local communities and igniting sustainability - driven innovation.

This research project, funded by the European Union and implemented by 8 universities coordinated by Wageningen University (Netherlands), studied the agri - food system in 7 European city - regions, focusing on: i) short food chain initiatives, ii) water and wastes recycling, iii) multifunctional land use, and iv) related social and institutional innovation.

Meanwhile, today in Newcastle at the Australian and New Zealand Communication Association Conference (#ANZCA2016 — for those interested in the latest news in communications research), Summer May Finlay joined a panel speaking on Indigenous innovation in social media, and presented about the #JustJustice project.

«EdNextGen» focuses on such elements as: mindfulness, empathy, project - based learning, innovations in education, compassionate communication, and social and emotional learning.

The APF Visionary Grants seek to seed innovation through supporting research, education and intervention projects and programs that use psychology to solve social problems in... Read More»

Continuity and innovation in the data collection protocols of the second wave of the National Social Life, Health and Aging Project

The New Haven Social Development Project, like many other ambitious innovations, has achieved exciting successes and frustrating setbacks.

Dallaire Realty was recently named to the Better Homes & Gardens Real Estate Beta Brokerage Project, denoting its innovation in social media, video and more.

With a handful of new co-ownership projects in the works locally and across Ontario along with a couple of existing projects, Solterra Co-Housing has won awards for social innovation.