Service News Worldwide - October 2009
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October 2009, Issue 68 |
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Contents
Featured
Events
October 17 - International
Day for Eradication of Poverty -
Worldwide
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Welcome to ICP's newsletter on Social Innovation and Youth Service |
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By Colleen
Hammelman, ICP Program Associate, and Social Innovation: the process of inventing, securing support for, and implementing novel solutions to social needs and problems. (Stanford Social Innovation Review, 2003)[1] "Social innovation" has emerged as one of the most popular catchphrases of the past couple years as the US Administration, socially-responsible businesses and international actors look for new ways to address critical social needs. In the dawn of the 21st century, the challenges facing global societies have changed. While a generation ago the Cold War, nuclear arms races, and burgeoning environmental movements were some of the primary concerns of the day, we now face global climate change, worldwide epidemics of AIDS and other diseases, and economic recession as some of the world's top challenges. Furthermore, we face these challenges in an era of dramatically changed technology and communication. Accordingly, governments, NGOs, businesses and individual actors around the world have concluded that fostering a supportive environment for social innovation is a crucial component to tackling global social needs and challenges in the 21st century. Read More>> |
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By Veronika
Schlecht, ICP Program
Assistant Innovative youth service projects should explore creative and untapped ways for developing new opportunities for young people to engage in their communities in order to create long-lasting social changes. The most effective innovative approaches are replicable and scalable so that successful models can be adapted in different regions and under local and cultural conditions.
While
there is a need for greater investment in
supporting innovative service programs,
there are inspiring examples around the
world of programs that contribute to
stimulating youth civic engagement and
address critical issues such as HIV/AIDS
and climate change. All the initiatives
described below follow an approach that
benefits the individual and the entire
community.
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By Jos Truitt, Summer of Service Fellow, ICP Judith Rodin, President of the Rockefeller Foundation, discussed processes for supporting social innovation and the importance of looking beyond the individual to spur innovation while speaking at the Clinton Global Initiative Annual Meeting in September 2009. Read More>> |
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By Mathe P.
Mphale, National Youth Service Unit,
National Development Agency,
In
a country with an army of young people
who were, and still are out of school,
unemployed, and unskilled, the South
African government's launch of the National
Youth Service Programme (NYS) in Cape
Town five years ago on August 24
represented a significant milestone in
the youth development sector long yearned for,
and rallied all sectors of the society to
recognize the capacity
that exists within the South African
young people to take forward the constitutional
objectives of healing the ills of apartheid and
playing a
leadership role in the delivery of the
reconstruction and development agenda. Read
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