Over the last few years, I have come to know the ‘Dance with Impact’ project of the Ensaio d'Elogios Association, which promotes dance as a universal language that transcends language and cultural barriers. In an increasingly divided world, dance serves as a link that promotes growth, understanding and mutual respect.
In the second IRIS podcast, Carlos Azevedo, Professor at Católica Lisbon and President of IES - Social Business School, shares his career in the social field and his perspective on the area today.
If there's one thing that life constantly reminds us of, it's that it changes! And my path has been paved with so many changes that I've ended up becoming a fan of change.
Despite all the demands that active agents of transformation have to meet, monitoring and evaluating impact is now essential. And this is one of the focuses of Transforma.aí's work.
Committed to fostering research in the field of social innovation, Stone Soup Consulting inaugurated the Award on Research in Social Innovation in 2012, funded by a portion of its annual income. This year, a project set to take place in Brazil emerged as the award's recipient.
Since resources are so scarce for the scale of the objectives to be achieved in many non-profit organizations, the area of human resources is decisive for anyone responsible in this area.
Operating since 2013, Porto's Platform + Emprego is reaching its 10th anniversary with many lives transformed and the desire to go even further. What's more, it already has new goals on the horizon, for the benefit of those who need it most. It has replicability potential and the team is available for more information (see below).
The benefit of a brand is its promise - what it promises its audiences, its customers. But in non-profit organizations, the promise is the cause for which the organization was born. If the organization is born to take care of the cause, who takes care of its brand? Are we facing the Barber Paradox?
