FoodTrade. Home. MUSHROOM CITY PROJECT - Mushroom City Project :Local Waste Into Local Food. Contact Us - Energy communities | resources for community energy initiatives by north tipperary leader partnership. A Co-op Story: Green Worker Co-op Academy. Greenside Up Community Garden Portfolio. If you’re looking for advice on community gardening you’re in the right place. Dee Sewell of Greenside Up is a keen advocate and has talked on many occasions about the benefits to both communities and people. Helping to set up and offer ongoing support to several gardens in the South East of Ireland, Greenside Up offers services from design and hobby gardening courses to accredited tuition.
Dee is a voluntary coördinator of the Community Garden Network that was established to support community gardening in Ireland and Northern Ireland and was a finalist in the 2013 Green Leader Award category of the Irish Green Awards as a result of her community gardening work. Dee worked with the Family Resource Centre from the very beginning – helping with the design, advising on the setting up and then running hobby courses and gardening with after schools children, funded both privately and through Carlow VEC. This garden started as a hobby gardening course funded by Kilkenny VEC. Like this: About the Local Economic Development website.
About this site It's just getting started. It's being developed by the people at Food Network Software, in collaboration with invited communities who are working on local economic development. Here's a story about the Nova Scotia fisheries group, our first serious bunch of users, and how we all worked together to add features to the software and model their community at the same time.
If you want to participate, or have questions, please send us an email. The goal Our goal is to develop a system where intelligent and dedicated - but non-expert - people can work together to analyze and then improve their own local economies. The idea is that by defining, modeling, and gathering data to see the local economic picture as it is, people in an area can do what-if's, and identify gaps and opportunities.
The features We start with resource flow models of local economic clusters, then add a lot of features for economic analysis and visualization. You can take a feature tour here. Then what. Food Network Software Welcome. Credibles Crowdfunds Credit for Food Businesses. I interviewed Guillaume Lebleu cofounder of Credibles about his new innovative credit project, following Bernal Bucks. Several years back a group of us currency geeks got together at the Hub SOMA and NoiseBridge for brainstorming sessions to ponder how to link local currencies to the all important food system for better currency flow and convert it into credit for cash-strapped farmers.
Credibles cofounder Arno Hesse, also of Slow Money, was part of those meetings and helped dream up Credibles' brilliant model – one part loyalty program, one part Slow Money investment, one part crowdfunding campaign, and one part credit currency. Several years ago just a pipe dream, Credibles now helps fund local food businesses by paying for food ahead of time, in exchange for edible credits.
Here’s how Credibles works: food enterprises issue store credits for money received in advance. Customers and fans prepay the business on the Credibles website. Credibles is addressing these challenges. About | Living Foods. Caring for the land and caring for people, that’s what we’re passionate about. Darragh Flynn, is the younger brother of the twins Stephen and David Flynn of the Happy Pear in Greystones, Co. Wicklow. Darragh is the Head Grower on the Sprout Farm located in Newcastle, Co.
Wicklow, just up the road from his brothers’ shop. It was after studying Geography in Trinity College four years ago and while living in Paris that he discovered Wheatgrass and its amazing life-giving properties, he started juicing and sprouting for himself and when he felt the changes it made in his own body and health he wanted to share it with other people. In January 2009 the perfect home for Living Foods was found in a seaside town on the south east coast of Ireland which is where we grow our sprouts, beans and of course wheatgrass.
We send our produce by courier and deliver across Dublin, Wicklow and Ireland. Best bits: Social franchising and social enterprise | Social Enterprise Network | Guardian Professional. Keith Richardson - Co-ordinator, European Social Franchising Network Franchise agreements. Selection of franchisees is crucial. One of the great potential advantages of a social franchise is the ability for franchisees to share in the ownership of the franchise. This then aligns their interests more strongly with those of the franchise as a whole than can be done through a contract. It is important to set out what can be expected form the franchisor and franchisee. But in the end a contract is only as useful as the amount of money you are prepared to spend on enforcing it. Fees. Model advantage. Val Jones - Chief Executive, Social Enterprise North West There are more options. Think carefully.
Simon Mcneill - Founder and Managing Director, FranchisingWorks Reasons to franchise. It's largely about people. Franchising overseas. Run a pilot, far enough away to be independent of the main organisation, but close enough for you to get to when things go wrong (and they will). A two-way process. Community Shares Newsletter. A new discussion paper has been published by Co-operatives UK, exploring the wider opportunities for co-operative societies to access finance. The paper was authored by Dr Mark Hayes of Cambridge University, who has a track record in business finance, managing investment at 3i and later founding Shared Interest, a co-operative society investing in fair trade. The paper’s starting point is the ICA Blueprint for a Co-operative Decade, which contains two sentences neatly summarising the challenge: Co operative capital needs to offer ‘a financial proposition which provides a return, but without destroying co-operative identity; and which enables people to access their funds when they need them.
It also means exploring wider options for access to capital outside traditional membership, but without compromising on member control’. Read "The Capital Finance of Co-operative and Community Benefit Societies" by Dr Mark Hayes here. Permaculture Magazine - practical solutions for self-reliance | Permaculture Magazine. Why social enterprises should work with students | Social Enterprise Network | Guardian Professional.
There has never been a better time for social enterprises to invest in and collaborate with a student workforce. Photograph: Joerg Sarbach/AP With ever-increasing interest from students in pursuing meaningful careers that have a positive impact on the world around us, it seems that there has never been a better time for social enterprises to invest in and collaborate with a student workforce.
However, with unemployment among young people and students continuing to rise, should the social sector be doing more to nurture the talent of the next generation of students? What value do students bring to social enterprises? And how can social enterprises benefit from working with students? Despite a time of increasing austerity and social challenges, the social economy is reported to be rising strongly, with the people's business report documenting social enterprises to be creating more jobs and greater turnover in comparison with private-sector small and medium businesses.
Home - WAF Award - Acknowledging and promoting sustainable ways. The Community Foundation for Ireland | Philanthropy, Donations, Grants, County Funds, Endowment. | News | The Community Foundation for Ireland. Team One Community :: Innovation | Collaboration | Transformation. About Suas | Suas. At Suas, our vision is a world where all young people have the opportunity to realise their full potential in life and the capability to create positive change in their society.
We are working towards a world where all children have access to education as a right, and have access to a high quality education that gives them the opportunity to learn so that, as literate young people, they can avoid the vicious circle of poverty that has entrapped them and their families for generations. We see education as key to social transformation, and the first and most important step in changing lives. Why we do what we do Progress has been made in recent years in reducing the number of the world’s children who don’t attend primary school, down from 67 million in 2009 to around 57 million in 2011, but it is acknowledged that increased access to education has not been accompanied by improvements in the quality of the education that these children are receiving. How we do it. Seedstock Community Currency. Y Combinator Opens Up Applications For Nonprofits.