The housing crisis affecting women: Time to revisit communal living? In my foolish youth I once told my parents property was theft and I could live in a tent.
I was 38 before I made my father happy and bought a flat. I was 43 before I bought a house, having joined forces with my partner who'd been more sensible. I feel like a woman saved from the gallows. Who would want to be entering their retirement years a renter in Australia? In particular, who would want to be a single, ageing renter; or worse still, a female, single, ageing renter who on average is poorer than a man? Yet plenty of women find themselves in this situation, some of them educated and middle-class. Other women have owned a house and lost it, like a friend of mine whose marriage broke up. BEA Employment Group INC. How we create change - Family by Family. Thriving as the Outcome Ethnographic research with over 35 families led us to identify and define thriving as the primary outcome measure.
Every family we met experienced chaos and stress, yet many families were still moving towards the lives they wanted. In our words, they were thriving. Thriving families tried new things, set goals for the future, brokered family members to opportunities outside the house, and gave and received positive feedback. Check out the paper we wrote on our ethnographic research with families, “Going for the Good Life” Behavioural Modelling as the Lever When co-designing our solution with families they described learning by doing, yet we observed few opportunities for whole families to see and try new ways of doing family.
Implementing evidence-based practice What works for families in Family by Family aligns with the literature on effective family interventions. Complementing community development & professional services. Ten quick steps to unlocking tax-revenue collection in rapidly growing markets. Numerous challenges can undo the benefits of rapid growth in emerging economies.
One of the most often overlooked is making tax administration more effective. Successful reform can enable a country to tackle the challenges of rapid growth and ensure that the flow of revenue is stable and longer lasting. In many emerging nations, tax administrations are, at best, only sound. While improving them isn’t easy, it is critical, especially in emerging markets.
Countries that fail to capitalize on the benefits of rapid economic growth are missing a tremendous opportunity to improve the quality of life for their citizens. Apple to start iPhone trade-in scheme at shops - report. Crowdfunding: the threat for bankers. Soon after he was elected last year, , looking for easy budget cuts, scrapped the Queensland Premier’s Literary Awards.
Within a week, the Facebook page set up by the arts community to save the awards had more than 1000 supporters. Realising its strong grassroots following, the literati then turned to crowdfunding website Pozible. Four months later, 358 supporters had pledged $29,312, about 50 per cent more than was needed to fund the new Queensland Literary Awards independently of the government.
An Australian-based website established by Alan Crabbe and Rick Chen in 2010, Pozible helps projects find capital. So far it has facilitated about $8 million worth of fund-raising. Crowdfunding is a recent phenomenon that may define the future of capital raising for entrepreneurs and small businesses.
Circular economy. Collaborative consumption. Ethiopian kids hack OLPCs in 5 months with zero instruction. What happens if you give a thousand Motorola Zoom tablet PCs to Ethiopian kids who have never even seen a printed word?
Within five months, they'll start teaching themselves English while circumventing the security on your OS to customize settings and activate disabled hardware. Whoa. The One Laptop Per Child project started as a way of delivering technology and resources to schools in countries with little or no education infrastructure, using inexpensive computers to improve traditional curricula.
To Serve the Poorest Clients, Earned Income Isn't Enough - Matthew Forti and Stephanie Hanson. By Matthew Forti and Stephanie Hanson | 2:00 PM January 29, 2013 The recent explosion of interest in impact investing has generated much talk about breaking the shackles of the traditional philanthropic model.
The concept seems appealing — incremental investment enters the “social impact” market in the form of below-market loans or equity, incenting mission-driven organizations to become self-sustaining. The Social Franchise Model Works in Times of Uncertainty - Ron Bruder. By Ron Bruder | 12:00 PM January 28, 2013 One hundred million.
That’s the number of young people across the Middle East and North Africa who will need employment opportunities in the coming decades. When my organization, Education For Employment, began operations in 2006 as a demand-driven answer to Arab youth unemployment, I felt that creating a social franchise model was the best way to meaningfully address an issue of this scale. So I created a network that allows affiliates to access the perspective, credibility, and resources necessary to provide world-class training for youth, place graduates in jobs, and provide on-going professional and volunteer opportunities for alumni.
At the time it was an unorthodox method and I faced strong pushback from potential donors and partners in the US and around the world. Experience has proved that the model works.