Community Engagement: Social Innovation for Elderly Help

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Community Engagement
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Executive Summary
Social innovations and social responsibilities that an organization has is one and the same
thing. Social responsibility has come a long way in the past decade. The vulnerable community
here are the elderly. Once a person reaches the retirement age, he no longer continues to become
productive in the business sense. Social enterprises have been employed primarily to help the
elderly in the society who are above the age of 60 years. The organization is aiming at giving an
economic incentive, food and housing to the elderly as a way of social giving back to the
community (Cajaiba-Santana, 2014). Although there are pension schemes and other retirements
body, not all the retirees have all the benefits covered by the social schemes. Most of them are
dependent on their children and others on handouts given by charitable organizations like the
church.
The organization helps in giving back economic empowerment to the elderly and the
retirees who are also housed in elderly homes. They cut some of their profits, a negligible
percentage to help the vulnerable in the society. Potluck Café and catering are a good example of
social innovation enterprise. They have been providing food and economic empowerment to the
elderly since 2001 (Herrera, 2015). Today they provide more than 16,200 free food, nutritious
and warm to the elderly in many homes in Vancouver.
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Executive Summary.......................................................................................................................2
Discussion of social innovation and community engagement theory........................................2
Description of your proposed social innovation and how your social innovation contributes
to the common good.......................................................................................................................4
Conduct a SWOT, PESTLE and offer discussion on the possible funding and ethical
implications of your social.............................................................................................................5
SWOT Analysis..........................................................................................................................5
PESTEL Analysis.......................................................................................................................6
Political....................................................................................................................................6
Economic.................................................................................................................................7
Social........................................................................................................................................7
Technological..........................................................................................................................7
Environmental........................................................................................................................8
Legal........................................................................................................................................8
Overview and briefly discuss the challenges for implementation......................................8
Conclusion......................................................................................................................................9
References.....................................................................................................................................10

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Discussion of social innovation and community engagement theory
Our conclusions clearly demonstrate that no single indicator applied allows you to
measure all aspects of poverty. Therefore, in order to cover all relevant task forces and, thus,
provide a statistical basis for poverty reduction in Vancouver, it is important to have a set of
indicators, not rely only on one indicator. For example, business ethics studies such issues as:
Social responsibility of business communities (Martin, Upham, and Budd, 2015).
It is considered fair to those who are executing the law and who respond to good for
good, but are unjust - those who commit arbitrariness, violate the rights of people (depriving
freedom and property), who do not remember the good done. The justified is the recompense of
each according to merit and, accordingly, unjust - undeserved honors and punishments. In
particular, it is unfair to receive one's benefits at the expense of others and to shift one's own
duties to others. The fulfillment of obligations (imposed by an organization)
Current and coming trends in the near future do not abolish the organization's need for
business theory, management practices, skills and tasks, as well as for managing the social
impact and other elements, but nevertheless change a number of possibilities, which are based on
known and foreseeable trends that are noticeable in the surrounding world.
The most effective way to use the opportunity to manage the future that has already come is to
get ahead of events, take advantage of emerging trends, absorb the changes and become their
leader. Management practices must also change in order to respond to these new realities of the
global information society based on knowledge (Manzini, 2014).