Goals

1. To organize workshops and to create a coalition for social innovators as a way to bridge network and cultural divides and devise innovative ways to support our shared efforts.
2. To stimulate more holistic thinking and approaches to solving complex issues that leads to synergistic interactions that mimic nature.
3. To promote more sustainable processes of commerce and investment to facility a sustainable and socially just global society.

Strategic Initiatives

In view of the growing interest and participation of volunteering to do service and learning around the globe, Bamboo Community College, Okogreen, Dharma Drum University and oneVillage as a coalition are developing strategic initiatives to cultivate social innovators.

1. Social Innovator Workshop

This workshop aims toequip the volunteers with knowledge and skills to engage in field work in a practical way. We identified eight areas that we consider as core knowledge and basic skills to foster social innovation and community regeneration.

• Fair Trade
• Citizen Journalism
• Digital Archive
• Storytelling through Documentary
• Corporate Social Responsibility
• Storytelling for Community Development & Organizational Change Management
• Open Source and Development
• Unity Drum for Team Building and Singularity on Vision Quest

2. Social Innovation Hubs

Social Innovation Hubs offer lectures and to the Global Citizens about the trends. The “hub” will serve as an open space for people to share their experiences and creativity. Through the ‘hub’ activities a culture “Networked Improvement Community” will be evolved and we will further develop more subjects for subject experts to have the chance to lead and create.

3. Social Innovation Service Learning Team

We are a university that emphasizes realizations in life. The University is designed to foster cross-field integration, residential learning, and global citizenship. We are committed to create an action-based learning environment so that students may develop careers that match personal strengths with concrete social needs. As students are enrolled into the University the coming year, we will invite students to engage in the project and to form a team for international service learning and social innovation.

Partners

• Okogreen
• oneVillage
• Bamboo Community University
• Global Voice Online

Life Care Project 

Principles:

• To understand and manage the actual needs of the areas affected by typhoon Morakot.
• A schedule to handle the physical and mental care.
• Integrated planning of the physical and mental support systems.
• To integrate local resources.
• To establish a feedback system.
• To fulfill the need of long-term accompanying care.
• To achieve the importance of the stationed support system.
• From the creating of relationships and companionship, to guidance and assistance.
• To integrate the Life Education with the Fivefold Spiritual Renaissance Campaign.

Objectives:

• Participants in the project can exchange opinions with each other by providing their own experiences based on their learning and teaching characteristics and can thus in turn grow and become able to provide the most appropriate way to those who need spiritual companionship and services.
• Project contents include different objects, topics, and all age ranges, thus providing a complete blueprint of life-care education.
• By providing post-disaster spiritual renewal and companionship, students' long-term healing experience in the support of learning and growing will be an important reference to build up the further needs and plans.
• Properly apply to those who need help after typhoon Morakot and through the promotion of life care we will be able to achieve a profound transformation and we can create a compassionate, grateful, peaceful and joyful new world.

Participants:

• Dharma Drum University：preparing for and planning the activities.
• DDM Social Welfare and Charity Foundation：administrative support, including coordination and integration of professionals and volunteers resources. Assistance in promotion and implementation.
• Grateful Foundation：financial support, experience sharing and assistance in promotion and execution.

Project I: Workshops Of Life Care And Life Education

This project plans to train and assist the volunteers, including:

• Education, targeting those who teach in elementary schools and junior high schools in Linbian, Jiaxian and Liugui.
• Workshop of Life Care, targeting the local communities and associations in Linbian, Jiaxian and Liugui.