Social Innovation Concept Report

Learning Outcomes

* Discuss the principles and focus of community engagement as they relate to the relationship between business and marginalised or disadvantaged communities.

* Evaluate the ethical and social responsibility of participants in business community organisations.

Purpose

The purpose of this assessment is for students to develop a social innovation concept and to present it in a report. In this assessment you are required to consider theoretical and practical aspects of social innovation.

You are free to choose an existing community organisation and create a social innovation for their client group or you can develop an entirely new concept that you are passionate about.

You need to consider the following issues: the common good, financial environmen ethical implications implementation challenges.

A suggested structure for your report follows

• · Executive Summary (200 words)
• · Discussion of social innovation and community engagement theory (500 words)
• · Description of your proposed social innovation and how your social innovation contributes to the common good (400 words)
• · Conduct a SWOT, PESTLE and offer discussion on the possible funding and ethical implications of your social (500 words)
• · Overview and briefly discuss the challenges for implementation (300 words)
• · Conclusion (100 words)
• · References
• · Appendices (optional)

You are required to research and use at least 10 scholarly sources to support your discussion. This will include benchmarks from other social innovations, business reports and articles. In addition, websites may be used sparingly if they are of direct relevance.

Answer preview

Social innovation is an innovative tool as well as a technique that seeks primarily to provide solutions to societal challenges experienced by most communities.  The non-profit sector has been effective in fostering and implementing social innovation. Wherever social innovation is to be pursed, community engagement has to integrate. By definition, community engagement means the process of working collaboratively with and through groups of people to achieve a set objective. The report will, therefore, incorporate the theoretical as well as the practical aspects of social innovation. Also to be included is a description of proposed social innovation with an explanation of how it will contribute to the common good. The Bristol Organization, a newly established non-governmental non-profit organization will develop a social innovation that will focus on educating people on the importance of improving the quality of water, establishing sound water mater management practices, and developing worn-out water infrastructure Since an…

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