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2010
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“Meet Change Doers” (Amnesty International Activists)
On Thursday 16 December, Aalto Social Impact invited our community to a new type of gathering aiming at activating people into concrete participation. The general concept of this new gathering is to learn from experts solving global social problems, directly involved in these affairs in a nice evening conversation. We gather two kind of people [...]
Aino Studia Generalia Lecture Series: ” Making an Impact”
On 9 December 2010, from 17:00 to 19:00 Aalto Social Impact organised together with AIESEC the last session of Aino Studia Generalia lecture for 2010. The event took place at Aalto University School of Economics, Nokia Hall. This was the chance for discussing with people who are actively involved with social impact and real life [...]
“Trash Me Not – Creative reuse of everyday waste” workshop
You are interested in finding new hands-on ways of re-using everyday items that are considered waste? Do you have creative ideas on how to re-purpose everyday waste? These were the introductory questions to our pilot hands-on Trash Me Not (TMN) workshop, organized by Aalto Social Impact and facilitated by Hanna Päränkylä, MA student of textile [...]
Open Call for Workshop Facilitator: “Trash Me Not – Creative Re-use of Everyday Waste”
We are seeking to learn from our community about the work that is happening. Are you working on a research project, product design, service or similar wonderful idea that is aiming to find ways of re-using everyday items that are considered waste? If so, we would like to give you the opportunity to spread the word about your work, [...]
We’re looking for new board members
Position: Board Members, Project Managers, Volunteers Aalto Social Impact is recruiting board members, project managers and general volunteers. Would you like to belong to the most passionate, diverse and quickly growing association in Finland? Would you like to acquire leadership, project management and communication skills while doing something meaningful for society? Then read on and [...]
Social micro-enterprises in South Africa
The Finland – South Africa Association introduced to the Aalto Social Impact’s students, and its larger community, Hannes van Zyl on Tuesday 26 October 2010 at Aalto School of Economics. Hannes van Zyl shared the results of their micro-entrepreneurship project run in Kayamandi township, Stellenbosch, South Africa. About 2 300 black women and men have [...]
Funding and Fundraising
One of the challenges of running and developing a NGO, an association, or conducting research, for example, is fundraising. On Monday, 11 October 2010, Aalto Social Impact organized an event around fundraising at HUB Helsinki, right next to Senaatintori. The event gathered a diverse and positively active crowd, which gave the event an interactive, conversational [...]
WHO Asia turns to Facebook in it’s Fight for Safe Hospitals
On October 13, International Disaster Preparedness Day, WHO Asia launches it’s first ever social media driven campaign, with the aim of engaging 1 million people in the issue of safe hospitals in disasters. The effort is spearheaded by a Facebook reaction test application and a simple message: disasters destroy in seconds – WHO needs you [...]
UNICEF Innovation with Christopher Fabian
On 30th September 2010, Aalto Social Impact was fortunate to host Christopher Fabian, co-lead of UNICEF’s Innovation Unit in New York. Specializing in the confluence of media, education, and communication, Christopher has been with UNICEF since 2006. His academic background is in Philosophy and Philosophy of Literature from the American University in Cairo and Trinity [...]
Dream & Do: creating change à la Saku Tuominen
One would think that a man who has as interesting title as the “Chief Creative Officer” at the world’s 3rd biggest TV production company Zodiak, would like his job. But not Saku Tuominen. He would like to get rid of his job. For him TV is a boring media. Luckily he has something else to [...]
