Problem: The Challenge:  implementing an efficient and effective program to provide free support for many working groups with many projects. Long-standing problems such as declining natural resources and deteriorating watersheds, prove how challenging it is to build effective collaboration across governments, civic groups, and business. To address this, new independent programs are being formed to focus collaboration by several agencies on a specific problem.  Suddenly, people in different agencies an...

Action: Move from talk to action, effectively. Design, implement, and deliver a web-based collaboration workspace to help a community of working groups to manage their strategic program and to measure their progress toward mandated goals. The S4S workspace is not a free-form environment; it provides structured collaboration with accountability. This business-like approach supports: designing strategy and process, tracking internal and external projects, coordinating participants, reporting progress, ...

Problem: Os militantes do Centro de Cultura Social (CCS-RJ) j possuíam frentes comunitárias e ativismo político avançado, ligados à formação de uma biblioteca de acesso público e especializada na temática do movimento operário revolucionário e libertário e do socialismo, chamada Biblioteca Social Fbio Luz (BSFL); grupos de estudo; um jornal mensal (Libera!); campanhas pela conscientização política; encontros comunitários; projetos auto-sustentados, como a produção de bolinhos doces e mate gelado para ...

Action: Produzir fraldas baratas para as comunidades das ocupações sem teto do Rio de Janeiro.   Serviços oferecidos pelo Projeto:   Fabricação de fraldas

Problem: The fractured social enterprise sector with a focus on accessibility to those the social enterprise sector intends to help. 

Action: To formalize a network of organizations and individuals that constitute the institutions and players within the field that have a sector wide perspective. To develop a strategic plan of action and working relationships to foster the sector wide development of avenues and paths available to social innovators at all levels and entry points.

Problem: Outerwear manufacturer Canada Goose, specializing in winter jackets for the extreme cold, regularly found itself with excess fabric and accessories due to discontinued lines. At the same time, it observed a lack of resources among residents of the Canadian Arctic, where low income communities have been cobbling together winter clothing from whatever leftover fabric they could find. Seeing the need for good quality materials when visiting the Arctic, Canada Goose employees realized that their ...

Action: This CSR (Corporate Social Responsibility) initiative was carefully planned to ensure that it would be operational for years to come. To distribute the fabrics and other materials to these remote populations, Canada Goose partnered with First Air, an airline company that flies to Arctic destinations and The North West Company, a leading retailer in the north. In all, three distribution points, named “Canada Goose Resource Centres”, are being established at Nunavut, at Northern in Pond Inlet o...

Problem: The establishment of land as private property is illegal (violates natural law, and the law of common ownership), and is also destructive on all of these levels: environmental, social, economic, and community.  The real estate industry has destroyed social and economic fabric of the community, while perverting the original intent of land use for the common good.

Action: To present the real picture of what our current real estate industry is doing, while promoting an healthy alternative to begin healing both the community of humanity and the nature-human relationship.

Problem: Human Factor Human Communication, Collaboration, Organization Sustainability of a collaboration process Sustainability of projects. Decision taking, human resources management, resources management. Strategy thinking. Quality of human experience along project, team or organization activities.          

Action: Multidimensional Human Factor Management (MDHFM) by Luis Daniel Maldonado Fonken "Principles, tools, quality, skills and know how for future human organizations and companies." .Helps you design collaboration environments, process and skills. .Apply nature principles, elements. .Improve strategic thinking, process, decisions and resources management. .Empower individuals, start up and develop own dreams. .Activates human potentiality and capacity. .Help you cocreate a human sustainable coll...

Problem: Transforming Compliance from a Burden into a Business Advantage For most organizations, the primary driver for sustainability management is the need to assure full compliance with government regulations, industry standards and rising public expectations.  ESS software gets you in compliance and keeps you in compliance.  It shows your up-to-the-minute compliance status — not ...

Action: EHS Sustainability Software Packages Provide Foundation for Better Management We bring together the information management tools and resources you need to solve your toughest sustainability challenges, combining ESS software products with services and content available thru ESS and our global partner ecosystem.  ESS Sustainability Software Solu...