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Porticus is seeking a Learning Partner to accompany our Inclusion Fund—a three-year initiative (2024-2026) aimed at embedding inclusive practices across programming and partnerships. The Learning Partner will be pivotal in capturing insights, facilitating reflection and cross-learning, and documenting best practices to help Porticus and its partners embed inclusion in their work. This partnership will also support the development of actionable recommendations through a focused learning approach aligned with the Inclusion Fund’s objectives. We strongly encourage applications from organisations or individuals based in Africa, Asia, MENA, and LATAM to ensure diverse perspectives are represented in this global initiative. Please look at the Terms of Reference (ToR) for more details. Proposals should be submitted by 17th December 2024.

//“For too long, we’ve had kids’ menus and vegan options, but nothing specifically designed for those with chewing or swallowing difficulties,” the group’s founder Queenie Man told me. “Growing old is already a very lonely process. We want to give our elders more options.”// 🌟 Thank you, Bloomberg for featuring our work on Dignity Dining! As we celebrate our seventh year as a social impact business, we're more committed than ever to enhancing the quality of life for those facing swallowing and chewing difficulties. From training caregivers and elderly home staff to educating chefs in restaurants like #YungKee across Hong Kong and Singapore (and beyond), and working with amazing partners like Singapore University of Social Sciences (SUSS) Carol Ma, Methodist Welfare Services , St Joseph's Home (Catholic Welfare Services, Singapore) and Salvation Army Peacehaven Nursing Home, we are dedicated to making a meaningful difference. Exciting times lie ahead, and we can't wait to share more! Special thanks to Karoline Kan for listening to our story 😊 #SocialImpact #DignityDining #QualityOfLife #SwallowingDifficulties #CaregiverTraining Milky Choi Nicole Leong Elizabeth Teo-Sam https://lnkd.in/gyb9fgwX

Here's some fully-funded opportunities for Impact founders in Asia! Some of these opportunities changed my life, and I hope more people grab them! 🚀 Obama Foundation Scholars Program | Due 16 Dec | Global | Scholarship 🔗 https://lnkd.in/giWW_aWE 🚀 Seeding The Future Global Food System Challenge | Due 6 Jan 2025 | Global | Contest 🔗 https://lnkd.in/gYDnVa8G 🚀 beVisioneers Fellowship by Mercedes-Benz | Due 12 Jan 2025 | Global | Fellowship 🔗 https://lnkd.in/gBSTqmUH #GoodKarmaClub #Impact #Grants #Empowerment #Scholarship #SoutheastAsia ~ 58/100 Impact Opportunities In Asia. 👋 I write a newsletter on EVERYTHING IMPACT In SEA, delivered to your inbox on every Mon, 5pm SGT! Subscribe Before You Miss It 👉 https://lnkd.in/gnF-RNyA

A few years ago, I developed a set of three comics in collaboration with a team of young visual artists and an arts professor. The comics aim to impart the ideas, concepts, methods, and issues in social entrepreneurship (SE) — an instrument to create social value and public value — to tackle problems of public interest from poverty, discrimination to climate challenges. We can view SE as a business, innovative way of doing NGO, as a public-private partnership, an external experiment with nil risks for the state, or a decentralised public service. Pick one. After soft launch for a few years, we launched the English version of the comics, which are now available in Amazon. There are three of them, but so far we managed to enlist two of them in Amazon. The insights, visual portrayal, dialogues, symbols and messages in the comics came from more than 5 years of fieldwork that involve many social entrepreneurs who started with nil resources but wild imaginations of a better world, talking to people experiencing hardships (poverty, stigma, discrimination, disability), policy makers who try to make the world a better place, and young people who are lost and in need of meaning in life. This work symbolizes our thirst to bring about innovation in our work. While this counts little, if not none, in conventional metricized world of academia, it now counts very well as part of creating impact cases. Going to the popular mass is equally exciting to having just a few elites who read our work. Grant funders become new believers that these are no less important than publishing in (top) journals. How can this benefit academics, students, and parents? *For academics* and students, the comics can be used as case discussion, role playing (what would you do if you were one of the characters in the story), conceptual analysis of key concepts and their applications (hybrid organization, bricolage, effectuation, opportunity discovery/creation/actualization, empowerment, open innovation, benefit corporation, voluntary simplicity, impact measurement, human motivations, sociological factors in human endeavors, to psychological concepts such as compassion, greed, happiness to see others doing well (happy-for-ness)). If I can find more resources, I will send out some of the comics for free for your own trial. Feel free to be in touch if you have questions on the comics. 🙏🙏 Mad Spicy Resto: a story of a gambling addict who lost everything including his family and who found his life back after discovering his talent as a chef and then set up a social enterprise to empower disadvantaged others (see the synopsis in Amazon) https://lnkd.in/gzemN59z The O’s Lab: a story of a girl who hates math and whose mother was retrenched but found their way into forming a sustainable enterprise with some like minded friends (see the synopsis in Amazon) https://lnkd.in/g9C_kFs3