Meet the Challenge shortlist

Posted by Erin Green on 1 July 2010 | 0 Comments
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At first there were 258 and now there are 12. The shortlist for the Bold Ideas Better Lives Challenge has been made and now our 12 hardy survivors will be rolling up their sleeves as part of Stage 2. But before the hard work starts - here's a big congratulations to all 12!

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Jobs at TACSI

Posted by Erin Green on 28 June 2010 | 0 Comments
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TACSI has 3 great new positions open now for high energy, proactive, intelligent, resilient, flexible, versatile and genuinely dynamic individuals. These kinds of opportunities don't come along everyday - so what are you waiting for?!

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Designing Innovation: Ezio Manzini

Posted by Erin Green on 22 June 2010 | 0 Comments
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Join us as renowned sustainability and design thinker, Ezio Manzini, hits our shores for the Social Innovator Dialogues to share his insights and experience on social innovation and design and ways forward for sustainable environmental and social systems.

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Let the judging begin

Posted by Erin Green on 3 June 2010 | 0 Comments
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With a weighty tome of 258 applications, our Bold Ideas Better Lives Challenge Judging Panel are engaged in a herculean feat as they read, discuss and score. And there's only a month til you find out what they decide!

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Applications are now closed for Bold Ideas Better Lives Challenge

Posted by Erin Green on 23 April 2010 | 1 Comments

Applications are now closed for the Bold Ideas Better Lives Challenge. Congratulations to all 254 of our applicants! We look forward to getting to know you better.

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Bold Ideas, Better Lives: Applications open

Posted by Erin Green on 1 March 2010 | 6 Comments

Applications are now open for the Bold Ideas, Better Lives Challenge. So if you've got a big idea we're offering up to $1 million and  capacity building partnerships to turn your idea into reality.

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What is social innovation?

Posted by Erin Green on 8 February 2010 | 0 Comments
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Coming up with a definition for social innovation is a labour of love but luckily our friends at the Gulbenkian Institute (Fundcao Calouste Gulbenkian) and SIX (Social Innovation Exchange) have come up with a great visual intro to social innovation as part of their Fix the Future program.

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2010: An Innovation Odyssey

Posted by Erin Green on 3 February 2010 | 0 Comments
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Space may be 'the final frontier' but we think there's a whole lot more to discover back here on planet Earth. And part of that is answers to why we are still seeing significant social disadvantage and a whole host of unmet social needs across the globe.

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Design eye for the Cardigan guy

Posted by Erin Green on 1 February 2010 | 0 Comments
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The old vision of a public servant in a brown cardigan (with patched elbows) and a mug of coffee in hand is fast diminishing as governments strive to build stronger, more responsive social services to deal with the diverse and ever-changing needs of social service users.

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