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¶ … Avoiding Plagiarism
Social Capitalist Award
Each year Fast Company offers the Social Capitalist Award to acknowledge 45 social organizations that strive to make a difference in the world. Using Fast Company's methodology section, this paper identifies why five of the winners met the evaluation criteria. Additionally, how each of these organizations tell their story, describe their mission, engage volunteers, and measure success is overviewed.
Evaluation Criteria Met by Five Organizations:
Of the 45 winners of Fast Company's 2008 Social Capitalist Award, five that met the evaluation criteria are: City Year, IFF, Rare, SEED Foundation, and Witness. City Year excels in the social impact criteria for the award, with participants logging more than 2.4 million volunteer service hours, in 18 locations across the country and in South Africa. IFF has exceeded the entrepreneurship criteria for Fast Company, and the ability to do a lot with a little. The organization for every dollar lent by IFF, the organization is able to leverage additional outside funding, resulting in total capital investment of $2.50. Rare is an excellent example of an organization that demonstrates that aspiration and growth criteria, as the organization has undertaken a growth plan to triple in size. SEED...
Lastly, Witness demonstrates excellence in the social impact criteria, by bringing to light human rights' abuses from around the world.
About the Winners:
City Year tells its story of global volunteerism through the activities of its volunteers. Their mission is to "young people of all backgrounds for a year of full-time service, giving them skills and opportunities to change the world" ("City Year," 2011). They engage their volunteers by giving them the skills and opportunities to volunteer as tutors, mentors, and role models across the country and in South Africa. The organization measures success by the number of young people they have enrolled in the program and how many service hours their members perform over the course of the year.
IFF tells its story of providing financing through the non-profit organizations it helps. Their mission is to "provide flexible, below-market financing for nonprofit corporations serving low-income and special needs populations, connecting them with the capital they need to acquire or improve their facilities, to purchase equipment or vehicles, and to build net assets" ("IFF home," 2009). IFF does not utilize volunteers,…
References
About SEED. (2011). Retrieved March 14, 2011, from http://www.seedfoundation.com/index.php/about-seed/bios.
About Witness. (No date). Retrieved March 14, 2011, from http://www.witness.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=26&Itemid=78.
City Year. (2011). Retrieved March 14, 2011, from http://www.cityyear.org/default_ektid13307.aspx.
Designing community-based solutions to global conservation challenges. (2011). Retrieved March 14, 2011, from http://www.rareconservation.org/about.
IFF home. (2009). Retrieved March 14, 2011, from http://www.iff.org/.
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