Community The Power to Change

Transparency When it comes to a joint project, it is important to ensure maximal transparency. The flow of information between the entrepreneurs and the officials is important to the joint activity, and concealing this information leads to a sense of exclusion and resentment among the partners and stakeholders. Enabling Many residents wish to take action and better their surroundings; however, they lack the knowledge or the connections to do so. Creating platforms that enable and support helps to develop a local leadership of entrepreneurs who wish to create change. On one hand, the frameworks must be sufficiently focused to encourage thinking and action; and on the other hand, they must be sufficiently open to enable a wide variety of ideas to be implemented. The most prevalent and significant contribution in the eyes of the social entrepreneurs was in the connection and mediation between them, the officials, and authorities. Also reported was the strengthening of the belief of the entrepreneurs in their ability to influence their surroundings through action, learning the various subjects related to environment and sustainability, learning organizational and management skills, and improving the project’s work processes, etc. (From the evaluation report).

The key Openness and Attention to the Emergent Reality

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