A social entrepreneur empowering Navajo communities in food policy and a former deputy mayor of Vienna discuss successful collaboration between social entrepreneurs and governments. Topics include societal challenges, mutual aid, community transformation, and the role of pilots in scaling innovations.
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Successful community gardens improve urban spaces and community engagement through Vienna's innovative grants scheme.
Data-driven evaluation is crucial for replicating successful urban innovations and driving systemic change in cities.
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Piloting Community Gardens: Local Impact and Sustainable Growth
One successful project, the Vienna community grants scheme, allowed residents to develop small community gardens with a grant of 4000 euros. This initiative led to the implementation of over 300 neighborhood gardens within three years. Qualitative and quantitative indicators like changes in walking pace indicated the positive effects of these projects. Evidenced in increased community engagement and transformed urban spaces.
Scaling Urban Innovations: From Pilot to Impact
The Mayors Challenge, an urban innovation competition, emphasizes community participation from idea generation to implementation. Clear, data-driven evaluation serves as a pivotal tool in justifying replication and scaling of successful solutions. Latin American urban innovations showcase the power of evidence-based strategies in driving systemic change within cities.
Community Weaving and Empowerment: Cultivating Healing and Resilience
Denise exemplifies community leadership by interweaving health science, Indigenous cultural practices, and legislative activism to address public health challenges. Her approach emphasizes community empowerment, trust-building, and navigating multidimensional solutions that honor history and justice. Emphasizing data sovereignty, asset-based community development, and ethical accountability, Denise fosters transformative change while emphasizing community-driven empowerment and resilience.
This episode invites you to a conversation among the representatives of three fields – a social entrepreneur, a former government official and a funder interested in supporting cooperation between social entrepreneurs and governments. Listen to the experiences and recommendations of Denisa Livingston, an Ashoka Fellow empowering Navajo communities to take control of food policy through Diné Community Advocacy Alliance (US), Maria Vassilaku, former deputy mayor of Vienna (Austria) and Jim Anderson, Director of Government Innovation at Bloomberg Philanthropies (US). If you are interested to learn more about how social entrepreneurs can effectively work with government and what are the examples, we encourage you to have a look at our new free online course on this topic at https://academy.vc4a.com/courses/trabajo-con-el-gobierno/ (Spanish version) and www.ashoka.org/working-with-government (English version).
The online course and the second season of the Ashoka Systems Change podcast were developed thanks to the support and in partnership with PES Latam.
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