Category: Ageing Well
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Takk! – Uniting Communities and Funding for Impact
Solfrid Sagstad and Stian Lavik have identified critical funding challenges within the adult social care sector over the past seven years. Their platform, Takk!, leverages community-driven crowdfunding to support initiatives that enhance seniors’ well-being. By facilitating contributions from individuals and businesses, Takk! fosters community engagement and aims to democratize the funding process, ultimately improving quality…
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Aligning Your Business Strategy with Social Impact: A Practical Guide
As the role of social impact continues to grow in importance, businesses must take actionable steps to ensure that social responsibility is not only a part of their strategy but actively drives their decisions and operations. Integrating social impact into business strategy isn’t just about good intentions; it’s about creating a framework that aligns your…
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Understanding Social Impact in Business Strategy
Social impact is increasingly essential for businesses, characterized by the positive change derived from actions affecting communities and the environment. Beyond immediate outcomes, it encompasses broader ripple effects that integrate into long-term strategy. Motivating contributions requires aligning personal passions with impactful causes. Education on social change fosters awareness, encouraging active participation in creating positive change.
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Understanding the Crisis: Mind the Gap in Well-Being
The adult social care sector faces a crisis due to insufficient funding for programs that promote seniors’ quality of life, such as social engagement and mental health support. Takk! addresses this gap through crowdsourcing and crowdfunding, uniting community resources to enhance well-being initiatives and transform care into meaningful experiences for seniors.
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Takk! – Where Communities and Funding Unite to Enable Impactful Change
For the past seven years, we – Solfrid Sagstad and Stian Lavik – have worked closely with the adult social care sector, witnessing both the incredible potential for improvement and the significant funding challenges. While there are countless efforts aimed at improving the lives of seniors, current funding barely covers the basic health needs, leaving…
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Investing in seniors has never been more important
Our population is getting older. As health standards, medicine and treatments improve we are all living longer. Today, one in five people in the UK are aged over 65 – that’s 11 million people. This has grown by 1% in just the last four years and this is projected to reach 22% of the population…
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