Frontline World Cyber-Assignment Due April 21-26, 2014
Post all responses here.
Watch three (3) Frontline World Videos:http://www.pbs.org/frontlineworld/stories/socialentrepreneurs.html
Students can also combine the Frontline programs with 1-3 of these profiles:
Social Entrepreneur, Lailash Satyarthi: http://www.pbs.org/opb/thenewheroes/meet/satyarthi.html
To read about him visit: http://www.pbs.org/opb/thenewheroes/meet/satyarthi.html
Read about Mimi Silbert, founder of Delancy Street Foundation in San Francisco:http://www.pbs.org/opb/thenewheroes/meet/silbert.html
Watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gW-pzSnYYBQ
Muhammad Yunus, 2006 Nobel Laureate, founder of Grameen Bank
Watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4NGU5gkI6-Y Read about: http://www.pbs.org/opb/thenewheroes/meet/yunus.html
Answer the following questions for each social entrepreneur:
Outline:
1.Who is the social entrepreneur profiled?
2.What problem did the person profiled identify?
3.What is the name of the organization/business(es) they started?
4.Describe his or her relationship to the community served?
5. Why did the person decide to address this issue?
5b. How is the person connected to the community?
6. How does the entrepreneur ensure the community owns the process?
7. How is success measured?
8. What are the evaluative tools?
9. What did the Social Entrepreneur gain?
10. What did the community gain?
Respond to the following questions for all three. Post one response per video.
Watch three (3) Frontline World Videos:http://www.pbs.org/frontlineworld/stories/socialentrepreneurs.html
Students can also combine the Frontline programs with 1-3 of these profiles:
Social Entrepreneur, Lailash Satyarthi: http://www.pbs.org/opb/thenewheroes/meet/satyarthi.html
To read about him visit: http://www.pbs.org/opb/thenewheroes/meet/satyarthi.html
Read about Mimi Silbert, founder of Delancy Street Foundation in San Francisco:http://www.pbs.org/opb/thenewheroes/meet/silbert.html
Watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gW-pzSnYYBQ
Muhammad Yunus, 2006 Nobel Laureate, founder of Grameen Bank
Watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4NGU5gkI6-Y Read about: http://www.pbs.org/opb/thenewheroes/meet/yunus.html
Answer the following questions for each social entrepreneur:
Outline:
1.Who is the social entrepreneur profiled?
2.What problem did the person profiled identify?
3.What is the name of the organization/business(es) they started?
4.Describe his or her relationship to the community served?
5. Why did the person decide to address this issue?
5b. How is the person connected to the community?
6. How does the entrepreneur ensure the community owns the process?
7. How is success measured?
8. What are the evaluative tools?
9. What did the Social Entrepreneur gain?
10. What did the community gain?
Respond to the following questions for all three. Post one response per video.
Your essay needs to answer all of
these questions, you can structure it like a typical problem/solution essay or
cause and effect.
posted by Professor Wanda's Posse at 12:16 PM
3 Comments:
Dorothy Middleton
Professor Wanda Sabir
English 1A/ Sat
26 April 2014
Delancey Street Foundation
San Francisco, Calif. U.S.A.
In 1971 Mimi Silbert founded Delancey Street with four residents, a thousand dollar loan and a dream. She envisioned a place where substance abusers, former felons and others who had hit rock bottom would, through their own efforts, be able to turn their lives around. Her program's name comes from Silbert's own past. Delancey Street a place on Manhattan's lower east side where immigrants like her parents came to make a new life for themselves.
Silbert has since built an empire grossing 20 million dollars a year with locations in New York, New Mexico, North Carolina and Los Angeles. Since those early days, Mimi Silbert has empowered more than 14,000 people to lead crime-free, drug-free lives in mainstream society. They have acquired skills, some have attended college and some have moved on to become a part of the community workforce.
Silbert states, her career was the cultivating of a "university of the streets." She calls it a "Harvard for losers," most students are former prostitutes, pimps, drug users, drug dealers and criminals. Each resident spends up to four years at Delancey Street. They go through a battery of exams and many obtain high school diploma. They each go through an on the job training program. Once they graduate and have at least three marketable skills they must begin the process of getting a job and finding new living quarters. Success is based on how many people they are able to get through the program and out into the working world.
One fact that is interesting about this program is, it cost the taxes payer nothing. Silbert is rewarded for her efforts with a 20 million dollars enterprise. She has managed not to take any money from the government which gives her the right to control all aspects of the business without the limitation the government set for non-profit in this state. The program has helped the community by making the streets a little bit safer and removing some of the people who were seen as being part of the ongoing problem. The great thing about the program it has yielded some taxpaying citizens who have been an asset to the community.
There are always new challenges that face the Delancey Street Program and Silbert. The drugs are plentiful and more dangerous, the people who are using them are second and third generation and returning back to the street is strong, yet Mimi Silbert is determine as ever to make sure that the people have an escape route, through Delancey Street.
Dorothy Middleton
Professor Wanda Sabir
English 1A/ Sat
26 April 2014
Kailash Satyarthi
Kailash Satyarthi had it made; he was 26 years old with a great career as an electrical engineer. He knew that children were being enslaved in his country and made to work in factories and farms as bonded worker: he felt he had to take some kind of action. With nothing to gain, he stepped up; gave up that life to help save tens of thousands children who had no one else to save them. He had to deal with corruption and powerful people who were hell bend on keeping this inhumane institution alive. With his hands tied he felt he must take matters into his own hands. He began raiding these places taking these children to safety. Many of these raids yield not only children, they sometime yield whole families who were bonded workers. He now runs a Global March against Child Labor, a conglomeration of 2000 social-purpose organizations and trade unions in 140 countries.
Since its inception in 1989, SACCS and its partners has freed close to 40,000 children who were in bonded and force to work in the area of industries and rug manufacturing. Once freed a need was realize that these children needed to be kept safe and educated. Bal Ashram in Rajasthan, India is a place where the freed children were taken. There they began to acquire basic skills and education that would give them a new life.
Bal Ashram only had room for 100 children at a time, Know that, Kailash started a program where a grassroots movement would be needed in order to abolish child labor, the people in the community he states, must help in the efforts of insuring that this kind of abuse stops. Kalash knows cultural tradition makes his task difficult and this process will take time to bring about the thinking needed on the grassroots level to stop child-labor.
In South Asia, rug manufactured are the biggest users of child labor. Kailash thinks that if consumers in other countries were educated about the way children are used in making the rugs maybe these rug manufactures would stop this kind of abuse. The rug manufactures are not the only manufactures that use child labor; there are other industries that use this kind of labor also. Kailash states that if they can get these manufactures to agree to a child-free labor environment, it would do a lot to stop this kind of human slavery.
The success of this program can be seen by the number of child-free labor manufacturers who stop using child labor or the number of villages that help to put a stop to this practice. Stopping this kind of behavior helps not only the children by giving them their childhood back. They can grow and learn in a way that will support a heath life style. It also helps the village they live in. They have an opportunity to become more productive citizens who can contribute more to their community by having an opportunity to have a better education. A happy person in a community is more willing to contribute in a positive way than a person who sees his experience as negative. According to the book, Health and Wellness for Life by Human Kinetics (pp. 447-451)
Dorothy Middleton
Professor Wanda Sabir
English 1A/ Sat
26 April 2014
Kailash Satyarthi
Kailash Satyarthi had it made; he was 26 years old with a great career as an electrical engineer. He knew that children were being enslaved in his country and made to work in factories and farms as bonded worker: he felt he had to take some kind of action. With nothing to gain, he stepped up; gave up that life to help save tens of thousands children who had no one else to save them. He had to deal with corruption and powerful people who were hell bend on keeping this inhumane institution alive. With his hands tied he felt he must take matters into his own hands. He began raiding these places taking these children to safety. Many of these raids yield not only children, they sometime yield whole families who were bonded workers. He now runs a Global March against Child Labor, a conglomeration of 2000 social-purpose organizations and trade unions in 140 countries.
Since its inception in 1989, SACCS and its partners has freed close to 40,000 children who were in bonded and force to work in the area of industries and rug manufacturing. Once freed a need was realize that these children needed to be kept safe and educated. Bal Ashram in Rajasthan, India is a place where the freed children were taken. There they began to acquire basic skills and education that would give them a new life.
Bal Ashram only had room for 100 children at a time, Know that, Kailash started a program where a grassroots movement would be needed in order to abolish child labor, the people in the community he states, must help in the efforts of insuring that this kind of abuse stops. Kalash knows cultural tradition makes his task difficult and this process will take time to bring about the thinking needed on the grassroots level to stop child-labor.
In South Asia, rug manufactured are the biggest users of child labor. Kailash thinks that if consumers in other countries were educated about the way children are used in making the rugs maybe these rug manufactures would stop this kind of abuse. The rug manufactures are not the only manufactures that use child labor; there are other industries that use this kind of labor also. Kailash states that if they can get these manufactures to agree to a child-free labor environment, it would do a lot to stop this kind of human slavery.
The success of this program can be seen by the number of child-free labor manufacturers who stop using child labor or the number of villages that help to put a stop to this practice. Stopping this kind of behavior helps not only the children by giving them their childhood back. They can grow and learn in a way that will support a heath life style. It also helps the village they live in. They have an opportunity to become more productive citizens who can contribute more to their community. A happy person in a community is more willing to contribute in a positive way than a person who sees his experience as negative. According to the book, Health and Wellness for Life by Human Kinetics (pp. 447-451)
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