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The Arthur Guinness Fund
http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/gallery/files/2012/05/11.gifThe Arthur Guinness fund, created in 2009, has awarded €1.65 million along with business mentoring to 20 projects across Ireland. This year’s fund will see €750,000 awarded to the following ten social entrepreneurs
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Start Up Projects
http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/gallery/files/2012/05/21.gifLucy Masterson, Hireland Hireland encourages job creation for Ireland’s skilled unemployed through collective entrepreneurship and positive thinking. Hireland is reframing the debate around unemployment, changing the dialogue from one of ‘firing’ to ‘hiring’. Hireland encourages SME’s all around the country to consider the benefits of hiring an additional member of staff. The company then ‘pledges’ that job online to signify their commitment to creating employment.
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Start Up Projects
http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/gallery/files/2012/05/31.gifSonya Lennon, Dress for Success Ireland Dress for Success Ireland answers the needs of low-income women seeking employment & self-sufficiency. Dress for Success provides interview appropriate clothing as well as building self-esteem and lasting change with career development tools, technology skills and a network of support to help clients succeed in work and in life.
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Start Up Projects
http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/gallery/files/2012/05/41.gifDaithi de Buitleir, Raising and Giving Ireland Raising and Giving believes in a new engaged, able and empowered student body that is active in shaping the future of Ireland. They aim to ensure, that the coming generation, who will drive forward the future of our society, are nurtured in a way which allows them to realise their potential.
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Start Up Projects
http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/gallery/files/2012/05/51.gifKevin Empey, Worklink Worklink is a volunteer led employment support group network that has been formed to assist unemployed job seekers to successfully transition into full employment. Worklink volunteers help employers deal with practical administrative, resourcing and information barriers that exist in designing and implementing effective work activation programmes.
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Start Up Projects
http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/gallery/files/2012/05/61.gifAviva Cohen, Neuro Hero Neuro Hero is developing a suite of ‘Apps’ and innovative technology solutions to improve the lives of people with speech difficulties. Based on programmes that speech therapists use in therapy sessions, their programmes are collaborative, interactive, fun and very low cost. They turn the important training programmes into a game that the whole family can play, breaking down isolation and providing an affordable and highly scalable solution to this social problem.
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Take Off Projects
http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/gallery/files/2012/05/7.gifAnne Bedos, Rothar Rothar refurbishes abandoned bicycles, reducing the amount of old bicycles going to landfill. It trains and employs people who are long term unemployed as bike mechanics in their shops. It hopes to encourage the development of an ecofriendly mentality that would go against the “throwawayism” that still prevails in Ireland.
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Take Off Projects
http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/gallery/files/2012/05/8.gifKrystian Fikert, MyMind MyMind is a new approach to mental health problems offering accessible, affordable and non-medical support to people with mental health difficulties such as depression, anxiety, addiction and work-related stress. The service is open to everyone since 2006 and operates out of two sites in Dublin, in addition to their innovative online platform. The social enterprise model they have adopted means that once they hit a certain level of services, they will be self-sustaining. They aim to expand this model nationally.
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Take Off Projects
http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/gallery/files/2012/05/9.gifMonika Sapielak, Centre for Creative Practices The Centre for Creative Practices, a multi-purpose venue founded in September 2009, is the only arts centre in Ireland dedicated to connecting, integrating and promoting immigrant, experimental and emerging artists among the local arts scene and audiences through its multi-cultural and multi-disciplinary programmes.
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Take Off Projects
http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/gallery/files/2012/05/10.gifAlan Browne & Shirley Agnew, Restaurant 180 Restaurant 180 provides unique training opportunities to young people with learning disabilities. The concept of the 180 degrees restaurant is to take the classroom into the workplace. If young people are to learn to work then they need to experience the workplace to attain work social skills and put them into context. 180 degrees provide a quality restaurant experience for both customers and trainees.
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Take Off Projects
http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/gallery/files/2012/05/111.gifMike Feerick, Ireland Reaching Out Ireland Reaching Out wants to connect people of Irish heritage around the world in a way that will enrich all of our lives for the economic, social, and cultural benefit of Irish people everywhere. Based on a simple idea; instead of waiting for people of Irish descent to return to 'trace their roots', they enable local communities through largely volunteer effort and technology, to proactively engage with their Diaspora abroad – inviting them to become part of an extended “virtual” community with their place of origin.
