Community Innovation from Canada
Stuart Duffin
The Aviva Community Fund competition was created to give Canadians a voice in bringing lasting change to their local communities. With a total of CDN 500,000 set aside, the company first invited Canadian consumers to submit their community improvement ideas to the effort's website. There, ideas competed for a spot in the semifinals over three rounds of voting between mid-October and late November. Winners were announced yesterday, and include a lodge for a P.E.I. residential camp for families of the chronically ill, and a new playground for a school in Brantford, Ontario.
As the world suffers through the results of the corporate excesses that helped bring this recession on, there's nothing like some well-placed corporate generosity to help win back the disgusted masses. Add to that a way for consumers to direct the giving, and you just may have the beginnings of a confidence recovery plan. (Related: Canadian credit union gives people ten-dollar bills to give away — Crowdsourcing economic solutions for Ireland — Waitrose lets customers direct its community giving.)
Website: www.avivacommunityfund.org
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james-stuart duffin
manager
innercityrenewalgroup
fifty-seven amiens street
dublin 1
[This is the registered office of the ICRG Ltd]
w http://www.dublin.ie/websites/InnerCityRenewalGroup
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The ICRG Ltd., is a company limited by guarantee not having a share capital, registered in Dublin, Ireland with registered company number 122512. ICRG is a community-based workforce development agency.