Alligare Project

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The project's purpose is promote alliances between the business sector and the non-profit sector through private social investment. The students promote a training for needed NGOs that is funded by companies.

Standings & Awards

9 out of 190 in Central & South America
13 out of 268 in Economic Dev
31 out of 574 in Pilot
44 out of 1066 in Blended
105 out of 4003 Overall

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Alligare Project

The project foments social networking and partnerships between the business sector and the non-profit sector.

The work of Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) is specially valuable in order to keep the social sustainability. These organizations are actors effectively able to transform the local environment, from the moment they have access to the necessary tools for developing the social work - knowledge about strategic planning, social projects formulation and the importance of network.

In this way, the purpose of Alligare Project – which name derives from a Latin word that means “mutual commitment” – is to foment the knowledge sharing (in the themes above mentioned of the Third Sector field) between young students with learning experience in the area and needy NGOs in the city of Franca, located in the countryside of São Paulo’s state in Brazil, by training workshops promoted by these students. The promotion of inter-sectoral alliances brings the originality, such that the investment that finances the training workshops comes from the private social investment of the local business sector.

The Alligare Project presents as differential the promotion of strategic alliances between the business sector and the non-profit sector through private social investment in order to provide local development through the assistance to barely structured NGO’s, so they become able to improve themselves and their local – and possibly global – work.

In return is provided to the partner companies the Aureus Seal of Social Action Certification – name derived from a Latin word which means “golden” – that certificates that the company has been involved in a social action. This seal shows the relevance of corporate social responsibility through investment in the Third Sector, demonstrating to the society (through local means of communication) the companies that invest in it.

The Alligare Project was idealized by college students that work in the Junior Company of International Relations – called Orbe - Relações Internacionais -, that operates, among other areas, in the Third Sector. The work of the students is volunteer, so all the financing of the project is used to improve its activities and the training of its members.

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Scheme that represents the main idea of the Alligare Project

Aureus Seal of Social Action Certification provided to the partner companies to certificate their involvment in social action

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Roadmap to Success:

roadmap_to_success.pdf

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FIVE PROJECT QUESTIONS Required (60 - 90 minutes)

1. What is your innovation?

The promotion of alliances between the business sector and the non-profit sector through private social investment in order to promote the knowledge sharing with the Third Sector area and the establishment of social networkr. Other innovation is the Aureus Seal of Social Action Certification that is used by companies that finance the project to certify that they have been involved in social action. It shows the relevance of corporate social responsibility through investment in the Third Sector

2. Who gains the most?

The students gain knowledge in 3rd Sector themes; the companies gain the possibility to participate in a social action, which is certified by a seal that can be used to promote this action; the NGOs gain training to offer their efforts optimally to develop the society. NGOs and companies gain the opportunity to build inter-sector alliances, which foment networking. Therefore, the society gains the most, with NGOs more prepared to offer their services, students interested and committed companies.

3. Who pays?

The companies involved in the project pay for the Alligare. The money is used in the training workshops that the students promote to the NGOs (by the bought of material for dynamics, printing textbooks, pay the students' locomotion to the NGOs), and the training of the students that are Project members and teach the NGOs’ people (by participation in courses and presentations about Third Sector themes).

4. What is your success?

The project's success is be recognized through the promotion of alliances between the business sector and the non-profit sector, promoting knowledge sharing, the involvement of the companies in social actions and the improvement of the NGOs' job. Thus, the project could be recognized worldwide, since through this work it’s possible to spread a local initiative into a global dimension, since the project principles are universal.

5. How will you do it?

The social impact will be achieved by the better work developped by the NGOs. Since that they have access to the necessary tools for developing the social work they are able to transform the local environment. Through the Aureus Seal, the relevance of corporate social responsibility, done by investment in the Third Sector will be shown to other companies and to the society. The knowledge sharing will provide to the students the development of youth leadership and the work in team.