The Young Foundation brings together insights, innovation and entrepreneurship to meet social needs. We have a track record of over 50 years' success with ventures such as the Open University, Which?, the School for Social Entrepreneurs and Healthline (the precursor of NHS Direct).
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Highlights
Charm Offensive: Cultivating Civility in 21st Century Britain (Oct 2011)
Civility can seem like an old fashioned concept and the British public tends to think we are on a spiral of decline when it comes to everyday politeness. This report, co-funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council and Economic and Social Research Council, finds that far from a thing of the past, civility is something that people still care deeply about wherever they live, but it warns that long-term trends are making civility hard to maintain.
What has Sure Start taught us about large-scale social innovation? A lunchtime seminar with Naomi Eisenstadt
On the 4th of November we are delighted to be hosting a lunchtime seminar with Naomi Eisenstadt to discuss the lessons social innovators today can learn from the challenges and triumphs of the Sure Start programme's development thus far.
Social Innovation Mayor?
Young Foundation Director Nicola Bacon recently undertook a whistlestop tour of three Korean cities- Bucheon, Jeonju and the capital Seoul. In this blog post she explores the state of social innovation in these regions of Korea, what we can learn from the Korean attitude towards social innovation, and the possible election of a new social innovation Mayor for Seoul, Mr Woon Son Park, former Executive Director of Korea's Hope Institute and the liberal parties' candidate for Mayor.
The Work Debate
The Prince's Trust and the Young Foundation are working together to host a different kind of event- a debate bringing young people together with employers and policy makers to look to the future and plan new ways to tackle the challenges for young people moving into work.
Encountering incivility
Assumptions which link incivility with diversity and disadvantage are very often wrong: a recent report found that it's the middle aged men in suits who regularly come in for harsh criticism, says Phoebe Griffith
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