Corporate Focus One:
Organize and Facilitate the Welfare Sector's Response
to the Financial Tsunami
1.1 Mobilize and enhance NGOs' service
interventions to build resilience, solidarity in the
community and to reach out to those in need.
Key Initiatives |
Key Performance Indicators |
- Welfare Sector Community Campaign: "Embracing
Challenges Enriching Lives"
- Supporting corporates ¡V NGOs matching in
providing workshops in the community and workplace
on positive psychology and better family communications
- Supporting NGOs and corporations participation
in the 18 district programmes and the mass
territory wide events to promote the message
of positive thinking
- Launching media campaigns on thinking and
acting positively and strengthening family
communication and mutual support
- Organizing training for frontline social
workers on positive psychology and providing
a forum for practice sharing
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- No. of workshops organized and no. of participants
- Feedback survey on workshop participants
- Extent of reach out in 18 districts
- No. of participating NGOs and Caring Companies
- Media partnership programmes, reach out and
feedback
- No. of frontline workers engaged in
training and sharing
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- To identify and promote concern on the impact
of financial crisis on people's livelihood
by studying the impact of financial crisis
on different population groups and by advocating
solutions to address these needs
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- Specific poverty and employment support issues
identified and solutions proposed to government
and gained public support ¡V nursery voucher,
medical fee loan, job seekers allowance/loan
and dental service
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1.2 Resources development and management
support for NGOs, especially in support of non-subvented
services
Key Initiatives |
Key Performance Indicators |
- Fung Foundation Social Enterprise Fund
- Collective marketing of SE
- Social Angels to
support specific SE/NGO projects
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- No. of successful projects launched bringing
measureable benefits to NGOs/SEs
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- Jockey Club Undergraduate Internship Programme
in Small NGOs (Proposal submitted to funder
for consideration)
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- No. of undergraduates recruited, trained,
delivering material support to small NGOs operating
non-subvented services in fundraising, social
marketing and organizing of activities.
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- Collective fundraising, publicity support
and matching resource for small NGOs and self-help
groups
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- Strengthened support network to self-help
groups and small NGOs.
- Matched resources for non-subvented services
through Wisegiving and Foundations Network
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- Advocate for relaxation of government matching
donation funds and the Lotteries Fund for non-subvented
services
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- Organized dialogue and lobby with SWD and
LWB on working out agreeable and feasible measures
to relax the funding support
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Corporate Focus Two: Enhance Professional Service and Evidence-based Practices to Meet Service Needs
Affirm the role of welfare and support
creative initiatives and evidence-based/outcome oriented
interventions to strengthen the professional contribution
of the sector
Key Initiatives |
Key Performance Indicators |
- To organize the 2009 Best Practice Awards
in Social Welfare
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- Awards presented and outstanding & innovative
practices promoted to the government and different
sectors in the community
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- To enhance and empower professionals
in evidence-based interventions, innovations and
fostering cross-sectoral synergy in providing social
care and development through the process of co-organizing
the 2010 Joint World Conference on Social Work
and Social Development
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- Workshops on evidence-based practice organized
for social workers
- Expert team lined up to give support to NGOs/social
workers in conducting practice research
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- To leverage on the government's
initiative of Welfare Planning, Annual Agenda
Setting Exercise and the Service Review mechanism
under LSG, to foster strategic welfare development
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- Discussion among NGOs promoted, organized views
presented to the government and dialogues and
meetings made among different stakeholders
- Protocol in identifying welfare priorities
and agenda setting for 2010-2011 worked out with
SWD and LWB
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- To promote the professionalization
of employment assistance programmes
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- Conducted the ERB's consultancy study for the
development of an "Enhanced Placement Services
Model"
- Conducted a study visit on employment support
service in Canada and organized training for
operators and frontline workers on job support
services
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- To advocate for an "Aged Friendly"
City and the Plan of Action on Aging
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- A study visit to be organized, cross-sectoral
working group formed to produce a policy framework
of an aged friendly city
- An action list of the Plan of Action on Aging
agreed with concerned stakeholders and promoted
to the government and the community
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