Week 2: Graded quiz

It is often the case that obvious resources like money or specialists are not easily available to us when we start our social innovation, which means we can’t get going.

Relying on money for your social innovation is immoral and unethical as money should not be involved in social innovation.

Hidden resources are always much better for innovation than obvious resources such as money or specialists.

Trying to raise money is an unnecessary activity for a social innovation as it has access to public and government funding.

Taking an appreciative inquiry approach involves analysing what isn’t working in an organisation, what its needs are and what can be done to fix it.

Appreciative inquiry draws on positive psychology techniques to focus on what is working and helps to identify both strengths and resources.

Appreciative inquiry is making sure that people working in an organisation are rewarded when they meet their performance targets.

Taking an appreciative inquiry approach involves seeing how much revenue or profit an organisation is accumulating over a given period of time.

Who are your favorite people in the community and why?

What’s the biggest need your community has?

What three wishes do you have for your community?

What do you love most about your community?

Cultural and medical knowledge held by mothers who had been through treatment successfully.

Private medical clinics in the community that not enough people were using.

Doctors with lots of extra time on their hands.

A new use for existing drugs.

People driving to work alone in their cars.

School buildings closed on weekends.

A teenager who loves music.

Someone who has been experienced financial hardship, addiction, or violence.

All of the above.

A strengths based mindset is more likely to lead to an accurate understanding of the problem

A strengths based mindset is more likely to reveal hidden resources and creative opportunities with which to approach problems.

A strengths based mindset always results in identifying non-physical resources such as people who might be resources in your community.

A mindset and approach that diagnoses and analyses problems will take too long and consume more resources so a strengths based approach will be quicker.

The clothes are donated.

Open-source files are used to create the street store.

The store does not need a premises.

The individuals are able to select their preferred items.

Humanitas helped students find free accommodation in an expensive city and so helped them save money and reduced their future debts.

Living with the care home residents helped the students to appreciate what getting old was like and made them more sensitive and kinder to older people.

The students provided free labour to care home residents by doing chores, shopping for groceries and undertaking a multitude of jobs which allowed the care home to manage its running costs better and so helped the residents pay less for their care

Humanitas enabled intergenerational community building by bringing together students who needed accommodation and care home residents who needed social interaction in ways that met both their needs.

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