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About me

Una gran innovación a la hora de darse a conocer y recaudar fondos





En mayo de 2014, Pilar Lucero Torres, fundadora y directora de LT+TEAM Comunicaciones me convocó a formar parte de su equipo creativo con un desafío muy tentador: pensar junto a la Fundación para la Integración Social Oscar Alvarado (FISOA) una innovación en la comunicación de su misión y en su recaudación de fondos.

"Queremos que más personas conozcan lo que hacemos, y queremos salir del formato cena anual de recaudación de fondos" el pedido de los miembros de la comisión directiva de FISOA fue muy concreto. 

Así, junto a una arquitecta y  una escenógrafa, me sumé a LT+TEAM donde su directora de arte lideró el proyecto CALLE ABIERTA - El Primer Festival de Integración Social. Articulamos con un equipo de ventas (Kraft Gowland) y con toda la comisión directiva de FISOA.

La Fundación para la Integración Social Oscar Alvarado (FISOA) promueve el diálogo, la educación y el trabajo con acciones concretas para construir una Argentina sana e integrada. Las fábricas recuperadas, cooperativas, empresas sociales, escuelas y otras organizaciones, protagonistas del proceso de integración y de cambio, son parte de esta comunidad: un trabajo en conjunto con 4 organizaciones sociales del conurbano bonaerense en Argentina.

La propuesta desde LT+TEAM fue crear un evento donde se pudieran vivenciar los valores que FISOA desarrolla a diario con las 4 organizaciones sociales y además recaudar fondos. 


Con una fuerte estrategia de comunicación (gacetillas, flyers, redes sociales (#FISOA#CalleAbierta2014) 

LT+TEAM desarrolló  la difusión del Festival, al mismo tiempo que construía físicamente la Calle Abierta con espacios dinámicos y agradables diseñados para que los participantes pudieran caminar la calle y aprender de los saberes y acciones de las organizaciones.






El martes 4 de noviembre de 2014  
CALLE ABIERTA
 se hizo realidad


Apostando a la innovación, FISOA convocó a más de 500 personas en Calle Abierta 2014, el Primer Festival de Integración Social donde la Fundación Defensores del Chaco, la Cooperativa Barrio La Juanita, la Asociación Identidad Vecinal y la Fundación Actuar Hoy compartieron sus saberes y acciones, su misión y su razón de ser en nuestra sociedad.

En una  una ambientación de fiesta, colores y alegría, el Auditorio Buenos Aires fue escenario ideal en donde más de 100 voluntarios fueron anfitriones de las distintas actividades ofrecidas  por las organizaciones sociales. 





Así los participantes estamparon y cosieron sus propias bolsas en el espacio textil, pintaron más de 6 metros de murales sociales, jugaron al fútbol callejero, participaron de la radio abierta y de las redes sociales, cocinaron en la panadería, compartieron comidas bien argentinas, aprendieron pasos de murga y se maquillaron también. Todos juntos celebrando el compromiso de la integración.




Vivimos un clima distendido y divertido; donde empresarios, líderes de las organizaciones sociales, referentes de opinión, miembros de la comunidad - mayores adultos, jóvenes y niños  - fueron protagonistas. 




Una noche en la que todos fuimos vecinos, nos miramos a los ojos, fuimos mejores ciudadanos y mejores argentinos



terminamos todos así bailando con la murga, celebrando la verdadera fiesta de integración social!












EXPERIENCIAS DE 
EMPRENDEDORES 
A PEQUEÑA ESCALA






Fue el título con el que Next Billion en español, publicó durante 2014 en 6 series el Estudio sobre el Potencial de Replicabilidad de Emprendimientos de Pequeña Escala que desarrollamos con Paula Cardenau, desde Njambre  




A solicitud de la Fundación Avina, en el marco de su alianza con Citi para reconocer y promover mejores de los microemprendimientos en nuestra región, en noviembre 2013 y durante 3 días entrevisté a 18 microemprendedores (14 mujeres y 4 hombres) de 7 países latinoamericanos - Guatemala, República Dominicana, Colombia, Perú, Brasil, Paraguay y Argentina. 



Todos ellos premiados en las ediciones 2010, 2011, 2012 y 2013 del Concurso Fundación La Nación - Avina - Citi.



   
con Martina Mamani - microemprendedora de Cusco, Perú

Posteriormente con Paula identificamos hilos conductores, desafíos, barreras, oportunidades, aprendizajes y recomendaciones vinculadas a los microemprendimientos para escribir el Estudio.

Jenny Melo, difundió el Estudio a través de Next Billion en Español, donde se desempeñaba como editora, en las siguiente 6 series:

1 - El puente entre la motivación y la oportunidad
2 - El fuego emprendedor y la necesidad de construir en equipo 
3 - Un producto no es lo mismo que un negocio 
4 - Planificar el crecimiento, dar el salto e invertir en el momento adecuado
5 - Buscar el apoyo externo para resolver temas puntuales
6 - Mujeres emprendedoras



Agradezco la confianza y apoyo que nos brindaron en esta co creación Njambre, Next Billion en Español, Fundación Avina
y Citi. 

Carolina

 APRENDIZAJES DE CO-CREACIÓN EN TAILANDIA

5 al 7 de febrero 2014


Qué tienen en común ….

  • Una joven que, junto a mujeres de diversas etnias y religiones, creó un movimiento para liberarlas del estigma y trauma de la post guerra. Desde Indonesia el  School of Women ofrece Tolerancia, Paz, Oratoria, Debate y Cultura de Género como parte de su currícula anual.
  • Un joven irlandés reconectando comunidades deterioradas por la globalización que promueve el desarrollo de cooperativas con foco en sus propios recursos. Procesos rinzomáticos en emprendimientos locales que fortalecen a toda la sociedad.
  • Mujeres del norte argentino y un médico ginecólogo que emprendieron un sistema de salud de alta calidad para brindar servicios a una población de bajos recursos y que hoy es el sistema elegido por la mayoría de las familias en Jujuy (Argentina).
  • Autores de todos los continentes sumaron sus diferentes miradas y recorridos reflexionando sobre la habilidad de prosperar (Thrivability) en un e-book que hoy navega todos los mares virtuales.
  • Un grupo de jóvenes que  frente al creciente desempleo juvenil y el descontento social presentaron sus recomendaciones al Consejo Europeo para unir los espacios de poder con los sectores “borde” de la sociedad.  Hoy siguen construyendo puentes que generan empleos, vinculando los centros de decisión con los recursos de acción.
  • Un grupo de estudiantes chilenos que promovieron en la universidad la educación en emprendedorismo e innovación social. Hoy, desde la academia y con alcance intersectorial, profesores, alumnos, empresarios, funcionarios y miembros de organizaciones sociales coinciden en el aula y la vida emprendedora.
  • Equipos de trabajo especialmente convocados desde McDonald´s  y la organización social DISCAR para que repliquen el modelo de empleo con apoyo para personas con discapacidad intelectual (EcA DISCAR) en todos sus restaurantes de Latinoamérica, tal como se realiza desde hace 20 años en Argentina.
  • Un grupo de agentes de cambio que desde África comparte libremente sus prácticas y conocimientos sociales en guías básicas “de gente que no acostumbra escribir para gente que no acostumbra leer”.  
  • Jóvenes en Australia que promueven los principios de Open Space Technology (“tecnología a espacio abierto”) para que personas comunes, en cualquier organización, desarrollen reuniones altamente efectivas y generen colaboraciones concretas entre la comunidad, el gobierno y las empresas.
Estos casos junto a otros 7  que Ci2i Global convocó en Tailandia tienen en común la forma de trabajar: el  abordaje co-creativo que eligieron para dar solución a un tema puntual de su comunidad local y/o de la comunidad global.


Desde 2011, C2i Global 
construye un ecosistema
para quienes trabajan el cambio social
desde un abordaje de co-creación.


El Laboratorio para Aprender y Compartir Impacto e Innovación Co-creativos (Learn/ Share Lab for Co-Creative Impact and Innovation) Chiang Mai, Tailandia fue el 3° evento de Ci2i Global y comenzó con una convocatoria global en octubre 2013.

Así invitamos a la presentación de prácticas de co-creación, conscientes de que "co-creación" es un término muy amplio, que no cuenta con una definición única.
Nuestra propuesta fue aprender juntos sobre la co-creación utilizada en el contexto de cambio social. 

Se presentaron 21 casos – prácticas en organizaciones sociales,empresas, universidades, ciudades y comunidades - que Ci2i Global analizó a la luz de la habilidad para entrecruzar el cambio inclusivo en todo tipo de contexto (http://ci2iglobal.com/case-studies-in-co-creative-impact-and-innovation/).

Representantes de los 9 casos seleccionados fueron invitados del 5 al 7 de febrero a exponer su práctica, junto a otros 5 casos de miembros de Ci2i Global, en el Learn/ Share Lab for Co-creative Impact and Innovation  y trabajar junto a esta comunidad emergente los diversos abordajes de co-creación para el cambio social (http://ci2iglobal.com/what-we-do/events/learnshare-lab-for-co-creative-impact-innovation/)

25 personas 
de 16 ciudades
en 12 países 
de los 5 continentes
trabajaron intensamente durante 2 días
los conceptos centrales e identificables de la co-creación (metodología y modelos). 


Algunos de los temas trabajados:  

ü  ser parte de la solución, necesidad que emerge con mayor frecuencia en las  comunidades,
ü  la criticidad del proceso de co- creación “tan importante como los resultados”,
ü  las “no jerarquías” que surgen  en los procesos co-creativos,
ü  los mecanismos para garantizar el avance, medición e impacto de los proyectos,
ü  las responsabilidades y autoridad compartidas,
ü  estructuras de transparencia, toma de decisiones y comunicación,
ü  la creatividad como vehículo para que las ideas surjan y se compartan.



El equipo de Ci2i Global: Bonnie, Irma, Nathalie, Christina,
Jean, Carolina y Kathryn.
Falta Christelle ausente por maternidad :) 
El equipo de Ci2i Global diseñó el evento también de manera co-creativa junto a los presentadores de los casos y demás participantes. La estructura propuesta se desarrolló en charlas plenarias, sesiones abiertas, trabajo en grupos, dinámicas de arte creativo y recreativo donde los valores, el desafío y la satisfacción de co-crear se pusieron de manifiesto.

Kathryn, Grace, John, Gillian, Oran, Eimhin, Tom, Hester, Nathalie, Gianncarlo, Nadia, Lian, Simon, Christina, Nina, Bonnie, Teun, Nic, Peter, Biplab, Douglas, Jean, Louis, Carolina e Irma son parte activa de #cocreate14, una comunidad que practica el cambio social desde la co-creación y que invita a otros practicantes a que sumen sus voces para juntos aprender y compartir experiencias exitosas que hacen prosperar al mundo. Para registrarse http://ci2iglobal.com/who-we-are/practitioners/

¿ Porque.. sabés que quiere decir Ci2i ?
Son  siglas que en inglés significan mirarse a los ojos  (C:see i:eye 2:to i:eye).

En Ci2i Global observamos, conectamos y co-creamos un mundo que prospera

y seguinos : Facebook - ci2iglobal - y en Twitter @ci2iglobal




CO CREATIVE IMPACT & INNOVATION


Get to know our next  ci2i Global Learn / Share Lab  
in February 2014 at Thailand


 Christina Jordan´s post at ci2i Global blog


In October 2013, Ci2i Global issued a call among our peers around the world for case studies in co-creative impact and innovation, to be presented at our upcoming Learn/Share Lab in Chiang Mai, Thailand.
After examining 21 case studies, we’re liking the term more and more for it’s cross-cutting ability to capture a description of how more inclusive change is happening lately in all kinds of contexts. Communities, non-profits, companies, cities, universities, and entrepreneurs are experiencing, practicing and inviting co-creation in varying degrees to achieve social objectives.
We noticed that the case studies we received were spread almost evenly across a matrix that plotted two spectra:
1) Social objectives that are determined in advance, versus completely emergent.
2) Participant groups that are highly curated, versus offering a completely open invitation to the general public.
The case studies submitted were of an extremely high caliber. We were unable to limit ourselves to the initial 7 we thought to invite. In selecting 10 cases to study in Chiang Mai alongside our 5 partner cases, we’ve chosen a cross-section from across the matrix, that also represents a global spread. We’re thrilled to have excellent examples of co-creative social impact in action from business, academia, the non-profit world and social entrepreneurs.

One of our key co-creative activities at the Learn/Share Lab will be to hack and dissect these cases to determine the co-creative attributes they have in common, and how those can be taught, replicated and nurtured in the pursuit of social change in even more contexts. With a clearer picture that lab participants and case study presenters alike can begin to see around the nature of co-creation and how it works, we’d like to start refining our global discourse about social change, and begin to actively nurture more know how and a broader awareness of co-creativity as a critical factor in building new systems that thrive.
Case Studies Co-creativity Matrix (1)The cases we’re honoring with an invitation to help us define co-creative impact and innovation by presenting at the Learn/Share Lab for Co-creative Impact and Innovation in Chiang Mai include: 

CURATED CO-CREATION FOR DETERMINED OBJECTIVES

    • Letsrecycle, India - Paul Biplab is an Ashoka Fellow emancipating roadside waste pickers from exploitative informal waste buyers. When the company experienced a recent fire, the waste pickers contributed their ideas for rebuilding in a better way, that now enables them to collect even more.
    • Witness, D.R. Congo – Gillian Caldwell served as the Executive Director of Witness when they played a major role in equipping, training and supporting local human rights advocates in the DRC to engage in participatory video production about the human rights abuses surrounding the recruitment and abduction of child soldiers.
    • McDonalds/DISCAR, Latin America - Carolina Tocalli served as executive director of DISCAR Argentina, a social entreprise currently partnered with McDonalds to involve the managers, co-workers and families of mentally disabled workers in co-creating a supported employment model at McDonalds across Latin America.
    • Thrivable, global - Jean Russell curates co-created books around the topic of thrivability, lifting up an idea by lifting the visibility of the contributors.

OPEN CO-CREATION FOR DETERMINED OBJECTIVES

    • Sistema SER, Argentina - Simon Gronda carries on the work of his father – an Ashoka Fellow and doctor who co-created a new health care system with poor women in the Jujuy region, which has since partnered with the State and served more than 67,000 people.
    • The Barefoot Guides, Global - Doug Reeler is part of the core team behind a global and local community of social change leaders and practitioners, from many countries, who co-create resources to deepen and develop approaches and initiatives that contribute to a changing world
    • GetLocal coop, Ireland - Eimhin Shortt is creating cooperative businesses with a focus on local resource resilience by carbon neutral means in a way that is non-coercive and is democratically owned and run by member/customers.

CURATED CO-CREATION FOR EMERGENT OBJECTIVES

    • NESIS, Chile - Gianncarlo Durán Díaz nurtures Higher Education Hubs for Social Innovation in Chile: Fostering cross-sector collaborations from the Academic Sector.
    • YES! Meshwork, Global – based in the Netherlands, Anne Marie Voorhoeve led 55 youth leaders from 30 countries in a facilitated meshwork process where stakeholders bring together their strengths and resources to achieve a common purpose.
    • Evolutionize It, Uganda / Thailand - Christina Jordan guides displaced communities in developing local community project plans and finding resources from global supporters through co-creative online campaigns.
    • Ci2i Global – Bonnie Koenig leads on organizational development as a Ci2i Global partner.

OPEN CO-CREATION FOR EMERGENT OBJECTIVES

    • The Women’s School and Interfaith Movement, Indonesia – Lian Gogali is an Ashoka Fellow who has created a method for trauma healing and cultivating empathy by which women and children transform themselves from victims of war, into survivors, and peacemakers.
    • Co-create Adelaide, Australia John Baxter has developed a methodology called Freespace to expand the principles of Open Space Technologies to a festival and a collaboration.
    • Edgeryders, Europe - Nadia EL-Imam was the creative director for a research project that should result in recommendations on youth employment to the Council of Europe. In response, the Edgeryders Open Consultancy was designed for participants to help one another bridge the growing gap between the need to make a living and the need to do meaningful work that at least doesn’t harm the ecosocial systems we live in.
    • Omidyar.net, Global – Jean Russell and Christina Jordan met 8 years ago through a co-creative online community space hosted by the Omidyar Network. This case will examine some of the global collaborations that emerged through the network, and invite conversation around developing practical working spaces for co-creative practitioners.
Congratulations to all the cases selected and to the presenters invited to join us in Chiang Mai. 

Una  colaboración entre sectores origina el modelo social Empleo con Apoyo para personas con discapacidad intelectual -  EcA DISCAR


Mis publicaciones y ponencia sobre el tema:







EUSE :  European Union of Supported Employment, founded in 1993, to build an inclusive Europe through supported employment.

Supported Employment: providing support to people with disabilities or other disadvantage groups to secure and mantain paid employment in the open labour market.


The Process

Given these definitions, in October 2012 I was invited to submit an abstract on supported employment to the committee responsible for the organization of the 11th EUSE Conference.

What I definitely wanted to share in Europe was an oustanding sustainable  collaboration I have been assisting since 2002: the  McDonald´s - DISCAR alliance 

A collaboration between a social entrepreneur (Mrs Victoria Shocrón) and a business entreprenuer (Mr Woods Staton), that is celebrating 2 decades this year. 

A totally unusual alliance: 
  • from a developing Latin American country
  • initiated during the nineties in Argentina
  • cross gender collaboration
  • cross professional collaboration
  • cross sector collaboration

I was thrilled by the opportunity to write and present my work as a social impact consultant. 

So I submitted the abstract, and fortunately I was invited to write a paper and present it at the prestigious 11th EUSE Conference, in Dublin, June 11 - 13 th 2013

Writing about my work is a privilege. I enjoyed the process of harvesting the data, making the interviews, taking the pictures, and sitting down at my home office to write and write and write... an enormous gift for me. 


Read more about this inspiring collaboration and its pictures here



At the 11th EUSE Conference - Dublin, Ireland -  11 - 13th June 2013 



We spent 3 days reflecting with colleagues from 19 european countries on supported employment. 

We shared experiences and discussed on best practices, government and companies participation, various legislations, and the future of supported employment in Europe and in Latin America.

Mrs Victoria Shocrón and I presented the alliance in the Broadering the Reach Segment - couldn´t think of a better name for it! 


Being the event hosted by the wonderful Irish communtity, we also had fun, laughed, danced and, with gratitude and joy, we reassured our committment to be changemakers for a more inclusive world




Shared ImpACT
IE Social Responsibility Forum  2012 

  23 & 24 November - Madrid - Spain 


7th IE Social Responsibility Forum in Madrid  has been such a hit!  
It is the largest student-run event on the IE Business School campus and if you are interested in CSR, sustainability, and making a difference in the world, this is the conference to attend.

This year marked the 7th edition of SRF, run in coordination with the IE Net Impact club, and the general theme was “Shared ImpACT,” highlighting how individuals and companies play a role in sustainability. 


Watch this 1.40 minute video to grasp its spirit 

I am really grateful for the invitation, and for the preparation of my two sessions: 
  • How can corporations make a difference and the magnitude of their impact
  • My Story, My Impact ! 
My Story, My Impact!  session had a great feedback from participants and has been  described as one of the best sessions of this year's forum. It was the first time SRF offers  an intimate, dynamic opportunity for speakers to share their personal stories and will most likely become an ongoing element of the forum. 

Preparing My Story, My Impact! was an introspection I gifted myself, a personal journey where the first step was a designed creative activity with a recycled dashboard, paints and a collage of pictures of my life. What a treasure!



Share my colorful presentation 


7th IE Social Responsibility Forum was an experience of Shared ImpACT in itself. Two inspiring days, totally rooted in empathy, full of joy for the opportunity to share, interact, understand and co create with others advantages & disadvantages, dreams & hopes, projects & insights. I could feel the collaborative movement builiding  to achieve a higher good.  

Deeply grateful !

Carolina 




To view complete SRF Program click here 
http://srforum.ie.edu/sites/default/files/SRF_PROGRAM_0.pdf
http://srforum.ie.edu/sites/default/files/SRF_PROGRAM_0.pdf

7th Annual Social Responsibility Forum - Shared ImpACT 

23 - 24 November 2012 -
 IE Business School - Madrid - SPAIN


It is an honor and a great privilege to have been invited as one of the speakers to the SRF Forum. 

Next 23 -24 November, high impact people related to IE (innovative entrepreneurial institution) will be working on the Shared ImpACT issue, which is my every day challenge since 2002 (or even before, but I was not conscious about it then). 
Because I am convinced that few things can be done on an individual basis, when I was asked to submit my answer to  WHAT DOES SHARED IMPACT MEANS TO ME....  I thought it throughly and arrived to this explanation:

"Shared impact is rooted in empathy. The true understanding and internalization of others disadvantages, others dreams, others projects is the first step to begin any collaborative movement to achieve a higher good.  
In this complex world very little can be achieved individually. Paradoxically, the things that make us humans feel good and stable are alike, regardless the culture, social or economic status. 
The collective WE - you and me, we and others -  together working from a shared beginning, sharing the process thus sharing the impact makes a sustainable difference. That is our challenge: empathy, knowledge and skills as collective instruments to achieve an agreed impact, and responsibly share its results."

Looking foward to sharing 2 great days with changemakers, opinion leaders, students and professors. We will sure impact together!




October 15th 2012 - BLOG ACTION DAY ! 

What does the power of WE means to you?



October 4 Class reunion – 25th  anniversary of Secondary School Graduation

What was intended as a formal meeting of an hour and a half - ex alumni Mass and Cocktail - turned out to be one of the most magical moments of my life. Not only because it took  the whole previous week - and believe me it will last for more - but because the power of WE was alive in the hearts and souls of my 80 promotion mates. 

I left school in 1987, on a torrid December (yes I live in the southern hemisphere, snowless Christmas) full of dreams, trips, jobs and loves waiting outside our - oh so grey-  school. Amazing life was around the corner.  I can still sense the freedom I experienced as soon as I took my first step out of school: no more navy blue uniform, no more pony tails for me. I would dress every day the way I wanted and my hair would be breathing to the wind (just as messy as it is today). 

University days, firsts jobs, lots of trips, fiancé, wedding, own family, raising children, increasing commitments. During the last quarter of a century, life was hectic and productive for me. Though I was always in close contact with a bunch of dear school friends - MY FRIENDS - I was totally unaware of the life and destiny of the rest of my 1987 graduate companions. A strange and selfish combination of "I don't care much" and "I have no time to search for them" And I bet that was an ordinary thought among us.

There is good news about becoming older, and it is that certain wisdom comes with maturity. My early forties found me in a reflective mode, searching for the real value in me and in others. My family life and my work are gradually teaching me that I am no heroine at all, and that I need others to make any change happen. In this complex world few things can be done in total isolation, to achieve impact we should rely in others peek and insights. 
A simple human equation: ME + OTHERS = WE.

Back to my 25th  graduation anniversary episode, there was one valuable soul that broke the ice with a straight to the point email to all 1987 classmates “Would you like to share some lines about how was your life since we left school?” As plain as that.  Tons of mails started to overflow my screen and my heart during the previous week to our “formal and distant “ encounter. 

The moment we finally met, that unforgettable Thursday, October 4, bridges to each others´ souls had been knitted carefully and with respect, enabling us to look  right to the eyes and express our gratitude, wordless “I care for you, and I know you care for me”.

It was one of the most tangible way of WE experience I had experienced in years. From now on, these amazing women will not be those anonymous companions: they have became flesh and soul mates to me. I can count on them as well as they can count on me. We know for sure we all are at keystroke distance, and very close to our hearts.

Life goes on, and will become as hectic as before, I am no naïf. But I got this great sensation of recovering a funding WE of my story, and I am ready to bring this amazing women on board of my journey from now on. 
Gratitude to life´s second chances!