RISE TO SHINE - SEED FOR CHANGE 2022

Member

Đỗ Hồng Thanh Loan

Local organization

JCI Danang

National organization

Vietnam

Member

Đỗ Hồng Thanh Loan

Duration

From March 4, 2021 to February 1, 2022

Target

Incubate community projects in JCI to make it become a real and sustainable project

Target population

150

Target avg age

22

Root cause

The skills development demand of members of JCI Danang.

Sustainable Development Goal

Quality Education

Development stage

Education and Economic Empowerment

Purpose

The purpose of Seed For Change project is aimed at 4 main focuses:
1. Increase members for JCI Da Nang.
2. Develop skills and increase the empowerment for members and volunteers.
3 Incubate new projects for JCI Vietnam and help existing projects better understand the operation of a project and become a sustainable project
4. Become one of the model projects, along with a sustainable development model and can package for other regions in Vietnam

Overview

- In 2021, the Seed For Change (SFC) project was born with the aim of developing ideas for community projects in Da Nang city with the theme ""Improve awareness of public health"". In 2022, SFC organized the Rise To Shine Contest to incubate more new projects, develop sustainable projects for each Chapter through training programs

+ Vision: in the future, the SFC project will become a pioneer in incubating community projects through organizing a contest, similar to Rise To Shine in order to create training programs and share practical experience on running a sustainable project.

+ Mission: Incubating community projects for sustainable development

- Beneficiaries: community projects in Viet Nam

- Develop ideas and models: organize a Rise To Shine contest with:
+ 4 ROUNDES: form round, qualifying round, semi-final and final
+ 3 TALKSHOWS: ""SECRETS OF SUCCESS OF A PROJECT"", 'SECRET CONFIDANTS OF THE PROJECT DIRECTOR, ""REACHING LEADERSHIP WITH COMMUNITY PROJECTS""
+ 1 TRAINING BOOTCAMP on how to operate a community project
+ 6 MENTORING to exchange and learn from each other on topics from the beginning of the project to the end, packaging the project

PROJECT STRUCTURE: Human resource of the Project is allocated as a local chapter including Departments managed by Project Director and the Team Leaders. They take on the roles such as:
- Project's Action Plan development
- Recruitment of personnel and work assignment
- Implementation of tasks
- Build the performance appraisal system for programs of the Project
- Workflow improvement; Risk management
- Transfer Project Model

1. Human Resources Department: Organizes training programs to improve the expertise and skills of project members; Coordinates recruitment activities to attract active young citizens to participate in project; Helds member bonding activities; Internal communication to 19 Train and JCI Danang members to let them understand and go for the project

2. Coordination Department: Builds the working process, working form for other departments; Ensures smooth cooperation between departments; Updates reports, information, measure project results for LBOD of JCI Danang and project participants; Organizes training or sharing sessions about applying JCI Active Citizen Framework in building the project.

3. Content Department: Develops a training program framework and project action plan in line with JCI Plan of Action 2021; Builds a team of professional advisors; Connects and work with trainers and mentors who are members of JCI Danang and other chapters (JCI Hanoi, JCI Central Saigon)

4. Communication Department: Implements brand communication activities for 19 Train project and JCI Danang to local businesses, schools and team clubs related to the project; Shares and spreads JCI's mission to the local community on media channels; Creates an environment to learn and develop in terms of marketing skills such as writing content, building landing pages, creating communication plans...

5. Events Department: Coordinates activities of talkshows, workshops and training sessions for the project; Organizing awareness raising programs for participants; Calling for JCI Danang members to participate and support the Project

6. External Affairs Department: Connects resources from the government, private enterprises, universities in Da Nang city; Coordinates with media units across the country, the press and social organizations to participate in the Project

7. The Finance Department: Implementes financial plans; Proposed fundraising programs, and mobilized donations and support from JCI members, social organizations and local businesses.

- Result: the organization has how many teams, how many participants, media reach,

+ There are 14 TEAMS that are community projects of 8 Chapters that register to participate in the Rise To Shine contest
+ Organized 3 TALKSHOW ONLINE with 200 participants
+ Reaching 500,000 INTERACTIONS OF MEDIA
+ Organized A COMPREHENSIVE TRAINING BOOTCAMP on community project work and 6 MENTORING SESSIONS to share and learn from each other among the teams.

- Partners:
+ Legal Protection Units: YBA - Ho Chi Minh City Young Businesses Association, JCI Vietnam.
+ Organize: JCI Danang, Seed For Change
+ 3 CO-ORGRANIZES are Chapters JCI DALAT, JCI HANOI and JCI EAST SAIGON
+ Organize the Rise To Shine contest under the advice and support of JCI Vietnam project board and JCI Vietnam Skills Development Council (SDC)
+ 6 MENTORS for each team
+ 6 JURIES
+ 6 TRAINERS
+ 3 MODERATORS
+ 9 SPEAKERS are the brothers and sisters who have worked as project directors
+ 35 VOLUNTEERS from all universities in Da Nang city
+ 2 GOLD SPONSORS: CONANDO CORP - Media and Technology Joint Stock Company and MES CAPITAL
+ 2 SILVER SPONSORS: LEOGO English Center and Trading Production Co., Ltd. II

- Finance:
+ Raised $2391 of which $1522 was used to give prizes to the teams and $653 was used for project operations
+ Ending the Seed For Change project 2022, the project surplus $216
+ The surplus will be used to reserve for the project's activities in the following years

Results

- Incubate 2 NEW PROJECTS for JCI Danang
- Media reach: the Rise To Shine contest of Seed For Change project is supported by media on the official Fanpage of JCI Vietnam, JCI Da Nang and the Fanpage of 3 co-organized chapters: JCI Hanoi, JCI East Saigon, JCI Dalat has reached 500,000 media hits from June 1, 2022 to September 15, 2022

- Organized sucessfully Rise To Shine contest with:
+ 4 ROUNDS: form round, qualifying round, semi-final and final
+ 3 TALKSHOWS: "SECRETS OF SUCCESS OF A PROJECT", "SECRET CONFIDANTS OF THE PROJECT DIRECTOR", "REACHING LEADERSHIP WITH COMMUNITY PROJECTS"
+ 1 TRAINING BOOTCAMP on how to operate a community project
+ 6 MENTORING to exchange and learn from each other on topics from the beginning of the project to the end, packaging the project

- Help 14 projects of 8 Chapter of JCI Vietnam understand more about how to operate a sustainable project

Recommendations

I hope that in the future, the Seed For Change project will become a pioneer in incubating community projects through organizing a contest similar to Rise To Shine to be able to create training and development programs share practical experience on running a sustainable project.

Contact

sfc.jcidanang@gmail.com