INS2101 Introduction to Social Innovation

My social innovation topic is "Mid-day meal for school children."

The organization I selected their goal is making hunger-free school children and stopping children's deaths due to lacking nutrition.

Choose a company or organization that is trying to affect positive change in the lives of the people it serves. It could be not-for-profit (Should not be related to any Government/Religious Organization), large or small, new or old, or even an initiative within an organization (for example, a large company offering child care services for employees who cannot afford day care costs). Because you will write a research paper, you need to pick an organization that offers a healthy body of literature related to its services. Avoid small/new ones; find evidence/data (5+1 in total) about the organization before you set the topic.

Some Social Entrepreneurships work for the people, some with the people. The organization selected by you should work with the people. In other words- people should be part of the solution, not just the beneficiaries.

Address the following in your paper:

You must clearly show that the organization is successful. For example, is giving the needy money, food or shelter a good idea? The fact that many clients use such services does not necessary mean the organization is successful, as it may create social dependence. But, if you provide evidence of how many use these services for a short period and move on to self-sufficiency (stats), then you have nailed the point. That said, if you build a school for children in a community, that by itself is good enough to demonstrate the viability of an organization. But in other cases, you need to argue whether the efforts are well placed and effective in the long run.

To that end, add a heading to your paper "Evidence of Success" and allocate at least one page to discuss this evidence.

 Past experience with APA writing has been mixed. In some cases, students committed fatal error 1 in academic work: copying and pasting content from another source into their paper without clearly stating the source. Regardless of the motivation, personal reasons, or using ignorance as the reason, the interpretation at NAIT is the same: plagiarism. This results in a zero (0) for the activity and a letter on the student file on the first offence; on the second office, a fail mark for the course and potential expulsion are the outcomes. Cheating is rampant in post-secondary education. To create an authentic learning environment for students, it must be discussed and stopped, even though the discussion is rarely pleasant for either the teacher or the student.

 To be clear, the following is provided to remove any ambiguity.