A Look at Elpis Enterprises
Highlighting our partners Elpis Enterprises and their amazing social enterprise model. Watch their video to learn more and see how you can support Elpis youth.
Aon’s Innovative Apprentice Model
Aon, a leading global professional services firm providing a broad range of risk, retirement and health solutions, offers an apprenticeship program that provides students without a traditional four-year college degree an entry point to launch a professional career at Aon.
MN Reconnect Supports Adult Learners Going Back to School
MN Reconnect is for adults over the age of 25 looking to re-enroll and return to post-secondary college programs. Participants are provided with Navigators to support in their education, financial aid, career planning, and more!
Mano a Mano Technical Training Programs for Construction and Aviation
Just as Mano a Mano’s clinics require highly trained physicians, nurses and dentists, our water and road projects simply could not happen without skilled mechanics and machine operators. For years we recruited technicians who already had work experience; they had essentially been trained by others. When a simple but costly mistake happened, we decided to create our own training program. The […]
SROI: Measuring Community Impact
Nonprofits have always been asked to calculate their cost savings, their financial savings, or their economic impact by creating a Social Return on Investments (SROI). These calculations are complex, and so the Sundance Family Foundation with the help of Ecotone Analytics, set about trying to discover the SROI on it’s new Earn and Learn program by the 2020 grantees.
For every $1 contributed to an Earn & Learn program, there is a projected $3.50 social return on investment (SROI).
Measuring Earn & Learn’s success using the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals
In 2020, the Sundance Family Foundation created Earn & Learn from its evidence-based Youth Social Entrepreneurship (YSE) to accelerate pathways that connect young adults to short-term training programs and sustainable 21st century middle-skills careers. The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) provide a framework to identify and map the indicators to measure Earn and Learn’s success.