SINet Blog
People from around Europe gathered to present you information and resources about social innovations, European solidarity, community fundraising, digital transformation of the nonprofit sector, and other tools for sustainable community development.
The Role of the Erasmus Programme in Promoting Social Innovation
The Erasmus+ programme is one of the most significant achievements of the European Union. It has played, and continues to play, a key role in promoting social innovation on the European and international scenario. Erasmus+is the European Union's programme for the...
Environmental Education: What is it and How are Digital Tools Changing it?!
Environmental education has become a central element of raising awareness among youth about the incumbent complications caused by climate change. It is easy to get overwhelmed by daily life and therefore pay less attention to how our behavior might influence the...
The Role and the Importance of Digital Solidarity in Nonprofit Organizations: toward Digital Social Innovation
Digital solidarity is a form of altruism with which it is possible to help others using new technologies. The importance of solidarity, communication and digital social innovation has never been as clear as it is today, but the nonprofit sector is one of the slowest...
Social Impact through Volunteering activitites
Volunteering is the ability to ‘’be the change you want to see in the world’’. I think that everyone has their own hidden potential of making a real and positive change in their community. It only takes a little ‘’dose’’ of willingness, and enthusiasm to positively...
Policies and Social Innovation: How Governments Promote Social Innovation
Social Innovation can change the structure of society, behaviors and organisms that previously created today's welfare system by finding alternative solutions to existing ones. Responding to and satisfying a collective need requires the establishment of relationships...
Growing Digitalization and its Impact on Social Inclusion of Youth
Social inclusion can be described as a process which serves to encourage the relations, values and organizations that accommodate people in their ability and wish to actively participate in their political, economic and social life. Young people are experiencing a...
One-off Donations, a Digital Fundraising Strategy for Nonprofits
Donations to a non-profit organisation are a tool for activating citizen solidarity, enabling nonprofit organisations to raise funds to finance projects that contribute to mitigating inequalities, to address natural or humanitarian disasters or to help improve the...
Social Innovation and New Challenges
What’s Social Innovation? Social innovation is a process of change, based on strategies and ideas that lead to satisfying the economic and social development of a given community. Before talking about social innovation, it is important to focus on the following...
Community Forums: a tool for CSO to promote the active citizenship and the involvement of people in their communities
Promoting active citizenship and the involvement of people in their communities is crucial to take action to tackle social issues that are emerging locally. In this blog post, we are going to look at a successful tool that can be used by Civil Society Organisations[i]...
The Urge of NGOs’ Digital Transformation due to COVID-19
The importance of digital transformation of nonprofit organizations has grown significantly over the last decade, but it has been accelerated since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. The measures of social distancing led to the necessity of flexibility and urgent...
5 Best Marketing Approaches for Nonprofits
The everyday challenge for nonprofits is to attract attention not only from their target groups and final beneficiaries but also from the partners, donors, foundations, government, businesses, other community organizations, members, and volunteers. The essential for a...