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The SIE Fund announced on 3 December 2014 four organisations, namely The Hong Kong Council of Social Service, PolyU Technology and Consultancy Company Limited, SOW (Asia) Foundation Ltd, and The Yeh Family Philanthropy Limited, as Intermediaries-to-be.  Collectively, they will cover both the Fund’s priority objectives of Capacity Building and development of Innovative Projects.  Details of their programmes will be announced at a later stage.

The appointment of intermediaries enables the SIE Fund to ride on existing knowledge, experience and networks in the social innovation space to help strengthen the ecosystem.  These four intermediaries will contribute with their own strengths, leverage resources from each other and bring in their collaborative partners, facilitating the idea generation, incubation and implementation of new businesses that address the problems of poverty and social exclusion in the community.

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Twenty finalists for the Social Innovation Video Competition were selected. From now till 14 December, visit the voting page to watch all the finalist entries and pick your favourite. All voters will automatically be entered into a lucky draw to win Quiksilver cash coupons. Voters may also be able to get two tickets for the award presentation ceremony to enjoy live performance by the pop singer group C AllStar.

The government had announced the membership of the second term Commission on Poverty (CoP) and its Task Forces which will run from 1 December 2014 to 30 June 2017.  New membership of the SIE Fund Task Force is available in the section "Task Force" of this website.

Meanwhile, the 15th meeting of the CoP was held on 29 November. In the meeting, Chairperson of the SIE Fund Task Force Professor Stephen Cheung briefed the Commission with the aid of a video on the latest development and upcoming work of the Fund, including progress of engaging intermediaries and preparation work for the food support flagship project.