Collective Impact

Today, many social problems have become too complex for isolated interventions. Collective Impact, which promotes cross-sector coalitions in working towards a common goal and along a structured collaborative approach, offers a way to achieve meaningful and sustainable progress in addressing large systemic-wide social issues.

Using this approach, a group of family and corporation foundations have agreed to set up a Collective Impact platform, initially focused on early childhood educare for disadvantaged families, to help families overcome barriers to learning and social integration. The SIE Fund has entered into a strategic partnership with the funders' group.
 

  • Liza Green of Credit Suisse, one of the funders on the Collective Impact platform, shares her views on the work of SIE Fund and the development of the Collective platform:



Little Dragon Chinese Pre-K1 Chinese language videos

With the support of the Collective Impact platform, The Zubin Foundation is launching the project to create a total of 21 video clips for non-Chinese speaking Pre-K1 children to learn vocabularies, instructions and greetings in Chinese, in the hope of helping them learn more effectively in the Chinese-speaking environment at kindergartens. These 3-minute videos, in a classroom setting, will feature students’ verbal conversation in Cantonese with explanatory narration in the languages of various ethnic groups. The videos are accessible on YouTube and shown at NGO centres.
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Start from the Beginning – Chinese Supporting Scheme for Non-Chinese Speaking Students in Kindergarten

Supported by the Collective Impact platform, Oxfam launched a two-year project "Start from the Beginning - Chinese Supporting Scheme for Non-Chinese Speaking Students in Kindergarten" in 2017/18 school year to support non-Chinse speaking (NCS) kindergarten students in learning the Chinese language and to facilitate their parents in creating a rich Chinese language environment at home.
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Research on the needs of kindergartens in teaching ethnic minority students

With the support of the Collective Impact platform, Zubin Foundation conducted a half-year research project in 2017 on the needs of kindergartens in teaching non-Chinese speaking students. The professional views and experience of the teachers were collected to help formulate suitable measures of intervention in future.
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