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       Coexistence Collaborative is a Social Enterprise and a model of Social Entrepreneurship
            70% of our net profits are dedicated to supporting initiatives that foster social responsibility
                       and benefit people with disabilities locally and in developing countries.


A Social Enterprise is one which aims to be financially self-sufficient in its pursuit of a social goal with most of the profit dedicated to the community it serves.

Social Entrepreneurship is a way of doing business that incorporates a dedication to large scale social change with sustainable, replicable and smart business practices.

Social Responsibility involves dedicating time and resources to activities, that, in alignment with corporate values, benefit the larger community.

We are a consulting and training organization with a three-fold purpose: 

  1. To bridge difference by creating trainings and public forums that invite participants to embrace the complexity  of  diversity and look at themselves and others with compassion. 

  2. To promote the social entrepreneurial initiatives of women and people with  people with disabilities locally and in developing countries. 

  3. To be a model of social responsibility.

                                                              Successes

To bridge difference by creating trainings and public forums that invite participants to embrace the complexity of diversity and look at themselves and others with compassion.

 

Achievements:

  • Created and delivered compelling trainings to over 200 people (in groupings of 6-25) during the 2009 calendar year in Oregon, North Carolina and Massachusetts.
  • Received many testimonials affirming the educational and long reaching and life-changing nature of the training (some of which are on our website) we provide.
  • A case study reflecting the outcomes of our training will be published in Diversity Executive in April of 2010.

To be a model of social responsibility

 

Achievements:

  • Created a model for CEO’s to use in compensating their staff for individual contributions toward corporate social responsibility.
  • Created a series of courses teaching people how to become social entrepreneurs.
  • The organization is a social enterprise and living model of social entrepreneurism with the commitment to dedicate 70% of the net profit to the social initiatives for which the organization was founded.

 To promote the social entrepreneurial initiatives of women and people with  people with disabilities locally and in developing countries. 

Achievements:

  • We purchased the domain name, email addresses and rights for 10 years for a website for an organization in Africa that supports people with disabilities.
  • We also designed and created the website for that organization
  • We wrote a grant and received 4 laptops for that organization
  • We worked with the State Employment Division to train and secure employment (caring for people with disabilities) for 5 unemployed Oregonians.
  • We gave over 14 scholarships (worth $15,000) to women who could not afford to pay for trainings.  

     2010-2012 Projects supporting the Social Entrepreneurial goals of Coexistence Collaborative

  • Establish partnership with the University of the Pacific (UOP) Global Center for Social Entrepreneurship to create an internship position.
  • Work with the World Flag organization and others to raise funds to partner with the National Association of Users and Survivors of Psychiatry in Rwanda (NOUSPR) in their establishment of an outreach organization serving people with disabilities in Rwanda.
  • Secure funding for a learning partnership with leaders from the Down Syndrome Health, Education and Welfare Project (DOSHEWPU) in Uganda in which representatives from the organization spend 2 weeks in Oregon in dialogue with leaders from the Northwest disability services community.
  • Establish an international Board of Advisors to provide guidance in support of the social entrepreneurial activities of Coexistence Collaborative.
  • Create a Portland based think tank for Social Entrepreneurship dedicated to microfinancing initiatives driven by and benefitting people with disabilities.

 

  
                              
                                         OREGON REHABILITATION ASSOCIATION      

          
     
                                                                             
 

Jeanne Farr, Founder/Trainer  - 503.896.7740 Jeanne@ccpdx.org 
K. Horan, Business Development- 503.241.7948 kate@ccpdx.org
S. R. Williams, Training Department - 503.241.7948 shyvonne@ccpdx.org     

5257 NE Martin Luther King Blvd # 102, Portland, OR, 97211

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