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between August and November 2019, starting with the idea exploration phase until
the evaluation phase.
Data were collected through field diaries and recordings made in individual and
collective interviews. To analyze the collected data the content analysis was used,
through the text inference on the object of study, or social context studied, objectively
and systematically, reconstructing the meaning of the text through categories and
codifications, thus measuring a clear and reliable result (Bauer and Gaskell 2017;
Bardin 2011).
3 Results Analysis and Discussion
3.1 Free Meals Social Project
The Good Samaritan Project serves free weekly evening shift meals. The project
was developed in a community in a situation of economic and social vulnerability,
and its main focus is to involve children and adolescents. The meal is prepared with
donated food, and also executed and served by volunteers, i.e., there is no financial
investment in the workforce or food, but only with hygiene materials, gas, among
others, in addition to having physical infrastructure funded by the local church. Social
innovation occurs to solve a social problem so that the users achieve an improvement
in their quality of life (Pol and Ville 2009).
Another key factor highlighted was networking, one of the most impactful for this
project. Networking is a crucial element for social innovation because it provides
stakeholder engagement in the search for solutions to needs (Caroli et al. 2018).
The presence of the educational institution serves as an incubation period (Mulgan
2006; Biggs et al. 2010), in which the educational institution monitors the steps
and suggests future improvements. Through this intervention, the value was created
because the interventions were collaborative, and there were mutual exchanges
(Vargo et al. 2008). The main results of the intervention in the Bom Samaritan
project are show in Table 2.
Social innovations that succeed are associated with a focused social problem,
aligned with planning that involves coordination, goal-oriented, and legitimate
actions taken by social agents for social change (Howaldt and Schwarz 2010;
Hellström 2004; Nightingale 1998).
3.2 TimeBank Project
In contact with the leader of a vulnerable neighborhood named Monte Carmelo, a
workshop was held with six community residents. The results of the workshop found
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between August and November 2019, starting with the idea exploration phase until
the evaluation phase.
Data were collected through field diaries and recordings made in individual and
collective interviews. To analyze the collected data the content analysis was used,
through the text inference on the object of study, or social context studied, objectively
and systematically, reconstructing the meaning of the text through categories and
codifications, thus measuring a clear and reliable result (Bauer and Gaskell 2017;
Bardin 2011).
3 Results Analysis and Discussion
3.1 Free Meals Social Project
The Good Samaritan Project serves free weekly evening shift meals. The project
was developed in a community in a situation of economic and social vulnerability,
and its main focus is to involve children and adolescents. The meal is prepared with
donated food, and also executed and served by volunteers, i.e., there is no financial
investment in the workforce or food, but only with hygiene materials, gas, among
others, in addition to having physical infrastructure funded by the local church. Social
innovation occurs to solve a social problem so that the users achieve an improvement
in their quality of life (Pol and Ville 2009).
Another key factor highlighted was networking, one of the most impactful for this
project. Networking is a crucial element for social innovation because it provides
stakeholder engagement in the search for solutions to needs (Caroli et al. 2018).
The presence of the educational institution serves as an incubation period (Mulgan
2006; Biggs et al. 2010), in which the educational institution monitors the steps
and suggests future improvements. Through this intervention, the value was created
because the interventions were collaborative, and there were mutual exchanges
(Vargo et al. 2008). The main results of the intervention in the Bom Samaritan
project are show in Table 2.
Social innovations that succeed are associated with a focused social problem,
aligned with planning that involves coordination, goal-oriented, and legitimate
actions taken by social agents for social change (Howaldt and Schwarz 2010;
Hellström 2004; Nightingale 1998).
3.2 TimeBank Project
In contact with the leader of a vulnerable neighborhood named Monte Carmelo, a
workshop was held with six community residents. The results of the workshop found