Talk:Young Foundation

NPOV

At the moment, this is a puff piece and needs substantial work. Bigdaddy1981 21:59, 16 August 2007 (UTC)

Suggested Amendments

I'm the External Affairs Assistant at The Young Foundation. We are not interested in promoting our organisation via Wikipedia, but we would like to include some further information on this page that will clarify what The Young Foundation does and how we do it, as well as clearing up some common misconceptions.

Here are my suggested amendments. If anyone here agrees with these amendments, we would encourage them to update the page. I won't be doing this as I am unsure whether the below would contradict the conflict of interest rule. They are all facts, but I will leave it to the other users to determine whether they are helpful. I have also taken into account an earlier user's comment that the page needs a NPOV when suggesting the below.

Suggested Amendment- Under the heading "The Young Foundation Today": The Young Foundation describes itself as a centre for social innovation and social enterprise. It works across the UK and internationally carrying out research, influencing policy, creating new organisations and supporting others to do the same. The Young Foundation’s core areas of work are health, wellbeing and ageing; resilient communities and housing; young people, learning and work and social innovation and investment. The Young Foundation addresses these issues through research, applied innovation, and ventures.

Reasons for this amendment: Many people find it confusing that although the organisation is called "The Young Foundation" our main focus is not children and/or young people. This lays out our actual/updated areas of work. I have deleted the sentence about Simon Tucker as he has resigned from his role as Chief Executive. Once a new Chief Executive is in post a sentence can be added about them in this section.

Suggested Amendment- Under the heading "Research and Policy Work": I suggest this be broken down into three sections instead.

Research The Young Foundation’s research activities fall into two broad categories - research on contemporary life and changing needs, which often includes ethnographic studies; and identifying new approaches to meeting social needs (ie social innovation). It has produced reports on teenage pregnancy, isolated older people, night working, worklessness and civility.[4] Research publications include Sinking and Swimming: Understanding Britain’s Unmet Needs; Charm Offensive: Cultivating Civility in 21st Century Britain; Grit: the skills for success and how they are grown; and Move It: Increasing young people’s participation in sport.

Applied Innovation The Young Foundation’s Applied Innovation team works with partners and clients to focus on issues of high social need that are not responding to typical solutions. They use a range of techniques, including user journey mapping, prototyping, facilitation and stakeholder engagement. Some examples of this include using workshops to get teenager’s views on how to improve stop and search procedures in Tottenham and reporting on the best way to build a “knowledge commons” among doctors and patients, including the use of online communities.

Ventures The Young Foundation provides support and finance to entrepreneurs running social ventures, advice for organisations seeking to invest in or procure services from social ventures, and assistance with developing revenue participation agreements and social impact bonds. Examples of their ventures include Studio Schools, a type of state school which teaches young people through enterprise projects; Care4Care, a time-banking scheme for elder care in local communities; and UpRising, working with talented young people to give them with the skills, knowledge and confidence to become leaders in their communities.

Reasons for this amendment: While research and policy work are important, I wanted to reflect the three different departments of the organisation and what they do. Our work can sometimes be confusing, and I hope this expresses it in the clearest, briefest way possible. Specifically, I wanted to include our work with social ventures, which is an important and relevant part of this organisation's history and day-to-day work.

Okay, that's everything I think. Apologies in advance for being a noob. Hope this is helpful. Thank you. Kate.bagley (talk) 15:55, 16 April 2013 (UTC)Kate.bagley

Thanks for the information. There's probably some information here that would be acceptable per WP:SELFPUB. If you're aware of any independent coverage of any of this that we could use as further sourcing, that would be helpful. --Ronz (talk) 16:22, 16 April 2013 (UTC)

Why does "Action for Happiness" redirect here?

Why does "Action for Happiness" redirect to the "Young Foundation", the connection is not explained in the target page nor the reason in the history of the redirect, I can see a board member of AFH Geoff Mulgan was the former CEO of YF but it that link still relevant? Back ache (talk) 06:19, 3 June 2017 (UTC)

I have found buried in their press release section that AfH is part of them, this should be explained in the main page but will need to find some independent and neutral verification, for reference the press release I found was [1] Back ache (talk) 08:01, 4 June 2017 (UTC)

For now, I have listed them as a subsidiary in the infobox but not sure if this is exactly the right term Back ache (talk) 09:02, 4 June 2017 (UTC)