Osan City Leads in Fostering Social Enterprises
Suwon NewsUpdated 2011.05.12 16:00
Published 2011.05.12 14:45
Updated 2011.05.12 16:00
Osan City is taking the lead in fostering "Osan-style social enterprises."
The city plans to develop "Osan-style social enterprises" by leveraging various regional, tourism, cultural, and natural resources scattered throughout the area to discover community-based businesses that create stable income and employment opportunities.
To this end, on the 11th, the city held a department-level competition for discovering social enterprises in the city hall conference room, attended by approximately 500 people including Osan Mayor Kwak Sang-wook, Osan City Council Vice-Chairperson Choi In-hye, Councilor Son Jeong-hwan, local organization leaders, Cho Bong-yeol, chairman of the Osan Apartment Residents' Association, executives, and city employees.
The competition featured presentation sessions for a total of 31 projects, including 3 from Hyangbu-suk, a civic writers' group that enriches the community, along with projects from 28 departments.
The organizing committee of the competition composed 58 civil servants from grades 6 and 7 from 29 departments as judges to ensure fair evaluation, and set evaluation criteria including appropriateness of community composition and business plans, revenue-generation potential, and job creation.
An official from the city who promoted this competition stated, "There must be willingness from participating organizations, and we placed emphasis on the evaluation process to identify business plans suited to reality while excluding resident-funded businesses based on resident needs and ideas with no business viability."
Through the evaluation, 20 projects were selected as social enterprises, including "Multicultural Community Through Laundry," "Multinational Participatory Restaurant With You," "Health Art Therapy for Mental Health," "Mom's Embrace Educational Play Assistant Project," and "Osan City Bicycle Rest Area Operations." Five priority projects each received 30 million won in support to launch as social enterprises this year.
Meanwhile, the city plans to apply the selected outstanding projects to the Gyeonggi Province Employment and Labor Department as preliminary social enterprises in August-September this year for fostering, and intends to provide incentives to departments and employees that discovered outstanding projects.
Send a news tip to Suwon IlboYour tip becomes the news · Your identity is protectedSend tipThe city plans to develop "Osan-style social enterprises" by leveraging various regional, tourism, cultural, and natural resources scattered throughout the area to discover community-based businesses that create stable income and employment opportunities.
To this end, on the 11th, the city held a department-level competition for discovering social enterprises in the city hall conference room, attended by approximately 500 people including Osan Mayor Kwak Sang-wook, Osan City Council Vice-Chairperson Choi In-hye, Councilor Son Jeong-hwan, local organization leaders, Cho Bong-yeol, chairman of the Osan Apartment Residents' Association, executives, and city employees.
The competition featured presentation sessions for a total of 31 projects, including 3 from Hyangbu-suk, a civic writers' group that enriches the community, along with projects from 28 departments.
The organizing committee of the competition composed 58 civil servants from grades 6 and 7 from 29 departments as judges to ensure fair evaluation, and set evaluation criteria including appropriateness of community composition and business plans, revenue-generation potential, and job creation.
An official from the city who promoted this competition stated, "There must be willingness from participating organizations, and we placed emphasis on the evaluation process to identify business plans suited to reality while excluding resident-funded businesses based on resident needs and ideas with no business viability."
Through the evaluation, 20 projects were selected as social enterprises, including "Multicultural Community Through Laundry," "Multinational Participatory Restaurant With You," "Health Art Therapy for Mental Health," "Mom's Embrace Educational Play Assistant Project," and "Osan City Bicycle Rest Area Operations." Five priority projects each received 30 million won in support to launch as social enterprises this year.
Meanwhile, the city plans to apply the selected outstanding projects to the Gyeonggi Province Employment and Labor Department as preliminary social enterprises in August-September this year for fostering, and intends to provide incentives to departments and employees that discovered outstanding projects.
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