by admin | Apr 16, 2018
Program Keusahawanan Taylor’s – CIMB Islamic 2018 hit a new milestone on 14th April 2018! This program started as a small project in 2017 and has grown more than 5 times in 2018. This year, we kicked of the program with a series of motivation talks in January to recruit aspiring entrepreneurs from the underserved community for a competition worth RM500, 000. Almost 200 people from PPR (Projek Perumahan Rakyat) Gombak Setia, Pantai Dalam area, Taman Putra Damai Lembah Subang, Sungai Besi and Kampung Muhibbah community signed up for the program.
Being the second year, this program continued to adopt the previously deployed business canvas model by Taylor’s Business School (TBS). Students and lecturers from TBS joined forces with our Taylors Community coaches with a mission to educate and prepare them for their presentation session to CIMB Islamic Bank. After a vigorous phase of coaching, a total of 127 participants successfully ‘graduated’ Education Phase and they pitched their business ideas today to a panel of 38 judges at Taylor’s Lakeside Campus.
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by admin | Mar 28, 2018
In many local universities and colleges, it is common to a student’s day to largely consist of sitting in the lecture theatre, listening to a lecture, and taking notes in preparation for an exam or quiz. In Taylor’s, we recognise that life learning and leadership skills is the core to be a productive leader who gives back to the society. With that, the institution aims to provide holistic education and instil learning for the head, heart and hand. Therefore service learning has an essential part of preparing students to take their productive place as leaders in the global community.
Earlier this month, the Foundation students of Taylor’s University Business School embarked on a 3-week journey with the PPR Gombak Setia participants of the Program Keusahawanan Taylor’s-CIMB Islamic 2018. Named as ‘The Apprentice Initiative’, students in groups created mock companies with their vision, mission and objective to equip the community with business and marketing knowledge. The companies, completed with company logos and organisational structures, were given the assignment to act as the consultant to the participants, who was then their clients. This gave students an opportunity to explore academic interests through a real world lenses.
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by admin | Jan 31, 2018
Both in social and economical terms, being able to quantify social impact is crucial in the CSR and humanitarian sector. Yet, despite large amounts of funds and charitable donations being allocated to create social impact, more often than not the non-profit organisations responsible for the implementation of these social projects struggle quantifying the results – and not surprisingly because, really, how do you quantify happiness, ambition, or livelihood?
A partnership between Taylor’s Education Group and Incitement
These are the questions May Wong Mei Ching and Daniel de Gruijter, asked themselves – questions that sparked a strategic partnership and collaboration between Taylor’s Education Group and Incitement in December 2016, to develop a social impact measurement methodology that could be used across the board by non-profit organisations to deliver thorough and accurate reporting on their work.
Meet the Hourglass Social Impact Measurement Methodology
Fast forward one year and countless of brainstorming sessions, iterations, trials and errors, and tests and validations with both internal and external clients, a methodology called the Hourglass was created.
Once the Hourglass methodology was developed and empirically tested in a variety of projects, it was then embedded into 3 large-scale social projects:
The objective of the Hourglass is to derive both qualitative and quantitative measurements (results) from social projects. The outcome of each Hourglass workshop is to establish and align an impact measurement target model by recognising the various objectives of every stakeholder involved – from beneficiaries to sponsors, from non-profits to consultants – and carefully crafting impact measurements around those objectives.
Currently Incitement is rolling out additional modules under what is now the Hourglass umbrella, specifically to help corporations measure Corporate Social Responsibility performance.
Read more about Hourglass in our 2017 Impact Report.
by admin | Nov 7, 2017
Thirteen business owners of Projek Perumahan Rakyat (PPR) Sri Pantai were awarded business grants at a ceremony on 7 November as the finale of phase two of Program Keusahawanan Taylor’s-CIMB Islamic 2017. The impact drove programme is a partnership between Taylor’s Education Group and CIMB Islamic Bank Berhad, aimed to educate and cultivate entrepreneurs from the underserved community. For the past three months, over 100 residents from PPR Sri Pantai have engaged with representatives from Taylor’s Education Group and CIMB Islamic via two phases; the Motivation phase and the Education phase. The next and last phase will be the Implementation phase.
The first phase saw the residents attend eight sessions with entrepreneurs like Syireen Rose from Peaches & Pens, Mariq Marzuki from Mariq Jewellers and Rizal Rashid from Neuroworks International among others as well as Wan Dazriq Wan Zulkiflee from Malaysian Global Innovation & Creativity Centre (MaGIC) who shared about social entrepreneurship experiences. The purpose of this phase was to provide a platform for the residents to hear from other entrepreneurs and be inspired by them.
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by admin | Sep 25, 2017
Kampung Teras is a small, marginalized community of 112 people approximately 15 minutes’ drive from Slim River town in Perak. The village has no access to electricity and clean drinking water has been living in such only depending on diesel generators and solar-powered lights built by Incitement, a grass-root social movement on a mission to spark real positive impact in the world that Taylor’s Community under Group CSR is partnering with.
As for running water, the village has a solar water pump (which didn’t work at the time of the visit) that treats water that implies they are not connected to the water lines as well. Which brings us to a disturbing question: Why is this village, so close to the main road, and not at all isolated, have neither electricity nor running water? It’s not even the end of the road, too, for if you continue down the main road you’ll eventually reach the Gunung Besout FELDA settlements, which had these utilities.
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