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Time of India
18 hours ago
- Politics
- Time of India
Social impact projects and the intent behind it
Passionate about fitness, health, nutrition, community work. Currently looking after Strategy, Data Insights and Partnerships at Lakshyaa and REACHA. Studied Economics at Trinity College, Hartford, CT, USA. Recruited to play Squash at Trinity. At Trinity, member of the Squash team that won 2 National Championship Titles in USA. Represented India in Squash in U17 and U19 junior categories. LESS ... MORE In today's time, the way India is progressing and developing at a fast pace, it is becoming equally important that various stakeholders who are main drivers of this development journey of the country, also come forward, and strengthen/contribute towards upliftment of rural and remote parts of the country as well. The development journey, if skewed, would create equality gaps in a large, populated country like India. Many have come up with social impact programs for the same reason to strengthen the rural parts of the country. Often, important stakeholders present in these communities share their honest feedback during interactions about such interventions. Many a times, there is a feeling that programs are imposed on them, where the party that is bringing the initiative for them is often not sitting with them and understanding their needs. It is very important to make field visits in those tough conditions, away from comfortable cities, to really understand the ground dynamics, and also gather true aspirations of people. A social impact intervention exercise should not be solely in line with who is bringing it and what their goals and targets are. It has to be heavily mapped with the requirements of the people on ground. If it is not, then sustainability around it would be difficult, and the resources invested in it would not have as high an impact and return. The same would also not truly benefit people for whom the intervention is created. Another important point is to have empathy and patience. Bringing in a change should not always mean statistics and just meeting targets. All these metrics are a good way to ensure that the intervention is broadly on track, but there always has to be a qualitative way of measuring the impact, too. Change in people's thinking, increased confidence, greater ability to take risks, etc., are some areas that are much more important than mere numbers, as these changes will stay with the community members forever. These positive qualitative factors can actually play an important role in stories of community members beyond intervention, while numbers and targets are reporting factors to showcase the work being done during intervention. Understanding the root cause of community issues should be the core to make any attempt to strengthen the community. Another important thing one should reflect on is that we should think twice, maybe many more times before praising or conveying that we are making a big social change in rural, remote communities for the interventions we bring in. Self-acknowledgment and getting validation/attention again in a city and comfortable setting is relatively easy, but if we genuinely think from the standpoint of the person who is in that tough rural setting, and us getting attention on their names while they are still there is something to think about. Acknowledgment, as far as done in a balanced way, should be good, but continuously patting back without understanding and assessing what the interventions truly have meant for whom it was initially created is quite meaningless and shallow! Social Impact should include constant and frequent follow ups with the community members to keep understanding their progress and needs, and how we can continue to keep strengthening them! Lastly, acknowledgement coming grounds up on a sustained basis would be the greatest validation. Facebook Twitter Linkedin Email Disclaimer Views expressed above are the author's own.
BBC News
19 hours ago
- Business
- BBC News
Jersey charity breaks ground on complex needs facility
A charity which supports people with learning disabilities in Jersey has put the first spades in the ground at its new will start work on Monday to turn a property in Trinity into a five-bedroom nursing and complex needs site at La Rue de Bechet will help islanders who have additional needs access nursing said the project, which is due to be completed in July 2026, will cost £3.5 million. The scheme comes after a previous development by Les Amis for a specialist long-term nursing home was stopped due to commissioning Findlay, managing director of Les Amis, said he was confident the new project would be completed as it was smaller and most of the required funding was already he said it was a complicated project which meant costs were higher than other housing developments. "Internally, it will have to be clinically sound, just as the new hospital will have to be… it means the bill costs are higher than your normal domestic build." He said the centre would enable the charity to continue to care for those it support when their nursing needs became more complex."That includes end-of-life care, something that's not possible in our group residential homes. "Les Amis is often the only 'family' that some of our elderly residents have because we've supported them for most of their adult lives," he constable Philip Le Sueur said it has been "a great joy" to work with Les Amis."It is an island-wide facility," he said. "The setting here and the backdrop into the valley will provide a beautiful, peaceful, calming place which is just right for the people who will be living here."Les Amis chairman and trustee Leslie Norman MBE said the start of the project was "the perfect way to celebrate our 50th anniversary year".
Irish Independent
a day ago
- General
- Irish Independent
Lorraine Courtney: I did an Arts degree and learnt nothing useful
This week, thousands of teenagers across Ireland will file into exam halls, palms clammy, biro tips poised, as the Leaving Cert ritual begins once again. It's the great Irish sorting hat — the test we still pretend will determine everything. Futures will be fretted over. Points will be chased. And somewhere, quietly, parents will start practising the lines, 'He got into Trinity' or 'She's hoping for Commerce in UCD'.
Business Wire
4 days ago
- Business
- Business Wire
Trinity Life Sciences Expands Data Partnership Network to Revolutionize Commercialization in Community Oncology
BUSINESS WIRE)-- Trinity Life Sciences, a leader in advisory, insights and analytics for the life sciences industries, announces a strategic collaboration with Ontada, a McKesson business and leader in community oncology real-world data, clinical education and point-of-care technologies. This relationship will provide life sciences companies with real-time, actionable intelligence and critical insights to drive strategic decisions both pre- and post-product launch. Together, the alliance harnesses Trinity's innovative commercial analytics methods and expertise with Ontada's iKnowMed ®, their proprietary electronic health record (EHR) with unique, deep and multi-dimensional oncology data, to rapidly uncover novel commercial insights. These insights can be leveraged to drive smarter decisions and better outcomes, ultimately enabling a transformation in the way life sciences companies make commercial decisions. Through deep understanding of the community oncology patients and providers, the collaborative solutions: - provide more powerful patient journeys and provider segmentation, - allow for increased speed and accuracy in forecasting, - and drive enhanced customer engagement and targeting. 'Understanding community oncology presents a particular challenge for commercial teams as they work to develop strategies and deploy resources to maximize adoption of life-saving therapies,' said Leslie Orne, President and CEO of Trinity Life Sciences. 'Ontada's data, coupled with Trinity's analytical services, allows the extraction of deeper, more actionable insights and powers more impactful commercial decision-making that will help to optimize patient outcomes.' Trinity's oncology expertise and depth across areas such as forecasting, real-world analytics and primary market research (PMR) allows for distinctive, AI-enhanced approaches that provide ever-greater insight into key business questions to assess potential outcomes. Trinity offers innovative solutions built for life sciences' unique needs, scaling transformational AI and tech-enabled programs across functions with a focus on customer engagement, launch, medical affairs and GenAI. 'The need for rapid insights in cancer care has never been greater. Ontada's collaboration with Trinity demonstrates our commitment to delivering faster answers to critical questions. By connecting Trinity's robust analytics with Ontada's nuanced and unique data sets, we can provide deeper, more actionable insights for our life science partners,' said Christine Davis, President of Ontada. 'Speed is crucial not only to our life science partners but also for cancer patients, who can benefit greatly from a better understanding of precision therapies.' Ontada's real-world data provides comprehensive insights throughout the patient journey and a unique view of community cancer care. It represents data from more than 2.4 million patient records across over 80 tumor types from The US Oncology Network and Onmark practices. Ontada's iKnowMed ® is an award winning EHR used by more than 2,400 oncology community-based providers across the United States, dedicated to advancing local cancer care and better patient outcomes. To learn more about this collaboration, visit Trinity Life Sciences and Ontada (at Ontada's booth 35093) at ASCO. About Trinity Life Sciences With almost 30 years of expertise, a best-in-the-business team and unrivaled access to data and analytics, Trinity Life Sciences is a modern partner to companies in the life sciences industry. Trinity combines strategy, insights and analytics to help life science executives with clinical and commercial decision-making. Ultimately, we know that every decision our clients make impacts a life, and when we help our clients achieve their goals, the world benefits. To learn more about how Trinity is elevating the industry and driving evidence to action, visit
Boston Globe
4 days ago
- Business
- Boston Globe
In Charlestown, smaller ambitions for big housing development
Get Starting Point A guide through the most important stories of the morning, delivered Monday through Friday. Enter Email Sign Up 'We don't have a lot of five-acre sites in the city,' Dillon said. 'This is the kind of project that we need.' Advertisement There's a lot to like about the site — its proximity to the T, the historic Charlestown neighborhood, and downtown, said Abby Goldenfarb, Trinity's senior vice president. And with five acres comes a chance for some creative landscaping and other community-focused features, such as a public plaza and lawn, athletic fields, and space for arts and early childhood education. But despite the site's size, it comes with a host of restrictions, Goldenfarb said. Trinity spent nearly a year pushing to shift a state service road that runs immediately behind the site to a spot closer to the nearby Route 1 on-ramp. But after many months of conversations with state transportation officials and Boston Sand & Gravel, which also uses the access road, that idea fell through. Advertisement Affordable housing developer Trinity Financial has proposed an 85-foot, 125-unit affordable apartment complex with an urban plaza and lawn for the project's first phase. ICON Architecture Trinity's Cutting the total number of units allows Trinity to pursue wood-frame construction over a podium — a more affordable option than building taller — and also still allowed opportunity for financial support from the city and state. 'We wish we were able to start construction a few years ago,' Goldenfarb said. 'Construction costs have gone up, so we're trying to build the most economically feasible project we can in the first phase, just to start the momentum.' Related : City officials asked Trinity to explore whether they could build affordable condos in the first phase, but the project needed more governmental subsidy than was available, Goldenfarb said. MassHousing's CommonwealthBuilder program, for example, has per-unit funding caps of between $150,000 and $250,000 for units set aside for households making between 70 percent to 120 percent of the area median income. Advertisement 'The cost differential between what it costs to build a unit and how much subsidy you're able to get for it was just too large to finance,' Goldenfarb said. 'We also didn't want to be in a position where we ... had to sell very, very expensive market-rate units in order to make the affordable units work.' So Trinity started exploring affordable rental apartments — a property type it has long built — and cut down the total number of units in the first phase. Trinity Financial executives Kenan Bigby and Abby Goldenfarb at the Austin Street site in 2023. Lane Turner/Globe Staff Likely investors for the first phase include low-income housing tax credit investors, who consider Boston an 'extremely attractive' market, Goldenfarb said. She's expecting strong interest, but is aware that Trinity is also competing against property owners selling their buildings at rock-bottom prices. 'A lot of owners are selling buildings at a discount, so we're going to have to work really hard to make a building that investors want to take lease-up risk on and construction risk on,' she said. Dillon, Boston's housing chief, said the city recognizes the difficult building environment and is working project-by-project to help developers problem solve — whether that's 'value engineering' or allowing them to safely store materials they've stockpiled. 'It is not an easy time for Boston, or most major cities right now, to to continue to advance an affordable housing and income-restricted housing agenda, but we're not going to stop,' Dillon said. 'Boston is committed to increasing our housing stock and ensuring that a very high amount of the housing that we're creating is income-restricted and affordable to our residents.' Advertisement Catherine Carlock can be reached at
