Community Capacity Builders
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​Challenge Lab
Community Capacity Builders Program for Social Entrepreneurs has been purposefully designed to be delivered in partnership with Local Government as a Challenge Lab.  ​
Challenge Labs address a specific wicked problem in a geographical community.  Wicked problems are complex social policy problems. This type of problem is hard to resolve as each wicked problem takes place within a unique context and has many interconnected root causes.  Examples of wicked problems include: long-term unemployment, climate change, food insecurity, ageing populations and homelessness.  
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Challenge Labs also build community capacity.  Community capacity building involves building the networks, organisation, attitudes, leadership and skills that allow communities to manage change and sustain community-led development. ​
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When delivered as a Challenge Lab, each participant in the Program for Social Entrepreneurs is challenged to address a complicated problem within the target complex wicked problem.  They take up this challenge by creating or strengthening an initiative that can be institutionalised as a social enterprise.  
A participatory budgeting process is incorporated into each Challenge Lab which provides participants with the opportunity to:
  • develop relationships with a broad range of community stakeholders that have an interest in the Challenge Lab's target wicked problem, and
  • receive funds towards the implementation of their initiative ​ ​
Steps in the Challenge Lab process include:
  • Form a Reference Group for the Challenge Lab that consists of stakeholders from the target community that have an interest in the Challenge Lab's target wicked problem
  • Obtain prizes for the Challenge Lab
  • Recruit participants for the Challenge Lab
  • Participants undertake Community Capacity Builders Program for Social Entrepreneurs
  • Mentors are recruited that have knowledge and/or experience in the Challenge Lab's target wicked problem 
  • Program participants are matched to mentors
  • Participants theory of change, business model canvas and pitch deck are forwarded to their mentors
  • Participant's initiatives are promoted to all stakeholders in the community that have an interest in the Challenge Lab's target wicked problem
  • Prizes are awarded through a participatory budgeting process with the winners decided by members of the community that have an interest in the wicked problem

Community Capacity Builders has developed 3 programs that support communities to facilitate a Challenge Lab:
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Further information on the 3 Challenge Lab Programs can be found on the Challenge Lab website.
Link to challenge lab website
  • About
    • Founder
  • Programs
    • Social Entrepreneurs
    • Active Citizens
    • Masterclasses >
      • Social Entrepreneurship & Complexity
      • Commercialising Social Research
  • Events
    • Upcoming Events >
      • Webinars >
        • Emergent Social Entrepreneurial Places Webinar
      • SA Universities Social Enterprise Events >
        • A Conversation with Prof Michael Roy
    • Past Events >
      • Social Entrepreneurship & Local Government Webinar
  • Research
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  • Student Log In
    • Program for Social Entrepreneurs