Failte Isteach Visualisation

FÁILT E IS T EACH empathy for the sick & alone A lot of free time

Mary

PE R S O N

fell sick and forced to retire

Hello

Meets an immigrant

IDEA that doesn’t speak English Share skills bored and neglected

displaced immigrants integrate into society

PROJECT

needs and issues of the elderly

daily activities

helpline Hello language courses to immigrants

I M P AC T 800 volunteer tutors

42,000 hours of free tuition annually

2,700 migrant students

Returns an economic value of € 3.75 M to the Irish state

22 counties throughout Ireland By 2020 scale model in three countries and reach 1000 migrants

Cooperativa Piccolo Principe Onlus ITALY Showcasing

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FAILTE ISTEACH Scaling model: Piggybacking and capacity building (potentially social franchise) Identify and work with committed and experience international partners within the EU to scale and adapt the model to the local context. We will first develop and run a pilot programme in Italy with Piccolo Principe ONLUS, undergo rigorous evaluation of this pilot and define scaling plan using a social franchise model.

Barriers to scaling •! Funding to establish and scale the project •! Mobilising the necessary (human, management, financial, political etc.) resources for successfully driving the overall scaling process.

•! Adaption and transfer costs for adapting the operational model to other spaces or contexts are relatively high, and may cause a strain on existing commitments in our home country (for example, Fáilte Isteach currently has 3 staff supporting a network of 95 centres nationwide).

Policy recommendations •! The European Commission and other European institutions should recognise the work of innovative civil society organisations and facilitate their access to relevant support networks and decision-makers in order to promote a more grounded policy processes.

•! Public and private investors should collaborate more and develop tailored funding for specific transaction costs of scaling projects and partnerships such as translation of materials, legal and administrative costs.

•! Public and private investors should make funding opportunities less rigid in the bureaucratic process and more focused on impact in order to avoid burdening organisations to adapt their work to specific calls and foster innovation and collaboration.

•! The European Commission and national governments or local authorities should use the “concept note” across all their funding opportunities to filter applications and make the evaluation process simpler and avoid spending the resources of applicants on writing proposals that would not stand a chance anyway.

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