Industrial Designers Are Helping Companies Profit From Solving Social Problems
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Industrial Designers Are Helping Companies Profit From Solving Social Problems

Paul Klein explores how industrial designers are increasingly pivotal in helping corporations address social problems. Highlighting a conversation with Ranee Lee, a faculty member at OCAD University and founder of DESIGNwith, the piece reveals how subtle design changes can dramatically impact social innovation and employment.

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How Something Good Could Come From The OceanGate Disaster
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How Something Good Could Come From The OceanGate Disaster

In order to start seeing true change we must rethink the ways that people can contribute to a global impact. In a recent article Paul Klein, the founder of Impakt Foundation for Social Change, wrote about the disproportionate news coverage between the OceanGate disaster and the migrant ship tragedy in the Mediterranean, and considers how companies and individuals might be able to pave a more socially conscious future.

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The hazards of performative CSR action
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The hazards of performative CSR action

Even in the months before the pandemic, companies increasingly started to prioritize CSR efforts. Social unrest was on the rise, climate change was cresting in the public consciousness, and the public was increasingly demanding corporations do their part in helping solve to the world’s biggest problems.

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The Tailor Project – You Can Help
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The Tailor Project – You Can Help

A tailor “scheme” resulted from garment industry leaders where tailoring firms agreed to hire skilled laborers on one year contracts and the Jewish community organizations chipped in funds to bring the workers to Canada and to house them. Many were not “tailors” they had to qualify to sew a button—it was a way to get people out of the displaced persons camps and for the Canadian garment industry to get the people they needed to produce goods,

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Finding Canada’s post-war Jewish tailors
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Finding Canada’s post-war Jewish tailors

Beginning in 1948 and lasting for several years, the Tailor Project managed to bring 2,000 labourers into the country, to work in the rapidly growing needle trades. Half of them were Jews who were plucked from European DP camps.

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Descendants of Jewish tailors find a common thread
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Descendants of Jewish tailors find a common thread

Thanks to the unique employment opportunities, these immigrants were able to rebuild their lives.

Listen to the podcast here: https://www.seechangemagazine.com/sewing-hope-for-refugees-paul-klein-of-the-tailor-project/

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TVO: Untold Stories of the Tailor Project
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TVO: Untold Stories of the Tailor Project

After surviving the Holocaust, approximately 2,500 Jewish tailors and their families migrated to Canada in 1948 and 1949 through what was known as the Garment Workers Scheme.

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