A multi-faceted campaign to attract and retain retired engineers as volunteers has won the top prize for a group of post-graduate students from Deakin University in a competition to help a Not for Profit organisation achieve the maximum social return from their operations. – See more at: http://www.probonoaustralia.com.au/news/2013/11/skilled-volunteer-plan-wins-deakin-innovation-competition#sthash.EEyEtYN4.dpuf
The team, which called itself Social Transformers, beat four other teams in the week long competition to assist its partnered Not for Profit Solve Disability Solutions.
The Not for Profit Challenge Workshop forms part of the 2013 Deakin Graduate School of Business Workshop for Innovation and Entrepreneurship where postgraduate students from a range of disciplines apply their thinking to challenges and issues during a week-long results-focused workshop known as WOFIE 2013.
– See more at: http://www.probonoaustralia.com.au/news/2013/11/skilled-volunteer-plan-wins-deakin-innovation-competition#sthash.EEyEtYN4.dpuf