Step 1: Neighbourhood Economic Development and Renewal Workshops;

Step 2: Establish Business and Employment Forums;

Step 3: Train an initiating group of skilled unemployed volunteers to conduct an asset map of the area;

Step 4: Conduct First Impression Community Exchanges (F.I.C.E) and Business Expansion and Retention (B.E.A.R) surveys;

Step 5: Establish Mutually Beneficial Apprenticeships (MBAs) and training programmes that respond to proven gaps in the market and help participants and local economies move themselves up the value chain;

Step 6: Establish a Co-operative development engine that promotes, supports and sustains the development of viable Worker’s co-operatives;

Step 7: Establish an Allies Programme where job seekers get the opportunity to network with employed people and work collaboratively to develop innovative ways to stimulate the local economy and promote job creation. Develop local Time banks / Gift exchange frameworks and solidarity economies, e.g. ‘Time dollars’;

Step 8: Use micro-credit, micro-financing to stimulate economic activity

Step 9: Where viable, support the establishment of Community Development Trusts to liberate distressed properties, and repatriate them as community assets;

Step 10: Support the development of neighbourhood economic and employment generation plans.

 

For further information on the Prosper initiative, contact Cormac Russell on
087 9280998 or Cormac@nurturedevelopment.ie