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AIM2Flourish for Business as an Agent of World Benefit
Description/achievement of initiative

AIM2Flourish celebrates and catalyzes business innovation as part of a global learning challenge. We inspire the next generation of business leaders by discovering new ways of doing business that are both profitable and progressive: Business as an Agent of World Benefit. AIM2Flourish.com is the world’s first student-driven global learning platform, showcasing business innovations that uplift humanity. Business students around the world are using Appreciative Inquiry (strength-based interviews) and the UN’s new Global Goals for Sustainable Development to search out and report on world-changing innovations. The inaugural AIM2Flourish recognition celebration is in June 2017.

Implementation methodologies

Relationships with educational associations, business and management schools, professors, and students around the world, in partnership with business, governments and civil society.

Arrangements for Capacity-Building and Technology Transfer

By June 2016, we aim to reach 200 professors in 50 countries, to work with 1,000 students telling 750 inspiring, high-quality stories of business innovation for good, in support of the UN Global Goals for Sustainable Development.

Coordination mechanisms/governance structure

Throughout 2016, students worldwide will submit stories that will be shared, appreciated, and improved by the AIM2Flourish.com community. We are expanding our network of business leaders, Distinguished Jurors Council candidates, and higher education institutions and networks to design and deliver a fully inclusive, transparent, science-based and locally relevant recognition process.Throughout 2016, we will work with our education institution and business partners to ensure the AIM2Flourish initiative fully serves the mission of business and management education globally. We support Business for Good as the dominant way business operates by preparing business students to lead in a world where people thrive, nature flourishes and business prospers.

Partner(s)

* Fowler Center for Business as an Agent of World Benefit, Weatherhead School of Management, Case Western Reserve University * Purposeful Networks, technology partner for AIM2Flourish.com * UN Global Compact’s Principles for Responsible Management Education (PRME) * Globally Responsible Leadership Institute (GRLI) * LEAP - PRME Working Group on the Sustainability Mindset * Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB) * United Nations’ Sustainable Development Solutions Network * World Merit
Progress reports
Goal 4
4.4 - By 2030, substantially increase the number of youth and adults who have relevant skills, including technical and vocational skills, for employment, decent jobs and entrepreneurship
4.7 - By 2030, ensure that all learners acquire the knowledge and skills needed to promote sustainable development, including, among others, through education for sustainable development and sustainable lifestyles, human rights, gender equality, promotion of a culture of peace and non-violence, global citizenship and appreciation of cultural diversity and of culture’s contribution to sustainable development
4.b - By 2020, substantially expand globally the number of scholarships available to developing countries, in particular least developed countries, small island developing States and African countries, for enrolment in higher education, including vocational training and information and communications technology, technical, engineering and scientific programmes, in developed countries and other developing countries
Goal 9
Goal 17
17.17 - Encourage and promote effective public, public-private and civil society partnerships, building on the experience and resourcing strategies of partnerships

Data, monitoring and accountability
June 2016
1,000 inspiring, high-quality stories of business innovation for good, supporting the SDGs
June 2017
Inaugural recognition and celebration of the best-of-the-best AIM2Flourish stories at the 2017 Global Forum for Business as an Agent of World Benefit
In-kind contribution
Case Western Reserve University's support for AIM2Flourish's fully capable pilot to stress-tested platform
In-kind contribution
Technology and platform support from Purposeful Networks
In-kind contribution
Volunteer work by a global team on five continents

Basic information
Time-frame: June 2015 - June 2030
Website
Partners
* Fowler Center for Business as an Agent of World Benefit, Weatherhead School of Management, Case Western Reserve University * Purposeful Networks, technology partner for AIM2Flourish.com * UN Global Compact’s Principles for Responsible Management Education (PRME) * Globally Responsible Leadership Institute (GRLI) * LEAP - PRME Working Group on the Sustainability Mindset * Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB) * United Nations’ Sustainable Development Solutions Network * World Merit
Countries
Contact information
Claire Sommer, Communications Director, claire@aim2flourish.com
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