The Same Same Festival.
What does the future of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) look like, and how they could play a part on individual and corporation success?
On Saturday, we are very proud to host the first ever widely diversified "do good" festival in Singapore, where we have an array of social causes coming to share their stories and initiatives. It’s our pleasure to have Michelle to give an opening speech, Kitson and Renee to share their perspectives on the topic of The Future of CSR and ESG with their 3P (people, public and private) lens and experience.
Thoughts on “the x-factor” shared by Renee:
Empathy is often overlooked, it is often said than done as it has to be practise and exercise consciously, in fact it is THE soft skill that many world class leaders talk about in their interviews these days!
Thoughts on “being purposeful” shared by Kitson:
In entrepreneurship, we call it the North Star, or sometimes the “why”. The intent of “doing good” and 3P partnership has to be clear and consistent, as the visions aligned, success will follow through.
The festival also marks the end of the 4-months programme (Different But Same Same), where we explored and exposed youths to various social cause (kindness, healthy living, cyber wellness, gender equality, disability inclusion, sustainable living, racial & religious harmony) with the support of our partners.
It’s very eye opening and fresh to learn new perspectives and knowledge from our guests speakers, the subject matter experts as well as our participants. Through highs and lows in the programme, we have learnt a lot and we promise to bring you a much improved iteration the next season!
This is not the end of our initiative, in fact it is the beginning of building a greater and truly inclusive community of “doing good”. Collective we want to empower and influence individuals and organisations to join us to create measurable and sustainable impact to the world.
It is often overlooked, but we all social organisations and even individuals actually do have a shared vision! On the surface, we might be different but deep inside us we are the same, we all want the world to be a better, kinder and more inclusive place for everyone.
We go beyond echo chamber dialogue, reach out to us at [email protected] if you’re keen to work with us for the next iteration of the Different But Same Same programme, to build empathy and/or social emotional wellbeing in your organisation!
Special mention to all our partners and guest speakers:
Partners:
National Youth Council Singapore Singapore Kindness Movement Tzuchi Foundation OnePeople.sg Health Promotion Board United Women Singapore SG Enable susGain
Guest speakers:
Michelle Tay Vasuki Utravathy Philip Chua Georgette Tan Adamopoulos Hua Han Ong Carolin Barr K. Rahayu Mahzam Daniel PS Goh Kitson Leonard Lee Renee Chong