Social Innovation Group, SPC 26087889

  Reflections on Our Journey: Tackling Homelessness Together When I think back on the homelessness project we worked on with Rodney, Annabella, Sebastian, Amanda, and myself, it feels like a whole journey. And honestly, I wasn’t expecting it to impact me the way it did. It started as just another project, something to get through for class. But over time, it became much more than that. It made me rethink so much of what I thought I knew, not only about homelessness but also about how connected everything is when it comes to helping people. The Start: Feeling Overwhelmed and a Little Lost At first, I was kind of overwhelmed. Homelessness is such a huge issue, and honestly, I didn’t even know where to begin. It felt like we were staring at a mountain and trying to figure out how to climb it. I remember feeling like, "What can we even do? How are we supposed to make sense of something this big?" But then we started to talk, really talk. Rodney, who’s always thinking about c...

 Blog 2: Theme Project - Social Innovation Hello everyone and welcome to my second blog. My name is Annabella Marina and today I will be writing about the theme projects and presentations. This blog will also include insider information about my group's process. Let us start from the beginning! The class was originally split up into four groups. These groups consist of social innovation, arts and culture, community well-being, and last but not least environment and sustainability.   The PowerPoint for this presentation had to cover certain areas about the topics. Some of these were American perspective versus world perspective, the topic’s history, and local and national associations and organizations. We were also required to do an interview of some sort whether it was AI or with someone.  My group consisted of six people, so we decided to have some topics completed solo and others in a group of two.  We decided to make our topic about homelessness since this is an ...