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TRINITY TAKES TO THE STREETS

Running for educational access – Dublin City Marathon October 2009

Trinity students, alumni, staff and friends are taking to the streets of Dublin for the 2009 Dublin City Marathon to support University initiatives promoting access to education for disadvantaged groups.

Trinity’s long-standing commitment to tackling educational disadvantage has provoked broad, imaginative and innovative responses – helping change lives and transform communities. In these challenging times, we need to do more.

The Trinity community is aiming to raise funds to support initiatives addressing educational disadvantage in Dublin and beyond. Initiatives being supported by Trinity Takes To The Streets are:
• Trinity Access Programmes (TAP)
• National Institute for Intellectual Disabilities (NIID)
• Student Hardship Fund

Corporate supporters are now being approached.

www.tcd.ie/Alumni/events/TrinityTakesToTheStreets


SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP INITIATIVE

People changing society

The Centre for Nonprofit Management in Trinity’s Business School, in collaboration with Social Entrepreneurs Ireland, have embarked on an exciting new initiative designed to embed Social Entrepreneurship into the mainstream of business school teaching and research in Ireland.

Social entrepreneurship is set to become a key driver in building the new Ireland - creatively, socially and economically. Engagement by universities is an essential means of developing the concept and practice of social entrepreneurship, strengthening the pipeline of social entrepreneurs and increasing impact in society.

A new position in Social Entrepreneurship has been created in Trinity’s Business School. Dr Denise Crossan is leading the initiative which encompasses research, education and dialogue programmes.

Seed funding for the initiative has been provided by the Iris O’Brien Foundation and members of Trinity Foundation Board.

www.cnm.tcd.ie


THE TAP 20 PARTNERS

In 2007, TAP launched a new corporate fundraising initiative – ‘The TAP 20’ – as a framework for engaging companies in tailored partnerships with TAP over four years – providing funding, strategic input and practical support for key programme areas.

There are seven TAP 20 partner companies in the initiative to date – Accenture, Grant Thornton, Irish Life & Permanent, KPMG, NCB, Nissan
Ireland, and One51 Foundation. Each of these high profile companies is a huge asset to TAP in terms of the financial support and the impact it is having, but also in demonstrating the value and importance of partnership between business and education in addressing key issues for society.


TRINITY ACCESS PROGRAMMES (TAP) – ‘BOOKMARKS’

Trinity alumni, through the TCD Association and Trust, have played an invaluable role in supporting innovative TAP initiatives, for example the Bookmarks Programme. ‘Bookmarks’ – a joint project of The Ark, A Cultural Centre for Children and TAP - engages school children in a series of workshops during which they create their own adventure stories and become authors, illustrators and publishers of their own handmade books. “Bookmarks is a really significant, indepth engagement with the students from our linked schools. It aims to develop each pupil’s sense of creativity, through writing and illustrating their own book, and to give them a sense of achievement, through showcasing that book in one of Ireland’s oldest libraries, the Long Room.”
Cliona Hannon, Director of TAP