After
the tragic death of Annika Linden in 2002 Bali bombing, the Annika
Linden Foundation was formed to create something positive out of this
terrible tragedy. In the following nine years, the Annika Linden
Foundation funded 36 projects across Bali, Thailand, and India; working
alongside small non-profits addressing issues affecting some of
society’s most marginalized groups. In 2012, after 10 years of memorial
to Annika’s life, the Annika Linden Foundation became the Inspirasia
Foundation and followed by the establishment of Annika Linden Centre.
Build
on the foundation of Inspirasia Foundation decade grant making
experience to grassroots non-profits across Asia, the Annika Linden
Centre located in Tohpati, opened in 2013 as a world-class facility and
purpose-built centre of excellence for social change. It is home of the
first-of-its-kind incubator for Impact service delivers tailor-made,
impact-focused mentorship and training to high potential on-the-ground
social sector leaders, NGOs and social entrepreneurship to further
social change.
Today, Annika Linden Centre incubator for impact houses 4 outstanding non-profits - PUSPADI Bali, YPK Bali, DNetwork, and East Bali Poverty Project
– Health and Nutrition centre, and support 5 more non-profits
throughout Indonesia. It has an average of 1,170 visit per month during
2016 and has delivered numerous hours of training and capacity building
to the local non-profits. The foundation main focus is creating lasting
social change.
Puspadi Bali,
a leader in prosthetic provision for physically disabled, is operating
out of a state of the art, professionally designed prosthetic workshop.
Puspadi Bali employed certified Prosthetics and has more than 20
dedicated staff with 75% of them having physical disability. Puspadi
Bali is well recognized in making the highest quality prosthetic outside
Jakarta.
YPK Bali,
offering education and physical therapy to its disabled clients,
designed its own gym facilities for physical therapy and classroom for
informal education, so it can truly meet every one of their needs. YPK
staffs are professional Physiotherapist and trained educators for
special needs children. YPK is well recognize as a professional
non-profit in physiotherapy and special needs education.
DNetwork,
a global jobs network connecting employers with job seekers with
disability. Since 2014, it has been helping more than 400 job seekers in
Indonesia and successfully placed more than 42 people with disability
through DNetwork.net. DNetwork team have been passionately creating
connection between each disabled job seeker with company in creating
inclusiveness in the working environment.
One
of their milestones this year is by successfully organizing an NGO fair
on August 14, 2016, where 23 NGOs and social enterprises showcased
their product and services. The fair attracted more than 500 people just
in one day, and about 460 of them received multiple services including
free eye and reproductive health check-ups as well as physiotherapy,
nutrition, and mobility aids consultation. In the future, the Annika
Linden Centre plans to provide non-financial support whist being a
catalyst for more collaboration with different entities, including
non-profits, business, social entrepreneurs and expert, to bring
excellence to the sector and greater social impact.
It
is understandable that the donors want more information and more
complete picture of option for their donation. Donors want to learn from
someone on the ground who is familiar with the non-profit landscape,
and also from each other’s funding experiences. It is a question of
collecting that information and ensuring that it is easily available.
They believe that when non-profit leaders coordinate and connect, donors
understand the value of that, and it increases the impact of their
donation. It makes outcomes better for the families that take services
from the non-profits, and the conversations that follow generate ideas
for improving the programs.
The
Inspirasia Foundation and Annika Linden Centre would not have been able
to do all the work they have been doing and support all of these
outstanding non-profits without the supports of the stakeholders. By
connecting with them, they can create bigger changes and have a larger
impact, through their channel and models of evaluating and monitoring
impact from every dollar of your contributions. For them, it is always
about more than money, that invest on cash grants alongside training and
expert support to use that hard earned cash for maximum impact and
maximum inspiration. It is with this spirit that they are inviting you
and your organization to join us in making a difference in giving, and
to inspire others to give more, and give well.
Courtesy of Annika Linden Centre
This article is also published at NOW! Bali Magazine
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