Impact Report 2018 StreetwiZe • Mobile School

davidsfonds • traditions and rejuvenation
14/10/2017 • 23/06/2018
Tessa Goossens
Hans Lamberts
Arnoud Raskin
Davidsfonds
Flanders / Belgium
With more than 40.000 members, Davidsfonds
organises ten thousands of cultural activities
with love for history, heritage, language
and art in Flanders and Brussels every year.
Despite their relatively high number of
members, Davidsfonds felt a strong decline in
their members throughout the years (in 2000
they had +/- 80.000 members) and in the long
run they even feared for their existence because
of the litteral ‘extinction’ of their organisation
(high average age and a lack of rejuvenation).
That is why, as a socio-cultural network they rang
the alarmbel and wanted to start a new era of
innovation across the entire network.
StreetwiZe guided this process of alignment
and co-creation and tried to give every stakeholder
an opportunity for participation and a
voice in this ambitious project.
Ambassadors were trained to represent the new
mission through 20 anchoring days spread
across Flanders and Brussels. An ambitious project
that led to a new mission and vision co-created
with hundreds of volunteers.
The next step is combining all the input of the
widespread volunteers into the ‘inspiratiewijzer’
(‘inspiration pointer’) and creating an attractive
internal and external communication strategy .
Davidsfonds is on the road for 2025!
IMPACT
Creation of co-ownership with the volunteers
We started in October 2017 with an inspiring
keynote by Arnoud which was the starting point
of a trajectory that will run for over a year. After
this keynote it was time to put the Davidsfonds
employees, board members and volunteers
at work. We created a new mission and vision
with a steering committee that captured ideas
and concerns among the members, based on
hundreds of conversations.
Over 500 participants in trainings and keynote
Introduction of a bottom-up approach
Sharpened mission and vision for Davidsfonds
Training of ambassadors
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