Hello there from ICP land! – Goodwill planes!

Today's guest entry is from my classmate - Anton Djojo - about his ICP team and their interesting project combining goodwill and aeroplanes! Enjoy your flight! ​

I and 5 other enthusiastic, amusing and fun-loving friends have chosen to work with the foundation arm of one of the world’s largest companies in the aviation industry. This foundation facilitates the company’s worldwide charitable activities and supports programs and projects in which its employees are involved. The company often uses its planes to conduct goodwill or relief flights, providing the transportation of critical supplies to distressed or remote locations around the world. After being in existence for quite a while, it wants detailed understanding of the direct and indirect impact of these flights on the company, the foundation, the partners and the community.

So here we are, 6 individuals from backgrounds as distinct as nuclear geotechnical management to infrastructure construction to information systems, bonding together to help the foundation analyze and evaluate the Social Return On Investment (SROI) of humanitarian and goodwill missions it has piloted (no pun intended).

Our days have been filled with quickly understanding the intricacies of these flights and the roles of non-profit organizations it deals with. We are very thrilled to be involved in this project due to the challenges that it provides. These flights carried goods as varied the community it touched. It has delivered food supplies, medicine, tents and blankets for people afflicted by earthquakes, as well as wheelchairs, baby diapers, books and teddy bears for hospitals and orphanages. It is going to be interesting coming up with ideas to value a life saved, or a person getting medical treatment, or an orphan child receiving teddy bear as Christmas gift.

For the past week, we have been interviewing the people directly and indirectly involved in these flights to understand the overall impacts. As a matter of fact our team is going to present our interim findings to our client in less than 24 hours! Next in the pipeline we will also plan, design and conduct a workshop in the foundation’s premise involving most of the stakeholders. It’s time to fasten our seatbelts because this is going to be a wonderful and meaningful ride!