How BMW_UK and the UN’s Intercultural Innovation Award is celebrating diversity and championing ForcesForChange from around the world. Ad
initiative was born in 2020 to redress this balance, before a tumultuous two years presented these values as even more essential. So what of action?
Initiatives of Change, an organisation developed in Oxford, with roots in Richmond, Virginia, created this year’s award-winningin 2019. “Initiatives of Change was really a response to increasing fragmentation, polarisation and division emerging around the world and we have been involved in trust-building and reconciliation work for more than 100 years now,” explains program manager Talia Smith. “The language we use today is different, of course, but our approach and essence really is the same.
The UK has often been recognised by The Intercultural Innovation Award, with 2016 recipient On Our Radar proving initial recognition continues with positive repercussions into an organisation’s future. “We had the chance to connect with other fantastic community-centric projects from around the world,” explains Libby Drew, founding director of On Our Radar, “sharing ideas that have helped us to think more deeply and creatively about the way we work and the tools we use.
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