Paul Klein explores how industrial designers are increasingly pivotal in helping corporations address social problems. Highlighting a conversation with Ranee Lee, a faculty member at OCAD University and founder of DESIGNwith, the piece reveals how subtle design changes can dramatically impact social innovation and employment.

In order to start seeing true change we must rethink the ways that people can contribute to a global impact. In a recent article Paul Klein, the founder of Impakt Foundation for Social Change, wrote about the disproportionate news coverage between the OceanGate disaster and the migrant ship tragedy in the Mediterranean, and considers how companies and individuals might be able to pave a more socially conscious future.

Even in the months before the pandemic, companies increasingly started to prioritize CSR efforts. Social unrest was on the rise, climate change was cresting in the public consciousness, and the public was increasingly demanding corporations do their part in helping solve to the world’s biggest problems.

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Now more than ever companies are taking a stand on social and political issues, but usually for short-term promotions. Social change expert and author of ‘Change for Good‘, Paul Klein, joined us today to talk about the growing issue of ‘social washing’.

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There is increasing attention to businesses delivering value to all stakeholders, and the benefits of sustainability and equity in the workplace. However, it is not clear the extent to which such pronouncements are authentic, or at least authentically implemented.

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THIS HOLIDAY SEASON HELP TORONTO’S MOST VULNERABLE TO STAY SAFE

A tailor “scheme” resulted from garment industry leaders where tailoring firms agreed to hire skilled laborers on one year contracts and the Jewish community organizations chipped in funds to bring the workers to Canada and to house them. Many were not “tailors” they had to qualify to sew a button—it was a way to get people out of the displaced persons camps and for the Canadian garment industry to get the people they needed to produce goods,

Beginning in 1948 and lasting for several years, the Tailor Project managed to bring 2,000 labourers into the country, to work in the rapidly growing needle trades. Half of them were Jews who were plucked from European DP camps.

When Max Enkin led a Canadian delegation to the displaced persons camps of Europe in 1948, he was looking for more than tailors.

On May 1 – timed to coincide with Yom ha-Shoah, Holocaust Remembrance Day – survivors who came to Canada as part of the Tailor Project, along with their families and members of the community, will gather at the Holy Blossom Temple in Toronto to attend an event called “Common Thread.”

After surviving the Holocaust and six concentration camps, Jarniewski made it to safety in Canada in 1948 under the "garment workers scheme." In 1948-49, the little-known "tailor project" opened a door for 2,500 Jewish families that had been slammed shut.

Thanks to the unique employment opportunities, these immigrants were able to rebuild their lives.

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It was the first program after the Second World War that permitted large numbers of Jewish adults to make new lives in Canada after years of restrictive immigration policies.

After surviving the Holocaust, approximately 2,500 Jewish tailors and their families migrated to Canada in 1948 and 1949 through what was known as the Garment Workers Scheme.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau marks Holocaust Remembrance Day at Holy Blossom Temple in Toronto.

When Max Enkin led a Canadian delegation to the displaced persons camps of Europe in 1948, he was looking for more than tailors. The Jewish businessman from Toronto was also eager to help survivors of the Holocaust find a new home and a fresh start.

"I want to know who these individuals were and the contributions they've made to Canada to establish the reality that immigrants do contribute to the country”

Thanks to the unique employment opportunities, these immigrants were able to rebuild their lives.

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