As of May 2022, the number of projects funded under Innovative Programmes has reached 344, including 337 projects through intermediaries, two projects through the Collective Impact platform, a project through the Pay-for-Success model, and four innovative projects seeking to promote inter-generational digital inclusion. More information about the newly approved projects will be provided in due course.
For information about intermediary programmes, funding schemes and funded projects, please contact the respective intermediaries and/or the funded projects directly.
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- Project type: prototype | start-up | scale-up
- Service scope: healthcare | food | living | transport | job training and opportunities | education and learning | community participation | other service types
- Major beneficiaries: children and youth | elderly | persons with disabilities | people of diverse race | low-income families | other beneficiary groups
- Intermediary Programme: Good Seed | Impact Incubator | Innovator Farm | BEHub
- Funding Status: active | ended
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The venture provides training to teachers and support to schools to help them design and deliver school-based enrichment programmes that cater for the needs of underachieving students from low-income families. Support will also be given to students’ parents.
The venture aims to enhance Chinese language proficiency and cultural intelligence of non-Chinese primary school students by providing language support and organising multicultural activities while engaging university students and underprivileged non-Chinese youths in delivering the programme.
Aiming to promote mental health, the venture trains parents of grassroots families to become facilitators of mindfulness stress relief workshops and holds workshops and related activities at schools.
The venture provides training in micro movie production for disadvantaged youths who will receive allowances and can build a portfolio for entering the creative industry.
The venture provides a mental health check-up programme and affordable interventions for low-income families to improve their mental wellbeing.
The venture partners with secondary schools and organises workshops with the aim of enhancing the mental health of grassroots youths.
The venture aims to benefit children and youths with Autism Spectrum Disorder by providing empirical-based interventions involving role play dramas with robots and traditional-Chinese-medicine-based pediatric massage.
The venture provides training and job opportunities in business operations related to cycling for grassroots women and youths.
The venture provides a series of job training and support to help grassroots women better equip themselves for the job market.
The venture trains youths of diverse race to be guides of cultural tours to strengthen local people's understanding of the culture of diverse race and alleviate the employment problems those youths face.
The venture aims to enhance the employability and confidence of underprivileged youths and the deaf-mute by providing them with training in video production and webcasting and customised Key Opinion Leaders (KOL) training respectively.
The venture enhances cross-cultural understanding as well as facilitates social inclusion through organising different school activities for non-Chinese speaking students.
The venture aims to build the self-confidence, alleviate the emotional and behavioural problems as well as enhance the communication skills of children and youths with Autism Spectrum Disorder through block activities.
The venture links up the elderly with children and organises intergenerational learning activities for them, helping both parties enhance their sense of purpose and self-esteem.
By providing yoga and expressive art therapy, the venture helps children and young adults with disabilities or special educational needs develop in various aspects.
The venture aims to help people with Down's syndrome, autism or other special needs enhance their skills and employability by providing them with training and job opportunities.
By providing a holistic relief solution, the venture aims to mitigate the extent of issues faced by families suffering from multiple crises to a more manageable level.
The venture provides expressive arts therapy for children with autism and grassroots children, aiming to enhance their social skills and self-expression and foster inclusion between them.
The venture trains visually impaired persons as Hope Ambassadors who will be equipped with listening and basic counselling skills and be able to provide emotional support to the elderly through caring calls.
The venture addresses the difficulties faced by people with aphasia in communication by providing them with an augmentative or alternative communication tool with training and support services.
The venture provides puppet training to retired young-old who will then form a volunteering team to visit other elderly and gain a sense of purpose through the volunteer service.
The venture provides sports-related media job training and internship opportunities for youths of diverse race, aiming to address the problem of limited job opportunities they face.
The venture aims to set up a digital crowdfunding platform, the proceeds of which will be used to provide assistance to low-income cancer patients.
The venture provides training to wheelchair users, equipping them with the knowledge to serve as assistants in smart home modification works for mobility-impaired persons.
The venture aims to provide low-educated youths who are emotionally disturbed with candle making training and related job opportunities to help them enhance their skills and self-confidence and increase income.
The venture provides STEAM education and an online discussion platform for children with chronic diseases, helping them broaden their social network and improve social skills.
The venture aims to assist social enterprises to develop online courses, interactive workshops and interactive digital teaching materials which would help students enhance awareness of poverty and social exclusion.
The venture provides opportunities for students from low-income families or with special educational needs to learn natural science, thereby raising their interest in learning.
The venture provides pedicure services for the elderly to cater for their basic body care needs while training and job opportunities are given to single mothers.
The venture seeks to help persons with disabilities improve their physical and mental health by setting up an accessible fitness centre and providing custom-designed training courses.
The venture provides supportive services and information for sexual minorities through a one-stop information portal and organises activities to enhance the cohesion of the sexual minorities community and promote social inclusion.
The venture recruits and trains rehabilitated persons, helping them attain the professional qualification in pleasure vessel operation and become entrepreneurs.
The venture aims to help youths and persons with disabilities equip themselves with the skills of screenwriting, video shooting, production, and online platform management through co-creating videos on social inclusion.
The venture establishes an online platform to help small business owners of diverse race sell their products or services via digital channels.
The venture establishes a job searching platform for disadvantaged youths and provides them with pre-employment and on-the-job training as well as job openings of diverse types.
The venture launches a “Train-the-Trainer programme” that provides people of diverse race with soft and hard skills as well as job opportunities as workshop tutors or assistants.
The venture aims to nurture hidden youths to be talents in information technology and enhance their employability through career-centric training, helping to prevent them from falling into poverty in the long run.
The venture aims to provide a trail running training programme for youths with special backgrounds with a view to encouraging them to establish positive thinking through trail running.
The venture provides affordable and nutritious meals to grassroots elderly living alone in Kwun Tong District and hires low-income or unemployed persons for delivery.
The venture provides youths of diverse race with training and internship opportunities of kindergarten early childhood teaching assistant, alleviating their employment difficulties while addressing the needs of non-Chinese speaking students.
The venture provides training on wedding decoration for youths-at-risk and persons with disabilities, enabling them to acquire the capabilities to provide service to customers.
The venture enhances the employability of young people from low-income families and rehabilitated persons by training them to be rock climbing instructors.
Sports courses will be organised for students with special educational needs (SEN) to help them enhance self-confidence and communication skills whereas training on teaching SEN students will be provided to sports coaches.
“Legacy transformation” workshops will be organised to promote life and death education and provide job opportunities to women from low-income families.
Through an initiative of upcycling leftover bread for brewing beer, the venture provides related training and job opportunities for the disadvantaged, including people of diverse race, low-income families and persons with disabilities.
The ventures seeks to develop a game-based app for early detection and alleviation of symptoms of depression to provide support for youths facing mental health problems.
Utilising online and offline vehicles, the venture provides entertainment, training and job opportunities to the elderly and promotes intergenerational inclusion.
The venture provides production service of digital record of life stories for the elderly to help them reaffirm their value.
The venture provides a tool kit and launches a community education programme to help children develop a positive character and support parents in educating their children.
The venture seeks to promote social inclusion and cultural diversity by providing training in long-distance running for women of diverse race who will be paired up with local Chinese women.
The venture recruits women of diverse race living in Kam Tin to join their Chinese neighbours in farming and food production to enhance their self-esteem and foster social inclusion.
The venture aims to develop a sign language translation system by which service providers can communicate more effectively with the hearing impaired and serve aptly.
The venture sets up an online platform that provides information and recommendations of disabled-friendly entertainment and leisure activities as well as helps persons with disabilities plan for transportation.
The venture organises animal-assisted activities for adolescents to help them enhance their self-image and develop healthy relationships with others.
The venture makes use of a mobile application to provide a platform to connect youths and successful people so that the youths can be inspired by and learn from the experience of successful people in planning their future and dealing with difficulties.
The venture provides training for rehabilitated persons to become fitness instructors, aiming to facilitate their reintegration into society.
With the platform and opportunities provided by this venture, persons with disabilities can turn their creativity into products to earn a better income, enhance self-confidence and connect with the society.
The venture employs women from low-income families in Tin Shui Wai district to produce dumplings, aiming to help them enhance their community participation as well as skills in various aspects. Some of the dumplings will be given out to the homeless to benefit more people.
The venture launches a programme comprising vocational training, mentorship and internship opportunities to help disadvantaged youths develop a career in the creative industry.
The venture aims to improve the living conditions of grassroots families by its design of modular furniture suitable for their accommodation.
The venture seeks to help the elderly enjoy a flourishing post-retirement life by providing them with training on KOL which would broaden their social circle and foster their integration into society.
By providing youths with training on content creation, the venture equips them with relevant knowledge and skills needed for their career development as a content creator.
The venture plays a part in promoting inclusion through providing job opportunities to local Muslim youths and organising cultural exchange workshops in the community and seminars in schools.
The venture provides hidden youths with internship opportunities of organising pet-related events, aiming to help them improve communication skills and facilitate their integration into society.
The venture provides training and internship opportunities for disadvantaged young women to enhance their self-esteem and equip them for a career as freelance models or boutique salespersons.
The venture aims to enhance mutual understanding and collaboration opportunities between schools and social enterprises through a collaborative platform.
The venture provides training and job opportunities for caregivers of grassroots families while promoting environmentally friendly lifestyles.
Through providing training and job opportunities in up-cycling food waste into jewellery, the venture aims to help disadvantaged mothers enhance capabilities and improve financial situations.
By providing free and timely one-stop legal support for disadvantaged groups such as service users of non-profit organisations, the venture aims to enhance the ability and confidence of the beneficiaries and the organisations in handling legal issues.
The venture applies Thai-boxing to help youngsters suffering from mental illness integrate into society and disadvantaged youths develop a career in the field of coaching.
The venture offers online Chinese teaching materials and courses targeting children with special educational needs to enhance the effectiveness of the children learning at home and relieve the parents’ pressure in parenting.
To promote inclusion, online experiential workshops will be organised to raise public understanding of the abilities of the visually impaired (VIs) and nurture the VIs to lead workshops in future, providing them with job opportunities.
The venture provides a platform and organises activities in the community for autistic persons to unleash their talent in art while enabling the public to better understand autism through participating in these activities, thus fostering social inclusion.
Seeking to foster social inclusion, the venture offers online board game interest classes to help non-Chinese speaking primary school students strengthen their Chinese language proficiency and, eventually, integrate into society.
Targeting companies, schools and community, the venture provides a relaxing space to help users relieve their stress and enhance work efficiency, as well as to arouse awareness about stress.
The venture plans to organise human library events to raise the awareness of young people towards mental health problems and eradicate misunderstanding and stigmatisation of mental illnesses.
The venture provides training and support services to help unemployed women equip themselves for the job market, improve their living as well as enhance self-image.
The venture aims to help people with intellectual disabilities develop and utilise their talent in art to earn a living and enhance self-confidence.
The venture provides disadvantaged youths with training and internship opportunities in film production to equip them with relevant knowledge, skills and experience for a career in related industries.
The venture introduces a wheelchair smart light designed by wheelchair users which helps its users commute more safely and conveniently while providing its designers with job opportunities and experience in product design.
The venture launches a barrier-free online boutique for persons with visual impairment, aiming to promote the right of selecting their own outfits as well as to boost their self-confidence.
Addressing the problem of low senses of meaning faced by many people in modern societies, the venture aims to assist participants in rebuilding the meaning of life through a series of innovative activities.
The venture will design a card game and host experiential workshops to enable autistic youths, their parents and guardians, as well as potential employers to understand the career interest, needs and abilities of persons with autism, improving employment for autistic youths.
The venture aims to bring equal educational opportunities to students from low-income families and contribute to poverty alleviation by providing subsidised online tutorial services and learning support.
By developing a set of easy-to-understand drug labels for the elderly and people of diverse race, the venture aims to facilitate medication compliance and mitigate the risk of improper use of medicines.
The venture partners with a restaurant to provide co-learning spaces for students during idle hours of the restaurant. Some of the students will be hired to work at the restaurant to earn a living.
The venture seeks to develop a technology that enables hearing aid users to better identify the direction and distance of sound, bringing improvement to their daily life.
Aiming to mitigate the chance of dyslexia impacting on primary school students, an application is developed to effectively detect the symptoms of dyslexia and provide training to them.
Contributing to social inclusion, the venture provides the visually-impaired with training on massage to equip them with a skill by which they can make a living.
The venture serves the needs of elderly with chewing and swallowing difficulties by providing soft food that is nutritional and appealing.
A one-stop platform will be set up to provide information and activities to support parents with kids suffering from glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase deficiency.
Aiming to enhance the quality of life of the elderly, the venture sets up an online soft meal ordering and delivery platform so that the elderly can enjoy soft meals more conveniently.
By providing training and job opportunities in mural painting, the venture contributes to helping the underprivileged young people rebuild self-confidence, enhance social engagement and utilise their knowledge for income.
The venture seeks to foster social inclusion and community participation of the visually impaired through launching products, exhibitions, experiential activities and community tours that promote "blind photography".
Seeking to help children with special education needs learn Chinese in a joyful way, the venture put forward an online learning platform with an app combining word cards, digital game and augmented reality technology.
With the help of the venture, women of diverse race will be able to enhance their self-esteem and social participation by utilising their knowledge and skills in the production of incense and running of workshops.
The venture seeks to alleviate the financial burden of low-income women on menstrual products by providing them with reusable items for free.
By means of creative activities including a book van to reach out to children, the venture aims to promote reading and to give children of underprivileged families an equal opportunity to learn by reading and move upward on the social ladder.
With a goal to improve the emotional well-being of students, the venture adopts the Non-violent Communication model to develop a social-emotional education solution for primary schools.
Using both online and offline STEM (Science-Technology-Engineering-Mathematics) learning materials, the venture aims to forge a joyful, customised learning environment for students with special education needs to develop their capability in problem-solving.
The venture strives to promote social inclusion. Persons with disabilities are hired to run experiential community tours whereas tour participants will enhance their empathy by interacting with the tour guides.
The venture aims to develop low-cost smart glasses to assist visually impaired persons to recognise the surrounding environment so that they can cope with tasks in daily living and enhance social participation.
The venture helps forge an inclusive environment in which persons with visual impairment can travel more freely. A mobile computer navigation device to be carried by a guide dog will be developed to provide the visually impaired persons with more information about the path ahead.
The venture provides an online platform to encourage students of grassroots families to learn by taking online courses and by interacting and co-developing knowledge with their peers.
Through offering study tours for free or at a discount, GoHarvest Travel provides students from low-income families with the opportunities of participating in extra-curriculum activities that help them build up confidence, broaden knowledge, as well as enhance social skills.
The venture sets its sights on facilitating social inclusion as well as enhancing cross-cultural understanding by promoting the sport Kabaddi among young people of diverse race.
With the objective of enhancing social participation of persons with disabilities, rental service of specially designed beach wheelchair will be introduced, making the beach more accessible by wheelchair users.
Home modification programmes for low-income families living in subdivided flats are launched, aiming to improve the study environment for the children and help them climb the ladder of social mobility.
Riding on the success of its prototype project funded by SIE Fund in 2016, the venture advances to a start-up project to extend its impact on the social integration of the visually impaired through exhibitions, consultation service and workshops, etc.
Motion sensor "EduTech" games are being developed in collaboration with therapists and teachers of special schools to help students with dyslexia learn Chinese vocabularies and sentence structure.
The venture aims to help students from grassroots families enhance their understanding of eSports as an option for a career. Internship will be provided for participants to gain experience in the up-and-coming industry.
The venture seeks to develop a tool for fast detection of pneumonia to enable early treatment to be given to the patients whereby time and money be saved.
By developing a light-weight, low-cost robotic exoskeleton system, the venture seeks to foster an extensive application of robotic-assisted stroke rehabilitation therapy at the community level that will benefit more patients.
By providing training and job opportunities, the venture seeks to enhance the confidence of the young people from underprivileged groups (e.g. low-income, non-ethnic Chinese and disabled) and equip them for a career in the creative industry.
This venture addresses the dressing problems of the elderly and through providing adaptive clothing improves their well-being and facilitates their participation in social life.
With an aim to facilitating social integration of the deaf/hard-of-hearing people, Voiceless provides an online platform with a host of services to help people with needs overcome barriers to learning and communication.
SENovate provides training programmes for students with special education needs to help them develop their confidence and entrepreneurial capability to address social problems.
Tinwork seeks to contribute to building a stronger bonding in the community by providing a series of training courses for the grassroots while recruiting the hidden talents in the community to be trainers.
This venture engages the unemployed and underemployed people in the production of innovative handicrafts with eco-design, hence helping them earn a living.
With the aid of a storytelling mobile app and accompanying toy sets, this venture helps children with visual impairment interact and play with sighted playmates to enhance social inclusion.
Made in Sample provides training and job opportunities in sewing to help teenage mothers unleash potentials and attain self-confidence and self-worth.
This venture strives to promote social inclusion by providing all-round barrier-free information through a mobile app to help persons with disabilities travel with ease.
ADAM strives to explore more opportunities for persons with disabilities to unleash their talent in art, thereby enabling them to attain self-reliance and build up dignity while enhancing public understanding.
To support “Ageing in Place”, Longevity Design House launches an economical home maintenance programme which will improve the living environment of the single elderly.
StrEAT provides training and consultancy services for operations of food bazaars and organisations to help the grassroots attain financial self-reliance as well as to stimulate the social agility of the community.
MedEXO Robotics aims to develop a set of multi-functional robotic device to alleviate symptoms of patients suffering from Parkinson’s Disease and improve their well-being, thus enhancing their self-confidence.
Family Online aims to facilitate social inclusion of families with SEN children by offering their parents occupational training and employment opportunities.
Aiming to facilitate the social inclusion of autistic youth, the venture provides them with training in game app development that unleashes their potential and enhances their self-confidence.
"neoi5 zoeng3" is a venture that helps grassroots women alleviate their economic hardship and attain self-confidence through unleashing their talent in cooking source development and engaging them in production and sale.
Bookit provides an online platform for transactions of used textbooks, enabling low-income families to reduce their expenses on purchase of textbooks and thus helping alleviate their financial hardship.
The team embarks on developing a wearable device that keeps track of elderly’s motion to enable prompt attention and treatment to be given upon falling accidents, thus providing better protection to elderly.
Riding on Fintech, BeanCare will build an open platform for charitable organisations to raise funds with better cost efficiency and maintain a dialogue with donors on the destination of the donations.
Big Silver Community aims to promote an age-friendly environment across the society through the collaboration of the elderly, caregivers, NGOs, corporates, professionals and media on appropriate community programmes.
Experimenting a new idea to address poverty, the project acts as a social property agent to help alleviate the economic hardship and improve the living environment of low-income tenants of subdivided flats.
To encourage self-reliance through employment, this venture will develop and launch customised job-matching platforms for mobile or desktop access to help low-income single-parents find the working opportunities.
The programme serves to promote social inclusion through empowering South Asian women to become self-reliant with gainful employment.
This venture seeks to enhance the employment opportunities and social integration of the visually impaired through improved accessibility to visual information with the support of technology.
Festyle seeks to empower low-income housewives for gainful employment while enabling the bustling city to develop a culture of healthy dining at home.
By means of a comprehensive service package, MedPOT will guard elderly patients with chronic diseases to take medicines in adherence to prescription and schedule.
Enhancing the well-being of the elderly, this venture supports their children (“Sons&Daughters”) with the right information at the right time for taking care of them effectively.
This venture aims to help the disabled, injured, elderly, as well as patients with Parkinson's disease achieve self-reliance and active lifestyles by provision of low cost, multipurpose exoskeleton devices.
Advocating the importance of timely support to children traumatised under family crisis, this venture enables the early detection of victims by social workers and clinical psychologists with the use of an intervention tool in the form of story books.
This venture offers a new choice for affordable hearing aids to hearing-impaired persons through the use of their smartphones with enhancement.
Through intensive business training and life coaching programmes, Aquila Brother seeks to empower low-education, low-income and unengaged youth for career and entrepreneurial development.
Aiming at happy rehabilitation, AESIR delivers the augmented reality enabled playbook to help promote emotional literacy for children with special education needs and track their emotional behaviour over time.
This venture aims to promote social inclusion by providing opportunities for persons with disabilities to contribute their talent to product production.
With the ultimate goal of promoting social inclusion, the venture enhances the career opportunities of people of diverse race through the provision of guidance and training in the contact centre industry.
This venture puts sharing economy in practice to address poverty issues, with the grassroots community to be employed to produce food by the cooking facilities amid the idling kitchen hours of the owner restaurants and sell the food products as a source of new income.
Ideas for Good aims at testing out another approach to enhancing social inclusion through training up visually impaired persons as coaches to provide service to different institutions and corporations.
Twopresents aims to scale up its operation and to extend its reach in generating funding for NGOs and charities and in promoting the concept of “Sharing is Caring”.
In this fellowship programme to nurture future leaders with empathy, outstanding university students will be recruited to serve full time in teaching and leadership training in schools with underprivileged students for one year.
This venture helps children with Spasticity Diplegia or Cerebral Palsy integrate into society by enhancing their mobility with redesigned walking aids.
The project facilitates kindergarten NCS students to integrate into the community through provision of Chinese Enhancement classes to support them in learning the Chinese language.
The team of young entrepreneurs strives to facilitate elderly scavengers to live with dignity, increase their earnings, and raise public awareness of their situation.
This venture aims to empower the underprivileged youth through engaging them in business operations as well as to improve social integration of the elderly with community events.
The team is committed to promoting social inclusion through facilitating coworking of designers and ex-offenders in apparel design and conveying positive values via the work of journalists.
A life-coaching programme for youth, it aims to cultivate their physical and spiritual sturdiness and to strengthen their engagement with the community through training in long distance running.
This venture provides a quality time for low-income and single-parent families to build up close family bonding through co-creating activities and hence helps prevent teen and family problems.
This venture aims to improve the escort services for visits to out-patient clinics as well as the overall service quality of the elderly care industry with the support of a web application.
With an objective of promoting social inclusion, this venture uses videos in sign language to enhance the accessibility to information and entertainment for the hearing impaired and offers opportunities for the hearing impaired to develop a career in the media field.
This venture raises awareness of children on social issues, to nurture their compassion and to unleash their creativity to become potential change makers.
The project team seeks to equip and empower persons with disabilities for employment and social engagement with a barrier-free e-learning environment.
A value-building programme, it helps young people develop their personal goals to embrace life challenges under the guidance of mentors who are from the underprivileged groups.
The venture aims to enhance the living environment of low-income groups through application of architectural design to home modification and improvement of environment in public spaces and community spaces.
Green Care serves to address the needs of elderly and persons with disabilities on rehabilitation products along the concept of sharing economy and contribute to environmental protection through the development of an online platform..jpg)
This venture will strengthen the delivery of escort services for the elderly and persons with disabilities by the underprivileged, following the introduction of a new IT platform.
This venture aims to enhance social inclusion through empowering people with special education needs and exploring job opportunities for them.
Goods Co-Share helps alleviate poverty through running retail service with stalls that sell daily necessities at low prices and employ grassroots housewives for stall management.