About SRG

Innovation Education Creating Opportunity

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The Sunhaven Research Group (SRG) is a social business dedicated to innovation education and building a network of SMART schools. We help students, staff, families and the local communities in developing nations. The open source media, art and research we produce is shared with the world. Social businesses work for the good of society as outlined by Nobel Peace Prize laureate Dr. M. Yunus. Click here to learn more about social business.

## Challenges We All Face

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We have a world of challenges ahead of us. Civilization is getting more complex, more fragile, with time. Our power as a species is growing to dangerous levels. We need creative solutions from intellectually curious, innovative people to find a path forward. We are all in this together - living on a pale blue dot. We don't want people to struggle for survival, humanity can thrive! This group, project and wiki is an exploration of our path forward.

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## Challenges Our Students Face

Local students attending our campus programs need opportunity. Their families are often poor, public education does not provide many paths to a bright future and local employment is often at a subsistence income level. Many students are often locked into generational poverty, with post-secondary education impossible. The global community, the online world, is not accessible to those without far more resources. We help our local staff, students, their families and whole neighbourhoods by creating opportunity through tuition -free innovation education.

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We want you to find a way forward with us. Write something, it might be key to our future.

**Submitting an article is easy:**

1. Write the article here on the wiki.
2. Refine it to the final draft stage.
3. Link it onto a pre-post page (non-fiction pre-post or fiction pre-post).

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## Mission & Vision

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**Mission:** "Innovation Education Creating Opportunity" is our motto and it embodies what we do. Our schools help local staff, students, families and neighborhoods in developing areas that need opportunity. Local students study tuition-free. Our global network provides knowledge, inspiration and paths to a brighter future for all.

**Vision:** SRG is dedicated to building a worldwide network of local-first community centered campuses serving every economically underprivileged area. The global online community connecting our campuses will develop a dynamic media library that funds a future of innovation and discovery for students in need.

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## Local Impact

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Our local impact is about making a difference in the lives of people who live on and around the campuses we build in the developing world. We create opportunity for:

* **Staff:** Local people come first, see our compensation equity policy. Meals on shift are free and low cost or emergency staff accommodations are available.
* **Students:** We don't charge local students tuition, for meals on campus, uniforms, equipment and supplies. Our innovation education and project driven curriculum teaches students to create, achieve and operate in business production environments. We give them paths to a bright future.
* **Families:** Student families receive a take-home grocery package and possibly mileage for campus related travel. This support is necessary so students can pursue studies instead of working to support their families.
* **Neighborhoods:** Campuses offer a convenience store and affordable café-bistro with extra community center services.
* **Online Partners:** Through academia and our Champions we plan outreach to international scientific groups.

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## Global Impact

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Our global impact is about sparking innovation and making sure knowledge is open to the people need it. We offer a range of publications free to the public, for educational distribution and for sale. We also offer high quality study abroad programs for international students.

* **International Students:** International students are hosted as part of student teams, working with local students on design, product development and research projects. These projects all conclude with portfolio pieces or academic paper publication so international students have a record of their team achievements. Three days a week are reserved for international students to engage with the local culture with optional structured activities available. Residence and meals on campus, plus access to our staff, ensures a safe and rewarding study abroad experience.
* **Media Productions:** The campus and curriculum are designed for students to produce digital content. The media products will vary greatly, but students are always involved with both fiction and non-fiction (scientific, training or documentary productions).
* **Open Source Files:** Digital distribution allows us to offer designs, research data, training materials and more to the world - for free. We will keep an online and Wikipedia LAN associated archive files in the public domain.
* **Publications:** Some of our content will be available for sale as a revenue stream for existing and new campuses. Students and staff directly involved in these projects will be eligible for royalties based on their contribution.
* **Research Data:** Data sets from all research on campus will be available in the public domain. Depending on academic publishers and local regulations we may not be able to offer actual research papers to the public, however we will make all reasonable efforts to do so.

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## Operations Cycle & Practical Philosophy

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There are many ways to examine a school, from systems and stations to campus and curriculum. Analytical thought and holistic thought are both worthwhile. Overall, many perspectives are required to find innovation and SRG has a circular development cycle - a practical philosophy - that influences everything but limits nothing. Ours is a continuous cycle, already started since we have been designing, refining, enjoying, exploring, etc. This is why a wiki like this one continuously evolves. There is no beginning once begun, no end if knowledge is shared with others. If it works for you, forget the concept of a circle and let you creativity flow but remember that creating something of high quality matters. This cycle applies to each individual campus and even the individual development of staff and students:

* **Design** - Turn an idea into a plan, information detailed and cohesive enough to implement.
* **Refine** - Make the designs better, optimize, minimize, maximize, etc. as the case may be. High quality counts.
* **Enjoy** - This is living, enjoying the experience, creating things, achieving, improving... we enjoy innovation and all it embodies.
* **Explore** - There is a vast universe to discover, a universe that will inspire if you are open to the possibilities.
* **Create** - Digital, physical, even social in the form of genuine lasting bonds... we are creators. Make something. Create your own destiny.
* **Operate** - Living is more than just ideas and momentary creation, we operate campuses, people operate households, this is the process after production.

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We want you to find a way forward with us. Write something, it might be key to our future.

**Submitting an article is easy:**

1. Write the article here on the wiki.
2. Refine it to the final draft stage.
3. Link it onto a pre-post page (non-fiction pre-post or fiction pre-post).

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## SRG Founder Team

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**Nora Meliano Mendez** - Campus Operations, Local Strategy, Students & Culture

**Richard Wayne Blum** - Agronomy, Life Sciences, Food Science

**Christopher J. Kent** - Global Strategy, Project Management, Content Development

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## Related Topics

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* Campus Community Centers
* Compensation Equity
* Food Science
* Homesteading
* Hyperlocal Economics
* Social Business Principles
* Sunhaven Earth
* National Jurisdictions
* Nonprofit Operations
* Open Source Universe
* Wikipedia LAN

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## Utilities & Resources

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* Rules of this Wiki
* Getting Started
* How to Contribute
* Community Management
* Help Guides
* All Help Articles

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