<< Background >>In the last decades, NGOs have faced different and consecutive crises: the 2008 financial crisis and the current COVID crisis. These events have put into a delicate position these organisations in terms of financing resources. Most of their incomes come from public funds which are decreasing year every year. On the other hand, their profits coming from private corporations are not a reliable source of income. Therefore, they are obliged to find new models to generate profits that could make sustainable their services. Apart from that, this project will help them to offer new services to their target groups. For example, they could provide entrepreneurial services to persons at risk of exclusion they are working with. DRAGGING project results will meet all these needs by creating several project results that could be transformed into different services and tools for its target groups.Regarding local public administrations, the model proposed by DRAGGING will help them to create local synergies with local social services providers. Local public administrations mostly are not aware of the capacities and services local NGOs and local third sector organisations could provide. Therefore, they launch calls for providers that normally are won by other non-local corporations specialised in such calls. Our approach consists in reduce the gap between local administrations and local social organisations in order to generate a bank of business opportunities to which these organisations may apply. DRAGGING will set up the tools and the methodology that will make this possible.<< Objectives >>DRAGGING has a clear objective, to help with the following three challenges: to diversify the sources of income for NGOs, take advantage of new legislations/public hiring opportunities and generate job opportunities for people at risk of exclusion. This will be done by training professionals through a mentoring process where they will be provided with training in different subjects (business strategy, finance, marketing, etc.) while consulting work on the ideal business model is carried out to meet all administration needs. Everything will serve to create companies together with people at risk of exclusion with whom they are working with and to cover the main need, employment.<< Implementation >>The activities that we are planning to implement are:1. Conduct a territorial analysis that will provide us information about the stakeholders involved and the challenges to be faced. Furthermore, this mapping will help us to identify the potential participants in the project activities at an early stage.2. In order to generate business ideas, we will create focus group in which public administrations and other stakeholders such as companies and/or business professionals will provide and discuss these ideas. Afterward, these ideas will be analysed and business models to develop them will be drafted. Once analysed and develop these business models will be upload to the online marketplace developed to this end.3. A online digital course will be created to provide support to the persons at risk of exclusion that will decide to entrepreneur with NGOs. 15 courses at the EU level will be analysed in terms of contents, learning methodologies, and follow-up KPIs. Mentors and entrepreneurs will validate these contents. Also, it will be created an online platform to include the contents and provide the training.4. As impact is really important to social projects, we will generate a methodological approach to measure the impact of our new entrepreneurs and the activities carried out within the project. The deliverable will be a practical methodology to provide figures and details on the impact generated by the project.<< Results >>DRAGGING will produce 4 PRs:PR1. Territorial analysis on the most important stakeholders and challenges.PR2. An online business ideas marketplace where the business ideas arose from the cooperation amongst stakeholders will be placed.PR3. A digital training course focused on those persons at risk of exclusion (involved in a NGO) willing to create their own micro-companies.PR4. A methodology to measure the impact of social entreprises.Also, the project will produce the following TANGIBLE OUTCOMES:1 Material generated by the action:-- Questionnaires for the focus groups in PR1.-- Report on business opportunities and entrepreneurial mentoring challenges in PR1.-- Local agreements to foster entrepreneurial mentoring of people at risk of exclusion.-- Creation of a methodological framework for business ideas.-- The design of mentoring.-- Report on training needs for the online course.-- Report on the entrepreneurship training course at EU level.-- The design of a Business Manual for the online course.-- Training contents in wiki format.-- Analysis Report on social impact measurement.-- New set of indicators to measure impact.2 Communication materials:-- Best practices related to the experiences and the work done in each project result.-- Success stories.-- Communication materials: infographics, leaflets, website, press releases, news, etc.-- Increase the number of youngsters hired in the partners' local areas.-- A total of 150 people will attend the Multiplier Events and 600 will be contacted by email (100 per member). -- It is estimated that the impact of the project's website will receive 1,000 visits, supporting its dissemination from the Social Networks. -- Presentations for the 60 visits to different entities explaining the project will be made during the project (10 per partner) -- All the contents and news will be done to be disseminated through the different Social Networks of the partners (Linkedin, Facebook, Youtube, etc.), creating a multiplying effect and generating 18,000 visualizations during the project, 3,000 per partner.3 Direct impacts:-- Number of NGO professionals participating in the project: 40 directly (5 per NGO) and some 200 contacted in 3 countries-- Number of entrepreneurs at risk of exclusion: 9 directly (3 in 3 countries) and approx 60 contacted-- Number of local and regional authorities: 9, 3 in 3 countries-- Number of teachers/mentors from the business environment: about 8 directly involved in the training and about 60 contacted-- Number of chambers of commerce: 6 informed, at least 1 per member-- Number of business associations: 30 informed, at least 5 per member-- Number of incubators: 12 informed, at least 2 per partner-- Number of technology centres: 12 informed, at least 2 per partner