2015年度の活動報告

Musashi University Faculty of Economics Department of Management　Noriyuki Takahashi

1. Summary of activities in 2015

This year, we carried out four main activities.
The first is to support community-related courses organized by Nerima Ward in cooperation with the ward. Until last year, the Community Business Research Group was entrusted with Nerima Ward's projects and held a total of eight courses, but this year, following a change in the ward's policy, there was a reclassification of courses and an increase in independent projects, and Musashi University provided support for the newly created "Start-up! Nerima Academy - Starting a business from the city" course, totaling three courses, by providing university facilities.
The dates, titles, and number of participants for the three courses are as shown in Table 1.

Table 1. Details of the "Start-up! Nerima School" program for starting businesses from the city

	schedule	Contents
1st	9Monday 9th (Tuesday) 188:30-8:30 p.m.	Bring your ideas to life
2nd time	9Monday 16th (Tuesday) 188:30-8:30 p.m.	Make a profit
3rd	9Monday 23rd (Tuesday) 188:30-8:30 p.m.	Start loving yourself today

*The event will be held in Musashi University Building 1, Room 1201.

Table 2 Number of participants [Startup Nerima Juku] (maximum 30 people)

Date	9/9	9/16	9/23
Number of participants	30	28	28

The second is the implementation of a community business "research" course. This course began in 2012. The research course is aimed at people who want to learn more about community business and those who have already started a business, and covers the environment surrounding community business and hot topics in the area. It is characterized by being aimed at a wide range of people, including those who are only interested, those who have no intention of starting a business themselves but are interested in supporting it, those who are considering starting one, and those who have already started. The ultimate aim is to form a "community" around community business. For this reason, the research course does not simply end with the lecturer giving a talk, but instead devotes the last 30 minutes or so to a place for participants to interact with each other.
This year, the seminar was held five times in total, down from six times last year. This year, the theme was child-rearing, and we asked people who are involved in child-rearing support in various positions to give lectures. It was a good attempt to keep the theme consistent.
However, one thing to reflect on is that the number of participants was lower than the capacity. Starting this year, we were no longer able to use Nerima City as the application reception desk as we did last year (we received cooperation in publishing the ward newsletter), and the reception desk was set up at Musashi Enterprises for the first time. It is unclear whether this had an impact, but there are still issues to be addressed in terms of how we publicize the course.
The themes of each course are shown in Table 3, and the number of participants is shown in Table 4.

Table 3 Contents of the Community Business Research Course

	Date and time	theme	Lecturer
1st	Heisei27year10month6day(fire) 18:30~20:30minutes	"Children's Design Class" initiative to support children who cannot live with their parents	Takahiro Wada (Representative Director of NPO Children's Design Class)
2nd time	10month13day(fire) 18:30~20:30minutes	Creating a society where people can continue working while cherishing their children	Yoko Sakakibara (CEO, Mother Leaf Co., Ltd.)
No.3times	10month20day(fire) 18:30~20:30minutes	Thinking about local child-rearing support: Introducing the "Daijobu" initiative	Yumi Hatakeyama (Chairman of the Board of Directors of NPO Daijobu)
No.4times	10month27day(fire) 18:30~20:30minutes	Social design that connects people and cities“Raising children through community-wide efforts”	Masatoshi Matsumoto (CEO of Natural Smile Japan Co., Ltd.)
No.5times	11month10day(fire) 18:30~20:30minutes	The present, past and future of Nerima Mama's Manga Room "Yonkoma"	Ueki Ayako (Representative of Nerima Mama Manga Room Yonkoma)
Location		Musashi University Building 1, 2nd floor1201classroom

Table 4 Number of participants [Research section] (maximum 30 people)

Date	10/6	10/13	10/20	10/27	11/10
Number of participants	20	19	18	18	12

The third is a field survey of local community-based revitalization efforts.

This year, a total of three hearing surveys were conducted in three regions.

The schedule, themes, and main contents are as shown in Table 5. All of these are continuing surveys. At the end of last year, we had planned to suspend continuing surveys in these three regions for the time being, but contrary to our expectations, new developments have emerged, so we have decided to revisit them and conduct surveys.

Table 5. Outline of the field survey

times	schedule	Themes etc.	Main Contents
１	2016year 1month30Day ~2month1day	Field survey Shimanto City, Kochi Prefecture Regional revitalization	After the provisional report was completed last year, the survey was conducted to reconfirm the contents. The survey confirmed the background of the unresolved fundamental debate over whether to turn the site into a tourist facility or an educational facility. A survey was also conducted on changes in Shimanto City's response. Continuing survey.
２	2016year 2month23Day ~25day	Field survey Yomitan Village, Okinawa Prefecture Regional revitalization	A field survey on efforts to respond to new demand for accommodation in order to further develop revitalization measures that utilize local resources. Continuing survey.
３	2016year 3month11Day ~14day	Field survey Amami City, Kagoshima Prefecture Regional revitalization	Continuation survey. Survey on the current status of Shima Expo. As the special budget changes to the general budget, we will hear about various responses regarding the continuation of the project.

The fourth was a web survey. Since most community businesses are NPOs, the purpose of this survey was to investigate their profitability.

The gender of the survey respondents is shown in Table 6, and the age distribution in Table 7. We have only introduced one main result here, but we were able to see some of the tough management situations, with only 16.5% of the total businesses paying employees average wages and achieving a profit. In the survey, almost no businesses were able to balance income and expenses through business operations alone, and most had achieved profits by utilizing subsidies and other funding. However, it also became clear that in order to receive sufficient subsidies and donations, the most important prerequisite is that the core business is solid.

We would like to share these results with the students taking the course in the future.

Table 6. Gender distribution of survey participants

	Real	％
male	85	82.5
woman	18	17.5
whole	103	100.0

Table 7. Age distribution of survey subjects

	Real	％
12Under age	0	0.0
12Talent~19talent	0	0.0
20Talent~24talent	1	1.0
25Talent~29talent	7	6.8
30Talent~34talent	6	5.8
35Talent~39talent	6	5.8
40Talent~44talent	19	18.4
45Talent~49talent	12	11.7
50Talent~54talent	12	11.7
55Talent~59talent	18	17.5
60Age and above	22	21.4
whole	103	100.0

Table 8: Business Conditions

Please tell us the financial status of the social enterprise you are involved in. (Just one)
Single Answer	Real	％
Paying executives and employees a fair salary, while still earning more in revenue than expenditure	17	16.5
Although the company does not pay its executives and employees a fair wage, its income exceeds its expenses.	26	25.2
Although the company pays its executives and employees a fair salary, its income is less than its expenses.	5	4.9
Unable to pay executives and employees fair wages, and income is less than expenditures	21	20.4
I don't know	34	33.0
whole	103	100.0

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