Improving Peoples' Lives

Tanda is a social business.

We believe that business should not be about pleasing customers and making money only.

Everyone: our partners, employees, and communities should benefit from our actions and activities.

About Improving Peoples' Lives

We go about improving peoples' lives via Cooperations and Partnerships that build up Social Capital.

What is Social Capital?

1. Personal relationships, refering to the structure of people’s networks (i.e. the people they know) and the social behaviours that contribute to establishing and maintaining those networks, such as spending time with others, or exchanging news by telephone or email.
2. Social network support, which is a direct outcome of the nature of people’s personal relationships, and refers to the resources – emotional, material, practical, financial, intellectual or professional - that are available to each individual through their personal social networks.
3. Civic engagement, which comprises the activities and networks through which people contribute to civic and community life, such as volunteering, political participation, group membership and different forms of community action.
4. Finally, trust and cooperative norms,refering to the trust, social norms and shared values that underpin societal functioning and enable mutually beneficial cooperation. The concept primarily refers to different kinds of trust, as well as norms of reciprocity and non-discrimination. The types of trust that are most often considered as forms of social capital are generalised trust (i.e. trust in ‘others’, including strangers) and institutional trust, which can refer to political institutions as well as the judiciary, police, the media or other institutions.

How do Tanda Creativ.es serve to Improve People's Lives?

Internal

1. Our set-up is in the form of a Cooperative: a shared business model that is owned and driven by active shareholders.
2. We have a fair and progressive employment and freelance practices, that ensure working conditions and earnings by our associates is well-matched and exceed market norms where possible.
3. We have an extensive professional development and career advancement model where opportunities are provided to our associates to grow professional skills, as well as to have shareholder opportunities within the Coop.
4. We ensure good relationships and earning opportunities are kept as fair as possible with our Strategic Partners. We want as many people as possible in the value chain to benefit from our interactions!

With our Clients

1. Our clients should be happier after our efforts. Either by making spaces that are beautiful, useful and something they can be proud of.
2. Our clients' spaces should increase in value after our efforts.
3. Our clients should enjoy the spaces we create and feel holistically better as they use them.

With the Community

1. We strive to minimise discomfort to the community during the execution of our projects.
2. The community should benefit from innovative ideas that they can see with our project, and desire to also transform their spaces to improve the quality of their lives.
3. Our designed spaces should enhance the physical environment in terms of aesthetics, or perform a beneficial function.

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Please contact hal@tandacreativ.es for more information and requests.