Abayomi Ogunsanwo & Atinuke Ayo-balogun

The social innovation has gained traction as a means to tackle complex issues like poverty through its focus on empowerment, collaboration, and community-driven solutions. In the Nigerian context, social innovation holds potential for transforming traditional approaches to poverty alleviation. The main objective of this study is to evaluate the effect of social innovation using (crowdfunding, telehealth and volunteering of social innovation model) on poverty alleviation in Nigeria. The survey was conducted on three hundred and eighty-three (383) respondents who were contacted on google form through the link of rotary club of Nigeria. The data were analysed using SPSS. The findings revealed that there is a moderate relationship between poverty alleviation and crowdfunding which implies that as crowdfunding increases, the poverty alleviation increases. The T-value (tc=4.339, p=.000) shows that crowdfunding is statistically significant in explaining poverty alleviation. Hence the null hypothesis is rejected while the alternative hypothesis is accepted. Telehealth result reveals that there is a moderate relationship between poverty alleviation and telehealth which also implies that as telehealth increases, the poverty alleviation increases as the Tvalue (tc=9.674, p=.000) shows that telehealth is statistically significant in explaining poverty alleviation. Hence the null hypothesis is rejected while the alternative hypothesis is accepted. Lastly, the result on volunteering reveals that there is an inverse effect between volunteering and poverty alleviation and this implies that as volunteering increases, the poverty alleviation reduces. The T-value (tc=-.954, p=.341). Hence the null hypothesis is accepted. Keywords: Crowdfunding, Telehealth, Volunteering, Social innovation, Poverty alleviation 0150