Yesterday, the Social Innovation Fund announced their inaugural grantees–eleven in total–that received grants between two and ten million dollars to be distributed over the next one to two years. While the Social Innovation Fund has received mixed reviews in terms of it’s scope and veritable innovativeness, this collaborative among the federal government, private funders, the… [Read more…]
July 6, 2010
Innovation is a buzzword. It has been for quite some time. Let’s face it, we all want to believe that our organizations, or we as individuals, have a high capacity to innovate (and for the sake of humanity, let’s hope we do,) but let me pose a rhetorical question here: is it safe to say… [Read more…]
January 8, 2010
Hi all. Welcome to our new online venture. As you can expect, with all of us being PhD students, we have quite a bit on our plates and updates are surely forthcoming. My name is John Ronquillo and I am in my third year at the University of Georgia where I’m a doctoral candidate in… [Read more…]
November 16, 2009
This week is going to be action-filled in the best possible way…another academic conference! From November 18 to 21 several of the Third Sector Network’s contributors will be in Cleveland for the 39th Annual Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action (ARNOVA) Conference. I am very much looking forward to the conference because… [Read more…]
November 9, 2009
The month we spent in residence as summer fellows at the RGK Center at the University of Texas at Austin was enlightening and transformational, but we’re all in agreement that we have much unfinished business to address. This blog, we hope, will allow us to continue the discussion. We are all in agreement that the… [Read more…]
John C. Ronquillo
Sondra Barringer
Jasmine McGinnis
Lindsey McDougle
Erica Coslor
July 23, 2010
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