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 by John C. Ronquillo
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…]
June 16, 2010 by Jasmine McGinnis
Perhaps it’s the curse of becoming an academic that I am constantly questioning both if things will work as they intended and/or how we actually measure that? I like many others have been closely following the unveiling of the Social Innovation Fund under Obama’s Administration, not only watching ‘who’ is advocating and supporting this Fund,… [Read more…]
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July 23, 2010 by John C. Ronquillo
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