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Leading the Charge
At the forefront of the movement for bringing new ideas to bear on the social sector is America Forward. Launched earlier this year by New Profit, a 10-year old venture philanthropy fund in Boston, America Forward seeks to make the social and the government sectors work more closely together. America Forward is a coalition of 70+ social entrepreneurial organizations that are solving the toughest issues facing America today. The coalition seeks to harness the enormous resource of government (city, county, state and federal) to scale their effective programs. America Forward worked with all presidential candidates in this election cycle to encourage them to put ideas like citizen service for all Americans and a government-funded social innovation fund, among other ideas, into their platforms. You can read about America Forward’s policy ideas and what they are doing to bring them to fruition. It is a really exciting organization that has, I think, the potential to revolutionize how government and nonprofits work together to solve the unprecendented challenges facing our country.
Google’s Social Innovation Competition
Google has just announced the ultimate social innovation competition: a $10 million prize for up to 5 of the most innovative ideas to help the world. Their “10 to the 100th Project” encourages people to submit an idea to improve people’s lives. Broadly, it can be any idea that improves education, the environment, communities, etc. An overview of the competition is here and the competition site is here. Submissions are accepted until October 20th, so get thinking.
Welcome to the Social Velocity Blog
Welcome to the Social Velocity blog. Here I’ll be writing about what is going on throughout our region, country and world in social innovation. The field, concepts and terms are being defined so it is an exciting time.
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Schools written by Nell Edgington,
Peter Frumkin and Bruno Manno
offers educational entrepreneurs and
nonprofit leaders tools and frameworks
to effectively create social change.
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innovation thought leaders
and doers in our
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- This popular on-going series
gives nonprofit leaders ideas
for completely rethinking how
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the Financing Not
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to strengthen their organization
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My Favorite Blogs
- A Smart Bear: Startups & Marketing for Geeks
- About.com Nonprofit Charitable Orgs
- Against the Grain
- Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits are Using Social Media to Power Change
- Dan Pallotta: Harvard Business Review
- Deep Social Impact
- Dowser
- Full Contact Philanthropy
- GuideStar: Bob Ottenhoff Blog
- Money and Mission
- New Philanthropy Capital's Blog
- NFF's Social Currency Blog
- Philanthropy 2173
- PhilanTopic
- SocialEarth
- SSIR Opinion Blog: Nonprofit Management
- SSIR Opinion Blog: Social Entrepreneurship
- Tactical Philanthropy
- UnSectored
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