Social Velocity » world http://www.socialvelocity.net Accelerating Social Innovation Tue, 07 Sep 2010 20:39:00 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc Google’s Social Innovation Competition http://www.socialvelocity.net/2008/09/googles-social-innovation-competition/ http://www.socialvelocity.net/2008/09/googles-social-innovation-competition/#comments Mon, 29 Sep 2008 01:47:21 +0000 Nell Edgington http://www.socialvelocity.net/dev/?p=52

About the Author: Nell Edgington is President of Social Velocity (www.socialvelocity.net), a management consulting firm leading nonprofits to greater social impact and financial sustainability. In addition to leading Social Velocity's efforts to accelerate social innovation, she is a regular contributor to Change.org's Social Entrepreneurship blog and speaks at social innovation gatherings.


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]]> 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.



About the Author: Nell Edgington is President of Social Velocity (www.socialvelocity.net), a management consulting firm leading nonprofits to greater social impact and financial sustainability. In addition to leading Social Velocity's efforts to accelerate social innovation, she is a regular contributor to Change.org's Social Entrepreneurship blog and speaks at social innovation gatherings.


Related posts:

  1. What Creates an Environment for Social Innovation?
  2. Understanding Social Innovation
  3. What the Changing Government Means for Social Innovation

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