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Posted on 09. Dec, 2009 by Andrew.

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Governor’s Nonprofit Leadership Conference

Posted on 08. Dec, 2009 by Andrew.

I’m excited to be giving a keynote tomorrow at the OneStar Foundation: Texas Center for Social Impact’s Governor’s Nonprofit Leadership Conference in Dallas. OneStar is doing some great work through their Texas Social Innovation Initiative to identify effective nonprofits and support their work (they will announce the seven winners of their competition tomorrow), drawing on [...]

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Social Innovation at an Inflection Point

Posted on 02. Dec, 2009 by Andrew.

I kicked off this blog by stating that the world is at an inflection point. As we head into the holiday season, I can’t help but feel that the work of advancing social innovation – developing, testing, and honing promising approaches, rewarding exceptional performance, spreading and scaling success, and catalyzing public-private partnerships across the nation [...]

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Performance Measurement – It’s Now or Never!

Posted on 04. Nov, 2009 by Andrew.

Nonprofit performance measurement (also known by the names evaluation, metrics, outcomes, and logic models, among others) seems to be on the tip of everyone’s tongues these days.
The ‘measurement movement’ is not new – some might say it started well over a decade ago when the logic model came into fashion. What’s new today is that [...]

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Debriefing SOCAP09

Posted on 08. Sep, 2009 by Andrew.

It was really amazing to be at the SOCAP09 conference last week, and I wanted to share some great resources for those who weren’t able to attend and want to learn more about the conversations that took place there.

The Pop!Tech blog has great summaries of different sessions during Day 1 and Day 2, all of [...]

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People, Ideas, and Why I’m Going to SOCAP09

Posted on 27. Aug, 2009 by Andrew.

Next week I’ll be heading out to San Francisco to attend the SOCAP09 (Social Capital Markets) conference. This marks the 2nd year of the conference, and boy have they already made quite a splash! Last year, despite the recession, it was sold out. This year looks to be the same…and with a stellar line up [...]

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FAQ – The Social Innovation Fund Hot Off the Press

Posted on 22. Jul, 2009 by Andrew.

The Corporation for National & Community Service in conjunction with the White House Office of Social Innovation and Civic Participation has just posted a “frequently asked questions” about the Social Innovation Fund.
Check it out here.

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Around the World Part II: Citizens & Communities

Posted on 20. Jul, 2009 by Andrew.

I am leaving Portugal with great inspiration and practical knowledge about how to further advance a social innovation agenda in the United States.
Friday, I sat on a panel with Christian Bason from MindLab in Denmark, who has been leading a citizen-based agenda for the Danish government for over eight years – and there is much [...]

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Social Innovation around the World

Posted on 16. Jul, 2009 by Andrew.

It is early morning in Lisbon, Portugal, on day two of the Social Innovation eXchange (SIX) International Summer School on Social Innovation. The first day was quite inspiring and also eye opening for me. There are about 120 people here from 24 countries around the world, all of whom are advancing social innovation [...]

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On “Why the Social Innovation Fund Matters”

Posted on 10. Jul, 2009 by Andrew.

Over on the Tactical Philanthropy blog, Sean Stannard-Stockton has provided some great arguments in support of the Social Innovation Fund.  I’d like to add in a few additional thoughts and concerns of my own:
First, we have to be careful not to get too caught up in the dollars − because in reality, $50 million (or even [...]

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