Andrew Wolk

Deval Patrick’s commitment to advancing social innovation in Massachusetts

Posted on 16. Apr, 2010 by Andrew.

Today was a landmark day for anyone interested in improving the way we address social problems in Massachusetts. In a ceremony at Year Up this morning, I joined Governor Deval Patrick along with Vanessa Kirsch and Kim Syman from New Profit, Inc. and a group of over 40 nonprofit leaders including Jumpstart, Playworks, Year Up, [...]

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New Orleans in the Spotlight

Posted on 08. Feb, 2010 by Andrew.

This past weekend was a big one for New Orleans – not just because of the Saints’ Super Bowl victory over the Colts but also the landslide victory for Mitch Landrieu in the election for mayor that took place on Saturday.
Landrieu’s job will not be an easy one, to say the least. As we approach [...]

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What’s hot in New Orleans?

Posted on 04. Feb, 2010 by Andrew.

No, it’s not just that the Saints are going to the Super Bowl − it’s Lieutenant Governor Mitch Landrieu’s candidacy for the mayor of New Orleans.
This Saturday’s election in New Orleans features the latest in a string of campaigns in which a candidate’s core messages include social innovation or civic engagement. Lt. Gov. Landrieu, for [...]

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Social Innovation Fund Draft NOFA is out…Public Comments Due By Jan 15th

Posted on 20. Dec, 2009 by Andrew.

The moment that we have been waiting for is here. This week, the Corporation for National and Community Service released a draft Notice of Funding Availability (NOFA) for the Social Innovation Fund (SIF) for public comment. As I have mentioned before, this should be seen as a good step toward building a broader social innovation [...]

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Driving at Social Impact in Texas

Posted on 16. Dec, 2009 by Andrew.

Last week I traveled to Dallas for the OneStar Foundation: Texas Center for Social Impact’s Governor’s Nonprofit Leadership Conference. The theme of the conference was “The Driving Force for Social Impact 2009: Where the Rubber Meets the Road.” The title was well chosen; the OneStar Foundation is definitely taking a leadership role in advancing social [...]

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Watch the live stream from Dallas

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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