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

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

Posted on 20. Dec, 2009 by Andrew.

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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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Social Innovation at an Inflection Point

Social Innovation at an Inflection Point

Posted on 02. Dec, 2009 by Andrew.

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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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State Offices of Social Innovation?

State Offices of Social Innovation?

Posted on 29. May, 2009 by Andrew.

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I recently had an op-ed published in the Boston Business Journal entitled “Time for civic leadership.” In it, I call for the establishment of an Office of Social Innovation in Massachusetts.
I believe that in order for us to advance a social innovation agenda, we will need to link federal initiatives to state-level activities. While I [...]

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What are YOUR ideas? Let Andrew Wolk take them to D.C.

What are YOUR ideas? Let Andrew Wolk take them to D.C.

Posted on 29. Apr, 2009 by Andrew.

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Next Monday I will be back in D.C. to facilitate a discussion with the Corporation for National and Community Service at the Accelerating Social Entrepreneurship Conference. The session will focus on how the social innovation fund that was called for in the Serve America Act should be structured. While the funds have not yet been [...]

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