Worth Repeating

“The Social Innovation Fund may be the signature philanthropic effort of the Obama era. And the competition is not among nonprofits applying for new money, but among foundations and other large intermediaries vying for the Administration's coveted seal of approval." -Rick Cohen, Blue Avocado

Cross-Sector Thinking: Clay Shirky and Dan Pallotta on the transformation of the media industry and the nonprofit sector

By Rebecca Robinson, Springboard Media Team Member
Media sage/prophet/futurist/demigod Clay Shirky wrote a piece recently entitled “The Collapse of Complex Business Models.” While it’s ostensibly about the media industry, it’s also reflective of the nonprofit sector’s current state of affairs, and struck me yesterday as strongly resonant with ReVV keynoter Dan Pallotta’s arguments that the sector [...]

April 27th, 2010 | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , | Category: REVV 2010 Conference, Social Innovation Models, Springboard News, Uncategorized | 2 comments

Just Ten Days Away

The ReVisioning Value 2010 conference is just ten days away.
Are you a non-profit, a student, a teacher, a small business owner, a community activist? Are you interested in the environment, social justice, economic justice, sustainability? Are you an investor curious about innovation and social entrepreneurship?
It is not to late to register. Come to learn, to [...]

April 16th, 2010 | Category: REVV 2010 Conference, Social Innovation Forums, Social Innovation Models, Springboard News, Uncategorized, Who are social innovators? | Leave a comment

Creative, Innovative Cities

We value both creativity and innovation in individuals, but lately the value has spread to include our cities. We are beginning to understand how the cutting edge and the edgy foster vibrant, interesting, and successful cities, with citizens who enjoy ideas, benefit by invention and the arts, and seek diversity. Innovative Cities, Springboard’s model that [...]

March 25th, 2010 | Category: Innovative Cities, Social Innovation Models | Leave a comment

What’s it like to not have enough water?

1.2 billion people already know. They live in areas of physical water scarcity.
What’s it like when the annual rains that have nourished your crops for generations don’t ever come?
The majority of the world’s rural poor know. They are smallholder farmers that
rely on rainfall for survival. They work with hand tools and are without [...]

March 22nd, 2010 | Category: ChangeXchange, Social Innovation Models, Who are social innovators? | Leave a comment

Serving the Poor

ShoreBank, the community focused bank started in Chicago, works with an affiliate called CFSI, the Center for Financial Services Innovation. This organization invests in financial service businesses dedicated to serving the poor, or “underbanked.” What’s interesting to me about the whole story (outlined in detail below) is the fact that these do-gooder organizations, with a [...]

October 11th, 2009 | Category: Social Innovation Models, Springboard News | Leave a comment

$$ and Social Profit?

Springboard and ShoreBank Pacific are planning a conference in 2010 to open a dialogue for Portland on social investing and social profit. What are the trends, strategies, tools, and concepts that are moving into this space, and what are the results. How do we measure and talk about social profit? Who is the new audience? [...]

October 11th, 2009 | Category: ChangeXchange, Social Innovation Models, Springboard News | Leave a comment
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