Social Innovations
The Emerging Social Impact Market
Annually, more than a trillion dollars are spent on millions of American nonprofit and government institutions. And 15 nonprofits are started each day. But there is still not significant progress on social issues in the United States. In this audio lecture, sponsored by the Stanford Social Innovation Review, Andrew Wolk, CEO of Root Cause, argues that the time has come for a social impact market—one that fosters innovation and collaboration across the governmental, business, and nonprofit sectors to maximize scarce resources and spread solutions. Wolk believes this cross-sector approach presents our best chance to solve long-term educational, healthcare, environmental, and other problems.
Audio lectures brought to you by Social Innovation Conversations, co-hosted by Stanford Social Innovation Review's Managing Editor Eric Nee.
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COMMENTS
BY Nancy Wolk
ON December 18, 2010 03:59 AM
Clear and informative presentation of a complex topic. Hopefully the thoughts preseted can begin to be
implemented incrementally.
BY Tom Hyland
ON December 18, 2010 09:59 AM
Perhaps the reason that we haven’t moved the needle is because the sector is more concerned with recycling the same old ideas and writing white papers on Utopian solutions rather than enacting models that actually work and have relevance on-the-ground. When the going gets tough, make up a new bottom line or write a new tome on metrics and measurement. Sigh…
BY http://www.quora.com/Social-Entrepreneurship/W
ON December 25, 2010 06:36 AM
Ashoka: http://ashoka.org/blogs
Acumen Fund: http://blog.acumenfund.org/
Dowser [mentioned above] is quite a good blog too.
also check: JustMeans http://www.justmeans.com/
& Social Venture Network's 'resource page' : http://www.svn.org/index.cfm?pageId=488
a great Publication+Blog @ Stanford http://www.ssireview.org/
MARS Center @ Toronto: http://www.marsdd.com/blog/