Along with our many partners, we've been in the social innovation business for many years.  And while we've successfully designed and implemented innovations and helped to build social-change organizations, we're using a lot of our time to strengthen the practice of and structures for social innovation in the U.S.

We have studied time-tested innovation processes in the commercial sector and adapted the methods into a four-stage social innovation process that provides useful guidance to innovation developers and those who invest in innovation creation.

We have focused on the challenge of designing and implementing social innovations that affect systems in communities--place-based innovation.

We have developed innovation networks in specific sectors (e.g., sustainable energy and environment; workforce development; education) to learn about collaborating for social impact.

We have advocated for social innovation as a national strategic priority that needs much more thoughtful and coherent support from philanthropy and the federal government.

All of these efforts seek to create tools and structures that enable social innovation--accelerating the impact of intentional, designed change.

Our work has unfolded as four broad projects: