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"Community Transformation" Means... Uh, Uh... What? 
- The words are easy to say, harder to define. Here's one community's attempt.
- Created ago by Pete Plastrik in Social Innovation Blog
community change- Our "Net Gains" Handbook Selected As "Top Resource"
- At Network Impact, we're pleased to have others spreading the practical knowledge we're producing.
- Created ago by Pete Plastrik in Social Innovation Blog
- networks for social change
- “Community Transformation” – What Are We Talking About?
- Cities and towns are changing all the time, but how do they intentionally become better places?
- Created 4 months ago by Pete Plastrik in Social Innovation Blog
- community change
- Clients and Projects
- Network Impact provides consulting services and tools to a wide range of networks and foundations. Our current and past projects include:
- social change
- Tools And Practices For Network Builders
- These resources help network builders become more effective.
- social change agents
- Consulting Services
- social change
- Avatar's Brave New World
- When it comes to global sustainability, science fiction can dispense with politics in favor of heroics, but the world we live in doesn't have that luxury.
- Created 6 months ago by Pete Plastrik in Social Innovation Blog
- climate change
- The Urban Sustainability Frontier
- Cities are leading the way on climate change, by tackling a broad array of issues.
- Created 6 months ago by Pete Plastrik in Social Innovation Blog
- climate change
- The "Flow-Through" Strategy for Community Change
- If you can't change a community's failing culture, can you replace it?
- Created 6 months ago by Pete Plastrik in Social Innovation Blog
- community change
- Thanks for Nothing: Are Carbon Offsets a Turkey?
- As we reach the biggest travel time of the year, an ethical travel strategy takes a blow.
- Created 8 months ago by Pete Plastrik in Social Innovation Blog
- climate change
- The Art of Replicating Social Innovation: Curb Your Enthusiasm
- When social innovators flock around an innovation like the Harlem Children's Zone (HCZ), calls for replication are in the air.
- Created 8 months ago by Pete Plastrik in Social Innovation Blog
- place-based change
- Are Natural Disasters a New Opportunity for Social Innovation?
- As climate change causes more catastrophes, changes are needed in how communities anticipate and respond.
- Created 8 months ago by Pete Plastrik in Social Innovation Blog
- climate change
- Driving Sustainability by Eliminating Drivers
- A new destination--urban sustainability--is changing the way we make the journey.
- Created 8 months ago by Pete Plastrik in Social Innovation Blog
- climate change
- Sustainability Lesson: Present Crisis in Forest Meets Past Successes
- Transformative ideas--no matter their urgency--take time to root in society.
- Created 9 months ago by Pete Plastrik in Social Innovation Blog
- climate change
- Time to Get Serious About Air Travel
- For the professional class, our air travel dwarfs other conservation efforts.
- Created 9 months ago by Pete Plastrik in Social Innovation Blog
- climate change
- Talking Networks for Social Change
- In which nuPOLIS social innovators Plastrik & Taylor talk with network maven Beth Kanter (and her video camera and blog)
- Created 9 months ago by Pete Plastrik in Social Innovation Blog
- networks for social change
- Connecting Planning and Climate Change--Finally!
- The planning field finally gets serious about tools to measure the climate impact of their development designs
- Created 9 months ago by Pete Plastrik in Social Innovation Blog
- climate change
- New National Urban Sustainability Network Launches
- Urban Sustainability Directors hold their first annual meeting in Chicago.
- Created 9 months ago by Pete Plastrik in Social Innovation Blog
- climate change
- The Poverty-Climate Change Link
- A framework for donor action has lessons for other audiences too.
- Created 9 months ago by Pete Plastrik in Social Innovation Blog
- climate change
- Climate Change and the Poor: One Year Later
- Slowly, there's growing traction on the issue of how climate change strategies will affect the people least responsible for the problem.
- Created 9 months ago by Pete Plastrik in Social Innovation Blog
- climate change
- From the Front Lines of Community Innovation: "What Should We Do Next?"
- So many questions...
- Created 10 months ago by Pete Plastrik in Social Innovation Blog
- community change
- Urban Sustainability Depends on Reinventing Local Government
- City government is a crucial player in sustainability, but it has to change its role and approach.
- Created 10 months ago by Pete Plastrik in Social Innovation Blog
- climate change
- September 2009: Innovations We're Working On
- Updates from the nuPOLIS portfolio of social innovation projects:
- Created 10 months ago by Pete Plastrik in Social Innovation Blog
- Chicago Climate Change Action Plan, climate change
- Ethical Travel: Rules to Fly By
- How social change agents can manage their carbon footprints.
- Created 11 months ago by Pete Plastrik in Social Innovation Blog
- climate change, social change agents
- A Framework for Place-Based (Community) Innovation
- How communities can become social innovation hot spots.
- Created 11 months ago by Pete Plastrik in Social Innovation Blog
- community change
- Climate Change For Social Innovation
- Government uses pricing, pronouncements, and policies to create conditions for change. But...
- Created 12 months ago by Pete Plastrik in Social Innovation Blog
- climate change
- Sustainability Call to Action: Help Create “Ethical Travel" Standard
- How will social change agents manage their carbon footprints?
- Created 12 months ago by Greg Berry in Social Innovation Blog
- climate change
- America Needs a National Climate Change Extension Service
- Climate action will take a strong national and local support infrastucture to be successful.
- Created 12 months ago by Pete Plastrik in Social Innovation Blog
- climate change
- For Closing the Climate Gap--The Rise of “Climate Justice"
- As U.S. cities respond to the challenge of global warming, they must grapple with economic and social inequities.
- Created 13 months ago by Pete Plastrik in Social Innovation Blog
- climate change, community climate change
- The New "Glocal" Economy
- When it comes to a community's economic development, location isn't what it used to be.
- Created 13 months ago by Pete Plastrik in Social Innovation Blog
- economic change
- June 2009: Innovations We're Working On
- Updates from the nuPOLIS portfolio of social innovation projects
- Created 14 months ago by Pete Plastrik in Social Innovation Blog
- climate change
- Social Innovation Puzzle: What's Inside, Outside the Box?
- "Innovation space" is a competition among new ideas, old ideas, and other ideas.
- Created 14 months ago by Pete Plastrik in Social Innovation Blog
- climate change
- Assessing the Health of Your Network
- Use this scorecard to diagnose strengths and areas of growth.
- Created 14 months ago by Greg Berry in nuPOLIS Document Library
- social change network
- Not Your Grandfather's Immigration
- "Waves of newcomers" is a familiar American story, but this time it's different.
- Created 14 months ago by Pete Plastrik in Social Innovation Blog
- community change
- Investment Capital is Migrating to the Climate Change Market -- And Fast
- Climate Change Now A Major Product and Service Market For Global Companies
- Created 15 months ago by John Cleveland in Social Innovation Blog
- climate change, climate change adaptation and mitigation
- In the Battle for Sustainability, Enlist Students for the Front Lines
- Now is the time to engage schools and students in greening America
- Created 15 months ago by Pete Plastrik in Social Innovation Blog
- climate change
- Breakthrough, Not Incremental, Change Is Goal of Social Innovation in Communities
- In excerpt from new book on community innovation, nuPOLIS's Peter Plastrik and Theodore Staton identify high-impact innovations
- Created 15 months ago by Pete Plastrik in Social Innovation Blog
- high-impact change
- April 2009: Innovations We're Working On
- Updates from the nuPOLIS portfolio of social innovation projects
- Created 16 months ago by Pete Plastrik in Social Innovation Blog
- climate change
- The Indispensible Agents of Change Nobody Knows: "Community Innovation Brokers"
- They are invisible, but essential, because they use their skills and relationships to create the conditions in which local innovation can flourish.
- Created 16 months ago by Pete Plastrik in Social Innovation Blog
- agents of change
- March 2009: What We're Working On
- Updates from the nuPOLIS portfolio of social innovation projects
- Created 16 months ago by Pete Plastrik in Social Innovation Blog
- climate change, community change
- INC Strategic Framework
- A framework for accelerating place-based social innovation.
- Created 18 months ago by Greg Berry in nuPOLIS Document Library
- place-based change
- Urban Sustainability Associates Executive Summary
- INC and the Center for Neighborhood Development are partnering on a national network of partners capable of supporting large-scale urban sustainability solutions.
- Created 18 months ago in nuPOLIS Document Library
- climate change
- Systems Change Work
- This short set of slides provides an overview for thinking about large scale systems change.
- Created 19 months ago in nuPOLIS Document Library
- large scale change, systems change
- Chaordic Handbook
- Here is a project we started, but never really finished. It was going to be a book on “chaordic" systems (Dee Hock’s term for edge of chaos systems). You may find some of the musings useful.
- Created 19 months ago in nuPOLIS Document Library
- systems change
- Developing a Community's Innovation Infrastructure
- A community's capacity to develop, import, and implement social innovations can be developed and supported.
- community change
- Building The Social Innovation Field
- The growing field of social innovation in the US needs to be better understood and more intentionally developed.
- social change
- Social Innovation Acceleration
- "Social innovation" is a discipline, a way of creating value for communities and society--a way that can be improved and enabled.
- social change
- Climate Change And the Poor
- Climate change solutions can and should be designed in ways that benefit low and moderate income families and neighborhoods.
- Created 26 months ago in nuPOLIS Document Library
- climate change
- An Approach to Social Innovation
- Social innovation is an inherently difficult process--and the social sector makes it more difficult than it needs to be.
- Created 30 months ago in nuPOLIS Document Library
- social change
- An Introduction to Social Venturing
- This is a presentation given to a group of NGOs in Detroit who are interested in learning more about social venture enterprises. It provides a basic overview to the field of social venturing.
- Created 44 months ago in nuPOLIS Document Library
- social change
- Complex Adaptive Systems Theory
- This document delves a bit deeper into 12 core concepts of complex adaptive systems theory – ideas like the edge of chaos; self-organization; emergence; and phase transitions.
- Created 4 years ago in nuPOLIS Document Library
- system change
- Chaos Theory Basic Concepts
- This document provides an overview of some of the core concepts of the mathematics of chaos – ideas like fractals; sensitive dependence on initial condition; strange attractors and bifurcation.
- Created 16 years ago in nuPOLIS Document Library
- systems change
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Urban Sustainability Associates
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Community Innovation book
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nuPOLIS President Peter Plastrik and his co-author Theodore Staton are writing a new book, titled
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