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CAS Community Benefits Framework 
- More detail on INC’s new philanthropic service to commit working business assets to charitable purposes.
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nuPOLIS Document Library- CAS Stewardship Agreement
- More detail on INC’s new philanthropic service to commit working business assets to charitable purposes.
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- CAS Operating System
- More detail on INC’s new philanthropic service to commit working business assets to charitable purposes.
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- Community Innovation Book: Introduction and Chapter 1
- Release of Community Innovation Book, Introduction and Chapter 1: The Future of Place
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- CAS Due Diligence
- More detail on INC’s new philanthropic service to commit working business assets to charitable purposes.
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- CAS Donation Scenarios
- More detail on INC’s new philanthropic service to commit working business assets to charitable purposes.
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- 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.
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- Description of CAS
- An overview of a new philanthropic entity that enables the dedication of working business assets to charitable purposes.
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- Workforce Development Innovation Scan
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- Charitable Asset Stewards Overview Slides
- A description of a new philanthropic service to commit working business assets to charitable purposes.
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- Economic Development Framework Slides
- A framework for developing a community's strategies for economic development.
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- Systems Change Work
- This short set of slides provides an overview for thinking about large scale systems change.
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- Asset Building For Social Change
- nuPOLIS's Pete Plastrik developed this report for the Ford Foundation to better understand the best practice in the Foundation around large scale systems change.
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- From Advocacy to Inquiry
- This short paper looks at the relationship between sustainable development and inquiry learning, and how to use good learning theory to support sustainable behaviors.
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- Wealth Creation in Businesses Integral Capital Frameworks
- Business can and do create more than financial capital. They produce environmental, social and human capital--but are not intentional about it or rewarded for it.
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- Value Chain Management
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- Due Diligence Outline for Manufacturing Companies
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- Strategic Planning Framework
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- 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.
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- Lean Manufacturing Quality Improvement
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- Lean Manufacturing and the Toyota Product Development System
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- National Workforce Development Lab
- A proposal to create a national applied R&D lab to identify, develop and spread innovations that signficantly improve the performance of national, regional, and local workforce development systems.
- Created 15 months ago in nuPOLIS Document Library
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- Transnational Immigration Overview
- Millions of immigrants live transnational lives--in both the U.S. and their home countries. This phenomenon is changing the economic, social and political global landscape--and the way we should think about immigration.
- Created 15 months ago in nuPOLIS Document Library
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- Power of Networks
- Nonprofits and social activists are turning to network structures to increase their impact.
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- Community Development Philanthropy Scan
- Innovations are emerging from the blending of community development and community philanthropy--place-based fields benefitting from each others' tools.
- Created 16 months ago in nuPOLIS Document Library
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- Accelerating Social Innovation in the US
- The US should make boosting social innovation a national strategic priority--backed by the federal government and key philanthropic funders.
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- College Bound Schools Brand
- Creating a national brand for high-performing, high-poverty schools can stimulate demand for more successful schools and help to boost their supply.
- Created 18 months ago in nuPOLIS Document Library
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- Networks For Fighting Homelessness
- Government and nonprofit organizations focused on reducing homelessness turn to network strategies to build new, stronger capacities.
- Created 18 months ago in nuPOLIS Document Library
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- Regional Development Trust
- An innovation concept: the creation of Regional Development Trusts.
- Created 19 months ago in nuPOLIS Document Library
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- Greater Detroit DBL Report
- How can a region develop capacity and funding for investments in double bottom line real estate and businesses?
- Created 19 months ago in nuPOLIS Document Library
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- College Completion Report
- Most low-income minority students who make it to college don't stay long enough to get a degree. Our comprehensive scan reviews the explanations for this--and identifies best practices by colleges.
- Created 19 months ago in nuPOLIS Document Library
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- Innovation Strategies for a New System of Workforce Development and Lifelong Learning
- An overview of the “edge of innovation"? in the adult workforce development field.
- Created 20 months ago in nuPOLIS Document Library
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- Green Collar Jobs Scan
- A scan of the green jobs field.
- Created 20 months ago in nuPOLIS Document Library
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- West Michigan 2025 Talent Development System
- How to support employers in a region in building world class talent-development systems.
- Created 21 months ago in nuPOLIS Document Library
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- Integrated Sector Based Work Force Development Systems
- What would it take to develop a scalable “operating system"? for sector-based talent development systems?
- Created 21 months ago in nuPOLIS Document Library
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- Sector Based Skill Development System Slides
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- 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 22 months ago in nuPOLIS Document Library
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- Urban Learning Systems Scan
- There's a growing market for innovations for urban education systems.
- Created 25 months ago in nuPOLIS Document Library
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- Leveraging Remittances for Development
- Immigrants in the US can use the flow of remittance funds to back-home families to boost the development of immigrant communities in the US.
- Created 26 months ago in nuPOLIS Document Library
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- Developing Scalable Innovations
- What are the best strategies for building innovation management capacity at the community level to support social innovators?
- Created 26 months ago in nuPOLIS Document Library
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- Net Gains: Building Nets For Social Change
- This handbook provides practical advice for the growing number of people developing networks for social change.
- Created 26 months ago in nuPOLIS Document Library
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- Business Networks
- Understand how networks provide a sustainable advantage for business.
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- 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.
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- Remittances are Hidden Assets
- Communities can benefit by leveraging the flow of remittances that immigrants send back home.
- Created 26 months ago in nuPOLIS Document Library
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- Innovation Networks
- Developing "innovation production networks" for social-change niches, such as education and urban sustainability, is the focus of the Innovation Network for Communities.
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- Field Of Social Innovation
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- Community Innovation Infrastructure
- A community's capacity to develop, import, and implement social innovations can be developed and supported.
- Created 26 months ago in nuPOLIS Document Library
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- Learning Theory and Practice
- A summary of the key principles of "powerful learning" and their implications for how we design learning processes in schools and other settings.
- Created 38 months ago in nuPOLIS Document Library
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- Lawrence Community Works
- Creating a grassroots network in a deteriorating community is connecting hundreds of people to each other--and building new leadership for the community.
- Created 38 months ago in nuPOLIS Document Library
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- West Michigan WIRED
- The West Michigan WIRED initiative sought to seed innovation in regional workforce and economic development systems.
- Created 38 months ago in nuPOLIS Document Library
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- 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 40 months ago in nuPOLIS Document Library
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- Business Designs For Global Innovation 2006
- Created 42 months ago in nuPOLIS Document Library
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- Urban Schools That Work
- Communities can dramatically reduce their high school dropout rates and send most low-income, minority students to college--if they redesign schools to engage and support these "at risk" students.
- Created 46 months ago in nuPOLIS Document Library
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- The Toyota Product Development System 2006
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- Created 4 years ago in nuPOLIS Document Library
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- 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
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- Challenges of the Emerging Low Volume Vehicle Market
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- How Employers Can Influence Health Care
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- Strategies for Organizational Learning
- This presentation explores strategies for integrating powerful learning processes into the fabric of organizations.
- Created 4 years ago in nuPOLIS Document Library
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- The Discipline of Innovation Part III
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- The World of Ken Wilbur
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- Sustainability and Economic Development
- This slide show focuses on how to integrate concepts of sustainable development into a community or regional economic development strategy.
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- Lean Finance and Accounting
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- China: The Dark Side of the Boom
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- Going Lean in Design and Engineering
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- The Discipline of Innovation Part II
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- Framework for Manufacturing Innovation
- The innovation strategies of manufacturers provide clues for social innovators.
- Created 5 years ago in nuPOLIS Document Library
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- Business Production Networks
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- Corporate Parenting Presentation
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- The Discipline of Innovation Part I
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- Selling to the New Domestics
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- The China Challenge Report Summary
- This background paper was produced by INC principal John Cleveland for the Manufacturers Council in West Michigan to help firms better understand the nature of the challenge from China, and how their peers are responding.
- Created 6 years ago in nuPOLIS Document Library
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- The China Challenge Background Data
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- What Makes an Automotive Supplier Strategic
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- The Tooling Sector
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- Created 7 years ago in nuPOLIS Document Library
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- Background on Social Venture Enterprises
- This background paper, developed for a project with the Heron Foundation, provides a basic overview of the social venture field.
- Created 8 years ago in nuPOLIS Document Library
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- Some Observations on Learning Organizations
- Created 12 years ago in nuPOLIS Document Library
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- Staying In the Game
- Created 13 years ago in nuPOLIS Document Library
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- Changing Nature of Learning
- This paper, written in 1996, is the narrative text that formed the foundation for our Learning Theory and Practice slide show.
- Created 14 years ago in nuPOLIS Document Library
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- Learning on the Edge
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- The Sustainable Everglades Initiative
- Created 15 years ago in nuPOLIS Document Library
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- Quantum Physics Basic Concepts
- This document provides an overview of some of the core ideas of quantum physics – concepts like Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Theorem; wave-particle duality; and non-locality.
- Created 15 years ago in nuPOLIS Document Library
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- Complex Theory Basic Concepts
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- 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 15 years ago in nuPOLIS Document Library
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- Thinking About Measurement
- Created 16 years ago in nuPOLIS Document Library
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- Lean Manufacturing Quality Improvement Process
- Created 16 years ago in nuPOLIS Document Library
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Urban Sustainability Associates
Network connects disciplines.
A group of national leaders in urban sustainability design have joined forces to create an unparalleled production network with a wide range of expertise.
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Networks For Social Impact
Digital techniques enable change.
The Net Gains handbook and Network Health Scorecard are practical tools to help implement online tools that have real-world impact.
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Community Innovation book
Exclusive online release.
nuPOLIS President Peter Plastrik and his co-author Theodore Staton are writing a new book, titled
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Report: New Immigration Trends
Ground-breaking research.
Open your eyes to the immigration trend no one has noticed yet: millions of immigrants economically, socially, and politically active in the U.S. and their home countries, using modern IT and media in ways nobody expected.
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