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Some Domestic Manufacturing is Alive and Well 
- Small Firm Shows How a Relentless Pursuit of Innovation and Continuous Improvement Can Lead to Success, Even in Tough Times
- Created 5 hours ago by John Cleveland in Social Innovation Blog
social innovation- “Community Transformation” – What Are We Talking About?
- Cities and towns are changing all the time, but how do they intentionally become better places?
- Created 3 days ago by Pete Plastrik in Social Innovation Blog
- social innovation
- nuPOLIS Digest January 2010
- Updates on social innovations we're working on.
- Created 9 weeks ago by Pete Plastrik in Social Innovation Blog
- social innovation
- Living the Innovation Dream: A New Year Shout Out for Our Marvelous Partners
- The portfolio of innovations that nuPOLIS/Innovation Network for Communities works on is driven by skilled, committed partners around the country.
- Created 9 weeks ago by Pete Plastrik in Social Innovation Blog
- social innovation
- nuPOLIS 2009: Most Popular Items
- From our first year on the Web, the blogs and developments that most resonated with our growing audience.
- Created 10 weeks ago by Pete Plastrik in Social Innovation Blog
- social innovation
- Toward a Social Innovation Commons
- An "information maze" stymies social innovators. Is it a problem with a solution?
- Created 11 weeks ago by Pete Plastrik in Social Innovation Blog
- social innovation
- Toward A Social Innovation Commons
- Solving the "comparative information" problem that holds back social innovators.
- social innovation
- Best Inventions of 2009: What’s In It for Communities?
- TIME’s “Best Inventions" list runs from rockets and light bulbs to tank-bred tuna. What will affect places?
- Created 3 months ago by Pete Plastrik in Social Innovation Blog
- social innovation
- December 2009 Update: Innovations We're Working On
- Updates from the nuPOLIS portfolio of social innovation projects
- Created 3 months ago by Pete Plastrik in Social Innovation Blog
- social innovation
- Innovation Nexus: Communities Explore a New Intersection of Ideas
- What do education reform, early childhood development, cultural competence, and community development have in common?
- Created 3 months ago by Pete Plastrik in Social Innovation Blog
- social innovation
- Social Innovation Inquiry: Where Does Insight Come From?
- Three social entrepreneurs radically changed their way of thinking and invented something new.
- Created 3 months ago by Pete Plastrik in Social Innovation Blog
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- 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 3 months ago by Pete Plastrik in Social Innovation Blog
- social innovation
- So You Want To Be In The Social Innovation Business...
- We started the Innovation Network for Communities in early 2007. Here's what we've learned along the way and where we intend to go.
- Created 4 months ago by Pete Plastrik in Social Innovation Blog
- social innovation
- November 2009 Update: Innovations We're Working On
- Updates from the nuPOLIS portfolio of social innovation projects
- Created 4 months ago by Pete Plastrik in Social Innovation Blog
- social innovation
- INC 2.0
- After nearly three years of work at the frontier of community innovation, we shared with our main funder the accomplishments and lessons learned of Innovation Network for Communities.
- Created 4 months ago by Pete Plastrik in nuPOLIS Document Library
- social innovation
- INC 2.0
- A review of what we at the Innovation Network for Communities has accomplished and learned in its first three years--and what we want to do next.
- Created 4 months ago by Pete Plastrik in nuPOLIS Document Library
- social innovation
- Stop the Babysitter!! Spotting an Innovation Opportunity
- Can getting rid of the “helping professions" allow us to solve social problems?
- Created 4 months ago by Pete Plastrik in Social Innovation Blog
- social innovation
- Innovaton Communities, The Book: Chapter 4
- Read highlights and download Chapter 4: "COMMUNITY INNOVATION: How Social Innovators are Transforming America's Communities"
- Created 4 months ago by Greg Berry in nuPOLIS Document Library
- social innovation, social innovation book
- Community Innovation Book: Chapter 3 (Location Efficiency)
- Release of Community Innovation, Chapter 3: Location Efficiency: Tapping The Power of Proximity
- Created 4 months ago by Greg Berry in nuPOLIS Document Library
- social innovation, social innovation book
- New National Urban Sustainability Network Launches
- Urban Sustainability Directors hold their first annual meeting in Chicago.
- Created 4 months ago by Pete Plastrik in Social Innovation Blog
- social innovation
- October 2009 Update: Innovations We're Working On
- Updates from the nuPOLIS portfolio of social innovation projects
- Created 5 months ago by Pete Plastrik in Social Innovation Blog
- social innovation, White House social innovation
- Hunting for Social Innovation #4: Data Mining TIME's 25 "Responsibility Pioneers"
- Lists of "top" social innovations are fun to read, but what would be really useful is a searchable data base with rigorous information about innovations.
- Created 5 months ago by Pete Plastrik in Social Innovation Blog
- social innovation
- What the Cutting Edge of Business Innovation Reveals to Social Innovators
- The boundaries between the commercial and social sectors are blurring.
- Created 5 months ago by Pete Plastrik in Social Innovation Blog
- social innovation
- Attention Shoppers: The Supermarket Becomes A Social Innovation Frontier
- Where they are, what they sell, and what else they do -- an unexpected source of change.
- Created 6 months ago by Pete Plastrik in Social Innovation Blog
- social innovation
- September 2009: Innovations We're Working On
- Updates from the nuPOLIS portfolio of social innovation projects:
- Created 6 months ago by Pete Plastrik in Social Innovation Blog
- social innovation
- Restorative Innovation: Deconstructing Ideas So You Can See What Will Work
- The "arrow of progress" sometimes leads back to ideas we've abandoned.
- Created 6 months ago by Pete Plastrik in Social Innovation Blog
- social innovation
- A Fable of Community Self-Drive
- Before innovation, a community needs the will to change...
- Created 7 months ago by Pete Plastrik in Social Innovation Blog
- social innovation
- The International Social Innovation Scene: Getting Outside Our US-Centric Mind Set
- At recent Social Innovation eXchange in Lisbon, fascinating projects world-wide on display: online initiatives, social change organizations, and innovative people.
- Created 7 months ago by Greg Berry in Social Innovation Blog
- center for social innovation, european social innovation, social innovation, social innovation exchange
- European Report: Young Foundation Gathers Global Social Innovators
- Social innovation translates poorly across national borders, with different tactics supporting similar goals.
- Created 7 months ago by Greg Berry in Social Innovation Blog
- center for social innovation, european social innovation, social innovation, social innovation exchange
- Climate Change For Social Innovation
- Government uses pricing, pronouncements, and policies to create conditions for change. But...
- Created 7 months ago by Pete Plastrik in Social Innovation Blog
- social innovation
- Innovation Beyond the Last Mile: Rural Broadband's Promise
- The future is in the apps.
- Created 7 months ago by Pete Plastrik in Social Innovation Blog
- social innovation
- Social Innovation in the 9 to 5 World
- Social entrepreneurs don't just do their own start ups. Many--maybe even most--work out of larger enterprises.
- Created 7 months ago by Pete Plastrik in Social Innovation Blog
- social innovation
- Hunting for Social Innovation #3: What's Your Batting Average?
- Learning from failure and predicting success starts with keeping score and publicizing results. Then use crowd sourcing.
- Created 8 months ago by Pete Plastrik in Social Innovation Blog
- social innovation
- Spreading Social Innovations: Five Pathways to Scale
- "Replication" is not about duplicating; it's about adapting--and knowing which pathway to scale you're on.
- Created 8 months ago by Pete Plastrik in Social Innovation Blog
- social innovation
- Go Global to Find Social Innovations
- Social innovators worldwide are a source of new ideas. Here's how to find them.
- Created 8 months ago by Pete Plastrik in Social Innovation Blog
- social innovation
- Road Trip! Talking Social Innovation Blues
- Listening to Bob Dylan for insight about social entrepreneurship.
- Created 9 months ago by Pete Plastrik in Social Innovation Blog
- social innovation
- June 2009: Innovations We're Working On
- Updates from the nuPOLIS portfolio of social innovation projects
- Created 9 months ago by Pete Plastrik in Social Innovation Blog
- social innovation
- Transnational Innovation: Diaspora's Hidden Benefits
- A shift in the immigrant experience results in new ideas for social change.
- Created 9 months ago by Pete Plastrik in Social Innovation Blog
- social innovation
- Government-As-Social-Innovator: You Gotta Believe
- We turn to the U.K.'s National Health Service--believe it or not--to learn how a public bureaucracy is re-innovating itself.
- Created 9 months ago by Pete Plastrik in Social Innovation Blog
- social innovation, White House Office of Social Innovation
- Government-Driven Social Innovation: Caution Advised
- The White House wants money to help nonprofits spread innovations that work. Should social entrepreneurs embrace this idea?
- Created 9 months ago by Pete Plastrik in Social Innovation Blog
- Obama social innovation, social innovation, social innovation fund, White House Office of Social Innovation
- Social Innovation Puzzle: What's Inside, Outside the Box?
- "Innovation space" is a competition among new ideas, old ideas, and other ideas.
- Created 10 months ago by Pete Plastrik in Social Innovation Blog
- social innovation, social innovation fund
- "Rules of Thumb"
- Guidance for business management success works well for social innovators too.
- Created 10 months ago by Pete Plastrik in Social Innovation Blog
- social innovation
- Hunting for Social Innovation #1: Prizes, Harvests, and The Funnel
- A Washington "do tank" wants to adopt a social innovator. When 116 apply, the author joins experts assembled to help sort things out.
- Created 10 months ago by Pete Plastrik in Social Innovation Blog
- Dell social innovation competition, social innovation
- Capitalism's Crisis is An Innovation Opportunity
- "If another great accommodation is on its way," writes nuPOLIS partner Geoff Mulgan, "this one will be shaped by the triple pressures of ecology, globalisation and demographics."
- Created 10 months ago by Pete Plastrik in Social Innovation Blog
- social innovation
- The Search for Community Success
- Change challenges key community institutions invented in the last few decades, nuPOLIS's Peter Plastrik and Theodore Staton say in new book on community innovation.
- Created 10 months ago by Pete Plastrik in Social Innovation Blog
- social innovation
- Community Innovation Book: Chapter 2 (Disruption of Community Life)
- Release of Community Innovation Book Chapter 2: Disruption of Community Life): Intensifying Forces
- Created 10 months ago by Greg Berry in nuPOLIS Document Library
- social innovation, social innovation book
- April 2009: Innovations We're Working On
- Updates from the nuPOLIS portfolio of social innovation projects
- Created 11 months ago by Pete Plastrik in Social Innovation Blog
- social innovation
- Here's What a National "Workforce Innovation Lab" Would Do -- But Since One Doesn't Exist, We're Doing It On Our Own
- Sector Based Talent Systems represent a huge social innovation opportunity
- Created 11 months ago by John Cleveland in Social Innovation Blog
- social innovation
- Social Innovation News
- A filtered news feed on the latest developments in social innovation from a collection of key news agencies, blogs from our partners, and other trusted sources.
- social innovation
- To Stimulate Social Innovation, Create a Network of Federal “Labs" Like Those for Science and Health – Starting with Workforce Development
- We need to start building a new class of R&D institutions -- social sector "innovation labs." And the first priority should be a lab focused on workforce development, an area critical to national competitiveness.
- Created 12 months ago by John Cleveland in Social Innovation Blog
- social innovation
- Accelerating Social Innovation in the U.S.
- It's time for foundations and the federal government to make social innovation a national strategic priority.
- Created 13 months ago by Pete Plastrik in Social Innovation Blog
- social innovation
- Community Innovation, The Book: How Social Innovators Are Transforming America's Communities
- Pete Plastrik and Theodore Staton are coauthoring a new book--released exclusively on the nuPOLIS site--about scalable innovations for communities, and the discipline it takes to create them.
- social innovation
- Systems Change Work
- This short set of slides provides an overview for thinking about large scale systems change.
- Created 14 months ago in nuPOLIS Document Library
- social innovation
- 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.
- Created 14 months ago in nuPOLIS Document Library
- social innovation
- Building The Social Innovation Field
- The growing field of social innovation in the US needs to be better understood and more intentionally developed.
- investing in social innovation, social innovation, social innovation capital markets
- Sectors
- Our work is focused in these principal social innovation sectors or fields.
- social innovation field
- Disrupting the Funder-Innovator Relationship
- Helping Social Innovators Tell Truth to Money: How’s My PITA Ranking?
- Created 15 months ago by Pete Plastrik in Social Innovation Blog
- social innovation capital
- 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 innovation, social innovation field
- 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.
- Created 16 months ago in nuPOLIS Document Library
- social innovation
- Research
- Find relevant documents in Innovation Network for Communities’ repository of sector scans, research papers, reports and more.
- social system innovation research
- Strategy
- Understand Innovation Network for Communities’ strategy, and read our glossary of innovation terms.
- social innovation strategy
- About
- Learn about nuPOLIS and the Innovation Network for Communities’ history, principals, and partners.
- social system innovation
Social Innovation Blog - Reports from the evolution of social systems design, from schools and transportation, to economics, investing and sustainability.
- social innovation, social innovation blog, social system innovation
- 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
- social innovation capital
- 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
- social innovation
- Framework for Manufacturing Innovation
- The innovation strategies of manufacturers provide clues for social innovators.
- Created 5 years ago in nuPOLIS Document Library
- social innovation
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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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